Emperor, since when did you start freeloading too? Klein couldn't help grumbling when he reached that part. Then he turned his attention back to the page and continued reading:
"...Liu Bo told me it was because his current true form, the Calamity Seal, had been 'contaminated' by a higher power. It always brought people 'unfortunate' fates, which was why the Soren Family had named it 'Calamity.'
"The Soren Family's decline owes a great deal to its long possession of this Grade 0 Sealed Artifact.
"Since Liu Bo transmigrated here, he's done everything he can to 'restrain' the side effects of that 'contamination'... The fact that they now only flare up at banquets, balls, and similar occasions is already the result of his efforts.
"After thinking it over, I suspect it's because everyone at balls and banquets wears a false mask, scheming over their own interests and those of others. Isolation, alliances, Provocation, honeyed words concealing daggers—such behavior is everywhere. In a sense, it resonates with the Calamity Seal, a Sealed Artifact of the Hunter Pathway, allowing its negative effects to slip beyond Liu Bo's control.
"It reminds me of the wars in my previous life. They always began at one meeting and ended at another...
"But what sort of 'contamination' could even a Sequence 1 Sealed Artifact fail to shake off?
"It involves fate... Could it be something like the Uniqueness of the Wheel of Fortune?
"That also answers a question that's long troubled me: the reason the Soren Family has failed for over a thousand years to produce a Conqueror using the characteristics contained in the Calamity Seal is probably that they simply can't deal with the 'contamination.'"
*The Calamity Seal was contaminated too? And its side effects were frightening enough to drive the Soren Family, an Angel Clan,