"Wait. What do you mean, the future of the Curse School depends on me?"
Great Wizard Curse Mark's words gave Richard such a fright that he nearly jumped on the spot.
He had only come to put his name down. How had he suddenly become the Curse School's successor? Besides, Curse Crown was still in his prime. Was Great Wizard Curse Mark not afraid Curse Crown would remember words like that?
"Master, do you know what this Curse Principles is?" Great Wizard Curse Mark asked with a grave expression.
Richard shook his head. "I don't."
"This Curse Principles is actually Teacher's research notes. While the new material recorded within is not as comprehensive as the Curse Codex, it documents much of Teacher's state of mind throughout his explorations.
It could be called Teacher's foremost personal inheritance item. And besides..."
Great Wizard Curse Mark pointed to Richard's right palm, then opened his own left hand. On his palm was an identical mark to Richard's.
"Even among Teacher's students, only I possess this mark. And I have never even read this Curse Principles."
Great Wizard Curse Mark's voice carried a trace of helplessness. As Curse Crown's finest student, he understood better than anyone else the gap between himself and his teacher.
Compared to Curse Crown's talent, he, a genius the Curse School saw once in ten thousand years, was merely a single star beside the brilliant moon.
He had long been mentally prepared for the position of school leader to go to someone else.
"No, no, no. I think you have misunderstood something." Richard waved his hands repeatedly. "Curse Crown had me put my name down only because our fates are somewhat entangled. It was just taking out an insurance policy.
Crown himself said it. I don't need to do anything, not