The Era of Wizards: Beginning as an Alchemist
Chapter 719

Curse Sorcery

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Before the Physique Crown, five major schools existed in the Wizard World, corresponding respectively to the five points of the wizard pentagram.

Among those five points, the Curse School had the longest history and was also the most mysterious.

In ancient times, the name Curse School had yet to emerge. Even then, there were people among humanity known as Witch Priests, who were in fact Curse Wizards.

Now that the wizard system had gradually matured, the Curse School was one of the few wizard systems centered primarily on the inheritance of experience.

Mysticism, the foundational theory of the Curse School, was filled with all manner of subjective conjecture, baseless associations, and explanations that ran contrary to the conclusions of other schools.

Put another way, Mysticism was a kind of broad idealism.

After systematically studying the Curse School's knowledge, Richard's assessment of the school was that it had built a towering edifice upon phantoms.

Yet what was astonishing was that this towering edifice had not collapsed. It was even growing ever taller.

Upon Mysticism, so absurd it was practically an Illusory Dimension, wizards had built a school that continued to develop—and this school occupied a position of pivotal importance in war.

"How exactly did the Curse School develop on the foundation of this stuff?"

Richard looked at the Introduction to Mysticism in his hand and rubbed his brow with a headache.

The book presented many plausible yet dubious theories. Humor Theory, Primitive Four Elements Theory, astrology... and so on—these theories, which outside the Curse School had already been categorized as humanity's simple explorations of the natural world during the Age of Ignorance, had all become correct theories here.

There were even conflicts between these theories, yet that still did not prevent both from being valid at the same time.

"I might

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