After completing the mission of liberating Tenro island from Red Skull. Jon went to Windgaze city immediately. He also advised the people of Tenro island to keep the island under lockdown for a month, so as not to alert Ashura that something is wrong.
Jon met with the client in this case the mayor of Windgaze city in a secret location as to not notify anyone of his presence or of the mayor's involvement.
"Hello! I'm Jonathan Dayne a member of the Black Phoenix guild. Here on your B - class mission request." Jon introduced himself to the mayor.
"The mission to deal with Ashura is a sensitive one. He is already very powerful in Windgaze city, now I can't afford to make a enemy out of him. It would be best if you take him out without alerting him about my involvement. You can contact me through letter under the name of Lockhart." mayor said in a hushed voice afraid that someone might be listening.
"Don't worry I'm a new recruit of Black Phoenix guild not many people knows about me. You will be safe even if you're seen with me. I already know the identity of this Ashura guy. I just need you to introduce me to the Blackwood family." Jon said trying to calm the mayor.
"Is Ashura a member of the Blackwood family?" the mayor asked surprised.
"Ya! He is Lily Blackwood's husband Francis Bolton." Jon informed the mayor.
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Blackwood mansion, lord Blackwood's bedroom.
Lord Blackwood is very ill and is in a coma, Francis was trying to heal him with his Mana.
"How could you bypass others and hurt lord Blackwood?" An old lady yelled at a man in his twenties.
The man being yelled at is Francis Bolton aka Ashura.
"Please calm down, mother. I was just trying to wake my father in law up. I'm not up to anything ill." Francis tried to explain.
"Francis!" Lily Blackwood yelled walking upto him and slaps him across the face "How dare you try to hurt my dad!" she accused him without any evidence.
"His meridians are stiffened, and it's blocking his bloodstream. He'll die if he keeps up like this. I'm saving his life!" Francis defended his actions.
~Slap~
He was slapped again this time by Lily's brother who just entered the room. "A matrilocal son in law has no right to talk back!" he said slapping him again.
"We kept our promise of marrying my sister to you because the Blackwood family pitied you. You're just a toad in the mud. know your place and back off!" Lily's brother told Francis.
"Kneeling and making Lily smile is all a matrilocal son in law like you is expected to do. Who are you to talk back to us?" Lily's mother asked in a furious tone.
"My brother has invited a great Jonathan a great magic healer to heal my father. We don't need you here!" Lily told Francis in an angry voice.
"You!" Francis was trying hard to keep his anger in check.
"What do you have anything to say? You looser!" Lily's brother mocked Francis.
"I have had enough of this!" Francis yelled getting angry.
"How dare you talk back to us? This is unacceptable! Who do you think you are? You can't survive without the Blackwood's generosity!" lady Blackwood kept on yelling.
'This is very strange? What is going on here? is this some kind of a side effect of his curse magic?' Jon who entered the room after Lily's brother, thought looking at what was happening in the room.
'They all feel uncontrollable anger towards him without any reason. Even I'm being tempted to yell at him without any reason.' Jon was surprised and confused.
"I'm sorry for you to have seen all this, Mr. Jonathan." Lily's brother apologized with a short bow.
'Let's not show him that I can resist his curse.' Jon decided.
"What was this fool trying to do? Does he think of himself as a healer?" Jon asked going with the theme in the room.
"Do you think you are better at healing than me?" Francis asked in challenge.
"I don't think, I know I'm better than you." Jon answered.
"I'm extremely sorry Mr. Jonathan. He is just a pretentious waste of space, don't waste your breath on him." Lily said coming close to Jon and giving a flirting pose.
'Lady I don't flirt with married women.' Jon thought in his mind keeping his distance from Lily.
"Tell me how much time would it take you to completely heal him?" Jon asked Francis.
"I could wake him up in an hour or two and completely heal him in three days time." Francis answered in a superior tone.
"What an amature? I can completely heal him with a single touch!" Jon declared mocking Francis.
"That is impossible! If you are able to do that I'll kneel down and lick your feet!" Francis said in a mocking tone.
"Do remember your words!" Jon replied walking up to lord Blackwood who was on the bed.
"Healing Touch" Jon said placing his hands on Lord Blackwood. Immediately colour started to return on lord Blackwood's pale face and started to wake up.
'That was some kind of a life draining curse. Francis might have cast that on him to cultivate his curse magic. Francis was draining his life force to cultivate his curse magic skill.' Jon thought looking at lord Blackwood.
"What happened?!" Lord Blackwood asked sitting up on his bed, looking healthy as a horse.
"You are completely healed of all your ailments Mr. Blackwood. Rejoice!" Jon announced.
Jon then turned to Francis. "And you should kneel and lick my feet!" Jon said showing his boots.
[SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (SURPRISED): 0.01 POINTS (FRANCIS) ]
[SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (ANGER): 0.01 POINTS (FRANCIS) ]
"What a looser! You should honor your words and lick Mr. Jonathan's feet." Lily said mocking Francis.
Francis was surprised at first but soon his surprise turned into anger. "That's it, I had enough of this!" Francis yelled releasing huge amount of dark mana.
'Finally I got his anger source points. From the intensity of Mana he seems to be a 5 star initial stage mage. My Mana Guardian is a 3-star initial stage technique, I won't be able beat him with that alone. I should try mastering the Enchanting Glittering Mana Art and rise my realm atleast to his same level.' Jon decided.'
"You ruined my three years of forbearance. I was close to breaking through my bottle neck and achieving 6-star initial stage. You prevented that from happening." Francis said looking furious at Jon.
"I don't need this Feature now. Here, you can have it. You can experience how I felt before Mr. Jonathan." Francis said forming a black orb inside the palm of his hand and throwing it at Jon and it went into Jon's body.
'What did he put inside my body?' Jon thought feeling the orb enter his body.
Many men in wearing black suit "Mr. Ashura we felt the flare and rushed in as soon as we could." the men said kneeling before Francis.
"Francis, you are the famous Ashura?" Asked lady Blackwood.
"Ha!" Francis responded not even acknowledging her.
"Darling, I was wrong! I shouldn't have treated you like that. please, forgive me!" Lily begged him at his feet.
"I don't need you anymore. So get lost." Francis said kicking Lily aside.
"From today onwards me and the Blackwood family are officially broken up." Francis said looking at the mother daughter duo.
"As for you, let's see how long you can survive with the 'Abomination' inside you?" Francis said looking at Jon.
"The Blackwood family would gradually decline and perish in the Windgaze city." Francis said as he was leaving with his cronies.
"This is all your fault, you jinx! The Blackwood family wouldn't be in this situation if hadn't offended Francis." Lily yelled in anger at Jon, going to strike Jon.
"Huh?" Jon didn't know what was happening 'You and your family where the once who where abusing him for the past 3 years. How is it my fault?' Jon stops Lily by grabbing her wrist.
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (ANGER): 0.01 (LILY BLACKWOOD) ]
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (ANGER): 0.01 (LILY BLACKWOOD) ]
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (ANGER): 0.01 (LILY BLACKWOOD) ]
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (ANGER): 0.01 (LILY BLACKWOOD) ]
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The source points kept on coming.
'What's wrong with her?'
"How dare you clutch my hand after making such a mess? I will make you regret ever messing with the Blackwood family!" Lily kept on yelling.
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (ANGER): 0.01 (RON BLACKWOOD) ]
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (ANGER): 0.01 (HENRY BLACKWOOD) ]
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (ANGER): 0.01 (LILY BLACKWOOD) ]
[ SOURCE POINTS OBTAINED (ANGER): 0.01 (ROSE BLACKWOOD) ]
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'What is happening? Did all the Blackwood go crazy at the same time.' Jon thought as all the Blackwood tried to attack him. Jon incapacitated them all with a light chop on the neck.
'What's this?' Jon thought looking at a system notification.
[ SKILL MASTERED: DEMONIC CURSE OF WRATH
TRIBULATIONS: ABOMINATION (INCOMPLETE)
CURRENT LEVEL: LVO (UNABLE TO UPGRADE)
CURRENT EFFECT: A SEQUELA OF DEMONIC CURSE OF WRATH. WITH THIS FEATURE EVERYONE AROUND WILL RESENT AND DESPISE THE CULTIVATOR AND THUS, HELP THE CULTIVATOR HONE HIMSELF. ]
'When did I get this? Is this what Francis Bolton put inside my body? No wonder why everyone in this family was acting like psychos. This is the feature Francis was talking about and he shifted it to me.' Jon deduced looking at the information from the system. Just then another system notification popped up.
[ SIMULATE DEMONIC CURSE OF WRATH MAGIC SKILL: 2000 ORIGIN POINTS ARE REQUIRED. PLEASE CONFIRM: (YES) (NO) ]
'The system can simulate Demonic Curse of Wrath. But it requires too many source points. It's more expensive than upgrading Healing Touch to level 3. I don't have that much source points. I have around 900 points with the generous help of Tenro island people. I can't even practice Enchanting Glittering Mana Art with the Abomination feature active. I will have to obtain 2000 source points to simulate the Demonic Curse of Wrath and get rid of the Abomination feature, before I can cultivate Enchanting Glittering Mana Art. With the requirement' Jon decided.
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