[Ren Hilton POV.]
"What?" I asked, puzzled, as I glanced at Professor Night. What did she mean by that?
It had been two days since the completion of the Chameleon's Maze. I had been filled in on what happened after I went unconscious, and it wasn't... pleasant. In short, Adam Stales had entered the circle while I was fighting the Amphiptere and pulled out the sword from the last circle where it was resting peacefully. After that, I was taken to the nurse while the points were distributed—Imperial Academy gained ten points, Nexus Institute and Luminaries had five each, and the others had none due to their poor performance. And after meeting Aron, I knew for a fact he was under a curse, just like myself.
By the time Adam and his team came back from the elven forest, the curse's impact had reached sixteen percent. But now it was at twenty-five percent, though somehow I didn't feel like it was that different.
