Chapter 2 - The Curse Explained!

The Bishop walks around the examination room that Dai, The Hero, and his wife Bianca, The Saint. Were in to check on their childs condition.

The Bishop being silent for so long was concerning them as he seemed to be checking his various tomes and books for a certain copy.

The Bishop finally found his tome of ancient curses and demonic magic explanation. He flips through it before bringing it to the copy of the curse seal they copied from the examination.

He gasps as he finds the right passage and looks to the fearful and concerned parents.

He goes to sit across from them while keeping the tome open to its pages he needs. He breathes in and finally explains to the parents, "There is good news and bad news about this curse... Which would you like first?"

Dai and Bianca both look at each other before they both say, "Good news first. We'll need something to help us through the bad news."

The Bishop nods and tells them, "First off the goddesses blessing is strong. Your child shall be the next Hero for the next generation. And they will be born as a boy healthy and immune to any diseases. And these blessings will be passed onto any wives he takes for himself."

To make sure there are as many heroes as possible a law was placed to make sure the Hero can take as many wives as possible. This way they can have numerous children with advanced stats to power up the humans side of things.

However a few of them had only one wife with many children from that bond. So it really depends on the individual of each generation.

In this case every thing was in order. Bianca was confused about this news, "Then what's the bad news? Based on the good news everything is in order for him to protect this world... It has something to do with his destiny doesn't it?"

Dai looked afraid as once his son comes of age Dai would lose his ability of infinite levels to his sons class as the former Hero keeps their levels and abilities but can't grow further once the new Hero is made blessed and recognized by the church.

The Bishop nods as he flips to the curse pages he found.

"I will explain as best I can your son has a few curses imprinted to his very soul. It was a soul curse made by the Demon lords final spell sacrifice. Even your powers as Saintess can't break them. His curses are as follows. Please be ready as it won't be easy to hear."

Curses applied:

Weakening of body (Legendary Rank):

Subject applied with this curse will need to pursue 10 times the effort to grow their body and gain any muscle mass or strength. What a non cursed person gains by doing 10 pushups the cursed subject must do 100 pushups to achieve the same result.

Sealed level (Legendary Rank):

Subjects level is sealed in increments of 10. Unless next curse conditions are met the seal will jot weaken and the subject will forever be stuck at level 10 for the rest of their lives.

True loves display (Legendary Rank):

[Connected to sealed level curse], Only when subject of curse is shown an act of true love or given a display of true love can their curse of sealed level be weakened. They will also break the Hateful Illusion of Ugliness curse for that loved one only

Experience restriction (Legendary Rank):

All experience that the subject gains is cut to 1/100 of the gain. This curse is unable to be removed. The absolute lowest exp gained through this curse is set to a default of 1.

The Bishop finished his explanation to see the pale and fearful faces of the two parents. Not only will their little boy grow up weakened. But his growth would have a predetermined limit unless he gains someone who honestly loves and cares for him.

They would be able to train him in magic and skills as his parents, especially with their classes aiding them for his learning capacity. But they couldn't even help him with his true love curse. Even if they sacrificed themselves for him or took a heavy lethal attack for him it would be chalked up to parental love, not true love. Bianaca weeps at that while Dai clenches his hand in angwer.

The Bishop cries for them as well as even his church was unable to cure the child of the curse with a ritual level dispel curse that should be able to break Legendary rank curses. However those only break one curse at a time. This is 4 curses of that rank protecting and empowering each other. There is nothing they could do.

His parents vowed to watch over their son once he was born months later and they saw a beautiful tanned skinned baby boy with sterling silver eyes and cyan blue hair. The nurse and Doctor were happy to see such a happy family but were worried when they told them their son was underweight and lacking proper muscle definition. It can be solved with training and proper nutrition in life.

They left hoping the hero and his wife would be able to keep him well fed and well trained to fight off his strangely weaker constitution.

Dai and Bianca heard the doctors news and realized the curse was already active. So to spare their child the torment of expectations from everyone to make sure he was the most powerful, they moved away from the capital and left for a country side village near a high ranking dungeon to continue their training to support their son as much as they could before losing their limitless level blessings once he was recognized as the next Hero by the goddess.