The Strongest Curse Master

Chapter 266: Elinor’s Tragic Awakening

"Bartha!" Elinor’s scream tore through the air as one of her many eyes caught a familiar face among the gruesome pile of bodies—Senior Special Agent Big B.

Big B was a logistical personnel, not a field agent. But because of Elinor’s mistake, she had been punished—demoted to being the C.I.B. local headquarters’ doorwoman alongside Elinor. And now, she was dead while she was alive.

Before Apex Ace could react, Elinor bolted past him, straight into the pile of corpses. Her hands stretched toward her senior’s cold, lifeless body, but just before she could reach her—

A figure lunged out from the blood-soaked ground. Fast. Ruthless. Aimed directly at her chin. But to his shock, Elinor dodged with effortless precision—without even slowing down. She barely seemed to register the attack, her focus locked solely on her fallen senior. Ignoring her attacker, she continued.

Reaching the heap, she pulled Big B’s lifeless body into her arms, her trembling hands frantically

Thick, crimson tears streamed down its grotesque form as its screams grew sharper, more desperate, filled with pure torment. The sheer agony in its wails snapped its comrades out of their terror-stricken daze.

"F-Fuck this—Youngest, finish her off!" one of the fanatics shouted, panic thick in his voice. Gone was their arrogance. They were no longer amused. They were afraid…afraid for their lives. Unfortunately for them, they were up against a true McSuile, and they had no idea who they were up against. Otherwise, instead of ganging up to attack, they would scatter to escape.

Without a second thought, Elinor casually tossed the wailing Rust Worm back into the blood pool, not even sparing it another glance. Its fate was already sealed. Once she had placed her curse on something, not even a Void-tier could save it from her whim.

While Elinor stood ready to take on the remaining four clowns alone, determined to avenge her fallen comrades, Apex Ace couldn’t help but track the Rust Worms she just threw, using MindBug’s innate curse tool with Doctor Druid’s assistance. He had no idea Elinor had only released it because she had already cursed it—but it didn’t matter. He wasn’t planning to steal her kills, just making sure the damn thing wouldn’t slip away in the chaos.

Though… he’d be lying if he said he wasn’t tempted to kill it and take its curse core. After all, when he fed the mutated Rust Worm curse core he’d obtained earlier to the Cursed Toybox, it had compiled a complete breakdown of that curseling and its abilities—far better than the half-baked explanation Delores had given him.

Seriously, how the hell did she leave out the fact that Rust Worms could morph into cursed items or tools they infested and devoured? Especially when she had no problem detailing how the Samsara branch of the Immortal Sect was founded or how the Immortal Sect came very close to overthrowing their government and ruling this country.