“It’s the orc battle drum. Are they really insane? Using battle drums on us?” An ugly look emerged from Head commander Edi’s face.

Abel knew the orc battle drum must be a very powerful fighting object just from the look on head commander Edi’s face, but he was not familiar with the orc empire, so he turned to k3305 and asked, “What is an orc battle drum?”

“Orc battle drums are made by the skeleton of powerful orc priests. Since the body of orc priests are condensed with death qi, those battle drums, as well as the magic patterns on them, can perfectly suppress their enemies’ power while strengthening themselves!” K3305 explained softly. His face had also changed.

Abel could basically guess what a battle drum was. It was a type of cursed object. As the orcs banged upon it, their enemies’ power would be suppressed, and their own power would increase.

“Dong Dong!” The sound got louder and louder, and Abel felt his heart slowly beating faster and faster.

“Not good!” Abel knew his body very well, and he had good control over it. It was definitely not normal for his heart to beat so fast.

He looked at his skin; they felt strange. It seemed like it was vibrating along with the beat of the drums.

He focused on his hand, and the world slowly turned slow. He could clearly see that there was a faint layer of energy wrapping around him, especially on his hand.

It seemed like it was a type of altered death qi. With his data analysis ability, he came to the conclusion that this energy was like a faint curse.

This curse was not strong at all, so it could not be spotted by the person being cursed. However, this curse seemed to have the ability to accumulate. As the drum beat increased, the curse would get more and more powerful.

Knowing what was affecting him, Abel decided to push this energy away with the power of the will. However, this energy was almost like water that was stuck to his body. As soon as he pushed with his power of the will, more would rush in from the side.

Suddenly, he realized the horror of the orc battle drum. If he could not break free from this state, how much fighting power would his team of 20 men still have by the time the orcs reached them?

If it can’t be pushed away, can it be absorbed!

The colorless energy in Abel’s druid soul could tolerate both death qi and combat qi simultaneously, as well as transforming them.

If this curse could take a hit on his fighting power, why not just directly absorb it and turn it into his own energy.

Of course, he would not absorb too much at first. He needed to make sure this curse would not affect his druid soul first.

He carefully moved a handful of curse energy into his druid soul. But soon, it began to expand viciously. It seemed like it was going to colonize this soul.

Luckily, the colorless energy of his druid soul was a rank above both death qi and life qi. This curse energy was only a kind of altered death qi, it was still death qi nevertheless.

As the druid soul began to work its magic, that curse energy started to shrink like a punctured balloon.

Upon seeing this, Abel quickly opened up a qi pathway and directly absorbed all the curse energy into his druid soul from his body. Its colorless energy could turn it into his own energy.

As the curse energy slowly faded from his body–although there were more coming as the drum sound approached–it was no longer greatly affecting Abel.

“I’m cursed!” The sensitive k3308 yelled. His body was the weakest out of the bunch, so he was the first one to feel it.

He madly breathed as his heart rate increased. A horrific image appeared in his mind, and it was all affecting him tremendously.

“The orc battle drum is showing effect, try a defense spell to see if we can get rid of it!” Head Commander Edi lowered his voice.

This kind of curse had little effect on head Commanders. If Abel’s senses weren’t so strong, and if he didn’t have a data analysis ability, it would be very hard for him to detect those changes as well.

Head Commander Edi had his eyes fixed on k3308. From the look on k3308’s face, maybe he couldn’t even give out much fighting power anymore. This was only the start. If the drum sound continued, all the beginner wizards would be down.

Therefore the most important thing to do now was to diffuse this curse for the wizards. Head Commander Edi didn’t even remember when was the last time the orc had used a battle drum, so he didn’t really have a clear idea of what to do.

K3308 waved his magic staff, and a spelling pattern flashed. But soon, that spelling pattern vanished. The spell failed.

“K3308, calm down!” Head Commander Edi couldn’t help but add.

K3308 was the weakest in the team. Almost all of his power was coming from his magic items. A powerful wizard would definitely not end up like him even in the face of an orc battle drum.

Still, defense spells were the most important spells for wizards. Even a wizard like k3308 would not practice it half heartedly. A second spell pattern emerged on his magic staff, and a Frozen Armour appeared on him.

“It’s useless, a defense spell can not defuse the curse!” K3308 said in agony.

Abel expected this. Abel knew how powerful his power of the will was; no one in the team could even reach half his power. If he couldn’t defuse the spell with his power of the will, no one could.

This curse had a very special energy. Although it could not damage a person directly, it was very hard to defuse or counteract it. A normal curse could not last for long. It would only get weaker and weaker and eventually fade with time.

However, in this situation, as long as the orcs kept banging their battle drum, the curse would only intensify.

“We are in trouble!” Head Commander Edi said to the team. He then continued, “if there are more orcs than we can handle, we will start to retreat back to Miracle City. Don’t worry about the mission!”

“No, I won’t go back!” K3308 yelled. He then took out 4 attributed rune cards from his portal bag. As those cards began to glow, 4 flashes of light emerged from his body.

However, soon he was met with disappointment. Although his attributes had increased, the curse was still in effect.

“Let me help you!” Abel said after a bit of hesitation.

“K3516, you have an idea?” Head Commander Edi asked in surprise.

As long as their team could unleash their true power as well as Abel’s horrific archery skill, they would be able to retreat safely, even if they weren’t able to win.

“Everyone, don’t try to counteract my power of the will!” Abel said as he reached out with his power of the will.

Head Commanders could not sense the power of the will very well. At most, their intuition would just tell them someone was spying on them.

However, not wizards. To wizards, power of the will was basically like an arm. It would be very unsafe if another person’s arm appeared beside them.

Therefore, Abel had to warn everyone on the spot. Especially to beginner wizards, since he would be approaching them with his power of the will.

Abel divided his power of the will into 19 strands, and each connected to a teammate. His power of the will had soon turned into energy pathways, directly transferring energy into his druid soul.

Actually, Abel didn’t feel too good about this as well. Death qi was extremely rare. Although they were weak, it’s quality was high. If he had any developing priest spells, this energy would be the best support for increasing its ability.

“The spell is getting weaker!” K3308 yelled again after 10 seconds. He was the most sensitive one, after all.