"Weren't you acting all tough and menacing just a moment ago? Why do you look so scared now?" Onean jibed.

Only then did he realize that Onean had said that to scare him.

"If I get the same disease as them, I'll make sure to rub up against you and pass it onto you as well," Erwin grumbled.

"Curses are nothing more than a type of magic," Onean said as she took a glance at Erwin. "The only thing special about curses is that they remain in effect for longer than normal spells. When she says that the condition is contagious, I'm assuming she means it's only contagious among her brethren, so what are you getting all worked up for?"

"How can you be so sure of that?"

"I approached them just now, and I didn't sense any magic energy invade my body, so it should be fine," Onean explained.

The leader of the wereleopards seemed to have identified Erwin's concerns, and she hurriedly did a bunch of explaining in an urgent voice. This time, Erwin was able to roughly understand what she was saying, and it seemed that the curse that her brethren had been afflicted by had been cast by a dragon.

So the enemy that she mentioned just now is also a dragon, Erwin thought to himself. Just as Onean said, this so-called curse is most likely the result of a spell from that dragon. However, she saw that projection of the ice dragon that Onean conjured up just now, and their enemy shouldn't be the same species of dragon....