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"Turn back the time to bring back the dead. I did that. Several times. To do that, I needed to use the power given to me by the artifact. In the end, I exhausted that power, got cursed, and didn't even manage to bring her back."

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"And that's how I became like this. Not being able to age, it's the curse of time. One of the curses of time."

Alan then raised an eyebrow as if he just remembered something.

"Oh, and there is something else about the artifacts that I forgot to say! If you manage to survive the after-effects, meaning if your curse isn't a deadly one, your power will grow stronger in an instant. They say it gets twice as stronger or maybe more. It's like you go Bomm! Are you still alive? Here you get double your power!"

He then leaned back on his sofa, not caring about the look on Kairen and the team leader's eyes as they stared at him silently.