It was a curse he couldn't break, even after consulting everyone knowledgeable about magic. There was no way it would be broken just by drinking warm beer.
He was pulling his hair out at the thought that he had been mocked until now. Seeing him like that, Sylas clicked his tongue and explained.
"Do you know what a curse is? Do you understand how it works?"
"Well... I don't know. I'm a knight, not a magician."
"Then listen up. Generally, the more difficult the conditions are to break a curse, the easier it is to forcibly lift it."
For example, let's say there's a curse that can only be broken by eating a flower that blooms only at the top of the highest mountain in the world. Naturally, a person cursed that way would likely never be able to break it, no matter how hard they tried.