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Chapter 308
Co to think of it, the reasoning wasn’t wrong.
An elixir pill, in a certain sense, is no different from poison.
An improperly taken elixir is no better than poison, and even poison—if properly refined—can beco dicine.
I held the elixir pill I had spat out like a cat’s hairball and asked.
“Serqet.”
At that, the creature didn’t even turn its head, just slapped its tail once against the ground.
The way it acted, it was no different from a real cat.
“What is this?”
Despite my question, it just stared blankly at the other two spirits.
Then, lazily scratching its belly with one hand, it pretended not to notice.
There’s a simple way to make soone who doesn’t listen start listening.
“Grivy.”
At my call, Grivy shot out a hand like lightning and grabbed Serqet by the scruff of the neck.
—Kiiiiek! Kiiiiek!!
Serqet scread in fright and struggled.
“You. Are you not going to listen to your father?”
—Kiiiiek!!
“If you keep that up, you won’t be able to play happily with .”
—Kiiiik……
“If you keep doing it, you’ll be punished.”
At the sa ti, Sur hopped its tiny body up and down, thumping the ground with majestic authority.
At last, the youngest spirit, Serqet, showed signs of surrender and looked at .
“Father. That was just because my stomach felt heavy, so I spat it out.”
A spirit spitting out sothing from an upset stomach—yet it turned out to be a trendous elixir pill.
How ridiculous.
Still, after spitting it out, there didn’t seem to be any abnormal changes to its body’s poison balance.
So, once more, I transferred the rampaging poison from within back into it.
Then—
The otter spirit Serqet screwed up its face, gulped noisily, and soon spat out a bead no bigger than a fingernail.
“Again?”
“It seems if I give it my accumulated poison, it condenses it into an elixir pill and spits it out.”
Which ant…
Serqet and I had effectively beco a living elixir farm.
Of course, my supply of poison wasn’t infinite, and even a spirit like Serqet could barely endure my venom.
At best, this would only be possible once every few months—or even years.
“I’ll take a look at this.”
Lispa accepted the elixir pill from my hand and closed her eyes quietly.
Then she let out a dry laugh.
“Wow… this is sothing else.”
“How strong is it?”
“It’s pure poison condensed into a lump. Any ordinary human who took this would die instantly.”
…Great.
‘Librarian. The mory transfer still isn’t done?’
[Currently fixing errors. However, due to unforeseen interference from external forces, there has been a delay.]
‘So when does the transfer happen?’
[Right now.]
Ugh!!
Just like before, a wave of nausea and a splitting headache surged through .
When my poison gland first manifested, I had felt the sa—now both sensations struck together in full force.
And then, a flood of vast mories poured into my mind.
This ti, though, the situation raised a big question.
Humans aren’t creatures that naturally carry poison.
Unlike mana or aura, which can be refined from external energy and stored within the body, humans cannot naturally generate poison.
So where had this imnse accumulation of venom co from?
Why was it being produced continuously?
The answer ca quickly.
The Venom Saint.
The level I had reached within the Hall of Ten Thousand Poisons.
The ultimate result of that path.
I had created it after endless ti in Labyrinthos, because even monsters immune to toxins had to be poisoned and killed.
A solitude of poison—the pinnacle of toxic mastery.
My body now contained a poison gland akin to the divine heart of the Machine God.
Through a special refinent of my organic matter and the natural mana, poison gathered in this gland, steadily growing in volu.
Ha.
Unbelievable.
Even though I was the one who had created it, I couldn’t help but laugh at the absurdity.
lissa pouted.
“So it’s not an elixir after all, but a crystal of poison. If it had been, we’d be sitting on a gold mine.”
“No, it is an elixir. Isn’t that right, Leon?”
Lispa smiled brightly as she looked at .
Until just now, I hadn’t fully understood what it was—but she acted as if she was certain I knew all along.
“Lispa Elde.”
“Just now, your ntal field expanded dramatically. That kind of change is the difference between soone with experience and soone without. Am I wrong?”
I gave a wry smile at her knowing expression.
As soone once tied to powers of the mind—Remiel, or Lispa Elde—it made sense she would instantly perceive my shift.
“Leon! Can that be made into an elixir?!”
lissa’s eyes sparkled as she asked .
By now, she’d long since given up trying to understand where my sudden bursts of knowledge ca from.
“Yeah. It could be used as deadly poison, as dicine, even as an antidote.”
Of course, when would there ever be a need to use it as an antidote, especially when normal ones already existed…
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The duke’s mansion of Cascadia wasn’t where I stayed—rather, I spent most of my ti in a cabin deep in the forest.
Though most of my workroom had been moved to the duke’s estate, whenever I wanted peace and quiet, I ca here.
Originally, it was for seclusion because of Thanatos, the authority of death.
In any case, for the past two days I had remained at the cabin, cutting off all variables.
Truthfully, that was just an excuse.
I was practicing control over the poison gland now embedded within .
Though the knowledge and experience were there, I still had to adapt and harmonize it with my present body.
Naturally, Luna had tagged along.
She’d been playing gas inside a paradise artifact until just recently, but then she dozed off in a rocking chair.
And then—
Under the moonlit sky, beautiful and silent, a guest ca to in secret.
The strongest being I had ever seen, save for myself.
Leader of the Moon Watchers.
“There’s a ssage I must deliver.”
“…Been a while, huh? I doubt you’d answer if I asked your na.”
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“So. Why co now of all tis?”
“Your territory has changed a lot.”
“It has.”
“Yes… in ways none of us expected. Whether that proves good or bad…”
“Whether I renovate my land or repaint the walls, what business is it of yours?”
“True. I don’t care about the territory’s progress. What matters is sothing else.”
Muttering softly, she tossed a bundle of docunts.
Inside was information about a certain creature.
“The Hydra of Ten Thousand Poisons.”
“…”
The Poison Dragon Hydra… not a pleasant mory.
A foul, wretched beast carrying venom as brutal as it was resilient.
“What about it?”
“It’s about to rampage.”
…That was unexpected.
“If it does, disaster will follow.”
“Long ago… when the Hydra rampaged, hundreds of thousands perished.”
Hundreds of thousands?
That number was strange.
In my past life’s world of seven billion people, such a toll was enormous—but still rare.
Yet here, in Lazarus, where the population was much smaller?
If such an event had happened, surely history books would record it.
A cover-up?
Ridiculous.
“What exactly do you know?”
“I no longer know for certain. That’s your fault.”
“How the hell is it my fault?”
“Everything’s tangled. Regardless, it’s your fault.”
She said it calmly, and the lack of deceit in her tone only made it more irritating.
“So, you’re saying you want no cooperation?”
“You’re not the type to watch masses of people die.”
“Sorry, but Cascadia cos first. I may pity the loss of lives, but if you’re looking for a hero, search elsewhere.”
I waved dismissively and turned away, but she approached slowly.
“If the Hydra isn’t stopped before it awakens, catastrophe is inevitable. Forget killing it—even before that, the suffering it inflicts will be unimaginable.”
“And why is a killer like you worrying about that?”
“…”
If they truly acted out of noble ideals, they shouldn’t have hidden everything from .
“You’ve never told who you are, what you’re after, or what you know. How am I supposed to trust you?”
“If you help this ti… we’ll give you a lead on Nyala.”
“…”
From what I’d seen, these people weren’t outright villains.
If they were, then Rebecca—the small orange-haired spirit girl I’d t with the Hercules rcenaries—wouldn’t have joined them.
But their thods were extre, and too much remained inexplicable.
“So. What exactly do you want from ?”
“The Hydra will soon awaken. Its location is…”
She trailed off when I stared at her intently.
“Don’t play coy. If you keep pulling this kind of stunt, things will get really boring.”
“Vacation city, Belrest.”
Tch.
Grudges much?
Still—Belrest?
That ant the Empire.
It wasn’t far from the fishing village where we’d fought the Kraken.
A massive resort run by the Lavren family was there.
“There’s no ti. Once it awakens, who knows how many will die. The venom it spreads will kill them all slowly, in agony.”
“I want the Hydra’s location—and the cultists’ too.”
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If you didn’t know, you’d fall victim.
If you did know, you could stop it.
That was her point.
If I cooperated, they’d give Nyala’s whereabouts.
Though Nyala was indeed a problem, the Hydra was worse.
I’d already seen firsthand what kind of disaster it could unleash.
“Hydra? Am I mistaken? Why would a mythological beast…”
“Don’t ask . I only just learned it really exists myself.”
“This is absurd.”
lissa muttered, dumbfounded.
“Hydra… yes, it was sealed long ago.”
“When?”
“During my active era.”
See?
That doesn’t add up.
If the Hydra’s rampages were historical fact, then for it to have already been sealed ages ago… sothing was wrong.
My gut said so.
“The Hydra’s power rivals the Kraken. Of course, most humans don’t know that.”
Unlike the Kraken, which had kept wreaking havoc, the Hydra had been completely forgotten.
Luna, Lispa, lissa, and I exchanged glances.
“Hold on. Fine, but why does Leon have to go? What, are other people missing arms and legs? Don’t they have swords?”
“What else can I do? They’re offering information I need.”
So Belrest it was.
“Great. We’ve got cultists to deal with already, and now so monster wakes up for no reason? The Moon Watchers is laughable. Shouldn’t they be negotiating with the Imperial Throne?”
“lissa. The Hydra is beyond the Empire’s ability to handle. Even if they could, the casualties would be imnse.”
“What? That makes no sense. Isn’t Leon in danger too?!”
lissa’s protest had so truth.
But it did nothing to sway Luna, Lispa, or .
“Why not?”
“What do you an, why not? It’s as dangerous as the Kraken…”
“Yes. It is dangerous.”
Lispa chuckled and explained.
“The Hydra’s poison is deadly—but soone here carries an even deadlier venom.”
“Who… don’t tell .”
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