"I have to eat this?"
Chun Ma stared at the eerie black pill. Even the dumbest person would know it was brimming with poison.
'I get the theory, using poison to build resistance, but that's supposed to be a gradual process. It takes years, even decades or centuries. Poison resistance isn't built overnight.'
He turned the pill over in his hand, then glanced at Rim Soo-Yun. She had already swallowed hers without hesitation and now sat cross-legged in meditation.
"Hmm?" he muttered, observing her carefully. She remained completely still. Not a single shift in the molecules around her, not even a subtle movement of her breathing.
It seemed… there really might not be a trick to enduring the poison after all.
Then, Chun Ma swallowed the pill in one gulp.
Immediately, green veins spread across his body, and a searing pain shot through his chest.
He collapsed to the ground, roaring like a starving beast, then fainted on the spot.
