196 Partial Poison Immunity Pill (1/2)

Daniel stood in the middle of the platform in complete silence. Around him, his companions were standing as well, while floating on the surface of the dark body of water, was the ancient red carp which had just spectated to Daniel's method of producing this so called 'antidote'.

Floating all around the platform, were exactly thirty-six pills of the size of a nail. Their color was dull and they appeared extremely unimpressive to most, but not to Daniel. He knew what effect these pills could bring to a human, and it was something that was worth more than his friends could imagine.

While the rest were waiting for Daniel's next move, he was quietly observing the solitary window that had appeared the moment the pills had been successfully produced.

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*No Time For Poisons*

Fourth objective complete.

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*Primary Quest started UPDATE: No Time For Poisons*

-Description: Find a cure of the Poison of the Night Blue Thorn.

Fifth objective set: Ingest one of the pills.

Optional: Name the pill.

Reward: Unnamed cure for the Poison of the Night Blue Thorn / Partial Poison Immunity / The Poisonous Rose Reputation +75% / (Optional) Universal Government Reputation +2%

Time limit: 28 days

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What had caused Daniel to be shocked, was the updated entries of the current quest. He had imagined that the creation of these pills would create a storm in the territory in which the poisonous rose operated, but for them to cause his reputation in the entire universal government to rise, it was way above what he had ever thought possible.

Just as one of these pills happened to float in front of him, he moved his hand forward, and grabbed it in mid air.

”Here goes nothing..” He muttered before popping the pill into his mouth, and swallowing it whole.

Before the pill could even reach the back of his throat, the contact with his saliva made it rapidly break down from its original solid state, and turn back into a pasty bitter substance, which slowly slid over his tongue. The taste was tremendous, and to Daniel, it seemed like the exact mixture of all of the ingredients he had used. He could taste the fishy taste of the scales and thorns of the two fish, the warm water-like substance which Daniel was struggling not to picture inside the snakes' mouths, and finally, the taste of what Daniel knew to be blood, but whose flavour was much more similar to tree sap.

All of these flavors were already terrible when tried individually, but when mixed together, they were much worse. Daniel was struggling to avoid vomiting the precious paste right out, and to date, he had never felt so much difficulty in keeping something in his stomach as he felt now.

Once this horrendous paste reached his stomach, it quickly started to disintegrate further, and rapidly attached to the internal walls of Daniel's stomach.

A powerful warmth started to emanate from Daniel's abdominal area, which rapidly started to flush through his veins, then seeped into his muscles and buried into his bones. Daniel could resist the pain perfectly well, but then, the warmness started to move up his throat and to encase his head.

It then dug deeper into his skin, through his bones, and finally, when it reached Daniel's brain, he fell on his knees before dropping limp on the ground.

His friends immediately dashed by his side in worry, and Alesia immediately put one of her palms on his forehead to check his temperature. He was burning, but unfortunately, they could do nothing to help.

”He overestimated his own body..” Said the ancient red carp from underneath the dark waters, which not knowing anything about human's medicine, was certain that Daniel had ended up killing himself due to playing with fire. Naturally, the red carp was not rooting for Daniel's failure.. It was simply a matter of ignorance.

A few minutes passed slowly, while Daniel lied on the cold rocky platform, sweating profusely and breathing heavily.

It was only after ten full minutes that his breathing started to stabilize, and the temperature of his body started to lower to a normal level. He then opened his eyes slowly, and noticed the group that had crowded around him.

Daniel slowly rose to a sitting position, and touched his body only to feel his now moist clothes tightly wrapped over his sweaty body.

He was rapidly recovering his stamina, and after only a few seconds he was able to spring up on his feet, and approach the spot where he had created the unnamed pills. Once there, he lowered himself and reached for the glass container which contained the scales of the Ancient Red Carp.

He quietly observed the remains of the boiled saliva of the green-skinned snake for a few moments, action which made his friends curious and the ancient red carp alerted. Then, he slowly reached into the glass container for the large scale.

”STOP HIM!” The red carp suddenly shouted from underwater.. But it was too late.

Daniel had already grabbed its scale, which he then observed quietly.

”Dan.. put that down.” Said Roley with worry. He knew that the carp's scales were extremely poisonous even if previously treated. If their poisonous power could be removed by simply boiling them, the red carp wouldn't have been so unwilling to part from them.

Daniel heard Roley's words, but his intentions were different. He pinched the scale with two fingers, and with a rapid motion of his shand, he used it to slash towards his right arm, causing a cut to open on his skin.

”NOOO!” Shouted Alesia before dashing towards Daniel with all her speed. Her motion was interrupted by Daniel's hand, which calmed her, as well as prevented her from approaching him any further.