14 Poison (2/2)
She then searched his waist for the scabbard of the black coloured dagger. When she was about to reach it a hand suddenly stopped her as she felt that her life was in imminent danger.
”Hey missy, I'm not dead yet!” Stan's body that had already stopped breathing suddenly felt vigorous as he tackled Natasha. With his right hand he had pushed Natasha down to the floor and with his left, he took out his dagger and swiftly placed it on her neck.
”Tell me lady, where the hell did you took Cray?” Stan looked at her with his cold eyes. His dagger slowly making its way to cut her neck.
Natasha was scared witless! She had never expected that Stan would still be alive after taking her poison. ”IMPOSSIBLE!”
She yelled as her face was full of unbelief. She had the confidence that he should've been dead already. She also made sure to hit the real Stan and to not mistakenly hit a clone. She was definitely dumbfounded.
”Ho-HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE!” She yelled as the only thing that she was skilled in was with her potion making. She even tricked Stan into thinking that she was Cray because of the poison that she had personally made.
Stan smirked. He also thought that he would've died if not for the antidote that his uncle had given him. In fact, it wasn't an antidote at all. He was well aware that he would never be able to cure himself with poison if he does not have the correct antidote with him, he could even make it worse by drinking a wrong antidote.
What he drank was a potion to temporarily increase his powers for a half a day but would be bedridden for twenty-four hours. It was called Dragonic boost, made with dragon's blood a sacred treasure. It would even make him a so-called second life as it would heal him rapidly in face of death. In short, it would make him Invincible! But this was the only one of its kind that had been given to him by his uncle.
Going back to Cray's situation. Robert had just received Natasha's report. He then told a group of six to head over to Natasha's location and to return in haste.
He couldn't wait to report back to the emperor. This would definitely grant him big rewards, perhaps even more than what he would've got if he were to participate in the fight at the Eastern rebellion or at the Western monster outbreak.
”Easy win. Doing this once in a while is nice.” He smiled as he reminisced a bit about the past.
With his position as the son of a duke then he wouldn't have to work as much as he is doing right now. The reason why he was doing these things right now was that he wanted to ascend the throne by marrying the princess. And what better way to coax the princess into marrying him other than to be her royal guard?
Or at least that's what he had planned. But the emperor had taken quite a liking to him and told him to lead the special force right under the direct command of the emperor. He wanted to decline it humbly, but his father was with him when that happened so with his father being there he had reluctantly joined.