Chapter 254

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Having finally started getting my gear running again, I decided to try mixing the new advanced materials I had acquired after taking a meal break.

This time, I’m going to be bold. I’m going to make a new poison!

The memory of a beautiful woman having an incredibly dangerous poisoned knife hidden between her dress came to my mind. Fortunately, nothing happened to me back then but now that I had become a noble, the danger of getting poisoned would always lurk behind me. I couldn’t afford to be complacent. 

After seeing the poisoned knife, it was clear to see that solely relying on silverware to detect poison would be far from sufficient. Fight fire with fire. Or in my case, fight poison with poison.

A wave of nostalgic feeling washed over me, remembering the time when I licked poison to build up my poison resistance. When I used appraisal on myself, I found out that my poison resistance was at level 5. The last time my poison resistance skill leveled up was when I licked that donur poison and passed out.

Now that I had become a noble, I obviously needed to level up my poison resistance skill.

In front of me, there were the Purple Tarantula venom glands that I had collected while running from Heinrich, the ever so familiar Cockatrice venom glands, badol poisonous grass and gadol poisonous grass. Furthermore, I also got the powdered dried angel fake flowers from that cobra tamer guy that had tried to poison me back then.

Just to be safe, I took one sip of paruna detoxifying potion, soaked my homemade mask with the antidote and put the mask on. I opened all of the windows and prepared plenty of emergency antidotes.

With this, I should be fine.

Ash looked up at me, he was whining worriedly at me.

“Kuun…”

“Ash, it’s going to be dangerous so go play outside with Blue (a female).”

“Kuuun….”

Ash, still feeling worried, looked back at me several times before he left the workshop.

Now then, let’s start by appraising all of the new materials first.

【Angel Fake Flower: A highly potent poisonous flower capable of causing heart attack when ingested. This flower is often used to assassinate someone because the cause of the victim’s death can be masked as a mere heart attack. If the flowers are dried and mixed with Purple Tarantula venom glands, Cockatrice venom glands, badol poisonous grass and gadol poisonous grass in 1:3:2:4:4 ratio, it’s possible to create Zodiac Poison. Minimum requirement to handle this material: Alchemy Level 10. Minimum requirement to resist the poison of this material: Poison Resistance Level 10.】

This angel fake flower was also used to make the poisoned knife that beautiful lady hid on her leg yesterday. The angel fake flower itself was already dangerous enough. It made me wonder just how much more dangerous the poison made from mixing this flower would be.

I had a feeling that I shouldn’t make the poison but my curiosity won this time. And so, let’s try making that zodiac poison by following the ratio from appraisal. I stirred and simmered all 5 poisonous materials in a pot while infusing the mixture with magic power for about an hour. After that, the liquid began to change color into a dark red color. Just from a single glance alone, it was obvious this poison would be extremely dangerous to ingest. 

“Ugh-!!”

My vision turned white and at the same time, I began to have a hard time breathing. Just breathing alone was almost impossible to do. A heavy shock ran through my head, as if I was being pounded by a sledge hammer. 

『Individual Name: Keigo Okuda has acquired Poison Resistance Level 6』
『Individual Name: Keigo Okuda has acquired Poison Resistance Level 7』

『Individual Name: Keigo Okuda has acquired Poison Resistance Level 8』

『Individual Name: Keigo Okuda has acquired Poison Resistance Level 11』

The skill acquisition screen popped up but I couldn’t care less. While holding my breath, I put off the fire on the stove, grabbed the antidote potions and ran outside before falling to the ground right here and there. In between my hazy consciousness, I remembered I had drank the antidote before letting go of my consciousness.

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T/N: I’m curious what happened with his body between level 8 and level 11. That’s quite a jump, especially when Keigo’s poison resistance is already at a high level.