The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King - Chapter 109

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Chapter 109: Mana Rejection Syndrome Treatment (3)

Rumors that spread in an instant.

Chairman Kim Tae-ju is trying to invent a treatment for mana rejection syndrome?

The entire Samhan Empire was stirring.

Whenever people met, that was the topic, and people’s reactions were of two kinds.

One was belief.

Chairman Kim Tae-ju would succeed this time too.

Hadn’t he actually proven it before?

The new drugs he had created – not one of them was ordinary.

The other was disbelief.

Even Chairman Kim Tae-ju would find a mana rejection syndrome treatment difficult.

This time the case was different.

Mana rejection syndrome wasn’t a disease or acquired condition.

It was a constitutional problem one was born with.

It was hard to overcome with artificial treatment.

One could only hope for a miracle.

Two opposing attitudes.

Belief and disbelief.

Emperor Ryu Tae-hyeon of the Samhan Empire was the former.

He firmly believed.

Because he too had experienced a miracle.

“Surely Su-ho, you’re not disbelieving, are you?”

Geum Su-ho bristled.

“Really! What do you take me for? Don’t you know the hell of disbelief? The peaches, the mysterious liquor – just thinking of a few things is enough to believe and more.”

“That’s right, you couldn’t eat the peaches but you must have tried the liquor.”

“…Tch!”

If Chairman Kim Tae-ju created a mana rejection syndrome treatment?

It would be a revolution, a miracle, a complete transformation.

Not just in the Samhan Empire but worldwide.

“Rejection syndrome patients – just our Empire’s citizens alone number about 20 million.”

“If they were all cured… whew, it would be enormous. Isn’t there anything we can do to help?”

We should simplify patents and Food and Drug Administration reviews to help it launch quickly.”

“That’s obvious. Even if there are some side effects, so what? Approve it unconditionally.”

Side effects?

As long as people didn’t die, it was fine.

“That aside, we can’t miss this opportunity, right?”

“What opportunity?”

“The American Republic. Let’s start a public opinion war.”

“What?”

The Emperor clicked his tongue and continued.

“Now! Let’s assume Chairman Kim created a mana rejection syndrome treatment. Do you think he’d sell it to the American Republic? Or not?”

“Hmm, of course he’d sell it. It’s a matter involving countless people’s lives.”

“Right. Given Chairman Kim’s character, he’d never turn away. Even if conflicts arose from copy drugs, he’d still sell it. But we need to fix their bad habits, right?”

“I agree with that too, but how?”

“Let’s play the villain role. First, select a few American media companies…”

Geum Su-ho immediately got to work.

He contacted major American media companies and broadcasters and had them all break the story simultaneously.

【Will the Era of Mana Rejection Syndrome Treatment Begin?】

【Samhan Empire’s T Bio Pharmaceutical Enters Mana Rejection Syndrome Clinical Trials.】

【According to Anonymous Sources, Success Probability Very High.】

【America’s Approximately 40 Million Mana Rejecters and Families Filled with Anticipation.】

They also gently sprinkled the copy drug dispute on top.

【Vital Juice and Trauma Treatment Produced by Whiteblack Turn Out to Be Illegal Drugs Copying T Bio’s Saenggibulkkeun and Saesalssugsseug Without Permission.】

【Situation Where Allied Nation’s Trust Could Collapse – This Cannot Be Left Alone.】

【Who Would Export New Drugs to a Country Where Copy Drug Problems Have Erupted?】

【Conflicts Must Be Resolved Quickly. It’s a Matter Directly Connected to Citizens’ Lives.】

Naturally, American Republic citizens were bewildered.

The fatigue recovery drinks they’d been consuming were illegal copy drugs?

└ Fucking! So I’ve been drinking fake drink medicine this whole time.

└ You didn’t know? I’ve tried the real thing. It was on a completely different level from Vital Juice.

└ Damn! What embarrassing nonsense is this? We should have signed a royalty contract from the start.

└ Right. Then we could have bought better quality, cheaper fatigue recovery drinks.

Rebuttal articles immediately burst forth.

【Mana Rejection Syndrome Treatment Still Unconfirmed Rumor.】

【Bio Experts Unanimously Negative – There Have Been Many Such Cases Before. We Must Remember How Many Times We’ve Been Fooled.】

【Whiteblack CEO Fred Miller: Mana Rejection Syndrome Treatment Is Illusion, Likely Fraud.】

【Clearly a Lie. Secondary Victimization Mocking Mana Rejection Syndrome Patients and Families.】

【Illegal Copying Also Baseless Rumor – Our American Republic’s Bio Pharmaceutical Technology Is Not to Be Underestimated.】

└ Right, too hasty. The drug hasn’t been invented yet. It’s still in clinical trials.

└ I think the same. How many drugs have failed during clinical trials?

└ And about Vital Juice too – we’re not even sure if it was really copied.

└ Agreed, the government hasn’t imposed any sanctions either. If it was copied, they would have stopped production.

└ I can’t give up Vital Juice! Just try stopping it! I’ll run straight to the White House.

The public opinion war ended quickly.

Because it was the American Republic, not the Samhan Empire.

But the Emperor and Geum Su-ho were satisfied.

Because they had at least lit the spark.

* * *

Whiteblack Pharmaceuticals CEO Fred Miller sneered with a dismissive expression as soon as he heard news of the mana rejection syndrome treatment clinical trials.

‘Ridiculous.’

Mana rejection syndrome?

If it were caused by disease or poison, he might understand.

In Fred’s view, Kim Tae-ju was overconfident in his abilities.

‘There are things that work and things that don’t.’

Creating a new body would be faster.

Or hoping for a 0.000001% miracle.

Actually, Fred was suspicious of various cases where mana rejecters were miraculously cured.

Maybe they hadn’t had mana rejection syndrome to begin with.

They might have mistaken it for another condition.

There were actually many such cases.

People who lived their whole lives thinking they had mana rejection syndrome, only to find out it was a completely different disease.

‘Treatment is absolutely impossible.’

It was definitely a petty media play by the Samhan Empire or Taehong Bio.

The mana rejection syndrome treatment article came out, and almost simultaneously the illegal copying issue erupted.

‘Trying to do something to me with this kind of thing?’

It was so trivial it was laughable.

Since just sitting still seemed pointless, he immediately released rebuttal articles.

The American Republic was his territory.

He wasn’t afraid of public opinion wars at all.

They probably knew that President Billy Pittman’s daughter had mana rejection syndrome and were coming at him this way.

‘Rather, it would have the opposite effect.’

Nothing is more cruel than giving someone hope that will never be realized.

President Billy Pittman received the news in his daughter’s hospital room.

And he was furious.

They were undoubtedly trying to resolve the counterfeit drug dispute by using his weakness as collateral.

‘Damn bastards, did they think I’d bow my head and apologize?’

He wouldn’t be fooled twice.

How many people had approached him so far claiming they could cure his daughter?

But they were all fraudsters.

A shaman claiming to be a descendant of Native Americans, an Awakened claiming to be learning healing magic skills, a pseudo-scientist claiming to have developed a cure after long research.

They all just took the money and ran.

This media report was definitely a scam too.

And a very intentional one at that.

So he was extremely displeased.

“Ryu Tae-hyeon, that son of a bitch!”

Even if the illegal copying was true, trying to manipulate public opinion by exploiting his daughter Rachel’s mana rejection syndrome?

Billy Pittman’s resentment only grew.

* * *

Tae-ju continued to focus solely on his research.

He didn’t even try to find out how the outside situation was developing.

He left Ilisambaeyi to his disciples so it wouldn’t interfere with his research.

Even the counterfeit drug dispute.

What was important about that right now?

How many lives were resting on his shoulders?

But he wasn’t making any progress at all.

The symptoms improved while the medicine was effective, but after a day passed, it was back to square one.

He had tried every method.

He had even tried mixing in Seondo.

Nevertheless, the results were the same.

All he could do was life-sustaining treatment.

‘In the end, it’s a matter of constitution.’

Of course, there was a way to fix this.

He could induce a complete physical transformation.

Then they would be reborn with new bodies.

But what would happen if he fed them elixirs to induce the transformation?

It was different from ordinary people, suitable candidates, and Awakened.

Mana was poison to mana rejecters.

The moment they consumed an elixir, their bodies would explode and they’d die.

‘There is one more thing though…’

Precisely Honweonmusangdokryeongong.

Creating a Poison Registry like he had done to overcome mana rejection syndrome.

This also had no feasibility.

While he had learned it easily because he shared the same soul as Danggumak, Honweonmusangdokryeongong was by no means an easy martial art.

Even if he taught it, how many would be able to learn it?

And this was Danggumak’s martial art.

Even if they shared the same soul, he couldn’t spread it throughout the world for treating mana rejection syndrome.

‘There must be a way.’

He absolutely had to create one.

If his poison mastery achievement was insufficient, he would ascend to the realm of Toxic Spirit and create it.

So Tae-ju was still combining the toxins inscribed in his Poison Registry to create a cure.

Right at that moment!

Zzzirrrrr!

The delivery signal ringing in his head.

‘It’s here.’

No matter how tired and exhausted he was, he had to pack the items he sent to Danggumak full.

He temporarily stopped what he was doing and checked the Shared Warehouse.

“…Huh?”

What was this?

Colorful plants visible inside the Shared Warehouse.

‘They’re flowers.’

There was nothing but flowers.

Not even very many of them.

Roughly 20-30 blossoms?

The only other item was a single Gonggye smartphone.

There wasn’t even a spatial storage item.

‘Hehe, it’s not even some anniversary.’

Between man and man.

Was he sending them to celebrate achieving Grand Master of Honweonmusangdokryeongong?

That was old news.

Anyway, he moved the items and put in the things he’d bought at the department store.

‘Let me check the smartphone.’

There must be a reason he sent the flowers.

Tae-ju played the most recently recorded video.

Danggumak’s figure appeared.

Always glad to see him no matter how often.

The video continued.

The sound of his voice.

And then.

“…Huh? Flowers?”

A flower garden in Cheon-gye.

Then all these flowers were…

“My, my goodness!”

How foolish.

He should have realized immediately.

That they weren’t just ordinary flowers.

When had there ever been anything ordinary among the items Danggumak sent?

Seondo, immortal wine, flying swords, talismans, and the toxins that helped him achieve Grand Master of Honweonmusangdokryeongong.

And now these flowers from Cheon-gye.

Danggumak was explaining the flowers’ effects.

Tae-ju kept nodding his head.

‘This could work?’

Sacred flowers from Cheon-gye that contained not a trace of the impure energy called mana.

‘If it’s Geumjeonghwa and Eumyanghwa…’

It would definitely work.

Tae-ju was certain.

Because Danggumak thought so too.

Geumjeonghwa that purifies the blood – the purified blood flows through veins, arteries, and capillaries throughout the body, affecting organs and cells as well.

Eumyanghwa that regulates the body’s balance – it corrects the body’s balance disrupted by mana’s invasion and helps adapt to the changed environment.

And if he mixed in toxins that eliminate mana?

An experimental table was set up in Tae-ju’s mind.

Which poison to combine with the celestial flowers, which ones to remove.

However.

‘Celestial flowers have a weakness.’

The key issue isn’t the flowers themselves, but how much material can be procured.

No matter how good they are, if the quantity isn’t sufficient, even making a cure would be useless.

Danggumak had said something similar in the video.

– What I’m sending now is just a sample. Just try researching with it for now.

– Wait on mass production. Once I’m confident we can receive a steady supply, then we’ll start production.

Tae-ju agreed.

Let’s start with research for now.

* * *

Immortal Realm Multiplex.

Today as well, Haemak Seonnyeo bounced in energetically with a large flower stuck in her hair as always.

In jeans and a t-shirt, with a large sack on her back, she burst through the door.

“Hello there! Immortals! Huff huff!”

The Immortals were startled and took the sack from Haemak’s hands.

“Oh my! You’re about to fall over.”

“Slowly, come slowly.”

“Tsk tsk, look at the sweat on your forehead, why did you run here so hard?”

“Hey! What’s Swordsman doing? He should have come to meet you on a Harley bike!”

Swordsman scratched his head and said.

“You all don’t know how fast Haemak is…”

“No way! How fast could this delicate girl be?”

“Don’t you have any grandchildren?”

“Swordsman never even got married in the first place.”

“No wonder he lacks sensitivity.”

“…”

Actually, is Swordsman the only one who never married?

Most of the Immortals here are basically grubby old bachelors.

That’s why Haemak Seonnyeo quickly captured the Immortals’ hearts.

She was good and kind.

Polite and considerate of others, with a cute appearance and always wearing a smile that made you feel good just looking at it.

In short, she was positive energy itself.

There are women in the Immortal Realm too.

Seo Wang-mo who’s scary just to make eye contact with, the cunning Mi-ho Seon-ja, the ice-cold Wolgung Seonja, and Haseon-go who’s nowhere to be seen.

How could they compare to Haemak?

So these days, if Haemak doesn’t show up even for a day, the Immortals’ worry reaches the heavens.

“Where is Dok-seon?”

“He’s upstairs. Want to go up and see?”

“Yes!”

“Rest here. I’ll call him down.”

A moment later.

Danggumak coming down the stairs.

“Haemak Seonnyeo has come?”

“Yes! I brought a whole sack full of flowers.”

“Haha, you’ve worked hard. Oh! The flowers are quite large.”

“That’s because I picked them near Jamigung.”

Danggumak was startled.

Near Jamigung…?

“Did you happen to see Sangje picking flowers?”

“Of course he saw me. He even asked me why I was picking them.”

“…What, what did you answer?”

“I honestly told him it was to save people. That I’d keep picking lots and lots from now on.”

“Ah!”

When they first met, Danggumak had briefly explained to Haemak why the flowers were needed.

“So what did Sangje say…?”

“He didn’t say anything. And Cheon-gye is entirely covered in flower fields, so no matter how much I pick, it doesn’t even show, you know? Hehe.”

In Cheon-gye, the relationship between celestial beings and Sangje is not that of king and subjects.

Whatever Haemak does, as long as it doesn’t disturb the order of Cheon-gye, Sangje has no authority to stop her actions.

In fact, the true owners of Cheon-gye are the celestial beings themselves.

Sangje merely plays the role of managing Cheon-gye so that the celestial beings can live happily.

“I want to work hard picking flowers to save lots and lots of people.”

“…”

“Starting tomorrow, I’ll call some younger friends I know and we’ll come with sacks filled to the brim.”

“…”

Danggumak was speechless.

His face turned red.

Haemak Seonnyeo was truly a celestial being.

She was on a different level from the crazy Immortals, someone who made your heart happy just by looking at her.

No wonder the Immortals were going crazy over her.

That’s why he felt ashamed.

Of himself for having lured her with just a few items.

“Your blood sugar might drop, would you like a chocolate?”

“Yes!”

Haemak Seonnyeo’s voice was as bright as her name.

Anyway, it seemed like the supply would be sufficient.

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