The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King - Chapter 224

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Chapter 224 Side Story (4)

Like all domains on the Miteran Continent.

The Tailles Domain of the Kingdom of Kaduin was also a thoroughly closed community.

Social distinctions were also strict.

Even among commoners who weren’t nobles.

People living in pioneer villages or swidden farming villages were considered inferior to those living around the castle.

The status of people outside the castle walls and citizens living within the walls was also different.

Would there be no discrimination within the city?

Richhold City had the typical features of a double fortification.

On a high, flat hill located at the very center of the city surrounded by outer walls, the inner castle was built.

Thus, people living inside the inner castle were distinguished from those living within the outer walls.

Also, the third castle located within the inner castle.

The Feudal Lord’s Mansion.

The residence where Count Peron Tailles and his family lived.

With knights and soldiers on guard duty, magic circles installed by wizards, it was an impregnable fortress that no one could enter.

Even Rodi would find it difficult to enter that Feudal Lord’s Mansion directly.

He had no intention of entering anyway.

Why bother?

What he was focusing on was the aqueduct.

People need water to live.

Clean water from the lake formed on the mountain top in the north flowed into the outer and inner castles through the elevated aqueduct.

Of course, the water source was heavily guarded.

Not only that?

Various magic circles were densely carved on the aqueduct as well.

Purification magic circles, detoxification magic circles, anti-magic circles…

Rodi was on that aqueduct.

With an invisibility talisman attached to his chest.

Would the anti-magic circle activate?

It could never detect him.

Immortal techniques and magic were fundamentally different.

How could mere magic see through a talisman made by Danju Seonin?

Rodi dipped his hand into the aqueduct.

Not long ago, Honweonmusangdokryeongong had risen to 6-star.

A realm just before transformation.

Thanks to that, the size of the Poison Registry had become much larger.

The poison to be put in was very weak, secretive, barely perceptible, unnoticeable to the victims, but in quantities large enough to completely empty the Poison Registry.

Once a day, he would attach the invisibility talisman, climb onto the aqueduct, and release poison.

The next day too, and the day after, continuing for a whole week.

However, not a single person would die from this poison.

The main components of the poison were a mixture of mutant three-striped mosquito poison and Gangho’s mountain attack poison.

It only affected people with mana.

The effects would also last quite long.

Probably about a month?

The targets were knights and wizards.

It would completely disarm them.

It would make them so powerless they couldn’t walk on their own two feet.

By the time they realized they had been poisoned, it would already be too late.

* * *

The Feudal Lord’s Mansion located in Richhold’s inner castle.

7th Circle wizard Count Peron Tailles came out to the terrace at the top of the building and looked down at the downtown area spread below.

The domain residents living their lives busily and earnestly.

They were loyal slaves.

Those people were necessary for the glory and wealth of the Tails Family to continue forever.

They were all the same to him, but even slaves had ranks.

Slaves living in the inner castle, slaves living in the outer castle, slaves living around the castle, slaves living far from the castle, swidden village slaves, pioneer village slaves.

Count Peron Tailles also treated slaves differently according to their ranks.

That made governing easier.

A kind of divide-and-conquer strategy.

Slaves would block other slaves.

Rebellion?

What would happen if one occurred?

The upper-class slaves would suppress the lower-class slaves on their own.

To avoid losing the tiny privileges they possessed.

But a problem had arisen in this peaceful Tails Domain.

A debt slave miner, worth less than a bug, had killed a manager, stolen magic stones, and fled.

‘How dare he…’

Those magic stones could be lost without consequence, but the fact that such a thing happened in a mine directly operated by the Count’s family was humiliating.

He had to catch him quickly and make an example.

Peron Tailles returned to his room from the terrace, sat in his office chair, and asked the servant who assisted him.

“What about Pete? Still no contact?”

“No, but I believe he’s tracking the rebel.”

“That fool, it’s already been a week.”

“Don’t worry. There will be results soon.”

“Hmm.”

The rebel’s name was Rodi.

According to witness testimony, he had killed the manager and supervisor with a dagger and iron balls.

Then he must have learned assassination techniques.

Moreover, he seemed quite cunning.

It meant he had lived in the mine for five whole years hiding his abilities.

Well, no matter how strong he was, to 7th Circle wizard Peron Tailles, he was just a weak bug that could be crushed with a fingertip, not even a real threat.

“Tell them when they find him, there’s no need to capture him alive, just kill him immediately.”

“Yes!”

“Have them cut off only his head and bring it back.”

Time passed,

And Count Peron completely forgot about Rodi’s existence.

How much work was there to do as the ruler of a domain.

But then an incident occurred.

Suddenly, an unknown disease spread.

First, the knights began to fall ill.

It was a simple disease.

Just losing strength in their bodies, making movement inconvenient?

They didn’t even have fever.

That much could be treated.

He called healers to prepare medicine for them.

The next day.

This time, the wizards collapsed.

Was it an epidemic?

This would be troublesome.

He immediately separated the patients to another location.

The day after that.

The condition of the knights and mages, far from improving, had worsened even further.

Even more.

“…The circle is broken?”

“Y-yes, that’s correct.”

A circle shattered.

How could that be possible?

A circle could break from excessive mana manipulation.

However, he had never heard of it happening due to illness.

“Look into curses or poisons.”

“We’re already doing that, but… we can’t figure anything out.”

“Haha.”

Those who had collapsed were mages.

Upon reaching the 3rd Circle, one of the basics they learn is Poison Cure, detoxification magic, and even curses can be quickly dispelled when priests cast divine magic.

“Tell them to use detoxification magic first before eating or drinking anything. Open the warehouse and distribute detoxification spell scrolls too.”

“Understood.”

“And bring the priests from the Ranellia Church.”

The priests from the domain’s temple arrived.

It was effective.

When they used divine healing spells, the collapsed mages shook themselves off and stood up.

However, it was only a temporary effect.

The next day, even more knights and mages collapsed.

Even the servant, a 5th Circle mage, collapsed.

Peron Tailles’ wife and children were included as well.

What could be the cause?

If it were poison, ordinary people should be affected too.

The common citizens and servants of the inner castle were perfectly fine.

The situation in the outer castle was the same.

Only knights and mages.

Finally, even the priests collapsed.

Priests with divine power had collapsed?

It was inevitable to be flustered.

Only then did the creeping fear set in.

‘Could it be?’

Peron’s mind suddenly became clear.

While his family, knights, and mages were collapsing one after another, what about himself?

In the quiet office, he gathered his thoughts and examined each of his seven circles one by one.

Whoooooong!

“Ah!”

And he discovered it.

It was so minute that it was barely noticeable, but there was a foreign substance gradually gnawing away at the mana in his circles.

“Poison Cure! Poison Cure! Poison Cure…”

He cast detoxification spells in succession.

The foreign substance seemed to gradually disappear.

“Damn it!”

As if realizing it had been detected, the energy doubled in size and rushed at him like a living creature.

This was maddening.

The domain’s priests had also collapsed, making divine magic impossible.

People began rushing to escape.

Soldiers fled in terror.

Administrators and wealthy merchants too.

The inner castle became completely empty.

Citizens of the outer castle also rushed out of the castle.

Count Peron Tailles had relatively mild symptoms.

Though he was enduring with the power of 7th Circle magic, he was equally helpless, with no solution available.

However, if there was one thing certain.

‘This isn’t a natural phenomenon.’

Someone is definitely behind this.

Whether it’s disease, poison, or curse.

There’s a culprit who caused this.

He needed help.

So Peron contacted the Lanellia Cathedral through a communication crystal.

When he explained the detailed situation to the cardinal.

– It seems highly likely to be a demon’s curse. Something like the Demon Tribe or dark mages.

“Yes, I think so too.”

– How can I help you?

“Please dispatch the Holy Maiden. As quickly as possible.”

– Hmm, she’s quite a busy person.

“I think I’ve been rather neglectful of the church lately. I heard there are plans to expand the cathedral…”

– Haha, how did you know about that, Count?

The bargaining began.

The price for summoning the Holy Maiden.

Money could solve everything.

– Understood. Count, I’ll try to contact the Holy Maiden.

It was settled.

The Holy Maiden of the Cathedral of the Holy Kingdom.

The only person who could communicate directly with the goddess Ranellia.

She would be able to completely cure diseases, poisons, and curses alike.

Count Peron Tailles remained alone in the Feudal Lord’s Mansion.

He waited and waited for the Holy Maiden’s party to arrive.

‘If they use a teleport magic circle, they should arrive soon.’

But the one who came to find him was not the Holy Maiden.

* * *

Wearing Bluetooth earphones in his ears.

Humming songs from Earth,

Rodi slowly walked into the inner castle.

It was completely empty.

A few ordinary soldiers and servants remained, but they posed no threat whatsoever.

The poison’s effect was far better than expected.

It had to be.

The Honweonmusangdokryeongong mastered by Gangho’s Jeoldaedokma Danggumak.

The Honweonmusangdokryeongong mastered by Earth’s Jeoldaedokma Kim Tae-ju.

The Honweonmusangdokryeongong mastered by Miteran’s Jeoldaedokma himself.

All three had different starting points.

Among the three, the one who received the most privilege was Rodi himself.

From the very beginning of his learning, he had consumed Seondo.

Therefore, the harmonious energy combined with the Poison Registry.

It wasn’t an ordinary Poison Registry.

It was a harmonious Poison Registry combined with energy.

Could the poison created by that Poison Registry be detoxified with magic spells?

Creak.

Rodi opened the door leading to the feudal lord’s mansion.

The end of the long hall.

Someone was sitting on a chair placed on a high platform.

It was Count Peron Tailles.

Peron had sensed it from the moment someone opened the door to the feudal lord’s mansion and walked in with heavy steps.

No matter how few guards there are, to enter the feudal lord’s mansion so boldly?

Then that must be him.

The culprit who made his domain like this.

But an unfamiliar face.

The clothes he was wearing were also peculiar.

What was that stuck in his ears?

Peron asked the guy approaching him.

“So it’s you. The one who caused all this.”

“That’s right. I did it.”

“…What’s the reason? Have we met before?”

“No, this is the first time I’m seeing you today.”

“Then why on earth?”

“My parents died because of you. Though you probably don’t even know.”

Rodi pulled out the corpse of Pete, the loan shark, from the Infinite Space.

Thud!

Count Peron stared intently at Pete’s corpse before continuing to speak.

“I see. You were a debt slave. Are you Rodi, who killed the mine manager?”

“You’re smarter than I thought. That’s right.”

“You weren’t an ordinary bug. You were full of poison.”

“Oh! You know me well.”

Swish!

The willow leaf throwing knife appeared in Rodi’s hand.

He had no intention of dragging this out.

Let’s end this quickly.

Should he start with a taste test first?

Tsspiritt!

The throwing knife flew at terrifying speed, leaving an afterimage.

“Shield.”

Zing!

At the same time, a translucent barrier covered Count Peron’s body.

Clang!

The willow leaf throwing knife was blocked.

Crack,

It didn’t break, but the shield cracked.

As expected, a 7th Circle mage was different.

“Ice Spear.”

Taking advantage of that gap, Peron manifested a giant ice spear that shot toward Rodi.

Whooosh!

Swish!

Magic could be easily avoided with Phantom Preview.

Peron chanted spells while sitting in his chair.

“Sleep! Illusion! Blind!”

Control magic that affected the mind was also useless.

Because his qi blocked it.

Peron’s expression showed panic.

Magic doesn’t work?

He wasn’t someone to let his guard down against.

Tsspiritt!

Rodi’s flash strike attack followed.

“Blink!”

Pop!

Peron instantly moved through space.

‘Tch!’

Thwang!

The throwing weapon lost its target and embedded in the chair.

The most annoying magic.

If only Honweonmusangdokryeongong reached 7th level, blink magic would be nothing, since he could guide throwing weapons using poison qi.

“Ice Field!”

Crackle!

The floor froze white.

Enough to make movement difficult.

Following that, countless freezing spells flew consecutively.

Crash crash crash crash!

Rodi’s movement was restricted by Ice Field.

Peron moved freely with Blink.

But Rodi had a method too.

Swish!

The spirit throwing knife in his hand.

The treasure of Iron Staff Seonin that Tae-ju had sent him.

Tsspiritt!

A silver flash flickered in the feudal lord’s mansion hall.

“Shield!”

Clang!

Peron’s shield shattered like glass.

Not only that, but when the spirit throwing knife turned around and charged again.

“Huk!”

Peron turned pale and repeatedly shouted blink spells.

“Blink! Blink! Blink…”

But the spirit throwing knife pursued persistently.

Tsspit! Tsspirit!

And blood butterflies.

Dozens of blood butterflies fluttered in the air.

Throwing weapons that didn’t seem like throwing weapons because they were so slow.

Peron, who was frantically avoiding the spirit throwing knife, didn’t notice the blood butterflies.

Even if he had noticed, he would have thought they were real butterflies.

“Blink! Blink! Blink…”

Pop pop pop pop!

Right at the spot where Peron moved with blink to shake off the spirit throwing knife.

A blood butterfly that happened to be flying by.

Gently!

Landed softly on Peron’s head.

Prick!

At the same time, the blood butterfly’s antenna pierced Peron’s crown.

“Urk!”

Poison qi was injected.

Peron hurriedly grabbed the blood butterfly that had been sitting on his head.

“It’s over.”

Rodi grinned wickedly.

“…What?”

In an instant!

Excruciating pain rushed through him in a flash.

“Urgh, uuugh…”

Peron clutched his chest.

Crack!!!

One of the circle’s rings, weakened to its limit, shattered pathetically.

“Kuhuk!”

Swoosh!

At the same time, the spirit dagger floating in the air.

Thud!

Pierced into his chest.

“Kyaaaah!”

Peron fell to his knees.

He could no longer move.

Blink wouldn’t activate.

He couldn’t deploy his shield either.

His mana road had hardened stiff.

“N-no!”

All thanks to the spirit dagger.

A useful alternative before mastering Toxic Spirit.

Rodi walked over step by step.

Time to finish this.

Swish!

Gripping the dagger in his hand.

“If you have any last words, say them now.”

“W-wait…”

That’s when it happened.

“Stop!!!”

A woman who had suddenly appeared at the entrance of the Feudal Lord’s Mansion.

And paladins and priests surrounding the area.

Rodi immediately recognized who she was.

‘…The Holy Maiden?’

The Holy Maiden glanced at the corpse of the loan shark Pete collapsed on the floor and Count Peron bleeding from his mouth, then confronted Rodi.

“You, you’re truly a vicious bastard. Cursing the domain and killing people.”

Rodi frowned.

Of all times for the Holy Maiden to appear.

Before he could even finish his revenge.

“…This is not something for the Holy Maiden to concern herself with. It’s my personal revenge.”

“That’s for me to judge later, so put down that weapon first.”

“What if I refuse?”

“I’ll deliver judgment in the name of holy Raellia. A hot one.”

Back down like this?

Not a chance.

“Then try it.”

“Hmph! I clearly warned you, didn’t I? Hey! Everyone grab that bastard!”

Clank clank clank clank!

The paladins surrounded Rodi with their shields and swords raised.

Count Peron smiled brightly and mocked Rodi.

“Kekekekek, you little bug! What? It’s over? The one who’s finished isn’t me, it’s you!”

Damn it!

Fine.

Since it’s come to this, I’ll go all the way.

Even if it means becoming enemies with the Holy Kingdom, I’ll do what I must.

Right then!

Whoosh!

Light erupted from the Holy Maiden’s entire body.

“Oh my?”

The Holy Maiden tilted her head.

This phenomenon is a revelation from Lady Ranellia.

Suddenly?

“…Yes?”

The Holy Maiden stared into empty space with confused eyes and muttered to herself.

“Ah, what did I do wrong… Oh, no, he is a bad bastard but still a noble, so… Huk! Why such harsh words, I’m, I’m sorry. Yes? You want me to apologize to that person? Yes yes, ah, I’ll serve him well on my own.”

The Holy Maiden’s face turned red.

After hesitating for a moment, she approached Rodi with quick steps, grabbed her skirt, and bowed politely.

“Hohoho, hello. Distinguished sir, I’m Holy Maiden Veronica.”

Her attitude had completely changed.

“…Uh, I’m Rodi,”

“Wow! You have such a nice name too. It rolls off the tongue so well.”

“…”

What’s this about now?

As if not understanding what was happening, Count Peron stammered and asked.

“H-Holy Maiden, why to that lowly bastard?”

“Shut up! Before I sew your mouth shut!”

“…Yes?”

And looking at Rodi again.

“Lord Rodi, shall I do it for you?”

“Do what?”

“Kill this bastard.”

“…The Holy Maiden herself?”

“Oh my? Just because I’m a Holy Maiden doesn’t mean I only save people. Sometimes I kill too.”

I can guess why the Holy Maiden is acting this way,

But I can’t leave my revenge to someone else’s hands.

“I’ll do it myself.”

“Yes! I’ll wait outside. Take your time with your business and come out.”

The Holy Maiden and paladins left the hall.

Anyway, let’s continue with what I was doing.

Count Peron just stood there with his mouth agape.

What kind of situation is this?

The Holy Maiden is someone even kings of decent kingdoms would defer to.

Bowing her head so humbly to a mere debt slave?

Rodi approached Peron.

“Have you heard of Hell?”

“H-Hell?”

“It’s a place that punishes evil people. If you had died to Lord Tae-ju on Earth, you would have fallen to Hell and paid the price by dying and reviving thousands of times.”

Rodi placed his hand on Peron’s head.

“Since this is Miteran, I don’t know where you’ll end up.”

“…P-please!”

“But it definitely won’t be paradise.”

“Save me…”

Wooooong!

The poison emission began.

All the poisons from the Poison Registry were injected into Peron’s body.

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