Chapter 70

After I returned to the mansion.

The order from Shin Jae-heon to look into the Eastern Empire’s movements quickly yielded results.

Why? What are those guys up to? Rolling rocks around?

I hoped nothing good was happening for them. That was the moment I thought that.

Them too? I blinked.

A reply came up right away to my words.

“The system might be slow, but it’s fair.”

Japan had laughed at us so much, only for a gate to explode in the prime minister’s residence basement, causing total chaos, right?

I knew the Eastern Empire would end up the same!

Shin Jae-heon’s chat suddenly cut off.

I didn’t even have time to wonder about the situation before I turned to look at the party buff window that had abruptly started changing.

“Huh?”

It was odd that Poison Detection or Detoxification was being applied to herself, but the strangest was Immunity to Myriad Poisons.

‘It consumes a lot of mana, so I don’t use it much outside of combat.’

It was a skill Yian-ssi had once described that way.

‘Still, it activates passively when it’s urgent… so no need to keep it on all the time.’

The moment I recalled that conversation and felt an ill omen.

The status window changed drastically.

—Thud!

I gripped the desk in my office and shot to my feet.

An L-rank poison?

That was when our hunter chat messages piled up one after another.

—Flash!

“What?”

With the words “Unconsciousness,” Yian-ssi’s status window turned gray.

It meant she had lost consciousness.

The chats flew up rapidly.

Where was the last place Yian-ssi had been?

I thought she said she’d stay at the temple we visited.

“From there to here—”

It would take at least half a day!

A string of curses nearly spilled out.

Even if I took a carriage for half a day, I might not be able to check Yian-ssi’s condition, and the effects of that L-rank poisoning debuff could only be gauged by a healer’s eyes.

There was no choice but to have the temple priests find Yian-ssi quickly.

“How?”

The moment I muttered that, I remembered the firebird that had flown in through the window.

“Ah.”

That would definitely be fast.

To avoid RP Dungeon penalties, I’d need to explain the reason for contact well, but with Yian-ssi hit by L-rank poison, there was no time to mince words.

—Tap, tap, tap tap tap tap.

My fingertips drumming the desk sped up.

And soon.

“Phew.”

I slumped against the back of my chair.

Yian-ssi’s status window remained the same.

Was there anyone who could cure an L-rank poison?

If they specialized in detoxification, even an A-rank healer might have an L-rank skill.

—Tap tap tap tap…

That wasn’t something I could solve by drumming the desk faster.

In the end, I shot up from my seat.

“Time to head to that temple—”

—Bang!

Making me furious!

The situation would probably be relayed by them.

Thankfully, Hunter So Yeri, as the relatively free mage tower lord, seemed able to drop by the temple.

“Why poisoning all of a sudden?”

Muttering to myself brought no answers.

A few days passed like that.

Hunter So Yeri, who had secretly observed from afar, relayed the temple situation.

It meant the situation was that serious. It seemed it would stay that way until Hunter Yian woke up.

The RP Dungeon Penalty Crisis window flashed again.

I wouldn’t die from a penalty just for visiting, but.

My skill ranks would drop.

That was true.

Exactly three days later, Yian-ssi’s status window finally recovered.

From gray to vivid color.

And the ‘Unconsciousness (L)’ status disappeared.

At least chat worked. Good thing.

If the status window had vanished too, there’d be no way to call the priests.

Just thinking about it was dizzying.

You couldn’t tell from chat if a person was okay or not.

Yian-ssi’s chat appeared amid the excited messages.

Of course, someone who just collapsed and woke up wouldn’t have grasped the situation yet.

I waited anxiously for his chat for a while.

Then Yian-ssi’s explanation followed.

She had been working late at night when a young priest brought snacks, and she ate them.

Not the kind of thing to say to an S-rank, but it was all I had.

So they didn’t even know the culprit’s identity properly yet.

She might have seen the culprit’s face, and more importantly, maybe she was the one who poisoned them instead?

No way they just let her go believing her completely, right?

Yeah, our Yian-ssi might be soft-hearted, but she’s no pushover!

…Probably not?

Or is she?

Right, our Yian-ssi is a healer, not a sucker!

Even for an L-rank dungeon, wasn’t it too much for insane-rank poison to just pop up like that?

But the fact that Yian-ssi, with SS-rank detox skills, collapsed meant it was an incredibly potent poison.

If it had been me, Shin Jae-heon, or Hunter So Yeri who ate it, we might have died.

Ugh, that idiot!