Mixed Blessing System

Seeing his normal status, Lothur was pleased with his results in playing with the EVF points.

The conversion rate was not the best, but it was a power that came at virtually no cost to him. So, it was not bad, and he could immediately feel the gains from this investment.

At the same time, he knew that the higher his body condition, the better his training results would be. That is, the more intense would be his growth concerning the other attributes for a given number of hours of training.

Thus, as he prepared to manipulate the poison of the dead scorpions earlier, he could not help but smile.

'Well, now I will train a little bit of my poison path...' He picked up a bottle with over 5 liters of purple liquid.

He had collected the poison from each of the dead creatures in the first two levels of the last cave and then stored such a substance in one of his water bottles.

As for the scorpions on the third level, they had ended with dehydrated bodies, so, unfortunately, Lothur had not obtained this resource.

Anyway, there was enough for him to prepare a poisonous bath with the other ingredients he already had because of Elisabeth. So, he did not regret the loss of the level 7 scorpion poison and soon went to the bathroom in that room.

'First, I will put in some of the pore openers...' He took medicine and mixed it into the clear water of the tub.

Poison baths had simple workings. They depended on the poison in the water coming into contact with the poison master's bloodstream, only in a relatively small concentration.

How to make this concentration small? By absorbing the substance through the skin and not directly into the bloodstream or ingested.

By absorbing these poisons through the skin, poison masters could control the poisons entering their bodies without risking their hearts pumping out more poison than their bodies could handle.

But for this to happen, it was necessary to use a substance that would open the pores of the poison master's body. Otherwise, only by cutting into the skin, something not so interesting to do, would someone be able to connect the poison in the water with the bloodstream.

So, when preparing this unique bath, Lothur quickly used an essential medicine for this kind of training before mixing some poisons to stabilize the poison from those scorpions.

Poisons acted differently from one another. They intoxicated cells, but what killed or caused the damage was the response of the cells to each type of poison.

In this cultivation world, some poisons would cause a person's nervous system to stop working, immobilizing the affected individual.

There was a snake capable of poisoning its victim, and its poison made that person seem as if he was already dead while he could still see and hear.

Because of such a creature, it was not uncommon for people poisoned with its venom to experience being buried alive, burned, and sometimes even butchered!

But other poisons could generate other reactions, which were generally not enjoyable to experience in training.

Because of this, poison masters often mixed different types of poisons to 'balance' some reactions and facilitate their training.

Lothur knew how to 'balance' the poison of those scorpions with the ones he had in his spatial ring, so he soon finished preparing his bath and got into that tub.

'This numbing sensation...' He thought as he put his feet into the gray poisonous mixture, feeling the effect of the poison from those scorpions.

'It seems that this mixture is quite strong...'

'Great! This way, I can significantly improve my resistance to Iron-grade poisons!' He pondered as he smiled and prepared to begin training.

After that, he panted and clenched his teeth against each other as his body began to tremble inside that tub.

...

After two hours since Lothur's tests with the EVF points and his bloodline, Annaliese finished her rest and came out of her meditative state.

In doing so, she felt that she had become a little stronger, but upon opening her eyes and not finding Lothur, she put that aside to look for him.

"Lothur?" She asked in a low voice but soon noticed that the bathroom lamp was on and headed toward that area.

When she got there, she saw her brother-in-law lying in a bathtub filled with a light gray liquid, with only his head sticking out of it.

"Lothur, that..." She caught his attention, causing him to open his eyes to look at her.

By this point, Lothur had finished the worst part of his training and was no longer in pain. On the contrary, he felt the comfortable sensation that always came after arduous training.

As such, he was a bit sleepy and had a relaxed expression on his face.

"Anna..." He murmured in a low voice, seeing his beautiful sister-in-law, who was dressed in a short dress at the moment.

"Lothur, are you training your poison art?" She asked as she approached him.

He nodded and smiled at her. "Hmm, so be careful and don't touch anything."

"Will you take long? I was thinking about going to bed..." Annaliese said as she blushed at the thought of what she would finally get the chance to do with him.

He understood what she wanted and felt his little friend start to wake up. "You can go ahead. I'll join you in about ten more minutes, Anna."

"Oh? All right." She said as she started to take off her dress in front of him, just to tease him.

Seeing that, Lothur immensely enjoyed the sight of his sister-in-law's pretty body and soon got up from where he was to clean his body and the tub.

While doing so, he saw the system notifications in front of him.

[Resistance to Iron-grade poisons.]

[Progress: 70%]

'70%, huh?' He smiled, noting a 16 percentage point increase in just two hours of training. 'At this rate, I'll achieve Bronze-grade poison resistance before I reach the 2nd stage.'

'Perfect!'

But as he finished cleaning up the remaining poisonous substances in that bathroom, Lothur decided to take his test to become a 1-star poison master.

He took the poison stick he had received from Rebecca and rubbed it on his right wrist for a few moments until a purple spot appeared there.

[Poisonous substance detected...]

[The poison was neutralized.]

In less than a minute, he saw the system warnings appearing before him, not even having felt the effects of that substance, the test for novice poison masters.

​ But he saw a small tattoo forming on the spot he had rubbed on his wrist.

It became a small inscription, looking like a runic barcode.

Lothur knew this was his identification as a 1-star poison master, so he did not think it was terrible. He just carefully washed his wrist before finishing cleaning that place.

Then, while he had an exuberant smile on his face, he left the bathroom and went half-naked to the bed area of that room.

Seeing his sister-in-law lying down and looking nervously in his direction, he climbed onto that bed and stood over her as he felt his body 'activate.'

"Anna, you look so cute I can hardly control myself..." He looked at her lips and used one of his fingers to play with them.

She used her hands to grab his waist and bring him closer to her, even though she felt nervous. "Then don't control yourself."

After she said that, it was not long before she started kissing him, beginning the glorious night they had ahead.

"Mmmmmm~"

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