Chapter 292: The Vial of Life
The air in the Heart-Root Chamber was freezing, despite the golden warmth of the pool.
It was the cold of intent.
Ren stood behind Leon, his body angled perfectly to use the Hero's massive armored frame as a shield. The dagger in his hand was steady, the tip pressing just enough into the soft skin of Leon's throat to draw a thin bead of crimson blood.
"Don't move," Ren whispered, his voice a soft caress against the violence of the situation. "The poison on this blade is a neurotoxin derived from the abyss-spiders in the Chasm. One scratch, and your lungs paralyze in thirty seconds. It's a very... suffocating way to die."
I stopped.
My steel sword—or what was left of it—lay in dust at my feet. My hand was still smoking with the black residue of the Void Cut. The power of the B+ Rank overclock was surging through me, begging to be released, but I was helpless.
If I used [Void Cut], I would erase Ren. But I would erase Leon, too.
