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Chapter 296 - THE VIAL OF LIFE

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.

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