"Good stuff. If I can poison Viken and make him hallucinate, then I should have a chance to escape. But how do I use it?" Rosen pondered. The vampire Viken isn't stupid; on the contrary, he's very shrewd and would never willingly ingest datura poison.
Unable to think of a solution immediately, Rosen opened the other bottles and continued examining the potions.
After opening five bottles, he found another special potion. It had a unique smell—a faint fishy odor mixed with a slightly astringent one. A phrase popped into his head: "Stone urchin syrup, containing pilocarpine, treats glaucoma, and can also counteract datura poison, etc...etc..."
A flash of inspiration struck Rosen like lightning.
"Datura poison, sea urchin syrup, a bottle of red wine, musk balm, and my alchemical talent—I've got it!" Rosen had a reliable plan.
No sooner said than done!
He immediately picked up the wine bottle and pulled out the cork.
'Pop!' The cork popped open, and a fragrant aroma immediately wafted out. This bottle of red wine was a fine find, called 'Moonlight Night,' worth 100 rand a bottle. Sir Laplace didn't want to drink it himself; he kept it as decoration in his son's alchemy room for show.
"Splash~ Splash~"
Rosen casually poured red wine onto the wooden board, emptying the bottle almost completely. A strong aroma of wine filled the alchemy room.
Vampires have incredibly sharp senses, their noses more sensitive than a dog's. Rosen was using alcohol to mask the scent of datura poison in the air.
That wasn't enough.
Rosen then picked up the musk balm from the shelf. This was pure perfume, common in noble households and unlikely to attract attention.
Held the balm near a candlestick on the table, the increased temperature greatly accelerated the evaporation of the musk, making the scent in the air extremely strong.
'The wine's aroma numbs the vampire's sense of smell, and the similarity between musk and datura poison should confuse the vampire's perception.' After doing all that, Rosen took the datura venom, gritted his teeth, and drank it all in one gulp. He quickly hid the bottle, then picked up the red wine. There was still a little bit left in the bottle; he immediately took a large gulp to wash away the taste of the datura venom from his mouth.
His opponent was a vampire far superior to humans in every way—calling him a superhuman wouldn't be an exaggeration. Dealing with such a person, one could never be too cautious.
After drinking, Rosen tucked the bottle containing the sea urchin extract into the inner pocket of his cotton robe, then quickly walked to the table and sat down, focusing his mind and using his alchemical talent to sense the state of his body.
Datura poison doesn't discriminate; it takes effect as soon as it's ingested. If he didn't intervene with alchemy, he might have been poisoned and died before the vampire even came to suck his blood.
Soon, Rosen sensed the datura toxin in his stomach.
'Huh?' "Strange, my elemental perception has become much stronger, at least twice as clear. Could it be because of the toxin in my body?"
This change surprised Rosen.
He clearly felt a very cold, malevolent, airflow-like force rapidly passing through the walls of his intestines and stomach, entering his blood vessels, and spreading quickly throughout his body.
When the concentration of this malevolent 'airflow' reached a certain level, the hallucinogenic effects of the datura poison manifested in Rosen.
Rosen felt numb, lightheaded, and saw many double images, which constantly shifted and transformed into all sorts of strange things. The world seemed to be slowly spinning.
"It's almost there. The datura poison has spread throughout my body, and there's a sufficient concentration of toxins in my blood. The hallucinogenic effects indicate that the toxins have begun to affect my nervous system. If I want to live, I must control the spread of the toxins; otherwise, even with an antidote, I'm doomed!"
Real-world poisoning isn't like in martial arts novels, where no matter how severe the poisoning, the arrival of an antidote instantly restores normal bodily functions, as if nothing happened. In reality, once toxins enter the body, they rapidly destroy tissues. If left untreated, they cause irreversible damage. Even if all the toxins are immediately removed, the person is essentially crippled.
"My elemental control abilities should be able to reduce the toxicity of the datura poison."
Rosen closed his eyes, focusing all his attention on the malevolent chilling currents.
Datura toxins are no pushovers; they not only seep into the bloodstream but also attempt to penetrate other bodily fluids. They've already entered the lymphatic system, and a very small amount has even crossed the blood-brain barrier, entering Rosen's cerebrospinal fluid.
This is why Rosen is hallucinating.
Once the toxins accumulate to a certain level, Rosen's nervous system will suffer irreversible damage.
'Go back!'
Rosen focused his mind, extending his 'hand of thought,' and began to drive these erratic malevolent chilling currents back into his blood vessels.
A very strange thing happened: the malevolent chilling currents were like fish caught in a net; although they still thrashed and jumped around, they couldn't break through the net and were forced to retreat helplessly back into his blood vessels.
Rosen's hallucinations immediately vanished without a trace.
'Hiss~ The effect is at least twice as good as I expected!' Rosen was both surprised and delighted. He guessed that this was probably due to the internal environment; controlling his body was definitely easier than in the external world.
"Excellent! I seem to have some energy left; I should be able to do even better." Rosen had more ideas.
Vampires suck blood by biting the blood vessels in their prey's neck with their fangs, and they suck the blood from the area near the neck first. But now, the datura toxin in Rosen's body was almost evenly distributed throughout his blood vessels. If he could concentrate the toxin in the blood vessels near his neck, the amount of poison a vampire inhaled in a short time would increase many times over, and the poison would take effect faster and more violently!