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Cale put a small bottle on top of the table. It was full of a black liquid.

�T, that-�

Cale could see the alchemist�s hands shaking. The alchemist turned his gaze away from the small bottle and looked toward the priest.

However, the priest was not looking at the alchemist�s face but his left wrist. There was no hand there.

�This liquid seems to black like your left wrist, alchemist-nim.�

The round left wrist was dyed black. It looked like the remains of being charred by fire.

�T, this. This is from when I was poisoned as a child.�

The alchemist quickly covered his wrist with his sleeve. Cale continued to look at the left sleeve as he gently started to speak.

�It looks like you chose to amputate your hand rather than healing it when you realized how serious the poison was.�

Cale remembered what Billos had told him.

�He always complains of pain as he buys alcohol.�

The middle-aged man avoided Cale�s gaze.

�That is none of your concern, priest-nim!�

�Hmm, I heard that your body turns black when you are poisoned by dead mana.�

The people who use dead mana look like they have black spiderwebs all over their body. The ones who are poisoned by dead mana slowly become dyed black as they die.

Any human affected by dead mana, including necromancers, suffer intense pain throughout their lives.

�Just how serious of a poison was it that it is black? I also heard that you suffer from pain every day?�

The alchemist started to think.

He could not allow this to continue.

He could not let everything be ruined because of this priest who suddenly showed up. The alchemist stopped avoiding the priest�s gaze and turned his head back. At that moment, the priest with blue eyes that were looking at him started to speak.

�15 years ago��

The alchemist was finding it difficult to breathe.

�15 years ago, the Alchemists� Bell Tower said that they wanted to contribute to the Empire and took in some orphans and children from the slums. They taught them and made them do menial chores. I think they said the age range was between 5 and 15?� JrNovels.com