Chapter 1194
A special ward had been put together for those who had battled Shelach. Those who survived the battle, that is. If not for Aconites efforts, quite a few wouldn’t have. Some of those were just barely holding on.
One of those individuals was Durff, though from his face nobody would be able to tell. “We got him! Heh, hah-” his laughter devolved into a coughing fit. His lungs might be among the least damaged organs in his body but they certainly weren’t in good shape.
Aconite growled, “Unnecessary talking should be ceased.”
“You took like,” Durff coughed. “A thousand times more poison than me.”
“I was far more prepared as well,” Aconite said.
The way she limped around threatened to undermine her words, but the fact that she could move at all was testament to her efforts. However, even if she had immunized herself against some selection of Shelach’s poisons, that wasn’t necessarily possible with all of them. Her rapid adaptations could only do so much against those she had no prior knowledge of.
Chidi was doing his best to pretend to be asleep. He wouldn’t have opened his eyes regardless, but his breathing patterns might give him away. Despite being one of the primary targets, he had minimized the injuries he received from Shelach. Unfortunately, he had little energy to fight off some of the poisons. But he’d made it through the initial period of danger. He would have to trust his recovery to the Scarlet Alliance’s doctors.
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Celebrations would come for the Scarlet Alliance… but only after the mourning period. The victory had come at great cost, and money was the least of those. The fact that they made it out with both Timothy and Catarina was astounding, though both could use a few decades of recovery at minimum.