Chapter 44
About two days later, Mang-ryang obtained a jar filled with poisonous water that was as big as a child. Carefully adding various substances in the workshop, he began to mix them. After roughly three stages of the process were completed, a pungent smell similar to gunpowder began to fill the air. Soon enough, a jar’s worth of poison was ready. Mang-ryang handed me the finished product.
“Here it is.”
“What would happen if a human were to ingest this?”
Mang-ryang chuckled.
“Before one takes ten breaths, paralysis will begin to spread through the body, and before another ten breaths, one will be completely immobilized. If left untreated for half an hour, they will die.”
“……”
“First, I would like to hear your thoughts. Is a cult involved in activities so nefarious that we must resort to using this poison?”
I felt it was time to tell the truth. Since Mang-ryang was accompanying me to Chamgeuk Village anyway, he was currently my most important ally. The more he knew, the more helpful it would be for me. So I calmly laid out the truth.
“They are not just a simple cult. The Embroidered Uniform Guards is aiding the sorcerers.”