"I didn't expect a single Beyonder Creature that provides Sequence 4 Potion ingredients to nearly take me down with it..."
Angel murmured, still shaken. She dragged her heavy feet toward the dead Black-Striped Shadow Scorpion and cautiously touched its stiff body. Only after confirming it was truly dead did she breathe a sigh of relief.
Even in death, the scorpion's massive, dark body—over two meters long—was intimidating. Angel avoided its still-open pincers and legs pointing skyward, circled behind it, and activated Spirit Vision. Sure enough, a dark green glow was gradually gathering near its tail.
That was the poison sac inside the scorpion's body.
"So that's how you obtain the Potion ingredient Katarina mentioned... But how could she know there was a Sacrificial Ritual on Sona Island leading to the Forsaken Land of the Gods? How could she know a Black-Striped Shadow Scorpion was active on the other side?"
Although Bernadette, Queen Mystic and a Clairvoyant, had confirmed it, Angel still couldn't fathom the Unaging Demoness's true purpose. Perhaps Katarina genuinely hadn't meant to deceive her. But what if Katarina's own information wasn't true?
Shaking off her doubts, Angel summoned the Sword of Dawn again and shaped it into a handy knife. She cut open the scorpion's soft underside, suppressed her appetite for the tender flesh that looked rather delicious, and removed the poison sac, which now held all of the creature's Beyonder Characteristics.
The poison sac was larger than a fist, black with a sickly green tinge. It looked somewhat shriveled after expelling so much venom during the fight, but under Spirit Vision, it shone brilliantly.
At last, she had both main ingredients for the Despair Potion... Angel sighed, took off the outer garment torn during the battle, wrapped the intact poison sac in it, and tied it to