The red mist grew thicker and thicker, rolling through the cave as though it were alive.
Ang felt the world spinning as tinnitus and hallucinations struck him at once. He struggled to stay conscious.
Through the mist, he vaguely saw the outline of a blurry city, with towering buildings and endless streams of traffic. It looked nothing like the scorching lava cave they were currently in.
A hallucination... The neutralized toxin had produced hallucinogenic effects! His heart jolted, and he forcibly bit through his tongue. The taste of blood barely helped him regain some focus.
"Natiya! Get out, now! This poison... it doesn't just cause hallucinations. It also has aphrodisiac side effects!" Ang shouted with difficulty.
But he was too late.
Natiya had already inhaled a large amount of red mist, and her body reacted faster than his.
Her eyes gradually became unfocused, her cheeks flushed, and under the heat and toxins, her skin took on an eerie pink hue like peach blossoms washed with water.
She panted softly as she staggered toward Ang.
She had long since removed her red lizard-hide armor and tossed it aside, as though she had lost all reason.
Ang felt his body temperature rising rapidly, heat pulsing through his lower nerves.
Instinctively, he wanted to flee, but he could not move at all. He could only barely gather his magic power and set up a soundproof magic array—he did not want Dana and Linya to hear what was happening here.
The red mist thickened further, winding between them as if it had substance.
Then Ang lost all sense of time.
About three hours later, the dense red mist finally began to thin.
When the mist completely dispersed, the air in the lava cave began to flow again.
Dana carried Linya in his arms as