Earl Cruz placed his hands on his knees and looked down at the bowl of liquid Joshua had handed him.
Earl Cruz had seen countless kinds of potions in his life, yet he found it difficult to describe exactly what this bowl of liquid was.
He had seen deadly poisons before, but truly excellent poisons were colorless and odorless.
Unlike this bowl of liquid, which was not only an eye-catching dark green but also gave off light. At night, it could probably be used as some kind of illumination. Worse still, bubbles constantly rose from within it.
The bowl of liquid seemed to be warning Earl Cruz in three different ways: Don't drink me.
Yet Earl Cruz still accepted the wooden bowl Joshua offered him.
As he held the bowl, his gaze moved between Joshua and the Prophet. Earl Cruz had long known that Joshua was a Chaos Demon.
Even though Joshua had demonstratively drunk the liquid earlier, the constitution of a Chaos Demon was entirely different from that of a human. The true reason Earl Cruz was willing to drink it was Ciri.
Empress Yekana had gathered intelligence on everyone around Joshua. None of the people by Joshua's side were simple, including the girl named Ciri.
She was the Purple-robed One's sole apprentice, likely to become one of the Nolan Seven Sages in the future, and she was also human.
"Earl!"
The two alchemy engineers who had accompanied him wanted to stop Earl Cruz, but he still raised the wooden bowl with both hands and drank the liquid inside.
At that moment, the two alchemy engineers looked at Earl Cruz as though they were watching a warrior sacrifice himself for his country.
The instant Earl Cruz took his first sip, he jolted in fright, and the wooden bowl in