Mages were fragile, or at least mages in this world were.
Almost anything could take their lives.
Anti-magic daggers, firearms, explosives, and... poison.
A long time ago, many mages had been poisoned to death.
They could use magic to toughen their bodies and form shields before themselves, but they couldn't use magic to protect their internal organs.
Thus, in response to poison, mages developed a special spell,
called Detection Spell.
The Detection Spell could effectively detect whether something contained poison, and this spell had saved many mages from being poisoned to death.
But as the saying went, the Dao rose one foot, and the demon rose ten.
Once there was a Detection Spell, there would naturally be poisons that could interfere with it.
That was the kind of poison currently placed in Li Qi's steak.
Li Qi had been fortunate enough to see this poison before, during Derien's alchemy class.
Derien had told him that it was a poison specifically designed to target those who possessed magic. After it was consumed, it interfered with the flow of magic inside the body and damaged its Magic Circuit.
In short, it turned a mage into an ordinary person unable to use magic.
Although the Magic Circuit could still be rebuilt and the magic within the body remained,
the mage could only live as an ordinary person until the Magic Circuit was reconstructed.
This poison couldn't be detected by the Detection Spell. Aside from scientifically analyzing the food or having someone test the poison, there were almost no other ways to detect it.
Except for Li Qi.
Li Qi, who could see different flows of magic.
That was why he had refused Duke Mills. He had no intention of being imprisoned by Ilona and the others under the guise of "protection."
Mills hadn't