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Chapter 88

Author: Saint Angelo
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-19 18:57:00

“Thyssalin—pronounced THISS-uh-lin,” Adrian said, his words deliberate and slow, each syllable pressing into the air like a burning sun. The final sound lingered, stretching into the passive silence around them.

Once again, Adrian’s eyes caught the man’s nervousness unraveling. He could no longer control it—his face was sweating in the worst way possible, betraying everything he wanted to hide.

“It’s a poison,” Adrian continued, his tone steady. “A rare crystalline secretion found in the glands of an equally rare subterranean insect… or fungus.”

He began to pace before them, not hurriedly but with the calm authority of a lecturer—one whose lessons carried the weight of fear as much as knowledge.

“And it’s unique in the way it works. On first contact or ingestion, it causes mild dizziness and fatigue—easily mistaken for common illness. A sudden collapse, weakness… nothing that alarms suspicion at first.”

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