Chapter 52

Chapter 52: Cool heads but warm hearts (1)

The Poison of Destruction art . When one reached the fourth level, it allowed them to store poison within the body and use it when needed . The internal energy helped control the poison that was within the body, but if the energy was shattered, the poison spread out uncontrolled .

“Nnnrggghgh!”

Chun Yeowun was shocked when Chun Jongsum’s face turned purple and his mouth was full of bubbles . He wasn’t going to kill him because of the academy rule, but it looked like Jongsum was dying .

“God… his internal energy is gone,” Baek Jongmeng gasped . He realized why Jongsum had been poisoned .

‘I knew something was going to happen, but this…’

He didn’t think Yeowun would destroy Jongsum’s energy . He was not a martial artist, but he knew how important internal energy was for a martial artist . Looking at all those bones that had been destroyed, it made him frown .

‘You should’ve stopped after breaking his bones . Why did you go so far?’

Jongmeng had many questions he wanted to ask, but he had to treat his patients first . Jongmeng quickly placed needles over Jongsum’s blood points . He didn’t know what poison was in effect, so he had to get the poison out of the body first . The blood points began to spill black blood with the foul stench of poison coming from it .

“Ugh!”

It was a powerful poison that should have killed a normal person already . Fortunately, Jongsum was not dead yet .

‘Is he immune to poison?’

But even then, this level of poison was going to kill Chun Jongsum anyway .

“Oh! I have that!”

Jongmeng then quickly went through his desk drawers and found a red silk pouch that had small medicinal pills inside .

‘I’m so lucky that I have these . ’

It was what his teacher Baek Jongwu told him to take . Jongmeng put on a glove so he would not come into contact with the poison and opened Jongsum’s mouth and place three pills inside .

“You might feel like dying, but swallow it if you want to live . Go on!”

Chun Jongsum was dying, but he barely swallowed it . As Jongmeng was doing his best to save Jongsum, Yeowun looked on with a serious expression .

‘I didn’t expect this . ’

He didn’t know anything about poisons, so there was no way Yeowun would have known this . If Jongsum died, Yeowun was going to be expelled .

‘Dammit . I can’t let him die . ’

He had gone too far, but there was nothing he could do now .

‘I have to let him live . ’

The best way was to make Nano analyze the poison and detoxify it, but Nano said it was not possible to move into another person’s body .

‘Why can’t you?’

[It is against the system protocol . There is a lock on it that restricts you from doing it . ]

‘Why is there a lock?’

[There is an embedded genetic code that protects the Nano Machine from being taken by other entities . ]

Yeowun didn’t know, but there were a lot of restrictions in the Nano Machine program . It was done to protect the current time frame from having highly advanced technology so that it wouldn’t be revealed to the public .

‘Then what should I do?’

“OH!”

Chun Yeowun then found the blood that was on his clothes from carrying Jongsum .

‘Nano, can you just analyze the poison then?’

[Understood . Please place your hand over the substance . ]

Yeowun placed his finger over the poison as Nano instructed him to do .

[Analyzing . ]

Chun Yeowun then walked over to the cabinet that held herbs while Nano was analyzing . Jongmeng was busy tending to Jongsum so he didn’t know what Yeowun was doing .

[Analyzing complete . Total of seven poisons have been mixed, thus making a new poisonous effect . ]

‘Analyze the way to the mix herbs I see right now to detoxify it . Hurry!’

[Understood . ]

Nano then began searching through the medicinal herbs that Yeowunw was looking at . Soon, Yeowun was what herbs he had to use and how much through Augmented Reality . Yeowun quickly grabbed what he needed and began creating medicine soup . As smoke began to rise up from the boiler, Jongmeng turned toward him .

“What are you doing?”

He was drenched in sweat, barely relieved . It seemed like Jongsum was barely controlling the poison with the medicine pills .

“Uh… I’m just creating medicine soup . ”

Chun Yeowun hesitated for a second but he ended up telling the truth . Baek Jongmeng, who was having a hard time due to what Yeowun had done, got up and tried to scold him .

“What are you talking about! How can you even try… huh?”

He was shocked to see the medicine on the table . All of the herbs that Yeowun had taken out were those that were used to nullify poisons, and some required to be mixed with others .

‘What? He wouldn’t know this if he didn’t study medicinal herbs…’

Jongmeng then tasted the soup a little with his finger . Medicinal herb mixture could be toxic if done incorrectly, but this didn’t seem to have any problems .

‘He studied medicines!’

He didn’t . Yeowun was only following Nano’s instructions . However, Baek Jongmeng did not know this and was astonished . Even then, making a medicine soup without knowing what it was for was still dangerous .

“It’s not bad, but we need to know what poison it is to…”

“It’s Sulfuric Poison, so it includes poison fish, poisonous mushrooms, plague insects, blue oak, and red extracts . ”

“Oh…”

Yeowun quickly listed off the poisons inside Jongsum and Jongmeng was shocked . It was unbelievable when Yeowun didn’t even extract the poison to study it .

“Doctor Baek, can you trust me on this one?”

Yeowun had no time to waste so he begged Jongmeng . The doctor then turned to Jongsum who was still purple and told him to wait . Jongmeng then gathered a small drop of blood from Jongsum and placed it into a small bowl . He then began checking to see if the blood really contained the seven poisons that Yeowun had spoken of .

‘…It really is!’

What Yeowun said was correct . Yeowun probably knew what he was doing with the medicine soup, so Jongmeng then decided to use the soup that Yeowun had created . He brought the soup over and had Jongsum take it spoon by spoon . All that was left to do now was to wait .

“We’ve done everything we can now . I have to keep him on the needles so that the poison will not spread . ”

“I’m sorry, Doctor Baek . ”

Yeowun deeply regretted doing something out of control . Jongmeng shook his head .

“But why did you have to destroy his internal energy? Even if the basics of the academy supports the survival of the fittest, this… this seems like too much . Can you take the backlash?”

Jongmeng was really worried . Yeowun was still in the academy, but he would graduate in four years and after placing the candidate of the Poison Clan in such a state, it was likely that the Poison Clan would retaliate . Yeowun spoke with a bow .

“…Thank you for your concern . I will take anything that comes to me for what I have done . ”

There was no going back even if he regretted it . And he had decided to fight six clans from the very beginning, so it didn’t matter anyway .

‘Ah… you are still young . ’

Jongmeng then felt Chun Yeowun’s young recklessness and gave him some sincere advice .

“I hope you think deeply about every instance from now on . From what I have learned in the cult, it is more common for smartest ones to survive, than the strongest one . Be flexible with your thinking . ”

Baek Jongmeng hoped that Yeowun would not be arrogant about his own power and become smart instead . Thinking that brute strength would topple everything in the cult was the wrong idea . Chun Yeowun thought deeply about the advice .

‘Maybe… I was too reckless this time . ’

His fast growth in power made him arrogant . He couldn’t understand it now, but he did feel like he had done something wrong after hearing Jongmeng’s advice .

“Well, it’s too late . You should go back now . ”

It was almost time for the dorms to close . Chun Yeowun bowed and tried to return when someone spoke up awkwardly .

“Uh… what about me?”

It was the 18th cadet, Bakgi .