"So that ans, when I checked the water substances, I also got a few samples of the dragon's blood mixed in the water as well?" Mother looked at the vial containing the water of the lake.
"Yes. With how long the dragon soaked in, if the wound got big, then the blood and poison that is secreted out of the wound will mix into the water. This might also be the main reason why the poison beca so corrosive. With dragon's blood being a corrosive material on its own, if it is mixed into sothing, that thing becos similar to acid."
What Almira said is indeed correct. Dragon blood is extrely volatile. Sothing will go wrong if you are in contact with it for long that sotis, you either receive a curse or if you are lucky, you receive a buff that powers yourself up. This is just like the ti I fought and killed the Pendragon. If I was soaked in its blood, I might have received sothing from it, either a debuff or a buff, whichever it was but since the Versatile Weapon devoured it, perhaps there is a chance...
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How could I even not think about that? I have been holding on to sothing that has the potential to be our solution, I didn't think it would be that simple either. So I decided to ntally talk to the Versatile Weapon's resident, the shadow dragon.
"Hey, are you there?"
As I tried to communicate to the weapon, the Versatile weapon grows an eye and opens up, then stares back at .
"Yep, just woke up after you suddenly talked to which is sothing I didn't think you would do."
"I apologize but I have a question. Can you consu poison and anything volatile in large quantities?"
"Consu poison? That's a first but yeah, of course I can. I can devour anything I wanted to devour. I don't think I have any problems consuming one. I have consud a few great deals of poison before so it's nothing new to . And as for large quantities, yep, pretty sure I can do that as well. As long as I can devour it, I can consu it just fine."
"Then perhaps you will be feasting today and the next few days because I will need that bottomless stomach of yours to devour poison and corrosive blood mixed into the water."
"Oh, a feast eh? I am always ready for that. Good thing I am always hungry. Just do the usual thing and you can make sure I will co and take the feast."
"Won't you have any side effects when devouring sothing dangerous like poison?"
"Poison does nothing to . In fact, it nurtures . Whatever poison it is, it fills without getting hard. No poison has ever hard before, normal poison, deadly poison, and even so poisons back during the age of gods where it can practically kill the gods, I can devour them just fine."
Hearing that bit, my eyes lit up. If what he said is true, then the poison that we are struggling to remove is nothing but food for the shadow dragon!
"Alright, if nothing else, I will go back to sleep. Give a holler if you want to devour anything. I am always up and ready to swallow anything that blocks your path."
After the communication I have ntally with the Shadow Dragon, I sighed in relief. Not only do I find a way to cleanse this troubleso poison but I can also remove the dragon away from the lake if that poison is gone for good.
Almira seed to have noticed sothing changed in and frowned.
"Sothing wrong Manato? You seed to have gone into a trance just now?"
"Nothing, I just found a way to drain the water full of poison without a big problem on our side. Our only way goal right now is to beat up that dragon or cure it with its poison and let it hibernate for many years in the future sowhere if it isn't a violent and dangerous dragon."
"A solution, son?" Mother frowned.
"Yes," then I pulled the Versatile Weapon out of its sheath and presented it to everyone.
"Okay...so what does your weapon can even do? Does it have any purifying magic spell in it?" Almira asked.
"Nope, but it can devour the poison and the water that has been corrupted completely. We are going to have this drain off all of the harmful substance in the water and remove it completely."
Almira couldn't believe her ears. "Are you sure your weapon can devour that amount of water, poison, and corrosive blood in one go? Wouldn't your weapon get destroyed in the process?"
I chuckled a bit at hearing that. This weapon? Get destroyed? Even if it wishes to be destroyed, this thing will remain indestructible.
"Don't worry about it."
Almira sighed but she seed to have been convinced about it. "If I have not seen the absurdity your weapon can do, then you would have to convince harder than that. But since there are so unexplainable acts I have seen in your weapon done before, I think I also wanted to see how this weapon can fix that problem of ours."
"So that ans, our problem with the poison is gone right? All we needed to do is either haul out the dragon out there or provoke it to fly off and perhaps fight us on land?" Pandora asked.
"Yes. Although I thought our eting could be longer due to brainstorming about the thods of dealing with the poison after dealing with the dragon, Manato imdiately laid out a solution to our biggest problem then we should begin our literal planning on how to get rid of the dragon from the Grand Lake."
Because the water is now out of the question, we focused all of our plans on how to provoke the dragon and forcefully remove it from its slumber. We have plenty of ideas but the one we settled with is to attack the dragon with our large-scale magic spells.
If it didn't work, then we will have to settle for damaging the reverse scale of the dragon, one of its weak points. According to Almira, it is a surefire way to provoke a dragon in action as that will endanger their life and whatever happens, that is their first priority to be protected no matter what.
Because of the other recomndations, Almira decided only on these two suggestions to make our lives much easier. Since Mother no longer needed to study the water of the Grand Lake to find a way to destroy and eliminate the poison, she went back to creating so volatile potions and so intricate items that can deal big damage and Almira supported it as there might be a chance that if we only rely on our normal spells, there is a chance it won't work.
Almira then gave us one night to prepare. One good night's rest for the big day. Although it's unsure if we can finish it in one day, there is a chance we will do so.
"Good job for pitching the ideas everyone. Now that we have finished our eting, we will end our "Operation Poison Drain" eting and prepare for tomorrow. Rest and eat well everyone. Be sure to gear up properly as well."
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Instead of sleeping, I went outside and watched the Grand Lake. The sun is about to set and the night is slowly creeping up, creating the glowing in the dark lake in the process. I don't know if it was due to the poison or it is from the water itself but the glowing of the poison makes the lake so ominous at night. It looks like it was being corrupted and sothing will rise there all of a sudden.
"So that was the poison you people were talking about? The Grand Lake itself?"
The Versatile Weapon started speaking. Perhaps it got curious how big the amount of poison and feast he was about to do.
"Are you not confident about doing so?" I asked.
"Heh, I am still confident, in fact, I can drain all of that without any problem to . Prepare to be amazed tomorrow as I will perform the best way to consu all of that poison in one go."
I can only shake my head hearing that comnt. Although this shadow dragon sounded arrogant, what he said isn't a lie either. If he said he can, he will do it. And since he knows how bottomless his stomach is, I can easily see him draining the lake to its last drop but still feel not enough.
Though I wonder, once the Shadow Dragon devours the poison, will it gain sothing important? After all, its a poison back when the gods still roam the world. There is only one way to find that out.
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