Prince Leon looked at the king with horror. "No...that's impossible." His voice started to shake and so was his body. "I've experimented on Clara for so long...just to get that damn potion to work." He continued. "I couldn't even do it! How can you?!" He shouted.
'He doesn't know the secret ingredient to that potion.' King Theon thought to himself.
Everglot poison or poison of Everglot was a poison that had all the curses and illnesses known to man. The after effects take place instantly, making the victim who drank the poison experience and go through immense pain and one thousand, one hundred and eleven illnesses, symptoms and curses within one minute. Due to the poison, the victim's organs will melt, his blood will run dry, and his age will triple.
The assassin came back with a clear bottle. Inside was liquid as red as blood. It was terrifying to look at. It looked like plain blood of a human bring but thicker and darker, it was also moving around the bottle without being shaken.
King Theon crouched down to get a better look at prince Leon. "You want to know why you didn't get the potion right? Because there is actually a secret ingredient." He smiled. "Bloody tears from the creator."
"How would you know that?" prince Leon asked. "You're lying. That's not the poison at all."
From all the books that prince Leon read about the poson, it was always done with regular tears. He never thought that it should be bloody. For seven years, he tried whatever ingredient was there to make up for the poison but non of them seem to work.
The one and only rule of the poison was that if you get one ingredient wrong, it will be as harmless as water. That's why princess Clara never died from any of his experiments. She only threw up the potions because she was drinking too much of it. It is the same when a person vomits out the drinking water if he has too much of it.
King Theon laughed darkly. "I know..." He then looked at prince Leon with a smile. "Because I made it."
Prince Leon's mouth hung open. King Theon truly is the one who created the Everglot poison. He used it to assassinate dukes and duchesses of the continent and numerous doctors tried to replicate his poison by buying the bodies of the noblemen at the black market.
King Theon opened the bottle and made prince Leon drink the poison. The noblemen and the royal family from the crowd could only watch in horror and cry out. The townsfolk rejoiced.
The middle-aged man sighed in content. "Justice for princess Clara has begun."
King Theon made sure that the bottle was empty. He placed the bottle down and replaced his gloves. He stood back and let the people watch prince Leon's death.
His pained screams pierce through the skies. The birds flew away from fright and the forest animals raised their head from the alarming noise. Prince Leon's hair turn white and his body turned old. His face gre wrinkles and his eyes went gray.
His screams were music to the ears of the townspeople. The guillotine dropped on his neck. His blood truly ran dry since no red liquid spew out of the decapitation. The townspeople rejoiced as his head fell into a basket.
"My son!" The queen cried out. "You monster!"
King Theon raised his eyebrow in question and pointed at the corpse of prince Leon. "Your son is right here." He couldn't believe that the queen couldn't care less of her daughter being poisoned for years by her own son.
King Theon looked back at the crows and asked with a smile. "Who wants to choose next?"