Directly handling the poison turned out to be more trouble than Alex had expected. He had known the poison was strong enough to cause his sister to fall to such a fate, but he hadn't expected to have something similar happen to him at all.
When he finally did touch the poison, albeit with his spiritual sense, he found pain flaring in his senses, as if acid itself flowed in his veins. His pain was momentarily intense, stopping only when Alex let go of it.
He frowned slightly, falling into thought to see what he could do. To see what options he had.
'I have to take out some of the poison for sure,' he said to himself. 'But it will have to be a smaller portion than before. I can't afford to bring out too much.'
His body may have been able to completely burn all of that poison, but his spiritual sense had no such ability. Even then, it as better to just take a bit of it out to check if his body could handle it.
