After some time, Tom finished brewing the poison. Meanwhile, Drew was still dicing his herbs. He was as slow as a lazy snail.
"Master Tom will win for sure!"
"Yeah. I bet the reason why that loser is delaying so mucht is to stall for time"
"Yeah. What a useless person"
Drew finally finished up after another ten minutes passed. Compared to Tom's poison that had a smooth surface, his own was crisp black and mushy.
Just inhaling the odour had some vomiting the food they previously had.
"What kind of poison is this?! yuck! so disgusting!" David held up his nose.
He could barely breathe properly.
"Are you stupid? isn't poison supposed to be unpleasant?" Drew clicked his tongue.
David could not find a word to refute.
"Since we are done, let's exchange the poisons" Tom said emotionlessly.
"Sure" Drew grabbed his bowl, downing everything in one gulp.
"Barf!" he belched loudly.
Everyone had their mouth wide agape.
"Is anything on my face?" Drew questioned.
"D-Drew, you drank it all up?" Julian gulped, sweating intensely for his friend.
"Yup. Although it kind of tasted like overly crisp pork, it wasn't that bad" Drew smacked his lip in satisfaction.
Although he appeared to be quite casual on the outside, he could feel his intestines burning up.
"Rollie! I need your help here!" he beckoned to the system's A.I.
-[Over-riding poisonous substance in Host bloodstream.. Over-ride complete. Poisonous substance has been flushed away]
Drew could instantly feel the burning feel gradually easening up, before completely disappearing.
He let out a sigh of relief. The reason why he dared take the risk of consuming the poison was because Rollie informed him that it could help deal with this.
However, the audience were oblivious to these things. They were currently staring at Drew, gobsmacked.
This guy dared claim poison to be delicious?!
"Are you really okay?" Julian asked worriedly.
If anything happened to Drew, his mind wouldn't be at rest.
Afterall, he was the one who dragged him into the mess.
"You shouldn't be worried about me. It's your dear master Tom that is in need of it" Drew smirked strangely.
Instantly, everyone's attention fell on Tom. They were shell shocked.
Currently, Tom was shivering uncontrollably. His dreamy eyes were so watery that even the males felt a certain kind of seduction coming from it.
His cheeks were tinged with red and his legs clasped together.
"Young master Tom, are you okay?" a young man in branded clothes attempted to support Tom.
His name was Leo, and he saw Tom as his inspiration and role model.
However, never would he have expected that Tom would shriek like a frightened cat when he saw him approaching.
"No! stay back!"
To everyone's bewilderment, they noticed the change in Tom's tone.
Tom always spoke coldly and had an air of aloofness around him. However, the current Tom had a strange kind of seductive charm around him.
Even his voice sounded sultry.
Instantly, everyone attributed the change to the poison Drew gave him.
"What did you do to Tom you bastard!" David was the first to grab Drew's collar.
"What do you mean? she has barely drunk from my poison bowl" Drew laughed.
Indeed, Drew's poison bowl was still filled to the brim.
"Liar! i saw Tom taking a sip when he suddenly dropped the bowl and began acting strange!" a young rich lady in thick make up sobbed with grievance.
Her name was Stacie and she had a deep secret crush on Tom. While everyone's attention was focused on Drew when he downed Tom's poison completely, she was too busy secretly taking shots of Tom to care.
To back up her claim, she even showed everyone a picture of Tom taking a sip from the poison bowl.
"Confess now! what did you put inside your poison huh?" David bellowed.
"Are you fvcking serious? we had a bet. We taste each other's poison and concoct a cure. It was his idea! why are you guys spewing rubbish huh?!"
"Who cares? do you think Tom is in the right state to concoct a cure?!" Olive, the fattie barked.
The fats on his face rattling like the tides in an ocean.
"Then it's my win right?"
"Bastard! i want you to concoct a cure for Tom this instant!" David demanded.
"Hmph. Who do you think you are to give me orders huh?" Drew's eyes flashed coldly.
Releasing a bit of his aura, a huge force slammed against David, pushing him back a bit.
"You bastard!" David felt enraged when he saw Drew make him retreat in such a shameless manner.
Just as he wanted to call his bodyguards to teach Drew a lesson, a voice made him come to an halt.
"Wait!"
Tom turned weakly towards Drew.
"I admit my inferiority. Name your price. I want the cure"
Drew smirked.
"What can Mister Tom offer hm?"
"I'll give you five million and a maybach. That is my limit!" Tom nibbled on his lower lips.
"Do i look like a beggar to you. You have no idea just how rich i am" Drew snorted cockily.
"But i'll consider concocting a cure for you if you call me Daddy here and now!" Drew stated shamelessly.
"Bastard! how dare you mess around? do you know who Tom is huh?" David barked.
"Hey, you act all and mighty but ever since i arrived, you've always been doing the barking. It's getting kind of annoying!" Drew snapped.
"Drew, i think you should just give him the cure" Julian tugged at Drew's sleeves.
"Tom's father is a powerful army lieutenant, his uncle is a Divine Doctor and his grand father is an army General!" Julian whispered.
When Drew heard this, he smiled bitterly.
Bro! you should've told me since!
However, Drew pretended to be calm.
"Who cares if his great great ancestor is the president, he must respectfully call me master!"
Julian smiled when he saw Drew compromise. He honestly didn't want Drew to land into trouble.
"Fine. I admit my inferiority esteemed master Drew. Can you concoct the cure now?!" Tom gritted his teeth.
Drew clicked his tongue in response. He wrote down a new set of herbs and had Boss Jay purchase them.
All the herbs were pretty ordinary and as such he returned five minutes later with them.
Drew got to work instantly. This time, his methods were neater than his earlier one. Five minutes later, he whipped out the cure.
It was a black liquid. When it came to odour, it was ten times worst, compared to the poison he brewed.
"Is this the cure? Drew, i'm warning you.. stop messing around" David frowned.
"Shut your trap. If you know so much, why don't you concoct the cure then?" Drew scowled.
He was already fed up with the latter's pesterings.
Embarrassed, David just snorted.
"You can choose to throw the cure if you want. But just be aware that the effect of the poison will kick off in an hour time" Drew grinned strangely at Tom before signalling to Boss Jay.
Like badasses, they both swaggered out.
"Are we going to let that bastard go just like that? what if it's a fake cure!"
"Shut up David" Tom snapped.
Gritting his teeth, he brought the bowl of smelly liquid, taking a huge gulp.
* * *
"Grand Patriarch was truly epic? all those young richies praised that Tom guy so much that i thought he had some skills. Who would've thought he's only so-so" Boss Jay quipped as they walked towards the parking lot.
Drew just smiled. He had to admit Tom had some skills. He was just a half step closer to becoming a genuine Divine Physician.
But too bad, she encountered him.
Yes! Tom was a lady in disguise. It was through the 'Analysis' skill he was able to discover such a secret.
Exploiting on her gender weakness, he concocted a powerful aphrodisiac that could awaken the lust in a woman.
Although he kind of used sinister means to win the debt, but so what?
Who cares about the means? what mattered most was the result!