"By the way, hero—" Ayla began, but stopped.
Marius lifted his eyebrows, encouraging her to continue talking.
"… That blue goo on your skin… is poison…" Ayla warned. "If I were you, I would clean it off in the water." She glanced at the lake while indicating with her finger.
"Fuck my life," Marius sprinted towards the water, uttering a couple words before leaping in, completely disregarding the freezing temperature.
His main concern was getting rid of the blue goo from his body, hoping that the poison hadn't had a significant impact or caused any damage.
Paying no mind to the icy water, he was taken aback when he encountered a significant pair of luminous, slit-shaped blue eyes, which stared directly at him from what appeared to be from the bottom of the lake.
