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...Finally, it was completed.
Salvatore took a deep breath, "Good, just in time."
Her dark red pupils shimmered with an unsettling glow, like the embers of a dying fire, and her face was covered with an unmistakable exhaustion.
Yet, she couldn't help but laugh out loud.
The laughter was filled with self-satisfaction.
"It is worthy of me to be able to succeed in such demanding conditions."
Of course, she did not tell Annan how difficult his request actually was.
Reducing strength and agility was not difficult, but the challenging part was to enhance willpower while "appropriately lowering strength and agility." The medicine had to express its nature while not reacting too strongly. Therefore, side effects had to be repeatedly offset against each other to create this potion.
And the potion that would save Annan's life was even more important.
Just how powerful a potion was needed for him to survive in front of enemies of that caliber?
Salvatore didn't know.
