In a blink of an eye three months went by.

Adrius was sitting in his lab reading and drinking a glass of wine and there was a figure behind him sitting on a chair. It was a woman. She seemed a little bit chubby around her stomach area. It was not very visible to the normal eye but a trained eye will see there was a little curve around the area. It was Mary, his maid. He has ordered her to sit down and do nothing too exhausting so the baby won’t die or won’t have any special things with them.

In the past months he has trained a lot and cultivated a lot and he has broken through 28 magic points and he was only 2 short to advance. Also in the past months he has been making experiments on Hadith to make his body stronger than it is. It has worked, his body is now stronger than a normal knight, he's almost the body density of a great knight even though he is not a great knight. But in the last month Adrius heard news from Lilly that said the blood raven organization was being targeted by another organization and they had a lot of powerful people with them and they didn’t have any so they needed help. So Adrius sent Hadith to go help them because Hadith actually didn’t help Adrius a lot in the Academy. He was very safe in the Academy and he was stronger than Hadith.

Adrius was reading a history book named “Warlocks and bloodline magic” . It was a book he found in the library and bought it. He was very curious about the warlocks because the headmaster mentioned them specifically. Warlocks and bloodline magic was forbidden practice in the magus world it was because of a lot of reasons one of them which is: warlocks are mostly insane, the book says that when they take a bloodline from another beast they inherit the emotions of the beast so every time and time they can’t control their emotions and they take over them making them insane for a period of time. Also they have something called bloodline shackles, which is the edge or the finish line of a bloodline, after that the bloodline can’t advance further like if a warlock took the bloodline of a beast that has the power of an official Magus and the warlock became an official Magus and is ready to advanced to rank 2 official magus. They couldn’t because their bloodline doesn’t allow it. The bloodline is stuck at the official magus and they can’t advance to rank 2.

But a pro of being a warlock is being stronger than your peers in the same stage. A warlock is stronger than the others on the same stage of power. It's not a rule written in stone there could be another Magus or another profession that is stronger than them in the same stage but it is commonly known that warlocks are stronger in the same stage because of their bloodline.

‘ I mean the cons are a lot and I understand why the Magus hates the warlocks because of their emotional behavior but it is not a good reason for them to exterminate or forbid using bloodline magic. There has to be another reason but it is not written in this book as it only says that the warlocks were involved in the great war but there’s no records of them after the great war they just disappeared it’s like they just moved to another world, this is weird.’ Talked Adrius to himself, the magus world has a lot of mystery. It made him excited because he knew that there was a lot for him to discover but also made him realize how small and how weak he is in the grand scheme of things.

He stopped thinking about how weak he is because that only made him more depressed. He then closed his book and drank the whole glass of wine. It didn't actually make him drunk because his body is a lot stronger than a normal human so normal wine can’t make him drunk even a strong one. Will only make him drunk if he drank a whole bottle of it. He was actually very suspicious when Mary got him the wine because the last time he drank wine he died. After he got up he wore his mask and got out to meet with a client, his business was going very well at the time. He was making anti-poisons, poisons and curing poisons also some potions. A lot of the students were coming to him his reputation was not so good but his business reputation was good they knew that he would cure you if you have enough money and he will make you poison if you have enough money it was a reputation only business based they didn’t care about his personal reputation of being a “crazy person”.

After he walked for some time he got to Phil’s shop. It has become his base of operations in the last months. Phil is a store owner so he has a lot of ingredients and Adrius can buy from him and make poisons or make potions and sell them. It was a win-win situation but even if Phil didn’t like Adrius sitting in his basement making poison, he couldn’t say anything. Adrius was stronger than him and he had a more powerful background than him so he couldn’t do anything.

When he entered the shop he gave a slight nod to Phil and then went down to the basement where he would meet the client. The basement with us was the same as the first time he was in it. It was still aristocratic fashion and there was a person sitting on a sofa.

“ I see you have arrived earlier than me, I’m surprised” Said Adrius in his usual cold tone.

The figure turned once they heard Adrius’ voice and Adrius was startled for a second he knew who it was.

“ Eve, of course it’s you why didn’t I think of it. What do you want now?“

Eve didn’t seem to be disturbed by Adrius’ cold tone, she just smiled and pointed to the sofa in front of her indicating that he should sit first.

After he sat down she started to speak: “ Believe me if it wasn’t important I wouldn’t be here to see your ugly face, but you see, a person in our hall has been poisoned and we need an anti-poison to cure him, can you do it?”

“ It's not that easy. I need to know what type of poison, what type of beast bitten or stung him, how long has it been. Also I need a blood sample and it needs to be fresh like second fresh not bottled or two minutes just need to be fresh so I can see the poison.”

“ OK, that's easy. We can arrange a meeting. Are you free today?”

“ Yes”

“Good, he was bitten by a rotten blood scorpion. It has been six hours since he came back to the Academy and he only started to show symptoms two hours ago. Is it possible to help him?”

Adrius thought for a sec: “ rotten blood scorpion, that’s a very complicated poison. You see, the poison starts to destroy the cells in the blood and creates some kind of rotten cells as I called them and they take over the blood and make it black and stinks. We need to cure him immediately, and bring him to Croft’s lab immediately. I will go first and prepare the ingredients for the anti-dote”

He was standing up and walking out of the door but before he could walk out the door he heard her: “ Wait, how much do you take?”

“ To cure normal poison I usually take 10 magical stones but this is a rotten blood scorpion poison. I have to take 20 magical stones. It is a lot of work.”

“Deal”

He then walked out and headed towards Croft’s lab. While he was walking he was thinking, he had found Eve’s weakness. He had understood from Eve’s body language and the way she spoke that the person that is poisoned is very important to her on a personal level. So he now has something that Eve doesn’t know. He knows about that guy, he doesn’t know who it is, maybe it is but her brother or her lover it doesn’t matter he has something now so he can play with. As for the rotten blood poison it is hard to cure but there is actually a method so he could make the guy return to him every month or so to take the antidote again. So he can see him and take out more information to deduce something about Eve so he can use it against her, basically blackmailing her.

It was basically a win-win. He was getting money and information for makeing an antidote.