An Understated Dominance (Maria Vittori) novel Chapter 1536

"Do you smell that, Max?" Brooke seemed to sense something, and he took a deep breath.

"You mean the herbal scent?" Maximus tilted his head curiously. "It's been there all along, hasn't it? What's wrong?"

"No, it's different now. It's quite special." Brooke went up to the door of the alchemy room. Then, he crouched down to catch a whiff of the scent wafting out from the gap under the door.

He spent most of his time around herbs. Thus, he could easily detect the slightest change in scent.

All of a sudden, the door creaked open.

Dustin was just about to step out of the room when he spotted Brooke crouching on the ground in a weird position. "Dr. Busch, what's wrong? Are you having a stomachache?"

"Uhh …" Brooke smiled sheepishly before quickly reacting. He promptly asked, "Dustin, how is it? Did you succeed in producing Sanctifix?"

Dustin sighed and put on a dejected expression when he heard that.

At the sight of Dustin in such a state, Brooke froze and paled. "You f-failed?" he asked with a tremor in his voice.

Oh no. If Dustin failed to produce Sanctifix, then all the herbs were wasted, and nobody would be able to save Cinna!

"Well, I wouldn't say I failed. It's just that I intended to produce a top-grade Sanctifix, but I only managed to come up with a good-quality one. There's a slight difference in the quality, that's all." Dustin shook his head.

The corners of Brooke's lips twitched involuntarily. He was exasperated.

Was this the time to be fussy about quality? What did it matter what quality the pill was as long as it worked? And why was Dustin looking so dejected?

Brooke wasn't young anymore, so couldn't take such false alarms!