“I’ll kill you!” James roared.
He stood up menacingly and charged at Reign. Grabbing Reign by his throat, James lifted him off the ground.
Color immediately drained out of Reign’s face.
However, he did not panic.
“J-James, you better think twice about killing me. Once I’m dead, Thea will continue to suffer excruciating pain. Though you’re highly skilled in the art of medicine, this is a Gu that I’ve raised for thirty years. There’s no way you can remove it.”
Reign’s voice was feeble.
“James, it hurts…!”
Thea rolled on the floor tearing at her hair.
She could feel that there were many insects inside her brain eating away at her medulla. The pain was unbearable.
Thea’s cry of anguish calmed James down.
He slowly loosened his grip.
Reign’s body was limp. He sat on the chair and gently rubbed his neck. Then, he looked at James with a mischievous grin on his face.
James questioned coldly, “What do you want me to do?”
Reign took a small bottle out and placed it on a table. Then, he said coldly, “Consume this if you want Thea to live.”
“What is this?”
James looked at the bottle on the table.
It was an ordinary-looking ceramic bottle that was bronze in color.
Reign said, “Don’t worry, it won’t kill you. However, you will experience muscular atrophy slowly but surely. You will gradually lose strength to the point that you can no longer exert a single ounce of it.”
Reign paused for a second and looked at James. Then, he continued, “I planned to kill you. However, it’s possible that you won’t sacrifice yourself for a woman. And so, I changed my mind. I believe you will consume it. After all, you believe your medical skills to be unparalleled and that you’re able to create the antidote for any poison.
“Once you consume it, I’ll let Thea go. Deal?” Reign uttered.
“James, it hurts! K-Kill me, please! I don’t wanna live anymore… Why? Why me?”
Thea’s heart-wrenching screams reverberated throughout the room.
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