The Mind-Reading Mate Why Is the Lycan King So Obsessed With Me novel Chapter 90

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Chapter 90: Forbidden Ingredients

Salem kept sniffing the herbal powder over and over again, but no matter how many times he tried, he still couldn’t catch the scent of any poison inside the leather pouch.

Still, his instincts wouldn’t let him believe the medicine was completely safe.

After nearly ten minutes of careful inspection, Salem finally looked up and met Primrose’s eyes, his expression more serious than before. "I don’t think this poison was made from toxic plants or anything natural."

Primrose’s brows drew together in confusion. "What do you mean? If it didn’t come from nature ... then where did it come from?"

She might not know poisons as well as Salem did, but according to the herbal books she had read, most poisons were made from plants—either naturally toxic ones or a combination of herbs that, when mixed, became harmful to the body.

There were also poisons made from powdered minerals or rare natural elements, though she wasn’t as familiar with those.

Salem took another sniff of the powdered medicine before saying, "Magic," he said flatly. "I’m not completely certain yet, but this poison might have been created through magic."

Primrose looked even more puzzled. Since she hadn’t had any magic energy in her first life, she had never studied anything related to it, not even the basics.

It wasn’t because she didn’t want to learn.

But every time she tried reading about magic, she would end up feeling bitter, jealous of those who could use it freely.

She used to think that if only she had magic, she would have escaped the beast kingdom or at least protected herself from being captured by the Emperor of Vellmoria.

Actually, she still didn’t know if she had magic in this life or not. She had never tried measuring her magic energy again.

Yeah, she could read people’s minds now, but she wasn’t sure if that came from magic or if it was simply a gift from the heavens, like a small compensation for the utterly miserable life she had been forced to live.

"Is that really possible?" Primrose asked, her brows slightly furrowed.

Salem nodded. "Yes, it is. There are some forbidden books that teach how to make deadly poisons that are nearly impossible to detect. These kinds of poisons aren’t made from plants or natural things. Most of them are created through rituals."

He continued calmly, "Basically, they just need a bowl of clean water and perform a ritual to turn it into poison."

Primrose blinked. "That sounds way too easy."

"In a way, it is," Salem admitted. "The ritual itself isn’t complicated. What makes it difficult are the ingredients. Most forbidden magic requires blood as part of the process."

"Sometimes it has to be virgin blood, or even a fetus that hasn’t developed into a baby yet. And in some cases ... they use a corpse that’s freshly dead."

He said it so casually that it made Primrose’s skin crawl.

[Honestly, it’s not that hard to find those ingredients. The real problem is whether they’re willing to risk imprisonment or worse, execution,] he thought with a quiet sigh. [The law really is troublesome.]