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Chapter 153: Crisis on the Road

After leaving the inn, Tauro walked to the main street to the short-distance coach stop.

There were so many people around that it looked like a festival.

The density of the population in the royal capital is amazing, as this is the norm.

Suddenly, he felt something strange about the people in his field of vision.

The crowd was so much that “presence detection” was of little use, but he subconsciously noticed that the people who entered his field of vision for a moment were not caught by his “presence detection”.

That is to say, someone is using a sensing inhibition skill at this very moment.

And when it comes to a situation where the presence is so inhibited that it cannot be caught by “presence detection” that Tauro is becoming more and more skilled at, what immediately came to mind was the powerful person who had been seen at the residence of the Marquis Van Dyne.

Tauro involuntarily looked around.

“No one is here…?”

It was a moment of relief.

He felt a prickling pain in his neck.

“Ouch!”

Tauro reached down to his neck and found a thin needle stuck in his neck.

“Oh no…!”

There was no moment to wonder what had happened and the moment he pulled the needle out and was about to chant “Restore the Abnormal State” to himself, he was hit by a violent convulsion that made his blood boil and he collapsed on the spot.

This is lethal poison!

As his consciousness rapidly faded away, Tauro gathered his last ounce of energy and cast a “recovery from an abnormality” spell and his vision went dark.

Around Tauro, people were walking up to him, saying that the child had collapsed convulsively, that it was no ordinary event.

And people surrounded him.

Some of them smiled and walked away.

But no one around noticed the convulsing, bubbling and motionless child.

“The look on his face says he’s beyond help”

“He’s already got the look of death on his face.”

“No. His heart’s not beating anymore…”

The people who rushed to the collapsed child were just about to throw up their hands in despair at this hopeless situation.

Do-kun!

Tauro’s heart which had stopped, pulsed slightly.

He had resisted the poison with “Abnormality Resistance” and “Dark Spirit’s Blessing (Weak),” which strengthened him slightly, neutralized the poison with “Abnormality Recovery” magic and recovered cells destroyed by the poison with “Super Recovery Regeneration,” but even so, Tauro’s death might have been just barely avoidable.

However, Tauro had no way of knowing this, but due to the correction of his newly acquired ability “Luck,” he was able to switch from the side of “death” to the side of “life” just in time for recovery.

“Someone go get the nearest guard, we won’t be able to move this child until we have confirmation of his death.”

“Hey? Isn’t his complexion getting better?”

“That’s absurd. It’s true…! Somebody go get a doctor! No, I’m supposed to carry him!”

A passerby panicked as he picked Tauro up, but another passerby said, “The infirmary is that way!” and the crowd that surrounded them also made way and guided them.

The passersby picked Tauro up in his arms and ran to the clinic.

When Tauro woke up, he was lying on a bunk.

There he heard “the voice of the world.

“Confirmed one of the activation conditions for the special skill [&%$#], <Survivor from the onslaught of poison>. [Complete Poison Resistance].”

He decided to ignore the “Voice of the World” for now.

There’s a smell of chemicals peculiar to hospitals.

It didn’t take him long to realize that he had been brought into the clinic.

That was a close one…I could have died!

As he picked himself up, Tauro was inwardly relieved.

“Doctor, the patient is awake.”

A woman who appears to be his assistant calls out to the doctor.

“You seem to have fainted on the road. According to the testimony of the person who brought you in, your heart had stopped and you were dead, but he must have been mistaken, because when he came here you were pale, but not that pale. Maybe it was just temporary anemia.”

So said the doctor who checked Tauro’s condition.

“We’re different from a healing center, so we don’t do magic therapy. I think you should be fine now.”

He said.

“Oh, I’m fine. I’m sorry for the inconvenience. Who brought me in?”

Tauro asked as he got up from his bunk and asked back.

“Oh, he has already left.”

“I see… Oh, how much do I owe you?”

“I didn’t do anything, so you don’t have to pay me. Have a safe trip home.”

The doctor said and withdrew into the examination room.

Tauro thanked him and walked out of the clinic.

It was already dusk outside.

Tauro was looking at the sky a little unsteadily when he suddenly noticed something.

“Oh, I’ve got Prince Flue waiting for me!”

Tauro panicked, grabbed his small sword, used his agility compensation and ran to the royal castle.

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