The Second Life Of The Mercenary
Chapter 72 This never happened

After taking a bath Isabella felt her hands tingling more and more, not realizing there was a black mark on her arm.

"Are you done with the shower?" aisnley asked, he had just returned from the outside. "Vanessa still hasn't come home since dinner time's over."

"Maybe in a minute. You take a bath when Selina takes a shower" Isabella said, sitting at her dresser.

"Ohiyaa. Apparently Luca had already sent a letter to the research center to say if we had received their request, we were asked to come tomorrow morning. What if you come too? you're immune to poison so you can help us, won't you?" ask Aisnley. He again used Isabella as his poison test container.

"Of course you can. But the research center is within the kingdom, are you sure I can come?"

"Why not? your arrival will help us."

"alright. We're leaving together tomorrow." Isabella agrees to be Aisnley's poison test container.

"The water is warm." Selina felt like she was coming back to life after soaking, "Where's my dress?"

"It's vote. Everything is so beautiful." Aisnley gave her the dresses that were still wrapped.

"I guess …." Isabella approached them and picked up a blue dress, "It's best suited for Selina."

"You what is this? it's like a poison smell." Selina sniffed towards Isabella's arm.

"Look at this, I'm right it's poison." Selina found a big black mark in Isabella's arms, Aisnley quickly saw the black mark.

"Strong smell of poison. Why did your arm get poisoned?" aisnley asked puzzledly, "This is harmless to Isabella. But this can be dangerous for others, this poison will only make your hands tingling until tomorrow then this sign will disappear by itself.

"How can you be sure it's harmless to Isabella?" 

"Selina, Isabella is immune to poison. If he sleeps tonight then the poison will disappear by itself tomorrow, so does all the toxins in Isabella's body. If there's a poison that's dangerous to him then it's his own poison, because only he knows what kind of harmful substance can kill his own body."

"alright. Then you go quickly to bed Isabella and wake up tomorrow morning, you worry me." Selina said. Isabella agreed. Isabella is not worried about herself but she is worried about others, if she can be exposed to poison without her knowing it then others can too.

Isabella kept remembering if something strange had happened earlier. But Isabella does not find any strange scenes have occurred, she is not aware if being hit by Kesha last afternoon is the cause of her exposure to poison.

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Samantha's horse-drawn carriage arrived early at Albert's Palace and even when Albert was surprised by her arrival, he didn't really like Samantha's grumpy attitude. But for him there is no woman to match Charlize other than Samantha, no matter what happens she wants Samantha to be Duchess Arsena in the future.

"Welcome Samantha. Was your trip fun?" ask Albert for a little talk.

"My trip here was very boring. But you don't get me wrong, I didn't come here because of your banquet invitation. I'm here because the emperor invited me to come, so don't expect much from your stale base" said Samantha.

"When I invited you to that banquet because you wanted to grant your wish."

"My wish? whoop! you've been saying that for years and the results are nil."

"Charlize is now not engaged to anyone. Don't you want to be with her?"

"Seriously? if it's true then I'll let you help me. But what wind suddenly Charlize called off her engagement?"

"The woman doesn't deserve him, that's all."

"Don't misunderstand me. I just want my 2 best friends together, that's all."

"I wish you could believe. Supper I'll …."

"The banquet tonight must be canceled." Charlize who breaks into Albert's study and cuts Samantha's words.

"Over time don't meet, Samantha. How are you?" Charlize stroked Samantha's head the same way she used to.

"I'm not a kid anymore." Samantha brushed Charlize's hand away with a sullen look on her face.

"Why should my banquet suddenly be canceled?" ask Albert.

Charlize handed over the report she received from the guard tower, Albert read the report and occasionally clucked in annoyance.

"Why are there monsters there? things like this have never happened before. There's got to be a cause behind all this" Albert said.

"Yes. Your vigilante team found a poison bag and he gave it to the research center, the bag contained a poison that could not come into contact with human skin and could make ordinary hewa into monsters. 10 knights died with blackened bodies and they were the team that discovered the poison," clearly Charlize.

"The emperor also invited me to take up residence on the poisoned victim, before our knights were also exposed to the poison. Only a few people have survived because the poison has not spread too much they survived with my concoction of artificial purity. But others cannot be saved, I feel very hurt because I can only see their suffering until the last breath" added Samantha.

"I'll leave this investigation to Hendy. Then I put you in Samantha's research center and let me and Charlize do the extermination" Albert said. Hendy as Albert's assistant immediately carried out his duties, as well as Samantha he immediately moved to the research center was his duty from the emperor as well, while Albert went to meet the knight commander who was under his control.

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Isabella is bored as Aisnlye is busy grappling with deadly poisons, while Luca is busy studying potions that might be able to eliminate various types of deadly poisons in the other room.

"Try to eat this." Aisnley handed over a container containing a mix of dangerous poisons, in one go can instantly kill someone within 5 minutes.

"Don't be stupid Aisnley. Miss Isabella is the daughter of a duke and if anything happens to the lady in this place we can get into big trouble" said the head of the poison research.

"He ate it. What to fear, you freak." Ainsnley immediately went to continue his research.

"Miss spit it all out, quick!" Chief Joice patted Isabella's shoulder so she spewed out all the concoctions she had just eaten.

"You don't need to be that scared, he's immune to poison. If you force him to vomit then try it if you can" Aisnley said.

"Well he's immune or not it won't help. All the ingredients for compounding poison are high-quality ingredients that if you put together can kill people within 5 minutes" replied Joice.

"Don't it have been 10 minutes since he ate the concoction, so it's no use. Don't force him anymore" lerai Aisnley.

"Uhuk uhuk uhuk." Isabella suddenly coughed up a lot of blood. Everyone immediately panicked especially Joice, Aisnley and the other workers also panicked because something like this never happened. Isabella once drank a poison more deadly than this. But he had only fainted for 1 hour, coughing up blood was the thing that made them panic.

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