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O.M.G. I expected many things but not this! Thank you so much for the clear explanation!
Dang the plot is kinda crazy
Omg literally no words where do author gets ideas to write like this Σ( ￣□￣||)
I was not really feeling the ml so I kinda was not into the romance part of this story but the plot and revenge part keeps me hooked. So I decided to read the novel to skip to those reveals instead.
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MAJOR SPOILER AHEAD
DON'T READ IF YOU'RE NOT REALLY CURIOUS SINCE THE MANHWA IS ALREADY PRETTY CLOSE TO THESE PARTS
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Turns out the black potion was just Truyde's blood and that's why it can't be produced in large quantities and will easily spoil. You know the key ingredients they were looking for? It was the Hawk's herb, the one the birds eat so they can eat spoiled meat. I believe Karas mentioned this herb to Ashler when he was recalling it as one of Abel's lesson to him as a child. What prompted this discovery was while Truyde was about to rape Abel after torturing him, he forcefully kissed Abel and that's when Abel smelled the herb on him. Truyde was utterly shaken when Abel pointed out to him that his scent was similar to that herb and he left hurriedly for the dragon's forest to confirm something. Abel was shocked that something he pointed out half-mindedly let him escape being killed and raped.
Abel then tells this discovery to Karas but Abel was pretty sure that it can't be an ingredient to the black potion since the herb is not poisonous enough and thus making it a useless info, Karas though, immediately figured out what it was for. Truyde was eating the herb himself to prevent stomachache from consuming spoiled meat, and you know what the spoiled meat was? It was the freaking corpse of the previous king, Karas' father. Truyde was five when his father forced him to eat a black meat (it was either he ate it or his father would strangle him to death), since then he needed to eat the corpse periodically to continue absorbing the dragon's power in his body to maintain the potency of the black potion, it was the duty passed down to the head of the family. He's currently doing the same to his toddler son btw, feeding him the corpse.
This did not surprise Karas tho since it would make sense that only the dragon's power can defeat the dragon's power. He initially thought that the black potion was made from his father's body and was kind of disappointed to know that it was just Truyde's blood.