The Ultimate Poison Duel
The pre-fight banter had reached its peak, so now it was time for the real clash to begin. And once the battle actually kicked off, I couldn't help but be stunned.
The way the poison sorceresses fought was beyond imagination. It also became clear why Valentina and Lisa had layered double barriers to protect those not fighting.
Inside the circular barrier, Luiza and Titi began spraying poison at each other. Every time they unleashed their toxins, a variety of colored mists filled the air—purple, red, yellow, blue. From the outside, it looked spectacular, but it was obvious just how deadly those fumes were.
At a glance, it seemed like the two women were just continuously blasting poison mist back and forth. But I could tell an intense skill contest was unfolding inside—one that would be impossible for most to decipher.
In essence, when one side released a potent mist, the other countered with a neutralizing or antidotal poison. Then they'd escalate with something even stronger, and the opponent would respond in kind.
I watched their skin tones shift gradually. Veins began bulging prominently beneath the surface. The whites of their eyes vanished, replaced by red in Luiza's case and yellow in Titi's. It wasn't a human fight so much as a clash between venomous reptiles.
Ordinary hunters wouldn't last a second in that melee. Sure, low-level poisons couldn't penetrate a hunter's tough skin and lungs, but the toxins wielded by top-tier poison sorceresses were on another level entirely.
If I'd stumbled upon this fight clueless, I might not have grasped its true depth. But I'd already seen Kim Se-in collapse from poisoning, and I'd witnessed Luiza naturally deploying toxins from her body during our sex. Like elite shamans, elite poison sorceresses were truly in a league of their own.
"Looks like we're about to see a winner."
I was startled by Valentina's calm remark. From my perspective, nothing inside the barrier suggested the fight was nearing its end.
But there was a clear change. One of them wore a confident smirk. Luiza had maintained her cocky demeanor throughout, but once the battle started, she'd fought just as fiercely as Titi. Honestly, based purely on the action, it was too even to call a victor.
But apparently, I knew less about poisons than Valentina. She watched the duel with a smile, which could only mean Luiza had never once been pushed back.
No matter how unpredictable Valentina could be, she wouldn't root for the enemy. Unlike the smug Luiza, Titi looked utterly exhausted. Her eyes and skin were dulling, and even her clothes were starting to melt away.
It seemed Titi's detoxification abilities had hit their limit. Luiza prepared to end it. She drew in a deep breath—not inhaling the toxic fog filling the barrier, but drawing out some hidden ace from within herself.
Splurt!
She spewed a thick green venom. Up until now, they'd traded mists in aerial combat, but this was a grotesque, viscous liquid poison.
It drenched Titi completely.
"Kyaaahhh!!"
A frail, girlish scream erupted from the woman who'd stayed cool until then. She crumpled to her knees. Her clothes dissolved steadily, even her underwear melting away until she was stark naked. Amid the brutal scene, she somehow looked incredibly sexy—a testament to her top 0.1% allure.
Drenched in venom, veins throbbing against her flawless skin, she exuded a sultry eroticism that defied normal imagination. It probably wasn't her intent, but that's how it struck me.
And I wasn't the only one thinking it.
"Hnnng~"
A soft moan drew my gaze sideways, where—shockingly—Valentina had slipped her hand into her pants. No need to guess where those fingers were busy.
She's on another fucking planet.
Valentina's libido and sexual openness were still light-years beyond me. Sure, finding defeated, venom-soaked Titi alluring showed I'd changed a lot myself, but still.
The real shock came next.
With the fight decided, Luiza sprayed a transparent liquid across the barrier's interior. It devoured every trace of the multicolored toxins filling the space—detoxifying the area, no doubt.
Still working her hand inside her pants, Valentina spoke up.
"Those two won't be able to leave for at least an hour."
"An hour?"
"Against someone on Luiza's level, that's the timeframe. If lesser poison sorceresses fought, that space would die completely—become a barren void where no life could ever exist again."
"Ah......"
Now I fully understood why Valentina and Lisa had bothered with group teleportation to this abandoned dungeon and double-layered a combat barrier inside. If they'd done it at the Violet Guild office, the lingering effects would render it unusable forever—even after the barrier vanished.
Even shifting to another dimension left traces in this one. An abandoned dungeon was the perfect choice. Brilliant.
That aside...
"So those two have to stay in there for a full hour?"
"Yeah. Now the real fun begins—let's just watch."
I had no clue what was "fun" about it. Luiza was high-energy, but wouldn't she get bored stuck in there for an hour?
My worry was unfounded. I'd overlooked just how extraordinary she was.
Luiza approached Titi with a lecherous grin. The defeated woman, stripped of all her weapons, looked utterly demoralized.
"Kill me......"
She'd demanded release if she won one-on-one, but having lost decisively to Luiza, she had no ground to beg for mercy now. Titi seemed resigned to death.
"Why would I kill you? That'd be such a waste."
"Huh?"
I'd half-expected something like that from Luiza. From my limited time with her, she didn't strike me as the type to slaughter defeated foes outright. Though we'd only spent a day or two together, and I hadn't seen her ugly side.
Luiza had been eager to meet Titi. Her motives weren't purely innocent, but I sensed genuine respect for fellow poison sorceresses Titi and Chichi.
Under different circumstances, they might've killed each other, but was this the situation for that? Luiza had dominated utterly; sparing Titi posed no immediate threat.
I could buy the upfront part of her words, but "waste" felt loaded. It wasn't a typical line here. There was clearly more intent behind it—and that was likely the "real fun" Valentina had hinted at.
"You're mine now, basically. Admit it?"
Luiza's expression and gaze were pure predator eyeing prey—or more precisely, a sex maniac with a conquest in sight.
But Titi, reeling from defeat, didn't catch the subtext. She just nodded weakly.
"Fine...... My life is yours. Denying it would mean abandoning my last pride as a poison sorceress......"
"You said it yourself? Your life belongs to me?"
"Don't make me repeat it. This is humiliating enough."
"Got it, baby. I won't make our beautiful baby say anything tougher."
Titi flinched at "baby." Her pupils trembled as she stared at Luiza.
"You...... don't tell me......"
"Don't tell you what? Didn't see this coming?"
"What?"
Luiza asked casually if she'd expected it, but Titi genuinely seemed blindsided. She knew Valentina and Luiza's reputations as notorious horndogs, but apparently never imagined losing a fight meant getting raped.
"What the hell is going on here?"
One more person was shocked. Kim Se-in, who'd guarded her virginity until sleeping with me, wore a face full of culture shock.