474.Chapter 474
She wondered where Dylan had found so many roses. Unfortunately, Eliza had arrived late, and after several days, even with water to keep them fresh, the roses had begun to wilt and were not as beautiful as they had been initially.
For some reason, Eliza had been expressionless since she entered the cabin. Even as she left, her face remained unchanged.
“Renee, let’s go,” Eliza called, and with that, she walked out of the cabin.
“Coming,” Renee replied, turning around and following Eliza. She noticed that Eliza seemed to be holding something. Upon closer inspection, she saw it was the clay vase with the few bright roses still inside.
Back at Saint Grace Nunnery, Eliza handed the vase and roses to Renee. “Just put it somewhere,” she said indifferently, before returning to her room.
Renee, holding the vase with the roses, was a bit bewildered. ‘Just put it somewhere? Where should I put it?‘ she thought to herself.
She glanced down at the roses. ‘Her Grace must like these roses, otherwise she wouldn’t have brought them back. Since that’s the case, I’ll place it outside her room’s window. That way, every morning when she opens the window, she can enjoy looking at them for a bit, she wondered.
So, after refreshing the water in the vase, Renee placed the vase with the roses outside Eliza’s window.
At this moment, Eliza, unaware that a vase of roses had been added outside her window, closed the door behind her and directly entered the pocket farm after returning to her room.
Standing on the flat grassland, with a thought, Eliza summoned a swarm of red fire ants that quickly approached her. This trip down the mountain back to Hasen City had truly been quite fruitful for Eliza.
When Eliza first entered the city gates, it wasn’t just Benedict’s personal servant who came looking for her. A group of little creatures also conveyed messages to her as soon as they entered her perception range.
Then, before she went to the Marquis’s estate to attend the wedding and deliver her gift, these little creatures had found her first. When she asked Renee to stop the carriage for a moment, they swiftly climbed aboard her carriage and brought with them two items.
The first item was the very first gift Eliza had given to Sophie at yesterday’s wedding, the three poisonous flowers. These flowers had been dug up from the Duke’s estate by the very red fire ants now standing before her.
The second item was the small wooden box currently being carried by the red fire ants and presented to Eliza.
From the messages conveyed by the red fire ants, it seemed that whatever was inside this wooden box was also some kind of poison, with toxicity and effects almost comparable to those of the three poisonous flowers.
Benedict had nearly been killed by those flowers, and to this day, there was still no antidote to completely eliminate the toxins from his body. Anything that could match the toxicity of those flowers was clearly a highly poisonous substance,
too.
So, upon receiving the message from the red fire ants, Eliza immediately brought the entire swarm, along with the wooden box, into her pocket farm. It was only now that she had the time to take a closer look at what was inside.
Carrying the swarm of red fire ants and the wooden box into the building, she placed the box on the stone table used for poison–making. As a precaution, Eliza first put on a full set of protective gear before finally reaching out to open the wooden box.
As soon as the box was opened, the contents were revealed. It was a pill that looked rather ordinary.
As Eliza was about to take a closer look, she suddenly caught a whiff of something. In the next second, she quickly pinched her nose and moved away.
‘This is strange. This poisonous pill actually has a blood scent?‘ she thought to herself.
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