She Professed Herself The Pupil Of The Wiseman

Chapter 424 - 229: Investigating Fuzzy Dice (2)

The first way to get someone unconscious was through percussive force, like a strike on the back of the neck. It was basically using brute force to knock someone out cold.

That was clearly not the method Fuzzy Dice had used though, so it could be ruled out. Mira even wondered why he had brought up such a moot point in the first place, but before she could ask about it, the detective had already started explaining that. It was important to keep that in mind in the case that no sleeping drug or compound was found in those affected.

「I've tried many times to figure out what it is that puts us to sleep, so we have tried taking various tests.」

But no matter how much they tried, they could not identify any substance like that. It was like a poison that left no traces, and was completely gone from one's system after causing all the symptoms. But according to the one in charge of the medical team, there was no plant or monster with such a toxin.

「In other words, this means that the second method of drugging someone to put them to sleep is also unlikely.」

Saori, someone from the Fifty Bells, had used sleeping drugs within smoke before. They could be made through various methods, including alchemy.

Depending on how strong the components were, the target's body would gradually break them down and expel them, until they woke up again.

In those cases, examining one's blood or urine could identify the decayed toxins, making it possible to identify it.

But when the detective got tested, even right after waking up, there was nothing that showed up. So that method could also be ruled out.

That only left the third method. Sleep induced by some spell, basically a status effect. The detective mentioned it with extra emphasis.

「There's some literature I bought to investigate this case. It's a book printed by that famous re

There were various ways to treat such infections too, like antivenoms or certain healing spells, but some types of toxins could only be treated by very specific antidotes, making them rather dangerous. The lethal venom from the Viper King living in the Razewood Forest being one of the deadliest ones.

On the other hand, magic toxins were produced through spells or magic. Their main difference was that the target's health and immune system had no effect on them. But that did not make them all-powerful, as it was still possible to raise one's magic resistance, which dampened the effect of incoming spells.

High magic resistance would turn the incoming toxins back into neutral mana almost instantly. Though if the toxins were twice as powerful as one's resistance, then their effect would be applied right away.

Then again, having a high resistance to magic also shortened the duration of magic toxins, and all of them could be cleansed with holy magic.

Magic toxins reacted and lingered in response to the mana of all living things, which meant that it would not remain in dead bodies.

The key to unraveling the mystery lay in discerning between which type of toxin was used, one of natural origin that affected the physical body, or a magic toxin that altered one's mana.

But more importantly, while natural toxins could be harvested from all sorts of creatures or mixed up through alchemy, there was no class superior to Forbidden Arts when it came to magic toxins.