[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-my-life-in-a-fantasy-women-dominated-world":3,"chapter-my-life-in-a-fantasy-women-dominated-world-my-life-in-a-fantasy-women-dominated-world-chapter-167":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","My Life In A Fantasy, Women-Dominated World",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1829288,2434,"Chapter 167: Blood Core","my-life-in-a-fantasy-women-dominated-world-chapter-167",167,"\u003Cp>\"No... not just my kind. The great elder said this acid is potent enough to even harm the empress...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Words died in Aaron’s throat. The doubts, the mockery, everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure, the words of a mere great elder of a single mushfolk tribe weren’t to be trusted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But... this was the woman who surprised him with her intelligence and brains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition, she wasn’t just any elder, she was the elder of the VENOM tribe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even their name dabbled in toxins and poisons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surely her words had to be somewhat true... right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regardless if this poison was really capable of harming the empress or not, Aaron believed it wasn’t completely a sham.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after learning about the potency of this black sludge, Aaron quickly removed his blade from the monster’s heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The results both surprised and pained him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In just a few moments of contact, the acid had caused his blade to dull out, chipping at several places while the tip appeared to be dissolved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It used to be a sharp pointy end once and now all that was left was a flat, jagged end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t dare to touch the swordstaff directly with his fingers, but he did summon his backpack and took out an old shirt he didn’t quite like.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He torn it off, using the cloth to wipe off the acid from the blade before tossing the piece in the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just by a single contact with that liquid proved to him how easily it was devouring the cloth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he didn’t give up, using several scrap pieces to completely clean his now damaged weapon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could only sigh at the loss, feeling content that he at least managed to find something valuable at its expense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However he was suffering from a dilemma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How was he supposed to store such a toxic substance?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without hesitation, he forwarded the question to Alyssa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sir Aaron I am truly not the most knowledgeable person here, but from my experience in the venom tribe we prefer to use glass or specialized capsules to store potent toxins.\" She replied in a dedicated tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Specialized capsules?\" Aaron hummed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Indeed, those are the containers crafted out of the outer layer of narcoshrooms. But making them is very arduous as it requires several levels of processing.\" Alyssa shook her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah then those are off table for now.\" Aaron sighed before he suddenly remembered about a lightbulb that Claire had placed in his suitcase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was to bring home as she had found a few expensive ones in the ruined city during their raid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So with the motto of ’finders keepers’, she didn’t hesitate to take those.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But thinking of it, Aaron could only sigh an apology while taking out his suitcase from the inventory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took out a bulb that was made out of a blue coloured glass, a specialized type of glass that was considered luxury in Solaris.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And here he was, breaking the light emitting part of that expensive bulb to use it as a container for a toxin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his defence though, Aaron reasoned that the toxin was much more precious than this useless cosmetic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially in his current circumstances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aaron scooped up as much of the black sludge-like liquid as he could, sighing in relief when he saw that the acid wasn’t devouring the bulb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the acid collection was finished, he stored it into the last empty slot of his inventory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I didn’t find any blood core in the heart, maybe it’s in the brain?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling confident about his guess, he stabbed the swordstaff into the skull once again, using it to crack open the bony exterior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Very viscous, nearly solid brain matter flowed out of the wound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It repulsed him to no ends, but he toughened through the gag reflexes and began to prod around the skull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you doing?\" The stealth elder asked curiously while looking around her tinted glass cage on his shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You will see.\" Aaron said mildly, tossing a couple more logs of firewood into the campfire to keep it burning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just when he was about to lose hope with the search for bloodcore, he felt something hard near his blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ecstatic, he fished it out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He scooped out his proof of conquest, marvelling at a small red pulsing stone sitting on the swordstaff’s flat end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite being buried under gore and mushed up brain matter, the stone appeared to be spotless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not a single drop of impurity was stuck onto it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at it gave Aaron a mystical feeling, like it contained a portion of the universe’s power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aaron looked at the blood core for a few more moments before picking it in his hands and standing up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt nothing from it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tried to channel his mana through it but nothing happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tried to absorb it but it showed no reaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn’t tried to eat it just yet, but there was no way he was going to do that without any knowledge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aaron sighed, forming yet another pocket in his nanotech clothes before storing it inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he simply kicked the nightcrawler’s corpse into the burning fire, causing it to ignite instantly like paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flames erupted, greedily licking the monster’s flesh, devouring it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier what used to be a small campfire now became thrice the size.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But of course, such volatile fuel wasn’t reliable because it would get exhausted in mere minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But... we don’t lack the fuel around here, do we?’ Aaron thought with a small smirk, his eyes scanning the area around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heat was wrapping around him, shadows flickering alongside the flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no shortage of nightcrawlers in this godforsaken mushroom forest...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Aaron planned to harvest them properly for all they were worth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked away from the burning fire, leaving the warm solace of the light and willingly stepping into the world of darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t seem like he was welcomed by the darkness though, as he didn’t even get to take a couple more steps forward before spotting a few more monsters creeping out of the shadows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nightcrawlers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A lot of those.\u003C\u002Fp>",1021,"2026-06-09T06:09:27.150Z",1,"novelbin.me","c5d2c3f344c8505b85750dbfafaca80df5ae6fa053f05d38ab3d81571288edfd","my-life-in-a-fantasy-women-dominated-world-chapter-108","my-life-in-a-fantasy-women-dominated-world-chapter-107",213,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmy-life-in-a-fantasy-women-dominated-world-cover.jpg"]