By then, even Long Zhan had a very shocked look on his face,
his mouth agape in absolute wonder as he felt the leftover power vibrating in the air. He hadn't realized just how powerful the item in his purse truly was until that exact second.
Mikal stared at the bottle for three more seconds, his breathing heavy, and then he quickly threw the bottle back to Long Zhan as if it were a piece of burning, hot lava that was about to melt his skin.
His expression was incredibly strange, filled with a deep, complicated mix of awe and a dark, somewhat greedy hunger that he was forcing down with all his might.
"If I had been any other person in this world..." Mikal said, his voice raspy as he wiped a line of sweat from his forehead, "I would kill you right now without a single second of hesitation, and I would take this pill for myself."
