"I never said you killed them, Mage Verhen." Sylpha pointed out. "Only that your spells did. There is a big difference."
Yerna and the members of the Knight Guard exchanged confused looks, wondering whether they had suddenly become dumb or if the Queen had forgotten how Tyris' universal language worked.
"Gods! Those Emperor Beasts are monsters!" Solus' outrage made just as much sense to them, confusing them even more. "They didn't just recover Hatorne's tattoo potion technology but also the parasites' toxins."
"That's what this looks like." The Queen nodded as Yerna and the others shuddered in horror. "By the time the Alchemists collected the sample, the poison was already too degraded to get a sample, but that has to be expected if it works like the rest of Hatorne's toxins.