The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress

Chapter 362: A sip of shared pain.

Not a single hand went up, which was not surprising. A myriad of reactions were seen in the eyes and on the faces of the students as they faced the very large spiders in the transparent box.

"No one..." Sigrid looked around the room. "What if I tell you that you can communicate with spiders?"

Finn’s hand was the first to be raised.

Sigrid nearly chuckled. As expected of the prankster, no doubt he was thinking of how this could be incorporated into his next prank. "The next potion I am going to teach you to brew is called the Arachnid Accord Aperitif." The words appeared on the backboard magically. "It is a potion that allows one to understand and communicate with spiders for twenty four hours."

Murmurs quickly climbed in the class. She could see many excited faces.

She clapped her hands. "Why is this questionable or a dark potion?"

Silence dominated as they waited for her to reveal the dark secret which they expected to blow them away.

Sigrid leaned against the table and she covered the sides of her mouth like she was about to whisper something. The students leaned forward, afraid that they would not hear.

She dropped her hands and said loudly, "It allows one to steal secrets. They could be secrets of the emperor, a noble. It could concern war strategies or the economy of an empire. These secrets lead to manipulation and blackmail and from there nobody knows the outcome. It falls in the morally ethical category.

But, there are other consequences like death of the spiders. Their minds are not like ours, the only know what they were created to do, spin webs and feed. To push them like this could result in fracturing of their minds.

long while. Some people even adopt the mannerisms and logic of spiders. So, do it

dared to drink it and communicate with a spider. That went sideways when it

for exactly one minute." She raised her hand, before you ask questions or become excited, I will disappoint you by telling

"Ooh." Someone said sadly.

"The danger of this potion is that while time freezes, your body continues to age and it ages for thirty days. You trade time for time, one minute for a month’s worth of life. Unless it is a life or death situation, I would

of brewing. Again, I sound my warning,

you will wake up one day and find yourself older than all of your friends and relatives that are of the same age as you. You will also

had to be passed on. What people chose to do with that knowledge was their

a half hours had passed. "Let’s discuss the last potion and then call it a night. The sip of shared suffering. It

drinker suffers is shared 50/50 with the target. It can be used to

use it to share the suffering of their people." She

He shrugged, somewhat exasperated.

Students laughed.

feel what the other feels. Parents can also use it to feel what

be used in childbirth. Childbirth can

many other ways it can be used for good and bad. But in this class today, we are only discussing

and the crown prince to be the volunteers. When

of the demonstration, Sigrid said to the Lord mage, "It will last three hours so try to get

harmed but could the same be said of the crown prince?