"Mom, what are you doing here? Why am I naked?" Elizabeth asked. She woke up, after drinking phoenix blood.

"Jax gave you phoenix blood extracted from you, and you started to strip yourself and went to sleep. He asked me to come here, because he didn't want to be here while you were naked." Eleonora explained, and Elizabeth was extremely embarrassed, but also, deep down, she was a little hurt about him leaving.

Eleonora saw it. "He didn't want to see you naked like this. He wanted for you to show your body when you wanted, not because of some accident." She explained.

...

"So, how are you feeling?" Jax asked.

"I feel better than ever, my stats increased quite a lot, and my affinity for fire also increased." She replied. Jax used [Researcher Eyes] on her, and saw that everything in her body works correctly.

"Your body is changing right now, but it's a beneficial change. Over time, your body will change more to resemble a phoenix, but I will still need to give you more blood to speed up the process." Jax said

"Will something like this happen again?" She asked shyly.' She is really cute,' Jax thought.

"Well, I can't tell for sure, but I think it's unlikely, because the process has already started." Jax's reply calmed down Elizabeth. Jax wanted to speak more with her, but he felt a tingling sensation in the back of his head.

"I need to go. You need to rest, and under no circumstances, don't try to lower your body temperature using potions, or magic. Use just plain ice or cold water to help you." Jax snapped his finger and a small refrigerator appeared." Here you can cool down your drinks, or make ice cubes. That's all" He then exited the room and went outside the town.

...

"So what does Malcolm want?" Jax asked one of the Malcolm agents.

"I can't tell you. His majesty said it's urgent, and he will pay a lot for it." Said the figure in the black suit. Jax was interested in what Malcolm wanted.

"Sure, let's go now." Agent put his hand on Jax's shoulder, and they disappeared.

...

"So, what do you want?" Jax asked Malcolm who was sitting next to him.

"My sister was poisoned." Malcolm said it with a sad and powerless tone.

"Didn't you give her greater regeneration serum?" Jax asked.

"Yeah, she already took it a long time ago, but this poison or thing is still attacking her body. She is in a coma." Malcolm replied. Jax raised his eyebrow. 'Something that can overpower combined dragon blood, and greater regeneration? There are very few things that could be able to do such a thing.'

"Show me the way." Jax stood up, and went after Malcolm. A few minutes later, they arrived in the room, where the young woman was laying unconscious in bed. She was a very beautiful woman, with pretty face and nice skin. She had black hair.

"So how did this happen? Did she fight with someone recently, or ate something and fall unconscious?" Jax asked. He checked her with his skills, but he didn't find anything in her body.

"She was fighting some rebels and bandits, and was cut by one of them, it was only a superficial wound, that healed a few minutes later. And she didn't eat anything." Malcolm answered. 'Nothing in her body, so probably it isn't related to some poison. We can exclude something like poisoning using things like carbon monoxide, or other non magic things. There are only a few options. One is that something cut the connection between her soul and body to some degree, or someone poisoned her using energy. It could also be a direct wound to the soul. I shouldn't check it until, I am sure it can't attack me.'

"Do you have a weapon she was wounded with?" Jax asked, without it, his options would be limited. Malcolm nodded and ask guards to bring it. A few minutes later, guards arrived with the box.

"Here it is, your majesty." The guard bowed, and gave the box to Malcolm. He opened it, and inside was a dagger with odd inscriptions.

"Malcolm, bring me some slaves, I need to test this thing." Jax said.

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...

Some time later, at the Dragon Kingdom secret laboratory, Jax cut a male slave with the dagger. The slave started to scream, but nothing happened to him.

"Malcolm, how long did it take for your sister to feel any effects?" Jax turned to Malcolm, who was with him.

"Her companions said she seemed ill a few hours after the battle." He replied.

"Let's wait then." A few hours went by, but slave was fine." Strange, so it wasn't an accident," Jax said.

"And why do you think so?" Malcolm was curious.

"It didn't work on the man. Yeah, you can say that maybe it's a mistake, but something that could hurt your sister so much isn't ordinary. But if that doesn't work on men, it's only on women, which means."

"She was targeted, at least some other woman." Malcolm finished, and Jax nodded.

"Exactly, we need to check how it will work on women." Malcolm nodded. Guards brought a female slave, and Jax cut her using a dagger.

...

A few hours later, nothing happened.

"So dagger needs something to activate. Well, the only way to find out is to give her your blood. If that works, you will have hands full of work." Jax took a vial of Malcolm blood, and injected it into a female slave. The woman started to wriggle on the table, trying to escape. It was a reaction to getting Malcolm's blood into her bloodstream. Jax used his magic to help the process succeed. Some time later, everything was finished.

"It's amazing you can do such a thing." Malcolm praised Jax.

"Yes and no. To make it fully work, I would need to weaken your blood exponentially. There is also conflict of affinities, mutations, etc. What I did was just a half-assed product, that is just enough for our investigation." Jax shook his head. He then stabbed the woman with the dagger. A few hours later, the woman lost consciousness, and soon after, she died. Jax sighed.

"I recommend you to look for your enemies. I can assure you, it's no one from my country, and even if that is the case. It wasn't Elizabeth's fault." Jax said, to mad Malcolm.

"Well, I know that, and it's nice you protect your fiancé." He smiled, and Jax wasn't surprised he knew. There are spies all the time surrounding him.

"Back to the topic, I can now recreate how it went. To be honest, I can try to heal your sister even now, but I don't know if I can succeed. So just send me some more slaves." Malcolm nodded.

...

One day later.

"So, what did you find out?" Malcolm asked curiously. 'Only a day passed.'

"Well, I will skip unnecessary details. That's a dagger, something that theoretically shouldn't exist. When it comes into contact with someone who has dragon blood, it infuses their soul with the death dragon's will. It acts like a parasite that takes over part of the victim's soul, and because of the dragon character, it causes victim dragon will, and death dragon will to collide. Because of what kind of existence death dragon is, it always wins, but fortunately for your sister, greater regeneration serum, gave her soul and body a lot of vitality, which helped in surviving."

"So what can we do then?" Malcolm asked, desperate to save his sister. Jax smiled.

"One way is to just let her dragon will try to win against death dragon will, which is suicide. The other is to help weaken it, which is very hard." Jax said.

"Wait! We have, something called a dagger of life inside our treasury." Malcolm stood up, but Jax stopped him.

"You want her to explode? If death and life crash in a normal person, they have small chances to succeed, but she will die."

"So, what am I supposed to do?" Malcolm knew, he couldn't try to act superior here.

"Well, the next option is for me to just go inside your sister's soul and help her." Jax said.

"Are you sure that you can do it?" Malcolm was sceptical. Soul is one of the most complicated magic category.

"Yeah I am, also it's the best choice, the more we wait, the more damage death dragon will, will cause." Jax went to Malcolm's sister.