"Guys! W-What's happening?" Daniel stammered.
Then he glanced at the appraiser, his eyes asking a question about their next course of action, but Efraim kept his silence.
'Did my assumptions go wrong?' he pondered.
He raised his hand one more time to give them another drop of blood. However, he noticed a change in the two equators' complexion, which made him stop for a while.
They continued to cough up several mouthfuls of blood, but the blackness of their veins started to dwindle.
"It's working, the poison actually leaving their bodies," Efraim uttered.
In light of this fact, he ordered Daniel to change their positions; from lying down on the ground, they made them face each other's backs so that the blood would flow out from their mouths.
"They won't die due to blood loss, will they?" the warrior asked. Though still worried, he was now relieved as he saw his friend's situation getting better.
