Yale's First Kill

Yale was hurrying until the end of the passage disregarding all the pain his body was feeling even with the Water Battle Armor's help.

[The user upgraded the Passive Skill "Pain Tolerance" to Level 12.]

[The user upgraded the Passive Skill "Auto-regeneration" to Level 8.]

[The user upgraded the Passive Skill "Pain Tolerance" to Level 13.]

[The user upgraded the Passive Skill "Auto-regeneration" to Level 9.]

[Fire Elemental Affinity: High grade upgraded to Fire Elemental Affinity: Perfect grade.]

Yale ignored those notifications; he only wanted to reach the end of the passage quickly.

Yale saw that the passage went up, and seconds later, he emerged from the magma lake in a sorry state with only some remains of the Water Battle Armor around him.

If it weren't because the Water Battle Armor was an Origin Skill, the skill would have completely dissipated long ago.

In the room Yale appeared, there was a bulky guy with a spear in his hand and a girl unconscious in the floor bleeding from a wound in her chest.

When Yale appeared, the guy was shocked. He never expected that someone went out from the magma lake, but as he saw Yale's sorry state, he didn't bother too much as he considered that Yale was half dead.

Yale didn't know who was the spear guy, but he knew very well the injured girl, she was Aizu.

Even if Yale seemed to be in a sorry state due to his looks, his mind was completely clear because he had entered in his cold personality state after hearing Aizu's scream.

Yale didn't waste time as he used all the remaining water to attack the guy's forehead. The water alone wasn't dangerous in such an environment, but it turned into ice in the last second, making a hole in the guy's head.

It was difficult to convert water into ice with such heat, but a mere second was enough for Yale to kill the bulky guy with a sneak attack.

That was the first time that Yale killed another human, but in his eyes, the bulky guy wasn't different from some kind of beast. Anyone who dared to touch his friends wasn't someone that would receive Yale's compassion.

Yale didn't even care about the methods. He only killed the opponent quickly because that was the best method to help Aizu.

[Sub-quest completed, Origin Point Recovery speed increase to 1 in 5 minutes.]

Yale completed the sub-quest before he had thought he would do it, but that wasn't something he cared at that moment despite his Origin Point Recovery Speed having doubled as the reward.

Aizu was still half-conscious when Yale appeared, but when she saw the scene, she thought that those were hallucinations from the pain and lost her consciousness a second after that.

Yale rushed until Aizu's body and cast Time Healing into her wound.

Aizu's wound couldn't be healed with Basic Healing because that kind of injury wouldn't heal naturally, so Yale could only use Time Healing.

The injury was critical, but the spear didn't hit her heart, so Yale managed to heal the worst part of the damage in his first Time Healing.

Then, Yale ate some of the pills he received from Kermu while he was creating the ice path, that would speed up his recovery speed, and when he recovered enough, he would heal Aizu one more time.

The first Time Healing healed her enough for being able to survive more time even though she wasn't completely healed. Because Yale was limited in his healing speed due to the limitation of Origin Points, that extra time was crucial.

Yale didn't dare to use Emergency Recovery because he wasn't confident that only one more Time Healing would heal her completely, and he would be powerless afterward. If Aizu weren't completely recovered after the Emergency Recovery, she would die.

Yale was surprised that Aizu seemed immune to the heat of the area. If she were affected, with Yale's healing prowess, there was no way Aizu would survive.

Then, he looked well at her and discovered a bracelet with red and blue patterns that she didn't have before.

Yale didn't know that Aizu had been extremely lucky after reaching the Special Realm. She had managed to obtain a bi-elemental legacy treasure that increased the power of water and fire spells and also increased the resistance to extreme temperatures.

It was thanks to that treasure that she was able to reach the volcanic cave without being affected by the heat.

In less than half an hour, Yale was able to heal her again, but as he had suspected, that wasn't enough. Fortunately, her state was better than before. Yale was able to treat her quicker than the wound worsened.

Without the rewards from the sub-quest or without Kermu's pills, Yale would have failed in his attempts to save Aizu.

Yale healed her few more times before she was completely healed.

[The user upgraded the Magic Skill "Time Healing" to Level 2.]

The experience of using Time Healing to heal such severe wounds made the skill level up. That had been the first time Yale used it to heal that kind of severe injuries without resting.

Yale's clothes were in tatters due to the magma lake. Although the Water Battle Armor protected him, the clothes were still badly damaged.

Fortunately, he focused the defense on his little leather bag where he had the pills, or they would have disappeared.

One of Yale's swords partially melted and turned useless even with the water protection, but the one he obtained in the special realm was able to remain in a good state.

Yale was exhausted from the intense healing season, but he felt relieved because if he had been a bit late, Aizu would have died.

Seeing how Hyrk still didn't reach the room after so much time passed, Yale was sure that his decision to jump into the magma lake had been correct. That was the only possibility to save Aizu's life.

His Beast Intuition Passive Skill had triggered, and Yale had the intuition that the magma path was the best option. The passive skill hadn't proven too useful before, no more than improving Yale's intuition a bit in front of danger.

Yale's body had recovered long ago. That level of injuries was nothing to his Auto-Regeneration, which had leveled up until the ninth level due to the magma lake.

Yale relaxed and started to look at the paintings on the walls; he had the intuition that there should be a legacy there.

As his affinity had turned into a perfect grade affinity, he managed to find it in minutes and started to learn it.

Yale was still learning the legacy when Hyrk finally arrived.

"I finally found you! That path was a pain. Once I entered the passage, it was even longer than it seemed before. Now, will you tell me why you jumped into the magma lake?"

After those words, Hyrk saw Aizu unconscious and the other guy with a hole in his head.

"I see. You probably know that girl who screamed before and then you killed the other. Is she your girlfriend or something like that?"

As Hyrk was used to see Kermu caring about Serka, he wouldn't be surprised if Yale had a similar relationship with a girl. Due to his age, he really didn't understand too much about couples, or Hyrk wouldn't ask that question seeing that Yale left her on the ground after healing her. Even Kermu and Serka were just a couple because their families engaged them, but they had yet to mature enough to understand enough, but to Hyrk, they were the example of a couple.

"She is my friend and my disciple. I taught swordsmanship to her. Moreover, she is also a healer."

Yale knew that Hyrk despised commoners, but had a weakness for healers. As Yale presented Aizu as his disciple and a healer, he thought that Hyrk wouldn't discriminate her.

"You have disciples? And here I thought that Kermu was the only one in our generation crazy enough to accept disciples with our current power."

Kermu had even more disciples than Yale. He had picked up some little kids from his clan and taught swordsmanship to them. That was one of the factors that made it possible for him to reach the expert stage at such a young age.

"Stop the chitchat. Your face changed a bit after looking at that corpse. Do you know his identity?"

Yale went directly to the important point. He knew that it was highly possible that the guy he killed was from a noble clan.

"Indeed. I saw him before, although I don't know his name. He is a member of the Zhan Clan like you, but he was a bully who liked to molest the girls. Thus, no one wanted to team with him and needed to come without any group to the Special Realm."

Yale was surprised. Even if he was wicked, at least Heruk's group would have accepted him.

"Even the group of before didn't want him?"

"In normal circumstances, he should have been with them. However, he dared to pester Kreg's little sister, and he got expelled from their group before the coming to the Special Realm."

Yale felt relieved that the guy was alone. If he had friends in the area and they found out what happened at that place, they would try to revenge.

"Moreover, I know that he was on terrible terms with Serka due to his personality, so he was probably also your enemy. Killing him was a wise decision."

The nobles might be scared after feeling the death for the first time, but when it came to killing, they had far more experience than Yale.