When Nial woke up, his entire body felt like it was tearing apart. He didn't dare to move, even when a bunch of Elves had entered the wooden hut he had been sleeping in.
'Their mana is weird, it soothes my pain and allows my cells to heal much faster,' Nial realized the moment the soothing mana shrouded his body. Four or five Elves focused on soothing his pain to release his tension, while the rest were focused on tending to Nial's internal injuries.
His mana core and his mana veins had received severe damage due to the fusion he underwent with Kaeldur. At the same time, he had controlled way too much dark energy that was putting a huge strain on his brain even after the battle was over.
By absorbing all the excessive dark energy, which the Symbol of Life had greedily sucked in at the end of the day, Nial's mana veins had been put under lots of pressure.