Curing Ben

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"About half an hour ago, father's face had begun to lose color. Then, he started to hyperventilate and move frantically as if he was... in some sort of... nightmare?" Bennett explained what he could from a naked eye's view.

"Mn. I have to take a look to confirm everything." Bennett moved to the side, letting David gain an easy position to cure Ben.

With his {Magic Control}, {Healing Magic}, {Skill Improvement}, and {Advanced Correction}, he was able to take a look over Ben's body, only to see multiple strands of red string wrapped around his organs.

Examining it closely, he felt a connection between himself and the strands, mostly confirming his claim.

"I should be able to at least alleviate his symptoms." He said with his eyes close and held up a hand so Bennett could quiet down.

Bennett was fidgeting and to not make it hard for David, he moved away and sat in the corner, staring at Ben closely.

Taking a deep breath, David began some easy procedures as he couldn't make a real diagnosis in case there was anything he couldn't sense was wrong with Ben.

'Don't panic, it won't you any good anyway...' As the red strands were wrapped all around the body and organs, David had to find the end of the strand and slowly unravel it first.

Pouring a slightly larger amount of mana, he was keeping the organs from bursting as he constantly strengthens them. As they were getting stronger and 'growing' back into their original shape.

The strands were loosening, quickly revealing that there were also some clots as well, meaning he would need to untie them...

'Well shit... alright, doing some fine tip magic control practice then...' David complained as he continued to loosen the other layer of string on ben's body, revealing even more clots.

His eye twitched in annoyance, 'Long day coming up...'.

"Bennett, if mother comes here, tell her not to disturb me." David said without a change in expression nor did he open his eyes.

"Mn." Bennett tried to answer but realized what he was doing so he just hummed and walked out to inform his mother.

Sensing that Bennett was gone, David could finally concentrate... yes, he does get slightly nervous when others are watching him.

Seeing as the string around Ben's body began to react and tighten, David frowned and quickly got to work...

**(In The Living Room)**

The servants were as nervous as their madam, as they were one of the noble families that treat their 'property' (Them) like actual people. They hoped that the young master could cure his father, after all, being accepted into a noble family only one day after meeting must mean something... right?

Bennett had already explained the situation to Sarah, and although she trusted him as a son, she was still nervous about something happening to her husband and had already called a doctor.

"Y-you're fine with this? No rushing in to save your HUSBAND?" Bennett was surprised seeing how his mother didn't rush into the room since she was already done with the documents since Ben was just about to clock in for the day.

"Mn. I trust my son... didn't you say that it would be bad if I interrupted him?" Sarah stared at Bennett, wiping her tears.

'Although David is your son, and you meet him like a day ago! That's just bad writing...'

(Ay hold'up! You wanna go? I made you!)

'Anyways...' "Alright then, just stay here, father will be fine." Bennett comforted her as he patted her back.

(Don't ignore me! ;-;)

**(Back to Sarah's Room)**

David was quickly and steadily working on the clots. As he looked even deeper at Ben's body, he was able to loosen the entirety of the outside layer of 'red' string and went to work on his organs.

He continued to try to untie the knots, but unlike the outer layer, they were much tighter and harder to untie.

After a few attempts, his {Advanced Correction} had given him an epiphany.

'Why should I be so forceful when this is part of my bloodline?' the epiphany brought to him had made him change his course of motion.

David stretched out a free hand and spread his fingers. As he did so, a red light appeared around Ben, and the knots had already begun to untie themselves. As the strands that were already completely gone from his organs, they were all sucked into his hand that was over Ben's body.

Because of the epiphany, David had actually poured in less mana, it was like trying to appease a child. You can punish them, but if you do it too hard, they'll actually hate you...

(A/N: Please do not believe this... it's for plot purposes...)

After a few more minutes, David had completely gotten rid of everything and even slightly strengthened his own bloodline with it. Though... it wasn't enough to give a real boost.

'Seems like it's gotten harder for me to receive new attributes...' Although it wasn't given to him by the system, he could feel that something was different, like his potential had increased.

Since Ben was still pale, with {Healing Magic}, transferring mana also counts as healing magic, so it was quite easily done to bring him back into a healthy state.

After finally being done with 'curing' his father, he opened his eyes, sighed, and went downstairs to tell everyone the news.

He walked through the hallways, seeing that Sarah was still wiping her tears, he walked downstairs in a calm manner.

Seeing David come out, Sarah immediately bombarded him with questions.

"How is he? Is he cured? Will he recover? Are you ok?" She shook him.

She noticed that she was shaking him, she let go of him and took a deep breath. In this timeframe, he started to explain.

"Mother, do not worry, he is fine now. The main problem should be solved, but just double-check with the doctor you called for." He confirmed.

Sarah was happy, and hugged him tightly, "Thank you, my child... thank you..."

Patting her back, he smiled and replied, "No need, we're family..."

It was at this moment, did a knock come through the door, "Hello? I was called by the Vale family to treat someone."

"Ah! Must be the doctor!" The servants exclaimed and opened the door with their madam's permission of course.

A tall old man came in. He was wearing a full green robe that covered his body, he had white hair and seemed as if he was around his early 80s.

"Mrs. Vale! Where's the patient? You sounded quite worried so I rushed here as soon as I can." he said in a sincere tone while bowing.

"Mn. We've used some items in our household to suppress his condition, please look at him doctor." She couldn't say that someone had already healed him, after all, even healers have their own pride, so she made up her own excuse.

She walked upstairs and the old man followed her. Arriving at her room, he saw Ben on the bed, still quite pale, but he was much better than before.

David did hear something about a doctor coming in, so he only partially recovered him. He wasn't being cruel, plus its a good excuse, what should you expect from a 15-16-year-old right?

"Alright, let me take a look at him." the old man went to the bed and immediately went to work.

David had also followed Sarah upstairs. To be honest, due to his high level of {Magic Control}, {Advanced Correction}, and {Skill Improvement}, his abilities to manipulate mana is already much better than half of the rank 5 monsters themselves. Using them to spy on others was quite easy, especially since the healer here was on the lower end of rank 5 from his aura.

(A/N: Due to the improvement of David's bloodline, he can sense those that are higher ranked than him now, up to rank 6, just not the specific level.)

He saw the techniques the old man used, and he was actually much worse than David in terms of actually healing and control, but from pure experience and some other aspects, he could be known as an expert level apothecary.

(A/N: ranks are, Apprentice -> Novice -> Intermediate -> Advanced -> Expert -> Master -> Grandmaster. These can work for the following guilds, blacksmith, apothecary, and alchemist guild.)

"Mn. It's still quite serious, but nothing I can't handle..." Although he wanted to trick some money out of Sarah, after seeing the condition Ben was in, he was shocked.

'he's not too bad himself, I could learn some stuff from this...' David was currently memorizing what techniques the old man was using to heal Ben.

It wasn't nearly as intense as the situation around an hour ago, but it still worried Sarah slightly nonetheless.

"He's fine now, he'll recover in a few days, just let him rest." the old man stood up and received the payment from Sarah before leaving the mansion.

David walked in seeing that the old man left. "How is father? I couldn't completely heal him, but I did suppress a good portion of it." he asked.

"He's fine now, dear." Sarah finally revealed a bright smile, after all that happened.

'In a certain perspective, this was actually quite serious. Ben was being contaminated with my blood that has been merged with other bloodlines, causing his entire body to slowly change and rip apart.' David thought since that's what happened to him.

He then pinched her sleeve like a little kid, "Mother, when can I get my uniform to the school? And what school and I going to?"

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Chapter 36 End...