Chapter CXIX - Healing Magic (part 2)

Filma and Lezlia returned gazes, and finally Lezlia turned her gaze back at me.

"Speaking of which, Rize… Why do you want to join the healing magic club?"

"Because I wish to get better at healing magic."

"And why do you wish to get better?"

"... Because I want to heal my friend."

"Heal your friend?"

I nodded at Lezlia, and I began telling her my reasoning.

I told her about everything. The reason why I came to the academy was solely to find knowledge on high ranking healing magic.

As I told the story, Lezlia paid full attention to me and nodded at some of the important parts.

"And that is why I want to regrow his foot. Well, not just him, but I have one more friend who lost an arm due to a fight in another kingdom. She was a knight, and it would please me if I can heal and regrow her hand back."

"I see. But here's the thing, Rize…"

Lezlia leaned her body forward and looked at me closer and more serious. Her expression shows that her next words aren't something I wanted to miss at all.

"Having a higher healing magic means having a bigger consumption of your magic energy. Unlike destruction magic where higher tiers means a smaller consumption rate, healing magic is the exact opposite.

If you activate a King tier healing magic, the amount of energy required to activate will take three to five times more than the Knight tier, and it applies to all the tiers--"

"I am aware, and I don't care about the consumption at all. I care about its ability."

I answered seriously too, and that answer actually pleases Lezlia, because she grinned right after.

"That's the perfect answer."

She leaned her back at the sofa and turned her gaze to Megisca who sat next to me. She nodded at Megisca with a serious expression. Megisca seemed to understand because she immediately stood up.

"Come. Let us see your skills then."

Me, Megisca, and Filma went out to the patients to see my skills. They haven't healed the patients because they ran out of energy, since healing magic actually took quite the toll on the users.

"All right. This morning, we have healed around twenty people. I did twelve by myself, while Filma managed to do eight people. Now, it's your turn. 

Try not to push yourself, because we all know how heavy it is."

Megisca told me as we approached the first patient in the VIP rooms. The patient looks very severely wounded. He had a large burn mark on his left abdomen, and his right shoulder looked quite badly burned.

It reminded me of my charred skin. But, I have to heal this guy.

"Speaking of which, what tier is your healing magic? Wait, you do have a healing magic ability, right?"

Filma asked me, so I grinned.

"Of course I do. Knight tier."

"K-Knight tier??"

I quickly casted the healing magic on the comatose guy on the bed, and his wounds quickly got wrapped around golden bandages. The golden bandages healed his burn wounds in less than five seconds. And after that, he slowly opened his eyes.

"W-Wha..."

"H-Hey! Easy!"

The man quickly sat back up from his slumber, so Megisca quickly told him to stay still and not move.

Filma pulled me out of the room so Megisca could take care of the patient.

"W-What was that?? Is that the Knight tier healing magic?"

"Yeah. Like I said."

"That's... Amazing! We have a gold member!"

Filma looks quite happy. And seeing her happy like this somehow made her seventy years younger. The light on her eyes returned as the wrinkles on her face disappeared.

"Wow… You just turned seventy years younger..."

"Shut up. I'm complimenting you."

"S-Sorry..."

After a while, Megisca left the room with an insanely happy face.

"All of his wounds are completely gone, and he is in good condition, but I told him to stay put until another hour. Rize, just what the heck did you do??"

I only lifted my shoulder at her question.

"I healed him..."

Megisca and Filma glared at each other. Then the two nodded with full spirit and turned back at me.

"Can you heal some more?"

"Y-Yes-"

"Are you tired at all after using it?"

"N-No…"

The two turned to one another again and nodded once more. They returned their gazes back to me with an even wider grin.

""Let's heal the others.""

"O-Okay..."

They actually said it at the same time.

The two then head to the other rooms, where one more patient is in a critical condition. There's a bullet hole on his shoulder, where the sides of his skin look quite blue. It was frozen so that blood wouldn't be able to spurt out.

Aside from that, there doesn't seem to be any other issues with him. But that alone already seemed quite life threatening...

I placed my hand on top of the hole on his shoulder and healed him. And within ten seconds, the hole was covered and the blue-ish skin on his shoulder disappeared.

Though, a slight circle mark can be seen as a result of the healing. I guess it's better than having an actual hole on your shoulder.

Megisca and Filma glared at each other happily and cheered quite loudly. I can only grin at them.

Luckily, this guy didn't suddenly wake up, so we ended up going to the other patients outside the VIP room, in the first room I previously entered.

There are sixteen in total, and they all only have some slight wounds covered in bandages.

"All right. There's sixteen of them. If you feel tired, just let us-"

"I have healed more than a hundred before in a span of hours. This shouldn't even take five minutes."

I said pridefully as I stepped forward towards the first patient. 

ZIINGG!!!!!

After studying his issue, I quickly healed his injuries and then headed to the next patient.

That didn't even take three seconds. And for Megisca and Filma, that's like fifty times faster than what they can do.

The whole process didn't even take five minutes, like I said. And after a while, everyone left the room after getting their injuries healed.

The patients thanked me after getting healed, so I only replied with:

"Sure. Go crazier next time."

They all grinned happily and ran out to injure themselves even more intensely.

Ah… how pleasurable to say that.

By the time I turned around to face Megisca and Filma, the two were on the floor, kneeling at me.

"W-Why are you guys kneeling at me..."

"We... We don't know. We just want to kneel in front of a goddess."

… Heh?

Me…?

A goddess…?