At this point I get what my mom wanted of me, and in some ways I understand her, she is trying her best and since I have given so many surprises, maybe even if I do not know much of medicine, there is something I can do, I’m going to rip off every medical TV program I watched in my previous life, but hell it may work, the magic may be able to make it work, and maybe it will become less expensive.
- Mom lets go back to the hospital there may be something I could try.
She perks up and then she complains
- And now you say it after you have made your poor mother walk all the way to the house.
I know she is just joking with me since I can see how she is walking with a smile on her face, she grabs my hand and we go back down the road towards the hospital.
- Well mom the only idea I have right now is to identify and focus the healing, sadly I barely know the internals of a human being much less the internals of a pixie, do we have any other pixie that could give us a hand, I will definitely think of something with the medical texts in the future but for now brute force approach again – I say while we go.
- Ok son and yeah there are some pixies in the city and some even in the property, our own gardener is a pixie, you haven’t seen him?
- No mom I have not seen our gardener, is he healthy?
- Yes he is – she answer.
Finally we arrive at the hospital again and then we go towards the room where the pixie is, my mother in the meanwhile sends a runner to call our gardener and make him come here to the hospital.
- Well mom I do not know much about how this machines work, but I remember what the machines did and the results, and since you told me that we had to imagine this and the magic can make it possible, well I intend to do that, while we wait for the gardener to be here do we have any canvas? Blank canvas?
- No carter we have some at home, Sophia and yourself have plenty of them, is there anything we can use that is available here in the hospital? – answers my mom.
- Well we could use some sheets but we are going to ruin them. – I tell her
- Then let’s do that, if what you do works then we can ask for extra canvas for the hospital – she says.
Then I start to concentrate and I ask the magic to enter the pixie body see what is inside and then paint it on the sheet, since I know that I want a 2d image x-ray style like the ones I saw both in person and in all those tv programs I give proper direction to the magic, I try to imagine that once I have the image clear on my head I sort of feel a different kind of pull from the magic, it works and after thirty seconds of concentrating some mana comes out of my body, it collects some mana from the atmosphere and it goes towards the pixie, then the mana goes and makes a black and white picture that looks a bit like an x-ray.
- Oh boy that was a bit expensive – I exclaim
- Really how much compared with the basic waterball spell? – My mom ask
- I would say double what my waterball spell cost I can cast another two of these but that will wipe me out. – I tell her – how much does the healing spell cost?
- I would say about sixty percent of my reserves, and I can cast around two hundred of your waterball spell – she answers me.
Less than 5 minutes later, our gardener comes around.
- Hey Lady, you were asking for me here in the hospital?
This pixie is a bit bigger than the other pixie maybe 35 cm or so, and he looks radiant.
- Yes, I need you to stay still and let Carter cast a spell on you, it will do nothing to you and it could help us heal another pixie that was escaping from a goblin in the forest west of the keep. – Answer my mother.
- Oh if it is for that, then absolutely no problem, come here lad, and cast your spell on me.
- What is your name? - I ask
- Oh mine is Jiol Sungrass, a pleasure to meet you lad – he answers me.
- Oh well mine is Carter Edgefall – I answer him being polite and he ends up smiling at me.
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At this point I focus and try to make the same spell focusing on getting a clear image of the insides of jiol in the second sheet, and it succeeds now we have 2 sheets with images from the insides of both pixies, they use black, white and gray to paint the different organs and some arteries and other stuff.
- Mom look here look at the picture of Jiol, that how it should look the healthy inside of a pixie, now look at the one that the hurt pixie has, I can see several gray spots, I think those are bruises, and look the ribcage, jiol is perfectly white, while this one has several gray lines going around, I think that the bone was cracked it has not broken but it is hurt, and I think there was some internal bleeding, look how clean the one for jiol looks and look how messy and gray this other one looks – I finish explaining to my mom what little I see.
- Ok I see what you mean, now what do you want me to do? – ask my mother.
- Cast the same healing spell you did before but focus on fixing what we saw wrong, you have a picture of a healthy pixie, and a hurt pixie, the hurt pixie should look more like the healthy one, that the imagination image we will use, are you sure you have enough mana.
- Yes carter I have regenerated some mana since I casted last, even if it cost the same as before I can do it.
She does her casting and I see the same as I saw last time, but instead of my mother channeling the spell for two minutes she only does it for around one minute and thirty seconds, I look at her eagerly awaiting her news.
- Oh wow yeah the cost went down a bit and I did more healing than a normal session. – She says with a smile, and a bit of tiredness.
- So it worked?
- I think it did work a bit maybe not great but it will help for now, let me be more specific, - she stops for a second takes a breath and organizes her ideas then she continues - if I count the two spells you used for vision, and everything I’m expending around 57% of my reserves, the point is if I used my old method of casting this would have costed around 90% of my reserves, and before you ask Healers are trained to use maximum 60% of their mana in one spell, they are taught to not go above because if your mana gets too low you start having problems focusing, even if you regenerate the mana the mental fatigue is still there, so all healers will not use more than 60% of their reserves in most cases, if they do use more then they will go to bed to rest, you understand darling?.
- I understand Mom and if it is like that I think that we can call this experiment a success, and I have an idea about where do we need to go in the future, but I need bigger mana reserves and study those medical texts and I have lot of classes already.
- I understand, and for now don’t worry we have been able to deal with the situation for a long time like this we can continue to do it, most Healers only start studying between the age of twelve to sixteen, because that’s when their mana reserves are big enough, can you teach the vision spell? – She asks me and it is a bit relieved.
- I don’t know, we can try but I do not know if we will be successful with this one, I know what I want and what I’m expecting, maybe I can give you some sort guide with the medical books and my own art – I say, a bit helpless than I cannot answer this.
With this we finish, and on our way back I ask my mom.
- Mom do we have a lot of goblins coming through?
- No darling not really, we always get some the fort does it best to block the demons that are trying to enter our lands but sometimes a group of goblins may sneak through, sometimes a demon spellcaster are able to infiltrate some orcs and goblins into our side to try and disrupt the farms and cities, we have used a lot of natural features and some other techniques to block the demons but there are some holes and we can only do our best, that’s why we have patrols and the hunters keep an eye for any demonic creature they can find. – She answers me.
- How often do they find demonic creatures? – I ask
- Well around once a month, that’s why our cities and residences have walls you know, know forget about this questions, you will get more answers once you get older and start doing your military training, your dad has already prepared what he can.
At this point we are already at our residence, and we ask where my dad is and they point us towards his personal office, when we enter his office, what we see left me stunned but my mom immediately goes towards my second mom, she has been crying and my dad is right beside her, she is crying badly.
- What happen? – I ask all panicked.
- Nothing much Carter – My dad answers – Selene is suffering from the demonic bite.
- But she is still casting, her prowess hasn’t diminished at all – my mother says while she console my second mom.
- Yeah that I find weird, but sadly we will have to inform the king and the general that she will not be able to go back to the front lines like this – My dad says and I see his worry.
- They will not like this - my second mom says between sobs – first you, then me, they may think that our house is cursed.
- What does that mean? – I ask
I see how my dad takes a deep breath and then looks towards both my moms and then gets up the couch and comes towards me.
- Carter, this will be part of your lessons in the future, but for now there are some features of the system that happen, we do not fully understand them, but what we know is that so far 2 people in our house have suffered from the demonic bite this may be used by other houses to gives us a bad reputation and force some changes, I know you do not know what the demonic bite is, it will come in your future lessons. – answers my father.
- Also I do not know why this demonic bite is so weird, my skill went from level one hundred to level forty four, and I don’t get it, I ended up in a panic casting my whole repertoire of spells and the level went up to forty five – says my second mom a bit more calm right now.
- Oh so your skill is still growing – says my mom
- Yeah maybe with time I could get it back to a hundred but I just, I’m scared. – says my second mom and it’s so weird seeing her like this.
- Come on Selene, don’t be silly if you are growing then you are fine, you will be back at one hundred it may take a while but you can do it. – Says my mom.
- What are we going to say to the king? – Ask my mom.
- I don’t know, he helped us suppress the news of my bite, but now with a second it may be difficult – answers my dad.
- I do not understand why is this such a big thing, but if we need time is there any way we can give her time for her to continue training, is there any legal excuse for her to not have to go to the front lines again, why was she out of the frontlines before? – I ask
- Oh Carter you are a genius! – My mom exclaims and then she starts giggling like a little girl and my second mom looks at her weird.
- What are you talking about? – ask my second mom.
- Time for you to get pregnant again. – says my mom radiant.
- WHAT? – says my second mom.
My face right now should be the perfect picture of confusion because I do not understand what they are talking about, and my mom seeing this laughs a bit more and then finally she start to explain a bit.
- Carter for the kingdom is very important to have children, they are the next generation, so any woman that becomes pregnant does not have to go to the frontlines for at least 4 years, and depending on the household situation this could be extended, us being a duke household, we all have work here at the city and at the fort in the frontlines, but for us since we have been having children for the next generation we have for now stayed back from the frontlines and we only do work on the city, if we want to give more time to Selene, we could just get her pregnant that will give her time, her last child was little Karina who is about to be 4 in a couple of months – Says my mom.
I just decide to go away and go to my room, adult problems are adult problems and I do not need to deal with this yet.