Book 3. Chapter 14
“An unexpected visit. The call back.” Part 4
Note: I want to make a small clarification about the differences between the healing spell of the water mages and the Jhil spell of the saintesses. While the basic/intermediate/advanced healing spell only accelerates the natural healing of a wound, it does not remove pain or scars. Nor can it regenerate bones, it only closes wounds that the human body could heal by itself. While the saintess spell, Jhil, can regenerate skin and bones without leaving any scars, as well as ‘regrow’ a recently amputated limb (like a lizard’s tail that can regrow after being cut off). The more skin that must be regenerated (as in the case of the black plague), the greater the mana expenditure.
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[Kalysto. After you finish healing my fairies and purifying the forest, I want you to level up the enchantment profession to level 100 and raise the second profession to 50. I want you to create a second barrier to protect my lands. I also want you to raise your Dispel and Dispel Ezhil skills to level 100. I’m going to need them soon.]
Kalysto frowned at the notification window.
What do you want me to level them up for...? What Dispel does is to deactivate spells or disperse mana... That she mentioned it after talking about a barrier... maybe she wants me to deactivate one?... She thought while another window appeared with the continuation of the words of the queen of the fairies.
She sure is tired of so many attacks from Mhiralla. Maybe I’ll have to help when she returns the favor. Though it’s strange that she hasn’t returned it before... Then she remembered that the temple of light worshipped Mhiralla as its main goddess instead of her mother, the goddess of light, Arharella.
Maybe she wants me to destroy the temple’s defenses. She smiled, remembering Edward’s betrayal, and that Darla had tried to absorb her. In that case, I’ll gladly do it. I have scores to settle with that madwoman.
[I need you to finish quickly with your second mission and start preparing for the third. You’ll have five months for this. If you do well, I will terminate our contract, allow you to continue to have the system and you will be free to do with your life as you please.]
Kalysto was surprised at the opportunity to terminate her contract earlier than agreed and was thrilled about it.
With the amount of sneak attacks Mhiralla launches, it’s nice to know I won’t have to live nine more years of it. But before she could say anything, the violet symbol of the fairy queen was drawn on the ground.
[I will bring you back to my kingdom. Galatea will be waiting for you.]
[Don’t disappoint me Kalysto.]
A second later, Galatea was in front of her, accompanied by two more fairies that Kalysto did not recognize. The coffee-with-milk tone of her skin seemed much paler than usual, which made the green tone of Galatea’s hair much more striking.
“Good morning, Champion!” The brunette hurried to greet her, with a hand on her chest as a sign of respect. The other two fairies soon followed her. “Sir, welcome!” Galatea greeted, looking at someone behind Kalysto, who turned and met the red eyes of the queen’s godson. But before she could comment on her unexpected companion, Galatea approached her and continued speaking. “I have brought the utensils you asked for last time,” she said, handing her the white robe, gloves, and face mask.
“Galatea, thank you for remembering,” she said as she received them, noticing that both Galatea and the other two fairies were wearing the white coats, gloves and face masks. “Where are the patients? Did you separate them into two groups as I asked?”
“I’m afraid I didn’t manage to do it. We barely managed to bring some of them here, but there are still many missing,” she apologized as she escorted her to a door.
“All right,” she said as she put on her gown and put the rest of the utensils in her inventory, ”Bring the new patients to a second room, and only leave the more serious ones in this one,” she ordered as she opened the door.
“Hello everyone! Give me your full attention please! My name is Kalysto Luna and I am here to cure you, but I will need your full cooperation to do it!” She announced after giving a resounding applause, to draw the attention of the more than one hundred fairies in the large white room. “Those of you who are not in a serious condition please accompany Galatea to another room, I will join you as soon as I finish healing the most affected first! Don’t worry, there will be time for everyone, but I need to focus on the most serious cases first! Now, please stay where you are, the rest of you please leave! Come on, let’s go! The longer you take to leave, the longer it will take me to treat you!” As soon as the first fairies began to leave with the help of Galatea and the other two fairies, Kalysto stood in the middle of the room, noting with sadness the different degrees of petrification that could already be seen in the arms and hands of many of the fairies that were left lying or sitting on the different stretchers. “I apologize in advance for what is about to happen, but if you have any spells active, remove them. Right now, it is more important for me to stop the advance of the black plague. Ready?” Seeing that no one said anything, while the majority looked at her without understanding what she was talking about, she began to conjure: “Dispel Ezhil! Dispel Ezhil! Dispel Ezhil! Ezhil Purification! Jhil Ezhil! Jhil Ezhil!” A hissing sound from behind her warned her that something wasn’t right along with the surprised expressions on the faces of several of the fairies who were staring at the door. Kalysto turned before continuing with a second round and noticed the goblet on the floor next to the feet of Aegir Donovhar, whose bare muscular chest was covered in burns. “What the hell happened? Jhil Ezhil! Jhil Ezhil!” She conjured and ran to him to check his wounds.
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“It looks like one of your spells wanted to burn me alive,” he said as he watched the blistered skin begin to heal.
I doubt the problem is with ‘Dispel Ezhil’, although that could be the culprit for him being half naked.
“I didn’t know you could conjure clothes,” she muttered, ”Jhil Ezhil! Jhil Ezhil!”
“I can do many things,” he replied with a coquettish smile that she ignored, too busy trying to heal the damage she had inadvertently caused him.
“Get dressed and put this on!” she said, putting on the mask. “You are in the presence of fairies infected with the black plague. You could catch it. You’d better get out,” she added, giving him the gloves Galatea had given her earlier but he immediately refused.
“What about you?” he worried.
“You don’t have to worry about me, I’m immune to it,” she clarified, “Now get out of here, I’m too busy healing the rest to have to worry about any of my spells affecting you,” then she turned and walked away from him without giving him a second glance. “Sorry for the interruption. I’ll continue immediately! Jhil Ezhil! Jhil Ezhil! Dispel Ezhil! Dispel Ezhil! Ezhil Purification! Jhil Ezhil! Jhil Ezhil! Ezhil Purification!” About fifteen minutes later, two violet windows appeared before her.
[Warning! User has lost 10% HP.]
[Warning! The user has less than 10 MP left. Please wait a few minutes before attempting to use any skill again or your health will be severely affected.]
“Did you really have to show up just now?” she muttered in annoyance and immediately took out a health potion from her inventory and drank it. After putting the rest of the potion away, she touched the golden tattoo on her wrist with her right hand. “Boss, I’m out of mana! If you want me to finish healing them today, I’m going to need you to provide me with enough mana crystals to continue working.”
Less than five seconds later, a new purple window appeared before her.
[How many do you need? And what the hell is wrong with your health?]
I’d rather she hadn’t noticed that. Kalysto let out a prolonged sigh.
“Considering that there are at least a hundred fairies whose bodies are partially turned to stone in this room, I will need at least two hundred mana stones with at least eight thousand MP. But Galatea can give you a better idea of how many wounded there are. The others were in the other room with her and she informed me that more were on their way.”
[How come you have a health curse?]
“There was an idiot kidnapping girls and using them as sacrifices. When I confronted him, I ended up with the curse.”
[Dirty humans! Not only do they steal and appropriate other people’s land, but they also kidnap and sacrifice innocent girls? You should stop mixing with those people, Kalysto! Who knows what they’ll do to you if you give them another chance!]
Kalysto could feel the queen’s rage through the system. But she wasn’t the only one to do so. The rest of the fairies in the room seemed to be able to feel it, cowering on their stretchers.
“They weren’t humans, they were hobgoblins,” Kalysto hastened to clarify. “And boss, I really need those mana stones fast.”
[Clear your inventory! There’s no room for anything in there!]
Kalysto’s cheeks turned red at the unexpected scolding and she immediately took out Tsuki and her favorite axe and placed them on the only unoccupied stretcher.
“Stay there, take care of my weapon and don’t move!” She whispered to Tsuki.
“Yes, Master!”
“Ready, I’ve made some space!” She announced and immediately one thousand two hundred mana stones appeared in her inventory.
[I hope that’s enough.]
“I’ll let you know right away if it isn’t,” she assured her.
Six hours later, Kalysto had finished healing all the fairies that had been infected.
“Ready boss, I’m done here!” She announced before drinking another health potion.
[Take care of the miasma at the border.]
Immediately the queen’s magic circle appeared under her feet and in less than a second she was in front of the golden barrier that Artemis had recently reinforced.
Threads of black vapor known as miasma, seeped between the barrier and the earth as if there was some sort of tiny groove between them. But that wasn’t the most shocking thing.
The entire forest outside the barrier was completely covered by a thick black miasma mist as the bodies of thousands of monsters lay dismembered on the ground.
And Kalysto’s shoulders slumped in defeat as she saw the forest she had worked so hard to purify, enveloped in a sea of black.
“I really won’t be able to enjoy my vacation,” she muttered under her breath before Hanna and another group of fairies guarding the barrier approached her.