Chapter 38
“A New Ability”
For the next twelve hours, Kalysto spent the time healing the sick in the room where all those who had recently been infected with the plague had been hosted. As soon as she finished curing them, she would send them to Galatea, who had been given a series of questions to ask all the sick to determine how and where they had acquired the disease, as well as a detailed list of all their symptoms.
An apprentice seamstress had approached her as she attended to the patients, carrying a sample of the mask Kalysto had asked them to make, the fairy excited to be able to help and level up her own skill had not only offered to make more, but had also designed the gloves and a doctor’s gown, just as Kalytso had drawn them for her. So now the other fairies who were helping to organize the sick were, like her, wearing white gowns.
Despite the hard work, Kalysto was pleased with how far her skills had progressed over that period of time.
Fortunately, Galatea had taken pity on her and explained how to manage the system windows so that while she was busy healing or in battle mode, they would stop appearing in front of her nose, and instead appear on her left side, so that they would no longer obstruct her view. And so Kalysto programmed it, leaving the most important ones, such as the announcement that she was running out of mana, to her right.
After a short five-minute break in which he took a sip of the mana potion, wishing it was the revitalizing one, she ate several pieces of fruit that had been brought to her. One of them, about the size of a large apple and whose skin was golden in color, but white on the inside. It was the fruit that Artemis had told her about, the one that helped to replenish the manna. Its name was nede. The other, thel, which was becoming her favorite, was a little smaller and dark purple, and was as juicy and with the same consistency as a grape, but sweet. It was like eating honey. But what she liked most, apart from being the size of a medium apple, was that it took away ten fatigue points. Ten of them and Kalysto would no longer need to wait so long to take another mana potion, but could keep working for hours without the accumulated fatigue in her body being a problem.
It was a pity that it did not cure eyestrain.
But other than that, Kalysto considered it a great discovery, so much so that whenever she got the chance, she put a pair in her inventory, along with a nede.
As soon as she finished her last serving of fruit, she checked the notifications that had come to her while she had been healing the sick.
[The Jhil skill has leveled up!]
[The Purification skill has leveled up!]
[The Jhil skill has leveled up!]
[The Dispel skill has leveled up!]
[The Jhil skill has leveled up!]
[The skill Purification has leveled up!]
[The Dispel skill has leveled up!]
[Jhil’s skill has leveled up!]
[The skill Purification has leveled up!]
[The Dispel skill has leveled up!]
[Jhil’s skill has leveled up!]
[The skill Purification has leveled up!]
[The Dispel skill has leveled up!]
[Jhil’s skill has leveled up!]
[The skill Purification has leveled up!]
[The skill Purification has leveled up!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired a new skill: Ezhil Purification. Level 1.]
As soon as he saw the purple notification, Kalysto clicked on it to get more details.
[Ezhil Purification: Unlike the purification skill, the user no longer needs to touch the target to purify. Instead, by extending your hands, you purify everything around you in a radius of 10 meters. Expends 15 MP per use.]
Excited by her new ability, Kalysto approached the sick section again and immediately stretched out her arms.
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“Ezhil Purification, Ezhil Purification, Ezhil Purification, Ezhil Purification, Ezhil Purification!” And just as the description said, a golden glow burst forth from her body, spreading about ten meters, purifying the air and everyone the golden light touched.
If I also raise Jhil and Dispel to 10, will I also be able to acquire a similar version of both of them? She was excited about her new theory and immediately set to work on leveling them up.
The next patient was an old man named Nathyel.
“I appreciate your help, little one. My knees don’t even hurt anymore!” He commented happily, after Kalysto asked him to take off his shirt and she checked his chest and back, where she found the characteristic black spot, with only two veins, from where the plague was spreading. “It seems that it will take me a little longer to be reunited with my dear Emanuela.”
“And who is the lucky lady?” She asked as she performed another round of purification, dispel and Jhil on the old man’s back.
“My late wife. She passed away more than a hundred and fifty years ago. But I still remember her as if it were yesterday when I managed to convince her that I would be a good husband for her and not that fool Ezekiel.”
“It must have been hard to fight for her attention,” Kalysto commented, not knowing what else to say as she continued to check the old man’s back, his arms and even under his armpits, to make sure she hadn’t missed any black spots.
“I have my tricks,” he whispered mischievously. And Kalysto wanted to smile at his antics.
“Please remove your shoes and socks” And just as she had feared, another black spot with protruding black veins lay on the sole of his right foot. She had already found five other people with a stain in the same place, and she began to worry that it was some kind of pattern. “I think you’d better lie down...” she commented as she saw the effort the man was making to hold his leg up while she examined it with her gloved hands. “And how many do you have, Mr. Nathyel?” She asked him, more to distract the surprised man who seemed to be too uncomfortable being in just his underpants, and finding more black spots than he himself had been aware he had.
“It took you more than fifty years, sweet girl. I can assure you of that,” he commented, trying to keep his voice cheerful, though fear was evident in his eyes every time she discovered a new stain.
“Don’t worry, Mr. Nathyel. I’ll do another round of healing tomorrow, so we can be sure that everything is in order,” the old man nodded, “Is that all right?”
“Yes, I think that would be best, too.”
“Great, then as soon as I’m done with you, you can get dressed and fill out the form Galatea gave you. But don’t go home yet. I’ll go over it again tomorrow.”
“Jhil! Jhil! Jhil! Jhil! Jhil! Dispel! Dispel! Jhil! Jhil! Dispel! Dispel! Dispel! Jhil! Jhil! Dispel! Dispel!” As soon as she had finished with him, she turned to Galatea. Could you call everyone who left and ask them to wait in this room until morning? I have a theory I want to check, and some of them didn’t return from their trip to the bathroom -to preserve their privacy, she had asked another fairy whose hair was full of gray to help check the private areas of other fairies who had refused to undress in front of her. Some had even insisted on checking themselves, which had annoyed her as she couldn’t be sure if they had lied to her or not.
But if she managed to evolve even to jhil, in the same way she did with purification, preserving the fairies’ modesty would not be a problem, and she would no longer have to worry about whether any of them escaped while still infected.
“Of course.”
“I need a break,” she told her, before she left to do what she had asked her to do. “I’ll be back in two hours. Is there somewhere nearby where I can relax?” Although she felt she could keep working for another couple of hours, she was sure it was better that the fairies didn’t get used to her keeping up this strenuous work pace. Or Artemis might start to think that her idea of intensive training was more than valid.
“We have prepared a room for you at the end of the corridor if you wish to rest, or if you prefer to take a walk there are several gardens, if you continue along this other corridor you will find a very nice one on your right.”
“Thank you, Galatea.”
Ten minutes later, Kalysto had not only found the garden but had continued walking towards the surrounding forest, sitting under a leafy tree and admiring the colorful landscape full of pretty flowers.
After making sure she was completely alone, she pulled out a pack of cookies and two cupcakes from her inventory, along with Tsuki.
“Hi! Did you miss me?” The little furry wolf turned his white head as if he didn’t understand what she was saying.
“Arff?”
“I guess that’s a no,” she sighed, and hugged him, enjoying the softness of his fur and running her hands over him.
Good thing he wasn’t affected by being locked in the inventory.
After a long session of caresses and hugs in which she ended with his tongue licking her cheeks, she deposited him on the floor.
“Don’t ever do that on my face again” she warned him, and seeing the sadness laden look the puppy gave her, she added “but you can lick my hand or my legs but not my face, you almost licked my eye,” she immediately used purify with herself, and took out a bottle with water from the ones she had bought, and washed her face, and almost drank the rest, when she was about to finish drinking the bottle Tsuki barked, demanding some for him.
“Yes, yes, yes, here you go” and she poured some into the palm of her hand, allowing him to drink. When he finished, she wiped her hand and gave him half of the package of filled cookies she had taken out, and broke one of the cupcakes in half, and offered it to him. Tsuki was quick to devour them, looking at her with anticipation as she took a bite of the second cupcake.
“Okay, here’s half, but don’t ask me for more for today.”
And just as she was taking a bite of her half of the delicious cupcake, a slime crashed against her face, another against her hand, and another against Tsuki. Who didn’t take long to attack the shameless monster who tried to steal his food.