Chapter 47
“A New Alliance” Part 3
Jaesia, just four elven warriors, accompanied Kalysto to the overcrowded room where they had all the sick people.
"There are too many people in there," she said, observing several sitting on the floor and several on the makeshift stretchers. She thought she also saw several of them with travel bags and a family she had seen earlier, escaping from a Cyclops attack. And she began to doubt that they were all from this city. Surely they had let word spread to other elven cities that a Saintess was coming to heal them. And as much as she would like to do it, if she did, these people would begin to demand more and more of her. She had experienced that before, and she had also seen it too many times, how others’ lives were snuffed out while the surrounding people spent their time taking advantage of them.
It was best to make sure to just honor the deal, for the time being.
“Do you have at least three more rooms I can use? It will be almost impossible for me to move between them freely as they are right now.”
One of the guards frowned at her.
"I don’t think I can get three rooms, but I’ll see if I can find at least two" and the brown-haired elf turned around, to comply with her request.
How efficient! She was surprised. Then Kalysto stood under the door frame and clapped her hands three times loudly, calling out to the hundreds of people in the very spacious room, which could fit a whole hundred-square-meter apartment with complete peace of mind.
“May I have your attention, please?” The murmurs in the room began to subside, and she waited until they were silent. “My name is Kalysto and I am here on behalf of the fairies” as soon as she said that, the murmurs started again, and she turned to Jaesia, “would you be so kind as to help me with them?”
“Be quiet!” shouted the elf, her voice full of power.
“Thank you," Kalysto smiled at her. “As I was saying, I am a Saintess, and I am here to cure you of the black plague. But I will need your cooperation in order to help you. First, because there are so many people in this room, it is a bit difficult to treat you in this condition. So I ask all of you who are not from this city or who have not lived here in the last two years to please make yourselves comfortable in the other room that the gentleman here will show you," she said pointing to one of the warriors on her right. And she stared at him, waiting for him to tell her his name.
“I am Xaermn, Saintess.”
"Thank you," she told him, before continuing her speech. “Xaermn here will take care of escorting you. Please answer any questions he asks you and be sure to inform him of how you think you got the plague. Also, be sure to check the soles of your feet, and between your toes for plague stains. I have encountered enough sick people who tend not to notice the stains on these parts, so please avoid being barefoot. Also, as a precautionary measure try to get something like this," then she took out her face mask and put it on, "or at least cover your mouth with a handkerchief when you are in the presence of people who are not sick, to avoid infecting them. It has been discovered that it can be spread in ways other than from breathing in the miasma or from the attack of a contagious monster. I want you to be aware from now on that you, yourselves, are a source of infection for others. So avoid contact. Now, please, all those who do not belong to this city, follow Xaermn,” she said, stepping aside to let them pass. There were about one hundred and fifty elves coming out of the crowded room.
“Is this really necessary?” asked one of the warriors accompanying her.
“Of course, it is. Since the way they acquired the disease can vary from one territory to another. Besides, if we can also survey them and write down their answers, we can find common places where people have been catching the plague that has so far gone unnoticed.”
“I thought only miasma and monsters could infect and that it was a foolishness of humans who seem to fabricate stories to spread fear.”
“And yet you have people who have never faced a monster or breathed miasma and caught it, don’t you?” She questioned them, and by the silence that stretched out, she knew she was right. “I think a lot of people have the same idea as you. But I’m afraid that’s not so. Just yesterday I treated an old man and a six-year-old girl, both with the plague, and neither of them has been in contact with either the monsters or the miasma.”
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“So how did they get sick?" the elf asked.
“In the girl's case, it was her mother who infected her," she said, and she could see the surprise on the face of the elf, and of those who were leaving the room and had eavesdropped on their conversation.
The efficient warrior who had left approached Xaermn and pointed to a room. Then he ran up to her.
“Saintess, I could only find two available rooms. I sent Xaermn and the travelers to it," he commented, not realizing that he had inadvertently confirmed Kalysto’s theory.
“Thank you," she then turned to the more than 400 elves still left in the room. Now all those who have recently acquired the plague, or who are not in a serious situation, please come with me," she then turned to the guard who had just arrived. “Will you lead us, please?”
“Of course, this way, Saintess” commented the elf, surprised by the drastic change in her attitude.
Jaesia also stared at her, but none of the guards now accompanying her dared to say anything to her.
Kalysto spent the next hour doing what she now considered her usual round of healing. Excited to see that the potions sent to her by her kidnapper with a single sip raised her MP to 1054/254, she hurried to spend them before the points exceeding her capacity vanished, so she took the opportunity to not only continue to level up ‘Jhil Ezhil,’ Purification Ezhil’ and ‘Dispel Ezhil’. But also to Inspect. Using it to look at the stats of not only people, though in most cases she could only see their name and level, in some she could also see their age, but she also used it on their clothes and anything she was near her now that she didn’t need to touch an object to assess it.
As soon as she finished her last charge of mana and the usual warning sign appeared before her. Kalysto paused.
[Warning: user has only 10 MP left. Please wait a few minutes before attempting to use any skills again or your health will be severely affected.]
She closed it and approached Jaesia.
“I’m going to take a break.” She announced and went to sit in an unoccupied corner, as she went through her huge collection of unchecked notifications and pulled out a thel from her inventory and began to eat it.
[The Jhil Ezhil skill has been raised to level 3!]
[The skill Ezhil Purification Ezhil has risen to level 4!]
[Ezhil Dispel skill has leveled up to level 3!]
[The skill Inspect has been raised to level 3!]
[Jhil Ezhil skill has leveled up to level 4!]
[The skill Ezhil Purification has raised to level 5!]
[Ezhil Dispel skill has leveled up to level 4!]
[The skill Inspect has leveled up to level 4!]
[The skill Jhil Ezhil has leveled up to level 5!]
She closed those notifications and finished eating her thel, then slyly pulled out the bottle of low-level holy water she had and drank a quarter of it. Feeling her headache due to the overuse of her abilities, it disappeared. She then pulled out another thel and began to check the notifications that had come to her as she was shooting arrows like crazy when she arrived at the elves’ castle.
[You have gained 500 experience points.]
[You have gained 350 experience points. ]
[You have leveled up.]
[You have gained +1 vitality point, +1 strength, +1 stamina, +1 agility, +1 intelligence, +1 free point.]
[You have gained +1 vitality point, +1 strength, +1 stamina, +1 agility, +1 intelligence, +2 free points].
[You have gained 500 experience points.]
[You have gained 350 experience points. ]
[You have gained 350 experience points. ]
[You have leveled up.]
[You have gained +1 vitality point, +1 strength, +1 stamina, +1 agility, +1 intelligence, +1 free point.]
[You have gained +1 vitality point, +1 strength, +1 stamina, +1 agility, +1 intelligence, +2 free points].
[You have gained 500 experience points.]
[You have gained 650 experience points. ]
[You have gained 450 experience points. ]
[You have leveled up.]
[You have gained +1 vitality point, +1 strength, +1 stamina, +1 agility, +1 intelligence, +1 free point.]
[You have gained +1 vitality point, +1 strength, +1 stamina, +1 agility, +1 intelligence, +2 free points.]
Kalysto opened her eyes, surprised at how many points she had gained, even though she hadn’t been the one who had killed them.
What level were those monsters, and how much experience could I have gained if I had caused them more damage or if I had been able to kill them on my own? She thought, remembering how easy it seemed for her kidnapper to kill them. If only I could learn how to cast that spell!
Then another window she hadn’t noticed before was before her. One she had to re-read several times to make sure she wasn’t seeing wrong.
[The user has now passed the minimum threshold needed to unlock the Elemental Magic skill. Do you wish to select the first element of elemental magic you wish to learn now?]
[YES/NO]
And Kalysto wanted to scream with excitement.