After crashing into a chimney at full speed on the second roof I jumped over, I stored all my equipment and shifted into a bat. It was already dark and I could see there was a commotion at the guild building. I landed on the roof and quickly donned my clothes by just dropping them out of storage while I shifted back and using {Summon Arms & Armor}. There was a flash of naked halfling but nobody saw that. I hope.

I jumped in the middle of the crowd and used {Crowd Surfer} to move past the press of bodies. I rushed past the doors between legs, using my limited perception to find who's who. There was an argument going on, something about a monster wave. I found Georg in the middle of this argument and jumped on him. If it took a bit longer to find him, someone was going to die.

"WHERE ARE THEY!?!?!!?" I shouted on his head. Literally.

I was trembling. My fear of the worst caused a few tears to drop on Georg's face.

"Upstairs," I heard and launched myself off his head for the stairs.

The rooms on the second floor of the guild building were normally used for meetings. In the case of an emergency, they doubled as temporary shelter, barracks, or infirmary. My sense of living people and humans brought me to a room with people lying down. Three of them with someone kneeling next to them. My only way to identify who was who consisted of getting within a meter of the person's face. Disregarding any notion of personal space, I used the people as trampolines, jumping from one to the next until I found them to be the three on folding bunks.

"Who are you?" The woman kneeling next to them asked.

"Rosewise Honorcoin, at your service. Are you a healer? How are they?"

"Miss, you are getting on the way. I'd like to ask you to leave."

I ignored her request and checked on them. Cedric, Karina, and Josie. Where was Marta? They were weak, wounded but no longer in the negatives. They were using simple clothing, and I believed for the time being that their equipment was ruined. I could tell healing magic was used but they were crippled. Since they were not dying soon, I asked the pressing question to which I wanted not to hear the answer.

"Where's Marta, the mage girl?"

The healer shook her head. "She's gone."

"The body? When did she die?"

"We brought her up from the Dungeon already dead," Georg's voice came from the door. "Sorry for your friends."

"You found them? What happened?" I asked.

"Miss, you need to leave!" The healer grabbed me. When one weighs less than ten kilograms, it is easy to be picked up.

"Unhand me, woman. And get out of here!" I barked at her, using {Royal Order} without even thinking of it.

She dropped me and I graciously fell down. "Georg, close the door and let nobody in," I continued as the healer walked out trying to resist my Skill. She couldn't.

"Rose what's happening? Why--" I cut him off.

"Say no more. Georg, do as I say. You can stay inside and watch, I want some quiet. Unless the third Demon Lord comes knocking, nobody is to get inside. I have work to do if you don't mind."

"Your bearings..." the grizzled adventurer mumbled. "I'll do as you ask this time."

I heard the door closing and lifted a sound barrier around the room. After a deep breath, I started to work on them. The worst one was Josie. She'd lost an arm and the left leg at the knee. She also had multiple lacerations and ruptured bowels. While the magic healed the wounds and she wasn't in danger of dying soon, she would not be able to feed.

I needed to fix that. Without nourishment, she'd die in a few days. Applying my Skills and magic to cleanse and sterilize her and everything around, I started to work.

I summoned {Soul Scalpel} to my hands and cut her belly open. I didn't need to worry about the size of the incision. {Pinch Blood Vessel} and {Dialysis} took care of the bleeding my incisions caused. The stench of her abdominal cavity was terrible. The matter inside her intestines leaked.

"Georg, I need your help!" I cried.

"What is the matter?" He asked from the door.

"Volunteers. I need to find someone healthy whose blood is compatible with Josie. My magic is not enough."

"What are you going to do?"

"Save these three, what else?"

"Rosie, I don't think I can--"

I cut him and drew a few drops of his blood. I mixed some it with Josie's and used my chemist Skills to test for a reaction. Nothing. Then with mine, also no reaction. But mine and Josie's together coagulated. Georg was probably a universal donor.

"Yours will be fine. Now come here and give me a liter of your blood in this pot."

"Rosie, the Baron--"

I harbored no argument as I stared at him, "He's not the third Demon Lord. Even if he was, I'd kill him just like his two other brothers. Now come here and donate some blood, dammit."

He approached, "I'll give you all the blood you need if you answer two questions for me."

"No, I've never used blood magic and I am not starting it now. What I'm doing with your blood is not magic. Josie is not waking up if she doesn't recover but she lost too much, just that."

"Then the second question can wait. Do what you need," He stretched his arm my way.

I prepared a hardwood needle and the IV drip. Once I confirmed the blood was entering her, I started. I worked to repair her organs. Fix the ruptures, regrow tissue, clean the contamination, recycle the blood. I sang a song of healing along with {Spiritual Healing} to keep her HP at manageable levels.

I had no idea how long I took operating on her. Her liver was damaged by blunt force too. A badly healed punctured lung. I closed everything and sutured the skin with my silk. Josie needed hydration. She'd lost too much blood and her body needed fluids to make more. Or a transfusion.

"Georg?" I asked him.

I heard him stirring and getting on his feet. "What is it?"

I sensed a lot of people downstairs. Also sunlight through the window shutters. Was it morning already?

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"Josie owes you her life."

He came over me, probably to look at her. His voice was softer. "I just bled a bit. I do that every day. It was all you."

I summoned some snacks from storage and shared it with him. We ate while I recovered. I spent almost all my SP and most of the MP on Josie. Then I remembered Marta was dead.

"You never asked your second question," I told him.

"Who are you?"

I laughed. Cackled. "I am a person from another world tossed in this on a whim. I'm a wanderer that travels not on foot but by being reborn. I've been many things and done many deeds. Today I am what you're seeing here. I'm Rosewise Honorcoin, an Eleon magician."

"Are you an [Assassin]?"

"No. I'm not." Not anymore.

"Are you masking your Status? I have journeyman {Appraisal} and all I get is your level."

"Probably? Look, you said two questions. We can talk about that later. I'm going to heal the others and then work on their crippling injuries. Georg--"

I would probably take a week to fully heal them. Josie's arm and leg would require more than a day. My new perk accelerated it somehow but not by much.

He chuckled, still nervous. "I won't tell your secrets to anyone."

His worries dispelled my seriousness. I hissed and spluttered a laugh, "Relax, man. Thanks for the vow to keep my secrets. I wasn't threatening you. 'I need time', that's what I was going to say. I need you to make sure I'll suffer no interference. You good?"

"I'm going to see this to the end," I didn't see but I knew the veteran delver was smiling.

I cracked my neck and started to work on them. Neither was as bad as Josie but all of them had been brutalized. Cedric lost his sword hand, Karina lost a foot and the right arm below the shoulder.

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I had to reinforce the door because people were trying to force entry. The doorstop I made for the inn fit like a glove. I kept the three patient-adventurers sedated while I worked on them. I put a cooking pot on a stone and started to make a nutritious but light porridge with Georg's help. They were going to need it.

Once the trio was no longer on death's door and before I started working on their missing limbs, I let them wake up. They had restraints binding them to their cots.

They stirred awake and I sang a {Song of Peace} to keep them from getting hurt. Their trauma was strong and they struggled and shouted.

"It's fine. You are safe," I sang without breaking my perk.

"Rosie? My arm?" Karina asked.

"Marta!" Josie shouted.

Cedric wept.

One by one, I touched their foreheads. When they calmed down, I stopped my song. "We are at the guild building now. Georg is here with us and I'm treating your wounds. Marta didn't make it. I'm sorry."

There was another surprise. Karina was pregnant. The baby was safe and I would tell her the news after I healed them entirely.

"It is over," Cedric lamented. "My hand. Where's the healer?"

I flicked his forehead. "Right here, dummy. I need you to eat some porridge and drink a hematopoietic potion along with some fruit juice. I'll start working on your other injuries after we all catch some sleep."

Georg laughed. I laughed too even though it was forced. For them. They needed a tranquil environment to heal. We would all grieve later.

"But--" Another flick. "Stop that!"

"From where I come, a healer's authority is supreme. Bear with it, lover boy. Eat. Drink. In moderation, of course. Then sleep. Recover your strength. You'll all leave this room as healthy as the day you were born."

"You better hear the lady," Georg warned. "She's dangerous when angry."

I warmed the porridge and fed them.

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Every now and then someone tried to force the door open. I made a gap in the sound barrier and had Georg go talk to the people outside, telling them we would come out once everyone was healed. People weren't happy we'd commandeered the room, especially the guild officials and Cedric's father.

My estimate of a week to heal them was somewhat accurate but I didn't account for their own restorative perks. In four days they were all healed. I left not a single scar on them. Physically, that is.

Cedric took upon himself to go and settle matters with the guild and his father. Georg went with him, leaving me alone with the two ladies. We were all sitting on the same bed.

Karina was looking at her new arm, disbelief stamped on her face.

"Is there anything you can't do?" She asked.

That's the million-dollar question, I thought. I sighed and let my body fall on the bed. "Yes. A lot of things. If you look at the world with the right eyes, you'll see there's a lot I can't do. I can't help Marta. She's gone."

She grabbed my hand and pulled me into a close embrace. Damn her boobs were soft. No, not the time for that. Begone, impure thoughts.

"You saved us," Josie rubbed my back.

"Yes. But I could only save the four of you."

"Four," Josie repeated. Karina locked down.

"Four," I restated. "Right, Karina?"

She released me. "You sure? I thought it might be but..."

"Your period is late, isn't it?" I could only sense the baby because I was literally with my hand inside her and I sensed the fetus's lifeforce. "I'm very, very sure. It is a healthy baby. A strong one, a fighter, for sure."

Josie squealed. My sound barrier was still in place. These past days we were holed in here, some mages tried to dispel it but with twenty points of Magic over the mortal limit, they would need to bring an archmage. And if someone is wondering how we did our necessities, we were in the age of chamber pots and screens. I mean, everyone was used to doing it in the Dungeon and I was dumping everything in a barrel I kept in my storage. One day, a few centuries from now, someone is going to take a barrel to the head and make a fresh archeological discovery.

Karina cried. Ashamed though I was to admit, I had no idea if she was happy or sad. I hoped for happy but this world had as much shit in it as my barrel. Josie felt a bit envious but she hugged us. That's when Cedric decided to return, with Georg and two people. Josie and Karina released me and quickly showed deference toward them.

"Baron, guild master. I'm sorry," Josie started to stumble. I heard her skipping over the floorboards as she jumped off the bed.

"At ease," a voice that sounded like a mix of Cedric's and a blues singer answered. The baron.

"Are you all recovered?" A powerful female voice asked. By elimination, the guild master.

"Yes, we are all fine. Rosie treated us," Karina answered with a hint of fear in her voice. She was probably intimidated by those authority figures.

I heard rustling and Josie yelping in surprise. Then the woman spoke, "I've seen the wounds myself. Ivona told me it was impossible to regrow your limbs without powerful magic. Did the halfling do that?"

"Eleon," I objected. "And yes, I did that. Is there a problem?"

"How?"

"Powerful magic. You said it yourself."

The guild master coughed. I think there was some non-verbal communication going on but I was blind to it. And everything else.

"Fine. Have it your way. You should have asked for permission first."

"Emergency situation. Had I took a bit longer, Josie would've died. Ask Georg. Speaking of which, you thank Georg later, Josie. Weren't he here with me, you'd be gone."

Georg said with a low, rumbling voice. "That's true. Josie was badly hurt."

"Well, well. Guild master, I'm sure it was a minor inconvenience," The baron used his politician tone. "Miss Rosewise, you saved my son. I am in your debt. Ask for a reward. Anything."

"Anything?" I smiled. "I'm going to ask you the most difficult reward of them all. I mean no offense, but that will demand all the esteemed baron's willpower and resources."

"Ask away," he said with a note of mirth in his mouth.

"I want to be left alone. Keep what happened here a secret. Don't come after me. Don't ask me for favors or give me some kind of 'special' or 'named' missions. I did what I came here to do, I'll go back home now and you keep on with your lives."

Silence. I had no idea what they were thinking. Nobody was in my {Skin Sight} range.

"I'm quite happy with what I have now, your grace," I used the wrong treatment on purpose but I went up. "By your leave, I left my residence unattended for too long. My friends are as healthy as they can be and they'll always be welcome to visit. Georg, I'll have to postpone our arm wrestling match."

Georg laughed.

I dropped out of bed and started to walk toward the door. I felt them moving out of my way on my detection perks.

"Miss Honorcoin," The baron called before I could leave the room. "Allow my carriage driver to take you home. The streets are dangerous this time of the night."

Was it nighttime? I had no idea. This room only received sunlight in the morning.

"Georg can escort me if he is available. Maybe that arm-wrestling match can happen sooner."

"I'll leave it in your hands then, master Dunn," the baron said.

"Miss Honorcoin, I know you're tired, but there's one important announcement that's going out for all the adventurers," the guild master said.

"Yes?" I smiled.

"Cedric's party was ambushed by a larger group of monsters. Several other adventurers reported the same. A big stampede is happening in the lower levels, and that's bringing the weaker monsters up. We expect them to reach the stronger ones to surface in two or three days. We might need all the help we can. The city can be overrun."

"Yes, that's troublesome," I answered. "I'm a [Sorceress], you can count on me for magical support. I won't be healing because my methods are rather slow as you could very well see. I'll be here tomorrow."

There was a provision that gave the guild master emergency powers during this kind of crisis. Monster outbreaks. But since it was for all adventurers, I felt it didn't clash with my request.

I went home with Georg. Nenandil reported the no attempts were made on the house. Time to sleep.