Chapter 22 - Oops!

“Yes, mana sense"

Celestine doesn't seem to have heard about it. Now that I think about it again, mana sense is something that I found by myself by using all my past knowledge from Earth. Oops, my bad. But this technique doesn't seem to be that dangerous to be taught to others so let's just teach her. It is for the sake of perfectly healing Leon as soon as possible after all.

“Hmm, I forgot that I seem to be the one finding this technique. Anyway, let me teach you what mana sense is. Just like the name suggests, it is a technique to sense things with your mana”

"Sensing things with mana? What would you use that for?”

"Of course, for the thing that you are stuck on, sensing the inner details of other people's bodies. Or any other things really”

"Ah, so I don't have to guess whether the bone has already set correctly or not because I can clearly ‘sense’ it”

"There you go. Also, if you work on your simultaneous magic control, you can cast that healing spell, sensing with your mana, and set the bone at the same time without even touching the patient"

“So how do you cast mana sense?"

“It is not a spell, it is a derivative from mana control training so it's more of a mental casting than chanting spells. I will use a strand of my mana to enter your body to extend my sensing web so please don't resist. Of course, invading other people's body with your mana is a dangerous act that you should never let anybody other than the one you trust to do so”

"But I still don't trust you”

"Milady, I thought I had already melted the ice in your heart”

"Okay, stop it. I see that you'll lose more if you hurt me so I will believe you this once”

"Okay, I will slowly inject my mana into you. If you feel any discomfort, please tell me”

I then tried to grab her hand but she evaded it. She looks at me with eyes full of doubt.

“Are you going to touch me? Didn't you say that you can use mana sense without touching?"

“That's the theory. But I am still not that good with mana sensing. And it will cost me a lot more mana to do it without touching as it is harder to maintain the mana sensing web, thus the increase in mana cost”

"I hope you don't try fooling me”

Of course… I lied. Well, not a 100% lie but I still lied. I just want to take advantage of the saintess a bit. After all, she has been giving me the stink eye even after I cleared the misunderstanding around the bad rumor about me. So I want to prank her a bit.

What I said before about mana efficiency, maintenance, and the one I didn't mention, clarity of the mana sensing is indeed influenced by the distance. I also don't use mana sensing much besides when I have to treat the wounded so it is not a lie that I am not an expert yet at this.

But I can still do mana sensing well enough without a need to touch the patient.

Of course, I can't do much of a prank. I can only target her hand. But according to the way I hold her hand, it might get a little spicy so it will need a special tag on certain kinds of cultured websites. If you know what I mean.

So I slowly take both of her hands with my own and lift them to around our chest height. Then… I hold her hand by crisscrossing our fingers. Yeah, the kind that lovers do. Especially in any position where they face each other. Like kissing of course. *grin*

Anyway, joking aside. As I hold her hand in that special way, I keep maintaining our eye contact. Celestine finally could not take the awkwardness and became the one who broke the silence.

“Stop gazing at me and quickly show me that mana sense"

“Oh, I'm sorry. I got a bit distracted there because you are indeed beautiful"

"Stop joking or I will get mad”

"Okay, okay. My bad. Here I go”

I will let you off the hook for now. I then slowly inject my mana into her body. A 3D mapping of the places that are inside my mana detection range appears in my head. This is like having the result of an MRI machine directly stored in my brain.

"Can you feel my mana entering your hand?”

"Yes. It is a weird feeling. But it doesn't hurt”

"Well, the purpose of this technique is to look at the inside of sick or wounded patients after all so it won't be good if it is painful. Also, I can move this mana-sensing focus point around your body to change what area I would focus on. Like when you have heart trouble, digestion trouble, coughing, joint pain, or even just muscle pain. But as the head is a sensitive place, I try not to touch its insides as much as I can”

As I talk, I move the focus of my mana sense to her heart, stomach, lungs, knees, and the muscles on her limbs. I avoid getting close to her neck and beyond that. The brain is something that not even modern science could completely figure out after all so I try to not touch it and the nerve system in the spine.

“Yes, I can feel it moving around. Hey, I can somehow figure out the shape of my inner organs like my heart, my stomach, and my lungs. I can also ‘see’ my bones”

"Oh, you can tell them apart because of my probing? As expected of the church's chosen saintess, you already get the knack for it”

"I worked hard in my basic magic lesson, okay? Well, I should say that I am surprised because you are doing this seriously after that prank before. I thought you would try peeping on my naked body with that skill or something”

As soon as I heard the keyword, my mind suddenly reacted zealously. The 3D mapping of Celestine's body which was just like a skinless torso model before suddenly grows skin, or should I say, got the focus zoomed out that it now shows the full body figure of her… naked.

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What the… oops!

I can clearly see her full naked figure in my mind! I can see that there is some sparse bodily hair on her armpits and pubes area. And of course, it is also blond like her hair color. She has her fat distributed perfectly in the right spot which gives her an hourglass figure. The line in her behind would also make a mathematician get excited with the perfect curve she had.

And above all, goddamn, she has the bountiful blessing of the mother goddess with cute pair of cherries on top. Those volumes remind me of papayas from Earth. I somehow got a sudden craving for papayas. But that's not important now.

The important thing is. Her body has a strong devilish temptation while she is someone related to the clergy. What with this gap? It's so sensational. Now that I think about it, her figure was always hidden under her cassock-like church wear. And now, she wears a cloak on top of her commoner-style clothes. Well, that is indeed an exemplary way of wearing clothes for people with religious occupations. To prevent sexual desires from appearing.

Stop. Calm down me. Junior is still afflicted with a curse and this will make Celestine despise you if you are caught! Reset!

It might seem that I have been busy in my thoughts for quite some time but thanks to my strong mind prowess, it was processed in a blink of an eye. I also have the ability to multitask. Having parallel thoughts is not a big deal for me so while 1 of my resources is ‘distracted’, my other resources keep pretending to be cool outside.

“Well, you can try it for yourself and test whether you can use this mana-sensing technique to peek. Now that we are on topic, would you like to try it out yourself?"

"I'll take the offer then”

Saved… I want to pat the past me on the back for training so hard that I managed to master the multitasking ability. That would be disastrous.

When I am still celebrating my success in hiding my blunder, I suddenly feel some pain in my hand.

“Ouch, miss, please lower your intensity in your mana output”

“Oh, I’m sorry”

“Never mind. I am used to pain. Just concentrate and try to feel your control”

“Okay”

Celestine gradually mastered the skill of injecting her mana into other people painlessly. I told her when I feel pain, less pain, until at last I don’t feel any pain at all but I can sense her mana in me.

“Good. you have managed to make it painless. Now, can you ‘see’ what I have inside?”

“Yes, I can sense the bones in your hands and fingers. But that's pretty much all I can sense now”

“That is enough for our purpose now. If you want to get better at mana-sensing, you need to vibrate the mana-sense focus point at different frequencies. Of course, you will need more training for that so you can finally sense many more just like when I sent my mana inside your body"

“I see"

“Now, try exploring my body with your mana sense. Again, try not to search the head and the spine area as those places are fatal when damaged and even I don't know how to heal them correctly”

"Okay”

Celestine immediately moved her mana sense focus point all over my body. I told her when she made me uncomfortable or ticklish so she could do body sensing better.

While one of my resources handles my interactions with Celestine, another resource of mine couldn't help but think back about the ‘accident’ that just happened.

I mostly do my mana sensing when I treat the wounded so I usually put my focus on treating them. I never really tried to explore my mana-sensing skills further. That is a mistake I have to correct in the future.

And sweet holy mother of… I unexpectedly just won big. If my junior still works, well it still works but far too small to work normally that is, I might just…

Anyway, that 3D mapping figure of Celestine is still saved in my mind. One of the perks of being a mage is a greater brain function which means I have an excellent memory. Although it is still far from being an eidetic memory, I can still create a vivid image of something in my mind.

I can't help but worship Celestine's nude image in my mind. Thank you for the blessing, thank you for the blessing.

Ugh, come on, focus on what's important Emilio Stadford! Let's think about why I can 3D print someone’s body on my mind.

All I can think of is just because I have raised my tier since the last time I used my mana sensing. The last time I used my mana sensing was when I did emergency treatment to the bandit's captive on my way to Whitecastle. At that time, I still haven't had any interactions with the demon's orb yet and I am still a tier 2.

Yeah, either I become tier 3, the demonic orb absorption or my early mastery over fleshmancy might cause my mana-sensing ability to level up.

Well, I need to test it some more to know exactly what is happening.

By the way…

“Miss Celestine, you accused me of peeping just now so why are you doing the same?”

"This, no, I was just”

"Keep your calm milady, I won't blame you. I won't lose much if you want to look at my naked body anyway. But please be professional as a healer, okay?”

"Sorry, I'm just curious about your curse. I can't help but check things out”

"Oh, that? Then please feel free to check it out. One of my goals in coming to the capital is to find information about how to cure my family's curse after all. Please check it and see whether you can cure me or not. I will pay 500 gold if you manage to cure me”

"500 gold… that's a lot. Then excuse me, let me check it for a while"

With my permission, Celestine doesn't try to hide her sensing anymore. The mana sensing focus point is now located straight in my pubes area.

She tries sensing around for a while and says:

"I can't see anything”

"Well, you just learned this technique today after all. What do you expect? Anyway, if you have enough rest, then let's continue your bone healing training”

“I'll show you what I can do"

“Oh, and I will also teach you about the traditional way to treat broken bones. The kind where no magic is involved. It is a good thing to know in case you don't have enough mana to heal someone in an emergency"

“That sounds useful. Please teach me that also"

"Okay, let's do it one at a time. Try healing the bones by the method before then we will try the mixed method after. I guess I can also give an example now as I can do healing magic now”

"Okay. but could you let go of my arms first?"

"Oh, oops, almost forgot about it"

And just like that, our training continues.

Celestine could heal broken bones correctly some of the time after trying to correct the broken pieces by hand but as the ‘patient’ kept on struggling, she could not manage to heal them all perfectly.

Then I taught her how to use a splint to fix the broken bone first before healing it and she could heal almost all of the thugs perfectly. Well, I am the one administering the splint so it's the natural result. The one that failed to get healed correctly is because Celestine overheals the guy.

Yes, she overheals that man which causes the bone to overgrow in the broken area. I had to show her how to cut off the excess bone. The poor sap screamed constantly in the process as I didn't use any anesthetic agent. But fortunately for him, my skill now is better than before as I can control my shadow now. I don't need to waste my time changing tools or fetching them. I can just change the shape of my shadow according to my needs.

After I am done with him, the thug's face is all pale and he seems to be about to die. Well, I guess it's enough volunteering for him today.

I also told Celestine about that. A healer needs to be mindful of their patient's vitality. Patients also need energy to heal their own body.

I then give her an example of how to heal a broken bone using telekinesis and mana sense. To not make her suspicious, I touch the thug's hand with my finger and start healing them. Hmm, yes, I can also heal other people and heal broken bones using my mend flesh magic. Mending the bone needs a lot more energy though as I am converting a hard bone into mana to heal broken bones.

Celestine absorbs all my teaching like a sponge. As expected of someone with high talent the church appointed as a saintess.

We might need another session of training and she will be ready to fulfill my quest for her. Let's call Leon over tomorrow.

And after training, let's take the saintess to the orphanage to play there. Those kids should be happy that a beautiful older sister is coming to visit them.

We left the thugs with their left hand broken in the end. They still need to be punished after all. But we still splint their broken arm and give them 2 silver coins for their trouble. I also told them that if they want to turn a new leaf, they can register themself as hunter even if they still haven't healed their arm yet. at least I tried to give them a chance to reform. Celestine should approve that, right?