After cleaning up his mess on the lab, James immediately goes to the bathroom, he opens up the tap and sees the clean water flowing through the courtesy of the guild, thanks to them the whole town has working plumbing with clean water taken straight from limbo and got channel through the portal with pipes. They still don't completely understand how the portals really work but it seems fine to uses it like that.

It feels so satisfying when all the grimes, sweat and dirt comes out of his skins, it feels refreshing for James. Sadly it only lasted a few minutes before Chris once again knock on the door.

"Doc, there's someone outside in a critical condition"

"Tell them to wait for me"

"Umm, I don't think that's a good idea"

"Why is that?"

"You need to see for yourself"

"Gaah, fine. Let me see"

James got out of the bathroom in anger, clearly mad. He doesn't even notice that he is only using a towel to cover up his body. James without caring of all of that goes straight to see his first patient for the day.

When he arrived at the outside to see the patient he immediately knows why Chris called it a critical condition, the man is tangled with what looks like a barbed-wire all across his body but instead of metal, it is made entirely out a plant, seeing that James almost immediately know what the cause of that.

"Just how far did you go into the forest to encounter a dryad," James asked the man team or what they usually called party.

"How did you kn- No nevermind about that, the doc can you help heal him?" A bald burly man asked in a soft tone that completely betrayed his appearance

"I can but he will lose, let me see" James closely inspect the injured man.

"Hmm, he will lose an arm, maybe a leg and one of his eyes but I'm not sure that is caused by the dryad"

"The eye is bec- No nevermind that, can you please heal him now, I think he is dying"

"As long as you don't move him around that much he will not be leaving this world in 1 or 2 hours"

"Wha-"

"That means I still have time to at least put on my clothes, now if you'll excuse me"

The party is too preoccupied with their dying friend that they didn't have the time to stop James from leaving, still, they tried, but its too late, James has already gone inside. As nonchalant as James may appear he is actually quite worried, he left not only to get dressed but also to prepare himself mentally because he knew that once he started, he can't stop even for a second until either that man is healed or die.

James has stall long enough, his heart is ready to accept responsibility, even though he had done this so many time he still gets a little bit nervous whenever there's an alive or dead situation like right now. James quickly get dressed in his everyday clothing that is a simple shirt and a comfortable short. When he goes outside to see the party he saw that they are standing in the same exact place, it looks like they listened to James.

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"Brought him inside," James said to the one who is carrying the injured man. There's no more word to be exchanged, they immediately brought him inside to James 'operating' room.

"Now I need to concentrate so can you all please go wait outside?"

"But he's ou-" One of the only two women in the party spoke but got cut halfway by the same bald man earlier.

"Its okay Alex, I'm sure Henry will be fine," The man said in an assuring tone, and with that, the rest of the party leave except for the bald man.

"Why-" James wants to ask why he is still here.

"I'm sorry doc, but I just can't leave him alone in this critical time, I promise that I'll be completely silent the whole time"

"What are you, his lover?"

"Yes"

"Wha- you, are you gay?"

"Is that a problem?"

"no, it's just, uh nevermind, just don't bother me"

James then ignores him and goes straight to the injured man that is lying on the sole bed inside the room. He observes the barbed plant and can clearly see that once it removed there will be bleeding, a lot of bleeding as such James need to quickly close up the wound. And to heal it fast enough he needs to use his biomancy.

As a biomancer James can 'micro-control' all sorts of biomatter, he can freely control his own body but to control others he first needs to get used to the other mana signature, to do that he needs to uses his own mana to probe upon the others cores and that will take 5 - 15 minutes depending on how complicated the core is. That is also the reason why he cant uses his magic to control other person body, especially in combat because when someone is in a combative state their brain will go overclocked and it will affect the cores.

The only other person in the room, the bald man look at James in confusion, he wonders why did James is weirdly holding his lovers head like he was giving him a massage, but then he remembers his own party member weird ability with weird conditions to be used.

James finally gets used to the man mana signature so he then goes to the next part, removing the barbed plants with all of its thorns. The way he removes it is by just pulling it out with his hand, because of that pieces of flesh, skins and sometimes bones can be seen flying off whenever James pulled at the plants. The bald man is very worried seeing the manner of James 'healing' but he held himself off, he thought that maybe James didn't want anyone to see he works is because of how brutal his 'work' is.

James reason, however, is a lot more simple, he, of course, can pull the plants gently one by one but then it will take more times than just pulling it out like this. Since he already 'memorize' the man mana signature he can just accelerate the man own body regeneration so it's all good.

Even with what he considers the faster method the whole operation takes about 20 minutes since he started. All the barbed plants have been removed, the man wound is healed and thanks to James miscalculation the man only loses his left arm and not like what James said earlier, unfortunately, James cant grow a completely new eye so the man has been permanently blinded on his left eye.

James wiped off the blood on his face and said to the bald man "Fiuh, you can go ahead and carry him home now"

The man bows and said " Thankyou doc, thank you so much, I don't know how to thank you enough for saving his life"

"Well, you can start by paying me"

"O-of course, I'll go ask for cores from our leader. How much is it?"

"That depends on you, how much did you value his life?"

"Please don't say it like that, you know I value his more than anything in the world, but you see, uh, if I pay you everything I have right now then we will just be wasting the life you save"

"Are you really haggling for your lover's life right now?"

"Wha- no, no, no, I didn't mean it like that"

"Hahaha, I know, I'm just playing with you. 50 wolf cores are enough or if you have 10 bear cores then that's better" Wolf cores is like the name suggested the cores of a wolf monster, there are many of them in the forest its cores have been used as the smallest form of the cores currency in Salvation, their town.

"Ah, sure, sure. Let me ask it from our leader"

"Go ahead," James said dismissing the man while he starts cleaning up the room.

Since he still remembers the mana signature of the man, cleaning up his blood and other biomatter is as easy as waving a hand, literally. He waved his hand and all the blood, skin, muscle and parts of the bone in the room fly to a single point creating a floating ball of horror. He then condensed the ball into a crystal the sizes of a finger and pocketed it, he can use it for later. Since he started his profession as the town healer he has gathered quite a few of those crystalize body part, he doesn't know how will he uses all of it but he will, probably.