Stella couldn’t get Executioner Leywin’s words out of her mind, however, she tried not to give it much thought as she hurried to the medical floor. She headed to the high-grade medical wing, taking an elevator that would leave her at the main entrance.

As the elevator doors opened she stepped into a big room with a huge semi-circular reception desk on the other side.

“What can I help you with, miss?” asked the receptionist.

“There’s a participant who requires medical attention and needs to be transferred to the high-grade medical wing.”

“Miss, as you know, tournament participants are not allowed in the high-grade medical wing.”

“Executioner Leywin told me that this participant has picked the interest of the Black Guard.”

The receptionist looked at Stella for a couple of seconds. She didn’t quite believe Stella’s words, however, she didn’t want to risk angering an Executioner, so she complied. Plus, the fact that Stella had her mask on meant that she was officially using her authority as a Black Guard member and that if she ever lied, it wouldn’t be the receptionist’s fault since she just followed orders.

“What’s the name of the participant?”

“Seth… Bayard” Stella answered as she tried to remember the name she had seen on Seth’s profile.

The receptionist started typing something down, and after less than a minute a nurse entered the hall, she was wearing full black goggles and a different uniform than the nurses in the normal part of the medical floor.

‘That’s right, the nurse that came to my room after I woke up had the same uniform,’ Stella thought.

“Please go with her, she will be in charge of the transfer,” the receptionist said while pointing to the nurse who bowed to Stella.

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Stella thanked the receptionist and approached the nurse who took out a disk from one of her pockets and threw it on the ground once Stella was close enough.

As the disk touched the ground, for an instant, purple bolts surrounded Stella and the nurse before the surroundings shifted and blurred.

‘A portable teleportation device,’ Stella thought as she noticed they were now standing in front of the standard medical wing’s receptionist’s desk. Before the receptionist could greet them, the nurse spoke.

“We are searching for this participant,” the nurse said to the receptionist while gesturing with her hand. At the same time, a participant's profile appeared on the receptionist’s screen.

“Right away,” the receptionist said as he started typing on his computer.

While they waited, the nurse kept making small gestures with her hands, slightly moving her head each time.

‘Is that a spatial computer?’ Stella thought as she looked at the black goggles the nurse was wearing.

Soon enough a nurse from the standard medical wing hurriedly entered the reception room pushing a gurney with an unconscious white-haired boy on top of it. She left the gurney in front of Stella and the high-grade medical wing nurse, bowed to both of them, and ran out of the room.

‘They seem to be pretty overflowed with work,’ Stella thought.

The nurse next to Stella approached the gurney and positioned her hand a few centimeters above the boy's head. She opened her hand with her palm facing downwards, emitting a soft light. She moved her hand back and forth over the boy's body, scanning him. Once the scanning was complete, the light from her hand dimmed.

As the scan ended, all the information about the boy’s condition appeared listed inside the nurse’s goggles. With small head and hand gestures, the nurse was able to browse through several lines of parameters, such as white blood cell count, hemoglobin, glucose, protein, etc. At the same time, the goggles provided a real-time visualization of the boy’s physical condition. Thanks to the scan and the goggles the nurse was able to see the anatomy of the boy, including the skeleton, organs, and other types of soft tissue. The abnormal or injured parts of his body appeared highlighted in different colors as per a special color code. She was also able to filter and zoom into the augmented reality view to better interpret the scan results.

As she was interpreting the results, almost by reflex, the nurse took out the same teleportation disc from before and threw it to the ground. With an otherworldly sound, the disc immediately activated and teleported them out of the standard medical wing.

Shing!

They appeared in the middle of a big white room with a large window similar to the one Stella had woken up in. When she looked at the side she saw Seth lying on a bed and the nurse next to him, taking out three different vials and injecting them into him.

Once she finished, the nurse turned around and approached Stella.

“Some of his vitals were slightly outside the reference range, so he should be just passed out, still I administered medication to stabilize them. I also found a couple of injuries that didn’t heal completely well, so I gave him something for that too. The last vial should help him to regain consciousness faster, he should wake up within the next hour. I will be monitoring his vitals remotely, still, if you notice any problem you can always press the call button next to the door and a nurse will directly teleport into the room,” with that said the nurse bowed to Stella, threw the disc on the floor and teleported out of the room.