Character Information - Who is who?

Because I have created quite a variety of characters, I will now create little cheat sheets before a chapter for the characters who will appear in the chapter, but not for those who haven't. Please open the spoiler if you need some reminders. (Be careful. It can be a spoiler for the chapter!)

Alexander K. Leonandra (Wolf-kin)

* Known Position

* The fourth child of the current Leonandra household (Nobility)

* Specialization(-s)

* Magic and Alchemy

* Eyecolor

* Golden-Colored

* Hair (Fur-) Color

* Snow-white

* Miscellaneous

* Transmigrated from the Earth and the MC

* (Close-)Retainers

* Ocilia L. (Disciple)

* Maurice L. (Protector)

* Melina L. (Head-Maid)

* Francesca L. (Maid)

* Cloelle L. (Maid)

* Aurum L. (Head Accountant)

Green (III) from the Forest of Fallen Wishes (Fairy)

* Known Position

* Head of a temple branch in the east of Moorgrel (Twin-Acorn Temple)

* Specialization(-s)

* Healing, Herbalism, Agriculture, and Administration

* Eyecolor

* Light-greenish Colored

* Hair Color

* Green Colored

* Wing Color

* Autumn Colored

* Miscellaneous

* Teaches the MC magic

* Very ambitious

* Messenger of the Temple

* (Close-)Retainers

* None mentioned

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Alexander's bedroom, the night after the attack

"I need fucking painkillers, you bugwhore!"

"Shut up! You don't get any. Just try to resist it!"

"The system is pinging me like crazy! I bet my balls, if they don't have blown away already, that it is the [Pain Resistance] skill, argh!"

"For the last time, no!..." Green turned around to all her other healers, whom she brought from the Temple, and threatened them, "...if you have any energy left after we are done healing Alex and don't use everything, I will personally throw you into Kratikal for the next five-hundred years, so go!"

All five fairies around her screamed back, "Yes, leader!"

Green returned her attention fully to Alexander and immediately used every mental fortitude skill she had again to heal without panicking. There was a simple reason for this: His whole body was the most gruesome thing she had ever seen.

He was lying down on his stomach since his back was wide open to the point where she could easily see the spine, which was, at this moment, nothing more than a soup made out of broken pieces of bones, flesh, and blood.

If it was only the spine or other bones, it wouldn't be much of a problem besides the time she would need to invest in restoring them, but there were also the muscles and tissues that were either ripped, burned, pierced, or just loose and not attached to anything. The whole bodily structure was compromised so that nothing could be handled with just some healing.

The organs weren't much better. They were the first thing she started healing since they were heavily damaged. Nothing was how it should've been, from pierced kidneys to ripped-apart lungs.

There were a multitude of problems: First, objects like wood, stone, and bone splinters pierced basically everything and sometimes stuck in tissue, organs, muscles, or other bones. Even though Green immediately tossed them out because of the second problem, the burns, she couldn't even identify what was what. So she just threw out half of his spleen, unattached muscles, etc., so she wouldn't waste her healing power in recovering relatively unimportant body parts that could be restored later, even though it would take a lot of time. Third was the trauma he experienced, which cracked almost all his bones. They splintered or broke and stuck in places they shouldn't, making her whole healing much more challenging than it should be.

Green started healing again towards the general direction of his heart, and while healing, she couldn't but not almost throw up at the sight of Alexander's body. It looked the same as a pig, which was taken apart by an apprentice butcher who did it for the first time. It was a pool of blood with meat and bones swimming in it, 'What a mess.'

She came immediately after getting the emergency message. However, when she took over and released the estate healer plus another fairy who stayed here for emergencies, they started throwing up and became unconscious. She couldn't understand it at first, but now she could.

They drank so many potions to replenish their stamina to keep on healing that they poisoned themselves. So, some servants dragged them away with some of the cleaning solutions she gave them.

She also commanded the servants to take their asses back here when they woke up. She would give them more elixirs to fight the poisoning while they healed. She needed everyone, even the ones who could only cast first-aid.

Luckily for her, she was one of the few nature-dwellers who was paranoid and always prepared for the worst-case scenarios, especially after some dwarves almost kidnapped her.

So, she had more than enough potions to provide at least nine healers who would heal non-stop for a whole day. Alexander always told her how dangerous the experiments were, so she was extra safe. She filled her spatial bag to the brim with potions of different kinds, more than thirty talismans with various effects, and some mana items in case something like this happened.

Green herself already drank multiple special elixirs to restore her stamina and mana so she could keep healing at full efficiency, but it barely helped. She used a skill to see his HP, and they were going up, but after a moment, they slowed down and decreased very fast. It was like pushing a boulder up a hill, and the moment she thought he was stabilized, another boulder crashed from up top and pushed her down again.

Even though she and the five fairies weren't the top brass regarding healing, they would be enough to save anyone who got stabbed multiple times without any problem, but apparently not Alexander, who wasn't stabilizing. He was profusely bleeding, and they needed to use most of their healing to recover the blood, which slowed them down even more.

Besides her fairies, three other non-healer servants she got from the estate stood beside him and used talismans to either heal him or help the healers in their stamina regeneration. Luckily for her, two maids actually could use a first aid spell, which helped a little. They would come every hour and use their full mana to cast it. Afterward, they would meditate and drink some mana potions till they were ready again.

Green's HP detection skill suddenly signaled her that Alexander's HP went down again drastically. She, in turn, concentrated heavily on her healing skills, using them exhaustively, and became slowly frustrated, 'Why won't you stabilize!'

Healing wasn't perfect and usually only accelerated the natural healing process. The nature-dwellers were very different, though. If they got divine skills that could heal, they would be worth at least a hundred times what an average beast-kin healer would take. They were this good.

Their divine healing skills, together with their very particular energy, could restore and regrow parts of the body. Green could even restore lost limbs, but she would need decades for one arm or leg for such an endeavor. The effects strongly increased if she ever reached the first blooming.

Healing essentially was a fight against time to stop the body from dying. However, Green's and her team's healing ability was barely enough to keep Alexander alive, but this was also her plan. Get Alexander stabilized even though she would need to ignore many injuries and later on heal him more thoroughly over time till he was healthy again.

However, she became more worried over the last hour as the healing was too slow. The injuries were too massive, something she had never seen before. Yet, she told Kairoso they had everything under control so he could go to the Lady. Still, as her HP detection skill showed her, it was far from the truth.

But, the moment she wanted the druid to join her, she remembered that he was no healer and would only annoy her, like someone else who was now yelling at her.

"Listen, you shopping mall quack! It feels like a thousand knives are penetrating my body! I am about to go into shock if you don't give me a... argh!"

Green became angry, "I have no fucking idea what this means! Just shut up before I cut your tongue out!"

When they took over, Alexander was unconscious, but the moment he woke up, around an hour ago, it was not only hard to heal him but also more annoying than ever.

"Fine! I know how... argh..." he suddenly clenched his teeth from the obvious pain, "...your shitty healing works, so cut my damn spine till I don't feel anything anymore! You can restore it later!"

She glanced at his spine momentarily, which was already a mess and needed to be, either way, almost fully restored. She said without care while trying to concentrate her healing on the region where the heart was, "Your spine is already fully broken."

Alexander clenched his teeth even stronger and glanced at her, full of hate, "Fuck this world! Then, concentrate your heals first on the pa... argh fuck me! The parts which bleed and work your way towards everything else!"

She looked at his back and frowned, angrily grabbing another elixir from her space bag, "It bleeds everywhere."

It was a miracle that he was alive and even more incredible that he woke up so quickly. However, even after trying to sort out this mess for hours, his status only improved slightly. The blood, which flew out of him like a slow-moving river, already drowned the mattress and flew down the floor. It looked like someone slaughtered a whole household in the room and wrung them dry.

Usually, if someone bled so much, it would stop quickly after healing for some time. The reason was that their healing was never too concentrated. The residue of their skill would spread through the whole body and patch any more minor injuries that caused bleeding. Little to say, it didn't work.

Alexander's voice made her almost choke at the elixir she was drinking, "What's your [Medicine] level?!"

After gulping it down, she didn't care about anything anymore and just blurted it out, "Tier 2, [Intermediate Medicine] level 14."

After dropping out of a third-rate Magic University, she worked as a healer for the Circle, using primarily her divine healing skills, before joining another university where she studied administration with a lot of success. So, her level as a hedge healer was alright, all things considered.

However, Alexander apparently had another opinion, "Oh great, a nurse is opera.... argh! Damn it! Can you concentrate your healing?"

Green didn't know where it was going, but letting him talk was preferred to him screaming profanities at them or begging for pain relief drugs, which were highly poisonous to anyone without energy, "Partly."

She saw Alexander close his eyes while clenching his teeth from the pain. He visibly thought momentarily before answering, "Can you imagine something with your skill and point it to a certain point?"

Green didn't like what he was about to say or command her to do, but she answered truthfully, "Yes, something like this."

She had a skill with which she could see his organs and direct her healing towards them. However, it wasn't perfect, and much healing radiated towards everything around the target. For Alexander, though, it barely mattered since the blood needed to be restored everywhere, and for this job, she had three healers doing an all-around healing.

The puppy smiled grimly and tried to explain something she thought she wouldn't hear outside of universities, "Before anything, is my heart, lungs, and... urfff! Liver healed? Do you even know what they are?!"

Green popped a vein, but before she could say anything, another fairy answered him, "They are not as important as the muscles! They hold everything together!"

She knew the fairy was new to all this and only around a hundred years old. So she immediately screamed at him since he was responsible for concentrated healing, "No, you moron! Heal the heart, lungs, and liver first, damn it!"

The fairy who spouted the bullshit and another one with the same job closed their eyes, and suddenly it became much more manageable for Green to heal, 'I will hear about it till I fucking die! They seriously healed the muscles first, while the heart looks like a half-way inverted cactus, fuck!'

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Even though she worked in a Temple as a healer, she wasn't versed in such critical situations and even less in acting as a healing leader. She thought they had at least the basics down. However, this seems not to be the case, and now, after they healed Alexander, she would put them through the wringer and force them to study till their skill reached the next Tier, 'Their life will be the Outer Circle after we are done here.'

Her thoughts were interrupted by the crackling laughter of her almost-dying patient, "Haha, argh! This is just great! Listen here, you imbeciles, are there any foreign objects in those organs?"

Green was the first to answer, "Yes, but..."

Alexander yelled at her, "What are you doing?! Pull them out!"

She argued back, "Our heal will disintegrate them!"

Alexander laughed at her, "Are you fucking dumb? Haha! Just pull them out, and the healing will be..." He shook slightly and clenched his jaw even tighter, as the pain probably became more severe, "...fruck, mree! The healing will be more efficient."

Green clenched her teeth and slowly flew over him, warning him, "It will hurt even more, and I've never done this! You could die!"

She also thought about it, but touching the organs was incredibly dangerous and rarely done by any healer since a small mistake could worsen the situation or lead to instant death. What if she, for example, broke a splinter and pushed it deeper into his heart? It would become much more dangerous since she would need to heal the organs more extensively to remove the object from inside the organ. What if the splinter then severed multiple arteries? That meant more healing while disintegrating the fragment.

However, the moment she heard Alexander suggest something this unorthodox, she was ready to go forth. Yet, it was a first for her, and the fear of killing Alexander by making a mistake was weighing on her mind like a mountain. It paralyzed her so much that her skills barely helped.

Why? There was a big difference between killing someone and letting someone die. Her career as a healer was very unspectacular as she, at most, acted as a subordinate without any responsibilities. So, the decision she was about to make was probably the most nerve-wracking she ever made in her life.

For some reason, she hoped that Alexander would decide otherwise, knowing what a stupid idea it was, but all that came was a condescending smirk filled with pain and cold logic, "I heard you tried to argh... heal me for the last two to three hours. Do you think I will survive this? If you don't hav... ufff army of healers behind this door, it will be impossible, you dumbass."

He was right. If Green continued as before, he could survive only with a lot of luck, but only when she healed him for the next two days, non-stop. She needed to risk it, so she pushed every one of her mental fortitude skills to the maximum, even if it cost her a lot of stamina.

Green nodded while hovering over him. She looked at his wound and pushed a skill to the maximum to ascertain the situation more clearly. She started to scan every vital organ meticulously to get a clear picture of the most damaged ones.

Even though she knew that the heart was pierced by foreign objects that were also stuck in it, she wanted to first quickly see if there was something else with the other vital organs. For some reason, she felt like it was the right thing to do as her [Medicine] skill guided her to do this.

Before she decided to go forth with this madness, she was afraid to use too much stamina or mana, so she only made a quick sweep with her scanning skill. After that, she targeted the rough area with her healing and concentrated on it. Now, she needed to act much more directly, as she would need to have a much clearer picture and prioritize specific organs over others depending on their damage.

'This looks not so bad... all things considered.'

She would need first to treat the heart as it was heavily damaged, as sensed before. The lungs were already perfectly restored since they were only pierced and thus could heal quickly. The same was true for the kidneys and liver, as they were mainly fine. They only had some holes, as seen by the scars now, which were easily healed. The problem was indeed the heart, 'All or nothing...'

Green yelled, "I will slowly hover him up and then turn him around, so be careful! I want you to slow down a little and wait for me to tell you where to concentrate your healing!"

Everyone affirmed her command, "Yes!"

She pulled out a talisman, putting it into her mouth and biting it. The talisman created a bed of wind under Alexander. She adjusted the energy on it and slowly let him float up. After that, she used it to turn him around very slowly.

It was hard for her to concentrate since Alexander talked, "Woah! Look at... argh! This is some high-end shit!"

She didn't understand him and ignored him either way. After two minutes of being very careful, she was done and let him slowly down. But because of his fully open wound on the back, she let him slightly float as putting too much pressure on it could worsen the other injuries, making the healing more difficult overall. Also, the bed, made out of wind, surprisingly acted as a barrier to close the back if she concentrated her energy more intensely on it.

Yet, allowing him to float while concentrating on the healing quickly became exhausting. Green looked at one of the servants, who stood on the side and ordered them to her, "Come 'ere."

A maid quickly ran to her, "Take the talisman out of my mouth and use the same amount of energy on it as I do right now. Don't increase or decrease it! Do you understand?"

The maid nodded nervously and grabbed the talisman from her mouth. However, Green didn't let it go and tried to coordinate the exchange, "I will slowly reduce my energy, and you will try and put the same amount in it, ok? Don't, under any circumstances, change where the energy is and let it absorb the same amount at the exact spots it is absorbing now, got it?"

The maid nodded nervously and concentrated her energy on Green's. It slowly went over hers, and the moment she reduced her energy, it allowed the maid to take her place. She also tried to coordinate their exchange whenever she would reduce it, "3... 2... 1... now. 3... 2... 1... now."

After two minutes, they were done, and the maid carefully walked to the side while holding and concentrating on the talisman as if her life depended on it, "Don't forget to hold it steadily and don't change anything. Also, if you are out of stamina, ask another servant for a stamina potion."

The maid nodded, and Green could concentrate back on Alexander only to find a big problem as she looked at his chest, "It... is not open..."

However, she already knew what to do, and Alexander confirmed her worst assumptions, "Just open my fucking chest, break the bones and pull the shit out!"

Green became frightened at the thought. Healing was never this vicious and only involved her using stamina or mana to close wounds. The most she did was to adjust some broken bones beforehand to make the process faster, but that was it. Producing an injury to this degree to see the heart was an insane proposition. Even her people let her know that this was a crazy idea.

"You can't do this! This will kill him!"

"He is clearly in delirium! I bet he is just hallucinating!"

However, Alexander immediately fired back, "Oh yeah? How about the peanut gallery shut up? If I could... fuuuuck! Use alchemy, I would pull the shit myself out!"

Green didn't know what to do, only to be again screamed at by Alexander, "Do it, you stupid bitch! Argh... trust me, the last thing I want is to die at the hands of a bunch of moronic bugs!"

She gulped her saliva down and pulled a dagger out of her spatial bag. It looked normal in her hands but was actually tiny. She had it as a last resort defense measure but now felt like a murder as she looked where the best spot was to cut Alexander open without damaging other organs.

She felt all the gazes penetrated her, making her more nervous. She used her mental fortitude skills to the full extent and slowly surrounded the dagger with her [Aura] to open Alexander's chest while peeking at him. He was in extreme pain, but she couldn't believe how much willpower he had. Everyone else would be already unconscious again, but he stayed awake and hopefully had a clear head since she would follow his command.

For her, it seemed the most logical action but also one that was filled with insanity. She hoped the golden pup knew as much about medicine as alchemy so he could lead her, 'All or nothing...'

Green inhaled and exhaled deeply. She surrounded her knife with [Aura] and made her first rough cut through the chest. After it was done, she looked with horror at the result, 'It isn't deep enough...'

She needed to cut again but deeper. However, after the cut, the system suddenly called her, and it sounded like she received a skill. She heard the system calling her non-stop the whole time, but there was a distinctive difference between all the kinds of calls, 'This barbarism is worth a skill...'

She started again, and the system began to call her again, but this time, it sounded wild as it repeatedly did so. Every time she heard the call, cutting him became easier to a ridiculous degree.

Suddenly, she could imagine the anatomy much better, and her three-dimensional imagination was enhanced to an insane degree. Her hand movements became more fluid, a stark difference from before when she could barely hold the dagger straight. Her mind started to calm down significantly, so much so that she started to ignore everything around her and felt that she was the only one in the world with only a body lying before her, which needed to be fixed.

At this moment, she knew that Alexander was right. If a skill like this existed, which led her to cut somebody while not killing them or trying to cause more pain, it meant that it was a medical-related skill that helped with healing. Yet, she couldn't comprehend how the system did not consider opening someone up wasn't a fighting skill, 'This is madness. I can't believe it.'

After she was done, she sighed in relief. She wouldn't need to do much more, like cutting away the sturdiest chest bone as it was already in pieces. She threw the broken bone pieces to the side. The restoring process afterward would hurt a lot, but it was better than dying, in her opinion. Usually, she could've aimed the pieces where they were broken apart and put them back with her healing, but, for some reason, she didn't care and only took them out and threw them to the ground as they annoyed her, blocking her view.

Then she saw the heart. Even though she could see a rough outline before with her skill, her view was much clearer now, and the heart looked terrible. Many objects, like bone pieces, wood splinters, and stone fragments, were stuck in it.

They had already deteriorated through their healing, but some pieces were so thick she couldn't imagine them deteriorating in less than 72 hours of constant healing.

The healing skills of nature-dwellers were miraculous as they not only increased the natural recovery and restored missing parts but also destroyed every foreign object deemed as harmful inside the body. This was the reason why nature-dweller healers were sought strongly everywhere, as they were the only race with such abilities. Of course, there were always exemptions, but they would also have the natural energy that made it possible in the first place. Nobody knew why their energy made it possible, and nobody truly wanted to find out. Nature-dwellers weren't the most curious when it came to fundamental research.

After clearing her view thoroughly, Green smiled as she now had full access to the heart before her. However, she stood before another problem now, "How..."

Her mumbling was interrupted by Alexander, who clenched his already broken teeth. The pressure he put on them broke some and most probably damaged his jaw heavily. He looked at the ceiling and almost foamed from the pain as he spoke through his clenched teeth, "What? How?! Just fucking pull them out!"

She nodded and slowly held onto some pieces while commanding her healing squad, "Heal the part where I pull them out immediately."

It was fascinating to her. She could feel the weak heartbeat and see how it lost massive amounts of blood every moment when parts of the fragments disintegrated. It felt exhilarating. Her mind calmed, and her hands became steadier as her skill levels rose by the second. She now saw things very differently and understood the connections between the parts of the body much better. Even though she couldn't put it in words, an intrinsic feeling told her roughly how they were connected to each other.

Without hesitation, she started to pull them out one by one. She knew the exact angle and what kind of pressure she needed to use. Even which one she needed to pull out first appeared obvious to her. The new skill was like a miracle.

She trusted Alexander now fully, as even the system acknowledged that there was a skill that was helping her do what she did. It had at least called her over fifty times, making this more manageable every time she pulled something out of the heart while directing the healing to the holes that were left. Her hands became nimble, and every pull was nothing like the one before, and after a minute of complete focus, she was done.

Green closely listened to the heart to find out if something was inside but couldn't determine it. So she started her healing, too, with all she had, and after no more than thirty minutes, the heart was fully restored.

It was heavily scarred but functioned without losing blood. She quickly looked at Alexander's HP with her skill and could sense that they were regenerating slowly but were sometimes dropping. However, the decrease was now many times weaker than before.

What she did was already far above what she learned in her introductory lessons at the Temple before she was allowed to even start as a healer. The new skill or skills, though, told her that there was something she needed to look at, but she had no idea what.

She threw away her pride and asked, "You are losing HP. Where else?"

Alexander was barely awake and in anguish but somehow remained rational throughout the process, "Repeat! I can't hear you over the fucking system! It pinged at me so often like I tried to ghost it!"

Green frowned, not because she didn't understand what he partly said but because she knew why his system was going crazy. It was obvious that [Pain Resistance] and a multitude of mental fortitude skills were significantly increasing while he tried not to fall unconscious. She couldn't comprehend the amount of [Experience] he would get from this terrible incident.

While she felt sympathy, she needed to know what to do next so he could stay alive. Something like pure stoicism invaded her personality, and she started to care less about what he felt and more about how to heal him, "Where next, you are losing HP."

He spoke through his clenched teeth, "Intestines, you moronic imbe... argh!"

Green nodded, not even wasting a thought on his insults. She took her small dagger and slowly opened up his stomach without any trembling in her hands. It was like breathing for her now. She knew at which angle she should cut to avoid injuring the intestines and even found the dagger she had a bad choice. For some reason, she wanted to have one with a rounded tip.

With a sideglance, she saw her healers looking in horror at her at how she opened up the body. Many emotions invaded her: One was pride, and another was mysticism as she discovered a new world. Maybe it was already somewhere discovered and held secret, but with such a skill, healing would become a breeze, 'So, for what should I give my skill away?'

While she knew Alexander was ready to share all his secrets for free, she wasn't that dumb. She would take compensation for teaching it, and it wouldn't be little. Political favors or power were the only things she would take as gold became more or less useless to her.

While greed welled up and how she could use this fantastic discovery, an old memory suddenly surged about a weird mix-bred succubus who meant to revolutionize healing. However, Green quickly shook the thought away, 'Probably not, and I need to concentrate now. Otherwise, I need to find a way to reattach my head.'

Besides Alexander, who visibly reached his limit, she wasn't much better and only functioned like an apparatus. It was weird for her. She felt no empathy or sympathy. Only the urge to patch him together was driving her every movement.

She cut his stomach open, and as some skill told her, she grabbed carefully but firmly the intestines and saw how Alexander tried to hold his shaking back. She became slightly annoyed by it but ignored him again and inspected his innards slowly. After some minutes she found the problem: Foreign objects were sticking inside them. This injury led to excrement coming out, slowly dirtying his body.

She didn't know why, but dirtying sounded wrong, and something told her that Alexander knew what it was called, but she held back her curiosity and started to pull them out.

After more than 45 minutes, and after every pull, she commanded her team to heal the place she pulled the objects out. Her commands were calm but firm. It was like she became another person.

The healers on the other side started to heal it, and she could see how their hands shook in horror at what they were witnessing. She no longer cared and looked again at his HP, which were gradually climbing up. They were also no longer decreasing too much. It was enough to heal him slowly over a couple of hours so he would stabilize fully.

She watched them for ten minutes and concluded that he was now mostly out of danger. Afterward, the restoration phase would begin, but it would only be a matter of time until he was completely healthy again. Worst case, he would need some months even with six healers restoring his body on a daily basis. However, she would also get some healers from the frontlines back to speed up the process.

"Done. Close him up and start the overall healing now..." She suddenly became weirded out as the words came out of her automatically, '...what a weird skill.'

Green looked at Alexander, who smiled while slowly closing his eyes. Before he became unconscious, he said a last thing to her, "Good job..."

She sighed and looked around her as it became silent. She was hovering over Alexander while everyone looked at her like she was a monster, 'I understand why he has such an enormous ego... I quite like it, too.'