"What? What do you mean by almost everyone? I thought only Mana Arts Practitioners that are lower-ranked were affected by the disease?" Vincent asked in confusion.
"It's not like that…" Dianne shook her head as she continued.
"The affected includes Grand Magus and even Grand Knights with strong bodies… The disease is targeting any life with Mana Source… It feels similar to Corruption. It's a certain symptom that my Master had previously treated in Star Garden Peak…"
"Corruption? This… Are you telling me that this disease is corrupting everyone with Mana Source? How can we treat it?" Vincent asked.
He has many questions about this including the matter regarding the Star Garden Peak. Nevertheless treating the patients is the most important thing right now…
"Right, we needed the Kayser Tower since it has a huge Formation Art that allows you to control your Mana freely. It is difficult to treat the patients with external force… We have to do both… While I try to remove this disease or corrupting force inside their bodies, they have to work as well to make it less dangerous."
Dianne replied.
Since the practitioners at the lower level have terrible mana control, it might be very dangerous for them to extract the disease-causing energy in their Mana Source. However, if they do the treatment inside the Tower's Formation Arts, then their control would at least improve by two or three levels.
"I'll arrange for it immediately, however, you mentioned that even the other magicians are affected, right?"
"Yes… It is just that they are too strong to notice any changes at the moment… Especially the Grand Knights with monstrous vitality… Their Mana Source won't be easily corrupted… It will take some time before they feel it…"
"Won't it just naturally dissipate if the Magician is very strong?" Vincent casually asked as he took out his communication crystal. He was planning to contact Calidia about this to make preparations to accept the patients.
"No… Why do you think the Star Gaden Peak has to ask Master Faviona to cure them?"
"That's true…" Vincent nodded in agreement and at this moment, Calidia answered his communication request and explained what happened.
Calidia acknowledged what to do and immediately went to prepare the place for the patients.
"Should we include the others later on?" Vincent asked.
"Later… We will only treat the patients with severe symptoms right now… I'll be helping them extract the energy and I'm the only one who can help them so it will be very tiring… For those who weren't too affected, they can be treated tomorrow or maybe even next week…"
"I see… You're really reliable…"
"Of course! However, I'm not going to do this for free…"
"Certainly. I won't be making you work for free even if you want to…" Vincent replied.
"Sure, I want 200 gold for each patient and I want a customized Black Rifle and thousands of bullets…"
"R-rifle?" Vincent didn't expect such a request from her.
"Yes! I'm happy with the pistol that I have but I feel like that rifle will suit me the best." Dianne explained.
"Sure, sure… Please help the patients now…" Vincent agreed since he felt that it wasn't a big deal at all.
Dianne smiled happily after hearing Vincent's agreement as she went to the ward to assist them to move to the Kayser Tower.
Vincent wanted to help Dianne as well so instead of leaving, he decided to follow her and see how she does the extraction.
In any case, he has a different core or source of energy so he shouldn't be easily infected by the disease that is spreading.
Dianne noticed that he was following but remained silent about it.
Well, she will be paid 200 gold for each patient so she thought that Vincent wanted to ensure that the payment is worth the price.
***
Inside the Kayser Tower, Vincent met with Calidia and a few others staff of the Tower. They wanted to observe the treatment as well.
It's not easy to witness a medical practitioner capable of curing an unknown disease after all.
"Lady Dianne mentioned that she's the only one who can help the patient because she knows human anatomy unlike us…" Calidia said as she got closer to Vincent.
"Did she mention that?"
"Yes… Have you also studied human anatomy in the academy, Sir Vincent?" Calidia softly whispered. She initially tried to offer her help but Dianne mentioned that she needed to know the human anatomy so she can help her.
Obviously, she doesn't know anything about that so she can only try and assist with miscellaneous stuff.
"A little… Hmm… Anyway, no wonder she was adamant to work on this treatment alone with the patients. Aside from her Master, she probably doesn't trust other medical practitioners." Vincent muttered.
He can't really blame her for that since not everyone who is studying medicine wouldn't have experience in these kinds of treatments. Most of them only rely on the potions and pills they have learned to cure people.
'It seems that Lady Faviona is a good teacher…' Vincent mused as he watched Dianne's treatment.
The first patient came in and it seems to be a member of the Zemin Clan because of their unique clothes that have their insignia on their clothes.
"Ingest this pill. Then, sit down and show your back to me."
Dianne instructed.
They are currently on a stone platform where a Mana Gathering Formation was set up. This is only one of the rooms where this formation is arranged and is helping the Tower to function daily.
The patient felt the dense mana in his surroundings and felt a little comfortable. Although he can still feel the pain in his Mana Source, there is still some sense of relief after stepping on the platform.
He didn't doubt the pill in his hands and immediately consumed it.
He then seated cross-legged and showed his back to the beautiful doctor. He doesn't know her name but if he survives this, he promised himself that he will work hard to be someone worthy of marrying her.
"Concentrate… We will extract the energy corrupting your Mana Source… If you concentrate, you will feel this energy."
The man then closed his eyes and followed Dianne's instruction. Although he wanted to appreciate Dianne's angelic voice, he needs to show his competence first so she won't be disappointed in him.
"I can feel it…" He finally said after ten minutes of concentration… He felt proud of himself for taking only this much time to sense this evil energy inside his body.
He also noticed that the medicinal energy that came from the pill wrapped around the evil energy!
"Alright… You only need to carefully remove it… I will help you guide it outside your body…"
"I will do my best…"
Although he wanted to know how or where she will guide it to be sent out of his body, he decided to just focus on the task given to him.
***
Vincent watched everything that is happening using his eyes' Energy Sensitivity… He could see how the man tries to use his Mana to push the 'evil energy' out of his Mana Source.
This person was failing multiple times since he has to do it all in one go… If he only removes a part of it, the other part will stick to his Mana Source and it would not detach itself.
Three minutes… Five minutes… Ten minutes… Twenty minutes…
He was still unable to successfully do it even with Dianne's guidance…
Unfortunately, she can't be the one to remove the energy on his Mana Source as it will only make this matter worse.
Nevertheless, after trying for about 30 minutes, the man finally succeeded as guided the 'evil energy' out of his body…
Blerrghhh!!!
He vomited the energy causing him some problems with his throat… However, his condition is already a lot better and he only needed some time or even a potion to fully recover.
Vincent then saw that the extracted energy just dissipated into thin air… If he would make a guess, it's probably due to the Formation Art that was set up here.
After all, this may be called a Mana Gathering Formation but it also has a weak function of mana purification.
'Hmm… It's trickier than I expected, but can I help with this treatment?' Vincent asked himself.
Since he has a different form of energy, he believes that he can actually help with the extraction of energy. Furthermore, he has the Gift of Energy Sensitivity and also has better control over this Pseudo-Celestial Energy.
He looked at the other patients who had to drink health recovery potions every five minutes to sustain their life force…
If each patient needed about 40 minutes or more, then this treatment will take a longer time than he expected.
"Dianne, I will help with the treatment…" Vincent suddenly said as the former called for another patient.
"You probably saw what happened just now. Are you sure you can help them?"
"Yes… I'm confident."
"Alright… I know you're not going to disregard their life. I'll take the female patients. You take the guys with you." Dianne agreed after a moment of thinking. In any case, Vincent is a disciple of the Tower Lord so he might even have a better way to cure them.
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