Chapter 858 Chapter 857: Experiment To Learn
Using my Ice Magic to create heavy manacles on the Goblin's handless arms and remaining leg, I grinned down at the helpless monster as I cooed "Aw, you must be in such~ horrendous pain, little one... such, such terrible agony..."
Leaving it there for a second, I retrieved its hands and its leg and laid them beside their respective origins, all while the Goblin stared at me with those beady eyes filled with such delectable despair that it made me shudder, a jolt of glee rushing up my spine and tickling my mind as I looked down upon it.
"Let me make that better for you, hm? Oops, my hand slipped~! How clumsy of me..."
A thin, yet deep cut appeared on its cheek as the dagger sliced through the flesh, revealing the bone and teeth underneath and staining them red as the Goblin tried to cry out, only to find a chunk of ice forcing its jaws to remain stationary, the ice growing around its gums and anchoring them together, not allowing it to make any noise past whatever it could muster up within its throat.
Whilst the 'music' had been quieted, the main event was yet to come, and I hummed along with its pained gasps as it watched my knife move around its body languidly, my eyes tracing out its muscles as I wondered what might get the best reaction from it, before going for a classic.
Not giving it any time to comprehend what was happening, I stabbed it in the shoulder and twisted the blade, forcing those beady eyes to go wide as it tried to scream past the ice chunk, something that made me chuckle as I released the grip of the knife and stood up, looking back towards Leraie for a moment.
The Demoness was wiping the blood from her sword as she inspected the encampment around us, only to sigh as her eyes landed on me and my prey, the increasingly wonderful Demoness just shaking her head as she hopped onto one of the nearby rocks and created a whetstone, maintaining her sword's edge as she left me to my own devices.
Smiling happily, I knelt back down beside the Goblin and resumed my humming, my fingers dancing in the air above the green skinned monster's chest as I traced out the various runes for a healing spell, tweaking it as I went and deciding to put my skills to the test with this very willing participant...
To start, I healed the various smaller, less significant wounds around its body, closing the holes and knitting the flesh together as I treated it gently, before making my way down towards its right hand, inspecting the cracked bone and torn tissues on its wrist.
It was by no means a clean cut, but as I placed the hand against the stump of the wrist, I hummed alongside the Goblin's pained, muffled cries and began to knit the two separate tissues back together, going slow and steady as I controlled the blue Ritual Circle in my left hand, hovering it above the two separate pieces of flesh that I held together with my right.
Watching as the flesh began to reconnect and crudely heal was captivating, and I paused my humming as I tilted my head, observing the healing process closely as the outer tissues were mended, making me wonder if the tissues beneath - as well as the bones - were being mended as well, though I needed to heal the entire thing in order to sense if that was the case.
Even as I sent my mana deeper into the Goblin's stump to try and feel if that was happening, I wasn't really able to perceive it thanks to the monster's idle mana trying its best to attack my own whenever I pried, its instincts of self preservation making themselves known whenever I tried.
So, I was forced to play the waiting game as I slowly and meticulously healed the monster's wrist, trying to reattach its hand and understand if I had made that leap in healing talent yet; my skills might say my healing is more efficient, but if I didn't actually know the spell to reattach limbs, no amount of bonuses to my healing would help me achieve that goal...
And it's not like I could practice on myself or on others, at least not without severe risk to myself or them in case it went wrong, and whilst I was alright maiming random strangers for my own gain, doing so to those that were either useful or important to me was something I wanted to avoid for obvious reasons.
So... monsters were the perfect subjects for me to conduct these tests on, and it also allowed me to satiate my urges as I got to force them into the situations I wanted to try and learn how to treat, making this a win win for me~!
And... well, a lose lose for the monster, but who cares about them~?
As soon as the hand was completely reattached, I released the manacle and watched as the Goblin raised its arm, the monster reaching for my chest as it tried to claw me, making me sneer as I slapped its hand away, causing it to grunt as the force of my strike broke its bones.
"Damnit... must you be such a terrible little Goblin? I was just trying to see if I could... never mind. Let me heal you again..."
Sighing, I healed the broken bones and watched as it raised its arm again, this time trying to move its fingers and making me frown for a few moments, before I grabbed its hand and individually manipulated the digits, watching as the Goblin slowly but surely regained control of its limb.
So were the nerves damaged somewhat still, or was it's brain trying to comprehend how it had gone from having this hand, to not having it, then to having it again..?
Casting a basic healing spell, I left the Ritual Circle hovering around the Goblin's hand as I suspended the arm with my ice, before I made my way over to the other and began to get to work again, reattaching its other hand whilst the first continued to heal.
I tweaked my spell again and tried to do a deeper, slower spell that would hopefully regrow the bone and calcify them together before reattaching the strands of muscle, veins and other tissues together as well, allowing it to take two, three minutes instead of just one as I worked at a steady pace, continuing to experiment and work my way towards a reward...
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