Chapter 237: Chapter 235: Isn’t This Just to Give You a Sense of Involvement?
The mercenary fearfully reached up to cover his head, only to find that no more blood was flowing out. The touched part was icy cold; it had already been frozen solid, stopping the blood from flowing.
Light from the purification skill appeared around Rose, accompanied by the healing skill. Guided by the mental tentacles of the Mage’s Hand, a large amount of magic power entered the mercenary’s body.
Hilia began to sense seriously.
Under her sensing, the healing skill took effect first, but the curse started working, preventing the healing skill from being effective. At that moment, the holy magic power of the purification skill came into play, dispersing all the curse factors that blocked the healing skill.
Hilia seemed to have an epiphany: "Purifying during the activation of a curse can have an effect similar to elf blessings, but the purification skill Lord Rose uses is a bit different from the one I learned before..."
Rose’s voice entered Hilia’s mind: "Purification is not rigid; it’s a spell that can be used from low-tier to holy-tier. It can handle almost all negative effects, sometimes strong, sometimes weak. You need to learn to use it flexibly, find out which part of the purification skill is useful to the target, and strengthen that part of the magic power circuit, ignoring the rest..."
Hilia nodded repeatedly, carefully memorizing what Rose said.
And during the teaching, Rose did not stop the purification and healing.
He even found time to pull out the two arrows from the mercenary’s chest.
When the treatment ended, the mercenary, with cold sweat from the pain, looked at Rose in awe.
Rose said indifferently, "10 silver coins, next."
"Thank you, thank you." He put down 10 silver coins and ran away.
The next was a mercenary with many burnt areas on his body. He looked at Hilia with some trepidation, hesitating whether to sit down.
"Sit down." Rose commanded sternly.
He was so frightened that he immediately sat down.
Rose glanced at him and said, "Your burnt skin is no longer useful; let me tear it off and replace it with a new layer."
The burnt mercenary shivered all over, instantly wanting to run: "No, I think I’m still very healthy, no need... I can’t move... ah!"
Another scream.
This time, Rose used four spells, besides the healing skill and purification skill, he also used frost condensation and a water healing skill called [Revitalize].
This spell, used after treatment, can speed up wound recovery and is more effective on burns, nerve ruptures, fractures, and scar wounds.
And when used by Rose, the effect is even stronger.
Beneath the torn burned skin, reddish flesh buds rapidly formed new skin under the water’s nourishment, tender as a baby’s, but soon it synchronized with the skin on other parts of the body, looking like a completely indistinguishable old skin.
The process was still very painful.
But the effect was excellent.
When the treatment ended, the mercenary with pale lips looked at the new skin, thanked her solemnly, paid twice the treatment fee, and left with unsteady steps.
The third mercenary sat down nervously. Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly froze.
He saw the elf priestess before him suddenly had a different expression.
Even her aura seemed different.
Having regained control of her body, Hilia smiled slightly: "Don’t be nervous, it’s just a fracture, a small matter."
A moment later.
Crack!
"Ah——!"
Hilia suddenly thought that healing was quite interesting.
It’s definitely not about wanting to hear these ’betraying’ mercenaries scream.
...
On the other side, Elina finished her conversation with two elves, returned to the camp, about to say something, when another mercenary screamed, finished the treatment, paid the fee, and left.
Elina watched him leave, dazed.
That’s not right.
What’s going on?
It seems Hilia managed to disperse and heal someone by herself?
Elina sat down beside Hilia.
Hilia noticed and scooted over, saying, "You’re just in time, let’s start treating together."
Elina opened her mouth, looking at the light of purification and healing skills that were somewhat different from before in Hilia’s hands.
"Hilia, you... you can actually heal by yourself?"
"Oh, not really, I just received guidance from the gods, gained insight into purification, which unexpectedly allows me to disperse curses." Hilia giggled.
Elina: "..."
"Why are you stunned? It’s your turn."
"If you can purify by yourself, it seems like you don’t need me..."
"How can you think that, although I can purify alone, I still want you to join me."
"Why?"
Hilia blinked: "Isn’t it to give you a sense of participation?"
Elina: "???"
"Just kidding. It’s very exhausting for me alone; it’s better for us to cooperate. Come on, the patients can’t wait."
"...Oh, okay."
Working together, the two managed to treat all the mercenaries in line.
Hilia had some time to inquire about the situation with the two elves.
Elina replied, "They had a dispute with the captain of the Royal Mercenary Corps, named Pascal, because their compensation for healing was too low."
"Compensation too low?" Hilia asked curiously, "With a treatment fee of 5 silver coins, how much do they get?"
Elina shook her head, tapping her two fingers on the table, "It’s confidential; they didn’t tell me."
Hilia looked at Elina’s fingers, "Two people?"
Elina nodded.
So each gets 1 silver coin, and the remaining 3 silver coins all go to the Royal Mercenary Corps?
No wonder there was a dispute.
"They signed a contract with Pascal but felt it was too little, so they wanted to raise the price. Pascal disagreed, just telling them that if they wanted to make money, they should raise the price instead of breaching the contract. So they raised the price."
Hilia frowned, "This contract... I guess the penalty for breach of contract is high."
Elina nodded, "They also want to leave Pascal, but the penalty is too high. They have to continue until the Royal Mercenary Corps leaves this ruin."
"This Pascal is a bit too much." Hilia furrowed her brows: "He actually shifted his conflict with the elf priests to a conflict between the mercenaries and the elf priests... Raising the price is good, just not sure if the contract the two elves signed has healing requirements, like how many people must be healed per day."
Elina shook her head, "No, they signed an equal mutual assistance contract, emphasizing equal responsibility, so there’s no such requirement."
"That’s good then."
"I want to help them, get them out of Pascal’s contract."
"How do you plan to help?"
"I... have never encountered this kind of thing, don’t know what to do, Hilia, can you help me?"
Hilia: "..."
She didn’t speak, just stared at Elina.
Elina gritted her teeth, "In the future distribution of treasures, I’ll take four and you take six."
Hilia shook her head: "Don’t do that. If you want to help them, you don’t need to come to me. You just need to tell the elf friends you know, let them know that there’s an ancient ruin here where they can earn some extra money and explore."
"Isn’t this directly cutting off their source of income?"
Hilia said calmly, "You just want to help them break free from Pascal’s contract, not help them make money. This move can help you get out of the equal mutual assistance contract. But if you want them to make money, feel free, I can explore the ruins even without you."
Elina was silent for a moment, then suddenly smiled, "Sorry, I understand. Shall we set off to continue exploring the ruins?"
"Mm, let’s go."
