Chapter 957
"Hey! I thought you said you can heal this Wendigo Psychosis, or whatever you called it. Can't you see that Dominque is terrified right now. What are you waiting for? Get on with it." Cassius said, snapping at Marcus to get his attention.
There was no doubt that what he had just done was incredibly rude. Yet Marcus found it hard to truly get mad at the man when his expression clearly showed how concerned he was for his party member.
It was a look of pure desperation without a hint of irritation. Cassius was only getting angry on behalf of someone he cared about.
"I understand that you are frustrated by this tense situation but calm down." Evette said reproachfully. We need to weigh all of our options before we continue. The matter is not currently pressing, so just wait a little until we are ready."
After being chided by Evette, Cassius held back on any more outbursts.
Of course, his aggravation made sense. His party had the most members that had been struck by Wendgio Psychosis. Plus, Dominque had the worst case of anyone.
"Okay, everyone with the curse line up. Marcus and I are going to try an advanced form of healing magic and see if it works." Evette said.
She and Marcus had agreed to pass off their spirit healing specter power as magic instead of revealing what it really was. To the untrained eye, it would seem like the same thing anyway.
To begin, both of them placed their right hand on Dominque while interlocking their left hands together. This would allow them to sync up their spiritual energy and avoid working against each other.
A bright white glow began emitting from their bodies once they activated their spirit healing.
Swiftly the glow flowed into Dominque and completely engulfed her in the gentle light.
'I have done this before, so let me lead the way.' Marcus said to Evette.
This was her first time attempting something like this and was relying on Marcus 'past experience.
However, removing a curse from himself and doing it for another person were far different.
When he did it himself, he was just navigating his own soul with no resistance, but Dominque's soul did reflexively fought back against the intrusion.
Normally spirit healing would not illicit such a reaction, but what Marcus and Evette were attempting to do was outside of its normal parameters.
This power was meant to heal injured souls and bodies. And while curses caused damage, they were more like viruses than wounds and fell outside of the usual application of spirit healing's power.
Nevertheless, what the system said something could do, and what it was truly capable of were not always one in the same. With careful focus Marcus and Evette spread out their spiritual energy through Dominque and searched for the forging body that had clung to her soul.
'Found it.'
At the core of her being, the malignant energy resided, clinging obstinately to Dominque's soul and slowly corrupting her.
Just feeling the malevolent power behind this curse made Marcus and Evette nauseous. Given time it would destroy anyone's sanity until they were forced to give into an uncontrollable urge to eat the flesh of their companions.
'We will have to remove it.' Marcus said, imagining his spiritual energy like a scalpel.
'Wait! Won't that cause even more damage to her soul?!' Evette said, sounding distressed.
'Yes, it will. But we can fix the damage after we remove the curse. If we do nothing, it will keep spreading until it has fully corrupted her.'
After a bit more convincing, Evette agreed to help Marcus and the two of them went to work.
The curse proved to be more resilient than they expected, and it took all their skill to remove it.
With one last imagined cut to remove the curse, Marcus sliced it away and separated it from Dominque's soul.
He then wrapped it up with his spiritual energy and ejected the curse.
Without a soul to latch onto, it quickly faded away into nothing.
The instant the curse was removed, Dominque collapsed. She looked a lot like a puppet whose strings were suddenly cut.
"What the hell did you do to her!?"
In a moment of shock and distress, Cassius ran up to his follow party member and shoved Marcus and Evette out of the way.
From his perspective, Marcus and Evette had been using some strange magic on her when she passed out with a pained expression on her face.
Though the more Marcus observed Cassius, the more he thought that perhaps Dominque was more to him than just a member of his party.
Nevertheless, his concern was misplaced, and he was actually getting in the way. Marcus and Evette may have removed the curse, but they still needed to heal the damage that had been done to Dominque's soul.
"I know you are concerned, but we are not finished yet. If you do not let us continue, she is going to have permanent damage to her soul." Marcus said commandingly.
With a pained expression, Cassius stood back. The worry never leaving his face though.
It took Marcus and Evette a few minutes to finish healing Dominque's soul. But once they had finished, she wore a peaceful expression as she slept.
After their first success, they moved onto the next person afflicted by Wendigo Psychosis and removed the curse.
On those that the curse was dormant, it was far easier to remove. However, it still left them worse for wear and needing time to recover.
'Looks like we can remove the curse without having to rely on my Supreme Skill. Unfortunately, it is not easy on the person that was afflicted with it. I suppose that is to be expected. We are removing it like it is a tumor on their soul.' Marcus thought, analyzing the procedure.
While they could do so indefinitely, he expected that repeatedly doing so might lead to unforeseen problems down the road. Souls were fragile things and constantly taking out chunks and healing them could lead to serious problems.
The ultimate solution still lay in finding the wendigo and putting an end to the menace once and for all.
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