Becoming Legend

Chapter 32: Mended

"Of course, something must go wrong," Ned thought for a moment, before realizing that Granny doesn't have the complete knowledge of the human body.

Ned saw that Granny over-healed Xi's vein to the point that it blocked the blood from flowing. Granny must only control her healing spell just enough for the recovered vein to cover the hole. Putting too much Mana will force the wound to recover at great speed.

"Kid! the wound, the blood, look!" Granny was frustrated cause she knew that she wasn't cooperating well with Ned. She can heal wounds, cuts, and cruises, but she never healed someone's vein before. In fact, Granny never healed someone's internal body at all. Healers knew that inside the human body were different organs. But they never knew what are the exact functions of these organs.

Healers never knew what are livers for, intestines, spleens, brains, kidneys, and other organs for the body to work. But they knew that by casting spells, a wound heals. The more complex the skill was, the faster the wounds to heal.

Healers are only limited to what they knew. They can heal broken bones, cuts, bruises because they saw the wound first hand.

So Ned theorized that healers heal injuries that the body could recover from naturally. But, very severe injuries are untreatable. Give cancer, for example, Healers could soothe the patient's well-being and mental state. But they could never completely heal the person with cancer. Unless healers could find the root of the disease. In this case the cancer cells. If healers could find and eradicate all cancer cells, then healing a person with cancer is as easy as killing a Rabbi blissfully sleeping.

With less sand left on the hourglass, Ned must aid not just Xi, but also Granny Lola.

"Granny, give me a paper and quill."

"For what kid?" Perplexed, Granny shrugged her brittle shoulder, Granny thought that this operation is getting out of hand. At this moment, she never believed to Ned anymore. What could a quill and paper do on his friend's injuries?

But with no time to spare, Granny took an old quill she used to write names of patients forgot to pay their debts, and an old piece of scroll lying around the corner.

It was already high noon. During this time of the hour, Granny should be eating her favorite meat, and puffing her pipe sitting on her chair, while some wounded are lining up waiting for her to finish. But not today.

The room smelled of blood, mixed with sweat that drained Ned's energy. But thanks to the beam of sunlight, it lifted the room out of the gloom and erased a spec of darkness. Which helped Ned to concentrate.

Handling the piece of paper and quill, Ned carefully took his ragged gloves and draw elaborately.

On the outside, Granny saw Ned draw in the paper meticulously.

Seconds passed, Ned draws the vein of Xi in a piece of paper, Ned sketched the exact size of Xi's vein. Then he used the vein as the base of his other sketches, and draw a copy but it was with a hole, exactly the same as Xi's wound.

For a moment, Granny was mesmerized by what she saw, but what she doesn't know, was that, with the help of Ned's system, he sketched the exact replica of Xi's vein. With ease, and precision.

Ned took this moment to explain to Granny, that she needed to control her Mana, exactly as what she saw in the sketches. Just enough for the healing spell to heal at just the edge of the wound.

With the help of Granny's healing spell and with the knowledge of Ned's anatomy sketches, Xi's veins were healed.

Wirth the bleeding out of the way, it was now clear to heal the remaining injuries. Next was the rib, a single line of bone was bent, Ned saw some crack, but was easily healed by Granny with the help of Ned's sketch. Next was, the liver, then the entrails, and lastly the wide open skin.

Every damaged part was a new sketch, Granny never thought that her healing spell could be used this way. If only she knew this early on, she could have saved countless lives. Especially her old hunting team.

"Granny, that's enough," Ned said. "Granny? Granny, that's enough." He saw Granny spacing out. She was using her spell to fix the last remaining wound.

"I'm, sorry kid."

With the skin slowly closing, Xi was out of danger. Granny explained that with the help of Xi's remaining Mana, his body would slowly replenish the lost blood on its own.

"Thanks, Granny," Ned said.

"I never thought, that a kid slump as you, made some friends," She said while throwing the ash our of the pipe, and putting another dried weed.

With the kid out of danger, Granny sighed a relief, popping another smoke she continued to ask Ned. "So tell me, where'd you met him?"

Ned explained, how and where he met Xi. How they battled the goblins and the Lord.

"Are you sure it's a Lord kid?"

The moment Granny heard the word Lord, she forgot that her pipe was ready to be popped. One must be lucky enough or stupid enough to meet a Lord Grade Monster. Lord grades think like humans and act like beasts.

"You've got a lot of telling to your Master," Granny remarked. "Also kid, you owe me one on this, I don't use my skills for free, though you should know."

"I know, " Ned replied.

"How about this, you tell me everything you know, about the one you did before. You know, you draw the body and give them to me, like, all. I'm old, but learning must not stop." Granny explained.

As long as Ned could help, he will do, his old barbaric way of life was long gone, along with his past. So without a second thought, Ned agreed. With the help of his system, writing things out his memory wasn't difficult at all. As long as he has the energy.

"Granny, this might sound awkward, since you helped me all and stuff, but," clearing his throat, Ned continued. "Do you have meat I could chew on?"