Titan: A LitRPG Adventure (UnderVerse Book 4) Jez Cajiao (top ten books of all time TXT) š
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We moved below decks then, searching and eventually finding the room that Bane had been dumped in.
He was curled up on the bedāagain, a gnome oneābut Bane was clearly far more flexible than Tang, and had his legs tucked up with his arms wrapped around his knees. He was covered in swathes of bandages, his skin was discolored, and there were swollen areas all over him. In some places, he had lost a huge amount of skin, while in others, it was blackened and clearly burnt almost down to the bone. Still other sections were peeling and raw, with the strange blackness that comes from cell death through extreme cold.
More than half of the tendrils that ringed his head were missing, clearly hacked away in bunches as theyād tried to make him talk.
I looked at him and I felt like a goddamn terrible friend.
Heād taken all these injuries for me; heād been scouting ahead, been jumped by that little shit Joshua, and then tortured. Heād not told them anything, either. He was a hell of a bodyguard, and Iād find a way to make this up to him somehow.
I felt Oracle start to use our āGreater Examinationā spell, scanning him and building up a fully populated picture of his body, all the way down to a cellular level.
Then we started work, ignoring the sounds of the gnomes and my team moving around the ship, and the occasional argument between the researchers or Hannimish and my people.
Only once did I have to get involved, and then, when I was interrupted by a shrill complaint so loud that it actually managed to get to me through my meditation, I was so furious, I stormed out of the cabin and literally kicked the door to the adjoining one off its hinges. I hauled one researcher, and Grizz, whoād been on guard at the door of my room, grabbed the other squabbling human. We dragged them both outside and dangled them over the side of the ship, as I seriously considered just letting go.
āI am trying to heal one of my closest friends, who your group tortured to the very fucking edge of deathā¦ each and every god damn sound you make is making that harderā¦ so give me a single goddamn reason I shouldnāt shut you both up right now! Permanently!ā I screamed at the man who was turning purple in my grip.
āAh, uh, my lord Jaxā¦ā Hannimish attempted to soothe me, standing to one side, rubbing his hands, and licking his lips nervously. āPerhapsā¦ I mean to sayā¦ pleaseā¦ā
āYou want me to let them live?ā I snapped at him, and he nodded quickly. āThen theyāre your fucking problem! Make them be quiet, and make them useful, or I swear, they can swim from here!ā I snarled, yanking the man I held back over the railing and dumping him, gasping and wheezing, on the floor before storming off back to the cabin where Iād left Oracle working on Bane.
āTempting, wasnāt itā¦ā I heard Grizz mutter behind me and I snorted my agreement, returning to the cabin, too worried and stressed to speak further.
Healing Bane was easily the most complex series of spells and physical work weād ever attempted, in part because the specialty of āReconstructorā was exactly what was needed here, and that was why weād had to find Nerin in the first place.
Fortunately, Oracle had learned some things from her, and we had improved our own spells since then, so while we were neither as quick, nor as skilled, as Nerin, we could at least manage the basics.
We stopped for meditation several times over the next few hours, running myself almost dry each time, before taking a break, but after three hours, Baneās internal organs were fully repaired.
āHow the hell has this taken us so long?ā I huffed to Oracle at one point, exhausted.
āMore than half of his organs were either dead or dying,ā she said pointedly. āThe rest were damaged in practically every way possible; he had frostbite, severe burns, and had lightning bolts poured into him. His teeth were shattered, and most of his bones fractured, at the least; then in the rapid healing youād had to do to save his life, youād basically plastered over the cracks. Weāve had to rebuild those areas, rebreaking and healing sections, which always takes far longer.ā
āI know, it justā¦ā I said, gesturing generally.
āIt just seems like it should be quicker?ā Oracle offered helpfully, and I nodded.
āIāve been healed enough times, and itās usually far faster than thisā¦ā
āIt is, because a stab would, or a broken bone is one injury, even when youāve had dozens of bones broken, beyond that itās usually been a case of just bruising elsewhere or minor cuts. Here, there wasnāt a single part of him that didnāt desperately need healing. Believe me, weāre doing amazing.ā She looked at me consideringly. āYou know, youāve let me take the lead on healing generally, especially in the more complicated situationsā¦ā she started, and I nodded.
āItās been for the best.ā I admitted.
āWell, youāre not going to learn anything if I keep doing it.ā She pointed out.
āWait, what?ā
āYouāre taking over,ā she said simply. āTake over Baneās healing, and youāll learn a lot more,ā she said again, stepping back. āIāll cast the spells, but you guide them; that way, we can still do this despite theā¦ handā¦ issue.ā
I grunted, but accepted that, yeah, it was probably the best way to do it. I settled down to meditate until I was full again, then used the āfacilitiesā, which were basically holes that led straight out to the sea far below and resulted in a damn chilly arse, before starting to work on Bane again.
I got comfortable and felt Oracle as she cast the spells, although I didnāt feel her in the way I wantedā¦ then she handed the reins over to
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