Pros and Cons (Part 1)

"Shut up and save your strength! Where the heck is Manohar when you need him?" Orion's body was battered from the mana abuse and the battle.

To make matters worse, the more vitality he shared with Jirni the more his consciousness faded and so did his healing spells.

"Don't worry about me." She said. "The Countess is still alive and you must keep her that way."

Orion checked the noblewoman, discovering that Jirni's knife was coated with a poison that induced in its victim a state of apparent death. Also, Jirni had stabbed Countess Metra so that the knife closed the wound like a plug.

Between her very slow heartbeat and the knife, the noblewoman was in much better shape than Jirni, needing but a tier one healing spell to be brought back to full health.

"You beautiful genius." Orion started to sob, returning to her side the moment he was done with the Countess.