Before the Silver.

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After that I and Helen made some more small talk, apparently, she is just giving me some time to see if the potion adjusted well to my organism, it won't to for them to have any adverse effects. the good thing is that even if some adverse effect appears Helen is a very good healer, so I doubt I would be in any danger.

Soon around an hour passed, I don't exactly know how much time passed seeing as I am inside a building and there are no clocks around, but I deduced it is something around an hour.

"Good. If until now no side effect appear means that the potions have been a success and settled in your organism nicely. And be sure to eat normally and drink a lot of water in the days to come.", Helen said and according to the sounds she probably got up from her chair.

Nodding my head I scrambled a bit until I found my clothes and started to put them on, just hope they aren't messed up. Who I am kidding? these things traveled with me through the desert, it's a miracle they are its held together somewhat. And let me tell you something, putting on your clothes while you are blind is a pain in the ass, I keep missing and making things wrongly so much, that Helen had to help me a bit, principally on the torso armor part. Guess she got frustrated seeing me acting like an idiot.

"Thanks for the help.", I said thanking Helen for helping me put on my clothes and armor.

"Yeah, no problem. Now your check-up has already finished, by tomorrow you should be close to seeing the effects of the potion, but even now your scars already improved tremendously, maybe you can even recover some of that lost handsome face of yours.", she said in a slightly testing tone, like a grandma would use calling her grandson beautiful young man.

But looking by her point... The [Divine Dan] most certainly should've altered my appearance, not something incredible drastic, but if I remember correctly Shi-Woon features got more refined and sharper, and seeing as I already had a handsome face before it should've got better. It must be pretty funny seeing a very muscled guy with a face of a pretty boy. more accurately, imagine someone with a JoJo character physique and the face of a pretty boy... Yeah, I love myself too, and I love my buff muscles too... Okay, enough narcissism for the entire month, better show my friends that I am alive and well, they must be a little worried.

"So can I go now?".

"Sure, you are free to go. And remember that the temple of Mara will always have our doors open to you.", she said with a very welcoming tone, but it expected seeing as I owe a favor to Mara.

I wanted to ask if I could practice medicine here, but considering that these people have literal magic at their fingertips, I sincerely doubt they would want my primitive methods of medicine. Why primitive? Dude, I need to literally open someone up, put my hands on their insides, touch their intestines and guts, cut something with a sharp object... Do I need to describe more? No matter how fancy modern times make it look, it is still a primitive and rough method of healing principally when we compare it to something as clean and practical as magic. Yeah, no one likes to have their guts open. So magic does indeed look like the better alternative, no matter how you look at it. Besides... the chances of success with magic are way higher.

I simply nodded and said; "Bye Helen. And may the Divines be with you.", that sounded kind of awkward, but Helen didn't seem weirded out by it.

With a normal tone she answered; "And with you, young one.", after that I simply heard her sitting on a chair, a low thrum of magic, and the door opening. She probably just used the [Teleknesis] spell, one of the most versatile and handy spells ever. Okay, I know it must have a limit somewhat principally seeing that [Grand Teleknesis] exists, but you can agree with me that such a spell has a lot of potential, principally due to its sheer flexibility.

Immediately I started circulating my cultivation technique again, the bloated feeling had started to become very annoying. Hah, just circulating it for a bit I felt completely refreshed... wait... Did I break through to the rank of [Master]? I closed my eyes for a bit, and even if I am in the middle of the office yet, I took a second to feel my body... Wow, I really did break through to the rank of [Master].

The upgrade isn't that monumental, but it is still something. Much differently from those xianxia novels with cultivation, after breaking through a bottleneck your increase in strength isn't explosive, it is something that will slowly improve over time. I guess it will take me around a year to stabilize myself on the [Master] rank, something extremely exceptional. And yes, I considered the fact that I use [Wave] instead of [Ki] in this equation. Right now I am just a sliver stronger than my past self of some hours ago, but this will obviously change as time passes.

Of course, there are some exceptions to every rule, so depending on your situation a lot of things could've happened differently, some of them even happened to me. And no, before you ask, I haven't gone Overhaul Rebirth, yet. I really don't know what I need to go through that really... Maybe I need to not only undergo extreme physical stress, but spiritual, and mental too.

After finishing my new analysis of myself I simply went outside, and while my sense of direction is piss poor considering I am blind, I had the help of [Sense], that also managed to improve with my breakthrough, now the skill is a sonar that can detect things in a radius of 150 cm, the good was the quality improvement, right now I can sort of detect some of the silhouettes of things my [Sense] picks up, it's very primitive and unrefined, but it is an improvement nonetheless.

After a few moments I arrived at the hall, flashing my [Sharingan] I could see that everyone was waiting for me, Altair was sleeping on his chair, Turalion seems to be practicing some healing spell if the yellow-gold lights were right, Elii and Aahin seem to be talking about something, Shuten seems to be meditating, and if I saw correctly trying to get a better feel for her magic.

When I arrived everyone exclaimed; "JIN!!!", and got up very abruptly, they most have been worried sick due to the time I took in there.

"Hah, don't worry friend. Everything is alright. It's just that I had too many scars soo it took me more time.", I said trying to dissuade their worry a little bit.

Shuten was the first to ask me a question; "Are you really okay? You have been there for a really long time, it is even midnight already.", worry and a little bit of anxiousness bled into her tone, I got quite a warm feeling seeing that everyone was so worried about me, I guess we are all much closer to each other than I had imagined.

Friends huh... this makes me remember Wei. I kind of miss him, he was my brother in all but blood... and I bet he would love it here, the magic, the adventures, heh. I will surely have fun for both of us old friend. And I won't ever forget you.

"I am better than ever Shuten, relax. I will tell you all what exactly happened on the way back to Turalion's house.", I said while our group started moving towards the exit of the temple, this time the guards seem to be way tenser, but seeing that the city was having a Vampire problem I really don't blame them.

Altair curiously asked; "Did they use that same magic they used on me? the one to... What was the word..."

"Refine", said Turalion helping Altair.

"Yeah, 'Refine'. that is the word... Did... Did it work for you?", Altair quite awkwardly asked the question, he probably feels that my scars are a touchy subject.

"Yeah it did, the healer even gave me a pretty rare and expensive potion that will help my scars fade. And before anyone asks, wait a bit, I will tell the whole history of what happened...", then I went and to them what happened, I didn't feel the necessity of vomiting and details tho. They are my friends right now, so I won't hide something if they ask for it. If they don't ask, I won't begin to suddenly sprout my life secrets out of nowhere, it was literally unasked for.

After finishing my tale Shuten was the first to answer; "A Favor for a god... I don't know about the Gods here... Btu that sounds incredibly troublesome.", her tone was definitely filled with concern, principally considering a favor is a rather broad thing, and I agree with her.

Turalion seeing the mood of everyone getting quite somber at that information decided to say; "Let's look at the good side for a bit. At least it was Mara, and she is known to be quite benevolent and fair, so I doubt she will ask something outrageous out of you. If it was a Daedra... That would become a problem very quickly, Daedra are usually a huge pain in the ass for everyone involved, no matter if you are part of the deal or not.", Turalion voice was a little bit concerned, but as he said, he comforted himself on the thoughts that at least Mara is one of the few good ones.

"Yeah, I am definitely not touching anything Daedra related even with a ten-foot pole. Much less making deals with them.", Yeah, I probably would have refused it if it was anyone but Mara, really. And considering Akatosh seems very pissed after the [Dragon Break], the other Divines must be quite tense right now, Mara had to literally be sneaky with our deal.

Everyone seems to agree with me, even Shuten who learned what a Daedra is just yesterday completely agreed

"Definitely a wise way to have a long and healthy life.", Tulia chose this time to give the jumpscare to everyone, Aahin basically jumped drawing out her claws, Elli and Turalion were a little less affected, Altair was so surprised that he fell down, Shuten took a scare and almost punched Tulia.

I was able to keep my cool because I felt her when she passed close to me, [Sense] is really helpful sometimes... Wait... If I become proficient enough with sense, can I have a perfect 360-degree vision? Perhaps. Hmm... Maybe I can try to create some training method for my [Sense], food for tough.

Tulia's voice quickly brought me back from my drifting toughs; "... eat and rest well tonight, because tomorrow morning everyone si going to Silverhood, right?", we all nodded our head in affirmation; "Good, you all will need the energy for the test. But considering your skills I don't think it will be that difficult. I look forward to working with you all.", the last par she said with a slight grin. She probably isn't asking questions of our lateness because she must've been close enough to hear my explanation.

Soon enough we arrived at the house, devoured our dinner, and went to sleep as early as possible. Tomorrow is the day we all will test into the Silverhood, so being well-rested is a must. Tomorrow is also the day I will be able to see the results of the treatment.