Chapter XCII - Disbanded (part 1)

Hod was very confused as to why I suddenly made that decision. 

But then I turned my gaze to his lost right leg, and he understood immediately.

"You are going to study healing magic."

"You are one hundred percent correct."

He asked me what a percent is, but I just told him he is as correct as he can be.

"You're kidding."

"I'm not."

"You do understand what it means to… to heal this. Right?"

"As a matter of fact, I do."

He is being very skeptical, but I am very confident that I am capable.

Healing magic had many tiers. Just like any other magic, it starts from the Beginner tier to the very top, the God tier.

Each tier had their own specialties and abilities, and the higher the tier, the harder it is to tier up. However unlike normal magic where the higher the tier means less cost to cast it, healing magic was different. It is much harder to activate a higher tier healing magic, because the magic energy that the healing magic is costing has become so much larger since more work was being done.

Currently, I am at the Knight tier, which is the third tier on the list. After my Knight tier, it will be the King tier, Emperor tier, and finally the God tier.

In healing magic, there is an ability that can regrow a lost limb, which is the condition that Mr. Skeptic here is having. But, it is only available for those who have unlocked the Emperor tier, which is the fifth tier and the second from the top.

But, I get how impossible this sounds.

To draw how impossible this sounds, only an extremely small number of people have unlocked a King tier destruction magic, which is around one every five thousand or something. An Emperor tier destruction magic user is even rarer than that, probably only one or two alive currently.

In fact, I'm not sure if I ever heard there's a living person in this current age that is an Emperor tier destruction magic user. After all, the existence of a King tier mage is already very bizarre, and there's only about five to ten people alive or something with that tier. 

Including Jonus, a King tier fire mage, and he is a White ranked adventurer which is the highest rank an adventurer can be.

To make it even worse, restoration magic such as the healing magic is so much harder to tier up than destruction magic. According to the book I have read a while ago, the amount of people that has obtained a King tier destruction magic is the same as the amount of people that has obtained a Knight tier healing magic. That is just how difficult it is to tier up healing magic.

And yet, here I am with my Knight tier healing magic and an Intermediate tier fire magic. I noticed that I do have a scary talent in restoration magic, and I know that I should keep striving to progress it.

Hod knows this, but he simply denies to believe it.

"And for what? To heal this... lost leg?"

"Yeah. Don't bother trying to change my mind, because I know one other person that also lost their limb, so it wasn't fully just for you. Plus, by learning this, Mazino's saint healer will have a little bit of… upgrade on their skill set."

"Hahah. I guess that is… Speaking of which, how the hell did you become a saint healer?"

"Long story. Not talking."

"Okay, wow."

He laughed when he didn't get his answer. I looked outside through the window behind him and realized it's already very dark.

"I will talk to Valon tomorrow. He will definitely let me go to the academy through recommendation."

"I was wondering how you are going to enter the academy. It was very expensive, you need at least the monthly Yellow ranked adventurer revenue for at least a year to get you in. Plus, the master does owe you a favor, doesn't he? If he doesn't get you in, I'll bust his doors down using my other foot."

He lifted his foot up, and the imagination just flashed through my brain.

"I will look forward to that."

Since it's already dark, I should probably let him rest. I stood up and prepared to leave.

"Wait."

"What?"

He pondered over whether to ask this or not, but he decided to ask anyway.

"What's your… real name?"

Oh. That.

"Melvin. An eighteen years old high school student. Second in class ranking, and even school ranking. So, technically also a genius. 

Nice to meet you."

Hod laughed when he heard my answer, especially the part where I mentioned I'm also a genius. His expression then turned to become serious.

"I see. Nice to meet you. Melvin."

A grin formed on my face from that joke. It has been too long since someone called me by my real name, and being called that once again just made me feel comfortable.

"I'll swing by here tomorrow, so don't die until then."

"Dying is a lot easier than staying alive, so I'm not sure."

I gave him a thumbs up and left the room. After I left, Hod placed his hand on his face and he laughed.

"Ah... To think… I was right..."

He dropped his body to his bed and started sleeping again.

.

The next day, things went slowly.

Cane was dispatched from the hospital after a ruckus happened. The doctors were very shocked to see how the wounds on his head healed overnight, and apparently so did the other patients on floor two and floor five. 

Every single person who was injured physically was healed instantly overnight.

And according to the newly promoted White ranked adventurer, Fran, the saint healer came visited last night.

Seeing how a lot of the high ranking adventurers got instantly promoted, the lower ranking adventurers are drowned in jealousy. But when they heard a Yellow ranked adventurer and his entire team got brutally killed during the mission, they quickly understood why the sudden instant promotion.

Because the mission was simply impossible. 

The adventurers who were present on the raid yesterday came to the Office to receive their promotion. That day, the Office has announced that they have one new White ranked adventurer. 

Code name, Swordsaint.

The name Swordsaint was already famous to the whole kingdom, but now it's even more widely known. After all, a White rank is the highest an adventurer can have.

Aside from the Swordsaint, the Office also promoted multiple Blue ranked adventurers into a Yellow ranked. They include the bald hero Jrake, the light slayer Cane, and the ice king Hod.

But since Hod retired from being an adventurer, the Office scratched him off the list of promotions ceremony, but they still promoted him anyways. 

Who knows, maybe one day a miracle happened. And then, the ice king will return as the Yellow ranked adventurer once again.

Fran received a ceremony in the middle castle, and she was met with the king. It was the king himself who shall grant the rank White rank to Fran, and she will be honored to receive them.

After that, she stood on a podium right outside the Office, in front of hundreds of people who came to see her. She gave a bit of a speech, and everyone cheered from that.

That day, a new White ranked adventurer was born. The Swordsaint will protect the kingdom, for the years to come.

At least… while I was gone.