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Before Talmir and Kosak seperated they visited the village chief to inform him on the dangers.

At the chiefs house, Brahm the village chief and his wife were shocked to see Talmirs condition after opening the door.

"Good god what happened to you Talmir? Who or what could have wounded one of our best hunters?"

Talmir altho in pain was still clear headed and wanted to report the situation, but he also wanted to show the seriousness of it ,so a raiding team would be formed as quickly as possible and showing his wound would do the trick. The information would also get him some much needed coin, as he would be at home for atleast a week unable to hunt now.

"You flatter me chief ,the wound happened more due to my negligence but the problem is serious. I found kobolds half a day away from here, while already a problem by its self ,there was a shaman among them."

"What!? That isn't just a minor crisis, a shaman could have a large enough number of them under its comand to overrun our village! Hhmm ....first things first you Talmir go to the church and get Pella to heal you ,Kosak you are going to stay here in the village while i send out a signal for the hunters to return. Talmir altho you are probably not going to fight, we could use another head at the strategy meeting and i'll also call for the neighboring two villages to give us backup, as their villages aren't that far so it will also be their problem soon. Now move!"

Both nodding to the chief,they turned around and walked away.

"Talmir need any help walking?" Kosak looked a bit concerned as the wound wasn't exactly pretty to look at.

With a bit of a grimace he refused

"No need, i lived through worse and the church is just around the corner anyways....but listen i need you to go to my house and get Saldia so i can explain to her that i'm allright ,if she hears that i'm wounded from someone else she is gonna start to panic for no reason."

"Ok will do ,when i get there i'll tell her you're alright as i don't want my head to be sliced off"

Chuckling Talmir nodded, after the brief exchange of words they went on their seperate ways.

Talmir arrived at the church fairly quickly and as it was opened, just walked in.

The church was one of the bigger buildings in the village and entirely made out of stone,with intricate carvings filled with gold on top of the pillars. It was by far the best looking building here in the outskirts of the kingdom.

At the reception desk stood a priest reading some sort of scripture,looking up he paled a bit when he saw the gruesome wound on him.

"Good god Talmir! What happened?"

"Could you please call father Pella over i kind of need healing...nothing major, just a small scratch"

"It seems so since you're joking"

Altho he said that the priest rushed to the back of the church where Pellas room was. In the meantime,Talmir sat down on a bench there in the reception room and tried to relax as best as he could.

Father Pella was an older gentleman with white hair and an aura of authority around him, but also a subtle gentleness. Altho old mistaking him as a defenceless priest was impossible, Talmir was in earth terms a 188cm tall muscular guy weighing about 95-100kg, making him quite imposing. Father Pella tho, towered over him with a whopping hight of 213cm and weighing about 160kg.

He was the defenition of a gentle giant, teaching orphans for free ,playing with the children and healing the common folk....but first and foremost he was a Paladin, a church warrior with Life mana. When Talmir was young he witnessed Pella fighting once, it was to protect the village from bandits. From that momment on he never tested father Pellas patience ever.

As Pella walked in, Talmir immediately stood up, greeting and bowing towards him

"Good day sir"

"Oh youngling ,i see you have ran in to a little predicament haha ....hmm a fire bolt spell, i see, well anyways lets get you to one of the sick rooms to patch you up."

Still bowing he just replied with a "yes sir"

Walking down a corridor Father Pella asked

"So what was it? Judging by how it could wound a slippery wind mage like you, it had to be quite strong."

"It was a shaman kobold sir ,altho its quite strong the wound was made by my negligence and a supprise attack."

"Hmmm interesting ,i asume the chief already called the hunters back right? The kobolds are probably already searching for your scent so its dangerous out there."

Talmir nodded and entered the sick room, he was instructed to sit down, as they would be helping him remove the armor and thats going to be really painfull considering it has melted and merged with his skin.

Father Pella would constantly heal him through this process with his life magic.

As they removed the shoulder pauldrons he couldn't help but scream, as he felt like he was being peeled open like a tomato.

One priest was wiping away the puss oozing out from his wound, another was holding him steady so he wouldn't move too much and the third was removing his armor. This was happening all the while Father Pella was infusing his life magic in to him ,replacing his dead tissue while also healing and closing the wound.

This whole process lasted for about 10 min, altho life magic could dampen pain, this was a continued process. So Talmir felt like heaven every where the tissue was healed, but also felt like hell every where it wasn't as they were litteraly skinning him alive.

"And done, that wasn't so bad boy now was it? Haha

Panting heavily he plopped down the bed and relaxed again.

"How long will i be out for sir?"

Pleasantly supprised Pella chuckled.

"Already thinking about hunting again? Haha you have guts i'll give you that. Not long really, i healed every thing so you will just have to rest for about three days, to get your energy back up and loose all the fatigue.

Father Pella is quite a high circle Life mage , so the potency of his magic is excelent. Doing what he did right now could take a less experienced mage up to one hour, while also not healing Talmir completely.

Just then the door opened with a loud thump, it was Saldia with Teclos in her arms running towards him.

"Honey!? How are you? Does it still hurt? Have the priests healed you?"

Bombarded with questions and hugged Talmir sighed.

'Can't even relax with her around...not that im complaining. Now after all this pain i'll have to explain to her again why i can't stop hunting and that im fine.'

"I'm fine honey don't worry, they healed me up good."

"Thank god"

Hugging him still, altho she was relieved she looked at him sadly and pleadingly.