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As is often the case with remote treatment centers, the fortress treatment centers were made of old tents.
The mercenaries and adventurers injured by the monster were groaning.
There were also a few ordinary villagers who were ill.
Ethan first found and treated the child’s brother.
The child’s younger brother had pneumonia.
It was a terrifying disease that was easy to cure for priests and easy for commoners to die.
If the child hadn’t jumped in front of Ethan’s horse, he would have been dead.
“Thank you, Priest! Thank you very much!”
After saying thank you many times, the child went home with his younger brother.
Ethan then looked around the inside of the clinic.
It was because something unusual was found in the adventurers except for the villagers.
‘I feel a little bit of magic. Magical power has penetrated through the wounds of the monster.’
Ethan just had a good idea.
In fact, he had found numerous animal carcasses on his way here.
If he had moved alone, he would have been able to get life from dead creatures through his jet-black eyes.
But because of Blake, that was impossible.
During the journey, he fought against Blake, but training for new magical powers and body strengthening was still in a standstill.
‘What if I could absorb the magic of these guys here?’
It was a land where crazy monsters ran rampant because of more powerful magic.
Just draining the infiltrated magic power would have been helpful enough.
‘okay. A good thing is good, why don’t you try a priest?’
Ethan smiled sly inwardly and rolled up his arms.
Then the mercenaries panicked and told Ethan.
“Priest, we have no donations for you.”
Ethan had a benevolent expression on his face, as did the Knicks.
“Don’t worry. It is the priest’s duty to heal the sick.”
“Oh, Priest!”
If it was normal, I would have gotten goosebumps, but there was nothing I couldn’t do for that purpose.
Didn’t he even serve as a servant of the Demon King in his previous years, or even in his previous life?
Ethan looked at the mercenary’s wounds.
‘There are some who suffered serious injuries, but most of them were treated well in the early stages.’
Considering the poor environment, it was quite surprising.
That was then.
The entrance to the tent opened, and a blunt voice was heard.
“What’s wrong with your dear Pars Church priest in this wallpaper?”
Ethan looked at the man standing at the entrance.
Looking at his outfit, he looked like a therapist.
The therapist seemed displeased with Ethan’s appearance.
The awake mercenaries and adventurers welcomed the healer.
“Haha, the healer yangban! Where have you been and are you coming now?”
“The priest said he was taking care of us first.”
“If you make a mistake, I will lose your seat.”
The Black Mountain Fortress was a wallpaper among wallpapers.
If he had good skills, he would have been active in another area right away, but seeing him stuck here, his skills would have to be exhausted.
‘Still, in a place like this, you must have been treated as a high-class manpower.’
It was natural for the therapist’s expression to look like he was chewing something.
He was worried that he would be treated badly after being pushed by Ethan.
The therapist glanced at the patient Ethan was looking at.
“The patient will not be able to do anything with treatment. The wounds from the monsters were too big, and the magic had penetrated to the bone marrow. For now, we have no choice but to use drugs that have a strong analgesic effect to relieve the pain.”
The therapist gave the opinion as if to show that he was not pushed by Ethan.
People around him burst out in admiration.
“Seeing you speak so proudly to the priest, you must have great skills.”
“I’m not going to ignore you as a therapist in the corner.”
But Ethan snorted.
Then, the therapist placed his hand on the affected part of the patient who had asserted that there was no hope.
The therapist frowned and mumbled something softly.
Sadly, the sound could be heard clearly in Ethan’s ears, who had good hearing.
– Ignoring my words now, is this? I’m really
Divine magic unfolded from Ethan’s hand, who smiled.
“The power of glory!”
The healer, who continued to mutter, was startled to hear the name of the divine magic.
“Level 4 holy magic?!”
It was as if he had no eyes to see at all.
The therapist looked at Ethan in disbelief.
Surprisingly, the deep wound that had been brutally torn by the monster disappeared as if it had been washed under Ethan’s hand.
But Ethan hasn’t given up yet.
Because he knew that the wounds deep inside had not healed yet.
The mercenaries and adventurers watched the scene as if possessed.
“Oh My God! That big wound!”
“I was almost dying!”
About 10 minutes passed like that.
The wounds were fragile, and things could get worse at any time.
But it was fortunate that he passed the hurdle of death.
As Ethan sighed, the therapist changed his stance after only sweating in a cold sweat.
“Wow, huh! You must also remove the magic that has penetrated the bone marrow. I have a medicine that I have saved, so if you want to remove the magic, I will lend it to you.”
The healer was now about to piggyback on Ethan.
‘Where did you do such a stupid thing.’
Ethan rejected his kindness from the inside out.
Instead, he used divine magic to purify magic.
“Wave of clarity!”
A wave of light flowed through Ethan’s hands.
The wave that started on one side flowed down to the other side and came out with evil magic.
The therapist who was watching it hurriedly beckoned to the people.
“Bring water to wash away the dirt!”
“All right!”
People tried to bring water into the basin.
The therapist didn’t even treat me, but gave me everything I had.
“no. There is no need for that.”
With those words, Ethan absorbed the magical power he had gathered.
It was to convert the magical power mixed with the divine power to the inside by capturing it.
In the past, this would have been extremely difficult.
But for Ethan, it was like eating cold soup.
His ability to control divine magic had increased as he drew out holy water indefinitely due to the last holy water disturbance.
Ethan sent the converted divine magic to his danjeon.
“Stand, please… Did you completely purify the magic from your body?!”
The therapist was astonished.
Ethan smiled broadly.
‘Maybe it is.’
It was a completely wrong guess.
But if you think of Ethan as an ordinary priest, the healer’s guess is plausible.
What kind of priest dared to absorb magic power?
Ethan pretended to wipe off a cold sweat that wasn’t even on his forehead as if he had finished the treatment.
“If you wash your magic power with water and throw that water away on the ground, won’t the magic seep into the land as well? So I took care of it.”
The onlookers were moved by the words and knelt down.
“Oh, Priest!”
“The priest must have been sent from heaven!”
“From now on, I will only trust Pars-sama!”
Even the therapist was stiff with his mouth wide open.
But Ethan was bouncing the abacus inside.
‘If it’s this new magic for one patient, it’s pretty much right.’
Ethan started acting as a benevolent priest out of self-interest to devour the divine magic.
* * *
That night.
Ethan and Blake stayed in a log cabin.
Blake looked around the house and smiled contentedly.
“Well! When you do good things, good things happen.”
In fact, it seemed more happy to get a hostel for free.
Ethan put his luggage down.
This was a house that the village chief lent him for free, saying he was grateful.
It was shabby, but even this was a pretty precious bed in the fortress.
For dinner, we decided to keep it simple with meat soup and bread.
Blake, who had served his portion of soup, sat down.
Then he asked Ethan.
“So, did you find out why monsters gather in the Black Mountains?”
It was.
It was originally Olivia Allen’s request.
Originally, there were many monsters in the Black Mountains, but recently, the number of individuals increased and became more ferocious.
Because of this, herbalists could not go to the mountains, and Alan, a healer, was unable to obtain rare herbs, so he commissioned it.
Ethan chuckled as he chewed the bread.
“What are you talking about? Because of you, I was only treated at the treatment center the whole time, what time do you have to find out?”
In fact, he extorted magical powers from people under the guise of healing, but Blake was definitely the starting point.
Blake then tapped Ethan on the shoulder.
“ha ha ha! You are so talented, I thought you would know something just by coming to this land.”
“So what did you find out?”
“I cleaned the outside a bit, but I didn’t find out anything about the monsters. And I made friends with the villagers. He treated me very well because he was the priest’s companion.”
Ethan gave a look of surprise.
‘Even if it seems simple ignorance, is it that mercenaries are mercenaries?’
During the day he healed people, Blake seemed to clear the way to the Black Mountains and get information from the people of the fortress.
Ethan nodded his head.
“Actually, research is important for this kind of work. Suwan is pretty good.”
“Are you exploring? No, I was just trying to get cheap stuff like food. I bought the meat in this soup that way. I can’t survive a day without meat.”
Blake responded by chewing hard on the meat in the soup.
Ethan looked at him pitifully.
“… okay. What do you want from that disciple?”
“… … ?”
“Keep talking.”
“It was like this from what I heard from the villagers. Do you know what the Demon King’s henchmen did here a hundred years ago?”
“Is it possible that this is why monsters gather?”
“Everyone said so.”
Ethan burst out laughing in shock.
“How does an experiment a hundred years ago have an effect now?”
“It is said that an adventurer who was scouring this area discovered the forbidden laboratory. So, when I opened the door to the lab, magical power came out and caused something strange to the monsters… … .”
“It’s bullshit.”
Ethan dismissed it at once.
Then Blake asked, as if puzzled.
“How do you decide that?”
Well, I’ve never done any experiments here.
But I couldn’t say that.
Ethan turned around dryly.
“Even after decades of searching, the laboratory hasn’t come out, how can you believe that?”
“Well, that’s right.”
After that meal, Blake went straight to bed.
Leaving behind the strange snoring, Ethan escaped from the log cabin.
Tomorrow he was going to enter the Black Mountains in earnest.
‘I think I want to go outside the fortress and check the dynamics, but… … .’
Monsters came down to the village more often, and the guards were guarding the fortress.
So instead of going out, Ethan quietly stared at the Black Mountains near the log cabin.
Crrr! hey hey hey!
Kwajik! Awesome profit!
As I concentrated on the sound, I could hear the cry of monsters from afar.
Even in this late night, there was a fight for territory between the monsters.
‘Otherwise, the humans who failed to enter the fortress and fell behind may have met the monster.’
Ethan clicked his tongue low.
Anyway, unlike other regions, it was clear that the Black Mountains had an unusual energy.
‘But that’s just incidental.’
There was something else that was important to Ethan.
‘If my guess is correct, the gathering of monsters in the Black Mountains… … .’
That moment.
Padded!
The birds in the forest flew into the sky at once.
The number of moonlights in the night sky were so numerous that they were completely covered in black.
It was an ominous sign for anyone to see.
And Ethan knew what that meant.
“Because the witch has woken up.”
A completely different truth from the stories of adventurers came out of Ethan’s mouth.
One hundred years ago, a tangled story was approaching Ethan again.