CRACK!
Thunder shook the cart, the horses leading us didn't panic even as they were driven harder towards Reike.
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!
The strikes were incessant, the door fell off from the force of thunder alone, but the moment we reached the gate, it was dead silent. Teacher jumped out of the cart and ran south in the direction of the lightning strikes.
"This way! We need healers!" A woman screamed desperately towards our cart. The burly man from before drove the cart towards her and dropped us off. Then he grabbed an ax and went towards the lighting.
"I need someone who can cast a painkiller spell for me to heal, and I can only heal naturals," I said to the woman.
"Go see Fend, he is not well versed in healing, but he can cast a painkiller spell."
I walked over to Fend who had horns that looked more like tusks than anything, his likeness was an elephant.
"I'm here to heal with you, the lady over there" I pointed at the worried woman, "said you can cast a painkiller spell for me, so please prepare for that."
Shocked at my assertiveness despite my age, Fend quickly started casting a painkiller spell on a warrior on the table.
"Mr. Warrior, if you want to live, I need you to not resist my Eneru no matter what ok?"
The warrior was confused by the cute young man saying scary things, but obeyed, after all, healers held your life in their hands.
I experimentally ran some Eneru through the warrior, it met no resistance so I started. I drew the only rune I knew, the diagnostic rune that mother taught me. I quickly found the source of the problem was a large scorch mark on his belly. I went to work fixing the problem when I was suddenly thrown into nausea.
Fend cast a rune on me and I felt better. He whispered to me.
"You're really queasy? I thought you were a healer."
Orin popped out of my shadow and explained while I was continuing with the surgery.
"He's only healed one other creature, my mom. It feels unnatural to manipulate the body of one of your own, and by the way, he's an engineer."
"I told you not to resist!"
"I'm sorry! It hurt!"
"Feng! Focus on your spell!"
"Got it!"
Feng recast his painkiller spell and the rest of the surgery went well, I had only used about a fifth of my reserves and I was ready for another patient. The warrior walked out of the tent and called over the slightly-less worried lady who sent Feng and me to Devin.
Devin was trying to stop the bleeding of a man who had his arm severed, he had a bucket sitting next to him. Feng rushed over and started casting two spells, the one he had cast on me, and a painkiller. His anti-nausea rune worked like a charm and Devin looked more focused.
"Let me take over the painkiller duties" Feng wasn't asking.
'Why aren't they reattaching that arm? What do you think, Spirit?'
'Simple, they don't know that spell yet.'
"Let me reattach his arm, I can do it."
Both of them looked at me with a face that screamed: excuse me what?! I ignored them and walked up to the unconscious man who was missing an arm, testing his resistance, there was none.
"Keep him asleep by any means necessary, if he wakes up there is no telling what will happen."
I started the surgery queasy, but I ignored it and got to work. First I reattached the bone, then the nerves, this step took minutes, then I finally reattached the muscles before I ran out of Eneru.
"I can't do anymore, fix his skin and it... will uh" my eyes wavered "be... uh... good." I collapsed on the floor and started snoring.
I woke up moments later to a yellow fluid being thrown in my face, my Eneru was recovered and I looked around. The warrior who nearly lost his arm was leaving the tent, bow in hand.
'These people were just healed, they must be desperate to send them back in so soon.'
'Well there are hostile Spirit Beasts knocking at their door, what did you expect.' Orin was being almost as insightful as Spirit.
"Ingen! We have another patient!" Feng shouted
"Do we have a diagnosis?"
"Severed leg!"
Turns out my aptitude for reattaching limbs was a double-edged sword, I had nearly limitless amounts of Eneru thanks to the fluid that was shipped to me, but reattaching limbs is difficult and gross. By the end of it all, I don't think I could ever puke at blood again.
"We won!" a soldier shouted from outside the makeshift clinic.
I sighed a sigh of relief, but before I could relax, another patient appeared on the table and two strong men with a stretcher ran out of the clinic to get more. With the amount of practice I had, it didn't take long for the mage to get up and leave.
I splashed half a so-called recovery potion on my face and breathed once before another patient appeared in front of me. This one wasn't missing limbs, it was just a couple of broken bones and scorch marks. Relieved that I would likely not see any more amputees, I got to work, fixing the bone in moments and referring her to another healer for her burns. I could heal most ailments, but burns were the most inefficient compared to normal healing.
"Alright kiddos, that's all of them, come over here and get your reward." Teacher's clothes looked a little tattered but they were slowly repairing themselves. He had a trunk levitating behind him.
The trunk landed and Teacher opened it.
"These are for you Ingen." Teacher handed me a pair of boots, a set of inks of different colors, and a page of paper that radiated Eneru.
"What are these?"
"They are a set of enchanting supplies and a pair of boots to experiment on, you will need to buy a set later if you don't take them." Teacher remembered something "Oh and for the love of the gods PLEASE don't use them until you complete at least pre-enchantment. It was hard enough to cover for your tree. In fact," Teacher took the paper from my hands "I'm going to hold on to this."