"What is this thing?" Fulgur asked as soon as they entered the gate of the academy.
"This is the cause of the epidemic that spread to the four towns," Luis replied.
"Oh, we will contain it first until the royals sent an emissary to examine this, bring it this way please!" Fulgur informed as they all walked together towards the Divine Medicine Pavilion and they took a turn to a wide space beside the pavilion and from there, an opening revealed from the ground and a platform emerged where they all aboard with the frozen container and the platform slowly descended deep inside the Divine Medicine Pavilion.
While they were descending, they passed on many rooms covered with glass where they studied different Floras and Faunas that can be found around the Spring Kingdom. Some people looked like they are mixing different herbs and cross-breeding some beasts.
"Here, we do some studies about the mutations of different things, different levels study different kinds of mutation, disease, plant, beast, and even human mutation. We theorized that humanoid creatures were mutated from humans or humans mutated from them. There are some claims that every human and humanoid creature were mutated from a single kind of creature." Mufar explained.
"You know this place, Luis?" Alyssa asked.
"Yes, I'm usually visiting here but I don't disturb them when I come, I'm just observing!" Luis replied.
"So you become Physician because you frequently went here?" Archie asked.
"Idiot! Did you forget that he's already a Physician before he came here?" Julianne hit Archie's nape.
"Oh yeah! I remember now! Taught by Grandpa Dave, right?" Archie confirmed.
"Yeah, the nicest person who helped me." Luis sadly replied.
"I'm sorry, Luis!" Archie immediately apologized when Luis's mood suddenly changed.
"No, it's alright!" Luis smiled at them and then the platform stopped at a wide floor where big trees and creatures were being studied.
"This is the lowest part of the private research area of Divine Medicine Pavilion. This is the place where we study large floras and faunas. Please place it above that platform before removing the container." Mufar instructed as Achilleas abided him and placed the large container on a large platform and when he removed the container, a large toad was revealed trapped inside a large glacier.
The toad's eyes were all white signifying that it's already dead and the lower part of the ice was all black because of the fluids that the toad secreted before it was frozen.
"Be careful on handling that thing, that black fluid is corrosive and flammable. We don't know anything more about that though." Alyssa reminded them.
"That's our job, we will research the other components of that fluid and how does this thing do those shits!" A lady researcher approached them.
"Oh! I would like to introduce to you the head of this Research Facility, Professor Aliyah!" Mufar introduced.
The lady was a bit smaller than Mufar but she has fair skin and bright eyes and her expression was always smiling but there's a tinge of extremely aggressive aura on her.
"A pleasure to meet you, brats!" She greeted with a wicked smile on her face.
"Her beautiful face contradicts her personality." That's what the other people thought.
"Professor, watch out!" A researcher shouted as a vial with sizzling liquid is flying behind her.
Jericho quickly moved as he manipulated the vial to change its trajectory where no one will be hit by it.
"Nice reflex! Correct me if I'm wrong but, you have Physical Manipulation Energy right?" Aliyah asked.
"Yes, professor!" Jericho replied.
"Great! I guess you already have a mentor right? What's your name anyway?" Aliyah asked.
"I am Jericho and my mentor is Mentor Corio," Jericho replied.
"Oh, Corio from Combat School! If ever, would you like to become my apprentice? But, you need to become a Physician to be able to do be one? Would you agree?" Aliyah asked as she looked intently towards the young man.
"Can I discuss it with my sister?" Jericho asked as he looked towards Julianne.
"Sure, take your time! If ever, you want to, I will personally ask Corio about this." Aliyah assured.
Jericho nodded as he went to where his sister is and pulled her away from the group.
"I think you heard what Professor Aliyah is talking about right?" Jericho asked.
"Loud and clear, bro! What's the matter?" Julianne asked.
"What do you think? Should I accept?" Jericho asked.
"You know me, bro bro! Whatever you want, I will just support you! If you want to be a Physician then go for it, if you don't, then don't!" Julianne patted his shoulder while saying this.
"Okay, I've decided sis!" Jericho said with a determined look on his face.
"Then go for it! I love you, bro bro!" Julianne smiled.
"I love you too, sis!" Jericho smiled and Julianne pushed him back to the group.
Jericho made a deep breath as he walked towards the lady.
"I have decided Professor Aliyah, I will accept your offer! I also want to be a Physician but I don't know how to treat patients nor to diagnose them!" Jericho explained to her.
"Don't worry, I'm here to help you! I also heard that there's a great Physician among you!" Aliyah looked towards Luis while saying this. "And if ever that person is not available, I can disturb someone to teach you!" Then she looked at Mufar this time.
The master and apprentice duo only pointed themselves in confusion. Everyone laughed about this strange thing that the duo made.
"Okay, excuse me first!" Aliyah excused as she stepped away from the group.
"Corio, baldy! I will take one of your apprentices! The one who goes by the name Jericho!... What?... Want me to go there and hit your baldy head?... Shut up! Remove your mark now or I will remove you from existence!... You will remove it now?... Okay! Bye-bye!" Aliyah dropped the call.
"Why does she need to go away if we can still hear her screams?" Achilleas whispered.
"Do you want to die kid?" Aliyah's eyes glinted as she held a syringe filled with sizzling liquid.
Achilleas gulped as he slowly stepped away from the lady.
Aliyah approached Jericho and faced the young man.
"Show me your mark." She simply demanded as Jericho showed his mark of the wolf soaring through the skies. On the upper half of his mark, a new mark emerged. It is an image of a vial with a silhouette of a plant and a beast inside of it.
"Okay, for your first lesson, what do you think a Physician do?" Aliyah asked as she looked towards Jericho.
"Physician treats people's illnesses, right?" Jericho answered.
"You are half right my dear. Do you know what is the two types of Enchanter?" Aliyah asked.
"Yes, master! One is called Weapon Enhancer and the other one is the Magical Cartographer!" Jericho answered.
"Good, but what is the common thing that they do?" Aliyah asked again.
"They both can inscribe but on different things!" Jericho answered.
"Good! Physicians are like Enchanters too, we have two types of Physicians, do you know what are those?" Aliyah asked but Jericho only shrugged as his answer.
Footsteps can be heard behind them and as they look they saw a young man approaching them.
"There are Healing Physicians and Researching Physician, I am a Healing Physician and Professor Aliyah is a Researching Physician," Luis spoke as soon as he reached both of them.
"That's correct! The only difference that Physicians have with Enchanters is that the two kinds of Enchanters can work alone, but the Physicians can't, you know why?" Aliyah asked again.
"Ohh! I think I got this one! I understand it correctly, Enchanters uses different mediums so they can work separately, but Physician needs the same patient to understand the symptoms and to discover medicine that can cure the illness!" Jericho seriously answered.
"Good! You're doing great!" Aliyah commended.
"Now, what kind of a Physician do you want to be? If you want to be a Healing Physician, you can take the exam above, but if you want to be a Researching Physician, the exam is here!" Aliyah asked.
"Well, we already have a Healing Physician so, I want to be a Researching Physician like you master!" Jericho smiled at the lady as he moved closer.
"Good! Come with me!" Aliyah guided him and the others towards a place where a lot of panels were, an orb was placed on a table that looked like the orbs on the surface.
"If you are ready, just get inside and try your best! Pick a specimen that you think you knew well!" Aliyah smiled as she observed the young man standing inside the room while scanning the panels and the different images of different specimens on them.
He kept on scanning until a new panel emerged where it displays a gigantic corpse that looked familiar to the young man.
"Then I guess, I can settle for you, big guy!" Jericho grinned as he touched a panel.