After fighting my first fight at Captain Raven's Club, I find myself being healed by a team of healers, I have been informed before by Vera and Dumah that there is a large and competent team of healers ready to heal any damage that fighters can earn during the fight.
If you don't have your neck broken or a main artery torn, and it's very difficult to die or even have permanent injuries to your body, healing my hands that went to my most damaged body site via an orange core healer with two core assistants green, that is a treatment that would be charged a few thousand gold coins to have in the temples.
When flesh is covering my exposed bones on my hands, I had to endure terrible pain, I've been in bad situations where I had to endure pains that seemed to want to tear my mind apart, but this is the first time I feel my flesh is being torn and burned while I'm being healed.
Most treatments based on healing magic have some effects, which can be pain, itching, burning and rarely anything. But today I had a new experience being healed, even my bones that only slightly cracked seem to be melting and remolding in the way that caused the most pain.
The arena fight against the iron mummy that was Viktor caused less pain in me, and I punched him to the point where my bones ran out of flesh and cracked and I still felt less pain than I'm feeling now, the only part that can be considered I'm good at this treatment and I'm seeing my wounds disappear quickly.
I only had to go through five minutes of torture for my hands to appear normal, but I still had to give them a day of rest so there was no chance of their wounds being completely healed or of injuring them again from the exertion. The idea of having a second fight was thrown away after the healer warned me as I wiped the tears that involuntarily came out of my eyes.
My hands still trembled involuntarily after the cure, and only after recovering from the pain of the treatment did, I notice that Hilda and Captain Raven were after me. I will prepare myself to be the target of Hilda's pranks, but she just hugs me and kisses me in a tender way.
"Is everything okay now with your hands?" Will they fully recover?"
"No need to be so worried Hilda, Veronica and a very competent healer, Ulric's hands will fully recover, but I have to congratulate you, I didn't think you would win this fight and I wouldn't even blame you for losing it. It takes a lot of willpower and focus to fight well after your hands were nearly destroyed hitting a piece of metal."
"What was wrong with that pervert during the fight? Why was Ulric hurting himself by hitting him?"
"Ulric, he should be able to answer that question for you Hilda."
"His skin and flesh were strangely hard, it felt like he was hitting a hard metal and not a flesh-and-blood warrior that's very strange, I think he must have used some special drug to strengthen his body or practiced something very violent and cruel art of empowerment."
"Doesn't that mean he cheated in the fight? You didn't need to fight that way, you just disqualified him, Ulric."
"Fights don't work like that, Hilda."
"Ulric's analysis is quite right, he practices an art of body strengthening and to practice it is necessary to bathe and ingest some specific elixirs, but none of these things are cheating. Strengthening arts like this one that have various side effects and allowed and using elixirs to speed up cultivation, to increase the chance of raising your stages and to train specific arts are allowed, banned elixirs are those that provide a temporary strength boost like the berserker potions or aura acceleration potions."
"Captain Raven, you know what kind of art he trained."
"Yes, it's called skin art and iron flesh. He only trained the first levels of the basic art it has continuations being called skin and flesh of bronze, skin and flesh of silver and finally skin and flesh of gold is said to be a version of skin and flesh of diamond that can create a body so tough it can withstand blows from silver core warriors with just the hardness of the body without the need to use aura."
"But this line of strengthening gear has terrible side effects, and because it's not popular with warriors, you may have noticed that it looks much older than it should, that's just one of the side effects this art has. main negative point of this strengthening is that until you complete the art your body will not be able to use its speed, strength, reflexes and even heal itself normally, only when he reaches the final level of the skin and iron flesh art, he will be able to use his body completely, until then he will be a liberally weaker version of what he should be with a stronger defense and that is the main reason you managed to dominate him during the fight."
"The defense of this line of arts is generally only useful when practicing the silver skin and flesh art, which provides a defense to protect oneself from magical animals, magical beasts, and warrior weapons. Viktor's strong defense with incomplete skin and iron flesh was only effective because you were fighting using your bodies, if you were to use your sword his body defense would be very useless, a level two armor would be more effective."
"I still don't like it, this kind of art should be banned it and in extreme bad taste and I was only used trying to take advantage of the rules, it should be banned just like the monks are because their cups are abnormal because of their masochistic training. "
"Your opinion was noted, Hilda, but it was unfortunately discarded by the club leadership."
"Well, leaving that aside, I wanted to know how much I won in this fight."
"We won a lot of stories and gold coins from the group of idiots, but we also ended up winning a large amount of gold coins from the bets, when the side that has the least chance of winning ends up winning the fight, it earns twenty percent of the profit of the bookmaker fight, if you win as the favorite, you only win the predetermined amount of the fight without any kind of increase."
"How much of this gold is mine?"
"A few thousand gold coins, and a pity you can't fight again today you could have won one more fight, we would have won a good number of stories betting on your second fight."
"I think I can even fight again."
"Don't be greedy, Ulric."
"Serious? Are you telling me not to be greedy?"
"I'm just worried about your health, and if Veronica hears you want to fight again ignoring her warning, she'll 'cure' you from a much more intense rage and you'll just wake up tomorrow feeling like a new man. And I advise you never to be on Veronica's bad side, remember that a healer knows how to heal a person's body, but that also means that a healer like Veronica knows how to cause pain that you will regret for the rest of your life."
"Raven is right, you should never offend a healer like Veronica."
"Okay, whoever talked about fighting again is no longer here, but now that I've finished the treatment, we can go back to the arena and see the rest of the fights or walk around the garden seeing the attractions. Which do you prefer, Hilda?"
"I choose both, let's take a walk and then we'll see the fights in the arena."
"Well, since you've done your part for today, Ulric. You can go have fun with your girlfriend, but be careful not to strain your hands, let Hilda do the work today and remember to use contraceptives, pregnancy at your age is not cool."
Captain Raven walked away she was giving an evil giggle while Hilda is turning red, this is very rare to happen, Captain Raven is to be congratulated she and one of the few people who were able to make Hilda embarrassed.
I don't miss my opportunity and hug Hilda and kiss her. It took a few minutes for Hilda to start getting back to her normal self which is to be competitive and more assertive.
During the next few hours Hilda and I walked through the gardens seeing all the attractions and the exchange shops. It's a shame that Hilda didn't come prepared today, she wanted to buy a dozen items but unfortunately the owners accepted exchanges and not gold coins.
The rest of the fights we saw with Vera and Dumah were normal, nothing different from what I expected as Hilda had already recovered from her moment of worry and shame, she was rooting for the fighters she thought were cool, she was screaming for more blood and violence during the most intense fights, I could barely hold her down otherwise she would have gotten up to cheer.
She really was having fun. Ingredi only appeared at the end, but unlike Hilda who was vibrating with enthusiasm during the fights Ingredi wasn't having much fun, and Torris who is with her is pretending very well not to be very interested in the fights, but his eyes were focused on the fights without lose not a single move of the fighters and fighters.