Zion ran straight for the stairs.
He had no idea he could move this fast. He flies up the stairs instead of moving up the stairs. Had he not been in such a hurry, he would realize that his body is moving at a higher strength.
His foot slipped as soon as he put it on the supersmooth tiles of the hospital walkway. Zion did not think of correcting his posture. Instead, he braced for impact on the wall facing him, then slid sideways, so that he could reach the room faster. He even lowered his legs to let the shoes glide smoothly.
The nurses at the reception did not even notice a person passed by because he crossed over the place far too quickly.
Zion braked himself using the groove of the door, and pushed in the door of the room.
The vitals monitor which was slightly beating with a small tick flatlined right in front of Zion.
He did not even think. He braced his legs, jumped straight for the assailant's head. The man got hit straight in his temple with a knee kick. He fell down, and so did Zion on the other side. Before the man could recover Zion put him in armbar. After all, his strength and stamina are limited. If the assassin gets a single chance to recover, Zion will die here, then there would be no one who could save Cerise.
Even now, he could feel the muscles of the other party. The muscle mass is too high and hardy. If Zion hadn't reacted as fast as he did, even if headlocked the other party, he could have easily gotten out. Fortunately, he had the presence of the brain, and he got those precious five seconds which stopped the killer from getting a second wind.
Soon, the man collapsed.
Zion got up like there were springs under his feet.
The rescue time of patients with a stopped heartbeat is one minute. Thirty five seconds passed already. Zion got near the bed, and delivered a punch straight to the heart. Then, he pressed the call button.
Then, he pulled the white cloth down from Cerise's face.
It was horrible.
Cerise, who was once a proud beauty, looked like a monster.
He checked for breath, and delivered one more punch to the heart. If nothing else, this kind of precise control of strength is his speciality. He delivered the just right amount of push at just the right angle.
Breath check.
Again !
After the seventh such punch, The flatline changed.
Zion breathed a sigh of relief, then started CPR with presses.
Soon, the flat line turned into regular heart beats.
The man on the floor showed signs of awakening.
Zion just removed his shirt, bound the hands and feet of the man.
This was all recorded in the witness camera brought by Cerise.
Once he bound it, Zion pressed for the call button again and again. However, there was no response from the hospital at all.
Even Zion did not think that the corruption was so widespread and organized that even the hospital staff would be in on it.
In the live stream, which had never been turned off till now, the audience went crazy.
No one likes corruption in a school or hospital. It is the final straw that breaks the back of the camel in almost any country.
If the schools and hospitals are not running properly, what in the world are they paying taxes for ?
At the same time, during this process, due to Zion publicly announcing that the footage is coming from the witness cameras, which are a service provided by the government, almost all the news agencies picked up the video.
The government services are backed by an international server, which probably will not crash even if there are a billion people on it.
On top of it, this corruption scandal came just at the right time for governments of various countries which were looking to step on guilds.
At this time, the mana came pouring in once again at the most inopportune time.
Zion shuddered at the feeling of the mana pouring into him from the training stone. He closed his eyes, and pushed the mana into a small core, so that it could stay there. This is mana of a fae.
Fae are creatures who specialize in only one spell for their entire life. This mana .. he knew it's 'dismantle ' a spell that dismantles a living creature making a hot mess of it. Practicing it in real life is impossible, even worse, the spell could get activated automatically on a target when fae is agitated.
While for others it may be a curse, it is not so for Zion. When he was a child, Zion believed that hard work can and will make him an olympian. The truth is, it is not so. Hard work can get you second place, only talent and hard work gets you first place.
Even if you one day win over a lazy bum, will you be happy ? The answer is not unless they are utter total assholes.
I digress.
All the same, Zion tried to overcome his lack of physical qualities with skill. Thus, his control improved, and improved, then improved some more, to the extent that if Zion claims his mana control is second in the world, no one will dare to be first.
Zion pressed the call bell once more, for the camera. In the short time, he has done this three times. Once again, he felt mana pouring in. This time, it's mad berserk mana, ten times more potent than any he has ever seen till now. This man… he must be more than mad, Zion thought as he created another core for it. Now that he is doing it for the fourth time, it has become easier. He need not close his eyes, nor does he have to stop what he was doing. He automatically received it, and placed the mana within a core of its own.
As he looked at Cerise, he remembered all the details he knew about the burn patients. The necrotic has to be removed before applying a salve.
That is the first order of the business.
Before he was not sure of how to do that, but now, since he has 'dismantle', he should be able to remove necrotic tissue easily, right ?
Even so, it is better to start from locations with least impact on life, Zion decided. Hmmm.. ears then ? human ears are not very useful, nor will they have direct impact on life.
So, he took out cotton ball sized mana, and applied it to the ear's beginning.
Zion focused completely on the ear.
The outer burned tissue peeled off, slowly revealing bone and blood.
Zion stopped when he saw blood, then moved on to the adjacent location. Like that, he removed all the burned tissue on the ears. This was done slowly, over a course of five to ten minutes.
He did not at all look at the barrage, which was going crazy because of the things happening all over the place in the silversword guild.
Once Zion finished removing all the tissue from the ear and its surroundings, he stopped and looked at the ear.
It was completely healed and starting to form pink skin !
' Cerise has a rejuvenation skill. '
' What the f*ck ? Then doesn't this mean silverword guild hospital has placed a patient who could have recovered just fine just by removing necrotic tissue on death bed in a premeditated manner ? That's murder ! it's not even involuntary murder, but it's first degree murder ! ' Zion's thoughts ran wild.
' No. This is not the time to think about the trashy hospital. I need to heal Cerise first. Then, together, we will decide what to do. ' Zion thought.
Immediately, he increased the mana size of the dismantle. It seems a palm size is what he could manipulate best.
He concentrated mana on her face, and first restored her side neck, neck , and upwards.
The entire process took ten minutes, but Cerise's face was barely restored.
Then, he started working downwards, in the order of importance.
First neck, esophageal tissue, then heart and subsequent arteries, following that, to the liver, kidneys, then backup to restore arms and other leftover areas.
Once that's done, it's the lower body. Zion just placed his hand under the white bed sheet, and did all the healing under the cover of the sheet.
It seems the body knows what is urgent. After Zion removed the necrotic tissue, not all the body healed at the same speed. The face is still healing, while the organs have completely finished healing. It's the same elsewhere. Organs healed fastest, musculature next, and last was the skin. Thus, Cerise looked more like a flayed body than a human.
Zion sat beside her and waited for her to respond.
He had no idea the kind of explosion he had caused outside at this time.