The man who lost his arm was following me from behind as we delved deeper into the dark forest. Since of course the soldiers just met me, he was accompanied by his best friend due to a lack of trust formed between us.
「This is actually a secret, but I'm the one who saved you guys.」
I spoke with confidence and told them the truth.
Their eyes rose slightly from surprise. The first to speak was the guy with one arm left.
「We already know actually.」
That surprised me, making me give them a brief glance as we came into a secretive-looking place. I was curious how they found out. With that questioning look in my eyes, they answered without my need to speak.
「First of all... we were having a losing fight with the orcs who ambushed us, but then they suddenly lost, we found you afterwards. And second, while on our way here we didn't encounter any wild beasts which would have happened by now. That means you have a great amount of magic power that makes them stay away subconsciously.」
「Well, you're not wrong...」
We chatted for a while until we reached a small clearing with nothing but a few shrooms and glowing blue lilies.
「Sir Andrew, come over.」
I sat on the grassy floor and beckoned the one-armed knight over. He listened to me while his friend kept watch.
「Are you for real about this? You can heal my arm?」
「For real real, in exchange you'll keep all this a secret.」
Sitting here and facing each other, I scrutinized his amputated shoulder covered in wrapped cloth and spoke in my head.
(Heal.)
My hands started to glow with a radiant green light and wrapped Andrew's injury. That surprised his best friend, Mark.
「N-No way... Chantless spell casting? Instant at that...」
(Heal+Skill Bestowal.)
The bandages surrounding Andrew's injury disentangled and dropped to the floor and his arm came growing back like a lizard's tail.
「Oooh!」
But something was different about the newly grown arm, and it's just like I wanted it to.
It was made of a silver substance.
「It's not quite right but I can move it.」
Andrew was moving his new metallic arm around as if it was naturally his old one, with a big smile on his face. It looked like a steel statue that could move flexibly like a real arm.
「Your new left arm is made of adamantite, I made it so that your bones are too... Be careful from now on though, some people might try to hunt you down for how rare it is.」
Andrew's eyes widened and he stood up in excitement. His left arm of adamantite was reflecting the moonlight quite well, some beautiful vine-like carvings were etched into its design.
「A-Awesome!」
It's up to him how he'll explain about his new arm to his comrades. I don't think he'll lose in a fight against an orc from now on since it's not only his arm that was enhanced, but also his strength.
Thud.
I heard someone dropping to the ground, it turns out to be Mark prostrating in front of me.
「Please give me a cool arm too!」
「I won't be giving you that, I'll be giving you something else. Is that okay?」
「Eh? But— Of course!」
I smiled and lightly touched his shoulder to use my skill.
(Skill Bestowal.)
A bright light engulfed Mark's body and his expression tells me he felt rejuvenated. Now time to check their status.
*
Name: Mark Lain
Species: Human
Personality: Neutral • Good • Intelligent
Physical: 11
Magic: 19
Gifts: [Swordsmanship 2], [Levitation Magic 10]
*
From my observation so far, having only one skill is common for the people I've met so far. However, there are some cases where they have two, but that was only exclusive to monsters. Now I get why Astrynox said the humans were in danger of extinction.
It's convenient that I can make skills as easy as writing on paper. I also looked at the status of Andrew.
*
Name: Andrew Sundea
Species: Human
Personality: Neutral • Good • Airhead
Physical: 82
Magic: 2
Gifts: [Adamantite Arm 10] | [Swordsmanship 2]
*
I purposefully set the levels of the skills I bestowed to maximum for these two since they didn't seem like bad people. I can also see if people are good or bad through their status, oddly, that feature wasn't shown in mine.
「Look, Andrew! I'm flying!」
「Woah! How'd you do that?!」
They looked like kids having fun with their new toys. Due to Mark's levitation ability, both soldiers began floating in the air which I found amusing.
I wonder how I will make these two pay for my kindness? No doubt with the world as is, their new powers will change their fate somehow.
「All this isn't for free, right? What do you want from us in return?」
There's the question from Mark. It was smart of them to think that this wasn't free charity.
「I want you two to make names for yourselves in the world and let me use your name whenever I want.」
「Is that all? This feels even more like free charity now though...」
The two landed with their feet and bowed their heads to me, swearing to fullfill their duty in the name of their god, Aelus. They were dumbfounded when I told them they should accomplish it in half a year's time though.
The next morning, everyone woke up and were frantic. That's because they found out that during their sleep, they had recovered from all their injuries and had their missing body parts back.
Obviously, the culprit was me. But this time I didn't give them any extra power ups like Andrew and Mark. Speaking of the two, they're currently training with the other knights and showing off the toys I gave them.
In terms of strength, Andrew was the strongest among everyone here if you exclude me from the list.
Their powers came from the sloppy excuse of "suddenly getting them next morning". Needless to say, everyone was envious but they were more happy for them than jealous at the moment. New strength meant they'll be safer for the next missions to come.
After breakfast, the noble man leading everyone here sent out a soldier by horseback to get us new horses to resume the journey. If we stay here any longer, we might end up being attacked by monsters such as the orcs from last time.
Bored as I am inside the wagon, since everyone was healed and doing chores or training, I started making stuff with [Creation Magic]. Mostly just silver swords which I tried to make good designs of.
How about my own outfit? Maybe later, I'll get some reference first from seeing the fashion style of the people from this world. All this time I've only been seeing soldiers and their full-body metallic armor afterall.
Whatever, for now, I'll just sleep.
Most of my time were spent on sleeping and eating. I lost the ability to release bad stuff from my body ever since reincarnating in this body it seems.
It's been two days since I arrived in this world and I haven't fucked a woman yet to impregnate her. I have to do it with the female soldiers here who are clearly single since I only have almost four days left.
Getting them pregnant though... I doubt just anyone is ready for that.