"Now that you have done the impossible, I suggest you lay low a bit. Meanwhile, you can try sensing your own bones. It is healing on it's own. But no one ever said you can't do anything about it.
It is a straightforward clean fracture. We immobiled the damaged area. Now being more experienced, she can definitely feel her own bone.
"Oh, there is this part that doesn't feel like the rest."
"Good, that is the spot. Stimulate with mana to attract more mineral deposits in. But no rush, just make it look closer than a actual bone will do. This originally will take months or years. To succeed, complete within this month."
-and that would leave her with just a week or so.
"Monster!" Mira declared. "I am the patient here!"
"And also the doctor here~" I replied. "Speedy recovery~"
And wait a minute, something feels off here. The surgery is done, parts repaired, closed….
Urgh, the guy should now be crying in pain and maybe.. just maybe, he's got infection from that whatever it is.
Good thing is that pills from earth are not too heavy. Let me just get some antibiotics and painkiller… crushed. I shall pass it to the guild for them to handle that guy.
And to my amazement, Mira removed her cast on the 3rd day of my mission. Well, it is not legs so it is fine. Else I be reprimanding her again. On the forth day, she actually tried carrying half a bucket of water. Damn, so long she didn't break her arm again. On the fifth day. She declared her arm fully healed. To prove it. She gave my chest a full force punch.
"That is for you being a meanie."
Followed with a tight hug
"And this is thanks."
I am suffocating. Please don't end up trying to heal my ribcages.
We visited Mr. Hanbo. We knew he is bedridden. No way he would try to walk with that leg. It tooks another 4 days for her to heal Mr. Hanbo.
Now, we are left with Selene. Sadly, a mana circuit issue is not in my range of expertise.
"Mira, try to feel as much of your mana circuit as possible. Draw a diagram like how I gave you. As detailed as possible."
She denied my request, because she said mana is practically everywhere in the body. In the blood, in between muscle tissue, within the nerves. Inside the brain. Even fecal waste has it.
The only notable thing is all mana starts from the brain. Heh, no wonder all cases will result in patient being bedridden.?
Since that is the case, I controlled my mana to flow faster around my foot. The mission for her today is to resist my flow. Yes, she did it.
It is possible for two sources of mana to interfere with each other. Instead of merging into one.
I decided to give Selene a visit after so long. Squad 109's grounds are not actually open freely for public access. Speaking of which, I did owe them a thanks since that area then was under their garrison.
78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, traces of awkwardness. The lady in charge saw me approaching to visit Selene, but… with another girl. Are this world's ladies filled with mainly romance fiction? Where power stone? Should have requested Mr. Hanbo to tag along this visit.
"So Mira, try flushing your mana in to sense the difference between Selene's, mine, and your own."
"It felt dry, if our's are fertile land, that is definitely desert."
"Control just a bit, a tiny bit. Explore the head area where you said mana should come from."
…
Mira tried to release control of her mana. They ended up vanishing to thin air. Hence, it is concluded that the extreme exhaustion resulted in some form of damage from the source. Even if there is mana production, it leaked to the surroundings.
"Repair the wound, flush in mana and see if it still vanish into thin air"
Good going Mira. I guess the only thing I can teach you are more on theory and anatomy…
Like reproductive system.
Mira's mana is not unlimited. Although it increases along with usage. We are not prepared to have Mira being into the same scenario as Selene. (Else I have to retrain one from scratch.) Wasting a bottle of mana potion is out, I don't even know know mana circuit is like. The earth have no such thing. Rest and prepare again tomorrow. Work life balance is important!
WORK LIFE BALANCE IS IMPORTANT!
That said, I bid farewell with Selene and Mira.
"All mana starts from head, mana vanishes and a damn desert…"
Thinking as a farm aspect, I could do irrigation to solve the problem. But the root cause still lingers. This is option A.
Thinking as a container aspect, there are holes that needs patching up. Like a runout tyre so out that a hole is made. This is option B.
I cant change a mana circuit though.
Or maybe it is just like a tyre that the valve has an issue? But what we knew is over exertion. I shall keep in mind but should also strike off this possibility.
Work life balance! I buried myself into bed.
"Hi to both of you again." It is still her on duty.
We went to see on Selene's condition. The attempt of irrigation is no good. It just pours two people worth of mana that can interfer with each other into another body.
We ended up having the need of Mira to be finding source of mana loss. It has to be somewhere in the head. Else, the whole body would not end up as a desert.
The request from me is simple. Mira will keep on taking her mana in and out and feel for anything new.
Yes. Mira can easily pour and pull out her own mana through the eye area. Other parts will still need a bit of effort to push mana in. Which is the main cause of Mira being exhausted from treating that swordsman.
Outline the area. While we can't do anything to grow a circuit. We can PULL the available ones and force something similar to sewing a open wound. Mira did, and she is wet again. I left the area in panic. Is this common for mages of water affinity? Or is it just plain sweat? I returned with a towel after requesting a change of clothes for Mira. Her getting a cold is not needed here. Mira better go for a break before anything happens.
I asked on how Selene is feeling. But before she could even react to my question. I saw, right at the tip of her thumb. A very, very small piece of plant showed up. It is good sign of her mana is back.
"We'll visit tomorrow. Do not exert your mana in excitement or anything. I want to know how much mana you can recover on your own after a night's rest."