CH336

“Wait, what?”

“From what I understand, you’re able to enchant unlike any other in the world. I know this is a lot to ask, but if you would at least try to make me one, I’d be forever grateful.”

“…Alright, ignoring the fact that I wouldn’t even know where to begin with something like that, I’m going to ask the obvious question of why you can’t get an awakened healer to help you. If your god was willing to spend the item I owe them for this, you must be worth getting some proper treatment as well.”

It wasn’t like there weren’t options after all. Even ignoring how powerful the great light and life spirits were, someone who had been an awakened life magic user for long enough should have had what it took to help restore a lost limb with enough time. Considering the fact that Ben was getting to the point that many of his items were making it to ultra rare, if this man was worth it then he should have been worth whatever expenses would come from hiring a powerful healer.

Hearing that though, Kelf only shook his head. “Unfortunately, my race keeps that from being an option.”

“Mind if I ask why?”

“I’m a ghoul. My kind are thoroughly in the death affinity with an unnaturally strong resistance to life so there’s no mage who can heal me with their magics. I understand I’m asking a lot, but before I lost my arm I was a swordmaster. With only months to go, I’ll do whatever I can to fight again.”

Swordmaster. So an awakened swordsman huh?

He could see why Kelf’s god would be spending an item on that. Awakened skill holders were considered valuable enough that the gods even reached across realities to get more. If Ben could make him something that would let him use half of his original power then of course it would be worth the effort, but that still didn’t mean there weren’t better options.

“Okay, so if life magic’s a no go then what about light? I get that its healing aspects aren’t as good but I’m acquainted with a powerful one and I personally wouldn’t mind trying to get them to help you instead of making an item.”

Of course, if I ask Lux for help I’m sure I’ll need to do something for her or end up owing Pelenia even more, but it seems like a worthwhile trade.

Despite his willingness to put up with owing a different person a favour though, Kelf again denied him. “Even worse. Life magic may not work on me, but light actively causes me harm. I’m pretty certain light mage who has the strength to heal a person with an injury like mine would leave me a pile of ash instead.”

“Seriously?”

“The evolutionary history of my race has left us ill-suited for traditional forms of healing,” He sighed. “So seeing as that’s the case, will you help me?”

“Well, it’s the deal I made so I’ll at least do my best.”

“Myriad, why the hell can’t ghouls be healed normally? I can’t believe there’s an entire species less suited for living in this world than me.”

The fact he had to figure out how to make an arm wasn’t an issue, in fact he viewed it mostly as an interesting project that had the potential to help him with some other goals as he went, but that didn’t mean he wasn’t going to complain at all.

“The life of their homeworld evolved around an anomaly, it’s unfortunate but it’s affected their kind’s path as a whole. Good luck though, I believe in you.”

“No, not ‘good luck though’. What does any of that even mean?”

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“For some reason, the star their world orbited would spew out death mana. Given that life was able to grow and develop despite that I’d say a few quirks are forgivable.”

“…Okay, whatever, this is just the reality I live in I guess. So how am I going to deal with this?”

He was being asked to do more than just make a simple prosthetic, he needed to make something at least mostly functional. Something that would be able to deal with whatever level of strength was put into it for combat while ideally being able to manage the smaller, more minute tasks one would expect of them in day-to-day life.

“I don’t think you need to go that far,” His god pointed out. “The man asked for help to use a weapon, how well he can use cutlery seems irrelevant.”