Chapter 418: A Short Mission

Unfortunately, not all of his healings went that smoothly. There were a couple of times when Galten or Freya had to intervene on his behalf. It was especially true on some of the more complex injuries.

One woman had lost her eye, and Julius attempted to regenerate it. He emphasized that because he made a very minor mistake, the eyeball popped like an overinflated balloon. The woman screamed like she had just been subjected to the worst torture imaginable, and it took Galten intervening until she calmed down.

When she finally left the room with two healthy eyes, she made sure to give Julius the stinkiest glare on her way out.

Galten, on the other hand, had not been upset in the slightest. “Don’t worry, it was bound to happen eventually, and to be fair, eyes are notoriously hard for any healer. Many professional healers don’t even have a skill powerful enough to handle such a complex process.”

On the bright side, he had been offered another skill—this one for his life mana.

It wasn’t the most exciting one, but it was a skill that Freya and Galten both believed was worth considering.

It was called [Healing Structure], and it was likely because of the complicated way he wove life mana to handle the strength of his concept and mana.

They made sure he understood that he didn’t need this particular skill either. They stressed that point. They believed that he would be able to heal most people with better results than other healers, just because of his Phoenix Concept and advanced control of his mana.

Since he wanted to be a fighter, it would only take up a spot on his limited list of skills. What intrigued him, though, was that the skill had some possible synergy with [Phoenix Renewal]. The other two agreed. They thought if the skills managed to merge together, they would become a very powerful skill, even more than [Phoenix Renewal] already was.

He set this aside for the time being.

Another bright note was that he had gained another two levels in [Kinetic Control]. Now the skill was at the threshold before it advanced into a rare skill. It only required him to take the final step.

He had been trying, but even with Cain’s help, the skill had not evolved. There was something he was missing.

Additionally, he still hadn’t been able to combine [Spatial Crack] and [Barrier of Severance] as of yet. [Spatial Crack] had gained another two levels from his heavy usage, but there had not been any progress in combining them.

He had been in Auraulos for over three weeks at this point, and he would be leaving for the tournament in just over a month. He was running out of time to do the things he wanted.

It was why he had proposed something to Cain and Freya that night.

“Are you sure?” Freya asked him.

“I think it is a great idea. Let him take a mission and let loose. He might need a bit of fresh air and get a little dirty,” Cain, on the other hand, was very supportive of Julius’s proposal.

“But he might just be wasting time. Time that he could use to learn some other things,” she pointed out.

Julius could not deny her reasoning. She made a fair point.

The Shattered Winter School wasn’t just a simple school. They had members and connections that led to a mission hall much like the Adventurers Guild. Julius had proposed that he take one of these missions in order to evolve his [Kinetic Control] and possibly combine them like he usually did.

“Plus, the missions mainly have to do with the recent attacks from bandits and other problematic parties. It might not be the best thing to send him into at this time,” she added.

“What? Are you worried that he won’t be able to take care of himself?” Cain asked his wife.

“Not really, but humans can be much more dangerous and unpredictable than monsters. I don’t need to tell you that,” she argued.

He interrupted before the two of them could argue more. “Let me take a short mission. If I am not back in a week, then one of you can come and grab me. Does that sound fair?”

“A lot can happen in a week,” Freya said to him.

He held back a sigh, knowing that she was just concerned for him, and looked directly into her eyes, trying to reassure her. “Trust me. I know how to survive. I will be fine.”

“I am not questioning your strength. But I question your judgment sometimes. I have seen how you train at night. Can you exactly blame me?”

He couldn’t argue with her there. He had been getting quite overzealous in his nightly training sessions and had only gotten worse as his skills weren’t combining like he wanted them to.

“I want to go, and I know you can stop me whenever you wish, but I need to do this. I don’t have much time left here. If I did, I would be more than happy to take it slow. But I don’t. Let me take this risk, okay?”

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Freya looked away and stared at Cain. The two of them were likely communicating with each other, and apparently, Cain must have convinced his wife because her shoulders deflated.

“Okay, a week. Not a single second more,” she said firmly.

“Got it,” Julius promised.

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It didn’t take him very long to find a suitable mission for himself. With Freya and Cain’s permission, he was allowed to choose any mission that he wanted without having the appropriate status.