Chapter 73: Opening Up

Julius honestly thought it wouldn’t work. However, much to his surprise, the life mana easily slipped into her and started to heal her fatigue. At the time, when he had acquired [Restoration], Julius didn’t get to check if the skill was a self-healing skill or if it was a healing skill that could be used on others as well. The troll’s skill certainly seemed like it was a self-healing skill, especially considering how effective it was. That being said, Julius also synergized the technique he learned from the troll with [Heal], which he knew was a healing skill that could work on others.

His technique wasn’t as effective as [Pseudo-Phoenix Renewal] and it wasn’t even as effective as when he had [Restoration], but it still worked quite well. Julius could feel the life mana working on Aubrey’s tired muscles and lungs, bringing them back to peak condition.

Aubrey had finally noticed his presence next to her, coming out of her contemplation. She was a little startled to feel him feeding her life mana. At first, he had gone slow, just to make sure that if anything went wrong, he could easily stop it before it got worse. However, as he saw his technique start to work, he slowly fed more life mana into the technique.

In less than a minute, Julius had rejuvenated Aubrey, and she looked ready for another round.

She turned to Julius, “That’s your healing skill?”

Julius looked at her and responded, “No, my healing skill is a self-healing one, so I had to create a technique that resembled my old skill and a few other additions to make it work.”

She looked at him like he wasn’t making sense. However, it wasn’t her that said anything. It was surprisingly Kyle who spoke up.

“You’re saying that you manually constructed a spell matrix on the fly using a previous skill as a reference?” His voice had a mixture of equal parts awe and skepticism.

“Yeah, is that not normal?” Julius asked genuinely curious.

Kyle shook his head, “Many warriors or mages who fight can adapt their skills on the fly, using them in flexible ways for specific situations. But for healing skills, you don’t usually do that. Healing skills are always more complex than say [Mana Strike], so for you to do it is impressive and interesting.”

Julius hadn’t thought about that before. He knew that his healing skills had always been more complicated, but he hadn’t really thought of the reasons why. He had mainly only been able to figure out a healing skill thanks to his experimentation with the troll.

“How did you learn your healing skill? I know most commoners don’t have access to healing techniques before they go to an academy unless they join a guild or other type of association.” Derek was the one who asked him that.

“Derek, you should know better,” Lily admonished him and then turned to Julius. “You don’t have to answer that, you don’t have to answer anything that you don’t feel comfortable with sharing.”

Julius didn’t mind telling them, maybe Kyle or someone would be able to share with him some information that might be useful if he did.

He smiled at her, “Thanks, Lily, but I don’t mind sharing. It isn’t a big secret anyways.” Then he turned to Derek, “I actually learned it from a monster who had a healing skill themselves,” Julius told Derek.

“From a monster?” Derek looked like he hadn’t been expecting that answer.

“Yep. Well at first I had [Heal] which took me a while to figure out on my own. However, after that, I learned a healing skill from a monster. I examined how its healing skill worked and then I made a technique based on it and then combined it with [Heal].”

“How does that even work? What’s your life affinity rating?” Derek asked.

“It’s the same as my others,” Julius told him.

Julius saw Derek and the others look baffled at his admission. He didn’t know why though. He had expected it to be slightly unusual but he didn’t think it would be enough for this type of reaction.

“What’s wrong?” He inquired.

“You don’t understand how crazy that sounds?” Lily asked Julius

“No, why would that be crazy, I was able to observe how the monster used its life mana to heal itself and then copied it,” Julius said confused.

“Can you tell us what kind of monster it was?” Derek asked him.

“It was a troll, it had a very good healing skill so I wanted to see if I could learn it,” Julius explained.

Julius noticed they all of them were surprised at that.

“Where the hell did you encounter a troll?” Aubrey exclaimed loudly.

Julius didn’t know how to answer that. If he said he encountered it in a rift, then they would ask how he managed to find himself in a rift. If he lied and said he found it in the woods, then they might be suspicious about why he was alone in the woods. He didn’t see a way to explain it without having to explain other things that he wasn’t quite sure he wanted to share yet.

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Lily must’ve seen the hesitation on his face or in his aura because she intervened and patted his shoulder. “It’s okay, you don’t have to answer.”

“What?” Why not? He is saying that he encountered a Tier 3 monster, and somehow was able to not only get close but close enough to examine its healing skill. That is kind of an important explanation,” Aubrey stated.

Edgar laid a hand on her shoulder, preventing her from escalating the situation. “Everyone is entitled to their secrets, he has already shared more than enough as is. Leave him be, he can tell us when he wants.”

Julius still didn’t know if he wanted to share the entire truth yet, but he felt like he could compromise a little bit.

“It’s not that I don’t want to share, but I do have some secrets that I don’t know if I should tell you guys about. I want to trust you guys, but we have only known each other for a week,” Julius truthfully explained to them.

Luckily, it seemed they all seemed to understand where Julius was coming from. Even Aubrey was now quietly thinking to herself.

However, it was Lily who spoke up first. “If you are worried about us sharing your secrets, I might have a solution to that.”