Half way through our journey towards the adventurers' guild, I asked Lyria to stop by the Merchants guild and take out 3000 groshen so that she can buy me something to protect myself from Ronald's shop. I told her to not do the seduction thing that she did at the market and to just remind him that I helped his sick wife; hopefully he will provide her with a decent discount.
I didn't expect to benefit heavily from Lyria honestly, I thought that she would be a pain in the ass but she proved otherwise, even if I slip up and reveal who I truly was she couldn't tell anyone due to her contract.
When we were shopping for the disinfectant yesterday I decided to test this magical contract, I told Lyria that I liked to get my balls stomped on and asked her to tell the stall owner about my imaginary turn on, she ended up passing out for 15 minutes before she could even finish her sentence leaving everyone confused.
She ended up forgetting everything that transpired before that, I knew she wasn't faking the passing out part because I checked her pulse just in case, so at least she is someone that I don't have to worry about for now.
We split up and I arrived at the adventurers' guild door alone, there was a man covered in wounds at the end of the street. I rushed towards him and carried him into my lounge; the guild was empty for some reason. He had a nasty bite mark on his shoulder and three scars that resembled a bear swipe on his back.
I fixed him up in 20 minutes and laid him on his back, hoping that he would wake up soon, this guild doctor thing is pretty chaotic to say the least, I don't have access to blood bags nor anything that I grew accustomed to, but humans here are different so there's that.
If I had to describe the man in front of me is that he is pulled out straight out of Danish Vikings movie, he had the tattoos, braided hair, and the physic to back it all up. He had a brown long hair and a well kept short beard, and to my surprise he didn't smell like absolute shit despite his state. Let me tell you something that has been bothering me for a while.
I know not everyone has access to clean water all the time but I swear the average human here has their stench factor multiplied by 3 times, if they hadn't bathed in a day, they would smell as if they haven't bathed in three days for some reason, and that applies to everyone that I've met so far.
I hope that I become rich fast enough to introduce deodorant to the market as fast as I can because this is just sad, I won't hold it against them though, it doesn't look like they can control it.
I left the lounge to take a fresh breath of air and the door suddenly busted open which left me alerted, I blonde woman entered in with what I assume the same injuries as the man that's resting on the table. She looked like a Valkyrie straight out of fiction so it's safe to assume that she is related to the man.
Woman: Hey you! Have you seen an injured man around here?
Claudio: Yes, he is resting in the lounge; his condition is stable so far.
The woman dropped to her knees in relief, she started crying softly while saying "Thank goodness", I let her be for a minute before introducing myself:
Claudio: The name's Claudio and I'm a physician, you don't look too good yourself, let me see to your injuries, miss…?
Ulfhild: Thank you Claudio, my name is Ulfhild, thank you but I can go on just fine I just need some rest; I will pay for my brother's treatment though…
Claudio: I didn't say anything about money, come in, free of charge.
Ulfhild: Well, if you insist, thank you for your kindness Mr. Claudio.
Claudio: you're welcome, just call me Claudio for now please.
She fell to her knees again when she saw her brother sleeping peacefully on the couch; she kissed on his hands while repeatedly apologizing. After she calmed down she unequipped her armor and sat down the table, she was mostly covered in blood and dirt but the only injury she sustained so far was a nasty claw swipe on her right arm.
I can see some dead tissue that needed to be removed so I explained to her the procedure before we start; I don't want to be clobbered all of a sudden. She was hesitant at first but decided to trust me eventually. She seemed really nervous when I got close to her so I started distracting her with questions about her and her brother.
Claudio: This is going to sting.
I started disinfecting the wound
Ulfhild: It's doesn't hurt that bad.
Claudio: That's good.
After I was done, I started talking to her while cutting off the necrotic tissue.
Claudio: I've never seen people who look like you around here, do you mind telling me about you?
Ulfhild: No problem at all, it's the least I could do.
Long story short, she is part of a huge nomad tribe called The Wolfborne, they were transmigrating away from the soon to be all out war. Apparently, the crown prince of the transcontinental kingdom of Horokros was assassinated; both of the kingdoms of Volquis and Wrestania will wage war to expand their borders, well shit.
Claudio: But I don't understand? Don't they have other powerful people in their kingdom? How can the death of one person cause all of this to transpire?
Ulfhild: They do, it's just that the crown prince was really that powerful.
I was done with the necrotic tissue next, I will disinfect the wound again before suture it shut.
Claudio: This is going to sting.
Ulfhild: It's fine Claudio, I've been through worse.
Claudio: Mhm, just a heads up.
Ulfhild: Excuse me for asking Claudio but I have some really poor vision, I've only seen you properly when you got close to me.
Claudio: Sure thing come in next time, I will see what I can do about it.
Ulfhild: No no it's just… I've been traveling to many places with my tribe and I've seen people who look like you, do mind telling me where you're from?
Claudio: I do mind actually.
Shit I guess I look more east Asian than I let on, my people are probably on the other side of this gigantic planet, no wonder why I've never seen Asian people so far in this town.
Ulfhild: Oh… sorry for my rude question.
Claudio: It's fine, I'm almost done here, lift up your arm so that I could wrap it up.
She got up and wore her silvery looking armor again before asking:
Ulfhild: Do you know when my brother will wake up? We really need him back at our base soon.
Claudio: It's really hard to tell, he lost a lot of blood and… wait I have an idea.
I went to my backpack and pulled out some smelling salts, Ulfhild eyed me as I approached her sleeping brother before pulling the bottle near his nose; he shot up like a bullet before screaming:
Ulmar: OH SHIT! WHAT THE FUCK?!
Ulfhild: Ulmar!
She rushed towards her now awake brother before crying near his chest.
Ulmar: Ulfhild? Where are we?
Ulfhild: We are at the adventurers' guild Ulfhild! This kind man saw you passed out on the street and helped you out free of charge!
I honestly thought they were adventurers but whatever, glad I stumbled upon them.
Ulmar looked around and saw me cleaning up the table and pouring some powder into a big cup of water.
Ulmar: Thank you brother, I promise to make it up to you.
Claudio: You're welcome, the name's Claudio.
Ulmar: Claudio, would you like to have my sister Ulfhild as your bride?
Claudio: You would wed your sister to a cripple?
Ulmar: AND WHY WOULD I DO SOMETHING SO DISGRACEFUL?!
Ulfhild: ULMAR!!!
Ulmar: What?
Ulfhild: He is…
Ulmar stared hard at my back and softly exclaimed:
Ulmar: Oh...
Claudio: Looks like the adventurers' are back, drink this juice it will help you recover faster.
Ulmar: Listen man I'm so…
The lounge door opened aggressively, interrupting Ulmar's weak apology
Adventurer: PHYSICAN! THERE IS AN EMERGENCY WHERE ARE YOU?!
Claudio: *Sigh* Coming.
I saw 8 injured adventurers', two code red, two orange, and the rest can wait for their turn.
Claudio: Bring those to the lounge NOW!
Adventurers began carrying the injured as I instructed and placed them on the tables; some bastard interrupted me and started shouting at my face with his dragon breath:
Adventurer: ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? ARE YOU GOING TO PRORITIZE THE…
I shoved his face and retorted:
Claudio: If you have a problem with the way, I conduct things go talk to the boss. OTHERWISE FUCK OFF!
He lunged at me but the three adventurers caught him midair as he was flailing around like a dumbass.
Adventurer: I'M GONNA KILL YOU YOU FUCKING CRIPPLE YA HEAR?!
I ignored his moans and started working on one of the gravely injured adventurers. He was a middle aged man, he had a laceration that skinned half of his head along some of his face, and he had to huge cuts on his stomach that were bleeding heavily.
I took a deep breath and started suturing his stomach as fast as I could while checking on the other patient; I wish I had someone to help me but whatever man. As soon as I was done with him I moved on to the other one, and he did not look good at all, he was at death's door.
I quickly made my way to the cupboard and pulled out a healing potion, I forced some of it into his mouth while pouring the rest on his body, I was basically freestyling everything as I went on. If I had to explain what I was seeing
He looked like he was chewed on by a giant and spat out, his whole body was black and blue and was bleeding heavily from multiple open wounds, the other adventurer interrupted my line of thought as I was inspecting this so called healing potion.
Adventurer: I am a silver badge you bastard, are you… really going to wa-ste a healing potion on a w-ooden badge?
Claudio: Shut the fuck up and die already motherfucker, stop interrupting me.
The Adventurer lied back down; he didn't have enough energy to talk back to me. The healing potion worked miraculously fast, but not fast enough, I had to suture and bandage up the rest of his cuts and bruises.
I went back to the other adventurer and tried to suture his exposed scalp, this is going to be a problem. It will be too painful for him so I had to do everything as fast as possible, I would disinfect the area, suture up his head back together as best as I could, and apply some of the so called healing salve to do the rest.
Wait, there is a potion for the pain! How can I forget something so important? I rushed towards the cupboard once again and poured some of the painkilling potion for him to drink, the bastard instantly became drunk for some reason, great, looks like the painkilling potion is just some sort strong alcohol, less trouble for me.
After I was done with the adventurer, I had to admire my work, he looked flawless to say the least, I'm sure my life would've been easier if had become a plastic surgeon like Henry instead of a neuron surgeon but what is done is done I guess.
I finally applied the healing salve on his head and face and bandaged everything up, not sure how effective it would be but something is better than nothing I guess.
Soon, the adventurer with the exposed scalp had some hissing sounds coming from his bandaged head, he was laughing but I'm sure that it was painful as fuck, it was labeled as healing salve so I had nothing to worry about so far.
I opened the door and called in the two orange coded patients next, one of them had his hands cut off just below the elbow and the other one had the same claw marks all over her back, as if she laid on her stomach to protect herself against a wolf.
The big bald man entered first and pulled out his severed hand out of his saddle, the bag was filled with medicinal herbs and some ice so the severed hand was in pristine condition so far. Upon inspection, I found 12 new extra vessels that I had not seen or studied before! These humans are really built different, some of the veins were lightly spewing liquid blue blood and some were spewing a yellow like liquid that disintegrated when it met the air, the rest were normal blood vessels as far as I can tell.
Big bald guy: Kid, are you done staring at my hands? Can you do something or no?
Claudio: Sorry, I can attach it back together just give me a moment to disinfect the area.
Big bald guy: Disinfect? What? You are not a healing mage?
Is everyone blind today for some reason? I thought me being a cripple was fairly obvious for some reason no? Or was I just meeting some random super humans that can tell right away and that was not the norm? Whatever.
Claudio: Do you want me to help you stitch your hand together or no? Stop wasting my time baldie.
Big bald guy: No need to be so rude man, didn't notice that you are a cripple, my name is Oliver, I thought we had a healing mage the way you brought Jenna and Lucia back from the dead.
Claudio: Who? You talking about the men behind me? Anyway this is gonna sting.
Oliver: Tss… fuck, don't say that to Lucia's face, and I promise you they look better when they aren't clobbered by a giant.
Giant you say? That still doesn't explain why everyone had some type of bite and claw marks across their bodies.
I started stitching back every vein and vessel one by one, the magical vessels were electrocuting me a couple of times for some reason but eventually I finished up everything pretty decently if I say so myself. I applied the healing salve at last and waited to see its effect full time.
The other adventurer reasonably shouted at me since she looked almost as bad as Ulmar and I rushed to fix her up, in the middle of me suturing her back, I heard the familiar burning sound behind me and I fought myself not to ignore the poor woman to go spectate the magical spectacle.
10 minutes later, I was finally done with the girl and I heard a shout from behind me, I turned around to see Oliver fully fixing and playing with his sewn in hand.
Oliver: SHIT, and you said that you were a cripple?! You saved me hundreds of groshen by not going to some healing mage so that they can regenerate my hand again! Thank you man you have no idea how much this means to me~~
He rushed towards me and hugged me with all his strength while crying his eyes out, I simply stood there dumbfounded by this revelation. By his reaction it's safe to assume that it's not the healing salve that did the trick, it's me simply suturing his veins back together, which I assume is something that most people in this world do not know about. What in the actual fuck is going on in this world man?
First, the kids at the orphanage suddenly growing into their actual size, then a man simply gains full control of his severed hand 23 minutes after it was stitched back? I mean what next? I've never felt so ignorant and unprepared like that in my life, I think I need to study everything back from the beginning again.
I pulled him away and went outside to find even more new injured adventurers; this is going to be a long day.
***
10 hours later
My shift was officially done, injured adventurers kept pouring in every 20 minutes, I didn't even have time to scratch my nose, literally. I was thirsty, probably hungry and tired since I didn't even sleep that long today. Adventurers were drinking and gambling while talking about the upcoming war, some valuable information but I was too tired to give a shit.
As soon as I was about to head out, a hand aggressively grabbed my shoulder and I turned around to see the previous adventurer who I shoved his face back to the ground earlier today, I slapped his hands away and we stared at each other for a moment.
Claudio: Sorry, not into guys, go try your luck with Oliver back there.
Silence, after that long silence everyone started hysterically laughing at my lame joke as if I was a comedian, the adventurer in front of me got so angry that I could hear his teeth clenching hard while his mouth is closed, I asked him:
Claudio: What's your problem anyway?
Adventurer: YOU BASTARD! YOU IGNORED MY SISTER FOR 4 HOURS JUST BECAUSE I PISSED YOU OFF? DO YOU FEEL BETTER ABOUT YOURSELF NOW?
Claudio: YOUR SISTER HAD A SCRAPED KNEE FOR FUCKS SAKE! Did you want me to give her a healing potion or something?
The crowed laughed louder, waking up the drunk Oliver, this is going to be escalated into a fight if they kept provoking the dumbass, so I turned my back on him and proceeded to the door.
Adventurer: You are so lucky that you are Vurams bitch, you better watch your back cripple.
I don't care anymore now, one of us dies tonight.
Claudio: Fuck Vuram, do you want to get fucked up this badly, bitch?
The crowd cheered on, my goal wasn't their amusement but it seemed like we both wanted something from this interaction.
Adventurer: Oh? A cripple wants to fight me? If you are really are serious than swing firs…
I didn't even let him finish his speech, I threw a mean elbow to the middle of his nose, he fell back a couple of feet behind with a surprised face, he held his bleeding nose while holding back some tears from his eyes. He got up, readied his fists and we walked to the middle of the guildhall.
Even though I was at a physical disadvantage I still know my fair share of mixed martial arts, I used to train and spar with MMA fighters and trainers all the time before I became a surgeon. The crowd was silent this time, as if they are witnessing something that shouldn't happen.
The man quickly approached me at a speed faster that I had anticipated and threw a very well telegraphed hook towards my stomach. Even though he was fast, his attack was easy to read so I protected my side and decided to kick the side of his knee as a counter attack, but boy, everyone has a plan until they get punched by a super human.
I ended up flying towards the wall in my right before crashing my back and stumbling on the ground; I held my stomach and coughed up some blood, looks like I had a cracked ribcage. Very well, I simply needed to not get hit this time. I got up, wiped my mouth and resumed my fighting stance.
Claudio: Whats wrong pussy, are you scared of a cripple?
Adventurer: This is meaningless, just give up already!
Claudio: Oh? Do you want to find out what your sister did to me when we were alone in that lounge? I've never had a better time in my life!
Well that was a lie, I just wanted to piss him off, and I gotta say, I did a pretty good job. The crowd resumed their laughter and exclaimed "OHHH", I could even hear some say "I told you she was a freak!", the adventurer dashed towards me with bloodshot eyes and speed that was faster than before, but this time I had some distance, and his attacks are heavily telegraphed attack, aiming at my head.
I preemptively dodge him to the side and gave him a mean knee to his solar plexus, he stumbled back struggling to breath and in some serious pain but I didn't care, I continued by giving him a roundhouse kick to his face, making him fall back in pain.
I'm pretty sure you're thinking "Man I'm winning" but no, his body was tough. my elbows were still stinging me from when I hit him in his nose, and so did my knee, and my foot was bleeding from his teeth, it feels like I am hitting a brick wall, I am not winning in the slightest, my best option is to pull out my trusted glock and shoot him in his face, or if he simply gave up.
After two minutes of squirming in pain, we both resumed our stances, this time we were closer, I gave him some kicks towards the back of his knee, wanting him to get angry again and attack like an idiot but this time he was patient, looks like I have to check his grappling now.
I faked a kick before lunging at his stomach, before slithering around towards his back. He was confused by my maneuver and started thrashing around like a fish but it was too late, I already had my arms around his neck. I didn't care about my strength and squeezed his neck with all my force, he started squirming and screaming with a breathless voice before suddenly, everything went black.