"Gotcha!""You can"t manage no.27 alone! Cooperate with another!"
"Yes!"
I"m using 【Pa.s.sive Detection】 while healing the patients and giving instructions while keeping tabs of the patients" mana reactions and the remaining mana of the healing magicians.
Many of the patients were unconscious so we couldn"t get their names, therefore, we used the wooden tags as subst.i.tutes.
As expected of healing magicians who had stayed in this city until now, they were more usable than their early impression would suggest.
--And about an hour later.
"We"ve treated the last person!"
We"re done treating everyone with Alma"s announcement.
Now, no one will die at least.
In the end, the four of us were the only ones who could continue the treatment.
The city"s healing magicians ran out of mana nearing the end and shifted to nursing the patients.
Well, they were downed when there were 20 patients remaining though, we were able to save all the patients in part due to their contributions.
"You really did save them all... You may look like a kid, but in reality you must be a veteran healer aren"t you?"
The healing magician leader talked to me after seeing that it was over.
Let alone famous, I can count people I used healing magic on in my past life by hands.
There were also times when I healed monsters I defeated and returned them to the forest in hope of making them stronger, but it"s not a popular method nowadays.
"Nope, I"ve never taken the role of a healer before."
"Are you saying that this was your time!?"
"Well, I"m an adventurer. I"ve been through a lot."
Apparently, it"s customary in this country not to probe into an adventurer"s past.
They should stop pressing further if I say it like this.
"Your skills are still weird regardless of what you"ve been through.... Even your instructions felt like you had precisely grasped what everyone was capable of...."
"Well, that"s a matter of experience. ...By the by, I"ve got a little question."
I stare at the healing magician.
"Question?"
"Yeah. I"d like to hear the details about the previous ruler"s pa.s.sing... I"ve heard that it was because of a rare disease...."
Of course the latter half was a lie.
I don"t know how the previous ruler died.
The only reason why I pretended to have an interest in his disease is to avoid suspicion.
However, I have a reason to ask this.
From what I"ve heard so far, the previous ruler was a competent man.
In fact, the basic constructions of this city are well thought out despite traces of deterioration from the current ruler.
I can"t believe a ruler like that would willingly appoint such an inept man like the current ruler is as his successor.
However, it could be a case of him not making it in time while he was trying to find a solution.
--Like say, if he suddenly pa.s.sed away.
"That rumor is inaccurate. The previous ruler pa.s.sed away from a wound he sustained from a monster. You might have been able to easily cure him, but keeping his life for a week was the best we could do."
I see. Normal wound huh.
There are monsters that are poisonous after all.
Even if that wasn"t the case, with the level of the healing magicians here, no one could probably heal a too serious injury.
As I thought this far, the healing magician spoke like he recalled something.
"Ah. There was one strange point. ...He lost his ability to speak early on. Due to that, ruler-sama wasn"t able to leave a will."
...I see.
It came to that huh.