Chapter 762: Thera's Perspective
Feeling the spell she’d placed at the beginning of the day start to fade, Thera reached out around her once more with both her senses and her mana to again cast her earth healing, a wasteful spell for most people that helped produce a mild healing effect for anyone who stood within its range.
Wasteful and mild for anyone else to cast of course, for herself, she barely noticed the loss and between both her mana and levels it drastically helped those who fell within it, treating their simpler wounds while leaving it easier for the other healers around to help with anything more complex, a fact that improved their work and saved lives while she went around, healing a few of the more critically injured before ending her work for the day.
She still wished for there to be a few more awakened light and life mages around but little by little, the work was easing. By then, every healer on the planet had to have had one of Ben’s mana bracelets and even if it wasn’t to the point of awakening, with how much they were all being worked the majority of them had to have gained a level since the second wave’s end. It still didn’t feel like enough, far from it, but it allowed her to leave a little earlier without any guilt so she could focus on other aspects of her training.
With that being her intention, she went on her way to the gate network nearby. As unreasonable as it felt to hope, she wanted to get her earth magic to the level of a contender before the third wave and there were a few other skills in her arsenal that would be good to raise up too. Her dark and non-affinitied options would both obviously be useful but even a few of her sense skills could be handy to raise, just needing a bit more practice than what she’d been giving them.
That wasn’t mentioning that Ben still had his hopes she’d be able to get her life magic to its third tier but beyond all of the healing she was already constantly doing she didn’t know how else she might force it, with the only option she had being to keep going.
And I guess getting two new tower blessings will help with that. She admitted to herself, thinking about Ben telling her his intent to take on both the non-affinitied tower along with craftsmans’ tower. It wasn’t like she was against challenging them, if anything she’d held some expectations before the wave began that they’d end up taking on at least the non-affinitied tower before the third wave, but it was still another point of stress on her mind. She could feel herself growing tired of all of the constant work and training and watching people die, with months still to go of it. The knowledge that she could do more for the world propelled her to try and keep growing but it was also wearing on her a little more each day.
If I really am challenging a couple towers then maybe I’ll take the day after each one off for some rest and recuperation. She told herself. I’m no use to anyone burnt out. Yeah, I’ll do that.
Just how nice that idea felt was almost embarrassing but it was something to look forward to, just a couple of days of peace in the not-to-distant future while she otherwise drowned in her work and training and she let herself indulge in the thought of a day to do absolutely nothing until she was interrupted. Not even a few feet from the gate she was stopped, an absolute swarm of spirits standing in her way.
They’d arrived almost instantly and all began talking at once, a sound of panic and urgency in their voices that left her to otherwise struggle to make out what they were all saying through the crowd of them that forced her to try to put things to order so she could understand just what had caused it, speaking up with her own mana.