Chapter 467 - Tamers War - Unorthodox Medical Progress
"Have you considered using beast materials to absorb those crystals from his ’processing system’?" Ren asked.
The experts looked at him with curiosity but much more skepticism. The question was unexpected, coming from a child who should have been overwhelmed by the technical jargon they had just delivered, yet spoke with confidence that suggested a weird genuine understanding.
"What type of materials can do something like that?" the first expert asked, his tone carrying the patient indulgence of a professional humoring a child’s question.
"Tentacles from beasts with absorption capacity," Ren began, naming a material that made both experts raise their eyebrows. "To dissolve solidified crystallizations. Beasts with that capacity break down crystallized mana back to its ’semi-ethereal’ state."
"Like the ones from those nocturnal pests?" the second expert asked, his voice high with immediate rejection. "Those are terrible things for a sick person... They would steal the little vitality energy he has left faster, not just mana. We would never use such harmful materials... Those things would be at the level of trepanation and bloodletting, things that have been left far in the past."
The comparison was apt and disturbing... ancient medical practices that had killed more patients than they saved, abandoned for good reason by civilized medicine.
"It’s different," Ren insisted, his voice carrying conviction that made the experts pause. "And that’s why we’ll need to powder a high vitality beast, liquid extract wouldn’t work because it doesn’t block the short vitality absorption fibers well, we only need the long fibers being free, those are the ones that absorb only mana."
"Beast powder?" Julius asked.
Reducing living creatures to dust, harvesting their essence for therapeutic purposes that sounded more like alchemy than medicine.
"Beasts with very high vitality usually have much more of that than mana, so when preyed upon by absorption beasts and left without mana they dry up completely and the remaining powder from their bodies returns to the soil," Ren explained with matter-of-fact clarity. "I left some at school and carry some materials in my backpack but they won’t be enough... if you can get me some..."
The experts looked at each other; that was clearly outside their area of expertise.
Years of conventional medical training hadn’t prepared them for therapeutic approaches that sounded more like battlefield scavenging than clinical practice.