Chapter 290 : Chapter 290
Chapter 290. Believer
At first, that ‘doctor’ was somewhat displeased, because no matter who said those words, he could take it as the other party questioning his skill.
First of all, among the nearest few villages, there was currently only one ‘doctor’ like him. He did not believe that some other ‘doctor’ would suddenly appear from somewhere.
Therefore, he was extremely impatient with what Fulan had said. He had just been about to instinctively tell her to get lost, but after he caught sight of something from the corner of his eye, he changed his mind.
He saw Anna standing beside Fulan. He knew Anna, because when he had first arrived in this village, he had seen Anna smash a monster’s head apart with her bare hands.
With such a fierce person standing beside Fulan, he hesitated slightly. Then, from the corner of his eye, he saw his friend Brian frantically signaling to him.
Now he had no choice but to consider Fulan’s proposal. After thinking for a moment, he felt that two minutes was not very long, so he subconsciously stepped aside and waved his hand.
“Go ahead.”
Fulan had not expected to make this ‘doctor’ step aside so easily. She had thought they would argue back and forth a few times before he would let her try.
She rubbed her head, then walked directly in front of Ella and twisted open the cap of the ‘Infinite Health Bottle.’
Ella looked at that bottle of green liquid shimmering with golden light, and a trace of longing appeared in her eyes. Even she herself did not know why her heart was now filled with such a desire for this potion.
Fulan knew that it was Ella’s injured body longing for life force itself.
Fulan bent down and softly said these words beside Ella:
“This is a blessing from a god. You only need to remember that.”
Strictly speaking, there was nothing wrong with those words. If the Lord of Radiance had not urged her several times, she would not have planned to come here so early to help him develop believers, and then she would never have encountered Ella at all.
So on this level, Ella really did have to thank the Lord of Radiance.
Ella looked at the Infinite Health Bottle whose cap had already been opened, and stared blankly as she smelled an indescribable yet truly present scent.
But when Ella subconsciously tried to take the bottle, she discovered that her hand could not move.
At this moment, Fulan smiled.
“You don’t need to drink it.”
As she spoke, Fulan aimed directly at Ella’s left hand and poured the Life-Replenishing Potion onto it.
Fulan poured roughly thirty milliliters of Life-Replenishing Potion with that one motion. While the potion was still in the air, it sensed Ella’s life force and flew toward her arm, shimmering with golden light.
At this moment, the ‘doctor’ standing behind Fulan, who wanted to see what Fulan was trying to do, saw this scene before him and almost could not restrain himself from rushing forward directly.
He had been ‘practicing medicine’ for so many years, but this was the first time he had ever seen such a treatment method.
Even if the bottle of potion in Fulan’s hand was a relatively precious Healing Potion, he still thought her action was foolish.
That was because the monster’s fluid had already seeped into Ella’s arm, and there was almost no way to extract that fluid. That was why he had said the limb had to be amputated.
Even if a Healing Potion were used to heal the arm, that fluid would still remain inside the arm. Before it became inactive, it would still turn the entire arm black.
Moreover, this kind of Healing Potion would also directly close the wound, allowing that fluid to enter deeper into the arm. It was very possible that it would spread through the wound to the whole body.
But just as he was about to rush forward and stop Fulan’s quackish behavior, a pair of hands held him down firmly.
He lowered his head and discovered that it was his good friend Brian. This man, who had done many things before, was holding him down.
Before he could speak, Brian spoke first.
“Don’t rush. Wait a little longer.”
Only then did he calm down, and when Brian saw this, he loosened his hold slightly.
Both of them looked toward Ella and Fulan. But with only one glance, they froze in place.
It was not only them. Even the surrounding villagers who were watching were dumbfounded when they saw this scene.
In everyone’s eyes, after the green liquid was sprinkled onto Ella’s injured arm, the black color on it visibly faded a little.
Then, after only three seconds, they personally saw that ‘bad hand’ actually move. That was right. The palm had moved.
“This...” Someone cried out in surprise, but the moment he spoke, he realized that he was the only one talking, and he hurriedly covered his mouth.
After he covered his mouth, he also discovered that no one had noticed his voice, because everyone was focused on the changes in Ella’s arm.
They saw the large wound that the Magical Beast had bitten into Ella’s arm smooth over without anyone noticing. That black color also faded as time passed.
Ella clenched her fist and discovered that she could now control this hand with ease. Her heart filled with joy.
Only then did she realize that the dull pain that had always lingered inside her body had suddenly vanished, leaving her incomparably relaxed.
At that moment, she seemed to discover something herself. She propped her intact hand against the ground, then directly stood up on her own.
“That’s impossible...”
“Ella stood up...”
“Her hand is healed...”
The surrounding villagers cried out in shock, almost unable to believe that this scene had appeared before their eyes.
Even the ‘doctor’ who had wanted to step forward and stop Fulan stared blankly after seeing this scene, frozen in place.
Brian, however, looked at the potion bottle in Fulan’s hand, then blinked.
From the moment Brian saw this potion bottle, he had known that it was extraordinary.
Although even an ordinary glass bottle would probably be worth a great deal of money here, this bottle was absolutely different. Brian could not clearly describe that feeling.
It was as if the moment he first saw it, he could feel that this thing was definitely something good, but he could not say what was good about it.
Even now, after Brian had truly seen the effect of the liquid contained inside the bottle, he still faintly felt that this bottle was probably not limited to this alone.
After Ella stood up, her mouth opened wide, but no sound came out, because she truly did not know what words she could use to express her gratitude.
“Thank you...”
“You do not need to thank me.”
After she finally managed to say those two words, Fulan directly interrupted her.
“You should be grateful for the god’s gift.”
Ella’s eyes widened, and only after quite some time did she react. She hurriedly asked, “What should I do?”
Fulan smiled, then said:
“Just say this with me: thank the god for his help. As for the specific prayers, those can wait until my church is finished.”
Fulan did not directly tell Ella the name ‘Lord of Radiance,’ because she could not say this name directly.
It was just like when Fulan had been in the Spirit Realm. Back then, even though the Lord of Radiance had not had the divine statue at the center of the temple, he had still been unable to tell Fulan his own name. At that time, Fulan had only known that the Lord of Radiance was a god.
And now, in the Material Realm, it was the same. Fulan could only say the Lord of Radiance’s name in her heart. She could not convey the name ‘Lord of Radiance’ to outsiders.
Whether she said it aloud or wrote it on paper, it was the same. In other people’s eyes, Fulan had not spoken, nor had she written anything on the paper.
“Thank the god for his help.”
Ella spoke these words somewhat haltingly. Perhaps because the ‘god’ had just helped her, Ella seemed to have gained a little ‘faith’ in this god.
Now, hidden at Fulan’s waist, there was the book the Lord of Radiance had given her. If she took it out now, she would be able to see a beam of golden radiance shining from that book.
And Fulan did not need to take the book out to notice that it was now heating up. This stood out in the cold Northern Frontier, and Fulan had no reason not to notice it.
At this point, Fulan made no further moves. She smiled at Ella, then directly pulled Anna out of the crowd.
The crowd’s gaze remained fixed on Fulan until she had walked far away, and only then did they begin to move. This was especially true of that ‘doctor.’
After seeing Fulan leave, he immediately sprinted straight to Ella with one quick stride and lightly pinched Ella’s arm.
He muttered:
“It really is healed.”
The villagers also came forward to congratulate Ella on surviving this disaster. This incident planted a root in all their hearts.
Brian, meanwhile, kept looking at Fulan’s departing back. Then he turned back and looked at Ella’s arm, which was almost completely healed, and countless thoughts filled his mind.
To be honest, he knew that there were things in this world capable of directly healing Ella’s wound, but he had never imagined that such a thing would appear right here.
Furthermore, Fulan, who held that thing in her hand, had actually dripped that precious thing onto Ella’s hand and healed Ella’s injury.
Although he did not understand the value of such a thing, judging from the reaction of his friend, the ‘doctor,’ that ‘doctor’ had gone to the lord’s place before and treated the lord’s people.
If even someone who had gone to the lord’s place was so shocked, that was enough to show how precious this thing was.
Yet even so, Fulan had directly dripped the liquid onto Ella’s hand, causing a ‘miracle’ to appear before them.
And although Fulan’s words just now had been very soft, in that environment, which had been so quiet at the time, almost everyone had heard them.
Everyone knew that Fulan wanted Ella to express her gratitude to the ‘god.’ This made Brian realize that something was not right. He suddenly felt that perhaps this was Fulan’s true purpose.
Brian looked into the lively crowd. There were quite a few people asking Ella about that god from just now.
But how could Ella answer any of that? She could only stand where she was and stammer vaguely.
Yet even though they knew Ella perhaps did not know much more than they did, they still questioned her with great interest.
Brian looked at the crowd. He knew that if he said anything bad about that god now, there would probably be someone who would refute him on the spot.