Chapter 162: Sometimes, you can find your calling while throwing up
The sick children and a few adults were being gathered in the village clinic, filling all the rooms and sick beds available. Now that they were being rounded up, it was apparent that the numbers were pretty alarming.
Fifteen demons were sick and eleven of them confirmed to get it from polluted mana.
"If I’m more proficient, I’ll be able to purify them directly," I muttered while looking at the seven children that got afflicted.
While it wasn’t severe, and only caused them fever and headache and made them feel lethargic, it still saddened me to see them laying down with a pale complexion like that. It reminded me of the children’s ward even more, and all the bad memories that surfaced because of it.
It would be nice if I was good enough to purify someone’s mana, but as I was not a full druid, purifying the environment was my limit. But at the very least, with better mana in the environment, it would hasten their recovery, and prevent similar symptoms in the future--well, until the pollution got bad again.
But unlike the realm of nature, in which the very residents breathed mana, there wasn’t much magical activity happening daily in demon realms, so they should be fine for a long time.
I did it twice, inside the village medical hall and at the small plaza, in the center of the village. Because of the location, I had to do it while being watched by the other villagers, as well as the officials of Lu’ann. By the time I finished and let the purified mana scatter through the air, the Mayor was there too.
The moment I opened my eyes and exhaled, Arta draped a coat on my shoulder and Opti gave me a steaming mug of herbal drink. Through my peripheral vision, I could see Caba securing the space around me to prevent the villagers from coming too close.
"Are you alright, Young Master?" Lesta asked.
"Mm, it’s just light pollution here, I think it’ll be fine even if I don’t let it out," I nodded, pulling on the coat to wear them properly. My body got heated up when I did the purifying, so it was uncomfortable wearing warm clothing. Now, though, as the mana got dispersed, I felt chill again. "Even if I let it stay in my system, it’ll just get digested natura--"
"No!"