Free Web NovelChapter 235: Chapter 233: Test
"We can only suppress, not dispel, why is that?"
Hilia was puzzled.
"Wasn’t it possible before... No, it seems like I always assisted each time." freeωebnovēl.c૦m
Elina nodded, "Yes, you assisted each time to dispel. Initially, I thought your help only accelerated the dispelling process. Just now when you went to scout the situation, I purified alone and discovered that Elf Blessing can only suppress the curse, not dispel it.
"If you hadn’t left and joined me in dispelling just now, I wouldn’t have realized."
"So that’s the flaw of Elf Blessing?" Hilia stepped forward to assist Elina in dispelling.
After solving this patient, she proposed a thought: "Let me try and see if I can dispel it."
"Okay."
Elina stepped aside.
Using the Purification Skill taught by Rose, under the guidance of the Mage’s Hand, Hilia began to delve alone into the source of the curse.
After a moment, Hilia shook her head, "I can’t dispel it, even worse than you..."
Elina came over, and after healing the patient with Hilia, she curiously asked, "Could it be that a combination of Elf Blessing and Purification Skill has miraculous effects?"
Hilia looked at her own hand and said, "My purification skill is different from the Holy Court’s purification skill, but I do know the purification skill of the Holy Court. Want to try it?"
Elina nodded, "Use it, why not, I almost forgot you seem to come from the Divine Hall."
Hilia’s heart skipped a beat, feeling a bit guilty.
Elina only knew she was from Star Ash Town, unaware of her identity as the Holy Court Saintess.
According to her claims of disliking the Holy Court, perhaps she doesn’t despise someone from a remote divine hall, but she certainly would dislike her as a Saintess.
Sigh, why was the Holy Court 500 years ago so troublesome?
No... even now, the Holy Court is full of parasites.
Once I have enough strength, I must reform it!
For the next patient, Elina used Elf Blessing while Hilia adjusted her purification skill, utilizing the Holy Court’s purification skill, with the Mage’s Hand guiding it into the battlefield of the curse.
Soon enough, she realized something was wrong.
"The Holy Court’s purification skill can’t cooperate with Elf Blessing."
When Rose’s purification skill was added to the battlefield of the curse, it could cooperate with Elina’s Elf Blessing in collaborative warfare to dispel all curses.
However, when the Holy Court’s purification skill entered the battlefield, even with the Mage’s Hand controlling it, it couldn’t cooperate.
Moreover, as soon as the purification skill’s magic power approached the Elf Blessing’s magic power, they were recognized as opponents, attacking each other—Hilia could control the purification skill not to attack, but Elina couldn’t; she was unable to control it.
Rose chuckled, "The purification skill of the Holy Court and the buff of Elf Blessing... Hmm, the blessing effects can’t coexist, only one can exist. The purification skill I taught you solved this problem, so it can be used in conjunction with Elf Blessing."
Hilia suddenly understood, quickly changing the purification skill to use Rose’s purification skill to cooperate with Elina in treating the patient.
As she tried to use the Holy Court’s purification skill to collaborate with Elina in dispelling earlier, the mercenary brother being used as a test subject was in a painful state throughout, the two incompatible blessing spells, under the influence of the curse, directly used his body as a battle ground, causing him intense pain amidst the conflict of three types of magic power.
Yet he didn’t scream out, enduring with strong restraint, sweat continuously dripping, silently enduring, making Hilia feel embarrassed.
After the treatment, Hilia apologized, "Sorry, there was a small mistake in the treatment earlier, as compensation, we won’t charge for this treatment."
The mercenary brother’s lips were somewhat pale, showing a forced smile, "No, no problem, I’m from the Eternal Night Mercenary Corps, this little pain, I can endure with my eyes closed! Whatever the cost, we won’t be short!"
Upon hearing he was from the Eternal Night Mercenary Corps, Hilia couldn’t help but think of the tunnel they excavated, curiously asking, "Are the Eternal Night Mercenary Corps still digging that secret passage?"
The mercenary shook his head, "No, we continued to dig forward, encountering too many traps and defense arrays. Later we excavated horizontally and confirmed that this is a subspace relic buried in the mountain, digging further wouldn’t find any treasure, and might disrupt the array’s function, possibly causing this relic to be lost, so we stopped."
Hilia nodded, "Thank you."
"No, it’s me who should thank you!"
Saying this, he threw down 20 silver coins and ran off.
The two exchanged a glance, somewhat at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
"This Eternal Night Mercenary Corps seems quite decent."
"Indeed, the Royal Mercenary Corps’ leader came demanding a refund upon learning of our discount, while the Eternal Night Mercenary Corps never came forward, probably focused on exploring the relic."
After the mercenary from the Eternal Night Mercenary Corps left, the two found some leisure time.
Everyone else had run to the treatment stall opposite, queueing up.
Most of the mercenary treatments for Hilia were 10 silver coins, a few severe cases cost 20 silver coins, while extremely mild ones were less than 10 silver coins.
Meanwhile, the opposite stall offered a flat rate of 5 silver coins, for ordinary mercenaries, wasting a bit of time to queue, saves 5 silver coins, quite a worthwhile deal.
Only those with severe conditions, unable to wait in line, would come to Hilia and Elina.
Neither Hilia nor Elina minded this.
No people, so they chatted to pass the time, a good chance to relax.
Initially, this treatment didn’t earn much money, the big gains were from magic crystals obtained in explorations and the materials fallen from traps.
Magic crystals were easier to distribute, the materials dropped or dismantled from trap Magic Guide Devices needed to be appraised at the Mercenary Guild or Mage Guild to estimate their value before division.
Hilia had already planned to keep some of the divided magic crystals as reserve and sell the rest; as for the materials, to see if any can be used, those that can’t, but are valuable, would also be sold.
"Have to find time to go into town to sell stuff."
Hilia looked at the stall opposite: "Elina, how long can Elf Blessing suppress the curse?"
"Depends on the blessing’s duration, the minimum is an hour, the maximum one or two days." Elina also glanced over, "They can’t dispel the curse, but suppressing it temporarily allows treatment to proceed, just requiring multiple treatments needing repeated dispelling... Wonder how long the curse lasts after being contracted."
Hilia said, "It will last at least a month."
"That long." Elina looked at her two elf compatriots, somewhat worried, "Wouldn’t mercenaries seek trouble when they find out it’s only temporarily suppressed without dispelling?"
Hilia chuckled, "Aren’t they your competitors, why are you concerned about your competitors?"
"We are all elves, mutual aid is the right thing to do."
Hilia glanced at the Royal Mercenary Corps members behind those two elves, hinting, "You want to help each other, but it seems like they’re targeting you."
