《Clockwork powers? Sure! Wait, why am i on a fantasy world?》Chapter 16 - the end of the boring training
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-How in the fuck did you manage to hurt yourself again?! How stupid are you?
- i almost blew my arm off! Do you really think this is the time to be giving me sass!
I screamed back at her in between groans and hiccups of pains, all the while she quickly turned to the side, yelling for a medic to hurry up and come help.
A young man in a white jacket and funny hat walked up to my side.
As he lowered myself to my eye level (i was in a bed raised two feet of the ground) i noticed a emblem stitched onto his left shoulder. This must either be the symbol of this country or the one the medics use, i should ask him later when i'm not in immense pain.
- hello i am gabriel, i was the one appointed to come take care of you.
- Whatdefuck are you talking about! Just fucking help me, i don't give a shit who you are!
He snapped out of his calm and collected state at that point as he came to notice that this wasn't such a happy visit and he couldn't have a chat.
-i...im really sorry, i should start treating you.
He raised my arm and placed a towel under the elbow. My wrist and carpal tunnel had been burnt from the inside and i couldn't move my fingers, the tendons had probably been shredded by the heat and the small explosion that had went off inside my arm.
I could feel his hands being covered in a thin film of mana before placing one on my bicep and the other on the tip of my fingers.
-ill start the healing now!
- why are you announcing it?! just WAAAAAA…
i felt my arm bloat from the pressure and my tendons stretch back and reconnect with my fingers, it was like there were worms wriggling themselves through my arm but that wasn't what caused me pain, that was caused by the burnt parts as the blood pressure skyrocketed towards my hand and an itch so strong one would need to rub sandpaper just to calm it down a little appeared.
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- This...is a DEEP pain!
- This... isn't the last part, just so you know, it gets worse but then it'll be better.
- Oh cool it gets worse!
He lowered my arm back onto the bed and pulled out a hollow needle and a long thin blade like a mini rapier he would use as a scalpel.
All the while Carol leaned against the wall with her arms crossed and biting her lip from the discomfort of watching the next step. In a swift move he stabbed the blade into my carpal tunnel and shoved the needle at the same time he pulled the other out.
-that should remove the swelling caused by the air inside, you should be good to go after i finish bandaging your hand.
I stood up from the bed as the medic finished rubbing a paste over my arm and wrapping it.
- This should numb your arm for a few hours so the pain won't disturb you just don't use this arm again until tomorrow for magic or any other action.
I didn't utter a word towards him. not that i didn't want more for the fact that if i decided to yell at him i probably would never stop, along with the pain that was also stopping me from breathing.
- Can we get the fuck outta here then Carol?
She stopped rolling her hair around her fingers and stood straight taking her back of the wall.
- I guess there's no point in staying here any longer anyway, let's go back to training then. But don't fuck up this time!
We went back to the field as each hero gave me a different look.
Daniel looked worried that i might have hurt myself seriously.
Ana looked astonished that i had returned so soon and that i looked fine.
…
Oh and Inês apparently had returned. Still had the resting bitch face though.
- Alright you three can go back to training. Inês come aside so i can put you up to what i had told them already.
- So… did you do anything while i was gone?
- Do you really think we just went back to training after you almost tore your hand off?!
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- Don't be like that Ana! Are you alright now?
- It should be alright by tomorrow apparently, just gotta use my left arm meanwhile, shouldn't be hard since its my dominant hand anyway.
- What???
Ana seemed to go berserk at the last part.
- Are you seriously left handed?
-yeah, why? You've got something against it?!
My face had turned serious at this point as i looked at her and was met with a look of disdain and pity, she somehow despised me for being left handed!
I could feel a slight wiggle in that word, whatever caused me to be able understand those around me be it skill or otherwise had given me a hint. Deformed might have been the translation to what she said but it wasn't what she meant!
The moment i thought of that word inside my head i could feel others float to my mind like they were the other translation suggestions.
Handicapped, deficient, retarded…
I tried to keep myself calm through what she had said but the moment those words ran through my mind i had lost it to the red curtain cast over my eyes.
- You wanna fucking go! You think you can treat me like that and that i won't do shit because you're a girl!
- Mitch! Ana! You two fucking stop fighting and insulting each other like children! We are supposed to be fighting in a holy quest to save this world. And we can't do that if we are lunging at each other's throats.
Daniel was the one to pull us back to the reality of our situation. He was really good at coercing people, especially with a loaded crossbow on hand.
We went back to experimenting with magic. And when i say we, i mean Morpho and I since Ana wasn't any good at it and Daniel was still fiddling with a tiny amount of mana running it through his body and testing its properties.
- hey Morpho?
- uuuum!
- Can i shoot magic out of my hand with you in the way?
- im an extension of you at this point, so if you focus you should be able to control mana all the way through me.
- alright then! Time to test it again this time without fucking up my hand.
I sensed mana flowing out of my arm and of three points within the armors forearm, charging up the fingers of the glove.
I sent it forward in a stream of blue waves making two things different this time, my hand didn't explode and i didnt stop sending it this time. I kept the stream going for as long as i could till the log had such a big hole carved into it that the moment i stopped my attack it snapped and fell forward.
- Now thats some hellfire!
- Hey Morpho?
- What?
- Are you sucking mana of my body?
- yeah, i've been storing all the mana you make inside me. That's why i told you not to put any points in wisdom. I'll make out of you the most powerful magician there ever was.
- How much mana can you store?
- I'm not sure, let me count. 2…, and 2…, plus 3…? around 700 mana.
- If i could i would blow you right now. That's incredible! You can't be blown though right?
- i dont have a body, so no.
- Good i didn't wanna be called out on that.
I was exhilarated to know that Morpho was a giant battery, he was right on what he said with him taking care of half the work i could become the greatest magician there is in no time, flinging spell at anything that moved.
- alright you lot it's already late, time for supper, i hope you sleep early tonight, we are gonna get you all to different places so you can start training tomorrow. You will need to be up by 4 am.
Nigel had come to get us off the field.
- god, this shit is going to be a pain tomorrow.
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