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"Avan, are you okay?!" Yue's first question came at him, which he only half understood thanks to his auditory canal, which was still healing.

"Here, take a healing potion!" Elisa shot right after him and tried to press a red healing potion into his hand.

The struggling Avan waved his hand a bit exhaustedly and pointed with both index fingers at his ears on the left and right. "Wait a minute, please!" He half shouted between clenched teeth. "My ears are just healing! Give me a minute, will you?" And leaned dazedly against the wall of the house behind him.

Yue looked at him worriedly, but knew from experience and what she had seen in the dungeon that he had to be pretty tough to be able to fight through all the monster hordes. Elisa, on the other hand, didn't quite understand how he just wouldn't accept the healing potion she offered and looked pleadingly at the fox girl next to her. For the granddaughter of the guild master, fighting was certainly nothing new, but seeing someone with a blood-encrusted head seemed to scare her more than one would have expected.

"I think he's healing himself right now, Elisa." Yue tried to reassure her and put her right hand on Elisa's shoulder. "You should have seen the number of enemies he killed in the dungeon. Although the injury to his ears is probably a somewhat new and more painful experience for him, judging by his facial expression..." She finished the short explanation with a sideways glance at his face.

Meanwhile, the researcher nervously kneaded her hands and after the explanation looked again at Avan, who in the meantime seemed to have visibly less pain.

He, on the other hand, tried to distract himself and, looking at the passionate woman, he remembered that, thanks to his status as a dungeon, he could do everything with his skills within his sphere of influence that he could normally only do with touch.

Class: Healing Dungeonheart [Human]

You are not stationary, and thanks to that, you are a walking dungeon. Your limited functionality as a dungeon evolved to something unprecedented. Your potential unlocked, you can momentarily not only sense everything in your dungeon but also influence everyone and everything inside. Be it healing, mana intrusion to damage your foes, or doing whatever you usually could do in a human range.

Project to pick up something in your dungeon or cast a spell without being in sight. Your limit is your imagination. Inside your sphere, you are omnipotent.

Active Skill: Akkalons Touch

With great strength comes great responsibility and more so with each touch. Heal or destroy.

When in direct contact, you can now inflict mana-based wounds to your enemies or infuse an ally with supportive energy.

[Bronze] You can use multiple appendages to inflict or heal many at the same time.

And thanks to his bronze rank in [Akkalon's Touch], he could influence several opponents and people at the same time with his skill. Looking at his excessively high mana regeneration, he could probably heal many, many people at once. Even if this was currently still very slow.

With this in mind, and his hearing slowly becoming fully functional, Avan separated from his support and smiled gratefully at the two women. "Thank you for worrying about me. Yue, Elisa. It's almost all healed now." He explained, casting an alternating look at both of them. "I'd like to see if I can help the other defenders heal a bit..." He then murmured, glancing at the injured fighters.

Yue just nodded and went ahead, while Elisa moved next to him to help him in case he needed some support. Grateful for the gesture and smiling inwardly at the size difference between him and Elisa, he walked slowly forward and immediately staggered a bit. Immediately a person held him, but more forcefully than he would have expected. "Ahh, thank you..." He whispered to her, slightly ashamed. "The hearing and with it my sense of balance its.... not quite up to snuff yet."

With her help, he reached the other fighters after a short time without further incident, most of whom were sitting on the ground of the marketplace and some citizen and adventurer colleagues were running around putting on bandages. Also some healers in their beige and white robes ran among the injured, stopping here and there briefly to stop at people where it had already been too late.

There was a sad and tense atmosphere, with a hint of underlying anger at the person or the people who had dared to let the monsters into their city.That there was someone responsible for this situation and the deceased were just announced by the guild master.

Avan, with Elisa's help at his side, walked through the exhausted and injured crowd, stretching out his feelers in a ten meter radius. At each person he detected lacking vitality in the form of this blue flickering flame, he sent out a strand [Akkalon's Touch]. Here, with his spiritual eye, he again felt and saw these strands of celestial energy, which he now recognized as his mana imbued with celestial power. Due to the focus on his healing spell, this strand was not only paper-thin, but fist-thick.

As he walked among the hurt, some of the wounded noticed, wide-eyed and whispering, a sudden surge of energy and an eye-visible healing of their injuries.

When Avan arrived at the presumed bulk of wounded, he also sat down on the ground and received sympathetic, respectful or skeptical looks from some of them. The people here had seen him fight and had certainly also witnessed the explosion, which many suspected had originated from him.

Elisa sat down next to him without comment and looked at him again with that curious inquiring look, which she always turned to one of the topics on which she was focusing. She also felt the light touch of a foreign energy, but she was not hurt, which is why it remained with this strange tingling. With a sideways glance fixed on Avan, she looked around and noticed confusion in many of the injured as they looked at their bandages, wounds and neighbors. Some also scratched at their suddenly disappearing small wounds, which were mysteriously healed within a short time.

The cause of the healing, meanwhile, leaned against one of the half-smashed marrow stands and had his eyes closed, almost as if he were asleep and not responsible for anything around him.

With a loud clearing of the throat, all the adventurers and guards turned to the Helio Stormcloud standing between them. The guild leader had a serious and very angry expression on his face when he started to speak. "Well... To all the concerned people who have lost someone because of these... nefarious murders today, I express my deepest condolences! This is all due to one person; a man named Adrian, the apparent local leader of a branch of the slave ring "The Raptures". This man had wanted to have one of our own captured via an advertised quest and now that we have uncovered his machinations, he has been cornered. So he released his experiments and lapdogs on our city!" He spoke with fervor to the adventurers, who listened to him mesmerized and with visibly more righteous anger. "This man is a beast tamer and responsible for many deaths today and over the past several months! Commander Larin has flushed out his lair and this scum thought it a good idea to unleash his creatures on us!"

Suddenly, the guild master clapped his hands with a loud bang. "And this was his last act! Because as of today, this man is dead, as sure as my name is Helio Stormcloud!" He finished his speech and received a real cheer of anticipation and anger, which the guild members, the guards, but also the inhabitants of the city, who had listened to his speech, shouted to him.

He raised his staff and whispered words of power that made his staff shine. A blue glowing ball rose from the upper part of the staff and with a loud ethereal chime, an equally blue line shot out of it, as if the ball were unrolling and made of blue twine.

The magical blue twine shot away at a speed that none of the people present could reach on foot, and the floating bluish ball became smaller and smaller until suddenly the thread was pulled taut with a jerk.

"Gotcha!" The guild master said to no one in particular and suddenly disappeared from the scene with a loud thunderclap.

In the distance, in the direction of the blue thread which faded more and more piece by piece, storm and thunderclouds suddenly appeared on the southeastern horizon. Blue lightning flashed across the hundreds of meters wide weather front and it seemed as if everything gathered for a climax in the middle of the cloudscape.

Lightning bolt after lightning bolt shot toward each other, uniting in violent zigzags to gather in the middle and darkest cloud. Those present watched the spectacle with awe, while more and more residents and people came running screaming loudly, only to be cleared up by those present in short whispers.

The formerly dark thundercloud in the middle of the storm front glowed and flickered with lightning flashes appearing faster and faster until it finally discharged with an unearthly and final bang and a flash of lightning so white that it burned your eyes for a moment.

The earth vibrated under the abuse and sheer force that must have been discharged into the ground somewhere outside the city. A wave of wind and mana swept through the streets and Avan couldn't help but grin at this display of power. He now knew what power was possible and also knew at the same time that this could only be the beginning. That there must be much more powerful monsters out there, and maybe even gods, who could trigger this amount of power with a snap of their fingers.

Grinning broadly and full of anticipation and gratitude for the chance to have landed in this world, he, together with everyone else, looked spellbound into the wide sky, where the clouds dissolved under the discharging crackle of electricity.

Goodbye, Adrian. He thought to himself with a last thought of Adrian, while Elisa placed her hand on his shoulder next to him.

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Avan Leaf

Level: 58

Free Stat Points: 30

Element: Celestial

Class: Healing Dungeonheart [Human]

Subclass: [Bronze] Healer of Akkalon