Nearly a month had passed since Lucius had arrived in this place, which was the castle of the Inanis family. Lucius had learned quite a lot of things while he was lying there and listened to the conversations that happened.

Mostly it was just Kiana the maid and his mother talking. But occasionally a few other servants would also drop by, along with a few friends of Asher. Another thing he learned was that his father was currently absent from the castle.

Lord Gabriel Inanis was the Count of the land of Etara. He was a relatively powerful noble that served the king. Lucius had not been able to know what kingdom he was in, but did learn that it was currently fighting a war against another kingdom called Gisir.

The Land of Etara was located near the border of the kingdom, and the battlefield was about four hundred kilometers from this location. It had been about eleven months since the war had started, and now both parties were getting tired of it.

Both of them had lost a lot of their men and were now deliberating on an armistice.

Lucius had a lot of questions and could not wait to obtain their answers. Thankfully, his new body had been healing well and now it was close to done… at least as much as it was possible.

He felt the touch of Kiana on his body and he activated his hearing.

“Asher, the healer is here to take a look.” Kiana spoke.

“Miss, are you sure that he can hear you? The last time I checked, he was still unresponsive.” The healer spoke.

Lucius could tell from his voice that the man was possibly in his fifties.

“I believe that he can hear me and that’s all that matters. Why don’t you check up on his injuries and tell me how he’s faring?” Kiana replied.

“Yes, I want to see it myself too.” Asher’s mother Lita spoke.

Lita had just entered the room after hearing that the healer had arrived. It had become hard to call the healer due to the war going on, and they had been waiting for him for a long time now. In fact, it had been a month.

Lucius understood that this was the healer that had tended to his injuries back on the battlefield and had now come to check up on him.

“Have you been feeding him the medicines I asked of you?” The healed asked.

“Yes, without fail. Asher has been eating his medicine as well as his food properly even though he’s unconscious.” Kiana answered.

“That’s a good sign. Perhaps he really is not unconscious and is merely unable to speak and move.” The healed said.

His words calmed down the two women, but also incited a bit of worry upon hearing that he may be mute and paralyzed now. The healer moved closer to Asher and put his hands on his body. Lucius felt the pressure on him and then suddenly an energy of some kind entered his body.

‘What is this? Magic! No… it’s different. It does not have the same feeling as mana. It this… the ‘gift’ that they have talked about a few times?’ Lucius wondered.

The energy that entered his body roamed around and went to the sites of his injuries. Lucius couldn’t exactly tell what it was doing, he was even shocked that he was able to sense this energy. If it was not mana, then theoretically he should have been unable to sense it.

‘Perhaps it is similar to mana, or is a derivative of it?’ Lucius thought.

About ten minutes passed like this as the healer kept his hands placed on Lucius.

~Phew~

The healer let out a breath of relief as he opened his eyes.

“This is good. His injuries have healed much better than I had thought. I never expected that he would recover this much, this is almost a miracle.” The healer said with a smile.

The tense faces of the two women relaxed as they looked towards Asher.

“Let’s remove his bandages now, he should be relatively fine.” The healer said before unwrapping and cutting the bandages.

Lucius could feel the bandages coming off and could not wait to take a look again. He wanted to see who the people that have been taking care of him all this time looked like. Light rushed to his eyes as he flinched a bit due to the sudden brightness.

‘This is better than before. At the battlefield, my eyes still felt a bit blurry, but now they have cleared up properly. But my left ear is still deaf. If I can find the kind of an injury it is, I may even be able to fix it.’ Lucius thought.

The people that were all surrounding him looked at his eyes that instantly opened.

“ASHER!” Kiana shouted with joy.

“SON!” Lita did the same, but her eyes were already tearing up.

She would have pounced on him had it not been for Asher’s injuries.

“He’s already awake? This is… unusual?” The healer said in an apprehensive tone.

“Huh? What do you mean healer?” Kiana asked as she felt a bad feeling at the bottom of her stomach.

“If he’s awake right now, the probability is… he’s been awake this entire time…” The healer said in a serious tone.

~Gasp~

Kiana gasped as she slammed her palms on her mouth.

“Does that mean… he’s been bearing everything till now, all the pain?” Lita asked as tears started to drip down from her eyes.

“Yes… he may have woken up a long time ago. But he’s paralyzed and cannot talk either, or we would have seen the reaction from it a while ago.” The healer answered.

~Sob~

~Sob~

~Sob~

Lucius witnessed how the two women burst into a rain of tears and hugged him. The healer on the other hand simply sighed with resignation and shook his head.

“My child, why has fate been so cruel to you?” Lita said between her sobs.

“Madam Lita ~Sob~ We need to let Lord Gabriel know of this, ~Sob~ perhaps he can request some priests of Aela to heal Asher,” Kiana suggested.

Lucius got some new information from all this. The first thing was that this world seemed to have healer priests too similar to Revelia. In Revelia, the Tharian theocracy had priests that had various magics, one of the basic ones being healing.

‘If it is even ten percent close to the level of Tharian priests, then I would be able to heal up to a good enough level. But what kind of power are they using, is it the same one that this healer used, or is it like the holy magic of the Tharian priests?’ Lucius thought.

Another thing Lucius noticed was the unusual manners of Kiana. While she was a maid, she acted way more close and informal than would have been expected of a servant. He couldn’t understand why this was so and wanted to know more.

“His eyes they’re following us!” The healer suddenly said, this time with more shock.

“Asher! Can you hear us? Can you understand us?” Lita immediately asked.

Lucius had to alternate between his hearing and vision to understand what they were talking about.

~Sigh~

‘This is gonna be problematic…’