112. Pain without scars 1
“What are you doing?”
“I’m sorry for coming so suddenly. It’s too urgent…”
Rosen gasped. Seeing how bad his complexion is, it seems like he ran really crazy.
‘I was thinking of going to meet you, but I thought you’d find me first from the other side.’
Saved me the trouble of finding it.
Kang Seung-hyun decided to listen to Rosent’s story first.
“Please explain in detail.”
“Some of the kids are down. Everyone is not well.”
About 10 minutes ago, the thieves who were doing their own thing suddenly collapsed.
Not just one or two, but several at the same time.
“Healer’s help is urgent.”
There is no formal healer in the Red Road gang. The only person in charge of treatment was a pharmacist who learned herbalism over his shoulder.
So until now, whenever someone was injured, he went to Tracotti’s healer.
‘It must be difficult because of the rain.’
It is virtually impossible to move the injured to Tracotti in such heavy rain.
Even the only person in charge of treatment among the members is said to have collapsed.
“I thought about calling a healer from Tracotti, but…”
“There won’t be a healer coming through the heavy rain to the thieves’ hideout on an evening like this.”
It is not easy to call in or find a healer now.
Rosent bowed her head and begged earnestly.
“I will do anything you ask, so please help me!”
“All right. I let you stay at the hideout, so I have to do that for you.”
Seunghyun Kang said with a kind smile.
A good healer shouldn’t overlook a person in trouble.
“I will definitely repay this favor!”
Rosent was very happy and thanked him.
‘It’s just fine. There were a lot of things I wanted to ask this guy.’
Of course, Kang Seung-hyun was not just a great healer, but a great wild healer, so he didn’t just help someone in trouble.
‘I guess I’ll have to dig up information about the Red Road in exchange for healing. Points are a bonus.’
While helping Rosent, I was thinking of finding out about the Red Road gang and their hideout.
Because Kang Seung-hyun was a person who helped others while receiving everything he deserved.
“Thank you so much for agreeing.”
Of course, Rosent, who didn’t know what he was thinking, said with a relieved face.
“I don’t have the shame to ask you this for the first time, but… there is no other healer I can ask for other than you.”
“Um… if it comes to being shameless, isn’t it us who came in to ask you to sleep for free?”
Hearing that, Kim Ho-jung smiled and said.
Then, he turned off [God’s Communication] and whispered a small whisper to Kang Seung-hyeon.
“It must be the kid who was injured by Mr. Kang’s beating. It’s a pity, but you won’t get points.”
“…It’s true that I attacked the bandits, but I wasn’t beaten badly enough to have to be healed by a healer.”
In fact, all the thieves who were subdued by Kang Seung-hyun arrived at the hideout on their own feet.
No one was beaten enough to be hospitalized.
“Among the guys I knocked down earlier, not a single one needed treatment.”
If there was something wrong with them, Kang Seung-hyun would be the first to notice.
“Then why did you have a patient?”
“Maybe there must be some other reason.”
Listening to Rosent’s story, the patient is not one. There is a reason why several people show the same symptoms at the same time.
“You can learn more by looking at the patient.”
Seunghyun Kang nodded and stood up.
And he said to Rosent.
“I’ll be there right away, so please guide me.”
– Jerk, jerk, jerk.
Kang Seung-hyun and his party followed Rosent through the winding cave road. The place where he stopped walking was in front of a cave room.
Looking inside, a cot and a glass cabinet on the desk caught my eye.
“This is the infirmary.”
“that’s right. It is a place to treat the wounded.”
The official name is Red Road Infirmary.
The name is something grandiose, but there is no healer, so you can’t receive heals, and only simple first aid is available.
“Currently, it is used as a room to take care of fallen members…”
Rosent looked at the patients lying on cots.
All of them were in bad shape.
“I feel sick to my stomach…”
“Ah… uh… ugh.”
“My head hurts.”
“It seems like the world is spinning…”
Four people lost their minds. Although they came to their senses, there were 8 people complaining of pain.
“Oh, there are so many!”
“I thought there were four or five at most.”
The Red Road Crew is a small band of thieves consisting of 37 members.
Among them, there were 12 patients, so a whopping 1/3 of the entire team collapsed.
“It means that this is not an ordinary situation for so many people to be down at the same time.”
[Detect heat]
When Seunghyun Kang used the skill, red light radiated from the bodies of patients around him.
[367℃]
[364℃]
[365℃]
‘Once the body temperature is normal.’
Kang Seung-hyun looked at the body of the patient closest to him. There were no visible wounds, and the complexion was not bad.
‘There is no sign of direct damage.’
This means that infections or physical attacks are not the cause.
[Observation Eye]
Kang Seung-hyun canceled [Heat Detection] and activated [Observation Eye].
[Panic] [Confusion] [Phantom pain]
[Mental out]
[Excessive loss of mental power]
[Severely low mental power.] [
Suffering from headache due to phantom pain.]
[If left unattended, it causes mental breakdown.]
Patient All sorts of information flooded my body.
‘As expected, this was the cause.’
The identity of the pain that plagued the patients was ‘phantom pain’.
– Phantom pain.
Usually, it refers to a sensation felt in a body part that has already been severed, but in the Azul Continent, it refers to a state abnormality that inflicts mental damage.
‘The rest are not easy, but it’s the most dangerous status ailment among them.’
Kang Seung-hyun looked at the system window with a serious face, and Kim Ho-jung, who was next to him, started talking.
“how is it. Did you find out anything?”
“yes. It is phantom pain caused by excessive loss of mental power.”
[Excessive loss of mental power], which causes abnormal conditions such as hallucinations or phantasmagoria, occurs when mental power is severely reduced, just as [mana depletion] occurs when magical power is used excessively.
“Phantom pain?”
“There is nothing wrong with my body, but I feel pain. So, the physical strength does not decrease, but the mental strength decreases because of the pain.”
In fact, the patients in the room were not injured and their stamina was fine. Even so, they are in pain because their pain was phantom pain without substance.
“You feel pain in a normal body?”
“On top of that, the pain intensity gets worse as time goes on. Of course, the rate of mental strength decline will also increase.”
In other words, if a patient with phantom pain is left unattended, his mental power will run out and he will die of madness due to mental breakdown.
“It’s one of those terrible status ailments that do no damage to the body and only kills the mind by destroying it.”
“It’s really terrible.”
So, it is said that the body of a patient who died after suffering from phantom pain is intact without a single wound, but the face is distorted with pain.
“In addition, phantom pain has no substance, so it is difficult to treat. Because normal treatment doesn’t work.”
“Then is there no way…?”
Rosent looked like she was about to cry.
“So, the only cure is to get rid of the state of excessive loss of mental power that is the cause of phantom pain.”
Like all mental abnormalities, phantom pain has little effect on people with strong mentality.
The important thing now is to somehow restore the mental power of the patients.
“Then let me borrow your desk.”
Kang Seung-hyun headed to the desk in the corner of the infirmary.
This desk is used by the Red Lord Alchemist to make potions, so it is equipped with potion making tools.
‘What I need right now is a Potion of Spirit and a Potion of Tranquility.’
Mental strength potion, as the name suggests, is a potion that replenishes mental strength, and tranquility potion is a potion that slows down the speed of mental strength decrease.
Kang Seung-hyeon planned to combine these two potions to create a cure for excessive loss of mental power.
“Is this a difficult potion to make?”
“Making a potion itself is not difficult.”
Neither of these are difficult potions to make. In terms of manufacturing difficulty, it was easier to make than a regeneration potion.
“The problem is that it’s hard to find materials.”
Spirit-type potion materials are more difficult to obtain than regeneration-type potion materials.
So, although the difficulty of manufacturing is easy, the difficulty of acquiring materials is high, so it is not possible to make many.
‘I bought some ingredients from Camar, but there’s no option with this.’
Kang Seung-hyun took out the ingredients for the potion and placed them on the desk. With what I have now, I can only make 3 or 4 at most.
“Oh, Master Kang! Isn’t this a potion ingredient?”
At that time, Kim Ho-jung pointed to the glass cabinet in the infirmary.
Inside the glass cabinet, potions and potion crafting materials were on display.
These are all herbs that the Red Road Pharmacist carefully collected from the Red Forest.
“They’re all red because they grew up in the red forest.”
“Are there any of these that I can use?”
“I’ll check it now.”
Kang Seung-hyun opened the glass cabinet and examined the ingredients.
“Helleborus twisted quartz moss anato on the petals of Forget-me-nots….”
The materials ranged from common to fairly rare materials.
“Dried kamatari root and cypress berries.”
Among them, there were materials that could be used for spiritual potions.
[Dried kamatari root]
[Medicinal material made by cutting the kamatari root.]
[The more dried it is, the more it smells.]
[Unlike the smell, the taste is sweet
. ]
Tree.]
[The fruit and bark are used as medicine.]
[When being chased by aggressive monsters, if you run away near a Simhyang tree, your aggression will decrease slightly.]
‘The quality is good and the performance is good. I can make a good potion with this.’
There was a reason why the Magic Tower guys often went to the Red Forest to get materials.
Because rare and powerful materials were easily obtainable.
“Mr. Rosent, I’m going to pamper you now. No, how many people can move right now?”
“25 people including me… no, maybe 17 people.”
Of the 37 members of the Red Road gang, 25 members are left except for 12 injured.
I don’t know where the 8 people are doing, but there are 17 people who can be active right now.
“With 17 people… well, that would be fine.”
Seunghyun Kang smiled as if thinking about something.
The Red Road pharmacist kept at most 10 ingredients. Not that much.
“You said you would do whatever you were told to do earlier, didn’t you?”
“Huh huh? I did…”
“The more ingredients you have to make a cure, the better.”
And these are all medicines that can be obtained in the Red Forest.
Kang Seung-hyun gave a refreshing smile and said,
“It’s raining, but I can’t help it.”
He patted Rosen’s shoulder and said.
“Take the members to the forest and get some more.”
