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    Chapter 39: Treatment in Exchange for Guidance!

    Who was speaking behind him?

    Grett dared not turn his head, afraid of dropping the book in his hand and not being able to afford to pay for it. He pressed the book firmly back onto the shelf, then turned to face the door. Who was it?

    The newcomer was a young man, about twenty years old, with flax-colored hair and wearing a black mage’s robe. Seeing Grett turn around, he grinned cheerfully, a mouthful of white teeth gleaming:

    “Hey, kid!”

    “Lawmaster.” Grett bowed his head, his mind blank: who was this familiar stranger?

    As he lowered his head, he noticed the newcomer leaning against the doorframe, his right foot barely touching the ground, his posture as if he didn’t dare put any weight on it. Grett realized: no wonder he didn’t recognize him, the guy who was blown out of the Mage Tower yesterday had his whole face blackened. The only thing that looked familiar to Grett was his big white teeth…

    “Mr. Elliot! Is your foot still not healed?”

    “How could it be healed that quickly?”

    The newcomer’s face turned sour as he hobbled over to the table and sat down. It was obvious he had twisted his foot quite badly yesterday. Grett stepped forward to have a look, and asked curiously: “Didn’t you get any treatment?”

    “Are you kidding! Healing potions are so expensive!”

    Elliot exclaimed. As soon as he finished speaking, he seemed to remember that he shouldn’t be acting so carelessly in front of a newcomer, so he gave a sheepish smile. Grett had already walked around the long table to stand in front of him:

    “Can I have a look?”

    “Ah-oh, right, you’re a healer. Go ahead!”

    Grett crouched down beside him. He carefully observed, seeing that the outer side of his right ankle was swollen like a bun, while the inner side was fine, and the instep was also swollen. Grett held the other person’s ankle with his left hand, his right thumb pressed against the outer lateral ligament, pushing firmly –

    “Ow!”

    Elliot cried out and struggled to pull away. He tapped the ground with his right foot, hopped on his left foot, and quickly fled:

    “Aren’t you a healer! Where’s your Healing Technique!”

    “I’m a healer, that’s why I need to examine it!” Grett yelled back, while keeping his head down, staring at Elliot’s right foot that was tapping on the ground: he could still put a little weight on it, good, it seemed that there was a high probability of no fracture. As for the ligament, just now the finger pressed on it, it hurt so much, the outer lateral ligament should be torn –

    “Put your foot back!”

    Elliot tried to escape. But he couldn’t run fast with a limp, and when he tried to cast a spell, he was constantly distracted by the pain. Grett pounced on him, grabbed him, squatted down, and ran his fingers along the outer side of his right ankle, pressing on each point, then holding his foot and rotating it inward and outward:

    “Does this hurt? How about this? What about this rotation?”

    “Ow… This is okay, okay… Ow! Pain, pain, pain, pain! Let go!”

    Good, the ankle joint was in plantar flexion and under pressure, there was obvious pain when the foot was inverted. There was a localized pressure pain point, which could be diagnosed as the anterior talofibular ligament being the most severely pulled, the posterior talofibular ligament was okay, and the calcaneofibular ligament was basically fine.

    The rest was just soft tissue contusion and edema… Grett calmed his mind, visualizing the anatomy of the foot in his head, his fingertips slowly glowing white.

    Repairing the damaged ligaments, accelerating local tissue metabolism, rapidly absorbing the edema, healing the injured soft tissue –

    The swelling in the right ankle gradually subsided. Elliot sighed softly: “Ah… It doesn’t hurt anymore…”

    He immediately wanted to pull back his right foot. Grett grabbed it:

    “Wait! I’ll check it one more time!”

    He pressed, rotated, and even had him jump a few times. After a series of procedures, Grett finally confirmed that the ankle sprain had been treated.

    He breathed a sigh of relief and pushed himself up from the chair with his hands. Elliot had already jumped over excitedly, grabbed his hand, and shook it vigorously:

    “Wow! Thank you so much!”

    His attitude changed dramatically. He was no longer looking down on him and giving him orders as he had been when he first came in. Now he was treating him completely as an equal. Grett hummed in agreement, his mind racing:

    The rules of the mage world are that no knowledge is free. So, healing techniques are obviously not free either. The other guy clearly thought that healing potions were too expensive, so it’s best to ask for something that is important to him and that he can easily give in return –

    “Mr. Elliot, did you just say that this is not how I should be doing it?”

    “Ah – oh!”

    Elliot slapped his forehead loudly. He had forgotten what he was doing after all the examination and treatment. He pointed to the bookshelf:

    “I said that you’re not doing it right! You’re flipping through books one by one, with no purpose at all, you’re just wasting time – I remember you said yesterday that you haven’t even learned magical script?”

    “Yes, Mr. Elliot.” Grett breathed a sigh of relief. Thank goodness, a savior has arrived! He won’t have to waste his energy on novels! Heaven knows, that novel was particularly heavy, with a copper cover on the spine!

    He sincerely asked:

    “I haven’t received any basic magical education. Mr. Elliot, could you please guide me on the order in which I should read these books?”

    In any discipline, the order of study of professional courses is very important. Just like in his previous life when he studied medicine, he first studied histology, then gross anatomy; first studied histology and embryology, physiology, then pathology, and pathophysiology.

    After mastering these basics, he would then learn gross anatomy, diagnosis, and then surgery, internal medicine, gynecology, pediatrics, infectious diseases, skin, neurology, psychiatry, and all kinds of major and minor subjects.

    After going through all of it, he would go to the hospital and rotate through all the departments…

    If you didn’t learn the basics well and tried to learn the advanced stuff, it was like building a tower on sand. You wouldn’t need the wind or waves to knock it down, just a little bit more time and it would collapse with a rumble.

    So what about magic?

    This thing draws its power from within oneself. If you don’t understand the order, just grab a book and start reading, are you trying to die?

    Grett had already thought that after flipping through all the books he recognized, he would find a mage apprentice – preferably a mage – and ask him which books to read first and which ones to read later. Before he could figure out how to find someone, Elliot, the lawmaster, came knocking on his door, perfect!

    “The reading order?”

    Elliot’s eyes lit up. Healing potions were expensive, and healing techniques were not free either. But it would be awkward to just give him money – the other guy asked him to guide him on the order in which to read books, perfect, just perfect.

    He chanted silently, and with a wave of his right hand, all the books flew off the shelves, hovering in the air, forming several semi-circles around Elliot. Elliot looked around, pointed with his fingers:

    “You, you, you!”

    Swish, swish, swish, swish, a dozen or so books flew onto the table at once, stacked into a pile. Elliot waved his hand again, and the remaining books dispersed, neatly classified and flying back to their shelves. They were arranged neatly and quietly, as if they had never been touched.

    Elliot pointed to the table:

    “Just read these few for now. Hmm, “Magical Script”, “Basic Meditation”, read these two first. The magic patterns, spells, elements, and potions are not in any particular order, if you get tired, you can read “History of Magic”, “Introduction to Alchemy”, and “Beast Illustrations” for fun…”

    Grett’s magical studies finally began!

    Although… it didn’t seem to be going smoothly…

    Please encourage him!~~~ Please collect, please recommend, please comment~~ Please everything~~~

    (End of Chapter)

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