The Forgotten Faithful: A LitRPG Adventure (UnderVerse Book 2) by Cajiao, Jez (little red riding hood ebook TXT) 📕

you can aid our people. It is a very basic spell and can only heal basic injuries. It’ll save a life, don’t get me wrong, but it’d take a long time and a hell of a lot of mana to do any more than low level healing with it. I included ‘Identify’, as it would enable you to examine people and objects. I believe over time, you’d be able to use these two spells together to improve your ability to heal hugely. This would only really help you if you wanted to become a full-fledged healer as well, though. The ‘Mana Coalescence’ skill will enable you to form physical objects of pure mana, essentially forming mana crystals at will."

"Oracle has told me, however, that a huge amount of mana is needed to make even small objects, so your manapool of four hundred will be used damn quick.”

“However, being able to create a pure crystal in any shape you desire, and eventually make it entirely flawless?” Oracle cut in, quirking an eyebrow at Ame, whose fingers flexed involuntarily.

“My Runecrafting would be both far cheaper, and far more powerful…” Ame admitted.

“Exactly.,” Oracle replied, and then reached out and tapped the final book with one perfect fingernail. “Lastly, the ‘Mysteries of a Runic Mind’…this is a theory book, which means you’ll quite possibly know many of the details in it already. However, training delivered by one person, who passes it to the next, as you said your training was given, may have missed important details. This, while only a theory book, covers the basics of all aspects of Runecrafting, including how to make new runes…”

“So, this book could teach you either a way to discover hundreds of new runes, or a lexicon of them, or it might teach you nothing you don’t already know,” I said.

“I want you to choose, Ame, so please, take your time and think. You can take two books or the memory crystal. Whatever you leave will be available for you to use at a later date, should you want to, so there’s no rush, but I’d recommend leaving the crystal for now, until you’re sure you will be able to use it to its maximum potential.”

Ame sat for several long minutes, reaching out to touch the books twice, lightly caressing them with the tips of her fingers.

Her black claws were gentle as they brushed the leather bindings, almost reverent, and she touched the crystal just once, as though to confirm it was real, before looking up at me.

“I may never forgive you for forcing me to make this choice, but I’ll also never pay off the debt that I earn by accepting this gift and receiving your healing already. I will be the one that you and our people need. I will be the Runecrafter of the Great Tower. I will be worthy of this.” With that, she selected two of the books from the table and Oracle stepped in to remove the others and the memory crystal, setting them back in their places on the shelves.

“What books did you take?” asked Cai, and Ame spoke softly as she looked them over. The blue bindings on both books were as pristine as the day they were made, protected by the magic of the Tower for millennia, the golden and silver embossing’s glittering as she spoke.

“This Spellbook is ‘Lay on Hands’, which allows the user to heal any person they touch for twenty points of damage over sixty seconds, while the skill book is ‘Mysteries of a Runic Mind’. There must be a reason you suggested these?” she asked me, and I nodded.

“There is. I only know one healing spell that was taught to me. The spell that I used on you and your people is one that Oracle and I created, and it is only through constant use that it has evolved into as powerful a version as you have experienced. I think that between us, Oracle and I can guide you to use ‘Lay on Hands’ to create your own more powerful version; also, it’s a Spellbook that is supposedly fairly simple."

"It’s not as likely to fuck your brain up, and hopefully you can use the theory skill book to make a runic version of it. I’d like you to try to make a hospital area with these runes in bays, ready to be activated if our people need healing, until we can get a real healer for the Tower, anyway. Once you’ve had a few hours to absorb these books, Oracle and I will attempt to teach you the spell we created. It might not work, but she tells me there’s a much better chance of us being able to teach it, if you’ve already learnt some healing magic.”

“Very well, but also… 'hospital area’?” Ame asked, clearly confused.

“Yes, in my… land… a place where the injured were gathered together was called a ‘hospital’. They would receive treatment there. I intend for us to make the same thing here,” I said, and Oracle surprised me by speaking up as she returned to sit next to me, still full sized.

“Think of it by whatever name you wish, Ame. Jax is used to ‘hospital’, and I and the other wisps remember various terms, such as ‘Valetudinarium’. What did your people call such a place?”

“We had a healer’s hut, that was all. Without a magical healer, there was a member of the pod who made potions and cleansed wounds, but it was well known that she was too low a level to earn the bonuses that a village could gain from such a building.”

“Bonuses?” I asked, and everyone turned to me. “Okay, clearly another thing I should know, but I don’t. Make it quick, please?”

“Different buildings can grant bonuses to a village or city. A healer’s hut, as Ame explained, would have granted bonuses to the entire village if the healer in residence had been a high enough level. I know the plans we have for the Tower included