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Chapter 62

Hexaria's driver's license would take a bit of time, so he'd just wait on that for now.

An old man had his own work to do.

The Adventurer's Guild adjacent to Shinjuku Tower.

It housed various facilities.

Facilities designed to support adventurers. Among them was a hospital wing.

A hospital for adventurers, distinguished perhaps by having more surgeons and recovery magic practitioners than a regular hospital. He heard there were many on permanent standby too.

Sai was in one of the rooms in that hospital wing.

Next to Sai sat a rescue team member with an injured left arm.

He had been injured during a rescue response, and was deliberately left in a state with only hemostasis and painkillers administered.

Around them were the rescue team members watching over their injured comrade.

Several other relevant personnel were also gathered around Sai.

Everyone watched with serious eyes.

"Alright, please watch closely."

Sai placed his hand near the team member's injured left arm and released recovery magic.

Seeing this, the relevant personnel murmured in astonishment, "Ooh."

When the recovery magic finished, the adventurer's left arm was perfectly healed.

"How's the pain?"

"No, I don't feel anything in particular."

"...And that's how I've become able to use recovery magic too."

It had been quite a long time ago that Sai learned recovery magic from Hexaria.

He was speaking as though he'd learned it recently, but that was a decision based on what would be easier to convey. It was true that he'd learned recovery magic from Hexaria, and he hoped they'd forgive that little liberty.

Thinking such things, he didn't let it show on his face — perhaps a skill he'd honed as a scout.

The relevant personnel listened to Sai's words and asked with serious expressions.

"So this is the recovery magic that Hexaria-san taught you, Sai-san?"

"That's right. She told me an adventurer should learn it."

Recovery magic was magic that restored the body to its memorized state.

There were ranks depending on the degree of injury — low-grade for minor cuts, mid-grade for internal organ damage, and high-grade for restoring lost limbs.

Incidentally, recovery magic couldn't heal old wounds.

That was when the body had judged the wound's existence as "normal" and fixed it that way.

Also, it worked on cancer if the stage (progression) was still low.

In short, depending on how the body remembered its state, recovery magic could achieve effects far beyond modern medicine.

On the other hand, recovery magic was highly effective against physical trauma but not very effective against toxins.

Poison required detoxification-type magic, and the appropriate magic varied by virus.

Either way, on Earth it was still said that only a limited few could use it — but that wasn't true. Of course, some people were better at it than others, but low-level magic was something anyone could use (with effort).

Sai explained the characteristics of recovery magic like this.

"I plan to explain this in my streams as well, and the same goes for the Hexa Shield, but first, if you do magical power control training and can output mana quantitatively to the outside, I believe you'll be able to use low-grade Heal. Of course, that's assuming you can output mana quantitatively — so mid-grade recovery magic and above will likely still be tough without a magic-focused class."

Sai relayed all the necessary conditions and enchantment formulas for recovery magic.

"I see... The fórmula itself is similar to what's been circulating on Earth... No, what is this..."

The formula might have been similar, but the recovery magic fórmula that was widespread in the other world also included enchantments for "removing certain toxins" and "expelling impurities from the body." Sterilization and wound cleansing came first, followed by recovery magic.

While there were similarities to the fórmula circulating on Earth, this was a more advanced technique.

"I see. That's very educational. And you're going to release this..."

"Yes. I have her permission. I'm planning to release it on my instructional stream soon as well."

As he said this, one of the relevant personnel grabbed Sai's hand firmly.

They shook his hand.

"Thank you... thank you so much...!"

Looking closely, the relevant personnel's eyes were glistening with tears.

"This will save so many more people...!"

For the rescue team and hospital staff, the spread of recovery magic had been a long-held wish.

"I'm glad to hear you say that. Of course, there's the magical control aspect, and we can't roll it out to everyone immediately, but it should spread gradually. I humbly ask for your cooperation."

With tears in the corners of their eyes, the relevant personnel spoke.

"Yes, we'll absolutely see it spread!"

Injuries were an inevitable part of being an adventurer, and since Shinjuku Tower appeared, "retirement due to injury" had been a challenge for both adventurers and the guild.

Modern medicine could provide emergency treatment, but recovery from injuries inevitably took time.

But what adventurers needed was "immediacy."

If you got injured during an adventure and had neither recovery magic nor potions, you didn't need to imagine what happened. There were limits to emergency treatment.

And yet, the only recovery methods available during adventures were recovery potions from Shinjuku Tower or recovery magic.

A quarter-century had passed since dungeons appeared on Earth, but companies still hadn't been able to manufacture recovery potions, and there were far too few people who could use recovery magic.

There were those who couldn't afford recovery potions costing tens to millions, and retired from injury because of it.

That was why.

How many adventurers would be saved by the information Sai had brought this time?

No — not just adventurers. How much global demand was there for magic that healed injuries?

The disclosure of fórmulae created in the other world, and even the teaching of how to use magic.

There was no way they wouldn't be passionate about this.

It was only natural that the relevant personnel — the Adventurer's Guild hospital staff — wept for joy.

For Sai's part, he now had the convenient excuse of Hexaria.

He intended to take every possible measure to raise the quality of adventurers, even if just a little.

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Now then, just as he was about to head outside after finishing the recovery magic lecture for the Adventurer's Guild, he was called out near the guild entrance.

A beautiful woman in her mid-twenties called out to Sai.

She was one of his former students.

"Oh, Sai-san! You're here today♪"

"Yeah. I had some business at the Adventurer's Guild. Are you... heading out on an adventure?"

She was a woman who gave a sexy impression, with her shoulders and chest area visible.

In other words, clothes that made an old man not know where to look.

If he looked, it would immediately be sexual harassment — that had him on edge.

"Today I'm just restocking items. Potion costs are really killing me..."

"That kind of thing can't be helped no matter what. If you skimp, you'll jinx your adventure."

"I know, right~"

Among adventurers whose recovery options were limited, how many were crying over potion costs? Stories of savings meant for better weapons and armor being consumed by potion expenses were all too common.

But skimping on potions would come back to bite you later.

No one could conquer a dungeon while injured.

If you wanted to save on potion costs, the only option was to fight on safer floors.

But lower floors were more crowded, so earnings were smaller too.

As a result, conquest progress was slower...

It was quite the dilemma.

Thanks to that, the woman in front of Sai was also making a troubled face.

But it was also true that there was good news for adventurers like her.

"That reminds me — your party has a mage, right?"

"Yes, we do. Did something happen?"

The female adventurer tilted her head at the strange question.

"Then you might be able to hear some good news through the Adventurer's Guild or my stream."

She was his student, and honestly, he could tell her now, but he figured it would be better to time the announcement rather than let rumors spread haphazardly.

"Oh, really?"

Hearing "good news" from the person she looked up to as her teacher, the female adventurer looked delighted.

"Yeah. Look forward to it."

Sai smiled confidently.

As if caught by his expression, the woman smiled too.

"Oh right, Sai-san. Do you have some time after this?"

"Hm, an invitation to adventure?"

"I found a nice wine bar. Would you like to join me?"

She asked, looking up at him with her eyes and exposing a bit of her chest.

An invitation.

"Haha. Don't tease an old man like that. Well, see you around."

But Sai only said that and gently escaped.

The woman pouted in small irritation, "Dodged again!"

Lately, Sai had been getting these kinds of invitations nonstop. As a man, being admired by young women was flattering, but it was also quite troubling.

Because getting involved in that kind of thing led to trouble later.

His students would start weird rivalries with each other.

And it would develop into conflict.

For someone working as an instructor, nothing was more troublesome than romantic entanglements involving himself.

Having experienced this firsthand in the other world, a capable scout always declined.

It's not that he couldn't forget the exasperated faces of his partner and children.

Not at all.

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