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Reborn Healer Chapter 32

“Sir?” My father asked. “Is there something wrong?”

“Direct order from the Lord Prince Gerald Halcyon, Lord Healer,” the guard said apologetically. He leaned in closer, lowering his voice to a whisper. “It’s exam season for most of the guilds, so the city is much busier than ususal. There’s been word that there may be an attempt on the Lord Prince’s life.”

“That is a serious concern,” Vallis acknowledged. “By all means, feel free to.”

Since my f...

Reborn Healer Chapter 31

“There is something deeply wrong with that man,” Mizuki muttered.

I couldn’t help but agree. We were on our way out now, having been processed by their receptionists and assured that Matias would be back to normal within a couple of days. It was well after midnight now, and I wasn’t entirely sure how we were going to get home, but we were pretty much done now.

“Maybe don’t say that in his house,” I suggested.

“I’d bet he can tell I’m thinking it,” she r...

Reborn Healer Chapter 30

I was having the same dream again, except not quite. I was familiar with how the dream visions began now, always showing me my mother. This time was no exception. She stood before me in what looked like a castle room in a style I didn’t recognize, tearing her knives out of an unmoving, bloody body that had been sitting atop a throne built from metallic bones.

Up to there, everything was business as usual. What was strange now was how I felt. Every time I’d had one of these ...

Reborn Healer Chapter 29

Mana surged through me, infusing my entire body and bringing nearly as much a shock to my system as the initial contact with the slime had brought. All the fatigue that had built up over the course of my deadly swim through a Master-tier creature’s body washed away in an instant, the revitalizing energy in my body once again increasing my mental alertness instead of clouding it out.

Only one core had advanced, which was a terribly strange sensation. My cores were out of balance, which...

Reborn Healer Chapter 28

Master-tier.

The words didn’t feel real. Up until this point, practically everything I’d dealt with in and around Liaren had been between Beginner and Adept, be it monsters, wild animals, or humans. It had gotten to the point where I mentally classified “regular life” into the basic tiers. I hoped to get past them one day, of course, but for the time being I was here and that was well within bounds.

Of course, Vallis was at least Master-tier and probably higher, s...

Reborn Healer Chapter 27

Everyone from both sides stood in shocked silence, watching blood trickle out of the gut wound.

Okay, not everyone. Marcie’s scream had tapered off, but she was still making worried noises.

Aren’t you a healer? I thought, more annoyed than anything else. They’d all been keen on making accusations of me being unprepared, but they weren’t really doing anything for their downed teammate.

In the end, it was me who moved first, followed shortly by Mizuki behind m...

Reborn Healer Chapter 26

“Guild?” Mizuki asked.

“Yes.” Matias sounded like he’d bitten straight into a raw lemon. “Those are Federation colors.”

I recognized the name. The Federacy was one of the top ten guilds on the content in terms of manpower and influence, and they’d been a dominant force in Liaren for a while, eating up a lot of the territory Southern Star had laid claim to after that guild had dissolved.

In other words…

“Isn’t this exactly the situation we were loo...

Reborn Healer Chapter 25

In the end, it took more than a few days for us to actually enter the dungeon. We were all focused on rebuilding the clinic first, which was a fairly involved task given that Vallis had purchased the building from a previous owner and thus had no blueprints of any sort for it.

The time required also wasn’t helped by everyone trying to make the clinic better than it had been. By the time we were done, we’d gained an added storage room alongside multiple rooms and a common area that w...

Reborn Healer Chapter 24

I emerged from the basement with the sun fully set, a lifeline in my hand, and my system still urging me to pick skills.

Up to this point, all of the skills I had gained had been through intentional practice, as were my spells. I had figured that the kind of system-granted skill that I might have expected in an anime or video game wasn’t how this world worked, but evidently it was different when working with beings of higher power.

If the Nightmare even was a being, that was. 2025-09-23 04:43:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Reborn Healer Chapter 23

Beyond the door lay a familiar darkness. Unlike the rest of the house, which had mana-powered lighting or natural firelight, the stairs downwards had nothing.

I took an apprehensive step forward, hand finding the wall. For a basement that hadn’t been opened a single time since I’d been born as far as I could tell, the stairs were sturdy, not even creaking as I stepped on them. I looked down and saw nothing past my foot.

“Go on,” Aria urged.

I stepped forward again, t...

Reborn Healer Chapter 22

Vallis nursed a growing headache. He had been working at the Lord Prince’s palace all day, dealing with a new brand of plague supposedly originated by the remnants of the Nightmare. Unlike most diseases, it evolved in time with the healer trying to combat it, and it had been a very close thing to avoid losing a supposedly very important duke or something or other.

The names slipped through his memory like water through a sieve. He’d healed too many people who were supposed to be cri...

Reborn Healer Chapter 21

“I was expecting you to take me to a back alley or a dump or something,” Mizuki said, looking around. “Aren’t you a little young for this?”

I settled into the booth. I didn’t come here often, but I’d come enough to be familiar with the worn fabric, the way there were dead spots in parts of the seat where any hapless fellow trying to sit down would go straight through the cushion and onto the hardwood. Judging from Mizuki’s expression, she had found one of them.

“...

Reborn Healer Chapter 20

Fireball lvl 0 -> lvl 1

In retrospect, I probably should have just used Heat Ray.

Okay, maybe not. Heat Ray had mostly proven to be a surprisingly useful utility spell, but I had never really gotten good lethality out of it.

Then again, using the lower-tier spell wouldn’t have set the entire building across the street on fire.

No wonder the spellbook had said not to use this indoors. This was my first time actually using my Adept-class Fireball in...

Reborn Healer Chapter 19

Adrenaline didn’t affect me the same way it once had. I’d undergone two very near-death experiences as a child, and it had permanently shaped how I approached life. Training never brought me the kind of terrified rush it had in the early days, and even now, I felt oddly disconnected from the situation.

I wondered if a psychologist would have called it trauma. I sure didn’t.

My Flowing Harmony snapped into existence with cold clarity. Rather than the controlled rush of emotio...

Reborn Healer Chapter 18

“That’d be me,” I called out, making my way into the waiting room as I spoke.

The owner of the voice and the accompanying aura was its only occupant.

She… did not look like she belonged here. Why that was the first thing that sprang to my mind, I didn’t know, but it was true.

Most of the people in this district were on the poorer end. Even the dungeon divers, who were on the higher end of the tax bracket comparatively, tended to only have basic armor with the odd f...

Reborn Healer Chapter 17

I had gotten much more accustomed to the world in the six years I’d spent working as my father’s apprentice. Most of the regulars at his clinic recognized me, and most people let me heal them now if it wasn’t a serious affair. I knew Matias the best by now—he was in the clinic almost every day thanks to his increasingly frequent dungeon dives.

With permission and Iryn as my accompaniment, I had also explored a fair bit of the rest of the city. I knew where the rich parts were an...

Reborn Healer Chapter 16

I’d let the woman cook for a bit longer than I had thought I had. It was hard to see her face through the ash and dirt covering most of her head, but I’d burned or stomped off most of her hair, and there was blood mixed in with the soot dusting her.

A strange sensation stirred in my gut. Bile rose to my throat, the burned woman’s visage etching itself into my memory. The burnt flesh smelled like meat, and I found myself experiencing the peculiar feeling of my stomach churning and ...

Reborn Healer Chapter 15

Erica hissed out a curse as she watched the twitching child—Ren Kane, apparently—come to a stop. He was bleeding where he’d hit the ground too hard and of course at the point where she’d roughly injected the refined sleeping poison with a thrown needle.

She fought the urge to vomit, turning away and retching.

He’s not dead, the thief told herself. It was small comfort. She’d just poisoned a child with a grown man’s dose. What kind of monster could. Do that?<...

Reborn Healer Chapter 14

Basic Heal lvl 7 -> lvl 8

Cure Minor Infection lvl 5 -> lvl 7

Identify Illness lvl 1 -> lvl 3

Body Scan lvl 7 -> lvl 8

I didn’t heal everyone that came in, naturally. Not even close. For the most part, I shadowed my father as he expertly assessed, diagnosed, and fixed whatever problem was ailing those who sought his help.

Listening to conversation between him and his patients gave m...

Reborn Healer Chapter 13

I had been under the impression that all my father’s excursions to the city had been to deal with noble families. He’d mentioned doing so off-handedly once or twice, and I’d assumed that was the end of the matter. In that vein, I had been a little concerned about what standards I would be expected to hold myself up to while working as his apprentice.

My expectations couldn’t have been further from the truth. After entering the city by way of horse-drawn carriage, courtesy of a d...

Reborn Healer Chapter 12

Aria Kane was a force of nature. That was the best conclusion I could draw from her escort of me out from what I slowly realized had been a shallow local branch of the World Dungeon. At first, I thought the exit hadn’t been far away so there weren’t too many other beings that could have come after us, but I realized the truth of things soon enough.

Every time we heard a suspicious sound that might have been footsteps, an animal cry, or something more magical, my mother’s countenan...

Reborn Healer Chapter 11

The difference between creating a core and advancing one was a little harder to quantify given the circumstances. While Locke hadn’t been the most effective at teaching me about spellcasting, there was a lot he’d been able to explain to me about the theory of magic. 

With every increase in a core, it would measurably change. Lower-tier spells would be stronger since my core was now stronger, and my mana capacity would be higher, but those were just the most obvious ones. <...

Reborn Healer Chapter 10

Aria squeezed through a crack in a cave barely large enough to fit an elbow through, grunting as she pulled herself through into a dripping wet tunnel not that much wider. Clenched in her fist was a strangely familiar knife, magic imbued in the item to make it glow gently. Under the dim light of the blade, her blue cloak shimmered, somehow remaining undamaged even as it piled on mud and dirt.

She wiggled through inhumanly narrow span of cave rock with startling speed. Above...