28 Chapter 28 Now…I do something

I left the room with the happily dancing girl behind and followed Serafall out into the hallway. I found the Satan with a much more serious expression on her face as she glared furiously at a very particular part of the wall.

"Riser? Make sure none of them get past me or hurt the patients." Without another word, the Leviathan burst through the wall into what I assumed to be a secret room. Surprised shouts and muted screams echoed from the room moments after she entered.

I watched the hole in the wall, waiting for any sign of movement.

A tall, blonde woman flew through the hole at breakneck speed, her bat-like wings extended out behind her. Blood poured out of a gaping hole in her stomach, greatly hampering her movements, though she was still as fast as a striking cobra. An elegant, silver sword was clasped in her right hand as she fled Serafall in a panic. She saw me and her eyes widened. She brought up her empty hand and summoned a spell circle, firing a large spear of ice at me.

I summoned my own spell circle and evaporated the icicle with Hellfire before it was anywhere near me. Using the rapidly expanding cloud of water vapor as cover, I morphed into my flame form and closed the gap to the devil, using the fire I'd melted her ice with as a marker. I formed two flaming daggers in my hands as I rematerialized and jammed them both into the blinded woman's throat.

She began to gag, then quickly fell over dead in my arms. Her sword fell from her limp grasp, but I caught it before it hit the ground. I gave it a quick look and, deciding to check it out later, attached it to my back with a hardened chain of flame that I conjured.

Sword secure, I carried the body with me through the hole in the wall into a small room and threw it to the ground, looking for any other opponents. I found only carnage.

The remains of at least eight devils were strewn about the floor with a potential three or four more pureed in the corner. There was no way to tell an exact number from the liquified corpses. I had no idea how they were able to cram so many of themselves into this tiny space, but it really drove home just how important Ingvild was to whoever sent her here. Aside from the display of blood and gore, the only thing present in the room was a simple gurney suspiciously clean of any of Serafall's victim's blood. A girl with light purple hair slept soundly in the gurney while a device attached to her wrist beeped periodically.

Gently, almost lovingly, Serafall brushed a strand of hair out of the girl's face with the back of her hand. "Looks like you were telling the truth, Riser. Now let's see if you can actually wake her up."

"Help me give her the potion." I said as I approached, pulling the yellow, glowing liquid Clarissa had brewed at my request.

Serafall and I gently sat the girl up and opened her mouth, tilting her head back so the elixir would flow down her throat.

The girl unconsciously coughed a little as the liquid went down, but there were no other changes or negative changes.

"Now what?" Serafall asked, sounding more than a little concerned.

"Now…I do something I haven't told anyone I can do yet." I offered Serafall a hesitant grin and said, "Keep it a secret? Please? I've been keeping this as close to the chest as possible because I really don't want anyone to know I've figured out how to share my Immortality with others."

Before Serafall could react in any noticeable way other than her widened eyes, I walked to the head of the bed and placed my palms on either side of the slumbering girl's head.

When I'd told Serafall I'd been preparing to wake her up on my own, I'd been telling the truth. I really wanted Ingvild in my peerage, but the way things had worked out, it would never have happened without me either trading Yubelluna, something I would not do, or pissing a lot of people off. That didn't mean my preparations were useless though. I'd practiced this particular trick using rats. A large number of them exploded as I was getting the hang of it, but I had enough control to not blow up Ingvild.

At least I was pretty sure I had enough control.

Some may ask why I didn't just use a Phenex Tear, but that wouldn't do it. Phenex Tears restored you to your physical prime, but, as shown by the various attempts to wake people from the Sleeping Sickness with them in the past, whatever caused the disease wasn't something the Tears considered 'wrong'. Ergo, a more…hands on approach was necessary.

Taking one last breath to center myself, I began.

Fire poured out of my palms into Ingvild's ears. I poured more and more of the phoenix flames of my Immortality into the girl, causing the space around me to rapidly heat up.

"You're really…How did you…?" Serafall started, her mouth hung limply open as she beheld the scene before her. I'd have been flattered by the reaction if I wasn't so focused on not accidentally blowing Ingvild into thousands of meaty chunks.

My forehead creased in concentration, I forced my restorative fire throughout Ingvild's body; sweat began to pour down my face.

What I was doing should not have been possible. I was using the Phenex family's regenerative fire to heal another living being than myself. To date, not one member of the Phenex family had found a way to transfer it, even temporarily, to another person. Their imaginations just weren't accepting enough. Magic in this world worked because you thought it would. Sure, it took some trial and error to make things run properly, but for certain endeavors, it was worth it. My assumption was no Phenex ever considered there to be a point to sharing their regeneration. I was different. The mere ability to do something new was enticing enough to figure out tricks that had never been seen before. The fact that I was using one of those tricks to make friends with one of the four Satans was just icing on the cake.

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