Tessa looked around at the situation, then sighed and rubbed Thor’s head.
“On the plus side, even though we turned over the orphans without so much as a thank you, we can now get back to moving at a decent speed.” Karl smiled, and Rae called out a pair of Golems.
“Yes, we can ride in style now. Ophelia, do you think you can ride without a saddle?” Karl asked.
“I think so. The Golems move pretty smoothly. But can the bodyguards keep up with Thor?”
The Naga Warriors gave her a thumbs up, while the Lamia pair nodded. They might struggle to catch the golems or Rae in a straight line, but they were pretty quick, and Thor would only be at a casual jog that he could keep up all day.
Karl mounted a Golem and took the point position, while Hawk soared overhead, scouting the area for surviving threats. Their chosen route out of the area had nothing, as the last attack had been nearly overhead, and that didn’t give the Giant Boars much of a chance.
If there was anyone alive and hiding underground, Hawk was determined to ignore it so that they could actually make progress today and not just keep stopping to pet babies and build wagons.
Neither of those activities held any interest for him, but once they found the group of Dana Mages, they were guaranteed to find action. Every time he had met them in the past there was a fight of some sort, and most of them were with new species. That had to be a good sign of their interesting nature.
So, he flew to the edge of the destruction and searched for surviving Cyclops and boar teams. Dead was dead when the rest of the team arrived, and they wouldn’t stop just because it was Hawk that killed some of them.
Karl could hear his plotting, but it wasn’t much different from what he would have ordered anyhow.
Even at the casual jogging pace, it wouldn’t take them too much longer to make their way out of the affected area. There was a chance that some of the invaders had scattered, but a few groups wouldn’t be a major issue, even if Hawk didn’t find them first.
[The Dana Mages are on the move again, but they’re slow today. I think that something happened to them.] Hawk updated.
[Can you tell what it is?]
[I think that they have wounded members. They don’t have the hiding spell up anymore, and some of them are being carried on a cloth between people.]
[How far are they?]
[About an hour if Thor runs?] Hawk guessed.
[You up for it, buddy?] Karl asked Thor, who started to run instead of answering.
The startled passengers held on for dear life as the Cerro’s swaying gait turned into a ramming speed sprint. But the saddle was made for this, and the Golems had no problem keeping up, while their multi-legged body gave them a much smoother ride.
After half an hour, Thor’s stamina was fading, and his sprint had faded to a run and then to a fast jog, but the Spellblade Clan was now in sight, and they should have been able to recognized Karl and the others just as easily as he recognized them.
They had even been sending scouts up every ten minutes to get a better view, so there was no way that they didn’t know Karl’s team was coming by now.
Once they realized that Karl was coming to them, Prince Corbin turned his clan back towards the incoming Elites, and the promise of healing from the clerics they knew were with them.
Karl didn’t bother getting down from the Golem when they met, he just nodded politely to the other Royal Rank Elite and waited for an update.
“We were caught by surprise when the pair of fighting Totems appeared overhead. We were far too close to their battle, and they didn’t appear to care that there were others in the area. Do you know who had the audacity to attack the Emperor?
Scratch that, can I get your clerics to heal my people? We have some severe injuries that our potions couldn’t handle. We can discuss the rest later.” Corbin began.
“Of course. Tessa, Lotus, would you look after the Spellblades? Remi, you can help as well if you would like.”
Remi came out with a bag full of potions to test on the wounded, and Tessa did her best not to laugh at the aspiring alchemist. Even if she poisoned them with a bad concoction, there were still other healers around, or Remi could just cast a healing spell on them to cure it. freёwebnovel.com
Most of the damages were internal, aftermath of the blasts from the Totem Rank battle, and without intensive treatment, they might not make it.
That sort of healing wasn’t easy for most healing potions, and it was one of the reasons that the doctors had originally suggested to Remi that she work on using [Healing Splash] as an injectable healing spell.
A regular healing spell worked from the skin inward. A potion worked from the stomach out and took a while to take effect. But injected into the blood, a healing spell would be much more evenly dispersed.
That was what she tried first, with one of the most severely injured Ascended Rank Spellblades. Remi crouched over the casualty as if listening to their heartbeat, then subtly bit the victim’s arm and injected [Healing Splash].
Then she fed him a blue potion and hovered over him to watch the effect, using her long lower body as a base so she could remain close enough to see all the minute changes.
[That works better than expected. We should get someone to make us needles, and then we can just stab people with healing.]
Rae laughed at the reaction people would have to a needle the size that Remi had in mind to inject them with a whole potion.
[Rae is right, I think it has to be concentrated for injectable use.] Karl agreed.
[That’s easily fixed. But most importantly, look how well biting people works for healing. I’m going to bite another one.]
Her body darted toward another wounded Spellblade, a Commander, who she bit on the neck like a Vampire.
The man squeaked in horror, then the lacerations and bruising on his body began to visibly fade, starting at the bite mark.
“You’re letting her do that because it’s funny, aren’t you? [Healing Splash] doesn’t have to be injected.” Prince Corbin asked Karl quietly.
“It actually works faster when injected. But yes, she could just douse them with it, or feed them the spell suspended in a potion.”
The Spellblade Prince shook his head, and Karl noticed that Remi had picked up a heavily injured girl. Nobody else in the group was that small, it had to be Tamarind, formerly Tori the mage.
As she was still Ascended, she had taken heavy damage from the blast, and Remi had shown at the beast Temple that she had a thing for grabbing and relocating small people.
[Don’t run away with her after she is healed.] Karl warned.
[No problem. She just needs more healing than my bite and a potion, so I’m bringing her to Lotus.]