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I had realized it quite late, but I looked awfully bad. My face was very pale and I even looked like a zombie, is this accumulated exhaustion in my body? Sometimes I forget this body is a fragile seven-year-old child, so I should go easy on it for now on, for some time. Well, I will dedicate myself to just heal people after the transplant of the eye tonight. Maybe I need to just sleep without practicing Aether manipulation every night, perhaps that takes part of my mind and I cannot completely relax and sleep.
For the moment I decided to just go with my plans originally, but this exhaustion that I feel might be a bad thing for me… I cannot remain like this or it will worsen, I should take a few days off too, perhaps.
For the moment, everybody was already sleeping inside their rooms, so Eleanora and I moved to the storage which I have already disinfected previously. Eleanora had few surgical tools that I shaped out of normal tools such as kitchen knife, fork, and spoons using the Earth Magic Tier 1 Spell “Shape Mineral” which helps me shape minerals, but it is very hard and it takes a long time, and Mana, so I’ve been preparing them for a long while.
After getting the basic procedures done, I sat down on the table. This was indeed going to be very rough, but I was going to abuse healing magic to brute force it down, the body getting used to the foreign eye is also going to be painful, but this is a power I need to continue growing stronger, the ability to paralyze a foe is strong, I cannot miss this golden opportunity.
“Are you ready, Asmodeus? I won’t be gentle with you.” Said Eleanora. “It’s going to hurt… a lot.”
Eleanora was not being dishonest, and that’s what I like about her. She was worried about me and thought that this was a bit too crazy, even for me. At this stage it would be too risky to do, but I wanted to take the risk for the benefits.
“Yeah, I am ready.” I said.
“Okay then… Sigh… Let’s do it.” She said. “I will control your blood flow and also not let you bleed as much, good thing you took off your clothes because there will be a lot of blood splattered around…”
“Go ahead.”
“Alright…”
Eleanora quickly took the knife, slowly moving it near my eye, she carefully put it all the way down from the side of the eye, an incredibly sharp pain crossed through my skull, the nerves were tingling more and more as they detected a foreign and cold object touching the eye and piercing through the flesh around it. Eleanora was not going to cut the eye because that would cause too much bleeding, so she was going to scoop I out, carefully cut the veins, and then connect these veins to the other new eye, alongside the other things.
I remained calm despite the sharp pain, I was using spells with it, of course, although I had no spell that could completely inhibit pain, I had spells to make it slightly lesser, such as the Illusion Magic Spell called “Dulled Pain” that convinces my own mind that the pain is not severe and makes it so I don’t begin to convulse in agony but I still feel the pain as strong as the brightness of the sunlight in day with clean skies.
Quickly after, Eleanora forcefully pulled the eye out of my socket as blood and other viscous liquids came out. My eye socket was now completely black and inside there was a lot of fleshy walls, where the eye came out there were all the veins connecting it to the rest of my internal skull structure and brain.
She pulled it as far as it could go, which was half a centimeter, and then carefully used a sharp knife to cut down the eye from the base. Another sharp pain, enough to make someone have a heart attack out of the agony rushed through my body, it made my hands tremble slightly, but it wasn’t anything too much.
After that, Eleanora placed the eye in a different plate and gently grabbed the demon eye, quickly using her Blood Manipulation to maintain the blood loss to a minimum as she connected the nerves, veins, and more into the new eye perfectly, we had studied this Imp Eye before and it was almost the same as another human eye.
While doing this, I used demonic energy to stabilize the rejection that my body was showing against the new eye, and slowly made the eye gain life once more, now connected to my own life, the eye started to feel warmer, and then Eleanora connected all of the veins and I used healing magic to forcefully connect the flesh and cells together.
Although it was “simple” the procedure was incredibly slow as we had to be very careful about everything, things took a longer time than expected, and when Eleanora placed the eye inside and then I used some more healing magic over my eye to stabilize things out, it was already 5 AM and my parents were slowly waking up from bed.
“It’s done…! That was close… I-It hurts?” Asked Eleanora.
“Yes, a lot, it feels like my head is burning.” I sighed. “Let’s go sleep for now.”
“What about the priests?” She wondered.
“I don’t care about them that much; I’ll go after sleeping.” I said.
I felt exhausted due to the enormous quantity of pain I went through and wanted to sleep for a while longer, ignoring the priests asking me to go to them at 6 AM, I decided to spend the rest of the morning sleeping on bed…
When I woke up, it was around 3 PM, and I still felt a sharp pain in my eye, and wanted to sleep for some more time, but it was enough for now, I had to wake up.
And as I stood out of bed, suddenly the vision of what I could see slightly changed.
“T-This is…?!”
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