Chapter 78
Chapter 78
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 78
Chapter Title: General Anesthesia
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My entire body felt like it was burning.
Screams and cries of pain rang in my ears.
When I opened my eyes, all around me was a hellscape dyed red.
“Gasp!”
I tried to move in shock, but for some reason, my body wouldn’t budge.
Black hands sprouting from the ground had grabbed my ankles and were clinging on.
“Get lost! Stay away!”
I screamed in terror, but it was just pointless flailing.
Just as endless despair settled into the knight’s eyes, suddenly all sounds faded away.
And then a single phrase whispered in my ear.
“I’ll tell you how to heal.”
With that voice, the knight reflexively jolted awake from the dream, thrashing about.
*
ㄴ Author) Uh
“Uh, what? He’s fine?”
Galrum finally replied an hour after contact had been cut off.
He seemed surprisingly okay?
ㄴ Judak*) How was it?
ㄴ Author) What are you talking about?
ㄴ Author) First, you need to give me the medicine so I can heal and then reply.
But his condition seemed a bit off.
ㄴ Judak*) ?
ㄴ Author) Lord Judak, I’m really in a hurry. I’m not lying—my arm really got cut off.
I’m gonna bleed out and die, so please give me some medicine.
“What’s going on? Did he lose his memory or something?”
It had already been over an hour since I gave the knight the medicine.
So why was he asking for medicine now?
Then a possibility flashed through my mind.
ㄴ Judak*) Look at your right arm.
Did he really lose his memory?
ㄴ Author) Huh? Why’s it attached?
ㄴ Author) Wait, did you reattach my arm remotely too?
ㄴ Author) Mom, when I grow up, I wanna be Judak! Mom, when I grow up, I wanna be Judak! Mom, when I grow up, I wanna be Judak!
ㄴ ㅅㅅ This guy seems to have lost his memory.
ㄴ Whoa, that’s fucking scary lol;
ㄴ A knight who kept posting even after losing his arm now loses his memory from the pain?
ㄴ Author) What are you talking about? Why would I lose my memory?
And sure enough, my suspicion was correct.
He had lost his memory from the intense pain.
“Whoa, this can’t get out.”
Kellerton was a new nation, but it already had a solid image as a knightly kingdom.
Thanks to the steel supplies I’d given them before, knight applicants had surged.
The competition was insane, so only the truly talented could become knights.
For one of those knights to not just black out from pain but develop short-term amnesia?
- Author) What, is there something everyone knows but me?
ㄴ Judak*) Well, your arm’s back. Cheers with your new arm~
ㄴ Author) (Frog knight emoticon pinching bridge of nose in awe)
I messaged Morone again, the one who developed the potion.
At this rate, they’d all die of shock before the healing even kicked in.
But Morone hadn’t placed much emphasis on side effects from the start.
Morone: If they endure the temporary pain, they heal. Isn’t that a good thing?
Judak*: What? Then the side effects are
Morone: (Don’t know? emoticon)
The witches were poor.
Naturally, they had to skimp on potion ingredients and use the cheapest ones possible.
Side effects were inevitable.
Judak*: This makes it unusable.
Morone: How about diluting it then?
“Oh, it can be diluted?”
At least it was good news that dilution was possible.
I tried it on a new applicant, hoping it might help.
- Whoa, my arm’s fully healed! Thank you ㅠㅠ
ㄴ Judak*) How was it? Bearable?
ㄴ Whoa! Thank you so much! My arm’s... ㅠㅠ
ㄴ Judak*) ??
ㄴ Seems like the problem’s somewhere else now.
ㄴ Arm = Brain Miracle Swap Method
Not much effect.
“Recovery potions are still essential, though.”
Morone was researching new ones, but people in need were overflowing right now.
Injuries weren’t just a human problem either, so demand was through the roof.
“The shop knows the answer.”
So I headed to the shop.
When in doubt, the shop always had a solution.
And sure enough, the answer was inside the shop.
*
Salt and pepper.
Essential ingredients that absolutely had to go into recovery potions, no exceptions.
Salt had the best compatibility with witch magic.
Pepper satisfied the requirement for a material “as expensive as life itself” in recovery potions.
That’s why sprinkling recovery potion on a wound came with pain equivalent to rubbing salt and pepper in it.
Morone: I’ll keep trying, but it’ll take time to perfect ㅠㅠ
The problem was, that was the only recipe.
Witch hunts had caused potion-making knowledge to regress.
“Then we just eliminate the pain.”
Where does pain come from?
The brain. So numb the brain!
[Local Anesthesia] - 200p
Use anesthetic.
“A bit pricey, but whatever.”
Think of it as the cost of a life.
And in this chaotic isekai, applicants were endless.
[Title: D-don’t mess with me!]
(Pig beast bloody mess dead emoticon)
(Thumbs-up author meme)
Gave those ambushing pig bastards a reverse tour~
- Nice~
- But teacher, you’re missing a thumb?
ㄴ Author) One... I left it in the future...!
Galrum, who lost a finger mid-fight with a beast.
“You’re the one!”
Without even chatting first, I sent recovery potion and anesthetic together right away.
- Author) Huh, what arrived?
ㄴ Judak*) Inject and sprinkle potion.
The post seemed cheerful, but Galrum’s bleeding was pretty severe.
Blood dripping like water, soaking his clothes.
- Author) Fuck, this is gonna hurt like hell?
ㄴ Obviously, carrot smackdown!
ㄴ Lmao bye
ㄴ Season 2 fainting game winner lol
Having seen recovery potion effects before, the author was excited yet trembling in tension.
The moment he injected anesthetic near the stump and sprinkled potion.
- Author) Agh!!!!! Aaaah wait, huh?
ㄴ What
ㄴ ?
ㄴ Why’s he fine?
And the effect was tremendous.
No matter how tightly the author squeezed his eyes shut waiting, the pain never came.
- Author) What the— it’s done, why doesn’t it hurt?
ㄴ (Disappointed teacher, devil emoticon)
ㄴ Author) You fuckers
- Isn’t it the anesthetic? Holy shit cheat lol
- Fuck
ㄴ (Crying knight cat emoticon)
ㄴ ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Here it comes?
ㄴ If you’re mad, get injured 2 hours later lol
“Works perfectly.”
This seemed plenty usable.
Of course, the issue was it needed a clean cut, and for torso injuries instead of limbs, it’d be tricky.
- Author) This feels... kinda weird.
ㄴ O
ㄴ What’s it like?
ㄴ Author) Like my whole arm died, then life slowly breathed back into it?
ㄴ Author) Anyway, super weird. Feels like my finger never got cut.
The applicant was back to normal, plus it served as great advertising.
Just like I’d witnessed, the gallery had seen the whole healing process.
- Wait, that’s possible?
- Did he use time rewind magic or something?
ㄴ That exists?
ㄴ Nope;
- So mystical. To think that’s possible.
ㄴ Fr, rewinds the cut part without a hint of pain? Even dragons can’t do that;
ㄴ It’s not impossible, just unnecessary so no one researched it.
ㄴ That’s what we call “can’t do it.”
ㄴ Time for dragon haters to stir again?
Anesthesia was an unknown concept in this isekai.
At best, all pain fading before death.
Anesthetics temporarily blocked sensory nerves, but reactions varied wildly.
- Kills a body part then revives it?
ㄴ Not a god—how do you kill and revive at will?
ㄴ You think that makes sense?
ㄴ Then what the fuck is it?
- Looks like time magic.
ㄴ Read too many fantasy novels?
ㄴ I think dragons can do it.
ㄴ Yeah right? If they could, they’d be flying around now. They all died and vanished.
Time reversal theory vs. kill body part, reattach, revive theory.
Both wrong, of course.
But the misunderstanding bloomed, fueling more conspiracy theories about my identity.
[Quality Post: Judak Is Not a Half-Elf Beauty]
It’s a polymorph’d beauty user.
Casting utterly impossible magic across fields? Gotta be an ancient dragon lived 10k+ years?
[Recommendations 9999+] [Disrecommendations 152]
- O...
- (Makes... sense...! Scholar emoticon)
- No, you demon. It’s a half-elf great mage beauty.
- Myoran) Lol
ㄴ This fox bastard fr
ㄴ Keeps mocking nonstop since he saw it
ㄴ But what you saw could be polymorph too
ㄴ Myoran) !
ㄴ Judak*) No fuck off
“How does the half-elf beauty theory trend even after I posted photos?”
Bought and used anesthetic, and now ancient dragon beauty theory adds on.
I gave up explaining and checked new posts instead.
Until Morone’s mid-grade recovery potion was ready, this would have to do.
But crisis hit sooner than expected.
[Title: Lord Judak, please help]
(Bloody commoner boy meme)
It’s my son.
Told him not to go into the forest a million times, but he slipped away while I looked away for a sec.
By the time I chased after, a beast was attacking him.
Please save him.
Kill me if you must. Please...
One post that caught my eye amid the flood.
Low views, buried in refresh rate, but it couldn’t escape my 24/7 gallery eyes.
“Kellerton outskirts village?”
Condition was dire.
Barely clinging to life, miraculously.
Normally, that level of injury meant certain death...
“Who am I?”
Judak of Isekai Destruction Gallery.
I immediately posted a notice.
[Notice: Confident in magic? Step up]
Kellerton affiliates who know some magic, raise hand.
Got a job for ya.
Generous pay.
[Recommendations 2093] [Disrecommendations 0]
- Me, I’m really confident in magic.
- Mid-grade mage here, can I apply?
- zl Ground Storm Mage) ? What’s up?
Less than a minute, and mages started pouring in.
*
Kellerton outskirts village.
Starting from city reclamation, rapidly expanding territory under Judak’s protection.
But outskirts meant beasts popping up occasionally.
This victim was just a young boy.
“Please, anyone, help him!”
The boy, who snuck up the mountain cheerfully behind his parents’ backs, came down covered in blood.
Clutching his dying little body, the father screamed in despair.
But the gathered crowd in the square just sighed and bowed heads.
“...No helping this.”
“Ugh...”
Injury too severe.
Even a priest couldn’t.
Even an archmage couldn’t.
Only a god could pull this off.
As faces hardened with regret and helplessness—
Something descended from the sky at high speed.
“Where’s the boy?”
Kellerton’s sole magic tower creator and deputy tower master.
The likable zl Ground Storm Mage.
“Aah, mage!”
At the boy’s parents’ wails, Derek the Ground Explosion Mage flew straight to them.
What he saw was basically a corpse of a child.
Even magic-proficient Derek couldn’t handle this.
As they murmured, only a god could do it.
“Step aside, all of you. You too.”
But Derek’s eyes held no hesitation.
Full of certainty instead.
Because the Judak he knew...
‘Can do it.’
Just like the miracle he once showed me, he’d save the boy too, impossibly.
With that faith, he pulled out what Judak had given him.
“What’s that?”
“Kills a person and revives them at the same time.”
It was general anesthesia.