Supreme Magus novel Chapter 275

"Just like the previous year, we are going to spend the first two trimesters on a single but wide subject, while during the third one you’ll get real practice in the field. This time as lead healers in the most important hospitals of the Kingdom.

"What I am about to introduce to you today, is the last branch of healing magic you need to master before achieving the privilege and the honor of being considered full fledged healers.

"Tier one to three have taught you to mend broken bones and to heal injuries. Tier four how to replace lost limbs and organs. Yet there is still a case we haven’t explored.

"What if our patient never had a limb to start with? What if they were born with a deformity or a defective organ?" He asked while walking around the class.

"Are we helpless in front of such eventuality? The answer is no. There is nothing that a true healer cannot fix. Only death is beyond our reach, at least for now." Vastor declared with a proud look in his eyes.

"The first four tiers of magic are completely useless against natural deformities simply because there is nothing wrong in the first place. You can’t heal a man born blind because it’s his natural status.

"Even if his eyes were to be gouged and regrown, they would still be blind. Tier four magic simply gives the body the means to revert to its original status. Nothing more, nothing less.

"Tier five Light magic brings in something that we have often mentioned but never worked on. The study of the life force. During the first trimester I’ll teach you how to sense your own life force and how to use it to manipulate other people’s life force to give them a normal life."

The class murmured, for all of them life force was a vague concept. They had learned how to share it with the patients, allowing them to survive critical wounds and major procedures, but nothing more.

"That’s only the first step, though. Once you learn how to control the life force comes the real deal. Let’s suppose our patient is born with a deformed arm. It’s the easiest case you’ll ever face.

"Two-bit healers will approach the problem by amputating the arm, to regenerate it in the correct shape. It works, yes. The arm will be perfectly functional, but that’s a butcher execution that will teach you nothing and endangers the patient’s life.

"A real Healer uses a complex mix of light and darkness magic to perform what is called ’Body Sculpting’. Mastering the life force means you can find the dissonances in its flow and correct them accordingly.

"Darkness magic is used to remove the excess parts or to clear the way, so that light magic can start the healing process while the mage teaches the body its new form, permanently altering its natural state.

"That way, if the arm gets damaged or maimed, healing magic will restore it without the need of using Body Sculpting. I want you to understand the deep implications of altering someone forever.

"Our physical appearance is something that defines us, or at least affects how others perceive us. Body sculpting is still a highly controversial ethical matter. Some worry it can be used to turn a human being into something else.

"That through human experimentation it could breed all sorts of hybrids. Such concerns I can understand, but it’s something for the Crown to regulate not for us mages to care about.

"Some radical fools say that it breaches the boundaries the gods have set for humans. I say that’s bogus.