Mage Manual
Chapter 499 - 409: The Touch of the Future

Chapter 499: Chapter 409: The Touch of the Future

Kingdom of Blood Moon, Kaimon City.

Dressed in a white lab coat, Freyja pouted as she walked out of Siflin’s treatment room and quickly left the ’Biological Prosthetics Department.’ Along the way, other doctors and nurses whispered and watched her, but no one greeted her, as if an invisible barrier of the heart separated them.

However, Meiwa didn’t mind; compared to that, the scolding she had just received from Siflin struck her deeper.

Although she hadn’t yet graduated, she was already an Apprentice Psychological Medical Practitioner at the affiliated hospital of Kaimon, and also a student of Siflin; however, her study program was not of the Spirit Faction but of the Illusion Magic System.

Since their inception, Spirit and Illusion had been closely linked, but compared to the nearly suppressed Spirit Faction within Blood Moon, the Illusion Magic System was a highly sought-after and popular magic faction. Not to mention the great demand of film bases for illusionists, just the increasingly popular ’second world’ virtual games claimed to be built hand and foot by illusionists, made their yearly salaries climb higher and higher, with a supply and demand imbalance in the talent market.

Perhaps Madara, the founder of the Spirit Faction named ’Heart Eye,’ had never conceived that the originally auxiliary Illusion Magic System would one day surpass the Spirit Faction in productivity.

Within the medical field, the position of the Illusion Magic System was also climbing year by year, not for treating diseases, but for ties to greater benefits, a brighter future—

Freyja arrived at Selena’s ward, only to see a warning sign with black background and red letters hanging on the door:

"This ward is occupied by a single patient Selena Bright, with the appearance of a 1.3-meter-tall girl with silver-white hair tinged with wine red and dressed in a blue and white striped hospital gown. When performing any tasks requiring entry into the ward, such as delivering meals, changing medication, or cleaning, remember the following rules—"

"①Only one person may enter the ward at a time. If you see two people already inside, do not enter."

"②Remember the patient’s appearance. If you see someone whose appearance does not match the description, leave immediately and notify Medical Practitioner Siflin."

"③Upon opening the ward door, if you see the patient outside the room wanting to enter with you, leave the hospital as quickly as possible (for instance, by jumping from a window)."

"④If upon opening the door you immediately feel someone pushing you into the ward, regardless of who it is, you must jump out of the ward’s window straight away."

"⑤If you feel unwell within the ward, or see the interior structure of the ward notably distorted, please leave; if you can’t move, you may imagine that you are already standing outside the ward. When someone else opens the door, you can turn and leave (please do not imagine pushing someone else into the ward)."

"This hospital is very safe, accidents are purely personal problems."

Meiwa opened the door and glanced inside, seeing Selena lying on the bed reading a book. She rushed over and hugged the doll-like girl: "Selena~"

"Sister Freyja!" Selena affectionately hugged Meiwa, rubbing her cheek against Meiwa’s, knowing Freyja liked such intimacy: "Hey, wait a minute!"

Freyja looked at Selena curiously; Selena put her hands on her hips and solemnly said, "Hello miss, although I don’t know what you’ve been through, feeling sad is not allowed here. You are super cute today too!"

"Ah, really?" Meiwa blinked: "I thought I had hidden it pretty well."

"When you’ve stayed in this room as long as I have, you can feel any change in the air," Selena grabbed Freyja’s hand and shook it: "The moment you entered, the air was filled with the scent of sadness."

Yes, you read that right, Selena now had hands—but only within this room.

After discovering that Selena’s limbs had no neural elements from the outset, Siflin changed her treatment strategy. Current biological prosthetics rely on the extension of neurons, and a prosthetic without a neural connection is just a soulless pile of scrap metal.

Therefore, the only prosthetic suitable for Selena was the latest topic being studied and advanced by the four major research institutes: the Fantasy Prosthetic.

If biological prosthetics meant chopping off a person’s hand to replace it with a universal tool, then the Fantasy Prosthetics would, without removing any original organ, make a person believe that the universal tool under their armpit was their third hand.

This was a project that was both crazier and more promising. After all, humans can only control their limbs, facial features, and internal organs. No matter how much biological prosthetics evolve, there would only be twenty slots to accommodate them, and no more soul could perceive beyond that. But if Fantasy Prosthetics could be developed, people could become all-seeing and all-hearing, with multiple arms and eyes; this would undoubtedly be another revolution in magic—a third head could mean tripling learning efficiency, something even mages would covet!

But the development of Fantasy Prosthetics had always been slow, hindered by the very concept of ’fantasy’: How do you describe color to a blind person, or make a deaf person hear thunder? How do you imagine controlling an organ that never existed in the first place?

Yet, Selena’s rare case became Siflin’s breakthrough point—a normal person finding it difficult to imagine having a third hand, but what about a doll imagining it had limbs?

Thus, this ward was set up as a thin line between reality and fantasy, where Selena’s imagination could become reality. Everything was going well, and Selena quickly imagined herself with hands. Perhaps in a short while, she would imagine having legs, and then the Miracle Surgery could be performed to solidify them, making Selena the very first Fantasy Prosthetics user.