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Chapter 236: God of Medicine

Chapter 236: God of Medicine

“No.”

It was Schudlen who interrupted Ethan’s words. Schudlen shook his head with a very solemn face.

“I’ll offer my head instead. It may be worthless compared to the life of my master, Ethan Whiskers, but that’s the proper duty of a guard. Please allow it.”

At those words, everyone made bewildered expressions.

On the other hand, the atmosphere of Black Sword and the twelve hidden guards softened quite a bit.

Yerica lightly kicked Schudlen’s foot as he bowed so deeply it seemed excessive.

Schudlen then turned his head to look at Yerica as if asking why she kicked him.

“What are you doing, Schudlen? Do you perhaps think Lord Ethan will fail?”

Yerica, who was next to him, said to Schudlen in a small voice.

At those words, Schudlen opened his eyes wide as if they would tear, then quickly straightened his back.

“N-no, that’s not it…”

The flustered Schudlen hurriedly tried to correct his words.

“If, I mean, supposing…”

Evangeline, who had been staring at this scene, looked at Ethan.

“You have good guards.”

“They’re guards I’ve shared life and death with. We nearly died from dung poisoning.”

Ethan said with a slight smile. At that time, they both really could have died from dung poisoning.

Fortunately, thanks to Schudlen running with all his might, saying there couldn’t be a knight who died from dung poisoning, they were able to safely be here.

Evangeline looked back and forth between Ethan and Schudlen, then nodded her head.

“Then I’ll trust you once. I’ll provide everything I can provide. First… I’ll tell you what kind of treatment I’ve received so far.”

***

Ethan decided to act in order first.

Since he had originally come to see Regia, he asked Evangeline’s understanding and talked with Regia.

“I’d like to receive education from Lord Regia, including my two guards.”

At Ethan’s words, the two guards made surprised expressions. These two also knew who Regia Malcher was.

Of course, they didn’t know in great detail, but they certainly knew that he was called the emperor’s teacher.

“Master Ethan.”

“Don’t tell me you brought us for that…”

“It’s killing two birds with one stone.”

At Ethan’s words, the two guards were greatly moved. Especially Schudlen, whose eyes were moist as if he was clenching his teeth and holding back tears.

‘You’re too moved, Schudlen.’

While Yerica had become stronger than expected after breaking the curse, Schudlen still had many lacking aspects.

‘Schudlen has enough talent too. If he learns from Regia, he can explode that talent.’

“Well, it doesn’t matter. But Teacher Ethan, you’ll get less attention that way, is that okay?”

“It’s fine. I tend to understand well even with less attention.”

Regia couldn’t help but smile at that confidence. Having taught numerous strong people, it was easy for Regia to distinguish between bluster and confidence.

That wasn’t bluster. It was definite confidence.

“Alright, then I’ll make sure to educate your two guards as well. But.”

Regia said.

“Make sure you complete Lady Evangeline’s treatment that you’ve started. If you fail that… there will be no education, of course. Lady Evangeline may look kind, but she’s cold and ruthless.”

“You don’t need to worry. I’ll finish it soon and come back, so please take good care of my two guards’ education.”

Ethan left the two guards and headed to the room assigned to him.

‘Although I boasted, I can’t be sure if I can treat her.’

But in that situation, he had to say he could definitely do it.

“There’s too much cold energy in her body.”

As a result of the pulse diagnosis, the disease Evangeline was suffering from was a disease called extreme cold atrophy syndrome.

To explain simply, it’s a disease where cold energy dwells in the mana gathering near the heart, and that cold energy spreads throughout the body along the blood vessels, interfering with the spread of mana.

Moreover, it was a terrible disease where that cold energy constricts blood vessels and mana channels, even interfering with blood flow and mana circulation.

‘Since the cold energy constantly spreads throughout the body, it should originally be a disease of short life.’

The fact that the Third Princess was still alive despite this was proof that the palace healers had extremely excellent skills.

It was also thanks to consistently eating good medicinal herbs to improve the condition of the disease.

‘Probably the mana breathing technique the Third Princess is learning is also to suppress that cold energy.’

But unfortunately, extreme cold atrophy syndrome cannot be treated with current technology.

‘It’s not impossible. But it can’t be treated perfectly.’

The frightening point of this disease was in the infinitely generated cold energy.

‘There’s no point in treating it half-heartedly. The cold energy that settles again will quickly spread throughout the body.’

“Two things are needed.”

Powerful medicinal herbs and modification of the mana breathing technique.

‘If I use the True Heo’s Acupuncture and Hua Tuo’s Abdominal Surgery together in that state, I can definitely treat it.’

Ethan immediately turned on the New World.

“I need more skills to reinforce the permeable decoction technique. More precisely, skills to handle ingredients.”

This was the first task in the palace.

‘I need to button the first button properly.’

That’s how things will go well afterwards.

Ethan entered the bulletin board first. This time too, he had no intention of blindly searching for gods.

‘I need to subscribe to a god more suitable for the current situation through algorithm enhancement.’

Ethan, who was going to build up his inner power through the Q&A board as usual, saw posts related to Cheok Jun-gyeong on the board.

It wasn’t just one or two.

It was an explosive response, with almost half being about him.

‘Cheok Jun-gyeong’s video recently rose to 1st and 2nd place in trending videos.’

Of course, Ethan didn’t only pay attention to Cheok Jun-gyeong. He had made shorts for several gods he had designated as premium subscribers.

While looking at the bulletin board, Ethan clicked on a post titled [Reasons Why Cheok Jun-gyeong Could Rise to the Upper Ranks].

The comments there were quite shocking.

-Wow, I can’t believe the rankings changed.

-I heard the upper ranks had been fixed for a long time. But they say Cheok Jun-gyeong’s rank went up one level.

-Is that possible?

-Does this mean even the 1st place that Zeus is holding can change someday?

-By the way, does anyone know when this competition in the New World ends?

-I only know that it’s been going on for quite a long time.

‘Did Cheok Jun-gyeong’s rank go up?’

Cheok Jun-gyeong had conducted a collab thanks to Ethan’s shorts. The protagonist of that collab was Han Myeong-ryeon, and Ethan had learned Han Swordsmanship through the collab with Han Myeong-ryeon.

‘Thanks to that, the rough taste returned to my Ethan Swordsmanship.’

The collab with Han Myeong-ryeon seemed to have had a definite big effect.

‘It was essentially a fight with fixed rankings.’

But Cheok Jun-gyeong had shaken up that fixed fight.

‘They must have all been feeling secure.’

Since the top rankings that hadn’t changed for a long time had changed, now even the upper-ranked gods would have to be on edge.

Ethan entered Cheok Jun-gyeong’s channel.

“Crazy.”

The number of views on the shorts he had made to match when uploading the collab video with Han Myeong-ryeon was amazing.

“No wonder the ranking changed.”

1st and 2nd place in trending videos. And the newly uploaded shorts of the collab video with Han Myeong-ryeon followed to take 1st place again.

The video comments were full of talk about Cheok Jun-gyeong as well as Ethan.

-Isn’t this changed by [Only subscribed to the right gods]?

-I thought competitiveness had disappeared as other subscribers imitated subscription reviews.

-There’s no separate kingmaker. At this point, isn’t [Only subscribed to the right gods] really the kingmaker?

-But… if the top-ranked gods collaborate with [Only subscribed to the right gods] subscriber, wouldn’t the ranking battle be over completely?

-That could be possible. But I hope it doesn’t happen.

-Why?

-Because it’s more fun that way.

‘It’s true that my shorts are shaking things up.’

But Ethan didn’t know when this New World had started.

‘We can’t ignore the accumulated strength of the top-ranked gods over that time. Cheok Jun-gyeong called them giant trees.’

If those giant trees take proper steps, Cheok Jun-gyeong, who’s riding the momentum, could return to his original place.

‘But that’s not important.’

Ethan didn’t particularly want to compete. He wasn’t very moved by the repeatedly mentioned term ‘kingmaker’ either.

The ranking battle was for the gods to do, not for Ethan, a subscriber, to worry about.

‘There’s only one thing I need to remember.’

When war breaks out, the one who benefits most is the one selling military supplies.

When gold is discovered in a mine, it’s not the miner who becomes rich, but the merchant selling various things to that miner.

‘I just need to get the abilities I want through the gods of the New World.’

Things like kingmaker are just incidental.

‘It’s enough if I can get what I want from the gods.’

Ethan then searched for Hades’ channel.

Hades’ channel, which was little more than a hobby channel, had grown quite a bit, with the number of subscribers increasing by 10 times.

-Cerberus is so cute.

-Cerberus, live long and prosper.

-Cerberus is already living long. Probably much longer than you. And could live even longer.

-Cerberus, take all my likes.

“I did cut out only the cute parts for the shorts. Of course, it was a cute video from Hades’ perspective.”

It seemed to have worked strangely well.

“Questions related to Hades have increased in the Q&A board too.”

Ethan quickly answered such posts.

Ethan’s answers, who had become a hero-level intellectual, were placed ahead of other answers.

As a result, his contribution points accumulated much faster than before.

‘The higher probability of answer adoption must be a big factor too.’

Before he knew it, Ethan had gathered 200 contribution point.

-You have purchased an algorithm enhancement right!

Ethan started searching with the enhanced algorithm.

The search keywords were medicinal herbs and medical arts.

‘I need a definite god. A god who can create definite synergy in the current situation.’

-Searching keywords.

-The algorithm recommends a god suitable for your current situation.

Evangeline’s disease was almost impossible to treat.

‘Almost impossible means it’s just difficult, not that it can’t be treated.’

Ethan intended to increase that probability by subscribing to a new god.

‘Hang Woo, Hercules, and Cheok Jun-gyeong. They’re gods of the same category, but when you dig deep, the core power is different for each.’

That’s why Ethan could draw out perfect synergy effects with the skills obtained by subscribing to these three gods.

That meant the same for treatment.

‘Heo Jun, and Hua Tuo.’

And add one more to this.

He intended to use the synergy effect of three medical gods to treat Evangeline’s disease.

‘I might be able to treat Extinction a bit more too.’

-The enhanced algorithm recommends a god suitable for you!

[A medical god who can revive even the dead][Difficulty: High]

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