Work Prophet
Chapter 135 - 51 Colchicum

Chapter 135: 51 Colchicum

Seeing that Li Yu and Adelle had both gone to pick their people, a bored Ireya also started playing with the electronic pet egg around her neck.

After playing several small games in one go and feeding the ancient spirit within a chocolate cake, she also cleaned up its poop.

Looking at the growth of the 96th level ancestor, a proud smile crept onto Miss Rabbit’s face, full of a sense of achievement.

Merlin always says the ancient spirit of the Arias family isn’t much use, but look at the explosive attack and defense stats on the attribute panel, how could they be useless? They’re obviously incredibly strong!

Miss Rabbit fiddled with her pet egg for a while, and upon seeing Li Yu return with Adelle and their selections, she reluctantly stowed away her necklace and cleared her throat seriously, "So, have you both chosen your people?"

Adelle nodded, "I’ve already selected five patients to be treated by Prophet Merlin."

Li Yu also said, "I’ve made my choice as well."

"Good," Ireya spoke, "Now it’s time for you both to show off your medical skills. Let me be clear, this competition is solely between the two of you. You may not ask for help from others, nor may you discuss the condition and treatment methods with anyone other than the patients and their families.

"Of course, if you truly need additional assistance, I can lend you some guards from the Arias family, but they’re only to serve as helpers doing tasks that anyone can do."

No sooner had Miss Rabbit finished speaking than Li Yu interjected, "Wait, I’m missing a type of medicine on my side. I plan to send one of my men back to the Church to fetch it, so could we delay the competition a little?"

Ireya looked at Adelle, who after some thought replied, "Prophet Merlin may send someone to retrieve the medicine. However, there are quite a few patients we need to treat today, so let’s start the competition. If there’s indeed a need for that medicine, we can just rearrange the patients’ order. Would that be acceptable?"

"Fine."

Li Yu summoned Hera, gave her some instructions, and found a rider from the Arias family to take her on horseback back to the Church grounds to fetch the items.

Seeing that there were no more concerns from the two, Ireya announced the start of the competition.

The first to step forward and face the challenge was Adelle. Li Yu brought her to a butcher whose feet were so sore he could barely walk.

Adelle bent down to carefully examine the swollen parts of the butcher’s feet, especially the bulging lump of flesh.

She then asked the butcher several questions, some even related to his profession, down to the detailed count of how many pigs and sheep he slaughtered each day.

The butcher answered each question truthfully and could not help but ask, "Priest Adelle, does my illness really have to do with eating meat?"

"Eating meat?" The Female Priest shook her head, "Your disease isn’t due to eating meat, but because you’ve slaughtered too many animals, inhaling the impurities of their blood that scattered into the air."

"Ah, is there still hope for me?" The butcher asked anxiously, upon hearing this.

Compared to Li Yu’s meat-eating theory, the butcher clearly preferred Adelle’s explanation.

After all, there were countless meat-eaters in Black Stone City, yet there were few like him suffering from such a bizarre illness.

On the other hand, slaughtering too many pigs and sheep, smelling the bloody scent from their bodies every day, indeed sounded like something that could make one fall ill more easily.

"It can be cured," the female priest gave a definite answer.

After she spoke, she walked to the side, selected a few herbs from a large iron box, cut off the parts needed for the medicine with a small knife, mixed in some various trinkets, and threw them all into a wooden bowl. After crushing them, she applied the paste to the butcher’s foot.

Then, she took out several other medicines from the iron box, threw them into a pot of boiling water to cook into a medicinal broth, and after letting it cool a little, had the butcher drink it.

Once the crushed medicinal paste was applied, the butcher immediately felt a touch of coolness and his pain seemed to relieve considerably. As for the medicinal broth he had drunk, he only felt it was somewhat bitter and did not yet know what it was good for.

Afterward, he heard the female priest gently tell him, "Please wait for a while, by the time the sun sets, the medicinal broth you drank and the paste applied to your foot should fully exert their effects. Once you take it off then, your foot should be a bit better."

The butcher repeatedly thanked her and then seemed to remember something, his face showing a trace of worry again.

"What is it, do you have another problem?" Priest Adelle spoke softly.

"You said my illness is due to inhaling too much blood impurity, but as a butcher, I can’t stop slaughtering livestock. How am I supposed to live in the future?" the butcher said with a pained expression.

"It’s alright, you can continue with this line of work, just go to the Temple in the city to pray to the goddess periodically, asking for her protection. Moreover, you can find a priest from the Temple to periodically expel the blood impurity from your body."

Li Yu quietly stood aside and witnessed the entire process of the female priest’s treatment.

As expected, the other party had absolutely no understanding of pathology, having interpreted a normal case of gout as inhaling blood impurity and including in her treatment plan such things as praying to the goddess which obviously could only serve as a spiritual comfort.

However, in the subsequent medical treatment, Priest Adelle was not completely messing around.

Although there were also inexplicable items like cow dung and fish eyes, Li Yu also saw some legitimate, anti-swelling and blood-stasis-relieving herbs in the medicine she used. Besides, he saw the corms of Colchicum.

Colchicine found in Colchicum is indeed an excellent remedy for treating gout. Although it does not affect the real culprit—the production, dissolution, and excretion of urate salts—it can effectively alleviate the pain and discomfort during a gout attack.

It is only to say that the Silver Moon Church, relying on its medical skills to establish itself, defeating other churches in the western region and gradually developing to its current prominent position, indeed has its strengths.

However, Li Yu did not believe that Adelle, so young, could have mastered the treatment, or rather, relief methods for gout since gout should not be very common in the western region.

Given Adelle’s age, she had only started studying medicine not long ago and reasonably should have encountered common diseases first.

Hence, Li Yu guessed that someone must have tipped Adelle off in advance and even prepared the treatment plan for the female priest.

It was unavoidable since the selection of patients by both parties was conducted publicly. As long as the Silver Moon Church sent someone to blend in among the patients and their families, the moment Li Yu selected someone, they would immediately know.

Then, all they had to do was find a way to get close to Adelle to quietly communicate the corresponding treatment plan to the female priest.

No wonder that during the previous patient selection, Adelle was slower than him; she must have been waiting for the news.

It’s just unknown which skilled physician the Silver Moon Church sent this time to strategize for Adelle, even capable of treating gout; the expertise is quite impressive.