The Phoenix Peaks by Selkie Myth

Author:Selkie Myth [Myth, Selkie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Royal Road
Published: 2024-05-05T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23 - Adventurers are Good for Something

The great wheel of time meant nothing stayed the same, no matter how much I wanted it to.

This too shall pass. Both a happy and a sad statement, an ode to the relentless march of time and change.

My little clinic was one of the places that had undergone numerous changes, no matter how much I resisted and tried to prevent anything from being different. My new healing ability to ‘fix’ minor defects bordered on biomancy, and the fact that I was handing out ‘free biomancy’ was quite a draw to the poor citizens who had no other recourse.

The Healer’s Guild knew about it, and directed people to me if they had no means to afford a normal biomancer. I was a little suspicious of the arrangement at first, but Aulus, my primary contact in the Healer’s Guild, had explained it to me.

In short, I’d destroy a large number of livelihoods. Aulus, along with a number of other high-level healers, were all in a position where they could offer free healing to practically the entire city, at which point they’d be in a gigantic race to the bottom as well as neutering any other up-and-coming medics. Same with a number of other industries - there existed Immortals capable of single-handedly destroying every job in the city, but they didn’t because it was a terrible long-term idea. Stunts like me healing most of Sanguino every decade or so were okay, because it was a government flex - ‘look what we can do’ - but doing it regularly was a no-go.

At the same time, the Guild under the Willow & Hydra symbol wasn’t heartless. If people truly had no hope of ever affording a biomancer to fix their baby’s blindness, or a kid had a complex digestive allergy to milk, strawberries, and a host of cross-reactive fruits, they were sent my way, to camp out in my clinic hoping that today would be one of the rare days I showed up.

Today promised to be a busy day, and I was going to be gone for an unknown amount of time. I swung by my clinic, there being a bit of a crowd, but nothing too gigantic or unmanageable. An issue with me semi-randomly healing the poorest people who otherwise couldn’t afford help was most of them couldn’t afford to spend even an hour walking across the city, then hanging out effectively doing nothing until I showed up. The other nice part was the parade during the changing of the guard. I’d fixed up so many invisible long-term problems that it was mostly people who’d been outside of my kilometer-wide moving radius on that day, or who’d been born since then.

Of course, since the world was cruel and the poorest parts shoved to the sides of the city while the parade path was in the middle, many of the people who’d needed my services the most hadn’t been inside my range. I seriously had been considering going rogue at some point and saying ‘fuck this, everyone go forth and be in perfect health forever.

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