Chapter 102: The three groups internal corruption! (1/2)
After defeating several groups, Marshall, Eliseo, and Warren walked back to their teammates. The healers have healed all of the injuries of some of their members, but most of them were still bleeding, and they could also see that the healers weren't even trying to heal them.
Eliseo, Warren, and Marshall were a bit confused by the lazy attitude of the healers, and they also wondered what had caused that to happen. So, to get answers to clear their confusion, they turned to their advisors, asking them about the main reason that led to the current situation.
”Vice leaders, come to the front!” Marshall said while looking at around twenty people who were sitting on the ground.
The moment his words landed in the ears of the members of their groups, three people stood up and walked up to him.
”Leader, why have you called us? May I ask, is there something wrong?” One of the three asked while looking at Warren with a gaze of respect.
”Can't you see what's wrong? Why aren't the healer doing anything to help Aaron, Griffith, Ewan, Francis, Connor, Cole, Rory, and Turner? They are injured, and if they fight like that, their injuries will just worsen! We even told you guys to heal them up before we return. Why hadn't it be done so? Is it because the healers are in a bad mood that they refuse to heal others?” Marshall said in a voice filled with displeasure as the members of their groups have failed to do even the simplest of things he and his equally powerful friends had ordered them to do.
”Leader, it's not like that. The healers were doing their best, but they ended up straining their supernatural cells. So, fearing that they might end up disintegrating their supernatural cells, I ordered them to stop healing the others and take a rest. After that, I wanted to tell the injured ones to go off stage, but I was waiting for your decision.” The Vice Leader of Marshall's group spoke up in an anxious voice to defend the healers.
If a magician overuses their supernatural powers, the supernatural cells in their bloodstream get strained. If they still use their power, then they start to disintegrate, leading to a major or minor collapse in their bodies. The first one usually ends up in a magician losing their supernatural powers, which they can recover from by devouring evolution materials, but suffering a major collapse means the destruction of one's energy channel as well as the loss of one's ability to contain magic energy in the body, which means becoming a mortal. Something not different than a cripple in the cruel and biased eyes of the magicians.
That's why the three leaders have always collaborated before going out in the wilderness to hunt. Since hunting alone meant overusing their superpowers.
”Wait, wait, wait! Strain?! How did that happen?” Marshall's eyebrows raised, and Eliseo and Warren also felt a bit taken aback by his words.
They were surprised. Why wouldn't they be? They hadn't gone out to hunt for an entire week, so no one should have gotten hurt in the last several days. That should mean that the healers haven't put their superpowers to use for seven whole days. The healers only used their superpowers in this tournament. That little amount of usage isn't enough to cause a strain! So, why are the healers' supernatural cells strained?
”I am to blame for that. I let Elsie, Rose, Brooke, and Palmer, these four girls to tag with me and hunt monsters in the wilderness. We encountered a demonic beast, and to hunt it down, we were injured severely. Though, we managed to hunt it down. For the past three days, they have been healing us nonstop. That's why today we are in a condition to fight. Please don't blame them. It's all my fault.” Stefan said.
”Good! Good!” Marshall sarcastically said, ”Unauthorized use of the healers of our groups, putting their livelihood and lives as magicians at risk, hiding things from your superiors, all three of them goes against our rules and are major crimes. Tell me, what should I do with you?”
”It wasn't only him.” Arjun, the Vice Leader of Warren's group, said taking a stand beside his Stefan. ”If you want to punish someone, then please punish me.”
”So, you are also in this,” Marshall said with a sarcastic laugh, feeling nothing but anger boiling up inside him.
”You both shouldn't take the hit for me.” David, the vice leader of the last group, suddenly said, ”I was the one who told them about the place where the demonic beast lives, and I am the one who took them there. If anyone is to be blamed, then it should be me. If I wasn't greedy for the body parts of the tailed-bone beast then this wouldn't have happened.”