The Insider System-Chapter 351: Night Life Pt.3

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Using his shield almost like a scooper he was able to quickly carve out a large hole in the creature's stomach before placing the flat part of the formation onto the person's back to push them out. After a second or so he decided to push harder when they still hadn't budged even though he knew it was probably too much force to use if the person wasn't someone who had trained their Endurance.

Hearing a few snaps he almost relented in fear of killing them but when they finally started to move from the center of the phantom he decided healing a few bones was better than letting the phantom continue to drain the person. Moving at the same second their body came flying from the phantom on his formation to catch them he could tell as soon as they entered his arms they were in bad shape.

"Anyone here a healer?" He sadly still didn't have anything like health potion he could give them so their only hope of living was that one of the many onlookers could use Life magic or had medicine. "Over here." Hearing someone call out to him he used the formation as a platform to quickly bring himself and the injured person to the self proclaimed healer.

"Lay her on the ground." Doing as he was told he watched as the man took a potion from his bag and dumped most of it into the girl's mouth. As it took effect the man slowly straightened the girl's limbs and neck. He had broken almost everything with the force he had used to get her out but the fact the potion was taking effect meant she had survived it and he had made the right decision.

"This girl must have been an earth mage for the phantom not to kill her right away. It was probably draining here to make itself grow." The man was dressed in a manner that made it seem he lived here so Donny took his words as the truth. "How do you think it got a hold of her?"

"Who knows but it probably grabbed her leg startling her and instinctively she used her magic to defend herself." Seeing the young girl's face Donny agreed with the older man because younger people tended to make mistakes out of fear. It was too bad that this had happened but there was still some hope in him that after they finished the phantom off the three people that had been on the ground behind it would still be alive.

It was a faint possibility but tough people survived things that should have killed them all the time. With the girl taken care of, Donny turned his attention to the fight that was still taking place and used his shield to start ripping the phantom apart. With its power source and hostage gone no one was holding back like they had been earlier and before long the thing had lost most of its body as well as size and was sinking down back into the earth. free novelkiss.com

No one wasted any time in running towards the three on the ground now that the thing was gone but Donny was first to one of them and scooping them off the ground he rushed back towards where the man who had healed the girl was. Donny couldn't feel any life signs form the man but he knew those skilled in healing could bring someone back from death as long as it was recent with minimal downsides.

Arriving at the man he saw the girl was now sat up with her face buried in her hands and Donny guessed it was from something like shame but he didn't have time to worry about how she was feeling and got the older healer's attention by asking. "Can you revive someone with a stopped heart?"

The healer's head snapped towards him and seeing the corpse he had brought him he said. "I can try. Lay him down and help me remove the chest armor." After he set the man onto the ground, Donny used Metal magic to strip the armor plate off within a second. The doctor seemed surprised by the speed this happened but didn't waste the opportunity to get straight to work. A few seconds after the doctor had gotten to work pressing down on the city guard's chest, people arrived with the other two victims of the phantom.

"Is there only one healer here?" He could see the faces of the people carrying the bodies were those of his companions from the Metal Domain so he answered. "Yes, lay them down." He had never tried this type of healing having always relied on potions but what the man was doing seemed simple enough.

The healer seemed to understand what he planned to do and started to give institutions. "You can break the ribs but don't let your strength burst the heart. If that happens they're dead." Hearing the institution Donny started with about a fourth of his strength for the first compression.

Feeling the ribs bend slightly he looked up to see the healer wasn't looking at him because they were feeding a small amount of a potion into the dead man's mouth and he decided to turn it up slightly with the next pump. He had been told breaking the ribs was acceptable and the amount of force he had used hadn't been even close to doing that.

A few seconds after he had started he felt a hand on his shoulder and when he looked up he saw it was the old healer. "Move a bit faster. You have to reignite their lifeforce if you want the potion to be effective." Donny had no idea what the old man was talking about but looking past the man he saw the first guard he had worked on was now breathing so he took the advice and started to move as quickly as possible.

The old man only watched him for a second before pouring a bit of potion into the mouth of the person he was working on before finally moving on to the third and final person. "If you feel the heart start beating, stop pressing and open the airway by clearing the potion in their mouth. It would be best if you get them to swallow it but if you are unable just turn their head to the side and pour it out."

Keeping up his efforts after hearing he could be close to reviving the person he didn't let himself slow down even if his arms were starting to get tired from the constant motion and before long he felt the heart push against him when he tried to press down. Stopping the compression he tried to move towards the persons face to clear the throat like he had been told he was met with a spray of potion to the face when the man started to cough.

Donny wiped his face just in time to hear a voice come from the man on the ground. "I was dead wasn't I?" Donny didn't know exactly how long the man was dead but that didn't change the answer so he said. "Yeah for a few minutes at the least." The man somehow found a way to pale even further after hearing this which made Donny want to laugh but he stopped himself because one of the people was still dead on the ground a few inches away.

Turning to watch the healer work on the last of the three Donny got his first real look at the person on the ground. He had originally thought all the dead were guards because they had armor on but now that he was really looking he could tell this person was just a resident. He then saw the color of the man's hair and saw it matched the girl he had saved from inside the phantom.

This was the only thing he needed to see to make a story up for what had happened after the girl got swallowed. His guess was this guy was her brother and had tried to save her as they had probably been close to each other when she had been grabbed by the phantom. This meant he had probably been dead the longest out of the three and therefore should have been the first they tried to revive.

This wasn't how it had happened though so he wouldn't be surprised if they were unable to revive the man. A few minutes later he really started to think the healer might need him to step in to continue the rhythm since their arms would be getting tired so he asked. "Do you want me to press for a while?"

"No, If I stop for even a moment we'll lose him. Look at the scrape on his arm." Getting his face real close so he could understand what the man meant he saw when the older man pressed down on the chest of the man a brief healing effect took effect on the scape and it got a bit smaller.