Chapter 375: Chapter 374 Doctor
In the following two days, Li Ang’s three teammates successfully obtained the third, fourth, and fifth Magic Mirror fragments from three churches, activating even more Special Effects of the Magic Mirror.
[Special Effect: Purify Air. Purify impurities within a radius of one kilometer (such as dust, bloodstains, trash, negative emotions of individual lifeforms) for three minutes, no consumption, cooldown time ten minutes.]
[Special Effect: Fear Projection. Distort the appearance of the wearer in the eyes of other observers, causing them to feel afraid, lasts one minute, no consumption, cooldown time one hour.]
[Special Effect: False Prophecy. The user can touch the Magic Mirror to make it predict the probability of their death within the next twenty-four hours and the proportion of various causes of death, no consumption, cooldown time seventy-two hours.]
The first Magic Mirror Special Effect was Distant Perception, which could sense the location of other Magic Mirror fragments. The second was to detect energy fluctuations to find the location of Spellcasters.
Compared to the first two, the Special Effects of the latter three Magic Mirror fragments were much enhanced, especially the effect of [False Prophecy], which could even predict the probability of death and various causes within the next day. If used properly, it could serve as a prophecy-type tool for early danger detection.
Besides the three Magic Mirror fragments, the players had additional gains.
John Joyce and others collected some rare Magic Medicine Seeds, as well as various alchemy recipes and materials, through barter with secretive sects. They also wanted to collect knowledge about this world’s supernatural power system and sell it for a high price back in the real world.
However, their gains weren’t as substantial as Li Ang’s. He was currently living in the Governor’s residence under the guise of an "Eastern Monk and Surgeon," collecting alchemy-related books from the manor. Some of these books came from the manor’s private library, while others were from the personal collections of Spellcasters employed by the Governor. Li Ang was free to browse the former. For the latter, he had a method: he claimed to possess mysterious Eastern powers and offered surgical procedures, helping people completely change their appearance through plastic surgery.
Under everyone’s watchful eyes, Li Ang first helped a servant’s child in the manor by curing their cleft lip. Then, he helped another servant heal a broken leg. After that, he adjusted the facial contours of a female Spellcaster who lacked confidence in her appearance, thereby enhancing her attractiveness. Other Spellcasters also came, asking Li Ang to heal their injuries. Many Transcendents in this world were like mutants possessing special abilities. Consequently, many had sustained various hard-to-heal internal injuries from losing control of their powers in their youth.
Li Ang assisted each Spellcaster in healing their injuries and charged a substantial fee. The payment naturally consisted of money, alchemy books, and information related to the Ice Queen Church.
In the Fairy World at this time, cell theory had only recently been proposed. Consequently, fields like cellular pathology, bacteriology, pharmacology, and experimental physiology were just beginning to develop. Even with various Magic Potions, the overall medical level was only slightly higher than that of the 19th century in the real world. Li Ang’s Eastern medical techniques, derived from the Origin of Life, were simply considered miracles in this era.
(Decades ago, the medical standard of this world was still at Earth’s Dark Ages, where doctors treated cancer by amputation or castration. The treatment for typhoid was to grind scabs from other typhoid patients into powder and inhale it, or castration. The treatment for inflammation was to eat live fish or castration. The treatment for the Black Death was bloodletting or castration.
For some reason, the doctors in this Fairy World had a morbid fascination with castration, believing it to be a cure-all for sexual problems, a solution so final it prevented any further disasters. This was much like the well-trained medieval doctors in the real world who practiced trepanning for headaches, consumed mummies for colds, and used bloodletting for almost everything.)
Word of mouth among the Spellcasters spread quickly. In no time, a large number of customers visited Li Ang’s temporary clinic outside his residence, including high-ranking officials from the city. Relying on the Governor’s authority, these people didn’t really consider doing anything to Li Ang. Kidnapping, or anything of the sort, was completely out of the question.
Li Ang was also quite cunning. Before each medical treatment, much like Xuanzang, he would deliver an esoteric and profound Eastern sermon, repeatedly emphasizing that this was a special ability possessed by Eastern Transcendents. Furthermore, he deliberately controlled the scope of his medical procedures. He never performed anything as dramatic as limb regeneration (though he was capable of it) and occasionally left some minor surgical side effects.
During the day, Li Ang performed surgeries for Spellcasters, nobles, and commoners in the city. At night, he attended noble banquets, Spellcaster exchange salons, and East-West cultural exchange meetings to which he was officially invited by the Mori City administration. At these meetings, Li Ang fabricated in detail the story of how they came to this place from Eastern Tang, effectively covering up the gaps in his undocumented identity.
In addition, Frederick the lumberjack contacted his cousin, who was now Mori City’s finance minister. With the dual guarantees of the Governor and the Finance Minister, Li Ang’s identity as an Eastern Monk was no longer questioned. His efficiency in collecting information climbed to another level. Nobles and clandestine Spellcaster organizations vied to present alchemy texts, exchanging them for surgical opportunities and copies of the profound scriptures Li Ang transcribed.
Incidentally, most surgeries requested by nobles were for cosmetic purposes or ailments of the "lower regions"; some even sought Li Ang’s help with infertility.
Within a few days, Li Ang had amassed enough resources to fill two wooden storehouses: treasures, books, Magic Potions, Magic Medicine Seeds, Demon carcasses, alchemy materials, and so on. If it were any other player, managing such an abundance of goods would be impossible. They would only be able to select a few items to keep in their bags and would have to painfully discard the rest.
Luckily, Li Ang possessed the "Automated Pet Box," a divine artifact with vast storage space. He packed all the resources into it. Since the Divine Mark now allowed him to control living plants and creatures, he didn’t have to worry about Worms or insects moving around and contaminating or destroying the materials.
Four days later, news arrived from the Mermaid Kingdom. After much contemplation, the Mermaid Queen finally agreed to initiate contact with the Rune Kingdom. She sent her eldest daughter to visit the Rune Kingdom. In the coming days, the princess would first travel to Mori City to address the Black Fish’s engagement. Afterward, she would head to the capital of the Rune Kingdom to discuss establishing diplomatic relations with Princess Anna, the Governor.
The stir caused by this news completely overshadowed Li Ang’s fame.
At this time, the Governor of Mori City officially announced that his son and Princess Maria, the Black Fish, had fallen in love. He then had the couple attend a noble banquet in the city.
Well... at the Black Fish’s strong insistence, Li Ang had previously performed partial cosmetic surgery on her. He reduced the distance between her eyes and adjusted her facial contours, so she no longer looked so horrifying. From certain angles, she even bore a slight resemblance to Halle Berry. The reason he hadn’t completely transformed her into Halle Berry’s spitting image was to prepare for the Mermaid Princess’s impending visit. This was to prevent the princess from accusing her sister of undergoing excessive cosmetic surgery.