Chapter 192: Healing Luna
"Why?"
"Why bother helping me?"
She suddenly asked as Nolan looked at her silently for a while before he whispered back.
"Do you really want to know why?" he asked, and Luna nodded weakly.
"It's because... I'm a pervert!" He said, and Luna raised an eyebrow.
"Really?"
"Yes, yes. A pervert for girls with soft, milky white skin," Nolan completed, and Luna giggled at his devilish expression.
"If your hands move to the wrong places, I will slice them off..." She warned with the same devilish look, and Nolan shook his head.
"Don't worry. I'm very good at my craft, and my first rule is that it must be taken slowly."
"So for today, you'll be free from my perverted hands..." He replied to her as she rolled her eyes at him, choosing to ignore him.
"Thank you either way," she said, this time seriously, but Nolan simply shrugged it off.
"Just fulfilling my perverted tendencies. Don't sweat it," he said to her, and Luna didn't reply.
She knew he just couldn't be helped, but it warmed her cold heart still.
The hours passed by, and luckily for Luna, since Nolan wasn't actively using his Anti-Ather energy, he could easily keep this up for the next three days before it ran out and he needed to wait for his Anti-Ather to refill.
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But that wouldn't be needed, and for hours Luna felt the cold leaving her body until eventually, she felt warm enough that the entire world became ultra-cozy.
She snuggled deeper and deeper into Nolan, and finally, after just 40 minutes, Luna's consciousness faded away as the pain disappeared completely, allowing her a chance to rest.
It was Luna's first sleep in exactly two years!!!
Nolan felt her snoring, something he was sure he had never heard before. He knew well that she was in a deep sleep.
Only then did he flare out more Anti-Ather energy, which he slowly passed into Luna's body, and gradually, he began burning away the frost.
He could sense that some bones in Luna's body, especially her spine and neck, had been completely frozen.
The same could be said for some of her inner organs, like her kidneys and intestines.
They were all covered in a thick layer of frost, and some of her veins had been frozen in ice, preventing the proper flow of blood around her body.
"So much frost..." Nolan mused in cautious shock, and his Anti-Ather energy got to work.
He passed the energy into Luna, placing it near the frosty areas.
His Anti-Ather energy was like a whale returned back to the ocean. Instantly, all the cold was sucked away forcefully, and almost as if the cold was conscious, Nolan witnessed it try to flee from his Anti-Ather energy, but it failed miserably given no choice but to get roughly absorbed into the blue flame.
The intensity of the flame increased, and it moved to the next frosty area, burning that one away as well.
Nolan's eyes narrowed as he observed a peculiarity.
Instead of his Anti-Ather flame dying after clearing the cold, Nolan watched it grow bigger, and soon it turned into a strange flaming white color, only increasing in size with every bit of frost it devoured.
With clarity, Nolan sensed Luna's clogged veins becoming unclogged, allowing blood to resume flowing in places it hadn't for years.
Her formerly frozen spine had its cold wiped out completely.
Small sparks of light appeared in her spine and neck, and he noticed a set of strange runic lines flaring with dim light as everything returned to how it once was.
While it took mere seconds to describe, what Nolan was doing actually took hours.
He had to maintain maximum concentration to avoid the flames burning Luna's organs, which would wake her up in a disastrous manner, and he also wasn't without his own pain.
The returning Anti-Ather aslo chilled Nolan's body but he only needed to clench his teeth hard for five minutes before it settled down
By the time Nolan could sense it was morning, 30% of the areas in Luna's body that had been previously clogged in ice had been cleared perfectly, leaving just about 70% of the blocked parts of her body.
"I can heal her..." Nolan thought to himself.
He had witnessed himself unfreezing the once frosty energy from her.
All he needed was about five days of passing his Anti-Ather energy into Luna, and he would soon burn away all the frozen organs, returning her to the condition she was in before she got the illness.
Even though it was morning, Luna didn't stir awake at all, and she appeared to be in the same deep sleep.
Nolan lowered the intensity of his Anti-Ather energy just in case she woke up. He also took back the Anti-Ather energy that was burning within her.
Immediately after taking it back, Nolan received a surprising notification from the system.
[Your Anti-Ather energy seems to be changing, Nolan.]
The system called out to him.
'Huh?'
[I said your Anti-Ather energy is changing.]
[Before, it was like a blank sheet of paper that would simply boost your physical strength when used.]
[But now, some of your Anti-Ather energy is radiating with the power of frost, just like Luna's frost.]
[It's... it's almost like your Anti-Ather energy is adding a new attribute to itself,] the system spoke with great and surprising interest, but at the same time, it wasn't quite sure.
[Just give me a few more hours to understand what's happening.]
[I think something great is happening to your Anti-Ather energy, Nolan,] the system said before growing quiet.
Nolan narrowed his eyes for a while but didn't think too deeply about it.
What the system told him reminded him that he had yet to check the scroll he had been given by King Sammodra.
They contained all the information he needed to know about Anti-Ather, and Nolan had pushed it aside, till now.
It would probably benefit him more to read it before the Ascendats' class started.
Suddenly, Nolan felt Luna slowly stir in his arms, and he shut his eyes close pretending to be in sleep as well.
Not long after, Luna's six eyes slowly opened up.