Chapter 166: Miracle Magic (Regeneration Flavor)

Since Mofumofu defeated all the orcs for us, we decide to resume searching for Og.

“Mofumofu, return to me immediately after you finish eating!”

“Kyu~u~”

Mofumofu raises a paw and replies “Yeees.”

I’m worried about the weakened life reaction, and we can’t wait for Mofumofu to finish eating.

“Now, let’s go!”

“This time I’ll definitely defeat monsters-!”

“Yes, yes, do your best next time.”

We approach right beside the life reaction detected by detection magic.

“He should be around here. Og-saaan! Where are youuu!?”

“If you’re there, please answeeer!”

“Old maaan! Are you aliveee!”

While calling out together, we dash through the forest.

“Bumooooooo!”

Then, perhaps drawn by the sounds of battle from earlier, a herd of orcs appears from the depths of the forest.

These orcs, just like the bizarre orcs we fought earlier, have arms or lower halves taking the forms of other creatures.

Among them were even individuals with heads of other creatures that could hardly be called orcs anymore.

As I thought, this is…

“Alriight! This time it’s my turn!”

Jairo, who missed his chance in the previous battle, steps forward as if saying he won’t fall behind this time, and heads toward the orcs.

“Eat this, MELT SWORD!”

Dyeing the blade blue with flames, Jairo swings his sword in a flash as he passes through the orc herd.

And the upper halves of the orc herd cut by Jairo fall to the ground.

No blood comes out. Because the cross-sections were completely burned shut.

“Well done, Jairo!”

“Hehe, well if you leave it to me, this is nothing!”

“We don’t have a turn either, do we.”

“Easy is good.”

Having repelled the orc herd, we search the surroundings looking for Og‘s figure.

“We should have found him by now, though… Og! Please answer! It’s Rex!”

“Heey, Old Maaan! Are you aliveee-?”

“Ugh…”

When we raised our voices and called out, a groan could be heard from deep within the bushes.

“Og!?”

Pushing the bushes aside, there was the figure of a bloodied Og.

“O-Oh… Rex, huh… meeting in a place like this is quite a coincidence…”

“Are you alright, Og…!?”

“Haha, I messed up a little…”

Og‘s appearance was in a terrible state.

His entire body was battered, and several large holes were opened in his body.

His arm was almost torn off, and the amount of bleeding was considerable.

Honestly, it was a state where it was a wonder he was alive.

“O-Old man…”

“H-How terrible…”

Everyone chokes on their words at the sheer misery of the sight.

“Norb, can you heal him?”

Meguri asks Norb if he can heal Og‘s wounds.

“…It’s impossible. In this state, the most I can do is stop the bleeding. With such large holes opened in his body, it’s the same as having lost body parts. And healing magic doesn’t have the power to regenerate missing parts…”

“No way…”

Yes, just as Norb says, normal healing magic cannot heal Og‘s body that is this heavily damaged.

“I am sorry, but I cannot save Og…”

“…Can’t you, can’t you do something about it, Big Bro!? If it’s Big Bro, can’t you heal the old man back to normal!?”

“Don’t ask for the impossible! No matter how much of a Rex he is, he can’t use magic to heal such severe injuries! Healing magic is different from normal magic!”

“Eh? I can heal him, you know?”

“H-Haha, don’t worry about it. It’s my own body… I know… I can’t be saved anymore… eh.”

” ” ” ” “Eh?” ” ” ” “

For some reason, everyone widens their eyes and looks this way.

“No, Rex, as expected I think healing missing parts is impossible…”

“No, I can heal him. More accurately, it’s more correct to say I make them grow back with magic.”

” ” ” ” ” “Grow back!?” ” ” ” ” “

“Ugu!”

At that, Og lets out a voice of agony due to our loud voices.

“Explanations are for later. Treatment first!”

I go over to Og and activate healing magic.

“REPRODUCT HEAL!”

The light of healing envelops Og‘s entire body.

“Reproduct… Heal? I’ve never heard of such healing magic…”

“O-O-Oooh!? My whole body is tingling!?”

Simultaneously as Og raises a scream, the holes opened all over his body begin to wriggle.

“Wh-Wh-Whaaaa!?”

Flesh swells up from the edges of the wounds, and the holes gradually become smaller.

“Uwababa!? What is this, it’s gross!?”

“I’m regenerating your flesh with magic. I think it’s an unfamiliar sensation, but it will end soon so please endure it.”

In fact, the holes opened in his body were filled with newly created flesh, and the wounds closed in the blink of an eye.

“The holes closed up…!?”

Next, the arm that was almost torn off, barely connected, gradually attached itself and immediately connected back to normal.

“Wh-Wh-Wh-What is this!? The wounds, the holes, and the almost torn arm are healed!?”

“Thank goodness, it seems they weren’t that deep wounds compared to how they looked.”

“No no, they were sufficiently deep wounds! I was prepared to die, you know!?”

“Wh-Wh-Wh-What was that healing magic just now!? I’ve never heard of a healing magic that creates missing parts!?”

“Th-Th-That’s right! Healing magic is different from normal magic, isn’t it!? To enhance the effect, you need faith or something incomprehensible like that, right!?”

The surprised Og, and Norb and Mina excitedly pressing me.

Ah-, come to think of it, did I not teach Mina the details about healing magic?

When I taught Norb before, I didn’t say it because getting into trouble with church-affiliated people was bothersome.

“No, healing magic can be used even without faith. It’s just one system of magic that exerts the effect of healing. At least the healing magic I use.”

“Th-Then… if I train, will I be able to use healing magic too?”

“Yes, you will.”

“No way…”

It’s not a lie, though.

“S-So, what kind of magic is that healing magic from just now!? Even high-tier healing magic shouldn’t be able to regenerate missing parts!”

“Yes. That wasn’t the type of Heal that closes common wounds and improves natural healing power; it’s a type of healing magic that makes the body create new parts.”

” ” ” ” ” “Make it create new parts!?” ” ” ” ” “

“Yes, as you all know, missing parts cannot be treated with normal human healing power. And common healing magic heals by accelerating human natural healing power so as not to burden the target’s body. Because there would be no point if you burden a weakened human body. That’s why lost blood cannot be recovered either.”

“I don’t really get it…”

“And this REPRODUCT HEAL is a magic designed to prioritize healing anyway, ignoring the target’s burden and stuff like that!”

” ” ” ” ” “A very disturbing statement came out!?” ” ” ” ” “

“U-Umm, changing the method… meaning?”

Norb asks for details about REPRODUCT HEAL looking timidly.

It’s not really that scary of a thing, though.

“Yes. When humans are born, their bodies are created inside their mother’s womb. In other words, at this point, humans are creating things that didn’t exist and constructing their bodies.”

“Fumu fumu.”

“When you say it like that, it sounds like creating something from nothing.”

At that point, Norb gets a startled look on his face.

“Wait, wait a minute, Rex!? In other words, that means…”

“Yes, in other words, this healing magic recreates the functions of when a human is born, and by newly creating the missing parts, it creates practically the same situation as recovering.”

Yes, instead of repairing broken parts, it regenerates the flesh as if exchanging it for newly made parts. That is exactly what REPRODUCT HEAL is!

” ” ” ” ” “Too absurd!!” ” ” ” ” “

“What is that forceful logic!? By that logic, as long as they are alive, even if their head is blown off, you can regenerate their head!?”

“Yes, I can.”

” ” ” ” ” “You can!?” ” ” ” ” “

“By the way, with this magic, since it also newly creates lost blood, you can move immediately.”

“Ah, that’s convenient. With normal healing magic, lost blood doesn’t recover, so if you try to move immediately, you get anemia.”

“But hearing only that, it’s all good things and I don’t feel any demerits.”

“Right.”

“Yeah, but as a structural flaw of this magic…”

Guuuuuuuuuu!!

Right then, Og‘s stomach makes a tremendous sound.

“U-Uoo… what’s this, I’ve gotten insanely hungry…”

“As you can see, because the body rapidly runs out of stamina and nutrients due to newly creating body parts, the flaw is that you get incredibly hungry.”

” ” ” ” “That’s a major problem-!!” ” ” ” ” “

In other words, this magic is a magic that forcefully diverts the nutrients one ingested through regular meals towards regeneration. Furthermore, since it forcefully squeezes out the lacking nutrients from one’s own body, one gets rapidly hungry like just now.

“Because it has this flaw, this type of healing magic didn’t become very popular.”

“There was a reason the current healing magic became the mainstream…”

“H-Hungry… food… gimme.”

Og slumps down clutching his stomach and crawls towards us seeking food.

“Oops, this is bad. We have to prepare food immediately. Og, can you hold out until the town?”

“Impossible, I’ll die.”

This is a problem, maybe I should hunt something right away… wait a minute?

“That’s right, we have the orc meat we subjugated earlier, so shall we have a BBQ with that?”

“Eh? You can eat orcs!?”

Hearing we’re grilling orc meat, Mina raises a voice of surprise.

“It’s quite delicious, you know? It feels like high-quality pork.”

Even in my previous life and the life before that, there were often opportunities to eat monster meat while taking on missions outside.

Even in the Great Swordsman Raigard’s adventures, there’s an episode where he ate monster meat when he ran out of food and found it surprisingly delicious.

“Monster meat has a strong peculiarity, but it’s doable depending on how you cook it.”

“Meguri, you’ve eaten it!?”

“Mother made it for me during training.”

Since Meguri was originally Lady Idola‘s body double, and her mother seems to be someone affiliated with the castle, is she an escort knight or something?

“Furthermore, since those orcs in this forest possess characteristics of other creatures, I think we can get various ingredients like horse meat, squid meat, and poultry.”

“I’d like to kindly decline that…”

“Hurry meat…”

Ah, this is bad, Og is seriously reaching his limit soon.

“Then let’s have an orc meat BBQ!”

” ” ” ” “O-Ooooh!” ” ” ” ” “

“Meaaaat!!”

“Kyu kyuuuu!!”

Thus, having safely rescued Og, we held an orc meat party doubling as nutritional replenishment.