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Chapter 241
🕑 Added 2024-09-30 02:00:03 +0000 UTCAnton remained in the town park resting and relaxing for a bit. He wanted to look at the trees and flowers there since they were amongst the most beautiful that he had seen and since they had been traveling for a while, he had seen a lot.
Suddenly, two children dressed in worn-out old but clean clothes approached him.
“Excuse me, sir. We heard from Edna that you’re a wizard. Can you help us? Our mother is sick. We’ll pay you,” The older child said who was a girl who looked like she was only around eight or nine years old.
The girl was accompanied by a younger boy who looked like he was around five or six years old. Anton was highly impressed with the kids since they looked proud and were not asking for pity. They were asking for help but were willing to pay for that help.
“How much are you going to pay me?” Anton asked seriously.
He wanted to treat the kids with the respect they deserved.
“These are all the money we have,” The girl said and presented him with three copper coins.
Anton accepted the three copper coins.
“These are more than enough. Lead me to your mother, girl,” He said to the child.
The girl smiled and anxiously led him somewhere. While they were walking, they were seen by some of the town folks.
“Where are going Rhona?’ One of them asked.
“Edna said that he is a wizard and I paid him to heal my mother.”
“Boy! Are you aware that Rhona and Edwin’s mother’s sickness is highly contagious? Their father died a couple of months ago,” The woman said.
Anton didn’t want to deal with the other villagers so he activated the special effects of his auras and when he glowed with otherworldly energies, every one of the onlookers gasped.
Even though the young boy who was following Rhona, suddenly got scared and hid behind her, Rhona smiled since the magic was proof that this mysterious youth wizard could have the power to cure her mother.
“I do have the power to cure that sickness,” Anton whispered but everyone still heard what he had said.
Suddenly, Anton thought of something horrible. What if he was unable to cure the girl’s mother? That would be so humiliating but he had never found any sickness that he couldn't cure so far. Although most of the sicknesses that he encountered were injuries.
At least it was a good chance for him to check if his auras would be capable of curing diseases. They continued walking but to his surprise, instead of getting scared and avoiding him, some of the town folks actually followed him and the two children.
They finally arrived somewhere remote and the house looked dilapidated. Anton was impressed anew with the two young children since based on the status of their house, no one had helped the kids for a while. The house was old and some areas looked like it would fall apart any minute but it was still a bit tidy. He realized that the only dirty parts were the places where the children couldn’t reach them.
Anton heard some coughing inside the house and the town folks stopped following them and stayed well outside the area of the house. He doubted the town folks' claim that the sickness was contagious since if they truly were, why were the kids all right?
He added the two children to his party system and entered the house. Anton was expecting to stumble onto something horrible like the inside of the house would be incredibly dirty and malodorous but it was fairly clean and there was no horrible smell. There was an incredibly thin woman lying down on a pallet and she was the one coughing.
He immediately added the woman to his party system and was glad that he could add anyone to his party even without their agreement. Then Anton activated his Meditation, Prayer, and Vigor auras.
The effect of the auras on the sick woman was visible. It was as if something was sloughing off from her body like some sort of evil dirt. After a while, the woman woke up.
“Rhona? Rudy?” The woman said when she saw the two children by the side.
When the kids saw their mother sit up, they both ran towards her while crying “Mother, you’re cured,”. The woman then noticed Anton.
“My Lord? I’m sorry for my state. Have my children offended you?”
“No Mother, he’s a wizard who cured you! I paid him three copper coins, all the money I have saved!” Rhona said to her mother.
The woman understood that Anton was a mighty wizard who took pity on their family and performed some sort of charity for them.
“Are you well? Here the three of you drink this,” Anton offered a pitcher which he filled with mana water.
Without hesitation, the woman and her two kids drank the mana water. They looked amazed when they tasted the water and even the young boy said that it was delicious.
“Let me ask you the question again. Are you well? Are you going to be able to take care of your kids?”
The woman who still looked weak though from the looks of it, was only that way due to the lack of food, paused a bit. Probably trying to feel her body.
“My lord, I feel well. You don’t need to worry about my children. I’m a seamstress and I’m skilled enough that I would be able to feed my children and myself without any problem. It was just I was sick for the last three months and my husband died of the same sickness a month ago.”
Anton just nodded and left several meals for the three of them that he retrieved from his inventory then he immediately left.
While he was walking away, the town folks were still watching but then all of them were surprised when they saw the two children and their mother exited the house. The two kids ran toward Anton the kneeled in front of him.
“Thank you for saving our mother,” Rhona said to him and Anton just nodded and left.
When he looked back, Anton was surprised to see that some of the town folks rushed towards the previously sick woman and asked her some questions. It looked like the woman wasn’t really hated. It was just her neighbors were afraid of the sickness that she and her husband contracted.
Anton continued roaming around town but he got a bit annoyed when he saw that some people were looking at him like he was some kind of a freak show so he returned to the inn. It was getting late anyway so he decided to stay there and rest.
When he arrived there, he headed to the room that Anton’s father had rented for him and tried to relax by watching an anime. After a while he saw that night had arrived so he joined his family for dinner.
“Anton, it seemed like you’ve done some miraculous healing. The whole town is talking about it,” Anders told his son.
“Yes. I healed a woman since her children paid me three coppers to heal their mother.”
“Why did you let them pay you,” Anna asked looking accusingly at her brother.
“They’re poor but proud. Even though they’re kids, their parents taught them well and didn’t ask for a handout but instead sought help and tried to pay for it. I’m guessing that once those children grow up, they will become someone incredible,” Anton calmly commented and the adults in the group nodded approvingly.
