Inari’s Gift

The next morning, Cera decided that she’d spend the time before teaching at the mages’ guild to study and see if she could learn anything new.  With her benefit from submitting a book making it so she didn’t have to pay the fee to read inside, she could browse as much as she wanted, after all.

Before anything else, she spent some time going through the titles of the books, looking for anything related to space or biology.  Eventually, she found a single book that mentioned space magic, but it merely said it was incredibly difficult, and often fatal to the caster, and sometimes those around them as well.

Cera immediately assumed she knew the problem, based on her experiences in her prior life.  Poorly managed spacial magic was easily disrupted by other life that dwelled between the various realms.  And those creatures could sometimes be quite dangerous just to be around, let alone if they were hostile.

She was not the type to accept poorly-managed spacial magic, however.  Unfortunately, the book merely mentioned it, giving no information about how to do it, or even any hints.  Quite frustrated, Cera returned the book and grabbed one that seemed related to biology.

This book was somewhat more useful, though a lot of it she already knew from her experiences with healing.  It did, however, bring up some tips that she hadn’t considered, such as additional ways to interact with the nervous system.  There were many, many warnings about doing so, however.  She wasn’t terribly surprised, as it was indeed quite easy to screw up horribly, and things wouldn’t just fix themselves.

Taking into consideration what she read in that book, she continued her examination of similar tomes.  By the time she needed to stop to go teach her students, she had found four more books with a little bit of extra information in each.  Two simply provided better ways to do what she was already doing, one gave tips on how to better follow the instinctive knowledge of self to repair any mistakes or damage, and the final one contained information on how to alter the circulatory system in a much more skillful manner.

Having run out of major revelations to teach her students, she shifted to helping them practice, as well as providing theoretical ideas for them to consider on their own.  As she worked with them, Cera also explained that she was planning to head to the capital and enroll in the mage academy there.  To her surprise, one of her students, a young woman named Feira, had similar plans.

The difference, however, was that she was supposed to already be there.  Feira had actually begged her father to let her stay in order to learn from Cera, stating that the knowledge was unique and incredibly valuable.  While she said it had been difficult, she had obviously succeeded.  She also told Cera that she was the first mage in her family, and they were incredibly surprised by what she showed them, as it didn’t match what they expected, and that had convinced them that they had made the right decision in letting her stay.

Cera was quite pleased to hear that her teaching was so valuable as to keep someone from heading to such a large school when they had originally planned to.  Feira also informed her that since her teaching was the only reason she was staying, she would head to the capital with her, when that time came.

Her other students didn’t have such exciting stories, however, and were content with staying where they were, though they were quite pleased with what she was teaching them as well.  None of them seemed to mind that she’d run out of shocking revelations, and were still willing to pay her for her continued help.

At the end of the day, Cera returned home for a meal and bed, planning to practice what she’d learned the following morning.

No issues occurred overnight, and she woke refreshed, quickly getting to work on her tail, running her mana through it, attempting to ingrain every aspect of it.  As she worked on memorizing it better, she messed around with her blood vessels and nerves, careful to take note of how things changed as she altered them.

As it began to approach the time to teach, she put everything back to how it had been when starting, then rushed to the mages’ guild.  Unlike normal, she barely arrived on time due to her earlier distraction, and she found it difficult to think about anything else but what she had been working on.

Due to this, Cera focused this lesson on the ideas of biomancy and how it related to healing.  As an example, she showed off making her hand webbed, then returned it to normal.  Due to having reached a level of skill that made it vastly quicker than her first attempt in the past, it only took a few minutes each way.

She also shared her thoughts that it could be used to assist in standard healing, allowing repair of injuries that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to handle at the mage’s skill or power.  Her students were not all healers, but they all paid close attention regardless.  Those who hadn’t learned how to heal all remarked that they’d like to learn, having had plenty of time to learn how useful it could be.

With their desire to learn healing, she found a target for tomorrow’s lesson, informing them that she was willing to share her knowledge on that subject as well.  That done, she returned home once more.

Once more, Cera spent the start of the day working on her biological manipulation.  This time, she was attempting to extend her tail, wanting to ensure that she knew how to arrange the blood vessels properly, just to reinforce what she had studied.

This work took several hours, but in the end, she felt she succeeded, though she wasn’t absolutely certain.  The extension also lacked the sense of touch, as she was uncertain how to add nerves, only manipulate the existing ones.  Undoing her work was much faster, and she swiftly returned her tail to its natural state before having to go to the mages’ guild to teach.

Today, she was early, like normal, unlike yesterday, and spent the small amount of time she was waiting to think about how exactly she wanted to teach healing.  By the time everyone arrived, she had come to a decision, and explained to everyone that she was going to lightly cut them on the back of the arm, where it wouldn’t hurt too much, and if anyone was unable to heal it by the end of the session, she’d heal it for them.

Unlike how she was taught, she went into detail on how the body functioned.  She was far from an expert, but she knew that any understanding was significantly more efficient than merely throwing raw power at the problem.

Once she felt she’d explained enough of how skin and muscles operated, Cera created an ice scalpel, then made a small cut on one student’s arm.  She then explained that using an instrument on one person could make it dangerous to use on another without proper cleaning, or replacement.  Acting according to her words, she set that blade aside, creating a new one for the next person.

Much as she had hoped, everyone managed to heal themselves by the time they needed to leave.  Some had struggled with it, however.  Those who had managed it easier shared their experience and how it felt, which helped those who had trouble with the task.  Cera, meanwhile, found that they had an entirely different experience than she did, likely due to the difference in experience.

Before everyone left, Cera recommended that they try continuing their practice on themselves, using what she’d taught them so far to inflict very minor injuries on themselves.  She cautioned them to never cause more than would naturally heal in a few days, however, and that if a major problem occurred, they could head to the healers’ guild for help.

As she returned home, Cera considered her absence from the healers’ guild, deciding she should spend some more time there, especially as her new room was quite expensive.

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