The Thousand Year Dynasty
07. Operation Rescue
After asking questions and answering questions to satisfy both parties' curiosity, they finally decided to continue their journey.
And shortly after they started walking, there was a noise coming from the direction of the forest.
"What's that sound, Jean?" Ask Lucia.
"From the direction of the forest" Jean said, stopping the train.
And not far from the direction of the mouth of the forest appeared someone who was running while carrying another person who seemed to be injured.
"Someone was hurt, Jean," said Lucia, jumping off the train and immediately running towards the two men.
"Daughter, wait!" Jean shouted as she jumped down and followed Lucia.
"What hobbies does that girl get into other people's problems, huh?" Nata said seeing Lucia's behavior.
Soon, another person appeared while running out of the forest. Behind him followed the lion-like animal with what appeared to be tendrils and green foliage covering the entire mane from its head to its neck. Like a bush between his faces. It has a tail that is like a long scorpion tail swerving right above its head.
"Yes, that's a big deal" said Aksa then who began to worry about seeing the monster that had just emerged from the forest.
"Manticore?!" Lucia, Jean, and Couran scream almost simultaneously.
"They're sown!" exclaimed the man who was carrying the wounded man to Lucia and Jean.
"But your friend is that?"
"He's Getjza, he'll be fine. Let him buy some time while we run away from here" said the man with a stifled breath.
"Alright, come!" jean said as he helped the man carry his friend while running back to the train.
"You're not helping them?" Couran asked Aksa and Nata.
"Unfortunately our science is useless in this kind of situation" Nata replied.
"Agree," Aksa said.
"Are you men, time is silent to see those women struggling to help them?"
"You yourself are just like us, Mr. Couran."
"I'm old, my physique isn't as strong as it used to be."
"Our physiques are weaker than a girl, Jean said yesterday" Aksa replied.
Couran decided not to respond to Nata and Aksa's remarks because he had to help lift the injured man into the train.
"Let's get the hell out of this place!" said the unharmed man as he jumped into the train.
And without waiting for the next command, Jean immediately drove his horse to leave the place.
"He left his friend" Aksa said, pointing to another man who was running after the Manticore in the opposite direction to the way their train was going.
"The blood is out a lot" said Lucia in the middle of the train speeding away from the lips of the forest.
"In the village there is a healer." This time it was Couran.
"Too long, we won't have time" said Lucia, "I'll try to cure her" he added.
"Can you do healing magic?"
"No." Lucia answered doubtfully.
"Are you kidding? Performing healing magic for an untrained person would endanger the person he healed. You know that, right?"
"But at least I tried instead of doing nothing" Lucia's defense later.
"Cih, you are already confused with methods that are instantaneous like that. Millennial base," said Aksa later.
"Who do you call a millennial?" Tanya Nata is spontaneous.
"Beyond you," said Aksa as he advanced closer to the man lying down. "The name of the wounded and bleeding person should be covered and treated, not confused as such" he added, flipping over the injured man's body and starting to remove the clothes covering his wound.
"Injection wound on the left back. Far from vital organs. Nat, get a bottle of wine in the back," Aksa ordered, which made the people around him speechless not understand what he was doing.
The horse-drawn carriage stopped walking, because Jean was now watching what Aksa was doing. "Mr Couran please get me a needle to sew the animal's skin under it. Give it to Nata," he said again commanding Couran, "Bend the needle like a hook eye, Nat." This time it was for Nata.
While Nata only smiled to see the reaction of the people around him while following the instructions from Aksa.
"What are you doing?" ask the unharmed man to see what Aksa did to his friend.
"Suturing this man's wound," replied Aksa who looked serious.
"What did you say?"
"The incision must be sewn, otherwise the bleeding will not stop. You want your friend dead? Here, hand the dagger over to me."
"Do you want what this dagger is?" The owner of the dagger looked reluctant and hesitated to hand over his dagger to Aksa.
"Yes, make your friend bite the handle so he doesn't accidentally bite his own tongue. And try to hold your friend as hard as I can when I start sewing the wound, because I can't stitch it up if he keeps moving" Aksa said.
After pouring the wine into the man's wound to clean the wound, immediately Aksa deftly began to sew the man's wound. The man's body twitched because he was enduring the pain. Everyone was still speechless not understanding what Aksa was doing.
Meanwhile, the voice of the Manticore that was chasing them earlier was no longer heard.
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After finishing sewing the man's wound Aksa began to clean the remaining blood and wrapped the wound with a sacrificial cloth that Lucia gave the other day. And gave the leftover wine to the wounded man before he fell unconscious.
"Aksa? Are you a healer?" It sounded like Couran asked to break the long enough silence formed after the injured man had fallen unconscious.
"No" replied Aksa. "I am the legendary hero messenger of the gods" he added later.
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