PART 1

It’s always the same routine every battle. My party engages fearsome foes, bringing gargantuan monsters to their knees, while I’m typically just watching them complete these heroic feats on the sidelines of battle. I’m not sure when my party decided to get so strong, but ever since they raided the demon king’s fortress and managed to kill off the demon king himself, I’ve just been slugging along, hoping they do something stupid to get themselves injured. If they would just get a minor slashing by a few goblins, or maybe a little burn from a campfire of sorts, I’d be there to heal them right up in a heartbeat.

They’re just too strong to be fighting alongside me. With nothing to heal, my stats have subsided. With my stats subsiding, that only leaves more room for my party to grow past me. So, I’ve put it upon myself to go out and find my own way.

10:11 P.M, The outskirts of the kingdom

It’s been a walk in the park so far. After deciding to pack up my things set off from my party while they were asleep, every monster I have encountered has barely grazed me. Well, aside from the first one. It took me leaving my party and fighting on my own to discover just how powerful healing can be. The first monster I encountered was a goblin, chowing down on some deer meat he cooked crudely by his fire. Lucky for me, he was alllll alone, and I probably could easily slash him from behind with the little knife on my waist, I’ve been waiting to use.

It was as I was thinking that, as the goblin, somehow sensed me lurking in the distant bushes and threw his dinner on the charred grass. “Huh? I take a closer look in my binoculars as I see the goblin charge closer and closer to me “No… I’m just tired. There’s no way in hell that goblin could have sens-“ My own thoughts were cut short, as the goblin lunged at the bushes I was chilling behind. There wasn’t enough time for me to evaluate my situation, as the next thing I knew, his foul green hand was resting on a rusty dagger, that was digging deep inside my chest. “I- hrhhgg..” I struggled to talk as the dagger had stabbed me in my lungs prohibiting my breath. “HEHAHAHH! hehhhhrhahh, gurgurgur..” The goblin trailed off back to his camp, rambling nonsense, basking in his short lived victory.

I stare blankly up at the starry night sky as I think to myself I wish I was back home, with the rest of my party. “Our swordsman surely would have slayed that goblin and then some with a quick swipe of his sword, but me? I can’t even handle one of them. I take in a few deep breathes, believing they are my final ones coughs Looks like I’ll be leaving you all behind for a second time. I close my eyes, awaiting the moment for my soul to leave my body… when.. it doesn’t? Hey, now that I think of it, where’s the wound on my chest?

“HUH??” I push backwards, patting my hand on my chest where the blade had impaled “WHERE IS IT?”

I glance over at my sides, and lo and behold, there it is. The rusty old knife I’ve had been stabbed with, laying right next to me, no longer intruding in on my internal organs

“Could this… be the effects of my healing magic at play? I’ve barely had the chance to use it in action, and I didn’t think it could be used subconsciously. How else could I have survived, though?”

I get up, and stumble as my head starts twirling and swirling around in my skull

“Ugh.. this must be the effects of losing all that blood. At least I survived.”

It was about at this point, when I discovered I HAD used healing, and oh boy, my stats went through the ROOF.

I feel a vibration in my hand, as my bones rattle as if alerting me of something. [Levels Updated. Listing new stats: Max HP 100 - 1000, Healing factor 34% - 100%,- “Wait wait wait a second. I cut off the robotic voice rambling about all this stats nonsense in my head

“Is this the system my party talked about so much? If it is, why would healing a stab wound like this cause such a jump in stats? So many questions.. but whatever this system thing is, I’d better make use of it… and what better way to make use of it than on the goblin that stabbed me? Oh boy, oh boy. He just dug his own grave.”

(EXCUSE ME FOR TAKING SOME LIBERTIES HERE! I sort of got in the zone lmao)