Chapter 777 – Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 44

“It’s my turn next!” Bai Wei gripped the light-healing butterfly beast core with its warm, milky-white glow, closed her eyes, focused her mind, and guided her psychic power into the beast core.

The energy of the light-healing butterfly beast core was much gentler than the water-tongue frog beast core, but completely stripping away the healing-type skill imprint required even more delicacy and care.

Before long, the glow of the light-healing butterfly beast core also dimmed and vanished. At the center of Bai Wei’s brow, a pure white rune resembling unfolding butterfly wings radiating brilliance flashed briefly before sinking into her mental sea.

Bai Wei opened her eyes, filled with joyful light. She gently raised her hand and focused her intent. Her palm immediately emitted a soft, warm, milky-white radiance, like a small light source.

“It worked! It really is Glimmer Heal!” Bai Wei whispered with delight. Then her gaze shifted and immediately landed on Su Yu, who sat not far away silently wiping her dagger.

“Su Yu!” Bai Wei called out with a hint of excitement and anticipation. “When you were hunting those water-tongue frogs just now, you got several more cuts on your arms and legs, right? Let me try healing you to test the effect!”

Every time they encountered mirror beasts, Su Yu was like a tireless, fearless fighting machine, always charging to the very front lines.

This reckless fighting style yielded rich rewards but also inevitably added new scars each time.

During this encounter with the water-tongue frog swarm, although she had relied on experience and agility to dodge most attacks, her arms and the sides of her legs had still been slashed open in several places by the water-tongue frogs’ sharp claws and rough skin.

To her, these were mere scratches — she had only sprinkled on some hemostatic powder and couldn’t even be bothered to bandage them.

When Su Yu heard this, her hand paused mid-wipe on the dagger. She looked up at Bai Wei’s hand radiating warm healing light, then lowered her gaze to the few cuts on her own arm that had already stopped bleeding and only stung slightly. She was silent for a moment.

In the end, she yielded under Bai Wei’s expectant and well-meaning gaze, nodded, and replied briefly: “…Mm.”

She extended her arm.

Bai Wei immediately reached out with care, hovering her milky-white glowing palm above the wounds on Su Yu’s arm.

Warm light enveloped the wounds, and a cool, soothing, slightly itchy sensation spread through them instantly.

The previously reddened cuts visibly began to close and heal at a speed visible to the naked eye, quickly forming scabs.

The effect was far superior to hemostatic powder.

“It really works!” Bai Wei was so happy she nearly jumped for joy. This was her first time using a healing ability to help a companion, and the sense of accomplishment was beyond compare.

She didn’t like fighting and killing — from the very beginning, she had planned to develop in the direction of a healer.

Su Yu looked at the clearly improved wounds on her arm, and a barely perceptible softness flickered in her eyes. She said quietly: “Thank you. Good effect.”

Bai Wei struck while the iron was hot, riding the excitement of her newly acquired skill, and proactively healed several other companions who had sustained minor scrapes and scratches during the water-tongue frog melee.

Each use of Glimmer Heal consumed a portion of her already modest psychic power.

After multiple consecutive healings, her complexion began to pale slightly, fine beads of sweat appeared at her temples, and her breathing grew somewhat rapid — clearly her psychic power consumption had been enormous and she was reaching her limit.

But the brilliant, joyful smile on her face hadn’t diminished in the slightest. If anything, it had grown even brighter from genuinely helping everyone, and she even announced with a touch of pride and anticipation: “If anyone gets hurt later on, you can all come find me for healing! It’ll be good practice to improve my skill proficiency!”

Being able to contribute to the team with her own abilities filled her with a sense of accomplishment that temporarily masked her mental fatigue.

Just then, a hand holding a light-attribute beast core appeared before her. Bai Wei looked up to see Su Yu.

Su Yu simply pushed the beast core a little closer. “This is payment for today’s and future treatments.”

Using skills consumed not only one’s own psychic power but also the energy within beast cores.

“Thank you…” She genuinely needed this beast core, so Bai Wei didn’t refuse.

Su Yu, seeing her clearly overdrawn state, urged: “Go rest and recover your psychic power. I’ll take your night watch shift.”

This caught Bai Wei off guard, and she quickly waved her hands. “Huh? No, no! I just need a little rest and I’ll be fine. I can handle the night watch…”

But Su Yu shook her head. “Keeping watch while your psychic power is depleted adds risk to yourself and your teammates. Just go when you’re told.”

Her tone was blunt, even a bit stiff, but it was concern nonetheless.

Wang Jingnan nearby also nodded in agreement. “Su Yu’s right. Bai Wei, your healing ability is very important to us now, so getting back to peak condition as quickly as possible is the priority. We’ll adjust tonight’s watch schedule — but Su Yu doesn’t need to cover for you alone, we can all share the load… Oh, and here — this is my treatment fee.”

Wang Jingnan also gave Bai Wei a light-attribute beast core.

Mo Lan said directly: “For our group, two people on watch will be enough. Ren Miao and I can handle it.”

In truth, she could keep watch alone for the entire night without issue.

Considering Mo Lan’s combat ability, plus the Lesser Water Arrow skill Ren Miao had just extracted, everyone agreed.

Warmth filled Bai Wei’s heart. Knowing this was everyone’s kindness, she didn’t refuse any further. With a grateful smile, she hurried back to her tent to sleep and rest.

Tonight it was Mo Lan and Ren Miao’s group on the first watch shift.

Mo Lan stood on the watchtower in camp as usual, monitoring movement in the darkness. Unfortunately, no mirror beasts approached the camp tonight to give her practice.

An hour and a half later, she climbed down from the watchtower, completed the handoff with Zhao Wuchen’s group, then headed straight into her own tent. She sat down at a low folding table and lightly brushed her fingertip across her storage mirror accessory.

In the next moment, six beast cores of different colors, each radiating distinct energy fluctuations, were neatly arranged on the low table:

Scarlet as molten lava, its interior seeming to contain flowing scorching liquid, radiating searing heat — the red-eyed grasshopper beast core, containing the Searing Liquid Spray skill.

Dark as ink, its surface appearing to ripple in layers, producing a faint stinging sensation to the touch — the night-shriek bat beast core, containing the sonic attack skill.

Warm and milky white, emitting a gentle, reassuring glow — the light-healing butterfly beast core, containing the Glimmer Heal skill.

Deep azure blue, seeming to contain rippling water within, producing a viscous, sluggish sensation when gripped — the water-tongue frog beast core, containing the Lesser Water Arrow skill.

Heavy earthy yellow, rough and hard in texture, emanating the steady presence of the earth — the burrowing pangolin beast core, containing the Earth-Meld Burrow skill.

Verdant green, its surface wound with vine-like patterns, brimming with vitality and life — the creeping vine beast core, containing the Tripping Vine skill.