A Powerful Martial Artist Reincarnates as a Nun Knight

Furthermore, the condition of King Vittorio III of Rotaringhia involved more than just the previously mentioned issues. His body was thoroughly permeated and clung to by synthetic toxins and malign demonic energies.
The painstaking extent to which his body had been ravaged…the pervasive combination of diverse toxins and curses infused throughout seemed to encapsulate dogged persistence and exquisite cruelty itself.

“It’s horrific. Truly bewildering how he remains alive.”
“Precisely why carelessly removing that Evil Parasite Worm remains inadvisable. And the reason your role has become so crucial in this procedure. What do you say? Can you handle it?”

In response to Sophia’s inquiry, Conra grinned slyly.
“Master, what do you take me for? I’m Conra.”

Smiling, Conra brushed his nose with the back of his hand – seemingly mimicking manly gestures he had observed among commoners. But seeing such boyish affectations from the still-youthful Conra only amused Sophia.
In any case, she could surmise why the boy felt compelled to feign bravado. Chuckling, she tousled his hair despite his indignant protests.

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A treatment method called Spirit Body Surgery enables directly accessing the physical body through mystical means without invasive procedures when conventional operations prove impractical. Combined with clairvoyance, it represents the ultimate dream technique for any surgeon.

However, even bloodless Spirit Body Surgery inevitably strains the patient’s body by adhering to surgical norms. For a patient already teetering on the brink of death, utmost caution remained paramount.

Hence Conra’s supporting role became crucial here.
By druidically linking the patient’s vitality to that of plants, he could temporarily resolve physical stamina concerns.

Before commencing the procedure, Conra raised his willow wand to chant:
“Com-patríot pada-cona-í agus spiorá-dalta! (Long-lived, sacred kinsmen!) Ro-win do hórsa sawil! (Share your life force with me!)”

As the nature spirit’s invocation resonated from the boy’s throat, a spell matrix liberated within his mental sockets.
Accompanying a squelching noise, small shrubs and vines sprouted around the king’s bed, emanating emerald and celadon luminosities. When Conra extended his free hand’s index and middle fingers toward the bedridden patient, those surrounding lights began enveloping him.

“Preparations complete, Master.”
“Very well, my turn then.”

Next it was Sophia’s turn. Sterilizing her hands before desiccating remaining moisture with internal energy, she approached as the encompassing shrubbery parted to create a space for her beside the bed.
At Conra’s subsequent gesture, the bed elevated slightly above his waist level, essentially raising the floor beneath it. Confirming the optimal treatment environment, Sophia extended both hands.

As her eyes shimmered azure, both hands emanated a milky radiance – manifesting the requisite spirit body for this procedure. Once fully translucent, she nodded before plunging those spirit hands into the bedridden patient’s body.

Her hands phased through the body as effortlessly as submerging into water, yet without drawing any blood – akin to a ghost passing through walls unobstructed.
Busily manipulating her internalized hands, Sophia reviewed the treatment process mentally:

‘First, surgically excise any unsalvageable tissue while preserving potentially recoverable areas.’

With each inward and outward motion, Sophia’s spirit hands precisely extracted and deposited necrotic organ masses onto a tray beside her – deftly avoiding vasculature to remove only damaged tissue as if a ghostly scalpel.

Each excised cross-section immediately received luminous healing emanations to promote regeneration. But her luminescence also dispelled afflicting curses, nearly disrupting the precarious equilibrium maintaining toxin balances.

Hence, Sophia carefully modulated transient luminous dosages while sealing excised surfaces – only emitting the bare minimum required with meticulous timing.

Perspiration soon beaded Sophia’s brow despite her Sword of Epiphany mastery, reflecting the intense focus and deftness this operation demanded. Prior to regaining that enlightened sword discipline, even she may have struggled succeeding.

Clack.
“Whew…”

Finally depositing the last extracted mass onto the tray, Sophia straightened her back while rolling her shoulders. She had merely completed preliminary treatment – far from concluding the overall procedure.

Currently, King Vittorio III’s corporeal integrity relied entirely upon the cerebral Evil Parasite Worm and Conra’s life-sharing spell. If that magic dissipated prematurely, his survival remained dubious at best. So the next phase warranted immediate implementation.

“Are the next preparations complete?”
“Yes, they are!”

At Sophia’s query, Conra promptly replied. Deftly utilizing the double-spell techniques derived from Esras-Hermes’ teachings, he cleared away the previous tray before setting out rejuvenative elixirs, detoxifying antidotes, moxibustion materials, and varied acupuncture needles of assorted lengths, gauges and compositions.

Wiping perspiration with a towel, Sophia resterilized her hands before spirit-bodying them translucent again.
The next procedure deviated from surgery into yogic and qigong practices.

Through Zhuāngguānyuèxuè and Abyanga techniques, she would stimulate the entire meridian and chakra networks while realigning the spine, shoulders and pelvic structures – relaxing taut musculature, forcibly reviving atrophied organs, and unblocking stagnated energy flows.
The elixirs and antidotes prepared were prerequisites for this treatment phase.

King Vittorio III’s depleted condition rendered him incapable of mustering even a spark of energy despite applying Zhuāngguānyuèxuè and Abyanga. Furthermore, forcibly expelling toxins by infusing internal energy exceeded his current physical tolerances.

Hence supplementing deficient vitality through elixirs while generating anti-toxin reinforcements via antidotes proved necessary. Sophia would then harness their combined restorative and detoxifying effects while simultaneously purging residual curses with luminous emanations.

‘First reviving the liver.’

The liver represented the body’s primary gateway for receiving medicinal potencies. If dysfunctional, the entire system could neither metabolize any ingested substances nor energies beneficially – everything consumed would inevitably become toxic instead.

Administering elixirs or antidotes before revitalizing the liver would have induced immediate shock and death, nullifying Conra’s life-sharing spell sustaining the king.

Sophia’s azure-luminescent gaze clearly perceived the patient’s internal condition – not just his visceral organs, but the interplay between meridian flows, chakras, astral musculature and astral brain interconnections.

She retrieved one of the prepared acupuncture needles – longer than an ordinary fork – to puncture designated acupoints distributed across the liver or its associated meridians and chakras.
Normally inadvisable for severely debilitated patients, Sophia proceeded unhesitatingly given the spirit body technique’s reduced strain combined with Conra’s life-sharing protection.

In rapid succession, numerous needles penetrated the liver region and its connected areas as Sophia channeled internal energy, kundalini and golden-jade luminescence through them.

A subtle cracking sound soon emanated as the infused forces collided against toxins and curses.
Expelling those contaminants while unblocking acupoints allowed the life-sharing vitality sustaining the king to naturally gravitate toward the revitalizing liver. Luminous curative energies combined with that augmented life force, visibly transforming the liver’s appearance and hue before Sophia’s eyes.

Its hardened, mottled brown gradually softened into a healthy, supple vermilion.

‘Now!’

Confirming the liver’s full restoration among his visceral organs, Sophia immediately injected elixir and antidote ampules into the patient’s bloodstream. Their medicinal potencies swiftly permeated the newly functional liver before circulating throughout the body alongside her channeled energy and luminescence.

An ineffable metamorphosis then manifested within King Vittorio III of Rotaringhia.

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Several days after Sophia’s royal palace visit, the current king issued summonses to all assembled Rotaringian noble houses, distinguished clans and influential factions within Ravenna.