"Is it a curse within the bloodline?"
Iver furrowed his brow.
Why had everyone else's treatment been ineffective? Why had his own treatment worked? The only answer he could think of was "priority."
Treatment was actually divided into two categories—"injury" and "illness."
If someone had an arm severed by a steel blade, then regardless of whether the culprit was an ordinary person, a Third Level assassin, or a Fifth Level warrior, the mana required to treat the wound or reconnect the limb would be fixed. Even the weakest Transcender could accomplish it.
Purely physical damage could ignore the resistance caused by differences in most levels. But likewise, wounds caused by physical damage could be easily healed by the most basic methods.
But there was another situation... spell damage.
Take the classic ritual spell, Curse Infant, for example. This powerful ritual spell required an infant destined to be cursed to death as its ritual material. Yet a Second Level Transcender could cast it, and its power could even instantly kill a Third Level Transcender—the cause of death being a broken heart.
The victim's heart would be frozen and gnawed apart by the Curse Infant, resulting in sudden death within a short period.
—Then what if the injured person had a healer by their side who could prolong their life, or restore their heart before death? If the caster was Second Level, then at least a Third Level priest would be needed to accomplish that.
Because after a spell caused damage, the Path Power involved did not immediately dissipate. Instead, it remained wrapped around the body. To treat the damage, one either had to wait for the power to completely dissipate or resist that portion of power directly. And that power itself would resist the treatment.
Although a Second Level priest could