Chapter Summaries

Wu Zhou woke in a strange medieval world and realized he had inhabited the body of a young man called Little Grete. When a priest’s healing magic failed to treat a wounded captain, Wu Zhou rushed to take charge of the emergency.

• Wu Zhou woke face-down beside a ruined shack, discovered he wore shabby clothes, and saw a red-haired man calling him Little Grete.
• Hearing cries for help, Wu Zhou ran toward an injured man and watched a priest use white healing magic on the captain’s abdominal wound.
• The priest’s spell stopped after healing only part of the wound, and he admitted he was an apprentice who could not save the captain.
• As the captain’s companion began pushing the exposed intestines back inside, Wu Zhou ordered him to stop and asked for a clean bowl.

Wu Zhou operated on a badly wounded man in primitive conditions, opening his abdomen and finding a bleeding liver laceration. He pinched the hepatic portal artery and vein, slowing the bleeding, but the man’s fate remained uncertain.

• Wu Zhou ordered the Young Priest and others to compress the man’s wounds while he assessed signs of severe blood loss.
• Wu Zhou cut open the man’s abdomen and found that blood was pouring from an injury to the liver.
• The Young Priest tried to stop Wu Zhou from cutting, but Wu Zhou pushed him back and told him to keep applying pressure.
• Wu Zhou checked the abdominal organs for other sources of heavy bleeding and found none.
• Wu Zhou pinched the hepatic portal artery and vein, and the bleeding visibly slowed.

Wu Zhou stopped an injured man's liver from bleeding and used the Young Priest's last Minor Healing Potion to restore it. With the immediate danger past, he prepared to clean his hands and treat the man's remaining injuries.

• Wu Zhou held the injured man's hepatic hilum to control the bleeding and told the Young Priest to heal his hands and the liver.
• The Young Priest said he had no healing spells left, only one bottle of Minor Healing Potion.
• Wu Zhou poured the potion onto the ruptured liver, which healed completely and regained normal blood flow.
• Wu Zhou explained that saving the man required surgical knowledge, then turned to treating his intestines and other injuries.
• Wu Zhou ordered the Red-haired Archer and a blond warrior to bring soapberry, boiled water, needles, thread, and strong liquor, then washed his hands.

Wu Zhou operated on a wounded man without anesthesia, sterile gloves, or antibiotics, searching his intestines and using a Minor Healing Potion to close a tear. He prepared to irrigate and close the abdomen with improvised salt water, while realizing how scarce basic medical supplies were in this world.

• Wu Zhou searched the wounded man's intestines while the Red-haired Archer, Young Priest, and water carrier vomited nearby.
• The wounded man woke during the operation and struggled until several warriors restrained him and Wu Zhou calmed him down.
• Wu Zhou found a five-centimeter tear in the wounded man's ileum and used drops of a Minor Healing Potion to heal it.
• After checking the remaining intestines, Wu Zhou ordered his companions to prepare salt water for irrigation and explained that it needed to be as salty as blood.
• The Young Priest questioned why salt was needed, and someone called out, "Little Grete, the salt water's here!"

Gret finished emergency surgery on the wounded squad captain, Uncle Karen, using improvised supplies. After realizing he had transmigrated into Gret Nordmark, he worried that the priest John would report his unexplained skills to the church, but the warriors asked whether Uncle Karen would survive.

• Gret rinsed Uncle Karen’s abdominal cavity with improvised saline solution and checked that no active bleeding remained.
• Gret used a bent sewing needle and hemp thread to stitch Uncle Karen’s abdomen closed, then told the others to bandage him.
• The warriors praised Gret and supported him as he collapsed from exhaustion; he remembered that he was Gret Nordmark, a new City Guard recruit.
• Gret recognized John, Raymond, Thorn, and Wally, and realized he had transmigrated after dying from overwork in his previous life.
• Gret feared John would report his surgical skills to the church, but a warrior interrupted his thoughts by asking whether Uncle Karen would survive.

Gret struggled to explain Captain Karen’s uncertain recovery after surgery, but healing magic suddenly sealed his wounds, forcing Gret to remove the stitches at high speed. When Karen asked how Gret had learned to operate, Gret claimed he had received divine revelation.

• Gret remembered how Uncle Karen had cared for him after his father died and admitted he did not know whether Karen would survive.
• Healing magic burst from Gret’s clasped hands and rapidly closed Karen’s surgical wounds.
• Gret hurriedly cut out the hemp stitches before the healing light faded.
• Karen woke and tried to sit up, but Gret forced him to lie back down because he did not know whether the internal wounds had healed.
• When Karen asked about Gret’s surgical skills, Gret blurted out that he had received divine revelation.

After claiming a Divine Revelation from Nature God, Gret realized the others expected him to lead them. The chapter ended with him facing their decision about whether to press onward, despite knowing his revelation was fake.

• Captain Karen celebrated Gret's Divine Revelation, then asked which god had chosen him.
• Gret worried about his head injury and searched his fragmented memories for Hartland City's gods and temples.
• Gret ruled out the God of War and the Spring Goddess, then named Nature God as his patron.
• Captain Karen and the others prayed to Nature God, and Gret accepted that he could not take back his claim.
• Brother Raymond asked whether the group should keep moving, leaving Gret to make the decision despite his fake revelation.

After receiving Divine Revelation from the Nature God, Gret was expected to lead the patrol despite having little memory of the events that injured Captain Karen. He ordered the group to leave the unsuitable farmhouse with Karen on a stretcher, while his companions insisted on carrying his gear and letting him walk without burdens.

• Gret realized the others expected him to decide what the patrol should do next, then pretended his head injury had left him unable to remember the attack.
• Raymond explained that a fast, black, four-legged beast had injured Captain Karen and struck Gret unconscious.
• Gret checked the nearby farmhouse, found its cramped, smoky interior lacked a proper bed, and ordered the patrol to leave.
• The patrol made a stretcher from a spear, a small tree, and grass ropes, then carried Captain Karen away.
• Thorn took Gret's place carrying the stretcher, while Raymond and Wally took his knife and pack so he could walk unburdened.

After Gret operated on Captain Karen, he struggled to determine when the injured man could safely drink or eat while the patrol continued to a farmstead for the night. There, Gret saw a noble’s entourage and a well-treated priest of the Spring Goddess, prompting Brother Raymond to assure him that he would receive similar perks as a healer.

• Gret discovered that wild dogs had exposed much of a shallow grave, but the squad continued toward the farmstead.
• When Captain Karen asked for water, Gret forbade food and drink and tried to judge his intestinal recovery by listening to his abdomen.
• The squad reached the farmstead after dark and found a brightly lit estate with a luxurious carriage bearing a noble emblem.
• The farm owner welcomed the injured Captain Karen and the squad, but Gret could not join the dinner because he was still monitoring Karen’s recovery.
• Gret spotted a priest of the Spring Goddess dining in silk robes with a knight and his escort, and Brother Raymond told Gret that healers could enjoy similar treatment.

Gret saved a suffocating boy by cutting an emergency airway into his neck after the priest’s Divine Arts failed. The knight and temple warriors restrained Gret, but the priest stopped healing the boy after Gret warned that closing the wound would block his breathing again.

• A peasant woman brought her wheezing, blue-faced child to the priest, whose Healing and Detoxification Spells failed to relieve the child’s severe airway obstruction.
• Gret recognized the signs of critical laryngeal obstruction, took the child, and performed a cricothyrotomy with Brother Raymond’s dagger.
• The knight kicked Gret off the platform, and the priest began another spell while Gret warned him not to heal the airway opening.
• The temple warriors pinned Gret down as he explained that the child could breathe only through the opening in his neck.
• The priest observed the child’s improving color, understood Gret’s warning, and ordered the warriors to release him.

Gret calmed the boy after opening his throat and prepared to insert a tube into his trachea to help him breathe. With Roman’s help smoothing a hollow chicken leg bone, Gret began the improvised intubation.

• Gret soothed the boy until his spasms stopped and his breathing steadied.
• Gret asked Uncle Edmond to find a clean, rigid tube and questioned the farm woman about what the child had eaten or encountered.
• A worker brought Gret a hollow chicken leg bone, which Gret accepted after asking for its sharp edges to be smoothed.
• The priest asked Roman to smooth the bone, and Roman polished its ends with his thumb.
• Gret exclaimed that the chicken bone had gone into the child’s trachea.

Gret performed an emergency cricothyrotomy on a suffocating child and used a chicken bone as a makeshift airway tube. When the priest of the Spring Goddess could not use Divine Arts to reduce the child’s throat swelling, Gret decided to rely on modern medicine.

• Gret explained the cricothyrotomy to the priest while operating by candlelight and torchlight.
• Gret inserted a chicken bone through the incision and heard air passing through it.
• Gret ordered Uncle Edmond and the other men to hold the child still because they had no way to secure the bone tube.
• The priest cast an Illumination Spell so he and Gret could inspect the child’s swollen throat.
• Gret asked the priest to use water magic to reduce the swelling, but the priest could not do so or receive Divine Grace.
• Gret concluded that Divine Arts could not solve the problem and resolved to handle it with modern medicine.

Gret suspected that Remy’s swelling and wheals were caused by an allergy to salted cod, then improvised a skin prick test with fish-soaked water. The test results had not appeared yet, leaving Gret waiting with the others.

• Gret examined Remy’s swelling and wheals, questioned the farmwoman, and asked for the child’s playmates to be brought in.
• Gret explained to the priest that he was looking for something Remy’s body could not tolerate, then questioned the three children.
• One child said Remy had eaten salted fish, prompting the farmwoman to protest and the hall to erupt into an argument.
• Gret identified the fish as cod with the priest’s help and decided to test whether it caused Remy’s reaction.
• Gret pricked Remy’s forearms through drops of plain water and fish-meat water, then told everyone to wait for the result.

Gret confirmed that cod had caused the boy’s severe allergic reaction and improvised a treatment using extract from sheep adrenal glands when he had no medicine available. The boy’s throat swelling subsided, Gret removed the chicken bone from his airway, and the priest healed the wound.

• Gret identified a large red, raised rash at the fish-broth test site and confirmed that cod had triggered the boy’s allergy.
• Gret asked Uncle Edmond for sheep organs, then searched through them and carefully removed both adrenal glands.
• Gret ground the glands, mixed them with water, and had the boy gargle the mixture while he watched his breathing.
• The boy’s laryngeal swelling subsided, and Gret pulled the chicken bone from his airway.
• The priest healed the boy’s wound and greeted Gret as a fellow healer.

Gret met Priest Donald, who welcomed him and invited him to dinner despite Knight Lehman's hostility. At the table, Roman Knight challenged Gret to prove he was a Divine Revelation User or be branded a blasphemer.

• Gret introduced himself to Priest Donald, and Knight Lehman apologized after Donald insisted.
• Donald invited Gret and the Young Priest to join him at the main table, where Gret ate mutton soup and bread.
• Roman Knight objected to Donald dining with commoners and questioned whether Gret was a real healer.
• The warriors in Gret's party called him a Divine Revelation User of the Nature God.
• Roman Knight drew his sword and demanded that Gret prove his Divine Grace by healing Captain Karen, or be condemned as a blasphemer.

Gret tried to prove he could use healing magic while Priest Donald and Roman Knight questioned the claim, but he could not summon it until he remembered his lifelong devotion to medicine. His medical oath brought down pure white light, leaving him able to cast healing magic again.

• Roman Knight threatened Gret with his sword, but Priest Donald ordered him to put it away.
• Young Priest John defended Gret, insisting that he had witnessed Gret use healing magic and receive a Divine Revelation from the Nature God.
• Priest Donald asked Gret to demonstrate healing magic on Captain Karen, and Gret tried to summon it without success.
• Gret searched for the source of his faith and realized that healing the sick and saving lives had driven him throughout his medical career.
• Gret recited his medical oath, and pure white light descended as his eyes filled with tears.

Gret used healing magic on Captain Karen by imagining how to disinfect and repair his abdominal injuries, and Karen began passing gas, suggesting his intestines were working again. As everyone celebrated, Gret warned that Karen could only have milk or thin porridge, while Roman Knight watched him with hostility.

• The crowd witnessed Gret cast healing magic, and Roman Knight withdrew his hand from his sword because Gret appeared genuinely blessed.
• Gret focused on Captain Karen's abdominal injuries and imagined the spell sterilizing wounds and repairing damaged tissue.
• Captain Karen passed gas, and Gret excitedly declared that his intestines had started working again.
• Edmond ordered wine, food, and mutton for Karen, but Gret stopped him and allowed only milk or thin porridge.
• Roman Knight watched Gret coldly as the hall erupted into celebration and argument.

After saving a child and resting, Gret was forced to join a temple-led search party, where Young Priest John chose to accompany him. Their group camped in an abandoned castle, and skeletons attacked the northeast tower during the night.

• Gret slept through the night, then learned that the temple guards had requisitioned his squad for a search operation.
• Young Priest John warned Gret that Roman Knight was targeting him, while Captain Karen explained that the temple could requisition the City Guard.
• Gret insisted on taking Captain Karen's place, and Roman Knight agreed to let him join the search party.
• Young Priest John packed his things and joined Gret, who set out with the group without knowing what they were searching for.
• After crossing mountains and streams, Gret and his squad camped in the southeast tower of an abandoned castle.
• A scream about skeletons woke Gret, as weapons clashed in the northeast tower.

Gret and the warriors fought their way through the northeastern tower’s basement, where Priest Donald used Divine Arts to help defeat a gargoyle. A powerful black cat then incapacitated the Roman Knight and Priest Donald, while a ring of black light knocked Gret and dozens of others to the ground.

• Thorn tackled Gret out of the way of a diving attacker, and Wally’s shield failed to stop it from crashing down on them.
• Roman Knight fought a gargoyle while Gret’s group and the temple warriors tried to contain it, but its shriek disrupted their advance and it leaped into the air.
• Priest Donald struck the airborne gargoyle with a beam of white light, allowing Roman Knight and the warriors to cut it down.
• A black cat attacked Roman Knight, wounded him at the joints, and then leaped toward Priest Donald.
• An incantation from the hall entrance released a ring of black light that froze Priest Donald and knocked Gret, Young Priest John, and dozens of warriors to the ground.

A necromancer returned to his Mage Tower and confronted the intruders, while Gret became fascinated by the necromancer’s Golden Skeleton. The chapter ended with Gret pointing out that the skeleton’s skull and pelvis belonged to different people.

• A black cat and a flash of black light defeated the intruders, and the necromancer approached them in a black robe.
• Knight Roman recognized the necromancer and threatened him with the temple’s retaliation.
• The necromancer accused the intruders of breaking into his Mage Tower and threatened the temple unless it apologized and paid compensation.
• The Golden Skeleton sent Knight Lehman flying, and the necromancer negotiated compensation with Priest Donald.
• Gret examined the Golden Skeleton and told the necromancer that its skull was male while its pelvis was female.