Though he had seemed particularly confident while persuading Benny, Kraft still spent several days rehearsing before officially beginning the treatment.
Five sheep had the honor of making a necessary contribution to the development of supernatural medicine. In accordance with the ethics of animal experimentation, they passed away without suffering.
The patients who benefited would never know the story behind it, but the monks who enjoyed the extra meals—and Kup, who had used their heads to refine his suturing technique—would remember them fondly.
If circumstances allowed, Kraft would have liked to practice a few more times, but there might not be time for further delays.
Almost all surgeries followed a certain rule: to achieve the same therapeutic goal while causing less harm, the demands on the surgeon's skill and control grew ever higher.
If Dominic's pituitary removal had been Greatsword Carving, then Lucian's vascular occlusion procedure had a touch of Wensi Tofu.
The principle was similar in both cases: create small-scale disruptions and separations between layers to cause the necessary damage in places that couldn't be treated by conventional means.
Intracranial blood vessels were already tiny. Those associated with pituitary tumors at this stage were generally less than a millimeter across, around three-tenths of a millimeter in diameter—about three to six strands of hair, or the thickness of two mosquito legs. It was a scale one could grasp in theory, but one's eyes could barely keep up with.
This scale was roughly on par with the minimum width of the crack torn open by the Stone Sword, making it an operation that pushed the limits.
Besides giving it his all, Kraft also had to keep the patient's head absolutely still throughout the procedure. A sneeze or the slightest turn of the neck could have unimaginable consequences.
So even though the pain