After creating the powerful Attack Magic known as "Blue Stream Blade,"
Cui Ciyou's thoughts naturally turned to another branch of magic, utterly different yet just as vital:
-Healing Magic.
The sunlight was warm and the breeze gentle as Cui Ciyou and Roxy stood in the Boreas courtyard.
"Roxy," Cui Ciyou began, "I've had some ideas about Healing Magic..."
He asked Roxy to demonstrate Healing Magic for him.
At his request, Roxy cast Beginner Healing-Healing-on a small tree Cui Ciyou had deliberately cut down.
Soft green light flowed from her fingertips, and the severed sections of the little tree's trunk joined back together and regrew.
As Roxy finished casting, her incantation came to an end:
"Divine power is nourishing sustenance. Grant those who have lost their strength the power to rise again-Healing!"
She straightened up and brushed the grass clippings off her mage's robe.
Then she raised her clear, aquamarine eyes to Cui Ciyou with a hint of curiosity:
"Oh? Have you been researching Healing Magic lately, Ciyou?"
"Its principles are completely different from those of Attack Magic, you know."
"I wouldn't call it research. Just... some conjectures based on the theory of Healing Magic."
Cui Ciyou walked over to her and looked at the little tree, now standing upright again.
"When you cast Healing Magic, I can sense a kind of... gentle power within the magic power, something that promotes 'growth,' or perhaps 'repair.'"
"It doesn't seem to create vitality out of nothing. It's more like... accelerating some natural process?"
Drawing on the material he had read in the Boreas Library, he conjectured:
The essence of healing magic was to use magic power to stimulate and guide an organism's own recovery abilities, accelerating wound healing and easing fatigue.
At higher levels, such as King-level Major Healing or the legendary God-level