Ash picked up the towel covering his face and propped himself up with one hand.
His first reaction was to feel his neck. He found no wounds at all.
"Strange. You actually didn't use me as experimental material for surgery."
"I already did."
The Healer [222], sitting at the foot of the bed, did not even raise her head. She kept reading the book in her hands, the beak of her raven mask bobbing slightly.
"It's already done. The surgery was very successful. You're already a handsome guy now."
"What!"
Ash hurriedly looked around for a mirror, but there were no mirrors anywhere nearby. The Healer burst out laughing. "Kidding. Actually, repairing your throat was too simple. It barely took any time at all, so I casually performed a few minor procedures on you too. No major reconstruction. You didn't even wake up when they were done."
Ash let out a sigh of relief.
"Then what surgeries did you do on me?"
"The Duffy Technique to open the corners of your eyes, the Ebert Technique to adjust your brow bones, the Locher Technique to adjust your chin, the Elias Technique to make your eyelashes naturally curl upward, and..."
The more Ash listened, the more bewildered he became.
"Then how much do I still resemble my old self?"
"You should look very similar, right? Either way, it's still two eyes and one mouth on one face."
"You call this 'no major reconstruction'? Then does major reconstruction mean replacing my whole head?"
"Not quite. Replacing a head is still rather dangerous." The Healer gestured as she spoke. "Among Spellcasters, the more popular major surgeries at most replace all your facial features. For example, eyes with a Swift Eagle's eyes, teeth with a Deformed Shark's teeth, a nose with a Fang Wolf's nose,