The Amber Sword

CH 10 – Emergency first aid in the battlefield

Sophie stared at his character stats in a daze, but he still did not make a decision in the end.

[One step at a time, since there’s no need to squander it now right?]

But the 10 AP (ability points) that he got when he raised should be used. Under the dire situation now, even the slightest improvement in power was an improvement over nothing. It appeared to Sophie that increasing the sword rank or a combat related skill was a pretty good choice. Anyone else would probably have chosen this option. Still, Sophie hesitated as he had thought of something else.

He dismissed the character window in his mind, and it faded from his retina. He raised his head to look at the militia, only to find them still reveling from the victory earlier. He stiffened for a moment, then his face showed an austere expression.

This was a terrible sign.

He gestured to Romaine to help him up a little, then raised his voice and ask: “I want to ask, do you all really think you are safe now?”

His voice was not loud, but everyone present had their voices silenced, and the forest became silent to the point where one can hear a pin drop.

“The crux and the way how to wrap the bandages.”

Freya did not reply immediately, but went to his side to check on the girl who fainted. Romaine had abandoned her with a face of excitement when she went to gather the loot.

The girl only fainted from a shock and did not seem to have sustained any other injuries.

Freya turned back to look at the pale youth and hesitated for a while.

“Let me take a look at your injury.”

“That’s fine, I know my injury well enough.”

“You—”

“Really, what exactly did you learn?” Sophie changed the topic.

“Mainly to bandage and stop the bleeding as well as washing the wound.”

Sophie’s heart suddenly skipped a beat. It was something from within his soul, not a voice or words, but he clearly received a message:

“Freya is teaching you the skill ‘Emergency first aid’, and requires 8 AP to raise to level 0. Do you wish to learn the skill?”

He exhaled slowly. He wanted this! And it even appeared in the same format as the game, of course he wanted to learn this!

The emergency first aid had the ability to stop bleeding and prevent the infection of wounds. It was a skill that ignored the surroundings and raised the chances to succeed compared to random bandaging, and was something that Sophie urgently needed. He remembered that only the army priests from the Holy Cathedral of Fire were able to perform emergency first aid.

To think that Captain Marden also knew how to do this, what a discovery indeed. He accepted to learn the skill but a message immediately came back:

“There is no suitable profession found for learning emergency first aid, which profession do you wish to assign the skill to?”

This was not important, but Sophie still placed the skill under the Civilian soldier profession. Because the Civilian soldier profession was not a suitable profession, it would require twice the AP to raise the level, and it was still better than the commoner profession, since it was pretty much impossible to raise the commoner level.

A skill level cannot be leveled higher than the profession level. (TL: Commoner level cannot be raised. Probably.)

Freya taught the skill in detail to him, but she quickly realized the youth was staring at her as if he did not react to her words at all.

She looked at him blankly, before a fiery fury burst up from her heart.

This bastard, was he trying to find an excuse to take advantage of her!

The young girl hands curled into fists, and became so angry that even her ponytail trembled.

This bastard, how could he do something like this to Romaine, that girl had her heart practically given to you!

She tried her best to curb herself and waved her hands in front of Sophie, but there was no reaction. If she did not consider him to be an injured person, she would have sent a flying kick. But right at this moment, Sophie’s eyes blinked and he regained his senses.

He checked his skill set again, and was satisfied from learning the emergency first aid. At least he would have the confidence to navigate through the future battles.

It was an important requirement to have the ability to heal the team members. Sophie was someone who planned ahead, and thus abandoned the idea of learning sword skills or combat abilities. But when he came back to his senses, he saw Freya’s displeased expression.

“What’s wrong?” He looked on puzzledly.

“Were you listening?” The girl asked through her gritted teeth.

“Of course, and I learned it already.” Sophie answered naturally.

“You-” Freya nearly fainted from the lack of breath. “I have not even finished teaching, and you already learned it?” She checked him out with a severe lack of trust.

“Yup.”

Freya wanted to punch him in the eye. When she wanted to argue back at him, someone shouted from the sides.

“Boss-neesama. We can’t stop Jonathon’s bleeding, quickly come over and take a look.”

Sophie wanted to swivel her head back to look, but Sophie said: “This is a good time, how about letting me do it?”

“You?”

Freya’s face was of great distrust.

“Help me over.”

“D, don’t overdo things.”

“Then I’ll ask Miss Romaine to help me over?”

“In your dreams, I’ll never let her near you ever again, you shameless lout!” Freya snapped in refusal, but still helped Sophie up.

“Shameless lout?” Sophie paused blankly, why did he suddenly get scolded.

“You know what you did.”

“Hah?”