The Demonic Wolf Mercenary Squad had four members: Captain Assassin Blood Fang, Knight Wolf Fang, and Troll warriors Iron Fang and Broken Fang.
A few days ago, when they went hunting in the Mist Forest together, they accidentally stumbled into a small altar of the Dark Sun Church.
Fortunately, the altar was a derelict abandoned one, and there were no members of the Dark Sun Church around, so the four of them just investigated it briefly before leaving. Nothing special happened during that time.
However, Wolf Fang's strange condition, coupled with the alchemist's words, led them to connect the two events, believing that Wolf Fang had suffered from dark sun contamination.
"If he was truly contaminated by the dark sun, by now, he would have already started mutating."
"Wizard, are you saying that Wolf Fang was not contaminated by the dark sun? Then what is the reason for his condition...?"
Jia Na did not rush to answer Blood Fang's question. Instead, she waved her hand, gesturing for the others to stand further away. Then, she walked alone to Wolf Fang's bedside, put on a pair of thin, enchanted gloves, and gently touched Wolf Fang's chest, covered in gray scales, with her fingertips.
Swish—
The moment Jia Na's fingertips touched the gray scales, a vibrant emerald green light, filled with rich vitality, slowly flowed from Jia Na's hand.
Like fine spider silk, it spread from Wolf Fang's chest to his entire body in just a moment. The miraculous nature of the technique made the few people around, who rarely had the chance to witness a Wizard casting spells, involuntarily hold their breath.
"It's the Gray Scale Disease Curse, but thankfully it was discovered early. If it had been a few more days, you could have directly prepared a coffin for him."
The emerald green light gradually disappeared. After investigating the cause of the illness, Jia Na carefully took off the enchanted gloves and placed them by the bed. Without waiting for Blood Fang and the others to speak, she straightened up, quickly assumed a spellcasting posture, and chanted the incantation:
"By my will, I command you, summon—Celestial Sparrow."
Crack—
A complex contract magic circle quickly formed in front of Jia Na. As the incantation was chanted, a milky white light filled with the aura of light instantly enveloped Jia Na. Accompanied by the sound of space tearing and shattering, a Spirit World creature resembling a parrot, with white jade on its head, snow-white feathers all over its body, and two patches of blush-like redness on its cheeks, appeared in the center of the contract magic circle.
"Obeying your will, my dear Master, Afu is at your service."
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Celestial Sparrow, a Spirit World creature, contract true name Afu, possessing the Holy Light attribute, is the first contracted creature in Jia Na's Wizard career and currently her only summoned beast.
Thump—
The light gradually receded. The summoned Celestial Sparrow flapped its wings and skillfully landed on Jia Na's shoulder.
"Afu, purify him."
"As you command."
Gently stroking the Celestial Sparrow's head feathers, Jia Na, who could naturally communicate with her summoned beast through telepathy via the contract power, directly issued the command to the Celestial Sparrow through a mental link.
Upon receiving the command, the Celestial Sparrow obediently flew up from Jia Na's shoulder and circled above the wooden bed.
In an instant, light erupted. Thousands of magic threads poured out from the Celestial Sparrow's feathers like a gentle stream, falling densely onto Wolf Fang, who was lying on the wooden bed, like fine rain in early spring.
As the light grew stronger, the gray scales that had covered Wolf Fang's body rapidly peeled off. His grayish-white skin gradually regained its color, and the sinister power of the Curse, enveloped by the Purification Light, turned into gray smoke and dust, disappearing.
"Cough, cough—"
Violent coughing suddenly erupted. Wolf Fang, who had been lying on the wooden bed, suddenly sat up on his side. A mouthful of fleshy bits mixed with gray scales was spat out from Wolf Fang's mouth. Accompanied by the violent heaving of his chest, Wolf Fang, who had been in a coma for two days and one night, finally regained consciousness.
"Quick, get some water!"
"Quickly throw that dirty stuff on the ground outside and burn it!"
Seeing that Wolf Fang had woken up, Blood Fang, the captain of the Demonic Wolf Mercenary Squad, couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. He immediately ordered the two simple-minded Troll warriors behind him to start cleaning up the mess in the room.
"Well done, Afu."
Retracting the Purification Light, the Celestial Sparrow, whose spirit was noticeably weaker than before, swayed and landed on Jia Na's shoulder.
Seeing this, Jia Na dispelled the contract power and sent the Celestial Sparrow back into the Spirit World. At the same time, she also put the enchanted gloves by the bed, which had been purified, into her wizard robe.
"Esteemed Wizard, this way, please."
Blood Fang and Luke, who had been observing Jia Na from the side, saw the magical Spirit World creature suddenly disappear. Having witnessed Jia Na's methods firsthand, their attitude couldn't help but become more respectful.
Although this overly beautiful young Wizard Apprentice did not display any combat Witchcraft, her technique of summoning an otherworldly creature to purify Curses made the two deeply realize how important it was to know such a Purification Wizard for the security of their future lives.
After all, in this treacherous and mysterious extraordinary world, contamination and Curses are almost impossible to guard against, while extraordinary individuals with Purification and healing methods are few and far between.
Take this Level 3 Wizard Gathering Place—City of Turin. Besides White Coral Academy, the Wizards in the Black Bone Forest and Mist Tower, these two Wizard forces, mostly cultivate dark energy particles and elements. Finding a Wizard skilled in Purification and healing is extremely difficult.
Even within White Coral Academy, aside from a few Wizards who primarily cultivate light-element positive energy particles, there are few Wizards with Purification abilities, let alone low-level Wizard Apprentices.
Therefore, extraordinary individuals who are generally contaminated or Cursed, if they fail to find a Wizard who possesses Purification abilities for a long time, their only option is to purchase Purification potions.
However, this type of potion is expensive and in short supply. The Demonic Wolf Mercenary Squad's luck was also poor this time; they almost visited every potion shop in Turin and were told that Purification potions were currently out of stock.
Finally, they could only hold onto a sliver of hope and send the task application form to the Raven of White Coral Academy, waiting for a slim chance of a reply.
If they didn't receive news within two days, Blood Fang was even planning to take the squad members to other Wizard Gathering Places by magic steam train to look for a treatment method.
Looking at Luke and Blood Fang's overly enthusiastic appearance, Jia Na still just calmly nodded and went downstairs with the two of them.
"Esteemed Wizard, this is your task receipt, and this... is a small token of appreciation from me and the Demonic Wolf Mercenary Squad."
Jia Na, who took the task receipt from Luke's hand, found several jin sule lying inside the envelope.
"Mm, I understand."
Putting the envelope into her wizard robe and putting her hood back on, Jia Na also accepted the other party's "kindness". At the same time, she took out a paper card from her wizard robe and handed it to Luke and Blood Fang.
"Next time, if you can't find me through the Raven, you can submit the task form according to the address on it to the Spark Elf in the Dwarf's Furnace. If I don't have other matters, I don't mind taking on a few designated tasks."
"Thank you for your kindness, Esteemed Wizard."
After completing the task, Jia Na did not linger. After leaving Lu Jiao Alley Tavern, she cast a Light Feather Spell on herself. Accompanied by the biting cold wind of early spring, with a few leaps, Jia Na soared over the layers of alley shadows and disappeared into the increasingly lively morning crowd...