Chapter 162 - Healing

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"Huh?! You're joking right? There's no way I've been asleep for that long!" Julius complained to which Jun just turned his face away in shame.

"I mean what am I supposed to do? I can't even move right now. How am I supposed to recover until I'm presentable by tomorrow?!" Julius said as he began to panic.

"Don't worry Julius, it'll be fine," said Jun.

"'Don't worry'?! It's going to be the biggest day of my entire life and all I can do is stay in bed?! Come on Jun, how am I supposed to ever look the people of this land in their eyes and tell them that I managed to get this injured right before this day?! I'll never socially recover from this. I'll be known as the prince who got completely paralyzed right before the biggest day in any prince's life! Even after death, this event will be spoken about! Why does everything bad happen to me?!" Julius complained.

"What do you mean that everything bad happen to you?! Did you forget that you're literally a prince who doesn't have to ask for anything and it is instead given to him without him having to do a single thing. You were handed everything from birth. To add on you were blessed with extraordinary cultivation abilities. You've been anything but unlucky your entire life but just because you faced a single challenge, you think that you're cursed forever," Jun got angry at Julius for being ungrateful.

"I guess when you say it like that, it sounds wrong but still, I can't afford to be in this sorry state when I go to present myself in front of the entire kingdom. You must at least understand that much," Julius replied.

"Yes I do. There's actually an easy fix for this, I don't know why you haven't thought of it on your own yet," Jun said to his student.

"What do you mean? If there's a way to fix me, Please do it right now! I don't want to stay like this even for one more second!" Julius complained to Jun.

"I guess consuming all of those secret arts all at once made you forget which ones you have and what you can do. I guess I'll have to remind you. Now, think of a secret art which will allow you to heal yourself, there should be at least a few which you have," said Jun.

"Oh you're right! How could I forget?!" Julius said as he remembered something very important.

<<Secret Art: Angel's Blessing>>

A green calming light began to surround Julius as it closed all of his cuts and began to return his bod back to its original state as if nothing had happened.

"It's working! I did it! I'll be able to go to my birthday without any problems!" Julius began to cheer from happiness as he felt completely better.

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With every second that passed, Julius' wounds began to open up again as his bones started to break once more as well. It was like the secret art he had used had no effect on his body. Once more, Julius was forced to lay down on the bed from exhaustion.

"What happened?! Why didn't the secret art work? What's even worse is that the pain is stronger than it used to be," said Julius as he tried to stop himself from screaming in agony.

"I can't stop now. I was so close to getting rid of this problem. I have recover by tomorrow. I don't have a choice!" Julius yelled out as he prepared to use his secret art once more so that he could heal his wounds once again.

<<Secret Art: Angel's Blessing>>

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<<Secret Art: Angel's Blessing>>

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<<Secret Art: Angel's Blessing>>

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No matter how many times Julius tried to return his body back into the state it was in before he went to death island, he kept on failing for seemingly no reason. After trying so many times, he was beginning to lose hope as he laid back down on the bed while tears came out of his eyes due to the immense pain he was feeling.

"Jun, please help me, I don't want to stay like this forever," Julius begged in a desperate voice.

"Look Julius, I hate to break it to you but you'll most likely not recover in time for your birthday," said Jun in a disappointed voice.

"What do you mean?! I have to. If I don't, I might never recover and stay in this bed for the rest of my life," Julius pleaded as he began to get more desperate that he already was.

"Don't worry about your birthday. I have a plan to take care of that. However, there is something that concerns me and that is why you can't regenerate from your injuries. Although I do have a theory which seems like it would be true," Jun began to speak.

"Most secret arts can be used as long as they're learned. However the effectiveness of them all depends on how weak the enemy is and how strong the user is. That means that of you used an attack type secret art such as the thousand blades, they would only do damage under the condition that your opponent couldn't stop them. Of course if they could stop them, the blades would have no effect," Jun continued to explain.

"As such, the same rule would apply to defensive type secret arts in that they can't defend an opponent which is vastly stronger than the user. Of course that would apply to healing type secret arts as well. That would mean that if the injury was inflicted by an opponent which was stronger than the user or an opponent which was a great challenge to the user wouldn't be recovered. However don't fear as you will not be bedridden forever," Julius explained.

"How do you now that?" Julius asked as he was starting to lose hope.

"I know that you won't be injured forever because you're awake right now. If the injuries on your body were permanent, you would be in a coma right now instead of speaking to me," Jun told his student with a smile.