Chapter 598: Forty-One Alive
Leon went straight to the people most likely to die.
A guard lay pinned beneath a wagon axle with a punctured lung. A servant woman's belly had been opened. A boy of fourteen had stopped bleeding for the wrong reason. Leon healed those three completely, light pouring from his hands until several nearby survivors backed away in awe.
Then he stopped healing and began stabilizing.
He set bones, closed dangerous bleeding, and dulled enough pain for wounded men to stop fighting the people helping them. Ordinary cuts and bruises remained for medicine and time. A man who restored forty people to perfect health in one afternoon would become a story long before he reached the city, and Leon had already revealed more than he wanted.
