Chapter 123: Getting Rid of Bad Memories

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After Meieses went flying away with magic, the other two elders, Glaope and Atypesia decided to stay with Ervas, Veronica, and Ditoyle.

They were rather interested in Ervas 'mental healing' something that not even the miracle of their goddess was capable of doing.

Ervas analyzed the young Rabbit-kin girl, who had a similar appearance to Pekorina…

Pekorina was still not aware that her tribe, or well, those that survived were rescued and peacefully resting in the Squirrel-kin tribe, as she was currently feasting in orc and lizardmen meat back in the Raccoon tribes.

Ervas immediately noticed that the description of this young woman was the same that Pekorina had given to him about her old sister… Pekonisia.

"This is Pekorina's elder sister… she looks exactly like her but bigger… the same fur, skin tone, and face features… though she's filled with scars that couldn't be fully removed by the miracle of Ratatoskr," said Ervas.

"So this is Pekonisia… Poor girl, she had gone through a lot…" said Veronica.

"Is this one of the rabbit girl's families? I see why you didn't want her to meet with these people yet" said Atypesia, who was aware that the former captives were sent here stealthily without noticing this to most of the people involved in the battles against Oggoth's armies.

"That is right, I wanted to heal these people completely first before they were to see Pekorina… If she were to see her beloved family traumatized… this would greatly affect her mental health as well… I do not… I don't want for such a young girl to go through this, she had already gone through a lot and endured it very well" said Ervas, although he was a little toddler, his mentality and words were those of an adult, surprising the elders.

Although they were already accustomed to his oddity, they were once again surprised by his words, he was genuinely worried about the mental health of Pekorina and also of these people.

"I think I've already done something for their mental health when I had that vivid dream… but the rest depends on Ervas' powers, I will also work as a recipient," said Veronica, recalling the vivid dream she had a few hours ago when she evolved. Where she 'led' the souls of the formerly captive people through a lake of spirits.

As Veronica touched Ervas' shoulder with a small tentacle made with her soul, her soul felt a connection with Ervas'.

This was an ability that they had discovered a few days ago, whenever their souls became in direct contact, their minds would be unified in a single place. This didn't mean that they become one, but that both of their minds could see, hear and do everything that the other could, while also being able to talk with each other telepathically, even more efficiently than by using the No-Attribute Magic Spell Telepathy.

It was still underdeveloped combat-wise, but they used it for a variety of other purposes, such as when Veronica shared her charm with the death with Ervas.

And now, connecting their souls, they wanted to inspect Pekonisia.

Ervas and Veronica called upon Gaia and Shade, as both spirits worked together to create a combined spell of Life and Light Attributes, that covered the entire body of the young rabbit-kin girl.

Glaope, Atypesia, and Ditoyle glanced with surprise over the incredible showcase of magic knowledge and understanding that Veronica and Ervas had to the point of merging both of their spirit's powers into a single spell.

This magic was often called 'Light-Life Magic' and was only used by Legendary Heroes of the Human Faction, the Light Heroes… but because Ervas and Veronica had an amazing understanding of magic control, had immense amounts of mana courtesy of Ervas, and their bonds with Gaia and Shade respectively were so strong, they were able to replicate it and create a few spells with it… although they lacked finesse, as they were roughly and forcefully created with large amounts of Mana to compensate the lack of familiarity with this combination in specific.

In their past life as Anastacia, they had used many combinations of attributes as they had all the spirits, but its power was always limited due to Anastacia's low MP Pool compared to what Ervas has, so she was never capable of developing it enough for it to show its true powers.

Pekonisia was filled with a bright and vigorous light that covered her entire body.

Ervas and Veronica's consciousness then seeped into this light, inspecting her whole body as if they were seeing it all through radiography.

"Ratatoskr's miracle seemed to work; her body seems incredibly healthy," said Ervas.

"Indeed… but what is that?" asked Veronica, as she and Ervas moved their consciousness to Pekonisia's belly…

Inside her womb, a little and innocent life was slowly growing.

"A fetus?" wondered Ervas.

"She seems to be… pregnant," said Veronica.

"What monster is it?" asked Ervas.

"It is a… Lizardman? How is it possible for�� a Lizardman to have a child with a mammal such as Rabbit-kin beastmen?" wondered Veronica.

"Oggoth most likely granted such power to the monsters through his blessings, there were many Demon Gods that had powers that could let monsters breed with almost anything…" muttered Ervas.

"What do we do? We cannot simply let it grow into a dangerous monster… though, I don't really want to kill it," said Veronica.

"Me neither, let's do something else then… how about this?" asked Ervas, as he manipulated the magic created by Gaia and Shade and bathed the fetus on it.

Flash!

"Although it would grow into a lizardman, it still has the genes of Pekonisia, let's make them multiply by infusing Life and Light into them while killing the genes of the lizardman as much as we can through Death mana," said Ervas.

"I see… If this works, the baby will develop as a hybrid with greater intelligence" said Veronica, as she infused the Death Mana into the fetus.

After a few seconds, the work was done.

"If things go well, it should develop as not just a monster but something greater and perhaps more familiar to Pekonisia… we cannot kill it, we simply can't… but we will make it so he can understand the love of a mother," said Ervas.

"If Pekonisia cannot take care of it, I will, I don't really mind," said Veronica.

"Since when are you a mother?" asked Ervas.

"Well, Aqua is like my little daughter in a way…" said Veronica.

"Anyways, let's go to her brain," said Ervas.

"Right," said Veronica.

Both Ervas and Veronica's consciousness then dived into Pekonisia's brain and began to search through her mind by using 'Mind Encroachment'.

Then, the two came across images of the things the young Rabbit-kin girl went through…

"This is… terrible," said Ervas.

"Let's quickly transfer it all… if she sleeps enough, the residual memories of this should dissipate" said Veronica.

"But what will we do about the child? If she doesn't have memories of how it was produced…" asked Ervas.

"We'll tell her that it is the grace of the gods or something, don't sweat it," said Veronica.

"I guess…"

The two then transferred all the terrible memories of the month and a few weeks that Pekonisia spent in there, without faltering for a second. 

Both of their minds were already inhumane in a sense, taking upon traumatizing experiences was not anything that could affect them.

Ervas then moved the memories and put them inside the space of his mind, which was stored on his soul. Isolated from his mind thoughts, Veronica also took a share of this, as both would bear the burden.

After the deed was done, the two consciousness reappeared on their bodies.

"It is done… she is also pregnant with a lizardman…" said Ervas.

"A Lizardman?!" asked Ditoyle in bewilderment.

"Ah, you're quite young, Ditoyle, but being pregnant of monsters wasn't something bad in the past," said Atypesia

"Well… it is not like we haven't been pregnant of monsters in the past, especially us that are a race of pure women, sometimes we would accept the seed of monsters, but that was mostly in the past… though I do have memories of giving birth to various children with kobolds, they're gentler than you think," said Glaope.

"That's not information that we needed, but thanks for your concern, Glaope-san," said Ervas.

It seemed that in times of desperation, the Squirrel-kin tribe captured male monsters such as Orcs, Kobolds, or Goblins and used them to produce children. If they were nice enough, they would free them after 'using' them enough… those were quite the wild times.

"Well then… let's continue," said Veronica, as she carried Ervas on her arms and healed every person sleeping minds.

They came across Pekorina's mother his brother, but his father had already died, and his soul was currently resting inside of Veronica's soul to save energy.

There were also a few human women, who were pregnant with Kobolds, Goblins, and Orcs, who underwent a similar treatment to Pekonisia's child.

They also came across a large Bear-kin beastmen, who had his limbs, teeth, and tongue cruelly cut off… Ervas and Veronica decided to at least recover the man's teeth and tongue.

Ervas used his flesh, which he transformed into a phantom and connected it to the man's mouth, using his 'Rapid Healing' coupled with many other skills into him… after an hour, most of his teeth regrew and also his tongue… it took around thirty million Mana, but it was possible… but Ervas considered the healing of limbs such as arms and legs as impossible for now, so he gave Veronica the task to create some fitting prosthetic limbs for the bear-man, whose name was Gaius.

After having healed the mind of the people, Ervas and Veronica felt mentally exhausted and glanced at their souls as they saw a corner of them being of a strange purple color, which was where they harbored the terrible memories the people went through.

The two then used 'Soul Break' to break apart those pieces and made the memories completely disappear… it hurt a bit on their souls, but it was not anything impactful.

After an arduous day of work, the two went back to the Raccoon tribe accompanied by the two elders and Ditoyle, where they had a big feast with everyone else for the rest of the night.

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