Healing System

"Fafnir, are we in the right place?" Michael expressed his doubt, he just could not believe that the sight in front of him was Vivum.

This is Vivum and before you think anything stupid, this is the correct timeline. Time flows the same in both worlds.

'Fuck... what the fuck happened then?' Michael walked forward onto the street as Fafnir was not answering him, as if frozen in place.

He could see the corpses of humans scattered around, some burned while the others pierced cleanly through.

Yet there were a few little goblin-like creatures scattered around the ground as well, though their color was a bit different, instead of the usual green, it was red.

Added on to the fact that they had miniature horns and a tail, they were most certainly not goblins.

They are Imps, clumps of the chaotic mana from hell who acquired sentience. Yet even then, they are seen as nothing but trash, though it seems like they were enough to deal with the civilians.

'Hell again...' Michael frowned and walked up to one of the imps to inspect its body.

And just like the system said, they were nothing but clumps of mana, however, he was a bit curious why they were not dissipating, after all, weren't they dead?

Their mana lingers for quite some time unless someone makes sure to get rid of it personally, though judging by the state of the city, there wasn't exactly someone with free time to do the job.

'I see...' Michael proceeded to summon a single sword of light and sent it directly down at the imp and immediately, its horrid form disappeared, the mana scattering in the air and heading downwards.

"That was kind of you" He heard Fafnir's voice from behind him, and upon turning around, he saw him holding an imp, it was still alive.

Michael raised his brow "Why don't you just kill it? It's not going to give you information anyways."

"I wouldn't be so sure..." Fafnir said and suddenly covered the imp in his own mana, before seemingly absorbing it into himself.

'What is he doing?'

He did not need to wait long to find out as Fafnir spoke once again "Hmm... they were summoned from the capital of hell... what a bunch of idiots.." He sounded a bit conflicted.

Just as Michael was about to ask another question, he was interrupted "Go find your friends or something, I have to deal with some stuff" With those words, Fafnir disappeared into thin air, leaving Michael alone again.

'Aha.. alright' Michael sighed and proceeded to scale a nearby building, he realized that he could use mana to hold himself onto all kinds of surfaces.

And as he finally climbed to the very top, he saw the entire inner part of Vivum. 'Ruins' was definitely an understatement.

There were areas that housed massive craters, ones that seemed to wipe out quite a fair chunk of the city and take a few buildings along with them.

The buildings which were not affected by the blasts were slightly tilted, as if the aftershock still managed to affect the structural integrity of all those buildings.

Michael glanced to the side and frowned, the academy looked extremely roughed up, as if half of it had fallen and the rest was protected by some kind of barrier.

As for the government headquarters? They were the least affected building in the inner part of the city.

He was just glad that it did not seem like any harm came to the outer part of Vivum.

After all, he held the slums quite dear to his heart, he wouldn't want them to suddenly get bombed.

'I guess it's time I head back to the academy... I wonder if I am late?' Michael chuckled at his horrible joke, trying to make this shitty situation less shitty.

You are in fact late, by a whole hour at that, you should get moving.

It seemed like the system went along with his banter.

However, as he was about to drop down and run over to the academy, he suddenly asked 'Do you think I could make a glider or something?'

Well... you can survive the fall if you do end up failing, so I'd say go ahead and try.

Michael smiled and began using his mana to create another pair of clothing, however, this time it was not regular clothing, it was more like a wingsuit, one that perfectly fit him.

That looks stupid, why don't you try using your swords to fly instead?

'No? How am I even meant to balance on top.. oh' He facepalmed as he realized he could just use the mana to glue himself onto a sword.

Michael quickly discarded the wingsuit and summoned a slightly larger sword of light than normal.

He stepped onto the sword and it was shaking a fair deal, though he assumed that was only normal considering he had never done something like this before.

It took him a few minutes to stabilize properly, even with the usage of mana, it proved to be a bit difficult, however, in the end, he got the hang of it and was able to move around on top of it.

But flying still seemed to be a bit out of his comfort range, maybe he would try this some other time.

Stop being a wuss.

However, at the system's words, the sword suddenly began levitating right above the building as it flew a bit to the side, exposing him to a couple hundred-meter drop if he were to fall.

'You can control it..? Also, are you fucking crazy?' Michael began wobbling on top of it, finding it difficult to control, but as his wobbling continued, he noticed something off.

'Are you moving the sword on purpose?' He asked the system in a frustrated tone as he noticed a few irregularities in the mana surrounding the sword.

As soon as he mentioned that, the shaking stopped and he was able to balance on the sword without issue, even slightly walking around on top of it without it moving even a little bit.

Well, you caught me, but I was not tampering with it, I was helping you stabilize on top of it. Since you are a wuss, you overcomplicated the process a tad bit, but hey, it's fine now, you can go to the academy.

'...' Michael was speechless at the system's explanation.

Nonetheless, he decided to move the sword slowly, and much to his surprise, he was stuck on top of it perfectly.

He sped it up until the wind made it hard for him to breathe.

Nice going genius, you are not in the city anymore.

Michael turned around and noticed he had flown quite a far distance, the city was now in the far off distance.

'Whoops...' He chuckled, finding flying a bit fun.

He proceeded to fly at a high speed back towards the inner part of the city and then towards the academy.

As he was right above the academy, Michael saw a of couple people outside, he could even recognize a few of them.

'Lena, Chloe, Liam, Kevin..' A frown formed on his face as he began looking around more intently, focusing on the entire area below him.

However, there was still someone missing, a loud and annoying person.

'Where's Elizabeth..?'