KINETIC

A few minutes had passed since Rene had survived the collapsing of the impromptu hospital along with Leonard and the other healer.

Everything happened too quickly for Rene to recognize the figures that destroyed the building but she could still hear them fighting a fee streets away.

Rene, as well as the other healer, were pouring their energy into Leonard's body, doing what they coukld to stabilize him once again.

"We can stay here!" The healer said with a concerned expression. He was whipping his head around like a paranoid chicken whenever the slightest sound echoed through the streets.

"I agree but it's not so simple. " Rene replied. "Leonard will die without our healing and I won't leave him here."

The healer, who's name was Gerald, felt conflicted. He wanted to help Leonard as well but the situation was becoming more dangerous by the second.

'I'm not someone with great power... I can't kill a monster in a single blow like General Rune or destroy a group of cultists singlehandedly like Captain Leonard. But even if I'm not capable of those things..." Gerald looked at Rene while thinking.

The determined expression on her face as she put her all into saving a friend was one of the many reasons he admired Rene.

When receiving his ability Gerald was thoroughly disappointed. The others around him gained the power to fight monsters while all he could do was heal some small cuts.

"If I could bring someone back from the brink of death and heal them completely then I could be satisfied with this power... But I can't do that. None of the healers can do that." This was how Gerald felt about his ability when entering the academy.

Many ability users had similar feelings. Everyone with a non combat ability felt like they received the short end of the stick, especially the healers.

None among the healers at the academy had the skill to heal more than simple wounds. If someone was gravely injured in combat, there was nothing they could do.

There hope of being useful dwindled as time went by and their progress began to stagnate even further.

When the ability users were pushed into Infernum from the academy after barely having the chance to learn anything, that's when things changed for Gerald and many healers.

Rene was someone they all knew well since it was quite a big deal when Leo's group disappeared from the academy one night.

When Rene was chosen to become and Infernum Captain and was placed in charge of the support class ability users, they didn't really care.

In the beginning nothing changed. The healers felt especially depressed since they were almost never given assignments, apart from Rene that is.

Time and time again they would see Rene called to heal important people in the military and Infernum.

None of the healers could understand what was so special about her. They couldn't imagine her being capable of healer much more than them, even if she was the best healer they had.

It wasn't until the war began in earnest and injured people were being brought into the hospitals hourly that the healers realized...

They saw Rene perform what they would consider miracles when compared to their own capabilities.

Her ability to heal was such that if you combined every other healer in Infernum they wouldn't be able to match up to her.

Gerald was the first to realize this... The first to realize the potential his ability had and the first to ask Rene to help him improve.

As time went by the healers improved their skills by leaps and bounds. They had found both the motivation to try and a goal to surpass.

Naturally, Rene continued to grow her power as well. Even with the incredible speed at which the healers were improving, Rene was faster still.

This didn't demotivate the healers though, no it filled them with an even stronger desire to grow. Rene became a shining light to the healers who had believed themselves useless.

Since that day, Gerald put his everything into improving his ability. He quickly became one of the top healers in the Kingdom, surpassing all except Rene herself.

His skill and determination are the reason he was chosen to help Rene take care of Leonard, who had become and important figure as of late.

Gerald looked at Leonard's unconscious body, then up at Renes face. His expression changed from contemplative and afraid to determined as he grabbed onto Leonard and began lifting him.

"What are you doing!?" Rene shouted by mistake due to her surprise.

"You said you won't leave him here. Well Im not going to stay here but I refuse to leave you behind either. This is the only... Oof... Fuck he's heavy!" Geralds face was turning red from the effort he was exerting.

Leonard was an extremely tall and muscular man, which naturally meant he was quite heavy as well. Gerald on the other hand was not tall and muscular. To use simple terms, he was a bean pole.

When looking at Gerald you would think it impossible for him to lift Leonard's body, yet he somehow managed to do it anyway.

His legs were shaking intensely and his breathing was heavy but he had managed to lifted Leonard's body onto his shoulders and stand up.

"You heal... I'll walk." Gerald said as he began walking. With each step he took, Renes impression of Gerald improved.

Rene took one more look in the direction of the fight between the two figures from before. Their fight sent shockwaves through the area with every blow and several buildings had collapsed at this point.

She quickly followed behind Gerald, placing her hand on Leonard's body as they walked through the city streets at an incredibly slow speed.

Rene could see how difficult it was for Gerald to carry Leonard. She wondered what would happen first, her running out of Energy or Gerald collapsing from exhaustion.

Even if it seemed as though he wouldn't be able to keep this up for long, Rene felt happy to have someone like Gerald helping her.

Rene found herself thinking about her friends and the danger that would all be facing right now. She was concerned about all of them but was surprised to find out that the person she felt most concerned about wasn't Leo as she excepted it to be.

As she flickered through the images of her friends in her mind, she felt an especially painful jump in her heart when thinking of Clay.