'Til Kingdom Comes - The Banished Prince Vol 3: The Prophecy

Medicine Man

After the dust had settled, literally, we all went back inside the Priests Guild and then discussed what we would be doing on my special abilities next.

I told them the according to my guidance system, these special abilities that had been imbued by me during my past self, was actually meant for something good.

The healing and rejuvenating blue orbs were meant to heal and invigorate those who had used on themselves or drank the water like what the Priest and Priestess had done earlier.

As for the furnace and pills through thoughts, I would be assisting Priest Hendry and his wife as well as Old Kayla to concoct some herbal and medicinal pills that they require. Besides they need a special stove and a clean and conducive environment to work with in order to produce the pills required.

And thirdly, my fireball would be a long-range offensive weapon much like a catapult but with endless ammunition where it would be directed towards other siege weapons. Although I could only be deployed by me alone, somehow I would smack right in front of the battlefront itself...!

Hearing this made Heather shudder as she thought that I would never leave her sides and I would never go into battle. "It's just a figurative speech, my dear."

"Our country is only a war with the French army and we are not at war with anyone at all right now."

"So it's peaceful per this end until the trouble starts 11 years later. Till then, we have to make an effort to put a stop to it right at the roots."

Hesther asked about my third eye and I explained that it could be used to detect the mythical beings. Since the Crystal eye that Priestess Penelope could only detect and differentiate the good and evil Witches, it would be handled by the Assassins to wipe out all the evil Witches from this land, if possible.

"So, you mean to say that you are the only person who could see these little green things and talk to them as well?" Heather asked and I bobbed my head. "Yup, that's right, my dear. These little beings would be seen and I could communicate with them."

"These mythical creatures would be very surprised to see a normal human being talking to them while the other humans can't see what I'm doing. I might even seem to be talking to thin air...! "

Heather was curious and wanted to follow me wherever I go around my adventure trips but I told her that a leader would somehow be left behind to rule the town when one leaves." Take a look at Marcel, he even has another person to take care of his businesses if he or his partner leaves town."

Heather understood and grabbed my arm and I knew she felt a bit lonesome of she were to be left behind again.

"Don't worry, everyone. I have a solution to the issues we have right now. At the time being, let me practise on my Psi, the healing and rejuvenating blue orbs so that it would be further enhanced and I got my few breakthroughs."

"Besides, I have discussed with my guidance system and I have a safe place to practise my fireballs. There's no need to find a specific place to practise discreetly and in would be able to do it in my own special way."

After reassuring the Priest and Priestess, Priest Hendry requested me to follow him to the herbal farm to meet his wife and daughter so that he would like to test the pills through thought from my furnace.

"Alright, my friend. No worries. Would after dinner be okay for you if Heather and the twins come up to the herbal farm afterwards? There's nothing much for us to do afterwards and maybe the twins could play with your daughter as well? Mona, right?"

Priest Hendry smiled as he realised that I remembered his step daughter's name and he agreed to make arrangement for us to be at the herbal farm after dinner. Since its a quiet place, he doesn't think accidents would happen from the pills through thought experiments.

I too was excited since I didn't know that pills could be concocted in that manner. "Audemars, even if you take a few globules of metals from Michael, you could smelt them in your furnace because it is able to adjust the heat accordingly. But if your pop in iron ore, you would be surprised if it comes out as refined iron or refined steel ingot instead."

Ceres sounded in my mind as I paused and listened to what the guidance system had to say. After saying that, I had a good idea since I would be able to improve all of my special abilities at any one time. It would be tedious but it is quite systematic to perform.

"Alright, Hendry, be seeing you after dinner time, yes? By the way, any of you have any idea on what the event games for tomorrow's afternoon?"

I asked around and they all responded in unison — wrestling match...! It was well near the end of the month and the status of King of the Ring would be at stake once again. We all wondered who would be the next King of the Ring or was the wrestler able to defend the title for one more month?

We excused ourselves as we made our own way back to the domain where the food was already being set up on the food warmers. The domain helpers had already carried the twins in their arms as they had awakened and were looking for us.

The moment the twins saw us, they reached out their arms and begged to be carried instead and we gladly took them as the twins were worried that their parents weren't around the moment they wake up.

As we carried out twins at the front of the domain, we cooed them and told them that we would be going out later together and see something wonderful. Also, there's a big sister they could play with and we would be heading there after our early dinner.

It was in fact midway at 5 in the evening when we settled down at our dining table and the twins were soon fed by us as they merrily ate the French beans that had simply cooked whole with only the top of the ends removed.

After dinner we got our twins to get dressed and they rode their trikes instead of being carried in our arms. At least the twins knew they would need the exercise as they kicked the ground and traversed their trikes across the Royal Street.

As usual, all traffic stopped when we crossed the street with the twins and allowed us to pass across without hassle.

Even when the wagons were as far as the hospital or factory areas, it would stop and raised the checkered red and white flag to notify all vehicular traffic to stop moving as a precautionary measure.

It was only after we had crossed the Royal Street when traffic resumed as normal. The twins were happily traversing their trikes and they were greeted by the community that had completed or about to have their dinner.

We stopped awhile at Macleod Coliseum and watched the progress as the community worked together to set up the wrestling ring. The wrestling ring was set up right in the centre of the pitch and some benches were set up nearer to the ring to allow better viewing.

Also, it was a chance for the Priest and Priestess to showcase their food wagons to the public as they now had 8 food wagons right now.

They would occasionally move out to the work areas during Mondays and Fridays only and rest on Saturdays before going all out on Sundays at the Coliseum or to the venue of the event.

The food wagons had somehow had an assortment of foods that were being carried and since the Priest and Priestess serviced the work areas such as crop fields and factories, they removed the whole ice cream compartment and replaced them with other snacks and confectionery.

The ice cream would only be available to the children during school days and it would be in both midday and after school hours.

At the very least, their parents knew where their children would be spending their coppers.

Comparing now and before, 2 coppers were really nothing since 2 years ago 2 coppers could get a pound loaf of bread and still could be bought with the same amount of coins...!

It was unlike the outside where a pound load of bread already costs 6 coppers which were half of silver and compare to 50 coppers here in this town...!

I went over to the registration booth and picked two events, the singles match and the handicap match. This would be interesting as fortunately the one who was taking down the registration was one of the Shadow unit members and I winked at him and registered a new entrant.

The new wrestler that would take part tomorrow evening would be the Black Mantis.

Heather was distracted by the twins as she was minding them both as the children managed to waddle their way across the Coliseum and had made a few new tracks on the pitch where no trikes were allowed. Hahaha.

After the registration, I slipped beside Heather and then the four of us sauntered over to the other side of town to the first cluster where the residential units were located along with the 250 crop fields in between each column of houses.

There, a small crop field was allocated to cultivate the herbs that were currently in need by the community and once those pills had been produced, it would be consolidated in the hospital's dispensary.

There, proper medicine dispensing would be prescribed according to the duration and needs.

After we crossed the bridge and reached the main street, once again the wagons that saw us from a distance raised their red and white checkered flags and allowed us to cross the street safely and reached the row of houses where some of the Irish Travellers were putting up.

They were gaily doing their chores and was greeted warmly by them. It was quite a long trek but the twins were happy to be strolling on their trikes along with us.

"Good morrow, Your Majesty. Glad that you could make it after your dinner. We just had ours and I assume you would like to have some fruity tea brew that Maria had prepared. Come, Mona, do welcome His and Her Royal Highness and keep them company as well."

Priest Hendry and his wife greeted us and Mona immediately brought the children to the side of the house where there's a small swing and carried both of them on it.

At least with the twins out of the way, we would be able to practise making pills through thought.

Besides, this would be the time I would consider as doing my training as I conjure up the small friendly fire into my left open palm.

Maria saw the small flame that was dancing on the palm of my hand and was delighted that such things would be possible to conjure up even for someone like me. She asked me if I had been awakened and Priest Hendry informed her that it's a very long story instead.

"So, what are you trying to make, Hendry? Is it a common pill or something that you had found along the way?" I inquired.

"Oh, it's something that my wife discovered and wondered if this could be used to make some pills or not."

"Its some kind of medication that helps prevent some illnesses from occurring and happening like a prolonged cough and flu and we were just wondering if this would be able to be produced at all."

Priest Hendry explained as he took out a small wooden chest and had some withered leaves in them along with the stalks and roots. In fact, it's a whole plant that failed to be cultivated due to weather conditions right now.

He passed it to me and I held the contents in one hand. After taking it out with one hand, I tossed the whole withered plant into the furnace that was dancing on my left palm.

The moment the furnace was hit by the plants that were fed into it, it danced wildly, flickered and even shot its flames twice as high as it normally would but yet managed to contain itself once more and burn brightly.

The heat was nonexistent to me and the rest around me and in a few minutes time, the friendly fire smothered down back to its normal size as I felt that the pills were ready to be collected.

I picked the small wooden chest once again and this time I tilted my left palm over it as pills of a standard size poured out and into the small wooden chest...!

The pills were equally sized at 15/64" and there were more than a dozen of those pills ready for distribution.

Maria picked the small wooden chest from me and placed a small pill into her palm and smelled at it and dabbed it at the top of her tongue to confirm.

She then smiled widely and congratulated me since we had made a breakthrough in finding the vaccine for the cure and prevention of those dreaded prolonged cough and flu virus that had been plaguing the lands for many months since last season...!

It was indeed a breakthrough and everyone on the whole lands seemed to be anticipating it.