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Chapter 1 - Chapter 01

"I need Healing" 

These are three words that Healers of this world hear all too often. From adventurers who carry out various quests and requests. To patients who visit various types of medical clinics. The discovery and improvement in medical knowledge of the body and what caused various illnesses and diseases along with viruses amongst other things. These discoveries were once thought to help in reducing the load on Healers yet only increase it instead. Thus when those three words are spoken a loud depending on the tone and scenario they are said in. Could be seriously annoying and in some cases enrage a Healer just by hearing them alone. 

However this was causing issues in the mortal realm. It was also doing so unless where as well too. Those three words were not only effecting the mortals of the world. 

In the divine realm, the gods and goddesses govern over the world in various aspects in ways. Beyond just the general things like the elements, nature, psychics, time, and space. There are gods and goddesses for mundane things to the supernatural as well. Despite there being gods and goddesses that exist within the world there were also still atheists as well. How could there be atheists in a world where gods and goddesses exist and clear and present proof of their existence can be seen proven to anyone given the time and effort put in on their part? That is because they do not believe that Gods and goddesses exist as in gods and goddesses with a capital G instead of a lowercase one. The difference between the two is that they can be convinced that gods and goddesses exist however they refuse to acknowledge them as Gods and goddesses though. Merely allowing them to have that as a title and/or race name for themselves because that is just how things were done and once something is named you can not rename it later. 

Though the reasoning they have for accepting them as gods and goddesses in name only is because they are neither omnipotent, omnipresent, nor omniscient. God and goddesses are supposed to be all three at once. If someone claiming to be a legit God and/or goddess is not all three at once then how can they truly be considered anything other than just a mere god and/or goddess instead? Like how some things are called berries yet have no connection to actual berries at all. Vegetables that always placed with other vegetables but in reality are fruits and vice versa. Things that despite their reality are just accepted as what they originally were before the discovery.

There are beings and things in this world that can rival the gods and goddesses in power. So if those things that rival the gods and goddesses exist what proof is there that at some point in the past everyone that is considered a god and/or goddess was not originally such a being that just gained and/or was given their powers in the first place? There is no proof that is the case but then again can it be said that it is not the case either. The things that rival the gods and/or goddesses exist and they can be clearly pointed to and used as examples. There are even cases where mortals have used them to become a god and/or goddesses themselves for good or for worse.

In the cases of the worst, most would just assume that is proof that the gods and goddesses are in fact Gods and goddesses with the capital G. However this is disproven as merely the worse case scenario mortals just not being fit to wield that much power within themselves. Some can and can literally to pointed to to be used as examples after all. Thus atheists still exist in this world and so do those that are just agnostic. Someone who neither believes nor disbelieves in the existence of God and/or goddesses, holding that such a belief is ultimately unknowable or impossible to prove. Then some believe God and goddesses do exist but how they exist might not be the same as traditional values claim, disbelieve, or just do not know.

Regardless of all this though it was combination of these various beliefs, thoughts, concepts, and all the other things associated with them that led to what the goddesses of Healing Acnu were seeing when she went to look into the human realm on something that she found was rather interesting. The Healer's Association had formed countless centuries ago too long for any mortal to recall the exact founding of it. It had been developing nicely as she was glad that healers were carry out the work she had wanted them too with her powers that she governed over herself. Being the goddess of Healing meant that she was the one that was the source of all white magic that healing was classified under. This included both the supportive, defensive, and even offensive usages of white magic. 

Magic was used against the other things as that was the basics of it. The five W's and how magic was used is what eventually caused it to be split up into the various classifications that now exist. At its core, all magic is going against the natural and changing it for purposes other than what it was originally. White Magic can be about toning down magic to the point where it still goes against what was considered natural but in a helpful manner. When injured the injury was supposed to just heal on its own but with healing magic that process could be sped up and/or whatever injury sustained undone through a variety of means. Thus the reasoning behind White Magic having low offensive power is that all the power is normally focused on going along with what is considered normal state of being for the scenario. If someone has an injury that is not considered normal thus it is restored, such as infection or disease, a curse, etc, etc. 

Thus offensive White Magic is just taking what is considered normal white magic and actually using it as it was in its original state before being used for healing, support, and defense. A usage whose purpose and knowledge that it is the original form and state of white magic have been lost to the ages at this point in history. Thought to be known only to the gods and goddesses of the divine realm. 

 

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