My Soul card is a Reaper

The other trainee knights turned their heads to glance at Azzy and so were his teammates.

Azzy, in the end, inwardly sighed and explained loudly, "The heart is the core of our Life force. If the life force is sipping away from one's body, it only means one thing. His heart was damaged by some attack. All one has to do is heal the organ."

"Oh!"

His words piqued the curiosity of the instructor as the answer wasn't something he expected from a trainee knight. The instructor said, "But healing the heart organ also requires advanced mastery, student." He pointed at the mannequin and added, "As you can see, there was no external injury on the chest. His injuries are mostly on his abdomen. Manipulating one's healing energy through the abdomen requires advanced mastery."

Azzy shrugged his shoulders and replied, "Then, just cut the chest with a blade if there is none; a deep stab or a cut would allow our energy to reach the heart. Even basic healing could help in such a case."

"Hmm?" The instructor furrowed his brows with clear, visible displeasure on his face, "You want to cut a wounded knight's chest?" The others also looked at him like he was a criminal or something. Even his own teammates were uncomfortable with his idea.

Azzy calmly explained, crossing his arms to his abdomen, "When a tree gets sick, we scrap away the diseased bark so the healthy wood can breathe and regrow. When you are bitten by the venomous monsters, you have to inflict more injuries around the wounded area to drain out the poison as the first method of first aid. If I have to put it metaphorically, you have to wage wars to protect peace.

In the same way, to save the organs, you have to purposely injure the skin that was protecting it. This method is called surgery. I grew up among Nephilim adventurers of Astrael. It is a common thing they use on a regular basis, back at home. Hence, it is a proven method and not a sin."

"Hey, he says he grew up among Nephilims?" "Was he really a pureblood angel?" "No way, the Quill of Truth would never let him lie. Moreover, do you think a Nephilim could make it to Sector-2?" "I heard that wanted criminals usually escape to the Empyreon plane and hide there. Were his parents sinners?" "Nah, I don't think so. A lot of people who want to be adventurers often end up staying at lower planes as it is too bothersome to go from heaven to all over to Eldara plane." "Hmm… he looks so young for a tier-68 warrior." "And quite a looker…"

As murmurs flew around, the instructor told them to calm down and informed Azzy that while he respected his method, such practices were not welcomed in Heaven.

Conjuring an orb of light, he explained, "This is where the Art of Soul recovery comes from. An advanced technique that can be learned by even novices."

As he slowly pushed the orb of light into the mannequin, the orb embedded in its chest that was slowly dimming once again glowed brightly. "This technique allows you to convert your own soul energy into life force at your will. At low mastery, the best you would be able to provide continuous life force to the fallen Knight, keeping him alive at the very least. But, when you have high mastery, you could use a portion of that soul energy to turn into divine healing and heal the heart organ while replenishing the knight's life force."

"Now, that's what a technique should sound like." "Yeah, that guy's earlier unconventional method sounded so cheap." "Well, he said that he grew among Nephilims. He can only think of such brute methods." "But, I like his method. It was quite effective if it occurred on a battlefield. Not everyone could learn advanced divine arts." "But, isn't that the whole point of attending this class? To learn the techniques that normal people cannot learn in their lifetime."

Azzy ignored their whispers and concentrated on the mannequin, trying to understand its concept.

Soon, everyone was instructed to move away from each other in order to practice this skill.

After everyone was separated by a couple of feet from each other, the instructor pushed out his soul energy and gathered it above his palm.

"The soul energy you should gather in your palm shouldn't come from your arms, but it should be the one from your heart instead. Then, you just have to fill your heart with your soul energy from its vicinity.

This part of soul energy in the heart has the properties to heal one's life force. You can also recover your ally's soul energy through the same technique, except that you have to gather your soul energy from your liver instead."

"Now, for the step two. It is your element addition. Once you achieve that, step three would be transformation."

These two steps are pretty much known to the trainee knights here, who were all in 6-star or 7-star realms. These geniuses don't need to monitor their progress or repetition of watching the technique either.

Hence, the instructor directly proceeded with creation of the technique at a fastened pace.

After adding his light attribute to the mass of energy and making it glow, he then slowly compressed it and transformed it into an orb of light. "And this is how you create it. Only the first step is challenging, students. Once you get that, it is as easy as flying."

"Now, let's see… who managed to get it in the first… Hmm?" His attention was swiftly grabbed by Azzy. The others were still in the process of gathering the mass of energy from their heart but Azzy has already an orb of light floating above his palms.

But, there is something different about this one.

"Woah, I could sense an enormous amount of life force in your Soul recovery Orb, Rael," commented Ramiel. The other three glanced to the side and looked at their new teammate's accomplishment.

Aranis became serious as he saw Azzy's orb of light. His concentration increased exponentially, and managed to create an orb of light soon after.

However, by the time he formed it and gave a proud gaze to Azzy, the latter had already dismissed it and stood there like a statue.

Meanwhile, the instructor arrived at their group for the inspection. He walked directly to Azzy instead of inspecting Aranis' light orb. "Conjure it again, student."

"Why?" Azzy questioned back, although he knew why.

The instructor responded with a question instead of giving a proper explanation, "Is that a problem?"

Azzy replied with a straight face, "I'm not concentrated enough. I can only do it when I have peak concentration."

The instructor didn't buy it and said, "Then, unfurl your wings and halo. I wish to confirm something."

"Hmm?"