The priest's divine arts can indeed accelerate healing, lift curses, and even regenerate severed limbs, but they struggle with long-term festering and infected wounds.
Without the assistance of medication, the pure Holy Light can actually accelerate bacterial growth instead.
This is why, after saving the first batch of captives, Luo Yan did not immediately cast several large-scale Group Healing Techniques but instead handed them over to the more specialized military chaplains.
For bodies weakened to the extreme, the all-encompassing Holy Light might not save them and could instead send them away.
Though the people of this world have no concept of microbiology, they have nevertheless gathered experience from a life force perspective.
This is also why, in this era without hospitals, while priests can fulfill the role of doctors, the ancient profession of the herbalist, which dates back to the First Epoch, has yet to be replaced.
