The five students stood rooted in the snow, their breaths catching as a warm, radiant sensation flooded their bodies.
It was like sunlight breaking through a winter dawn, soothing and electric. Cuts and gashes that they received in their previous fights, and even more wide and raw from their desperate battle with the colossal slug, faded from their skin, dissolving like ink in a rushing stream.
Bruises that had bloomed purple and black melted away, leaving their flesh unmarred. Jax, clutching his frostbitten hand, stared in disbelief as the blackened, numb fingers twitched, then flushed with healthy color, the searing pain evaporating as if it had never existed.
"W-what...
He said in genuine surprise at how potent and powerful this healing abilities was.
Their exhaustion, a bone-deep weight that had dragged at their every step, lifted like a fog burned away by morning light. Energy surged through them, their stamina restored to its peak once more.
