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"Wait, there's someone else here with healing magic!?" Alexander took a few seconds to process that "That's...that's great!" He got this his feet and then addressed his clones "Alright guys, change of plans; we're on search and rescue " The clones all cried out in excitement as they, and the real Alexander ran outside to the eastern row.

'I know I got really pupped up about it, but it's a mad house out here. How am I going to find-' He thought to himself before he suddenly had to fight off the urge to smack himself in the face 'Fucking duh! It's just like that time with the Dragon Locater.' He then reached out the Absolute Direction power within him, and directed it to find the nearest civilian in need of rescue. He quickly got a hit, and brought his clones over there.

He quickly found an unconscious woman who's leg was trapped under debris. Alexander, enhanced by magic, simply kicked it off and got to work fixing up her leg. Once it was fine, he handed her off to the nearest clone "Bring her back to that building. It's not ideal, but if there are still magic users there, then it's better than nothing" The clone nodded and took off. As he did, the woman no longer qualified as 'in need of rescue', and so his internal compass gave him a new target. "Alright, off to the next one. No time to waste" and with that, Alexander and his clones were off


It was as he took in the sight before him, that Alexander realized something horrible; the locals didn't have a functioning healer up 'Fuuuuuuuck, I'm stuck on medic duty again' he groaned as he made a few clones who got to work collecting small chucks of rock and other solid debris, with one following him to Annabell "Hold still" he told her as he started healing her while also channeling mana into the clone that followed him. As he got started, the other clones began bringing what they collected to the clone with magic in it, who then began carving runes into those items. Most of the clones when back to gathering items, while one had found a mostly flat piece of stone and a marker, and had wrote 'Stabilizing runes, take one to help dying people' on it as was holding it up nearby where the completed runic items were placed. 'Why is this shit always my responsibility?' Alexander complained to himself.


Alexander sighed as he fixed Lily's toasted fingers. "The 'one way trip' part kind of sucks, but not like we won't be able to get back home, it'll just take a little time. And while we're sharing buffs" Following Lily's example, Alexander first released a pulse of magic that hit everyone there, covering them with a translucent but sparkling forcefield. He then released another one, it didn't have any visual effect (besides slightly longer and sharper canines) (+5 STR, +5 VIT). "There. And don't worry about your teeth, they'll go back to normal once the magic fades. Speaking of which; is this everyone or are we still waiting on anyone?"


Lily had seemed so gung-ho about heading to Bolorton, that it hadn't occurred to him that she might not have a solution to the problem of travel time. With a sigh, he responded "I mean, besides me making a road in the sky, and you doing something funky with Time magic, not really. I'm personally not that well equipped for cross-city rapid response stuff." A thought then occurred to him "Hey, do you think anyone else is organize some kind of rescue or something? If there is someone, then we could just tag along with them."


Hearing that the monsters were mostly cleaned up was a relief to Alexander 'But where did they all come from? Sure, there's always been the occasional monster getting loose and going nuts, but this was way too many.' He thought as Lily grabbed his hand and dragged him back to her motorcycle "Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. No harm in being thorough." He responded to her saying that they were going to take one last lap around the city to sweep for monsters. Yet as they rode, the words of one girl stuck with him 'A war huh? I'm really hoping that girl is just crazy, because this city really doesn't need another war. Not after everything it's already been through.'


"Okay, if that's settled, maybe we can move on?" Alexander spoke up, trying to move the conversation away from Magical Dream Princess weird speech pattern "Lily and I just got finished wiping out a herd of beasts, and it's clear that something similar happened here too. So it's very possible that there's even more groups of monsters roaming around. We should start sweeping the city for any remaining pockets of monsters, just to make sure." Then an idea came to him "Actually, better idea, who here has their phone? We can try to get in contact with people to see if any of them can point us in the right direction" he suggested


As Alexander got off of Lily's motorcycle, he noticed some girl he didn't know getting annoyed at the bubblegum airhead. "Look, I know her speech can be dumb and annoying, but she's ultimately harmless. And if you spend enough time in Penrose, then you'll ultimately become numb to quirks like that that are annoying but harmless. I mean, she's not likely to start some kind of magical civil war just by talking like that. Trust me, there are much worse traits in people. If baby talk helps her maintain her morale and not have a mental breakdown, I say let her." He shook his head "Anyway, yeah, what Lily said; what happened here? I can heal, so if anyone's hurt really bad I can fix them up, if you didn't already have a healer around here."


With their next destination set, Alexander got on her bike and they took off. ”H-Hey, Alex…I’m sorry."

"...Huh?" Alexander was a little surprised at the sudden apology

”For putting you in danger like that, and letting you get hurt. I mean, I’ve gotten hurt too; comes with this job and all. But I’m usually so fast I can dodge most attacks. But you’re always putting yourself out in harm’s way. Even if you can heal, I just…I don’t know, I feel guilty about it."

"Uhh..." Alexander had to fight the instinct to scratch the back of his head in confusion "You...didn't. I mean...I don't understand why you feel in any way responsible for this fight, I sure as hell don't think you are. I wasn't even that badly hurt. I've been hurt much worse in the past. And having me in the front just makes sense, since I struggle with ranged combat, and you don't" He sprouted a tail and started using it to wipe off the blood that he hadn't bothered with before "So stop being so damn serious and grim, it feels really weird coming from you."


When Lily unleashed her attack and atomized the monsters, Alexander let out a sigh of relief

”Alex, are you alright?"

"Huh?" It was then that he noticed his wound "...When did that happen?" He briefly wondered before using magic to heal himself "Alright, fine now." He then looked around the battlefield "Well it looks like that was all of them. Although..." He dropped his barriers "Why didn't anyone else get here. We didn't clear them out that fast. Yet it was just the two of us here." He started fidgeting with his weapons "Lily, I've got a bad feeling about this; it's been too quiet lately, it feels like we're about due for another big incident. Is there someone you can call the see if anything else is going on right now?"


Seeing the beast he thought he killed get back up made Alexander sigh 'Great. Either these things have some kind of regeneration, or are undead in some way. I'm not sure which is a bigger pain in the ass right now.' When Lily called for him to buy her some more time, he considered throwing up another barrier wall in front of them to completely black them off until she was ready, but the sight of a few stragglers trying (and failing) to break through the barrier from the sides made him rethink that 'That might just make them scatter, and attack it from every angle they can. Fuck, looks like I'm doing this the hard way'

He sighed as he made a few more clones and charged into the fray. Without the free access to magic that he had, his copies didn't last too long, but they were at least able to use tails to block biting attacks (and even managing to counter attack in some cases). As far as Alexander went however; between his forcefield and healing magic, the horde wasn't able to do any serious damage to him. However, there were so many of them that he never had the opening he needed to do any serious damage to any of them. So it was more or less a stalemate. Fortunately for Alexander a stalemate was good enough as far as 'stalling for time' was concerned.
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