The Abandoned Luna's Journey to Power (by Emily Reed) novel Chapter 200

Chapter 200 Breaking the Bone and Setting It Again

“Is it very serious?” I asked, my voice trembling.

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“The external injuries are secondary,” Rupert said, gesturing toward the inner room. “The whip marks and burns look horrifying, but with proper care, most of them will fade within half a year.

“But his foundation is ruined.”

Rupert lowered his voice, speaking rapidly. “Under normal circumstances, a werewolf pup at his age has terrifying self-healing ability. Even a broken bone should knit itself in a month. But when I examined his wolf veins just now, I found that the ‘fire of life’ inside him is nearly extinguished.

“It’s due to prolonged, extreme malnutrition, combined with poison.”

A flash of murderous intent crossed Rupert’s eyes. “To control him, those people fed him drugs for years. Substances meant to suppress the awakening of a werewolf’s bloodline, along with all kinds of other toxins. These things have been eating away at his vitality, causing his self-healing system to collapse completely. Right now, his physical condition is worse than that of an ordinary sick human child.”

Dizziness washed over me. I had to brace myself against the back of a chair to stay upright. “Then… can he be treated?”

“Yes,” Rupert said without hesitation. “As long as he’s alive, there’s no wolf the Silverpeak Pack cannot heal. Once the source of the poison is cut off, with my detoxifying decoctions and a massive intake of meat and blood to nourish him, his werewolf talents will gradually awaken.

“But there are two major problems.”

Rupert raised two rough fingers.

“First is the muting drug. The toxin has penetrated the cartilage of his throat, causing the muscles around his vocal cords to harden and necrotize. To remove it, we must use aggressive medicine to corrode the dead tissue and force it to regrow. That process is no different from being flayed alive all over again.”

I covered my mouth as tears spilled from my eyes.

“The second, and the most troublesome,” Rupert said, pointing to his own right leg, “is that leg of his.

“The bone healed crooked long ago. When it broke, it was never set properly, or it was deliberately crushed and then left to heal on its own while he was unconscious or too weak to resist. Bone fragments are lodged in the flesh. Some have even fused with the new bone. Every step he takes grinds against the newly formed bone.”

Rupert looked at me, his eyes full of pity, but as a physician, he had to speak the cruel truth.

“Werewolf bones are dense. Once they calcify, they’re hard as iron. If we want him to walk normally in the future and not remain a cripple… there is only one solution. That leg must be broken again.

“The misaligned bones must be shattered, the fragments removed, realigned, and set anew.”

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Chapter 200 Breaking the Bone and Setting It Again

I felt all the blood drain from my body.

Broken again.

I had experienced that kind of pain myself.

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On the battlefield, when a war hammer crushed my lower leg, the agony burrowed into my bones, so intense it made me wish for immediate death. Even now, recalling it made cold sweat bead on my skin.

And Astra was only eight years old, his body already so frail.

“What if we don’t do it?” I asked, holding onto a glimmer of hope.

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