The Medallion novel Chapter 249

Rocky took a deep breath. He had urgently tried to stop the hemorrhaging of blood. Then he strung the high-toughness ligament which was acquired from a granary rat beast onto the bone-made needles. Once done, he started to close up the ruptured aorta.

Every single procedure required a high-level technique, which meant that every move took a considerable amount of effort. Rocky had only begun to put in a few stitches and yet he already began perspiring heavily.

It took two whole hours before Rocky was able to stitch the ruptured aorta together. He then checked the wound carefully before cautiously restoring the blood supply. He waited another fifteen minutes before he was sure that there were no leaking points around the suture. With no leakage, he let out a relieved breath.

Rocky finally began stitching up Verdanim's lower abdomen again. And eventually, the first operation was completed.

As this went on, Verdanim was visibly improving, particularly with the supplementary blood supply. His breathing was no longer labored.

With its condition looking better, Rocky took advantage of every moment and began the second operation. Compared to the first one, this would be even more challenging, but even more delicate. And the skill level came with higher requirements.

If Rocky were to fail this stage, Verdanim may never stand on his own feet again. But if he did not go through with the operation, there would be no other way for the dragon to ever stand up again. The chances of success and failure were fifty-fifty. And it was all up to Rocky now.

Rocky lifted the badly twisted left limb onto a pile of straw with great care, where he studied the injury with great care. With the help of Stroking Evaluation Skill, he determined that the extent of the fractured parts took up about 70% of the whole left limb, gathered mostly on the upper extremity.

"It looks like there is only one way to cope with this situation. Two iron plates will be needed to replace the support function of bones. Then, magical saliva will be used to promote bone regeneration. But we still don't know whether the bone would ever fully heal afterward." Rocky had no idea what might happen after this, but there was ultimately no choice.

After he steeled himself for what he was about to do, he made up his mind and began operating its left limb right away. He carefully slit an opening on the skin and separated the muscles, pulling them aside until he saw the bone. He found numerous bone fractures that varied in severity. Fortunately, the bone was not completely broken apart and there were still some connections which greatly helped the situation.

Rocky very carefully removed each bone fragment and cleaned up incision. After that, he took out the magical saliva and applied several drops to the limb evenly. Then, he selected two iron plates with proper sizes and thinned them with the Frozen Wind Dagger. He affixed them on both sides of the whole limb. Then, he cut some more iron plates into bars and put two of them inside the skin and muscle to stabilize the two plates to make sure the bone would not move as it healed.

Once completed, Rocky did not sew up the wound. Instead, he simply wrapped the whole limb with gauze and tied it to the base joint of Verdanim's left wing. Doing this would avoid the possible negative effects on the bone regeneration caused by unconscious movements.

The sun's lances deepened. It was late in the afternoon by now.

Two operations and the wound debridement were done. Rocky stood up, stretched out, and let out a relieved breath. It may not have gone as easily or as simply as he initially thought, but the operations went well. He was glad that he'd had plenty of practice, making the likelihood of his success improve. Without that time and effort, the operation might have ended up a mess.

As this happened, the toxicity of the Centipede-snake started to wear off. Slowly, Verdanim was regaining consciousness.

"Do you feel better?" Rocky asked with some concern as he leaned over and felt Verdanim's forehead.

Verdanim made a faint noise as though it understood. Knowing it was Rocky who saved him, he licked Rocky's hand gently.