The Last Straw

"I can cure him. Completely."

Ian repeated his sentence word by word to make it easier for Rick and his family to understand, digest or register. And yet, everyone still kept looking at him with an expression of disbelief.

'Did they lose it?'

Ian was honestly curious. As he kept looking back without repeating himself for the third time, Rick looked like he managed to get a hold of himself as he stood up from the chair.

"Ian... Can you.. please.. repeat what you just said?"

And this time, although he was asking Ian to repeat himself, it was more of a request for further explanation. Ian nodded his head and spoke again-

"I know you guys must've tried every possible method to cure your brother during all these times."

He said calmly as he looked around. The simple looking room had hundreds of mana devices installed in it, controlling the different factors of the atmosphere as well as blocking the outside mana, filtering it and letting it in etc.

"You must've brought all the renow