I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 50

Just like before, a sense of fulfillment washed over me, even without receiving any special reward.

Just being treated to a simple meal by those I had saved felt like creating an unforgettable memory.

“Please… come again next time.”

“Yes, I will.”

Normally, I would have hesitated a bit in answering, but this time, Seonghyun replied with a smile.

After barely sending Jinseok, who insisted on seeing me off, back, Jeonghwan approached.

“Can we talk for a moment?”

“Yes, of course.”

Jeonghwan, with a slightly heavy expression, carefully spoke to Seonghyun.

“It seems Joongseok isn’t the only one.”

“Not… alone?”

“Right. We’re sophomores, and even if we don’t win the Academy Competition, we’ll have another chance in our junior year.”

As Jeonghwan said, his reaction seemed a bit excessive for someone who had another chance.

“It seems they’ve had some kind of connection from before. Having equipment that creates barriers is the decisive evidence.”

Equipment that creates barriers was prohibited, so it wasn’t something an ordinary academy student could easily obtain.

And there was no way he could have obtained the equipment in that short time after today’s competition, so he must have received the equipment beforehand.

“I wanted to tell you to be careful. I don’t know who they are, but they must have watched the entire competition today, and since you’re already in the spotlight, you’ll be even more so. You defeated Daehyun and came to the center.”

“…I understand.”

“Thank you… for today. You saved me.”

“I just got lucky.”

At Seonghyun’s reply, Jeonghwan chuckled lightly and patted Seonghyun’s shoulder a couple of times.

“Then, see you next time.”

I watched Jeonghwan’s retreating figure for a moment, and through that sight, a window appeared.

[A person with faith has been added.]

Jinseok already had faith, so the protagonist of the window that appeared now must be Jeonghwan, who was walking ahead.

With this, the people with faith became Park Hanwook, Kim Jinseok, Kang Sungwook, and Choi Jeonghwan. A total of four people.

‘The lighthouse was opened when there were three people, right?’

Then, perhaps a new ability might be unlocked when there are five people.

The lighthouse ability gained from opening with three people was an incredible ability that allowed healing anywhere.

‘An unexpected gain.’

With an unexpected gain, Seonghyun wore a smile similar to the one Jeonghwan had shown a moment ago and left the place.

The next day, Seonghyun explained what he had experienced yesterday to Inhwan and Sangyeon.

There were parts that didn’t need to be said, but Seonghyun explained everything without missing a thing.

“Equipment that creates barriers is prohibited, isn’t it?”

“That’s what I know too.”

Inhwan and Sangyeon also had serious expressions.

What Seonghyun experienced wasn’t just getting caught up in a common revenge plot.

“There are so many strange things.”

“If that Jeonghwan person told you to be careful, could it be that he knows something more?”

“No, that’s not it.”

I could answer definitively that it wasn’t.

Now that he had become a person of faith, there was no way he could hide such things.

“I think we should inform the association.”

“I think so too. If he hadn’t used the barrier equipment, it might be a problem we could overlook, but if he used it, it’s a different story.”

In fact, not only the association but also the hunters’ police were treating the use of that equipment itself as a crime.

“You guys be careful too.”

“Us?”

“Us?”

I was most worried about these two more than anyone else.

Since they didn’t have faith in Seonghyun yet, I couldn’t react as quickly as I did with Jinseok yesterday if something happened.

“Yeah. There’s still one competition left, and that means something else could happen again.”

“That’s true too.”

There was no need to rush.

Wouldn’t these two also become people of faith someday?

“Then, shall we start now?”

“Yeah.”

The three of them started hunting as always.

I wanted to subjugate the 2nd-grade gate’s monsters right away, but unless I could single-handedly defeat multiple 3rd-grade gate monsters at once, I shouldn’t even look at the 2nd-grade gate’s monsters.

‘Two months until the competition with the 3rd graders.’

Until then, the schedule would be to continue hunting at the association and occasionally visit the academy.

Today, I finished the association’s schedule a little early.

‘I want to increase the number of people of faith a little…’

These were problems that I had been putting off until now.

Since creating a person with faith was usually a difficult task, I wanted to create that stage little by little, even now.

‘I told them to be careful, but…’

Is there a way to grow without any danger?

Seonghyun thought that was absolutely not the case.

Besides, Seonghyun had the equipment made for him at the academy’s equipment workshop.

Equipment that could block an attack that Seonghyun couldn’t react to, just once.

‘My own abilities are not lacking at all now.’

Far from lacking, I only had abilities that were superior to others.

Even if a new ability wasn’t unlocked when the number of people of faith increased, it didn’t matter.

Having faith was almost the same as being blindly on Seonghyun’s side.

It might be close to delusion, but if the number of people with faith increased to 10, 100, or more later, Seonghyun’s power would not simply end with one hunter.

‘Well, it’s too far off to talk about.’

The gate Seonghyun was heading to now was a gate he had never been to before.

A place where people rarely set foot.

In some ways, it was similar to a kind of protest.

As if saying, come in if you dare.

And the more like this, the easier it was to create a person of faith.

Looking back on the events so far, giving help to someone in a truly desperate situation was more likely to create a person of faith than helping someone in a place with many people to receive help.

In fact, Park Hanwook was also in a deep place in the gate where there were no people, and everyone else was the same.

On the other hand, Ha Yeon, whom I helped first, still doesn’t have faith, so it definitely had an impact.

“It’s definitely eerie.”

The area around the gate was filled with an eerie energy.

It was even more so because it was evening, but I even felt a cold feeling as if I was already inside the gate.

‘…A presence?’

I felt a slight presence around the gate, but I thought it was someone who came to subjugate the gate like Seonghyun and went inside the gate.

As soon as I entered the gate, a much darker landscape than outside greeted Seonghyun.

A narrow field of vision where I could only see what was right in front of me.

“I have to go deeper.”

As Seonghyun remembered, this gate became brighter as you went inside.

It took quite a long time for that fact to be revealed, so now it’s a gate that people don’t visit often, but later, when this fact was revealed, it became the gate that the most people visited.

It wasn’t just because it got brighter that people flocked to it.

It had properties similar to a gate exclusively for one person.

However, the conditions were quite 까다로웠다 [kkadaroweotda – tricky/difficult].

In this open gate, when the number of people inside the gate was exactly one, it became similar to a gate exclusively for one person.

However, an open gate meant that there were no restrictions on entry.

As such, it was rare for only one person to exist inside the gate.

In the first place, I didn’t expect such a situation to occur.

And when I thought of that temple that was exclusively for one person, I didn’t want to experience it again.

“As expected, the monsters near the entrance are nothing.”

Compared to the wolf-type monsters that I had wiped out in the past, they were much stronger monsters, but Seonghyun was so much stronger now that it was embarrassing to compare.

If I had come to this gate back then, I would have spent the whole day running away and only using my healing abilities.

“It’s certain that there are people, so I have to go a little deeper.”

“…He’s alone?”

“Yeah, he’s alone.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yeah, I’m sure.”

“…He doesn’t look like much.”

Two men had been following Seonghyun from the entrance.

It was easy to target because it was a gate that people didn’t visit often, and it was mostly people with some skill who came to the gate, so they often had a lot of possessions.

“He’s got guts. Coming into this gate alone?”

“He does.”

“The trap location is the same, right?”

“The same.”

These were people who specialized in hunting hunters.

They were thoroughly prepared to set traps in the gate, and the abilities they had were actually much easier to deal with hunters than monsters.

“But doesn’t he look kind of strong?”

“Not at all.”

“Well, if you’re here, nothing will happen.”

I was feeling a little bitter because there was no harvest today, but he came to this gate alone with his liver out of his stomach, so it was no different from telling me to eat him.

“I’ll lure him to the trap, so wait.”

“Okay.”

“You’re so stiff.”

The man first headed to the place where he had set up the trap using a shortcut.

The traps were not just one, but scattered in several places so that it didn’t feel like he was forcibly luring him.

The man who was watching his companion leave also headed near the place where Seonghyun was expected to move.

I was heading a little deeper, but there was no wounded person as Seonghyun had hoped.

Monsters occasionally appeared, and I easily cut them down.

“Ugh.”

“…Ugh?”

I heard something that didn’t sound like a groan, and Seonghyun immediately headed to the source of the groan.

The man lying on the floor with a blank face looked at Seonghyun with an expression that clearly said he needed help and said again.

“Ugh.”

“…”

He clearly didn’t look hurt at all, but he was still making a big deal out of being in pain, so Seonghyun approached the man and said.

“Are you okay?”

“No.”

“…”

His extremely stiff tone even felt like he was trying to pick a fight.

“Where are you hurt…”

“My companion. He’s hurt.”

“Companion?”

The man stretched out his finger towards the deeper part.

‘…Something’s very suspicious…’

But I didn’t feel any hostility or animosity at all.

Really, not even one.

That’s why Seonghyun headed in the direction the man pointed with the man.

No matter how I thought about it, it was strange.

I didn’t feel like this man was injured at all, and above all, I was bothered by the fact that he didn’t seem to have any emotions.

Just a moment ago, I thought he had no bad intentions because I didn’t feel any hostility or animosity, but it was suspicious that he didn’t have even a little bit of kindness towards the person who came to help him.

“In front. My companion.”

Just as I was thinking that, the man pointed to one side again and said, and in the direction the man pointed, a person seemed to be lying down and unconscious.