I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 69

Arno, along with everyone else, stared blankly at the scene.

The 3rd Division Commander, who had been radiating a fierce aura as if to kill them just moments ago, was now expressing that hostility towards the monsters to an extent that made it almost comical.

It was a sight that defied description.

And it was the same from the monsters’ perspective.

The commander of their vanguard, who had been bolstering their morale until just now, had suddenly begun to slaughter them.

Resistance was impossible.

To be in charge of the vanguard in a monster army was proof that there was no one stronger than him in that army. Moreover, one had to possess a certain level of intelligence and strategic thinking to become a commander in the first place.

“I have eliminated all the enemies near the gate.”

In that short amount of time, the monster who had been the 3rd Division Commander had completely dealt with all the monsters near the gate.

It didn’t take long, as most of the monsters were already writhing in pain from the earlier battle.

“Take care of the rest too.”

“Yes, I understand.”

The 3rd Division Commander left without any hesitation to deal with the remaining monsters.

The sight of the 3rd Division Commander cutting down monsters was a spectacle in itself.

The dark energy emanating from his sword extended far beyond the blade’s visible range, and every time he swung it, dozens of monsters were cleaved in half.

Arno was witnessing the scene firsthand.

To think that the opponent he had been crossing swords with until just now was now cutting down monsters with such ruthless efficiency.

“W-What is going on?”

Arno asked Sunghyun, his eyes wide with confusion.

“It’s just… an ability,” Sunghyun answered vaguely, but Arno’s expression didn’t clear.

“This can’t be…”

Unlike before, when he had called him the messenger of God, Arno’s expression now, as he looked at Sunghyun, was as if he had truly encountered a deity.

“C-Could it be that you are not a messenger, but have descended directly to save Pellian…!”

“…No, I am not.”

“God, Adellan, the master of Pellian, I greet you.”

As Arno knelt on one knee to pay his respects, all the other personnel, now realizing the situation, began to kneel on one knee towards Sunghyun.

“No, ha… everyone, please stand up. The war is not over yet.”

He had no intention of becoming a god, but since denying it here would also take time, Sunghyun only reminded them that the war was not over yet.

‘But why isn’t the window showing that a person of faith has been added popping up?’

Sunghyun had used conversion on the 3rd Division Commander, and since the 3rd Division Commander had only held complete hostility, he was converted very easily.

‘Does it not apply to monsters? Or is it because this is a specially created gate?’

It was a slightly questionable situation, but anyway, that wasn’t what was important now.

“Now, taking advantage of this momentum, we must deal with all the remaining stragglers.”

“Understood!”

Arno’s answer, now laced with honorifics, was heard, and Arno raised his sword to the sky and shouted.

“Let’s go! Guardians of Pellian!”

“Waaaaa!”

The moment of only defending the walls was now over.

All that remained was to eliminate the remaining monsters outside the gate who were barely holding off the one who had been their commander.

Now, the morale of the soldiers was different from before.

If it had been a morale of holding onto a single hope in an impossible fight, now it was a situation where hope had become reality, and there was no sign of their morale breaking as victory was right in front of their eyes.

“Victory is just around the corner!”

The monsters, who had lost their commander to direct them, couldn’t even use their power properly and simply crumbled.

“Waaaaa!!!”

A victory that seemed impossible to achieve was now within their grasp.

“I have dealt with them all.”

The 3rd Division Commander, who had slaughtered half of the monster army, knelt on one knee in front of Sunghyun, covered in blood, and reported.

“Okay. Good work.”

It was a battle that ended more easily than expected.

Of course, it was a battle that would have been impossible to win without Sunghyun.

“Does this mean it’s all over?”

At Sunghyun’s question, Arno let out a sigh of relief and answered leisurely.

“Ah, no. What we annihilated was their vanguard [a small group of soldiers sent ahead of the main force]. ”

Sunghyun sent a questioning look at the answer that didn’t match his relaxed expression and tone.

“Van…guard?”

Sunghyun recalled the word vanguard.

How many times had the vanguard had more troops than the main force?

Most of the time, the vanguard was weaker in number and strength than the main force.

“T-Then right now…”

“It’s alright.”

“Yes?”

“The monsters that came through the gate were all of them. We sent out scouts because they called themselves the vanguard, and it takes a considerable amount of time for a large number of monsters to cross the gate.”

In a way, it was similar to the flood in the world where Sunghyun lived.

This could be a clue to this, so Sunghyun asked for more details.

“Can I hear about what you have found out?”

“Of course. Let’s finish here first, and I’ll explain the rest at the imperial palace banquet.”

Already, under the orders of the executives, the soldiers were taking out crystals from the bodies of the dead monsters.

Arno returned first, and Sunghyun headed to the 3rd Division Commander, who was still kneeling on one knee to him.

“Do you have something to say?”

“You must give me a name.”

“Then, for now, you will serve the Pellian Empire. My orders are your orders.”

“Understood.”

When Sunghyun first came here, he thought it was a virtual space created solely for the quest.

However, the more he talked, the more he conversed, the more he felt that they were not beings created solely for the quest.

“And… I will call you 1 from now on.”

Since he wouldn’t see him again once he left this place, and Sunghyun had no talent for naming, he decided to just call him 1, taking it from the fact that he was the first subject of conversion.

“Thank you.”

[You have met the conditions for victory in the war.]

[You have cleared the quest.]

The window he had been waiting for finally appeared.

‘It was a divine move to get the conversion ability and come.’

In all honesty, if he had fought the 3rd Division Commander, no, 1, without conversion, he wasn’t sure if he could have won.

[If you wish to exit the gate, you will automatically exit the gate and receive a reward.]

[Would you like to exit?]

“Exit? As expected.”

Sunghyun’s prediction was confirmed by the appearing window.

Not the gate disappearing, but exiting from this place.

“No, not yet.”

He had to find out why the gate flood was happening and what Arno had found out.

“They said they would hold a banquet.”

Sunghyun gave rough orders to 1 and returned to the castle.

The banquet of the Pellian Empire was held at a level that was a bit lacking to be called a banquet.

Holding a banquet like this at the moment of near destruction was a big stretch in itself, but this method was the most certain way to instill the perception that it was definitely over to the remaining people and soldiers.

“To the main god of the Pellian Empire, a cup of victory.”

Arno raised his glass and knelt on one knee, offering it to Sunghyun.

“Ah…”

Sunghyun’s face flushed, but he nodded in agreement because the gazes of the others looking at him contained the reverence one would give to an inhuman existence.

“D-Drink it.”

Then he used purification.

To blow away all the faintly remaining uneasy feelings.

At the same time as a faint light circled around, exclamations erupted from everyone at the banquet.

“Ooh…”

“T-This is…”

“He was indeed the main god…!”

It seemed like the unnecessary misunderstanding had grown bigger, but since he wouldn’t see them again, Sunghyun just smiled and drank the glass.

The banquet ended like that, and Sunghyun headed straight to the office with Arno.

“You had a question about the main force.”

“That’s right.”

“Inside the gate, you may not know, but there is a slightly different environment from where we live.”

The gate seemed to have no difference between where Sunghyun lived and here.

“This was not the first time that monsters had appeared from the gate like this. There have been similar incidents in the past.”

Arno handed a history book to Sunghyun and said.

“But this time, the scale was enormous. It was incomparable to the past. And the time from the previous incident to now is about 100 years.”

“Then does that mean the gate was left unattended for 100 years?”

Considering the flood that had occurred near Sunghyun’s house before the regression, it seemed that there was a difference in time for each gate.

“In fact, the appearance itself was a frequent occurrence, but there was one strange thing. The gate that appeared on a large scale like this time was a gate that had not been created long ago.”

“Yes? Then could it be…!”

“That’s right. It didn’t matter how long a gate had been left unattended. Just that if there was even one gate left open.”

It was confusing.

That meant that the gates were virtually sharing a connection with each other.

‘The gates… are connected to each other?’

When you clear a gate, the gate closes.

But that’s just how it looks, it’s not disappearing, it’s just that one entrance is disappearing.

“That’s all we’ve found out. We tried to investigate further, but stopping today’s monsters was the limit.”

“No. This alone is enough.”

“In fact, there was a limit to the gates we could destroy. I think the longer the gates are left unattended, the more severe the appearances will be.”

This alone was enough.

The world where Sunghyun lived could destroy the gates within a maximum of 2 months after the investigation was completed, unless it was a gate created in a completely remote area, or even a gate created in a remote area.

Just finding out the information that the gates were connected was already a big gain.

In addition, he had cleared the quest, which was the initial purpose, and now all that was left was to get out of here.

“Now… you have to go back, right?”

“Ah, that’s right.”

Arno looked regretful, but he didn’t hold on.

“It’s not something a creation should say, but there’s something I definitely want to say.”

“C-Creation…”

“May only glory be in front of the main god.”

This time again, Arno was showing reverence by kneeling on one knee, and Sunghyun shook his head as if he couldn’t help it and said.

“Bless you.”

As he put his hand on Arno’s head and used purification, Arno flinched and raised his head, looking at Sunghyun with tearful eyes.

‘Exit.’

What greeted Sunghyun, who came out of the gate, was, as expected, a window informing him that the quest was all over.

[You have cleared the quest.]

[The reward is enhanced by satisfying special conditions.]

“Special conditions? Was there such a thing?”

[Special condition: Arno’s survival]

It seemed that if he had proceeded normally, Arno would have died.

‘Ah, when I was confronting the 3rd Division Commander…’

If Sunghyun hadn’t had conversion, there was a high possibility that he would have died then.

“That’s a relief. So what’s the reward?”

Sunghyun couldn’t say anything at the contents of the reward that appeared soon and just stared blankly at the window.