I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 73

Her husband’s body was clearly beyond saving.

Even if they rushed into surgery right now, no one knew what would happen.

But as if to mock his wife’s certainty, after a slight flicker of light, her husband’s expression wasn’t that of someone who had lost consciousness from pain, but rather someone who had simply fallen asleep, merely tired.

“He’ll be fine now.”

“Fi-Fine, you say?”

“He’s just unconscious.”

He couldn’t explain in detail.

He had to deal with the approaching monsters right now.

Everyone else had managed to escape in time, but there were some who hadn’t, and those people were also sprawled on the ground, their conditions unknown.

‘Soon, Inhwan, Sangyeon, Hayeon, and Seongwook will be here.’

Having headed north and south respectively, Seonghyun, roughly predicting which direction they would come from, began to head to the most vulnerable area.

“Don’t fall behind me, Yein.”

“Okay.”

Once again, Seonghyun reminded Yein and started towards the monsters in front of him.

Drawing the sword from his side.

Watching Seonghyun’s back, his wife checked her husband’s condition.

Even breathing, stable breathing, proved that there were no more problems.

‘Ah! Could that person be…!’

She had seen it on the news.

It was quite a while ago and only mentioned once, but it was impossible not to remember, even if she didn’t want to.

A power that no more than two people possessed.

The ability to heal others.

‘But how can someone with healing abilities fight those monsters…’

It was generally believed that healers were not suited for combat.

Or that they were inferior to other combat-capable individuals. But, watching him cut down monsters and save others right before her eyes, that prejudice seemed completely wrong.

It wasn’t like he was struggling and barely managing to catch them after several exchanges.

As if he were practicing cutting down straw dolls, each time he lightly swung his sword, the monsters that had been rushing in with tremendous force were cut in half and disappeared.

“Tsk…”

Seonghyun kept shaking off the blood on his body.

With Yein behind him, he couldn’t avoid the splatter, and the monsters were rushing in so fiercely that even more blood began to splatter.

“…”

As Seonghyun continued to cut down monsters, a monster with a unique appearance appeared before him.

Unlike the monsters he had been cutting down so far, this one was a bit larger compared to Yein.

The monster stared at Seonghyun.

As if it had met its match.

During that brief standoff, voices were heard from the front and back.

“We’re here!”

“We’re here too!”

Fortunately, they had arrived in time, and it seemed there was no need to worry about any additional casualties.

‘The problem is this monster.’

It was clear at a glance that it wasn’t an ordinary monster.

The feeling was quite similar to when he had faced 1 [Likely referring to a previous powerful enemy].

From the moment that monster appeared and stared at Seonghyun, the other monsters around it didn’t rush at Seonghyun.

It seemed as if they had stepped back for the sake of their battle.

Thanks to that, the path Seonghyun had cleared while cutting down monsters was clean and free of monsters.

“Seonghyun! I’ll go get Yein!”

“Okay.”

It seemed that the monsters had retreated on the other two sides as well, as Inhwan approached Seonghyun to take Yein.

Until then, the monster in front of him didn’t move, just stared at Seonghyun.

As if telling him to quickly take the child behind him away.

“I don’t know what’s going on, but I’ll take Yein to a safe place for now.”

“Being with you guys is what’s safe.”

At Seonghyun’s words filled with trust, Inhwan chuckled and lifted Yein up before leaving.

“I don’t know why you’re looking at me with those eyes…”

The more he met that gaze, the more unpleasant it became.

It felt like two gladiators entering the Colosseum, like being a spectacle.

And above all, he didn’t like the attitude of that monster, as if it had graciously provided the arena, even though it was just a monster.

“Just a monster…”

He wasn’t angry, nor did he feel annoyed or dissatisfied.

He just chuckled a little.

The level of the monsters that had flooded today was, at best, around the level of a 4th-grade gate monster [Monsters are ranked by grade, with lower numbers indicating higher power].

And the level of this monster, putting on airs in front of him, was only around the 3rd-grade level, even at its best.

Seonghyun could easily handle several 3rd-grade gate monsters alone.

“Bringing in a few monsters like you is meaningless.”

Whether it understood Seonghyun’s words or not, the monster raised one hand and began to exert force.

Then, a part of its body began to protrude outward, creating the shape of a sword.

“Humans are all the same. They think they’re strong.”

“Was it a monster that could talk?”

“Know it as an honor. That you can converse with me.”

The monster seemed confident.

As if it could take care of Seonghyun in front of it in an instant.

“A human with interesting abilities. If you surrender now, I’ll give you an important position in our monster army.”

“Monster army?”

Seonghyun replied in a tone that suggested he wanted to talk more.

What did this monster mean by the monster army it was talking about?

“That’s right. If you join the monster army I lead, this world where dirty humans live will be ours in just a day.”

“Ah…”

But it wasn’t the answer he had expected.

He wondered if it might be related to what he had heard while doing quests, but there was no connection at all.

“If it’s a legion you lead, I can tell what the level is.”

Seonghyun said, looking back at the path he had come from.

A path full of monster corpses and blood.

“…I’ll make you obedient first.”

The monster disappeared from sight in an instant.

As expected, it was a monster whose strength was its speed, similar to what it looked like on the outside.

The monster immediately moved behind Seonghyun.

It was a speed that made it seem like it was teleporting, but that was only the speed that an ordinary person would see.

“…!”

In the time it took to move behind Seonghyun from this spot.

The monster, which hadn’t taken its eyes off Seonghyun for those few seconds, saw something unbelievable.

It was that Seonghyun’s gaze was accurately following it.

‘He saw me?’

Monsters were divided into grades, and that was the same among monsters.

But, the problem was that its level was quite fast even among 3rd-grade monsters.

And that Seonghyun was accurately following it.

It must have been a coincidence.

The monster, convinced that the human who hadn’t grasped its position was just looking around and accidentally met its gaze, moved behind Seonghyun and tried to stab him with the sword made from its transformed body.

If it couldn’t become its ally, it was right to eliminate it.

If a human with this ability was on the side of humans, it would be more troublesome than anything.

“Die…!”

Just before the sword deeply penetrated Seonghyun’s spine, the monster, confident of its victory, wore the smile of a victor.

“…”

That victor’s smile was not erased.

It remained on the monster’s face, but the only difference was that its body and head were separated.

The monster that fell to the ground continued to wear the same smile.

“You’re fast. For a 3rd-grade.”

If it had been Seonghyun before clearing the quest, the best he could have done was to move his body to dodge or raise the sword he was holding to block.

But, there was no need to do that at all.

It was a fast monster for a 3rd-grade, but that was all.

No matter how fast it was, a 3rd-grade was still a 3rd-grade.

It couldn’t overcome that limit.

Seonghyun grasped the movement of the monster trying to come from behind and watched it.

There was no reason for Seonghyun to go first to deal with a monster of this level.

It wasn’t worth it.

He just turned his body slightly towards the monster that came from behind and swung his sword, and the same result came out as now.

“Now, all that’s left is the legion that lost its leader?”

Seonghyun looked at the remaining monsters that hadn’t rushed in yet.

The flood had ended, and no more monsters appeared, and the number of monsters, which had been quite large, had decreased significantly as Inhwan, Sangyeon, Hayeon, and Seongwook gradually dealt with them.

Of course, Seonghyun had dealt with the most monsters.

“…Why are you just staring blankly?”

Seonghyun began to walk towards the monsters looking at him.

“Kuh, Keureuk.”

Then, as if the monster was frightened, it began to step back.

“A monster is scared?”

It wasn’t very common for monsters to be scared.

In the first place, these low-level monsters didn’t have much of an ego, so they would just rush in if there was an opponent in front of them.

There was only one case where monsters were scared.

When their instinctive parts were stimulated.

After seeing the battle between their leader and Seonghyun just now, their instinctive senses were greatly stimulated.

Of course, he had no intention of letting them off the hook.

Rather, seeing the monsters looking scared made him want to deal with even one more.

But, there was something he had to deal with first right now.

“You can handle the rest, right?”

“Yeah. Of course.”

“This is just a warm-up.”

Inhwan and Sangyeon, who knew well what Seonghyun had to do, nodded and answered, and Hayeon and Seongwook did the same.

But then, a voice was heard from the entrance.

“We’ve arrived, so rest assured…!”

The man looked around in bewilderment at the scene, which was different from what he had expected.

He had gathered the guild members and come to support them as soon as he heard the news of the flood, but the situation had already ended.

“…”

Of course, his expression wasn’t good.

If they had come to support them at the request of the association in this urgent situation, they could have received not only the cores from here but also other support from the association, but they had been robbed of their rice bowl [missed opportunity].

The man stared at Seonghyun in the middle of the monster corpses and approached him.

‘…He looks like a young kid at first glance…’

Looking at the corpses around him, it seemed that he was with those who were dealing with the remaining stragglers.

“Which guild are you from?”

“…Did you come from the association?”

“No. We requested support from us, who are closest to the association, and we came to support, but the situation is over.”

“I don’t have a guild.”

“You don’t…have a guild?”

That was the only fortunate thing.

If they had been in a guild in this situation, all the support from the association as well as the cores from this place would have been theirs.

“Ahem, ahem…Can I talk to you for a moment?”

“I’m in trouble right now. I still have things to do.”

“What things do you have left to do?”

Seonghyun pointed to one side with his hand.

In the place Seonghyun pointed to, injured civilians were gathered in one place, unconscious.

“Those people will be taken care of by the hospital anyway, won’t they? Instead of that, please spare me some time.”

Seonghyun frowned at the man’s words.

How important could that conversation be that it could take precedence over the injured people?

Realizing that there was no longer any value in talking, Seonghyun ignored the man’s words and tried to head to where the injured were.