I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 111

Seonghyun immediately called the Association.

He wondered how many people were actually subjugating Rank 5 Gates, and whether they truly lacked the ability to subjugate anything other than Rank 5 Gates.

“Yes, please.”

“Yes, don’t worry.”

The reliable voice of the Association’s secretary responded, and Seonghyun, having hung up, looked out the window again.

“24 hours…”

The phrase ‘Rank 5 Gate’ seemed to lull him into complacency.

Frankly, at the current level of Rank 5 Gates, Seonghyun could easily clear them using just one hand.

In the remaining day, Seonghyun didn’t have much to prepare.

There wasn’t much he could prepare anyway.

He was already almost fully prepared.

A day passed, and Seonghyun, having received a call from the Association, headed there immediately.

“Welcome.”

The secretary, who came to greet him, guided Seonghyun to a room and then proceeded to provide documents and explanations about the things Seonghyun had requested the day before.

“Currently, the number of people who make a living by subjugating Rank 5 Gates is about 100,000.”

“That’s the number of people who make a living from it, right?”

“Yes, among these, the number of Hunters deemed capable of subjugating Rank 4 Gates is about 30,000.”

So, the number of people who can *only* subjugate Rank 5 Gates is 70,000.

It was a small number if you considered it small, and a large number if you considered it large.

“I have just one question. If Rank 5 Gates disappear, what will happen to these people?”

“…Are you saying that all Rank 5 Gates will disappear? And not be generated at all?”

“Yes.”

The secretary paused, deep in thought.

What was Seonghyun’s intention in asking this question?

But answering was more important than pondering, so the secretary provided an accurate response based on the situation.

“There will be some temporary confusion, but I think almost everyone will go their own way, except for a very small number. These people aren’t subjugating because they enjoy it, but because they need to support their families.”

“What do you think will happen if they go into Rank 4 Gates?”

The secretary’s expression wasn’t bright at Seonghyun’s question.

“…I don’t think good results will come out.”

“I see. I understand.”

Why did he ask these questions?

The answer was already determined.

Even if the number of people subjugating Rank 5 Gates was 1 million instead of 100,000, Seonghyun’s job was still the same.

“But why did you ask me to look into these things…”

The secretary rarely asked such questions, but this time, she was too curious to simply let it pass.

“It’s just…”

Seonghyun hesitated for a moment before answering, grabbing the documents the secretary had given him and getting up from his seat.

“Self-satisfaction.”

Seonghyun left the Association and looked at the remaining time.

[Time remaining until the creation of the final Rank 5 Gate: 00:47]

The time remaining until creation was now just under an hour.

“But where is the Gate being created?”

Before, they would tell him the location in advance, but now there was no such thing.

“It’s not going to be created in Busan or something, is it…”

If that were the case, it would take at least four hours just to get there, and he didn’t know what would happen then.

Since it was the last Gate, it would be different from the other Gates, and that meant a flood [of monsters] could occur immediately.

Since there was nothing he could do in the remaining hour except wait, Seonghyun sighed and waited for the remaining hour.

[Time remaining until the creation of the final Rank 5 Gate: 00:01]

The not-so-long wait ended, and soon a window appeared indicating that the Gate had been created.

[The final Rank 5 Gate has been created.]

At the same time as the window appeared, the Gate appeared before Seonghyun’s eyes.

“It was appearing right in front of me?”

As if inviting him to enter.

It was blatantly created right in front of Seonghyun, as if no other options were needed.

“Alright. I’ll go in.”

If he was invited, it was polite to attend.

Seonghyun immediately entered the final Rank 5 Gate.

The sensation of entering the Gate was no different from other Gates.

Rather, it felt light, as if he felt nothing at all.

“…”

The final Rank 5 Gate that he entered.

The appearance of a temple that seemed to have existed a long time ago.

But it was too dark to be that, and it seemed to be underground, judging by the blocked ceiling.

After briefly looking around, Seonghyun slowly moved his feet.

The only sound he heard was his own footsteps.

As if the surroundings were tightly blocked, the sound echoed several times with each step, as if it would never stop.

“What on earth is it?”

After walking like that for several minutes.

Hoping there might be something on the wall, he groped around with his hands, but Seonghyun’s expectations were completely wrong.

“…?”

After walking for a few more minutes, a huge door appeared before his eyes.

The door, which was at least ten times his height, boasted a weight that seemed too heavy to even open.

“Ugh…”

This time, Seonghyun’s expectations were correct.

Seonghyun looked at the door with puzzled eyes, muttering at the door that wouldn’t open no matter how hard he pushed.

“If you invited me…you should open the door, right?”

And as if it had heard those words.

Soon, the huge door began to open, making a heavy sound befitting its size.

Perhaps because it had been left unattended for a long time, thick dust was rising every time the door scraped the floor as it opened.

Only after all the dust that had risen so thickly that it obscured his vision had settled did Seonghyun enter.

The inside of the door wasn’t that dark.

To be precise, it was a little dark, but it was as if a bluish moonlight was shining down, like a full moon.

“…Human?”

At the boundary where that bluish light met the darkness, a voice was heard from the front.

“How did a human get here…”

A voice that seemed to be pulling something up from within.

‘*This has to be… Rank 5? Absolutely not.*’

Seonghyun, who could now easily handle even the mutated Rank 3 Gate’s monsters, felt goosebumps all over his body from the voice, which was stimulating his instincts.

“I don’t know how you came to set foot here, but this is not a place for humans to enter…”

The unidentified figure, who was speaking in an emotionless voice, suddenly stopped speaking and looked at Seonghyun.

“…”

The figure, staring at Seonghyun like that, began to approach little by little.

The way it was approaching very slowly was, paradoxically, making him feel even more pressured.

“Is it my imagination?”

If you only looked at the positions of the arms, legs, and head, it would have been human, but the appearance was that of a monster itself.

“More than that, how did you get in here?”

“…”

“You don’t intend to answer?”

The monster then pulled out a sword it was carrying in its arms and said.

“Let me introduce myself. I am the ruler of the lowest-ranked monsters. My name is…none.”

The pause in between seemed to hold quite a few stories.

“The ruler of the lowest-ranked monsters?”

“Now you’re feeling a little more inclined to talk, I see.”

The monster pointed the sword it had drawn at Seonghyun and said.

“Of course, it’s too late.”

The monster let go of the sword it was holding.

However, the sword did not fall to the floor and remained in the same position, pointing at Seonghyun.

“…!”

A moment of murderous intent.

He was looking at the monster, not the sword.

If that subtle difference hadn’t been there, the sword that had been aiming at him would have flown at a speed that could have been truly dangerous.

Even though he had already grasped that the sword was moving, when the passed sword was back in front of the monster, there was a red line of blood left on the blade.

‘*That was dangerous.*’

It was a speed comparable to that of Hunters specialized in speed, at least among the top Hunters in Korea.

If he hadn’t been concentrating even a little, the source of the blood on that sword might have been his neck instead of his cheek.

“…Damage?”

The monster seemed quite surprised by Seonghyun’s movements, but then said without showing any other movements.

“It’s meaningless. My sword is a remembering sword. It remembers your wounds…”

No sooner had the monster finished speaking than Seonghyun’s torn cheek was already completely healed.

“Healing…?”

Perhaps realizing that their compatibility wasn’t good, the monster this time tried to rush at Seonghyun directly with the sword.

‘*Summon.*’

“You’re even summoning.”

The monster, who lightly parried [Seonghyun’s summon] ‘1’s sword, pushed 1 away from itself with a concise movement and rushed back at Seonghyun.

1 tried to block that movement, but 1’s movement was blocked again by the monster’s sword.

‘*He controls the sword to this extent?*’

1 had skills similar to Seonghyun’s, now with only slight differences, but all movements were being blocked by the monster’s sword.

“One uninvited guest is enough.”

The monster instantly approached Seonghyun.

The speed was similar to the sword it had thrown at Seonghyun for the first time, perhaps even a little faster.

“I’ll crush you.”

A fist of ordinary size, but the size he felt was so large that it felt similar to the door that had been opened just now, was slammed down from above.

The floor, which was dented with a tremendous roar, proved that what Seonghyun felt was not wrong.

‘*Stigmata.*’

Seonghyun, who had dodged by flying to the side, immediately looked at the monster and used Stigmata [a skill that inflicts immense pain].

With the maximum amount of pain he could inflict.

“…Kugh!”

Fortunately, it seemed to have an effect.

The monster, whose one knee was about to collapse, stood firmly again without that knee touching the floor.

“Ah…it’s been a long time since I’ve felt this much pain.”

It wasn’t that it wasn’t working.

In the first place, Stigmata was an ability that could not be resisted.

Even though it was clear that the pain would be felt completely, the monster was standing even more firmly in place, staring at Seonghyun.

“I don’t know what you did, but it doesn’t matter. The very fact that you gave me this pain means you’re an opponent worthy of respect as an enemy.”

“Who respects who when it comes to monsters?”

Seonghyun frowned at the monster’s words and said, staring at the monster as it was.

“Monster. You’re not in a position to respect me.”

“…”

The monster waited silently for Seonghyun’s next words.

As if it had enough time to give him that much time.

“You’re in a position to be afraid.”

“…You’re a little arrogant.”

The monster, who seemed to have made up its mind about something, then called its sword back into its hand and said.

“Education is needed.”

The monster grabbed the sword handle with both hands and split it to the side.

The sword became two swords in perfect form, as if the sword had originally been two swords combined.

Two swords, like before, floated in the air, aiming at Seonghyun.

‘*If it weren’t for 1…*’

It was a difficult thing to accept, but if he didn’t have the ability of Summon, he would probably have been toyed with by those two swords.

One of the monster’s swords flew to tie up 1.

The sword was divided into two, but the power was not divided, showing the same pattern.

“If I eliminate you, this unknown pain will also disappear.”

The monster rushed at Seonghyun with the remaining sword.

As if to finish it as quickly as possible.