I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 163

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Whether they knew that Seonghyun was stopping the monsters with a single gesture or not, the guild members were focused on defeating the giant bug.

They didn’t even realize that the sky had become a little brighter than when they first entered the gate.

“Is it more than I imagined?”

The strength of each individual was naturally a little less than the raid leaders they had gone with before, but the experience and teamwork they had built up while risking their lives together filled each other’s gaps very well.

Someone was figuring out the regularity of the liquid the bug was spewing and informing them when the time came, and someone else was looking around to see which attack produced the most meaningful results.

Seonghyun’s guild was basically organized with three to four people as a team, but watching the situation now, it felt like they were all one team.

“Got it! I found the weakness!”

“Watch out for the poison! It’s coming out now!”

The giant bug, which had only inspired fear, was gradually losing its flesh and transforming into something that only inspired disgust.

“Should we leave the boss in this gate?”

Until now, Seonghyun had never left a boss behind.

His only goal was the extinction of monsters, so there was no need to create troublesome situations.

However, if they only looked ahead to the cause of monster extinction, it was now clear that there would be victims, just like when the 5-star gate disappeared and the 4-star and 3-star gates were strengthened.

If that happens.

How would they be different from those who sacrifice the few for the sake of the many?

Seonghyun knew better than anyone that sacrifice was inevitable.

That he couldn’t stop that sacrifice either.

That’s why it was necessary.

For them to become stronger on their own.

Even without doing anything separately, they were already getting stronger on their own.

Of course, there would be damage in the process, but there was no growth without damage, so it was something to be endured.

“Of course, we have to prevent excessive damage.”

Seonghyun got up from his seat, dusting off his pants.

Then he looked far back.

“Manager Cha.”

“Yes.”

“Do you feel the location?”

“Yes, I feel magic power gathering quite far away.”

Just like then, he was preparing to attack alone from the back.

“More than that, I think I’ve gotten quite strong too. I couldn’t feel it back then, but I can feel it now. Should I go and take care of it?”

“No. We will leave this 2-star gate as it is. And we will have the list of people who entered today raid this gate at least once every two days. Of course, I will accompany them.”

“It’s a kind of training.”

“That’s right. Shall we go to the boss who is preparing to attack alone over there?”

“Yes, I understand.”

At that time, the boss was aiming precisely at Seonghyun.

Since he was the boss of a 2-star gate, he could figure out who was the strongest among the intruders who had just entered, but there was someone from whom he couldn’t feel anything.

And that was Seonghyun.

“Not being able to feel anything means…”

Either the opponent was incompetent, or they had overwhelming power that he couldn’t even grasp.

At first, he thought it was the former.

However, the hundreds and thousands of swords that appeared after a single gesture in the air immediately changed the boss’s mind to the latter.

“The rest are nothing special.”

Looking at the fact that they were already struggling against their pets, the answer was clear.

There was no need to pay attention to them at all.

Just one.

The man sitting on that hill, watching the intruders and their pets as if he were evaluating them.

If he could catch that man, who he even doubted was of the same race as the intruders, they would surely be defeated.

“It’s a one-time opportunity.”

Perhaps he was being careless, he didn’t seem to have noticed his location.

Then he had to operate the magic power as slowly as possible, so slowly that he wouldn’t notice the magic power gathering, and cut off the man’s breath with a single shot.

“Hoo…”

The boss slowly operated the magic power.

He created more distance than usual to prevent him from noticing it in the middle.

‘Just a little bit, just a little bit more…!’

He had already exceeded the limit he could operate, but it was still not enough.

“Kuh…”

The physical limit had already reached its peak due to the excessive use of magic power, and he began to feel his muscles tearing.

However, the boss was enduring it.

He was even growing in real time.

“It’s all…”

“What’s all done?”

It wasn’t a long time.

In the first place, to hit an arrow from this distance, he couldn’t miss the opponent’s movements even a little.

From the beginning when he started operating the magic power to this moment right before firing, the boss did not take his eyes off Seonghyun for even 0.1 seconds, 0.01 seconds, except for blinking.

But, but how?

After that one blink, Seonghyun appeared right behind him.

“H-how…”

The distance was close, and it didn’t seem like he had noticed him.

Then, one thought flashed through the boss’s mind.

‘Ha, haha…’

Only two words flashed through his mind, but it was the first time the boss had ever felt so goosebumps all over his body.

It was a misunderstanding.

‘Was it such an arrogant thought that I thought it wasn’t close, that I thought he wouldn’t have noticed my location?’

The common point of those two thoughts.

It was that the boss was thinking alone.

“You look very surprised.”

It wasn’t a close distance for the boss, but it wasn’t for Seonghyun.

It seemed like he hadn’t noticed him for the boss, but this wasn’t the case for Seonghyun either.

“So, what are you going to do with that arrow?”

“T-this is…”

He couldn’t turn back now.

Since he had already used magic power beyond the limit, all the reactions would return to him unless he poured it out somewhere.

“Yeah, you’ll die if you don’t shoot.”

Seonghyun placed his hand on the ominous magic arrow that looked like it would pop out at any moment.

“Is it okay now?”

He just raised his hand.

With just that, he completely turned the mass of magic power that he had operated beyond his limit, which would pierce the hearts of those intruders, into nothing.

“H-how can a human…!”

The boss quickly widened the distance.

Then he quickly raised his hand to the bow and aimed at Seonghyun.

“If you shoot that, you’ll die.”

“…”

The monster’s hand holding the bow began to tremble like crazy.

As if he couldn’t hit it even though he was so close.

‘Am I, am I feeling fear…?’

It was a difficult fact to accept, but emotions are more honest than anything else.

The boss lowered his hand holding the bow and looked at Seonghyun.

“W-what do you want.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt an impact on the back of his head.

“Why are you being so arrogant, you monster… Use honorifics. You seem to be a monster who knows enough.”

“T-this…”

The opponent in front of him seemed like he could do it if he did his best, so he was even more angry.

“What do you want?”

“Just one thing.”

Seonghyun didn’t show any expression, but that appearance put even more pressure on the boss.

What on earth was that one thing?

What could such a strong being want?

“Before that. How many of those…”

“Those bugs. How many are there?”

“Bugs? Are you talking about Bboppy?”

“Bboppy? Is that bug’s name Bboppy?”

“T-that’s what I call them.”

“…Anyway, so how many are there?”

“There are a little over 100.”

Why was he asking?

Perhaps the fear had subsided a little thanks to the curiosity, the boss was staring at Seonghyun with a curious expression.

“We will continue to come here.”

“W-what does that mean…”

“Instead, if you promise me just one thing, everything in here will survive.”

It was by no means a lie.

It didn’t feel like a threat either.

He just kept feeling like he was explaining.

“What do you want me to promise?”

“Everyone who came in today will come back here once every two days.”

“…”

“The Bboppy… no, the bugs that are fighting my guild members now are the weakest ones, right?”

“That’s right.”

“When my guild members come here, you keep supplying those Bboppy… no, bugs.”

“Y-yes? Supply… you said?”

“Yeah.”

He was planning to enter the gate together as much as possible, but he wasn’t sure that he could do that every time without fail.

Since he had decided to leave this gate anyway, it wouldn’t be bad to have insurance.

“If you keep supplying them steadily, and you think they’ve gotten a little stronger, supply them with slightly stronger bugs little by little.”

“D-does that mean you’re asking us to be your sparring partners?”

“Exactly. So what’s your answer?”

“T-this is… our reason for existence is…”

To help the enemy.

Of course, it was a difficult thing to accept.

“I’ll help you choose.”

Seonghyun raised one finger.

Then, one of the shining swords that had occupied the sky behind Seonghyun disappeared behind the sand dune.

“T-that place is…!”

“Manager Cha?”

“Yes, I understand.”

The man who had hit him in the back of the head disappeared into an unidentified gate, and then reappeared immediately.

In Manager Cha’s hand, a monster was held coldly dead.

“P-Pakra!”

It was one of his tribe members who was on standby.

“I, I understand, I understand. I’ll do as you say, so please, just no meaningless slaughter…”

Seonghyun could only laugh at the boss’s attitude.

For a monster to show such a 모습 [state/appearance].

“Don’t do what you guys are doing to us…”

“P-please…”

“Don’t some people die in battle?”

“Dying in battle is honorable, but dying like this is a dog’s death.”

Seonghyun couldn’t stop laughing at the feeling of hearing the mindset of knights in the Middle Ages.

Of course, this laughter was absurd laughter.

“Amazing. So what’s your answer?”

“I, I will do that.”

Seonghyun heard the boss’s answer, but he didn’t end it there.

“Even if you say you understand… your warriors that you’re so proud of won’t, right? Because they’re so proud, they’re bowing their heads without even fighting.”

“W-what does that mean…”

Seonghyun finished speaking and raised his hand again.

This time, it wasn’t a finger, but his whole hand moved.

“W-what!! What are you doing!!!!”

The boss, who had 미리 [in advance] experienced what kind of results that small gesture would bring, rushed to Seonghyun, but Seonghyun had already disappeared into the unidentified crack.

“Please…”

All he could do was watch the swords that had filled the sky disappear one by one beyond the sand dune.

It didn’t take long to know the result.

“Anyone would think I killed them all.”

“T-that means…”

From the crack where Seonghyun appeared, arms began to fall one by one.

“These arms are the arms of those you cherish so much.”

“…”

“And…”

After dozens and hundreds of arms had fallen from the crack, a monster finally fell out.

“If you listen to me well…”

The light that the sword that had cut off the monsters’ arms was holding shone in Seonghyun’s hand, and then the cut-off arms of the monsters returned to their original state.

“I can do this. It’s up to you to choose.”

It was frustrating, but there was no choice.

If they resisted here, it would be a mass death.

‘He’s not just strong…’

He had perfectly grasped that their main means of attack was bows, and he had cut off only their arms so that they could not use bows.

“Let’s stop here today and go back. Let’s see each other in two days.”

“T-thank you for your mercy.”

Leaving the boss kneeling and bowing behind, Seonghyun headed to the guild members who had almost defeated the bugs.