I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 183

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The closer Sung Hyun got to the sand dune, the more intensely he felt the overwhelming magical power emanating from it.

With each step closer to the crest of the dune, the boss’s heart pounded faster in his chest.

“Seriously, is that even human?” he muttered to himself.

The sheer magnitude of magical power felt…inhuman.

The amount of magical power, which felt like something more than just magical power, defied imagination.

“Yeah… ‘Transcendent’ seems like an appropriate term,” the boss conceded.

Although the essence of this power was different, the sheer volume of magical energy felt comparable to those of the most sublime beings.

Of course, only the *amount* of magical power felt that way; other aspects were difficult to compare directly.

“So… how many magical beasts *has* he killed?” the boss wondered aloud.

No significant magical power was needed to summon the shades of magical beasts the opponent had slain.

It only required drawing out remnants of what the opponent’s soul remembered, so the energy cost was minimal.

“…This is insane,” the boss breathed, awestruck.

The number of slain beasts felt as incomprehensible as the magical power itself.

He could see an enormous horde of magical beasts, enough to fill the vast desert entirely.

And this enormous number was very welcome news to the boss, a resource to be exploited.

“I can even see those from higher-dimensional supply routes,” he realized, a grin spreading across his face.

Until now, the boss had always summoned everything the opponent had dealt with to fight, but against the human at the summit, there was no need for such restraint.

Even summoning only the strongest ones he could call forth would far surpass the number he initially summoned.

While the boss was preparing to face Sung Hyun, the Saint was rechecking the condition of his guild members.

“Thankfully, no one suffered the worst possible outcome,” Sung Hyun said, relief evident in his voice.

“G, Guild Leader…” one of the members stammered.

“Sung Hyun…” another echoed.

Everyone seemed to have a lot to say, but they held their tongues.

“Protect this place,” Sung Hyun ordered, his voice firm.

Sung Hyun changed his summon to ‘1’ and gave the order.

With ‘1’ and the recovered guild members, they would be able to defend themselves sufficiently.

Sung Hyun slowly crested the hill, revealing himself to the waiting enemy.

Then, he saw a massive concentration of magical power looking up at him.

“That’s the boss,” Sung Hyun stated, his gaze unwavering.

“Sung Hyun, be careful,” Inhwan warned. “That guy has a strange ability. Suddenly, pain hits you, and then you can’t use any abilities, as if you were just a regular person.”

“Is it related to ability sealing?” Sung Hyun inquired.

“It wasn’t sealing,” Inhwan clarified. “I couldn’t use *any* abilities at all, not just one. All from a single impact.”

Inhwan had directly experienced it and gleaned a clue about the boss’s ability.

All abilities became unusable from a single impact.

The magical power itself didn’t disappear, though.

“You can use them now, right?” Sung Hyun asked.

“Of course,” Inhwan confirmed.

“Please take care of the attacking magical beasts. Sangyeon, you too,” Sung Hyun instructed.

“Don’t worry,” Sangyeon replied confidently.

“Okay,” Inhwan added.

Having finished assessing everything, Sung Hyun finally stared directly at the boss.

A hollow laugh escaped him at the sight of the boss looking up at him with a smile that bordered on pleasure, beyond mere interest.

“You’re the boss,” Sung Hyun stated.

“Yes. You seem a bit different from other humans,” the boss replied, his eyes gleaming.

Sung Hyun simply looked down at the boss without answering, unfazed.

Even though he could see all the magical beasts starting to materialize behind the boss.

“Are you planning to stay up there?” the boss asked, a hint of mockery in his voice.

Sung Hyun replied briefly to the boss’s question.

“This eye level seems about right,” he said, his tone even.

“…You’re a funny one,” the boss chuckled.

A moment of silence hung in the air, and in that time, the surroundings were completely filled with magical beasts.

All of them possessed the power of at least a mutated 3rd-tier gate monster or higher.

If they were enhanced by the boss’s ability, they would be on par with magical beasts appearing from at least a 2nd-tier gate.

The number exceeded thousands.

“Are you going to face this number alone?” the boss taunted, provoking Sung Hyun to reveal his full power.

“Numbers are meaningless to me,” Sung Hyun declared.

As soon as Sung Hyun finished speaking, the sky began to be covered with swords emitting light.

Even the boss, who had never lost his composure, momentarily lost his composure.

“…I thought you were a bit different from other humans, but I didn’t expect *this* much,” he admitted, his voice laced with surprise.

The boss glanced at Sung Hyun for a moment.

And then he unleashed his constraint.

‘Now, kneel before me,’ he commanded silently.

A sudden surge of pain ripped through Sung Hyun’s body.

No one had ever resisted kneeling before this pain.

There was no expression as thrilling as the helpless expression filled with bewilderment and confusion at the simultaneous loss of abilities.

He had tried to make that arrogant human, who had talked about eye level, kneel, but Sung Hyun, as if amazed, groped around his heart and said.

“So this is what it feels like. To constrain something. It’s like something’s messing with my heart.”

He tried using purification, but strangely, this pressure didn’t dissipate with purification.

It seemed as if the ability itself didn’t recognize the cause of this pressure as something to negate.

It felt like the boss and he had made a deal.

A unilateral and forced deal.

“You’re… alright?” the boss asked, a flicker of uncertainty in his eyes.

That wasn’t all.

Originally, the thousands of swords that had appeared in the air should have disappeared the moment the constraint was applied.

But although the number had decreased significantly, they hadn’t completely vanished.

‘Is it because of that absurd amount of magical power?’ the boss wondered.

As if reading the boss’s thoughts, Sung Hyun slowly recited what the boss had hoped for when he used the constraint.

“Is there a problem? You have an expression that feels like bewilderment and confusion,” Sung Hyun mocked.

“Y, you bug-like bastard…!” the boss spat, his face contorted with rage.

The boss now had an expression filled with more anger than composure, and he stretched his hand towards the sky.

Then, the swords that had disappeared began to fall like rain again.

The number of swords remaining around Sung Hyun now was less than ten.

The boss was certain that Sung Hyun’s reaction was just a bluff born out of panic.

Moreover, since the constraint hadn’t worked perfectly, he decided not to give him time in case the constraint wore off over time.

“Go. End your revenge,” the boss commanded.

The boss, having ordered the majority of the magical beasts to charge at Sung Hyun and some to charge at the other humans at the top of the hill, rechecked the spot where Sung Hyun had been.

“He disappeared…” the boss muttered, his eyes widening in disbelief.

The moment Sung Hyun disappeared from sight.

And the eerie sensation felt from above the head the moment he realized that fact.

“Kuh!” the boss grunted, reacting instinctively.

The boss immediately leaped to the side, but the attack didn’t end there.

This time, he felt a similar sensation from behind, and the boss once again leaped away to evade the attack.

“Rolling around like that, you look like a goblin,” Sung Hyun quipped, his voice amused.

“G, goblin?” the boss sputtered, his face reddening with fury.

He was so enraged that he wondered if he had ever felt this much anger before.

He had thought Sung Hyun would use those ten or so swords to defend, but Sung Hyun was using all of those swords as attacks.

And purely to catch the boss himself.

‘The opponent is impatient,’ the boss realized.

Convinced that Sung Hyun believed his only way out of this overwhelmingly disadvantageous situation was himself, the boss began to summon the magical beasts Sung Hyun had dealt with in front of the trajectory of the swords flying towards him, using them as shields instead.

“Haha! Attack as many times as you want. There are still countless magical beasts that you’ve killed left!” the boss roared, his voice filled with manic glee.

Seeing the boss defending better than expected, Sung Hyun drew his sword after a very long time.

“Shall I check how much my body has changed?” Sung Hyun mused, a hint of anticipation in his voice.

Sung Hyun had only been doing subjugations using authority recently, to the point where he couldn’t remember exactly when he had last moved his body.

In the meantime, Sung Hyun had healed people in America and healed many in remote areas.

The pain he received from that was embarrassingly insignificant compared to the pain he had just received from the boss’s constraint.

And all that pain became strength for Sung Hyun.

“This time, I’ll infuse a little magical power into the sword too…” Sung Hyun thought.

It would have been boring to cut them down one by one, as there were so many to cut down, so Sung Hyun infused magical power into the sword for the first time.

He didn’t know the method well, so there were efficiency issues, but that wasn’t a problem for Sung Hyun.

“It feels much lighter?” Sung Hyun remarked.

Sung Hyun, checking the condition while turning the hand holding the sword a few times, lightly lowered his hand and swung the sword in the air.

“W, what,” the boss stammered, his eyes widening in disbelief.

Then, the magical power that Sung Hyun had infused through the sword began to burst out.

It was splitting the sand dune like a sword aura he had only seen in games or comics before.

“I’ve been too indifferent to my physical abilities all this time,” Sung Hyun realized.

Before regression, Sung Hyun’s ability was pinpointing weaknesses.

Naturally, his physical abilities were all he had to rely on, and that result seemed to be reflected in his subconscious and continued until now.

In his failed life, physical ability was one of the results, and Sung Hyun eventually began to prefer operating magical power rather than moving his body.

“I should be thanking you? You’ve given me a small realization,” Sung Hyun said, a hint of gratitude in his voice.

“W, what nonsense…!” the boss sputtered, his face contorted with rage.

The boss, who was busy blocking the sword, didn’t even properly see that 1/3 of the sand dune had been neatly split and collapsed.

“Shall we check the power too?” Sung Hyun asked rhetorically.

Sung Hyun swung his sword towards the magical beasts trying to climb up the hill.

Infusing a little more magical power than before.

“This is… fun,” Sung Hyun said, a grin spreading across his face.

He had only swung the sword once, but more than half of the magical beasts were split in half by the bursting sword aura.

A few stronger magical beasts seemed to be blocking it.

“The power doesn’t surpass authority, but it’s definitely good for dealing with multiple enemies,” Sung Hyun assessed.

This made it easier to deal with an opponent who controlled so many magical beasts.

The swords created with authority would be combined into one to increase their power, and Sung Hyun would deal with the rest himself.

“You’re blocking 10 of them well?” Sung Hyun asked, his tone laced with amusement.

“Don’t talk like you’re evaluating me!!” the boss roared, his face reddening with fury.

Sung Hyun looked down at the boss with an interested gaze, just like the boss had looked at him at first.

Then, he combined the 10 swords into one.

“I’ll get annoyed if you do something else, so just block that,” Sung Hyun said, his voice dismissive.

“How dare a human!!” the boss roared, his voice filled with rage.

The boss felt shame and humiliation he had never felt before at the tone that was like appeasing a child by giving them a toy, but as Sung Hyun said, he couldn’t ignore that sword.

The boss withdrew the black rain that had covered the sky.

He had come to the conclusion that he couldn’t stop that human with magical beasts alone, and in the end, there was no other way but to deal with him directly.

“You will regret… provoking me,” the boss snarled, his eyes burning with hatred.

“Sure,” Sung Hyun replied, his voice nonchalant.

The boss summoned one of the stronger magical beasts that Sung Hyun had dealt with.

Then, after making it block the sword made of light with its body, he began to concentrate magical power in his hand.

Then, black droplets floated around the boss and gathered in his hand to form the shape of a sword.

While the summoned magical beast was blocking Sung Hyun’s sword, the boss grabbed the sword with both hands and began to infuse magical power.

Nothing changed much on the surface, but the surface of the sword, which had been as calm as a lake, began to surge like a sea in a storm.

“Come. You bug,” the boss hissed, his voice dripping with venom.

Sung Hyun had already finished analyzing the boss.

And he also had the confidence that he wouldn’t lose thanks to his infinite magical power.

“I’m not one to come when told, but I’ll make an exception this time,” Sung Hyun said, a smirk playing on his lips.

Sung Hyun slowly came down the sand dune, slashing his sword aura a few times at the magical beasts charging towards him.

Very slowly.

So slowly that it felt like he wanted the surrounding magical beasts to rush at him.