I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 198

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Padron himself thought that this attack had perfect timing and a powerful flow.

“…”

Clearly, Padron’s hand had pierced the boss’s side, but it didn’t inflict as much critical damage as he had expected.

Compared to the boss’s attack, which had penetrated about two segments deep, Padron’s attack only managed to penetrate about one segment.

“Its toughness is absolutely insane…”

Padron still tried to capitalize on his momentum and bombard the boss with attacks.

Any being would hesitate upon receiving an injury. Without needing to think further, Padron was about to unleash additional attacks when he suddenly met the boss’s eyes.

“…Huh?”

Eyes, nose, mouth.

The boss’s face had been blank.

It wasn’t a common face, so Padron wasn’t mistaken.

But now, Padron was clearly making eye contact with the boss.

When the boss first appeared,

the sky had seemed to tear apart in a dramatic change, and something very similar was happening on the boss’s face.

One of the spots where the eyes should be began to split open as if tearing, and soon a red pupil appeared.

There was no other sensation.

Padron was unknowingly staring blankly at the unpleasant red eye that continued to give him only ominous premonitions.

No, the eye was making him stare blankly.

As he gazed into the eye for a moment, it suddenly began to glow.

The briefly red-glowing eye soon returned to its original state, and the boss kicked away the dazed Padron.

As the distance between Padron and the boss widened, the other top-tier hunters began their attacks, but the boss easily dodged or blocked them.

“Kugh!”

Thanks to that, Padron regained his senses and stared at the boss again.

No matter how ominous that gaze was, the fact that it would disappear from this place remained unchanged.

“Hey! Did you see that?! That bastard opened his eyes!!”

“Yes, I see it. Padron, there’s definitely something in those eyes.”

As Lich said, those eyes clearly had a special ability.

However, the course of this battle would change slightly depending on how special it was.

The boss kept his position while staring at Padron, and the other hunters were also checking the changed state of the boss along with a brief lull in the fighting.

“…Could it be.”

Padron continued to check the boss with a hardened face.

He tried to discern what had changed, whether there was a change in the flow of magic.

The boss remained motionless, but there was one thing that had changed.

The wound on his side was disappearing.

“Shit…”

It was a situation that could only elicit curses.

The wound that had been created with such effort was starting to heal.

Moreover, that wasn’t all.

The fact that the wound was healing after the boss opened his eyes…

“Is it copying abilities?”

It was the worst-case scenario.

However, it was not yet certain whether copying like that was only possible once, or whether he would continue to use it like his own ability.

“We’ll find out if we beat him up.”

Lich and Sunghyun were also fully aware of this situation.

The wound was healing after the boss opened his eyes.

“It seems like he copied Padron’s ability, right?”

“Yes, it seems so. He copied the ability after opening one eye… If he opens the other eye, it seems like he’ll copy one more ability?”

The fact that he copied abilities was surprising enough, but Sunghyun didn’t seem too surprised.

“Aren’t you surprised?”

“I was surprised.”

“You don’t seem surprised at all…”

“It seems like there are conditions.”

“Conditions?”

As Sunghyun said, it seemed like there were some conditions required for the boss to copy abilities.

First, the boss did not copy Sunghyun’s ability even though he had directly witnessed it.

And he didn’t copy Padron’s and the other hunters’ abilities right away even though he had checked them before.

“If there’s a condition… it’s that he has to open his eyes.”

“Yes. Also, I think he can copy the ability of the target who injured him.”

“Even if there are conditions, it’s an amazing ability. If he copies Kim Sunghyun Hunter’s ability…”

“It’ll get quite troublesome.”

The difficulty would increase to the point where it couldn’t be defined by the word ‘troublesome,’ so Lich sighed inwardly.

It wasn’t a big deal for Sunghyun anyway.

Looking at the current situation, it seemed like they could clear it with their own strength even if other variables arose.

‘I can make Padron stronger too…’

It wasn’t just for the purpose of not revealing his power.

Padron, who recovers and gets stronger as much as he is injured, was also a hunter in Sunghyun’s final plan, so the stronger he gets, the more welcome it is.

“Padron! Did you hear that?”

“Yeah. It’s a good thing. It would have been hell if he had copied Sunghyun’s ability.”

Now that he roughly understood the identity of the eyes, Padron rushed at the boss.

The ability the boss copied was the ability to heal his own body.

The speed wasn’t fast, and strictly speaking, he hadn’t gotten stronger, so nothing would change in the battle.

The battle between Padron and the boss started again.

Unlike the first engagement, the other top-tier hunters also began providing fire support, but the situation did not improve much.

The small wounds that were created were only making the boss stronger.

Padron frowned and muttered at the situation that was not improving easily.

“Ha, I’m just finding out that my ability is such a troublesome ability.”

If it was just healing, it would be fine, but he was starting to feel that he was gradually getting stronger.

“Lich!”

“I know.”

While Padron was dealing with the boss, Lich wasn’t just playing around.

That ability that instantly dealt with the mutated Rank 2 gate’s monster.

“Kim Sunghyun Hunter, where is the boss’s weak point?”

“It’s the same as a human. The heart or the head.”

“So that’s why you didn’t tell me first?”

“Yes.”

Lich, who showed a smile as if he knew Sunghyun well now, turned his gaze back to the boss.

No monster had ever escaped this ability so far.

Even the strongest monster, the mutated Rank 2 gate’s monster from a while ago, disappeared without any resistance or escape.

However, since the opponent was the opponent, he needed much more time to concentrate than before.

There was only one chance.

If he failed, it would take a long time to use the ability again, and the boss would get stronger and stronger in the meantime.

Just like Padron and Lich had been together for quite a long time, they knew what each other wanted and were preparing without saying anything.

Padron would like to deal with the boss on his own, but he knew that it was impossible, so he had changed his strategy a little.

To avoid inflicting as much damage as possible.

However, the boss’s reaction was a little unusual.

Even though he was clearly facing Padron in front of him, the ominous red eyes kept staring at the back.

‘Did he notice Lich’s change? While fighting me?’

Now that his ability had already been taken away, it was meaningless to fight with all his might.

It was rather a harmful situation.

Of course, Padron wasn’t giving his all, and the boss had relatively more leeway.

‘Was it an unavoidable problem from the moment my ability was taken away?’

The situation where the first button was buttoned wrong was a little unpleasant, but it was no use regretting it now, so Padron focused on the boss in front of him.

‘Lich’s magic operation is coming to an end.’

It was a very subtle change, but Padron could tell.

That a trump card to deal with this boss was about to be prepared.

Even if Lich’s attack failed to deal with the boss, it was clear that it would create a big gap.

In the meantime, if Padron and the rest of the top-tier hunters poured out their attacks with all their might, he wouldn’t be able to withstand it, no matter how much he had copied his self-healing ability.

‘It’s over…’

The moment Lich’s magic operation stopped for a split second.

That meant that all preparations were complete.

Was it thanks to the thought that he could at least inflict a fatal wound on the boss?

The string of tension that had been loosened just a little in this short moment.

The boss had been waiting for this moment, and he rushed at Lich as he had rushed at Padron in the very beginning.

The boss aimed for Lich’s heart.

He knew very well where the weaknesses of humans were, and since his body had the same vital points as humans, the place to aim for was already decided.

“Ah, no!!”

Padron, who checked the boss who had disappeared from his sight in an instant, hurriedly followed behind the boss, but the speed was almost the same, so the difference was not narrowed.

The distance wasn’t that far in the first place.

If he had ambushed with a speed that the top-tier hunters couldn’t even notice, the speed was beyond imagination.

The boss was attacking Lich, and his gaze was directed at Sunghyun.

If there was anyone who could block this attack, it was only Sunghyun, who had followed his movements without missing a single bit of his first ambush.

Since Sunghyun was right behind Lich, this variable was the biggest variable.

Even so, the boss rushed at Lich.

As if he had a trump card.

In the short moment when the boss rushed at Lich, the other eye of the boss was gradually distorted.

The same change that everyone had confirmed when the first red eye was created.

However, this time, a blue eye, not a red eye, took its place on the other side.

The place where the blue eye’s gaze was directed was Sunghyun.

Just like the red eye had copied Padron’s ability, this time too, the boss’s blue eye was shining while looking into Sunghyun’s eyes.

And Sunghyun was the only one who noticed the boss’s change until all these processes were over.

After all these things were over, and the moment when the boss was sure that he could deal with Lich came, Lich was able to grasp it.

The fact that the boss had attacked him, and the fact that he could not block this attack due to the gap created while consuming a huge amount of magic while preparing for the attack.

It was an attack that he could have blocked normally, but it was impossible now.

It was the very moment when the magic operation was just finished, so he couldn’t reverse it while enduring the backlash, nor could he finish it.

Even though he had reached right in front of Lich, Sunghyun only looked at the boss and didn’t show any movement.

The boss, who checked Sunghyun’s condition until the end, finally turned his gaze to the prey.

The other humans who were launching ranged attacks at him were now obscured by the prey in front of him, and the tough human who had been blocking him was behind him with a slightly delayed reaction.

The ability of the boss’s other eye, the blue eye, was to seal the opponent’s movements.

The boss sealed Sunghyun, who had accurately grasped his movements, with his blue eyes, not Lich, who was the prey.

The magic power felt was overwhelmingly more from Lich, but he had no intention of leaving behind a variable that had grasped his movements.

Soon, the boss reached out his hand to tear out Lich’s heart, just like he had torn Padron’s side.