I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 237

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After dealing with the owner of the Rank 2 Gate, Seonghyun had spent time training separately with Park Hanwook.

That meant he hadn’t subjugated the Gate yet.

With the Gate outbreak resolved and all Gates’ levels changed to a state that caused mutations, the number of Hunters who could subjugate Rank 2 Gates had significantly decreased.

However, the number of Rank 2 Gates was twice as many as before.

Gates were now coexisting entities, but having too many was never a good thing.

So, the Association made a separate request to Seonghyun.

To subjugate the Rank 2 Gates.

Currently, there were a total of four Rank 2 Gates in Korea.

All four of these Rank 2 Gates had mutated to the point that no one dared to subjugate them.

Except for the recent mutations of Rank 2 Gates, there had only been one instance of a Rank 2 Gate mutating throughout history.

The memory of that time remained vivid and shocking in everyone’s minds.

Of course, the same was true for other top-ranked Hunters in Korea.

In the first place, there had only been two instances of Rank 2 Gate mutations.

If we overlook the first one because it happened a long time ago, Seonghyun had subjugated the second one alone.

Those who knew, knew.

The fact that Seonghyun was stronger than Lich or Padron.

With even the record of subjugating it alone, there were virtually no Hunters other than Seonghyun who could subjugate the mutated Rank 2 Gates.

“Only asking me to subjugate two Rank 2 Gates.”

There was nothing wrong with the request itself, but the Vice-Chairman’s attitude in asking this was quite remarkable.

‘Could you please subjugate just two Rank 2 Gates?’

It was as if he was asking to subjugate a Rank 5 or Rank 4 Gate.

Anyone who heard it would think it was something that could be done lightly when he had time.

Of course, the answer was to accept it.

Strictly speaking, the Association was making the request first, so there was reasonable compensation for it.

“I’ll subjugate this one first today, and then subjugate another Rank 2 Gate within this week.”

There was one more thing to do besides subjugating the Gates.

Meeting Kal.

He had to finish talking about the lab and get confirmation on the hypotheses Seonghyun had established.

Of course, that was after he had successfully subjugated the Rank 2 Gate, so Seonghyun entered the Gate to subjugate one of the Rank 2 Gates he had been asked to handle.

“I definitely made the right choice coming to the newly formed Rank 2 Gate.”

The existing Rank 2 Gates already had accumulated internal information.

So, he had deliberately said he would subjugate the two newly formed Gates, and seeing the scene unfolding before his eyes, it seemed like an excellent choice.

Scorching, as if his flesh was cooking, hot and humid inside.

The floor was already glowing red as if it was burning, and it seemed like the floor was the source of this heat.

“If other Hunters had come…”

They would have lost half of their strength in this terribly unfavorable environment and started the battle.

Soon, he felt the energy of the monsters around him.

Certainly, the magical power felt was incomparably stronger than the energy felt in the existing Rank 2 Gates.

“Hmm…”

However, one question remained: there were more monsters than Seonghyun knew.

Of course, if each monster wasn’t very strong, there could be a large number of monsters, but the magical power of the monsters he felt now was already quite strong.

In comparison, if the number was originally supposed to be one, there were slightly more, about 1.5 times the number of monsters.

“…Is the change already this noticeable?”

That’s why Seonghyun had taken some time before subjugating the next Rank 2 Gate.

To find out how the magical power inside the Gate would change after the Gate outbreak was stopped.

But the difference was already starting to show.

“First, I need to finish subjugating this Gate.”

While he was thinking, the monsters inside the Gate began to gather around Seonghyun.

Monsters with lower intelligence compared to Rank 2 Gates.

However, those that should have gone to intelligence went to magical power and strength, so they were stronger and tougher than the monsters in ordinary mutated Rank 2 Gates.

Monsters that looked like lizards but had bodies similar to humans.

Just a little bigger.

“Now that there are no restrictions here…”

Seonghyun used Assimilation like he did last time.

The very faint magical power of Park Hanwook.

The same sensation as before, the same magical power began to flow through his body.

However, one thing was different: last time, he had passively allowed the magical power to be absorbed, but now Seonghyun was actively injecting it.

Thanks to that, Park Hanwook’s ability, which was only used to absorbing, seemed quite flustered and couldn’t accept the magical power for a moment, but soon began to absorb Seonghyun’s injected magical power without leaving anything behind, as if he liked it.

50% more magical power than he used in the East Sea.

What kind of result would occur?

Just before the magical power gathered in the sword was about to burst out.

The monsters that had gathered towards Seonghyun began to act differently than Seonghyun had expected.

He thought they would rush in before attacking, but it was the opposite.

They stopped in their tracks and stared at Seonghyun.

“Why did they stop? Are they saying, ‘Go ahead and attack me. What’s this?'”

If that were the case, he would feel quite bad, but looking at the expressions of the monsters, that didn’t seem to be the case.

The expressions were slightly different from when they first met.

He didn’t have the ability to read the eyes of lizards, but he could at least know one thing.

These monsters were not preparing for Seonghyun’s next attack.

“Ah. That’s what it is.”

They couldn’t do anything.

They were frozen in place, hoping that Seonghyun’s next attack would at least spare them.

Seonghyun had no intention of leaving anyone behind.

The moment he entered this Gate, all the monsters inside this Gate had to meet their end.

That’s how Seonghyun could get out, and in the first place, he had come in to eliminate everything inside this Gate.

Magical power began to burst out along Seonghyun’s sword.

This time, unlike last time, from left to right.

He swung his sword to attack a wider range.

From the moment he swung his sword, unidentified things rippled darkly along the trajectory of the sword.

Like before, thin black magical power began to extend out, forming an exact horizontal line with the ground.

“Kiek!”

The monster closest to Seonghyun didn’t even recognize the existence of that magical power and was cut in half.

It didn’t change anything for those behind it.

In the first place, it was magical power that couldn’t be avoided or blocked.

“Where’s the boss?”

The monsters outside the trajectory of the sword had already been killed by the sword Seonghyun had summoned.

All that remained was the boss inside the Gate.

After using the strike and dealing with the remaining monsters, there was only one other energy felt inside.

Up ahead, magical power that felt faintly for some reason.

Arriving at the place where the magical power was felt, Seonghyun made eye contact with the boss looking at him.

“So, the boss is still a boss, huh?”

Somehow, the boss was sitting on the floor with both arms cut off and half of his chest cut, looking up at Seonghyun.

It seemed like he had tried to block Seonghyun’s magical power with both arms but failed.

Since Seonghyun’s magical power had already split dozens of monsters and was quite far from the original position, it seemed possible.

“Are you disappointed?”

The boss looked up at Seonghyun with eyes full of hatred.

His eyes were full of hatred and revenge, but he couldn’t hide the fact that he was losing vitality.

Seonghyun lowered his posture in front of such a boss to match his eye level as much as possible.

Then, showing the most pitiful expression Seonghyun could show, he said.

“Then you should have been stronger.”

After finishing speaking, Seonghyun stood up again.

Then, he summoned a summon with Lich’s ability.

“Collect all the crystals.”

Following Seonghyun’s instructions, the summon with Lich’s ability summoned his legion.

Perhaps due to Seonghyun’s influence, the summoned legion was not in the form of the dead but a legion made of light.

The legion began to collect the crystals of the monsters that had been cut in half.

Looking at the scene, Seonghyun looked down at the boss, whose focus was blurry as he had almost lost all vitality, and said.

“Well, it wouldn’t change anything by just getting moderately stronger.”

Perhaps he had squeezed out all of his last remaining strength, the boss looked at Seonghyun for the last time with eyes that seemed to be pouring out curses before closing his eyes.

The time it took for Seonghyun to subjugate the Rank 2 Gate was about 10 minutes.

It was even the time it took to subjugate it alone.

Since Seonghyun didn’t care much about this record play anyway, he didn’t give it much meaning.

Of course, others didn’t.

Somehow, they already knew that Seonghyun had subjugated the Rank 2 Gate in about 10 minutes, and an article had already been published.

Even overseas first.

[Kim Seonghyun of South Korea. Subjugates a Rank 2 Gate alone in 10 minutes.]

Even before the Gate changed, it was an amazing record, but now that it was at a mutated level, it was a completely different story.

“Tsk…”

Seonghyun, who was checking this article, also clicked his tongue.

“Why are they so interested in other people’s business?”

Still, he thought it was a positive result.

Being interested in other people’s business meant that at least their own situation was good enough to take care of themselves.

After finishing the Rank 2 Gate subjugation, Seonghyun immediately took out the equipment he had received from Kal to meet him.

“I hope he didn’t trick me.”

He had said with his own mouth that he was a variable, so if this was a trap or not connected to Kal, Kal would be at a loss.

Seonghyun also knew the location of Sammy’s lab, so he could destroy everything if necessary.

Pressing the button on the equipment in his hand, he felt a magical power that seemed to forcibly drag his body.

Then, a scene similar to what he had seen before unfolded.

“Here is…”

It was a place quite similar to the place where he first met Kal, but it wasn’t exactly the same place.

And waiting for such Seonghyun was Kal, maintaining the same appearance and atmosphere as when they first met.

Envy’s appearance was not visible.

A place where only the two of them were.

“You’ve come.”

Kal reacted as if he already knew Seonghyun was coming.

“Yeah.”

Unlike before, Seonghyun now had more things he knew and was curious about.

How far could Kal answer Seonghyun’s questions?

Kal offered Seonghyun a seat, and Seonghyun sat facing Kal.

“You have more questions than last time.”

“Did you know I was coming?”

“Roughly? I see the future, but I only see the results. So, what are you curious about?”

Before getting to the main point, there were things that needed to be clarified.

The safety of the test subjects in Sammy’s lab.

“The ones in the lab…”

“I’ve released them all. The research is over now.”

“The research is over?”

“Yeah. To be exact, things that could replace the test subjects came out during the research.”

Seonghyun didn’t ask what those replacements were.

He didn’t want to know more deeply, and he didn’t care as long as there were no more civilian casualties.

“So. Why did you come to me?”

Kal spoke as if he knew what questions he would ask.

Also, it seemed as if he had already decided what answers he would give.