I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 265

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‘Reverse Heaven.’

It was an ability I hadn’t even properly tested yet, but this wasn’t the time to be stingy.

All the battles up until now had started with Sung Hyun having the advantage.

The benefits of healing and limitless mana.

Based on these two things, I had created situations where the opponent had to move first, but this was different.

‘Hesitating is suicide.’

The opponent possesses the ability to create.

Sung Hyun had far more abilities compared to other ordinary Hunters, but it was hard to compare to the owner of that Gate, who could create abilities themselves.

In this situation, using abilities one by one to test the waters would be the same as giving the opponent a chance to respond.

“…Just the race is human.”

A single army created by Reverse Heaven.

The owner of the Gate chuckled as he looked at it.

What human could show that level of power?

He already knew that I had won the battle against the Level 2 Gate owner, and he also knew that my mana was infinite, but seeing it with his own eyes gave him a new feeling.

‘But…’

A human is a human.

Even if they surpassed the limits of their race, there was something they could never catch up to.

Experience.

I don’t know how many battles he’s been in, but in this world, power is everything.

In a place where everything is established by power, the human race probably doesn’t know what it means to reign at the top.

“Amazing. I admit it.”

A single army spread out wide beside Sung Hyun.

From the appearance of them standing firmly while emitting light, it could be seen that they possessed absolute loyalty and power befitting their size.

That wasn’t all.

An unidentifiable sword floating in the sky above them.

Judging by the fact that it emitted the same light as the army, it seemed to be made of light as well.

‘I can feel it just by looking at what’s visible now.’

The human in front of me probably had the power to withstand all the beings in his world attacking at once.

‘He’s thinking of ending the battle quickly.’

His judgment of the situation was also the best.

Usually, if you have healing abilities and infinite mana, you would try to prolong the battle, but he had the judgment to give up his advantages depending on the opponent.

He gives up his advantages, but eliminates the opponent’s advantages.

And when comparing the weight of these two, it was naturally more burdensome for the owner of the Gate.

Even though he knew about Sung Hyun, it wasn’t in great detail.

“An army and a sword made of light, huh.”

He kept mentioning only these two things, but in fact, the owner of the Gate also knew.

The biggest problem was Sung Hyun himself.

The appearance of Sung Hyun holding the sword with the black chain, which the Level 5 Gate owner had, gave off the same feeling as those who reigned at the top.

And the owner of the Gate had only felt this feeling a few times in his many years of life.

Other than the owners of dimensions.

“Come.”

What kind of battle would Sung Hyun show?

The countless army and the same number of swords.

Sung Hyun used his summons first.

The army summoned by the number of believers, each of them had different abilities, but their power was several tens of times stronger due to Sung Hyun’s buff and the Sanctuary’s buff.

An ability of a summon that would have ended with just a small fireball was showing the power of a Hunter ranked at the top among high-level Hunters, thanks to Sung Hyun’s and the Sanctuary’s buffs.

There weren’t just one or two of these summons.

All the summons present here were the same.

If they had only become stronger, I wouldn’t have known, but even that wasn’t the case.

The level of mana manipulation was also extraordinary, and they seemed to know what position and timing their abilities would be most powerful in.

“I didn’t see this ability when fighting the Level 2 Gate owner, did he grow in the meantime?”

Attacks flying in without even the slightest blind spot.

From the owner’s point of view, it was as if the end of the world was coming.

However, the ability of the owner of the Gate was the ability to create.

No matter how much creation it was, it was impossible to completely eliminate these summons in front of him, but that depended on how it was used.

He could create an ability to eliminate summons.

He wouldn’t be able to eliminate all of them, but it was a definite ability.

The owner wanted to eliminate all of them and created another ability.

“I thought you forgot my ability.”

This is where the difference appeared.

The experience of using the ability of creation countless times until now.

And the experience of using it in battle.

“I want to end this one-on-one.”

In an instant, a huge amount of mana surged.

It was only for a fleeting moment, but I could definitely feel it.

The ability created by the owner of the Gate was not an ability that affected the summons themselves.

It was an ability that only Sung Hyun and himself should exist in this space.

In some ways, it was an amazing ability, but it wasn’t really.

The ability the owner created was not a condition that was favorable to either of them.

It was just a little unfortunate that Sung Hyun had the ability to summon.

Because both were given the same conditions equally.

“Do you get a sense of it now?”

“…I’m starting to realize it now.”

The summons hadn’t disappeared.

I could still feel their mana at this moment.

They were just isolated somewhere unknown.

A cycle that would eventually return no matter how much I summoned them again.

‘It would have been a big help. What a shame.’

Sung Hyun had no choice but to cancel the summons.

Still, it was fortunate that the swords remained.

“Shall we start properly now?”

“You seem confident.”

Sung Hyun smiled lightly and strode towards the owner with his sword.

“Let’s see how much you can block.”

“What…”

The owner used creation at the sight of Sung Hyun taking a stance to swing his sword.

It would be best to prevent the opponent’s attack from being activated in the first place, but that would mean that only Sung Hyun would be unfairly disadvantaged, so he couldn’t use it.

The owner’s ability was creation, but of course, as it was an amazing ability, there were also tricky conditions attached.

That is, the conditions for each other must be the same.

Like when he used it to eliminate Sung Hyun’s summons just now, content that is disadvantageous to one person was impossible.

Of course, it wasn’t a big obstacle for the owner.

Only the result had to be the same.

That was the case just now, and it would be the same in the future.

The owner flew a subtle amount of mana towards Sung Hyun, who was swinging his sword, and used his ability.

‘Neutralize each other’s attacks.’

It didn’t matter how different the size of the attacks was.

It was just that they attacked each other, and those attacks disappeared.

“That’s how you fight…”

He didn’t doubt it even a little.

These were facts that he had confirmed directly with his body while experiencing countless battles.

However, Sung Hyun’s attack weakened a little, but it didn’t disappear.

To be exact, the mana contained in the sword disappeared, but the act of swinging the sword itself did not disappear.

“Kugh!”

Even though all the mana contained in the sword had disappeared, the power of the sword was beyond imagination.

I thought it was strange that he swung his sword in the air from a bit of a distance, but there was a reason for it.

The wind pressure from swinging the sword alone was this powerful.

If I were to be hit by that sword directly, I would have to expect to lose a part of my body.

‘To this extent.’

There were really occasional cases like this.

As he had lived for a long time, it wasn’t that he hadn’t seen it, but it was so long ago that he couldn’t even remember when he had seen it.

The ability of creation was almost limitless, but almost didn’t mean it didn’t exist.

All abilities that exist in this world depend on the vessel of the user.

There were cases where the vessel grew by others and by one’s own efforts, but even that couldn’t withstand the body if it exceeded the limit.

‘Am I…smaller than that human’s vessel?’

It wasn’t usually shocking content.

Not even the current strength of a mere human, but the size of the vessel itself is small.

Regardless of the direction of this battle, there was nothing more humiliating and prideful than this.

“You look quite embarrassed.”

“I’m just a little surprised.”

Sung Hyun wasn’t in a very relaxed situation either.

Even though he used a single blow with Assimilation [a powerful, temporary state] in a situation where he couldn’t use summons, this was all the damage.

Assimilation, which can only be used once a day, was now virtually unusable, and the rest had to be unraveled again.

‘There’s one thing I suspect…’

First, the Level 1 Gate owner did not use one-sided abilities.

The owner explained it himself a little while ago, but that was only a part of it.

It would be easier to use an ability that would prevent Sung Hyun from moving in the first place, or an ability that would seal his mana altogether, but he didn’t.

In addition, the owner’s mana flew towards Sung Hyun and disappeared, although it was very slight.

It couldn’t have been leaked mana, so it obviously meant that the owner had sent it to Sung Hyun, but what was the reason?

‘I just have to check it.’

The mana that disappeared when swinging the sword.

And at the same time, the faint mana that was flying towards Sung Hyun disappeared.

There was definitely no way there was no connection.

“Try it again.”

“…Crazy bastard.”

Sung Hyun gave it his all this time too.

The swords floating in the air.

He combined all these swords into one and aimed it at the owner, and at the same time, he took a stance to swing the sword again.

‘With power as similar to a single blow as possible.’

How will he block it this time?

The owner would also know, as Sung Hyun knew and was aiming for.

That if he blocked it in the same way as he had blocked Sung Hyun’s blow just now, he would find out the identity of this ability.

That’s why the owner created a different ability from the one he had used just now.

The sword made of light is made of mana.

The sword that Sung Hyun swings is a purely physical attack without mana.

In order to block these two attacks at once, the owner used a simple but sure method.

Dividing Sung Hyun and himself with a dimension.

The dimension was blocking between the divided Sung Hyun and the owner, and the sword of light was blocked without even crossing that dimension.

However, Sung Hyun’s sword was different.

“Ha, divide the dimension?”

Chang didn’t tell him, but Sung Hyun was also affected by the Sanctuary [a place of divine power or protection].

Of course, not as much as other believers.

He could have continued the attack, but Sung Hyun didn’t.

There was no need to.

“You. You can only do one at a time?”

“…”

The owner couldn’t say anything at the sight of Sung Hyun smiling with an expression as if he understood now.

“It’s a really fatal flaw. Only one at a time, and I don’t know the details, but it seems like you have to balance it with the opponent.”

“Knowing that doesn’t change anything.”

“Yeah. It’s just that ‘I’ know it that’s the problem. For you.”

The owner now realized what Sung Hyun’s greatest strength was.

Infinite mana? Strength that surpassed the limits of the human race? Constantly healing?

It wasn’t any of that.

The ability to understand the opponent.

It was an ability that didn’t even exist, but that one thing was at a level that far exceeded imagination.