I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 269

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After the owner of the 1st class gate disappeared, Sunghyun was met with nothing as he exited the gate.

Normally, the system window would appear to explain any changes and gains, but it was gone.

“Feels kind of empty.”

Their relationship wasn’t exactly good or bad, but with nothing appearing, it felt like he had lost something he always carried with him.

Even though the system window disappeared, making it impossible to know exactly how much stronger he had become, he could still feel it.

The moment he left that gate, Sunghyun had grown again.

“If the system window was an arrangement left by the owner of the dimension… why did it disappear?”

It was hard to say for sure, but no matter how he thought about it, there seemed to be only one reason.

The owner of the dimension could no longer maintain the system window.

Perhaps the structure was such that the owner of the dimension also gradually lost power as the gate owners were lost?

“…Surely the owner of the dimension wouldn’t have disappeared so easily? Maybe they just went into a deep sleep.”

More importantly, the most pressing issue was that the gates that hadn’t been overflowing were about to start overflowing.

Starting with the disappeared 5th class gates.

Sunghyun checked his phone first, wondering if any other calls had come in while he was inside the gate.

The phone was filled with missed calls, with each contact having at least three missed calls.

From Inhwan and Sangyeon, the Vice-Chairman of Korea and the Chairman of the United States, to Japan, Russia, Egypt, and so on, everywhere connected to Sunghyun had called.

Sunghyun called Inhwan first.

“Hello?”

“Hey! Where the hell have you been? Why haven’t you been answering your phone?”

“Just out. What’s up?”

“The disappeared 5th class gates have reappeared. But far more have appeared than the last recorded number, and they started overflowing simultaneously.”

Just as the owner of the dimension had said.

“Anything else different?”

“The 5th class gates aren’t the same as the old 5th class gates. It seems like they’ve reappeared with all the changes to the gates so far.”

The gates became stronger, and the number of gates increased.

The disappeared 5th class gates reappeared with both of these factors applied.

“And their aggressiveness is insane. It’s well known that monsters are incredibly aggressive, but this… it feels like something else has been added. Like they’ve received an absolute command?”

“…Really?”

“Yeah. Anyway, if you’re done with your business, come over here quickly. I have other differences to report.”

“Okay. Thanks for the hard work. I’ll be there soon.”

Before going to the guild building, Sunghyun called all the places that had contacted him to check the situation.

The answers were all the same.

Similarly, it was a completely different level compared to the last record, and it was the same content that Inhwan had mentioned.

Sunghyun told them that the 4th class gates would soon overflow and ended the call.

He went straight to the guild building where Inhwan was, and Inhwan, whose eyes were bloodshot from the insane amount of work due to the insane overflow of gates, greeted him.

“Oh, you’re here?”

“You’re having a hard time. What’s the situation?”

“The 5th class gates have started overflowing all over the country. The Vice-Chairman will be here soon too. We’ll report together when he arrives.”

“Okay.”

The Vice-Chairman arrived shortly after, and Inhwan began the report.

“Can we check the data that the Vice-Chairman brought?”

“Here it is.”

Information on the status of the 5th class gate outbreaks.

Information on the 5th class gates that appeared all over the country, as well as the overflows.

“First of all, the monsters from this 5th class gate are actually a little stronger than the monsters from the 4th class gate? That’s how you can think of it. However, as I said, they look like they’ve received an absolute command, so…”

“The association has released the measurement results.”

“What…”

“The magic power’s wave itself has completely changed. That means there was some kind of change.”

Until now, it was very common for magic power to become enormous as the gates underwent rapid changes, but this was the first time that the type of wave itself had completely changed.

“How are we responding?”

It was Sunghyun’s first question.

Rather than asking about the detailed changes in the gate, he asked what other damage there was and how they were responding.

“With the level of hunters being quite high now, in fact, even if there are a large number of monsters at the 4th class gate level, there isn’t much damage. Right now, it’s more like crystals are pouring out even if we do nothing.”

Nevertheless, the reason they were worried was one thing.

If this overflow continued to the 4th, 3rd, and even 1st class gates, there was no way to survive, no matter how they thought about it.

“So, Hunter Kim. Do you happen to know anything this time?”

The Vice-Chairman’s expression looked desperate.

There was quite a difference between suspecting and preparing and being sure and preparing.

And until now, Sunghyun had always been the first to talk about the rapid changes in the gates.

“What’s certain is that the 4th class gates will overflow soon. I don’t know when, though.”

“I knew it…”

The Vice-Chairman coldly grasped the current power of Korea.

Although they had the overwhelming power of Sunghyun, he was not a talent who would be tied to Korea, so they had to overcome the situation with the power of other hunters first.

“Then shouldn’t we subjugate the gates in advance now?”

Inhwan’s words were quite reasonable and efficient.

The current overflow of 5th class gates is at a level that can be stopped by the level of hunters residing in the provinces without the need for the association to send separate support personnel.

If so, if they gathered hunters with spare capacity and subjugated the 4th and 3rd class gates, and even borrowed Sunghyun’s power to subjugate the 2nd class gates, they could definitely prepare for the overflows that would occur in the future.

“That’s definitely a good way. If we reduce the number of gates in advance, we can not only reduce the number of overflowing monsters, but also concentrate hunters in one place.”

The Vice-Chairman’s head began to spin busily.

Which area’s gates should be subjugated first to see the greatest effect when concentratedly deployed.

“It’s a good method.”

“Hunter Kim, do you think so too?”

The most certain evidence.

Sunghyun’s agreement.

Since Sunghyun himself said it was a good method, it meant that it was already half-verified.

“Of course, only if one class of gates overflows at a time.”

“That, that means…”

He meant that only the 5th class gates were overflowing now, but next time, the 4th and 3rd class gates could overflow at the same time.

“The fact that the gates are overflowing is certain. The best way to prepare for this is to increase the level of the hunters.”

“That’s right.”

“Please do as you have been doing so far. The level is high enough to respond even if the 4th and 3rd class gates overflow, so there won’t be a lot of time pressure.”

“I understand. I will take action as you said.”

The Vice-Chairman soon got up from his seat, bowed to Sunghyun, and left the room.

“Shall we do the same?”

“Yeah. Nothing different for us either.”

“Okay. I understand.”

Sunghyun still had something to do.

Now that the system window was gone.

He had to know what had become stronger.

“Keep an eye on the situation, and if anything changes, contact me. I think I need to train too.”

“Okay. I’ll contact you. Where are you going to train?”

“Somewhere as deserted as possible?”

“…That’s wise. Okay. I’ll contact you.”

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“Haa… this feeling… this sensation…”

Just taking a short breath released a deep chill from his mouth.

So much so that the pure white frozen air began to crack in the void.

“The owner of the 3rd dimension has been annihilated…”

“That is correct.”

It was nothing special.

Just a room with a few strangely shaped chairs and a huge round table.

“It’s strange. Not even protecting the children he cherished so much.”

“Isn’t it because of the vessel?”

Commonly known as the vessel [a being created for the perfect resurrection of the owner of the 2nd dimension].

“Although the form has returned like this, it is still insufficient.”

“All preparations are proceeding without a hitch.”

How long had they waited for this moment?

If they hadn’t been able to twist the axis of time at the last moment, they would probably have been annihilated like the owner of the 3rd dimension.

“How is the 1st dimension?”

“The will of the owner of the 1st dimension is gradually showing. It seems like they will wake up from their eternal sleep soon.”

“…It doesn’t matter. They won’t have any power anyway.”

The owner of the 2nd dimension finished speaking and got up from their seat.

Until now, they had been in eternal sleep and unable to do anything, but that was just their story.

During that time of eternal sleep, the owner’s children had been accumulating power.

“Show me.”

“Yes.”

Following their child to see what the child had accomplished.

Even though their power had not fully returned, the owner of the 2nd dimension was in the happiest moment since waking up from their eternal sleep.

Leaving the room and passing through a long, dark, and gloomy corridor to go outside.

Normally, it would get brighter as they went outside, but this was not such a place.

Rather, the scenery became darker.

Only a silence that seemed to contain nothing continued to linger.

Originally, it was a distance that could be traveled in an instant, but the owner and the owner’s child did not do so.

As if savoring this moment, they slowly moved at a speed similar to the pace of the humans they hated.

“We are waiting.”

“…I can feel it.”

After walking for a long time, they arrived not at the exit to leave this huge mansion.

The place where they could see the outside best.

The place where only the greatest being could be.

The owner of the 2nd dimension slowly opened the heavy and massive door that had arrived there.

“Beautiful.”

A red moon that seemed to cover the sky was floating, and below it, the children shining red in the moonlight were waiting.

From 1st class to 5th class based on the 1st dimension.

The number filled the place that the owner of the 2nd dimension could see.

Such an enormous number was not even making a sound of breathing, but only firmly looking up at the owner waiting for them to appear.

“We have waited a long time.”

As if even shouting required permission, all the monsters were firmly looking up at the owner.

“What is the reason you have waited for?”

The owner of the 2nd dimension began to emit light into the sky using the little remaining power they had.

A light containing the power to heal all the monsters in this place little by little.

It was the same ability as Sunghyun’s ability, but if they had to pick one difference, the light used by the owner of the dimension was emitting black light.

“Because I. Have not returned. But. Now the waiting is over. Because I have returned.”

As soon as the owner finished speaking, the monsters’ shouts began to echo.

Such a tremendous shout that the mansion where the owner was standing was shaking.