I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 288

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Just as I was about to recreate the elixir for Padron and Lich, I received a call from Cal.

“What’s going on?”

“I see something different.”

“Something different?”

If Cal, who had been quiet until now, was contacting me directly, it meant that quite a few things had changed.

“I’m heading there now.”

Sung Hyun immediately moved to where Cal was.

Cal was also a subject of faith.

“This kind of movement is hard to get used to.”

“You don’t have to if you don’t want to. So, what’s different?”

Sung Hyun naturally took a seat across from Cal, and Cal explained the different future he saw.

Originally, Cal saw two futures.

Annihilation where everything disappears, and the opposite.

“I see nothing.”

“You see nothing?”

Then why did he call Sung Hyun here?

The fact that something wasn’t visible could be information, but it seemed quite difficult to utilize it as well.

“However, the timing has changed.”

“Timing, huh.”

The timing, which was only known abstractly, has changed.

That means he can see it in more detail compared to before.

“When is it? That timing?”

“It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when, but it’s not far off. It’s been chaotic lately anyway.”

Cal also knows that the Vice Guild Master is dead.

In addition to that, he also knew the details like Padron and Lich.

“I’m not the right person for condolences.”

“I don’t expect it. So why are you bringing that up?”

“Wasn’t that an open gate? And just a moment ago, even a 3rd class gate exploded. The 5th and 4th class gates lost their magic and disappeared as if they were being sucked into something.”

“Accurate.”

Even though he doesn’t take a single step outside, he accurately grasped the details.

“The moment when a 2nd or 1st class gate causes a change is important.”

“Do you think I don’t know that? I know it’s more important than anyone else, so don’t beat around the bush.”

“Whether it’s a 2nd or 1st class gate, it’s coming soon. At the end of what I saw.”

“If it’s what you saw…”

“Yes. Everything depends on it. And in my opinion, the change in the 1st class gate… might not come.”

“Does that mean the change in the 2nd class gate is the last?”

“Well. It’s just a simple guess, so you can ignore it.”

The magic power that holds the most magic power.

It is said that the magic power felt from the gate is based on the magic power of the monsters inside, but there was basically magic power required to fulfill the role of a gate in the first place.

Of course, the more magic power inside the gate, the more magic power is needed to maintain it.

The difference between 2nd and 1st class gates is different from such fundamental parts, but you don’t use the 1st class gate and use the 2nd class gate?

“We have to keep all possibilities open.”

“I was a little surprised. Because I couldn’t see something covered in my eyes. Now I’m done with what I have to say.”

“The conversation was short, but the meaning is great.”

“That’s what I’m pursuing.”

Sung Hyun smiled lightly at Cal’s answer and got up from his seat.

He was about to leave, but since Cal would be fighting when the time came, he thought it would be okay to give him a few elixirs, so he made them and put them on the table.

“Is that an elixir?”

“Yes. Fight monsters until you die, and when you’re about to die, drink it. Then fight until you die again.”

“Heh heh. Interesting.”

He was a subject of faith, so it didn’t really have any effect, but he would use it well on his own.

“Contact me if anything changes again. I don’t think there will be.”

“I hope not. It doesn’t seem like good news to hear from you.”

This time, Cal showed a small smile at Sung Hyun’s answer.

Then he turned his gaze as if telling him to go back now.

Sung Hyun returned home and immediately fell into thought.

Before and after meeting Cal.

Is it because the content of the conversation was about the end?

I began to feel relieved and empty.

‘So this is the end.’

It wasn’t certain that the 2nd class gate was the last, but Sung Hyun’s gut feeling was giving him the premonition that this would be the last.

What will be the end?

Humanity? Monsters? If not either of these, is it perhaps Sung Hyun’s end?

The end of one of these three is certain, and it was Sung Hyun who determined the end of these three.

“Okay. Let’s not think too deeply.”

Just do your best in what you can do, as you have done so far.

If the result is not satisfactory, I will be disappointed, but I will not regret it.

“More than that, the monster that appeared this time was stronger than any other monster.”

It was a monster that showed even stronger power compared to the monster who was the son of the owner of the 3rd dimension, who was the owner of the 1st class gate.

The battle didn’t drag on for long, but that was because Sung Hyun’s level had risen, not because the opponent was weak.

The magic power that could not be felt unless you concentrated during the battle.

The physical abilities that showed only a slight difference even when going all out.

Then how strong is the owner of the 2nd dimension?

The fighting spirit burned at the appearance of an opponent with unpredictable strength, but it was repeated with anxiety about the unknown outcome.

Has Sung Hyun ever been so psychologically shaken?

I thought I had blown away the emotions about the Vice Guild Master’s death, but I couldn’t forget the fact itself, so it seemed like the influence remained.

“Son. Can I come in?”

“Yes. Come in.”

In his mother’s hand as she entered the room was a plate of beautifully cut apples.

“You seem to have a lot of worries.”

Not a tone asking me to tell her my worries, but a tone of worrying because I seemed to have a lot of worries.

As always, my mother didn’t ask Sung Hyun first, and didn’t say anything about all the decisions Sung Hyun had made.

“How can I not have them.”

“That’s right. Even someone as ordinary as me has worries, so how can my son not have them.”

Sung Hyun just picked up an apple and ate it without saying a word.

“There’s nothing your mom can do to solve any worries my son has…”

A warm mother’s touch was felt on Sung Hyun’s hand as he was about to pick up an apple.

“Mom and your sister will always be here.”

My mother left the room without waiting for Sung Hyun’s answer.

As if she didn’t want to hear the answer on purpose.

Is my mother also noticing something?

As I looked at my mother’s back as she left the room, my eyes suddenly went to the mirror.

“…They’d be fools if they didn’t know.”

The eyes of Sung Hyun, who was always full of energy and challenge, had already disappeared somewhere.

Eyes that seemed only haggard and tired.

The power he already possessed had long surpassed the limits of humans, but inside he was still just a human.

Not expressing emotions and enduring them.

It wasn’t that I never felt it.

Even though these eyes are haggard, the good thing is that they are still full of life.

Like embers remaining in the ashes that seem to have completely gone out.

“Hoo.”

Sung Hyun took a short breath, took his eyes off the mirror, and slapped his cheeks with the apples still in his mouth with both hands.

“Idiot.”

A curse uttered not to anyone else but to himself.

In this short time, I realized how much of an idiot I had been.

“This is an opportunity.”

Since the first regression, Sung Hyun has been running with only one goal: to exterminate the monsters.

I have lived with meaning in the act of dealing with monsters itself.

Perhaps this aroused a sense of duty?

Since when did Sung Hyun have a sense of duty to protect all the people in this world?

If Sung Hyun had regressed and someone unknown had told him that he was being regressed to protect humanity, he might have known, but that wasn’t the case either.

It was just regressed by the owner of the 2nd dimension.

Even that was just to be used as a vessel to regain power.

“I’ll shake it off.”

I don’t think I felt this much of a sense of duty until recently, but I don’t know if my thoughts changed as I followed my actions, but Sung Hyun unknowingly developed a sense of duty.

“Now I enjoy it.”

As I felt at first.

I decided to enjoy the act of subduing monsters itself.

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The 2nd class gate, which had only been growing larger, stopped expanding at some point.

Rather than feeling like it stopped because it had reached its limit, it felt like it had already finished expanding as much as it wanted.

Except for the enlarged 2nd class gate, the remaining 2nd class gates did not exist.

Sung Hyun had finished subduing them all.

Sung Hyun, who had finished subduing all the 2nd class gates in Korea in just one day, was so different that he couldn’t find his appearance in the mirror yesterday.

“I need to tell Padron and Lich to subdue the 2nd class gates in advance.”

If it was Sung Hyun yesterday, he would not have thought of subduing the 2nd class gates.

No, I couldn’t have done it in the first place.

In a situation where he had lost the Vice Guild Master like that, he was afraid that if he left his seat even for a short time, he would lose something else.

Also, if so many people were harmed, it would feel like it was Sung Hyun’s fault.

Of course, the thought that I might lose something had not completely disappeared.

However, now I could at least endure that.

The battle between monsters and humans was not caused by Sung Hyun, and humanity would have perished long ago if it hadn’t been for Sung Hyun.

“The pre-processing is over.”

Finally.

The only gates left in Korea were the open gate and the enlarged 2nd class gate.

The open gate had permanent surveillance personnel stationed there, so if there was a problem, they would contact me immediately.

If I get rid of that 2nd class gate that can be seen from afar, there will be no gates in Korea.

Sung Hyun, who had put down some of the many burdens he had been carrying on his shoulders, was looking at the gate with a much more relaxed expression.

At that time, a phone call came from a familiar number.

“Hello?”

“Mr. Kim Hunter. Is it okay to talk?”

It was Padron’s Vice Guild Master.

If something happened in Russia, Padron would usually contact me directly, so it seemed like it had been a long time since I had spoken to the Vice Guild Master.

“Yes. What’s going on? Padron usually calls.”

“…The color of the 2nd class gate has changed.”

“The color?”

Sung Hyun immediately moved outside and checked the status of the 2nd class gate in the distance.

However, there was no change in the 2nd class gate here.

“Is it only in Russia?”

“Yes. We have only confirmed our side first.”

“No one has entered separately, right?”

“Of course. No one can enter without Padron’s permission and instructions.”

Then that means it’s not a normal mutation.

“Okay. Please continue to follow Padron’s instructions.”

“Yes. Then.”

After the call with Padron’s Vice Guild Master ended, calls began to come in little by little from various places with time intervals.

In the order of Russia, England, America, China, and Japan.

Each report that the color of the gate is changing.

Until then, the 2nd class gate in Korea had not changed at all, but when all the others except this one changed, the color of the 2nd class gate in Korea also began to change.

Gradually red.

As if it were a red moon.