I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 130

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“Ugh…”

I thought if I could just evade that sword’s attacks, I might stand a chance, but that was a complete misjudgment.

But I couldn’t afford to create distance.

‘What on earth is this inexplicable pain…!’

I was fortunate enough to know how to endure pain; otherwise, I would surely have been unable to even stand.

‘And the Remembering Sword… something’s off.’

The Remembering Sword I knew was supposed to remember the opponent’s wounds.

But looking at its movements now, it seemed as though it had already finished remembering, even though I hadn’t sustained any injuries yet.

“How do you know this sword?”

“There’s nothing to say to a human.”

The determination in that answer was more resolute than anyone I had seen so far.

Perhaps it was something he couldn’t say.

“I see.”

With the monster’s reply, the purpose of this battle completely changed.

Since it was clear that I couldn’t extract any information, there was no point in keeping him alive.

Having made up my mind, Seonghyun’s aura completely changed.

And the one who felt it most keenly was the monster before him.

‘What kind of presence is that…’

Were the few exchanges of swords just now merely to hear the answer to his question?

There was no hint of bloodlust.

However, it was distinctly felt that he wasn’t trying to exude bloodlust; just a slight change in his presence was displaying an immense killing intent.

“Are you… human?”

Everything was clearly human.

The power he wielded, his appearance, the type of mana flowing through his body, the companions he came with.

However, there was only one thing that negated all these premises: the seemingly endless amount of mana that didn’t seem human.

Naturally, there was no answer to the question.

No, perhaps an answer was given, but he couldn’t hear it.

In his fading vision, he saw the twitching lips of the inhuman human.

Judging by the fact that he was saying something, it seemed like an answer to the question had been given, but he could no longer hear or see it to confirm the answer.

“The boss is taken care of…”

Honestly, I was a little worried.

A monster capable of using strategy.

Of course, its power would be weaker than other monsters that focused more on the instinct of power without using strategy, but strategy was always tricky.

“We were quite lucky.”

The surrounding terrain was all sand, and the monster wasn’t specialized in close combat.

It created engagements based on strategy and gradually whittled us down with the attack that threatened Inhwan earlier.

If there hadn’t been a hunter like Seonghyun, we would have lost one person to that first attack and become increasingly overwhelmed in confusion.

“Come to think of it, they seemed like a tribe.”

What is most important to a tribe?

It might be different from humans, but for tribes, it was usually either a lineage with tradition or the strongest among them.

But these were monsters.

Perhaps the strongest one was the chieftain?

A way to definitively break the morale of the remaining monsters fighting in front.

Seonghyun grabbed the head of the corpse lying on the ground.

Then, he headed towards where the guild members were still fiercely fighting.

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“Haa…”

Mana continued to recover, but the number of people who could do that was limited.

At most, it was just me and Sangyeon.

The remaining members were gradually getting exhausted, and the monsters’ attacks were becoming more fierce.

‘Intercepting alone won’t be enough.’

In the current state, it was obvious that the guild members would tire out much faster than the monsters.

‘I don’t know when Seonghyun will be back.’

The option of him not coming or being unable to come didn’t exist in the first place.

From the moment I experienced it firsthand, I was certain that Seonghyun would never lose.

“Sangyeon! I’m counting on you!”

“Alright.”

Without prior consultation or coordination, Sangyeon accurately grasped what Inhwan wanted.

Among these people, Sangyeon was probably the only one who could charge at them.

Sangyeon immediately broke away from the formation and began running towards the monsters on the hill.

Several arrows flew in succession, but they weren’t at a level that he couldn’t avoid.

Rather, he was easily dodging them.

When he was almost halfway there, the arrows, which he had expected to intensify, stopped flying.

‘What’s this? Are they just going to let me approach like this?’

The goal was to draw as much attention as possible and create an opening for Inhwan to attack, but it didn’t seem like he was drawing as much attention as he thought.

“…So, they’re dealing with it like this.”

The monster that appeared before him.

The monster who had been directing the monsters from the center of their formation appeared before Sangyeon.

“You’re quite a strong human.”

The amount of mana felt wasn’t that great.

However, he felt a bit uneasy about the mana being replenished as much as it disappeared, so he stepped forward himself.

“Quite? You say quite?”

Sangyeon was confident that he was stronger than anyone else here right now.

Ah, of course, Seonghyun was excluded from this category.

He didn’t intend to drag things out.

After realizing he had become stronger, he wanted to find out more, but he hadn’t had a chance to confirm it except for one sparring session with Inhwan. But now, the lives of the other guild members were at stake in this subjugation [suppression].

“Humans are creatures with limitations…”

The monster, who was speaking with a clear sneer, suddenly froze and began looking at something else behind Sangyeon.

In a confrontation with an enemy, this meant that something important enough to completely divert his attention had occurred.

Sangyeon didn’t lower his guard and looked in the direction the monster was looking.

Then, this time, he smirked and retorted to the monster’s words.

“Human limitations… what?”

The sight behind him.

Seonghyun, who had left his position a little while ago, had returned.

It wasn’t just that he had simply returned.

As if representing his will to definitively break their morale, Seonghyun was holding an unidentified corpse in his hand.

Naturally, the attacks from the monsters who had been firing arrows also stopped, and the guild members, puzzled by this, also looked back.

“Is this your father?”

The corpse, drawing a gentle arc, fell right between the guild members and the monsters, and began spilling blood.

“Ah, Father!”

“Father!!”

However, contrary to the expectation that morale would drop, the monsters’ fighting spirit was burning even more fiercely.

Well, that wouldn’t change anything.

It wasn’t completely ineffective.

The monsters, enraged by the fact that their father and chieftain had died, changed the target of all their attacks to Seonghyun.

“Kill that human immediately! No, he must be killed in the most painful way possible!”

But how could they accomplish what the strongest among them had failed to do?

“I’ll intercept all the incoming arrows, so attack properly now.”

Now, the real counterattack was beginning.

Seonghyun, who had arrived in the center of the guild members, crossed his arms and stood there.

The incoming arrows were all intercepted by his sword, making it impossible to touch even a hair on Seonghyun or the other guild members.

“Now, don’t worry about the arrows and move as we coordinated.”

“Yes!”

If the monsters’ killing intent had risen, the guild members’ morale had risen.

They had been waiting for an opportunity, and now that it had arrived, they couldn’t be happier.

“Let’s go!”

At the same time as one of the raid leader’s shouts, all the guild members began to charge.

They tried to stop them with arrows, but with Seonghyun’s appearance, the arrows were as good as gone.

Now, there was no need to watch this battle.

The victory had completely shifted.

If possible, I wanted to sip some tea and leisurely watch the guild members’ improved combat.

“It’s a shame there’s no tea…”

As I muttered to myself, a rift appeared before my eyes.

“There’s no tea, but we do have coffee.”

It was Manager Cha’s rift.

Seonghyun burst out laughing at the black liquid that appeared from within and took the coffee in his hand.

“Aren’t you going to join us, Manager Cha?”

“I can provide support from here.”

Some of the arrows that Seonghyun intercepted were sucked into Manager Cha’s rift.

And thanks to Seonghyun’s help, he had some leeway, and the arrows that had flown from the other side of the rift began to hit the monsters’ formation as they were.

“That rift ability is quite useful.”

“Haha… is that so?”

Manager Cha, who felt quite strange hearing that from Seonghyun, who possessed healing abilities and many unknown abilities, gave an awkward smile.

“More than that… the guild members are putting on a very high-level battle for their skill.”

“It’s the result of our coordination. Of course, this kind of battle requires a lot of preparation.”

Even though the opponent was more specialized in ranged attacks than close combat, it was still a 2-star gate monster.

The guild members, who were at the level of dealing with mutated 3-star gate monsters, were still struggling.

Naturally, in the process, small but significant injuries were gradually increasing, but the speed at which those injuries increased was much slower than the speed at which they were healed and disappeared by Seonghyun, who was drinking coffee and watching.

In the first place, the range of the aura created by Demarge’s equipment followed the limits of mana, so the range already covered the entire gate and beyond.

“You’re not planning to step in further, are you?”

“No, someday… my guild members should be able to subjugate a 2-star gate without me, shouldn’t they?”

Just as Seonghyun was finishing his coffee, the subjugation came to an end.

“Everyone, you’ve worked hard.”

Seonghyun, who threw the empty cup next to the monster he had thrown earlier, began to collect the spoils.

As he was extracting the core of the boss he had killed, the purple core he had been carrying began to absorb it forcefully.

“What, what is it?”

Just in case, he tried holding other monsters’ cores, but there was no reaction, so it seemed like it was only absorbing the boss’s core.

“It didn’t even react in the 3-star gate…”

He had brought it just in case, but even though he didn’t know why, it seemed like a good choice.

“Ah, you can distribute the remaining cores to everyone.”

“All of the 2-star gate cores?”

“This precious thing…”

The value of one 2-star monster core was beyond imagination.

It basically had a value of hundreds of millions of won [Korean currency], which was the core of the 2-star monsters.

‘It’s just small change to me anyway.’

And strictly speaking, those monsters weren’t killed by him alone.

All the guild members worked together to hunt them directly and even extracted the cores themselves.

“Yes, Inhwan. Can you organize these cores and distribute them accordingly?”

“Of course.”

The guild members all felt strange emotions at the words that he would even take care of the distribution himself in case the numbers didn’t match.

Everyone had been treated unfairly in large and medium-sized guilds.

“Shall we head out now?”

As they came out of the gate, the reporters who had been there when they first entered the gate were waiting for Seonghyun.

“He’s out!”

“They subjugated a 2-star gate at this hour?”

At the word that Seonghyun had come out, the reporters who had been eating cup ramen [instant noodles] all threw them away and began rushing towards Seonghyun.