I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 199

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Just before the boss’s hand reached his heart.

Only then did Lich finish manipulating his mana.

Even showing such a large opening, he wasn’t a Lich who would be defeated by a simple surprise attack.

However, avoiding a fatal wound was proving difficult.

And with the full extent of the boss’s hidden abilities still unknown, allowing an attack was a significant risk.

Just now, red eyes had appeared, copying Padron’s ability, and now, though he didn’t know what ability it was, blue eyes had appeared.

He couldn’t see the boss’s mouth, but he knew it even without looking.

He felt like the boss would be smiling.

But Lich wasn’t an easy opponent either.

The criteria for the 1st rank were comprehensively evaluated based on mana capacity, the value of abilities, and other factors, and Lich had one outstanding strength.

That was his practical experience.

Whether it was a misfortune or a blessing, thanks to the way he spent his childhood, Lich had more practical experience compared to other hunters.

Now, Lich didn’t need to consciously think and then react when an unexpected situation occurred.

It had been ingrained in his instincts through countless experiences, and now his instincts reacted first to sudden situations.

‘Summon.’

Just before the boss’s hand reached his heart, Lich summoned his legion based on the boss’s fingertips.

Those tough dolls obtained from the mutated 2nd-grade gate were quite difficult to deal with, but now that they had joined the legion, nothing could be more reliable.

Lich’s actions didn’t end there.

Next, Lich re-summoned the strongest entity among the legions he could summon around the boss.

With a *thud*, red blood began to flow from the boss’s fingertips.

“Kugh!”

The boss’s attack completely failed, considering its initial purpose.

It was clearly a sure attack at the most certain moment, but Lich’s response was quick and accurate, preventing the heart from being pierced.

The boss’s fingertip, which had penetrated about a finger’s length, was pierced along with a part of the legion’s body that Lich was trying to summon.

He failed to summon it completely because the place where mana gathered was attacked during that brief moment of summoning, but that part was created.

In addition, the legion that had appeared around the boss, he didn’t know when, was holding the boss’s hand.

Preventing it from penetrating further.

“Lich!!!”

At the same time, Padron’s voice came from behind.

It was a voice filled with anger, but also with guilt.

Padron immediately tried to attack the boss, but with the injured Lich right in front of the boss, all he could do was try to push the boss aside.

Even that wasn’t done with full power, so naturally, the boss blocked Padron’s attack with mana alone.

He momentarily summoned the mana storm that had been checking the hunters in the back to block Padron’s attack.

The backlash caused Padron to fly back slightly, and in that moment, the boss continued his next attack.

One of Lich’s strengths was his vast practical experience.

But could it compare to this demon?

An unidentified being who didn’t even know how long he had lived.

Moreover, he was capable of facing top-tier hunters alone.

In fact, the term ‘practical experience’ wouldn’t even apply to them.

Perhaps their daily life was a constant battle?

“No!!”

Padron tried to rush at the boss again, but he couldn’t.

It wasn’t because he was overwhelmed by the boss’s strength, nor was it because he was despairing over Lich’s injury.

‘I can’t stop it.’

He just couldn’t stop the attack the boss was about to make.

The boss was perfectly aware of the current situation, and he understood it.

The first mana storm he had created to check the hunters who were positioned in the rear with ranged abilities.

Of course, it wasn’t very effective due to Seonghyun, but from the boss’s perspective, it wasn’t a bad exchange since he could distract Seonghyun’s attention, who had been analyzing his movements, even a little bit.

And now.

With Lich right in front of him, a ranged attack was nearly impossible, and he had sealed even Seonghyun’s movements, who had been the most troublesome, with his opened blue eyes.

In addition, Padron, who had been holding him, was also briefly distanced.

Perhaps confident in his victory, the boss opened his mouth for the first time.

“It’s over.”

At the same time, the boss’s mouth, which had been invisible, appeared on his face.

The long, torn mouth and slightly raised corners of his lips below the blue and red eyes seemed to express confidence in the victory of this battle.

The boss’s grotesquely torn mouth appeared, and the already vast amount of mana began to surge again.

It wasn’t just that the boss’s mana was increasing, but the mana density in the surrounding area began to skyrocket like crazy.

It was a density that would make it difficult for ordinary hunters to even breathe properly, but it didn’t seem like the boss had opened his mouth aiming for this.

Along with the increased mana, the mana that had gathered behind the boss to block Padron’s attack instantly began to gather on the boss’s shoulder.

On the shoulder of the arm that was still stuck near Lich’s heart.

Perhaps because of the amount of mana, the boss’s arm began to twitch grotesquely.

He had never seen mana contained in the body cause external changes, so seeing the boss’s arm changing like that now, he could guess how much mana was imbued in that arm.

The boss’s goal was singular.

As everyone here knew, it was to end Lich’s life.

However, if there was one difference, it was that the process of approaching that goal was quite different from what was expected.

The boss had no intention of piercing Lich’s heart with his own hand.

His goal was simply to bring his fingertip near Lich’s heart.

When he first tore Padron’s side, he realized that he couldn’t easily deal with him unless he unleashed his abilities.

Rather than slowly unleashing them one by one, giving the opponent time and methods to respond, he judged that it was important to seize a sure opportunity by unleashing them all at once.

And that judgment was accurate.

The legion Lich had summoned had little effect.

It was only slightly ticklish.

The mana that had gathered near his shoulder, causing grotesque changes, slowly began to descend.

Towards the boss’s fingertip.

“Lich!!!”

Perhaps only now realizing the amount of mana, the other top-tier hunters, who were worried about Lich being caught up, began to attack the boss.

But it was too late.

If they had intended to attack regardless of Lich being caught up, they should have attacked at least before the boss unleashed his new ability.

‘That’s more than half of the mana I have.’

The boss was confident in his victory.

Those annoying humans in the back would also have one of their limbs explode and be crawling on the floor once the discharge of mana contained in his shoulder was over.

The boss’s vast mana, whose end could not be seen, was about to pass his elbow and reach his fingertip.

“I wondered why you were hiding your mouth.”

A voice rang in the boss’s head.

Clearly, it was the voice of the human whose movements he had perfectly sealed with his blue eyes.

“Is that absolute amount of mana the last ability you’ve been hiding?”

The look in Seonghyun’s eyes as he looked at him felt somewhat alien.

The boss had survived until now by winning against or running away from countless opponents, so he could tell what the other person was thinking just by looking at their eyes in battle.

So naturally, the things that should have been felt were not felt at all from Seonghyun.

Pride in having grasped a move of an opponent stronger than himself, or the elation of having solved that move.

The look Seonghyun was sending the boss wasn’t that kind of look.

A look that was slightly embarrassed, as if he had been careless and something big was about to happen.

And only those who were in a stronger position always had the right to send such a look.

“…Did I misunderstand?”

What had he misunderstood?

The rest was all accurate.

How the opponent would attack, which ability would be the most troublesome to copy, and so on.

Only one thing.

He had only misunderstood the answer to the question of which human was the strongest among them, and the result was this situation.

That solid boss’s body had such a massive amount of mana that it was causing grotesque changes, but that mana was not being released.

The huge mass of mana that had descended to the vicinity of his elbow had lost its way and was circling in place as Seonghyun grabbed his arm.

“An ability that seals not only movement but also the manipulation of mana.”

As Seonghyun finished speaking, he slowly pulled out the boss’s arm that was still stuck near Lich’s heart.

Then, at the same time, he healed Lich’s wound.

Seonghyun was indeed a little embarrassed, as the boss had realized.

From the start, Seonghyun knew that Lich was defenseless, and he had tried to block the boss’s attack.

However, at the moment he met the blue eyes, all movements of his body, as well as the manipulation of mana, were sealed for a very brief moment.

Fortunately, the mana seal was quickly released, and Seonghyun released the seal on his body with purification.

“The fact that the seal didn’t work means…”

There was only one reason.

It wasn’t something he knew theoretically, but knowledge he had accumulated through direct experience.

That was when the opponent’s mana was greater than his own.

Only in this case did the seal not work.

“Interesting. It’s not mana a human should have.”

As the boss finished speaking, he smiled, drawing a curve with his newly formed mouth.

Then, he raised his still free opposite hand.

The way he looked was as if he was aiming for his own arm rather than Lich, so Seonghyun watched silently.

As Seonghyun expected, the boss slammed his arm down as it was.

Not just slamming it, but so strongly that it would be completely cut off.

For a moment, Seonghyun thought he was doing this to forcibly release the mana gathered at his elbow, so he prepared to manipulate his mana, but something different from Seonghyun’s expectations happened.

The boss took a step back and reassumed his stance.

The boss focused the mana on his shoulder as if it was nothing, and then the severed arm grew back.

“It’s not a pretty sight. Right?”

“Yes? Ah, yes…”

Lich, who had just witnessed Seonghyun’s power right in front of his eyes, had a dumbfounded expression, but he quickly regained his senses and thanked Seonghyun, as that wasn’t what was important now.

“Thank you.”

“You’re welcome. More importantly, it seems the boss still has something hidden up his sleeve?”

“…”

He thought he had escaped a huge crisis, but the previous event was just a signal flare announcing the start.

In Lich’s vision, he could see the boss behind Seonghyun.

Blue eyes and red eyes.

A long, torn mouth.

And now, as if he was thinking of ending it, even the unidentified patterns that hadn’t been visible on his body were starting to glow.

And the boss’s mana, which had felt overwhelming from the beginning, had almost doubled.

“It seems he’s planning to end it with that one attack.”

As Seonghyun said, the boss thought this was the end.

He had a greater amount of mana than himself, and at the same time, he had a ridiculous level of healing ability that he had never heard of before.

No matter how much the boss’s mana transcended imagination, it was meaningless to prolong the battle since that crazy human had more mana than him right now.

“Let’s see if you can heal this too.”