I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 201

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I was definitely looking at Seonghyun.

But now, I was looking at the spot where Seonghyun *had* been.

Seonghyun had vanished in an instant.

Rich was slightly dazed, but Seonghyun’s speed was comparable to that of a first-class gate’s boss, that demonic beast.

A speed slightly faster than Padron, the idol of hunters who prioritized physical abilities.

Rich slowly raised his head, following the faint trace of Seonghyun’s presence.

As expected, Seonghyun was confronting the boss, but the problem was that Seonghyun was floating in the air.

“He’s flying in the sky…?”

No hunter in this world could truly fly.

There were abilities to rise high or stay in the air for a long time, but that was the extent of it.

Mana itself had no form and no weight.

However, as the boss had shown earlier, one could sense where it was and how dense it was.

The stronger a hunter was, the more naturally they possessed a dense concentration of mana, so to fly, the impossible theory of a hunter with no mana at all would have to be established.

But.

But how was Seonghyun flying in the sky?

“N-no way, that’s…”

A detail I’d missed because I was so shocked by Seonghyun flying.

A tremendous amount of mana was pouring out from *below* Seonghyun.

Seonghyun didn’t have the ability to fly.

He was simply releasing mana downwards in an extremely inefficient way, using the reaction force as a support to stay aloft.

“How could he use such a method…”

The amount of mana I could sense from Seonghyun was definitely minimal.

Barely on the edge of being a top-tier hunter.

But the mana I felt now was so absurd that it seemed like Seonghyun was drawing mana from other hunters in the world.

The amazing scene didn’t end there.

Soon, Seonghyun poured power into the sword he was holding, and an amount of mana similar to that being released to the ground began to gather in the sword.

“Too, too inefficient.”

Already flying in the air was an extremely inefficient method, but even pouring mana into the sword was inefficient.

But Seonghyun continued to pour mana into the sword as if he didn’t care about such things.

“…Indeed, you were the most dangerous human.”

At first, seeing him heal other hunters, the value of the ability itself was quite high, but the amount of mana I sensed was small, so I didn’t pay much attention.

When he healed Padron, I was thinking of making him unable to heal rather than dealing with him first.

If I dealt with Rich, the strongest—or rather, *had* been the strongest—the rest wouldn’t be too difficult to handle.

“Who’s dealing with whom?”

The boss, wary of the mana gathering in Seonghyun’s sword, retreated.

Being within the trajectory of that sword felt like every moment would be fatal.

Even though the boss created distance, Seonghyun didn’t chase after him.

He simply swung his sword in that spot.

“Department Head Cha.”

“Yes.”

Calling Department Head Cha at the same time as swinging his sword, Seonghyun released all the mana dwelling in the sword without hesitation.

Department Head Cha immediately picked up Padron, who was lying right below the boss, and disappeared into the rift. The boss sensed Department Head Cha’s presence but couldn’t take any action.

‘Evade?’

That sword strike itself wasn’t perfect.

With his body floating in the air, his footing was weak, and the sword strike was slightly unbalanced.

Even excluding everything else, that mana felt like it would turn anything it touched to dust.

But the option to evade didn’t seem to exist.

The mana released towards him was becoming increasingly larger as it approached, perhaps due to its sheer size.

“Kugh!”

Just as he was trying to block that mana as much as possible, a voice echoed in his head again.

*Even now, give up everything and kneel.*

*Then, instead of death, eternal glory and rest await.*

“Who is this voice…!”

It felt as if his original master was saying this, and his heart was constantly wavering, but the boss steeled his resolve by punching himself in the face.

“Kuaaaa!!”

The boss moved the tear in the dimension he had created in the sky behind him.

That tear, a kind of door from which black chains appeared, was inherently incompatible with humans.

The boss created that door behind his back and tried to target a single point of the mana using the power of the chains that emerged.

It was a tremendous amount of mana, but it was also large in volume, and if he could target a single point, he would be able to break through it.

‘If I can block this…!’

The next opportunity would be his.

No matter how much mana he had, the biggest gap would appear immediately after launching an attack of this magnitude.

Originally, he was going to attack the moment Seonghyun poured mana into the sword, but preparing such an attack right in front of him, matching his eye level, felt like there was a trap.

‘Just a little more.’

The moment the volume of the incoming mana became the largest.

If the volume increased with the same amount of mana, it meant that the concentration would gradually decrease, so that was the most opportune moment.

Soon, Seonghyun’s mana came right in front of the boss, and the boss shot out as many chains as he could create at a single point.

As expected, perhaps because the volume had increased and the concentration had decreased, the part where the boss’s black chains touched Seonghyun’s mana began to break through.

“Hah, it was just a flashy attack.”

The boss’s mouth, which had not been created long ago, tore open in a refreshing smile.

He only had a lot of mana, but he didn’t understand how to use it or what method was efficient at all.

“I’ll have to cancel what I thought was the strongest.”

The boss stared at the point the chains were breaking through.

The chains were gradually digging in, and their size began to increase.

Soon, if they broke through all the mana, a single point connecting the boss and Seonghyun would be created.

The moment that point was created would be the biggest opportunity.

“It’s almost…”

The boss concentrated, standing motionless in that spot, just like when he attacked Padron for the first time.

He didn’t know much about the human named Seonghyun, but one thing was certain: he could seal all movements for a very brief moment with those blue eyes.

To seize a perfect opportunity without any variables, the boss was looking at the spot where Seonghyun would be, where the chains had broken through.

Seonghyun couldn’t be anywhere else.

The release of mana was his hand, mana that had left his control.

If he moved to try to grab the back, a foolish situation would occur where he would be attacked by the mana he had released.

“…What?”

Even though all the chains had passed through, a sight that made the boss doubt his eyes was visible through the gap.

“What the…!”

Mana similar to the one that had just flown in, perhaps even felt a little larger, was flying in again.

“Foolish bastard…!”

The boss was flustered, but he hadn’t given up on the conviction that he would still win.

Judging from his movements, it seemed he was trying to win with the amount of mana because he wasn’t confident in close combat. Comparing only the amount of mana that had just collided, if the mana Seonghyun used was 10, the mana the boss used was 1~2.

Unless Seonghyun’s mana was more than 10 times the mana the boss had, the outcome of this battle was already determined.

The solution this time was the same as before.

Since the opponent was attacking with the same method, there was no need to change that method.

The method he had taken at the beginning was also the most efficient.

However, since the mana, which had become slightly more extensive, was approaching with the same size as before, the burden on the boss this time was slightly different from before.

“This much is…”

Anyway, once was enough.

That single moment of making eye contact.

The boss spewed out chains in front of him at the moment he came right in front of him, just like before.

Although it was a little slower than before, the chains still slowly began to break through a single point.

‘Now.’

At that moment, he judged that he had broken through everything and concentrated again.

An even larger amount of mana was flying in from the broken point.

“What is this…!”

The boss began to wonder if the same situation would occur again after this, with the mana continuing to grow larger with each passing moment, without ever getting tired.

It was clearly an impossible story.

It was a completely impossible story, but the boss’s instinctive senses kept warning him.

If he kept blocking, he would be devoured by that mana someday.

‘Now, only half of my mana is left.’

The boss seemed to have made a decision.

He slowly took a deep breath and began to use the chains to maintain his position instead of breaking through any further.

‘I have no choice.’

The boss instantly poured all the mana he could pour into both hands.

He had some leeway while using the chains he had been breaking through to block.

The place where the boss’s hands, where the mana was concentrated, were directed was none other than his own two eyes.

“Kuaaak!!”

Blue blood flowed from the place where the blue eye had been plucked out, and red blood began to flow from the place where the red eye had been plucked out.

He took those two plucked-out eyes.

The boss brought them to his mouth.

The only place in the boss’s body that could not be regenerated.

The two eyes and the mouth that appeared while unlocking the ability.

The two eyes lost their ability the moment they were plucked out, and the mouth lost its ability the moment it ate those two eyes.

Crunch.

The sound of him chewing on his own eyes surpassed the sound of mana colliding and echoed in Seonghyun’s ears.

And at that moment, Seonghyun realized that all the mana he had been pouring into the sword had disappeared.

“What ability will it be this time?”

At the same time, an enormous amount of mana was felt surging from the spot where the boss had been.

Mana that was so similar that it could be mistaken for Seonghyun’s mana.

The boss’s last resort.

An ability with a limited time of only 3 minutes.

After 3 minutes, the boss would face complete annihilation, not death.

But during these 3 minutes, the boss could gain tremendous power by offering his blue and red eyes as sacrifices to his mouth.

He could make one of the targets he had sealed with his blue eyes the target of his red eyes.

And the mouth that received this as a sacrifice explosively increased this limit.

He could copy all of the target’s mana and abilities.

In addition, all the mana the boss had consumed was restored, and all the abilities he originally had could be used.

“Ha, hahaha! Keuhahahaha!!!”

Of course, the target the boss chose was Seonghyun, and the boss’s laughter, which had copied Seonghyun’s mana, echoed so loudly that it reverberated inside the gate.