I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 228

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Senses gone, mana control gone.

These two things alone would seem like the worst possible situation with no way to fight back, but Seonghyun noticed a very small change.

It was only for a brief, fleeting moment, but when mana control was nullified, the master’s mana disappeared just a bit faster.

Also, when the five senses disappeared, the hand of the master holding the sword gripped it a little tighter.

Once might be a coincidence, but twice was not.

Seonghyun had already experienced the disappearance of his five senses and mana more than twice, and he was now confident in the hypothesis he had initially confirmed.

Again, just as before, the boss’s mana disappeared a fraction of a second faster to nullify the summoned creature and the mana Seonghyun was using.

No one can use abilities without any warning.

Some might have to shout the name of the ability, and others might have to snap their fingers like the master just did.

As the boss’s mana disappeared, Seonghyun was certain that his own mana would disappear, and from the moment he summoned 1, the hand holding the sword was imbued with pure strength, not mana at all.

‘I can cut him down.’

Even though he hadn’t swung his sword yet, Seonghyun could instinctively be sure.

If he swung his sword at this moment, this sword could at least take one of the master’s arms.

The master was surprised by Seonghyun’s response, but not flustered.

For a mere human, this level of perception was beyond human.

It might sound easy, but in a fleeting moment, appearing and disappearing, feeling and not feeling, even if the mind understands, the body often can’t keep up.

However, the human before him was different.

As soon as his five senses disappeared, he manipulated mana, and as soon as mana disappeared, he instinctively used his heightened five senses.

‘Is this really a human?’

When he first learned that Seonghyun possessed infinite mana, he honestly didn’t think much of it.

The reason was simple.

Because he was human.

As far as he had observed, the human race had a truly innate talent for creating, discovering, or inventing things, but as a side effect, their bodies were hardly different from paper.

Since the incident that allowed their dimension to intervene in Seonghyun’s dimension, mana began to flow in, and thanks to that, the bodies of humans, who were as fragile as paper, began to evolve, but even if the paper became two sheets thick, it was still just slightly thicker paper.

Except for this human right before his eyes, Seonghyun.

Even when he faced Seonghyun directly, he had expected a bit more since he had dealt with the master of the 5th level gate.

But the aura he felt was ordinary itself.

The impression was just that of a lucky man who had obtained infinite mana.

However, that first impression began to crack from the moment they started talking, and by this moment, it had completely changed.

Although he was born in that dimension and spent his life there, was this human, no, this being before him, really human?

With mana gone now.

The back of him about to swing the sword created fear in the master for a moment.

‘Block it?’

The option of dodging didn’t even occur to him in the first place.

Evading the attack of a human who had been following his movements at this distance?

That was impossible unless he used teleportation to switch the position of mana and the master.

‘Block it.’

Then the answer was clear.

Blocking it.

Could he block the sword that he had felt fear from, even for a brief moment?

If Seonghyun swung that sword as he intended right now, a perfect swordsmanship would unfold as if it could even cut through dimensions.

Seonghyun’s prepared stance was as calm and vast as the sea before a storm.

Here, no matter what was taken away, whether it was the five senses or mana, the result that followed would not change at all.

Because the sword Seonghyun was holding had not been imbued with mana in the first place, even before the mana was turned to nothing.

‘I have to block it.’

If there was a problem with this mansion, the battle that followed would be a certain defeat without even seeing it.

At that moment, the hand holding the sword began to move.

A very slow movement that seemed like an illusion, so slow that it felt like he was begging the opponent to hit him.

If someone who knew nothing saw it, they would think it was so slow that it was beyond pathetic.

It was as if he was constantly whispering to block him before making this slow attack.

But the master knew.

If he attacked to block this attack right now, the slow movement would become unimaginably fast in that instant.

‘…Interesting.’

The master finally grasped Seonghyun’s intention.

The slow attack right now was not because of the nature of the attack, but because he was giving him choices.

Of course, there was no right answer.

The worst or the second worst.

He was just giving him a chance to choose one of the two.

‘Unbelievable.’

He knew it in his head, but he couldn’t accept it.

Until just a moment ago, everything was flowing as the master intended, as he wanted.

It was definitely like that, but from some point on, the situation was changing very secretly, so much so that he couldn’t even realize it now.

The starting point was probably from the moment Seonghyun recognized the master’s ability.

It was an ability that seemed to have no flaws, but that was absolutely not the case.

When mana was nullified, the master himself could not avoid the ability, and when the five senses were nullified, the master lost his sixth sense.

The sixth sense is instinct.

Losing this instinctive sense meant quite a lot.

The reason why he didn’t notice the attack that Seonghyun had prepared before losing mana just now was also because of that.

If he had, he would have attacked quickly instead of choosing to erase mana.

‘It’s too late to regret it.’

The master returned the mana he had erased to block Seonghyun’s attack, which was now right in front of him, and erased his five senses.

He kept hypnotizing himself that it wouldn’t be an attack he couldn’t block, but the moment Seonghyun’s sword touched his sword, he realized that his judgment was wrong.

‘It was not an attack that could be blocked.’

In fact, the worst judgment was the second worst judgment, and the second worst judgment was the worst judgment.

He returned mana to block it and erased Seonghyun’s five senses in preparation for another possible danger.

Of course, as a reaction, his sixth sense disappeared, and the result was that he chose the worst, which he thought was the second worst.

Of course, Seonghyun wouldn’t know that his sixth sense had disappeared, but now that it had come to this point, he even wondered if he knew.

But the real big problem was not this psychological warfare.

The moment the swords met each other.

No, it was hard to even say they met, as his sword was being cut off even before it touched.

Moreover, one special thing was that he didn’t feel any shaking in the hand holding the sword right now.

This meant that the only shield he was holding was not doing its job properly.

Since it didn’t resist at all, he didn’t feel any shaking.

‘…Huh.’

The master’s gaze suddenly turned to the side.

A situation so urgent that he could count on his fingers the number of times he had faced such a big crisis.

The shocking sight that made him turn his gaze in this situation was the beginning of the trajectory where Seonghyun’s slow sword began to swing.

The beginning of that trajectory had turned pure white, like a torn part of a photograph.

It looked like something foreign had appeared, but as the master of the 2nd level gate, there was no way he wouldn’t know about this change.

He had just thought that the idea of cutting through dimensions was just an exaggerated expression of concern.

He had just thought of it as passing by, but it was unfolding before his eyes.

“…Unbelievable.”

Since this background itself was medieval Europe, the master of the 2nd level gate valued the sword quite a lot, and he had held the sword for countless hours.

It was a realm that even he could not reach.

It would be possible with the power of mana, but that was not the realm the master wanted.

Pure power.

Cutting through dimensions with pure flesh.

He had lived with that one goal, but a human, who hadn’t even lived that long, had reached that realm.

But that didn’t mean he could give up this battle.

The master, wondering what he should give up to that attack, sighed as if he had no choice and closed his eyes.

Seonghyun suddenly felt the returning mana and opened his eyes, feeling his senses that had not disappeared.

“Haa…”

The sigh that came out on its own showed how much strength he had poured into this one sword.

“Is he a monster?”

He had poured out all his strength to the point where he could collapse on the spot right now, but the master before him was standing there without any damage.

“Cough…”

“…?”

It looked like he was throwing up something, but it wasn’t blood.

Then what did he throw up?

Judging from his pale complexion, it was certain that he was injured, but whether he felt it with mana or saw it with his eyes, nothing seemed to have changed from before.

Come to think of it, the feeling that had been restricting all of Seonghyun’s senses and mana had disappeared.

‘Could it be that what I cut with the sword was not the master, but the master’s ability?’

“Heh, your senses are crazy fast.”

Feeling that Seonghyun had realized it, the master showed a hollow smile.

“Yes. What you cut was not me, but my ability to seal the five senses.”

“To use abilities like life, is that also an ability?”

“Of course.”

Seonghyun was in a situation where his body was drained of strength, so he could be seen as a bit defenseless, but the master didn’t seem to have any intention of attacking.

In the first place, even if he sealed mana right now, the master had also used a lot of strength while sacrificing his ability.

“You…how on earth did you do that sword…”

“Well, I don’t know.”

He couldn’t remember how he did it.

He was now seeing with his own eyes what kind of result that one sword strike had produced, but he didn’t remember the process at all.

“Do I have to reach the unconscious state?”

The master’s hardened complexion, who had been thinking deeply for a moment, gradually began to ease and even brighten.

“Unconscious…unconscious, huh…”

Seonghyun looked closely at the master.

He hadn’t usually read many novels or comics, but he could tell what state he was in right now.

A situation where he was realizing something from Seonghyun’s words.

Usually, there was growth after this realization, and the difference before and after was so great that it was on a different level.

“Ah…is that so? Unconscious.”

The depth of realization was only getting deeper.

Soon, the realization would end, and he would achieve growth.

It was obvious, but Seonghyun had no intention of waiting for it.

He had used up all his energy in one sword strike swung in a state close to unconsciousness, but he had to finish it now.

“Well…finish realizing it after you die.”

Now that the boss couldn’t erase mana.

Now, in a defenseless state while gaining enlightenment, was the best opportunity.

“I’ll take what I’m going to take as a reward for giving you enlightenment.”

Sitting in his seat.

Seonghyun slowly raised his hand into the air.

Then, hundreds of swords emitting light began to appear in the air behind him.