I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 232

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“Guild Master, I will demonstrate first.”

Park Han-wook held his sword in one hand, pointing it straight ahead.

Perfectly vertical and upright, Park Han-wook’s sword showed not the slightest movement.

“Actually… it might sound like an excuse, but I don’t have any particular swordsmanship.”

Top-tier Hunters who made a name for themselves with the sword all possessed swordsmanship.

Whether it was swordsmanship passed down from long ago or swordsmanship inherited through their families.

Other Hunters who used swords but didn’t have such lineages remained only as those who played a role in their respective positions without making a name for themselves like Park Han-wook.

“That means what you can learn from me isn’t swordsmanship.”

“If not swordsmanship…”

Park Han-wook used the sword he had shown a moment ago again.

After a long yet short minute passed and he used his ability in the air again, something pure white began to appear at the tip of the sword, just as Sung-hyun had confirmed earlier.

“My sword is the culmination of pure effort.”

Park Han-wook swung his sword again as he had just used his ability.

This time, he didn’t use his ability, but the sight of the dimension being cut with a pure white edge was visible at the tip of the sword.

“Do you know the difference between these two strikes I just showed you?”

“…Yes.”

Sung-hyun, who knew Park Han-wook’s ability, couldn’t help but be surprised by the result shown before his eyes.

The time gap between the two strikes was only a few seconds.

That meant he used his ability on the first strike, and there was no time to use it again.

However, the difference between these two strikes that Sung-hyun confirmed was truly only one thing.

Whether magic power existed or not.

“It might seem like I simply slashed the sword from top to bottom, but I repeated this one motion thousands of times a day.”

This wasn’t all.

He had done the motion of striking down from top to bottom thousands of times.

And just as there were many ways to swing a sword, Park Han-wook swung the sword from left to right and from right to left.

He repeated swinging the sword in various directions thousands of times.

“That’s why I tried to dissuade you from learning from me. Guild Master, you would naturally acquire it much faster than me.”

Something he wanted to teach but couldn’t.

It depended purely on one’s own effort, so Park Han-wook couldn’t teach Sung-hyun.

“Mr. Park Han-wook, are you proud of your sword?”

“Of course. I don’t think my sword is superior to anyone else’s, but I don’t think it’s wrong.”

“Mr. Park Han-wook, when you swing your sword, are you aware of something pure white appearing at the tip of the sword?”

“Pure white… something?”

As Sung-hyun expected, Park Han-wook hadn’t even noticed.

At Sung-hyun’s words, Park Han-wook swung his sword again and was able to confirm the pure white something that appeared at the tip of the sword, as Sung-hyun had said.

It was very subtle, but he couldn’t fail to notice the sword he had swung himself.

“Do you know what this is?”

“Yes. I know. It’s cutting through dimensions.”

“Dimension… you say?”

It was a completely unexpected answer.

At best, he expected an answer like the length of the sword had become longer than it appeared.

But this was something he hadn’t even imagined.

“That’s why I said it was a perfect sword.”

“I, I’m… I’m cutting through dimensions…”

Sung-hyun had also hesitated about whether to tell him this.

Because he could become arrogant even a little bit.

But Park Han-wook wasn’t that kind of person.

He would continue to do what he had been doing until now, so this wasn’t about fostering Park Han-wook’s arrogance but about assuring him that what he had been doing until now wasn’t wrong.

To continue moving forward like this.

That the path you are walking is not wrong at all.

Rather, you are walking faster and more solidly than others.

“So continue to do as you have been doing. You will reach the summit someday.”

“Thank you.”

Park Han-wook sincerely bowed to Sung-hyun.

The time he had lived was much longer than Sung-hyun’s, but everything he could live for in the future came from Sung-hyun.

“Now, shall we start again then?”

“Ah, yes.”

At the mention of holding the sword again, Park Han-wook’s atmosphere changed in an instant.

It didn’t feel murderous, but the aura of sharpness felt like seeing someone just about to enter a gate [a portal to another dimension or dungeon].

“I didn’t choose to solidify one thing.”

“What do you mean?”

Park Han-wook struck the sword from top to bottom.

Of course, it couldn’t be said that his posture was wrong, but it was certain that it was different from others.

“From the start, aren’t I different from others?”

His gaze turned to his severed arm.

Since he was different from others in many ways, he couldn’t do the same things.

“So Guild Master, you don’t need to take the same posture as me. Just take the most comfortable posture.”

The method was completely different from those who generally taught swordsmanship.

For them, the sword had a set path, and there was a set destination passed down from the past.

“Good. Now it’s simple. Imagine there’s an enemy in front of you, and slash down from top to bottom, and that’s it.”

Sung-hyun slowly slashed the sword so that Park Han-wook could see.

“Would you like to try again?”

Following Park Han-wook’s instructions, he swung the sword.

A faint smile appeared on Park Han-wook’s face as he watched Sung-hyun.

“I’ll tell you one thing to be careful of. It doesn’t matter how you swing the sword. But if you swing the sword in the same trajectory, everything must be the same. Breathing, angle, power.”

“Ah…”

“When you become accustomed to making everything the same, and it starts to take root in your subconscious, you will be able to make the same attack anytime, anywhere, no matter what interference you receive.”

Perhaps that was the reason why Park Han-wook was able to cut through dimensions.

Planting it in one’s subconscious.

He recalled the owner of the Level 2 Gate gaining enlightenment from the word subconscious.

Park Han-wook had instinctively found that path alone and was walking it alone.

“Now, let’s start for real.”

“For real?”

“Yes. That process I mentioned. You have to put all your effort into each and every attack.”

“I understand.”

Sung-hyun, who had never received such detailed and meticulous teaching even at the academy, became quite excited than usual.

Learning was so enjoyable.

He was keenly aware that it wasn’t important where you learned but who you learned from.

“Now, let’s do it again.”

“Yes.”

However, there was one thing that Park Han-wook had overlooked.

That was about putting all your effort into it.

Sung-hyun was also slightly excited and, at the same time, it was his first time swinging the sword with all his might using only his pure body without magic power, so he swung the sword with all his might without realizing it.

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The Deputy Guild Master was catching up on his backlog of work and taking a honey-like break for the first time in a while.

“Well, coffee tastes best when you brew it yourself.”

He had even bought a machine that brews it directly, but he hadn’t been able to use it much until now because he was busy.

The break that had come after a long time and a cup of neat coffee were melting away all the fatigue he had accumulated.

“By the way, was it Mr. Park Han-wook?”

He seemed like a good person.

A person who gives a subtle sense of comfort when you are with him.

“He’s completely blessed.”

Seeing them head to the training room together, it seemed that Sung-hyun was going to teach Park Han-wook 1:1 [one-on-one].

Being taught by Sung-hyun, not someone else, would have a tremendous effect as well as meaning.

“More than that, how many episodes have I watched of this… ?”

The Deputy Guild Master checked the drama he had been watching last time with a happy smile, muttering while clicking on anything at random.

“So what if I’ve seen it before? I can watch it again.”

But then it happened.

The entire building began to shake.

“… ?”

It wasn’t an earthquake.

Earthquakes couldn’t shake this violently.

The strong shaking, which even the strong Hunter, the Deputy Guild Master, couldn’t easily maintain his balance while sitting, was felt throughout the entire building.

“Why all of a sudden…”

What could be the reason for the building shaking if it wasn’t an earthquake?

It wasn’t like a gate had overflowed, so there was only one thing to suspect.

Sung-hyun in the training room.

Since the only thing that had changed from usual was that Sung-hyun had come to the training room, the Deputy Guild Master’s suspicion soon turned into certainty.

“Haa…”

A sigh that came from the heart.

It didn’t take long for the honey-like break that had come after a long time to turn into a sigh.

“T, this at least…”

The Deputy Guild Master tried to finish the still hot coffee, but even this, the heavens did not help.

“Deputy Guild Master!”

“…Okay. I’m going.”

The urgent voices of the people in the association.

It couldn’t be helped, because even though this shaking was felt, no magic power was felt.

“Deputy Guild Master! It’s an attack!”

“…It’s okay, everyone, go back to what you were doing. It won’t happen again.”

“Yes, yes?”

“It’s okay.”

The Hunters belonging to the association, seeing the Deputy Guild Master’s firm and resolute appearance, returned to their respective positions with puzzled expressions.

“Haa… Hunter-nim…”

The Deputy Guild Master headed to the training room with his secretary with heavy steps.

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“…”

“…”

Sung-hyun and Park Han-wook blankly looked back and forth at the scene unfolding before their eyes and at each other.

No words came to mind, and there was nothing to say.

At that time, the aura of the Deputy Guild Master was felt outside the training room.

“W, what is this…”

The first thing that came into the eyes of the Deputy Guild Master, who opened the door to the training room, was neither Sung-hyun nor Park Han-wook.

It was the people looking at them from outside the building and the association’s Hunters reassuring those people.

“Ah… hello.”

Sung-hyun, of course, knew very well that he was at fault, so he greeted the Deputy Guild Master with an awkward smile, but of course, the Deputy Guild Master’s reaction was extremely cold.

“Hunter Kim Sung-hyun…”

“H, haha… well, I didn’t know it would turn out like this…”

“Of course, you wouldn’t have known. It would be even worse if you knew and did it.”

“T, that’s right.”

“Hoo… fortunately, no one was hurt, so we avoided the worst. I don’t care what happens inside the training room, but how could you break the wall like that…”

“I’m sorry.”

From the beginning, the Deputy Guild Master’s fault was the greatest.

As befitting the name of the training room, the walls of the training room were designed with a combination of crystals and technology so that even a considerable impact would not cause even a crack.

A technology that transfers a large impact to one place to the entire inner wall.

But looking at the wall with a hole in it now, it seemed that it had been shattered before it could finish transferring the huge force that had been applied.

Although he didn’t show it, the Deputy Guild Master was in great shock at the fact that the building’s wall had cracked rather than the fact that the building had shaken.

“First… I’ll check it first.”

How on earth did he make that wall like that?

Since there was a camera to check the inside, the Deputy Guild Master checked the video.