I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 273

The training room in the guild building was worthy of the name Padron, starting with its sheer size.

“You don’t need any preparation, right?”

“Sounds like you’re asking yourself. Prepare *your* mind.”

“See? Kim’s mouth is the best in the world.”

Sung-hyun chuckled lightly at Padron’s slightly different reaction before and after gaining confidence.

“I’ll block the surroundings.”

“Thanks, Lich.”

“Thank you.”

Lich’s magic began to swirl inside the training room.

Not using the magic shared with Sung-hyun, but only his own.

‘This should be enough.’

They weren’t attacking the walls, but blocking the aftermath of exchanging attacks.

“Any last words?”

Padron, his eyes full of confidence, raised one corner of his mouth and said.

“Who? Me?”

“Heh heh, you’re funny. Let’s start.”

Padron slowly manipulated his magic.

Originally, he would have operated it while leaving enough magic in reserve, but not anymore.

He began to pour out all the magic in his body, beyond the maximum limit he could handle.

“This is…”

He couldn’t even finish his sentence as he began to feel overwhelmed.

It was definitely magic that had been emptied cleanly, but it began to fill up again in an instant, as if it had never been empty.

The foreign sensation, feeling slightly different from his own magic, didn’t matter at all.

It was enough if he could operate it and use it.

Even though he was directly experiencing the fact that he could become this strong at once, it was hard to believe.

“This is really insane.”

“It’s not over yet.”

Sung-hyun hadn’t used the Sanctuary yet.

If he used the Sanctuary here, what kind of reaction would Padron show?

Padron was넋 (넋)놓고 [넋 놓고 (neok nohgo) means to be absent-minded or to lose one’s soul] manipulating the endlessly operating magic.

The size of the magic gathering in both hands was reaching a level comparable to when he unleashed the final blow at the level 1 gate.

In the meantime, he felt another force.

He began to feel what he had felt at Lich’s house again.

‘Crazy.’

Being able to manipulate magic infinitely was also a huge advantage.

However, what he was feeling now was as different as the difference between a mid-level hunter and a top-tier hunter.

Basic combat sense.

The ability to cope with crises, and all parts related to combat.

“How long do I have to wait?”

“Oh. My apologies.”

Padron, who would have usually told him not to rush, was now so happy that he even admitted he was wrong.

Judging coldly, although he didn’t want to admit it, the extent of his growth in this one moment was overwhelmingly greater than what Padron had grown so far.

Padron, who instinctively grasped how strong he had become, how he should fight, and how far he could fight, looked down at his two fists that had been manipulating the magic that had been filling up again until just now.

‘Well… I won’t die, will I?’

Sung-hyun was the person Lich acknowledged, and whom he himself acknowledged.

It’s a bit of an apologetic thing to say, but as long as he doesn’t die instantly, there’s no problem.

He’ll heal me anyway.

He had no intention of controlling his power after coming this far.

‘Hoo.’

A short, thick breath.

At the same time, the magic concentrated in his fists began to erupt towards Sung-hyun.

The size was only about the size of a fist compared to the size of the magic contained, but he could tell the power even before blocking it.

‘Amazing?’

Padron, who is evaluated as being right below Lich.

It was a little disappointing because he had never sparred with Lich, but Padron was not easy either.

If it were another hunter, even a top-tier hunter of a general level, their body would have been pierced before they even recognized the magic.

However, Sung-hyun was not a general top-tier hunter.

Even though the amount of magic Padron emitted was compressed and compressed again, resulting in tremendous density and quantity, it was still made of magic.

Of course, blocking it itself was not difficult.

Attacks made purely of magic were attacks that Sung-hyun could block with just a little attention.

‘This isn’t the real thing.’

Just as Sung-hyun knew that fact well, Padron also knew it well.

Padron, who had emitted magic head-on, immediately jumped up and moved directly above Sung-hyun with the magic contained in the remaining fist still covered.

To make it more certain, it would have been right to move backwards, but Padron acknowledged Sung-hyun, and thinking that he might be able to reverse the magic he had unleashed, he moved upwards.

The magic reaching Sung-hyun and Padron appearing above Sung-hyun happened almost simultaneously, and in an instant, Sung-hyun was in a state where he had to receive attacks from the front and above at once.

“Don’t die.”

Until the moment he moved above Sung-hyun, Padron was confident of victory.

The only thing he was worried about was whether he would be unable to use healing.

The reason Padron could have such confidence was simple.

Sung-hyun hadn’t even flinched until the magic arrived right in front of him and he appeared above his head.

Should I take some power out right now?

Since the magic he had already unleashed couldn’t be helped, he wondered if he should suppress the attack he was about to strike down as much as possible.

“Huh?”

But Padron did not suppress his power.

No, he couldn’t.

The magic he had emitted was flying towards him.

The magic that had arrived right in front of Sung-hyun suddenly changed direction and headed towards Padron right above.

‘Ugh!’

Inevitably, he had to switch the attack that had been heading towards Sung-hyun to defense, and because he was floating in the air, he was pushed back again by the reaction.

“How did you do that?”

“It’s simple.”

Sung-hyun is now an existence of a different level.

The level of manipulating magic itself was already far beyond the limits of humans.

As if creating a wall, Sung-hyun created a solid but soft barrier of magic in front of him.

The magic wall, created with a graceful curve, changed only the direction accurately without causing any loss of the magic Padron had unleashed.

“You had that kind of ability too?”

“No. There’s no way.”

Even though he didn’t have related abilities, the fact that he showed such a tremendous level of magic manipulation ability was no different from representing how much difference there was between Sung-hyun and himself.

In that way, Padron could feel it even though he had only exchanged attacks once.

‘…It wasn’t even an exchange.’

Sung-hyun had only slightly changed the direction of the magic, and had not directly attacked anything.

How long has it been since I felt this emotion?

No, have I ever felt it?

In this fleeting moment, Padron felt an emotion he had never felt in his entire life.

The will has been broken.

Even when facing the boss of the level 1 gate, his will burned even more, but it never broke at all, but now his will itself was completely broken.

“Are you going to stop?”

Moreover, the ease that was묻어나는 [묻어나는 (mudeo naneun) means to be permeated with or to exude] from Sung-hyun’s expression as he asked that question represented that he had not shown anything yet.

A subtle ease that can only be felt from those who really have a lot, not an ease created by force.

“…I don’t really feel motivated.”

It was none other than Lich who was surprised by that word.

For those words to come out of Padron’s mouth, who is always belligerent and moves blindly for power, meant that he had completely given up.

When he first saw Padron manipulating magic, he thought that he might not be able to protect this training room.

But as if those worries were meaningless, the situation ended with just one instance of Sung-hyun’s magic manipulation.

“Why? I was just about to have some fun.”

“You’d be having fun. If you were going to spar more in the first place, you shouldn’t have done it that way from the start.”

Padron said, not even making eye contact with Sung-hyun, as if he was sulking.

“I could have, but… your expression was too cocky.”

This sparring was not only for the purpose of figuring out how strong Padron had become, but also for the purpose of organizing the ranks clearly and neatly.

And now, looking at Padron’s 축 처진 [축 처진 (chuk cheojin) means drooping or dejected] shoulders, it seemed that the ranks had been perfectly organized.

“Then how about this?”

Padron’s gaze, which had fallen, slowly turned to Sung-hyun, and Sung-hyun looked back and forth between Lich and Padron, smiled, and said.

“The two of you spar.”

“What?”

“Excuse me?”

It was a bit sudden, but things that are always planned are not always better.

Padron thought it was okay, and Lich thought it was okay too.

“How is it?”

“I… I’m good.”

“Me too.”

For a moment, Lich and Padron’s gazes intertwined.

They knew better than anyone that they had become stronger, but they hadn’t had a chance to test each other until now.

“Don’t worry about the training room, shall we start?”

If you recall the magic wall that Sung-hyun had manipulated just now, this training room would not collapse or even crack under any attack.

“You haven’t forgotten what my ability was, have you?”

Meaning to do their best.

Without worrying about the other person getting hurt at all.

The two’s sparring, which started suddenly.

Sung-hyun watched the two’s sparring from the side.

With the heart of a teacher watching his disciples spar.

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“Huff…”

“Hoo…”

The two’s sparring was, as expected, at a considerable level.

Sparring in which they poured out all their strength because there was no worry of injury with Sung-hyun next to them.

Padron rushed at Lich from the start, and behind Padron, the figure of a grim reaper holding a huge scythe appeared.

Padron wrapped the infinitely provided magic around his hand and tore the grim reaper apart with his hand, but in the meantime, Lich summoned a legion and surrounded Padron.

The sparring was a little disadvantageous for Lich because of the space constraints.

Whether it was exactly the difference in those constraints, the two’s sparring did not end easily.

‘At this rate, both of them can beat the boss of the level 1 gate.’

If you combine it with the ring Sung-hyun handed over?

He hasn’t met the current boss of the level 1 gate yet, but it seemed possible enough.

“As expected, it’s Lich. I thought he wouldn’t be able to win, but wouldn’t he be equal?”

“We were equal, weren’t we?”

“It’s a narrow place where Lich’s legion can’t operate properly, so it’s hard to see it as equal.”

Lich and Padron shook hands briefly.

“More than that, Kim. How long do you think Korea can last?”

“Maybe… a level 2 gate flood would be a bit 버거울 [버거울 (beogeoul) means overwhelming or too much to handle].”

“Level 2? Even with you?”

“If I’m there, level 1 is possible, but I might not be there.”

Until now, Sung-hyun had always entered other gates alone when meeting the owner of the gate.

If that’s the case, if an event occurs where he meets the owner of the dimension this time, he will probably move to the dimension alone in the same way.

That’s why Sung-hyun quickly handed over the ring he had created with 실체화 [실체화 (silchehwa) means materialization or embodiment] this time.

He needed someone who could fill Sung-hyun’s vacancy as much as possible.

“I was wondering if we could talk about that. Are you both free?”

“Of course.”

“Yes.”

He didn’t plan to spend a day, but now that it’s come to this, it seemed like a good idea to finish the conversation with Lich, the hunter representing the United States, and Padron, the hunter representing Russia.