I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 291

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The Hunters reflected in the sky were all piercing their own necks, spraying blood as they collapsed. Next to the mirror, others were screaming and falling.

Could no one here, truly no one, break through this mirror?

The Association President’s vision was blurring, the blood flowing past the fingers stuck in his neck, now gushing out little by little.

“…Who are you?”

“You idiot. You don’t even know? I’m the vessel.”

What was that supposed to mean?

Through the blurring vision, a familiar face appeared.

As soon as he realized Sung Hyun had arrived, the fingers digging deeper into his neck stopped.

“A mirror, huh? How novel.”

Sung Hyun looked at his reflection in the sky.

Just like the Association President and the other Hunters, tears of blood were falling from Sung Hyun’s eyes.

“Some kind of hallucination, but not quite.”

Of course, what the mirror showed wasn’t reality.

However, the tears of blood he was shedding weren’t just for show.

The moment the target looked directly at it.

The hallucination became reality, and the lie became truth.

No one could interfere, and once it started, it couldn’t be stopped.

“Why isn’t it working on the vessel?”

“Maybe because he’s the vessel?”

“Hmph…”

Of course, it meant nothing to Sung Hyun.

It meant nothing to those around Sung Hyun either.

One purification would easily undo it.

“What do we do?”

“What do you mean? We have to run. It’s almost time for big brother to come out.”

Watching their conversation, Sung Hyun burst into laughter, as if he couldn’t believe it.

“Oh, we’re leaving now.”

“Yeah. We don’t want to die.”

They seemed to have a grasp of the situation, but not quite.

“Want me to tell you something fun?”

“Something fun? What is it?”

“…You’re only going to run away after hearing this?”

Perhaps because of their childlike appearance, they were easily manipulated, quickly becoming interested in the idea of a fun story.

“It’s something you guys already know.”

“We know it?”

“What is it? What is it?”

Looking at their appearance, they were no different from seven-year-old children.

“Your brother. I killed him.”

“…”

“…”

The children, no, the demonic beasts, who had been showing curiosity with sparkling eyes, instantly hardened their faces at Sung Hyun’s words.

“You. You’re bad.”

“Yeah.”

But these two knew very well.

Regardless of how angry they were, they couldn’t kill the vessel in front of them.

But what about the other Hunters who were still stubbornly alive around them?

Even though they had inherited the power of their father, they didn’t have the power to bring back what was already dead.

The two demonic beasts simultaneously reached their hands towards the sky.

He didn’t know what they were doing, but it was clear they were planning something.

And Sung Hyun wasn’t the type to just watch.

Dealing with the aftermath after an incident occurred.

No matter how perfect the process and result, it was never as good as preventing the incident from happening in the first place.

Preventing anything from happening at all.

Sung Hyun had already proven this belief while dealing with the Vice-Association President’s situation.

“Not gonna happen.”

In fact, he had given them some time since they started talking.

However, these were the sons of the being called the Lord of Dimensions.

If he let his guard down even a little because of their childlike appearance, the same result would occur.

Like the proxy he had dealt with before, he couldn’t erase both of them in a single blow, so he had been watching for an opportunity, and the moment they both reached for the sky, the opportunity came to Sung Hyun.

‘One strike.’

It wasn’t a strike using a sword drawn and prepared.

A strike using the sword in the very position it was drawn from its sheath.

The target wasn’t the necks of the two demonic beasts, but their arms reaching towards the sky.

“Now everything…”

“Huh?”

Clearly, they had reached their hands towards the sky and were manipulating their magic, but the point where the magic should have been released was shorter than they remembered.

“Aaaagh!!”

“My arm!!”

From the cleanly severed arms, not magic, but crimson blood was gushing out.

Perfectly cutting off the source of what was about to happen, Sung Hyun dropped a sword made of light onto the heads of the two demonic beasts and charged forward.

This time, the target was precisely their necks.

There was no need to have unnecessary sympathy for their childlike appearance.

The only regret was this.

If he had used the one strike on their necks instead of their arms, he might have been able to kill them immediately.

“Eek!”

“Get lost!!”

Even just before Sung Hyun’s attack reached them, the gazes of the two demonic beasts were directed towards the mirror in the sky, not Sung Hyun.

Originally, things should have already happened, but the severed arms caused a disruption in their magic manipulation.

However, if the sons of the Lord of Dimensions couldn’t do what they needed to do just because their arms were cut off, they would have already been killed by their father.

The magic of the two demonic beasts reached the sky, carried by the gushing crimson blood.

Then, the massive mirror that had been gnawing at the sky began to crack.

“Kuaaaaaaack!!!!”

Soon, ear-splitting screams were heard.

Screams filled with the resentment of countless beings.

These screams began to erupt along with the shattering of the mirror.

But Sung Hyun didn’t look at the sky.

Ah, I hear screams.

Ah, the mirror is breaking, that’s all.

The current goal was to deal with the two demonic beasts in front of him.

At the very moment before the sword reached them.

The demonic beasts also knew very well that they couldn’t block or avoid this attack.

From the moment the attack began, the two demonic beasts didn’t think they could survive.

That’s why they broke the mirror even while spewing blood from their arms.

“What is this…”

However, Sung Hyun’s sword stopped right in front of the demonic beasts’ eyes.

It wasn’t that Sung Hyun had stopped, nor that the demonic beasts had blocked it.

A power already familiar to Sung Hyun.

However, magic with a different nature and origin.

What blocked Sung Hyun’s sword was a sword of black light.

The sword looked the same as the sword of light Sung Hyun created, but it was only the appearance that was the same.

“He’s appeared, huh.”

The being who was the owner of Sung Hyun’s power.

The being who was the father of the demonic beasts in front of him.

The being who was the Lord of the Second Dimension.

The black sword appeared as if it wouldn’t allow even the slightest physical interference and didn’t even flinch at Sung Hyun’s strike.

“Let’s run away!”

“Yeah! Let’s run away!”

The two, sticking out their tongues at Sung Hyun, smiled, showing even their gums, as if they had forgotten the pain of their severed arms, and disappeared through the door.

“Where do you think…!”

Of course, Sung Hyun didn’t give up either.

Only this sword was blocked.

Everything else was fine, so Sung Hyun reached out towards the two demonic beasts disappearing through the door.

However, he had to withdraw his hand here.

The screams that had been heard when the mirror broke.

These screams were merely the sound of what had been trapped inside the mirror erupting, but the real thing was separate.

The fragments that had been gnawing at the sky and expanding the range of the mirror.

Those fragments had begun to fall to the ground.

The nerves that had briefly turned, wondering if there was something there due to the ear-splitting sound, and the suspicion that had been withdrawn after confirming it wasn’t.

In the meantime, the fragments had already fallen to the ground, and the dirty, fundamental nature of the magic contained in the fragments began to appear.

Crack, crack.

A sound like gnawing on something hard.

The sound, which didn’t seem like it could come from magic at all, was a sound close to the wild, as if a bug had burrowed in.

“Kuaaaack!!”

“S, save me!!”

Those who had survived thanks to Sung Hyun’s purification.

However, just as the Association President had suffered a major injury to his neck, the other Hunters had also suffered major injuries, and no one was left who could respond to this magic.

Blood was gushing from their necks, and bugs they couldn’t shake off were clinging to their entire bodies, gnawing at their skin and even their bones.

“…Tch.”

In this case, Sung Hyun had no choice.

It was uncertain whether he could deal with those two for sure, so he had to save the Hunters who were still alive.

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“Hic… Father!”

“We hurt…”

“You’ve suffered.”

The Lord of the Second Dimension looked at his two sons who had successfully completed their mission and returned.

To be precise, they weren’t his two sons.

Just by looking at them, their two hands were completely healed.

It was a display of the authority of the original owner of the power.

“Father, is our brother really dead?”

“The vessel said so. He said he killed him. But Father can do it, right?”

Most of the things Sung Hyun didn’t have were things the Lord of Dimensions hadn’t left behind or couldn’t do.

To give one example, the ability to revive the dead.

It wasn’t the ability to control the dead like a Lich’s ability [a necromancer who has become undead].

It was to return the target to the state they were in just before death, including their ego, will, memories, and all other trivial things.

Of course, there were conditions.

If too much time had passed since death, revival was impossible.

“I’m sorry.”

“…It’s okay. It’s not like Father abandoned us.”

“Yeah. We would have died if it weren’t for Father.”

The Lord of Dimensions was looking down on everything.

Watching his sons and the vessel fighting with ease.

It was a little disappointing that he hadn’t been able to confirm that they were using their powers properly, but he was able to grasp the fact that they had grown much more than originally expected.

“Father. What about the other brothers?”

“Have they all left?”

“Yes. They’ve left.”

The fact that all the sons had left meant that the end was approaching.

The first son who had left was fighting the vessel’s loyal subordinate, and the two sons who left next had returned after achieving their intended purpose.

Since everyone else had left just before these two returned, they should have arrived in that dimension by now.

The Lord, who had been indulging his childlike sons, put the children he had placed on his lap down and stood up from his seat.

“Father. Are you leaving?”

“Are you okay, Father?”

“This slight deficiency will be sufficiently filled by absorbing the vessel; no, it will be more than enough. Now is the right time.”

The things that the first son, who had now disappeared, had created.

They were more precious than anything else, and the Lord didn’t want to waste his son’s legacy in vain.

If it was any later, he didn’t know what kind of intervention the Lord of the First Dimension would make, and if it had been any earlier, he wouldn’t have been able to restore his power as much as he had now.

“Can’t we come with you?”

“Yeah. I want to go with you. I want to see Father’s old self again!”

“If you wish, you may do so.”

A situation that was more opportune than ever.

By the time he finished this outing and returned, that place would also be another home for the Lord.

“Let’s depart.”

“Yeah!”

“Let’s go!”

Perhaps worried that they would be told to wait here, the two sons were thrilled, as if they were going to an amusement park, and took their places on either side of the Lord.

By the time they left this door, many sons would probably have disappeared.

The reason why the sons were sent out first was because if a large amount of magic moved to another dimension at once, it could stimulate the Lord of the dimension.

Since they were sent out one by one, there was no chance that the Lord of the First Dimension would be stimulated.

All preparations were complete, and now all that was left was to reclaim the power that had been released.