Became the Only Healer in the Academy

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The association did not give permission for the subjugation of Seong-hyeon.

There was a feeling of apprehension, but again, as the secretary said, the permission did not fall.

“Hmm… Then, will we only have to go to the open door from now on?”

Inhwan asked, looking at Seonghyeon with a dead grass voice.

Originally, it was time to go to the assigned door by now, but the permission was not granted, so he was spending time at the academy.

“I can’t help it. Still, we’ll do something separately, so let’s wait.”

As if to give strength to Seonghyeon’s words, there was a call from the association.

“hello?”

“Kim Hunter?”

As usual, the cold secretary’s voice was heard.

“Yes, tell me.”

“The vice president has prepared a separate place for us.”

The place was prepared much sooner than Seong-hyun thought.

“Oh yeah? Where are you?”

“We will let you know when we arrive.”

“all right.”

Both In-hwan and Sang-yeon looked at Seong-hyeon and asked if their expressions before answering the phone and after hanging up were slightly different.

“where are you? who?”

“Is it an association?”

“right. The venue is ready, and I will let you know when I come to the association.”

In-hwan and Sang-yeon were also showing harmony in the place that was prepared much faster than expected.

“By the way… that Hyein and Seongwook…? There’s no need to form a subjugation squad, so there’s no need for 5 people…”

“Well, there’s no need to have five people.”

Inhwan and Sangyeon seemed to want only the three of them to train.

“Still, the conversation has already ended, and for the two of us to come, we have to come after the academy class, so it’ll be okay. Rather, it might give a different wind to the monotonous training.”

“What if Seonghyun is you?”

“I heard it, and it wouldn’t be that bad.”

“Then shall we go to the association now?”

The three headed straight for the association, and the secretary came out to meet them at the association entrance.

“You can follow me.”

I followed the secretary into the inside of the building, and headed to a different place than I normally would.

A bit of a nook place. There was an elevator around the corner.

“There is an elevator in this place…”

The secretary in the elevator pressed the button on the only floor, and soon the elevator started going down with the sound of the machine running.

“May I ask where it is?”

Seonghyeon, unable to hold back her curiosity, asked first, and the secretary answered while staring at the elevator door.

“If you go, you will know.”

The elevator went down enough that it felt quite long for a single floor, and then the door started to open with a sound of a stop.

I couldn’t see the inside at all because the lights had not been turned on yet, but the interior of the room, partially visible from the light of the elevator, was a landscape I had never seen for the first time to the point that it even felt quite foreign.

“then…”

The secretary pressed the switch right next to the elevator, and then the light came on.

“Hey, what is this…?”

“As you can see.”

The lighted interior felt more alien than when only a portion was visible.

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Machines like you’ve never seen before.

“What the hell is this…”

“It’s a place we don’t use right now, but I thought it might be the best place for Hunter Kim and the rest of the party.”

The secretary started to touch things on the machine, and then the machines started to glow with a rattling sound.

“To put it simply, it should be a place where virtual battles can be waged.”

“Virtual… battle?”

The secretary thought for a moment about how to explain it, and decided that it would be faster to show it in person, so she approached the machine that had just started to glow.

“If you do this…”

After pressing a few buttons and time passed, a familiar figure appeared in front of me.

The lowest-risk open door beast.

At first glance, the demon, who had the appearance of a puppy, was staring at the place where Seong-hyeon was.

“It’s an imaginary beast created like this, but…”

The secretary waved his hand at the beast, and the hand was flying through the air through the beast.

“If you wear this bracelet.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the secretary put on the bracelet, and the beast, who had been looking around until now, began to bark violently as if only now aware of the secretary’s existence.

Of course, he collapsed without a hitch in the secretary’s attack.

“You can fight a beast.”

“Oh… is this the cutting-edge thing?”

In-hwan asked with bright eyes, and the secretary lightly nodded and said.

“It may not be the most advanced …, but the technology itself can be seen as the latest.”

But there was one curious thing.

In spite of such excellent and sophisticated technology, the secretary had just said that it was no longer in use.

“…you seem to have a question.”

Perhaps the secretary also noticed this, and continued a brief explanation.

“When we introduced this technology in the past, we were definitely excited. I think it will be able to dramatically increase the status of Korea.”

There was sadness in the secretary’s eyes.

“But there was one problem I hadn’t anticipated at all.”

The secretary took off the bracelet and summoned the puppy-type beast once more.

This time as well, the Beast Beast was looking around, and the secretary wore the bracelet again.

“There is no problem so far.”

The secretary tried to take the bracelet off again.

But I couldn’t.

“You cannot remove the bracelet while the beast is summoned.”

“I can’t take the bracelet off…”

The secretary dealt with the fierce barking dog-type beast at once, took off the bracelet, and looked at the screen of the machine and said:

“The types of beasts that can be summoned by this machine are very diverse. As before, even the lowest level beasts are possible, but according to the current record, you can summon up to level 2 door beasts.”

“ah…”

I was able to make a rough inference without listening to what’s behind it.

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Maybe he summoned a high-grade door beast, but couldn’t get the bracelet out.

“That means that even that virtual beast can get hurt.”

“you’re right. Would that be training if it didn’t hurt? It’s just a matter of moving your body. This bracelet serves to break down the boundaries with the virtual beast.”

“Why didn’t you fix the machine? If it’s such a fatal problem…”

The secretary said, putting the bracelet back in its original place.

“We tried. However, after forcing the connection between the virtual beast and reality, and removing the bracelet while it has not yet been disconnected, that is, the beast remains, a huge shock was inflicted on my brain.”

“Hey…then why did you recommend this place to us?”

Inhwan, who had been listening quietly, asked with a serious expression.

“I hope they aren’t using us as lab mice…”

“It’s not a lab rat! no. but…”

The secretary hesitated for a moment, then answered.

“It may sound a little irresponsible, but I thought that only Kim Hunter could handle this fatal flaw.”

“Ah, healing…”

It was then that In-hwan’s expression understood.

No matter what happens, if the bracelet can only be removed by dealing with the beast,

Because Seong-hyeon was the only person who could handle unexpected situations.

“A lot of crystals go in every time the machine is operated, but the discussion ended with our association paying all of that. What Hunter Kim and others will do is simply to build up their strength through virtual battles.”

Said the secretary, handed him a bucket of bracelets.

“Only 5 bracelets are prepared based on the minimum subjugation squad. It must be exactly what Hunter Kim wanted. If you tell us the names of the other people who were trying to join the subjugation squad, we will take action so that they can come here right away.”

“thank you. The other two are Lee Ha-yeon and Kang Sung-wook.”

“I…Hayeon?”

In an instant, the secretary’s expression changed strangely at the name of Lee Ha-yeon.

“Yes, if there is any problem…”

“Oh, no. It’s like a name I’ve heard of. Then I will do as I said. From today, Hunter Kim and his party are free to use this place at any time.”

The secretary, who taught me how to use the machine, asked not to touch the other machines, bowed his head slightly, and left the room in the elevator he had been riding in.

“Seonghyun-ah! What to do? Level 4 Inquiry Beasts? Or… level 3?”

“Calm down, you idiot. I haven’t gotten used to the state yet, so let’s summon a strong beast right away?”

“Ttt, are you a coward?”

“What, what? Coward?”

In-hwan and Sang-yeon were fighting again, and Seong-hyeon looked at the list of beasts that could be summoned without answering other questions as if he was familiar with the appearance now.

“As Sangyeon said, let’s just warm up first.”

“Look. It’s not even a moth, it’s all about stages.”

“Sheesh…”

After operating the machine as explained by the secretary, the dog-like beast, who had died twice, reappeared.

“Let’s get used to it first.”

As a result of moving the body for a while while avoiding attacks without intentionally killing the beast at once, this machine seemed to be made much more sophisticated than I expected.

“Is there any difference from the real thing?”

“I think so.”

As In-hwan and Sang-yeon said, I didn’t feel like it was real.

“It’s like… it wasn’t that we were connected with that virtual beast. It feels like I brought that beast down to reality.”

There was no sense of separation from reality at all, so, except for the shortcomings that the secretary said, a better place for training than the door was prepared.

It was something that could be eliminated with Seonghyeon’s ability.

“If you relax a bit… Shall we summon the 4th-level door beast?”

“finally…!”

“good.”

In-hwan and Sang-yeon also seemed to be burning with excitement rather than fear.

“Because there is still a little time left for Hayeon and Seongwook to come. Let’s take it slow.”

Seonghyeon immediately summoned the 4th-class door beast.

The Beasts, who looked similar to those that are well-known as okra, wore armor and were holding sophisticated weapons.

Seong-hyeon and In-hwan and Sang-yeon also stared at the giant beast, without the relaxed smile they had ever seen.

“In terms of size, he is much larger than the head of the goblin tribe at that time.”

The beast had not worn the bracelet yet, and the beast was looking around, signaling the sound of swallowing saliva in the silence, and the three of them wore the bracelet at the same time.

No other instructions were needed.

Up until now, the three had worked together not only with beasts but also against humans, so without needing to say anything else, each of them knew very well where and what role they were supposed to play.

“…”

The three looked at each other and scratched their heads.

It was as if something completely unexpected had happened.

“Isn’t it set to be weaker than it really is…?”

“Yeah, there was no such thing.”

It was too easy to deal with the magical beasts than I thought.

Seonghyeon was also a little nervous as she had no memory of directly dealing with a level 4 beast in her previous memory, but this was enough to handle each other without any problem.

“Shall we summon our 3rd-grade beast?”

Inhwan seemed full of confidence.

“Let’s say that we summon the other two when they arrive, and for now, let’s assume that one of each is dealing with a level 4 beast.”

“That would be great.”

As Seong-hyeon said, the three of them spent time dealing with the beasts of the 4th-class gate one by one until the other two arrived.