chapter 13
13
“Uhhh…”
The man grabbed the other arm with a trembling hand.
No, I grabbed the place where my arm was.
‘In a place like this…’
The door that entered a little deeper was filled with demons of a level that he could not deal with.
If it was fortunate, the most hopeful result was that the beast was hungry, or that he was eating the man’s arm that had been bitten off as food and was no longer chasing him.
‘…not even that.’
Beasts are instinctively good at smelling blood.
But now, he was spewing out blood.
He even cut off the Achilles tendon in one leg, as if trying to prevent him from running away.
He was a man who had always been the underdog.
However, being a prey rather than the weak brought a different dimension of misery.
“haha…”
feelings for the first time.
From the doorstep, today was a day full of unfamiliar things.
Those strangers included death.
“My…daughter…”
Even in this situation, the only thing that rushed in was her daughter’s face.
The daughter who took care of herself more than anyone else, even though she was a little ticklish because she was a high school student.
“Kreuk…”
However, the Beast Beast was slowly approaching the side of the man lying there, as if he had no intention of making him feel comfortable even with that thought.
“ha ha ha…”
The man laughed a little.
Until now, I thought that the most fearful thing was money.
But with death in front of me, things like money didn’t come to mind at all.
Is there anything more terrifying than a predicted tragedy?
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Moreover, as the future did not exist at the moment this tragedy struck, the man closed his eyes in fear greater than the pain.
“There aren’t many people.”
There were not so many Hunters than usual.
It wasn’t even around the 15th, when the magic was thick, but there were few people especially today.
There were several hunters around the gate, but it was meaningless because there were no wounds, the most important condition.
“Should I go deeper?”
Sunghyun thought for a moment.
Is it possible to deal with the demonic beasts that inhabit deeper at your level now?
Also, is there any guarantee that the other hunters will remain wounded when they go deeper?
“There is nowhere else to go but here.”
There was a little distance to the other open door, so Seong-hyeon went deeper.
After walking like that for about 5 minutes, I heard a faint moan from inside.
“Person?”
Occasionally, there were demons that attacked after asking for help by depicting human voices, so Seonghyun carefully headed towards the source of the sound.
“Heh heh, heh heh.”
Upon closer inspection, a middle-aged man was breathing heavily in pain.
“Hey, hey!”
Seonghyeon immediately ran towards the man who was grabbing one of his arms.
“Who, who…”
There was no more vitality in the man’s voice.
Like Seong-hyun, the man was dying right now so that anyone seeing it for the first time could feel it at once.
“Are you okay?”
“…”
The man, who was looking at Seonghyeon with desperate eyes, lost his mind when he grabbed Seonghyeon’s sleeve.
“…the wound is deep.”
It just wasn’t that deep.
When I removed the bloody hand that was holding the sleeve, I couldn’t see the arm that was supposed to be on the other side.
“Just by looking at it, you went in too deep and got hit.”
Seonghyeon carefully placed her hand near her nose.
Fortunately, he was still showing hidden regularity, and Sung-hyun looked around before checking the man’s condition first.
“Ha…yes, there’s no way I can easily allow it.”
As if he had been smelling blood, several beasts were approaching Seonghyeon and the man.
“Can I get rid of it?”
Sunghyun had two options.
One is to fight against those beasts in this place, and to heal this man as much as possible.
The second is to leave the man right now and go back with today’s penalty.
Of course, even if he stayed in this place, he wasn’t sure that he could deal with those beasts that were coming now.
“Well, no need to worry.”
Seonghyeon forcibly pushed the painkiller he always carried with him into the man’s mouth and pulled out his sword.
“Let’s be nervous.”
Those beasts getting closer and closer were not the common dog beasts that roamed near the exit of the door.
It was bigger than a wolf, and it was clear that it was not an easy opponent by looking at the two long fangs protruding from it.
Then, an unfamiliar voice came from behind.
“What is it, a wolf-type beast?”
The man who appeared in front of Seong-hyeon with an eye patch on one of his eyes was approaching with a long sword painted with blood and put it on his shoulder.
“who…”
“I don’t need to know who it is, is this man dead?”
Even though there was quite a distance, the man approached Seong-hyeon in an instant and looked at the man who had fallen for a moment.
“Are you a colleague?”
“okay.”
At Seonghyeon’s half-talk, the man smiled with a funny expression and then motioned for a hand gesture.
“Take him quickly, because there is nothing for you to see.”
“…Thank you.”
“You have to figure out how to go back.”
When the man finished speaking, he kicked his feet and ran forward, and in a really instantaneous moment, he cut the heads of two giant beasts.
‘…a great talent.’
So the man went deeper into the forest, and Seong-hyeon turned his head to the man who had fallen.
I checked the condition again, just in case, and I heard that breathing was a little unstable.
“I need first aid.”
Besides, when I looked again with a little more time, the man’s Achilles tendon was already in a tattered state.
“That’s why… you couldn’t escape properly.”
The severed arm was an unavoidable part of Seonghyeon’s ability.
But the Achilles heel that I see now seemed possible.
“Before that, we have to deal with the smell of blood first.”
If you treat me stupidly right here, when the demon reappears, there would be no way I could help you like that man this time.
“Realization.”
Seong-hyeon, who finished his decision, made some potions right away.
The potion created this time is for application.
“Hold on a little bit.”
Seong-hyeon, carrying the man on his back, tied it with clothes and secured it, then started running quickly towards the door.
He continued to spray the potion he had created on his Achilles tendon as he went to the door.
‘…it wasn’t that light a wound.’
One bottle wasn’t enough.
I made it and sprayed it again and again, and the pain began to creep in.
I poured all the remaining potions into my arms, but again, it had no effect.
At least it was enough to stop the bleeding completely.
‘This is enough.’
As we got closer to the gate, weak beasts came out, and the man I met earlier had to deal with everything on the way, so the road itself was neat.
“Heh heh heh…”
Every time Seonghyeon’s step by step vibration rose, the man let out a moan.
Even though he lost consciousness, he seemed to be feeling the pain.
“under…”
Seonghyeon hurriedly laid the man on his back on the floor.
The smell of blood vibrates, but the man in the area had taken care of all the beasts nearby, so it would take quite a while to get here.
“What should I do, no, from where…”
The first big scars continued to create pressure and impatience.
“First, the Achilles tendon…”
The blood had already stopped, and I looked at the Achilles tendon again, wondering if there would be a little scar, but the wound was already completely healed.
“It’s still there.”
The scar left on the man’s body was now his arm, and the arm that left a rough cross-section as if bitten by something seemed to have nothing to do with it.
Even if I take him to the hospital right now, I wonder if he can be saved.
“I don’t have time to think. Let’s focus.”
Now it didn’t matter how much quest time was left.
A person was dying right in front of his eyes, and Seong-hyeon had the power to save this man.
Seonghyeon closed her eyes and focused only on the man’s wounds.
‘please…’
However, there was no pain at all.
“…why are you so happy with the pain at a time like this?”
Just as I was about to give up like that, a momentary thought crossed my mind.
“Healing, what was the explanation of my abilities?”
[Cure: Heals the target. Small wounds can be returned to their original state without a trace.]
“A small wound…a small wound?”
What is the standard for small wounds?
From the eyes of a doctor-like person, even a small wound could appear large, and even a large wound could appear to be only a little torn.
It wasn’t compulsion at all.
What if Seong-hyun perceives this wound as a small wound?
No one has ever used this ability, and no one has ever had a similar ability.
In other words, no one has yet known the standard of this ability.
It wasn’t just this.
The title given to Seong-hyeon is a pioneer.
“Let’s do it.”
There was no time to think.
If there was anything I could do, I had to do it.
Seonghyeon concentrated her mind again.
This time, while repeating the thought that the man’s wounds are not that great.
“please…!”
But did I think it was too easy?
The pain that should have been felt was not felt this time.
Sung-hyun did not think that this assumption was wrong.
There was no way that the title of pioneer could have been just given.
‘then…’
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Maybe it was impossible because he already recognized that it was a big wound.
Sunghyun approached it with a slightly different thought.
If you look at the whole cut wound, of course, no one can deny it.
But what if we narrow our eyes a little?
You could think of it as a whole arm being cut off to a broken bone, a broken bone to a torn skin, or, if you look at it smaller, each blood vessel.
As soon as Sunghyun finished thinking, he focused his mind in a different direction.
Sung-hyun thought that he would glue the torn skin.
I completely stopped thinking about the severed arm, and decided to cover the severed section with my skin.
“Ugh…!”
His arms were slowly getting sore.
And as it healed little by little, the terrible pain was making Seong-hyeon’s arm tremble.
[The sacrificial spirit increases the physical ability.]
[You have completed the Daily Quest for the Sage.]
[Would you like to receive a reward?]
“Huh… yes.”
[The proficiency of the healing ability has increased.]
With a sigh of relief, Seonghyeon tried to take care of the man who was now breathing relatively comfortably.
[24 hours remaining for daily quests for the Sage]
[Sage Exclusive Daily Quest: Use Healing once a day]
[Cure 0/1]
“It really is too much.”
I already told you that it was a daily quest, so there were no complaints about this.
However, Sung-hyun was very dissatisfied with the compensation.
“In a game, if you write something like that, you will be cursed…”
The world could not be so unkind.
Even if I just said, ‘Your skill level has risen by 1’, it wasn’t that much of a dissatisfaction.
“Yeah… what can I do? I have to adapt.”
Sunghyun quickly accepted reality.
“Would it take you a little while to come to your senses?”
It took a while to wake up even when Ha-yeon was treated for the first time, so the man with a bigger wound would probably wake up after a little more time.
I looked at the man’s arm to see if I could clear today’s quest, just in case, but unfortunately, I couldn’t use this healing ability any more.
“…this is the best.”
When I saw it earlier, I saw a long sword lying nearby, so it looked like a hunter using a two-handed sword, but I suddenly ended up using a one-handed sword.
Sung-hyun carried the man back on his back and headed for the exit of the door.
The door was not far from where I was treated, so fortunately I was able to get out without any problems.