An F-Rank Veterinarian Physically Heals an S-Rank Magical Beast - Chapter 107

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Chapter 107
Jin-hyuk nodded with satisfaction as he watched the creature’s heart rate and cortisol levels—transmitted in real-time on his tablet—stabilize within safe parameters.
He then stepped onto the control platform positioned directly beside the tank and pulled on the specially-crafted titanium gauntlets snugly over both hands. It was a bizarre and menacing piece of equipment, studded with countless silver needles along each finger joint capable of emitting minute magical energy.
“Director Ma. Secure restraint clamps one through four firmly to the patient’s spine and shoulders to prevent convulsions. Now we begin the proper procedure—or rather, the ‘genuine physical therapy’ of separating bone from flesh.”
“Roger that. Understood, Director. Let’s tear some muscle fibers nice and clean today. I’m getting a bit stiff myself, so this’ll loosen me up.”
Ma Dong-tak chuckled darkly, cracking his neck with a series of sharp pops before vaulting over the tank. He seized Thunder Wolf’s thick collar and the steel restraint bar pressing down on its shoulders, then applied his tremendous grip strength using leverage to lock everything perfectly in place. Even an A-rank ferocious beast became a helpless prisoner before the overwhelming physical force of an S-rank Hunter.
Jin-hyuk took a deep breath, and golden pupils gleamed behind his glasses.
[System Special Skill Activated: Eye of Divine Will]
[Projects a three-dimensional holographic visualization of the target’s blood vessels, fascia, skeletal system, and tangled mana circuits directly into your field of vision.]
The system window visible only in Jin-hyuk’s eyes laid bare the dire condition of Thunder Wolf’s right hind leg. Twisted and hardened red muscle fibers were grotesquely entangled with blue mana circuits that constricted them suffocatingly.
“Now then, Guild Master Lee. Steel yourself. I’m about to manually tear apart that stubborn, vicious mass of scar tissue covering the creature’s bones and flesh—quite brutally, in fact. We’ll skip anesthesia.”
“S-skip anesthesia?! Why on earth!”
“Standard Earth anesthetics won’t work on an A-rank beast’s robust mana circuits, and besides, this procedure requires me to visually confirm the immediate response of severed nerves and tear at millimeter precision. If sensation dies, I risk severing the wrong nerve.”
Jin-hyuk’s gauntlet-clad hands plunged beneath the water’s surface toward Thunder Wolf’s hind leg. Cold metal met the beast’s scorching body heat underwater.
“Fascial release technique. Applying this to a beast rather than a human is more delicate and nerve-wracking than threading a needle with a sniper rifle while blindfolded. It’s work that diverges entirely from healers’ clean magic—a bloody, screaming affair. Let’s begin.”
Crunch—!
Jin-hyuk’s gauntlet-clad thumb drove sharply into the boundary line of Thunder Wolf’s thigh, where misaligned bone and adhesed fascia were most severely tangled—the so-called ‘trigger point’—with absolute precision. Simultaneously, the razor-sharp needles at the gauntlet’s tip unleashed golden threads of mana that ruthlessly pierced through the twisted fascia fibers.
“KAAAAAAAAAHHHHH—!!! SCREEEEEECH!!!”
A harrowing, ghastly death cry erupted throughout the entire basement level, threatening to shatter the vast space itself.
Thunder Wolf’s massive body arched like a drawn bow, sending up tremendous spray. Blue lightning crackled wildly across every hair, sparking in all directions, but the dense medicinal solution in the tank neutralized and absorbed the electricity, and more importantly, Ma Dong-tak’s brutal grip pinned the creature’s spine and shoulders like stone, preventing it from leaping free.
“Ugh! Hyung! This damn mutt’s strength is insane! I think my back’s about to snap!”
Ma Dong-tak roared through gritted teeth, veins bulging across his forehead.
“Th-Thunder!! Director Kang! Please stop! I beg you! The beast’s going to die from pain shock! Its heart’s going to burst!”
As Lee Shin-woo’s anguished cry pierced the air, he clung to the reinforced glass, pounding it with both fists. Watching a family-like partner writhe in horrific agony, eyes rolling back as it wailed, was hell itself even for an S-rank Hunter with a steel-forged mentality.
Yet Jin-hyuk’s expression remained as cold and merciless as ice in an operating room.
“Guild Master! Guardians must retreat behind that red control line! Shallow compassion and hasty emotion spilled in the operating room are the deadliest poison to a patient! Do not cross this line until I declare the surgery complete!”
Jin-hyuk’s icy, overwhelming presence silenced Lee Shin-woo with those words, then he refocused entirely on Thunder Wolf’s submerged leg.
‘Insane healers. These bastards drove their magic deeper than I expected. The adhesion is severe.’
Thick beads of sweat formed on Jin-hyuk’s brow, trickling down his jawline.
Crack, crunch. Rip.
Beneath the water’s surface, Jin-hyuk’s grip channeled unimaginable force. The sickening sound of fascia wrongly fused solid by healer magic being forcibly torn apart reverberated dully through the water. It was like manually severing tangled steel cable bundles with bare hands—an immense physical friction and resistance.
Jin-hyuk concentrated his superhuman grip strength—transcending human limits through past Nectar consumption—and pure internal mana solely through his gauntlet-clad fingertips. He was meticulously separating misaligned nerve strands and sticky muscle fibers strand by strand. One miscalculation in force control could permanently damage the creature’s primary mana circuit—a tightrope walk.
“Director Ma! Now! The beast’s thrashing, blood pressure spiking! Forcibly block the mana flow pulse at the hip joint! If you don’t drop that pressure immediately, the aorta will rupture and it’ll bleed out!”
“Grraahhh! Understood! I’ll clamp it down! Hyung, my forearm muscles are tearing!”
Ma Dong-tak roared like a beast, using the blunt handle of the steel lever in his grip to precisely and powerfully crush Thunder Wolf’s waist aorta and the critical mana flow point. His thick forearm veins bulged to bursting as he poured out his grip strength to its absolute limit.
[System Emergency Warning!]
[Patient’s cortisol level has reached critical survival threshold (99%)!]
[Massive backflow of lightning mana circuits detected due to extreme pain! Risk of self-destruct sequence activation!]
“Director Kang! No! Please stop! The beast’s eyes have rolled completely white! It’s vomiting blood!”
True to Lee Shin-woo’s anguished cry, Thunder Wolf’s amber eyes had completely rolled back, and dark crimson blood poured from between its sharp fangs like foam.
The pain had shattered the beast’s physical limits. This was the worst possible sign—the creature was about to lose consciousness and trigger a catastrophic self-destruct, its mana running wild and rupturing its own heart.
If an A-rank Thunder Beast detonated, the Arcana Medical Center and roughly three city blocks throughout Gangnam would be reduced to ash in a cataclysmic explosion.
Yet in that desperate, suffocating moment, a peculiar smile—cool and deeply satisfied—spread across Jin-hyuk’s lips.
“Don’t panic. I’ve been waiting for precisely this perfect timing. As the tangled flesh tears away, the true ‘bone’ structure at the source finally reveals itself.”
Jin-hyuk’s gauntlet wedged between the blood-soaked, shredded fascia, driving deep into the exact center of three fragmented bone pieces that had grotesquely fused together from past healers’ incompetent malpractice—the knotted ‘mana circuit nexus’—and seized it with absolute precision.
This was the source of all the creature’s agony and rampage. A catastrophic magical complication, like severed high-voltage lines hastily wrapped in cheap electrical tape.
“Director Ma. Clench your teeth and hold firm. The recoil will be tremendous.”
“Got it! I’ll keep pressure until my arms tear off or that mutt’s spine snaps! Do it now!”
Jin-hyuk drew a deep breath into his lungs, then instantly pushed the output of his [Divine Hand] trait to its absolute limit. The sacred golden mana flowing through his arms cascaded down the gauntlet, illuminating the dark tank like midday sun.
“Now it’s time for you to return to your rightful place. You stubborn, accursed bone.”
Crack—CRUNCH!!!
With a bone-chilling, spine-tingling sound of fracture, Jin-hyuk used raw strength and mana collision to instantly snap the grotesquely fused kneecap in two.
But it wasn’t mere destruction. He had perfectly separated and rearranged the three fragments to their original broken positions and locations, before the healers’ magic had fused them together.
“KYAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!”
Thunder Wolf unleashed a death cry so intense his eyes nearly burst from their sockets, vomiting a massive pillar of blue lightning from his maw. The water in the tank instantly boiled violently, the precision lights on Basement Level 3 exploded from voltage overload, and complete darkness consumed the Operating Room.
“No!!! Thunder!!! It’s over… it’s all over….”
Lee Shin-woo collapsed to his knees, burying his face as he wept in despair. In that moment, he believed everything had ended. The guilt of his own greed crushing his partner to death overwhelmed him.
Yet instead of the extinguished fluorescent lights, a strange and mystical blue radiance began seeping from deep within the tank.
Shhhhhhh—.
As the forcibly broken bone found its correct place and locked into alignment, and the tangled fascia that had suffocated the creature released with relief, a miracle unfolded.
The ‘dark, murky residual mana’ that had accumulated and festered between the bone joints began seeping away like poison, dissipating as smoke.
As the viscous black sludge touched the jade-colored medicinal broth infused with thousand-year ginseng and hissed away in purification, Thunder Wolf’s originally severed blue lightning mana circuit—now unblocked—surged ferociously throughout his entire body.
Rumble, rumble, rumble…. Grooooowl….
The Thunder Wolf, who moments before had screamed as if dying, now lay prone breathing deeply, making contented sounds. The rumbling vibrations transmitted through the tank’s glass.
His grotesquely twisted hind legs now stretched perfectly straight at an elegant angle. Jin-hyuk rested both hands upon those legs, carefully and gently infusing mana to guide the natural regeneration of torn muscle.
Not the shallow healing magic of healers forcing external power, but the miraculous completion of true veterinary physical therapy—maximizing the beast’s own self-healing ability to perfectly reconstruct bone and flesh.
“Haa… haa… It’s impossible… he’s… Thunder is breathing easily… his, his legs are straight… he’s not in pain….”
Lee Shin-woo pressed his forehead against the wet reinforced glass, sobbing like a child. The catastrophic disaster that nearly consumed the entire Zeus Guild had been perfectly subdued and restored to life under the crude yet meticulous hands of one unscrupulous(?) veterinarian.
Having successfully completed the surgery, Jin-hyuk steadied his breathing and wiped the sweat from his brow with his sleeve. Fifty billion won was hardly earned sitting idle. Of course, compared to the effort he’d invested, it felt absurdly insufficient, but he’d extracted that sum from Lee Shin-woo’s guild long ago because of Balakas. He decided this would be sufficient compensation.
Just as he relaxed his tension and smiled with satisfaction, reaching to remove his heavy gauntlets—
Ding—! Beep!
In the dark basement, a massive system window of brilliant golden radiance—far grander than the usual blue notifications—erupted with a loud fanfare alarm.
[Congratulations!]
[The A-rank Beast ‘Thunder Wolf’s’ primary mana circuit core, long suppressed and festering, has been 100% opened through the attending physician’s perfect surgical physical stimulation.]
[The primordial latent potential hidden within the patient’s body blooms to its extreme. All special evolution conditions have been satisfied!]
[The target beast ‘Thunder Wolf’ will commence evolution procedures into an S-rank special individual, ‘Thunder Bloodwolf’, beginning in 0.1 seconds!]
[Warning: The S-rank evolution process consumes massive energy during physical reconstruction. Advanced medical intervention and intensive management from the attending physician are required.]
Jin-hyuk’s pupils dilated slowly and dramatically as he rapidly read through the golden system window’s text. The tired, relieved smile that had graced his lips gradually transformed into an overwhelming, insatiable capitalist greed and euphoria.
“Huh?”
Jin-hyuk swept back his wet bangs and adjusted his glasses upward. Then he slowly turned his head toward Lee Shin-woo, who lay prostrate on the floor weeping tears of joy.
“Guild Master Lee Shin-woo. I’m not quite sure whether to offer congratulations or condolences.”
“W-what do you mean, Director Kang? Has something happened to Thunder?!”
Lee Shin-woo asked in startled alarm.
Jin-hyuk’s cool silver-rimmed glasses reflected the golden glow of the system window flickering through the darkness, casting an eerie, demonic gleam across his face.
“A problem? Hardly. This is most auspicious news. The basic maintenance worth fifty billion won has just been completed, and now the beast is demanding an extraordinarily premium package option—’S-rank Special Evolution’?”
“W-what?! S-rank… S-rank evolution?! You’re telling me Thunder is undergoing evolution?!”
“Indeed. Of course, for the creature to safely endure the agony of evolution, my delicate touch and expensive elixirs will need to be poured in for several more days. As you know, evolution-assisted surgery is a specialized procedure not even covered in national medical law, so it’s not on any standard fee schedule—it’s a literal ‘name your price’ VVIP premium treatment.”
Jin-hyuk flashed his characteristic shameless, avaricious smile and thrust both hands into his gown’s pockets.
“The Zeus Guild’s payment limit. You still have plenty remaining, yes?”
The S-rank veterinarian’s ruthless and exquisite collection instinct activated—an appetite that fifty billion won could never satisfy.
Basement Level 3’s barren operating room at Arcana Medical Center was descending once more into the violent festival of capitalism that showed no signs of ending.

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