An F-Rank Veterinarian Physically Heals an S-Rank Magical Beast - Chapter 16
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Chapter 16
[Warning! Concentration of airborne hazardous substances is rapidly increasing.]
[Virus detected: ‘Black Pustule Fever’]
The courtyard of Arcana Hospital transformed into a field hospital in an instant.
Hyenas collapsed, spewing blood.
Dark red pustules erupted across their bodies, and black foam streamed endlessly from their mouths.
“Director! The fever won’t break! Antipyretics aren’t working, and when we infuse healing energy, the pustules burst instead!”
Luna cried out, her voice trembling.
She had witnessed countless diseases of the Demon Realm, but never anything like this.
The more life force injected, the faster the virus consumed that energy and multiplied—a vicious cycle.
I examined the fallen hyena’s eyelids, peeling them back.
The pupils were dilated, and the whites of the eyes had turned a sickly yellow.
“Liver failure. Respiratory paralysis. A textbook biological weapon.”
My eyes grew cold. This was no natural disaster.
Someone had deliberately cultivated and dispersed the most contagious, most lethal strain with clear intent.
“Ma Dong-tak! Seal the hospital entrance! Cut off external air!”
“Yes! Understood!”
Ma Dong-tak blocked the hospital entrance with an enormous boulder.
Lee Shin-woo erected a spatial barrier, transforming the hospital interior into a complete quarantine zone.
“Seo Ji-hoo! Lower the patients’ body temperature with ice! We need to slow the virus’s activity!”
“Understood! [Frost Mist]!”
As Seo Ji-hoo swung his staff, frigid mist enveloped the hyenas.
Their labored breathing from the high fever stabilized slightly.
“Team Lead Yoo. You go inside your room. In your current condition, even a brush with this would be fatal.”
“But—!”
“Inside! If a patient won’t listen to their doctor, I’ll discharge them!”
At my stern command, Yoo Yi-soo bit her lip and retreated into her room. All she could do was stay out of the way.
I retrieved a microscope from my bag and collected saliva from the hyena, placing it on a slide.
[Analyzing….]
[Pathogen: Mana-Mutated Anthrax + Abyss Toxin]
[Characteristics: Proliferates by consuming mana. Airborne transmission possible.]
“Ha, look at this bastard? It eats mana?”
I let out a hollow laugh.
Ordinary Hunters and demonic beasts carry mana within their bodies.
In other words, this virus intended to use every living creature in the Demon Realm as a host.
The Plague King of the North.
He was as vicious as the rumors claimed.
“Luna, let’s make an antidote. Mix the herbs as I call them out.”
“Yes! Tell me what you need!”
“[Abyss Mugwort] 30%, [Purified Water] 50%, and… [Antibiotics (Earth-made)] 20%.”
I decided to blend Earth’s science with The Abyss’s magic.
An antidote made purely of mana would only become food for the virus.
But Earth’s antibiotics were a “chemical attack” these creatures had never experienced before.
Click, click.
Luna’s hands moved so fast they blurred.
Genius-level compounding.
She removed the toxins from the herbs and extracted their essence before I could even finish speaking.
“It’s ready!”
“Good. Inject them.”
Luna administered the injection to the hyenas. One minute later, the creatures that had been foaming at the mouth began breathing easier, and their pustules started to subside.
“They’re alive….”
The Hunters watching exhaled in relief.
But my expression remained grim.
I gazed out the window.
From the northern sky, a dark mass of clouds—no, a [virus cloud]—was slowly advancing toward the hospital.
“The treatment is done. Now I need to go eliminate the source.”
Jin-hyuk stripped off his gown and tossed it aside.
Then he retrieved a box from the storage room.
Equipment he’d brought “just in case” when departing Earth.
[Item: Grade A Protective Suit Set (CBRN)]
[Item: High-Performance Power Sprayer (Agricultural Pesticide Application)]
“Everyone, put these on. They’re generously sized.”
“This… what is this? A spacesuit?”
Lee Shin-woo lifted the yellow protective suit and asked.
“It’s a protective suit. It blocks microscopic particles that penetrate even magical barriers. Wear it regardless of embarrassment. Unless you’d prefer to die.”
South Korea’s mightiest Hunters began donning the form-fitting protective suits.
Lee Shin-woo’s hung loose and fluttered, while Ma Dong-tak’s looked ready to burst from his musculature.
Seo Ji-hoo grumbled as he adjusted his goggles.
“This looks ridiculous, honestly…”
Jin-hyuk strapped an enormous disinfection tank to his back.
Inside the tank was a mixture he’d personally concocted: [Holy Water + Bleach + High-Concentration Mana Neutralizer].
Colloquially known as “Hell’s Bleach Water.”
“Moving out. Time to exterminate the pathogens.”
The Northern Border, the Swamp of Corruption.
This was where the Plague King’s territory began—a land of death itself.
The ground had transformed into a squelching marshland, and the trees rotted, reeking abominably.
Green spores drifted through the air like snow.
“Ugh… the stench…”
Seo Ji-hoo retched behind his gas mask. For someone with his obsessive cleanliness, this place was a living hell. Ma Dong-tak trudged through the squelching marshland, irritation mounting with each sinking step.
“Director! I don’t see any enemies! Just rotted trees everywhere?”
“What you cannot see is far more terrifying. Bacteria are invisible to the naked eye.”
Jin-hyuk gripped the sprayer nozzle, vigilant. Then it happened.
Gurgle… gurgle…
The massive swamp ahead bubbled violently.
And from within its depths, something rose.
A colossal monstrosity formed from the putrid corpses of the dead, fused together.
A [Plague Giant] standing five meters tall.
Noxious green gas poured ceaselessly from its body, and wherever the dripping ichor fell, the earth itself melted away.
“Kuoooo… (Intruders… must die….)”
“Enemy contact ahead! Battle stations!”
Ma Dong-tak stepped forward, raising his shield.
“Move aside, Ma Dong-tak!”
Jin-hyuk shouted.
But it was too late. The Plague Giant opened its maw and unleashed a torrent of green breath.
[Corrosive Acidic Gas].
“I’ll block it! [Iron Wall]!”
Ma Dong-tak activated his skill. A wall of steel erupted upward.
But the gas corroded through the steel barrier, piercing through in an instant.
“What? How did it break through?”
“Physical defense is useless! That’s acid!”
Jin-hyuk dashed forward. He pulled the sprayer lever to maximum.
“Everyone clear! Disinfection truck coming through!”
Shhhhhhiiiiick—!
White mist erupted from the nozzle of the sprayer.
It was no ordinary water.
A cocktail of [concentrated bleach + holy water] that destroyed all protein structures.
The white mist collided with the green gas.
Shhhhck!
A chemical reaction occurred.
The toxic green gas neutralized instantly upon contact with the white mist, falling to the ground like ordinary water, drip by drip.
“Kueeeeh?”
The Plague Giant panicked.
When its lethal skill, the toxic gas, was neutralized, it charged forward, swinging its fists wildly.
“Where do you think you’re going!”
Jin-hyuk aimed the nozzle at the giant’s face.
“Go wash yourself, you filthy creature!”
[Skill: ‘Area Disinfection’ activated]
A powerful stream of disinfectant struck the giant’s face with tremendous force.
“Gaaahhhhh!”
The giant shrieked.
The ‘mold’ and ‘mucus’—the adhesive surfaces where corpses had clung together—began dissolving in the bleach solution.
The bacterial masses, their cell walls destroyed, could no longer maintain their form.
Thud, splat.
The giant’s arm fell away, and its head melted.
Without swinging a blade even once, an S-rank monster simply dissolved and vanished.
“….”
The S-rank Hunters watching were left speechless.
“Is that… just bleach?”
“Does bleach mixed with holy water really have that kind of power?”
“Is the director… a chemical weapons specialist?”
Jin-hyuk planted a flag over the hollow remains of the giant. A white flag with a red cross emblazoned upon it.
[Disinfection Complete Zone].
“You saw it, didn’t you? Bacterial masses are nothing once you wash them away. Such filthy creatures don’t deserve medicine. Cleaning is the answer.”
Jin-hyuk adjusted the sprayer.
“We move to the next sector. I’m going to turn this entire forest into a sterile chamber.”
The far North, the Throne of Corruption.
Plague King Nergal sat upon his throne, gazing into a crystal orb.
He was a demon lord of grotesque form—a fly’s head grafted onto a human body.
“Hmm….”
His compound eyes gleamed with fury.
The plague giant he had sent had vanished in an instant.
Not by magic or blade, but by some mysterious white mist.
“A human doctor, you say… how intriguing.”
Nergal had heard that the Phantom King of the East had been treated by a human.
That pathetic wretch, bowing to a mere mortal. How contemptible.
But I am different. I am disease itself, the lord of death.
“Treatment? Let’s see you try.”
Nergal flicked his fingers.
From the filth pit beneath his throne, thousands of Plague Flies and Zombie Rats crawled forth.
Each one was a living biochemical bomb, carrying lethal viruses within.
“My children, go forth and teach that doctor the meaning of true suffering. Gift him with the exquisite sensation of flesh and bone tearing asunder.”
“Bzzzz— Bzzzz—”
“Squeak! Screeeek!”
A swarm of flies like a dark cloud. It was calamity itself.
Again, the Swamp of Corruption.
“Director! Twelve o’clock! Incoming aerial objects!”
Lee Shin-woo’s voice rang out.
The sky turned pitch black.
Tens of thousands of Plague Flies descended with a deafening roar.
“Ugh, disgusting.”
Seo Ji-hoo grimaced and raised an ice barrier.
“Catching all of those would take the whole day, wouldn’t it?”
Ma Dong-tak swung his axe with concern.
But Jin-hyuk remained composed.
He set down the disinfection tank from his back and retrieved different equipment from his bag.
An object resembling a massive cannon.
It was an [Ultra-Potent Smoke Disinfection Device] imported from Earth.
“Why use an axe to swat flies? A single spray would suffice.”
Jin-hyuk called out to Luna.
“Luna! Load the medicinal ingredients!”
“Yes, Director!”
Luna poured the pre-prepared medicinal ingredients into the cannon.
[Dried Mugwort] + [Insect-Killing Grass] + [Paralysis Powder].
In other words, “Abyss-Grade Mosquito Coil.”
“Balakas! Light it!”
[Hmph. So now I’m a lighter, am I.]
Balakas grumbled as he lit the cannon’s fuse.
Whoosh!
Pssshhhhh—!
Acrid white smoke erupted from the cannon’s mouth like a tempest.
The smoke caught the wind and swept toward the swarm of flies.
“Bzzzz? Bzzzz?”
The flies trapped within the smoke convulsed.
The potent compounds of the insect-killing grass paralyzed the nervous systems of the insectoid demonic beasts.
And the burning scent of mugwort suffocated their respiratory systems.
Pitter-patter. Like rain, tens of thousands of flies plummeted from the sky.
The ground was instantly blanketed with black fly corpses.
“Wow… incredible.”
Lee Shin-woo stood speechless.
A swarm assault that was difficult to handle even with S-rank magic had been eliminated with a single blast of smoke.
“This is science, ladies and gentlemen.”
Jin-hyuk puffed out his chest with pride.
“Now then, shall we go catch the Fly King?”
At last, we arrived at the Throne of Corruption.
It was a fortress that resembled an enormous garbage landfill.
Before the castle gate, which reeked of putrefaction.
Jin-hyuk stood confidently, spray bottle in hand.
“Hello there! Pest control service!”
At the booming voice, the castle gate swung open, and Plague King Nergal emerged.
Around him, a sickly green miasma shimmered like heat waves.
“Insolent human. You dare taint my domain with the stench of bleach.”
Nergal’s voice scraped like metal on metal.
“Taint? I’ve disinfected it. Don’t you notice how much cleaner the air is now?”
Jin-hyuk sniffed the air deliberately.
“And you—you don’t look well at all.”
My Eye of Divine Insight scanned Nergal.
[Patient Name: Plague King Nergal]
[Condition: Chronic rhinitis, conjunctivitis, and… severe immunodeficiency.]
“Ironic, isn’t it? The one who spreads disease is actually suffering from a collapsed immune system.”
Nergal’s eyes widened at my words.
It was his greatest weakness.
From harboring countless pathogens within his body, his own immune system had crumbled, leaving him wracked with fever and pain every single day.
A cursed existence—making others sick while wasting away himself.
“Silence! What could you possibly know about me!”
Plague King Nergal went berserk.
Black tentacles erupted from his body, surging toward Jin-hyuk.
“Director!”
The Hunters moved to intercept.
But Jin-hyuk raised his hand, stopping them.
Then he pulled a small syringe from his pocket.
“Hey, Nergal.”
Jin-hyuk waved the syringe.
“One shot of this, and you’ll be able to breathe through your nose without it getting blocked. Your eyes won’t sting either.”
“…What?”
The tentacle froze inches from Jin-hyuk’s face.
Breathing through his nose without blockage?
For the past five hundred years, Nergal had never breathed through his nose.
It had always been clogged with pus and mucus. His compound eyes trembled.
“A lie… from a mere human….”
“If you don’t believe me, try it and kill me afterward. It’s a free sample.”
Jin-hyuk threw the syringe.
Nergal caught it with a tentacle.
Inside was a transparent liquid.
[Concentrated Antihistamine + Immune Enhancement Elixir].
“Choose. Do you want to live your whole life with a blocked nose, or do you want treatment from me to clear it?”
Jin-hyuk’s deal.
The battlefield that was about to become a massacre transformed in an instant into a medical negotiation table.
The Plague King’s hand was trembling.
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