An F-Rank Veterinarian Physically Heals an S-Rank Magical Beast - Chapter 46
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Chapter 46
[Floor 11: Chaotic Martial Realm – Murim Alliance Headquarters]
Beyond the mist-shrouded Bamboo Forest, a colossal fortress emerged into view. Once the pinnacle of the Central Martial Realm, it stood with undeniable majesty.
But those days of glory had long since faded. Roof tiles lay scattered across the ground, and the fortress walls bore the unmistakable scars of battle—soot and bullet marks from the Black Iron Gang’s assault etched into the stone.
“This is… the Murim Alliance Headquarters.”
Cheong-poong, who had taken on the role of guide, lowered his head as he spoke. His voice carried less pride than resignation.
“Your security is abysmal. The barriers are weak, and your sentries are asleep at their posts.”
Baek Mu-young clicked his tongue. To the security chief’s eye, the Murim Alliance Headquarters resembled nothing so much as Swiss cheese—riddled with holes.
“With so many patients, it’s unavoidable. When people are ill, everything becomes a burden.”
I adjusted my medical bag and walked toward the fortress gate.
“Halt! Who goes there!”
Spear-wielding gatekeepers blocked our path. Their eyes were hollow and vacant, their skin marked with metallic patches scattered across their bodies. Early-stage nanotoxin infection—unmistakable.
“We’ve come to see the Alliance Leader! We’ve brought an exceptional physician!”
Cheong-poong cried out urgently.
“A physician? More of those charlatans? Last time someone claiming to be a physician got inside and poisoned the Alliance Leader before fleeing! Get out of here!”
The gatekeepers brandished their spears with open hostility. Their distrust of outsiders had reached a fever pitch.
“Look, how about you lower those spears? You’re getting rust poison on them.”
I waved my hand dismissively, as though this were merely an inconvenience.
“How dare you!”
The gatekeeper lunged forward with his spear.
Slash—!
An invisible blade of sword energy cleanly severed the tips of the gatekeepers’ spears.
“Huh…?”
The gatekeepers stood dazed, their spears now reduced to clubs in their trembling hands.
“Clear the way. I’d rather not see any more pathetic displays.”
Baek Mu-young sheathed his sword, his voice low and measured.
An overwhelming presence. The gatekeepers had no choice but to yield instinctively.
[Murim Alliance Headquarters – Vermillion Hall – Alliance Leader’s Chamber]
The interior was far more dire. The scent of medicine mingled with incense, and dozens of elders gathered in hushed murmurs. Though they wore ornate silk robes, their expressions were dark and stubborn.
“I thought we forbade outsiders from entering!”
A white-haired elder seated at the head of the gathering bellowed. Namgoong Cheon, the Grand Elder of the Murim Alliance. Head of the Namgoong Family, renowned for his obstinacy, and current acting Alliance Leader.
“Grand Elder! These individuals claim they can heal the Alliance Leader! They subdued the Black Iron Gang masters in an instant!”
Cheong-poong knelt and pleaded.
“Silence! Bringing rootless vagabonds here to defile our sacred alliance!”
Namgoong Cheon struck the floor with his cane with a sharp crack.
“No doubt spies sent by those Kairos Cult bastards. Some scheme to tempt us with mechanical limbs!”
“That’s not it.”
Jin Hyuk strode forward into the chamber.
“No mechanical limbs. I focus on natural healing—pure, organic restoration.”
“Who do you think you are! Kneel at once!”
The elders unleashed their killing intent in unison. The pressure from dozens of martial masters bore down upon Jin Hyuk.
Yet he didn’t flinch. Instead, his expression turned contemptuous as he clicked his tongue.
“Your patient is dying, and you’re spouting nonsense about pedigree. No wonder this place is falling apart.”
“What, what did you say?!”
“And Grand Elder, before lecturing others about their roots, perhaps tend to your own health? Going to the bathroom five times every night because of your enlarged prostate.”
“Kuh—hack?!”
Namgoong Cheon’s face flushed crimson like a radish. It was a secret known to no one but himself.
“The elder beside you there has high cholesterol. Stop eating greasy foods. Your blood vessels are on the verge of blockage. And the person behind you has a severe fungal infection. Wash your feet.”
Namgoong Hyuk rattled off the elders’ diagnoses one after another using [Divine Eyes]. The assembly fell into shock. He’d identified their ailments without even taking their pulse once.
“Y-you insolent fool! You’re casting spells!”
Namgoong Cheon trembled and shouted.
“It’s not sorcery—it’s diagnosis. Only incompetent quacks prattle on about qi. Real doctors speak through data.”
“Silence! We believe only in pure inner cultivation healing! We need no filthy external techniques! Drag these fools out at once!”
Namgoong Cheon commanded his guards. The warriors drew their blades and rushed forward—but in that instant.
“Stop.”
A thunderous roar shook the hall. Baek Mu-young stepped forward. He removed the straw hat he’d been wearing. His white hair billowed, and the aura of a hundred-year-old ancient blade swept through like a tempest.
“The Sword Saint…?”
“B-Baek Mu-young, sir?!”
The elders’ eyes bulged from their sockets. The legend of the martial world. The Martial God who had vanished a hundred years ago stood before them. His appearance matched the portrait exactly—no, bearing even greater dignity than depicted.
“Child of the Namgoong Family. Your grandfather Namgoong Hyuk could not raise his head before me. Yet you dare obstruct my lord’s path?”
“M-my lord, you say…?”
Namgoong Cheon doubted his own ears. A man called lord by the greatest Sword Saint in all the land.
Baek Mu-young stood behind Namgoong Hyuk and bowed respectfully.
“This person is my personal physician and the only one capable of saving this dying martial world. Any disrespect will not be forgiven by my blade.”
The situation concluded. Before the Sword Saint’s guarantee, the elders could only clamp their mouths shut.
“You heard him? We’re pressed for time. Move aside.”
Namgoong Hyuk pushed past the frozen elders and headed toward the bed where the Alliance Leader lay.
On the bed lay a middle-aged man. The Murim Alliance Leader, Lee Gang.
But his condition was ghastly. Half his skin had transformed into a metallic black sheen, and his veins bulged grotesquely, writhing like serpents.
“Ugh…”
Lee Gang let out a pained groan.
“The condition is more serious than I thought.”
Namgoong Hyuk spoke while pulling on gloves.
“Namgoong Hyuk, isn’t this just a machine? Can’t we just rip it out?”
Yoo Yi-soo tapped the Alliance Leader’s arm lightly.
“No. It looks mechanical on the surface, but inside it’s a virus. [Self-Replicating Nano Machines]. They’re attaching to every single cell and converting DNA into machine code.”
Namgoong Hyuk signaled to Luna.
“Luna, get ready.”
“Yes! Hacking tools are set up!”
Luna pulled out a tablet PC and attached electrode patches to the Alliance Leader’s dantian and acupoint locations.
A bizarre sight—cutting-edge electrodes affixed to the mystical acupoints of martial arts lore. The elders gasped in horror.
“What—what is this! Metal touching the sacred dantian!”
“Please be quiet. I’m inserting the endoscope now.”
Namgoong Hyuk opened the Alliance Leader’s mouth and inserted a thin, elongated tube. It was no ordinary endoscope. It was a [Mana-Responsive Nano Endoscope]—a fusion of magical knowledge from the 7th Floor Library and technology from the 8th Floor Laboratory.
[Skill: Precision Manipulation]
[Screen Sharing: On]
A holographic display materialized in the air. The elders shrieked. The screen revealed the interior of the Alliance Leader’s blood vessels in stark detail.
“This is… inside the Alliance Leader’s body?”
“Good heavens, what are those disgusting creatures!”
Tens of thousands of silver insects—nano robots—swarmed through the blood vessels, devouring red blood cells and multiplying.
“You see? This is the true nature of what you call ‘inner energy backlash.’ They’re mechanical parasites planted by those Kairos Cult bastards.”
Namgoong Hyuk maneuvered the endoscope toward the heart region. There, a massive [Mother Nanobot]—resembling a queen ant—coiled around the heart.
“That one’s the main body. We need to capture it.”
“How are we supposed to do that? Cut it with a blade?”
Yoo Yi-soo asked.
“No. We kill it through hacking.”
At Namgoong Hyuk’s signal, Luna’s fingers flew across the tablet at a frenzied pace.
“Analyzing nanobot communication codes… decrypting encryption… access granted!”
[Hacking Attempt: Forced Shutdown Command Transmitted]
Beep—!
The nanobots on the screen froze momentarily. Then they began to glow with a crimson light.
[Warning! External intrusion detected.]
[Defense system activated. Terminating host’s heartbeat.]
“Damn it, self-destruct mode!”
Luna cried out.
The Alliance Leader’s body convulsed violently. The heart rate monitor spiked erratically.
“Hack! Cough!”
The Alliance Leader coughed up blood.
“You bastards! Are you trying to kill the Alliance Leader!”
Namgoong Cheon rushed forward.
“Get back!”
Yoo Yi-soo swept her twin blades across the floor, her killing intent radiating outward.
Crash!
A deep gash carved into the ground.
“Take one more step, and I’ll sever those legs for real.”
Namgoong Cheon froze under the killing intent of an S-rank Hunter.
Hyuk wiped sweat from his brow as he manipulated the endoscope.
“Luna, inject the virus code! Make them attack each other!”
“The firewall is too thick! We’re running out of time!”
“Then we breach it physically.”
My eyes blazed with golden light.
[Tamer Skill: Machine Taming]
[Medical Skill: Mana Shock]
I unleashed a powerful electrical discharge from the tip of the endoscope. The Mother Nanobot on the screen convulsed and writhed as electricity coursed through it.
“Now! Luna!”
“Yes! [Trojan Horse] transmitting!”
Luna pressed the Enter key forcefully. The hacking code infiltrated the Mother Nanobot’s central nervous system.
[System Control Successful.]
[Command Override: ‘Attack Host’ → ‘Restore Host’.]
A miracle unfolded. The nanobots that had glowed red shifted to blue, ceasing their assault on the Alliance Leader’s blood vessels and instead beginning to seal the torn vessels.
“Ohhh…!”
Gasps of wonder escaped the elders’ lips. The Alliance Leader’s skin, darkened to black, gradually returned to its natural hue. The mechanized tissue fell away, and fresh flesh began to bloom.
“Final phase. Expel the debris!”
I inserted an acupuncture needle at a vital point on the Alliance Leader’s back. He cried out—”Krraaagh!”—and vomited a stream of black, metallic sludge from his mouth. The remains of the dead nanobots.
[Treatment Complete.]
[Patient ‘Lee Gang’ has returned to normal condition.]
[Nanomachines removed. Dantian fortified.]
“Phew….”
I withdrew the endoscope and removed my gloves.
“The surgery is complete. You should be waking up now.”
The moment those words left my lips, Lee Gang’s eyes snapped open. A brilliant, crystalline light blazed from his pupils—his inner energy vastly more potent than before the demonic possession crisis.
“M-My Lord Alliance Leader!”
“Are you conscious, sir?”
The elders surged forward and prostrated themselves.
Lee Gang rose slowly to his feet. His body felt weightless as a feather. The foreign matter clogging his blood vessels had vanished, and his inner energy flowed like a cascading waterfall.
“My body… it feels as though I’ve been reborn.”
Lee Gang’s gaze settled on Namgoong Hyuk, then shifted to Baek Mu-young standing beside him. He started in surprise and descended from the bed.
“Y-You, the Sword Saint? What brings you to this place…?”
“Lie back down. You’re still a patient.”
Baek Mu-young smiled with benevolent warmth.
“This young physician saved your life. I merely assisted.”
Lee Gang turned to face Namgoong Hyuk. Without hesitation, he clasped his fists in the martial salute and bowed deeply.
“To my savior, I, Lee Gang, Alliance Leader of the Murim Alliance, offer my deepest gratitude. This debt shall remain etched in my heart until death.”
As the Alliance Leader bowed, the proud elders behind him had no choice but to drop to their knees.
“We… were ignorant and failed to recognize your worth. We deserve punishment.”
Namgoong Cheon in particular could not lift his face. The man he had dismissed as a charlatan had just saved the Alliance Leader’s life—he wished he could disappear into the earth itself.
Namgoong Hyuk smiled faintly and dropped into a chair with a thud.
“Apologies aren’t necessary. Our hospital prefers actions over words.”
I pulled a thick invoice from my pocket and placed it on the table.
“House call fee, specialized endoscopy procedure fee, hacking program usage fee, and compensation for our Vice Director and Team Leader.”
I held up three fingers.
“Thirty volumes of secret manuals, ten thousand-year-old spiritual roots, and the Alliance Leader’s personal sword. We’ll call it even.”
“…!!”
The elders gasped in horror. He was essentially demanding the very pillars that upheld the Murim Alliance.
“Is that too steep? Well then, I could always reinsert the nanobots instead….”
Namgoong Hyuk toyed with the syringe.
“No, no! You must take them! Of course you must!”
Lee Gang cried out urgently. There was nothing more precious than life itself. Besides, this was a doctor vouched for by the Sword Saint himself.
“You there! Open the Scripture Repository at once and unlock the treasure vault!”
“Okay. Payment processed.”
Namgoong Hyuk smiled with satisfaction.
“And one more thing. From now on, the Murim Alliance is a partner organization of [Arcana Hospital]. If the Black Iron Gang or those Kairos Cult bastards cause trouble, our hospital’s security team will mobilize. Of course, there’s a separate service fee.”
“Partner… organization?”
Lee Gang was bewildered by the unfamiliar terminology, yet he was deeply moved by the fact that he’d gained a powerful ally. This was the opportunity to turn the tide against the Kairos Cult, who had been pushing them back.
“Understood! From this day forward, the Murim Alliance will share fortune and hardship together with Arcana Hospital!”
Thus the order of the 11th Floor was restructured. The stubborn elders received their comeuppance, the Alliance Leader was fully healed, and Namgoong Hyuk walked away with immense wealth.
“Well, now that I’ve collected my payment, shall we raid their headquarters?”
Namgoong Hyuk gazed out the window. In the distance, the black tower of the Kairos Cult’s branch was belching ominous smoke.
“Those bastards made some money through illegal procedures, didn’t they?”
Yoo Yi-soo laughed menacingly as she polished her twin blades.
“I smell blood, not money. I want to slice them all to pieces.”
“Luna, grab your hacking tools. Let’s strip their entire network and leave them with nothing.”
“Yes! Leave it to me!”
The next target for the Arcana Special Cleaning Division had been determined. The charlatan doctor, Kairos Cult. It was time to forcibly shut down his hospital.
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