An F-Rank Veterinarian Physically Heals an S-Rank Magical Beast - Chapter 48
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Chapter 48
[Floor 11: Chaotic Martial World – Kairos Branch Central Hall]
CRASH—!!!
The ceiling tore away as golden lightning and pitch-black hellfire cascaded down simultaneously. Two colossal figures emerged from the cloud of dust.
One was Zeus, muscles glistening with sweat, clad in nothing but a tank top.
The other was Mephistopheles, impeccably dressed in a suit though his necktie hung askew and his eyes were hollow with exhaustion.
“W-who are you?!”
Doctor Kairos screamed.
Zeus raised his massive forearms and roared.
“Me? I’m the Power Management Officer of the Arcana Hospital Facility Management Team! You worthless heaps of scrap metal!”
Crackle!
Thick bolts of electricity erupted from Zeus’s hands—yet the fury contained within them was far too mundane to be divine wrath.
“Do you have any idea how much electricity you parasites consume?! I’ve been running the generators at full capacity 24 hours a day because of you! And I don’t even get overtime pay!”
BOOM!
Lightning struck the Chimera Tiger’s crown.
“SCREEEECH!”
The Chimera Tiger convulsed from the electrical shock and rolled across the floor, barely able to cry out.
“Complimentary service for you, sir! One million volts of pure tingle!”
Zeus laughed like a madman as he began pulverizing the mechanical soldiers around him with his bare hands. All the resentment accumulated from running those generators finally erupted.
“Let me crank up that air conditioning for you! Nice and cool, right? You’re gonna love it!”
WHAM!
CRACK!
S-rank mechanical soldiers crumpled like crushed beer cans under Zeus’s fists. Meanwhile, Mephistopheles opened his briefcase on the opposite side.
“Welcome, valued customer. Have you completed your intake form?”
Thousands of parchment contracts unfurled behind Mephistopheles like wings.
“If you won’t accept it, I’m initiating [Forced Discharge] procedures.”
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
The paper contracts flew like blades, shredding the joints of the mechanical soldiers.
“Hey, don’t mess with our director! I’m in the middle of salary negotiations! If my incentives get cut, are you guys gonna take responsibility?!”
Mephistopheles melted the robots with his fists wreathed in hellfire.
“Difficult customers go on the blacklist! I’ll get you a one-way ticket to hell! Since it’s one-way, don’t bother coming back!”
It was overwhelming. Mythic-tier beings channeling the “sorrows of office workers” into their attacks—even Doctor Kairos’s elite mechanical legion was swept away like autumn leaves.
Jin-hyuk watched the spectacle with satisfaction and applauded.
“Now that’s what I call company loyalty. I should really bump up their bonuses.”
Then a new enemy appeared, blocking Zeus’s path. An android bodyguard that Doctor Kairos had been saving: [Model: Valkyrie]. A robot with sleek metallic curves and the beautiful face of a woman.
“Target identified. Annihilation mode activated.”
Valkyrie drew a laser sword.
Zeus raised his fist to strike, then hesitated. His eyes traced Valkyrie’s well-defined curves.
“Hmm… a machine, but quite the impressive aesthetic design.”
Zeus’s chronic weakness—his wandering eye—flared up. He slowly lowered his fist and swept his hair back.
“Ahem. Miss, or rather, mechanical beauty, how about joining me at Olympus for a little… date? I assure you, I can keep your batteries fully charged.”
“…?”
Valkyrie encountered an error processing the unexpected data.
“Hey, boss! What are you doing right now?!”
Jin-hyuk shouted, but Zeus grinned shamelessly.
“Director, just a moment. It’d be a waste to scrap this one. If I repurpose her as my personal secretary….”
It was at that very moment. The air tore open in a flash of pink light, and a familiar peacock feather fan shot forth.
Crack—!!!
With a crisp impact, Zeus’s jaw snapped to the side.
“Gack!”
“You absolute fool! Now you’re flirting with a machine?!”
Hera, Queen of Olympus, had arrived. Her eyes blazed with a killing intent far more terrifying than Zeus’s lightning.
“D-dear? H-how did you even get here…?”
Zeus’s face went pale as he stumbled backward.
“How?! I came to bring you a hospital lunch, and what do I find? Some pathetic display! I send you to do your rounds, and here you are getting cozy with a hunk of scrap metal?”
Hera’s gaze fixed on Valkyrie.
“My, my, look at this figure? Quite the voluptuous build, isn’t it? Did you design her to your exact tastes?”
“N-no! Dear! It’s a misunderstanding! I was just taking a brief cooldown… I mean, a rest period….”
“A rest period? I’ll give you eternal rest.”
Hera swung her staff.
[Divine Authority: Domestic Harmony (Domestic Violence Ver.)]
Boom!
Valkyrie vanished without a trace from Hera’s single blow. The shockwave rippled directly through to Zeus.
“Help me! I was wrong! I’ll never do it again!”
Zeus was dragged about by his ear, his back taking hit after hit from Hera. The sight of the world’s strongest being reduced to such a pathetic state made me shake my head in disbelief.
“As expected… even the gods can’t mediate a married couple’s quarrel.”
Meanwhile, as the situation turned against him, Doctor Kairos was preparing his escape.
“Y-you monsters… this isn’t over!”
The moment Doctor Kairos reached for the emergency exit button, a dark shadow seized his wrist.
“Where do you think you’re going, valued customer?”
It was Mephistopheles. He pinned Doctor Kairos against the wall and withdrew a contract from his pocket—a scroll of paper so long it resembled toilet paper.
“You haven’t completed your discharge procedures yet. There are quite a few things to sign.”
“Let go of me! I am the great Doctor Kairos! A demon like you wouldn’t dare—!”
“Shh. Your voice is rather loud. [Terms and Conditions Accepted]—let’s proceed.”
Mephistopheles snapped his fingers, and the contract came alive, coiling around Doctor Kairos’s body. It was no ordinary paper. Each character was a curse that gnawed at the mind itself.
“Aaaahhhhh! My head… my head feels like it’s splitting!”
“Now, read Article 1, Section 5: ‘In the event of unpaid medical fees, the patient pledges their soul as collateral.’ You agree, yes? If you don’t, I’ll keep reading until you do.”
“Ugh… I agree… I agree!”
“Excellent. Next, Article 2, Section 1: ‘The patient assumes all responsibility for side effects from additional procedures.’ Read this one too. Loudly.”
Doctor Kairos was losing his mind. He had one particular habit: whenever under extreme stress, he would tear at his beard. That magnificent white beard was his pride—a symbol of his authority.
“Read faster! I can’t hear you!”
Mephistopheles tightened the contract.
“Uhhh… I agree! I said I agree!”
Doctor Kairos screamed, tearing at his beard. Pluck. Pluck-pluck-pluck.
“Article 3, Section 7! The text is too small to read? Speak up!”
“I’ll read it! I’m reading it!”
Pluck-pluck! Pluck!
Mephistopheles’s torment inflicted psychological exhaustion far worse than physical pain. Endless clauses, microscopic special provisions—Doctor Kairos couldn’t bear the stress and frantically tore at his beard with both hands.
Moments later.
“Huff… huff…”
Doctor Kairos lay sprawled on the floor. His once-magnificent beard was gone, leaving his chin smooth and bare as a hairless monkey’s. Sparse droplets of blood dotted his naked jaw. The mad doctor’s dignity had vanished, replaced by a middle-aged man suffering from stress-induced hair loss.
“Much cleaner now. You actually look like a person again.”
Mephistopheles withdrew with a satisfied smile.
Only then did Jin-hyuk walk forward to Doctor Kairos. Behind him stood the rescued Luna and Beris.
“Are you alright? Are you hurt anywhere?”
“Yes, Director… I was so scared.”
Luna’s voice trembled with tears.
“My glasses… my glasses broke. Does this count as a workplace injury claim?”
Beris stammered nervously.
“Of course. I’ll get you the finest replacement glasses on the company card.”
Jin-hyuk reassured Luna and Beris, then looked down at the now-bald Doctor Kairos.
“Now then, my dear patient. Shouldn’t we settle our [accounts]?”
“You… you’re not a doctor… you’re a demon….”
Doctor Kairos trembled as he spoke.
“Thank you for the compliment. I’m actually kinder than our administrative director.”
Jin-hyuk placed his hand on Doctor Kairos’s head.
“You desecrated the art of medicine. You didn’t treat patients—you treated them as spare parts. That doesn’t make you a doctor; it makes you an assembly technician.”
“Ugh… it was for the advancement of science! There is no evolution without sacrifice!”
“Silence. That ‘knowledge’ you’ve accumulated—I’m seizing it.”
Jin-hyuk’s eyes flashed with golden light.
[Skill: Knowledge Plunder]
[Condition Met: Target has lost all will to resist and submitted.]
Whoooosh—!
Vast data from Doctor Kairos’s brain flowed into Jin-hyuk. Nanotechnology, cybernetic surgery techniques, neural connection technology, mechanical beast creation methods—decades of Doctor Kairos’s accumulated research results were now stored in Jin-hyuk’s mind.
[New Skill Acquired!]
[Mechanical Medicine Lv.1]
[- Knowledge of combining or separating and repairing biological and mechanical components.]
[- Control authority over the ‘Nano Virus’ has been acquired.]
“Gaaahhhhh!”
Doctor Kairos, stripped of his knowledge, collapsed with foam frothing at his mouth. Now he was nothing but an empty shell—a hollow husk of a man.
“Phew….”
I rose to my feet, feeling a dull throb in my head. The influx of new knowledge was dizzying, but my spirits soared higher than ever.
“Well, I guess I’m a doctor who actually knows how to tinker with machines now.”
I turned to look at Iron Fist Master, Flying Swallow, and Poison King standing behind me. They stared at me in stunned silence, their minds reeling from the sight of the man who had dominated them crumbling so pathetically.
“Now then, time to keep my promise.”
I snapped my fingers sharply.
“Listen up, you mechanical masters. Prepare the operating theater. We’re pulling an all-nighter tonight.”
[Arcana Hospital – Temporary Operating Room (Kairos Branch Occupied)]
I requisitioned Doctor Kairos’s laboratory and converted it into an operating theater. Iron Fist Master lay on the surgical table.
“Will I… truly be able to become human again?”
Iron Fist Master asked anxiously.
“Not a hundred percent. Perfectly restoring severed limbs to biological form will take time. But….”
I activated the [Mechanical Medicine] skill I had just acquired. Blue mana and silver nano particles danced simultaneously from my fingertips.
“At least I’ll make sure the machines serve you, rather than you serving the machines.”
I removed the ‘obedience chip’ embedded in Iron Fist Master’s brain and redesigned the neural circuitry. I replaced the crude and painful mechanical arm connection points with smooth biometal, and implanted mana circuits to allow him to channel his inner energy.
“This isn’t just a prosthetic limb. It’s an [Inner Energy Amplification Prosthetic Arm] that responds to your qi.”
The surgery complete, Iron Fist Master clenched and unclenched his fist. The cold sensation of metal faded, replaced by a warm, vital energy flowing through it as if it were his own flesh.
“Ahhh… the qi… it flows!”
Tears streamed down the Iron Fist Master’s face. I had restored him to his former glory as a martial master.
Next came the surgeries for Flying Swallow and the Poison King.
Flying Swallow’s blade legs, which normally took the shape of human limbs, were replaced with [Variable Prosthetic Limbs] that transformed into blades only during combat.
The Poison King’s mechanical spine was fitted with an [Automatic Detoxification Filter], freeing him from pharmaceutical dependence and pain at last.
“Thank you… truly, thank you….”
The three masters prostrated themselves before me, bowing deeply. They were no longer slaves of Doctor Kairos. They were my patients now—and my loyal servants.
“Alright, enough with the sentiment.”
I tapped away at my calculator.
“We need to settle the surgical fees. Since you’re broke right now, you’ll work them off with your bodies.”
“Command us as you wish!”
“Good. Clean up those mechanical zombies scattered across the 11th Floor, and distribute some promotional flyers for our hospital.”
I winked at them.
“Oh, and tell me where Doctor Kairos stashed his treasure vault. Empty it all out.”
“Yes, sir!”
The masters swore their loyalty without hesitation.
Once everything was settled, Zeus, Mephistopheles, and Hera approached.
“Director, can we head out? Hera said she’d cook dinner for us.”
Zeus rubbed his swollen cheeks and glanced at me hopefully.
“Of course, you all worked hard. I’ll make sure you get overtime pay. Go on.”
“Hmph, next time assign me something more dignified. I’ve got grease all over my hands.”
Hera grumbled while grabbing Zeus by the ear and vanished through a portal.
“I’ll be taking my leave as well. I need to process the soul seizure procedures for that Doctor Kairos bastard.”
Mephistopheles hauled the now-bald Doctor Kairos away like a sack of goods and disappeared.
Everyone had left, leaving only Jin-hyuk, Yoo Yi-soo, Luna, and Baek Mu-young.
“Phew, the 11th Floor is officially under our control.”
I stretched my arms and yawned.
“You’ve worked hard, honey. Now that you’ve learned mechanical medicine too, there’s nothing you can’t fix anymore, is there?”
Yoo Yi-soo marveled at the thought.
“That’s right. Now that the Martial Realm is finished….”
The moment I realigned the twisted dantians of the Martial Realm trio and cleared their congested meridians—
“P-please! Save me too, I beg you!”
“Argh! My qi is backflowing! Healer! No, divine being!”
Like a horde of zombies swarming forth, the modified martial artists crawled toward me in droves. Their appearance was pitiful. Bodies fused with machinery shrieked from the side effects, and their eyes burned with nothing but the madness of survival.
But rather than being moved by their desperation, I furrowed my brow and clicked my tongue.
“What, do these people think this is some kind of free soup kitchen?”
I crossed my arms and spoke coldly.
“Form a line, a line! And from what I can see, you don’t have a single coin or even a ten-won piece in your pockets. Free treatment? Credit? Absolutely not.”
“I have nothing, but I’ll repay you with my life! Please!”
“I shall never forget your kindness! *cough*”
“Does kindness put food on the table? Do you know how much rice costs these days?”
I lightly dodged the grasping hands reaching for my pant legs and unleashed cutting remarks like daggers.
“Let’s think about this rationally. If people without money start making a fuss like this, what then? I’m not a philanthropist. To take in all these people….”
I let out a hollow laugh and made exaggerated gestures to intimidate them.
“What, I’d have no choice but to take the position of Murim Alliance Leader? The only way the numbers work is if I put the entire Martial Realm under my feet! The treasure is merely the Alliance Leader’s special bonus, while the elders and martial artists’ collective hospitalization fees and machinery repair costs are separate expenses. So….”
My intention was to drive them away with absurd excuses. Trading money for the position of Murim Alliance Leader—proud martial artists would surely rage with indignation at such an audacious proposal.
But my prediction shattered spectacularly.
The noisy crowd fell silent as if cold water had been poured over them, and an elderly man who appeared to be the most senior among the modified martial artists staggered forward. He looked up at me and opened his mouth with grim resolve.
“From this moment forward, you are the Alliance Leader.”
“…What?”
“We pay our respects to the Alliance Leader!!”
At the old man’s lead, dozens of martial artists who had been crawling on the ground suddenly bowed their heads in unison.
“Loyalty! We shall obey the Alliance Leader’s command!”
In an instant, the clinic transformed into an atmosphere befitting the Grand Hall of the Murim Alliance itself.
Jin-hyuk’s pupils darted wildly, searching for an escape route.
‘No, this isn’t what I meant—’
A joke meant to derail negotiations had somehow become an act of swallowing the imperial seal itself. Jin-hyuk’s pupils began trembling like an 8.0 magnitude earthquake, his body convulsing involuntarily.
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