An F-Rank Veterinarian Physically Heals an S-Rank Magical Beast - Chapter 68

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Chapter 68
Whirrrrrrr—!
Inside Behemoth’s Stomach, a cavernous void of absolute darkness and viscous slime, the chainsaw Kang Jin-hyuk wielded shrieked with a bone-chilling roar.
The beast had boasted skin as massive as a mountain range and as unyielding as steel from the outside, yet even its inner flesh could not be invulnerable. The moment the adamantium blade, infused with my mana, touched the stomach wall, soft, gelatinous tissue erupted in all directions, spraying crimson blood.
Shhhhhhk!
Each time the chainsaw ground through the stomach lining, acrid acidic gas and a nauseating stench reverberated outward. Yet I, clad in a gas mask, continued my frenzied sawing like a deranged surgeon.
“Kahahaha! If the outside is hard, I’ll just scrape the inside clean! Now then, patient! Introducing the gastroscope! I didn’t administer anesthesia, so you might feel a bit sore!”
The instant my sawing struck a bundle of nerves deep within the stomach wall.
Kuguguguguung!
The floor beneath their feet—the Behemoth’s colossal stomach—began convulsing wildly as if seized by an earthquake. The Behemoth, unmoved by external assaults, now thrashed in terrible agony as its own flesh was ground away from within.
“Aaaagh! The ground is moving! Maintain your balance!”
“Cough! Gastric acid is surging like a tidal wave! If it touches us, it’ll dissolve our bones!”
The Murim Alliance masters tumbled across the spongy stomach wall, losing their footing. Each time Behemoth convulsed in pain, the ultra-corrosive gastric juices pooled at the stomach’s base surged forth as a towering wave, threatening to engulf the party.
“Beris! Raise a barrier! If that hits us, we’re all protein smoothies!”
At my urgent cry, Beris, who had been retching in the corner from the stench, gasped in horror and raised his staff.
“This is absolutely the worst! I’ve never seen anything so filthy and disgusting in my entire life! Absolute sterile barrier! Salamander’s flames, evaporate that acidic liquid!”
A massive wall of flame erupted from Beris’s staff, blocking the surging tide of gastric acid. With a sizzling sound, the acid evaporated, releasing noxious steam, but mercifully, we were spared from being dissolved alive.
“Haa… haa… Alliance Leader, are we truly going to die here? I would have preferred to grow old peacefully in the Murim Alliance, yet here we are, about to become a monster’s digestive fluid in this foreign land.”
The Huashan Sect Elder clutched the half-dissolved hem of his robe and wiped away tears. Namgoong Cheon shook his head with a sorrowful expression. For masters of the righteous sects who once commanded the martial world to perish dissolved by gastric acid inside a monster’s belly—surely no death in martial history could be more shameful.
Then it happened.
Clink.
The chainsaw’s blade caught something hard and metallic as I tore through the stomach wall. It was not the sound of flesh or bone being severed. I stopped sawing and shone my lantern downward.
A gleaming silver object glinted between the crimson blood and viscous slime. I pulled it out with my gloved hand.
“Huh? Now that’s a windfall.”
In my hand lay a colossal drake’s skull, half-digested, encased in an exquisite silver helmet. My Divine Eye skill immediately displayed the helmet’s information.
[Item: ‘Ancient Drake Knight’s Helmet’ obtained.]
[Description: A legendary-grade helmet crafted from mithril alloy that resists even acidic dissolution.]
“Master! That smells like money! That silver luster is definitely mithril!”
Kim Chun-sam, who had been trembling in the darkness, rushed over with his visor gleaming the moment he spotted the helmet.
“Mithril? Damn, this is huge. Behemoth’s appetite must be insatiable—it’s swallowed all manner of demonic beasts and adventurers whole. The gastric acid is so potent it dissolves all organic matter, but it can’t digest legendary-grade minerals or magical artifacts, so they’ve accumulated intact in its belly.”
At my words, the party’s gaze swept across every corner of the Behemoth’s stomach. Wherever the lantern’s light fell, glittering treasures were embedded in the wrinkles of the stomach wall. Massive mana stones, fragments of uncorroded demon swords, shields adorned with gold, and rare ores lay scattered about like refuse in a dump.
My eyes, moments ago drowning in despair, suddenly blazed with the crimson fire of capitalist greed. This was no stomach of death. It was the world’s largest and most secure natural vault, brimming with legendary-grade items no one had ever harvested.
“Everyone, listen up! No time for sorrow! We’re beginning full-scale internal farming!”
I clapped my hands and shouted toward the Murim Alliance masters.
“Patriarch! Elders! You haven’t finished repaying your debt to the Lich King yet, right? For every mithril shield you pick up over there, I’ll deduct one hundred thousand gold from your debt! Finders keepers!”
“Wh-what? One hundred thousand gold?”
“The gold ingots embedded there are worth two hundred thousand gold! Move slow and Chun-sam will sweep them all up!”
At my outrageous offer, the eyes of the elderly martial artists transformed. The terror of death paled before the far more terrifying pressure of debt, igniting their survival instincts.
“Ooh! That glowing one isn’t a thousand-year-old mana stone! I’ll claim it!”
“Out of my way! That silver sword will pay off the Huashan Sect’s debt!”
The Murim Alliance masters who had been groaning in agony moments before now scoured the stomach lining’s crevices as if nothing had happened, plucking items with fervent enthusiasm. Even as they slipped on the viscous secretions and their shoe soles dissolved in gastric acid, they stuffed chunks of mithril into their robes and burst into delighted laughter.
“Kang Jin-hyuk! Should I collect some too? There’s an incredibly beautiful gem over there!”
Luna’s eyes sparkled as she attempted to bound across the muddy stomach wall. Kang Jin-hyuk nodded contentedly and began wielding a scalpel himself, extracting valuable ore deposits embedded in the stomach lining.
But their joyful shopping spree inside the belly did not last long.
Gurrrrrgle!
The moment the Murim practitioners ripped a massive mithril shield from the stomach wall to settle their debts, a deep wound erupted with yellow pus and crimson blood. And from within that gash, something thick and elongated began to writhe its way out.
“Huh? What kind of intestine is this large?”
Gae Bang Bang-ju tilted his head curiously, reaching toward the pale mass protruding from the wound. In that instant, the mass emitted a grotesque sound, coiled like a serpent, and reared itself upright.
Shhhhhhhhh!
It was no intestine. A colossal worm—thicker than a human torso, stretching a good ten meters in length. A creature with no eyes, no nose, only a bizarre maw ringed with hundreds of razor-sharp hooked teeth.
“Gasp! W-what is that, Master! Is it a snake? No, why are its teeth shaped like that!”
Kim Chun-sam recoiled in horror. The moment Kang Jin-hyuk glimpsed the creature’s grotesque form, he identified it instantly.
“It’s not a snake. That’s a parasite. A mutant giant tapeworm that evolved inside Behemoth’s stomach, surviving the gastric acid.”
Before Kang Jin-hyuk could finish speaking, Behemoth’s entire stomach began to convulse. From every wound the Murim practitioners had torn open and from the deep crevices of the stomach lining, dozens—hundreds—of colossal tapeworms began to emerge.
Horrifying parasites that had evolved by intercepting nutrients from all manner of demonic beasts Behemoth had devoured within its stomach. Having adapted perfectly to the gastric acid, they were coated entirely in caustic mucus, and lacking eyes, they hunted by detecting minute vibrations and heat signatures.
“Kyaaaaaaah! Worms! Parasites! If they touch my body, I’ll bite my tongue and die!”
Beris’s mental state collapsed entirely. For someone who despised filth above all else, the combination of giant parasites dwelling inside a monster’s belly was the worst imaginable horror show.
“Worms? Don’t tell me my brother’s a pharmacist again. Time to prescribe some dewormer!”
Ma Dong-tak cracked his massive knuckles and charged forward boldly. He launched a heavy hook toward the head of the first giant tapeworm that lunged at him.
Thwack!
Ma Dong-tak’s fist connected squarely with the tapeworm’s face. It was a blow that would normally pulverize boulders to dust. But the impact sound was peculiar.
“Huh? It slipped right off?”
Ma Dong-tak’s eyes widened. The ultra-corrosive mucus coating the tapeworm’s surface had dissipated all the kinetic energy from his punch. Moreover, the tapeworm’s boneless, fluid-filled body was nothing more than a massive gel that absorbed impact.
Shhhhhhh!
The tapeworm, having deflected the impact, revealed hundreds of hooked teeth and clamped down hard on Ma Dong-tak’s forearm.
“You bastard, where do you think you’re biting! My muscles are too tough!”
Ma Dong-tak thrashed his arm violently, but the tapeworm’s teeth remained embedded in the protective qi and muscle fibers covering his skin rather than tearing flesh. Instead, the acidic secretion flowing from the tapeworm’s mouth was dissolving his clothes and burning his skin.
“Master! These things won’t take a hit! The mucus makes them too slippery!”
Kim Chun-sam also attempted to stomp the tapeworms with his front legs, but each one simply compressed like a tube before bouncing back up.
“This won’t work! Chun-sam! Incinerate them all with hellfire! Turn them into skewers!”
At Kang Jin-hyuk’s command, Kim Chun-sam attempted to draw fierce flames from Mong-ma’s lower body.
“Roger! Parasite roast coming up!”
“Stop! Wait! If you start a fire, we’re all dead!”
Beris, her face drained of color, shrieked and magically sealed Kim Chun-sam’s mouth shut.
“Beris, what’s wrong? Fire is the direct solution for worms!”
“You ignorant fools! Where do you think we are! We’re inside a monster’s stomach! Do you see all that bubbling gastric acid and decomposing corpses releasing massive amounts of methane gas! If you start a fire here, it won’t be the parasites that burn—the entire stomach will explode! We’ll all die in a blast inside this monster’s belly!”
At Beris’s urgent scientific explanation, Kang Jin-hyuk and his companions felt their spines chill. A methane gas explosion inside a sealed monster’s stomach—just imagining such a horrific death was terrifying. Behemoth’s organs might regenerate even if torn apart, but human bodies would oxidize without leaving a bone behind.
“Then what are we supposed to do! Blades slip off, fists don’t work, and we can’t use fire—how are we supposed to catch these leech-like bastards!”
Namgoong Cheon frantically switched off his lightsaber, crying out in desperation. The tapeworms, oblivious to the danger of methane explosion, surrounded the party from all directions, closing in.
“If fire won’t work, then freeze them! Beris! Switch to ice magic! Freeze their mucus solid!”
Jin-hyuk rapidly adjusted the strategy.
“Ugh, this is so annoying! Do you think my mana is infinite!”
Beris grumbled while his staff gleamed with an icy chill.
Absolute zero breath! Goddess of blizzards, turn these filthy worms into ice shards!
Kwaaaaa!
A vicious blizzard erupted from the tip of Beris’s staff. As temperatures plummeting dozens of degrees below zero swept through the narrow stomach, the sticky acidic mucus coating the tapeworms’ bodies began to freeze white in an instant. Not just the mucus—the entire bodies of the water-logged parasites hardened like frozen cod.
“Nice, Beris! Director Ma! Smash them while they’re frozen!”
“Hahaha! You’ve got quite the knack for making shaved ice, hyung!”
Ma Dong-tak hoisted the iron crowbar again and leaped upward. Unlike before when his fist had bounced off the mushy surface, the frozen tapeworms now delivered a satisfying, crispy impact.
Crack! Clang!
As Ma Dong-tak’s iron crowbar came down on the frozen tapeworm’s head, it shattered into tens of thousands of ice fragments like breaking glass. Kim Chun-sam, flames extinguished, began trampling the frozen parasites beneath his massive hooves.
Crunch! Snap!
“Ice cream punch! Shaved ice kick! Hyah!”
As Ma Dong-tak and Kim Chun-sam’s fantastic physical therapy combo continued, hundreds of giant tapeworms instantly became white ice powder scattered across the stomach acid.
“Phew… we barely got through that ordeal. Jin-hyuk, it seems the deworming treatment is complete, but have you found a way out of this hellish stomach?”
Ma Dong-tak asked, brushing ice off his crowbar.
Instead of answering, Jin-hyuk stared intently at the massive wound from which the tapeworms had emerged. That wound in the middle of Behemoth’s stomach wall was distinctly different from the surrounding areas.
The mucous membrane dissolved by stomach acid, raw and crimson red; a massive ulcerous mass blackened with necrosis and oozing pus. Overlapping scars from parasites burrowing through and scratches from sharp minerals created a horrifying inflamed area spanning dozens of meters in diameter.
“This isn’t… just a wound. It’s a severe gastric ulcer. A chronic, deeply infected one at that.”
Jin-hyuk clicked his tongue and approached.
“A gastric ulcer? You’re saying monsters can get stomach diseases?”
Namgoong Cheon asked in bewilderment.
“Of course. No matter how steel-like its internal organs are, if it keeps swallowing legendary magic swords and mithril shields without chewing them, the stomach can’t possibly remain unharmed. Add parasites burrowing through the stomach lining, and inflammation is inevitable.”
Jin-hyuk’s eyes gleamed again. This time, not with greed, but with the perfect prescription of a physician forming in his mind.
“When we struck from outside, this creature felt no pain, but the inside is different. This massive gastric ulcer is currently inflamed, making the nerves extremely sensitive. What do you think happens if we stimulate this area very thoroughly?”
“What happens? It gets a stomachache and writhes around.”
At Ma Dong-tak’s answer, Jin-hyuk nodded and flashed a devilish smile.
“Exactly. Unbearable stomach cramps and nausea. Our goal is to escape from inside, and that creature will want to vomit up its insides. Our interests align perfectly, don’t they? We’ll induce forced vomiting.”
Jin-hyuk began rummaging through his inventory. Dozens of glass bottles containing bone powder from the Lich King, ground down with a mortar by Ma Dong-tak in the 13th Floor Cathedral.
“Here, this is a special antacid I’ve personally prepared—no, a digestive accelerant. Director Ma and Chun-sam, when I give the signal, strike the center of that gastric ulcer with all your might, the most inflamed red area. Simultaneously, I’ll pour these bone powder bombs onto the ulcer. When the alkaline bone powder meets this acidic stomach acid and causes a massive chemical reaction, we’ll have a Mentos-and-cola explosion inside the belly.”
The martial artists couldn’t hide their shock at Jin-hyuk’s insane strategy. Striking a monster’s gastric ulcer and detonating a chemical bomb inside to force vomiting? Was this man truly a physician who dealt with living creatures?
“Hahaha! Making someone puke by striking the solar plexus is my specialty! Just trust me!”
“Buaaaang! I’ll loosen up my legs and stand ready too! I’ll flatten that ulcer with a hellfire kick!”
Only the muscle-brained Ma Dong-tak and the tin-can robot Kim Chun-sam eagerly began warming up. Jin-hyuk gripped bottles of the Lich King’s bone powder in both hands and prepared to leap.
“Everyone hold on tight! Beris! This time don’t deflect the flying debris—wrap a spherical barrier around all of us! Get ready to be launched mixed with vomit!”
The moment Jin-hyuk’s signal dropped, Ma Dong-tak and Kim Chun-sam simultaneously hurled themselves toward the monster’s massive gastric ulcer. It was the beginning of an unforgettable and horrifying endoscopy and forced indigestion treatment for the absolute ruler of the 14th Floor, Behemoth.

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