An F-Rank Veterinarian Physically Heals an S-Rank Magical Beast - Chapter 71

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Chapter 71
Hundreds of thick iron doors lining both sides of the Corridor burst open in unison, and the cool air of the 15th Underground Floor Workshop descended heavily upon us.
Screeeeeech—! Clang!
From within the dimly lit detention facility, the sharp sound of claws scraping against the floor and the rough, murky breathing of beasts echoed forth in a torrent. What emerged into the Corridor, where white fluorescent lights flickered anxiously, were creatures of an entirely different caliber from the waste we had incinerated in the Operating Room moments before.
A hybrid with the upper body of a colossal fire bear and the lower body of a spider, crawling up the walls with grotesque dexterity.
An aerial assault chimera with wings of steel feathers grafted onto a body possessing a troll’s regenerative prowess, stitched together by brute force.
Even slaughter weapons with skin completely flayed away, exposing raw crimson muscle fibers, and massive mantis scythes embedded where their arms should have been.
Hundreds of perfected chimera legions born from the deranged bioengineering experiments of an unlicensed alchemist advanced toward us, dripping with virulent green toxins and radiating murderous intent.
“W-what manner of infernal army is this! To splice beasts together so grotesquely!”
Namgoong Cheon retreated a step, his trembling hands gripping his light blade tightly. The masters of the Murim Alliance were also gasping for breath beneath the suffocating pressure of the bizarre predators closing in from all sides. Against ordinary beasts or demons, we could suppress them through sheer momentum, but these chimeras bore no trace of reason or survival instinct in their eyes. They were nothing but slaughter machines imprinted with a single command: tear apart the living before you.
“Elders! Fall back, I beg you! I shall tear these rags to shreds myself!”
The first to break the silence was, as expected, the human weapon Ma Dong-tak. He gripped a thick iron lever in both hands, his massive pectoral muscles bulging as he roared.
“You mangled wretches! I’ll sort you out nice and clean!”
Boom!
Ma Dong-tak kicked off the silvery special alloy floor with brutal force and launched himself forward. His first target was the hybrid chimera of fire bear and spider crawling across the ceiling. He leaped fearlessly into the air and swung the iron lever like a baseball bat with tremendous force.
Craaaaaack!
Ma Dong-tak’s full swing struck the chimera’s massive bear skull dead center. With the sound of shattering bone, the bear’s head burst like a watermelon, spraying brain matter and green ichor in all directions. It should have been a fatal blow—the kind that would have killed any creature instantly and sent it plummeting to the ground.
“Ha! One strike!”
Ma Dong-tak landed and laughed heartily. But his laughter quickly turned to bewilderment.
Shhhhhhh!
Rather than falling to the ground, the chimera’s body writhed its eight spider legs with even more grotesque convulsions, firing venom-laced webbing toward Ma Dong-tak’s neck. Despite the destruction of its upper brain, the independently severed nervous system of the lower body continued to function autonomously, launching its attack.
“What? Its head’s blown apart—why is it still moving!”
Ma Dong-tak twisted his body to evade the webbing, but in that split second, a troll chimera with mantis scythes seized the opportunity and slashed its blade toward his ribs.
Clang!
Fortunately, the powerful protective qi reinforcement covering Ma Dong-tak’s skin and his dense musculature prevented the scythe from cutting deep; it sparked and bounced away. Ma Dong-tak, irritated, drove the iron lever through the mantis troll’s abdomen.
Thud!
“Choke on that and back off!”
The iron lever pierced through the troll’s belly and erupted from its back. Yet the troll chimera, seemingly oblivious to the rupturing of its organs, used the lever embedded in its own abdomen as a fulcrum to close the distance to Ma Dong-tak’s face, baring its fangs to tear into his visage.
“Ugh, this is disgustingly persistent!”
Ma Dong-tak shattered the troll’s jaw with his fist and knocked it back, but the fallen chimeras, dragging severed limbs and burst entrails, were already rising to their feet again.
“Master! Something’s wrong with these things! Even with joints broken and organs ruptured, they keep attacking! Their pain receptors seem completely paralyzed!”
Kim Chun-sam, unleashing hellfire from the rear while kicking away avian chimeras, cried out urgently. Even the chimera whose torso had been folded in half by his back kick was crawling forward using its broken wing as a crutch, firing venomous feathers like throwing stars.
Pain paralysis. And that grotesque, compartmentalized vitality.
As hundreds of chimeras, oblivious to suffering, surged forward like zombies, even the legendary Ma Dong-tak and Kim Chun-sam began to gasp for breath, slowly encircled. The Murim Alliance masters were severing limbs with their blade energy, but even the severed limbs crawled across the floor, attacking the warriors’ ankles in a scene of pure pandemonium.
“Kyaaaah! Disgusting! Stay back! Burn it all!”
Beris, his sanity half-shattered, unleashed torrents of flame indiscriminately, but the flayed, muscular chimeras charged through the inferno, their bodies charring to ash as they came. This was the moment the true nature of these survival-instinct-stripped bioweapons was revealed.
Through the speaker, the Mad Scientist Victor’s grotesque laughter echoed through the Corridor once more.
[Kahahaha! How do you like it! My perfect soldiers who feel no pain and fear no death! No matter how strong you are or how powerful your magic, how long do you think you can endure against hundreds of immortal legions that know no fatigue! Fight until your skin is flayed, and become the material for my next experiment!]
Ma Dong-tak’s face flushed with rage at Victor’s confident mockery, and he spat out curses.
“Shut your mouth, you lunatic! Crush the skull and rip out the heart—then it’ll die!”
However, facing hundreds of tenacious monsters one by one—extracting hearts and crushing skulls—demanded an enormous toll on stamina. The front line was gradually being pushed back toward my group.
That was when it happened.
From the rear, where I had been silently observing the situation, I stepped forward with a soft tsk-tsk of my tongue. My face bore no trace of panic or fear—only a profound irritation that transcended mere exasperation.
“This bastard’s been running his mouth since earlier. An immortal legion? Perfect soldiers?”
I let out a hollow laugh as I stretched latex gloves taut across both hands.
“He scrounges bolts and nuts from some hardware store, assembles them into a toy, and acts like he’s created life itself. Hey, Manager Ma! Chun-sam! Don’t waste your strength—fall back.”
“Master! If we fall back, these creatures will overrun the elders!”
“Overrun? These garbage assemblies are only tiring because you’re trying to crush them with brute force. The fundamentals of disassembly aren’t breaking joints—it’s exploiting the weak points in the connections.”
My eyes ignited with brilliant golden light. My Divine Eye skill deployed at maximum output, beginning a precise scan of the hundreds of chimeras.
In my vision, the chimeras’ grotesque forms and razor teeth vanished. Only the thick, dark iron sutures crudely binding flesh of different species together remained visible—the tension in twisted muscle fibers, and the precarious center of gravity of skeletal frames mismatched in proportion—all unfolding like a vivid 3D blueprint.
The giant upper body of a bear was imposing tremendous overload on the spider’s thin joints, while the troll bearing the mantis scythe had its spine perpetually bent slightly leftward due to the weapon’s weight.
This Victor fellow had conducted surgery with the shallow thinking of an elementary schooler—believing that assembling only the strong parts of beasts would create strength. He had completely ignored biological mechanics and anatomical structure.
“That’s not evolution. Those are just walking patients with chronic disease.”
I spun an adamantium scalpel between my fingers and declared coldly.
“From now on, strike only the vital points I indicate. You don’t need to break or cut anything. Just a slight misalignment, and these things will collapse under their own weight. Manager, are you ready?”
“Okay! If it’s precision strikes, I’m the expert! Where should I hit?”
Ma Dong-tak adjusted his grip on the iron lever and waited for my orders. My golden eyes locked onto the leading bear-spider chimera charging ferociously.
“Bear-spider. Between the third and fourth legs of the lower body, strike the iron pin embedded near the pelvic joint diagonally downward.”
The moment my order fell, Ma Dong-tak slid across the ground like a knife. The chimera raised its massive bear foreleg to crush him, but Ma Dong-tak had already burrowed toward its lower abdomen.
Ma Dong-tak’s iron lever shot sharply downward toward the iron pin at the pelvic joint I’d indicated. It wasn’t a powerful strike. It was precise and sharp—like tapping a pool cue with a short, controlled stroke.
Clang!
With a clear metallic ring, the forcibly embedded iron pin shifted microscopically.
In that instant.
“Crrrunch! Screeeech!”
The bear-spider chimera’s massive upper body began convulsing abnormally. As the critical joint supporting the pelvis misaligned, the bear’s heavy upper body weight suddenly concentrated on the remaining spider leg joints all at once.
It had no time to scream. Unable to support its own upper body weight, all eight spider leg joints snapped like dominoes, and it crashed flat to the ground. Even the forcibly sutured belly skin couldn’t withstand the tension and burst open on its own, spilling entrails everywhere.
At the sight of a colossal chimera collapsing from a single light tap, even Ma Dong-tak’s eyes widened.
“Wow! This is just like Jenga! One tap and it all comes tumbling down!”
“No time for admiration! Next patient waiting! Mantis-troll. Strike the ligament connecting the scythe, directly below the left shoulder blade! The weight distribution is so severe that even a slight touch will dislocate the shoulder!”
I briefed the next target’s weak point without pause.
“Chun-sam! You take the flying beast chimeras! Every time they flap their wings, the skin sewn along their backs gets stretched. Strike hard at the center of the solar plexus, and the respiratory muscles will be paralyzed while the wing bones pierce through their own spine!”
“Yes sir! Applying physical acupuncture!”
Kim Chun-sam raised Mong-ma’s foreleg high and leaped into the air, kicking the flying beast chimera’s solar plexus.
Crack!
My words were flawless. The flying beast chimera couldn’t inhale and suffered temporary muscle spasms. The heavy steel wings that had been forcibly attached wouldn’t stop fluttering, and the recoil caused the wing bones to pierce through the back skin and shatter the spinal nerves. The creature plummeted vertically from the sky and crashed hideously to the ground.
“Insane….”
Victor’s voice, which had been relaxed like someone munching popcorn through the speaker, froze with shock.
“What… what is this?! My perfect creations collapsing from such light strikes?!”
“Perfect, my ass. Look at what you’ve stitched together. You didn’t calculate joint range of motion and just stupidly crammed in powerful parts—of course they can’t support their own body weight.”
I stood at ease with my hands clasped behind my back, looking down over the entire operating room with cold disdain.
“That’s not life creation—it’s just bomb manufacturing. Garbage heaps that self-destruct the moment you pull a single pin. Manager Ma! Chun-sam! Pick up the pace!”
Under my command, Ma Dong-tak and Kim Chun-sam swept through the massive Operating Room, unleashing ruthless “physical dissection.”
Their attacks were neither flashy nor destructive. They resembled instead a precise blade dance—merely severing the chimeras’ shoddy seams, the center of gravity of their twisted skeletons, and the overloaded ligaments with surgical accuracy.
“Wolf-gorilla! Strike the knee cartilage! Destabilize the lower body!”
“Vampire orc! Pierce the fourth lumbar vertebra! Sever the nerves!”
Each time a diagnosis fell from my lips, Ma Dong-tak’s crowbar and Kim Chun-sam’s hooves drove into the vital points.
Crash! Crack! Splinter!
Hundreds of chimeras that moments before had been a legion of terror now collapsed from exhaustion, writhing as their own bones pierced them—pathetic defects. Though they had once charged forward even with severed limbs, the moment their fundamental anatomical structure crumbled, they became nothing but inert meat, unable to twitch a single finger.
“Hah… what exactly are we witnessing? Is this Kang Jin-hyuk truly a physician? To dissect biological weaknesses with such perfection, to deconstruct life with such precision—even the legendary Sword Demon couldn’t manage such surgical elegance.”
Gae Bang Bang-ju muttered, trembling as he clutched his sleeve. They had shifted their terror from the monsters themselves to the figure of Jin-hyuk, who disassembled them like toys. If that man’s gaze fell upon you, even the greatest master under heaven would have their anatomical vulnerabilities exposed in an instant.
Merely ten minutes had elapsed.
The endless tide of chimeras from Floor 15 lay scattered across the silvery-white Corridor floor, every last one decomposed into grotesque flesh scraps and bone fragments. Some still gasped on the ground, their breath not yet extinguished, but none possessed a skeleton capable of standing.
“Surgery complete. Excellent work sorting the garbage, Manager Ma.”
I smiled with satisfaction, tapping a chimera’s horn on the floor with my shoe. Ma Dong-tak, his face fresh without a single bead of sweat, slung the crowbar over his shoulder.
“Wow, no effort required when you just strike the vital points—no arthritis either, incredibly convenient. Your orders are perfectly timed, Jin-hyuk. So, shall we move on to crushing the owner of this garbage heap?”
Ma Dong-tak’s gaze fixed on the far end of the Corridor—a massive steel door, unusually enormous and radiating crimson light. Beyond it, a sinister and colossal mana far exceeding the chimeras swirled chaotically.
Victor’s arrogant laughter no longer echoed from the speaker. Instead, only harsh breathing and the violent cacophony of shattering glass and breaking objects leaked through.
[Y-you insolent maggots! How dare you treat my magnificent masterpieces as garbage! Anatomy? Structural weaknesses? Silence! True life force doesn’t emerge from such shallow skeletal frameworks!]
The voice of the Mad Scientist, completely consumed by madness, tore through the speaker.
[Yes, if bone crumbles, I’ll show you the power of a perfect organism without bones! The ultimate digestive fluid I’ve created by collecting the putrid discharge and deadly toxins from the failed experiments I discarded! Taste the despair that will dissolve even your vaunted anatomical knowledge!]
Kugugugun—!
With Victor’s frenzied shriek, the massive iron grates of the drainage channels installed on both sides of the Corridor began to convulse violently. From within those sewage holes, a sickly green liquid reeking of acrid chemicals and putrefying corpses began to surge backward and pour out.
The liquid didn’t merely pool on the floor. The viscous secretions clumped and swelled as if alive, transforming into a gelatinous monster massive enough to fill the entire Corridor.
A monster without bones, joints, or vital points. A sanitation worker of the fantasy ecosystem that absorbed physical impacts and dissolved all organic matter it touched with acid—a Giant Slime. Worse still, it was a toxic slime mixed with the venom and chemical preservatives extracted from hundreds of chimera corpses.
“Grooooowl, blub, blub.”
Within the slime’s transparent viscous interior, the eyeballs and bone fragments of half-digested magical beasts drifted eerily. The slime, filling the Corridor, surged forward like a tsunami toward us.
“Ugh! He really keeps spewing filth to the very end! How do I even hit that thing! My clothes will dissolve!”
Beris finally couldn’t hold back and retched, stumbling backward. Yoo Yi-soo beside him frowned equally. Even Ma Dong-tak hesitated, gripping his crowbar. Joint breaks and vital point strikes were useless against a boneless mollusk.
“Hmph. So he thinks medicine only deals with bones.”
I set my medical bag on the ground and clicked open the second lock.
“Time to inject into that charlatan’s brain the fact that pharmacology and chemistry are essential liberal arts subjects of modern medicine.”
A chilling smile spread across my face. After physical therapy against the illegal clinic, now came large-scale chemical decontamination.

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