An F-Rank Veterinarian Physically Heals an S-Rank Magical Beast - Chapter 73

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Chapter 73
Victor’s body lay crumpled and foaming at the mouth, grotesquely contorted. The severe anaphylactic shock triggered by the injected foreign protein had reduced his vaunted ultimate physique to a hideous mass of inflammation in mere minutes.
The limbs of the demonic beasts he’d forcibly grafted onto himself twisted haphazardly as though their nerves had been severed, and the purple heart that had been precariously beating inside the glass tube embedded in his chest had ceased entirely, now rotting a dark crimson.
“Phew, the patient’s condition is beyond salvage. Necrotic skin tissue and acute cardiac arrest—there’s no hope. Director Ma, shall we pronounce him dead?”
I peeled off my latex gloves and spoke without emotion. Ma Dong-tak tapped a steel pry bar against his shoulder as he approached Victor.
“Roger that. In all my years, I’ve never seen a corpse quite this repulsive. Let me make absolutely certain he’s finished.”
Ma Dong-tak hoisted the steel pry bar and drove it straight down into the center of Victor’s metal mask.
Crash!
The metal mask crumpled, and the sound of the skull inside shattering completely reverberated through the Underground Workshop. The Mad Scientist’s arrogant mechanical eyes scattered into fragments, and the architect of Floor 15’s illegal bioexperiments descended into eternal silence.
[Floor 15’s ruler, ‘Mad Scientist Victor’, has been eliminated!]
[All system controls in the Underground Workshop have been released.]
[Clear rewards are being calculated. Substantial experience points, research data, and special spoils will be granted.]
Along with the blue system window materializing in midair, the acrid formaldehyde stench that had filled the Corridor and the red warning lights gradually faded. In their place, blindingly bright white fluorescent lights illuminated fully, exposing the gruesome state of the Operating Room and Corridor in stark detail.
“Woo-hoo! Master! We won! We defeated all those terrifying monsters!”
Kim Chun-sam rolled around on Mong-ma’s front paws, bouncing with joy. The white quarantine gas that had been spurting from the gaps in his joints had already reverted to its original cyan hellfire.
“Huff… huff… Alliance Leader, we owe our lives to you once again. Without that extraordinary treatment method, those grotesque creatures would have torn us to shreds.”
The Mudang Sect Master wiped his sweat-drenched forehead and whispered to Namgoong Cheon. Namgoong Cheon nodded with a deep sigh of relief. But their relief was short-lived.
“Now, now, elders! It’s too early to celebrate! You used quite a bit of knee cartilage running away as I instructed earlier, didn’t you? Plus, you’ve surely inhaled some of that deadly toxin gas that creature was spewing. Even if you show no symptoms now, your lungs could rot away later.”
I was already approaching the Murim Alliance masters with fresh latex gloves on. A sharp, capitalistic smile played at the corners of my mouth.
“As a doctor, I can’t simply overlook my patients. And since we happen to be in a Hospital, I’ll graciously provide you all with comprehensive full-body health screenings. The latest capsule MRI, even lung purification procedures! I’ll bundle it all together at one million Gold per person.”
“What, what did you say! One million Gold! Are you trying to squeeze us for money again!”
Namgoong Cheon stumbled backward in shock, but Ma Dong-tak blocked his escape route with his muscular arm.
“Elders. When the Director says to do something, you do it. He’s offering you a discount for your health—why all the complaints? Should I personally stuff you into the capsule to help you come to your senses?”
In the end, the Murim Alliance masters reluctantly signed up for my forced health screening package. Not only had they lost all the treasures they’d collected on Floor 14, but their debt had ballooned to astronomical proportions once again.
I surveyed the massive Operating Room that Victor had used, wearing a satisfied smile.
Though Victor’s surgical skills were abysmal, the equipment he’d assembled was cutting-edge enough to make one’s jaw drop. Oversized cultivation capsules powered by mana, surgical instrument sets forged from adamantium, and holographic monitors that analyzed biodata in real time.
“Man, this is a goldmine. If I dismantle all this equipment and move it to my Pocket Dimension Hospital, it’ll rival any VIP ward in a major university hospital in Seoul. Chun-sam! What are you doing! Transform into truck mode and load all of this up!”
“Yes, sir! Master! I’ll strip it all bare!”
Kim Chun-sam transformed from his centaur form into a massive cargo truck and began sweeping up all the Operating Room equipment. I picked up Victor’s tablet PC that had fallen beside the surgical table. It contained chimera synthesis formulas, biodata of various demonic beasts, and lethal poison manufacturing methods densely recorded within.
“Hmm, I’ll need to put this data to good use when developing new pharmaceuticals later. And… huh? There’s an underground prison beneath this?”
I tilted my head as I examined the complete floor plan of Floor 15 displayed on the holographic monitor. The blueprint showed a massive detention facility connected below the Operating Room. It was undoubtedly where Victor kept the specimens for his bioexperiments.
“Director Ma! Let’s take a look downstairs. There might be more valuable spoils.”
At my call, Ma Dong-tak grabbed his steel pry bar and approached. We opened an old metal hatch in the corner of the Operating Room and descended the stairs leading to the Underground Detention Facility.
The Underground Detention Facility was far darker and damper than the Operating Room above. A musty mold stench and the reek of animal excrement permeated the air, and bloodstains covered the walls. Beyond the firmly locked iron bars, hundreds of faint eyes watched us warily, holding their breath.
“What is all this? Are they all experimental subjects?”
Ma Dong-tak shone his lantern into the cells. Inside were not monsters, but various types of Beast-kin prisoners—those with cat ears and tails, those with wolf fur—all confined and bearing countless wounds, their frames reduced to mere skin and bone.
“Eek! Please save us! We know nothing! Please don’t put us on the surgical table!”
As the lantern light touched them, the Beast-kin in the cells screamed in terror and huddled together in the corners. Their reaction spoke volumes about the horrific torture they’d endured at the hands of the Mad Scientist Victor.
“My, my, we have quite a crowd of patients here.”
I leaned against the iron bars and clicked my tongue.
“Everyone, please calm yourselves. That mad director who was tormenting you until just moments ago? I’ve disposed of him cleanly by holding him accountable for medical malpractice. This clinic now belongs to me.”
At my words, the beast-kin prisoners’ eyes wavered. Unable to believe that Victor was dead, they whispered among themselves while staring at each other’s faces.
“You… you defeated that terrible monster? Are you our saviors?”
The elderly Beast-kin Elder with cat ears clung to the iron bars, tears streaming down his face.
“Oh, heavens above! At last we escape this hell! Our benefactor! I shall never forget this kindness for as long as I live!”
Hundreds of beast-kin simultaneously dropped to their knees and bowed in gratitude toward me.
The birth of a hero radiating light from the dark underground prison.
In a typical fantasy novel, the standard would be to free the prisoners without charge to stirring background music and be praised as an apostle of justice.
But I was far from an ordinary hero.
“Ahem, everyone, please stand up. Who said anything about freeing you for free? You just called me a savior, didn’t you? That’s right. I saved your lives. So naturally, you need to pay the rescue fee, don’t you?”
I pulled out another thick stack of crisp invoices from my pocket and smiled coldly.
“Now, let’s see. The operational costs for the forced detention facility extraction. And looking at your condition, you all seem to be suffering from malnutrition, skin diseases, and all manner of infectious diseases. As a doctor by profession, I can’t simply let patients leave untreated. Adding in the hospitalization treatment and vaccination costs for everyone… I’ll charge five hundred thousand Gold per person.”
“W-what? Five hundred thousand Gold? We were stripped of all our possessions when we were dragged here. We don’t have a single coin…”
The Elder stammered in confusion. I nodded as if I’d expected this.
“Of course you have no money. That’s why I’ve specially prepared a financial relief program for you. Tell me, do any of you have nursing assistant certifications?”
“N-nursing assistant? What is that?”
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t. You can pay with your bodies instead. From now on, all of you are hired as contract nursing staff at my Pocket Dimension Hospital. Room and board provided, and your debt will be deducted from your monthly wages. Oh, of course, minimum wage doesn’t apply here. This place is beyond jurisdiction.”
The beast-kin’s jaws dropped at my ruthless declaration. They thought they were being pulled out of hell, only to find themselves being dragged into an even more vicious demon’s den.
“Th-that’s outrageous! Just let us go!”
“Let you go? Director Ma, what do you think? These folks don’t seem to understand the situation yet.”
At my call, Ma Dong-tak approached menacingly, striking the iron bars with a metal pry bar—clang, clang.
“Listen up, you furry bastards. I’m in such a good mood right now that I don’t feel like holding back, yeah? Sign the contract while I’m being nice about it. Otherwise, I’ll separate your bones from your flesh and lay you back down on that operating table upstairs.”
At Ma Dong-tak’s brutal threat, the beast-kin could only lower their tails and tremble. In the end, hundreds of beast-kin prisoners had no choice but to sign my slave contract—or rather, employment contract—with tears in their eyes.
“Excellent! Welcome, everyone! Congratulations on becoming part of our hospital family! Chun-sam! Take all of them to the Pocket Dimension Hospital! Get them washed and thoroughly disinfected!”
“Yes, sir! New employees, board up!”
I was thoroughly stripping Floor 15 clean. State-of-the-art medical equipment, research data, and hundreds of free labor. It was a perfect forced acquisition and merger—destroying the illegal clinic and absorbing all its resources as my own.
After settling all accounts, my party and I walked out of Floor 15 with light steps and stood before the Dimensional Gate leading to Floor 16.
The entrance to Floor 16 was distinctly different from the previous floors.
Instead of dark, dreary caves or forests, brilliant neon signs and dazzlingly golden lights poured out from beyond the gate. Upbeat jazz music and the jingling sound of coins cascading down could be heard as well.
“Wow, this vibe is totally my style? It’s a whole different dimension from that disgusting hospital stench on Floor 15!”
Beris’s eyes sparkled as he gazed at the neon lights. Ma Dong-tak also hummed cheerfully while stretching his muscles.
“This feels like the kind of place where you could make a killing, you know? I can hear jackpots going off from here.”
[Floor 16: Welcome to the Casino City of Greed.]
The system notification transformed their suspicion into certainty.
A dazzling city of vice had unexpectedly appeared in the middle levels of the Tower, where survival and bloody combat were the norm.
But to my eyes, the thick stench of greed and corruption hidden behind those brilliant lights was crystal clear.
“A casino. Should be interesting. But places like that are always designed so the dealer wins.”
I adjusted my glasses and smiled coldly.
“Let’s go. Time to break the fingers off those cheating bastards.”
The unscrupulous veterinarian Kang Jin-hyuk stepped forward toward the sea of brilliant neon signs. Having mastered physical therapy and chemical disinfection, I was now entering Floor 16’s Casino City of Greed, fully prepared to dismantle even the gambling den itself through medical precision.

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