An F-Rank Veterinarian Physically Heals an S-Rank Magical Beast - Chapter 82

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Chapter 82
The mechanical sound emanating from Kim Chun-sam’s mouth was no longer the cheerful android voice the group had known. It was the cold system itself from Layer 19’s highest administrative sector.
Click! Whirrrrr—!
The barrels of the Gatling machine guns mounted on Kim Chun-sam’s arms began rotating at a terrifying speed. From the glowing-hot muzzles, hundreds of mana rounds seemed ready to pour out and pierce straight through Jin-hyuk’s forehead.
“Danger! Director!”
Yoo Yi-soo screamed and rushed to shield Jin-hyuk.
“You insane tin can! How dare you aim at him!”
Ma Dong-tak roared like a beast and blocked Jin-hyuk’s path. His massive arms seized the rapidly spinning barrels of Kim Chun-sam’s machine gun with his bare hands.
Screeeech!
The ultra-high-speed rotating barrels collided with Ma Dong-tak’s brute grip strength, sending terrifying sparks flying in all directions. The stench of burning flesh and metal shavings scattered through the air, but Ma Dong-tak didn’t flinch.
“Ugh! Boss! This tin can’s completely lost it! I’ll keep both arms pinned down, so back away! No, this won’t do. I need to smash his head in with a crowbar and force a shutdown!”
Ma Dong-tak kicked a steel pry bar up from the ground, his face flushed with urgency.
It was common knowledge among Hunters that the only certain and primal way to stop a robot completely controlled by the system was physical destruction.
The Murim Alliance Elders also drew their sword energy, aiming for Kim Chun-sam’s joints.
But at that moment, Jin-hyuk’s cold and sharp voice pierced through the noise of Layer 19.
“Drop your weapons now! Director Ma, if you put even a single scratch on Kim Chun-sam’s head with that crowbar, I’m deducting your entire salary!”
“What?! No, Director! Is money the issue right now! That thing’s been taken over by the system and turned into a killing machine trying to murder us!”
“Killing machine? Don’t be ridiculous! That man is our hospital’s most valuable asset—worth hundreds of billions in my money and technology—and he’s my direct employee!”
Jin-hyuk pulled on latex gloves tightly and strode forward toward Kim Chun-sam’s core, where sparks were flying.
“What kind of doctor smashes a patient’s head in just because they’re spouting nonsense from a viral infection? A real doctor fixes them.”
Jin-hyuk’s eyes gleamed with golden light beyond his glasses. The ‘Eye of Divine Insight’ displayed Kim Chun-sam’s rampaging state in a crimson system window.
[Diagnosis: Acute central nervous system (main core) infection and ego erosion syndrome caused by nanobot swarm]
[Status: Malicious code from Layer 19’s main server has breached the patient’s firewall by over 95%. Initialization is impossible except through physical destruction.]
“Impossible to initialize? How dare this arrogant system issue a death sentence.”
Jin-hyuk scoffed and roughly opened his medical bag.
“The infection is concentrated in the central nervous system—the main core. Director Ma! Don’t destroy him. Lay that tin can flat on the ground and bind all four limbs! Lock him in joint restraints so he can’t resist!”
“Yes, sir! Patient, I’ll have you on the operating table nice and still!”
Ma Dong-tak unleashed explosive strength and kicked Kim Chun-sam’s massive centaur lower body, toppling his balance.
With a thunderous crash, Kim Chun-sam slammed to the ground, and Ma Dong-tak mounted him, wrenching his massive arms behind his back.
“Target acquired. Restraint resistance. Annihilation mode activated… Beeeep!”
Kim Chun-sam emitted bizarre mechanical sounds and thrashed about, but he was helpless against the brute joint lock of Rank 2 Ma Dong-tak.
Meanwhile, the silver mechanical soldiers of Layer 19 that had synchronized with Kim Chun-sam began charging toward Jin-hyuk in unison. It was the system’s desperate attempt to rescue Kim Chun-sam from their control network and eliminate Jin-hyuk.
“How dare you set foot in the Director’s operating room!”
At that moment, Yoo Yi-soo stepped forward with a sharp rebuke, blocking Jin-hyuk’s path. From the hands of she who was called the Empress of the Abyss, jet-black aura erupted explosively, forming a colossal hemispherical absolute defense barrier.
Yoo Yi-soo gritted her teeth and squeezed the jet-black aura to its limit, ignoring the artificial core embedded in her heart throbbing painfully.
“Beris! Luna! Support the Director immediately! I’ll hold off these trash!”
“Got it! You silver tin cans! Come any closer and I’ll melt you all! Fire Wall!”
Beris swung his staff, creating a thick barrier of crimson flames outside Yoo Yi-soo’s defense barrier. The silver mechanical soldiers leaped into the flames, swinging their blades, but they bounced off Yoo Yi-soo’s aura barrier repeatedly.
“Director, how much time do you need for the surgery?”
Yoo Yi-soo wiped beads of sweat from her forehead as she asked. The mechanical soldiers were multiplying more densely with each destruction, making it impossible to hold the aura barrier indefinitely.
“Three minutes. In three minutes, I’ll crack open that tin can’s skull, extract the parasite, and inject the vaccine. Until then, keep the operating room door locked tight.”
Jin-hyuk pulled a gleaming surgical bone saw and a mana welder that radiated thousands of degrees Celsius from his medical bag simultaneously.
“Now, anesthesia is already too late, so we’ll skip it. From this moment on, I’ll perform ‘Cyber Craniotomy’ to remove the malignant tumor parasitizing the main core.”
Whiiiiiing—!
With the sinister whir of the motor, Jin-hyuk’s bone saw began slicing brutally through Chun-sam’s chest plating.
“Beep beep beep! Warning! External physical impact detected! Core damage risk!”
Chun-sam thrashed with blazing red eyes, but Jin-hyuk’s hands moved with flawless precision and speed. Like a surgeon separating the ribs of a living creature, he incised Chun-sam’s external armor plates at the most efficient and safest angles.
“Luna! The patient’s core is overheating! Inject coolant!”
“Yes, Director! Spirit of water droplets, cool the patient’s heat!”
Luna urgently cast a spirit spell, spraying the incision site with the cool essence of water.
As steam hissed and rose, Chun-sam’s chest finally opened wide, revealing the blue main core that served as his heart.
But the core’s condition was catastrophic.
Across the core’s surface, which should have gleamed with pristine blue light, tens of thousands of crimson nano-machine cables inserted by the Layer 19 system writhed disgustingly like blood vessels or parasitic worms.
Those red cables were draining the core’s energy and completely suppressing Chun-sam’s consciousness.
“Ugh, revolting. Those system bastards released tens of thousands of vicious roundworms into the patient’s body. No wonder his eyes rolled back.”
Jin-hyuk clicked his tongue and retrieved surgical tweezers and an ultra-precision laser scalpel.
“Those red lines are the main body of the malignant virus controlling the brain’s neural network. I have to remove these parasites perfectly without damaging the core itself.”
For an ordinary mechanical engineer, severing tens of thousands of tangled lines one by one would require dozens of hours of meticulous work.
But Jin-hyuk wasn’t an engineer who fixed machines—he was a genius surgeon who could perfectly control even blood vessels 0.1 millimeters in diameter.
The mechanical internal structure before his eyes instantly transformed into the anatomical diagram of a living organism.
“The pattern of the red lines. This is identical to the neovascular network supplying nutrients to a tumor. Then I’ll start by excising the main artery at the root.”
Jin-hyuk’s laser scalpel flashed through the air.
Slash!
Slash!
The unwavering blade grazed Chun-sam’s core surface precariously, severing only the critical connection points of the red nano-machine cables with surgical precision.
Each time a cable snapped, Chun-sam’s body convulsed violently, and crimson error messages erupted into the air.
“Director! The mechanical soldiers outside are pounding the walls like madmen! Cracks are forming in the barrier!”
Yoo Yi-soo cried out with a breaking heart. Outside, the mechanical unit, detecting the severed synchronization, was even resorting to suicide attacks to breach Yoo Yi-soo’s barrier.
“Hold on just a bit longer! Tumor excision complete!”
Jin-hyuk extracted the massive red nano-machine colony clinging to the core with tweezers. As he hurled it to the ground, Ma Dong-tak stomped it to dust as if he’d been waiting for this moment.
“Now all that’s left is immune system recovery and vaccine administration.”
Jin-hyuk retrieved the spoils he’d obtained from Floor 16—Mammon’s ‘Casino Owner’s Master Key’. This key, gleaming with golden brilliance, held formidable administrator authority to access the Tower’s lower and middle-tier systems.
“Listen carefully, Chun-sam. This master key isn’t just a simple vaccine—it’s essentially the highest-grade performance-enhancing drug the Floor 16 owner used. When I plug this in, your core will collide with the system authority and hurt like hell, but don’t pass out. Keep your mind sharp.”
Jin-hyuk unhesitatingly drove the master key toward the empty slot at the very center of Chun-sam’s main core.
Click—!
The moment the key inserted into the core, all the lights in the entire Layer 19 administrative sector went out with a snap, plunging everything into perfect darkness.
The mechanical soldiers’ clattering sounds and Chun-sam’s convulsions both ceased instantly. It was an eerie silence, as if time itself had stopped.
“W-wait, Director? Isn’t the patient going into cardiac arrest?”
Ma Dong-tak fumbled in confusion through the darkness. Beris and Luna held their breath, their eyes fixed unblinkingly on Chun-sam’s core.
[Fatal Error. System Collision Detected.]
[Unregistered Authority (Mammon’s Master Key) is attempting forced access to the main server.]
[Firewall collision… Firewall collapse.]
The cold, monotonous guidance broadcast of Layer 19 began to distort grotesquely, emitting a tearing screech.
And from that darkness.
Boom—!
Kim Chun-sam’s azure main core began pulsing with an explosive heartbeat, as if it were a colossal heart.
Flaaaaash—!
The brilliant golden radiance of the Master Key fused with Kim Chun-sam’s blue light, and an intensely blinding flash erupted from his chest, sweeping across the entirety of Layer 19.
“Ugh, so bright! What’s happening!”
As the light gradually dissipated, Kim Chun-sam’s massive centaur body, which had been sprawled across the floor in pieces, rose to its feet with the softest mechanical hum.
The shattered visor display had regenerated on its own, as if absorbing the power of nanomachines in reverse, and was now perfectly restored.
The system’s crimson gaze that had flickered within vanished, replaced by the familiar, cheerful blue light that the party knew so well.
“M-Master….”
A familiar voice flowed from Kim Chun-sam’s mouth. Yet beneath that voice, instead of its former lightness, resonated the weighty timbre of one who had consumed an enormous wealth of data.
“Kim Chun-sam. Was the surgery successful? You didn’t suffer any side effects like memory loss or diminished intelligence, did you?”
Jin-hyuk removed his blood-stained latex gloves and smiled brightly.
As Kim Chun-sam rolled his front hooves lightly, dozens of dazzling golden system windows cascaded down from the empty air like a waterfall.
[The subnet authority of Layer 19’s highest administrative zone has been forcibly seized.]
[Entity ‘Kim Chun-sam’ has acquired 30% temporary administrator authority over Layer 19’s system.]
[Forced termination of autoimmune protocol. Ceasing operation of white blood cells (mechanical demolition unit).]
The moment the guidance broadcast ended, thousands of silver mechanical soldiers that had been infinitely multiplying beyond the barrier, targeting the party’s lives, simultaneously dropped their weapons to the ground and froze in place as if powered down.
“Bwahahaha! Director! Diminished intelligence?! Rather, it feels as if I’ve installed ten liquid-cooled supercomputers directly into my mind—absolutely refreshing and pleasant!”
Kim Chun-sam roared thunderously, spewing hellfire. Even his engine sound now resonated through Layer 19 with dozens of times greater grandeur and power than before.
“Krahaha! What’s this! Our tin can friend didn’t just come back to life—he’s stolen the commander’s position of this entire sector?”
Ma Dong-tak slapped Kim Chun-sam’s back repeatedly, laughing heartily. Yoo Yi-soo and Beris finally felt their legs give way beneath them, collapsing as they exhaled sighs of relief.
Jin-hyuk tapped Kim Chun-sam’s shoulder and asked.
“If you’ve stolen 30 percent of the authority, you must have finished mapping this place’s structure. So? Is there some formidable boss hiding in this administrative zone?”
“That’s… quite strange, Master. After scanning with my authority, I found that Layer 19 contains nothing but mechanical soldiers and a main core monitor managing the system—there is no physical boss monster. This place is merely a defensive barrier to pass through.”
“A defensive barrier? So there’s nothing substantial to protect.”
“The real substance lies in the layer above. With the administrator authority I just acquired, I’ve unlocked the ‘Main Gate’ leading to the highest level of Floor 20.”
Kim Chun-sam’s visor gleamed as he pointed toward the end of the central corridor.
Kugugugung—!
The cold metal wall of Layer 19 split open, and beyond it emerged a colossal platinum door radiating a majestic and sacred light that far surpassed all the previous floors.
The very pinnacle of the Tower.
Floor 20.
According to the prophecies of the hidden Revelation, it was where the ‘Banquet Table of the Great Constellations’ existed—where they bred lower-world lifeforms like livestock and consumed their energy.
“At last, I can see the end approaching. Whether they’re livestock or ingredients, I’ll issue them a very thorough medical bill.”
Jin-hyuk adjusted his house call bag and strode forward without hesitation toward the platinum door.
The Murim Alliance masters swallowed hard and steeled their resolve, while Ma Dong-tak and Kim Chun-sam followed behind, ready to destroy at any moment.
Keeeeeek—!
At Jin-hyuk’s touch, the colossal platinum door swung open with deliberate slowness. Brilliant light flooded the party’s vision, washing everything in blinding white.
A majestic temple? Or perhaps a grand dining hall? Everyone held their breath, imagining the terrible and overwhelming presence of gods.
But as the light faded and the scene before them came into focus, it shattered their expectations entirely.
“Ugh! What is that stench?! The reek of decay mixed with medicine is absolutely overwhelming!”
Beris pinched his nose in disgust.
There was no majestic divine banquet hall here.
Scattered across the vast space lay dozens of Constellations, their grotesquely bloated bodies heaving with labored breathing, each pierced by hundreds of magical IV lines snaking across their forms as they emitted horrible groans from their beds.
Not a table of gods, but rather the entire universe’s most enormous VIP Ward—a monument to obesity and its cascading complications—greeted the party.

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