An F-Rank Veterinarian Physically Heals an S-Rank Magical Beast - Chapter 85

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Chapter 85
Screeeech—!
CRASH—!!!
The massive platinum floor of Floor 20’s highest level tore apart like tissue paper, and an endless chasm of absolute darkness yawned open before us.
What erupted from that abyss was cosmic horror itself—something so incomprehensible that human imagination could never adequately describe it.
Hundreds of meters of grotesque reddish-brown tentacles writhed together, their surfaces bristling with tens of thousands of crimson eyes and razor-sharp, hook-like teeth.
[Warning! The Tower’s Creator, the great Outer God ‘Demiurge’, has descended.]
“C-Creator! Please do not abandon us!”
“Save me! Grant me just a little more nectar, a bit more life force—!”
The Constellations who had been begging for their lives and signing slave contracts to me mere moments ago now prostrated themselves on the collapsing beds, screaming in desperation.
They felt a far more primal, instinctive terror toward the Outer God manifesting before their eyes than toward me, who had stripped them of everything.
Demiurge. The great Outer God called the Tower’s Creator and Master.
But what my golden, gleaming ‘Eye of Divine Will’ had scanned revealed that this magnificent entity’s true nature was utterly at odds with the Constellations’ worship.
[Diagnosis: Universal-scale parasitic horsehair worm (giant tapeworm-class organism)]
[Status: Detecting rapid depletion of accumulated nutrients (Constellation mana fat) within the host (Tower). Currently in extreme starvation state.]
“Heh. I drained a bit of fat from the livestock’s bellies, and now the king parasite that was feeding on those livestock crawls out.”
I peeled off my blood-stained latex gloves and let out a cold laugh.
The Constellations’ banquet table? The gods’ feast?
It was all thorough deception and lies.
This massive Tower was nothing but a giant ‘host’ to feed that disgusting cosmic tapeworm, and even the great Constellations were merely ‘nutrient capsules’ fattened up to bloat the parasite’s belly.
Since I had stolen all that nutrition, it was medically inevitable that the starving parasite would breach the stomach wall and crawl up to find food directly.
SCREEEEEECH—!!!
The Outer God’s tens of thousands of eyes locked onto my group in unison, releasing an ear-splitting, spine-chilling shriek.
At the same moment, countless holes dotting the Outer God’s horrific tentacle surfaces began pouring forth cyan mucus like a waterfall.
Sizzzzzzle—!
“Director! The f-floor is melting!”
Luna stumbled backward in terror. The platinum marble floor where the mucus touched instantly vaporized with a sickening bubbling sound.
It was a ‘digestive fluid’—a super-corrosive substance on a cosmic scale, incomparably more powerful than the gastric acid of the Behemoth on Floor 14.
[Warning! Demiurge is attempting to completely reformat the interior of the host (Tower).]
“That insane parasite! Because the food bowl is empty, it’s going to dissolve the entire food container! Ma Dong-tak! Elders! Do not touch the mucus under any circumstances! You’ll dissolve down to your bones!”
I shouted urgently.
“This damned tentacle monster! So size is all that matters?! I’ll turn those tentacle bundles into fried squid!”
Ma Dong-tak gripped the iron lever tighter and leaped high into the air. The Murim Alliance masters, led by Namgoong Cheon, also pushed their inner energy to its absolute limit and unleashed dozens of massive sword auras toward the Outer God’s main body.
Even a cosmic predator would surely not escape unscathed before the second-ranked physical power and the absolute martial prowess of these masters.
But just before their fierce attacks could reach the Outer God’s tentacles—
Uuuuuung—!
Suddenly the entire Floor 20 space warped grotesquely, and a wave of pressure that made ears ring out violently.
“W-what?! Brother! Why is my body—?!”
“M-my inner energy is scattering! My sword aura won’t extend!”
Ma Dong-tak’s body, which had leaped into the air, became light as a feather and began drifting upward toward the ceiling in the wrong direction. The sharp sword auras unleashed by the Murim Alliance Elders suddenly lost speed as if trapped in gelatin, then dissipated uselessly.
[Warning! The gravitational field on Floor 20 has collapsed and reversed.]
[Warning! Oxygen concentration in the atmosphere is rapidly decreasing and transitioning to a vacuum state.]
Demiurge hadn’t unleashed destructive lasers or cast spells. Instead, he’d twisted the very physical environment within The Tower itself using his colossal mass and cosmic authority, warping it into an extreme catastrophic state where no living creature could survive.
“Gahhh…! I… I can’t… breathe…!”
The Mudang Sect Master clutched at his throat in agony, levitating off the ground.
Beris and Luna likewise gasped helplessly in the void, their faces turning blue from oxygen deprivation.
No matter how formidable a Hunter’s power or how absolute a master’s skill, without air to breathe and without gravity, they were nothing but helpless organisms.
It was an overwhelming environmental catastrophe where brute force inflation meant absolutely nothing.
“Everyone, stay calm! Deploy an aura barrier!”
In that critical moment, the Empress of the Abyss, Yoo Yi-soo, squeezed the core implanted in her heart to its absolute limit. A jet-black aura spread outward in a hemispherical dome, enveloping Jin-hyuk and the others.
As the aura barrier temporarily blocked the external vacuum and reverse gravity, the group that had been floating toward the ceiling crashed back down to the floor with heavy thuds, gasping for breath.
“Phew! We’re alive! Yi-soo, that timing was absolutely perfect!”
Ma Dong-tak cried out while wiping his chest, but Yoo Yi-soo’s expression remained grim.
“Director! The gastric acid gas that creature is spewing is corroding my aura barrier terribly from the outside! At this rate, the barrier will dissolve before we run out of oxygen!”
Just as Yoo Yi-soo said, the surface of the jet-black barrier was releasing smoke accompanied by a horrifying sizzling sound. Inside the stomach of this massive parasite that melted space itself, enduring through physical force alone was nearly impossible.
Jin-hyuk maintained perfect balance even on the trembling floor as he pushed his glasses up.
“That’s the problem—trying to smash it through brute force won’t work. The opponent isn’t a martial artist wielding swordsmanship or magic. It’s a massive ‘disease’ and ‘parasite’ that corrupts the environment itself.”
Jin-hyuk quickly pulled scalpels and specialized syringes from his medical bag as he rapidly calculated the situation.
“Reversed gravity and oxygen deficiency. This is exactly the same situation as when a patient’s cardiopulmonary function stops from acute shock. First, I need to forcibly restore the collapsed vital signs—then I can perform surgery or administer antiparasitic medication.”
Jin-hyuk’s gaze turned toward Kim Chun-sam, who was floundering in one corner of the barrier, spewing error codes.
“Chun-sam! You’ve got Layer 19 administrator privileges right now! Can you forcibly reboot this space’s gravitational field and oxygen supply system!”
“Waaagh! Master! I have the authority, but that giant tapeworm bastard is draining all of The Tower’s main power! My engine output alone doesn’t have nearly enough power to run the system! It’s like a remote control with dead batteries!”
“Not enough power? Then you should’ve said so earlier!”
Jin-hyuk’s smile turned wicked and gleeful as he threw open his subspace inventory. Inside were dozens of massive drums stacked like mountains—brilliant, viscous ‘high-concentration Constellation mana fat’ that he’d extracted by cutting into the Constellations’ bellies just moments before.
“Hey! There’s dozens of tons of the highest-grade aviation fuel in this universe—the most calorie-dense and most flammable stuff out there! Open wide!”
Jin-hyuk kicked the largest drum filled with Constellation fat toward Chun-sam. Then he inserted a titanium pipe into the drum and connected its end directly to Chun-sam’s engine fuel injection port.
“W-wait! Director! Hold on! That’s ultra-high-concentration cosmic-grade mana in there, and if you just pump it raw into my engine, my cylinders might melt down…!”
“Shut it! You’re not some ordinary tin can—you’re the latest-model android with a Floor 16 master key installed! Trust the doctor’s prescription and just drink it down!”
Jin-hyuk mercilessly stepped on the drum’s compression pump.
Kwaaaaaaack—!!!!
99.9% pure concentrated Constellation mana fat surged through the pipe like a waterfall into Chun-sam’s body.
“Gaaaaaahhh! It’s spicy! So spicy! Incredibly potent and sweet and…! Waaaaahhhhhhh—!!!!”
[Consuming item: ‘High-concentration Constellation Mana Fat’.]
[Android ‘Kim Chun-sam’s engine breaks through its limiter! Temporary output locked at 1,000% runaway state!]
Chun-sam’s massive centaur body glowed red-hot as hellish blue flames erupted from his exhaust ports, shooting out dozens of meters in length.
Sparks flew wildly from the seams in Chun-sam’s armor plates, unable to withstand the explosive mana. It was a terrifying runaway state—like he’d simultaneously chugged hundreds of liters of rocket fuel and espresso.
“Kahahaha! Chun-sam! You’re overflowing with power! Immediately activate your Layer 19 authority at full capacity and forcibly engage Floor 20’s artificial gravity field and oxygen supply system!”
“Yessssir! I feel like I’m going insane from the excess energy! Activating environmental control protocol at full power!!!”
Chun-sam lifted his front legs high and brought them crashing down hard against the floor.
Kuguguguguung—!
A massive golden data wave erupted from Kim Chun-sam’s core, piercing through Yoo Yi-soo’s barrier and engulfing the entirety of Floor 20.
The weightless space that The Outer God Demiurge had twisted began to convulse, and as if by miracle, the inverted sense of direction corrected itself, and powerful gravity slammed down onto the ground.
The vaporized oxygen also began pouring back in at a terrifying rate through Layer 19’s backup systems.
“Gasp, gasp! I can… I can breathe!”
“My feet are touching the ground! Long live the Director!”
The Murim Alliance Elders cheered while coughing violently. Yoo Yi-soo also lowered her barrier and took ragged breaths.
I hadn’t defeated The Outer God through physical force. By leveraging overwhelming capital and Kim Chun-sam’s system authority, I had forcibly normalized the vital signs that The Outer God had destroyed.
Kiiiiieeeek—!!!
As the laws of the space he controlled were overwritten by a mere robot, Demiurge flailed hundreds of tentacles wildly in panic.
Crash! Bang!
The tentacles shattered the beds on Floor 20 and toppled pillars. The Constellations screamed and crawled across the ground to escape, while caustic digestive fluid sprayed everywhere, melting the marble. The environment had been restored, but it was clear that the Tower’s formatting would not stop unless I eliminated that colossal cosmic tapeworm at the root.
“Boss! Now that gravity’s back, let me go smash that worm bastard’s head in nice and clean!”
Ma Dong-tak gripped an iron crowbar and shouted as if ready to charge forward at any moment. The martial artists also drew their sword energy again and formed a formation.
But I stepped in front of them and shook my head.
“Hold on. That thing’s entire skin surface is covered in ultra-corrosive digestive acid. The moment Manager Ma’s crowbar touches it, his weapon and wrist will dissolve completely. Close-range combat is absolutely forbidden.”
“What?! Then what do we do! If sword energy doesn’t work and we can’t get close, we’re completely helpless!”
Namgoong Cheon cried out in desperation. What good was even the finest surgeon if their scalpel couldn’t even touch the patient’s skin?
“Who said a doctor only knows how to use a blade?”
I smiled wickedly and crouched down on the ground, fully opening my enormous medical bag.
“When parasites or viruses buried deep in the bones can’t be cut out by surgical means, modern medicine’s essence is to eliminate them through internal medicine—that is, ‘pharmaceutical treatment.’ Luna!”
“Yes, Director! Just give the order!”
Luna quickly approached and took position beside me.
“From now on, everything I pull from my inventory—don’t spill a single drop. Sweep it all into that empty drum barrel and mix it together! First, thirty liters of pure Behemoth gastric acid extracted from Floor 14!”
“B-Behemoth’s gastric acid?! Yes, adding it now!”
Luna carefully poured the cyan liquid in the glass bottles I handed her into the drum barrel.
“Second! Fifty liters of Mammon’s toxic waste that I swiped from the Extraction Factory on Layer 17!”
“Addition complete!”
“Third! Three bags of spectral flame powder (cold mana) that I extorted from the Lich King on Floor 13! And dump in all ten liters of the Constellation mana residue I extracted earlier!”
With each command I issued, all manner of lethal toxins and magical byproducts that I’d extorted and plundered from the bosses of each floor as I climbed the Tower poured madly into a single drum barrel.
Glug glug… Sizzzzzzle—!
Extreme substances that should never mix fused together inside the drum barrel, beginning to emit a repulsive and horrifying purple smoke. It was a deadly poison, an acid, and simultaneously a freezing cold—the universe’s worst chemical waste mixture all in one.
“W-Director. Just smelling it makes me feel like my lifespan is being cut by ten years. What exactly are you making?”
Ma Dong-tak pinched his nose and stepped back.
I put on a gas mask, then tightly sealed the lid of the massive drum barrel sloshing with the completed purple liquid. Then I attached a large syringe needle-shaped dispenser on top.
“What am I making? Did you think a mere surgeon couldn’t handle one parasitic king like that?”
I gripped the handle of the dispenser attached to the drum barrel and flashed a deranged, demonic smile at the massive bundle of tentacles from Demiurge charging toward me.
“This is the Arcana Medical Center’s special creation—a ‘cosmic-scale ultra-giant deworming agent’ personally mixed by yours truly. You little tapeworm, today I’m going to give your intestines the cleaning of a lifetime.”

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