An F-Rank Veterinarian Physically Heals an S-Rank Magical Beast - Chapter 90

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Chapter 90
My cool and arrogant verdict echoed through the massive amplifier in the hospital lobby, reverberating across the heart of Gangnam District with a resounding clang.
Tens of thousands of citizens and camera journalists held their breath, witnessing the overwhelming spectacle before them. The colossal structure that had torn through the sky, the dragons and angels that seemed plucked from mythology, the Demon Kings dressed in pristine white doctor’s coats and lined up as hospital staff—it was cosmic horror that shattered all sense of reality.
Yet the one most desperate to deny reality was Choi Myung-seok, the director of Apollo Hospital, sprawled across the floor drenched in blood.
“This… this is absurd! Kang Jin-hyuk! You definitely entered the Abyss Gate half a year ago and died!”
Choi Myung-seok pointed at me with trembling hands, his voice dripping with venom.
“Died? How disappointing. A truly excellent medical professional makes house calls to the ends of hell whenever a patient calls. I simply went to extract one particularly malignant parasite and returned.”
I snapped my fingers in latex gloves and smiled with ease.
“By the way, you’ve been conducting quite the interesting activities in our hospital’s front yard. You even stationed the military here, waiting to scavenge byproducts when the gate ruptures. What exactly are you doing illegally occupying private property?”
“P-private property? Don’t be ridiculous! This is clearly a state-designated Class A gate disaster zone! Where do you get off dropping this illegal structure from the sky and causing a ruckus!”
Desperation mixed with greed and malice gleamed in Choi Myung-seok’s eyes.
The entire world’s media was broadcasting this moment live from the heart of Gangnam. If I backed down now, Apollo Hospital would be finished. Not that there was any reason to back down. Though the aura of the monsters behind me was terrifying, Choi Myung-seok had three hundred elite mercenary hunters armed and ready, trained with Apollo Guild’s massive financial backing.
‘That bastard must have stolen some illusion magic from the Abyss and is pulling tricks! How could monsters wear human clothes and pretend to be employees!’
Suppressing his own terror this way, Choi Myung-seok screamed with his face flushed.
“That terrorist is threatening Seoul citizens with an illegal structure! All Apollo Guild members! Immediately drag out those illegal occupants and seize the building! All the byproducts and cores inside belong to Apollo! Kill anyone who resists!”
Choi Myung-seok’s desperate command fell like a death knell.
“U-uh…”
“C-captain! Are we really attacking? Isn’t that a dragon standing back there?”
The mercenary hunters hesitated, exchanging nervous glances. No matter how money-crazed these mercenaries were, raising weapons against the crimson-scaled fire dragon and the Demon Kings spewing hellfire was nothing short of suicide.
“What are you doing! Attack now! I’ll give a 1 billion won bonus to whoever takes that building today! Break your contract and your guild is finished!”
One billion won in bonuses. And the threat of guild bankruptcy.
The brutal whip of capitalism finally conquered the hunters’ fear.
“Uaaaaah! Kill them!”
“Seize the building! Those monsters are just illusions!”
Three hundred elite Class A and B hunters simultaneously drew their weapons and charged ferociously toward the main entrance of Arcana Medical Center. Auras erupted, and various attack spells painted the night sky, pouring down upon the hospital entrance.
“Director! The rats are struggling! Shall I step out and smash all their heads like baseballs!”
Ma Dong-tak spun his iron crowbar, his muscles swelling as if about to burst.
But I simply shook my head lightly without even removing my hands from my pockets.
“Director Ma. Is there really a need for our security chief to step in personally? We have plenty of spare manpower at our hospital right now.”
I turned around and gestured with my chin toward the Demon Kings and Murim Alliance Elders who had just begun resting, breathing in Earth’s smog-tinged air.
Beris and Luna began setting up the reception desk with thick medical records and first-aid kits as if it were routine.
Glancing at them, I addressed my employees(?).
“Hey, everyone. On your first day of work, intruders are trying to dirty our lobby floor. Are you just going to watch? You need to earn your keep.”
“…!”
At those words, the eyes of the otherworldly strongest beings, who had been watching the hunters’ assault as if observing a distant fire, suddenly blazed with intensity.
“You bastards! How dare you set foot in our sanctuary!”
The first to burst forward were Gae Bang Bang-ju and the Murim Alliance Elders, holding mops and polishing the marble floor of the hospital lobby until it gleamed.
“We just finished waxing this sacred workplace three times! Where do these dust-covered fools get off charging in with weapons! Dog-Beating Stick Technique!”
Gae Bang Bang-ju swung the mop he was holding at blinding speed.
Puff-puff-puff-crack-!
A colossal baseball bat’s aura erupted from the mop handle, striking the jaws of dozens of tank-class Hunters charging at the vanguard with surgical precision.
“Gaaahhhhh!”
“The, the shield was pierced by the mop!”
A single sweep of brooms and mops wielded by the Murim Alliance’s absolute masters scattered the formation of A-rank tank Hunters like autumn leaves in the wind.
“Tch, don’t bleed all over the place! Do you know how hard that is to clean? Just hand over your energy meridians quietly!”
Namgoong Cheon wielded a feather duster like a lightsaber, striking the Hunters’ energy meridians with precision. The Hunters collapsed rigidly to the ground without even time to scream, their bodies paralyzed.
“Kekekek! Jin-hyuk! No, Director! If we break those bastards’ bones, all the profits go straight to our orthopedic department, right!”
This time, Gluttony King Beelzebub and the Demon King commanders—forcibly dressed in white coats—leaped into the center of the Hunters’ formation with wicked laughter.
“Th, these demon bastards! Fireball! Lightning!”
The mage Hunters shrieked and unleashed their attack spells, but to the Demon Kings born from hellfire itself, human magic was nothing more than lukewarm massage water.
“If you’re going to cast magic, do it properly! Your shoulder joints are stiff—that’s why your casting is slow! Time for physical therapy!”
Crunch! Snap!
Beelzebub mercilessly dislocated the Hunters’ shoulder and leg joints with his massive palm. He didn’t kill them. Following Jin-hyuk’s instructions, he performed a highly precise and gruesome surgical violence—dismantling only the joints and ligaments to a degree where they could be treated again and the hospital could extract treatment fees. It was devastatingly methodical.
“Aaaahhhhh! My leg!”
“Help, help me! This isn’t a fight! It’s one-sided slaughter!”
Merely one minute.
The three hundred elite Hunters that the Apollo Guild had boasted of were now sprawled across the Gangnam asphalt, groaning in agony, unable to land a single effective blow against the hospital’s janitors (the Murim Alliance) and intern doctors (the Demon Kings).
A remarkably peaceful (?) and swift suppression of the unauthorized intruders.
“Phew. Excellent work. As a hospital welfare benefit, I’ll make sure you receive your overtime pay today.”
Jin-hyuk applauded the Elders as they brushed dust from the mop, grinning wickedly.
Watching the spectacle from beside the VIP command vehicle, Choi Myung-seok’s face had transcended pallor, transforming into the ashen hue of a corpse. He had witnessed with his own eyes his elite unit—built with his entire fortune—subdued by a few mop swings, like a troublesome customer being kicked out of a neighborhood restaurant.
“Th, these monster bastards! So this wasn’t all an illusion…?”
Choi Myung-seok’s legs gave out as he collapsed backward, crawling away. He had to escape. These monsters brought by that insane veterinarian were not beings that could be confronted by human logic.
But before he could even turn his body, a massive shadow that had crept up behind him seized Choi Myung-seok by the scruff of his neck like a beast.
“Well now, our Apollo Director. If you’ve already taken your appointment number, shouldn’t you be heading to the treatment room? Where are you running off to?”
Ma Dong-tak grinned wickedly as he gripped Choi Myung-seok’s nape and hoisted him up effortlessly, as if lifting a cat toy, dragging him before Jin-hyuk.
“Let, let me go! Do you know who I am! I’m the Director of Apollo, the organization that moves South Korea’s medical industry! Do you think you can brutalize me with force and walk away unscathed! The media is watching, and the law will judge you!”
Choi Myung-seok screamed in a final desperate struggle, conscious of the journalists’ cameras. No matter how overwhelming Jin-hyuk’s power was, assaulting a major hospital director by force in the heart of South Korea—a nation governed by democracy and the rule of law—would invite worldwide condemnation.
“The law? The media? Those are wonderful words indeed.”
Jin-hyuk smiled brightly, pushing his glasses up as if completely unaffected, showing no sign of impact.
“I don’t like crudely smashing rival hospitals with my fists. I’m supposed to be an intellectual, after all. I should use the law and evidence to dismantle you very legally and suffocatingly.”
Jin-hyuk pulled a thick electronic tablet and a stack of documents from his pocket. They were the ledgers obtained after killing Mammon on the 16th Floor Casino, and the “Energy Distribution Records” that Kim Chun-sam had hacked from the main server of the 17th Floor Extraction Factory.
“Director Choi Myung-seok. You know about the VIP awakening agent that Apollo Hospital exclusively sold recently for a massive windfall—the so-called ‘Nectar Potion’? The one you sold for tens of billions per bottle, claiming it amplified Hunters’ magical power?”
The moment the word “Nectar” left Jin-hyuk’s lips, Choi Myung-seok’s pupils trembled violently as if an earthquake had struck.
“H, how did you find out about that…!”
“While I was climbing this Tower, I demolished a rather interesting factory. The 17th Floor’s ‘Bioelectric Energy Extraction Factory’—where they sacrificed lower-world Hunters and drained their blood and spinal fluid. The nutrients extracted there were precisely the Nectar that fed the Tower’s monsters.”
Jin-hyuk spread the documents wide through the air, adjusting the angle so the journalists’ cameras could capture them clearly.
“But here’s the thing. Looking at that factory’s shipment ledger, enormous quantities of Nectar were being smuggled not just to the Tower’s highest floors, but also to ‘specific coordinates on Earth.’ The transaction payment was the lives of Earth’s Hunters and rare magical stones.”
“Sh, shut your mouth! Those are forged documents!”
Choi Myung-seok shrieked as if spitting blood, but Jin-hyuk mercilessly shattered the bones of the facts.
“That smuggling coordinate led directly to the Apollo Hospital Underground Laboratory. You’ve been secretly selling Earth’s Hunters to the Tower’s demons as human sacrifices, and in return, you’ve been receiving nectar extracted from those Hunters, packaging it as a miracle cure, and profiting from it, haven’t you?”
“…!”
At Jin-hyuk’s exposé, a tremendous shockwave of gasps erupted from the tens of thousands of people holding their breath and from viewers across the globe watching the live broadcast.
The reason why Hunters affiliated with the Hunter Association had been disappearing so frequently at A-rank Gates. The background behind how Apollo Hospital’s miraculous new drug could suddenly emerge. It was the moment when every piece of that horrifying puzzle snapped into place at once.
“This constitutes a clear violation of ‘Life Ethics Law,’ ‘illegal organ—energy extraction and smuggling,’ and ‘incitement to murder’—serious felonies. A man who profits by gambling with patients’ lives has no right to wear a doctor’s coat.”
Jin-hyuk looked down at Choi Myung-seok with cold eyes and delivered his verdict.
“What are you waiting for? Start recording.”
The moment Jin-hyuk’s order fell, Kim Chun-sam, who had been waiting behind him, stepped forward with a flash of his visor.
“Buaaang! Arcana Medical Center AI Director Kim Chun-sam reporting! Forced hacking of major global broadcasters and Hunter Association main servers complete! Beginning simultaneous transmission of evidence!”
Ding-ling-!
Powerful hologram beams shot out from both of Chun-sam’s shoulders, creating a colossal screen that blanketed the entire night sky above Gangnam District.
Across that screen, copies of the blood contract Choi Myung-seok had made with the demons, horrifying illegal experimental footage of nectar refinement in the Apollo Hospital Underground Laboratory, and audio recordings of Choi Myung-seok’s own voice instructing the deliberate disappearance of Hunters were being broadcast raw and unfiltered to the entire world.
“No… no… this can’t be… my hospital… my empire…!”
Watching the evidence of his own ugly crimes displayed across the sky, Choi Myung-seok clawed at the ground like a man driven mad. No matter how vast the wealth and power of the Apollo Guild, there was no escaping bankruptcy before this undeniable, cosmic-scale evidence of crime laid bare before the entire world.
Police sirens began wailing urgently from the distance. The Hunter Association’s audit team and the government’s armed forces were rushing in to arrest the Apollo Hospital director.
“Well then, Director Choi. Your consultation ends here. Your severe moral deficiency and illegal medical practices will receive corrective treatment behind the nation’s iron bars. Oh, don’t worry. The vacant position of South Korea’s top medical figure that you’ve left behind….”
Jin-hyuk chuckled toward the wailing police cars, then pointed to his own “Arcana Mega-Dimensional Comprehensive Hospital,” which boasted overwhelming grandeur.
“As of today, I, Director Kang Jin-hyuk, will be very thriftily acquiring and merging it under my exclusive ownership.”
As camera flashes erupted blindingly, the perfect Earth return of the unscrupulous veterinarian Kang Jin-hyuk and the grand opening of his universe-spanning dimensional hospital adorned the night sky above Gangnam in brilliant splendor.

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