An F-Rank Veterinarian Physically Heals an S-Rank Magical Beast - Chapter 92

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Chapter 92
The composite beast moved first.
A grotesquely malformed torso—human faces stitched haphazardly across its surface—lunged toward Ma Dong-tak. With each footfall, the asphalt cratered beneath its weight. It wasn’t fast. But it was heavy. If that mass connected head-on, even an S-rank tank Hunter would have their bones shattered into pieces.
Ma Dong-tak didn’t retreat.
Instead, he stepped forward.
He held his ground until the composite beast’s foreleg descended, then slipped left by a shoulder’s width just before impact. The steel pry bar drove straight into the beast’s right femoral junction—the exact point Kang Jin-hyuk’s Eye of Divinity had marked for him.
Crack—!
Not a normal skeletal joint, but an abnormal fusion grotesquely sutured together with nectar.
The composite beast’s leg buckled, its gait faltering. Its massive weight tilted to one side, nearly toppling sideways before it barely caught itself on a shoulder. The human faces embedded in its body contorted in agony, each one shrieking.
“Just one shot.”
Ma Dong-tak muttered, twisting the pry bar once.
Kang Jin-hyuk watched the scene unfold, stretching latex gloves taut over his hands. But he didn’t draw his scalpel. His gaze fixed not on the composite beast, but on Choi Myung-seok behind it.
Choi Myung-seok hadn’t fled.
There was nowhere to run, but more than that—he was in no condition to run. He stood motionless, hand buried in his pocket, watching the composite beast lose ground to Ma Dong-tak.
Before long, realizing his defeat was inevitable, Choi Myung-seok withdrew something from his pocket. What his hand produced was the very object that had cost him precious seconds moments before. A small vial with a lead-coated surface.
Choi Myung-seok had stockpiled pure nectar concentrate in the Hospital Basement Research Lab as a last resort. Twice the concentration of what was on Tower 17th Floor. A crystallized condensation of Hunters’ bioelectric energy compressed to the highest grade—something capable of awakening an entire S-rank beast with a single drop. Choi Myung-seok now gripped the entire vial in his hand.
“Chief Yoo.”
Kang Jin-hyuk touched his earpiece.
“Do you see that vial?”
Yoo Yi-soo’s voice returned calmly. She was watching the situation unfold from beyond the windows of Hospital Floor 1.
“I see it. Highest-grade inventory from the basement lab. If that concentration gets injected into a human body, you know better than anyone what happens.”
“Right. Forced cellular hyperproliferation at the cellular level. Minimum four-fold body expansion within three minutes, but the skeletal structure can’t keep up. The bones are just human bones, after all.”
“As expected. You’re targeting skeletal weak points, right? Scan them in advance. That bastard Choi Myung-seok is going to regret this.”
Kang Jin-hyuk activated Eye of Divinity.
[System: Activating special skill ‘Eye of Divinity’.]
[Target: Choi Myung-seok. Analyzing skeletal structure based on current physique.]
[Predicted final physique upon rapid pure nectar injection: Height approximately 6 meters, muscular hyperproliferation exceeding 500% of current baseline.]
[Predicted weak points: Extreme load concentration across the entire cervical-thoracic junction. Particularly between cervical vertebra 7 and thoracic vertebra 1, where the spinal joint’s support capacity is critically insufficient relative to hyperproliferated muscle mass. Inducing displacement at this junction could cause total paralysis of the mutant.]
Kang Jin-hyuk quietly etched those numbers into his mind.
Meanwhile, Choi Myung-seok twisted open the vial’s cap.
He hesitated for a moment, then poured the entire contents into his mouth.
A bitter mana scent briefly dispersed through the surrounding air. The pure nectar concentrate was entering Choi Myung-seok’s bloodstream. For one minute, silence reigned. But the moment the clock ticked past exactly 60 seconds—
Rip—
A sound erupted from Choi Myung-seok’s back. His gown tore open down the center of his spine. His shoulder width expanded by the second. His height wasn’t growing—it was swelling. Muscles hyperproliferated explosively at the cellular level, his entire body ballooning outward.
The sounds from his bones were horrific.
Crack-crack-crack! Crack-crack—!
The sounds of twisting, crushing, deforming. The sound of human skeletal structure straining desperately against abnormal muscle mass. Below his knees, his shin bones were visibly warping outward, compressed by muscle. His cervical vertebrae swelled grotesquely between expanding muscles, bending at unnatural angles before thickening further.
[Mutation in progress: Stage 2.]
[Current height approximately 4 meters. Muscular hyperproliferation ongoing.]
[Skeletal weak point updated: Cervical vertebra 7–thoracic vertebra 1 junction. Current mutant’s self-impact absorption rate estimated at 0%. Applying vertical pressure to this area could induce spinal joint displacement.]
The global chat watching the live broadcast exploded.
― Is that person actually transforming right now?
― Nectar concentrate was THAT?? And he consumed it all at once???
― But why is the veterinarian just standing there lol
― Somehow that white coat is even more terrifying
― Ma Dong-tak has to fight that?? Look at the height difference
The transformation was complete.
The mutated form towered nearly six meters high, its shoulders grotesquely broad and neck disturbingly thick. The white coat hung in tatters, clinging to exposed flesh. The face was crushed beneath the nectar-induced muscle hypertrophy, its original features nearly unrecognizable. It could hardly be called a human face anymore.
Yet between those massive muscles, a pair of gleaming eyes remained unmistakably Choi Myung-seok’s.
Choi Myung-seok twisted his neck at an unnatural angle, fixing both eyes on Kang Jin-hyuk.
A voice forced through the deformed vocal cords emerged, strained and guttural.
“Kang Jin-hyuk.”
“Yes. I’m right here.”
“If I just… eliminate you…”
“I hear what you’re saying.”
Kang Jin-hyuk withdrew a scalpel and replied casually.
“But even if you eliminate me, Manager Yoo is on the other end of this earpiece, and Chun-sam is broadcasting this live to the entire world. There’s video evidence. After today, Director Choi, there’s nowhere left for you to sit.”
Reason extinguished completely.
Choi Myung-seok roared.
RRRAAAAAAHHHHH—!!!
The sky above Gangnam-gu trembled as the shockwave bent the street trees near Apollo Hospital’s entrance. Building windows sang with the vibration. The remaining journalists retreated, cameras raised defensively.
Ma Dong-tak was finishing off the composite beast.
The crowbar drove directly into the beast’s chest cavity with a solid impact.
CRACK—!
The joints bound by nectar ruptured in a chain reaction. The beast’s faces shrieked as the torso’s seams began separating. The nectar-forced fusion points lost their bonds when subjected to concentrated impact beyond a certain threshold. In less than a minute, the composite beast lost all function and collapsed onto the asphalt.
Ma Dong-tak kicked the composite beast aside, turned, and looked at Choi Myung-seok. Facing the six-meter mutant, he didn’t even raise an eyebrow.
“Director. Shall I take the front?”
“Yes. Handle the frontal assault. I’ll come from the side.”
“Understood.”
Ma Dong-tak twirled the crowbar once around his wrist and nodded.
Choi Myung-seok pushed off the ground again and charged.
BOOM BOOM BOOM—!
The six-meter body’s charge across the asphalt was slower than anticipated. Exactly as my scan had predicted. The excessive weight meant the knee joints were operating without proper shock absorption. What appeared to be running was actually closer to falling forward uncontrollably.
Ma Dong-tak had been waiting for this.
The moment Choi Myung-seok’s body tilted forward and his center of gravity shifted to his front leg, Ma Dong-tak thrust the iron crowbar vertically upward into the inside of his right knee.
CRACK—!
Choi Myung-seok toppled.
The six-meter body crashed forward, and the asphalt caved inward. A crater four meters in diameter formed instantly. Manhole covers nearby flew from the shockwave.
But Choi Myung-seok rose immediately.
The nectar still boiling within his body continued swelling his muscles even further.
— Wow, and he’s still getting up after that
— Did Ma Dong-tak really just take down that massive frame with a single knee strike?
— The veterinarian lurking behind with a scalpel is genuinely terrifying
— Is that crowbar Ma Dong-tak’s using still from the hardware store?
I calculated Choi Myung-seok’s trajectory the moment he rose, shifting laterally to intercept.
[Real-time analysis: Target exhibits increased instantaneous load at cervical-thoracic junction upon rising after frontal impact absorption.]
[Surgical window available: 0.8-second interval during target’s ascent from ground—dorsal lateral approach accessible.]
Choi Myung-seok extended his hand toward Ma Dong-tak again.
This time, it was a grabbing motion. The six-meter arm descended faster than before. His Nectar response had peaked, amplifying his instantaneous reflex speed to its maximum.
Ma Dong-tak raised the crowbar like a shield to intercept.
Screeeech—!
Ma Dong-tak’s feet skidded backward across the asphalt, the crowbar gripped firmly in his hands. The second-ranked Hunter had been pushed back two steps.
“Huh. You’ve got strength.”
Ma Dong-tak laughed even as his feet slid.
Though pushed back, he dug his toes into the ground and refused to retreat further. Despite Choi Myung-seok’s forearm pressure transmitting directly through the crowbar, his expression never wavered.
“But here’s the thing.”
Ma Dong-tak spoke through gritted teeth.
“Having strength and knowing how to use it are two different animals.”
He twisted the crowbar at the exact angle he’d used to receive the blow. As Choi Myung-seok’s forearm direction shifted and his balance faltered for an instant, Ma Dong-tak sidestepped and drove the crowbar’s end into Choi Myung-seok’s left elbow joint.
Crack—!
The sound of a joint dislocating echoed out.
Choi Myung-seok groaned—a low, pained sound suppressed by agony, almost unbelievable coming from a frame that massive. His arm hung at an unnatural angle.
I didn’t miss that moment.
[Opportunity window confirmed: Target’s center of gravity shifts rightward in response to left-arm pain. Dorsal approach obstruction eliminated.]
I had already repositioned myself ten meters behind Choi Myung-seok’s left flank. Silently. Without running. Maintaining an angle outside his line of sight.
“Luna.”
I touched my earpiece.
“Yes, Director.”
“You don’t need to prepare yet—when I give the signal, bring one pack of cooling IV fluid to the hospital entrance immediately. And a stretcher.”
“Understood. Standing by.”
“Beris.”
“What.”
His voice was sharp.
“If Director Choi’s Nectar stays activated in this state, his heart will overload. When that happens, he might need immediate CPR, so be ready.”
“Ugh. I have to save that filthy bacterial mass?”
“Insurance purposes. If the patient dies before treatment, there’s no one left to send the bill to.”
Beris clicked his tongue.
“Fine.”
I closed the earpiece and slipped the scalpel between my fingers.
Choi Myung-seok was still watching Ma Dong-tak. Even with his left elbow dislocated, he charged again with his right arm.
Ma Dong-tak didn’t dodge this time.
He seized the underside of his right arm at waist height and wrenched it in the opposite direction.
Craaaaaash—!!!
Choi Myung-seok’s body spun and was hurled sideways. The asphalt caved in again. This time, deeper. Fractures spiderwebbed across the surrounding road.
— Ma Dong-tak just threw a 6-meter creature barehanded
— Is the 2nd-ranked Hunter really doing this?
— I actually feel bad for Choi Myung-seok
— But where did the veterinarian go
I had no luxury of attention for the chat reactions.
Choi Myung-seok was rising again.
Whether the Nectar response had entered Stage 3, his rising speed had actually accelerated. As cellular hyperproliferation reached its peak, the damage recovery rate temporarily surged.
[Warning: Nectar response entering Stage 3. Target temporary regeneration speed maximum.]
[However, cervical-thoracic junction stress has reached 120% of threshold. Continued violent movement in this state—structural collapse imminent in approximately 2 minutes.]
Two minutes.
I tightened my grip on the scalpel.
I could have waited for natural structural collapse. But the impact this mutant would inflict during those two minutes would cause civilian casualties. Moreover, if Choi Myung-seok underwent natural collapse from Nectar overdose, the shock to his heart could be fatal.
That wasn’t the outcome I wanted.
If the billing target died, the client disappeared.
“Director Ma.”
“Yes, sir.”
“In 15 seconds, completely break his center of gravity from the front. Direction: forward.”
“Forward?”
“Yes. Make him fall forward. That’s when I’ll move in.”
“Understood.”
Ma Dong-tak offered no objection.
I positioned myself quietly 4 meters to the rear right, timing it with when Choi Myung-seok rose and turned back toward Ma Dong-tak.
Below the nape of the neck.
That narrow gap where the 7th cervical and 1st thoracic vertebrae met.
The mutant’s thick musculature surrounded that point, but with the Eye of Truth, I had already etched its location into my memory at millimeter precision. At that exact angle, a single scalpel would reach deep enough.
Ma Dong-tak charged forward with the crowbar.
Choi Myung-seok roared and met the head-on collision.
Craaaaaash—!!!
The two forces collided directly, and the ground ruptured.
From that impact, Choi Myung-seok’s center of gravity began to crumble forward.
0.8 seconds.
I ran.
Diving behind Choi Myung-seok’s back, I raised the scalpel toward the nape of the 6-meter mutant’s neck.
“Director Choi.”
I spoke softly.
“Do you know what chiropractic is?”
It happened before Choi Myung-seok could even react.

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