The Physician of Traditional Medicine Returns from Murim - Chapter 64

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Chapter 64

Bang! Crash! Clang clang clang!

Those who had lost their reason to demonic energy swarmed like bees, swinging their blades.

Their movements could hardly be called those of martial artists, but there were far too many of them.

“Kill them.”

With each word the High Priest spoke, more Makyodo appeared.

Under the endless assault, my companions fell one by one.

“Argh, too strong!”

“How are we supposed to break through that!”

The Namgung family’s Tyrannical Blade and the Swift Sword of the Spear fell powerlessly.

The last ones remaining were the Shaolin Disciple and me.

“I’m sorry… If only I had been a little stronger…”

The Shaolin monk who had protected me with his remaining strength finally collapsed with his dying words. I had no time to mourn him. I could only rush forward through the space he had created with his death.

‘Damn it. If only I had my throwing knives, I would have finished him off already!’

The current me couldn’t attack the High Priest from a distance. The only way was to cut through the small fry and make a path.

Slash! Slice! Strike!

At least thanks to my fallen comrades’ sacrifice, I had figured out the High Priest’s sword technique.

I dodged his explosive attacks left and right as I charged forward to the end.

Swoosh!

I swung my sword horizontally.

My blade, honed to the extreme in agility, reached the High Priest’s neck.

It was before he could recover his weapon from his previous attack and assume his stance.

Plum Blossom Fragrance for Ten Thousand Miles.

I unleashed the greatest ultimate skill I could muster.

The High Priest’s energy was completely depleted.

Where I had severed his neck, a brilliant plum blossom effect appeared.

“Waaaah! Finally cleared it!”

I jumped up from my chair and let out a cheer.

In my overwhelming joy, I shouted “Hooray!” while waving my arms wildly.

Until now, I had always complained about the Plum Blossom Fragrance for Ten Thousand Miles effect whenever I used my ultimate skill, but today I didn’t mind it at all.

So what if the flower petals that should spread a subtle fragrance were fluttering around? As long as it dealt a lot of damage! If my damage had been even 3% less, I would have been the one to die.

“Wow, everyone died but you still cleared it?”

“As expected of our guild leader!”

“How did you dodge that last one? There was no gimmick, right?”

The excitement of my guild members came through the computer speakers.

Those who had died early were also watching anxiously for a long time, wondering if I would succeed.

Ahahaha, there is a gimmick! The patterns were quite varied so I didn’t notice, but I figured it out when Young Master Chungpung and Kkyu Kkyu died!”

“Huh? Really?”

“The Martial Arts Alliance that got first clear said there wasn’t one though?”

“They probably just brute-forced it with their specs without knowing. Seems like they didn’t discover it, so I’ll organize it and post a guide on the strategy board.”

“Ah, you’re going to share everything?”

“We already got all the rewards up to third clear anyway, so what does it matter.”

Jungyeon Online, the game I was playing, had updated its first raid just one month after release.

While there were already a few users who had reached max level, even the heavy spenders hadn’t fully optimized their equipment and skills yet.

With such difficult gimmicks released at this point, it took a whopping 8 days for even the server’s top 1st and 2nd place guilds, who had overwhelming specs and played 7 days a week, to clear the raid.

Competition among the remaining guilds heated up to obtain the special rewards given to the top 3.

And right now, the ‘Sichuan Party Guild Update Endurance League’ that I lead had achieved 3rd place, ending that competition.

‘Sigh… I never intended to become a raid leader.’

I had definitely started the game with a light heart.

The clinic had become quite stable, and I had changed my work schedule to 4 days a week, so didn’t I have quite a lot of free time?

But as I played, I got greedy and leveled up, gradually improving my equipment.

Once I had basic equipment? I needed better equipment. To get better equipment? I had to enter dungeons where it dropped. And for that, I absolutely had to join a guild and recruit party members – that was the structure.

‘Sigh, such is my fate.’

Joining the competitive 1st or 2nd place parties that cleared content wasn’t an option.

I’m not a professional gamer! Maybe if I were a college student who could skip classes and focus on gaming 24 hours a day, but it wasn’t something the head director of a clinic should do.

So I just joined a raid that accepted anyone…

– I’m going to quit the game. It’s too hard, I can’t do it. Divine Physician, you be the guild leader.

– What?

And that’s how it happened.

Somehow my PVP video circulated in the gaming community, and quite a few serious players applied to join. As I played casually with them, we became the server’s 3rd place guild.

“Wow! The rewards appeared!”

While chatting with the party members on voice chat, the cutscene passed.

Since everyone was clearing it for the first time, there was a story sequence where the boss was saying something or other.

“I wonder~ what kind of equipment dropped?”

The moment I clicked on the High Priest.

Effects indicating mythic-grade equipment filled the screen.

I had expected this much. When you clear for the first time, you’re guaranteed at least one piece of the highest grade equipment.

The problem is whose profession does the equipment suit?

“Kiyaaaak!”

Dragon Blood Plum Blossom Sword!

That’s mine, isn’t it?

I’m not really sure what relationship Huashan has with plum blossoms since I skipped the story, but anyway, this was Huashan Sect’s weapon among the set equipment that drops from this raid.

“I’ll bid on it?”

The rule was that all 12 party members who entered the raid together would bid on the equipment they wanted, and the person with the highest contribution would take it.

“Hehehehe, thank you.”

Since it was obvious that I, having the highest contribution, would bid on it anyway, the other party members gladly yielded.

“Of course the party leader should get their weapon first!”

“How did they know to give the alliance leader’s equipment first?”

“Thank you~. Please divide the iron ore and gold coins among yourselves, excluding my share!”

The second most enjoyable time after clearing.

The party members were delighted as they divided the spoils among themselves.

“Wow! We finally cleared this.”

“How many times did we try this? I have to go to work tomorrow, this is trouble.”

“Huh? Young Master Chungpung, you’re a working adult? I thought you and Kkyu Kkyu were students together?”

“…I’m a working adult with a 3-hour round-trip commute. Party leader, don’t you go to work?”

What, really? Since he’s always online when I log in, I thought he was at least a college student.

Young Master Chungpung was a Spear Sect user with the highest login rate who spent more money than me, and Kkyu Kkyu was a Shaolin monk, the only tank in our guild.

“The alliance leader works 4 days a week.”

“Lucky! Change everything!”

“Haha, I do have to go to work tomorrow, but since I got a new weapon, I want to hunt a bit more. I’ll also write a strategy guide.”

“Since it’s come to this, I’ll pull an all-nighter too! Let’s go together!”

Young Master Chungpung shouted loudly and switched his equipment to hunting gear.

Is that person okay?

I can recover from staying up one night with breathing exercises, but still.

Of course, unlike me and Young Master Chungpung who couldn’t calm our excitement, most party members naturally logged off.

“Haha… we’re going to sleep.”

“I’m also feeling queasy, maybe from too much tension. I’ll take some digestive medicine and sleep.”

“Oh my, Kkyu Kkyu. If you weren’t feeling well, you should have said we should take a break!”

“It seemed like we were about to clear it. I’ll be fine if I take medicine.”

After giving Kkyu Kkyu a word of reproach, I started writing the strategy guide.

* * *

One hour later.

“Wow, alliance leader, how on earth did you discover this?”

“Huh? Kkyu Kkyu, you haven’t gone to sleep yet?”

“No. I felt better after drinking Hwalmyeongsu. I was hunting with Young Master Chungpung. Since my equipment is lacking, I need to level up quickly at least.”

Kkyu Kkyu must have set up notifications because he read my post as soon as I uploaded it and was amazed.

“Huh. You already uploaded it?”

At his words, Young Master Chungpung also rushed to the strategy board.

“Ah~ This kind of mechanic… Huh, there’s a timing to change stance after striking vertically downward? At this moment, Diamond Body disappears regardless of the motion? How did you figure this out?”

Well, it’s because there are actually openings after such big techniques… but I can’t say that.

“I have pretty good observation skills. Ah, I had to throw the throwing knife at exactly that timing! It was so hard to get close because of the mob respawns. If it weren’t for Kkyu Kkyu, we would have failed again.”

“Hehe… you’re too kind.”

“Uhaha, exactly. Our Divine Physician has divine eyes and divine control! But party leader, you really are eagerly waiting for the Sichuan Dang Family update.”

Young Master Chungpung also giggled as he spoke.

It wasn’t a party name I created, but it was true that I was waiting for it. That’s why I joined right away.

“They’ll do it by the end of this year, right?”

“You believe that? They said it would take a year until release but it took 4 years. I’m betting on the end of next year.”

I had absolutely no words to refute Young Master Chungpung.

Ah, throwing knives! Give me back my throwing knives!

Even if it’s in a game, how can I endure this frustration of only doing melee damage?

“Party leader, do you usually main ranged DPS in other games?”

“Yes. I’m pretty good at aiming and hitting targets.”

“You’re also incredibly good at melee DPS though… I’m curious. Ah, if you mainly do ranged DPS, why don’t you make an alt with Mosan Sect? You could use talisman arts.”

“Bah! Where would you use such evil arts?”

He’s talking about Mosan Sect nonsense.

No, it’s ridiculous that they created Mosan Sect first, which isn’t even part of Gupaeilbang, when they haven’t even updated Sichuan Dang Family.

Even if they wanted to create a profession similar to a mage.

“Ah, our alliance leader treats Mosan Sect as an evil sect. But Sichuan Dang Family isn’t exactly orthodox either…”

“Kkyu Kkyu! What strange martial arts novels have you been reading? Right now, go read the 10 orthodox martial arts classics I recommend and then we’ll talk!”

“Hiiik, I’m sorry!”

I spent the whole night playing Jungyeon Online, chatting with the two late-night users.

It was a very lucky day.

I got my weapon, and in the dungeon… no, cave we entered just before logging off, we also got a legendary-grade equipment that Kkyu Kkyu could use.

* * *

“Hello hello! Good morning~.”

I came to work after staying up all night enjoying the game.

This was the first time since I started playing Junwon Online. While staying up for a day or two isn’t a big problem for me, managing one’s condition is an important virtue for a doctor.

“Clinic Director, you seem to be in a really good mood today. Did something good happen?”

Oh, was it that obvious? I thought as I covered my cheeks with my hands, only to find my mouth stretched from ear to ear.

“Hehe, yes. Something really good happened.”

“Wow, did you go somewhere nice?”

“I did go somewhere~ and I got something amazing too?”

“Ooooh, is the Clinic Director flexing? What did you buy?”

When I turned on my phone to show them something, Seol Yuhui and Gong Nari waited with great curiosity.

“What would the Clinic Director buy? Did you win something like a medicinal herb drying rack?”

Seo Inae said with a chuckle, but it was incomparably better than something like that.

I showed off my character screenshots that I had captured dozens of yesterday to the staff.

“Ta-da! Mythical grade weapon! Dragon Blood Plum Blossom Sword!”

Wow, isn’t it really cool? The design is insane! Of course the damage is insane too! The Makyodo members were getting sliced so satisfyingly.

“….”

But the staff’s reaction to the 50 screenshots of my character equipped with the weapon was disastrous.

Even Seol Yuhui, who would faithfully follow anything I said, and Gong Nari, who possessed the exceptional office worker skill of ‘sucking up to the boss,’ were at a loss for words.

“What’s with this reaction?”

“Haha…, so Yeowon plays games?”

That was all Hwang Sanghun had to say after bothering to come out of his examination room.

“Yeah. This is the third mythical grade weapon to appear on the server, and it’s the first Huashan Sect sword…”

I tried to explain how amazing the Dragon Blood Plum Blossom Sword was.

Hwang Sanghun nodded with a subtle smile.

Even someone as oblivious as me could tell.

He had no interest at all but was listening because it was the director speaking.

No way! How can there be 5 staff members at the clinic and not a single one who likes games?

I gave up on bragging and asked glumly.

“Nothing happened yesterday, right?”

“Yeah. The InBody machine broke down so we called for service…”

Hwang Sanghun poured out the business matters as if he had been waiting for just those words.

“Dr. Jin Minjeong left early due to personal reasons so Dr. Seo Inae covered her shift, and… someone from an insurance company came by.”

Insurance company? What’s that about?

If something like that happened, you should have called me!

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