Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer, You Know? - Chapter 30

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5. Crescent Dungeon (3)

His shoulders seemed to tremble slightly, but he stood upright.

Yuhan Seong seemed to say something briefly, but it wasn’t audible through the broadcast.

Instead, his gestures looked like signals telling Sol to slowly step back.

The team members regrouped behind him.

A notification appeared at the bottom of the screen indicating they had passed the psychological shock section.

Only after seeing that message did I exhale very quietly.

Originally, Lee Hae-sol would have collapsed at this point, and two team members would have been endangered while trying to help.

But now it was different.

All team members were standing.

They were enduring the psychological waves.

I thought it was a small change, but I didn’t know it would make such a big difference.

The broadcast screen zoomed in again.

The floor of the center was cracked.

Glowing fragments rose into the air, creating whirlpools.

It was a sign of the boss’s appearance.

The Halo Boss was a form mixed with shadow and ice.

Its voice always creaked and scratched at people’s hearts.

I lowered my hand, recalling that moment.

「Core pattern initiation.」

Subtitles appeared.

The lounge collectively held its breath.

Two teachers muttered like they were having an almost soundless argument.

“The pattern is fast.”

“Is the support team not ready yet?”

“How can they endure that situation right now.”

I didn’t take my eyes off the screen.

The boss’s silhouette flickered as a twisted form, and shadow hands split into multiple branches behind it.

The team members quickly changed positions.

Yuhan Seong was leading the entire movement.

His silhouette moved so fast it was almost blurred.

He was dividing the area and blocking attacks.

Within that, Lee Hae-sol’s silhouette carefully raised his hand.

Perhaps because Hae-sol’s attribute was ice-based, the screen flashed a bit more blue at some point.

That moment was Lee Hae-sol’s first counterattack.

A feeling of looking down from afar brushed past.

Hae-sol was concentrating as much as possible within his capabilities.

His face showed anxiety gradually disappearing.

Once the mental waves passed, he no longer wavered.

When the boss swung its shadow widely, the screen tore black.

A silhouette of one team member being pushed far back was visible.

Yuhan Seong pulled that student while simultaneously changing the attack route.

For a moment, points of light scattered.

That was the Halo Boss’s fragment attack.

I clenched both hands tightly.

Soon after, a rumble that shook the center spread loudly.

All the students in the lounge startled and flinched.

And the next moment, the screen hesitated and flickered.

「Boss pattern phase 1 deployment successful.」

I exhaled.

If it’s this much, it should be okay.

Really, if it’s this much.

Although the message “Boss pattern phase 1 deployment successful” was displayed, the screen was still shaking.

The Lunar Halo Core originally had low detection rates, so the graphs kept cutting out.

Lines disappeared and reappeared repeatedly throughout.

I kept tensing my fingertips.

If only it would stabilize a bit more, it would be fine.

As long as it doesn’t collapse.

That was all.

Someone in the lounge spoke in a small voice.

“That team is really holding up well.”

There was surprise mixed in that tone.

A bit late and a bit shaky, but they still kept moving forward.

The screen switched back to silhouettes.

The boss’s shadow moved largely again.

Black hands spread in multiple directions.

One of them reached toward a team member.

One team member staggered and stepped back.

I gripped my hands on my knees even tighter.

That attack devours the mind before physical strength.

At this timing in the original, about two would have died.

Yuhan Seong moved.

His silhouette split rapidly like a blur.

The silhouette dove into the fragments, and the shadow hand being severed also spiked on the sensor graph.

As the magic power output appeared, one teacher quietly muttered.

“That student… was he originally at that level?”

Deep doubt was embedded in that tone.

Yuhan Seong’s speed was already known to be fast.

But today he was a bit faster and more solid.

He looked like a center that would never waver.

While he blocked the front, Lee Hae-sol was watching the movements of other team members from the rear.

Whenever Hae-sol’s silhouette wavered, blue light partially spread.

It was the gentle trembling of ice-attribute magic power.

I continued following the screen.

Lee Hae-sol seemed to lose his center several times, but each time he stood firmly.

Perhaps because he endured the mental waves, he was definitely more stable than in the beginning.

The teacher spoke again.

“His mental resistance is unusually high.”

“Even though Hae-sol is an honor student, at that level he seems above average hunters.”

I barely held back my face from getting hot.

I didn’t want to be caught helping without anyone knowing.

It would be troublesome if he continued receiving attention like that.

I quietly lowered my gaze to the floor, then looked at the screen again.

The boss silhouette suddenly swelled.

The Halo Boss always shakes its body greatly once at the end.

That was the signal for a pattern change.

If the team members didn’t scatter from there, they’d easily get hit all at once.

Even in the original route, this pattern had caused the most casualties.

The students in the lounge held their breath.

I unconsciously hunched my shoulders.

The vibration graph turned red.

「Final wave detected.」

The subtitle flickered and appeared.

The silhouettes began to scatter.

Yuhan Seong moved from the center to the right, and the team members changed formation from the back.

Hae-sol moved to the left rather than staying in the middle.

It was slow movement, but he clearly knew which direction to go.

The boss’s shadow fell heavily to the right and fragments scattered like light.

Yuhan Seong blocked it.

His silhouette barely wavered.

A shadow also fell on the left side.

It was Lee Hae-sol’s direction.

I leaned forward slightly in my seat.

Hae-sol gathered ice energy.

A blue dot spread from the silhouette’s fingertips.

Behind it, one shadow collided and vanished.

A short blue line spiked on the sensor graph.

Hae-sol didn’t lose his center until the very end.

Someone in the lounge let out a very small gasp of admiration.

That sound stuck in my ears.

I exhaled and looked at the screen.

After the boss launched its final wave, it was slowly wavering.

Its form began to crumble.

The silhouettes’ movements subsided, and fragments fell away from the surface.

Text appeared below the broadcast screen.

「Boss pattern phase 2 breakthrough successful.」

And soon after, the next message appeared.

「Crescent Dungeon entry team, final pattern breakthrough.」

I slowly unclenched my fist and quietly took a breath.

Since they’d made it this far, it should be fine.

There was almost no chance of collapse now.

They could return.

Perhaps, all of them.

The sound of elevator doors opening echoed from the hallway.

Someone shouted.

“That’s S-rank! It appeared in the faculty office!”

Two or three students rushed off together.

I listened to that sound for a moment, then slowly stood up from my seat.

On the screen, the last traces of the lunar halo were still scattering.

The center was closing.

The blue rift of the lunar halo was gradually disappearing.

At a glance, it looked like the situation was ending. But I knew.

That this was an illusion.

I whispered quietly.

“Come back alive.”

And preferably without getting hurt.

[Tsk, worrying unnecessarily.]

The deeper the lunar halo’s interior went, the more the screen shook.

I was clasping my hands in front of the monitor.

Earlier, the team members’ health graphs had been flat as a line, but now they were rising again, even if just slightly.

It would be really good if that was meaningful recovery.

As the one who had given them the recovery potions, I let out a small sigh.

***

It was a corridor where light barely reached.

Silver-like sparkling powder fell on the walls, and every time the ice underfoot cracked, a crumbling sound echoed long.

The team members sat leaning against the wall, breathing heavily.

The boss had fallen, but the residual patterns weren’t over yet.

The air currents still remaining around them were dangerous, and if they let their guard down even slightly, frozen fragments would come flying again.

One team member rummaged through their backpack with trembling hands and pulled out a small glass bottle.

It was the recovery potion that Hali had secretly put in.

A faintly warm light flickered inside the bottle.

“This… will it work even here?”

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