Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer, You Know? - Chapter 48

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7. Roar of the Blue Dragon (8)

 

Blue light spread across the entire passage, covering everything.

 

I briefly shielded my eyes.

 

The waves transmitted through my skin made it difficult to breathe evenly.

 

The Blue Dragon’s movement stopped.

 

As if its attack pattern had been momentarily interrupted, its massive body was frozen, and even the flow of water and poison had all stopped together.

 

In that silence, a new energy began to emerge.

 

It wasn’t the Blue Dragon’s—it was I-seo’s.

 

The change happening to I-seo now was a burst-type awakening that only occurred within awakeners who had endured specific pressure.

 

In the original route, this moment was only reached after the sacrifice of companions, but now the awakening was being accelerated due to environmental factors and potion effects.

 

I looked down at my trembling fingertips.

 

The pressure I-seo had been pushed to while enduring the recent attack pattern was strong enough to break his limits, and that collapse had opened the path for his current power to emerge.

 

I-seo straightened his swaying body.

 

His hair and pupils gradually took on a blue aura, and ripples spread around him like waves.

 

The Blue Dragon reacted and opened its gills again.

 

This attack wasn’t aimed at all of us, but concentrated solely on I-seo.

 

I called his name.

 

“I-seo.”

 

But he didn’t look my way, keeping his gaze precisely fixed on the Blue Dragon’s energy.

 

I could see the poison and waves on the floor flowing toward his feet.

 

When Han Seong tried to rush in, I-seo raised his hand to stop him.

 

“Wait. I’m fine.”

 

That voice wasn’t his usual gentle sound, but something resonating from a deeper place.

 

The Blue Dragon’s attack poured down.

 

Tremendous water pressure tore through the passage as it descended, but the energy spreading from I-seo’s fingertips blocked the attack head-on.

 

The waves split as if hitting an invisible wall, and the vibration from the collision shook the floor.

 

The Blue Dragon retreated for the first time.

 

I-seo was reading the flow of the attack.

 

That was a sense granted only to awakeners.

 

Blue light and black shadows spread simultaneously around his body.

 

That twisted wave of mixed poison and water attributes was a precursor phenomenon of S-rank awakeners.

 

I exhaled quietly.

 

“…He’s really ascending.”

 

Han Seong approached I-seo’s side.

 

“Are you okay right now?”

 

I-seo nodded briefly.

 

“Yeah. Now… I’m starting to see.”

 

At those words, my eyes widened.

 

He meant he could read the Blue Dragon’s waves and attack patterns.

 

The Blue Dragon raised its body even higher.

 

This was the final pattern.

 

Originally, after this pattern ended, there would be a risk of dungeon collapse, but now we could finish it before that happened.

 

I-seo pointed his finger at a specific spot near the Blue Dragon’s gills.

 

Blue light flickered deep in his pupils.

 

“Here.”

 

Han Seong rushed toward that spot without hesitation.

 

His sword cut through the waves and pierced the Blue Dragon’s center.

 

A cry erupted and the entire cave shook.

 

Blue water and light spread all at once as the Blue Dragon’s body slowly collapsed.

 

I exhaled while watching that scene.

 

This time too, we could finish without any sacrifices.

 

***

 

The Abyss of the Azure Dragon was deeper than expected.

 

The humid smell spreading from the entrance tickled the depths of my lungs, and I lightly tapped my throat.

 

The early part of the abyss had toxic fog hazily spread throughout, but thanks to the detox potion Hali had distributed in the morning, breathing wasn’t particularly difficult.

 

I learned later that this potion determined who survived today.

 

The team walking ahead suddenly stopped.

 

At the point where the poison fog was gathering, a blue wind pattern suddenly bloomed.

 

At that moment, I recalled that this was a preliminary sign of the airflow fluctuations unique to the Abyss of the Azure Dragon.

 

In the original route, three people would have been swept away by sharp cutting wounds and bleeding here.

 

But now the atmosphere was different.

 

“The airflow is changing!”

 

The lead attack captain shouted.

 

Following that, the words “Drink your stamina potions!” spread.

 

The moment those words were heard, the sound of multiple potion bottles opening simultaneously echoed in the abyss.

 

These were the practice stamina potions Hali had been distributing for the past two days.

 

Originally meant for adjusting students’ conditions, today they served as shields to withstand the airflow rampage.

 

When the wind exploded forward, the students with shields were pushed back.

 

But unlike the previous route, no one fell.

 

This was thanks to the potions forcibly boosting their internal circulation.

 

I momentarily thought this was strange.

 

‘This… won’t be interpreted as the influence of my potions again, will it?’

 

Even if that were true, it shouldn’t be too obvious yet.

 

Anyway, once the airflow calmed down, instructions flew from the teacher behind us.

 

“Hyun I-seo! Use your senses to check if the passage is shaking first!”

 

I-seo answered briefly and concentrated, placing his fingertips on the ground.

 

After a moment, his pupils trembled.

 

“Fifty meters ahead, the wall is weakened.”

 

According to the original route, this passage collapse would cause two serious injuries.

 

One of them would normally retreat without recovering, but today no one was hurt.

 

This was because everyone was holding the recovery potions I had handed over the day before.

 

And no one knew that those potions were absorbed faster than official guild-manufactured products.

 

After adjusting our entry direction, we regrouped.

 

I glanced toward I-seo.

 

He continued concentrating, his face gradually hardening as if sensing something.

 

This was because the deeper into the Abyss of the Azure Dragon, the more pressure sensory types faced.

 

“I-seo, are you okay?”

 

“Yeah. So far.”

 

Sweat drops fell from his chin.

 

Today, this child would awaken to S-rank according to the route.

 

And that beginning was right now.

 

I felt that the airflow brushing against the back of my hand had changed.

 

Invisible pressure was pushing from the end of the passage.

 

This was a precursor that inevitably appeared before entering the Blue Dragon’s core area.

 

Originally, this precursor would cause the front line to collapse and two people to withdraw midway.

 

But today was different.

 

Thanks to the potions, the children whose stamina and recovery had increased beyond normal were holding on.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

A ‘crack’ sound came from deep within the passage as the air tore apart.

 

The Blue Dragon’s first trial had begun.

 

***

 

Blue light slowly bloomed from the end of the passage.

 

It was the distinctive resonance of air currents that occurred when the Blue Dragon’s energy condensed.

 

Han Seong reflexively drew in a breath.

 

This section was originally where three front lines would collapse and two people would be carried out with injuries.

 

When the Blue Dragon’s energy swept through once, intermediate and lower-level students found it difficult to endure.

 

“Everyone lower your center!”

 

The teacher’s voice echoed throughout the entire passage.

 

The students simultaneously steadied their breathing.

 

The moment they lowered their bodies and deployed barriers, blue currents swept past with stunning intensity.

 

But even under these harsh conditions, no one collapsed.

 

Even the weakest line held on.

 

This was because the stamina recovery potions Hali had distributed a few days ago were still circulating in their bodies.

 

Someone from the back spoke in a small voice.

 

“My stamina’s holding up. This is impossible.”

 

Another student nodded.

 

“Right. With this level of intensity, I should have been on my knees already.”

 

Han Seong briefly looked back.

 

His eyes met Hali’s.

 

She was just quietly matching her breathing and following along.

 

Her expression suggested she thought she wasn’t doing anything special.

 

After the currents passed, the passage became quiet for a moment.

 

At that moment, I-seo’s body flinched.

 

“…It’s coming.”

 

His voice was low but clear.

 

It was the moment when the Blue Dragon’s sensory trial was about to begin.

 

Once this trial started, there was a risk of mental collapse from sensory overload.

 

According to the original route, I-seo would collapse here once and awaken later.

 

But now the atmosphere was different.

 

The walls on both sides of the passage trembled, and blue patterns bloomed.

 

Those patterns expanded in a form that directly pierced I-seo’s senses.

 

I-seo gritted his teeth.

 

“Wait. I’ve got it.”

 

The teacher shouted.

 

“Hyun I-seo! If it’s too hard to endure, let go immediately!”

 

“I’m still okay.”

 

Blue flame-like sensations bloomed from his fingertips.

 

As the pressure gradually increased, the surrounding students held their breath.

 

Anyone could see it was a difficult situation to endure.

 

But I-seo focused even more quietly instead.

 

The lingering effects of Hali’s mental stabilization potion remaining in his body briefly supported him against the sensory overload.

 

Suddenly the blue patterns scattered as if exploding.

 

In that gap, I-seo’s eyes flashed open.

 

Blue light formed.

 

It was a precursor to S-rank sensory awakening.

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