Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer, You Know? - Chapter 49

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7. Roar of the Blue Dragon (9)

 

The entire passage fell silent.

 

Someone at the front muttered.

 

“Don’t tell me he just awakened…?”

 

Before those words could even finish, a second wave of pressure approached.

 

The Blue Dragon’s currents began to change in earnest.

 

Han Seong immediately deployed a barrier.

 

Then he checked on Hali, who was retreating to the back.

 

Hali was quietly shaking a potion bottle, oblivious to the crisis at hand.

 

‘Ah, as expected. I should have refused Lee Hae-sol’s request.’

 

This place is too dangerous for that kid.

 

He let out a short sigh and watched the front.

 

If I-seo could withstand this current change right after awakening, the formation wouldn’t collapse.

 

But if he failed, the passage would immediately crumble.

 

Blue currents surged as I-seo gritted his teeth.

 

The entire passage resonated with heartbeats that seemed ready to burst.

 

He instinctively took a ready stance.

 

Today, this child was passing through a moment he wouldn’t have survived according to the original route.

 

And that was the moment.

 

A blue circular pattern beneath I-seo’s feet began to glow.

 

That light shot up sharply in an instant, cutting through the currents.

 

The Abyss of the Azure Dragon paused momentarily.

 

S-rank senses had severed the currents.

 

Someone nearby whispered softly.

 

“…He really awakened.”

 

Han Seong slowly raised his head.

 

From deep within the passage, the presence of the Blue Dragon’s ‘heart chamber’ was finally beginning to emerge.

 

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The Blue Dragon’s presence was like waves rolling in from afar.

 

As the front line wavered momentarily, the teacher raised his hand to stop everyone.

 

“From now on, open your senses to maximum. The Blue Dragon’s heart chamber can lose balance with even the smallest change.”

 

The students nodded.

 

And most gazes naturally turned toward Hyun I-seo.

 

His breathing was still rough, but his eyes were clear.

 

Though there was instability right after awakening, his aura was definitely already S-rank.

 

I was watching the situation from behind.

 

As I quietly caught my breath while holding a potion bottle, I-seo glanced at me.

 

His gaze was strangely calm.

 

“Hali, earlier… thank you.”

 

“What did I even do?”

 

I naturally shook my head.

 

“I just did what I could.”

 

I-seo didn’t smile, but he looked like someone who understood something.

 

The Blue Dragon’s currents moved again.

 

This time they penetrated much deeper than before.

 

It wasn’t just shaking our senses, but felt like scraping at the roots of our minds.

 

Several students complained of dizziness and pressed their hands against the walls.

 

The teacher stomped his foot hard to re-establish the barrier.

 

“Don’t scatter! If it’s hard to endure, speak up immediately.”

 

I was catching my breath beyond the barrier.

 

My fingertips trembled slightly.

 

Originally, two people would faint in this section and one would be eliminated.

 

But now everyone was holding on.

 

No one had collapsed.

 

‘It must be because of the potions.’

 

I quietly muttered to myself.

 

That was the only way I could think of it.

 

The recovery, detox, and stamina potions I’d made over the past few days were continuously circulating in small amounts within the students’ bodies.

 

But those were just my practice attempts.

 

Unlike the potions I’d carefully crafted for the protagonist’s party, these were truly low-grade potions I’d made with a light heart.

 

So yesterday I was still thinking to myself, ‘This dungeon is just meaningful for me to tag along.’

 

‘Just confident I wouldn’t die.’

 

But that wasn’t it.

 

I-seo’s senses flashed and expanded once more.

 

He stood straight and raised his fingertips to trace the blue marks.

 

“Here. It moved.”

 

The teacher looked slightly surprised.

 

“You’re reading it?”

 

“Yes. These are signs that the Blue Dragon is trying to change direction.”

 

The students murmured.

 

I-seo had caught a change faster than even the teacher would have noticed it originally.

 

The Abyss of the Azure Dragon is the most brutal dungeon for sensory types, but also the dungeon that draws out awakening the fastest.

 

I-seo was right in that flow now.

 

“Then let’s follow.”

 

The teacher reorganized the formation.

 

The front line was I-seo and Yuhan Seong.

 

Yu Hee and the others had compatibility issues with being at the front, so they belonged to the center column.

 

The center column was the barrier reinforcement group.

 

In the rear column stood kids like me who could provide auxiliary support.

 

Each step caused the floor to subtly shake.

 

The energy of water moistened the passage, cleverly disturbing our body’s balance.

 

Once you lost your center, you’d be swept up by the currents and slammed into the walls.

 

Knowing this, all the students were biting their lips tightly.

 

I continuously checked the students’ conditions from the back.

 

Who was getting short of breath.

 

Who was losing mental clarity.

 

Who was wavering.

 

And I carefully passed out the remaining potions bit by bit.

 

Yuhan Seong, cutting through the front, said.

 

“The currents are too bothersome. Hali, if you have any spare detox potions, could you pass a bit more to the back?”

 

“Yeah. I’ll pass them right over.”

 

I took out a small detox potion from my waist bag and passed it through the barrier.

 

Yuhan Seong received it and distributed it to the students in the center column.

 

Even in that brief moment, his hands were precise, fast, and delicate.

 

And whenever our eyes met, he would briefly bow his head as always.

 

“Thank you.”

 

Some people know how to say thank you when given what they need.

 

Unlike the people around me in my past life, and Jin Hali’s family in this life, he never threw tantrums.

 

‘That’s why I liked Yuhan Seong.’

 

Even when watching the original work, I genuinely wished for your victory.

 

…The current grew even thicker.

 

The water patterns on the floor came vividly to life, their designs curving like crescents.

 

I-seo brought his hand close to the floor and said.

 

“The heart chamber is about to appear.”

 

The sound of breathing continued like waves.

 

The end of the passage slowly brightened.

 

That light wasn’t blue, but rather resembled the dark blue depths of water.

 

And something was slowly writhing inside it.

 

I clenched my trembling hands tightly.

 

This was the Abyss of the Azure Dragon.

 

If no one died today.

 

That alone would be a miracle.

 

The Azure Dragon’s heart was positioned like a massive crystal.

 

Water-colored light flickered and flowed across its surface, and the closer we got, the more clearly we could hear the heartbeat-like resonance.

 

The students held their breath.

 

Even the teacher was conserving words.

 

The Azure Dragon doesn’t reveal itself directly.

 

Instead, it reveals its presence through the currents in this heart chamber.

 

That’s why this section was both an opportunity and a danger for sensory types.

 

I-seo raised his hand.

 

His eyes glowed blue.

 

“Han Seong. Upper left. Barrier first.”

 

Yuhan Seong reacted immediately.

 

A thin barrier membrane spread from his fingertips, cutting through the waves.

 

Even in that moment, the Azure Dragon’s presence didn’t stop.

 

Wind and waves rushed in at once, slightly twisting our entire bodies.

 

Several students in the center row lost their balance and swayed.

 

I quickly pulled out stamina potions from behind.

 

“Drink this.”

 

The students accepted the potions with bewildered faces.

 

One muttered quietly.

 

“This… really makes it easier to endure.”

 

Another student took a breath and said.

 

“Did you make this? That’s amazing.”

 

I waved my hand slightly.

 

“It’s just for practice.”

 

“If it’s for practice, that’s even more amazing?”

 

Even in the urgent situation, the students widened their eyes at each other.

 

Yuhan Seong and I-seo maintained their tension in front of the heart chamber.

 

The teacher looked left and right, trying to detect changes in attack patterns.

 

The Azure Dragon doesn’t attack directly.

 

Instead, the currents change phases.

 

The waves suddenly twisted.

 

In an instant, the patterns on the floor flipped as if they were alive and moving.

 

Someone screamed and pressed their body against the wall.

 

“I couldn’t see it… Suddenly from behind, whoosh…”

 

I immediately pulled out a recovery potion.

 

“Here. Drink this.”

 

The student’s hand trembled lightly.

 

The moment they swallowed the potion, their breathing stabilized.

 

“Hali… if it weren’t for you, I would have been in real danger just now.”

 

Instead of answering, I just smiled slightly.

 

In the Abyss of the Azure Dragon, such small disturbances immediately lead to accidents.

 

And if things had gone according to the original route, another person should have already been knocked out by now.

 

I-seo kept his gaze fixed on the heart chamber and said quietly.

 

“The heart… is about to open now.”

 

The teacher tensed up.

 

“Everyone prepare!”

 

The surface of the heart chamber slowly cracked open.

 

A gentle blue light flowed out from the gap.

 

Everyone swallowed their breath.

 

That light wasn’t cold, but rather closer to a warm energy.

 

But there was definitely a living will within it.

 

I-seo’s breath stretched out long.

 

“Han Seong, I’ll take the right. You take the left.”

 

Yuhan Seong nodded while half-drawing his sword.

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