Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer, You Know? - Chapter 57

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9. Final Dungeon (5)

 

In the original story, after this crying began, the students got caught up in mental attacks.

 

I turned my body toward the students.

 

“Wait. Mental attacks will come first before physical ones. Tell me right away if you hear anything like whispers.”

 

Yu Hee nodded her head.

 

“Okay. Then!”

 

Before she could even finish speaking, the entire passage was pressed down at once.

 

Darkness spread like fog and completely enveloped our surroundings.

 

And the whispers began.

 

—Tired.

 

—It ends here.

 

—Should we slice and eat them one by one.

 

Yu Hee wavered and Lee Hae-sol’s breathing became rapid.

 

Hyun I-seo’s eyes also became slightly clouded.

 

Only Yuhan Seong was holding on, clenching his jaw tightly.

 

I immediately grabbed the bottle and smashed it on the floor.

 

With the sound of breaking, a blue-white fragrance exploded and spread out.

 

The thick, cold scent pushed away the darkness.

 

The students’ breathing returned.

 

Yu Hee gasped and drew in a breath.

 

“What is this… You startled me.”

 

Lee Hae-sol also caught his breath.

 

“Just now… it felt like my mind suddenly cleared up.”

 

I brushed off my hands and smiled.

 

“It’s the finals, after all. I brought something a bit stronger.”

 

At those words, the students looked at me.

 

Their expressions showed relief rather than suspicion.

 

Yuhan Seong slowly raised his sword.

 

“Main force forward. Don’t lose sight.”

 

Then the darkness split and the monster’s long shadow revealed itself.

 

It was the mid-final boss that had been making human crying sounds.

 

I pressed my lips tightly together.

 

‘This is where it really begins.’

 

The monster’s body was elongated and torn as if mimicking human form.

 

Its limbs were abnormally thin and long, and its feet floated as if barely touching the ground.

 

Only the area around its heart was strangely swollen, and crying continuously leaked from that part.

 

The entire passage shook as if resonating with that crying.

 

Yuhan Seong stepped forward first.

 

Blue mana rose thinly at the tip of his sword.

 

He spoke briefly.

 

“It’s a pattern-modified type. Erase the heart first.”

 

Hyun I-seo immediately prepared his magic skill.

 

His pupils held a faint light.

 

Since entering the final dungeon, he had been handling his abilities more and more naturally.

 

There was no trace of the wavering he had originally shown in this section.

 

The monster suddenly swung its arm.

 

Wind shot out like a projectile.

 

Yu Hee quickly lowered her body and Lee Hae-sol read the cracks in the floor and stepped back.

 

I pressed against the wall and opened my bag.

 

“Hali, are you okay?”

 

Yu Hee asked briefly.

 

“Yeah. I’m watching.”

 

When combat started, my mind actually became calmer.

 

I just needed to focus on judging who would get hurt first and where the danger was.

 

The monster’s crying suddenly stopped and black energy shot from its heart.

 

Hyun I-seo’s face instantly hardened.

 

With his sharp combat senses, he felt that change first.

 

“That thing’s coming!”

 

Hyun I-seo stretched out his hand.

 

The monster’s black wave rolled in like a tide.

 

Yuhan Seong immediately twisted his body to evade and Yu Hee shouted sharply.

 

“Vision’s getting shaken. Wait just a moment!”

 

I immediately pulled out a small bottle from my bag.

 

It was a recovery potion with silver powder settled at the bottom.

 

I lightly shook the bottle and opened the cap with my finger.

 

The fragrance spread like an explosion.

 

The students’ movements began to stabilize again.

 

Their breathing became steady and the trembling in their fingertips subsided.

 

Yu Hee opened her eyes wide and said.

 

“With this level of fragrance… Hali, this isn’t for testing, is it?”

 

I mumbled evasively.

 

“I was worried… so I made it at a higher level. The effect should be weak though.”

 

Lee Hae-sol let out a hollow laugh.

 

“This is weak and yet it’s this effective?”

 

Without time to answer, Yuhan Seong changed direction and aimed for the monster’s leg.

 

Then Hyun I-seo’s magic pierced toward the heart area.

 

The body twisted greatly and the monster screamed for the first time.

 

At that moment, Yuhan Seong shouted.

 

“Now!”

 

The students moved simultaneously.

 

Hyun I-seo froze the heart and Yu Hee stabbed precisely at the crack.

 

Lee Hae-sol maintained the ground’s balance, cutting off the monster’s momentum to prevent counterattack.

 

In an instant, the monster’s body became quiet.

 

The crying from its heart also stopped.

 

Black energy swept by once and the monster slowly collapsed.

 

The students caught their breath.

 

“It’s over.”

 

Yu Hee said with drooping shoulders.

 

Lee Hae-sol wiped sweat with the back of his hand.

 

“But… aren’t we kind of strong right now? That pattern just now was really weird.”

 

Hyun I-seo also tilted his head lightly.

 

“Right. This section didn’t usually end this easily before. We’re moving strangely stable.”

 

The students’ gazes simultaneously turned toward me.

 

I smiled.

 

“They said the finals themselves were heavily adjusted. I thought that was what influenced it.”

 

Only Yuhan Seong said nothing.

 

His gaze dropped to my bag as if harboring a small doubt.

 

It was a quiet but sharp look.

 

I gently closed my bag.

 

“Let’s move to the next section. This isn’t the end yet.”

 

The students nodded their heads.

 

A faint wind brushed past from the passage ahead.

 

The shadows from deep within the final dungeon drew closer toward us.

 

The monster’s corpse slowly crumbled into black dust.

 

Only a shallow hole remained on the passage floor where the heart had been.

 

From within it, light from the abyss was still seeping out bit by bit.

 

I instinctively took another step back.

 

Yuhan Seong shook off his sword and spoke.

 

“It’s strong for a mid-boss.”

 

Yu Hee straightened her back and smiled.

 

“But we won. This final exam seems more manageable than I thought?”

 

Lee Hae-sol immediately frowned.

 

“Don’t say that. Whenever someone says that, things always go bad afterward.”

 

Hyun I-seo glanced at us briefly, then looked down at the hole again.

 

“Here. The mana flow hasn’t stopped.”

 

His voice dropped low.

 

“There’s something more beneath this. It seems like a floor that wasn’t in the original blueprints.”

 

My chest felt a bit tight.

 

The scene of the final dungeon being twisted in structure due to the influence of the Annihilation Dungeon, rather than being a simple testing ground, overlapped in my mind.

 

I deliberately shrugged my shoulders as if it was no big deal.

 

“But we’re not going down there right now, right? According to the route, we weren’t supposed to go straight to the boss fight from here.”

 

Yuhan Seong looked at me once.

 

“You talk like you’ve seen it before.”

 

I smiled.

 

“It’s just a feeling. You can see what’s dangerous, right?”

 

At those words, Yu Hee let out a small laugh.

 

“It’s a bit strange hearing Hali say something like that.”

 

Lee Hae-sol tilted his head.

 

“She always says she’s F-rank baggage.”

 

I nodded sincerely.

 

“I am baggage. Just making it this far is more than enough.”

 

Inwardly, I thought, ‘That way they won’t keep bringing me along in the future.’

 

The students began organizing the surroundings again.

 

They marked the revised map and calculated the amount of potions and mana consumed.

 

I organized my bag beside them, checking the unbroken bottles again.

 

Then one communication stone glowed slightly.

 

A signal had come from the instructors’ management channel.

 

Yuhan Seong took out the communication stone and put it to his ear.

 

“Team 18. Mid-boss elimination complete showed up. Report current situation.”

 

It was a familiar instructor’s voice.

 

Yuhan Seong spoke calmly.

 

“Mid-boss elimination completed. All team members have no injuries beyond minor wounds. There were mental-type attack patterns, but we handled them successfully.”

 

After a brief silence, a voice mixed with low admiration was heard.

 

“You handled even mental-type attacks without trouble? Check Team 18’s condition once more.”

 

Yuhan Seong looked at each of us once.

 

Yu Hee raised her hand energetically.

 

“I’m in good condition. My stamina is fine too.”

 

Lee Hae-sol immediately followed up.

 

“No hand trembling or headaches either.”

 

Yuhan Seong spoke into the communication stone again.

 

“Reporting no abnormalities.”

 

From beyond the communication stone, someone could be heard muttering quietly.

 

“The final exam difficulty was definitely raised…”

 

The communication cut off.

 

I gripped my bag tighter.

 

A feeling that something was being discovered briefly crossed my mind.

 

Yuhan Seong turned toward the front again.

 

“This section is cleared, so let’s rest briefly and move to the next one. Hali, check the potions.”

 

“Okay. Just wait a moment.”

 

I spread a small cloth on the floor near the students.

 

I took out all the bottles from my bag and lined them up in a row.

 

Twelve basic stamina enhancement potions and eight basic recovery potions.

 

Three mental stabilization potions.

 

The one area-effect mental stabilization potion was used earlier and finished, and there were two emergency calming potions remaining.

 

They were the type I didn’t want to use unless I was in mortal pain.

 

Yu Hee picked up a bottle and smelled it.

 

“I say this every time, but this scent is really nice. You could sell it as perfume after the exam ends.”

 

“Would it sell? Everyone would probably avoid it if they knew it was made by an F-rank healer.”

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