Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer, You Know? - Chapter 58

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9. Final Dungeon (6)

 

Prejudices don’t change easily.

 

Even if I get a somewhat different evaluation now, if I fall short or make even a small mistake, no one would see an F-rank Healer as a Hunter.

 

Entering a dungeon would naturally only be interpreted as a burden.

 

For me, since I can’t bleed much in dungeons, that serves as a protective barrier.

 

Lee Hae-sol looked at the potion intently and asked.

 

“But Hali. With this level of effectiveness, shouldn’t there already be rumors? Other classes are using them bit by bit too.”

 

I shrugged my shoulders.

 

“Everyone’s busy with exam period. They’ll forget everything once it’s over.”

 

Meanwhile, Yuhan Seong quietly picked up a potion.

 

It was a basic stamina enhancement type.

 

He silently opened the bottle and took a sip.

 

“Doesn’t it taste bad?”

 

When I asked, he briefly shook his head.

 

“It’s fine.”

 

And he added in a very ordinary tone.

 

“It helps.”

 

Those words lingered strangely for a long time.

 

The darkness thinned and a new fork in the road appeared ahead in the passage.

 

The earth-colored floor became slightly darker and sharp scratch marks lined the walls.

 

The students naturally reorganized their formation.

 

I retightened my bag straps from behind.

 

Yuhan Seong said.

 

“This section has irregular terrain. Tell me right away if the footing feels strange.”

 

Lee Hae-sol reacted first.

 

“The mana flow here is strange. It wasn’t this structure during the Final Dungeon.”

 

Hyun I-seo looked around and said.

 

“The Abyss influence is seeping in more. It doesn’t seem like the originally planned route.”

 

Yu Hee scratched her forehead and looked at me.

 

“Hali. Do you… know anything else by any chance?”

 

I shook my head vigorously.

 

“No. Just a feeling that this dungeon’s atmosphere is a bit more unsettling than usual.”

 

In reality, I knew this section was the starting point of pattern collapse in the latter half of the finals.

 

From here, the number of students who fainted increased rapidly.

 

But I couldn’t voice those words.

 

Yuhan Seong took a few more steps forward.

 

Near his feet, the ground sank slightly.

 

Sharp air swept by in an instant.

 

He stopped and said.

 

“Terrain collapse pattern. Be careful.”

 

Yu Hee quickly moved next to Yuhan Seong.

 

“This can’t be Final exam difficulty. What are the teachers doing.”

 

Lee Hae-sol’s expression hardened.

 

“Shouldn’t someone report the situation to the Management Channel again?”

 

That was the moment.

 

The floor shook very slightly.

 

I gripped the potions in my bag deeper with my left hand.

 

The shaking gradually grew larger and the entire passage began to twist.

 

A strange resonance like the rhythm of the Abyss spread along the walls.

 

The students’ expressions instantly hardened with tension.

 

“Don’t scatter!”

 

Yuhan Seong shouted.

 

The five of us huddled together in a circle around one point.

 

The patterns on the walls twisted, shadows lengthened, and the ground ahead collapsed.

 

The sound of a massive object moving came from far below.

 

It was a scale that shouldn’t appear in the Final Dungeon.

 

I immediately said.

 

“This isn’t a monster that’s supposed to appear. Its attack pattern will be to collapse the terrain first then approach.”

 

Yu Hee heard my words and immediately grabbed Lee Hae-sol.

 

“Then it’ll burst out from above first.”

 

Hyun I-seo closed his eyes, opened them, and said.

 

“…Right. From above.”

 

At exactly that moment, a black form fell from the ceiling overhead.

 

It was fast and its cry was sharp.

 

The students simultaneously scattered and dodged.

 

I was pushed back while pulling out a potion from my bag and shouted.

 

“I-seo! Your mana flow is dropping!”

 

Hyun I-seo reflexively twisted his body and deflected the attack.

 

Yuhan Seong and Yu Hee simultaneously counterattacked with sword and magic.

 

The monster crashed into the wall and screamed.

 

Lee Hae-sol was already reading the pattern.

 

“Second one! It’ll bounce trajectory to the right immediately!”

 

The monster’s movement burst out just as Lee Hae-sol said.

 

Yuhan Seong cut precisely at that spot.

 

I threw a recovery potion toward the floor in that gap.

 

The bottle broke, light spread, and the students’ stamina quickly stabilized.

 

Yu Hee caught her breath and said.

 

“Hali. Is this really the basic type?”

 

I smiled.

 

“Must be your imagination.”

 

The monster thrashed in its final struggle then slowly crumbled away.

 

Black dust settled on the floor.

 

Hyun I-seo said quietly.

 

“…That just now. It really wasn’t Final exam difficulty.”

 

Yuhan Seong also nodded.

 

“It’s beyond expectations. Keep being careful.”

 

I glanced at the students and thought to myself.

 

‘At this level… everyone’s holding up well though.’

 

And somehow a slightly unsettling thought also briefly crossed my mind – whether they were enduring more because of me.

 

The air in the passage grew increasingly heavy.

 

The cold air rising from the floor climbed up through my soles to my calves.

 

I carefully moved my feet while checking my bag zipper once more.

 

Whether any bottles were broken.

 

Whether there were enough mental stabilization potions.

 

Yuhan Seong surveyed ahead first.

 

“From here, the difficulty seriously ramps up. Everyone prepare yourselves.”

 

Yu Hee said.

 

“It seems like it’s already ramped up plenty. What was that thing earlier, really.”

 

Lee Hae-sol tapped the surrounding walls and whispered.

 

“The terrain is also much more twisted than originally. It feels like the stage right before the hallucination layer.”

 

Hyun I-seo slowly inhaled as if concentrating his senses.

 

“It’s not hallucination yet. But the mana density is deep, so we might get caught soon.”

 

I calculated the timing in my mind.

 

In the original work, about one team would have been eliminated first by now, and the aftermath would have made the latter half more dangerous.

 

But now, no news of emergency dropouts was heard from the teacher channel.

 

Perhaps thanks to distributing potions overall, the other classes seemed to be holding up better than expected.

 

The passage began to widen before our eyes.

 

It was a space that looked like a small plaza.

 

A silence settled without a single sound.

 

Yuhan Seong raised his hand to stop us.

 

“Let’s check first before entering. I-seo.”

 

Hyun I-seo walked forward and touched the center of the space with his fingertips.

 

His eyes trembled very slightly.

 

“Here… there are two layers of mana flow beneath the floor. It’s a covered structure. The Final Dungeon wasn’t originally built with multiple layers like this.”

 

Yu Hee frowned.

 

“That means someone tampered with it.”

 

Lee Hae-sol immediately said.

 

“It’s the Abyss influence. Like the Blue Dragon last time.”

 

My heart sank for a moment at those words.

 

Was my advance preparation and minor adjustments stimulating the overall structure like this?

 

The moment that thought crossed my mind.

 

Thud.

 

Something resonated dully from beneath the floor.

 

The students simultaneously raised their heads.

 

Yuhan Seong said.

 

“It’s coming.”

 

Cracks began to form in the floor.

 

My heart beat rapidly.

 

It wasn’t collapsing, but rather something trying to rise from inside.

 

It didn’t seem to be a mental-type pattern.

 

Mobile type.

 

Close-range pressure.

 

This was the irregular boss of this section in the original work.

 

I opened my bag and gripped two recovery potions in my hands.

 

I needed to spread them in advance so the students would feel less pressure on their stamina.

 

The floor burst open.

 

Dust flew up and a massive arm emerged from within.

 

Blue scale-like things were attached to it.

 

It was similar to the remnants we saw in the Abyss of the Azure Dragon, but the form was completely different.

 

Yu Hee shouted.

 

“Right side!”

 

The second arm struck the corridor wall.

 

Lee Hae-sol quickly rolled his body.

 

Hyun I-seo cast magic after dodging.

 

Yuhan Seong charged toward the monster’s body from the center.

 

His movements were lighter than before.

 

The stamina enhancement seemed to still be working well.

 

I threw the potion toward the floor and made it burst.

 

Light spread and the air became clear.

 

Lee Hae-sol caught his breath and said.

 

“Hali. This one’s crazy again.”

 

I smiled slightly.

 

“It’s just the basic type.”

 

Inside, I knew that statement was becoming increasingly wrong.

 

The monster’s torso was completely revealed.

 

Its entire back was covered in scales, and while its movements were fast, its attack responses were simple.

 

Yuhan Seong and Yu Hee read the pattern simultaneously.

 

Hyun I-seo delivered magic at the crucial moment.

 

The monster’s cry tore through the air.

 

Its entire body shook as it crashed into the wall.

 

It convulsed greatly one last time and collapsed to the floor.

 

A brief silence flowed.

 

Yuhan Seong said.

 

“Clean up.”

 

The students immediately moved on to the next action.

 

I picked up my bag and slowly followed behind them, muttering to myself.

 

‘At this pace… we should be able to get through this time without casualties too.’

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