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Chapter 53 – Master of Use, Hua Tuo
People are shocked by the Four Fiends’ appearance.
It’s hard to believe that Korea’s four major villains are actually helping them.
As for the Four Fiends themselves…
“Please give your commands.”
They were waiting for my command.
“What is this situation?”
Everyone’s gaze was fixed on me.
It was as if everything depended on my words.
I racked my brain, wondering what command to issue.
But at that moment, only one thing was urgent:
Saving the patients.
I bowed my head to the Four Fiends and said,
“Please help me save the patients.”
I needed their help.
The moment I finished speaking, they nodded.
Simultaneously…
Pafat!
The hunt began.
“So those are S-rank villains!”
“Even dragons can’t stand a chance!”
“They’re hunted down the moment they emerge from the gate, right?”
“This is it—We’re saved!”
It was truly awe-inspiring.
Four S-rank villains.
They were like gods among men.
They began slaughtering dragons like madmen, proving it.
“Then let’s finish what we started. Guh! Cough! Cough.”
I coughed up blood while moving someone.
I guess I pushed myself a bit too hard.
As I went like that, blood trickled down slightly.
“Are you okay?”
“Are you alright?”
“Are you okay?”
The Four Fiends, who had been fighting up front, suddenly turned back to me.
I shook my head at their overprotectiveness.
“Don’t worry about me. Focus on what you’re doing.”
At my words, the crowd dispersed again.
I don’t know why everyone is acting like this toward me.
I carried the person I was holding into the sanctuary.
Then, everyone’s gaze turned to me.
“Hey! Who the hell are you? Why are they protecting you?”
Questions flew at me nonstop.
I scratched my head in confusion.
“I’m not entirely sure myself, but isn’t that beside the point right now?”
“No! We need answers! How do we know you’re not dangerous?”
“Right! Just look at how you command those villains. Aren’t you an SS-rank villain?”
“D-don’t come any closer!”
Unbelievable reactions.
Those are the same people they’re rejecting as S-rank villains now.
They fought hard to save us.
And now they’re talking like that!
And that wasn’t the end of it.
“I got help from those people, and now they’re treating me like a villain, too.”
My head was spinning from this absurd situation.
Then.
“What foolish nonsense is this, everyone?!”
The Pope’s thunderous shout echoed from afar.
“That person was the first to help the injured! A righteous person! How can you call someone like that a villain?”
“B-but Your Holiness, you don’t understand. Those Awakeners are villains!”
“Is that important now? The most important thing is to save the injured and close that gate. Yet, we’re dividing ourselves into factions. That is foolish!”
At the Pope’s words, everyone fell silent.
They were as if stabbed.
Those inside the sanctuary had all run away, leaving the injured behind.
But only Nureongi, Hyangdan, and I remained.
We were the ones who had brought the injured there.
“Hurry and help that person! Move the injured first!”
At those words, people began to look around nervously.
Then, they quietly moved aside.
I immediately bowed to the Pope and started moving the wounded.
When I arrived at the place where the wounded were gathered, I…
“This is serious.”
I saw a horrific scene.
“Save me! Please, someone save me!”
“It hurts! Please, cast Cure on me!”
“I—I feel like bugs are crawling all over my body!”
“Just kill me already!”
The poisoned people screamed.
But even that seemed unlikely to last long.
It was the poison of a Poison Dragon.
There was no way they could endure it.
“They’ll all die within an hour.”
That was my assessment.
The Awakeners might hold out a bit longer, though.
But the journalists were ordinary people.
They would inevitably die within an hour.
“Heal! Heal! Heal! Why isn’t the healing working?”
“Dammit! Is there really no healer with Cure?”
“Even after giving them the antidote, they’re not getting any better!”
“Neither healing nor the antidote is working?”
The healers despaired.
They seemed to feel their own powerlessness.
Even with Heal and antidotes.
They couldn’t save someone suffering right before their eyes.
“Young Master! What shall we do?”
“Well, of course we have to save them.”
I pulled the white robe from my inventory and draped it over my body.
“If it’s the Vitality Pill, it should work.”
I thought of when I treated Lapis, whom Yunseol brought last time. He had been poisoned by an extremely potent Awakener’s venom. Back then, it was the Vitality Pill that saved him. It was an effective antidote.
“Everyone, step aside!”
I pushed the healers blocking my path aside.
They protested.
“Who do you think you are?”
“Can’t you see I’m saving a life? Get out of the way now!”
“Judging by your appearance, you’re not a healer. What could you possibly do?”
“I said don’t overstep your bounds!”
The healers were razor-sharp.
Given the situation, it was only natural.
But I didn’t back down.
“I have a way to treat him!”
“A treatment method?”
“Administer this antidote!”
The moment I said that,
“What the hell are you talking about?”
The healers retorted, as if it were utter nonsense.
It was strange to trust some weirdo who suddenly appeared.
But there was no time to doubt others now!
“Every second counts.”
People were dying in real time!
Seeing the healers reject others in that situation made me furious.
I shouted at the healers in an agitated voice.
“Are you planning to kill all these patients?”
The healers flinched at that moment.
They stared at me, wide-eyed. But there was no time to explain.
I commanded Hyangdan,
“Hyangdan, block those people from coming in.”
“Leave it to me!”
Hyangdan removed her invisibility.
Then, she leaped into the sky.
“Grow!”
In an instant, her carrot grew enormous!
She stood the carrot up like a fence and shouted,
“From now on, anyone who interferes with the divine doctor will be punished!”
The healers were startled by Hyangdan’s appearance.
Regardless, I began frantically rummaging through my inventory.
Because I was in such a hurry, items flew out as I grabbed them.
Troll-brand vegetables or Troll-brand regeneration herbs.
Each time something like that appeared, the healers gasped in surprise.
“Th-that can’t be Troll-brand vegetables, right?”
“That’s a Troll-brand regeneration herb!”
“How could that guy have Hua Tuo’s crops?”
They were so shocked.
I finally found it.
A way to save these patients!
[Medicine Info]▶Name: Vitality Pill▶Effect 1: When consumed, it detoxifies poisons absorbed by the body.▶Effect 2: It possesses a slight regenerative effect.
I held the Vitality Pill in my hand and asked Nureongi,
“Nureongi! Water!”
“Understood!”
Nureongi swiftly pulled out the Infinite Water Sprinkler.
I filled a container with water and immediately approached the patient. Then…
Swoosh!
I pushed the pill into the patient’s mouth.
Then, I used the water that the healer brought to help the patient swallow the medicine.
At that moment!
[The Master of Yakseon's Herb Garden effect activates.][The vitality pill's effect increases by 200%.][The Poison Dragon's venom is completely neutralized.]
A hopeful message appeared.
“Yes!”
I clenched my fist and cheered.
Simultaneously, the patient opened his eyes.
He looked around in surprise.
“Wh-what in the world just happened?”
Seeing the patient get up perfectly fine stunned the healers.
“Even though our healing didn’t work at all?”
“He didn’t even use Cure. How is that possible?”
“Wait, hold on! Didn’t the Pope just say he took medicine and got better?”
“Then could that man be Hua Tuo?”
The healers murmured among themselves.
It seemed they had figured out that I was Hua Tuo.
Their blank stares were infuriating.
So I shouted at them.
“From now on, I’ll distribute the Vitality Pill. Feed it to the patients!”
At that moment.
“M-move immediately!”
It’s the only way to save people!”
“The Pope was telling the truth! Administer the medicine now!”
“I apologize for doubting you, Hua Tuo!”
Finally, the healers began functioning properly.
* * *
Na Jeonghyeok is an A-rank healer from the Healer Association.
He was a healer with a severe sense of superiority.
Healers were considered the nobility among Awakeners.
Because of that, Na Jeonghyeok always thought he was special.
But now?
“Guhhh!”
He screamed in agony as he was poisoned. He had been poisoned by a Poison Dragon! Usually, a healer wouldn’t be affected at all.
Healers inherently possess poison resistance.
Moreover, an antidote would have neutralized the poison. But this time was different.
The antidote could not neutralize Poison Dragon venom.
Was it because this gate was SS-rank?
Antidotes were completely useless.
That included Na Jeonghyeok.
“S-someone, please save me!”
He instinctively sensed that he was about to die.
That this poison was insurmountable.
He believed that, unless one possessed the Cure skill, it was impossible to neutralize. He felt the terror of death.
“Damn it! Wh-why me…?!
Just as he was despairing inwardly.
“Open your mouth!”
A voice rang in the ears of the dying Na Jeonghyeok.
Na Jeonghyeok instinctively opened his mouth at that voice.
At that moment—
Swoosh!
A large pill entered his mouth.
Then, the owner of the voice forcibly moved Na Jeonghyeok’s jaw.
And that wasn’t all.
“Swallow it!”
Water was poured in, forcing the pill down his throat.
“Wh-what is this?”
His bewilderment was brief.
A startling message appeared before Na Jeonghyeok’s eyes:
[The Vitality Pill has completely neutralized the Poison Dragon's venom.]
A message confirming that the poison had been neutralized!
And that wasn’t all.
The agonizing pain he had been experiencing just moments ago vanished completely.
Na Jeonghyeok’s eyes widened at this unbelievable reality.
Then…
“Y-you are—”
A familiar figure stood before Na Jeonghyeok.
It was the same Korean medicine doctor who had sat beside him during the Pope’s speech.
The masked doctor was sitting there, clad in a white coat.
“Are you all right?”
“I’m… I’m fine!”
Na Jeonghyeok found himself using polite language without realizing it.
And that wasn’t all.
The relief of being alive brought tears to his eyes.
“Thank you… thank you so much for saving me!”
“I only did what was necessary. I should move on to the next patient now.”
The doctor swiftly moved on.
As he watched the doctor’s retreating back, Na Jeonghyeok thought,
“I wasn’t special after all.”
He had always been mistaken.
He thought he was special, chosen.
But now, he finally understood.
The kind of special person the world talks about—that was…
“That doctor? He’s like Hua Tuo.”
His sole purpose in life was to save people, and the sight of him doing so was more beautiful than anyone else’s.
Na Jeonghyeok slowly began to change his mindset.
“Let’s stop this childish business of ranking people.”
Clenching his fist, he stood up.
He shouted loudly.
“Does anyone here need the help of an A-rank healer?”
Thus, centered around Hua Tuo, change slowly began to take hold.
* * *
When the first SS-rank gate opened, everyone sensed death.
With poison-spewing dragons raining down from the sky, who could blame them?
“But the situation has changed.”
I looked around.
The Four Fiends were hunting the poison dragons pouring from the gate.
Healers were moving, not for self-preservation, but for each other.
Even the Pope had spread a sanctuary to protect everyone.
Everyone became one, and the gears began to shift. And that wasn’t all.
“Let’s join the fight, too!”
“I’m an A-ranked Awakener, too, you know!”
“Explosion!”
“Final attack!”
It wasn’t just the Four Fiends who started fighting; other Awakeners did too.
They weren’t as skilled as the Four Fiends, but they steadily reduced the dragons’ numbers.
Hyangdan wasn’t just standing by either.
“Giant carrot!”
She started beating the dragons senseless with a giant carrot.
Seeing this, I couldn’t help but laugh bitterly.
“Even a dragon can’t stand up to a max-level rabbit, huh.”
Seeing everything go so smoothly, hope began to emerge.
“Young Master! At this rate, we can all survive!”
“Right! So let’s just hold on a little longer!”
Nureongi and I trembled at the realization that we could survive.
But that feeling was short-lived.
An anomaly began to occur at the Gate.
[A certain number of poison dragons have been hunted down.][The Gate's Master is beginning to move.][The gate's rift is growing larger.]
Along with that message, the gate grew enormous! Simultaneously…
Chill!
An intense aura was released from beyond the gate.
Then, a voice echoed from beyond the gate.
“Is this the dimension called Earth?”
Along with the voice, a colossal dragon appeared.
It had green eyes, violet scales, and a massive body.
A message appeared before our eyes:
[Boss Monster — Poison Dragon, Noxion, appears.]
It seems like this is just the beginning.
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