Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant

Chapter 132

It was the same afterward.

Suho continued cutting down those who were wounded beyond recovery, one by one.

“What are you doing?!”

“Wh-what are you doing right now?!”

“You’re out of your mind!!”

People began to scream at Suho’s sudden actions.

They were all holding bandages and ointments for wounds.

When the people they were treating died, they glared at Suho like madmen, protesting against him.

However, Suho remained unfazed, instead intensifying his killing intent as he spoke.

“Open your eyes and look closely.”

“What?”

“If you have eyes, open them and look carefully at what you should be doing here.”

“Wh-what do you mean…?”

“Look carefully!!”

Suho lifted his sword, pointing it across the battlefield.

At the tip of Suho’s sword were comrades, each wielding weapons against the beasts.

“What you need to do right now isn’t sitting around wrapping bandages leisurely. Healing and relief efforts can only happen if we survive. So stop pretending to be noble, quit wrapping those bandages, and pick up your swords and fight. Fight, survive to the end, and then treat your comrades and family.”

Suho said this and turned his gaze elsewhere.

Then, moving around the field, he pulled patients away from those holding bandages instead of swords.

If someone couldn’t come to their senses, he’d knock some sense into them.

As a result, people raged.

But as time passed, one by one, they began to come to their senses, picking up their weapons.

“Yeah, that’s right.”

“If we survive, then we can do the healing or whatever.”

“…I’m sorry.”

“I was careless.”

It was a dramatic change.

Simultaneously, the atmosphere on the battlefield began to shift rapidly.

Not long ago, the tide had slightly favored the beasts, but with the rejoining of those who had been dispersed for treatment, they began pushing the beasts back.

Of course, not everyone joined in.

“No!! No, I said no!!”

“That’s my brother! He’s my brother!!”

“Would you do the same if it were your family? Could you do that if it were your family?!”

There were those who refused.

They were people so deeply shocked that they couldn’t make rational judgments.

He left those people alone.

If he took patients from such people, they would likely turn against him.

Suho made a calculated decision.

“Sacrifice? Sure, sacrifice is good. A healer’s virtue is also sacrifice, and Isabella always emphasized that. But what good is sacrifice in a situation where you can’t save anything?”

Sacrifice should be made when it can protect what needs to be protected.

That’s why Suho wielded his sword.

Though it might seem ruthless, he cut down the wounded.

A healer’s ultimate purpose is to save as many people as possible.

So he made his choice.

For the best possible outcome.

After finishing with the patients, Suho turned his blade toward the beasts and fought relentlessly.

He cut down the beasts, cut down those who held back their allies, and cut down everything he deemed an enemy.

In all of this, Suho performed no healing.

He saw bandages, he saw ointments, but he picked up another spear to throw and swung his sword one more time instead.

In doing so, he saved his comrades and protected the person next to him.

And finally, when all the beasts on the battlefield were dead.

“Did… did we win?”

“We actually won…?”

“We… won…!”

“Yes! We won!”

“We wonnn!!”

“Wooooooo!!”

People began to cheer.

All the beasts were dead, and the battle was over.

But their joy was short-lived, and instead of reveling in victory, people hurried to treat the wounded.

Only then did Suho lay down his sword and pick up the bandages and ointments.

“My hand! My hand!”

“Aaargh!”

“Painkillers! Someone get painkillers!”

The aftermath of the battle wasn’t exactly a happy ending.

Those who survived began treating their wounds and repairing the devastated land to live for another day.

To an outsider, it might not seem like they had recovered the same happiness they once had.

But.

“…Thank you.”

“Thanks to you, I was able to protect my younger sister.”

“I’m sorry for earlier.”

Surprisingly, people came to Suho one by one to express their gratitude.

All were people who had taken a blow from Suho and been brought to their senses.

In response, Suho gave a light smile and continued his treatment.

Yes.

Here, it might seem like the happiness from before the disaster of the beasts was missing.

But even so, a new hope was dawning for them.

“It’s a relief… such a relief…”

“Sniff… thank you for surviving… thank you so much…”

“Mom…”

Suho silently tended to them.

At the same time, he shared in their emotions of joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness.

Thus, Suho felt no regret about his choice.

No, he thought it was the right decision.

He continued his treatment activities for some time after.

[ The trial is ending. ]

[ The system has completed its evaluation of you. ]

[ After closely observing you, the system has decided to open a suitable path for you. ]

A sudden system notification appeared.

Simultaneously, Suho’s vision darkened again, and when it cleared, he found himself back in the underground training room at his home.

“It’s over.”

He saw his strong, healthy limbs instead of the frail ones from before.

He had truly returned.

Then.

[ Class information has changed. ]

[ A new name has been assigned to you. ]

[ You have become a Crusader. ]

[ Congratulations! You are the first Crusader. ]

[ In recognition of your great achievement, the system awards you with 10 bonus stats. ]

[ An additional 5 bonus stats have been awarded for successfully completing the class quest. ]

[ You have acquired Blessing (F). ]

The system messages poured in.

The system’s observation was complete.

The class quest had been cleared, and Suho was now able to transfer from healer to a new class called ‘Crusader.’

Suho, looking at the newly changed class name, laughed internally.

“It worked. By doing things this way, I really did become a Crusader.”

Crusader.

It was an extremely rare class that only a select few healers could obtain.

Normally, healers would follow the cleric path or, depending on the weapon they wielded, advance to paladin or monk. But on very rare occasions, the Crusader path would open.

That’s why Suho aimed to become a Crusader.

No, he’d been aiming for it from the start.

“There’s no better route for a healer to take than the Crusader path.”

A cleric can acquire the most powerful healing skills in the healer’s tech tree, but they’re specialized exclusively in healing and support, with no combat ability, so they’re unable to act alone.

Paladins and monks are similar.

While they are specialized in combat, their healing abilities are only a fraction of a cleric’s.

But the Crusader was different.

In combat, healing, and support, the Crusader showed abilities above average in every area a healer could possess.

However, despite such an advantageous tech tree, humanity had barely been able to reap the benefits of the Crusader class.

This was because the Crusader path had been discovered around the mid-to-late stages of the Great Upheaval.

“Even Isabella regretted it. She said if she’d known about the Crusader path earlier, she would have chosen it instead of becoming a cleric.”

Suho recalled the first man to become a Crusader.

He was a healer who had worked as a PMC mercenary. Although he was a healer, he enjoyed fighting on the battlefield like Suho and accidentally discovered the Crusader path.

Thus, he earned the nickname, ‘First Crusader.’

Suho knew much about him.

Beyond the man’s fame abroad, Suho had been interested in the Crusader class itself.

“And that curiosity became the foundation for me now.”

Thanks to this, Suho could now become the ‘First Crusader.’

After investing all 15 bonus stats he received into mana, Suho updated his status window.

[Ahn Suho]

– Lv: 100

– Class: Crusader

– Traits▲: ＜New Blood＞＜Heracles Candidate＞

– Strength (O): 26

– Stamina (O): 2

– Mana (R): 85

– Perception (R): 62

– Bonus Stats: 0

The class name changed, and the triangle indicator beside it disappeared.

With the bonus stats generously awarded for being the first to take the Crusader path, his mana stat now reached 85.

Although he’d only just reached the level of a one-star player, his growth was already dazzling compared to his past life.

Suho then checked the information on the new skill he’d acquired.

[Blessing]

– Grade: F

# Crusader-exclusive skill

# Increases all stats by 10% while consuming mana.

A simple description.

But just being an exclusive skill for the Crusader explained its worth.

“If I had become a cleric, I would’ve gotten a stronger healing skill.”

But it was fine.

He didn’t regret the skills he hadn’t obtained.

After all, Suho had thoroughly prepared a backup plan for any skills he could only obtain on the cleric path.

“The class quest is complete… Next up is the trait quest?”

Suho reopened his status window and tapped the triangle icon beside his trait.

[The trait quest is activating.]

[This is a one-of-a-kind trait.]

[The exclusive quest is activating.]

[Evolving Blood]

– Difficulty: S

# Unlock the third authority of Dragon Blood.

# Unlock the second authority of Vampire Blood.

The quest window appeared.

Looking at the quest details, Suho narrowed his eyes.

“Hmm…”

The quest itself wasn’t particularly unique.

There were occasionally trait quests that required unlocking skill options as a condition.

However, most of those were utility-type… particularly in crafting.

“Is it because it’s a unique trait?”

Given the current situation, that seemed to be the case.

It was all new, with New Blood and Dragon Blood, so there wasn’t much to go on.

Hence, the difficulty was S.

“But if I remember correctly, both Dragon Blood and Vampire Blood had unknown conditions for unlocking, if I’m not mistaken…”

He checked the information for the Dragon Blood skill.

[Dragon Blood]

– Grade: S+

# Blood of a mighty dragon.

# Even if one wasn’t born a dragon, they can experience the powers of a dragon depending on their effort.

# Lv.1 – Dragon’s Blood: Intimidation (S), Dragon’s Will (S).

# Lv.2 – Dragon Armor: Dragon Endurance (S), Dragon Skin (S).

# Lv.3 – [ ??? ]

: Locked.

└ Unlock Conditions:

① Reach Level 100.

② Defeat a True Dragon.

# Lv.4……

Suho’s eyes widened as he read the details of Dragon Blood.

The conditions to unlock the level 3 authority, which had previously been hidden, were now revealed.

“Does this mean Vampire Blood, too?”

Checking the information on Vampire Blood, he found that it, like Dragon Blood, now had its unlock conditions displayed.

Suho smiled after confirming both pieces of information.

“This changes everything.”

With a smirk, Suho took out his phone and called Choi Yoon.