The Max Level Hero Has Returned!
chapter-657

Surgery performed without legal procedure was unlawful. This was something Hyun-Ah knew better than anyone else.

"Regarding saving lives, the law exists to prevent innocent deaths," Davey said.

Her eyes had a look that told of how she seemed to be thinking a lot, and this gave off the impression that she was trying to come up with an idea why Davey said it to her.

"But if those protected by the law are not saved, then that law is meaningless."

"Usually, it's not like that. Do you know the cure?" she asked.

"No. I must find it now," Davey replied. All he actually knew was that the disease had an origin, although it was too small and hard to distinguish.

But being the disciple of a heroine unparalleled in medicine, turning the impossible into possible was Davey's task.

"Miss, what in the world..." Doctor Han showed a puzzled look as Hyun-Ah decided to discharge Yeon-Hee.

It was a choice she made after believing in what Davey said.

"Doctor Han, do you trust me?"

Hyun-Ah's question seemed to make Doctor Han's gaze waver.

"Miss..."

"Please tell me. How long does my sister have if we continue as we are?" she asked.

"Miss Yeon-Hee refuses specialized antibiotic treatment. So at most, she has three months," he replied.

Tears dropped from Hyun-Ah's eyes, cascading gently down her cheeks as she said, "That's my sister's decision. But I will save her."

"But Miss, how would you do that?”

"I may never be a doctor again... But there's one way. I have to perform the surgery myself," she declared, causing Doctor Han to clench his teeth.

Dying from medical accidents was common, but if Hyun-Ah, who barely had any medical qualifications, were to perform surgery, it would be no surprise if she were to face grave consequences.

"Miss..."

"Doctor Han... I need your help. Please..."

Doctor Han remained quiet for a few seconds as he contemplated the difficult situation. Eventually, he reached a conclusion and said, "You'll need a space for the surgery."

"Do you trust me?"

"You always knew how to discern recklessness. Even if you were desperate, you would not just impulsively decide to do surgery," he reassured. He then went on, "I'll announce that I performed the surgery," ensuring that Hyun-Ah would not suffer consequences should anything go wrong.

"But..."

"It's okay. If the law can't protect life, then it's useless," Doctor Han said with a hearty laugh.

This brought more tears to Hyu-Ah’s eyes, but this time, it was of gratitude and apology for Doctor Han.

And so, with Doctor Han’s help, the preparations for the surgery were taken care of.

Hyun-Ah clutched the surgical gloves tightly in her hand, appearing to be nervous. She then turned to look at Davey.

"Are you nervous?"

"Of course I am. I have done practice, but it’s my first time actually performing surgery on a person," she confessed.

Davey simply closed his eyes and said, "Don't worry. The real treatment will be done by me."

After saying so, Davey reached out to her, and simultaneously, his spirit melded with hers. What he was doing was possession—a method of the ghosts.

‘Haphazardly possessing might damage the spirit, but I am no mere ghost. Don't compare me to the likes of them.’

"It seems like even a Grim Reaper knows how to perform a surgery these days.”

"Do you trust me?"

"To be honest, I'm really nervous."

“Then why do you trust me?”

"I'll tell you later," she answered before leaving her body under Davey's control.

Shh…

And as Davey’s spirit seamlessly merged into her, he felt his vision go lower due to her height. The surgical gloves, however, remained well in sight.

"Don’t worry. I’ll make sure you live."

With those words, Davey, now wearing a mask and completely ready, entered the operating room, where his sister, donning a surgical gown, lay on the operating table. He silently approached her, and he then placed a hand on her cheek, feeling the touch of his sister he had not felt in so long. Meeting his older and younger sisters like this was beyond expectation.

Looking at her, whose eyes remained close in sleep, Davey murmured, "I will definitely save you."

Davey, as a disciple of the Goddess of Medicine, would not put his master’s name on the line. With his name, spirit, and hands, he would assume full responsibility. He could not lose another precious person to this damned disease that had once killed him.

"Miss, are you really going to perform the surgery? What exactly are you planning to do?"

"Trust me. It won’t fail," Davey said confidently.

And this response made Doctor Han feel like something was off.

"You're not Miss Hyun-Ah... Who are you?"

"Does that matter?"

Though he had not been around long enough to notice anything amiss, Doctor Han just instinctively felt that something about Hyun-Ah had become different.

"..."

"Did you bring what I asked for?"

"Please tell me who you are."

"Hua Tuo."

Doctor Han was shocked.

"Don't worry. I learned from someone far greater."

Davey's eyes sparkled as he lifted a shining silver needle.

Failure was not an option. Even if the surgery only had a ten percent chance of success, it had to succeed.

* * *

Doctor Han was speechless as he witnessed the bizarre yet astonishing scene unfold in the operating room. The miraculous dexterity, effortlessly combining both traditional and modern medicine, was frankly eerie, even to him, who was an undoubtedly exceptional doctor.

Even if he trusted the lady, surgeries remained a matter of life and death. And this particular surgery pertained to the life of Hyun-Ah’s dearly beloved sister. If she had undertaken such a risky endeavor out of sheer recklessness, he would’ve had the option to convince her to face reality for what it was.

However, before he knew it, he was not stopping Hyun-Ah's surgery but was mindlessly providing assistance as she wished.

And at that moment, the surgery unfolding in the operating room negated all the medical knowledge he had accumulated over decades.

"Grab this," Hyun-Ah firmly said as she held a metal tool and inserted it without hesitation into a spot where a slight misstep would have immediately caused severe bleeding.

Though, the vital signs astonishingly remained stable, as if either the machine had malfunctioned or Doctor Han was just dreaming. No matter how skilled, no doctor can perform surgery based solely on sensation.

But then, Davey, who was in Hyun-Ah’s body, was accurately determining his position by touching the body parts with his hand several times.

"Pus will come out. Please, just drain it."

After handing over a bowl to Doctor Han, Hyun-Ah once again picked up a needle and started to insert it into the various parts of Miss Yeon-Hee's body. Then, with a scalpel in hand, she continued the surgery on Yeon-Hee's body by making an incision as if she were all too familiar with the act itself.

Meanwhile, Doctor Han simply remained silent in front of the dazzling movements that made one's eyes swim.

"Suction! What are you doing?!"

At Hyun-Ah's outburst of anger, Doctor Han stood dumbfounded for a split second before he jolted back to action, saying, "I-I'm sorry, Doctor."

At that moment, who she was did not matter to Doctor Han. Perhaps now he could find and solve the very tiny tumor that had taken root inside Miss Yeon-Hee's body.

She operated by simply sensing the invisible spots, flipping the stomach slightly, and avoiding the dangerous organs with lightning speed. Then, as though it had been waiting to come out, pus started to gush into the tube she had inserted. The needles, which she had placed earlier, also started to turn black, as if they were infected with poison.

"Give a signal and pull them out one by one. Start with the first needle near the chest."

At the firm instruction, Doctor Han complied even though he was bewildered by the bizarre medical practice that rejected half of the medical knowledge he knew.

Woosh!

An unimaginable amount of pus continued to escape through the tube, and a terrible smell wafted in the operating room.

As he watched Hyun-Ah, who was sweating profusely, Doctor Han once again instinctively felt the sensation he had when he first entered the surgery room.

"It's done," Hyun-Ah mumbled with a sense of certainty, and her eyes grew wide.

The complexity of the surgery started increasing, and Doctor Han simply kept looking at the scene before him, as if he was under a spell.

* * *

In the tranquil and deserted columbarium, something black slowly began to rise, and what emerged in the dark space that was devoid of any light was a young man. However, the young man's body was twisted and discolored, as if bruised everywhere.

"I'll kill," he murmured creepily, just as an eerie energy began to flow from his entire body.

Originally, he, as an enhancement of a ghost, could not and should not have existed. Since the influence of a ghost on humans was limited to simple possessions or confusion.

It was not a problem because it was on the brink of reaching transcendental influence, or the power acting on reality. However, the power emanating from the young man now was enough to kill a person. And this man with eerily shining red pupils was no other than Go Jin-Seok, who had become a ghost.

Shh…

Beside him, there was a lump of flesh with unrecognized eyes that were squirming.

[Go... Unleash your anger to your heart's content. For the demise of our creator who betrayed us—Neltarid. Go and cause a fracture in the rules of this world.]

"I will kill... I will kill..."

At Go Jin-Seok's creepy murmur, the guards of the place began to fall one by one. Then, Go Jin-Seok's ghost turned into a black mist and seeped into the only urn stored in the columbarium.

[Grow your power through that urn. Tear apart those who killed you. Kill all those who ignored you. And most importantly, wreck this world.]

The whispering voice that was brimming with hatred urged.

* * *

"Ugh!!"

Fractures began to form, and these fractures that appeared on Earth affected Neltarid directly. The Valkyrie, which was receiving Neltarid’s blessing, was also affected. Even Kain was not safe from the fractures’ influence.

He collapsed and even struggled to open his eyes as he cried out in pain, saying, "Ah... no... Atlantis… Atlantis is…"

It was supposedly unknown to Davey, but it could not be unknown to Kain.

Atlantis was one of Neltarid's most faithful servants, and it was called his force due to its immense power. At present, it was sealed inside Alf Online under the name of the twelve Malicious Spirits. But it seemed like one of them had somehow escaped from the prison, and it was clear what it was aiming for—the Earth's rules that could shake Neltarid, and Davey, whom Neltarid was interested in.

An entity intent on burning its spirit and destroying the world now had the power to do so. And an unmanageable crisis would then be inevitable if it was not prevented immediately. While Kain hoped that the entity would not be able to find and directly move to Davey quickly, he could not be entirely optimistic.

With this concern in mind, he rushed to seek Perserque. Kain then found her quietly reading a book in Davey's room.

“Lady Perserque.”

"What is going on?"

She must have been waiting for Davey here.

With an urgent look, Kain replied, "We need to go to Earth now."

"Did something happen?”

"If we don’t act right now, it'll be the end of everything."

Perserque fell silent for a moment before she eventually answered, "There's nothing I can do there."

"No. The only one who can sense and find the anomaly on Earth... is you."

What he meant was that he would intentionally expose Perserque to danger. While Kain was well aware that Davey would not have stood for it if he knew, Kain now needed all means to protect Davey, who was currently in a spirit state.

"Can you do it?"

"Did you think I would spare my life in matters related to Davey?" She asked with a faint smile.