After Regressing, I Gained the Power of the Demonic Dragon - Chapter 50

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Episode 50
Screee!
An arrow wrapped in blue wind cut across the stone bridge.
Sang Hyuk raised his left arm without breaking stride.
Clang!
The arrowhead struck the Black Scales head-on.
The point shattered without piercing through.
But the wind carried within the arrow erupted outward nonetheless.
Boom!
Sang Hyuk’s body was driven backward.
His feet scraped the stone floor in a long skid, sliding all the way back to his starting point.
Behind his heels, a sheer drop yawned open.
Sang Hyuk braced his right foot hard, halting his momentum.
His left arm, which had taken the arrow, bore neither pain nor numbness.
The impact of the arrow itself had dispersed across the entire scale.
The problem was the wind erupting from the arrow.
Even his entire body, not just both arms, couldn’t absorb that pushing force.
Monsoon nocked another arrow across the way.
“Blocking won’t help.”
Monsoon drew his bowstring taut.
“One more push here and you’re done.”
Reactions flooded the spectator channel.
[Korea/Lv.31] RecordRefresh: He blocked the first one, but got shoved all the way back to the starting point. That wind impact is no joke?
[Korea/Lv.38] ToiletBeforeBossDoor: That’s why Monsoon’s undefeated in that battlefield. One slip on that bridge and you’re out.
[China/Lv.68] BeijingBladesman: He stopped the arrow with the Black Scales. But if he can’t find a way through that wind, he’ll never reach Monsoon.
Sang Hyuk lowered his left arm and watched Monsoon’s arrow.
‘Dragon Eye.’
In his blood-red irises, the arrow’s structure became crystalline clear.
Around the arrowhead, compressed wind spiraled in a helix.
The moment the point struck something, that wind would rupture all at once, driving its target backward.
He couldn’t block the arrow.
He had to annihilate it before the wind released.
Thump!
The heart of the Apocalypse Dragon surged powerfully.
Sang Hyuk drew the mana rising from his heart up through both arms.
Crack-crack!
Black Scales erupted rapidly from his hands to his shoulders.
Sang Hyuk kicked off the stone bridge again.
Burst!
Monsoon’s bowstring sang in rapid succession.
Twang! Twang! Twang!
Three arrows flew at Sang Hyuk from different heights.
A simultaneous volley aimed at his chest, ribs, and both legs.
Sang Hyuk didn’t dodge.
The moment the three arrows entered Annihilation’s effective range, Sang Hyuk swept his right hand in a half-circle arc.
‘Just the arrow and the compressed wind.’
‘Annihilation.’
Shriiiiek!
Black energy bloomed from his fingertips, sweeping across the space before him.
The arrows transformed into black sand and scattered; the wind that had wrapped around the points lost its force and vanished.
Not a single scratch marred the stone bridge below.
Monsoon’s eyes widened.
“What?”
Sang Hyuk was already charging through the space where the arrows had been.
[Korea/Lv.33] NewbieGuard: Kyaa!! All three arrows just disappeared!
[Korea/Lv.36] RuleWatcherEverySpring: The floor’s fine. He just erased the incoming arrows.
[Korea/Lv.35] NightYokanSpringYokan: Wasn’t that black energy supposed to require contact to work? Now it just erases things if they get close?
Monsoon immediately shifted his aim.
This time he targeted the stone bridge ahead, not Sang Hyuk himself.
Twang! Twang!
Two arrows embedded themselves in succession along Sang Hyuk’s path forward.
Crash! Crash!
Compressed wind exploded outward, and two sections of the stone bridge collapsed entirely.
Sang Hyuk’s forward path severed again and again.
Monsoon created a wind vortex beneath his feet and slid backward.
Maintaining distance, he drew his bowstring taut once more.
“So where will you come from now?”
Sang Hyuk did not answer.
In Sang Hyuk’s eyes, the trajectory of the arrows and the sequence of each stone panel’s collapse remained perfectly clear.
The moment Sang Hyuk’s foot reached the platform’s edge, he pushed off with all his strength.
Snap!
Sang Hyuk’s body cut across the void.
Monsoon immediately released an arrow toward where Sang Hyuk would land.
Crash!
The stone panel struck by the arrow tilted downward.
Sang Hyuk planted his feet hard against the sinking panel and launched himself upward again.
Rumble-rumble-rumble!
By the time the stone panel had fallen below the clouds, Sang Hyuk had already cleared both collapsed sections.
The distance between them had closed by nearly half.
Now only one final span—the one that had been broken from the start—remained between them.
The composure drained from Monsoon’s expression.
He had believed that even if his arrows missed, destroying the bridge would prevent approach.
But Sang Hyuk had turned even the collapsing panels into springboards.
Monsoon had nowhere left to retreat.
He planted his feet firmly at the bridge’s end and drew his bowstring all the way back to his ear.
Whirrrrr!
The wind sweeping across the bridge gathered into a single arrow.
The blue wind wreathing the arrowhead swelled to the thickness of a human torso.
Sang Hyuk launched himself toward the final broken span.
The instant his feet left the ground, Monsoon’s fingers released the bowstring.
Crash-crash-crash-crash-crash-crash-crash-crash———!!!
The blue arrow tore through every current of wind upon the bridge as it flew.
Suspended in midair, Sang Hyuk could not dodge left or right.
[Korea/Lv.38] BeforeBossRoomBathroom: There’s no dodging that!
[China/Lv.68] Beijing Swordmaster: This was the moment Monsoon was aiming for.
Sang Hyuk never took his eyes from the approaching arrow.
Remaining distance: ten meters.
The first line of the Black Spell Record unfolded in his mind’s eye, shining black.
‘Decay.’
Crack!
A black stigma etched itself across the wind coiling around the arrowhead.
The fiercely spiraling wind visibly slowed.
The wind that had been thick as a human torso thinned to nearly half its width in an instant.
As the wind’s force diminished, the arrow’s speed dropped sharply.
Sang Hyuk twisted his body in midair and extended his right hand.
‘Annihilation.’
Screech!
As the arrow closed to within a meter of Sang Hyuk’s fingertips, it transformed into black sand and scattered.
The weakened wind merely rustled Sang Hyuk’s sleeves once before dissipating.
Thud!
Sang Hyuk landed on the far side of the broken bridge.
The distance between him and Monsoon was now merely nine meters.
As the arrow vanished, the black stigma inscribed upon the wind extinguished as well.
Sang Hyuk immediately summoned the first line of the Black Spell Record again.
‘Decay.’
Crack!
This time, a black stigma etched itself upon Monsoon’s chest.
“Ugh!”
The moment the stigma appeared, Monsoon’s movements as he raised his bow became noticeably sluggish.
Monsoon was five levels higher than Sang Hyuk.
The Decay skill did land, but his strength and speed hadn’t diminished by half.
Still, the wind gathering beneath his feet and in his bowstring hand noticeably slowed.
Monsoon urgently released the wind beneath his feet.
Whoooosh!
But the wind, weakened by the Mark, swelled slower than usual.
That brief opening was enough.
Sang Hyuk kicked off the ground.
Bang!
In a single leap, Sang Hyuk closed the distance to Monsoon’s face.
“Get back!”
Monsoon released the bowstring he hadn’t finished drawing.
An arrow shot forth from inches away.
Sang Hyuk extended his right hand.
‘Annihilation.’
Screeeech!
The arrow and Long Bow transformed into black sand and scattered in the air.
Through Monsoon’s now-empty hands, Sang Hyuk’s left palm entered.
Crash!
The hand covered in Black Scales struck Monsoon’s chest dead center.
Monsoon’s body launched backward off the stone bridge.
He reached out desperately in the void.
Blue wind bloomed beneath his feet, but weakened by the Mark, it couldn’t push his falling body back up again.
And so Monsoon’s body disappeared into the clouds below the bridge.
Whooosh!
[Thai player has fallen out of the arena.]
[Monsoon is eliminated.]
「Korea Channel has won.」
[Victory condition: Opponent falls out of bounds]
[Match time: 00:32]
[Monsoon’s record on the Broken Sky Bridge]
[6 wins 0 losses → 6 wins 1 loss]
Monsoon, who had knocked six players off the bridge below, fell himself in his seventh match.
Only Sang Hyuk remained on the stone bridge.
Messages exploded into the spectator channel, which had been silent a moment before.
[Korea/Lv.31] RecordRefresh: The opponent was five levels higher and was 6-0 on this Battlefield, but he took them down in 32 seconds!!!
[Korea/Lv.36] RulesWatcherSpringEveryday: The black Mark wasn’t inscribed on Monsoon first—it was on the arrow’s wind. You can apply it to incoming attacks too.
[Korea/Lv.38] BathroomBeforeBossRoom: He erased the incoming arrows, crossed the collapsing stone plates, and slowed down the final arrow before annihilating it. For Monsoon, it’s just a disaster.
[Korea/Lv.33] NewbiersGuard: A living natural calamity lol. At this point, isn’t he a Disaster Seat?
[China/Lv.68] BeijingSwordsman: The moment Monsoon received the black Mark, the match was over.
[Korea/Lv.35] MidnightYokanSpringYokan: So that’s when he used the Unexplored Reward?
[Korea/Lv.38] BathroomBeforeBossRoom: Doesn’t look like it.
[Korea/Lv.35] MidnightYokanSpringYokan: So he hid whatever new power he gained and took them down in 32 seconds with just what he already had lol
What he’d obtained in the Unexplored Battlefield never did come to light.
Yet the Impossible One brought down both Monsoon’s ranged advantage and his terrain superiority using only the powers he’d already revealed.
Before Sang Hyuk’s eyes, the settlement for his first Regular Channel match began.
「You have won the Regular Channel Placement Match.」
[Your Regular Channel individual record has been created.]
[Regular Channel individual record: 1 win 0 losses]
[You have earned personal rank points and League currency as victory rewards.]
[Korea Channel League Season Score +5]
[Korea Channel League national season ranking: 63rd / 64 countries]
[No rank change]
In the Bronze League, a regular victory clearly brought more points than a typical Iron Rookie win.
The higher the tier of matches he entered, the more noticeably the victory points would grow.
Then Sang Hyuk’s final Iron Rookie record and the result of the placement match that had just ended appeared on a single screen.
[Iron Rookie final record]
[10 wins 0 losses]
[MVP: 10 consecutive times]
[Regular Channel Placement Match]
[Result: Victory]
[Placement Evaluation: Exemplary]
「Your Bronze League placement is complete.」
[East Asian Bronze Individual Ranking: 11th]
[This is the highest rank achievable through placement.」
No matter how brilliant Sang Hyuk’s record had been as an Iron Rookie, the Regular Channel always began at Bronze.
But that record had just been factored in alongside the results of the placement match he’d finished.
Thanks to that, Sang Hyuk now stood at the highest position available in Bronze.
The threshold for the Silver Promotion Match was 10th place.
With his first victory in the Regular Channel, Sang Hyuk had climbed to just below it.

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