All‑Master Who Regressed to Bronze - Chapter 79

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All Master Who Regressed to Bronze Episode 079

[Paracelsus’ Regret]

* Mythic Grade

An item born from the condensed regret of a now-forgotten existence.

“Hmm?”

Because a material he had never seen before in his life appeared before his eyes.

Originally, mythic-grade materials would naturally spread rumors about them.

Even though Shin Hyeok belonged to the Bronze Tier dimension before his regression, he was a player who ranked among the great even among Challenger Players.

Therefore, he knew quite a bit about mythic-grade materials.

“Mythic-grade materials are mostly byproducts of Constellations. In that regard, Paracelsus. How interesting. Our Alchemy Guild is also Paracelsus. So there was a Constellation named Paracelsus.”

In that sense, Paracelsus was a historical figure, not a Constellation.

Constellation: Master of the Turtle Ship – thinking about it, it wasn’t strange, but it was still interesting.

“This isn’t something I would use.”

Therefore, Shin Hyeok instinctively knew this wasn’t his.

Paracelsus.

From the moment he heard that name, the owner of this item was already decided.

“Hyo-rin.”

“Mmm? It’s been a while since dad came to the workshop~”

“I have something to give you.”

“Huh? I already received all the materials through Sinwha Distribution though?”

“This came from the mythic-grade material draw, it’s called Paracelsus’ Regret-“

“My dad is the best!”

Guild: Paracelsus.

The top floor of that place, created by completely overhauling what was originally the Alchemist Korea Branch.

That entire floor was opened up to be used as a massive workshop, and Hyo-rin was its owner.

He couldn’t tell if she was happy hearing the name Paracelsus’ Regret or if she was happy about it being a mythic-grade material, but Shin Hyeok lightly caught Hyo-rin who jumped at him like a frog.

Wrapping around his neck and rubbing her face against him wasn’t exactly behavior a grown adult woman should do to another adult man, but thinking of her as his daughter, he didn’t have any particular thoughts about it.

Hyo-rin, who had been purring like a cat that found catnip and rejoicing for a while, suddenly raised her head and met Shin Hyeok’s eyes.

“Show me quickly! Do you want to see me go crazy?”

“Alright. I’ll show you, so calm down a bit. My heart’s going to burst.”

Since Yeopo Choseon might do yeopo things (changing dads) if she went crazy, Shin Hyeok hurriedly took out Paracelsus’ Regret from his inventory.

And the moment Paracelsus’ Regret appeared from the inventory.

Whoooooosh!

“Huh?”

“Hyo-rin!”

A sudden burst of light swallowed Hyo-rin.

In a completely unexpected situation, just as Shin Hyeok urgently tried to approach Hyo-rin.

Hyo-rin lightly waved her hand.

“My trait is evolving. Don’t worry. Nothing will happen. Well, something is happening…”

“Trait evolution? How exactly?”

This situation was just a byproduct of the trait evolution process.

At that, Shin Hyeok tilted his head.

Shin Hyeok knew well that Paracelsus was an existence related to alchemy.

So do all alchemists grow when they meet Paracelsus’ Regret- he thought for just a moment.

“Ah, I didn’t mention it. My trait is ‘Avatar of Paracelsus’. It’s a growth-type legendary grade trait.”

“…Ah.”

Hyo-rin’s explanation made the entire situation understandable.

Avatar of Paracelsus.

It was a growth-type legendary grade trait, and even the name perfectly matched Paracelsus’ Regret.

And not long after, where the light had settled.

Paracelsus’ Regret had somehow left Shin Hyeok’s hand and moved to Hyo-rin.

“Hey, when did it move over? That’s mine.”

“Why would this be dad’s? It’s mine now.”

“…Fine, I brought it to give to you anyway, so it doesn’t matter.”

Seeing Hyo-rin speak like a scam site, Shin Hyeok let out a hollow laugh and moved to the main topic.

“How is it? Any changes?”

“It grew to legendary+ grade. That’s disappointing. I thought it would grow to mythic grade.”

“Would that happen with just one mythic grade material item?”

“They say you should dream big. And if I become mythic grade, is it only good for me? Wouldn’t it be good for dad too?”

“That’s… true…”

Hyo-rin’s trait had grown to legendary+ grade.

Since he recently heard that Sejin had also grown to legendary+ grade, Shin Hyeok couldn’t hide his surging emotions.

‘To reach the level that took until before regression in just about 3 months after regression. How lucky.’

Sejin and Hyo-rin.

They could be called Shin Hyeok’s one-two punch.

While Shin Hyeok could handle combat himself, he was definitely lacking in areas like equipment and elixirs.

In that regard, the two reaching the same level as before regression implied many things.

Of course-

‘Compared to before regression, they’re still lacking a lot. Because they don’t have experience. But whether it’s body or soul, if one reaches first, the other naturally follows. If given just a little time, they’ll reach it well on their own. There’s only one thing I can do for them. Unlimited support for that.’

They are not Bangsi of Cheonggyecheon who accumulated countless experiences through over 10 years of activity, nor Baek Hyo-rin of Yeopo Choseon.

But their reaching that level is a predetermined sequence.

What Shin Hyeok could do there was to help them accumulate experience so they could reach that level even a little faster.

Naturally, unlimited support for accumulating that experience was a bonus.

“Now go.”

“What?”

“I’m going to do alchemy now. I don’t want to lose this sensation. This feeling where the sensation that was floating in the air and couldn’t be grasped has completely come into my hands. I absolutely won’t let it go. So get out!”

“Uh, okay. No, I’ll leave on my own feet. I’m leaving on my own!”

Thud!

Of course, he was kicked out of Hyo-rin’s workshop in the process, but Shin Hyeok smiled.

“It really feels like raising a teenage daughter. Is this right?”

Shin Hyeok, who never expected to feel like a dad kicked out of his teenage daughter’s room in his 20-year-old body, looked once at the tightly closed workshop door and left Paracelsus’ building without regret.

“Now I should do my own work too.”

All reward settlements were finished.

Since Hyo-rin had also gotten much closer to her pre-regression state, the elixir business would grow beyond the sky.

So Shin Hyeok decided to do work that only he could do.

[National Competition Preliminary Registration Office]

National Competition.

Registering for the preliminaries to participate in what could be called a global festival was the beginning.

“First, let me lightly crush some Platinum Players in the opening match.”

And Shin Hyeok planned to replace the National Competition participants who were once called South Korea’s corrupt practices.

* * *

National Competition.

A new festival succeeding the World Cup, which was once called a global festival.

Of course, calling it a successor was inadequate since it became the first National Competition, not the second World Cup.

That was because the National Competition boasted an audience equivalent to combining the World Cup and Super Bowl.

Literally, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say the entire world watched, so the National Competition was a major issue handled by nations.

Depending on what results were achieved in the National Competition, national prestige changed, and the quality of rewards obtainable from the National Competition varied.

In that regard, Korea’s national representatives were-

[Damn it! Disband the Korean national team!]

-These bastards haven’t changed their roster for years.

Get rid of this damn senior-junior culture!

It hasn’t changed since soccer!

Dude, we’re not strangers! We just need one more win to pass the preliminaries, so why disband? lol We should keep participating.

└For real, just participating gets us participation rewards and the government pours resources on us as support, so leaving would be stupid.

└That’s our tax money though?

└These bastards should disband!!!

It was hopeless.

Usually, national teams would undergo roster changes periodically, if not frequently.

Like the back waters of the Yangtze River pushing out the front waters, generational change would happen naturally.

Of course, since time was as important as talent for Players, many who had been active as Players for a long time were still positioned in the national team.

But most of them would sacrifice their own interests for the country’s future and yield opportunities to their juniors.

Even if they had the upper hand now, unlike themselves who were aging, the growing juniors were beings meant for 10 future victories, not 1 current victory.

In contrast, Korea’s national team had almost no roster changes even now, decades after the national team was established.

Even then, there had never been a single case of a national team member voluntarily stepping down.

[Kim Jinseong withdraws from national team due to drug controversy]

[Kim Jinseong says: Sorry for causing concern to the citizens. I will repay you with better play in the future.]

[Ha Chanwoo withdraws due to assault incident at Gangnam entertainment establishment]

[Ha Chanwoo says: They pissed me off while I was drinking so I hit them a few times. The citizens are pigs anyway so I can just return later. Huh? The mic was on?]

-Hahaha these fucking idiots have had the same repertoire for decades.

-There’s a national team that rotates between alcohol, drugs, and assault? What the hell?

-If he’s not drinking, he’s doing drugs. If he’s not doing drugs, he’s being violent. If he’s not being violent, he’s drinking. If that’s not the holy trinity, then what is lol

Most of them were closer to being forced to withdraw due to crimes they committed.

Even then, most would sneakily rejoin the national team after some time passed, so there were virtually no newbies in Korea’s national team.

Especially, the problems with Korea’s national team didn’t end there.

-No, fine. Ha, let’s say they can do it, conceding 100, 1000 times. But damn!!! If you’re on the national team, shouldn’t you win! What kind of national team always gets beaten up whenever they go out! You’re national punching bags, you bastards!!!

-LOL, crazy bastards going 0-4 and getting eliminated.

-Why does it end so fast~ Korea’s national team~

-Ssuni. Where do you live? You won a prize so I want to send it to you.

-Rocket delivery (actual rocket)

First of all, they just couldn’t fight.

To be honest, the quality of Korea’s national team itself wasn’t bad.

They had two King-level Players when other countries didn’t have even one, and the Players below them were also reasonably decent.

But amazingly, they possessed the remarkable talent of gathering good ingredients and creating a bizarre twisted bibimbap from the underworld.

-Sister, you don’t like me, right?

-Yeah, I don’t like you, bitch. I told you not to flirt with Kim Jinsu.

-Ha! Why are you blaming me for being old and wrinkled? Don’t age then.

-Fine. Today, let’s see who dies first, you or me. Fucking bitch!!!

The above incident was when two female Players belonging to the national team fought over a male Player who belonged to the same national team.

The surprising thing here was that the male Player they fought over had a hidden real girlfriend besides them.

-She got pregnant but he told her to get an abortion. I said I didn’t want to…

Amazingly, that male Player also caused controversy in his relationship with his civilian girlfriend.

Various incidents and accidents following one after another.

As a result, the atmosphere of the national team was at its worst.

-Damn! Pour the resources into me, you maggots! I’m the one carrying!

-Move aside. I have something to try.

-Ah, I see. Your level. It’s so pathetic I want to die.

-Now, kids. This is an attack. Got it?

Their teamwork was also close to garbage.

Someone wanted to hog all the limited resources in the game.

Someone treated the game as their personal playground.

Someone completely disrespected their teammates.

With dozens of variations existing beyond this, Korea’s national team was a hybrid that was incomprehensible how it even maintained itself.

But even this was nothing compared to the Platinum National Team, which was the second team in charge of opening matches.

“What’s this about holding another selection tournament.”

“We’ll just see the same faces we always see anyway.”

“Hey, you know the deal, right? We don’t attack each other. We just dunk on the newbies and drop them?”

“One-two day? You do your part well.”

They were one giant cartel.

Mad dogs that bark and bite at each other within the fence, but become even more vicious toward those trying to enter from outside the fence.

Such people would form teams in advance and push out new Players participating in the selection tournament.

In that process, countless talented Players had to taste the bitter defeat of failing the selection tournament.

No matter how talented they were, it was impossible to shake off the combined attacks of senior Players who had been active for several more years than themselves.

“Nice to meet you, seniors. I’ll kill you all today.”

“…?”

“Ah, this chilling sensation. It’s been a while. Time to return as Shin-hyeok Choi, master of beating up seniors, the one who clears out corruption.”

“This crazy bastard!”

Of course, this story didn’t apply to Shin Hyeok, who participated in today’s selection tournament.

A nuclear bomb had been dropped on the Platinum National Team Selection Tournament.

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