Not A Regressor - Chapter 128

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 128
Night Falls at Daybreak (4)
A cloudless azure sky.
As if the heavens themselves had fallen into divine wrath, lightning descended upon the parched expanse.
-Crackle crackle crackle crackle!!
The bolt that struck the empty field gradually transformed into the shape of a man.
“Kwon O-jin… me?”
In this moment, taking the form of the youth Ha-eun had longed to see most, the one she had awaited with desperate yearning.
“….”
Kwon O-jin stood resolute at the center of the vast empty field, his eyes sunken deep as he surveyed his surroundings.
Grotesque figures in black robes encircling the field.
An elderly man in a pristine martial robe, and Ha-eun held captive by them, tears streaming down her face.
-Crack.
Kwon O-jin’s gentle face twisted into something demonic.
In both his eyes, a blazing azure flame flickered with savage intensity.
“Hmm?”
Cheon Do-yoon furrowed his brow and turned his head.
“What brings you here?”
“…Let go.”
“What?”
“Take your hands off my sister, you bastard.”
Twang!!
Kwon O-jin fired wires toward Cheon Do-yoon.
Six strands of silver thread wreathed in azure flame shot forth, coiling around Cheon Do-yoon.
“Heh.”
Cheon Do-yoon exhaled a short sigh and lightly pivoted his feet.
His pristine black martial robe fluttered as his body slid backward across the ground.
“Sister, you say… Indeed, this old man has committed a grave oversight.”
Blinded by greed, I had conducted a careless investigation into who my prey was and what relations she held.
A mistake born of avarice, one that admits no excuse.
“Hehehehe. Yet a sister nonetheless… Surely this girl should have no connections whatsoever.”
No matter how blinded by greed, I naturally conducted at least a basic investigation.
I had heard that the woman Song Ha-eun was abandoned by her parents at birth and raised in an orphanage.
Yet somehow, Noe-rang had come charging forth with such fury—there must be a deeper bond than I realized.
“I heard the Leech Queen is prone to jealousy, yet somehow you’ve remained unscathed.”
Hehehehe.
Cheon Do-yoon let out a grotesque laugh and took a step forward.
“I shall make you a proposal.”
“A proposal?”
“This girl’s two eyes. With only those, this old man would be satisfied.”
A twisted, wrinkled smile creeps across his lips.
“Surely that’s better than losing your life, isn’t it?”
“Nonsense.”
As if the proposition wasn’t even worth considering.
Kwon O-jin gripped his spear tightly.
“Tsk, tsk.”
Cheon Do-yoon clicked his tongue and shook his head.
His eyes had turned glacial, fixed upon Kwon O-jin with lethal intent.
“No matter how much you claim to be the Leech Queen’s man, I won’t let this slide this time.”
“Don’t worry.”
Crackle-crackle-crackle!!
Azure lightning enveloped Kwon O-jin’s entire body.
“I have no intention of letting this slide either.”
Since he had dared to lay hands on Ha-eun, I would no longer resort to clumsy deceptions to smooth things over.
“O-jin! Run, hurry!!”
Ha-eun cried out with desperate urgency.
“….”
Just moments ago, she had been trembling in fear.
Paralyzed by terror, tears streaming pitifully down her face.
And now she was telling me to run?
“You madman!! You know Lee Woo-hyuk couldn’t even lay a finger on this bastard before getting crushed! There’s no way you can win….”
“What does that matter?”
“What? What do you mean, what does that matter?”
“If I can’t win, I should run?”
A hollow laugh escaped my lips as I spun the spear in a graceful arc.
There was no need to calculate odds.
No need to compute probabilities.
Whether I could win or lose wasn’t the point.
If I couldn’t bring down the King of the Owls here and now, my very existence would lose all meaning.
‘Then.’
I would squeeze out everything I had.
Scrape up every last shred from the bottom.
I would struggle with everything I possessed.
‘Just as I always have.’
Boom!
I launched forward with a violent stomp of my feet.
‘Exceed.’
Azure lightning wrapped around my entire body.
“Hehehehe. What a foolish choice you make.”
Cheon Do-yoon laughed with a bloodthirsty edge and extended his hand.
I wave my hand lightly, as if swatting away a gnat.
━With just that simple motion.
Hundreds, thousands of black feathers pour down like rain toward Kwon O-jin.
“Tsk.”
Kwon O-jin drew in a steady breath.
‘The stigma of the Hourglass Constellation.’
In an instant.
The world flowed slowly, as if time itself had stopped.
Thousands of feathers pouring down like rain.
He searches for a path through the torrential deluge of death, where not even the smallest gap appears to exist.
‘One step to the right, three steps to the left, then two steps backward. Turn left again and jump.’
He visualizes the movements in his mind.
The extreme imagery training he had repeated while suffering terrible burns across his entire body.
The experience of dodging hundreds, thousands of lasers now proved its worth.
-Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!!!
He evades the cascading black feathers.
Like filming a Hollywood action movie, the black feathers barely miss Kwon O-jin’s body as they streak past.
“…What?”
Cheon Do-yoon’s eyes widened in disbelief.
It should have been an attack impossible to evade—only to block.
The Lyra Constellation’s wolf was charging forward ferociously, evading all of his attacks with miraculous movements.
“This makes no sense….”
“Grrrraaaaaahhh!!”
Kwon O-jin, who had closed the distance in an instant, let out a savage roar as he leaped.
“Wa, Your Majesty!”
“Stop that beast!!”
The Owls surrounding the area urgently blocked Cheon Do-yoon’s path.
“Get out of the way, you bastards!”
He spun his body and slashed the spear horizontally.
The azure flames clinging to the spear’s blade split the Owls’ bodies in half.
Blood pours down like rain.
Through it, I see Cheon Do-yoon’s contorted expression as he spreads his palm and thrusts it forward.
-Crack crack crack crack crack!!
The black feathers compress like an awl.
A massive three-meter wedge of feathers is launched, aimed at Kwon O-jin.
A wedge that evokes the image of an owl’s sharp beak.
Kwon O-jin blocks the wedge with the gauntlet on his left arm.
“Krrrrgh!”
A terrifying pressure felt through his left arm.
The gauntlet, which has exceeded the mana absorption threshold in the blink of an eye, glows red as if it might melt at any moment.
‘There’s no opening to use a counterattack.’
Then.
-Whoooosh!
I tilted the gauntlet diagonally and deflected the black wedge of force.
A sharp crack spiderwebbed across the gauntlet as it absorbed mana beyond its tolerance.
“Ah, ugh.”
My left hand, still wearing the gauntlet, bent in an unnatural direction, and a dizzying wave of pain washed over me.
‘Ignore it.’
Suppressing pain was hardly a difficult task.
“Indeed, you possess enough skill to be audacious.”
Hehehehe.
Cheon Do-yoon erupted in an eerie laugh, his eyes gleaming coldly.
“But that is all.”
His black robes billowed as he spread both arms wide.
A black tidal wave materialized from the void and crashed down upon me.
“Can you evade this as well?”
“Grrk!”
A black tidal wave spanning several meters.
Composed of countless feathers beyond counting, the wave consumed everything in its path as it surged toward me.
“Haa, haa!”
I cannot dodge to the right, to the left, or upward.
‘Then.’
I spun the spear in my grip and drove the blade downward with brutal force.
Spear Thunder and Explosive Thunder.
Two skills intersected, detonating at the spear’s tip.
-Kaboom!
A massive crater formed as the ground fractured with a sharp crack.
I hurled myself into the fissure.
The black tidal wave grazed past the top of my head.
“Huh. Remarkable reflexes.”
A brief exclamation escaped Cheon Do-yoon’s lips.
The idea itself—that if I cannot dodge right, left, or up, then I should shatter the ground and escape downward—was nothing extraordinary.
‘But to move without a shred of hesitation while death bears down upon you.’
Just how sharp must one’s judgment and resolve be to execute such movements?
“A dangerous child to leave alive.”
The composure that had lingered on Cheon Do-yoon’s face hardened into stone.
“Hmmph!”
His robes fluttered as he traced intricate hand seals in the empty air.
“Owl Constellation, Noctua.”
Uuuuuuung!!
The stigma blazed brilliantly as an overwhelming surge of mana erupted, stealing the breath from my lungs.
Through the fluttering fabric of my robe, a stigma marked with nine strokes gleamed.
“Grant me feathers to shred my enemy into countless pieces.”
I spread both arms wide and swept them downward in a grand motion, as if wings were beating from above to below.
“Black Wing Myriad Blossoms.”
From the cloudless azure sky, a black tempest descended in a violent torrent.
Hundreds. Thousands. Tens of thousands.
An incalculable number of feathers poured down toward Kwon O-jin.
“Gahhh!”
Black feathers grazed his body, tearing flesh as they passed.
As if showering in blood itself, Kwon O-jin’s entire body was drenched in crimson.
‘Ah, Lyra….’
Kwon O-jin gritted his teeth, suppressing the dizzying, searing pain that wracked his body.
The gap between Cheon Do-yoon and himself was so overwhelmingly vast that comparison itself felt embarrassing.
No matter how exceptional a case he was—capable of facing 8-star Awakeners without difficulty—when the opponent was a 9-star or higher “High-Tier Awakener,” everything changed entirely.
Even as an exceptional case, he was merely a 6-star Awakener, while his opponent was a 9-star Awakener who had stepped into the realm beyond humanity.
To narrow the vast chasm that existed between them.
‘I must… endure a little longer.’
I barely deflected the barrage of black feathers using a barrier of azure lightning, my eyes blazing with determination.
“Die, wolf of Lyra Constellation.”
Cheon Do-yoon’s cold voice reached my ears.
He declared it with an indifferent tone, as though my death were inevitable.
“Gahhh! Cough! Hack!”
Collapse.
Like a puppet with severed strings, Kwon O-jin’s body crumpled.
“KWON O-JINNNNNNNNN!!!!”
Ha-eun’s anguished scream tore through the air.
“Hehehehe.”
Cheon Do-yoon turned slowly, as if his task were complete.
“Do not worry. I will send you to your brother’s side soon enough.”
“You… you fucking bastard!!!”
Ha-eun convulsed, thrashing her body violently.
Clank clank!!
The iron chains binding her rattled with harsh, metallic sounds.
“I’ll kill you, you son of a bitch!!!”
“Hahahaha!!”
When Cheon Do-yoon took a step forward with a dark smile spreading across his face.
“━Now.”
Boom!
Kwon O-jin, who had been falling toward the ground, suddenly kicked off violently with his feet.
Blue lightning ignited in both eyes drenched with blood.
“Screeeeeech!!”
Crackle crackle crackle!!
Savage arcs of electricity blazing ferociously.
I launched myself forward with a fierce kick toward Cheon Do-yoon’s turned back.
“Hmm, so you didn’t die?”
Cheon Do-yoon’s expression flickered with momentary shock, but he quickly raised his arm with composure.
Wings composed of black feathers unfurled to shield him.
Or rather, to be precise.
They attempted to unfurl.
‘Dominion.’
Kwon O-jin crouched low and gripped the spear tightly.
-Ding!
[Status Window] [The target’s ‘Star’ rank is too high!]
[Dominion has failed!]
“Huh?”
I never expected Dominion to succeed anyway.
What I needed was the momentary gap created by using Dominion just before the black wings completely enveloped Cheon Do-yoon’s body.
“Vegaaaaaaa!!”
I roared out the name of the Lyra Constellation.
The pendant hanging around my neck shone with brilliant silver light.
“What…?”
Cheon Do-yoon’s eyes widened in shock.
[Wondering what had happened when I was called upon so urgently.]
The moment Vega manifested, she took in the sight of Ha-eun being restrained and Kwon O-jin drenched in blood, then without hesitation unleashed her power.
[It seems my aid is needed.]
Whoooosh!
Brilliant silver light seeped into my body.
My mana, blessed by the Constellation, exploded with amplified force.
“Ugh!!”
Cheon Do-yoon staggered backward with an expression of shock.
Confident in his victory, he had no time to counter the attack.
‘Too late…!’
Piercing through the wings of black feathers.
The spearhead wreathed in blue lightning was unleashed toward him.

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