Not A Regressor - Chapter 149

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 149
Compatibility (1)
“What the hell is this bastard talking about?”
Sosuke’s expression twisted harshly.
He, who had been generating spherical water droplets from his body in a rhythmic pattern, furrowed his brows as if he’d heard something utterly unpleasant.
“Pregnancy? What pregnancy are you spouting about, you lunatic?”
“You… don’t tell me you’re trying to deny that you’re pregnant right now?”
“That’s exactly why I’m asking what kind of nonsense you’re spewing.”
“Roar!!!!”
How could he deny it while expelling so many eggs like that?
“Because of bastards like you, irresponsible parents keep abandoning and fleeing with their children!!”
“I’m not pregnant!!”
“No! You are currently pregnant!!”
“What insane nonsense is this?”
“I saw it!!”
“Saw what exactly!!”
Sosuke stared at Kwon O-jin with a bewildered expression.
In all his years, he never expected to encounter someone spouting such deranged words before the “King of Seahorses.”
“Did you forget, Sosuke? That night… when those long, thick tentacles entered inside you…?”
“You crazy bastard!”
Sosuke, deciding the conversation was no longer worth continuing, fired the spherical water droplets he’d created toward Kwon O-jin.
Perhaps it was because he’d just heard such baseless drivel.
Somehow, the flying water droplets looked exactly like eggs being hurled, delivering an unbearable sense of displeasure.
-Rat-a-tat-tat-tat!
Water droplets cascading down like a gatling gun.
Kwon O-jin, who had been giggling while observing Sosuke’s reaction, calmly shifted his steps.
Perhaps thanks to the fierce battle he’d fought with Cheon Do-yoon.
Dodging the cascading water droplets was not particularly difficult.
‘The image training I did is proving useful here too.’
The experience of evading lasers through a hypnotic “lie” to himself.
Those past experiences allowed me to evade hundreds of water droplets raining down upon me.
‘Actually… there’s no real need to dodge them anyway.’
I moved my feet while concealing a bitter smile.
-Boom! Bang!
The water droplets that passed by Kwon O-jin and struck the ground exploded with a clear sound.
Though the sound wasn’t particularly loud, the floor was dented as if excavated by heavy machinery, suggesting its power was not to be underestimated.
“This rat bastard…!”
Sosuke spat out rough curses while watching Kwon O-jin ghostlike dodge the cascading water droplets.
Deciding this wouldn’t do, he charged toward Kwon O-jin while continuously firing water droplets.
“You think you can keep running away like that?”
I swung my arms, now shaped into blades, toward Kwon O-jin as he darted about, evading my relentless assault.
-Crackle crackle crackle!
A barrier of blue lightning materialized before Kwon O-jin.
A bitter smile twisted across Sosuke’s lips.
“I told you it’s useless!”
-Slash!
A blade forged from pure water sliced cleanly through the lightning barrier.
As effortlessly as cutting through cake, my blade carved a long wound across Kwon O-jin’s chest.
“Ugh!”
Kwon O-jin tried to dodge quickly, but evading both the cascading water droplets and the blade simultaneously proved impossible.
The water blade grazed across Kwon O-jin’s chest.
Flesh tore open and blood poured forth.
“Hahaha! This is what you call an inescapable matchup!”
On the surface, if one considered a clash between water and electricity, electricity would hold overwhelming superiority.
But the moment one could create “pure water” with absolutely no impurities mixed in, that matchup reversed completely.
Of course, this wasn’t some creature battle, and awakeners’ fights didn’t always hinge solely on compatibility.
‘A 7-star, they said.’
When there was already a gap in star rank, and unfavorable matchups stacked on top of that, even if Noe-rang was an Apostle of Polaris, he couldn’t possibly be my opponent.
“So! What happened to that arrogant mouth of yours from before?! Huh?”
“Ugh!”
Water droplets assaulted from all directions, with sharp blade strikes cutting through the gaps between them.
If I used the stigma of Horologium, I could evade somehow, but Kwon O-jin couldn’t continuously use a stigma with limited activations, so he had no choice but to gradually allow my attacks through.
“Cough!”
Sharp blade cuts tore flesh, and destructive water droplets battered his skin into pulp.
“Grraaagh!”
“Go on, spout more nonsense if you dare!”
“Ahhh!”
“Don’t just scream—spout something, I said!”
“Damn it all!”
“Hahaha!”
Watching Kwon O-jin take a one-sided beating without landing a single proper counterattack, I burst into laughter.
The exhilaration surged through me—seeing Kwon O-jin, who had not only thoroughly ruined my plans but mocked me with that arrogant expression, now being beaten so pathetically.
“Don’t think you’ll die comfortably.”
I twisted my lips into a sneer and continued my assault, carefully avoiding vital points.
As damage accumulated, Kwon O-jin’s movements, which had been as quick as a rat’s, began to slow.
I pressed my attack with even greater persistence and malice.
“I wondered how strong someone who killed the owl king must be, but this bastard was just riding on Constellation power?”
From the moment I heard that Noe-rang had killed Cheon Do-yoon, something didn’t add up.
But fighting him directly confirmed it.
Noe-rang’s victory over the owl king was purely thanks to the power of the goddess Vega.
“But I won’t be able to rely on Vega Star’s aid now!”
I knew all too well what tremendous constraints accompanied a Constellation’s direct descent.
Even as a Constellation of Polaris, one could not defy the restrictions of Divine Law.
Not long after Cheon Do-yoon’s death.
It would be impossible for another Constellation to descend and lend me aid.
“Damn it!”
Kwon O-jin’s flustered expression betrayed his shock at being pushed back so thoroughly.
Seeing his utterly foolish appearance, laughter burst forth unbidden.
“You’re getting beaten down like this, and you still think you can face me alone?”
“Ugh!”
“Hahaha! That’s right! Even a punching bag that just takes hits is still an opponent!”
I unleashed a torrent of mocking words while intensifying my assault.
After relentlessly driving Kwon O-jin back for roughly five minutes without pause, even Sosuke’s breathing grew noticeably ragged.
“Hah… hah…”
I steadied my labored breathing while regarding Kwon O-jin.
Though I had directed my attacks to avoid vital points while maximizing pain, he somehow endured despite being pummeled for over five minutes without falling.
‘He’s rather tenacious.’
It seemed I had dragged this out far too long.
‘Time to finish this.’
I brightened my eyes and drew a deep breath.
The stigma inscribed on my left chest blazed with an ominous black light.
-Whoooosh!
Dense water mist flowed from my body.
“Spread.”
Following my quiet command, the dense water mist pouring from me exploded outward, engulfing the surroundings.
Like clouds suspended high in the sky descending to blanket the earth.
It was a dimension beyond the water mist Mika had wielded.
A horrifying fog that clung viscously like a swamp, dragging downward into an abyss with no visible bottom.
A demon’s technique that stole sight, movement, and even breath itself—it ensnared Kwon O-jin.
“Hack! Cough!! I… I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!!”
I watched Kwon O-jin clutch his throat, gasping out anguished moans.
So consumed by terror that tears streamed pathetically down his face.
The smile at my lips deepened.
“Now, it ends.”
Though I wished to let him taste more exquisite suffering, if I delayed further, Sakaki and the other members of Kuroushi’s organization would pursue him.
‘If I expend the accumulated elixirs, wiping them all out would be simple enough.’
Hidden cards revealed their true power only when kept concealed.
To squander my trump card merely destroying something as insignificant as Kuroushi would make survival in the competition between Factions difficult later.
“Die, you wretched lapdog of Vega Star.”
I gazed coldly as I spread both arms toward Kwon O-jin, engulfed in the water mist.
Crackle crackle crackle!!
Dozens, hundreds of water droplets erupted from his body, converging into a single mass.
The gathered droplets had swollen to a diameter of roughly ten meters.
It had become a colossal mass that could no longer be called a mere “droplet.”
‘Now I add rotation to it.’
A violent whirlpool tore through the massive sphere of water.
A destructive attack where even the slightest touch would suck one’s entire body in and shred it to ribbons.
Whoosh!
The condensed water vortex shot toward Kwon O-jin, who was engulfed in the mist.
-Boom boom boom boom!!
A deafening roar echoed out—a sound that seemed impossible to produce from mere water droplets colliding.
“It’s over.”
Sosuke turned away without a second glance.
Then,
-Clang!
Six wires wrapped around his body.
Crackle crackle crackle!!
Blue lightning coursed through the wires, surging toward him.
“Ugh!”
Sosuke, who had believed Kwon O-jin dead and was about to release his “pure water” form, hastily liquefied his entire body in desperation.
He barely escaped the wire’s range and turned his head toward Kwon O-jin.
Despite being covered in wounds so severe he looked like a tattered rag, Kwon O-jin remained standing.
“Stubborn bastard…!”
He couldn’t fathom how the man had survived that attack, but the sudden barrage from someone he’d thought dead filled him with seething rage.
“Die!”
He charged forward savagely, unleashing another onslaught.
It seemed he’d managed to endure one attack, but that was all.
It was merely a question of whether he’d fall in one blow or two.
-Splash! Splash! Boom!
Water spray whipped around them as Sosuke’s relentless assault continued without pause.
And yet.
‘Why won’t this bastard die?’
No matter how he thought about it, something was wrong.
He’d landed dozens, hundreds of successful attacks already.
So why wouldn’t he fall?
“Damn it!”
A harsh curse spilled from Sosuke’s lips.
“I’ll end this now.”
He decided to unleash the trump card he’d been holding in reserve.
Crackle crackle crackle!
As he swung both arms in wide arcs, streams of water materialized in the empty air.
This was different from the water before.
The liquid glowing with a soft blue radiance was an elixir—crafted from the dissolved bodies of the awakeners he had abducted.
The cascading elixir flowed into Sosuke’s body in rivulets.
“Haah.”
Sosuke exhaled a shallow breath and lifted his head.
What had begun as a battle in the basement had transformed the entire surrounding area into a desolate empty field due to the superhuman combat of the awakeners.
-Whoooooosh!
The thick water mist blanketing the surroundings rose high into the air, then began pouring down from within it.
The entire area was engulfed in water as if a torrential downpour had been unleashed.
‘There’s no surviving this.’
Each individual raindrop carried the stigma’s magical power—a lethal attack.
An inescapable, unstoppable calamity descending from the heavens.
“Th-this can’t be real.”
Kwon O-jin gasped in astonishment at the awe-inspiring display, gazing up at the pouring rain.
No.
More precisely, he was staring at the blue message window that had materialized before his eyes—not the rain itself.
The message window that had been floating there for quite some time already.
[The surroundings are saturated with the essence of water.]
[《Hydro Affinity Lv MAX》 skill efficiency skyrockets!]
Kwon O-jin trembled with terror, his voice shaking as he cried out.
“H-how are you unleashing water techniques of this magnitude without any water source?!”
The torrential rain, brimming with the stigma’s magical power, poured down upon the false wounds created by ‘Transformation’.
Kwon O-jin was drenched by the downpour, desperately suppressing the laughter that threatened to burst forth.

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