Not A Regressor - Chapter 150

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 150
Natural Disposition (2)
Whoooosh!
A torrential downpour cascading from the thick water mist.
The rain fell with such ferocity that it was difficult to keep one’s eyes open, pouring down like a summer squall.
“Haa, haa.”
Ragged breaths escaped from Sosuke’s lips.
He watched Kwon O-jin swaying precariously, drenched in the deluge.
‘What is this?’
Something was wrong.
Given how helplessly he’d been struck down, by now his entire body should have been utterly exhausted and collapsed.
‘Why won’t he just… die?’
Wounds were certainly appearing.
His entire body was drenched in blood, and his grotesquely twisted limbs swayed with the rainwater.
And yet.
Why, exactly.
“Haa! Haa! Damn it!”
Spewing curses, he absorbed more of the ‘Spirit Elixir’.
A spirit elixir created by melting the stigmas of roughly 1,700 awakened ones accumulated over years.
Of course, its efficiency fell far short of the spirit elixir produced by actual Aquarius awakened ones.
“Why, why won’t he fall!!!”
A spirit elixir forged with countless lives sacrificed as offerings.
It made no sense that he could endure so tenaciously after being struck by an attack imbued with such immense magical power.
“Gasp! Gasp!”
For several minutes, Sosuke continued launching meaningless attacks at Kwon O-jin, who refused to fall like a roly-poly toy.
His breath came in ragged gasps as he clutched his chest, his breathing reaching the limit.
No matter how much immense magical power he’d gained through the spirit elixir, it was Sosuke himself who wielded it.
He could feel his magical circuits, strained from using power beyond his limits, threatening to snap at any moment.
“Is it over?”
Covered in blood.
Kwon O-jin, who had been unilaterally pummeled while screaming pitifully, let out a soft chuckle and straightened his hunched back.
In his leisurely movements, there was no trace of the pathetic, terrified expression from moments before.
“…Ah.”
A low exclamation escaped Sosuke’s lips.
Only then could he understand why Kwon O-jin hadn’t fallen.
Why he couldn’t kill him despite unleashing attacks fierce enough to burn through his magical circuits.
“You… it was all an act from the beginning.”
The terrified expression as if cornered.
The pathetic screams he’d let out.
All of it had been nothing but a performance to provoke reckless attacks and exhaust his stamina.
“H-how is this possible?! How can you be completely unharmed after taking all those attacks?!”
Even if the opponent were a high-ranking awakener of the Shield Constellation, they couldn’t possibly survive such a barrage of attacks without proper defense or evasion.
And Noe-rang, as far as he knew, wasn’t even from the Shield Constellation, let alone a high-ranking awakener.
“Exactly… what the hell.”
Is this what it feels like when a corpse that’s been stabbed dozens of times, burned, and crushed rises to its feet completely intact?
Witnessing a scene straight out of a B-grade horror film made his legs tremble and cold sweat trickle down his spine.
“You mentioned something about compatibility earlier, didn’t you?”
Kwon O-jin lifted his head with a dark smile.
Each time raindrops infused with the stigma’s mana struck his body, tearing wounds appeared—but they sealed shut as if time itself had reversed in the blink of an eye.
His regenerative power had grown even stronger than when he’d fought Ashad Khan in that storm before.
Over the past three days of battling awakeners of the Seahorse Constellation, he’d confirmed that he could absorb the water they created using his hydrokinetic affinity skill.
‘The stronger the attacks I receive, the higher my regeneration becomes.’
Of course, there was a sharp, scalpel-like pain as the wounds formed and regenerated.
But enduring that level of suffering was hardly difficult for him.
“Just as you said—there really is an inescapable compatibility after all.”
The reason he’d been confident he could defeat Sosuke alone without Ha-eun’s help.
Whatever hidden card he possessed didn’t matter.
As long as his stigma was that of the Seahorse Constellation.
‘There’s no way he can defeat me.’
Kwon O-jin slowly raised his spear while being pelted by the downpour.
He’d successfully drained some of Sosuke’s stamina while feigning injury.
Now he just needed to toy with him as he pleased.
‘Of course, his lightning doesn’t work on me.’
It didn’t matter.
Because Kwon O-jin didn’t possess just one stigma—the Lyra Constellation’s stigma.
-Whoooooosh!
The stigma inscribed on his left chest blazed with light.
Hundreds, thousands of black feathers unfurled around Kwon O-jin’s body like wings.
“…The Owl Constellation’s stigma?”
Sosuke’s eyes widened in shock.
“H-how are you using that stigma…?”
A chill ran through him seeing Vega Star’s apostle wielding the Owl Constellation’s stigma.
But before he could find answers to his questions, the wings made of black feathers flapped violently.
“Black Wing Flower Bloom.”
The technique Cheon Do-yoon favored was now manifesting through Kwon O-jin.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!
Thousands of feathers shot forth along the trajectory of the black wings, engulfing Sosuke.
“I told you that kind of attack won’t work!”
Sosuke transformed his body into liquid, absorbing thousands of feathers with his form.
The sharp feathers pierced through his body and passed beyond.
“Well, you really think it won’t work?”
Kwon O-jin laughed coldly as he halted the movement of the feathers he’d unleashed.
“Ugh!”
A groan escaped Sosuke’s lips.
Thousands of feathers didn’t pierce through his body—instead, they stopped mid-flight and began mixing within his liquefied form.
“Damn it!”
He tried to extract the black feathers from his body the same way he’d purified water by removing impurities.
But with so many feathers embedded deep within him, he couldn’t easily expel them.
His body, now tangled with masses of black feathers, resembled a torn down jacket spinning in a washing machine.
“Well, I’d say that qualifies as something less than pure water now, wouldn’t you?”
Kwon O-jin chuckled and activated the Lyra Constellation stigma once more.
‘Charge.’
Crackle!
Fierce blue lightning condensed violently.
Once, twice, three times.
The blue lightning, growing brighter with each pulse, gathered at the spear’s tip.
“Burst.”
He drew a deep breath and raised the spear.
Extending his left foot forward, he pulled his right arm holding the spear back like drawing a bowstring.
Using the elasticity of his waist, he hurled the spear with all his might.
-Crackle!!
Blue lightning tore through the air as it flew.
The spear pierced Sosuke’s solar plexus and released the condensed lightning.
Boom!!
With a sound like thunder descending from the heavens, the lightning explosion consumed Sosuke.
“Ah… ugh.”
Sosuke trembled violently as he looked down at his body.
His entire right upper half had been blown away by the explosion centered at his solar plexus.
“Q-quick… re… regenerate….”
With a terror-stricken expression, he fumbled with the single remaining arm.
The elixirs he’d crafted over years responded to his call, rushing forth to regenerate his wounds.
“Not happening.”
Kwon O-jin reached toward the elixirs converging on Sosuke.
Like parched earth drinking in water, the blue elixirs Sosuke had created began absorbing into Kwon O-jin.
“St… stop!”
Sosuke cried out desperately, watching the elixirs vanish at alarming speed.
The elixirs he’d prepared to artificially create a ‘dragon vein.’
A mass of magical power created by melting the lives of 1,700 awakeners over years—he couldn’t allow it to fall into someone else’s hands.
“That is… our… hope…”
Sosuke stretched his arm desperately toward the elixirs being absorbed by Kwon O-jin, his expression one of anguish.
Hope to reclaim the faded glory.
The only method to escape the stigma of being the “Land Forsaken by Stars” was being torn away from right before his eyes.
“So there really are some truly foolish people out there.”
Kwon O-jin laughed deeply as he felt the spiritual elixir seeping into his body.
Of course, given that he already boasted an overwhelmingly dominant amount of pure magical power that surpassed all others, this level of magical energy held little significance for him.
‘It may mean nothing to me, but it would be different for that bastard.’
He let out a quiet chuckle as he watched Sosuke reach out with a desperate expression.
Just as ten billion won held different value to a billionaire versus an ordinary citizen.
The magical power that was insignificant to Kwon O-jin would be nothing short of vital to Sosuke in this moment.
“Uuuaaahhh!!”
Sosuke, completely robbed of the spiritual elixir, charged at Kwon O-jin with eyes rolled back.
But with most of his magical power already depleted, he had no strength left to face Kwon O-jin.
-Thud.
Kwon O-jin clenched his fist around the head of the charging Sosuke.
As his magical power ran dry, the body that had been undulating like water returned to its original form.
“Ah….”
Eyes filled with terror visible between his fingers.
“Charge.”
Kwon O-jin activated “Charge” on Sosuke’s head that he held.
Blue lightning condensed within the captured head.
“Aaaaaahhhhh!!”
Sosuke writhed in agony and tried to escape from Kwon O-jin’s grip, but with most of his magical power depleted, there was no way to break free from the devastating grip.
“Charge, charge, charge, charge, charge.”
-Crackle!!
The blue lightning, condensed beyond its limit, rampaged inside Sosuke’s head.
Having surpassed the threshold of pain, Sosuke’s head swelled abnormally as he lost consciousness with his eyes rolled back.
And then.
-Splatter!!
Brain matter, eyeballs, crushed cheekbones, and teeth scattered down.
“Tsk.”
Kwon O-jin flicked the blood from his hand with a light click of his tongue.
The battle with Sosuke itself had unfolded exactly as he anticipated.
“It was too easy.”
As long as he possessed Hydro Affinity, no matter how severe the external trauma, it would regenerate quickly, so the battle lacked any sense of tension.
‘There’s definitely a reason he’s ranked seventh.’
No matter how unfavorable the matchup.
Still, compared to Cheon Do-yoon whom he had faced before, Sosuke’s combat prowess felt utterly insignificant.
‘If the gap between sixth and seventh rank is this wide.’
Just how formidable were the other Enforcers?
….
Kwon O-jin paused in his contemplation, then gave a light shrug of his shoulders as he extended his hand toward Sosuke’s corpse.
No matter how formidable their power might be.
‘I’ll simply devour them all and become stronger than them.’
A deep, rumbling sound.
The black clouds of the Dark Heaven engulfed the stigma of the Sea Horse Constellation.
Magical energy flowed in, riding the undulating clouds.
[All conditions for the blooming of ‘Dark Heaven’ have been achieved!]
[The sixth blooming of ‘Dark Heaven’ is beginning!]
A clear chime sounded as a blue message window materialized before my eyes.
A deep, rumbling roar.
Black clouds burst from my left chest, coiling around my entire body.
[With the blooming of Dark Heaven, some memories of Awakener Lee Shin-hyuk are being transmitted!]
A crackling sound.
My vision twisted as if distorted by static.
Following the sensation I had grown accustomed to, I gently closed my eyes.
As my eyelids descended, the world faded away, and the memories of another world ignited.
Before me lay a resplendent night view.
The aerial garden installed above the Yongsan Auction House—where Kwon O-jin had once gifted Ha-eun the Dragon’s Eye.
-Ahem! S-sister!
There stood Lee Shin-hyuk, his expression taut with nervousness, rigid as if he were attending an interview at a major corporation, facing Ha-eun.
He thrust a small rectangular box, no larger than his palm, toward her and cried out.
-I… like you. Ever since I first met you, sister… always.
His face flushed crimson as he uttered a clichéd, cringe-worthy confession that seemed ripped from some outdated romantic comedy.
‘This bastard?’
My expression twisted harshly as I observed Lee Shin-hyuk’s memory.

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