Not A Regressor - Chapter 181

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 181
Living Armor (6)
“Sister?”
Kwon O-jin’s eyes widened as he watched Ha-eun pull up on a motorcycle.
She had certainly been undergoing the ‘shedding’ process, engulfed in brilliantly blazing flames just moments ago.
“All done now, you bastard.”
Ha-eun approached Kwon O-jin with a snort of derision.
“I woke up and asked where you were, and they said you’d come out here for an investigation. So I came right away, but….”
She glared at Kwon O-jin nestled in Isabella’s arms with narrowed eyes.
“Looks like you’ve been having quite the good time while I was away?”
“Does this look like I’m having a good time?”
Kwon O-jin pointed to his blood-soaked chest.
“Being cradled by a well-endowed, beautiful, rich girl who cooks well—that’s definitely a good time.”
“That’s true, but…”
“True? You fucking serious?”
“No. It was a grueling and agonizing time.”
“That’s right, that’s right. That’s how our O-jin should be.”
Ha-eun burst into a giggling laugh and gently ruffled the hair of the collapsed Kwon O-jin.
She glanced back at Isabella, who was cradling Kwon O-jin, and spoke in a soft voice.
“Thank you.”
“Pardon?”
“Thanks for protecting O-jin.”
“….”
Isabella’s expression showed slight bewilderment—she hadn’t expected to hear gratitude from Ha-eun.
Ha-eun withdrew her gaze from Isabella and turned her head toward the demonic beast clad in pitch-black armor.
“So it was you? The one who made our O-jin bleed like that.”
“I didn’t make him bleed like that, though.”
“I’ll check in a moment whether you did or not, so stay still.”
“Huh?”
Check what exactly?
“Anyway.”
Ha-eun casually dismissed Kwon O-jin’s words and pulled out a cigarette pack from her pocket.
She drew out a single cigarette, placed it between her lips, and conjured a small flame at her fingertips.
Sizzle.
A firefly-like glow settled on the pristine cigarette tip.
“This is why I can’t take my eyes off O-jin.”
A killing intent crystallized in her coldly reddened eyes.
“Wheeeeeeze.”
“This bastard sounds like someone who’s been constipated for three days and finally let one rip—what a pathetic noise.”
The ominous cry that had struck hundreds of awakeners with terror instantly transformed into something utterly contemptible.
The Living Armor likely couldn’t understand her words, but it leveled its spear at Ha-eun, radiating a chilling killing intent.
“What? Pissed off?”
I chuckled and took a deep drag from the cigarette.
“But how do I handle this?”
Click. I reached back and undid the eye patch covering my left eye.
A yellow reptilian iris emerged from beneath the black patch.
Whoosh.
Pale smoke drifting between crimson lips.
After tucking the half-burned cigarette butt between my fingers.
“I’m the one who’s more pissed, you bastard.”
Crack!!!
As I flicked my finger, the smoldering cigarette shot forward like a bullet.
A small firefly perched on the cigarette’s tip spread its wings wide and soared into the air.
Whoooosh!!
Brilliant flames erupting.
The tiny firefly transformed into a dragon, coiling around the Living Armor.
“Shrieeeeek!!”
Engulfed in flames so scorching it was difficult to keep its eyes open, the Living Armor shrieked in agony.
The armor, already grotesquely warped from successive battles, began melting in the intense heat.
Boom!!
Before its entire body could dissolve, the Living Armor kicked off the ground and charged forward.
Blue-green flames ignited at the spear’s tip, aimed at Ha-eun.
“Burn.”
Ha-eun sidestepped fluidly, evading the spear.
She seized the shaft as it grazed her left ribs, yanking it roughly toward her while clenching her fist.
Whoooosh!!
The dragon’s eye lodged near my left eye gleamed fiercely as flames coalesced in my clenched fist.
“Burn with everything you’ve got.”
Boom!!
I drove my flame-wreathed fist straight into the serpent mark etched on the Living Armor’s chest.
Colossal flames compressed within my fist erupted like a volcano.
Three dragons wrought of blazing fire crawled up my arm, coiling around the Living Armor’s body.
“Tch.”
I drew a sharp breath and opened my fist, grasping the Living Armor’s breastplate.
“Hyaaah!!!”
Crack!
With a powerful shout, I tore away the half-melted breastplate.
“Shrieeeeek!!”
The Living Armor thrashed and retreated backward.
Even as it pulled back, it violently shook the spear shaft still gripped in Ha-eun’s hands.
“Ugh!”
My body, gripping the spear shaft with my left hand, was violently hurled backward by the overwhelming force.
I narrowed my eyes and glared at the Living Armor.
“Damn, this bastard’s strength is ridiculously overwhelming.”
If the Living Armor had been in pristine condition, even I, having just completed my Shedding, wouldn’t have been able to face it.
But.
“Looks like it’s gotten a bit tired?”
A twisted smile played at my lips.
I pulled another cigarette from my pack and held it high.
“Ignite.”
Six fire dragons converged around the cigarette.
“Burn with all your might.”
I swung the cigarette down as if wielding a sword held high.
Whoooosh!
The six fire dragons scattered in different directions, swimming through the air like living creatures.
With gaping maws wide open, they ravaged the black armor like a pack of hyenas tearing into a corpse.
“Skreeeeeee!!”
One fire dragon crawled through the gap where the breastplate had been torn away.
Red flames mixed with the blue-green fire that had been burning across the Living Armor’s body.
The flames of different colors clashed and tangled as if fighting for dominance.
The Living Armor writhed in agony.
“Phew.”
Cold sweat dripped down my forehead.
Having just completed my Shedding, controlling six fire dragons wasn’t easy either.
‘I have to finish this here.’
If the Living Armor got even a moment’s respite and fled, with my mobility being far inferior to my firepower, there would be no way to catch it.
And one more thing.
‘How dare you lay a hand on our O-jin?’
Recalling O-jin’s bloodied form lying collapsed, fury surged through me.
Whoooosh.
A tidal wave of mana poured from the dragon heart nestled in my left chest.
A round orb materialized in my wide-open palm.
A red orb that neither flickered nor burned fiercely.
Boom!
I stomped the ground violently, gripping the dragon orb.
My reddish-brown hair, tied in a high ponytail, whipped like flames.
Wind brushed against my cheek.
With each step, the ground beneath me caved inward as if I were running across wet cement.
“Skreeeee!!”
The Living Armor, thrashing violently, hastily raised its spear.
“Too late, you bastard.”
Ha-eun leaped lightly, moving with the fluid grace of a predator as she vaulted onto the shaft of the spear.
She stretched out her left arm, seized the Living Armor’s helmet, and wrenched it upward with brutal force.
“Open wide.”
She shoved her fist—clenching the Dragon Jade—roughly into the hollow of the helmet.
“Something hot’s about to go in.”
“Shhhhrieeeeek!!”
“Uh-uh. Don’t bare your teeth at me, you wretch.”
Before the Living Armor could sink its fangs into her arm, Ha-eun yanked it free and kicked the armor away with a swift motion.
She executed a clean back handspring, creating distance, then casually fished a cigarette pack from her pocket.
“Ah, down to the last one.”
She placed the final cigarette between her lips and brought her fingertip to its end.
Sizzle.
As she drew in a leisurely drag,
Whoooosh!!
Savage flames erupted from the seams of the black armor.
Not the eerie blue-green fire of a ghostly flame, but the crimson inferno of a dragon’s breath.
Boom!
The half-melted obsidian armor collapsed to the ground with a heavy thud.
The blue-green eyes that had gleamed coldly between the helmet’s gaps flickered to black and died.
“Man, that was exhausting.”
Ha-eun turned with a smirk on her face.
Though she appeared unbothered on the surface, beads of cold sweat clung to her forehead like dew on grass at dawn.
“Did you bring any potions?”
Ha-eun approached the fallen Kwon O-jin and looked down at him as she asked.
“I have some with me.”
Isabella retrieved a potion from the small pouch at her waist.
It wasn’t an elixir capable of regenerating severed limbs, but it was a supreme-grade potion worth easily tens of billions per bottle.
“Let me feed it to you, Kwon O-jin.”
Isabella cradled Kwon O-jin’s head in her lap, uncorked the potion bottle, and brought the blue liquid to her lips to drink it first.
“Stop right there. What do you think you’re doing, you brat?”
Ha-eun grabbed Isabella by the hair, pulling her head back from the potion.
Isabella shot Ha-eun a sharp glare.
“…What exactly are you doing?”
“If anyone’s going to feed him, it’ll be me.”
“My, people might think the potion was Ha-eun’s if they heard that.”
A tense atmosphere began to settle between Isabella and Ha-eun.
“Am I some terminal patient you’re both fighting over?”
Kwon O-jin grimaced and pushed himself up.
His body ached in multiple places from the internal injuries sustained during his battle with Deneb’s apostles and the wounds inflicted by the Living Armor, but he wasn’t so badly off that he couldn’t drink a single potion on his own.
“I’ll drink it gratefully.”
I snatched the potion bottle from Isabella’s hand and poured it into my mouth.
Indeed, it was a top-tier potion worth billions.
A refreshing energy spread throughout my body, and the pain gradually subsided.
“Oh….”
“Mmm.”
Avoiding the sympathetic gazes of the two women, I rose to my feet.
I walked slowly toward the half-melted corpse of the Living Armor sprawled across the ground.
‘I should consume it before the Cheonhye Guild arrives.’
I glanced back at Isabella and spoke.
“Can you check on Lee Woo-hyuk’s condition for a moment?”
“Ah. Yes, just a moment.”
Only then did Isabella seem to remember Lee Woo-hyuk, who had been sent flying by the Living Armor’s attack. She nodded and hurried away with quick steps.
Ha-eun approached as I watched Isabella’s retreating figure.
“That thing… what was it, Heukcheon or something? Are you trying to absorb it with that?”
“That’s the plan.”
A demonic beast created by the Snake.
I couldn’t afford to let such nutritious prey slip away.
“Isn’t that… dangerous?”
Ha-eun asked with a worried expression.
She seemed concerned that the Snake’s power dwelling within the demonic beast might have some adverse effect on me.
I chuckled and shook my head.
“If I couldn’t handle power of this caliber, it wouldn’t have been a threat to the world in the first place.”
No matter how formidable the Snake’s power was, Heukcheon would have no trouble containing it.
Countless constellations adorning the night sky.
Heukcheon was what devoured all of them.
Rumble.
Black clouds flowed from my hand, enveloping the pitch-black armor.
-Ding!
[You have absorbed a portion of the ‘Snake Zodiac’s Stigma’. To use the power of the ‘Snake Zodiac’s Stigma’, you must absorb more stigmas.]
[All conditions for the seventh blooming of ‘Heukcheon’ have been met!]
[The seventh blooming of ‘Heukcheon’ is beginning!]
“What?”
My eyes widened as I confirmed the message window before me.
I never expected Heukcheon to bloom here.
[Heukcheon has reached ‘Seven Star Metamorphosis’.]
[As Heukcheon blooms, some of awakener Lee Shin-hyuk’s memories are being transmitted!]
Crackle.
My vision twisted along with the familiar static.

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