Not A Regressor - Chapter 191

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 191
Monsters of the Sacred Oil Site (2)
Just how massive could it be?
300 meters? 500 meters?
No.
Perhaps it exceeded a kilometer.
Despite its mountainous bulk, its form was simplicity incarnate.
A colossal slime composed of murky crimson-brown mucus, as if lava had flowed down from a volcanic eruption and melted away.
No arms, no legs, not even facial features were properly attached.
This must be what a single-celled organism would feel like if it grew to grotesque proportions.
By appearance alone, it didn’t seem threatening at all.
The problem was that overwhelming size.
“What the hell is that?”
I’d encountered countless monsters before.
But this was my first time facing a creature that exerted such oppressive pressure through sheer ‘magnitude’ alone.
“Insane… A monster that massive actually exists?”
Ha-eun unconsciously stumbled backward.
Extremely simple, yet profound.
The difference in pure ‘mass’ had always been an overwhelming metric in combat.
Consider a lightweight boxer facing a heavyweight in the ring.
Actually, in this situation, we didn’t even need to go that far.
From that colossal monster’s perspective, humans were nothing more than ants.
“What are we supposed to do about this? Should we douse it with oil and set it on fire?”
“Fire is certainly effective against large enemies.
My eyes narrowed.
Despite the enormous distance separating us from the creature, I felt an intense heat radiating outward.
If the surrounding tens of kilometers of seawater had been heated like hot spring water because of this monster’s influence—
“Then it’s likely to have significant resistance to fire.”
“…Then, how do we fight that thing?”
“Wait a moment.”
I bit my lip and adjusted the pendant hanging around my neck.
Whoooooosh!
With a brilliant silver light, Vega and Riak materialized.
[That is….]
Vega’s eyes widened as she gazed at the massive monster visible through the window.
“A-A creature that size suddenly emerged from the sea!!”
Ha-eun clung to Vega with both arms, her voice urgent and panicked.
“Hmph. A giant, you say?”
Riak snorted derisively, his eyes gleaming.
“Get your wits about you, lizard woman. That isn’t some ‘giant monster.'”
“What?”
“Just because ants swarm together doesn’t mean you call it a giant ant, does it?”
“That’s… oh.”
Ha-eun let out a brief gasp as she watched the colossal monstrosity rise from the sea.
Countless crimson eyes materialized across the murky, blood-red gelatinous body of the massive creature.
Not just a pair.
Hundreds. Thousands. Tens of thousands.
Innumerable eyes blanketed the creature’s form as densely as the Milky Way sprawled across the night sky.
“Ah, so that’s what you meant.”
Kwon O-jin suppressed a hollow laugh as he glared at the monstrosity emerging from the depths.
Just as Riak had said, this was no mere ‘giant monster.’
‘A swarm of monsters.’
An incomprehensibly vast collective of creatures fused into a singular, nightmarish entity.
-KUOOOOOOOOO!!!
A grotesque cry pierced through the window.
It was no solitary beast’s roar.
Like countless spectators in the Colosseum Arena screaming in unison, countless voices layered upon each other, coalescing into one titanic wail.
KUGRGRGRGRG!!!
As if an avalanche had been unleashed, monsters cascaded down from the swarm towering a kilometer high.
In moments, they surged across the sea of San Fruttuoso toward the beach.
They hurled themselves with feral desperation toward the village sprawling along the shoreline.
“Sister, grab my arm.”
“Huh? What are you—”
“Running won’t cut it.”
Kwon O-jin, clad only in swim trunks and a wire shooter, thrust the window open.
Scorching sea breeze whipped through as the sheer cliff face yawned beneath his feet.
“What—what are you doing?!”
“Hold tight.”
He pulled Ha-eun’s waist flush against him and kicked off from the window, plummeting down the cliff.
“KYAAAAAAAH!!!”
Ha-eun’s piercing scream tore through the air.
‘Lightning foothold.’
Kwon O-jin conjured ethereal platforms of lightning mid-fall, twisting his trajectory as he extended his arm through the cliff’s crevices.
TWANG!
The wire shot forth, stretching taut as he descended rapidly.
[There are people gathered over there!]
Vega, perched atop Kwon O-jin’s head, pointed her tiny arm toward the Grand Plaza of the village.
Hundreds of people had congregated in the plaza near the beach, drawn by the commotion.
Panicked masses shrieking in terror.
“Tsk.”
Kwon O-jin drew a shallow breath and bent forward into a crouch.
The Lyra Constellation stigma etched upon his left chest blazed with brilliant light, and immense mana surged through every fiber of his being.
‘Excellent.’
My internal injuries had completely healed.
Kwon O-jin’s lips curved upward as he lowered himself into position.
Until now, the severe internal damage had consumed all his attention upon reaching the Seven Stars Blossom stage and growing stronger alongside Heukcheon and the Lyra Constellation stigma’s power—but now, finally, an opportunity had arrived to test that newfound strength.
Crackle!
Azure lightning unfurled like a staircase beneath his feet.
The lightning stigma burned with a clarity far more vivid than before.
Kwon O-jin stomped roughly upon the lightning stigma suspended in the air and surged toward the Grand Plaza.
“KUOOOOOO!!”
“GRRRRRRGH!!”
Monsters surged forward like a tidal wave.
When clustered together, their true forms had been obscured, but now Kwon O-jin could see they bore the shape of wolves—much like Riak.
Wolves whose entire bodies were encased in rigid chitinous armor.
For Kwon O-jin, these were creatures he knew all too well.
‘Anthorn.’
Low-rank monsters bearing the carapace of ants and the form of wolves.
They were among the most commonly encountered monsters in any Gate, and were regarded as the ‘weakest’ of all creatures—yet.
‘In truth, they’ve killed more humans than any other monster.’
Before Gates appeared.
Throughout human history, what animal had killed the most people?
Lions? Tigers? Sharks?
No.
The animal responsible for tens, hundreds of times more deaths than all of those combined was the mosquito.
Anthorn was no different.
They didn’t typically swarm in coordinated groups like this, but their insane breeding capacity and overwhelming numbers had inflicted far greater casualties than any other monster species.
‘And no matter how I look at it, these aren’t ordinary Anthorn.’
Their carapaces were a murky crimson-black, as though cooled lava, and waves of intense heat radiated from them even at a distance.
Though they bore the form of Anthorn, these creatures felt entirely different from the ones Kwon O-jin knew.
“KYAAAAAAAH!”
“AHHH! GASP!”
“What—what’s making these Anthorn so strong?!”
As this was a resort frequented by the wealthy and powerful, armed bodyguards accompanied each guest—yet they couldn’t land a single blow and were being overwhelmed without resistance.
Horrific screams and cries of despair echoed across the beach.
“O-jin!”
“Yeah.”
Kwon O-jin retrieved a small folding knife from his swimming trunks’ pocket.
Whoosh, click!
In an instant, the blade transformed into the shape of a black spear.
A fierce blue lightning crackled at the tip of the spear.
‘Lightning strike.’
Kwon O-jin plummeted from dozens of meters above at a terrifying velocity.
Like lightning descending from the heavens, a pillar of blue electricity crashed down through the waves of Anthrons surging like a tidal wave.
Crackle! Crackle! Crackle!!
Like hurling a stone into a puddle.
Blue lightning radiated outward in a circle from the impact point, sweeping away dozens, hundreds of Anthrons.
The bodies of the Anthrons that had been charging madly were torn to shreds and scattered in all directions.
But only for a moment.
In an instant, twice as many Anthrons filled the gap and charged forward.
“How many of these things are there?”
Ha-eun’s mouth fell open as she watched the horde of Anthrons surge forward like a tsunami.
“I’ll hold them here, so you go to the back and help evacuate the people.”
“Wouldn’t it be better if I held them off?”
Ha-eun loosened up lightly and turned toward the swarm of Anthrons.
“But fire won’t work on those things….”
“Won’t it?”
Ha-eun raised her hand with a smirk.
A massive fireball materialized above her palm.
“Here we go!!”
“Krrrrgh?”
A ball of flame that burned with several times the intensity of the heat the Anthrons emitted swept through them.
The Anthrons, which had seemed to possess tremendous fire resistance, didn’t stand a chance and crumbled to ash.
“How about that?”
“….”
Kwon O-jin stared at Ha-eun with an expression of disbelief.
Against a monster with fire resistance, she simply and brutally incinerated it with an even hotter flame.
‘That’s so like my sister.’
I suppressed a hollow laugh and nodded.
If fire resistance wasn’t a problem, then Ha-eun was better suited to dealing with the multitude of enemies pouring in.
“Got it. Then hold them off as much as you can, sister.”
“Just trust your sister.”
Ha-eun gave Kwon O-jin’s backside a sharp slap before turning toward the incoming Anthrons.
She pulled out a pack of cigarettes from a waterproof pouch nestled in her cleavage and slipped one between her fingers.
“Ignite.”
Sizzle!
The tip of the cigarette burned bright red as a terrifying heat storm engulfed her body.
“Burn like hell.”
Whoooosh!
A massive inferno swept through the Anthrons surging forward like a tidal wave.
“Vega and Riak, help your sister hold back the Anthons!”
[Understood!]
“Hmph! How pathetic—charging in with nothing but numbers on your side.”
Vega, suspended high in the air, unleashed a torrent of lightning, while Riak transformed into his wolf-human form and charged toward the Anthons.
‘At least I’ve bought some time.’
I scaled a nearby building using the wire, my eyes narrowing as I surveyed the surroundings.
Ha-eun, Vega, and Riak’s efforts had granted me a brief reprieve.
‘But they won’t hold out long.’
There were simply too many of them.
Just as one cannot hold back a downpour with bare hands, it was impossible for our small group to stem the tide of Anthons surging toward us like a tsunami.
“Where is Isabella…?”
I turned my head, searching for her.
But the entire beach had descended into such chaos that I couldn’t locate her anywhere.
‘There’s no choice.’
For now, stopping those Anthons had to be the priority.
“…Though I haven’t the faintest idea how to actually stop them, priority or not.”
I exhaled deeply, staring at the endless swarm of Anthons pouring toward me.
How many were there, anyway?
Thousands? Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands?
The number was so vast that counting them became meaningless.
‘A swarm of this magnitude couldn’t have formed naturally.’
Then what in the world could possibly create such an abnormal phenomenon?
‘Merely being the Sacred Oil Site couldn’t cause something like this…’
Then.
Vega’s words brushed through my mind.
-Perhaps… there’s a dragon vein flowing through this place.
A dragon vein.
A location where stellar mana accumulated abnormally.
If a dragon vein’s power were at work, it might indeed be capable of causing such a phenomenon.
“Then.”
There was only one solution.
“I’ll devour them all and eliminate them entirely.”
I smiled, my gaze fixed on the crimson sea of Anthons covering the beach.
Crackle!
My body shot skyward, stepping upon the azure lightning trace suspended in the air.

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