Not A Regressor - Chapter 212

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 212
The Serpent’s Head (5)
Whoooosh! Boom!
Massive demonic beasts plummeted into the Empty Field.
“Ugh….”
“What in the world… why do they look like that?”
Isabella grimaced with disgust as she gazed upon the hundreds of demonic beasts scattered across the Empty Field, while Ha-eun’s mouth fell open in shock.
“Kerrrgh, krrgh.”
Their skin was slimy, as if formed from the yellowish pus oozing from burst blisters.
Without eyes or ears, they possessed only two massive nostrils and mouths stretched grotesquely across their temples.
Their backs, covered in bumpy growths as if ravaged by disease, sprouted writhing tentacles like wings, while their limbs—hairy and elongated like those of a cockroach—twitched with nauseating motion.
“What the hell.”
Kwon O-jin himself couldn’t help but curse as he stared at the horde.
‘What kind of demonic beasts are these?’
I had encountered and fought countless demonic beasts until now.
But never had I seen ones with such repulsive forms.
They resembled the worst chimera imaginable—as if a mad scientist had spent decades contemplating how to annihilate humanity before finally creating this abomination.
“I… I’ve never seen demonic beasts like these before.”
[Even I have never laid eyes upon creatures so grotesque.]
Even Isabella and Vega, who rarely showed emotion, visibly winced at the sight.
“Kerrrrrgh!”
The hideous demonic beasts flared their massive nostrils and lowered their bodies in a predatory crouch.
The tentacles sprouting from their backs writhed obscenely.
“Ugh, I’m seriously gonna throw up.”
Ha-eun turned away, unable to bear the sight any longer.
Never before had mere appearance alone triggered such visceral revulsion.
“Do all the demonic beasts in the Demon Realm look like that?”
“How would I know?”
No one here had ever ventured into the Demon Realm.
[Enough chatter, all of you.]
With Vega’s final warning,
Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!
The earth trembled as the demonic beasts, encircling Kwon O-jin’s group, lunged forward in unison.
“Krrgh! Kerrrgh!”
With grotesque cries, they opened their grotesquely elongated mouths wide.
Their long tongues whipped through the air like whips.
[Repugnant creatures.]
Vega soared into the air, spreading her arms wide.
Crackle crackle!
Blue sparks erupted around her body.
[Spread out.]
A low voice resonated through the air as blue sparks unfurled like a net, spreading wide across the battlefield.
“Screeeech! Screech!”
The demonic beasts engulfed in the blue sparks convulsed violently, their bodies writhing in agony.
Splurt.
The grotesque pustules bulging from their backs ruptured, spilling forth a nauseating torrent of yellow pus.
“Ugh, I really can’t stand this!”
Ha-eun furrowed her brow and pulled a cigarette from her pack.
Sizzzzz!
The tip of the cigarette ignited brilliantly as a massive fireball erupted into being.
“Burn to ash, you disgusting creatures!”
Whoooosh!
A towering inferno surged like waves, engulfing the demonic beasts in its path.
“Screeeech!”
The sound of sizzling flesh mingled with wisps of pale smoke rising skyward.
The demonic beasts writhed across the ground, their anguished shrieks piercing the air.
“That’s it!”
My joy at clenching my fist in triumph was short-lived.
Leaping over the burning demonic beasts, those lurking behind charged forward.
“Screeeech!”
A grotesque sound like phlegm rattling in a throat.
A demonic beast with elongated legs resembling a cockroach’s limbs skittered forward with unnerving speed, launching tentacles that sprouted from its back.
“Ugh, blegh!”
Staring at the tentacles coated in viscous pus, I barely suppressed the rising nausea.
Clamping my hand over my mouth, I hastily retreated backward.
Sizzzzzzz!
Where the tentacle grazed, the ground melted away as if doused with sulfuric acid.
“These things really…!”
I spread my arms wide, baring my teeth ferociously.
Six fire dragons coiled around my body, blazing to life.
“Flames, arise!”
Boom!
Stamping my feet roughly, I thrust my outstretched arms forward.
“Incinerate them all!”
Whoooooosh!
Six fire dragons danced in unison.
Like living creatures gliding through the void, the fire dragons engulfed the charging demonic beasts.
As the yellow pus burned away, the acrid stench it released turned my face a sickly shade of green.
“Wait, just a moment. Ugh.”
“Elder Sister!”
Isabella stepped in front of the stumbling Ha-eun, her eyes gleaming coldly.
A crimson aura wrapped around her as a blood-red scythe materialized in her grasp.
Shhwaaack!
With each swing of the scythe, the demonic beasts that rushed forward were cleaved in two, their bodies tumbling across the ground.
“Damn it, how many of these things are there?”
Kwon O-jin, who was holding back the demonic beasts on the opposite side from Ha-eun and Isabella, furrowed his brow.
The ones that had initially fallen from the stone were clearly around two to three hundred, yet they kept pouring in endlessly as if they were multiplying.
Looking at the situation alone, it resembled the incident at San Fruttuoso.
But these creatures were strong.
I severed the menacingly lashing tentacles with my spear and brutally stomped on the head of a demonic beast that burst through the ground.
At San Fruttuoso, they were merely numerous, but they were only 1-star grade monsters—Anthrons—so I managed to deal with them somehow.
The grotesque horde of demonic beasts that appeared in the Empty Field possessed swift movements and formidable strength, with each individual exceeding at least 6-star grade.
That wasn’t all.
Each individual had slightly different attack patterns, making them troublesome to face.
Some demonic beasts charged forward wielding massive claws like a lobster, while others shot saw-like spines in all directions.
I barely managed to block the barrage of attacks coming from all sides, my eyes narrowing.
“Kwon O-jin, I’ll handle this side alone. Please defend the opposite passage with Ha-eun.”
Isabella walked toward the front passage where the most demonic beasts were converging as she spoke.
“Will you be alright?”
“Hehe. Are you worried about me?”
Isabella turned to face me, a bewitching smile playing at the corners of her lips.
Dozens of demonic beasts lunged at her exposed back.
Isabella swung the scythe using only her wrists while standing with her back to them.
Shhwaaaaaack!
Blood-red lines traced through the air as the demonic beasts rushing toward Isabella were split in half.
Isabella smiled brightly against the backdrop of demonic beast flesh raining down.
“There’s no need for you to worry about me.”
“…I can see that.”
I stifled a hollow laugh and turned away.
Right.
There was someone else I needed to worry about—not Isabella.
I took position in the opposite passage that Isabella was defending.
While not as intense as the front passage, dozens and hundreds of demonic beasts were still pouring in relentlessly here as well.
Crackle!
I drew upon my mana using Exceed, channeling more power into the spear gripped in my hand.
“Elder Sister, provide support from the rear then.”
“Roger that! Just trust your Elder Sister!”
[I shall lend my aid as well!]
I nodded and kicked off toward the swarm of demonic beasts rushing at me.
Boom!
I drove a wire shooter into the towering rock face and launched myself into the air with acrobatic flair.
The demonic beasts scrambled up the cliff after me with frantic speed.
“Hngh!”
I extended the wire and sprinted through the void, using lightning steps to propel myself forward.
Circling the rock face once, I wrapped the wire—now stretched dozens of meters long—around the bodies of the demonic beasts climbing upward.
“Kerrrgh! Kek!”
The wire-bound demonic beasts thrashed wildly, their long cockroach-like legs flailing in desperation.
I grimaced at the nauseating sight and drew upon my mana reserves.
‘Explosive Thunder.’
Crackle-crackle-crack!
Blue lightning surged along the wire and detonated with a deafening roar.
The thirty-meter-high rock face crumbled under the impact, and pale dust billowed skyward.
As the smoke settled, the crushed corpses of the demonic beasts came into view.
“Ugh.”
Yellow pus oozed from between the mangled remains, accompanied by a sickening stench.
The revulsion churned my stomach, and I drooled involuntarily.
‘If disgust reaches this level, it’s practically a weapon.’
Could anything else inflict such agony through sight and smell alone?
I’d always prided myself on having a strong constitution, having lived a hard life from the bottom.
But this demonic beast’s repulsiveness far exceeded even that threshold—it was truly abominable.
“Kerrrgh!”
[My child!]
A demonic beast leaping over the rubble was struck by lightning from Vega and plummeted.
I dodged the beast falling amid blue sparks and continued my slaughter of the endless horde.
“Haa, haa.”
An hour? No, two hours?
My breath came in ragged gasps as I wielded my spear in a frenzy, all sense of time lost.
The Empty Field where hundreds of Cheonhye Guild members had fallen was now completely blanketed with the repugnant corpses of demonic beasts—so thoroughly covered that not a trace of the fallen remained visible.
I drove my obsidian spear into the jaw of an incoming demonic beast, breathing heavily.
‘Still, I can see the end now.’
Roughly thirty demonic beasts remained.
Isabella still had more to deal with, but at this rate, we could finish everything within ten minutes.
I held my position in front of Ha-eun, maintaining formation rather than charging recklessly at the remaining beasts.
After hours of continuous combat, Ha-eun, I, and Vega were all exhausted.
We couldn’t afford to charge in as recklessly as before.
“…O-jin. Do you see those two over there?”
Ha-eun pointed to two demonic beasts standing motionless atop the collapsed rocks, watching us from above.
Unlike the other beasts with their large noses and gaping mouths, these possessed ‘eyes’ that gleamed with a yellow light.
“Huh. Why are they—?”
“Those bastards have been standing there since earlier, just watching us.”
Upon hearing Ha-eun’s words, I noticed two demonic beasts possessing ‘eyes’ standing motionless like passive observers, watching us intently.
“Are they like bosses?”
“Seems like it.”
I was about to fire my wire shooter at the two creatures standing quietly and staring at us when I squinted my eyes.
“Hup!”
“Kyaaaaaah! What the hell are those crazy bastards doing?!”
Both Ha-eun and I couldn’t help but gasp in shock.
One of the two standing demonic beasts suddenly climbed onto the other—and began thrusting its hips violently.
“What the f—!”
I spat out a crude curse and averted my eyes from the two creatures beginning to intertwine their bodies.
The two demonic beasts, whose grotesque forms were already nauseating just to look at, suddenly began coupling right before my eyes—it was impossible to witness with a clear mind.
“O-O-jin! O-jin, what do we do about that?!”
“How should I know, dammit!”
“S-stop those bastards, O-jin!”
Ha-eun was shrieking from behind.
Unlike me, who couldn’t help but look away, she was tasked with rear support and was forced to witness the demonic beasts coupling while she hurled fireballs at the remaining creatures.
“O-jin! O-jiiiiin!”
Ha-eun’s screams echoed shrilly across the Empty Field.
“T-their tentacles are all tangled up!”
“Stop describing it!”
“Gyaaaah! T-they’re starting to suck each other!”
“That’s why I said stop describing it!”
I clenched my teeth with my eyes averted, fighting back the rising nausea.
“O-jinnnnn!!! They’re laying eggs! They’re laying eggs!”
“Why do you keep explaining it?!”
“Ignorance is bliss, O-jin!”
“Then why?!”
“Knowledge is suffering!”
“No.”
What is this Elder Sister even saying?

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