Not A Regressor - Chapter 215

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 215
The Serpent’s Head (8)
As if the night sky itself had been poured into a vessel.
A dense, dark cloud exploded upward in a violent surge.
“Kerrrgh?”
The mother beast’s charge toward me ground to an abrupt halt.
The mother beast flared its massive nostrils, shaking its head in confusion as if unable to comprehend what was happening.
Though its vision had atrophied, it possessed exceptional senses of smell and hearing to detect its surroundings.
But why?
“Kerrrgh! Krrgh! Krrrrrgh!”
It couldn’t smell anything.
It couldn’t hear anything.
Not the scent of blood and flesh from its enemy. Not the frantic footsteps of escape.
As if the power switch to all sensation had been flipped off, it felt nothing.
Nothing, nothing, nothing.
“Why is that?”
Craaaack!
Then. A tremendous sound erupted.
It wasn’t a sound from the outside world.
The sound came from within its body.
It was the sound of a long spear piercing through flesh and impaling its crown.
“Isn’t that what you’re thinking too?”
Szzzzzzzzzt!
“Keeeeeek!”
The mother beast convulsed, its body writhing in agony.
Not because it felt excruciating pain.
Quite the opposite.
Even as its body was being destroyed, the terror of feeling no sensation at all forced a horrific scream from the beast.
Krrrrrung!
Thousands upon thousands of tentacles swept wildly across the surroundings in a frenzy.
I, half my body now transformed into dark cloud, was struck by the beast’s blind tentacles and hurled backward with tremendous force.
Boom!
With a heavy impact, the dark cloud forming my body rippled violently.
“Ah… ugh.”
I raised my hand—the part not yet transformed into cloud—and gripped my head.
Like butter melting in a pan heated to scorching temperatures.
I felt my consciousness growing hazy.
‘Focus.’
Before my consciousness dissolved entirely into Heukcheon’s cloud.
I had to eliminate the mother beast.
“Haah.”
I exhaled a shallow breath and kicked off lightly against the ground.
My body rose into the air without even using Cloud Step.
As if I had truly become a cloud itself.
Drifting freely through the empty sky, I looked down at the mother beast thrashing about below me.
‘The sensory deprivation is working to some extent.’
When using Heukcheon, all the senses of every enemy within a certain radius would vanish.
Given the mother beast’s massive size, I couldn’t completely sever all its senses.
But judging by how it was shrieking and rampaging, the sensory deprivation was at least partially successful.
However.
‘Getting close is too difficult.’
The wildly flailing tentacles made it hard to approach the mother beast’s body directly.
“Ugh, ah. Krrgh!”
Normally, I could weave between its attacks and close in.
But now, barely clinging to consciousness as it flickered in and out, even moving my body properly was a struggle.
‘If I can bait the attacks toward the parts I’ve transformed into dark clouds…’
After using Heukcheon, nearly half my body had transformed into dark clouds.
The parts that had become dark clouds seemed impervious to physical force—attacks passed right through them.
“Haah, haah. I can do this.”
The parts most heavily transformed into dark clouds right now were my right chest and arm.
The rest hadn’t fully changed; only portions were transformed like stains on cloth, making it harder to let attacks pass through.
“Hup!”
I drew a deep breath and flew toward the mother beast.
The dark clouds that had been spreading like mist around my body followed me and engulfed the mother beast’s form.
Within the darkness shrouded in dark clouds, the tentacles lashing about chaotically surged toward me.
‘Right side.’
Whoosh!
A grotesque tentacle burrowed in from the right.
I twisted my body and met the tentacle with the part transformed into black dark clouds.
The tentacle, possessing enough force to topple towering rocks entirely, passed straight through the black dark clouds and continued on.
“There we go.”
I twisted my lips into a grin as I drew closer to the mother beast.
Embedded in the grotesque head of the mother beast—with only its massive nostrils and a mouth torn open at the temples—was the spear I had driven in moments before.
Landing on its head while evading the tentacles, I grasped the Ebony Spear.
‘Charge.’
Crackle! Snap!
I condensed lightning into the Ebony Spear’s interior.
Once, twice, three times.
With each repetition, the spear trembled as if crying out in pain.
‘Not yet.’
The spear seemed as though it might shatter at any moment, yet even this was insufficient to topple the mother beast that towered hundreds of meters high.
‘Charge, charge, charge.’
By the time the seventh charge had been completed, surpassing six.
Crack! Snap!
A fine fissure appeared along the shaft of the spear.
Kwon O-jin thrust the spear he gripped with all his might toward the crown of the mother beast’s head, releasing the condensed lightning he had accumulated.
“Discharge.”
Crackle-crackle-crackle-crack!!
A torrent of black lightning struck the mother beast’s head with devastating force.
“Kieeeeeeeek!”
A horrific shriek pierced through my fading consciousness.
Despite pouring all my power into that attack.
“Haa, haa… damn it.”
Even after driving the spear directly into its body and channeling lightning through its interior, the mother beast did not die—instead, it began writhing with even greater violence.
‘Just how incredibly hard is this thing.’
Kwon O-jin bit his lip with an anxious expression.
He had unleashed his most powerful strike among all the techniques available to him, excluding the Lightning Divine Body, yet he could not kill the mother beast.
‘I cannot use the Lightning Divine Body right now.’
My consciousness was already so dim it threatened to snap at any moment—how could I possibly use the Lightning Divine Body?
“Haa, haa. Ah, ugh.”
My consciousness dissolving into black storm clouds.
Fragments of memory surfaced, only to dissolve and vanish into the darkness.
‘I cannot fail.’
There was no time.
“Whoosh.”
Kwon O-jin exhaled a shallow breath and drove his arm, now transformed into black storm clouds, into the gaping wound in the mother beast’s head pierced by the spear.
Like drops of black ink falling into clear water.
Heukcheon’s clouds savagely burrowed into the mother beast’s body.
‘If it cannot be killed through physical impact.’
Then consume it entirely.
Until its very soul withers and crumbles to dust.
That alone would suffice.
Crunch-crunch-crunch-crunch!
The power of Heukcheon that had burrowed into the mother beast’s body began greedily devouring its magical essence.
‘This is… a Constellation’s soul.’
A fragment of the Constellation’s soul that had been dissolved within the divine spirit was absorbed by Heukcheon and flowed into Kwon O-jin’s body.
An unfathomable power unlike anything I had ever tasted—a tremor of ecstasy rippled through every cell of my being.
‘More, more, more!’
Kwon O-jin twisted his lips into a greedy smile as he absorbed the mother beast’s magical essence.
“Aah.”
I never knew that devouring the soul of a Constellation could be this exhilarating.
“Ha, hahaha. Hahahaha!”
Laughter erupted from the overwhelming euphoria.
Just a fragment of some nameless Constellation’s soul was flooding me with this much pleasure.
‘Indeed.’
If I were to consume Vega entirely.
How delightful would it be.
How blissful would it be.
How, how, how, how, how━
“Gah, stop…!”
Kwon O-jin wrenched his right arm free from where he’d driven it into the mother beast’s skull.
He stopped absorbing its mana and kicked off from atop the creature’s head.
Boom!
Kwon O-jin’s body plummeted from hundreds of meters above, crashing into the ground with a heavy impact and tumbling across it.
“Gasp, gasp, gasp!”
Breathing heavily, Kwon O-jin urgently sealed Heukcheon’s gate.
His body, which had transformed nearly halfway into black clouds, gradually began reverting to its original form.
“Damn it, damn it!”
He spat out rough curses to purge the revolting thoughts that had filled his mind moments before.
-Ding!
[You have absorbed a fragment of the soul of Butenir, Constellation of the Toad Constellation.]
[Heukcheon’s power has been strengthened, and you have acquired the new trait ‘Gasification’.]
[You have achieved some of the conditions necessary for the liberation of ‘Heaven’s Opening’.]
Blue messages cascaded before my eyes.
But right now, I had no leisure to calmly read through them.
“Gasp, gasp.”
Cold sweat trickled down my back.
Kwon O-jin collapsed to the ground, covering his face with his right hand as it returned to normal.
He desperately suppressed the surging desire and thirst, clinging to the thread of consciousness that flickered dimly.
“Phew.”
Having barely calmed the raging aura of Heukcheon, Kwon O-jin exhaled a shaky breath and was rising to his feet when.
“Kerrrrrgh!”
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The mother beast lunged toward him with its grotesquely torn mouth gaping wide.
“Insane…!”
Kwon O-jin turned to face the mother beast with eyes wide in shock.
Was it because I’d stopped absorbing midway?
Despite being battered and broken all over, the mother beast still clung to life.
‘Damn it!’
Even knowing I had to flee quickly.
I couldn’t move my legs, still suffering from the aftereffects of using the Heavenly Demon.
“Kerrraaaaaagh!”
The mother beast, stretching hundreds of meters, charged toward me like a tank.
Just before the colossal body could crush me.
“What a noisy creature.”
Swish.
A jet-black dress trailing across the ground.
A slender woman with platinum-blonde hair blocked the mother beast’s path.
“Kergh.”
The hundreds-of-meters-tall beast, which had been charging with its grotesquely split mouth wide open, came to an abrupt halt.
The woman stood motionless, watching the trembling beast with a faint smile.
“That’s right. Good, good.”
Stroke, stroke.
She extended her delicate hand and gently stroked the mother beast as it stood frozen.
“Kergh, kergh, kergh.”
The mother beast remained in place, its body convulsing as if seized by a fit.
Though it had only nostrils and a mouth for a face.
For some reason, I could see terror etched across the mother beast’s features.
“But your sins are far too great for me to forgive.”
A chilling murderous intent gleamed in the woman’s green eyes.
She extended her index finger and lightly tapped the mother beast’s body.
“Die.”
With that eerie command.
“Kerrrrrgh!”
The mother beast began tearing itself apart in a frenzy.
It shoved its long tentacles into its own mouth, crushing its organs, and drove its pointed legs into its own skull, tearing through its brain.
A horrifying scene, as if watching a frame from a horror film.
I swallowed hard and turned to face the Platinum-haired Woman who had appeared so suddenly.
She looked to be in her mid-twenties.
Despite her bewitching beauty, her body was so fragile it seemed it would shatter at the slightest touch.
But.
‘Insane.’
The aura she emanated.
Was far more powerful than any Awakened I had ever encountered.
‘I can’t possibly win against this.’
Had I ever encountered a being that exuded such absurd pressure?
My hands trembled uncontrollably as I clenched my fists and looked at the woman.
“Ah, ahhh!”
The woman gazed at me and let out a cry of ecstasy.
Without hesitation, she dropped to her knees on the dusty ground, spreading both arms wide like a fanatic worshipping a god.
“At last, at last, at last I have found you!”
She cried out in a voice trembling with fervent devotion.
“My god, my savior, my master!”
She gazed up at Kwon O-jin with a radiant smile.
“Cassia, the humble servant of the Heavenly Demon, offers her greetings.”
The woman who had revealed her name as Cassia bowed deeply before Kwon O-jin.
Kwon O-jin’s pupils trembled.
‘The Heavenly Demon? She’s calling me the Heavenly Demon? What the hell is this situation?’
He couldn’t fathom why she was calling him the Heavenly Demon.
But to his knowledge, there was only one woman who followed the Heavenly Demon with such fanatical devotion.
‘Could it be… the Snake Zodiac Queen?’
A chill raced down Kwon O-jin’s spine.
‘Damn it, damn it, damn it all!’
Crude curses flooded his mind.
One calamity after another, they say.
After the Holy Spirit, now the Serpens Queen?
“Ah, Heavenly Demon. Heavenly Demon. Heavenly Demon. Heavenly Demon.”
Cassia gazed up at Kwon O-jin with yearning eyes.
“I have longed to see you… so very desperately.”
“….”
Kwon O-jin looked down at Cassia kneeling on the ground and clamped his mouth shut.
She remained there with her hands pressed together respectfully, gazing up at him as if awaiting his response.
“Sigh.”
Kwon O-jin exhaled slowly and ran a hand through his hair.
He looked down at Cassia with cold, icy eyes and opened his mouth quietly.
“You’re late.”
His voice was as frigid as frost.
“How much longer did you intend to keep me waiting?”
His eyes narrowed with disdain.
“Ah! I-I apologize, my god!”
Boom!
Cassia’s head struck the ground violently as her body trembled uncontrollably.
Kwon O-jin stared down at Cassia with her head pressed to the earth and swallowed hard.
‘This is bad.’
What am I supposed to do now?

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