Not A Regressor - Chapter 237

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 237
A Hero for the Small (7)
“Damn it.”
A curse that slipped out unbidden.
Kwon O-jin clenched his lips tightly as he watched the Blue Knight approach at a leisurely pace.
One obstacle after another—that was how it felt.
He had considered the worst-case scenario: a direct confrontation with the Blue Knight.
‘I was hoping my predictions would be wrong.’
But as always.
The world refused to follow his expectations.
‘Can I win?’
He recalled the Blue Knight’s movements—how it had overwhelmed Jason Hardy and Orlando Veil.
Without using Gaecheon, he couldn’t think of a way to defeat the Blue Knight.
‘But I can’t use Gaecheon.’
Once he began relying on that power, he would inevitably face the catastrophe that awaited him—that much was certain.
He couldn’t use Gaecheon unless the situation became truly hopeless.
And.
“This isn’t hopeless yet.”
Kwon O-jin gripped his spear and opened his eyes narrowly.
He couldn’t think of a way to defeat the Blue Knight, but at least he had a method to hold his own against it.
“….”
The Blue Knight, which had been approaching with unhurried steps, suddenly stopped.
Blood-red eyes gleaming between the helmet’s visor fixed their gaze upon Kwon O-jin.
-Screech.
Without even uttering a cry, the Blue Knight drew the rusted sword at its waist.
A biting chill spread through the surroundings.
A suffocating tension descended, as if it might snap at any moment.
“Namgoong Hui! Now!!”
Kwon O-jin suddenly shouted, his gaze fixed on the space behind the Blue Knight.
“…!”
The Blue Knight turned its head urgently.
Where it turned, there was neither Namgoong Hui nor even a single rat.
“Just as I thought.”
Kwon O-jin twisted his lips into a smirk and planted his feet firmly.
“So you understand human speech.”
Lightning erupted from the spear’s tip, lashing toward the Blue Knight.
The Blue Knight swung its rusted sword to deflect the lightning.
But lightning was not something so easily brushed aside.
-Crackle, crackle, crackle!
Blue lightning coursed along the rusted blade and surged into the Blue Knight’s body, striking it with tremendous force.
A momentary pause.
The Blue Knight’s legs trembled slightly.
“Hgh!”
Kwon O-jin seized that brief opening and charged toward the Blue Knight.
The fact that it understood his words meant the Blue Knight possessed a certain degree of intelligence.
If that were the case.
“Spear Lightning!”
Crackle, crackle, crack!
Azure lightning spread outward in a fan-shaped arc.
The Blue Knight evaded the lightning with the same mysterious movements it had displayed against Jason Hardy.
Kwon O-jin thrust his spear forward savagely, wreathed in electrical flames.
Just as sword and spear were about to collide.
Thang!
Kwon O-jin fired a wire shooter at a nearby tree, releasing his spear and launching himself into the air.
Screeeee!
The spear struck the rusted blade and spun wildly before ricocheting away.
“Intelligence means lies work on you.”
Spinning through the air, Kwon O-jin descended rapidly using Lightning Fall.
“….”
The Blue Knight turned its head toward Kwon O-jin without hesitation.
It swung its sword toward him as he plummeted down.
Crackle, crackle, crack!
A fist wreathed in azure lightning collided with the rusted blade.
“Ugh!”
The intense mana erupting from the rusted sword pulverized his fist.
Kwon O-jin swallowed hard and created distance between himself and the Blue Knight.
‘It doesn’t fall for tricks easily.’
Even after he’d given a feint that essentially risked his life by abandoning his weapon, the Blue Knight’s response was far too swift.
Kwon O-jin activated the Aquarius stigma to heal his pulverized fist, his eyes narrowing.
“This bastard is absurdly strong.”
It was different from what his eyes had told him.
Now that he faced the Blue Knight directly, he could viscerally feel just how impossibly powerful this being was.
Thump, thump.
His heart pounded wildly, and an electric thrill coursed down his spine.
How long had it been since he felt this exhilaration?
The sharp thrill of dancing on a blade’s edge, of performing acrobatics at the precipice of death.
Heat flooded the back of his neck as endorphins flooded his system.
“Hah.”
Kwon O-jin exhaled sharply and reached toward the ricocheted spear.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
A strand of blue lightning connected, and the spear rose with a dull thud into Kwon O-jin’s grasp.
Riak had once looked at me and said I wasn’t in my right mind.
‘I couldn’t agree more.’
I extended my tongue and licked my lips.
This exhilaration, felt after so long, became an unparalleled pleasure that set my entire body ablaze with heat.
Kwon O-jin broke into a gleeful chuckle, his mouth curling upward.
“…?”
The Blue Knight tilted his head in apparent incomprehension, observing Kwon O-jin’s laughter.
His gaze was like that of one observing some bizarre deep-sea creature.
I hadn’t expected to receive such a look from a monster, but I didn’t bother dwelling on it.
“Well then, shall we begin again?”
I adjusted my grip on the spear and planted my feet firmly.
Crash!
The Blue Knight and Kwon O-jin collided.
Sword and spear clashed, their metallic ring reverberating through the air.
A fraction of a second, subdivided into dozens of moments.
An exchange of offense and defense that ordinary eyes could not follow, weaving patterns through empty space.
‘Fast.’
The Blue Knight’s sword strikes were short, concise, and above all, swift.
As if he knew exactly where and how I would attack, what feints I would employ, he parried every assault pouring down from all directions.
‘If there exists the most efficient swordplay, it would be this.’
Ultimate efficiency.
Minimal movement, minimal force, minimal technique.
He deflected my spear while defending, then thrust forward sharply toward me.
Whoosh!
I barely twisted my body to evade, but I couldn’t prevent the blade from grazing my shoulder.
Blood spilled from the opened wound.
‘So cold.’
Perhaps because we were in the Ice Cave.
The shoulder grazed by the blade was turning blue with frostbite before my eyes.
“Hssssss.”
A low breath escaped from within the Blue Knight’s helmet.
For reasons I couldn’t explain, I felt as though he was ‘enjoying’ this situation.
-Clang! Clang-clang-clang-clang!
An exchange stretching beyond dozens and hundreds, approaching a thousand clashes.
With each prolonged exchange, my body accumulated more wounds.
The cuts from the blade turned blue with frostbite from the cold, and my movements visibly slowed with each passing moment.
“Huff, huff!”
My breathing grew ragged.
Crystalline breath spilled from my lips, dispersing like cigarette smoke.
‘Not yet.’
Kwon O-jin bit his lip as he stared at the Blue Knight.
Thwang! Thwang!
He fired his wire shooter to create distance, but the Blue Knight had grown accustomed to the wires by now, evading them with effortless movements.
The missed wire fell limply to the ground.
‘Not yet.’
The Blue Knight glided forward, sword in hand.
Screech!
The rusted blade scraped past Kwon O-jin’s chest.
Blood spilled forth, drenching his clothes.
‘Not yet.’
Kwon O-jin tumbled backward, and the spear he’d been gripping clattered across the floor.
“…Hah.”
The Blue Knight, staring down at the fallen Kwon O-jin, exhaled sharply and sheathed his sword.
As he walked slowly forward and reached out toward the fallen Kwon O-jin.
“Now!”
The fallen Kwon O-jin’s eyes snapped open as he poured mana into his wire shooter.
Shhhhiiiing!
The wire sprawled across the ground coiled around the Blue Knight’s legs, then pulled taut from both sides.
“…!”
The Blue Knight, caught off guard, drew his sword and severed the wire.
In that brief moment when the Blue Knight’s attention was fixed on the wire, Kwon O-jin’s body surged toward him.
He drove his clenched fist forward.
His right arm, channeling the Thunder God’s Body, transformed into a brilliant blue lightning.
‘One chance.’
From the moment he first encountered the Blue Knight, he had been waiting for this instant alone.
‘The Hourglass Constellation’s mark.’
The world froze.
Within the frozen world, only the Blue Knight’s rusted blade moved at terrifying speed.
The sword swung toward Kwon O-jin’s shoulder.
At this rate, his fist would be pierced before it landed, sending him flying backward.
Whoosh!
The rusted blade passed straight through Kwon O-jin’s shoulder.
As if it had cut through ‘air’ rather than a human body.
-Crackle-boom-boom-boom!
The Thunder God’s fist struck the Blue Knight’s helmet brutally.
Boom! Crash-crash-crash-crash!
The Blue Knight was hurled violently, tumbling across the ground.
“Ha.”
Watching the Blue Knight roll across the floor, Kwon O-jin let out a dry chuckle.
“You’re insane if you think you can block this…?”
In that final moment.
Just before my fist, powered by the Divine Body, could strike the Blue Knight’s head, he abruptly shifted his sword stance and blocked the punch with the flat of his blade.
Crack, crack, crack.
As proof, the rusted sword the Blue Knight had been holding shattered into pieces and scattered.
I stared down at the fallen Blue Knight with a look of despair.
“Damn it….”
My entire right arm was tattered from the aftereffects of using the Divine Body.
When I thought the only option left was a truly desperate gamble.
“Ugh… my head.”
The sword alone hadn’t dissipated all the impact—the Blue Knight’s helmet cracked with a sharp sound before shattering completely.
The face revealed through the fractured helmet was quite familiar to me.
“…Allen?”
Allen Oscal, the Mute Star Awakener.
One of Deneb’s Apostles and a member of the Seven Stars, he was staggering to his feet while clutching his head.
Allen let out a dry chuckle and scratched his head.
“I thought you’d be strong, but honestly, I never imagined you’d be this powerful.”
Allen wiped the blood flowing from his forehead and shook his head in disbelief.
I heard him mutter, “Is this really an 8-Star?”
“Ha.”
A hollow laugh escaped my lips.
So the Blue Knight’s true identity was Allen….
Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap!
The sound of applause echoed from behind.
When I turned my head, a woman I’d never seen before stood there.
Deep green hair, a slender figure, and a height comparable to Ha-eun’s—she was strikingly tall.
A beautiful woman with sparkling emerald eyes.
“Wow! That was amazing! I never thought you’d actually land a hit on Allen!”
She burst into delighted laughter and clapped her hands enthusiastically.
“Oh right, I’m Rebecca. You’ve heard of me, haven’t you?”
Rebecca Bell, the Green Star Awakener.
A high-ranking awakener of Gemini.
How many people in the world didn’t know that name?
“Hmm… maybe the name ‘Io’ is more familiar to you than Rebecca?”
“…What?”
Rebecca approached me with a bright smile.
She gently stroked my frozen cheek and giggled.
“Hehe. You worked hard, mister. When you said you’d keep that promise, I thought you were really falling for me.”

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