Not A Regressor - Chapter 302

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 302
Sky Mountain Range (8)
[What a foolish question.]
Vega glared sharply at Felis and shrugged her shoulders.
[Is it not natural for Lyra Constellation to stand beside the sole Apostle who inherited the stigma of Lyra Constellation?]
“An Apostle of Lyra Constellation…?”
Felis’s gaze turned toward Kwon O-jin.
“You were an Apostle of Polaris, weren’t you?”
Her voice carried a sharp hostility, a stark contrast to her earlier affectionate approach.
Kwon O-jin subtly shifted his right arm backward, ready to draw Dantalian at any moment, and nodded.
“That is correct.”
“How disappointing! I finally found a human I wanted to make my servant, and of all people, it had to be an Apostle of Polaris!”
Felis stomped her front paw indignantly and bared her fangs savagely.
Her eyes blazed with jealousy as she glared at Vega, then irritably raked her claws across the ground.
“Abandon the stigma of Lyra Constellation at once and become my servant!”
So she was going to be completely unreasonable now.
I had heard that the Felis Constellation was prone to jealousy, but I never expected her to lack all sense of reason.
Just as Kwon O-jin drew Dantalian and was about to say something.
[…Did you just tell my child to abandon the stigma of Lyra Constellation?]
A voice as cold as a bitter frost wind.
The same inorganic, emotionless gaze Vega had worn when I first met her now fixed upon Felis.
“H-Hiss?!”
Felis felt the chilling killing intent and retreated, her fur standing on end.
Vega continued coldly, her eyes fixed on the retreating Felis.
[Why would my child abandon the stigma of Lyra Constellation to obtain some trivial stigma of Felis Constellation?]
“W-What did you just say?”
[Though you were cast out from the Star Palace, you were once a member of the Constellation.]
A glimmer of mockery flickered in her inorganic eyes.
[How dare a mere satellite challenge the authority wielded by Polaris?]
“….”
Felis’s expression hardened rigidly.
“What… did you just say?”
[My child is not someone a mere satellite like you can ever aspire to.]
Her tone resembled that of a demanding, sharp-tongued mother-in-law from a morning drama.
If someone were to shout “You thieving cat!” right now, it would be enough material for an entire episode—the atmosphere was that tense.
Kwon O-jin glanced between Vega and Felis and clicked his tongue.
‘This won’t be resolved with words.’
Felis was one thing.
But this time, Vega was unnecessarily worked up.
For Felis, who had been demoted to a ‘satellite’ after being cast out from the Star Palace, Vega’s words were precisely the kind that would touch her most sensitive nerve.
‘I think Vega got too heated when told to abandon the Lyra Constellation’s stigma.’
I had no intention of blaming Vega.
I myself was quite heated by Felis’s obstinate attitude, and it didn’t seem like Felis would listen even if I tried to talk calmly in the first place.
In a situation like this, provoking her to cloud her judgment was actually a sound strategy.
“Riak, Isabella, and you.”
While Felis was distracted by Vega, I quietly turned to look at my companions.
“You saw the way down earlier, right? When I give the signal, just run straight that way.”
“We’re just leaving that mangy cat alone?”
“She’s probably just a vessel anyway. What’s the point of fighting?”
And given that Felis was here, there was a high chance that Behemoth was waiting nearby.
I wanted to avoid fighting a holy spirit in this fog at all costs.
“Even if we do fight, first we need to escape this fog.”
“Yes, understood.”
“Okay. So we just bolt, right?”
I took a deep breath and counted silently in my mind: one, two, three.
The moment Felis glared sharply at Vega and was about to shout.
“Now!”
My group began sprinting rapidly toward the edge of the Sky Mountain Range without looking back.
Of course, Vega, the only one who hadn’t heard the plan explained, couldn’t keep up with us fleeing and wore a bewildered expression.
‘Vega can just return to the Star Palace and come back later!’
Vega’s summoning location was around the silver pendant she had given me.
And that pendant was currently hanging around my neck.
Even if I was separated from the group, I could meet Vega again by returning to the Star Palace first.
“This way, brat!”
Riak led the charge, sprinting rapidly through the thick fog.
When the distance between us widened until the wire binding our bodies grew taut.
Rustle, rustle, rustle-rustle-rustle!
The undergrowth beyond the fog swayed violently as something rushed toward us at high speed.
“Where do you think you’re running to!”
Felis’s sharp cry echoed from far behind.
“O-jin! Those spider bastards from before!”
“Damn it.”
I had expected Felis to have some trick up her sleeve, but I didn’t think she’d react this quickly.
“I’ll break through the encirclement!”
Isabella dragged her fingernails across her wrist and thrust her hand forward as a crimson storm swept through the approaching beasts.
In an instant, hundreds of beasts’ bodies were torn to shreds, creating a path.
But.
“Brat, there are too many!”
Hundreds, thousands of beasts surged forward again, blocking the path once more.
Several times more beasts than when we first encountered them.
It wasn’t just spider-type demonic beasts—there were creatures I’d never seen before mixed in among them.
‘Have all the demonic beasts in the Sky Mountain Range gathered here?’
I narrowed my eyes and surveyed my surroundings.
The thick fog and the demonic beasts encircling us from all sides made it impossible to determine which direction to go.
“I’ll guide you from above! Head that way!”
“Got it!”
I cut the wire connecting me to the group with my knife and launched myself high into the air using Lightning Step.
‘The hunting hound of Lyra Constellation!’
Crackle!
Blue lightning spread in all directions, enveloping the area, and the movements of the demonic beast horde flowed into my mind.
Though the fog dulled my senses, it didn’t completely block them like the clouds of Black Heaven would, so I could at least determine which direction had fewer demonic beasts clustered together.
“One hundred meters to the right! Then cut left and run!”
“Yes!”
Isabella charged forward with her arms spread wide.
Blades of crimson light poured out in all directions, indiscriminately sweeping away the demonic beasts blocking our path.
“Blaze forth!”
Ha-eun refused to be outdone, drawing out a cigarette and aiming it at the horde of demonic beasts.
A massive wave of flame crashed down upon the creatures.
“This way!”
Riak, whose ability to handle multiple enemies paled in comparison to Ha-eun and Isabella, took on the role of guide and led the group in the direction I’d indicated.
“Kwon O-jin! Get down here quickly!”
“Coming!”
I deactivated Lightning Step and landed on the ground.
Rejoining the group, I swept away the approaching demonic beasts and followed behind Riak.
The thought crossed my mind that we might escape the encirclement without trouble.
“I told you not to think about running away, meow!”
Felis’s cry echoed out once more.
And at the same time.
Whoooooosh!
A black aura spread wide, covering a certain range in a circular pattern.
‘This is…’
A sight I’d witnessed a few times before.
“Insane… she’s using a Sacred Domain?”
Sacred Domain.
A space created by the authority of a Constellation.
An absolute realm that twisted not only the laws of physics but even the natural order of life and death swallowed me whole.
‘This crazy cat!’
It would be one thing if this were the Star Palace, where Divine Law held no sway.
But surely she understood the price that came with using a Sacred Domain outside the Star Palace.
Even Vega, the Constellation of Polaris, had been bound by constraints that left her immobilized for a hundred years.
Felis, who ranked far below them, would face constraints so severe that her very existence could be annihilated in this place without it being strange.
“Ugh!”
I thrashed against the overwhelming force pulling me back, desperately struggling to escape the Sacred Domain.
“Hmph! It’s futile, meow!”
Felis, who had drawn up behind me in an instant, let out a scornful laugh.
“Kwon O-jin!”
“O-jin!”
Isabella and Ha-eun rushed toward me as I was being sucked into Felis’s Sacred Domain.
“Ugh!”
“Damn it! The wire!”
The wire we had bound to our bodies beforehand tangled together, causing our steps to falter ever so slightly.
I severed the wire in a single second and rushed toward where I was, but.
Whoooooosh!
Felis’s Sacred Domain had already vanished without a trace.
Of course.
Along with me, who had been swallowed inside it.

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“Ugh.”
I opened my eyes while gripping my throbbing head.
A forest shrouded in thick mist.
It was definitely the Sky Mountain Range, but not the space I had been in moments before.
‘Did I teleport?’
Before the question of where could even cross my mind.
[My child!]
The pendant glowed as Vega appeared.
It seemed she had returned to the Star Palace and manifested again, just as I had thought.
[Are you, are you alright? Are you hurt anywhere?!]
Vega flew toward me hastily and felt my face.
I nodded while calming the flustered Vega.
“Don’t worry. I’m not hurt.”
[Thank goodness.]
Vega’s mind seemed to settle slightly as she looked around.
[This place is….]
“This is the ‘Nest’ where we’re staying.”
Felis’s voice echoed from beyond the mist.
Vega’s expression twisted fiercely as she glared at Felis.
[You, you used a Sacred Domain! Do you understand what that means?!]
“Hmph! Did you think I used a Sacred Domain without any thought?”
Felis snorted and shrugged her shoulders.
“With his power, I can use abilities like slightly shifting space without any restrictions~”
His power, she said.
“…Are you talking about the Heavenly Demon?”
Now that it was certain Felis was an enemy, there was no reason to use honorifics.
“Oh? You already knew?”
Felis twisted her lips upward with a cunning smile.
Kwon O-jin bit his lip and narrowed his eyes.
He had known about the connection between the Black Star Constellation and the Heavenly Demon.
But he never imagined there was a power that could use the Sacred Domain without being bound by the Divine Law’s restrictions.
“So, why did you drag me here using the Sacred Domain?”
“Didn’t I tell you earlier?”
Felis’s eyes gleamed as she looked Kwon O-jin up and down like a predator sizing up prey.
“I’m going to make you my butler.”
“….”
This insane cat.
Kwon O-jin suppressed the surge of curses rising in his throat and exhaled a heavy sigh.
“I have no intention of becoming your Apostle.”
“Hehe. I wonder how long you can keep saying that.”
Felis smiled with leisure, as if she had a hidden trump card.
And her hidden trump card revealed itself far sooner than expected.
Thud, thud, thud.
Heavy footsteps echoed from beyond the mist.
“Grrrrrrr.”
A chilling cry that seemed to strangle the very soul reverberated through the fog.
Though the figure was still hidden by the mist.
It was not difficult to discern who the presence beyond the fog was.
“…Behemoth.”
The ruler of the Sky Mountain Range emerged, parting the thick fog as it walked.

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