Not A Regressor - Chapter 375

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 375
Interlude – The Master of The Snake (1)
After Anselladus fell.
Kwon O-jin and his companions, who had been scattered across the battlefield, were transported to a nearby hospital by Kuroshi Organization Members who had been waiting at a distance.
Lee Woo-hyuk and Sakaki Ryo entered the Intensive Care Unit due to the aftereffects and wounds from accepting the Constellation’s blessing, while Kwon O-jin also had to remain at the hospital for recuperation due to internal injuries that his hydro-affinity skill couldn’t fully heal.
Ha-eun and Koshiro had simply fallen into a state of temporary exhaustion from squeezing out every last drop of their stigma’s mana, so hospitalization wasn’t strictly necessary, but they both remained at the hospital to care for Kwon O-jin and Sakaki respectively.
By the way, Kim Sun-young, the sub-guild master of Valhalla Guild who flew in from South Korea upon hearing the news, took charge of caring for Lee Woo-hyuk.
Three days passed like that.
Thanks to his hydro-affinity skill, Kwon O-jin recovered his body faster than the other two and left the Intensive Care Unit, heading to the beach where he had fought fiercely against Anselladus.
“I mean, what is this? I’m not Jesus, but am I really supposed to be bouncing around like this after just three days?”
Ha-eun approached Kwon O-jin with a worried expression.
She had followed along since he said he was going out, but she was clearly displeased, her eyes narrowed at the sight of him leaving the treatment room after merely three days.
“I’m fine, I keep telling you. My body is actually in better condition than before.”
It wasn’t a lie—with the eleventh blooming of Black Heaven, his strength had grown even greater.
“Damn it. I touched you while you were sleeping earlier and it wasn’t even standing properly.”
“What wasn’t?”
What exactly wasn’t standing?
As Kwon O-jin stared at Ha-eun with a rigid expression, she winked playfully and shrugged her shoulders.
“You know what I mean~”
“Ugh, seriously.”
What was this older sister doing while I was sleeping?
“Anyway, why did you come here?”
“I was just curious how things turned out.”
Kwon O-jin let out a low sigh and looked back at the beach where he had fought Anselladus.
“…I can barely remember what this place looked like originally.”
The beach where the fierce battle had taken place looked drastically different from its original appearance.
There were dozens of craters several meters deep scattered about as if a meteorite had fallen, some areas were melted and fused together, and in other places, massive coastal caves had been created.
“Even I have to admit it’s pretty absurd.”
Ha-eun shook her head in disbelief.
“Constellations are really disgustingly powerful.”
“Well, they’re Constellations after all.”
“So you’re saying you gulped down such a powerful Constellation this time?”
That’s quite an elegant way to put it, older sister.
“Sigh.”
Ha-eun let out a deep sigh and her shoulders trembled.
Was she perhaps blaming herself for not being of much help this time either?
“If it weren’t for you and the others, that bastard wouldn’t have even deployed the Sacred Domain in the first place.”
These weren’t empty words meant to comfort her.
If Lee Woo-hyuk, Sakaki Ryo, Koshiro, and the others hadn’t pushed Anselladus to his limits, there’s no way I could have defeated a Constellation so easily.
“What, are you trying to comfort me?”
“That’s not it….”
“Our O-jin can’t stay like this.”
Ha-eun drew closer, her lips curling into a sly smile.
She reached out and kneaded Kwon O-jin’s firm buttocks with a mischievous grin.
“Your kind-hearted older sister needs to give our sweet O-jin plenty of rewards, doesn’t she~?”
“Where on earth did you pick up such vulgar lines?”
Kwon O-jin regarded Ha-eun with an expression of utter bewilderment.
Yet it seemed those words had lifted her spirits somewhat—the shadow that had lingered over Ha-eun’s face began to fade.
“So, Heukcheon grew stronger after consuming that Constellation bastard?”
“Yeah.”
“…It’s not like you can’t control the power anymore, right?”
“Not particularly. Though it is a bit more difficult to handle compared to before.”
That was a problem that would naturally resolve itself as the Lyra Constellation’s stigma grew stronger over time.
After all, the Lyra Constellation’s stigma contained the power to control Heukcheon.
‘Wait, but to strengthen the power of the Lyra Constellation’s stigma….’
As my thoughts continued, I pressed my forehead as if my head ached.
“What? Does your head hurt?”
“…No.”
“See? I told you to just stay quietly in the hospital, didn’t I?”
“….”
How could I explain it?
That to strengthen the Lyra Constellation’s stigma, I needed to perform a “Stellar Conjunction” with Vega.
It would be far more comfortable to simply claim that lingering aftereffects from my internal injuries remained.
“I’ll just test out the new ability I gained and then head back.”
“That… the Sacred Domain deployment or something like that?”
“Yeah.”
Sacred Domain deployment.
It was a new ability I had acquired upon blooming the eleventh star.
When I first obtained it, Lee Shin-hyuk’s memories were immediately transmitted, leaving me no time to read the detailed description carefully. However, while receiving treatment in the Intensive Care Unit later, I was able to confirm the ability’s description.
‘I can deploy the Sacred Domain of the absorbed stigma.’
The description was simple, but its implications were far from negligible.
‘The Sacred Domain was an authority that only Constellations could possess, and it was the very foundation that made Constellations transcendent beings.’
In other words, being able to deploy the Sacred Domain meant.
‘I might as well have become a Constellation myself.’
Of course, that didn’t mean my body would be composed of stigma mana like a Constellation’s.
Regardless, being able to deploy the Sacred Domain, which could be called the foundation of Constellations, was welcome news even for me.
“But if our O-jin can deploy the Sacred Domain, does that make you a Constellation?”
“Not quite a Constellation, but something close to one.”
“Hmm. Is that so?”
Ha-eun flashed a mischievous smile and linked her arm through mine.
“Kwon O-jin, my Constellation~ My own Constellation is always so busy with his duties that he keeps neglecting me. Would you mind taking care of me instead~?”
Ha-eun let out a coquettish whimper, subtly pressing her chest against him.
Faced with her sudden display of aegyo, Kwon O-jin could only muster one response.
“…Ugh.”
“What, you bastard, what.”
“How can it be so catastrophically mismatched?”
“You, you bastard! If Bella had done that, you would’ve grinned like an idiot!”
“That’s different because it’s Isabella.”
Ha-eun and aegyo.
A combination as incompatible as mint and chocolate.
“Tch. Yeah, I’m not suited for it, you bastard.”
Ha-eun kicked at a stray pebble rolling nearby, her expression full of displeasure.
At the sound of her muttering that she’d never do it again, Kwon O-jin couldn’t help but burst into laughter.
“Ugh, don’t laugh, you punk!”
“Ah, our sister is so cute, what do I do.”
If he had his way, he would’ve taken Ha-eun’s hand right then and strolled along the beach.
But there was still work to be done.
“Then let me try using it once.”
Kwon O-jin concentrated his mind and activated ‘Sacred Domain Deployment’.
‘The stigma shall be… the stigma of the Lyra Constellation.’
Crack, crackle!
A soft silver light wrapped around Kwon O-jin’s body as blue sparks erupted upward.
The moment he wrapped the Sacred Domain around his body, he felt mana draining away at a terrifying speed, as if a hole had been torn in a dam.
‘I can’t spread it widely around me like Vega does.’
The Sacred Domain could only be deployed about five centimeters around his body.
For a Constellation, this was merely a Sacred Domain naturally worn on the body like a passive ability.
“Calling it ‘Sacred Domain Deployment’ is still embarrassing at this stage.”
Creating a space like the ‘Dragon Palace’ that Anselladus had used—one that transformed the surrounding terrain and optimized it for wielding one’s power—was still a distant dream for Kwon O-jin.
‘Well, eventually I’ll be able to do that too.’
He hadn’t felt it clearly before, but now he knew for certain.
Just how abnormal his talent was.
If he continuously honed the ‘Sacred Domain Deployment’ trait, he would eventually be able to spread the Sacred Domain widely around him like Vega.
“Sister, shoot some fire at me once.”
“Huh? Right now?”
“Yeah.”
Kwon O-jin stood motionless without taking any defensive stance.
The Sacred Domain wrapped around his body was itself as solid as a suit of armor.
Even Lee Woo-hyuk and Sakaki Ryo, who were quite powerful among high-tier Awakeners, hadn’t been able to inflict a single scratch on Anselladus before receiving the Constellation’s blessing.
“Got it.”
“Don’t hold back. Shoot.”
“…Are you serious?”
“Would I joke in a situation like this?”
Ha-eun’s attacks were powerful enough to pierce through the Sacred Domain, but still.
Taking the hit without wrapping the Sacred Domain around my body would be far more devastating.
“Tch. Don’t regret this later.”
Ha-eun clicked her tongue and pulled out a cigarette from her pocket.
Whoooosh!
Flames erupted from the tip of the cigarette.
“Alright, here I go!”
A massive fire dragon charged toward me.
And then.
“Ugh!”
Heat pierced through the Sacred Domain.
A searing pain spread across my entire body as my skin burned.
“Hey, hey! Are you okay?!”
Ha-eun hastily withdrew the flames.
She rushed over with a worried expression, concerned that my body might be charred.
“Huh? What?”
Though I had sustained some burns, my condition was otherwise intact.
“Phew… The performance is definitely solid.”
I withdrew the Sacred Domain wrapped around my body with satisfaction.
It hadn’t perfectly blocked Ha-eun’s flames, but then again, even Anselladus couldn’t have done better.
‘At least the defensive capability is confirmed.’
I hadn’t tested it properly for offense yet, but it seemed like it would be more than sufficient for that purpose as well.
‘If Vega were here, I could have learned more details about the Sacred Domain.’
Vega and the other Constellations were reverse-summoned back to the Star Palace as the price for using their blessings.
Since there was no Gate connecting to the Star Palace in Japan, I would only be able to meet her after returning to South Korea.
“Should we head back soon?”
“Huh? Already done with what you came for?”
“I came here partly to test deploying the Sacred Domain anyway.”
Besides, my internal injuries hadn’t fully healed yet, so there was no need to push myself further.
“Hmm, I see.”
Ha-eun approached with a mischievous smile.
“What now.”
“But Ojina… it’s quiet here. Nobody around, right?”
“Would you want to come to a place like this?”
The entire area had been devastated by the battle with the Constellation, as if swept by a natural disaster, so there was no way anyone would come here.
Besides, the Kuroushi Organization Members were controlling access anyway.
“So what I’m saying is…”
Ha-eun sent me a suggestive look as her fingers slowly traced along my thigh.
“Didn’t you say earlier that you’d treat me to a meal?”
“….”
But you said you wouldn’t earlier.

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