Not A Regressor - Chapter 51

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 51
Transcendence (1)
“…Ha.”
A short, hollow laugh escaped from Kwon O-jin’s lips.
Brilliant crimson flames blazed magnificently.
A woman standing composed amid the swirling ash and dust.
“Sister.”
Just like eight years ago.
No—even further back, like when I first met her.
Her form glittering like a precious jewel.
Even amid the carnage of blood and flesh, she remained beautiful.
“Stay still.”
She pulled a potion from inside her jacket and pressed it against Kwon O-jin’s shoulder, where a chunk of flesh had been torn away.
A dizzying pain radiated across my shoulder.
Though the wound didn’t regenerate as if time itself had reversed, at least the blood that had been pouring out ceased its flow.
It must be quite an expensive potion.
“That’s costly.”
“Huh?”
Vega’s expression twisted harshly.
“Is that what matters right now?”
“Pfft! Just joking.”
Kwon O-jin laughed, shrugging his shoulder.
No matter how much I loved money, I wasn’t so scattered as to begrudge the potion’s cost in this situation.
‘I survived because of her.’
Thanks to her arrival, I had managed to catch my breath.
‘And.’
The fact that she was here meant.
-Whoosh!
“Roooaaarrr!!”
A demonic beast burst through the wall of flames, leaping high and charging forward with its massive bulk.
Sharp spines jutting from its body gleamed menacingly.
The distance between us and the beast closed rapidly.
“Hngh!!”
Crash!
A young man wielding a massive shield in one hand blocked the beast’s path.
The sharp spines struck the shield and were deflected.
The beast twisted its body, trying to pierce through the shield.
“Not so fast!!”
A heavy roar accompanied a mallet brimming with stigma’s power as it crashed down upon the beast’s skull.
Thud.
The creature’s head burst open, spilling brain matter and eyeballs across the ground.
“Are you alright, Kwon O-jin!”
Park Chang-hyun spun around and shouted.
At his reassuring presence, a smile naturally bloomed across Kwon O-jin’s lips.
“Yes. I’m fine.”
“B-but did you really kill all these demonic beasts alone?”
Park Chang-hyun stared at the corpses of demonic beasts littering the surroundings, his mouth agape.
Even a cursory glance revealed dozens—no, over a hundred demonic beast corpses.
‘This is utterly absurd….’
Park Chang-hyun regarded Kwon O-jin with an expression of disbelief.
Even if he was an Apostle of Polaris, how could a mere 4-star Awakened User single-handedly slay over a hundred 6-star demonic beasts?
Had he not witnessed it with his own eyes, he would have scoffed at such nonsense.
‘Is he even human?’
He swallowed hard.
Park Chang-hyun regarded Kwon O-jin with a tense expression, his throat dry.
“Let’s deal with those ones first.”
Spinning the spear, I advanced toward the swarming demonic beasts.
It was barely a minute of rest, yet enough time to steady my ragged breathing and calm the surging mana within me.
“I’ve already contacted the Subjugation Squad. Other Awakened Users will be arriving soon.”
“Of course. Only my sister could pull something like this off.”
Once the other Awakened Users participating in the subjugation operation joined in, things would become far easier.
“…So don’t overexert yourself. Just buy us some time.”
Hmph.
Ha-eun snorted and turned away.
“Hoo.”
After drawing in a deep breath.
Click.
I removed the eye patch I had been wearing.
Sinister eyes gleamed with an eerie light.
“Sister?”
“Ugh. I didn’t want to wear it because I still wasn’t used to this.”
Ha-eun suppressed a groan and took a step forward.
Pupils split vertically.
Eyes like those of a serpent—a dragon’s gaze—turned toward the demonic beasts.
“Kieek?!”
Flinch!
The demonic beasts that met the dragon’s eyes trembled and staggered backward.
“Ugh!”
Ha-eun squinted her left eye, releasing a pained groan.
Crack, crackle!
The grotesque tendon bulging at the corner of my left eye thickened further.
“Damn it. This really hurts like hell!”
I bit my lip and spread both arms wide.
Whoooooosh!
The stigma carved into my left chest blazed with an intensity I’d never witnessed before.
“Sister, what is this….”
“Hehe. Did you think I’ve just been sitting idle these past three months?”
I grinned wickedly and crossed my outstretched arms into an X shape.
-Whoooooosh!
A crimson fire dragon erupted from the ground, coiling around my body like a serpent.
“Even so, when it comes to raw Awakened experience, I’ve got far more than you.”
Wrapped in flames, I stomped down hard.
Boom!
Massive flames erupted like a volcano exploding.
The ground beneath my feet cracked with a sharp sound, and crimson fire surged through the fissures.
“━How long do you expect to keep hiding behind Kwon O-jin anyway?”
Whoooooosh!!!
Billowing flames.
My reddish-brown hair, tied tightly back, fluttered brilliantly.
“Growl, growl.”
“Screech!”
Were they frightened by the intense, blazing momentum?
Or did they sense an instinctive threat from the colossal fire dragon sweeping across the surroundings?
I could see the demonic beasts cautiously backing away.
“You.”
My gaze fixed on the demonic beast with flesh dripping blood inside its mouth.
It was the beast that had bitten Kwon O-jin’s shoulder moments ago.
“Do you have any idea whose flesh you just tore away?”
Baring my teeth savagely.
I extended my hand toward the beast as if aiming a gun.
-Snap!
My finger flicked with a crisp sound.
The fire dragon coiling around me shot toward the demonic beast.
Whoooooosh!
The massive jaws formed of flames opened wide and devoured the beast’s entire body in one bite.
“Roooaaarrr!”
“Shrieeeek!!”
The other demonic beasts in the fire dragon’s path were savagely swept up and reduced to ash.
“…Phew.”
Kwon O-jin let out an exclamation of admiration watching me sweep away the demonic beasts with overwhelming firepower.
‘Is that the power of the Dragon’s Eye?’
I couldn’t quite grasp the specifics of its performance.
After activating the Dragon’s Eye, I felt the flames enveloping her body move as if they were ‘alive’.
Fireballs raging in all directions as if possessed by their own will.
It was such an overwhelming sight that it would be hard to believe without witnessing it firsthand.
Well, anyway.
‘At least I can breathe easy now.’
I grinned and stood beside Vega.
“If someone heard that, they’d think you were biting my shoulder off.”
“My shoulder’s the same way. That’s mine.”
“Why is that yours?”
Who does she think she is.
“Kyahahaha! Everything a little brother has belongs to his big sister, naturally!”
“That’s ridiculous.”
“Kwon O-jin, you can’t eat, drink, or even breathe without my permission.”
Even the Nazis weren’t that extreme.
“━And don’t you dare get hurt, understood?”
“My limbs are going numb. I might get hurt.”
“You little bastard.”
“That was such a touching thing to say, sister.”
The tears wouldn’t stop flowing.
Drip, drip.
“Y-y-you back then! You said such cringe-worthy stuff without batting an eye!!”
“Pufufufu!!”
I burst into laughter and roughly pulled her waist toward me.
“Wh-what?”
Thwack!
I kicked away the head of a demonic beast charging through the flames.
I gently patted the waist of the girl I held and turned my body.
“Well, I’ll do my best anyway.”
If my sister worries this much, I can’t afford to get hurt.
“…You two really do get along well.”
Park Chang-hyun let out a hollow laugh and turned to look our way.
I shrugged lightly and drove my foot toward the surging demonic beasts.
-Crackle, crackle, crackle!!
Blue lightning erupting through the flames.
The demonic beasts that had been charging forward with terrifying momentum began to be pushed back gradually.
As a little time passed like that.
“H-how are there so many demonic beasts!”
“Hey, isn’t that one over there a Thunder Beast?”
“And you, Choi Jong-chul. The three of you were holding out against this many?”
“Insane. This isn’t rookie-level anymore, is it?”
Awakened Users who had gathered upon receiving the call joined the fray.
“Kieeeek!”
“Crack! Crunch!”
The demonic beasts were being pushed back at an accelerating pace.
‘Good.’
The tide of battle had definitively turned in our favor.
[Haa, haa, haa!]
Even our goddess was beginning to reach her limits.
‘Time to finish this.’
Kwon O-jin’s eyes gleamed sharply as he turned his body toward Choi Jong-chul.
“Ah, aah.”
He trembled violently as he gazed down at the demonic beasts being driven back in an unstoppable surge.
“Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?”
He scratched his cheek irritably.
Continuing to scratch the cheek where skin had been torn away and blood flowed.
Without stopping.
Scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape.
“Why are we losing? Huh? Why?”
Bits of flesh clung to his fingernails as they tore away.
“I did what I was told to do. I did everything I was supposed to do.”
Crack. Crackle.
His head twisted at a grotesque angle as he poured out unanswered questions.
“But, but, but.”
Screech.
His head, turned like a broken wooden puppet, faced toward Kwon O-jin.
“Why whyyyy━!!! Why can’t I kill them, you bastard━!!!”
Flesh stripped away so thoroughly that his cheekbones were exposed.
Unsatisfied with merely peeling away all the skin from his cheeks, Choi Jong-chul shoved his hand above his cheekbones and began clawing out his own eyes with his fingers.
“Oh, O-jin. That, that, that bastard—why is he like that?”
Ha-eun asked with her mouth agape, her face drained of all color.
“Aah━ Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Whyyyyyyyyyy!!!!”
“Kyaaaack!! Fuck, he’s actually gouging out his eyes!!”
“Grrgh! Kuk! Kill me! Kill me! Kill me! Kill me now!!”
Squelch.
Choi Jong-chul shrieked with madness as he shoved the eyeballs he had torn out into his mouth and chewed them.
“Shiiit!! That bastard Ha-don is eating his own eyes, O-jin!!!”
Calm down, sister.
Stop pulling at my clothes.
“Was… was that bastard always such a lunatic?”
“There’s no way.”
It seemed the black relic had completely consumed his mind.
Kwon O-jin bit his lip hard and rushed toward Choi Jong-chul, who was convulsing violently.
‘If I leave him any longer, there’s no telling what he’ll do.’
I had to take him down while I had the chance.
—Tap!
After closing in on the convulsing Choi Jong-chul.
‘Thunderbolt.’
Ten consecutive strikes.
—Crackle crackle crackle crackle!!!
I thrust the spear forward with every ounce of strength I could muster.
“Ah, ahhh.”
But.
—Crack.
Whoooooosh!!
“Ugh!!”
The orb clutched in Choi Jong-chul’s hand shattered, and black energy erupted outward in a violent explosion.
Kwon O-jin’s body was sent flying backward helplessly.
“━Aaaaaaaaaaaa!!!”
Choi Jong-chul threw both arms up high.
The black energy that burst forth spread wide across the sky.
And.
Rumble rumble rumble rumble!!!
“Wh, what?”
“Wh, what is that?!”
A massive black pillar of energy rose from the City Center, intertwining with the aura flowing from Choi Jong-chul.
The ground trembled as if an earthquake had struck.
No.
It wasn’t just trembling.
—Rumble! Rumble rumble!
“It’s, it’s collapsing!!!”
“Evacuate!!”
The twisted and fractured earth undulated like waves.
Dozens of buildings toppled like dominoes, crashing down in succession.
“…Insane.”
Kwon O-jin stared at the collapsing city with a haggard expression.
The collapse was most severe in the City Center.
‘If I had been there.’
I would have been buried alive beneath the falling buildings without a chance to do anything.
‘What the hell is this?’
What kind of power could obliterate an entire city like this?
“Krrgh! Krack! Hee, hehehehe! Yes, yes, yes!!”
As the collapse continued.
Choi Jong-chul’s deranged laughter echoed alongside it.
“If I, if I, if I just… kill? Then? It works? Right?”
Crunch! Crackle crackle!
The black aura spreading across the surroundings surged toward Choi Jong-chul.
His body swelled like a balloon inflated to its bursting point.
Then.
“Krrgh! Kaaaaaaaaah!!”
A serpent’s lower body and a mantis’s arms.
Choi Jong-chul, now transformed into a demonic beast with a mouth split into eight gaping maws, unleashed a bone-chilling shriek.
“…What is this.”
Kwon O-jin stared at Choi Jong-chul—or rather, what had once been Choi Jong-chul—with a rigid expression.
‘A human… became a demonic beast?’
An ominous sensation crawled down my spine.
“Krrgh.”
I tightened my grip on the spear.
‘Quickly.’
Instinct screams. It warns me.
I must kill that abomination as soon as possible.
If I don’t—
“Huh? Me? Why? Why why? Why is my body like this? Krrgh?”
I die.
“Vega! Just hold on a little longer!!”
No answer came back.
“…Vega?”
I turned to look at her.
[I’m sorry, ha… my child. I can no longer….]
Vega’s form scattered into silvery light.
“….”
The blessing had vanished.

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