Not A Regressor - Chapter 78

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 78
The Genius Awakener’s Stream (7)
“Gyaaaaaahhhhh!!”
The man shrieked as if he’d stubbed his pinky toe on a desk corner, his body trembling violently as he bolted forward.
“What, what is it?”
“Why is he like that?”
The people crowded in the narrow entrance stared at him with their mouths agape.
From their perspective, it must have seemed like he’d suddenly let out a strange cry and rushed toward the Hydra, so their reaction was only natural.
‘Oh, direct effect, huh.’
I watched the man charge forward with wild eyes and let out a quiet laugh.
What I’d just used was a crude imitation of the technique Vega had employed—channeling lightning precisely between the gills of the Neglish creatures to subdue them.
[…You saw it once and copied it?]
“The practice I did while hospitalized helped.”
Those ten days of practicing fine control over lightning discharge were proving their worth now.
[Just ten days of practice and… sigh. Fine, I’ll drop it.]
Vega exhaled and shook her head.
Her expression suggested she was tired of finding fault.
“Krrrrrrrrgh!!!”
The Hydra’s attention focused on the man shrieking as he rushed forward.
“Ah, ugh.”
The screaming man looked up at the Hydra with a pale, sickly expression.
“P-please save me!! Help me, please!!”
The man turned to his party members and cried out desperately.
“You bastards!!!”
But.
Naturally, no one moved.
“Krrrrrrr!”
One of the nine heads moved like a tentacle, targeting the man.
A massive maw gaped open, revealing sharp venomous fangs.
I activated the Canis Major stigma and observed the Hydra’s movements carefully.
‘Fast.’
True to its title as a ‘boss’ among seven-star monsters, its movements were swift.
Not only fast.
Each head must have weighed several tons.
With those sharp venomous fangs, one could tell how threatening it was without even facing it directly.
‘But.’
I gripped the spear and lowered my stance.
Compared to the pressure I’d felt from Ashad Khan.
“Nothing special, kid.”
Compared to the pressure I’d felt from Ashad Khan.
This is nothing.
-Kwaaang!!
A leg wrapped in blue lightning crashes against the ground.
I snap my lowered waist upright and surge forward.
“Kerrrgh!”
“Uaaaagh!!”
The Hydra’s attention is completely fixed on me.
I lower my spear close to the ground, sweeping it forward.
‘Thunder Flame.’
I slash upward with brutal force.
-Crackle crackle crackle!
The spear blade wreathed in blue flames digs into the underside of the Hydra’s neck, where green scales are sparse.
“Hngh!”
“Kieeeeeek!!”
I wrench the spear lodged in its neck side to side like rowing an oar.
Flesh tears open and green blood cascades onto the ground.
“Kerrrgh!”
“Kerack!”
Two of the nine heads snap toward me with predatory speed.
-Whoooosh!
“Not so fast!”
Ha-eun dashes forward, spreading both arms wide.
Snap!
With a light flick of her fingers, flames erupt explosively, engulfing the Hydra’s heads.
“Kerararak!”
“Ugh!”
The Hydra writhes violently, consumed by fire.
“Kwon O-jin! This bastard’s too strong! I can’t hold it much longer!”
“Got it.”
I drag the spear through the torn flesh with savage force.
Crunch!
The half-severed neck dangles limply.
“Tch.”
I draw in a deep breath.
I extend my arm toward the left head among those Ha-eun is restraining.
Bang!
A wire launches with the gunshot, coiling around the Hydra’s neck.
My body surges upward, following the thrashing Hydra’s neck.
‘If I fire the wire one more time from here.’
Bang!
The moment the wire coiled around the Hydra’s neck on the right, the cord itself began contracting at tremendous speed.
—Boom!
“Screeeech!”
The left and right heads collided violently as the wire contracted at breakneck speed.
A new function that emerged from the upgraded wire shooter.
By adjusting the amount of mana channeled into the shooter, the cord’s length could now be controlled freely, enabling far more versatile movements.
“That’s it!! Our O-jin’s doing great!!”
Ha-eun grinned widely, crossing her outstretched arms in an X and slashing downward.
The flames binding the two heads transformed into the shape of a sharp blade, severing the Hydra’s neck.
“Kid! More coming!”
Riak jumped high, stepping on the wire.
He swung his front claws toward the Hydra’s approaching head, aiming at Kwon O-jin suspended in midair.
—Scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch!
Noe-rang’s claws savagely raked across the Hydra’s eyes.
“Screeeeeech!!”
Even as its eyes split open, the Hydra whipped its head toward Kwon O-jin like a lash.
[Stubborn creature!]
Vega, flying nearby, reached out her hand.
Blue lightning spread like a spider’s web, deflecting the Hydra’s head.
“Nice!”
Kwon O-jin seized the opening and rushed forward, driving his spear downward.
Green scales split apart, and blood cascaded like a waterfall.
“Screeeech!!”
Boom! Crash!
The Hydra, all four of its heads now pulped, stumbled backward and retreated.
“Whoa!”
“Wait, didn’t the Guild say Noe-rang was only four-star?”
“Who’s that woman? She doesn’t seem like she belongs at this level?”
The awakeners who had huddled near the entrance, eager to flee, stopped in their tracks at the sight of Kwon O-jin’s party overwhelming the Hydra and stared blankly at the battle.
—Ooooohhhhh!!
—Damn, that’s cool;
—Did you see Noe-rang’s movements just now? My heart’s pounding for real
—That guardian spirit and pet are insane too
—Where do you even get those?
The viewers watching the battle in real-time through the broadcast also showered them with praise.
“I’ll join in as well!”
Perhaps he thought the situation looked winnable.
Jerry Kim began unleashing a barrage of arrows at the Hydra.
‘This is easier than I expected?’
Kwon O-jin narrowed his eyes as he watched the Hydra retreat.
I had already reduced four of the nine heads to pulp.
Five heads remained intact.
At this rate, I could turn those five into mush before long.
Then.
“O-jin! That bastard—it’s regenerating?!”
Glub glub.
With a sound like bubbling foam, the Hydra’s half-severed neck began regenerating at alarming speed.
“Right. Something felt too easy about this.”
I clicked my tongue, watching the Hydra rapidly mend its wounds.
“Krrrraaaagh!!”
The Hydra, having instantly regenerated two of the four destroyed heads, shrieked savagely and resumed its assault.
‘Wait. Two heads?’
I narrowed my eyes, scrutinizing the Hydra.
Among the pulped heads, only those burned by Ha-eun’s flames were regenerating slowly.
‘Burns slow down regeneration, then.’
If that’s the case.
“Ha-eun! When I sever the remaining heads, sear the cut surfaces with your flames!”
“Got it!!”
With Ha-eun’s nod behind me, I kicked off the ground.
Twang!
I soared skyward through the wire, driving my spear down with ferocity.
—Shing!!
The spearhead, wreathed in azure lightning, cleaved through the Hydra’s neck.
“O-jin, move!!”
Whoooosh!
Ha-eun’s flames shot toward the severed surface.
Just as the crimson fire, moving through the air like a living thing with perfect control, reached near the bleeding wound.
“Kerrraaaagh!!”
From the six remaining heads, a thick green fluid sprayed forth, smothering the flames.
Sizzzzle!
The fire extinguished with acrid smoke.
“Damn it! What is this?!”
Ha-eun cried out in frustration.
‘It’s wary of the flames.’
I narrowed my eyes, observing the Hydra.
The Hydra clearly regarded Ha-eun’s fire as the greatest threat.
‘Then I need to reduce the remaining heads as much as possi━’
Grrrrgh!
Before I could sever another head, the severed one had already regenerated to its original form.
The time consumed in that regeneration was merely five seconds.
It was far too fast.
“What?”
It wasn’t this quick before.
“Oh, Kwon O-jin! This is strange! I’ve never heard of the Hydra’s regeneration speed being this fast… Ugh!”
Crunch!!
The freshly regenerated head whipped toward Jerry Kim like a lash.
Jerry Kim stopped firing arrows and rolled desperately across the ground.
‘Something’s off.’
Just as Jerry Kim said.
This was an abnormal regeneration speed.
[My child! The stellar energy dwelling within that monster has suddenly doubled!]
Hearing Vega’s words, I looked closely and saw a faint blue light seeping from the Hydra’s body.
“…Damn it.”
The strange phenomenon occurring within this Gate.
Two constellation stones coexisting within a single monster—I never imagined it would lead to this result.
“Kwon O-jin, this seems hopeless, doesn’t it?”
Ha-eun raised a massive wall of flames to block the green liquid pouring from all directions and shouted.
“No.”
There is a way.
‘Its regeneration is fast, but its durability isn’t that strong.’
Just now, I severed one head with a single spear strike.
‘Then.’
It takes five seconds from when a head is cut until it regenerates.
“If I sever all seven heads within that time, it’s over.”
Then it would lose the means to block her flames.
“…What?”
[My child. Even so, that is….]
Ha-eun and Vega looked at me with expressions of disbelief.
“There’s no other way.”
If there’s no alternative.
Then I simply give my all to what I can do.
[…I shall bestow my blessing upon you.]
“Later.”
I shook my head.
Vega’s blessing is a last resort.
I’ll try everything I can first, and if it still doesn’t work, I can receive the blessing afterward.
And more than anything.
[But if you are injured in the process….]
“Vega.”
I finished speaking quietly.
“When you’re bound by Divine Law. It hurts quite a bit, doesn’t it?”
[That…]
I didn’t need to hear the answer—I already knew.
I’d witnessed her writhing in agony every time the constraints took hold.
“It’s the same for me.”
Just as she wished I wouldn’t be hurt,
I wished equally that she wouldn’t suffer.
‘At first, she was just a mark to deceive.’
Somewhere along the way, she’d woven herself into my life—an irreplaceable warmth I couldn’t tear away.
[I, my child.]
Vega gazed at Kwon O-jin, her face flushed like an apple.
“Support me. You too, Riak.”
“Hmph. I was planning to anyway, whether you asked or not.”
His tone was gruff,
yet somehow it didn’t feel unpleasant.
“Then.”
I lowered my stance.
Time limit: five seconds.
Within that span—
“Exceed.”
Seven heads severed in one motion.
-Crackle crackle crackle!!!
Azure lightning coiled around my body.
-Roaaaaaagh!!
I kicked off the ground and launched skyward.
‘First one.’
Slash!
The spear blade wreathed in blue flame cleaved through the Hydra’s head.
‘Two, three.’
I pushed off the severed stump and slashed two more heads clean off.
“Krrrrgh?!”
The Hydra desperately withdrew its remaining four heads.
Twang! Twang!
I fired wires that wrapped around two of the heads.
“Five.”
Crackle crackle crackle!!
Explosive force surged through the wires, detonating two heads.
‘Time remaining:’
Two seconds.
‘Damn it.’
The two remaining heads were already far ahead, slipping away.
Even if I rushed forward now.
I couldn’t make it in time.
‘Faster.’
I concentrated every ounce of mana into my two legs.
To the very limit.
No.
Beyond the limit!
“GRAAAAAHHHHH!!”
I roared savagely and drove my feet into the ground.
Azure lightning enveloped my entire legs.
No.
It went far beyond merely wrapping around them━
In that instant, my two legs became ‘lightning’ itself.
-Ding!
[You have acquired a clue to ‘Thunder God’s Body’.]
[《Exceed Lv2》 has advanced to 《Exceed Lv3》!]
Lightning erupted explosively.
As if I’d strapped a jet engine to my feet, my body shot forward at a terrifying velocity.
-Whoooosh!!
“Screeeeeech!!”
All seven heads fell.
“Sister!!!!”
I twisted my body in mid-air and looked toward Ha-eun.
“Leave the rest to me!!”
From Ha-eun’s arms, a massive fire dragon materialized.
But this time it wasn’t just one.
A total of seven fire dragons surged up along her arms, climbing from her body.
“Ugh!”
Ha-eun touched the corner of her left eye as if in pain.
The grotesque sinews covering the entire left eye area had spread beyond her cheek, now creeping up to her neck.
“Haa, haa!”
Rough breathing escaped from Ha-eun’s lips.
It hurt.
A sharp, crushing pain pressed against her eyeballs.
‘But.’
Pain of this degree was nothing.
Compared to the unfathomable agony Kwon O-jin must have endured, it was insignificant.
‘My O-jin bore it…!’
How could I call myself his sister if I couldn’t endure even this much?
“Die, you bastard!”
Whoooosh!!
A massive inferno erupted skyward.
The dragon’s eyes blazed with savage fury as it targeted the severed neck of the Hydra.
-Skreeeeeee!!!
Seven fire dragons coiled around the Hydra’s severed neck.
The acrid stench of charring flesh reverberated through the Tunnel, mingling with thick smoke.
-Boom!
The Hydra’s massive body, spanning over twenty meters, crashed to the ground.
“Haa! Haa!”
“You did well, sister.”
Kwon O-jin approached her as she gasped for breath.
“…Well, I only landed the finishing blow.”
“That’s not something you can say so easily, is it?”
He said finishing blow, but in reality, she’d only been given one second.
‘It took four seconds to sever all the necks.’
In that single remaining second, she had to—
Incinerate all seven severed cross-sections where the heads had been cut away.
In a sense, her burden had been heavier than his.
“Ahem, ahem! Well, fine, whatever.”
Ha-eun cleared her throat awkwardly and turned her head away.
“…Huh?”
Then.
Kwon O-jin’s eyes widened as he noticed something.
“Sister, that….”
He pointed at her chest with his hand.
“My chest? You saying it’s hot? Hehe. I know, you little punk.”
“No.”
What was this woman talking about?
“It’s glowing.”
“…My breasts are?”
“It’s a stigma, damn it.”
“It’s a scar, damn it.”

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