Not A Regressor - Chapter 95

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I Am Not a Regressor Chapter 95
Ancient Constellations (6)
“Where in the world are all these demonic beasts coming from….”
Lee Woo-hyuk furrowed his brow in bewilderment.
It would be one thing if there were a Gate nearby.
But Guro-dong, where the demonic beasts were currently rampaging, didn’t even have a single 1 or 2-star Gate.
“These don’t seem to be ordinary monsters.”
Kim Sun-young, who had followed behind Lee Woo-hyuk, spoke calmly while surveying her surroundings.
“If they’re not ordinary monsters….”
“They’re demonic beasts. Artificially created ones at that.”
Kim Sun-young pushed her glasses up sharply, her eyes gleaming with intensity.
“…It was the Black Star Society’s doing.”
Grind.
Lee Woo-hyuk gnashed his teeth savagely.
Only the Black Star Society could artificially create thousands upon thousands of demonic beasts.
“Damn bastards.”
He gazed down at the corpses of those who hadn’t managed to escape, torn to shreds by the beasts’ claws.
….
For a moment, the image of Lee Shin-hyuk overlapped with those brutally slaughtered bodies.
So infinitely precious.
My one and only family.
“…Brother.”
There was no answer to that sorrowful call.
“Hah.”
Lee Woo-hyuk barely suppressed the rage that threatened to explode from within him.
‘Vengeance comes later.’
For now, dealing with the demonic beasts indiscriminately attacking people was the priority.
“Sun-young. You evacuate the survivors first.”
“Yes, Guild Master.”
Kim Sun-young bowed respectfully and drew the two short blades sheathed at her thighs into both hands.
With movements as nimble as a puma scaling a tree, she bounded across the building ruins toward where the survivors had gathered.
“Then.”
Lee Woo-hyuk’s eyes blazed with ferocity.
Eight strokes inscribed beside the Leo constellation mark flared brilliantly, and a sharp whirlwind enveloped his body.
“Let’s go.”
“Yes!!”
“Let’s sweep them all away, Guild Master!!!”
The Valhalla Guild members drew their weapons.
Without hesitation, they charged toward the demonic beasts surging forward like a tidal wave.
“Grrrrrraaaaahhhhh!!!”
The demonic beasts spread wide like a crane-wing formation, encircling the Valhalla Guild members.
“How dare you.”
Lee Woo-hyuk rushed forward swiftly toward one side of the encirclement.
Raising his sword high,
“These mere demonic beasts think they can form a proper formation?”
He brought it down.
-CRAAAAAASH!!!!
A gust of wind erupted from the blade, spreading in a straight line and sweeping away the demonic beasts attempting to tighten their encirclement.
The demonic beasts struck by the whirlwind, as if torn by the savage claws of a beast, sprayed blood as they were hurled away.
“Hah.”
Lee Woo-hyuk swept through the demonic beasts with unstoppable momentum, breathing slowly and deliberately.
He concentrated the mana of his constellation mark into his blade and took his stance.
“Whirlwind Slash.”
The wind blew.
Layering, intertwining, swirling—the sword aura became a vortex of wind.
“KRAAAAAHHH!!”
“Shriek! Shriek!”
A whirlwind of death.
Chunks of demonic beast flesh, shredded as if ground in a blender, scattered through the air.
-WHOOOOSH! WHOOOOOOSH!
Like a beast entering a flock of sheep.
Dozens of demonic beasts were ground to dust with a single sword strike, and the encirclement tore open like paper.
“Wow.”
A brief exclamation escaped Kwon O-jin’s lips as he watched the spectacle.
‘Is this the true power of the Black Lion, Lee Woo-hyuk?’
He had seen him fight Yujin once before, but that time the real battle hadn’t even begun before Yujin immediately surrendered, leaving no time to observe.
‘No wonder he’s called a Seven Stars candidate.’
According to rumors, the Black Lion Lee Woo-hyuk had reached the peak of the 8-star realm.
He had heard he was just one step away from reaching 9-star.
‘She’s in a completely different league.’
The gap in power between Ha-eun, who had just entered the 8-star realm, and Lee Woo-hyuk, who had reached the peak of the 8-star realm, was literally the difference between heaven and earth.
Honestly, it was doubtful whether they were even truly at the same 8-star level.
‘At this rate… I’ll have some breathing room.’
With the support of the Valhalla Guild and Association members, the immediate crisis had been averted.
Kwon O-jin fired a wire shooter toward a nearby building rooftop from a step away.
-TWANG!
After ascending to the building rooftop using the wire, he activated the constellation mark of the Hunting Dog and surveyed the battlefield.
‘Even with this, there are many casualties.’
Well.
With thousands of demonic beasts suddenly appearing in the heart of the city, heavy casualties were inevitable.
Especially for those non-Awakened who hadn’t received the Constellation’s blessing, it would have been no different from a natural disaster.
“Not touching non-Awakened my ass.”
Kwon O-jin furrowed his brow and clicked his tongue.
While it wasn’t yet certain whether this had happened under Cheon Woo-sung’s orders, given that he was the one who effectively led the ‘Owl’ faction, the likelihood of him having no connection to this plan was slim.
‘I’ll think about why he’d do something like this later.’
Right now, there was something more pressing.
[My child. Will you not help them?]
“Wait a moment.”
Kwon O-jin surveyed the battlefield using his heightened senses, sharpened by the stigma of Canis Major.
An endless tide of demonic beasts.
They were clumsily forming formations and charging toward the Awakened.
‘As I thought.’
They seemed to be deliberately making it look clumsy to hide something.
‘Someone is controlling the demonic beasts from behind.’
It wasn’t as though there were no monsters with exceptional intelligence.
But at least the demonic beasts currently infesting Guro-dong didn’t appear to possess the intelligence necessary to form ‘formations.’
‘I need to find that one.’
That being was likely the root cause of this disaster.
‘Where is it?’
It wasn’t anywhere visible at first glance.
Even when I tried to sense the energy through the Black Heaven, the aura of the Black Star was so overwhelming everywhere that I couldn’t tell where it was hiding.
“Ugh.”
The area where the battle was unfolding spanned several kilometers.
There was no way to precisely locate a being controlling demonic beasts from a range that didn’t even properly fit in my field of vision.
‘Then.’
Kwon O-jin turned his head toward Vega.
“Vega, those unsettling auras you felt before. You’re still sensing them now, right?”
[Indeed. Unpleasant energy overflows from all directions.]
Vega furrowed her brow and shook her head slowly.
“Among them, isn’t there a place where you feel the densest aura?”
At least in terms of sensing the Black Star’s aura, Vega was several times superior to me.
Though her power was restricted, she was the Constellation of Polaris, before whom even other Constellations bowed their heads.
[Hmm. Wait a moment.]
A bright silver luminescence wrapped around her body, gradually expanding in intensity.
[Haa.]
Vega, having returned to her true form, slowly raised her hand.
She extended her index finger as if pointing at something.
Crackle, crackle.
Blue lightning gathered at the tip of her extended index finger.
As she slowly moved the index finger, stretched out as if dividing heaven and earth, to the side.
[Black Star, reveal thy hideous form.]
━A torrent of lightning engulfs the earth.
“…What in the—”
The lightning was so faint that it was barely perceptible to the naked eye.
Yet Kwon O-jin could sense it with absolute clarity.
In the blink of an eye, the ground spanning several kilometers around him had been consumed by azure lightning.
‘Insane.’
He’d blanketed all of Guro-dong in lightning with nothing more than a casual gesture?
‘If his power hadn’t been restricted…’
The lightning now was so faint that only Kwon O-jin could perceive it.
But imagining what would have transpired had all that lightning carried lethal force sent a chill down my spine.
‘Thousands upon thousands of beasts would have been annihilated with a single gesture.’
I was freshly reminded of just how absurdly transcendent a Constellation truly was.
[Ugh….]
As the Divine Law’s restriction took hold, Vega furrowed her brow in pain.
But it was only momentary.
[Found it.]
Vega extended her hand, pointing toward a single location.
It was one of the places from which beasts endlessly crawled forth.
The topmost floor of a high-rise building spanning dozens of stories.
‘It was hiding inside the building.’
Surrounded by structures on all sides, it was a rather shrewd choice.
“…So.”
Now that I knew where it was hiding, all that remained was to find it and kill it.
The problem was finding a way to get there.
Using the wire shooter would be impossible given the building’s height, and entering through the interior meant contending with far too many beasts.
“What a headache.”
Had I mastered the ‘lightning stride’ that Vega had mentioned before, I could have flown freely through the air.
But I possessed no such skill to soar unimpeded through the sky.
“Kid! What are you standing around for?!”
Riak, who had been fighting beasts, leaped onto the rooftop with nimble movements and furrowed his brow.
“Ah.”
Snap.
Upon spotting Riak, Kwon O-jin snapped his fingers as if struck by inspiration.
“Riak. I need a favor.”
“What?”
“I need to get to the top floor of that building over there.”
“That building?”
Riak looked up at the high-rise building and clicked his tongue.
“Sorry, but I can’t take you up there. While the Divine Law’s restriction is less severe for me than for Vega, I’m not skilled enough to use lightning stride outside of the Star Palace.”
“I know.”
“…What? You know? Then how exactly do you plan to get over there?”
Riak tilted his head and asked.
“Riak, have you ever seen a baseball game on TV before?”
“I’ve seen one, but why would you bring that up now… wait.”
Riak’s mouth fell open.
“Are you out of your mind?”
“Can you do it or not?”
“What kind of insane….”
He shook his head in disbelief.
[What method could possibly work?]
Vega looked back and forth between Kwon O-jin and Riak, still unable to comprehend.
“I’ll explain later. Riak, you’re not running out of strength, are you?”
“Grrrowl! What do you take me for? For the Star Spirit of Weaver Star, something like this is nothing!”
“Heh. Then I’m counting on you.”
Kwon O-jin walked forward with a smirk spreading across his face.
‘The straight-line distance is probably around five hundred meters.’
I wanted to get closer.
But there were far too many demonic beasts pouring in for that.
“Well… fine. If that’s your intention, I’ll oblige!”
Crack! Crunch!
Riak transformed into his werewolf form.
With sharp claws, he tore into the ground and savagely ripped out a steel reinforcement rod.
“Get ready, you brat!!”
Whoosh! Whoosh!
He swung the twisted steel rod fashioned into a bat threateningly through the air.
“Alright! On one, two, three, we go!”
[Wait. Surely you’re not….]
Vega’s face went pale as she finally understood what Kwon O-jin was thinking, her mouth falling open.
[My, my child!! No matter what, this is!!]
“Oneeeee!!!”
Ignoring her protests.
Kwon O-jin crouched low.
“Grrrowwwl!!! Don’t you dare let go and die, you brat!!!”
“Stop worrying and put more power into it, you mutt!!!”
“I’m already at full power!!!”
Riak raised the steel rod bat high above his head.
The triceps of the arm gripping the bat swelled as if about to burst.
“Grrrraahhh!!”
As the constraints of the Divine Law began to take effect, a pained groan escaped through his gritted teeth.
“Krrrraaaaahhhhh!!!”
Boom!!
Riak stomped his feet savagely and roared with ferocity.
“This pathetic━ pain is nothing to me!!!!!!”
Ignoring the horrific agony as if his entire body were being torn to shreds.
I drew upon every ounce of mana I possessed.
-Crackle!! Crackle crackle crackle!!
Blue sparks blazed fiercely between the silver fur.
“Krraaaaaaaa!!”
Blood vessels burst, and crimson tears streamed from my eyes.
My skin split with a sharp crack, as if a steel ball had been dropped onto glass.
Blood vessels and flesh tore through the fractured skin, gushing outward.
And yet.
Still.
“I, Riak, shall never again surrender to pain!!!”
For centuries, I had been trapped behind the wall of enlightenment, squandering each day in meaningless existence.
Those days when I rotted beneath the crushing weight of despair and defeat.
‘It is different now.’
Though I had not yet broken through the barrier of enlightenment.
A single human who had endured the agony of death dozens of times, yet still rose unsteadily to his feet.
A star of defiance shining brilliantly in the black sky.
━had transformed me.
Yes.
From that day forward, I was born anew.
“Duuuuuuul!!!”
“Kyyyyeeeee!!!!”
[W-wait!! There must be another way!!]
Kwon O-jin curled himself into a tight ball like a snail.
Wrapping lightning around both legs to maximize his jumping power.
“Hyeeeeeeet!!!!”
He leaped lightly and landed atop the club.
And.
“Gooooooo!!!!! You brat!!!!!”
Kaboom!!!
With the sound of air exploding.
Kwon O-jin’s body shot skyward like a cannonball.
“Uuuaaaaaaaa!!!!!”
The biting wind whipping across my cheeks.
The dizzying sensation of defying gravity.
“I’m flying! I’m flying!!! Holy crap!!!!!”
Thousands of demonic beasts swarmed across the battlefield.
Tearing through the sky shrouded in ash and dust.
Azure lightning descended upon the rooftop of the High-rise Building where the Black Star Society lay concealed.

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