The 100th Regression of the Max-Level Player - Chapter 210

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The Maxed-Out Player’s 100th Return – Episode 210
210. Stop This!
“Uhhh….”
Ma Gyeong-su, who had been unconscious, opened his eyes.
It was so dark he thought it might be the Parking Lot, but it wasn’t.
‘Ugh, what is this smell?’
The stench alone told him this was an entirely different place.
A musty, rotten odor wafted up from somewhere—perhaps from garbage scattered about.
Clink—
‘What?’
Not only that, but his hands and feet were bound.
From the sound and sensation, they were metal chains.
It seemed he’d been kidnapped and tied to a chair by someone.
‘That bastard’s doing.’
Ma Gyeong-su naturally recalled the ambush he’d received at the Parking Lot.
That bastard who’d struck his face with a shield—he had to be the culprit.
‘I need to escape this place fast.’
He was blinking to adjust to the darkness when—
“You’re awake? Gyeong-su?”
“Hyung? Gyeong-sang?”
A voice came from right beside him.
As his eyes finished adjusting to the darkness, he saw Ma Gyeong-sang bound to a chair next to him.
Like himself, his brother was chained to a metal chair.
“You got captured too?”
“Yeah.”
“Damn it. Whoever this insane bastard is, he’s an idiot. Does he really think we can’t break out of these chains?”
Whoever had kidnapped them had apparently prepared these chains thinking they could hold Players, but they’d picked the wrong targets.
After all, I was a Warrior class—someone who prided myself on raw strength.
“Hrraaaagh!”
But with his hands bound behind his back and wrapped so thoroughly in multiple layers, he couldn’t exert his full power.
“Don’t waste your strength. I already tried—it didn’t work.”
Hearing words that drained his morale, Ma Gyeong-su felt anger flare up inside him.
“Hyung! What are you saying at a time like this? We have to try something!”
“Hey, hey! Be quiet. What if the kidnapper comes in….”
“Let him come! Damn bastard, let me see his face!”
As if responding to his shout, the Warehouse door actually opened.
Creeeeak—
Both of them expected a masked figure carrying a shield to enter, but the person who came in was unexpected.
Or rather, someone they’d unconsciously suspected all along.
“Ma Gyeong-rok…?”
I’d hoped it wasn’t true, but the Criminal Player was Ma Gyeong-rok.
The cruel smile spreading across his face was all the proof I needed.
This was no expression of someone who’d come to rescue us.
“I knew it had to be that bastard.”
Ma Gyeong-rok remained composed even as his brothers’ eyes blazed with fury.
He simply tilted his head, utterly unbothered.
“Something wrong? Did your courage spill out of your belly? Speaking informally to your older brother the moment you see me? Maybe I need to carve out your insides while you’re still alive to knock some sense into you?”
“Damn it, Ma Gyeong-rok, you psychotic bastard. Do you actually expect to be treated like an older brother in a situation like this?”
“Gyeong-rok, please. Just let us go. Now.”
Unlike Ma Gyeong-su’s aggressive tone, Ma Gyeong-sang pleaded with pitiful eyes for their release.
“Hmm, I was thinking about letting you go based on what I’ve seen, but maybe I should only free Gyeong-sang then.”
“Let me go too, you bastard!”
“Our youngest needs to relearn some basic respect for his older brother.”
Ma Gyeong-rok’s smile turned sinister as he pointed his blade forward.
“Eat one of his arms.”
A sickening dark aura poured from the sword, writhing like a serpent before it lunged.
“W-what is this?! Get away! Aaaaah! It hurts! It hurts!”
The dark aura clung to Ma Gyeong-su’s arm, gnawing away at his flesh bit by bit.
“Aaaaah! It hurts! Aaaaaaah!”
His arm became tattered like an apple hollowed out by insects.
Ma Gyeong-su, his arm torn down to the bone, finally lost consciousness.
Ma Gyeong-sang, witnessing this horror right beside him, trembled like an aspen leaf.
“Wake up. Gyeong-su.”
….
“I said wake up.”
Ma Gyeong-rok approached and slapped his brother’s cheek, and only then did Ma Gyeong-su regain consciousness.
“When did I ever say you could sleep?”
“Ugh….”
“No answer?”
At the frost-laden edge in his voice, Ma Gyeong-su lowered his head and mumbled.
“I’m… I’m sorry, hyung….”
He’d passed out, not simply fallen asleep, but he lacked the strength to argue.
He couldn’t even muster the courage to look up.
“Pathetic bastard. Why did you even resist if you were going to submit so easily? Now one of your arms is crippled. Not that it matters—I was going to kill you anyway.”
At the word “kill,” his brothers’ shoulders flinched violently.
“P-please spare us, hyung….”
“Please….”
“Oh? So you do want to live? But what good will that do?”
Ma Gyeong-rok let out a cold, mocking laugh.
“The milk’s already spilled.”
“No. Not yet, brother. We can still fix this.”
“Y-yes. If you just let me live, I won’t breathe a word to anyone. I won’t even covet the successor’s position.”
“Kekekekek.”
Ma Gyeong-rok couldn’t suppress his laughter for a long moment.
“You people are hilarious, aren’t you? It’s only natural that the eldest son inherits the Company. So why do you covet the successor’s position? Just because you eat from the same table, do you think everyone’s rice bowl is yours? People need to know their place, tsk.”
“I’m s-sorry. I won’t do it again.”
“Please forgive me just this once, Gyeong-rok…”
“No talent, yet full of ambition. If you’re so jealous, why weren’t you born as the eldest? How dare you crawl up to your brother like this? Do I look ridiculous to you for staying still? Huh?”
Though he spoke with anger, Ma Gyeong-rok’s expression remained quite composed.
As if he were deliberately feigning rage for the sake of justification.
At that sight, Ma Gyeong-sang felt goosebumps rise across his entire body.
‘That’s it! That’s the other side of Gyeong-rok I’ve seen before…!’
There were times when he showed that chilling expression, and this was one of them.
This was also the moment when he needed to beg with both hands and feet.
“I’m s-sorry! Gyeong-rok! I-I was wrong.”
“Tell me honestly. You two were planning to kill me, weren’t you?”
“Spare me! It wasn’t me—it was Gyeong-su! He was the one planning it!”
“What?”
Ma Gyeong-su shot a sharp glance, but Ma Gyeong-sang didn’t even see it.
He was only desperate to save his own life.
“Tell me exactly what the plan was. If you want to survive tonight.”
“W-well, it’s like this…”
Terrified, Ma Gyeong-sang spilled everything he and Ma Gyeong-su had plotted.
Then a sneer formed at the corner of Ma Gyeong-rok’s mouth.
“So you were planning to beat me in a duel?”
“Y-yes. We weren’t planning to kill you, either of us.”
“Really?”
“Really! Would I lie in a situation like this?”
“Bullshit, you bastard.”
Ma Gyeong-su beside him let out a scoff.
“Gyeong-rok, don’t believe him. He’s lying to escape this situation.”
“What are you talking about, Ma Gyeong-su! What lie am I telling!”
“If he refused the duel, you were just going to kill him anyway. Gyeong-sang agreed to the whole thing.”
“W-what are you saying now? I clearly opposed—”
“Opposed my ass. You even asked when the operation meeting would be tomorrow.”
“Hey, Ma Gyeong-su! Do you really want to die?”
The light in Ma Gyeong-sang’s eyes as he shouted said it all.
Why deliberately speak the truth and provoke Ma Gyeong-rok?
Why poke at a hornet’s nest that was sitting still?
Reading that look, Ma Gyeong-su sneered with contempt.
“Who betrayed first? I can’t be the only one dying. You bastard.”
“Y-you insane bastard…!”
“Heh, puhahahaha!”
At the sudden laughter, the quarreling brothers turned their heads as if by agreement.
“Ah, sorry. Did I interrupt? Go ahead. Brothers. I find your bickering so entertaining. Show me more.”
As Ma Gyeong-rok openly mocked them, the brothers fell silent instead.
While their enthusiasm had waned, the honest truth was they didn’t want to do as Ma Gyeong-rok suggested.
“What? Why did you stop fighting? I told you to settle who’s at fault between you two.”
“….”
“How dull. You two are equally worthless, bickering about who’s wrong—it was rather amusing.”
Though he mocked them openly, the brothers didn’t even open their mouths.
They knew all too well that Ma Gyeong-rok held the blade.
“Since the momentum seems to have died, shall I lay out a stage for you?”
Ma Gyeong-rok swung his sword wreathed in dark aura.
Scrape—! Scrape—!
The brothers flinched at the sudden attack, but their eyes widened in shock when they saw the chains binding their limbs had been severed.
“There, now you can move freely, yes?”
“Why…?”
“Why did I free you? Because I want to see you brothers fight a bit more.”
Ma Gyeong-rok smiled wickedly as he continued.
“Whoever wins between the two of you, I’ll let them leave here.”
“You’re telling us… to fight?”
“Yes. But it’s not some duel or anything. You have to fight for real. With your lives on the line. I’ll only acknowledge it if you completely end your opponent’s life.”
“What?”
In other words, he was telling them to fight and kill each other.
“Whoever survives, I’ll personally see them out. I promise.”
“A-are you serious? Brother Gyeong-rok?”
“Or would you both rather die by my hand?”
As Ma Gyeong-rok raised his sword, dark aura rippled across its blade.
This was the same Ma Gyeong-rok who had severed iron chains as easily as tofu.
His combat prowess was obvious as day.
‘Even for us, a two-on-one against him would be difficult….’
Ma Gyeong-sang had briefly considered launching a surprise two-on-one assault with Ma Gyeong-su, but that thought quickly faded.
Seeing Ma Gyeong-su, now effectively one-armed, he realized it would be impossible.
“So what will it be? Die? Or let one of you live?”
“I-I’ll do it. We’ll fight… Cough!”
Suddenly, blood erupted from Ma Gyeong-sang’s mouth.
Ma Gyeong-su had drawn a short blade from somewhere and slashed his brother’s throat.
Thud—
Though he died with eyes wide open, Ma Gyeong-su didn’t even glance at his dead brother.
“That’s it, right? Ma Gyeong-rok! Since I won, you’re letting me live, aren’t you?”
To kill Ma Gyeong-sang with a surprise attack like that.
Ma Gyeong-rok chuckled darkly and nodded as if acknowledging it.
“Fine, fine. Okay. Our youngest passes. A promise is a promise, after all.”
“Then, then I’m leaving?”
“Yeah, but…”
Click— Creeeeak—
Ma Gyeong-su, who had opened the door immediately lest his brother change his mind, stopped in his tracks upon seeing An Sang-chul standing outside.
“I said I’d let you go, not that I’d spare your life.”
“What, what are you saying?”
“Director An.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Stop that bastard from leaving. I’ll kill him with my own hands.”
“Understood.”
An Sang-chul, shield in hand, activated Knight’s Protection and blocked the passage.
The skill could protect the party, but it could also be wielded like a wall in this manner.
“Damn it! You son of a bitch!”
The assassin Ma Gyeong-su immediately activated invisibility.
Since it was night, he intended to escape under cover of darkness, but if he was detected by presence sensing, it would be meaningless.
Boom—!
“Ugh!”
Hit by the shield bash skill, Ma Gyeong-su’s invisibility broke, and he tumbled three times across the ground.
He was outnumbered and one of his arms was on the verge of necrosis, putting him at a severe disadvantage.
Yet he rose with every ounce of strength he had left.
‘If I stop here, I die.’
I would survive and expose Ma Gyeong-rok’s atrocities to the world.
Even if it meant going to prison myself.
With that singular resolve, I fled again, but my pursuer was not An Sang-chul alone.
“Where do you think you’re going?”
Ma Gyeong-rok, who had caught up, ensnared my ankle with his dark aura.
I tumbled to the dirt again and tried to rise immediately, but—
Slice—!
My knees were severed before I could even get up.
“Krraaaaaaagh!”
“Now you can’t run away, can you?”
“Please, spare me! Brother! No, sir! Ma Gyeong-rok, sir! Please spare me. I’m begging you! What’s the point of killing a worthless wretch like me, huh? If you let me go now, I’ll go abroad and live quietly like a dead mouse. Sir. We’re family, aren’t we? Family! You can be the successor, sir. So please…”
“Does he have a motor in his mouth? Now that death is near, I see all sorts of pathetic things.”
“Ah.”
In Ma Gyeong-rok’s smirking expression, I saw it.
That chilling gaze Ma Gyeong-sang had spoken of.
And then I realized.
‘This… this hyung is serious.’
No matter how much I begged, he had no intention of sparing me.
He was purely enjoying my suffering.
“H-help! Someone! Please, save me!”
“Screaming won’t help. There’s no one here.”
Ma Gyeong-rok laughed as he severed the other leg.
Slice—!
“Gaaahhhhh!”
“That’s why I love this place. There’s nowhere better for disposing of criminals.”
“C-criminals?”
“And right now, there’s another criminal standing before me.”
Ma Gyeong-rok smiled as he summoned the Dark Aura.
Yes, it was always best to leave the finishing touches to the Dark Aura.
“Devour him.”
“No, please! Gaaahhhhh!”
It was as the Dark Aura was tearing Younger Brother apart alive.
“Stop!”
At the sudden voice of a third party, Ma Gyeong-rok’s head snapped around.
And he saw.
“Christine?”
His fiancée and Seo A-rin approaching him.

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