The 100th Regression of the Max-Level Player - Chapter 260

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The Maxed-Out Player’s 100th Return – Episode 260
260. It’s Time I Told You.
Frustrated, the Angel unleashed Instant Death, his unique divine authority—but as long as I bore the title of Supreme Being, it would never touch me.
[An human immune to Instant Death. How infuriating.]
Gabriel sighed and switched tactics, channeling telekinesis instead.
I felt the formless force seize my body, but only for a moment.
Breaking free through sheer strength, I drove my scythe home.
Crash!
Gabriel tumbled backward, obliterating everything in his path.
The house was now a complete wreck—a testament to our clash.
[Aaaaaaah!]
Enraged beyond reason, he swung his chains wildly.
Dodging wasn’t difficult, but the weapon itself was troublesome.
‘I’d like to sever those chains, but it won’t be easy.’
Even with my restraint, every attack he threw was blocked. Ordinary strikes wouldn’t cut through them.
‘If I can’t neutralize the weapon, I’ll neutralize something else.’
My movements accelerated explosively.
Even Gabriel, who could read the future, struggled to keep pace.
Shock flickered across his face.
He knew what was coming but couldn’t stop it.
Slice!
For the first time, golden blood sprayed from Gabriel.
Thud!
Both his arms—still gripping the chains—were severed cleanly.
[Ugh!]
Simultaneously, blood gushed from Raphael’s mouth.
‘So Raphael was absorbing Gabriel’s damage all along.’
I’d noticed Gabriel showed no wounds despite being pushed back by my attacks, and I’d wondered why.
I knew he was receiving a damage-mitigation buff from Raphael.
But there was no way such a broken ability came without a cost.
‘And indeed, there was a price. He was absorbing the impact through mana.’
With each strike against Gabriel, Raphael’s mana drained away in chunks.
The moment I realized this, I shifted my focus entirely to Gabriel.
Without Raphael, Gabriel posed no real threat.
[Kugh… ugh…]
Gabriel’s face, twisted in agony from his severed limbs, was almost worth savoring—but I had no time for that.
Whoosh!
In the blink of an eye, his arms regenerated completely.
[Thank you, Raphael.]
[You’re welcome. But my mana is running low.]
[Already? How much is left?]
[At most around 5%…]
[What?]
Gabriel was genuinely shocked.
Raphael possessed mana reserves as vast as the ocean itself.
During the last battle against Cheon Ma, he had effortlessly endured three days while shielding hundreds of Combat Angels with protective barriers.
Yet mere minutes into combat—five at most—and he was already showing signs of depletion?
[I can only block a couple of attacks and cast a few healing spells. I need time to recover my mana…]
[Damn. This is bad.]
Watching the two of them, I broke into a grin.
‘They’re finally reaching their limits. Then…’
I glanced at Raphael, who was breaking into a cold sweat, then vanished in an instant.
The moment I closed the distance, Raphael’s eyes went wide.
[Ah.]
Those were Raphael’s last words spoken in my house.
Crash—!
Raphael shot through the Living Room window, shattering it as he flew outside.
His remaining mana managed to prevent fatal injuries, but there was no avoiding being hurled out of the building.
[Ra, Raphael!]
Gabriel, caught off guard, immediately realized it would be his turn next.
It was inevitable.
His reliable support had lost its strength.
‘The Lord was right. The two of us alone cannot prevail.’
Cornered, Gabriel searched for a way to turn the situation around.
In less than a second, a solution came to him.
‘How did I not think of this sooner?’
Gabriel watched Black Scythe’s movements intently.
Though it seemed like mindless fighting, I could instinctively sense he was protecting his brother.
‘Let me test this theory.’
Whoosh—!
Ignoring the incoming attack from Black Scythe, Gabriel hurled his chains.
His target: Black Scythe’s family, huddled and trembling in the corner of the room.
‘If my prediction is correct, Black Scythe will…’
Clang—!
‘…protect his brother.’
Just as expected.
Black Scythe deflected the chains while shielding his brother.
[Humans really are a foolish species, I tell you.]
Even if Raphael was helping him, why would he protect a worthless ordinary human?
Simply because they were family?
Because they’re precious to me?
What good are such emotions in the midst of battle?
If they become a weakness, aren’t they worthless?
Rather, it’s only right to cut them away decisively.
‘Now that I know the weakness, I’ll torment it thoroughly.’
Gabriel no longer paid any attention to Ryu Min’s attacks.
He wielded the chain solely toward Ryu Won as his target.
Clang— Clang—!
Each time, Ryu Min stepped forward to block with his scythe, but he couldn’t prevent the shockwaves from turning the house into a disaster.
Boom— Boom—!
“Ugh, u-ugh!”
As the house fell into complete disarray, Ryu Won trembled with fear.
Even a fool could see that the Angel was targeting him.
‘W-what do I do? I’ve made things difficult for Black Scythe.’
Cornered in the corner, unable to do anything, with Black Scythe standing before him to shield him.
And the male Angel unleashing attacks from multiple angles.
Ryu Won believed all of this was because of him.
‘No, it’s not because of you.’
Reading his younger brother’s true thoughts during the battle, Ryu Min shook his head inwardly.
‘It’s because of me.’
The Archangels had been dispatched to the mortal realm to kill me.
When they found no way to win through force, they came to my house to take my family hostage.
‘I placed the Hero’s Protection for times like this, but….’
I never expected it would come this soon.
Clang— Clang!
[Hehe, foolish human. You’re merely struggling to block!]
The chain tightened like a serpent constricting its encirclement.
Now, the slightest opening would allow him to pierce my younger brother.
‘Fighting while holding back my strength is unexpectedly difficult.’
Against an ordinary Archangel, I would have mounted an immediate counterattack, but Gabriel possessed the ability to read the future three seconds ahead.
Because of that ability, I could scarcely afford to show an opening.
‘If I give an opening, my younger brother will be hurt.’
Strictly speaking, it wouldn’t be my younger brother who’d be hurt—it would be me, and that impact would be far from trivial.
‘Anyway, that bastard is buying time.’
It seemed like reckless attacks, but it wasn’t.
Beneath his unconscious surface lay the calculation that even if he took the damage, Raphael would soon recover his strength and come to restore his body.
‘I’ll finish this before then.’
Realizing I had no choice but to use slightly excessive force, I accelerated my movements.
‘Amplification.’
The amplification skill of the Lightning Rune, which increased attack speed and movement speed by one hundred percent.
That made Ryu Min vanish in an instant.
[Gasp!]
Just as Gabriel, startled and gasping for breath, attempted something, the Scythe of Death had already passed through his lower body.
Squelch—
Golden blood seeped from the severed edge, pooling beneath him.
[Ugh….]
Gabriel’s expression crumpled like paper.
How long had it been since he felt such pain?
Perhaps this was the first time since the battle with Cheon Ma.
“Impressive.”
After offering his brief assessment, Ryu Min felt relieved.
Though the sight of his upper and lower body separated was gruesome, he didn’t seem about to die immediately.
‘If he dies now, that’s a problem. I haven’t used his blessing yet.’
First, I’d evacuate my younger brother to safety, then swap in Thanatos’s helmet and finish these creatures.
“Let’s go. Ryu Won.”
At Ryu Min’s gesture, Ryu Won carefully emerged from the room.
There was no time to look back at the living room, ravaged as though a bomb had swept through it, or at the angel bleeding helplessly in its center.
I simply evacuated outside the entrance, away from this crisis.
That was when it happened.
An angel entered through the shattered living room window, fluttering.
At the arrival of reinforcements, Gabriel managed a faint smile.
[Ra, Raphael….]
[Gabriel!]
Raphael immediately chanted a restoration spell, and Gabriel’s upper and lower body reattached cleanly.
[Ugh, I’ve lost so much blood I’m dizzy.]
[Are you alright?]
[What about you?]
[I exhausted too much mana blocking that creature’s attacks. With my current reserves, I can barely manage one or two defensive spells.]
[He proved more formidable than expected.]
Gabriel’s gaze turned toward the entrance.
Black Scythe and his family had already fled.
[What should we do?]
[What do you mean? We pursue.]
[Won’t it be difficult with just the two of us?]
[We can’t return empty-handed either. Besides, it’s not entirely hopeless.]
The recent battle had made one thing certain.
His weakness.
‘If I persistently target that younger brother, Black Scythe will have no choice but to expose an opening.’
Now that I know his weakness and have Raphael with me, I can seize the advantage in combat unlike before.
‘I don’t know why you didn’t finish me off and fled instead, but you made a mistake.’
I know where my Younger Brother is.
Gabriel gestured toward his subordinates.
[Let’s go.]
[Yes, sir.]

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There was no time for the elevator.
I had to put as much distance between myself and the Angels as possible.
“This way.”
Ryu Won ran frantically, following Black Scythe’s gesture, and soon realized something.
Where he was being led.
“W-wait, this is a dead end!”
He shouted in the corridor where only a window stood bare, but Black Scythe’s voice remained calm.
“A dead end? Hardly.”
Crash—!
“You can just go through the window.”
“Huh?”
As the scythe shattered the window, wind rushed in.
Was he seriously suggesting I jump from the 43rd floor?
My head spun for a moment.
“Don’t be so frightened. I’m not jumping to my death.”
“B-but….”
“Just hold on tight. No time for explanations.”
Ryu Won wrapped his arms around Black Scythe’s waist with a terrified expression.
Without hesitation.
“Aaaahhhhh!”
Black Scythe truly leaped out the window.
I thought I was about to die.
Flutter—
Black wings materialized from my back, and as I achieved stable flight, Ryu Won finally felt relief.
“Phew… I thought I was dead.”
I heard my Younger Brother’s voice from behind, but it was too early to relax.
‘I escaped successfully, but the Angels might pursue us.’
There was a possibility that Raphael would heal Gabriel and immediately give chase.
If they knew where my Younger Brother and I were.
‘Or they might not know our location and simply wait at Home.’
The best outcome would be to set my Younger Brother down somewhere safe, then go to where the Angels are and finish this.
But such thoughts didn’t last long.
The Angels were following right behind us.
‘So they could track us after all?’
A sigh escaped me, but there was no other choice in this situation.
I had to kill the Angels while protecting my Younger Brother.
‘Not here. I need to get as far from the city as possible. I can’t let innocent people get caught in this.’
But the Angels’ flight speed was faster than I’d anticipated.
Ryu Won suddenly glanced back and cried out in alarm.
“B-Brother! The Angels are following us! We’re g-going to get caught!”
“I know.”
I spoke curtly and descended lower.
‘I need to buy time to at least talk with my Younger Brother before I kill them.’
When I reached the ground, the Angels were directly overhead.
“R-Right above us!”
“I know, so just hold on tight.”
Confirming there were no obstacles ahead in a straight line, I activated the Rune of Light Rays.
‘Speed of light.’
With a brilliant flash, I crossed approximately two kilometers in an instant.
This would buy me time before the Angels could catch up again.
“Gasp! D-Did you just teleport? How is that even…?”
“That’s not important right now. The Angels are still pursuing us, and they won’t let us go until we’re dead.”
“S-So what do we do?”
“What do you think? We kill them.”
I spoke with confidence, but my Younger Brother’s face showed uncertainty, as if he didn’t know what to say.
I let out a small chuckle, understanding his thoughts.
“You’re probably thinking: if you could kill them, why did you run away just now?”
“…Yes.”
“Don’t worry. What I showed you back there wasn’t even half of my true power.”
“C-Can you really win?”
“Of course. But to do that…”
I removed my white mask.
Then I deactivated the assassin’s mask as if peeling away an infernal mask.
“I’ll have to reveal my identity. It’s time anyway.”
“What?”
Ryu Won’s confusion quickly transformed into shock.
Black Scythe’s body was transforming.
My height diminished, and my bronzed skin turned pale white.
My muscular frame became slender, and my face began to resemble someone he knew well.
“…Brother?”

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