The 100th Regression of the Max-Level Player - Chapter 326

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The Maxed-Out Player’s 100th Return – Episode 326
326. Chaos’s Weakness
‘I should keep one in reserve, just in case I need it later.’
After preserving one Dominion, I turned to survey the Players’ Group.
There were no longer any madmen attacking their own allies.
Aside from the handful who had regained their senses through Dominion, most lay unconscious.
‘Since I revived everyone with Life Potions, there aren’t any dead.’
Each person carried a potion, so reviving them posed no problem.
The real issue was our depleted numbers.
‘Twenty-eight knocked out, only forty-four remaining…’
Our fighting force had been halved, but doubt gnawed at me more than regret.
‘Can we truly defeat Chaos simply by having more people?’
Even if hundreds or thousands had survived instead of this pittance, could we kill that entity hovering in the heavens?
The primordial being called the god of gods?
I didn’t think so.
[So you minimized damage by incapacitating your own allies. A reasonable judgment. However.]
Uuuuuung—
Seventy-two rifts tore open in the sky, and blood-red spears materialized.
[Let’s see if you can evade the Spears of Mortality.]
“Everyone, dodge!”
I shouted urgently, but the spears had already fallen.
Thunk— Thunk— Thunk!
“Gaaahhh!”
“Kugh!”
“Aaaaahhh!”
They descended like meteors, piercing cleanly through the crown of the head and impaling straight through to the groin.
Those who had been unconscious couldn’t dodge and had their heads exploded.
A horrifying sight—countless people skewered like kebabs in an instant.
Yet not all met the same fate.
“Gasp, I, I survived.”
“Me, me too.”
Some managed to twist their bodies and evade, while others saved themselves by using their summons as shields.
“The, the Three-Headed Dragon…!”
“Grrrrrrgh…”
Yamtti didn’t wipe away tears at the sight of the Three-Headed Dragon dying in her stead.
She only burned with rage, commanding her remaining summons to attack the massive eye.
“Harpies! Kill that beast!”
The harpies that took flight extended their talons toward Chaos’s eye.
In that moment, those watching the assault widened their eyes.
The harpies passed through as if traversing ripples in water.
[How absurd. These insects dare to attack me?]
Though invisible to the eye, Chaos was clearly sneering.
[You cannot harm me. Or rather, it’s more accurate to say your attacks cannot even reach me.]
“A-an opponent we cannot touch…”
Despair spread like cancer across the faces of the surviving players.
[Still, I’ll give you credit. I never imagined so many mortals would survive the Spear of Mortality.]
As Chaos said, there were indeed many people standing on the ground.
‘Thirty out of seventy-two survived.’
Dodging at this speed was no problem for me, but it was unexpected that so many others had made it through.
“Does anyone have a Life Potion? Please save this person!”
“I do! I have one!”
As people actively moved about, even reviving the dead, their numbers grew.
Their cooperation was heartening to see, but Ryu Min’s expression remained grim.
There was no hope to be found anywhere.
‘Reviving the dead is merely a temporary measure. We’re only buying time.’
Yet I couldn’t simply let them die.
There was nothing else I could do.
‘I need to buy time. Until I can think of a way to turn this around.’
For that, I needed an invincibility skill first.
Ryu Min urgently searched for Christine.
“Christine! How much cooldown is left on Protect Cell?”
“T-thirty minutes, sir.”
“Ugh…”
The number that made me sigh the moment I heard it.
‘I have to endure thirty minutes before I can use full invincibility?’
More than half were already dead in less than five minutes—how could we possibly survive?
Even if we did, full invincibility would only buy us a few seconds.
‘Damn it. And I can’t even attack Chaos.’
Judging from the harpy’s attack just now, my attacks won’t work on Chaos.
A truly hopeless situation.
Recklessly provoking such a being might result in an even more devastating attack than before.
‘Trapped between a rock and a hard place.’
Yet the survivors, as if unable to simply stand idle, launched attacks toward Chaos.
“Take this, you bastard!”
“Die!”
Arrows, spells, thrown weapons—
Those capable of ranged attacks assailed the floating eyeball in their own ways, but it was futile.
It rippled like a hologram, and every attack simply passed through to the other side.
[Did you not hear my words? Your attacks are useless?]
Of course I knew they were useless.
Yet the Players’ Group did not cease their assault.
It was all they could do.
‘Damn it, Chaos’s gaze has turned vicious.’
Witnessing the sudden shift in those piercing eyes, Ryu Min intuited the truth.
The displeased Chaos would unleash his next attack.
‘I don’t want to provoke him, but there’s no other choice.’
I had devised roughly three contingencies.
Committing everything to one of them, I hurled myself forward.
In that moment, Chaos narrowed his eyes with annoyance at these gnat-like creatures and their tiresome assault.
[Bothersome humans. Simply perish.]
A death sentence had been pronounced.
Space tore open once more, and spears of mortality materialized—one for each person present.
Whoooosh—!
Like torrential rain, the spears descended mercilessly upon the remaining survivors.
Some anticipated the timing and evaded, but only some.
“Gahhh!”
“Arghhhh!”
The group of roughly thirty had been halved.
Among the dead was Seo A-rin.
She had sacrificed her summon to save another, leaving her own body undefended.
“A-rin!”
Min Ju-ri, who had survived thanks to the Spirit Knight’s sacrifice, rushed over desperately.
Fortunately, only her heart had been pierced, so her body remained relatively intact.
As Min Ju-ri retrieved a Life Potion and administered it, Seo A-rin’s eyelids fluttered open.
“Ah… Min Ju-ri?”
“Are you conscious?”
“Yes. The others…?”
“They survived because of you. Me too. Thank you so much.”
“Ah, thank goodness.”
Seo A-rin smiled faintly, though it was short-lived.
Looking upward, she saw Chaos opening space once again.
[Don’t be relieved too soon. One more attack, and that will be the end. As the assaults accumulate, you will all perish without exception…]
Chaos abruptly ceased speaking.
A sudden projectile—Moonlight Island itself—forced him to evade.
Boom—!
The impact reverberated with such tremendous force that the Temple’s interior trembled.
Yet inwardly, Ryu Min felt disappointment.
‘Not even a trace of damage.’
So meticulously constructed was the Boss Room that even a strike infused with hundreds of millions of stat points failed to crack it.
‘But one attempt tells us nothing.’
My crimson gaze locked onto Chaos and the Temple beyond him.
[I told you it would be futile….]
Chaos cut himself short and projected space around him.
Moonlight Island, passing through him, slammed into the Temple’s wall.
Once, twice, three times, four times.
CRASH-BOOM-!
CRASH-BOOM-!
BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-!
THUD-THUD-THUD-!
I hurled Moonlight Island five times in rapid succession, hoping to obliterate the Temple entirely.
Yet.
Pitter-patter—
Only a few fragments of stone dust scattered down; no further damage occurred.
‘Tch, so I can’t destroy my way out?’
My first strategy had been to escape the Boss Room.
I’d attempted this method thinking I could slip away if I collapsed the walls, but my hopes crumbled without exception.
Still, there was some merit to the effort.
I’d discovered Chaos’s weakness, after all.
‘That bastard. He keeps saying my attacks are useless, yet he cuts himself off the moment they connect. How convenient.’
Perhaps Chaos couldn’t use his skills or speak without exposing himself to my attacks?
Was he deliberately cutting himself short before Moonlight Island made contact?
My second strategy was born from this hypothesis.
‘If this assumption is correct, I can land a blow on him.’
Unlike others, I possessed a body through which divine power flowed.
As the only being capable of harming a god, Chaos would have no choice but to feel threatened.
That’s why he’d projected space to evade before Moonlight Island could touch him.
[Insolent human. Do you truly believe your pathetic attacks can reach me?]
“If they can’t reach you, why are you so worked up? That’s strange.”
[Your very audacity itself enrages me.]
“What did I even do to set you off?”
[Such impertinence….]
Before Chaos could finish speaking, my scythe streaked forward like lightning.
It was a decisive strike timed to his words, but Chaos reacted faster—the scythe passed through empty air.
[You dare interrupt me?]
“Did I interrupt? You were the one who chickened out and cut yourself short first.”
[You’ve figured it out, haven’t you? That I cannot use Phase Shift while speaking.]
Phase Shift appeared to be an evasion technique of some kind.
[Yet it matters not. No matter how swift you are, this technique allows me to evade 0.1 seconds earlier. That is why I said you cannot touch me.]
“Is that so? Even so….”
I raised my scythe.
“I can at least prevent him from attacking.”
Amplifying the electrical current coursing through my entire body, I unleashed a barrage of scythe slashes at tremendous speed.
Shwishwishwishwishwik—!
Suspended in mid-air, I carved hundreds of scythe arcs across Chaos’s eyes like a relentless assault.
Chaos could only feel frustration.
He had no opportunity to speak, constantly evading through phase shifts.
Shwishwishwishwishwik—!
Shwishwishwishwishwishwik—!
Despite the ultra-high-speed barrage, Chaos sustained no actual damage.
No matter how much I accelerated, the result remained the same.
He simply evaded everything through phase shift technique.
‘So it was true—he can evade 0.1 seconds in advance.’
Though every attack missed, I couldn’t help but smile.
At least I’d bought time to prevent him from counterattacking.
But there was one critical fact I’d overlooked.
[Black Scythe!]
It was none other than Artaros.
‘Damn. I should have dealt with him first.’
Even with his techniques sealed, his physical capabilities rivaled my own.
If I left him unchecked, he’d slaughter my allies.
I immediately deployed the Chain Rune to immobilize him.
Clankclankclank—
Artaros, who’d been waiting for an opening to move, found himself paralyzed once more.
Yet his action wasn’t without consequence.
The brief moment I paused to activate the chains gave Chaos the opening he needed to attack.
[You wretched creature! I’ll kill you right now!]
Space tore open, and a Spear of Mortality materialized—incomparably massive compared to before.
A direct hit would obliterate my body into pulp.
But I didn’t dodge.
Instead, I took it head-on deliberately.
To turn it back on Chaos.
[You have received a fatal attack.]
[Rune of Resurrection activates.]
[The target’s attack is reflected.]
This was the third countermeasure I’d devised.

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