The Legendary Regressor Devours the Tower - Chapter 27

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Episode 27
I had no information about the special privilege.
Because of this, I had to judge the situation by observing what was happening around me.
“Ahem…….”
“I’m sorry.”
“Without a sacrifice, we’ll all die…….”
That’s the gist of it.
The villagers gathered periodically to select a sacrifice, and by offering that sacrifice to whoever threatened the village, they prolonged their lives.
‘For all their words, they don’t seem to pity me at all.’
Perhaps they had felt genuine sorrow at first, but their faces now bore only the relief of the living.
Relief that I wasn’t the one chosen as the sacrifice.
After all, it wasn’t something the villagers could decide themselves.
“You’re certain he lost consciousness for five days a week ago, with no apparent cause?”
The village chief placed a hand on Seong-un’s head and opened his mouth.
“Yes. He collapsed suddenly while working in the fields and regained consciousness after five days.”
But the answer came not from Seong-un himself, but from the mouths of the villagers.
“And he’s been fine since then?”
“Yes. He did complain of pain, but when Deb examined him, he found nothing wrong.”
“Deb, is that right?”
The chief turned his head slightly, and a middle-aged man called Deb stepped forward and nodded.
“Yes. He meets the conditions for sacrifice. There’s no need for concern.”
“……I’m sorry, Seong-un.”
The name of the young man who had entered was Seong-un.
“Where am I going now?”
At this pitiful question, the chief smiled brightly and placed a hand on Seong-un’s shoulder.
“Have no fear. This is your escape from this dreary life.”
“Are you really calling this a blessing?”
“Yes.”
“That’s nonsense.”
“What?”
The chief’s face stiffened in an instant.
“Such insolence!”
“How dare you speak to the chief that way!”
The villagers, who had been listening in silence, erupted in indignation.
Seong-un let out a bitter laugh and spoke.
“Then is there anyone willing to be the sacrifice instead of me?”
“What?”
“Will you hold your tongue!”
This was absurd.
A blessing?
No amount of wrapping could make a dog’s death a blessing.
‘What should I do?’
Seong-un wrestled with the dilemma internally.
If he simply became the sacrifice and faced the threat to the village with his current strength, he’d be completely outmatched.
Though the Tower of Miracles would forcibly eject him if his life was in danger—meaning he wouldn’t actually die—he’d already spent the special privilege to skip floors three through five to get here, and he had no intention of forfeiting those rewards.
He had to somehow obtain a high evaluation score and secure rewards that would exceed what he’d already given up.
‘There’s only one way.’
After deliberation, he reached his decision.
Seong-un drew a sword from his inventory.
At the sudden appearance of the blade, the chief gasped and tried to stumble backward.
But Seong-un was faster, seizing the chief’s collar with his left hand.
With a strength stat of 88, the force he exerted was overwhelming—the chief couldn’t resist and was yanked toward Seong-un.
“Chief!”
“Seong-un! Stop this at once—ugh!”
Whoosh—
Seong-un swung his sword in his right hand, blocking the villagers’ approach, and brought the blade to the chief’s throat.
“Come any closer and I’ll kill him.”
At the chilling threat, the villagers froze where they stood.
‘I’ve really become scum now.’
There’s no denying it.
Climbing the tower with a goal, he’d stop at nothing to achieve it.
‘Doesn’t matter. As long as I can match the bastards lurking above, I’ll become something worse than trash.’
Slice—
The blade at his throat bit into the Village Chief’s skin.
“P-please… let me live…….”
The Village Chief pleaded, his face drained of all color.
“Didn’t you speak of a blessing? I’m simply bestowing that blessing upon you—is there a problem with that?”
“Don’t do this…… You’ll fall into hell…… Don’t you know you won’t be able to see your parents even in death?”
“Damn it all.”
Seong-un dragged the Village Chief forward.
Whoosh—
As he swung the blade with force, the villagers scattered in panic, clearing a path.
Like Moses parting the sea, the crowd split in two and a path opened before him, which Seong-un walked through.
“Throw something and I kill him.”
Seong-un brought the blade back to the Village Chief’s throat.
Those in the distance who had been reaching for stones froze.
“Think carefully. I’m not killing him—you are. If you’d just stayed quiet, the Chief wouldn’t have died.”
Though rage trembled through the people’s bodies, none dared throw a stone.
“We have no time…… Please…… Save our village, I’m begging you!”
Tears streamed down the Village Chief’s face.
“I don’t want to. Why should I save the village for people like you? If you’re going to die, we’ll all die together.”
“You can’t!”
“I can.”
* * *
Thud. Thud.
The footsteps of just over ten figures sounded, then ceased abruptly.
A creature far too massive to be called human—well over three meters tall, completely bald, with pointed ears and a single eye in the center of its face.
A one-eyed giant.
One of the Cyclops race.
“The date has come—why are there no humans?”
“……We’ll return and report to the commander.”
Finding no humans, they turned without hesitation.
* * *
The date for the sacrifice had passed.
The villagers returned to their homes in despair, and wailing echoed through the village day and night.
Since Seong-un had abducted the Village Chief and disappeared, someone else would have to become the sacrifice to survive.
But the Cyclops required a sacrifice that met the same conditions as Seong-un.
Otherwise, they declared, they would regard it as a failure to provide a sacrifice and annihilate the village.
In truth, the moment Seong-un rebelled, the village’s fate was sealed.
“That bastard Seong-un…… repaying kindness like this!”
Mano’s fists trembled violently, clenching so hard blood oozed from his palms.
He was the one who had brought back the disappeared Seong-un, making him a friend without equal.
It was Mano who had always looked after Seong-un since childhood—a boy of slight build and fragile spirit.
When Seong-un regained consciousness five days later, he came to Mano first, tears and snot streaming down his face, begging for help.
‘Seong-un, stop talking like that! You’ve been given a chance to become a hero!’
The villagers had persuaded him that they would honor and thank the hero he’d become and live on.
But to backstab them like this.
“Mano, what are we going to do…… We’re all dead now.”
His mother hadn’t eaten anything all day, only wailing.
He tried to bring her water to ease her distress, but she refused it, only repeating what they would do.
“Aaaaaahhhhh!”
Then, a scream pierced the air outside.
Crack!
Crunch— crunch—
Followed by a sickening sound.
The Cyclops had invaded and begun devouring the people alive.
“I-insane…….”
It didn’t take long for anger to transform into terror.
His mother, who had been wailing, must have heard the sounds; she clamped her mouth shut and pulled out the blanket she’d carefully folded away.
She was trying to hide herself in the wardrobe.
“Come here, Mano—hurry, come here.”
His mother, concealed in the shadows, called to Mano urgently.
“Mother……”
Hiding wouldn’t change anything.
With only one eye, the creature possessed a sense of smell and hearing incomparably sharper than any human’s.
Once it entered this house, it would pinpoint his and his mother’s location within ten seconds.
“I said come!”
Yet those without courage to face such creatures chose to hide anyway.
Mano was no different.
Seized by terror, he moved toward the closet, following his mother.
Bang!
At that instant, the door burst open and a Cyclops ducked its massive head through the entrance.
“So there were humans here as well.”
The Cyclops flicked its tongue—twice as long as a man was tall—and grinned wickedly.
“!”
Mano froze in terror.
“Mano!”
His mother, who had fled into the closet, rushed back out, crying his name in desperation.
“Only two, then.”
The Cyclops surveyed the room, then reached out and seized Mano’s face in its enormous grip, lifting him effortlessly into the air.
The head was always the most delicious part.
So it meant to devour him starting from the legs, saving the finest morsel for last.
“Run…… please run……”
Mano whimpered those words, and his mother grabbed a broom from the corner, rushing at the creature.
“Let go of my son!”
“Even base creatures love their offspring, I see.”
The Cyclops raised its arm to strike her down.
Slash—
In that moment, its outstretched arm fell severed to the ground, still twitching.
“!”
The Cyclops’s eye widened in shock as it whirled around.
Thud—
A Greatsword plunged straight through its single eye.
“Shrieeeek!”
The Cyclops shrieked in agony.
“Die.”
The swordsman drew a Dagger and slashed its throat open.
* * *
Twelve hours before the Cyclops attacked the Village.
[EP. 2 Private Audience with the Village Chief]
Not long after abducting the Village Chief, the next episode began.
‘It seems the episode unfolds according to the direction I move.’
Had Seong-un shown no meaningful resistance during the selection ceremony, the next episode would almost certainly have been a standoff.
“Do you truly refuse to be the offering…… or do you wish for everyone to perish……?”
The Village Chief stared at Seong-un with reproach, his voice heavy with despair.
“So you intend to keep extending your lives by offering up those still living in this place?”
“Then what am I supposed to do! How can we possibly stand against the monsters outside!”
Cyclopes.
Compared to the races that had tormented Seong-un in his past life, they were insignificant—but the problem was that Seong-un’s Level was only twenty-one.
A Cyclops, even at its weakest, would be Level forty or higher.
“I agree. At the villagers’ current strength, they couldn’t kill a single Cyclops.”
“Exactly. So you were chosen as the offering, and you should have stepped forward for our people’s sake.”
The time for the offering had passed.
With no offering in place, they would soon come to destroy the Village.
“I’m sorry, but I’ll have to decline the sacrifice. Which means I’ll need to use you all instead.”
“Use us……?”
The Village Chief’s face betrayed complete bewilderment.
“You’ll understand soon enough.”
Seong-un was now in the house where the body’s original owner lived.
Outside, those who thought they would die for failing to offer a sacrifice were wailing, and as their cries turned to screams, Seong-un rose from his seat.
‘It’s here.’
No offering had been made, so true to the warning, the Cyclops had come to raid the Village.
“It’s all over…….”
The Village Chief closed his eyes tightly, his face heavy with despair.
Guilt consumed him entirely—the failure to fully discharge his sacred duty to protect the Village.
“It’s not over yet.”
Seong-un opened the door as he spoke and drew his Greatsword.
“Aaaaagh!”
“P-please, somebody help!”
Two villagers were caught in the Cyclops’s grip.
Terror-stricken, they begged for their lives.
Slice—
As if in answer to their pleas, Seong-un kicked off the ground and leaped, his blade sweeping clean through the creature’s neck.
The raw power that erupted from a Strength Stat of 88 tore through the Cyclops’s neck without resistance.
As its head fell to the earth, the two villagers found themselves free.
“Ugh…….”
“Go quickly. Hide.”
Seong-un gave the stunned pair a terse command.
After that, he spotted another Cyclops entering a house and pursued it inside, finishing it where it stood.
“B-Ban……?”
Mano stared at Seong-un with trembling eyes, newly freed from captivity.
[EP. 3 The Cyclops Raid]
With that, Episode 2 came to an end, and the next Episode began.
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