The Legendary Regressor Devours the Tower - Chapter 28

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Episode 28
“How on earth did you kill that monster……?”
Nagareth, Mano’s mother, stared in horror, her eyes darting between Seong Un and the Cyclops’s corpse.
But Seong Un didn’t answer. He simply turned away.
This was no time for casual conversation.
“Wait, just a moment!”
Mano, either oblivious or stubborn, grabbed Seong Un’s shoulder.
“No time.”
Brushing the hand from his shoulder, Seong Un rushed outside—only to find three more Cyclopes tearing into villagers.
At the gruesome sight, he narrowed his eyes and bolted forward without hesitation.
Whoosh—
In one fluid motion, Seong Un severed the Cyclops’s right leg clean off.
As its balance crumbled and the creature lurched sideways, he thrust his blade upward, piercing the eye socket straight through.
“Aaaaagh! You damned human!”
The creature shrieked and hurled curses at the sudden turn of events, its eye impaled on his sword.
‘This is manageable.’
The Cyclops’s Level was undoubtedly over 40.
Yet despite that, it had mounted virtually no defense against his blade.
In the Tower of Miracles, their levels aren’t displayed.
So you had to test them directly, and after ending two of them, he’d drawn his conclusion.
‘Their levels are similar to mine.’
For some reason, their levels had been downgraded.
Otherwise, this fight wouldn’t make any sense.
Seong Un yanked the sword from the shrieking Cyclops’s eye and slit its throat, severing its life.
“Human…… I will never forgive this.”
“How dare you stand against us.”
The two remaining creatures tossed the villagers they’d been clutching carelessly aside and advanced toward Seong Un.
Seong Un’s eyes flicked across them, assessing their condition.
They were still breathing, but the Cyclopes’s habit of gnawing from the legs first had left the villagers’ limbs torn and mangled—a horrific sight.
Blood was pouring from those wounds, and without quick treatment, the situation was dire.
Fortunately, Mano and Nagareth, who had emerged from the house and frozen at the sight of the Cyclopes, now recognized the monsters were targeting Seong Un and quickly moved toward the injured.
‘I don’t need to worry about that.’
The number of Cyclopes that had invaded the village didn’t appear to be large.
Aside from these three, he saw nothing else.
Only distant screams echoed from afar.
Clearly they’d judged that a small force was sufficient.
‘So drawing them out here was the right answer.’
Whoosh—
An Iron Club materialized in the Cyclops’s hand, and it swung it toward Seong Un.
Being a race of another dimension rather than mere monsters, the Cyclopes possessed a storage space similar to an Inventory, just as Seong Un did.
Seong Un sidestepped the club and sliced through the creature’s waist.
Squelch—
The skin split open, spilling its entrails.
“Ugh!”
The Cyclops wielding the club gasped and staggered.
Seong Un seized the opening, repositioned himself, and severed the left thigh cleanly. As the left leg vanished, the creature toppled sideways.
“Nooooo!”
Whoosh—
As Seong Un moved in for the kill, the third Cyclops brought its club down in a heavy overhead strike.
Seong Un, who’d been peripherally tracking its movements, deftly severed its wrist.
Squelch—
As the hand flew free, the club that had been swinging with such force fell limply to the ground.
“Gahhh!”
Squelch—
Seong Un immediately cut off the creature’s leg.
With creatures over three meters tall, dismembering them this way made reaching the throat far simpler.
After methodically severing each Cyclops’s neck, Seong Un turned his head toward Mano and Nagareth.
They stared numbly at his display of power, binding cloth around the villagers’ thighs to stop the bleeding.
“While I deal with the Cyclopes, get the injured villagers to safety.”
“Seong Un…… are you really Seong Un……?”
Mano asked in a trembling voice, and Seong Un gave him a light, menacing look.
“We don’t have time.”
At that gaze, Mano’s body flinched.
“Right. I understand.”
* * *
Just moments before, when Seong Un had shot to his feet and rushed out.
The Village Chief stared at the door through which he’d departed, his chest hollowed by despair.
‘It’s over…….’
The Cyclops had violated their agreement and descended upon the Village.
There was no one among the villagers who could stand against them.
Surely they wouldn’t last long before being wiped out entirely.
“Shrieeeek!”
But the screams that followed were not from the villagers.
The Village Chief, seized by bewilderment, slowly rose and stepped outside to see for himself.
And he witnessed a sight that left him astounded.
“What in the…….”
Before him lay not the bodies of villagers, but the corpses of Cyclops scattered across the ground.
“Village Chief!”
A few villagers who had been hiding nearby spotted him and rushed over urgently.
“What—what is happening here?”
The Village Chief’s voice trembled severely, betraying his shock.
“Seong Un saved us.”
“Seong Un……?”
“Yes. He killed the Cyclops in an instant.”
What did they mean by that?
Seong Un, who had never fought a day in his life, had killed superhuman Cyclops?
In an instant, no less?
One of the villagers, noticing the Village Chief’s confusion, added his own account.
“I never knew Seong Un possessed such power. Regardless of the reason, we owe our lives to him.”
“Exactly. Without him, we’d have been devoured long ago.”
Seong Un.
Who are you, really?
“Well. I’m grateful to whoever drove away those wretched Cyclops, at any rate.”
That sentiment didn’t last long.
Thump. Thump.
“So there’s a human capable of matching my Clones hiding in this place.”
An enormous figure whose bulk made the three-meter Cyclops seem almost cute by comparison—a colossus of overwhelming proportion.
A creature standing easily five meters tall: the leader of the Cyclops.
Those caught in the aura radiating from him froze, rendered helpless.
“What—what kind of monstrosity…….”
The Cyclops briefly scanned their faces, then tilted his head.
“How strange. For such a human to emerge from among these rabble.”
The likelihood of an outsider entering was zero.
How could such a thing even occur?
“B-bring Seong Un.”
“Yes. If it’s Seong Un, he might be able to do something about that!”
The villagers, whose lives had been saved by Seong Un, began searching for him.
Having witnessed his power firsthand, he was their sole hope.
“Seong Un, then. So it was this Seong Un who defeated my Clone.”
The Cyclops lifted his hand with evident interest.
At his gesture, ten Cyclops under his command moved swiftly, encircling the villagers.
“What is he planning……?”
Mano, standing among the villagers, could not hide his dread.
“I give you three minutes. If this Seong Un does not appear, I will slaughter every last one of you.”
As the Cyclops held up three fingers, all their faces drained of color.
“Three—three minutes?”
“Only three minutes?”
“I—I’ll go fetch him! Please, won’t you show us mercy?!”
Desperate to live, one villager dropped to his knees and pleaded desperately.
“Silence. If anyone makes another sound, I’ll kill them first.”
At that sinister warning, everyone fell silent in unison.
‘Damn that dog of a bastard.’
Mano glared at the Cyclops as if to kill him.
Then Nagareth gently tugged at his sleeve.
‘Mother.’
Mano turned his gaze toward his mother without a word, dropped his head, and ground his teeth.
He was furious at his own powerlessness—desperate to save his mother by any means, yet lacking the strength to do it.
“Two minutes left.”
Regardless, time ticked steadily onward.
Three minutes down to two.
Two minutes down to one.
And just before the three minutes he had set would elapse.
“Seong Un!”
The Village Chief called out his name with eager relief.
The Cyclops and the villagers alike turned their heads in that direction.
There, Seong Un was sprinting toward them.
* * *
[Episode 4 – True Form]
After eliminating the last Cyclops sprawling to the village’s edge, a new Episode window appeared before Seong Un.
‘True form?’
Seong Un looked down at the Cyclops he had slain.
Could it be—
Were these creatures not the true form, but clones?
Their low levels and lack of ability usage now made a certain amount of sense.
Then why had the Episode suddenly advanced?
It must be because the true form had entered this village.
“We need to hurry.”
Seong Un spun around and launched himself forward at full speed.
‘There.’
Soon enough, he spotted the Cyclops in the distance, surrounded by a circle of villagers, threatening them.
Seong Un increased his speed, and every eye—including the Cyclops’s—fixed on him.
The Cyclops then stopped threatening the villagers and withdrew from them.
“Seong Un! Thank you for coming!”
“We’re saved because of you!”
At his arrival, hope kindled in the villagers’ hearts.
“How foolish, to cling to false hope.”
The Cyclops let out a cruel laugh.
From the aura flowing from Seong Un, he gauged the man’s power.
Certainly, a formidable presence radiated from him—incomparable to the ordinary humans of this village.
Yet against himself, a superior being, that strength was hopelessly insufficient.
“Captain, let us go. We will bring back his head.”
“Leave it to us, sir.”
No—that won’t do.
The Cyclops shook his head.
The clones he had sent to the village had been utterly destroyed by this single human.
It spoke not merely of raw power, but of considerable technique as well.
He couldn’t fathom how such a skilled warrior had escaped his notice, but that mattered little now.
What mattered was deciding how to deal with this man.
“Unfortunately, I do not indulge in carelessness.”
The Cyclops reached toward a clone standing beside him.
The clone crumbled to dust at his touch, then was absorbed into his body.
“C-Captain?”
“Why are you doing this to us…?”
These clones had been created through the Cyclops’s power of division.
Though clones, they possessed their own consciousness—and though bewildered, they quickly accepted their fate, choosing instead to be reabsorbed by their creator.
Now alone, the Cyclops drew forth his Iron Club and strode forward with heavy steps.
“Everyone, fall back.”
Seong Un, standing before the villagers, leveled his blade toward the Cyclops and spoke.
“P-Please.”
Without hesitation, the villagers turned and fled.
“You’ve got skill, but your judgment’s rotten.”
Cyclops shook his shoulders at Seong Un, chuckling softly.
“What’s so funny?”
“Those people sacrifice the living to me just to survive. Why should I make sacrifices for creatures like that?”
Seong Un laughed at the creature’s sickly smile, as though the notion were absurd.
“None of this would exist if you didn’t.”
“Hoh? So that’s how you’d frame it?”
Whoosh—
The air screamed.
Seong Un’s Hypersensitivity flared instantly.
He drew his blade into a defensive stance and pulled his body back.
The Iron Club whistled through empty space.
Wind pressure erupted in its wake, slamming into him; Seong Un hardened his gaze on Cyclops.
‘Formidable.’
The destructive force was immense, but without Hypersensitivity, he couldn’t have dodged it—the speed alone was beyond his level.
“Hoh? How did you evade? At your level, that strike should’ve been inescapable.”
Cyclops let out a short breath of admiration.
It made sense that the Clones he’d sent to the Village were completely annihilated.
……
Seong Un repositioned his blade without speaking.
From defense to offense.
The true body was indeed the true body.
It was on an entirely different level from the Lizardman Shaman he’d faced before.
‘He’s easily over 50.’
There was a reason it was called the Tower of Miracles.
Killing this Cyclops’s original form at his current level would be nothing short of a miracle.
‘It’s fine. I can do it.’
And now.
He would make that miracle happen.
An Elite Returner Devours the Tower (Serialized)
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