The Legendary Regressor Devours the Tower - Chapter 36

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Episode 36
“Kerrrk! A human!”
“Kerruk. When did you arrive here?”
When Seong Woon crossed the long bridge spanning the Lava Lake and reached the next zone, countless Lizardmen rushed to meet him.
Lizardmen were monsters that lived in herds.
The problem was that he’d been transported directly into the center of their village.
[Lizardman Warrior Village]
In an instant, he found himself surrounded by Lizardman warriors.
-What? What’s going on?
-Why did he move there?
-What kind of situation is this?
The viewers couldn’t make sense of what was unfolding.
The thing was, once you crossed the Lava Lake, you were supposed to be transported to the Fire Desert, a little distance away from the village.
After that, the first step was to find an NPC residing in the desert and begin the clear.
But Seong Woon had skipped all of that and ended up in a place where he could only be surrounded by Lizardmen.
‘Is this the ceiling, then?’
The NPC in the desert served a simple guiding role, nothing more.
They’d been driven out of the village by the Lizardmen and wandered the desert — that was their lot.
‘Well, it doesn’t interfere with getting EX Grade, anyway.’
They didn’t block the path to EX Grade under the guise of balance adjustments.
If anything, being transported into the enemy’s stronghold had its conveniences.
Wiping out all the Lizardmen and returning the village’s ownership to the NPCs outside was the first step toward an EX Grade clear.
‘Wait, but if I can skip three floors, what happens with inter-species warfare?’
From the thirtieth floor onward, you didn’t merely climb the tower — you had to win against the species residing on that level.
If he received an EX Grade during that process and then used Three Steps to leap upward, what would happen?
Would he bypass the species on that floor and face the ones above?
Or did that not even make sense to begin with?
‘Simple. You can’t jump at all.’
‘I can’t jump?’
‘Correct.’
In his previous life, Seong Woon had used the Three Steps privilege on the forty-ninth floor.
He’d cleared the forty-eighth floor with an EX Grade and obtained the Heart of Immortality, brimming with confidence as he challenged the Miracle Tower climb.
Naturally, his ascent was disastrous — from the forty-ninth through fifty-first floors, he received no rewards whatsoever.
What’s more, unlike now when he could skip from the third to the fifth floor, he had to defeat the species residing on the forty-ninth floor and climb upward.
To put it simply, rewards only applied from the thirtieth floor onward.
‘……It’s not very good.’
‘Correct. The risk is considerable.’
If he succeeded in the Miracle Tower, he’d gain rewards more precious than anything else, but if he failed, the risk would be substantial.
In a situation where he couldn’t afford even the slightest mistake to close the gap with the Transcendent Species at the top, could he really afford to take that risk?
‘But where did you get all this information from?’
Leonys asked with evident curiosity.
For a climber who’d only just reached the sixth floor, he knew far too much.
‘I came by it by chance. Though I suspect we don’t have time for chatter.’
Seong Woon glanced around and drew the Asgard Sword.
“Kerrrk!”
The Lizardman warriors had already closed in, now standing directly before him.
Every last one of them carried a shield and a blade.
[Lv. 30 Lizardman Warrior]
Level thirty — five higher than the Blood Liquor that had been swimming in the lake.
‘Sheer numbers aside.’
It was a fight worth having.
The reason was simple: he still had the Mystic Shield, whose durability hadn’t been exhausted.
And on top of that, he could cloak himself in Divine Descent.
-The Mystic Shield?
-It’s not just the shield, is it?
-Is that an item too?
At the appearance of the magical armor and shield wrapping Seong Woon’s body, the viewers stirred.
-That’s incredible…… A Mystic Shield goes for at least two billion won, doesn’t it?
-Right. That’s enough to buy an apartment in Seoul.
The Mystic Shield was a top-tier artifact traded at prices exceeding two billion won.
And one of them had been completely destroyed by the lava and the robot’s assault.
He’d obtained two Mystic Shields, which meant only one remained.
“Grraaah! Die!”
A Lizardman warrior lunged at Seong Woon, swinging his blade.
Whoosh—
Seong Woon stepped back with one foot to evade, then immediately closed in and seized the creature’s shield by hand, wrenching it away.
The overwhelming strength that far exceeded the creature’s level caught the Lizardman warrior off guard; his shield slipped from his grip, and with it gone, his body lay exposed.
“Nothing left to block with now, is there?”
Seong Woon raised the shield and brought it down toward the Lizardman warrior.
The creature tried to dodge with everything he had, but the velocity was too great; he couldn’t escape, and the shield struck his head with perfect precision.
“Ugh!”
The Lizardman warrior’s skull shattered, and he fell silent with a single dying cry.
Seong Woon had no time to savor victory—he hurled the shield with all his strength.
“Grrgh?!”
The other Lizardman warriors quickly raised their shields in defense.
Crash!
“Krrgh……”
The Lizardman warriors who’d blocked the incoming shield groaned and trembled.
The impact from such devastating destructive force—enough to crack even the shield—radiated through their entire bodies with terrible intensity.
Crack!
In that moment, Seong Woon crashed down, driving another Lizardman warrior’s head into the ground as he landed.
He’d thrown the shield to scatter their attention, then pushed off the earth and leaped to overwhelm the creature from above.
“Grraaah! Kill the human!”
The Lizardman warriors roared.
But they couldn’t easily attack Seong Woon, because he’d plunged straight into their formation, scattering their ranks and tangling them together.
Some of the warriors tripped on their own feet and fell, and as they stumbled into the others around them, the formation collapsed in a domino effect.
‘Good.’
Exactly as calculated.
Seong Woon spotted the opening of a fallen Lizardman warrior in front of him and drove the Asgard Sword down, cutting off his breath.
“Ugh!”
Dying cries erupted in succession.
“Grrgh!”
“Move! Get out of the way!”
The remaining Lizardman warriors tried to approach Seong Woon, but the tangled mass of their fallen comrades blocked them from closing in easily.
As a result, Seong Woon was able to methodically eliminate the Lizardman warriors.
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[Your level has increased.]
Done.
Having annihilated the Lizardman warriors, his level had risen by one, reaching 25.
The Mystic Shield’s remaining durability was now at 67%.
Since its durability had been at 23% when he’d escaped the Lava Lake, only about 10% had been damaged in the process of sweeping through the Lizardman warriors.
-Wow…… he really fights well. The way he uses the shield the Lizardmen were holding is seriously insane……
-Wait, what level is he right now? How is he fighting like that?
-Does that look like he’s just using brute level to overwhelm? That’s pure skill
-Is this what talent looks like?
-Damn, I’m level 10 and…… even if you told me to go to floor 6 and do that to Lizardmen, I couldn’t pull it off
-Of course not lol that’s just another level entirely
The viewers were lost in admiration of Seong Woon’s combat prowess.
“It’s because his Strength and Agility are high.”
With his level increasing by one, his Strength had risen to 92 and his Agility to 82.
Those were far from low numbers.
Skill was one thing, but in close-quarters combat like this, weight class was absolutely crucial.
If his stats—his weight class—had been any lower, the Mystic Shield would have been destroyed long ago.
‘No need for modesty. I agree that stats are king, but being able to overwhelm this much requires skill backing it up too.’
Leonys’s reaction was no different from the viewers’.
‘Don’t oversell it too much, please.’
Seong Woon stepped over the corpses of the Lizardman warriors and emerged from the village.
‘I’m just stating facts. Say, why do you handle a blade so well?’
‘I’ve been working with swords since long ago.’
‘Is that so? How old are you now?’
‘Why does age matter?’
‘Even if we’re conservative about his ceiling, he looks barely into his twenties—but with this level of talent, reaching the Sword Master realm won’t be difficult at all!’
Leonys’s voice brimmed with excitement.
‘You were a Sword Master yourself, then?’
‘Of course. That’s why I made it to the forty-eighth floor.’
‘I see.’
‘Hell, my luck isn’t as cursed as I thought. With a monster talent like this, there’s plenty of reason to hold out hope!’
Seong Woon barely suppressed a bitter smile.
Sword Master.
For one who had devoted himself to the blade, it was a realm of dreams.
Yet at that level alone, he could never cut down the ones lurking in the upper reaches.
A realm of overwhelming power—so transcendent that one ceases to feel human at all.
Only by ascending to the Divine Realm, which he had failed to reach in his past life, could he hope to contend with a Transcendent Species as an equal.
“Huh……?”
Standing outside the village was an NPC who appeared to be around Seong Woon’s age.
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[NPC INFORMATION]
-Nickname: Lutart
-Inhabitant of the Fire Desert, 6th Floor
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An NPC named Lutart.
‘A ripe fruit rolling right into my arms.’
After wiping out the Lizardman warriors, Seong Woon had ventured outside the village for one purpose: to find this NPC.
The Lutart standing before him, to be precise.
“Who are you?”
Seong Woon asked, feigning ignorance.
-Huh? It’s Squeaky.
-Why are you out here?
The viewers clearly recognized Lutart.
He was an NPC who barely appeared more than a fleeting moment during the guide sequence, yet had earned the nickname “Squeaky” by letting out whimpering sounds at random intervals throughout his encounters with climbers.
“Ah, my name is Lutart. But why are you coming out here?”
To climbers who had only ever heard squeaking, Lutart’s response would seem jarring.
-What? Why isn’t he squeaking?
-This is hilarious
-He’s cosplaying as a normal person!
-Seong Woon, don’t get fooled. That bastard’s insane.
-My ears are bleeding. Cut his head off if you don’t want your eardrums torn!
Their sentiment was entirely understandable.
In his past life, when Seong Woon first entered the sixth floor, he too had seen Lutart—nothing but squeaks pouring from his mouth.
“I’ve just finished exterminating the Lizardman warriors and was heading back out.”
“Ex, exterminating?”
Lutart’s eyes went wide.
“You’re welcome to go inside and verify for yourself.”
Seong Woon stepped aside, and Lutart cautiously approached the village, peering into its depths. His jaw fell open at the sight before him.
“This is… insane…….”
Countless corpses blanketed the streets.
The stench of blood assaulted his nostrils, making his stomach turn in real time, but now wasn’t the moment to dwell on such things.
Lutart spun around and rushed toward Seong Woon, grabbing his hand.
“Please! Help us—help the Waburo Tribe!”
[Bonus points have been added.]
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‘What the hell is this guy doing?’
Seo Jae-pil, who had just broken through the threshold of the thirteenth floor and returned, couldn’t hide his shock as he watched Seong Woon’s broadcast.
Though the stream was locked, he knew that Seong Woon was the same person as Yuseong.
When he had boldly proclaimed his intention to break through and return, he was still challenging the second floor.
Yet he’d cleared through the second floor at EX Grade or better, then leapt over three entire steps to reach the sixth floor in the blink of an eye.
And when he swept through the Lizardman warriors on the sixth floor, Seo Jae-pil couldn’t close his gaping mouth.
How could anyone call that the combat of a beginner?
‘Plenty of others must be just as shocked.’
The number of viewers watching Seong Woon’s broadcast had already surpassed five hundred thousand.
The sheer volume of comments made them scroll past too fast to read.
Seo Jae-pil opened the community forum while watching the broadcast, wanting to gauge how the climbers were reacting.
As expected, the community was ablaze with talk of Seong Woon.
[So Lutart really does ask for help every single time.]
-Why does he whine to us, but then ask Seong Woon for help acting all normal?
└Because it’s Seong Woon. Back when I cleared the mid-boss on floor two and got the NPC killed, I had no idea what this guy was even doing.
└For real, Kill Seong…
└When Kill Seong got that EX+ rating, people tried to copy him, and it went south fast. It’s not just one or two climbers who botched their evaluation by imitating that strategy and getting Lafon killed.
└I’m writing this while watching the broadcast. Honestly, I thought Kill Seong was about to take Lutart’s head off.
└Seong acting all normal is absolutely sickening to watch.
Seo Jae-pil had never seen Lutart behave this way before either.
It was proof that Seong Woon’s playstyle differed fundamentally from that of conventional climbers.
“Is he really going to wrap this up with an EX Grade or higher again?”
An Unparalleled Returner Devours the Tower (Serialized)
Author │ Yeon Yiyo
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