The Regressed EX-Class Martial God Decided to Become a Thousand-Star Hunter - Chapter 47

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Chapter 47
Episode 47.
Whoooosh—!
Screeeech—!
Before his body even touched ground.
As his frame drew near the earth, the monsters caught the scent of prey and let loose hungry, delighted cries.
Ju Do-gyeom spoke.
“Kim Han-yul.”
“Roger that. Boss—!”
The Flame Thrower, completed at roughly twice the speed of a few months ago.
And he wasn’t carrying just one.
Using the function of the Gem of Duplication, he held two.
Kim Han-yul gripped a Flame Thrower in each hand and squeezed the trigger.
In an instant, the expelled gas ignited, engulfing the swarms of Dust Locust—large, grasshopper-like monsters swarming below the Grassland—in a roaring inferno.
Thud-thud—!
The sound of Magi Stones clattering to the ground.
The flames spread outward in all directions as if ready to consume the entire area in moments.
Screeeech—!
But from a distance, the massive red-skinned mantis-form Demonic Beast keeping watch—the Reaper Mantis—whipped its scythe-like forearms in rapid succession, and the resulting pressure wave snuffed the flames out in one breath.
By then.
The Reaper Mantis unfurled its wings and lunged toward the two who had reached ground level.
Boom—!
But Ju Do-gyeom had already drawn a Meteor Hammer from his Inventory, and it detonated against the creature’s body.
Kim Han-yul spoke.
“Phew. Safe landing—! How many Magi Stones are there already? Looks like at least five?”
“Collect them.”
“Of course.”
Kim Han-yul grinned and dismissed the Flame Thrower, then pulled out a new Manifestation tool.
At first glance, it looked like a household vacuum cleaner.
Though it appeared that way on the surface, it was actually an essential magical item for Hunters venturing into the eroding Grassland—the Magi Stone Absorber.
“Activate.”
Whoooosh—!
With a harsh whine, the Magi Stone Absorber sucked up the Magi Stones scattered across the ground.
With this tool, even if dozens of Magi Stones dropped in a single battle, there was no need to laboriously collect them one by one.
The price was steep enough to make even most Hunters balk—pricey for a magical item rather than a true Magi Tool—but for Ju Do-gyeom’s team, that was irrelevant.
Kim Han-yul would purchase it, Manifest it, and then return it.
There were no issues since he never actually used it.
‘Thanks to that, the Inventory has space, so I can carry back plenty of Magi Stones.’
Now that he thought about it, the Inventory.
It was becoming urgent to expand again.
With the large items taking up space and the Meteor Hammer packed inside as well.
It had become difficult to carry other items alongside them.
‘For now, I’m managing by storing miscellaneous supplies in Kim Han-yul’s bunker…….’
But summoning the bunker and storing things in it each time needed was inconvenient.
‘I’ll have to think about this in the next Dungeon.’
Ju Do-gyeom was in the midst of nodding.
“There’s another group over there. Want to go torch them once more?”
The wide Grassland.
Swarms of grasshopper-form Demonic Beasts.
The Flame Thrower was the ultimate offensive weapon.
Kim Han-yul, who could carry two of them thanks to the Gem of Duplication, looked quite excited.
Worried the fire might grow too large on open ground and become dangerous?
No need.
Moments ago, the Reaper Mantis had resolved the situation by creating destructive resonance through pressure, but by Dungeon nature, fire beyond a certain spread would simply extinguish itself.
Thanks to that, Hunters with flame-type abilities received special treatment in this Dungeon.
Only advantages, no drawbacks.
They could harvest Magi Stones in large quantities, quickly and easily.
Kim Han-yul was now in precisely that situation, but Ju Do-gyeom coolly shook his head.
“Ignore them as much as possible. We move straight to find the Erosion Zone.”
“That’s a bit of a shame.”
“The Magi Stones that come from the Erosion Zone are higher grade.”
“What? And where exactly are you getting them?”
“Motorcycles.”
“……How nice it would be if you answered the question someone asked you first.”
Grumbling under his breath, Kim Han-yul summoned two motorcycles.
Ju Do-gyeom mounted one first and spoke.
“I can’t pinpoint the exact location. We’ll just pick one direction and drive in a straight line.”
“Since the Magi contracts toward a circular formation anyway?”
“That’s right.”
After responding, Ju Do-gyeom twisted the throttle.
It was the opposite direction from where the sun hung over the grassland.
Vroom—!
Ju Do-gyeom’s motorcycle roared loudly as it shot forward.
Kim Han-yul pressed the throttle just as hard and followed close behind, asking.
“What about monsters on the way?”
“Burn the Dust Locusts to death. The Reaper Mantis, I’ll handle.”
A Reaper Mantis wouldn’t die from just a Flame Thrower, after all.
Kim Han-yul’s face went pale for a moment.
“Wait, while driving like this? I don’t have monstrous strength like you do.”
Even with a higher strength stat, the level of execution was different.
Ju Do-gyeom didn’t blame him.
It was common among Hunters.
Instead, he said.
“You can do it, Kim Han-yul.”
In that steady voice of his, as always.
Kim Han-yul let out a hollow laugh.
“You really said not to push myself, but you’re the one pushing me to do exactly that.”
He formed a Flame Thrower in one hand.
He sprayed it at the horde of Dust Locusts rushing straight at him.
Whoosh—!
The spreading flames engulfed his vision and swept past behind him.
The charred corpses of the Dust Locusts fell to the ground.
Kim Han-yul shouted.
“I really don’t think I can do this! Just driving the motorcycle is killing me!”
Without a word, Ju Do-gyeom hurled a Meteor Hammer that burst straight through a Reaper Mantis’s torso, then spoke.
“Don’t stupidly imitate what I do. You have things you’re good at, don’t you?”
“Things I’m good at?”
The only things he was good at, if he had to say.
‘……Whining?’
No, Ju Do-gyeom had no reason to say that in this situation.
“Ah……!”
Manifestation Overlapping.
His mind spun in an instant.
Set no limits to your imagination.
Advice that Ju Do-gyeom had given him once before flashed through his mind, and both the rushing motorcycle and the Flame Thrower in his hand blazed with light simultaneously.
Immediately after, they merged into one.
Like the tail of a scorpion, a massive Flame Thrower took shape behind the motorcycle.
Then a message appeared in Kim Han-yul’s mind.
『First Manifestation Created: ???(Please Name It).』
‘Oh, this feature exists too?’
Kim Han-yul, who hadn’t known this about himself, spotted a button right beside the motorcycle’s handlebars labeled “Fire!”
As another swarm of Dust Locusts descended, Kim Han-yul turned the handlebars and pressed the button, shouting.
“Flame Sphere Car attack!”
Boom—!
A tremendous burst of flame shot forward.
It consumed both the swarm and the grassland itself.
* * *
Somewhere in the seemingly endless grassland.
A circular boundary of purple Magi was slowly shrinking the grassland around it.
Not far from that.
Ju Do-gyeom brought the speeding motorcycle to a halt and looked over at him.
“We’re here.”
“…So we really are about to go in there now, right?”
Kim Han-yul swallowed hard without thinking.
There were no monsters around them, no Hunters visible despite this being supposedly a vast open-world map—nothing at all.
They’d all fled before the approaching Magi.
Ju Do-gyeom nodded calmly.
“We’ll rest and recover our strength before we arrive.”
“Still, I appreciate you not charging in right away. I guess that’s what I should say.”
Kim Han-yul chuckled softly, then cancelled the Manifestation of both motorcycles and collapsed onto the ground with a thud.
“Ugh… my whole body’s screaming. Now I get why you told me to head home and rest before.”
“We haven’t even started yet. Don’t complain.”
“You tell me not to overdo it, and then you push me to my limits—how is that fair?”
“I mean don’t waste strength on unnecessary, risky things.”
“And this isn’t risky?”
When asked, Ju Do-gyeom nodded calmly in response.
He didn’t answer out loud, but watching his back, Kim Han-yul felt he understood something of what lay beneath.
‘You’re here to protect them, aren’t you.’
He often wondered about it.
‘What could have happened to make him so sensitive about putting those around him in danger?’
While he hardly looked after his own body properly.
That was clearly some kind of obsession.
The kind that couldn’t surface without a real story behind it.
His expression naturally fell, but he didn’t open his mouth to say something careless.
He always thought it—Ju Do-gyeom’s back was dependable, and yet it bore such weight.
In that silence.
About five minutes had passed.
Ju Do-gyeom spoke.
“…Your naming sense is terrible.”
“Huh?”
“That motorcycle from earlier.”
“Oh, the Flame Sphere Car? What’s wrong with it?”
Kim Han-yul tilted his head in confusion.
Ju Do-gyeom, who had been staring straight ahead, turned to meet his gaze.
Eyes that truly understood nothing.
Ju Do-gyeom made his judgment.
“I shouldn’t let you handle naming ever again.”
“What? That’s a pretty harsh thing to say, you know?”
“Take a good look at yourself, Kim Han-yul.”
“Look at what! I’ll admit I can’t cook, but I’m confident my naming sense is solid, thank you very much?”
“Arrogance runs deep with you.”
“Wow… you’re really something. Fine then, what would you have called my Flame Sphere Car if you’d named it? Let’s hear it.”
“…Flame Bike?”
“Ooh—! Mr. Trying-Too-Hard. Total middle-school syndrome. Ooh—!”
“….”
“What? Why the silence?”
“…Never mind.”
“Never mind my foot. Bahahaha—!”
Kim Han-yul laughed loudly.
Turning his gaze forward once more, Ju Do-gyeom let a faint smile cross his face.
A peace that seemed out of place beside the Magi veil drawing ever closer.
From where he sat, Kim Han-yul leaned back and lay flat, speaking as he did.
“Man—calling it a Dungeon still doesn’t feel real, you know?”
“Don’t worry. You’ll feel it keenly enough soon.”
“You’re like a moody old man.”
“I’m a year younger than you, Kim Han-yul.”
“….”
Something caught in his throat, and Kim Han-yul’s fist clenched tight without him meaning to.
* * *
Whooooosh—!
In the blink of an eye, a violet curtain of Magi swept through the space where Kim Han-yul and Ju Do-gyeom had been standing.
In that brief moment.
Kim Han-yul felt the air shift distinctly.
“……This is suffocating.”
“That’s one of the Magi’s effects.”
“My body feels itchy too, somehow.”
“Did I forget to shower today?”
“Are you seriously planning to spar with me right now, Captain?”
Ju Do-gyeom let out a soft laugh and walked forward.
Kim Han-yul followed, asking, “If we go deeper, there’ll be corrupted monsters out there. What’s the plan? It doesn’t look like we’re anywhere near the objective to handle something in ten minutes.”
Ju Do-gyeom nodded and, shifting his footsteps, crouched down somewhere in the blackened Grassland that the Magi Erosion had consumed.
Kim Han-yul tilted his head.
“What are you doing?”
Instead of answering, Ju Do-gyeom brushed aside the grass and dug through it.
He pulled something out and handed it to Kim Han-yul.
Kim Han-yul’s expression widened with surprise.
“A flower?”
And despite growing in soil poisoned by Magi, it glowed with a clean, luminous blue.
At a glance, it looked far from ordinary.
Kim Han-yul met Ju Do-gyeom’s eyes, placing a hand over his mouth as he spoke with trembling emotion.
“For me? I understand your meaning, Captain, but…….”
“Stop talking nonsense and take it.”
“Tsk…… how do I use it?”
“Eat it.”
“……Eat it?”
No matter how beautiful the flower looked on the surface, it came from a land devoured by Magi.
Ju Do-gyeom nodded, dug up another flower from the earth, and put it in his mouth.
Then he swallowed it without hesitation.
‘Still no taste to it.’
The Erosion Zone of the Grassland, swallowed by Magi.
The hidden piece here—Ju Do-gyeom had discovered it himself in his previous life.
The entry into this Magi Erosion Zone wasn’t intentional.
‘There was no choice back then.’
The fortunate thing was that around that time, rumors had circulated that there was a way to survive even within an Erosion Zone.
What that method was, exactly, remained unclear at the time.
Ju Do-gyeom calmly considered what he could accomplish within this Grassland, and by good fortune, he had found the blue flower growing here.
The so-called Purification Flower.
The effect was simple.
One hour of immunity to Magi Erosion.
Around the fifty-minute mark, breathing would become difficult again, making it easy to track.
Fortunately, they weren’t hard to find.
They were scattered throughout the Grassland, just hidden beneath the wild grass.
‘I can check the time and grab another one as needed.’
Unfortunately, taking duplicates didn’t extend the duration, so time-tracking was essential.
Ju Do-gyeom, lost briefly in memory, turned his head to look at Kim Han-yul.
He was still standing there blankly, holding the flower.
“Are you going to stand there like that? If you don’t eat it, you’ll turn into a Demonic Beast in ten minutes.”
“What if we just turn back and leave?”
“We can’t.”
“……Fine, I’ll eat it. I’m eating it.”
Kim Han-yul nodded, squeezed his eyes shut, and put the flower in his mouth.
The subtle sensation of chewing leaves lasted only a moment.
It dissolved instantly and slipped down his throat like a beverage.
There was no particular taste or unusual effect, but a vague unease lingered.
Kim Han-yul asked, “This actually works, right?”
“Trust me.”
Ju Do-gyeom spoke briefly, then looked at Kim Han-yul.

“A motorcycle.”
“……I’m basically just your personal transport service, aren’t I?”
“An excellent manager of resources. Kim Han-yul.”
“That’s enough, isn’t it?”
Two motorcycles materialized simultaneously.
Ju Do-gyeom climbed onto one and spoke.
“The Purification Flower lasts for one hour. I’ll keep track, but just to be safe, we should both monitor it.”
“So I have to take another one after an hour? If I don’t, I turn into a Demonic Beast?”
…….
Ju Do-gyeom twisted the throttle instead of answering.
Vroom—!
“Ugh—! I really hate this!”
As always, Kim Han-yul griped and raced after him.
* * *
A few minutes after the two departed.
Another group stepped of their own accord into the eroding Magi veil.
A man who appeared to be their leader spoke.
“Find the Purification Flower first.”
Everyone who nodded moved urgently.

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