The Regressed Magic Swordsman Devours the North - Chapter 49

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Chapter 49. Genesis (3)
Whoooosh—
Still.
The rain fell in sheets.
“P-3 sector. All clear.”
The security team at E5 Francis maintained vigilant positions. And then.
“P-4 sector?”
At the dark perimeter of the quiet corporate building, in the moment a guard peered into the shadows, a figure materialized without sound.
Slice—
Flash and blade met; a throat opened.
Thud-thud, thud-thud—
Before screams could form, heads tumbled silently. The one who moved was Knight Bwindol.
With the resolve that he would never forgive those who had laid waste to his homeland, he swung his blade, driven by that fury.
‘The root of all this suffering.’
His townspeople must have been dragged away by these creatures and subjected to unspeakable experiments. The thought set his blood aflame.
Silvia, Ruy, and Bill aimed to subdue with restraint, but they did not stop Bwindol.
Sion had ordered that all armed enemies be killed in the suppression.
So what was to be done? It was the commander’s order.
As they pressed forward, combat erupted with the security forces.
Rat-a-tat-tat!
The enemy fired bullets charged with Mana—a power that no Knight could dismiss lightly.
They even had Mana-infused buckshot, artillery, and mines. There was no mercy left to show in this fight.
“I’ll carve us a path.”
Silvia stepped forward.
This time, she too had made her decision.
To kill them all.
From her blade bloomed a blue aura like snowflakes, and around her body Mana coalesced into a shield.
Having consumed the Ice Dragon’s Breath, Silvia—impossibly strengthened—now threw herself into the fray with intent.
The falling rain seemed to lend her its power.
“Priority one: create an exit route for the hostages!”
“Yes, ma’am!”
***
The lowest level of the E5 Francis building.
The quarters of Research Director Evan.
Through the wireless signals connected to him, he felt the outer security channels wink out one by one.
———Thump.
——Thump.
The vibrations drew closer.
“Are they coming?”
He hadn’t yet secured the experimental subjects, nor had he picked up the enemy’s trail…
“They’re pushing through like a flood.”
When the Criminal Organizations clashed with the Vigilante Group, he’d sent trackers. That way he could know if a Knight had joined the Vigilantes.
But.
They all died. Send more, they died again. Each batch fell before arrival.
What’s more, he’d heard that three organizations had just reached this point. Then suddenly—total annihilation.
“Damn it!”
‘They’re stronger than I imagined.’
Evan pressed the emergency button.
The final sequence: activating all Mana Engine–grafted humans against any possible breach.
Evan issued commands to them.
“From this moment, eliminate all intruders to the facility. Not a single one escapes.”
And then he gathered hundreds of people in one place—Jackal and the others among them.
To use the Seed of Corruption he’d once received from the black ones.
***
—All research personnel, listen. Intruders have breached the facility. Evacuate via emergency corridors.
At that announcement over the speakers, every researcher moved in perfect unison.
Yet only the researchers fled.
The experimental subjects rose upward, their mechanical arms grinding, ready to give their lives in battle.
I ignored them and descended further. To the lowest level of the facility.
To obtain information on Post 24 and the records of humanity’s traitors held there.
Crunch, crunch.
Walking down the corridor.
I came face to face with a massive man fitted with mechanical arms and legs—the same one I’d locked eyes with earlier.
He spoke to me.
“Researcher Golti. I told you to evacuate immediately.”
“I apologize. I had to retrieve some critical data.”
“……Fine then. Die here.”
He showed no mercy. He simply lifted his heavy mechanical arm and moved to crush me.
I looked up at him and spoke.
“No point listening to anything more.”
I dropped low, drew a blade from the Shadow Room within my shadow, and
struck with the speed of lightning.
——Slice.
Thud.
His half-mechanical head fell to the ground and rolled away.
No blood spurted from the severed neck—only electrical sparks crackled and hissed.
***
Silvia, having consumed the Ice Dragon’s Breath, commanded truly fearsome power.
To the extent that she simply bulldozed her way from the exterior of E5 Francis straight through to the interior.
———Boom!
Crackle-crackle-crackle——!
Mana Bullets froze mid-flight, artillery shells shattered against ice walls, and each sweep of her blade sent massive ice spikes erupting from the ground to tear everything apart.
And moreover.
Whoooosh——
Rain fell at just the right moment.
As she charged forward.
“Stop!”
Bang!
From the sky descended something monstrous with a Mana Engine embedded where its heart should be. Bwindol, Bill, and Ruy recognized it immediately.
‘It’s on the same tier as Jefren!’
The blue vapor emanating from the opponent was ominous.
“Silvia! That thing is——”
Just as Ruy tried to shout a warning, Silvia pushed off the ground and launched herself upward.
Crack!
She kicked the enormous frame, hurling it backward.
Its armor dented.
Shhhhh.
Biting frost crept into its mechanical joints. In that instant, Silvia pushed off the ground again.
Maier-style great sword technique.
December’s Snowflake.
Swift, weasel-like blade strikes wormed their way between mechanical joints, and within them blossomed crystalline flowers of ice.
—Crackle-crackle-crackle!
As high-density ice filled every joint, the monster bearing the Mana Engine could do nothing at all, and
Silvia, without hesitation, swung her blade to sever its last breath.
Slice—
“Move. We can’t afford delays.”
The three Knights recovered their senses at the sight and answered.
“””Yes!”””
The three followed the movements Sion had recorded in the Temporary Mirror Notebook.
They killed E5 Francis’s soldiers, cleared the path, and
whenever they found the domain’s people detained in miserable conditions, they guided them to safety.
And the reason they could move so freely was that outside, the Silver Paw Squad was sweeping away the other forces.
***
The Silver Paw Squad obliterated every criminal organization, spearheaded by the Iron Fang, Red Trident, and Green Snake.
Like in the Yarel Mountains, blood-stench hung thick in the air, but the downpour swiftly washed it away into the smell of rain.
“Summon the leadership of the Vigilante Group. Have them remove the hostages.”
“Yes, Commander.”
The Vigilante Group that had come with the Silver Paw Squad prioritized the rescue and care of the captured domain people.
As the hostages were being safely moved, Tiern, the Silver Paw Squad’s vice-commander, spoke to the leadership of the Vigilante Group.
“This place is the root of the suffering you have endured. Gather your people and surround it.”
Afterward, Tiern told them that they were the Silver Paw Squad and explained the full details of the Travis incident.
The Vigilante Group learned the true identity of the Silver Paw Squad for the first time. Their reactions varied.
“I suspected they were Knights all along.”
“Still… to think Millie was that snow leopard, Ulian.”
“If anything, it makes even less sense, doesn’t it?”
Some voiced decidedly negative opinions.
“I wanted us to achieve peace through our own strength. But this way, we ended up relying on the Inspection Bureau’s help anyway.”
“I can’t accept that.”
“Right. We should’ve done it ourselves……”
Of course.
“Go get yourselves killed right now, you worthless bastards.”
“You want to say that to the people they kidnapped?”
“Or should I rip you to shreds right here?”
“We were saved by them too, you piece of shit.”
After taking his share of curses, the objector quieted down.
Regardless, the Silver Paw Squad was systematically eliminating every E5 Francis soldier without mercy.
It was overwhelmingly superior force.
Even those implanted with a Mana Engine, mercenaries, and bio-weapons crafted from Magical Beasts stood no chance against them.
Perhaps because of that.
All manner of men appeared.
Those running. Those trembling with fear. Those begging for forgiveness. Those claiming they had families. Those searching for mothers back home.
But the Silver Paw Squad showed no mercy. The reason was simple: these men had shown none to others.
Only the unarmed were captured when possible. Among them were factory workers, researchers, salespeople—a diverse mix.
The researchers mostly emerged from what looked like secret passages.
In a mountain like this, there was no way they could escape Knights with superior Qi Sense.
Yet their faces bore the expression of someone thinking, ‘How did you even know this place existed?’
The vacant stare was so profound that Ulian briefly considered, ‘Should I just kill them all anyway?’
In any case, as E5 Francis crumbled without mounting any real resistance.
At the lowest level of the underground facility, Sion finally confronted the research director, Evan.
***
I descended to the very bottom of the facility and tried to open the director’s door. Click. Click. It wouldn’t budge. It was locked tight.
I had no choice but to kick it down.
—Crash!
I burst through the door and found hundreds of corpses at Director Evan’s feet.
The sight twisted something inside me.
“Hey.”
I called out to him.
“You damn bastard! Why! Why are you interfering!”
He screamed instead.
“I’m almost done! Why are you stopping me! You! You’re a Knight, aren’t you!”
“…Yes.”
“Knights only manifest in an extremely small fraction of trained soldiers. How do you explain that gap? How, you ask? Obviously it’s unreasonable!”
He was ranting to himself, and I was speechless. So speechless that I let him continue.
“Humanity cannot remain as it is! Humans must transcend humanity! Stagnation is decay! Does that make sense to you? Though I suppose a Knight wouldn’t want to understand anyway!”
The mad research director Evan shrieked with barely contained rage. Before my return, I’d read articles about him.
『The Lunatic Researcher, Evan.
A fiend who had loved capturing animals, feeding them Magic Stones, and experimenting on them since childhood.
He ultimately gathered tens of thousands of Travis Domain inhabitants and conducted a horrific ritual.
It was a sacrifice offered by a mad scientist thirsting for evolution—to the Demon Race……』
“Humanity must evolve! You stupid fool! If you understand, get out of my way!”
I felt a wave of revulsion rising in my throat and swung my blade.
Slash—
I severed his right arm.
“Aaaahhhhh!”
Watching Evan shriek in agony, I spoke low.
“If you wanted evolution, you should’ve experimented on yourself. Not on innocent people. And you should never have aligned yourself with the Demon Race.”
“…What, what?”
Hearing my last words, Evan seemed to lose all composure, as if something had gone terribly wrong.
“Kehhehe… kehhehehehe. Ah, so that’s it. The Demon Race planned this from the start. Knights and Demons are all in league with each other.”
“There’s no reasoning with you.”
Black vapor poured from the mouth of the raving madman. I recognized it instantly.
“He swallowed the Seed of Corruption.”
“Khe-hehehe! Exactly. You know about this. So you were in league with the Demon Race after all!”
Evan’s body twisted grotesquely. His veins blackened, then spread through him like roots, consuming his flesh.
The corpses beneath his feet were drawn upward, absorbed into his transforming body.
“Khe-hahaha! Evolution through research failed, but look at this. I’ve evolved in a new way! Khe-hahaha!”
I watched him become less human with each passing second, then raised my hand. I drew Mana from my Soul Wheel.
Before me stood only wretched evil.
What was there to say to creatures like this?
Bastard. Let the research freeze to death.
“Fire Spear”
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
Countless spears of flame formed around me.
“What—what the—?!”
Evan shouted something, but I didn’t wait. Not until the Fire Dragon’s Breath flowing through my Soul Wheel was spent.
I simply unleashed attack after attack.
————Roooaaaar!
Before Evan could complete his transformation, before the Seed of Corruption bloomed fully within him, Fire Spear incinerated the seed.
“Kraaaagh! Why—why are you interfering! Humans who climb over the weak are still human! If I just keep spreading evolved humans across—!”
Slash!
I drew my blade and severed Evan’s lower jaw. I was done listening.
And I spoke, without any inflection.
“Evolution? Bullshit. Amateur.”
“……!”
The Criminal Organizations that terrified people, the corporations that wielded them like tools, this one too—they all spread malice across the world as if they were something grand.
But in truth, they were nothing.
His end was not a prison cell like Jefren’s.
He simply became.
Charred ash.
The Returned Demonic Swordmaster Devours the North
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: Bangsim
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