The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 107

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Episode 107. Dialogue (4)
[South Korean Hunter Jeong Hyun-soo has successfully cleared Floor 40 at SSS Rank.]
— Breaking news: Jeong Hyun-soo Season 40 morning call.
— Is it already time to wake up?
— If you’re Korean, you’re supposed to wake up at noon.
— Not midnight?
└Because Jeong Hyun-soo clears it the moment the cooldown resets at midnight.
└└What’s that got to do with it?
└└└Waking up at midnight sounds weird, so let’s just say noon. It’s a meme.
└└└└Man, that’s so unfunny and outdated; what are you, a first-generation Hunter?
By now, Jeong Hyun-soo’s SSS Rank clears arrived with a sense of the familiar.
Having already punched through to Floor 40, Jeong Hyun-soo quickly exited the tower.
His return point was naturally the lodging he’d secured in New York, where Alexander—a man of considerable bulk—lay sprawled on the floor, chin propped on his hand, watching him.
“…What rudeness, without so much as a warning?”
“Are you really telling me no information leaked?”
After meeting Jeong Hyun-soo, Alexander seemed to burst open like a lid, and he promptly turned the American Awakeners Association—which had relocated its headquarters to New York just for him—completely upside down.
Breaking news: Mysterious explosion at the Federal Hunter Headquarters. Cause suspected to be Gate fragments?
Hunter Headquarters Director Gerard: “Alexander came by in a hurry, and it’s been settled.”
The explanations running across the breaking news feed were frankly absurd.
“Well, if you can’t do your job properly most days, you have to do something like this. Worthless as cheap cheese, the lot of them.”
First generation. Ranked number one.
Alexander—truly the monster that held America upright—possessed, to be honest, absolute authority without limit.
It was only possible because Alexander spoke roughly and occasionally knocked around the people in charge, but had no crimes and caused no real scandal in his private life.
“Anyway, you arrogant Korean kid. Let me hear your story.”
“…I’ve already said everything there is to say, though?”
“What are you talking about? Isn’t that why you came—to collaborate?”
At Alexander’s words, Jeong Hyun-soo let out a soft laugh.
“I came only to give you a chance.”
“What?”
Alexander, who had been about to demand how Jeong Hyun-soo had discovered the secret of the blocked seventieth floor, found himself momentarily at a loss for words.
“Given enough time, I’m plenty sufficient on my own. Why would I come asking for help?”
“…Are you insane?”
“It’s just that there’s a deadline, so I came to offer assistance—but you’ve got quite the ego.”
“Look who’s talking… Is this guy for real?”
To Alexander’s incredulous words, Jeong Hyun-soo flashed a grin.
Alexander laughs in kind. In front of Alexander’s eyes, Jeong Hyun-soo gestures.
“Get out.”
“What?”
“Leave before I report you for breaking and entering.”
Alexander found himself even more dumbfounded.
“Leave? You’re the one who came begging?”
“It wasn’t begging—it was an offer. But looking at your attitude now, I’ve changed my mind. So go.”
Jeong Hyun-soo lifted Alexander to his feet then and there.
“You’re really telling me to leave?”
Instead of answering, Jeong Hyun-soo nodded. And the door closed.
Click.
…
Alexander couldn’t believe it.
In this vast world, there are countless people who go to great pains to meet him.
And he’d even come first to meet this one himself.
The guy doles out a clue and then, of all things, tells him to leave.
“For crying out loud. You think I’d care? Kid, I’m Alexander! America’s Alexander!”
And this punk had only just cleared Floor 40, yet dared to be so arrogant toward the seventieth floor!
“I’ll clear that Floor 70 for you at SSS Rank before you ever reach it, so just watch!”
Then Alexander huffed indignantly and threw open the window.
Whoooosh!
With his blood boiling, Alexander leaped into the air and shot rapidly away.
As Jeong Hyun-soo had expected he would, he watched Alexander disappear into the distance.
“Will it be today?”
The sprawling New York cityscape below was serene. A brilliant city.
But soon enough, people will receive the shock and terror they had forgotten.
Today marks the beginning of the Apocalypse Discount.
Jeong Hyun-soo waited in silence.
Not long after time had passed that way.
[We are pleased to inform you.]
A single voice echoed across the entire world.
Young people in the midst of enjoying life initially let it pass unheeded.
But the elderly, those who had hoped to spend their remaining years in the city, froze in place.
It was as though something long buried in their memories—something other than the notification voice announcing the great deeds of Hunters—had brushed past them.
[We are pleased to inform you.]
As the second voice sounded, most people stopped what they were doing.
And then.
[We are pleased to inform you.]
The third and final voice seized everyone’s attention.
It was something so peculiar that people found themselves turning to one another with dazed expressions.
[We hereby inform you that the Tutorial has been terminated, effective immediately.]
Murmurs erupted in scattered places throughout the world.
“Tutorial? What are they talking about?”
“Is someone playing a prank?”
“Those fugitives on the black list—are they losing their minds somewhere?”
But unfortunately, that was not the case.
[With the expiration of the protection period following Tutorial termination, Earth is now entering the Interspecies War.]
[Calculations are underway, including Interspecies War ranking adjustments…….]
[During this calculation, nations within Earth will also be evaluated by their Conquest Score.]
[The Conquest Score ranking will be calculated based on the number of Tower floors cleared, the number of Gates closed or prevented, and the percentage of Hunters who have climbed the Tower.]
A terrible age dawns.
[The lowest rank belongs to North Korea.]
North Korea had been singled out.
[Tower conquest stands at a global minimum of 51 floors.]
[The number of Gates that have broken through due to negligence is 2,032, the highest in the world.]
[North Korea is the only nation where fewer than 10% of Hunters participate in Tower climbing.]
North Korea’s destruction was inevitable.
They had merely met the Tower conquest deadlines.
The leadership had neither the will nor the interest to clear Gates erupting everywhere.
Only Hunters from pure bloodlines within the ruling elite were sent to attempt conquest; others were assigned to hold the line at moderate Gates and left to die.
Women were taken as test subjects to see if they could bear the next generation of Hunters, leaving the competitive capability for Tower climbing at a hopeless level.
The price paid for squeezing Hunters to maintain the regime was brutal beyond measure.
[However, we are fair.]
[We grant North Korea a one-month grace period, and in exchange, we will erase only Pyongyang and activate it as a waiting space for other species.]
[If North Korea’s Conquest Score rises above that of other nations within one month, the country will survive.]
[Current rankings by nation are now available on Hunter Net for your review!]
People wondered what this could possibly mean.
Breaking News!
Bulletins flooded in from everywhere.
Everyone’s phones rang simultaneously.
Online spaces became saturated with disaster alerts and urgent reports.
They showed a massive energy explosion erupting above North Korea.
A video recorded by someone. A satellite photograph.
— It’s hard to believe, but just moments ago, Pyongyang in North Korea has vanished from the face of the earth.
The caster’s words, spoken with difficulty. And on the satellite photograph, everything had evaporated, revealing an empty void.
To be precise: there were no buildings, no people. The Daedong River still flowed through Pyongyang.
……
Humanity was stunned.
They, who had enjoyed the fruits of civilization’s progress since the Hunter Revolution.
Wasn’t the power they thought they had gained now laid bare as utterly helpless?
— Come on, that’s impossible. It’s gotta be fake.
— Every major news outlet in the world is reporting it—how could it be fake?
Watching it in real time makes your mind go numb. But once you begin to comprehend it, screams erupt everywhere.
“Wait—if they’re erasing countries in order from last place, what rank is our country?”
Everyone began checking the rankings posted on Hunter Net.
[World Ranking]
[1st Place: South Korea]
[2nd Place: USA East]
[3rd Place: USA West]
[4th Place: USA North]
[5th Place: USA South]
[6th Place: United Kingdom]
[7th Place: Northern China]
[8th Place: Germany]
[9th Place: France]
The nations in the upper ranks breathed easier; everything below descended into chaos.
— What about China?
— Wow, countries are splitting up too?
— China basically tore itself apart like the old Warring States period. North China, South China, Sichuan, three northeastern provinces, Northwest…
— And check out the rank difference between Beijing and Jilin Province for the Chinese lol. Jilin is right below North Korea?
— But why is our country in first place right now?
[South Korea: Tied for 1st in Tower Conquest Ascension Rate with USA East; sole 1st place in Gate Containment Rate at 97%]
[The organization with the greatest merit is the Garam Guild.]
— Garam is first?
— Is it because of Jeong Hyun-soo?
— No, it says here that Garam prevented every single Gate Break, that’s why they’re ranked this high.
Jeong Hyun-soo had once resented his father Jeong Cheol’s stubbornness above all else.
While other guilds selected Gates based on profit, Jeong Cheol had insisted Garam tackle the ones no one cared about — a complaint that had eventually born this gift.
Yet in his previous life, even that glory had dimmed with Garam’s annihilation.
Association Chairman Seon Woo-hyun had greedily seized it as his own achievement.
But with the Tutorial’s conclusion now having erupted into the open, and with Garam still standing, Seon Woo-hyun could never steal that credit away.
It was already publicly posted on Hunter Net.
— Now that I think about it, there were occasional news reports that Garam always handled the Gate Break cleanups.
— Light of Garam.
— Not only did the father just raise a successor, his very existence shines with brilliance.
— Father? Call him Lord Jeong Cheol! How dare you compare a mere administrator to a general who steadfastly guarded the nation?
The people began pouring their praise onto Garam.
More than anything else, Jeong Hyun-soo felt this genuinely touch his heart.
An unintended responsibility. Having shouldered it, the world finally came to recognize it.
— Look at Ilseong’s claimed achievements. Did they just subcontract every single Gate Break over the last ten years and do nothing themselves?
— Yeah, when I compared the numbers Ilseong announced with the ones from the guilds that handled the subcontracts, they add up about the same.
— And the Association Chairman just goes around campaigning without noticing things like this?
Thus everyone’s attention turned to the nation rankings. It was an extreme moment of crisis — fall behind in Conquest, and a nation truly perished.
Moreover, the deadline was equally lethal.
Catch up to other nations within a month.
The world was plunging into an unprecedented hellscape, and an era had arrived where capable Hunters were treated with preference.
Now was the time for the counterattack to begin.
Jeong Hyun-soo would take care of Seon Woo-hyun, and he was preparing to create an organization that would bind the entire world for the more horrific future to come.
And his first bait would naturally be to position the Knight King at the forefront and offer exclusive franchisee nations access to the Tower Conquest methods Jeong Hyun-soo possessed.
Continued in the next episode ▶
The Monopolizing Regression Warrior
Author
Cheon Ya
Publisher
Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
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Publication Date
May 26, 2026
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