The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 109

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

Episode 109. A Bold Venture (6)
Jeong Hyun-soo stepped forward as he spoke. This was the Amazon Labyrinth that Alexander had traversed countless times, weathering trial after trial.
With each step, the direction twisted.
The sound of rushing water that had come from ahead now moved behind him; a towering tree that had stood to his right vanished from sight the moment he looked away, only to reappear on his left—a place of impossible geometry.
Then small footprints appeared at their feet.
The prints pointed in the opposite direction from where Jeong Hyun-soo was leading.
‘So, what now?’
Alexander watched to see how this confident young upstart would break through the impasse.
By conventional logic, one would typically study or follow such tracks. But Jeong Hyun-soo didn’t even glance down—he simply trampled them out of existence.
From somewhere came the giggling of a child.
Alexander tried, as always, to pinpoint the source, but his senses found nothing.
“Not going to chase it?”
“There’s no need to follow. We can go directly where it’s guarding.”
“Why?”
“Because I can simply go to the Temple instead.”
Alexander’s brow furrowed.
“What?”
“We don’t need to worry about this. We just head straight for the Temple.”
It was absurd.
“You know where the Temple is?”
In a forest where all senses fail and space itself warps?
“You’ll see soon enough, won’t you?”
“Insane… anyone who gets lost in a Magical Realm dies!”
“You’ve lost your way more than once and managed to escape. What’s different now?”
Alexander crossed his arms, looking thoroughly displeased. Yet—
“Fine. I’ll play along with your tune for now. But if you’re wrong…”
“And if I’m right?”
“Just move!”
Alexander grumbled all the way but followed Jeong Hyun-soo nonetheless.
And with each step, the temperature of the jungle spiked violently.
Simultaneously, hundreds of points of light ignited on the surrounding trees. They might have resembled fireflies to the untrained eye, but every single one was the eye of a colossal flame serpent.
The apex predator of the Amazon Labyrinth.
Boitata.
“Damn! We’ve walked straight into its nest!”
Alexander’s teeth clenched. He was no stranger to this forest—he’d come here before because of Kurupiła or whatever else lurked within.
Each time he’d wandered, he’d encountered a formidable Magical Beast.
Though he’d avoided it simply because there was no reason to fight, the very fact that even Alexander chose evasion spoke volumes about how troublesome and powerful the creature was.
“Curse it, you fool! Don’t look into its eyes!”
Alexander remembered vividly how three Master-class Hunters of the highest caliber had gazed into those eyes and afterward killed one another in confusion.
As Boitata’s massive body unfurled, a serpent of endless flame coiled around the jungle, its end nowhere in sight.
Despite Alexander’s warning, Jeong Hyun-soo did not close his eyes.
“Below the left jaw.”
“Close your eyes, I said!”
“There’s one among all these eye-like markings that isn’t glowing. Break that one, and Boitata is finished.”
Alexander wavered between belief and doubt. But the moment illusory mana began to shimmer around Boitata, Jeong Hyun-soo shouted again:
“Now!”
Almost without thinking, Alexander—who’d been staring down at the spot below Boitata’s left jaw—lunged forward instinctively.
True to Jeong Hyun-soo’s word, there was indeed one eye among them that emitted no light.
He drove his fist forward.
The moment his knuckles cut through the air, a crushing impact detonated across the entire forest.
Boom!
Boitata’s head snapped sideways from the blow.
The false eye that had cast no light shattered, and the massive body ignited in a conflagration before collapsing entirely.
Alexander stood silent for a moment, gazing at the fallen Magical Beast.
Then he turned to look at Jeong Hyun-soo.
“How did you know?”
“If a creature is showing you many eyes, doesn’t it mean there’s one eye it’s trying to hide?”
“Spare me the wordplay!”
Alexander growled, but Jeong Hyun-soo replied with unbothered ease.
“You probably wouldn’t believe the real answer anyway.”
Jeong Hyun-soo left those words behind and walked out.
Alexander followed without pressing further.
* * *
After Boitata fell, the forest seemed to obstruct their path with increasing hostility.
Massive root systems stirred to life, encircling them both. As one lifted itself upright, a towering giant emerged—its body a fusion of fur and bark.
The Immortal Mapinguari.
Alexander had faced this creature before.
Tear its flesh away and it regenerates instantly, roots reconnecting it to the forest. Set it ablaze and it drains the woodland’s life force, growing only stronger.
“Don’t tell me you can kill this one too?”
“Of course I can.”
“I’ve fought that thing more than five times.”
“You’ve only ever destroyed its body.”
Meanwhile, Mapinguari charges forward.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
“What am I supposed to do, exactly!”
“Try blocking it first.”
“What?”
Jeong Hyun-soo answered not with words but with a hard stare at Mapinguari. Each time it moves, it leaves inverted footprints in its wake.
Yet only one of them refuses to fade with time.
The true core isn’t that massive body at all—it’s the first footprint it ever made.
Information purchased at the cost of countless Hunter lives.
Jeong Hyun-soo pointed at the ground.
“Strike there.”
“Hey, why is it always me doing what you say!”
“My Stats aren’t high enough to deliver an Instant Death yet.”
“Damn it!”
Alexander cursed and slammed the earth beneath him.
The ground collapses, and the moment the ancient footprint shatters, Mapinguari’s colossal form freezes.
The flesh and bark that were trying to regenerate rot and peel away instead.
Alexander turns back to face Jeong Hyun-soo.
“Where do I hit next time?”
“Do you believe me a little now?”
“Spare me the philosophy and just guide us already!”
Alexander has plenty of questions, but he’s learned one thing for certain: whatever this Jeong Hyun-soo says is invariably correct.
Right now, conquest matters more than pride.
With that in mind, he takes the lead.
“Wait.”
On second thought—why is he the one doing all the heavy lifting while this kid just flaps his mouth?
“As you can see, my Stats are rather low.”
It makes a certain kind of sense, and yet it stings all the same.
But there’s no help for it. Before long, he bounds forward and falls into step behind Jeong Hyun-soo, who walks ahead without hesitation.
“Hey! Come on, let’s go!”
And so Jeong Hyun-soo and Alexander pressed deeper into the maze for some time.
Then, quite suddenly, the dense jungle ended.
Crack!
At once, a yawning chasm opened before them—its bottom lost to shadow—alongside a dark waterfall that stretched into infinity.
Alexander came to a halt.
“Look, I think we took a wrong turn. I’ve been here before.”
This was one of the dead ends Alexander had encountered on his previous venture.
If you attempt to fly across using a flight ability, you’re sent back to your starting point. If you descend into the abyss below, you fall again from above—a grotesque loop.
Even Hunters with spatial abilities couldn’t find a passage through.
Naturally, Alexander assumed they’d taken a wrong path.
Even a monkey falls from a tree now and then.
But.
“No. This is the right way.”
“…The right way? There’s a cliff right ahead.”
At those words, Jeong Hyun-soo says something cryptic.
“That’s only because you’re looking forward.”
With that, Jeong Hyun-soo approaches the cliff’s edge.
And there, instead of the cliff or the waterfall, he gazes down at a small puddle pooled at his feet.
And within that pool, a stone staircase appears—one that doesn’t exist in reality.
Steps that climb upward against the black waterfall.
Jeong Hyun-soo aligned the first step of the reflected staircase with its position in reality, then stepped into empty air.
Alexander watched him with a measured gaze. He could have asked what nonsense he was attempting, but the man’s methods were always absurd—yet the results never lied.
What was the harm in reaching toward the sky? If they fell here, they’d simply plummet downward, the same as anywhere else.
One.
Two.
Jeong Hyun-soo treads on empty space.
“Do you remember the hint in the puzzle? That there is no path—only that it chooses not to reveal itself to those who seek to observe it?”
“…And you managed to apply that here?”
“Trial and error does the work.”
The fruit of countless minds, endless experiments, and fortunate discovery.
Alexander follows in the path Jeong Hyun-soo carves, climbing higher.
“The stairs vanish when viewed directly. They only become visible through reflections in the pool or the sword.”
Jeong Hyun-soo keeps his gaze forward, treading only on the steps, advancing without hesitation.
He recalls the future Alexander, who would one day recount the heroic tale of how he’d finally unraveled all these secrets.
It was when they’d reached the midpoint of the staircase.
“…Alexander. You dishonorable bastard.”
“Haman…?”
Alexander’s eyes widened at the sight of the Hunter standing before him.
“So you’ve truly sacrificed us as offerings and left us to rot while you parade about alone!”
Kurupiła had clearly intervened. A strategy to shatter the mind through visions connected to the intruders.
Jeong Hyun-soo erased that power using the Dark Heaven Return Origin Art, and Alexander…
“Heh. You’re not Haman.”
“Don’t deny it…!”
“No, you’re not, kid.”
Knuckles cracked sharply as Alexander fixed his gaze on the figure before him.
“I drilled so much into that boy. Even dead, he’d never fail to meet my eyes straight on!”
And he lunges forward without hesitation. A single, decisive strike.
Alexander shattered the illusion magic of the powerful Kurupiła the way only Alexander could.
And then the forest itself begins to move.
The stone stairs flip backward, and the waterfall doesn’t flow down—it erupts toward the sky.
“This is insane.”
“Just keep moving forward, sir.”
They must follow the path of the stairs as reflected on the water’s surface, sensing it instinctively. Difficult, yes—but Alexander is ranked first in the world.
His senses were more than capable of managing this.
He ignored all the deceptions and passed through the black waterfall.
Whoooosh.
And beyond it, a completely different space reveals itself.
A massive hollow chamber deep within the jungle, yet no sky is visible.
A black river curves in a circle, and at its center stands an ancient stone temple.
On the temple walls are carved upside-down footprints and seven suns.
Only one of them cast no shadow, and Alexander’s expression hardened at the sight.
They were identical to the seven suns that had blocked his path on the seventieth floor of the Black Tower.
“That…”
How did he know?
Alexander grew visibly tense. He moved toward the temple door, ready to force it open, but he knew as well as anyone that brute strength wouldn’t work here.
“Damn it, just let me break it down!”
In the end, it’s that empty groove carved in the shape of a frog before the sealed door. That must be the key.
Jeong Hyun-soo slowly raises his hand toward it.
In that instant, every sound that had echoed endlessly from the forest ceases.
The waterfall, the insects, the rustling leaves.
Complete and utter silence.
And in that same moment, a small foot suddenly juts out in front of Jeong Hyun-soo’s wrist.
It has the form of a child with flowing red hair, but while its mouth curves with playfulness, its eyes hold no laughter—only cold calculation.
“What are you?”
The master of this Gate.
Kurupiła.
To be continued in the next episode ▶
The Monopolizing Returning Martial God
Author
Cheon Ya
Publisher
Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
Published by
Grae Publishing
Inquiries: [email protected]
Publication Date
May 26, 2026
UCI
G720:N+A327-20260515012
※ This e-book is protected under copyright law. Unauthorized reproduction and copying are prohibited.
Violation of this may result in both criminal and civil legal liability.
※ Pentagram welcomes your precious manuscripts.

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————