The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 110

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Chapter 110. Confrontation (7)
Jeong Hyun-soo turned his back to the Temple and let out a soft laugh.
“And what good would that do you?”
Kurupira’s eyes narrowed to slits.
Beneath the crimson hair, the face was that of a child, yet the gaze held no trace of youth whatsoever.
A being who had watched countless humans wander into this forest across the ages, watched them lose their way, watched them descend into madness and death.
The backward-walking master of the woods.
“How did you find out.”
“And what do I get if I answer?”
Kurupira’s feet twitched.
Both feet pointed unmistakably in the opposite direction from Jeong Hyun-soo, yet his body leaned forward as though that were the only natural thing to do.
“I’ll give you a chance. Turn back.”
“After coming all this way?”
“I’ll let that human live too.”
Kurupira gestured toward Alexander with his chin as he spoke.
“What are you babbling about, you little bastard?”
Alexander’s brow furrowed at what sounded like mercy from the creature.
“I have no interest in you. Keep your mouth shut.”
The blatant dismissal sent blood vessels throbbing at Alexander’s temples.
Wherever in the world he went, he was either the first to be feared or the first to be revered.
Yet this small monster before him dismissed him outright.
“You insignificant little wretch?”
Alexander’s foot stamped against the ground.
Bang!
The stone floor in front of the Temple shattered like a spiderweb.
In the next instant, Alexander’s massive frame closed the distance to Kurupira. His fist, clenched tight, shot toward the small face.
Whoooosh!
The air driven back by that single punch erupted like a storm.
One.
Crash!
The impact detonated not where Kurupira had been standing, but behind Alexander’s back.
The stone steps leading to the Temple were torn up wholesale, shooting skyward into empty air.
……
Alexander’s gaze shifted rapidly.
Kurupira still stood in the same spot.
His eyes met Alexander’s. Kurupira smiled softly.
“A human with only strength is easy to handle.”
Alexander’s face twisted grimly.
He extended his fist again.
This time it was no mere blow. The magical power Alexander unleashed across his entire body stretched long behind his fist.
It was a tremendous force that would consume not only Kurupira’s small frame but the Temple beyond him as well.
Before that onslaught, Kurupira moved his feet lightly.
In that very moment.
Crack-crack-crack-crack-crack!
The torrent of magical power that had stretched leftward swept across the forest to the right.
Hundreds of trees were torn out by their roots, leaving a vast chasm.
Alexander did not cease.
When he turned his body right, the left side crumbled.
When he charged forward, the distance between him and Kurupira only widened.
When he stepped back, he found himself standing right before the creature’s face.
The very concept of direction seemed to have lost all meaning. Trapped in this alien battlefield, Kurupira danced through the spaces between his attacks.
“Kee-kee! Kee-kee-kee!”
Sometimes he vanished before Alexander’s eyes, only to reappear at some distant point, accompanied by reversed footprints; sometimes he took blows that seemed impossible to dodge, only to be sitting calmly on a distant tree branch as though nothing had happened.
Jeong Hyun-soo did not join the fight.
He simply watched Kurupira.
“You! Will you just stand there watching?”
“Should I lend a hand? You were quite clear that you’d handle things on your own……”
Alexander’s fury mounting with each passing moment.
He recalled the mockery—being jeered at as a boy unfit for real combat.
Jeong Hyun-soo did not think Alexander would actually ask for help, not with pride standing in his way.
If you’re careless and push past the boundary, the relationship breaks down.
“Duck.”
At Jeong Hyun-soo’s word, Alexander’s body dropped instinctively.
Shwip.
Kurupira’s fingertips sheared through the space where Alexander’s hair had been.
“Three paces left.”
“Stop ordering me around.”
“Then stay put, if you prefer.”
But Alexander had already ground his teeth and shifted his weight leftward.
Dozens of black root tendrils erupted from the exact spot where he’d been standing moments before.
Any slower, and the attack would have caught his entire body.
Alexander’s eyes narrowed at Jeong Hyun-soo.
“Next!”
“I said stop ordering me.”
“Faster!”
“Run toward twelve o’clock.”
Jeong Hyun-soo’s fingertip pointed toward the weathered pillar standing to the Temple’s right.
Kurupira, meanwhile, was positioned on the opposite side.
“…There’s nothing there.”
“Doesn’t matter.”
Alexander’s face twisted in frustration. But he had no choice.
He charged in the direction Jeong Hyun-soo had indicated and drove his fist forward.
Crack!
The Temple pillar shattered to pieces.
Between the crumbled debris, Alexander glimpsed a hidden footprint being obliterated in an instant.
And Kurupira’s body trembled.
“…!”
The composure vanished from Kurupira’s face for the first time as he grinned.
Jeong Hyun-soo pressed forward without hesitation.
“Black tree on your left.”
With his momentum building and instinct sharpening, Alexander’s hand blade swept out, his teeth bared in a fierce grin.
Boom!
The black tree split vertically, and the footprint hidden within dissolved.
“Rock beneath the waterfall.”
Crash!
“The eaves of the Temple.”
Crack!
“Directly beneath your right foot.”
Alexander launched himself reflexively into the air.
The stone floor he’d been standing on shattered under the blow.
The fourth footprint vanishes.
Kurupira bares his teeth.
“I told you to stop!”
A small hand clenched the empty air.
The entire forest twisted around them.
Sky and earth inverted; the Temple surged upward overhead.
Kurupira’s True Form Release was now complete.
Before this, Kurupira could only wear enemies down through Illusion Magic, scrambling their senses and direction until they collapsed from exhaustion.
Most couldn’t find him no matter what, but those who knew his location and had learned his methods could neutralize him with ease.
Black water flowed across the sky like an apocalyptic vision—
But Jeong Hyun-soo remained unmoved.
“Two paces right, then lower your stance and look up.”
Alexander moved at the sound of Jeong Hyun-soo’s Mana Voice.
His body dropped, then launched upward.
Boom!
The impact was so violent the entire ground resonated with the strike.
Kurupira, who had drifted directly above Alexander’s head, was caught perfectly in the blow.
“Argh!”
His small body rocketed away like a shell, punching through the Temple’s outer wall.
Crash!
Part of the wall crumbled inward.
Kurupira emerged from the rubble, blood streaming down his face.
“How is this…?”
“Hell if I know, you bastard!”
Alexander lunged toward Kurupira.
“Finally! Why didn’t you do that from the start?”
Jeong Hyun-soo spoke in response to Alexander’s commentary on landing the first solid blow.
“This is the only way to land a blow on him.”
“Don’t act so superior!”
“It’s not an act—I really am superior.”
In the interim, Kurupira wiped the blood from his lips.
That childlike face from moments before twisted into something grotesque and vicious.
“I’m going to tear you to shreds.”
Kurupira planted both hands on the ground.
Crack-crack-crack!
The power of an unshackled true form—a power that could only be deployed when the Temple’s invaders refused to tire and kept pressing forward. It was unleashed now.
The ancient trees of the Temple twisted violently in unison. Between their bark, crimson hair poured forth in torrents.
“Ugh, disgusting as hell!”
As Alexander spewed his fluent Korean profanities, hundreds of small shapes materialized in addition.
Each one bore Kurupira’s identical form.
The same face.
The same presence.
Feet bent backward in exactly the same way.
Hundreds of Kurupiras laughed in perfect unison.
Alexander clapped his hands together at the sight.
“Can I just blow them all away at once?”
“The Temple would collapse in the process.”
“As long as the artifact stays intact.”
“It’s not sturdy enough to withstand that.”
“Damn it!”
Alexander released the energy he’d been compressing.
“Then what do you want me to do?”
This time Kurupira was faster than Jeong Hyun-soo’s answer. Hundreds of Kurupiras moved in perfect synchronization.
The sight of crimson figures pouring down from all directions was nothing short of spectacular.
Before them, Alexander’s fists and feet moved in rapid succession.
Crack! Boom! Crash!
The approaching Kurupiras burst and were crushed.
They were all illusions, but their attacks were far from fake.
Wherever those small hands brushed past, space twisted, and new wounds appeared on Alexander’s body.
Several of them rushed toward Jeong Hyun-soo.
The moment Alexander clicked his tongue, the Kurupiras in front of Jeong Hyun-soo vanished.
Dark Heaven Return Origin Art—its returning power exercised the authority to send that which was originally illusion back to its place of origin.
“Why don’t you take some of them on yourself?”
“My magical power isn’t sufficient yet.”
“Tch!”
Alexander plunged back into the chaos with no choice in the matter.
The one saving grace was that Jeong Hyun-soo could handle those that slipped past.
Within that chaos, Jeong Hyun-soo studied each one carefully and meticulously.
And in that same moment, the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art detonated from his body.
Reverse-Burst Energy Opening World.
Pushing past Alexander, he surged forward as a vanguard into enemy territory.
And that tremendous strike, amplified through Earth Star Instant Energy, crashed down upon one of them.
The real one among hundreds.
The one that, unlike the others, wielded true authority—the power to reverse the path it walked.
Boom—!
The blow Jeong Hyun-soo unleashed generated a colossal shockwave.
Alexander’s eyes went wide with shock as dozens of Kurupiras were swallowed whole by the force of impact.
“…A 40th Floor ranker…?”
“Come here and let’s finish this.”
“W-what…?”
Alexander pressed forward aggressively. Kurupira was hurled backward, spraying blood.
Fists, elbows, knees.
Kyiieeeeee!
Alexander’s relentless strikes found their mark against the creature’s true form, which shrieked with a sound that made the skin crawl.
Kurupira tried to move, but he needed the footprints he’d left scattered through the forest.
Only Jeong Hyun-soo had sent Alexander to erase every last one.
Crack!
Alexander’s uppercut drove into Kurupira’s jaw.
The creature’s body bounced repeatedly across the ground before skidding to a halt.
Kurupira barely managed to stop at the foot of the Temple steps, struggling to rise.
“Ugh…”
Despair was written across his face.
An enemy could be strong. But this was something else entirely.
An enemy that knew everything.
Was such a thing even possible?
Learning the forest’s secrets in advance, rushing straight to the Temple. Then dismantling his true form while preemptively erasing every footprint he needed? All of it?
His arm trembled.
One leg was already twisted unnaturally beneath him.
Two figures approached him.
“Is it over?”
“Not yet.”
“Then we’ll have to kill him?”
The moment Alexander moved closer, Kurupira’s body vanished.
“What? I thought he couldn’t escape?”
“It’s fine. I know exactly where he’s going.”
Jeong Hyun-soo had deliberately left one final footprint behind.
At the Temple’s entrance.
To survive, Kurupira would have no choice but to open the door himself—and that was precisely where he’d been herded.
‘That way, I’ll take the Hidden Piece too.’
Jeong Hyun-soo smiled wickedly and spoke.
“Let’s go collect our reward.”
Continued in the next episode ▶
The Returning Martial God’s Monopoly
Author
Cheon Ya
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