The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 111

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Episode 111. Curtain Rise (1)
Kurupira’s presence could not be sensed anywhere.
Yet Jeong Hyun-soo walked forward without panic.
The massive stone door of the sealed Temple loomed before him.
Before it lay a peculiar groove carved in the shape of a frog’s body.
From the groove, which had shown no reaction moments before, a single crimson footprint slowly began to rise.
A foot bent backward.
It was Kurupira’s reversed foot, stained with blood.
“Ah-ha.”
Alexander moved to rush forward at once, but Jeong Hyun-soo held him back from the side.
“Wait a moment.”
“Why?”
“Because only that creature can open the door.”
……
Alexander’s eyes narrowed.
He supposed doors eventually opened if you smashed them, but if it was Jeong Hyun-soo, there had to be some scheme behind it.
“Crafty bastard.”
“You’re too kind.”
With all escape routes sealed, Kurupira had no choice but to appear atop that footprint, and to survive, it had no choice but to open the Temple.
Whoosh.
Light blooming from the crimson footprint washed over the Temple’s walls.
Creak!
The Temple’s door, locked tight until now, began to open.
Ancient dust and black magical power spilled out from between the stone doors.
“If you’d forced it open or damaged it, the attacking magical power and the Temple’s internal magical power likely would have detonated, causing severe harm.”
“…I am Alexander!”
Frankly, even Alexander had been shaken.
If he’d smashed it on impulse, disaster was as certain as fire.
“Rather than shouting that, shouldn’t we capture the creature now?”
“What are you doing!”
“You’re far faster and stronger than me, after all.”
Alexander, who could hardly fail to understand that any delay meant the creature would close the door and flee, ground his teeth.
“Damn bastard! Are you going to work me to the bone till the end?”
Spewing curses, Alexander gave chase to Kurupira.
“Ugh!”
Kurupira’s expression crumpled as Alexander seized it by the scruff of its neck.
“Hello there, you little shit.”
Alexander’s fist drove into Kurupira.
Bang!
Kurupira shot backward. Despite its size, it had surprising durability; the creature twisted itself frantically in mid-air.
“If it enters the open Temple interior, it will reset the entire Magical Realm.”
Once that happened, it would be possible to overturn the forest again, resurrect the fallen Magical Beasts, and drive the intruders back to the entrance.
Alexander, knowing this well, pursued. The very moment Kurupira’s small feet stepped over the threshold to escape him—
Whoosh.
Black haze swept across the ground.
Dark Heaven Return Origin Art.
The force of emptiness swallowed the footprint Kurupira had tried to leave anew.
“What…”
Kurupira’s body halted in mid-air. It had been entering the Temple, yet it moved no further forward.
As though caught by an invisible thread, its half-entered body began to be dragged backward.
Kurupira panicked.
“You… how are you…?”
“Well.”
Jeong Hyun-soo. This mysterious human knew everything about Kurupira and countered it completely.
Kurupira was not a spatial displacement user.
It used the footprints it left behind to reverse the direction between departure and destination points, erasing the distance between them.
But if the very foundation of those footprints themselves returned to emptiness, the ability would not function.
The power to erase power.
Trapped before the overwhelming compatibility of the Dark Heaven Return Origin Art, Kurupira despaired.
“Alexander!”
And then Alexander’s fist came crashing down over that despair.
Grabbing Kurupira by the ankle, Alexander hurled the small body outside the Temple.
“Hack!”
He caught Kurupira as it bounced back and slammed it into the ground.
Boom!
The stone floor in front of the Temple collapsed like a crater.
At its center, Kurupira coughed blood.
“Ugh……”
Kurupira’s crimson hair splayed outward in all directions.
The hair merged with the tree roots that had wound around the Temple. The final phase—all the forest’s power being sucked into that small frame.
Crack!
The small body swelled grotesquely.
Bones sprouted and muscles attached themselves.
Red hair like a beast’s mane covered the entire body.
Over the form barely hidden beneath a few leaves, bark and roots twisted together to form a massive armor.
A monster with red eyes, taller than the Temple itself, opened its gaze.
“What the hell… is this bastard… you said it was all over?”
[Sentinel Kurupira unlocks its true form.]
“If that had happened inside, we’d have been finished.”
Kurupira took a step forward.
Boom!
The entire cavern shook from a single stride.
“What do we do now?”
“Just beat it.”
Gone were the parlor tricks—this final form concentrated all its power into raw combat strength.
“You should’ve said so from the start! Tch! You’re done for.”
Alexander kicked off the ground.
A pristine shockwave erupted outward, and his body reached Kurupira’s face.
Crash!
Kurupira’s head snapped backward.
The armor made of tree roots shattered into pieces in a single blow.
Kurupira pulled the black river upward.
The water that had flowed in a circle through the cavern rose up like a massive tidal wave. From within the dark water, the hands and faces of those who had perished in the forest emerged.
Alexander brought his hand down like a blade toward the water.
Boom!
The black river split left and right.
Kurupira tried to hide its body in the gap between the divided waters, but Alexander seized its crimson hair.
“Where do you think you’re going!”
Crack!
Kurupira, which had been trying to merge with the forest, was uprooted entirely.
Alexander gripped the hair and yanked the massive body down to the ground.
Crash!
“Right arm.”
Jeong Hyun-soo spoke.
“Another order?”
“Quickly.”
Alexander swept Kurupira’s right arm away.
Crack!
The arm bone broke clean through along with the wooden armor.
“Spine.”
“Do it yourself!”
“If you hesitate, it’ll escape and we start over.”
“Damn it!”
Alexander leaped onto Kurupira’s back.
He clasped his hands together and brought them down on the spine.
Boom-crash!
The massive body arched like a bow.
Blood and tree sap poured from Kurupira’s mouth.
“Leave the left leg, please.”
“Why’s that?”
“I’ll handle it.”
“Ha!”
Alexander was astounded, but he methodically trampled the creature’s right leg alone.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The ground caved in, and Kurupira’s body collapsed along with it.
Without the power to reverse direction, Kurupira was no match for Alexander.
Kurupira’s own words held true—a human of mere strength was easy to handle.
The problem was that Jeong Hyun-soo had arrived, a man who wielded that raw strength with absolute precision.
Kurupira’s true form shrank.
The magical power it had drawn from the forest scattered, and it reverted to the shape of a child.
The creature dragged its shattered right foot and crawled toward the Temple.
“Still moving?”
Alexander gave chase.
But before he could reach it, Jeong Hyun-soo was already standing before Kurupira.
Cheongnyeong Mansang. Riding the force of the Wind King, Jeong Hyun-soo’s blade descended with devastating power.
Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art.
Every trait unlocked at once, while simultaneously Dark Heaven Return Origin Art stripped away Kurupira’s magical power.
Vulnerabilities laid bare and defenseless.
All his Ability Stats exploded in an instant, and Jeong Hyun-soo’s form blurred.
Before footsteps could even solidify, Dark Heaven Return Origin Art erased them again, and Jeong Hyun-soo’s massive Demon-Slaying Sword thrust toward Kurupira.
Kurupira’s eyes widened in horror.
Crack-thud!
The Demon-Slaying Sword pierced through Kurupira’s heart.
Tendons stood taut along Jeong Hyun-soo’s forearm as he stood atop the creature, now pinned like a stake.
“Oil. Summoning.”
“Grooooah! Is that you, Master? How enormous!”
“Hold it.”
There was no need to correct him. The Sentinel Kurupira, now in monster form, looked every bit an ogre.
“Crushed-faced worm of an ogre!”
Thanks to Alexander’s work, Oil seized the pulped Sentinel Kurupira by the arm. Jeong Hyun-soo grabbed the creature’s left leg and twisted.
Crack-thud!
“Kyaaaaaaagh!”
Kurupira shrieked.
In that moment, the backward-walking feet that had never once pointed forward in its entire existence were violently forced straight.
[Hidden Condition fulfilled.]
[The one who walks backward has been made to move forward.]
Watching Jeong Hyun-soo haul Kurupira up and force it to walk, Alexander felt a chill of revulsion.
“What the hell… you psychotic bastard.”
Jeong Hyun-soo made no reply. Even now, he poured Dark Heaven Return Origin Art into Kurupira, severing every connection it possessed.
He obliterated its powers completely.
“You… what are you…”
Kurupira coughed blood. Jeong Hyun-soo regarded it and spoke.
“Just a Hunter.”
“My path…”
Jeong Hyun-soo saw no further need. He clenched his fist. The heart constricted by the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art’s force burst.
Thud-crack!
[The Magical Realm’s ruler, Kurupira, has been subdued.]
[The backward-walking forest’s directional distortion is released.]
[You have arrived at the Hidden Temple for the first time.]
[You have dismantled Kurupira’s spatial exchange principle.]
[Hidden Condition achieved.]
Alexander couldn’t hide the hollow look on his face as the system messages echoed in his ears.
A Gate that the world’s greatest Hunter had been unable to clear despite years of battering it had been finished with ease.
“Thank you for your hard work.”
Watching Jeong Hyun-soo bow his head slightly, Alexander’s emotions felt strangely conflicted.
“Huh… well, I did all the heavy lifting.”
That was when it happened.
Ding!
[Calculating Clear Contribution.]
Clear Contribution analysis—an indispensable part of any Gate conquest.
Messages began flashing before the two of them in rapid succession.
[First Discoverer of Kurupira—Jeong Hyun-soo]
[Core Identification of Boitata the Fiery Serpent—Jeong Hyun-soo]
[True Form Identification of Mapinguari the Immortal Beast—Jeong Hyun-soo]
[Direction Distortion Countermeasure of the Backwards-Walking Forest—Jeong Hyun-soo]
[Hidden Temple Entrance Discovery—Jeong Hyun-soo]
[Kurupira’s Spatial Exchange Principle Countermeasure—Jeong Hyun-soo]
[Hidden Condition Achieved—Jeong Hyun-soo]
Alexander read through the messages in order.
“What about my name?”
[Magical Beast and Ruler Combat Contribution—Alexander]
……
[Overall Clear Contribution is now being assessed.]
[Primary Clear Contributor—Jeong Hyun-soo]
[All First Clear rewards and Hidden rewards are attributed to the Primary Clear Contributor.]
Alexander’s face hardened.
“What the—I fought everything!”
“Which is why you have your own contribution, doesn’t it, Combat Contributor?”
“No, that’s not—you bastard! Why are you taking everything!”
As Alexander tore at his own hair, the Temple doors swung fully open.
At the Temple’s center sat an ancient stone altar.
Upon it lay a single green gem carved in the shape of a frog.
Alexander’s eyes gleamed.
Seven suns carved into the Temple walls.
The same pattern as the symbol of the Black Tower’s 70th floor.
He instinctively understood—that gem was the key to unlock the gate that had blocked his path.
Jeong Hyun-soo picked up the gem.
[First Clear reward obtained.]
[Muirakitang—Eye of First River]
[Pierces through false forms and the true shadows cast by false existence.]
[Special effects activate on Black Tower 70th Floor: ‘Funeral of the Seven Suns’.]
[Ownership is attributed to Jeong Hyun-soo.]
Alexander reached out his hand.
“Give it.”
At those words, Jeong Hyun-soo flashed a grin.
Continued in the next episode ▶
The Returning Martial God Who Takes All
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