The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 14

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Episode 14. The Hegemon’s Form (2)
“What just happened?”
The moment the chaos settled, Jeong Hyun-ah searched for Jeong Hyun-su first.
“What do you mean? Oh, that?”
The biggest puzzle was why those nameless ones—hunters who should have been attacking the one guiding them through the second floor—had obeyed Jeong Hyun-su’s command.
“It’s nothing special.”
He’d simply used the reward from clearing the first floor at SSS Rank.
[Name Seal (Unique): Grant a designated target a name. However, the target’s acknowledgment is required.]
[Existence Imprint (Unique): Imprint existence upon a designated target. However, the target’s consent is necessary.]
While their purpose might seem opaque at first glance, the Name Seal and Existence Imprint were nothing short of game-breaking abilities—veritable ecological disruptions—in any trial granted up to the tenth floor.
Take the second floor alone: enemies called the Nameless Ones appeared there.
The result of granting them names and imprinting existence upon them was over two hundred “Named Ones” who now followed him.
“Granted names…?”
“Yeah, I just named them on a first-come, first-served basis.”
The first one he’d met and imprinted was Yi Il-ho.
Jeong Hyun-ah’s expression twisted, and Ji Min-jeong’s wasn’t far behind.
“What kind of naming sense is that?”
“But how exactly did you even…?”
There were various methods to meet the condition. And Jeong Hyun-su had chosen the most convenient one.
“Just beat them until they consent.”
Looking closely, from Yi Il-ho all the way to the two-hundred-ninety-sixth one, every single face bore the marks of battle.
“Well, everyone worked hard.”
Those who’d reclaimed their names crowded around Jeong Hyun-su.
The fugitives Ling Wei-hao had brought were dead or subdued, and it was time to begin the climb anew.
“Aren’t you going up?”
“What’s the rush?”
Jeong Hyun-su merely smiled.
* * *
At that same moment, Chae Mu-hyeon, leading Songgwang Guild’s strike team, pushed forward like a madman toward clearing the second floor.
‘It’s mine.’
The New Record for the second floor had to be his.
This time, he would absolutely achieve the highest score and make his name known to the world. Certain victory was already in his grasp, and he continued his frenzied assault.
Crack!
He smashed through the Nameless Ones blocking his path, and even the increasingly stronger enemies fell before the Heat Wave Technique he’d learned from the Hegemon.
‘Almost there now.’
Having memorized the terrain as his seniors advised, he’d reached the very end of the second floor, and it seemed the record was within reach—
Clang.
“…?”
He caught sight of a massive-framed warrior collapsing in the distance, and his eyes widened in shock.
It was unmistakably the gatekeeper who guarded the final trial of the second floor.
And what had brought it down wasn’t something extraordinary—it was ordinary second-floor mobs, the Nameless Ones, who appeared to be subordinates.
[Entry Number Three-Hundred-Ninety-Seven]
[Entry Number Three-Hundred-Ninety-Eight]
[Entry Number Three-Hundred-Ninety-Nine]
.
.
.
[Entry Number Four-Hundred-Thirty-Three]
Dozens of mobs with different names from the other monsters collectively defeated the gatekeeper and brought it down.
Dong! Dong! Dong!
And then, as if to rub it in, they began ringing the bell.
“Damn it!”
Chae Mu-hyeon snapped back to awareness, realizing something had gone catastrophically wrong, and rushed forward desperately.
[Announcement!]
“No!”
The tower’s broadcast had already begun.
[A New Record for clearing the Trial Tower’s second floor has been achieved today.]
[Congratulations! Hunter Jeong Hyun-su of the Republic of Korea has set a New Record in both fastest clear time and highest score!]
[Clear Rating: SSS Rank]
But Chae Mu-hyeon could not accept it.
“I’m filing an Objection! This is unacceptable!”
No matter how hard he looked around, Jeong Hyun-su was nowhere to be seen.
“That’s right! Tower, explain your results properly!”
“Songgwang Guild’s raid team reached the Gate Keeper first—so how can you claim Jeong Hyun-su cleared it? Answer that!”
The Songgwang raid team voiced their support as well.
From their perspective, something didn’t add up.
[Objection request denied.]
With those words, the Tower displayed footage before the Songgwang team.
“What…?”
Jeong Hyun-su was there in the video.
He crushed the approaching Nameless ones, sent them sprawling.
Then he charged the Gate Keeper, slipped past the attack, and struck a Counter that shattered the creature’s balance.
A savage blow left it dazed and helpless—and then Jeong Hyun-su abruptly turned his head away.
He vanished, and the Nameless ones that had fallen where he’d been started rising to their feet, suddenly turning to attack the Gate Keeper instead.
“What… what is this?”
“What kind of ability is that?”
It was clearly broken.
He wasn’t a Necromancer—how was any of this possible?
[The ability cannot be disclosed.]
[However, the ability is undoubtedly Jeong Hyun-su’s, and this footage was willingly recorded and provided by Jeong Hyun-su himself to prevent further objections.]
[Partial acceptance of the Objection. The Tower will set a condition.]
[The Tower can summon a second-floor Gate Keeper—the Nameless Grave Keeper—using Dummy Data before the Songgwang hunters.]
Chae Mu-hyeon’s eyes gleamed with sudden intensity.
A re-clearance using Dummy Data meant that if he could defeat the creature faster than Jeong Hyun-su had, his Objection would be accepted—the first time in history.
[However, if Songgwang fails to prove itself, the Tower will impose a non-disclosure restriction.]
Chae Mu-hyeon was confident.
The Grave Keeper that Jeong Hyun-su had defeated—if he set his mind to it, could he really not win?
No. He had to win.
He too wanted to prove his worth to the Tower, to become master of Songgwang.
“Of course I accept.”
With a dull, wet sound, the collapsed Grave Keeper rose back to its feet.
The creature straightened, regaining its form.
[Objection request accepted.]
“I’ll do this alone.”
If Jeong Hyun-su had done it alone, then Chae Mu-hyeon was certain he could manage the same.
As he stepped forward, Chae Mu-hyeon sensed something wrong.
‘What is it?’
Its presence was overwhelming.
The general consensus had always been that the Nameless Grave Keeper wasn’t designed to be solo hunted.
And yet, the legendary hunters of ages past—Alexander from the United States and Hunter Association Chairman Seon-woo Hyeon—both had overcome the Grave Keeper alone.
So he pressed forward.
The Grave Keeper swung its spear. Seon-woo Hyeon blocked the blow with Hegemon’s Form and immediately sensed something had gone terribly wrong.
“Ugh!”
His forearm burned. The problem wasn’t just the overwhelming power—there was something else.
A shuddering boom echoed across the chamber.
Before he could recover, the Grave Keeper’s relentless follow-up strikes sent Chae Mu-hyeon reeling.
He had to dodge. He tried to slip into a natural evasion rhythm, but it was all an illusion.
‘Damn it!’
The Grave Keeper’s strike connected, sending Chae Mu-hyeon flying backward.
[Dummy Data disengaged.]
[Time limit exceeded.]
[Final result announced.]
[Objection filed by Chae Mu-hyeon of Songgwang Guild and affiliated hunters—result: rejected.]
[Footage of the Nameless Grave Keeper battles between Garam’s Jeong Hyun-su and Songgwang’s Chae Mu-hyeon will be made public on HunterNet.]
And Chae Mu-hyeon wasn’t spared the humiliation—his failure was permanently immortalized for all to see.
* * *
The emergence of a Rookie who had cleared both the first and second floors with SSS Rank grades set HunterNet ablaze.
└Even if the first floor was acceptable, SSS Rank on the second floor is insane.
└└Watched the footage—the dodge-and-counter follow-up is no joke.
Though the video was brief, the polished mastery of his combat—perfectly timing his evasion and striking a Counter that dealt the decisive damage—only heightened interest in this newcomer, and all eyes inevitably turned toward the rising Rookie.
└Honestly, isn’t that a bit of a stretch?
└└A stretch? And here I thought the Tower couldn’t miss something like that.
└└└Haven’t you seen the funeral footage yet? That’s what happened to Chae Mu-hyeon from Songgwang Guild when he filed an Objection just like you.
Some doubted Jeong Hyun-su’s ability, but Chae Mu-hyeon, who had filed the same Appeal and left behind that mortifying video, silenced every rebuttal.
└Doesn’t Chae Mu-hyeon pass the first floor with an SS Rank and have considerable skill built up?
└I heard he was pretty strong, but honestly, if he’d gotten help from a raid party instead of going solo, he could’ve cleared it easily enough, right?
└└He seems a bit too self-conscious, if you ask me. Only Alexander and Seon-woo Hyeon have done the Gravedigger solo clear.
└└└Did Joseon manage to produce another talent on Seon-woo Hyeon’s level?
└└└└Don’t exaggerate. How are Seon-woo Hyeon and Alexander even in the same league? He must have figured out the strategy using the data that’s already accumulated. Don’t compare him to Hunters from that era, seriously. It’s embarrassing.
Yet doubts about Jeong Hyun-su’s pure skill itself persisted.
Just as voices demanding proof grew louder, another video appeared on HunterNet.
It was footage of Ling Wei-hao appearing and pressing Haneul and Garam, and in the middle of that brutal battle where people were actually dying, Jeong Hyun-su in a Training Suit and Three-stripe Slippers sent Ling Wei-hao flying with a Flying Kick and made his entrance.
The video flowed directly into the previous footage.
It was Jeong Hyun-su turning his gaze elsewhere just before finishing off the Gravedigger completely, then walking away without hesitation.
The reaction was explosive.
└Wait, so he could’ve set a New Record but he just left to save his sister and guild members?
└└That’s insane. And he’s still SSS Rank lol go fight Seon-woo Hyeon and Alexander lol
What made it worse was that the opponent was Ling Wei-hao.
Watching Jeong Hyun-su overwhelm a wanted fugitive from China already known to be Gold Rank level, people could hardly believe their eyes.
As he extinguished the Cerulean Flame that had left Ji Min-jeong and Jeong Hyun-ah in dire straits with pure force alone, those who yearned for true strength even burst into cheers.
└What was that at the end? What even was that?
└└How did he even do that?
└Is that actually real?
└└You were fooled. It’s video, so of course it’s real.
└└└Come on, how could that possibly be real? What Rookie takes down Ling Wei-hao like that lol
└And Jeong Hyun-su was treated as a Closed-grade monster in the Cradle.
└└That’s not true. The Cradle just couldn’t contain him!
└Give us the rest of the video please please please
└When does the third floor footage go up?
└└Oh, apparently the Hunter Association requested the ascent be halted due to the Ling Wei-hao incident.
People lamented missing more of Jeong Hyun-su’s exploits.
At the same time, Training Suits and Three-stripe Slippers sold out at discount marts and convenience stores everywhere.
Without knowing it himself, Jeong Hyun-su had become a completely sold-out phenomenon and returned to Garam.
“You worked hard.”
Jeong Cheol, who had been waiting, greeted his son in an indifferent tone, but in his hand he held a bottle containing liquid that radiated refreshment and auspiciousness—an Elixir.
“Is that an Elixir?”
“Drink it.”
Jeong Hyun-su didn’t bother to refuse.
He had much to do starting tomorrow.
Not tower climbing, but looting items and rewards from the nearby Gates, and then clearing all ten floors in one go.
Huff. Huff.
Jeong Hyun-su picked up the whimpering Haengbok and came face to face with Jeong Hyun-ah standing before him.
“Did you strain your Mana Circuit? Why are you twisted up like that?”
“W-what do you mean!”
“If you’ve nothing to say, get going. I need some rest too.”
That was when Jeong Hyun-su moved past Jeong Hyun-ah.
“Th-thank you…….”
Jeong Hyun-su’s footsteps stopped abruptly.
But before he could even turn his head, Jeong Hyun-ah had already vanished beyond the stairs as if flying through the air.
“If you’d moved like that, you could’ve landed a hit on him.”
“What are you saying!”
Jeong Hyun-su’s voice reached Jeong Hyun-ah’s ears as she cried out in embarrassment.
“If you’re grateful, then train. Get so strong that no one can ever touch you.”
That would be enough.
Jeong Hyun-su painted a bitter smile as he briefly thought of the future to come, then immediately picked up the Elixir and moved on.
To be continued ▶
The Sole Inheritor of Return
Author
Cheon Ya

Publisher
Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
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Grae Publishing
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Publication Date
May 26, 2026
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