The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 18

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Episode 18. Palbong-san Gate (3)
The Simulacrum Watcher could not help but feel shock. An ability that “negates” errors outright?
It wasn’t evasion—it was outright deletion. The Void Function inherent in Hyeoncheon Gwiwon-gong could be said to be its natural counterforce.
Crack!
After erasing the error, Jung Hyun-su’s palm descended hard upon the Watcher’s face, gripping it fiercely.
Yeokbal Sangi Gaesei—the Cheonpae Gwiwang-mu amplified to its maximum through the nature of Overlord’s Prerogative unleashed tremendous grip strength.
Crunch!
At this rate, victory was assured—overwhelming and complete.
Yet the enslaved Hunters gripped by the Watcher squeezed their eyes shut.
Boom!
The Watcher’s head suddenly exploded. A shock so abrupt, so unexpected. They thought they would certainly suffer devastating damage, unprepared as they were.
It was a cunning trap, exquisitely woven. Thinking the Watcher merely another humanoid digital pirate, believing that destroying its body would guarantee victory—they fell into precisely the deception the Watcher had intended.
“…!”
The Hunters, who had resigned themselves to the same fate, could not trust their own eyes.
Jung Hyun-su stood unscathed, arms folded across his chest, wrapped about like a shield by coils of black mirage.
“Is it done?”
“Wh-what manner of nonsense is—!”
The shock was incomparable to the moment when Hyeoncheon Gwiwon-gong’s Void Function had erased the error.
[How could a primitive human possibly…?]
Draped in the mask of error, perfectly realized through magical thought-residue lingering in the vicinity—the digital pirate’s disguise was nearly flawless.
The explosive magic that struck back the moment of attack could never be countered unless one knew of it beforehand.
Yet this human’s bearing suggested he had known all along.
The Watcher had clearly witnessed it—the moment its head shattered, the way the intruder summoned that black aura as a counter.
As the Watcher returned to its true form, currents of magical power flowed around it.
A vast, floating surveillance sphere shaped like an enormous eye.
Upon its surface were densely carved data codes in the form of runes—the true body of the Watcher now revealed.
Crackle!
Circling its form were holographic clones of the Hunters it had devoured thus far.
The Watcher writhed, wrapped in ethereal, echoing phantom imagery—insubstantial as ghosts.
Simultaneously, the interior of the Gate began flashing a sickly red.
[The Watcher’s true form descends.]
[Hidden condition achieved.]
[The true rank of Netracta Polis is now revealed.]
[Difficulty: C-Rank.]
The enslaved Hunters received this message as well.
No wonder something had felt off!
For an F-Rank Gate, the Boss’s power was grotesquely excessive.
Even granting it was undead, an ability that could distort and transform a Hunter’s power—such a thing should not have existed.
Boom!
The ground caved in with a data explosion. The terrain collapsed like a sinkhole, and the Hunters scattered in panic.
The Simulacrum Watcher, sucked in first, spoke with finality.
— I shall make you taste hell itself!
[Direct descent to the final sector, Necro Interface Deep Layer!]
“Aaaaagh!”
The Hunters thrashed to keep from plummeting through empty air.
Even as he fell headfirst downward, Jung Hyun-su merely closed his eyes, observing himself with detachment.
Click.
He aimed the tip of his Great Sword downward, using the full momentum of his descent.
Shatter!
With every ounce of force he possessed, Jung Hyun-su’s attack pierced through the Simulacrum Watcher.
Explosion!
This entire space was a Data Field—a place where magical power dwelt within ordinary physics.
Jung Hyun-su deployed Hyeoncheon Gwiwon-gong at the moment of impact, devouring the malevolent errors that sought him and landing safely through the resulting explosion.
For him, every space connected to Gates was exhaustingly familiar; such adept handling was second nature.
The Simulacrum Watcher, severed in half, flickered repeatedly.
In that instant, countless tentacles erupted from the vicinity, extending toward the Watcher.
‘A Fusion Form.’
The Palbong-san Gate had once been conquered by his comrade—another black-listed criminal, one known as the Mage Butcher.
He had later complained bitterly upon learning that identifying the Watcher’s error allowed one to skip the second sector entirely, saving considerable time.
Connected to other cyber-punk world-views, with strategy details gradually revealed through that process—it was information difficult to know at this juncture.
‘Thanks to them, I slip through easily enough.’
I’ll see them again soon enough—that much is certain. A good meal afterward will settle the debt.
Beef should do the trick.
— How remarkable. A force that could never belong to a primitive race. Is this the wellspring of their power? Can such strength truly fall into the hands of the primal?
The tentacle reshaped itself once more into a singular fusion form.
The true visage of the Simulacrum Watcher.
Its upper body was a grotesque digital witch, while its lower half hovered as an immense surveillance lens apparatus, suspended weightlessly in the air.
The few floating spheres in Simulacrum Watcher form flanking it like attendants—a grim sight by any measure.
“Damn it all….”
Though the enslaved Hunters were now freed from their bondage in an instant, the light had not yet returned to their faces.
How could they rejoice when facing down a C-Rank Dungeon Boss?
— I shall consume you and make your strength the foundation of reconstruction.
[The Protocol Observer reveals its true power.]
The Protocol Observer—chief of the watchers—activated its full function.
Through basic sight distortion and clone generation, a barrage of potent Illusion Magic descended upon them.
Jung Hyun-su drew his Great Sword upward in one fluid motion.
Crash!
The Void Function inherent in Hyeoncheon Gwiwon-gong dispersed the distorting energy wave, and Jung Hyun-su charged straight through.
“Grab at my ankles and I’ll sever them first.”
He left this warning hanging in the air for the bewildered Hunters.
No hollow promises to save them. No talk of joining forces. Nothing but naked truth.
Meanwhile, the Simulacrum Watchers tightened their encirclement from left and right.
The Hunters who had fallen to slavery unable to withstand even one such creature suddenly felt the weight of their powerlessness.
“Damn it, might as well go down swinging!”
One Hunter surged forward in Jung Hyun-su’s wake.
The Protocol Observer unleashed a volley of Tracking Lasers in response.
‘An omni-directional perimeter defense?’
Drawing on his wealth of Cyber-punk World-view dungeon experience, Jung Hyun-su read the technique instantly.
A defense mechanism that automatically fires Tracking Lasers at any detected movement—annihilating its target.
But Jung Hyun-su possessed Hyeoncheon Gwiwon-gong, a hard counter against everything in this Cyber-punk World-view, especially mages who channeled Magical Power.
Even elevated to C-Rank, that Void Function lost none of its edge—a masterwork that shamed lesser arts wherever it appeared.
A true master pays no heed to his tools. Indeed, a true master hardly needs tools at all.
The Void Function of Hyeoncheon Gwiwon-gong grew more refined with each use; Jung Hyun-su could now extract maximum efficiency with minimal Magical Power expenditure.
Whisper.
With the gentlest contact, he deleted fragments of the Watcher’s Data Field, turning its own vaunted distortion back upon itself.
The Protocol Observer’s own Tracking Lasers now speared through the Watchers it had summoned.
Boom!
“What—what?!”
“Yes!”
The Hunters cheered. The Protocol Observer, naturally, erupted in fury.
— You primitive savages!
“And what does that make you, losing to one of us?”
— Silence! This time I shall pulverize you beyond recognition!
The Protocol Observer was a prototype high-intelligence AI. It could learn instantaneously and calculate countermeasures just as fast.
It analyzed Jung Hyun-su’s combat patterns, acknowledged that his Void Function was its hard counter—yet calculated a way through regardless.
— How do you handle this!
The Protocol Observer compressed and collapsed the memories it had absorbed from the enslaved Hunters.
Using those logs as a template, it summoned countless Clone Hunters in varying forms and hurled them into the crowd—a tactic designed to make Jung Hyun-su hesitate.
A single command was all it needed. And if the Void Function of Hyeoncheon Gwiwon-gong came in answer to that command—
It would taste hell. And it came exactly as predicted.
An almost brutally honest strike. A plain shimmer of steel.
— Thus is the gulf between primitives and advanced civilization… Ugh!
“Advanced, huh? What are you, Made in China?”
Boom!
Pure, overwhelming physical force—utterly unforeseen—pierced clean through the Protocol Observer.
[Yeokbal Sangi Gaesei activates.]
[Cheonpae Gwiwang-mu power output increases by one magnitude.]
[A critical strike that shatters all prediction!]
[Grievous damage inflicted.]
[The Protocol Observer’s core is struck—all passages of the Netracta Polis Deep Layer open wide!]
Jung Hyun-su possessed far more than just the Hyeoncheon Gwiwon-gong.
The Cheonpae Gwiwang-mu, which had pierced the Protocol Observer’s fatal opening while its attention was locked on the Hyeoncheon Gwiwon-gong, shattered the Simulacrum Regeneration Field that served as its defense and drove clean through the core beyond it.
Crack! Crack!
Black smoke billowed from the Protocol Observer.
“Raaaagh!”
A subjugation concluded in mere moments—utterly overwhelming.
The Hunters erupted in fervent admiration for Jung Hyun-su, who had reversed a desperate C-Rank situation in the blink of an eye, surrounding the remaining Watchers and launching into a coordinated assault.
Jung Hyun-su drove his Great Sword into the Protocol Observer like a stake, then turned and walked toward the far side of the chamber.
‘What is he doing?’
The Hunters exchanged confused glances. Why wasn’t he finishing off the final Boss here and now?
Deaf to their unspoken questions, Jung Hyun-su approached an enormous mechanical apparatus.
The device appeared to have stood dormant for quite some time.
Power flowed through it, but a formidable lock held it sealed.
[Phew, phew. You desire what lies within? Even if… you were to strike me down… without deciphering the encryption code… you would… never be able to open it….]
But Jung Hyun-su already knew the answer.
“Here?”
He confirmed the location of the ANP and immediately unfurled his palm, channeling power through its center.
— No, no—what are you doing? Using that Deletion power? Don’t be absurd! That very thing is everything in this space! Do you think we would have designed it carelessly?
Jung Hyun-su replied as though he already knew full well.
“Sure. Disturb even a single circuit and the whole area would detonate in a massive explosion.”
— Y-yes, precisely. Even with your authority, you would not escape unscathed!
Had he possessed deep mastery of Magical Power and the Hyeoncheon Gwiwon-gong, there was at least a possibility of deleting the explosion itself—but for now, the Observer’s words held truth.
“Um, sir… what are you doing right now…?”
“No matter how good the reward is, if we die… it hardly matters, does it?”
Jung Hyun-su paid no heed to the Hunters’ fearful protests about leaving now.
Besides, with the Protocol Observer still active, the remaining Watchers kept the Hunters occupied and their minds elsewhere.
Yet Jung Hyun-su had performed this sort of work countless times already.
The Magical Circuits woven into the machine’s design resonated with human Magical Power thanks to advanced civilization.
Targeting that vulnerability, the Hyeoncheon Gwiwon-gong flowing through the Magical Circuit moved forward with precision in exactly the direction he desired.
— H-how is this possible…?
“Well, guess being a primitive has its advantages, doesn’t it, product of China.”
Jung Hyun-su smirked and reached into the now-exposed mechanical apparatus, withdrawing a small button-like remote control.
[Hidden reward acquired: ANP!]
[Anti-Magic Nullification Pulse (Unique): Emits a powerful pulse that negates all magic within a 100-meter radius.]
[Available uses: 5]
He had obtained the Grand Sorcerer’s exclusive finishing weapon.
But Jung Hyun-su was far from finished.
— What, what are you doing, human!
He immediately began expelling the Protocol Observer’s core itself.
To be continued ▶
The Greedy Return Warrior
Author
Cheon Ya
Publisher
Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
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Date of Publication
May 26, 2026
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