The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 19

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Chapter 19. Clue (1)
The sudden changes occurring at the Palbongsan Gate were naturally observed from outside as well.
Since Jeong Hyeon-su, who had recently dominated the headlines, had entered the Gate, the prediction of those changes came all the faster.
“How many Hunters have entered the interior of the Gate at present?”
“From what I understand, a raid party was dispatched the day before and hasn’t returned yet.”
“Do you have any plans for a rescue operation?”
A civil servant from South Korea’s Gate Management Bureau, responsible for handling responses to the Mutation Gate, answered the barrage of reporter questions.
“Within the estimated four-day survival window of the raid party, a total of twenty personnel have entered the Palbongsan Gate.”
“Does that number include Hunter Jeong Hyeon-su?”
“Yes, he is confirmed to be among them.”
“What Rank do you estimate the Mutation to be?”
The civil servant’s gaze turned toward the Gate entrance.
“Based on the fact that it sealed itself along with the Mutation, it appears to be at least C Rank. However, we won’t know for certain until the analysis by experts from the Management Bureau and the Hunter Association is complete.”
“What about rescue plans?”
“Once the Rank is determined, a rescue team appropriate to that level will be deployed.”
The briefing was proceeding smoothly. Yet the reporters couldn’t help but raise one question among themselves.
“By the way, why hasn’t anyone from Garam shown up?”
“Check if they’ve released any press statement!”
“There is none!”
The guild hadn’t taken any action yet?
“That can’t be. Not Garam.”
A reporter with considerable career experience showed no particular concern.
“Senior, what do you mean by that?”
“Ah, kids these days don’t know. Garam’s raid parties rarely find themselves in emergencies like this lately.”
“Really?”
“I mean, you know why Garam is one of the top ten guilds even though they have fewer operations and fewer personnel than other guilds? Don’t you know why so many Hunters stay with them long-term?”
Just as the senior reporter finished speaking.
Whoosh!
An enormous burst of light rippled across the space as an emergency teleportation magic circle materialized.
“That’s Hanul’s mark, isn’t it?”
And from that magic circle, personnel began appearing, their forms glowing brilliantly white.
One, two… three… four…….
Soon dozens of Hunters filled the entire magic circle.
“What, what is this?”
“T-that’s Garam!”
The Hunters who arrived through Hanul’s teleportation circle were none other than Garam’s Hunters.
Although they were said to be short on mages due to their extreme focus on martial arts,
the Garam warriors wielding Greatswords—symbols of a blender that ground opponents to dust the moment they appeared—all bore expressions of fierce confidence.
“When a comrade is in danger, we drop everything and come running. That’s Garam’s rule.”
Scattered among them were Hunters who’d apparently been in towers or Gates just moments before, their bodies still caked with monster blood.
The senior reporter, his arms crossed, seemed to drift into memories of the past.
“We’re going in immediately.”
“Wait! Vice Guild Master! The cause analysis isn’t…….”
At the civil servant’s words, Gwon Gang-pal, Garam’s Vice Guild Master, glared with fierce eyes.
“We’ll just go in and clear it anyway, won’t we?”
“What?”
Gwon Gang-pal began pouring magical force into his Greatsword. It was a reckless, brutal approach to forcibly open the Gate.
“P-please wait! This is…!”
“Get out of the way! Even if he’s clumsy and incompetent, he’s still family to us at Garam!”
Just as Gwon Gang-pal, about to force his way in, raised his Greatsword.
Whoosh!
The Gate blazed with brilliant light before vanishing altogether.
“It’s, it’s been cleared!”
A series of impossible events.
Hunters entering an F Rank Gate might at best reach Silver Rank from Rookie status.
For them to suddenly clear a Gate whose danger level had skyrocketed to C Rank was utterly beyond the realm of possibility.
“We, we made it out!”
As if mocking that impossibility, roughly a dozen figures emerged from where the Gate had vanished.
They looked thoroughly exhausted, their spirits emptied after an extremely fierce and brutal battle. The reporters rushed toward these hollow-eyed Hunters.
But Garam moved first.
“Find the young master first!”
At Gwon Gang-pal’s command, the Hunters of Garam formed a circle around the survivors.
“Wait, please — this is difficult for us! The Gate investigation authority currently belongs to the Gate Management Bureau—”
“Those with authorization can come in and investigate. We just need to find the young master, got it?”
“He’s not here!”
But Jeong Hyeon-su was nowhere among those gathered.
Gwon Gang-pal turned immediately to the nearest survivor.
“Tell me—what happened to that cocky-eyed young punk? The one with that arrogant air about him?”
“Y-yes!”
“You saw him? What happened? Is he dead?”
“Dead? No! He left long before any of us did!”
Gwon Gang-pal couldn’t make sense of what he was hearing.
As he started to ask for clarification—
[Attention!]
[Hunter Jeong Hyeon-su of South Korea has successfully cleared the 3rd floor of the Tower of Trials with an SSS Rank rating.]
“What in the hell is this?”
The announcement from the Tower sent South Korea into uproar once more.
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Hunter Net’s flagship strategy program, Kill Point, arranged a special broadcast.
“Tell me, Hunter Jeong Yong-hwa—what happened here? You must have something to say about this incident that’s shaken the entire South Korean Hunter world.”
At the MC’s words, Jeong Yong-hwa, wearing a Platinum Rank badge, opened his mouth with an expressionless face.
“It’s quite extraordinary. An F-rank dungeon transformed into a C-rank Double Dungeon, and a great many survivors made it out alive.”
“Yes. And at the center of it all was Jeong Hyeon-su, a rising star of our South Korean Hunter community.”
The internet comment section erupted instantly.
— Wait, isn’t Jeong Hyeon-su born from Hyeon-su’s mother?
└ㅋㅋㅋ real talk
— Just days ago, no one cared about him. Wasn’t he being targeted as a potential owner liability that would bankrupt Garam?
└Nope. They said it would go to Gwon Gang-pal as acting guild master, and if Jeong proves her abilities later, she should become the guild master instead.
Meanwhile, the program continued.
“Isn’t it remarkable? According to the footage released by the survivors, the Palbongsan Gate—or rather, by its formal designation, the Netracta Necropolis—was essentially cleared by Hunter Jeong Hyeon-su alone. Your prediction seems to have missed the mark entirely, doesn’t it?”
“Well, I did see some analysis footage, and now that I think about it, Guild Master Jeong Cheol seems to have known beforehand about the information regarding this Gate.”
The MC made an exaggerated gesture.
“Wait, what? Why does Guild Master Jeong Cheol come into this?”
“Garam possesses combat skills—what those in martial traditions call Martial Technique. I believe Guild Master Jeong Cheol and his family own some particularly special techniques of that kind, as seen in the footage. It appears he transmitted those in advance and prepared a thorough strategy for clearing the dungeon.”
“Now, let’s watch the footage we at Kill Point obtained exclusively.”
The video began playing.
From the Palbongsan Gate, that graveyard of rookies, undead monsters emerged—Data Pirates and Watchers—and the final boss, the Watcher’s ultimate form, was rendered utterly helpless before Jeong Hyeon-su.
— That Watcher mob’s magic is incredibly tricky, but it just became useless.
— One hit and it’s just deleted. What even is that?
— Damn, I’m so jealous. Some people are guaranteed to be born with crap like that…
└You think everyone can fight like that just by learning it? The technique’s broken, I’ll give you that, but look at his fighting flow. Don’t you see how his footwork’s different? That’s why your life’s like that. ㅉ
└Leave it. Guys like that are just loser bastards who blame talent for everything.
└└Other kids from the big guilds got similar-level skills taught to them too, so why are they so weak? Why can’t the kids from Seon-u Hyeon or the Alexander family set SSS records? This doesn’t make sense??? ㅠㅠㅠ Crush talent! Crush Earth! Crush the Tower!
Following the panelists’ assessments, the viewers’ reactions were fiercely divided.
And then—
— Oh, while people are here blaming talent, Jeong Hyeon-su clears the Palbongsan Gate and immediately climbs the Tower and gets SSS on floor 3 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└Now that’s the one. And he’s still in training clothes with three-stripe slippers ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ (captured image of Jeong Hyeon-su entering his home after completing the Tower climb)
└└If his face hadn’t been caught, anyone would’ve thought he was just jogging ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
After the Gate clear, which was itself the pinnacle, the conversation naturally turned to Jeong Hyeon-su’s brilliant conquest of the Tower’s 3rd floor without seeming to break a sweat.
“Truly, I still can’t believe it even after seeing it. That meticulousness—tackling even the Tower climb so carefully. It’s been quite a while since we’ve seen a rookie like that, hasn’t it?”
“Yes, well. Perhaps his conscience was pricked, no? He cleared the Gate so easily, after all. Figured he should do something to make up for it.”
“Come now, conscience is going too far. In any case, he’s certainly stirring up quite the sensation. So, Hunter Jeong Yong-hwa—with the eye of a Platinum Hunter, how would you analyze the combat footage that’s been released?”
Just as the analysis video of the combat displayed in the Gate was about to begin—
[Attention!]
[Hunter Jeong Hyeon-su of South Korea has successfully conquered the 4th floor of the Tower of Trials with an SSS Rank rating!]
The comment section exploded at the unceasing stream of conquest announcements.
* * *
There is a constraint on climbing the Tower: a daily limit.
Whatever else might be flexible, for the sake of equal opportunity, floors below the 50th could only be climbed once per day.
Therefore, once Jeong Hyeon-su completed that day’s conquest, he returned immediately to the training grounds.
The third floor’s trial was a stage called the Maze of Oblivion, and the fourth floor was a place called the Library of Lost Words.
The Champion Trophy earned as an SSS Rank clear bonus, and the skill discovered in the fourth floor’s Library of Lost Words—Ancient Language Decipherment—proved to be remarkably significant achievements.
[Ancient Language Decipherment (Unique)]
It decoded ancient languages instantly, and from this skill, Jeong Hyeon-su was able to uncover a most unexpected clue.
‘I never thought the thread of the Overlord’s Legacy would connect here.’
A single book he’d happened upon while acquiring the Ancient Language Decipherment in the fourth floor’s Library of Lost Words.
The book itself was titled “Chronicle of the Overlord,” and remarkably, it was a work written by a priest of the Orc race.
Ogres, goblins, and orcs—the Greenskin clan comprised all three, and dominion over the clan had always belonged to the Ogres, the mightiest of the three races.
Orcs were prey for those Ogres, and though they built settlements through sheer numbers and mounted fierce resistance with their strength, they were invariably pushed back.
In the midst of this, a tyrant was born among the Ogres, and female Orcs became playthings and later mere meals for the Ogres, while males were reduced to outright slavery.
An Orc born in that crucible displayed the mettle to uproot mountains and shake the earth itself, rallying his kind and
launching a war of independence against the Ogres—the book stopped at this point, but it unmistakably evoked the Overlord’s Legacy.
[You have obtained the clue: Orc Warlord.]
[Keyword established: Orc Chieftain.]
As if to confirm his judgment, the system updated the quest details.
It meant he needed to focus all his information networks on Gates related to the Greenskins, particularly Orcs, and on written records about them, in order to undertake trials related to the Overlord’s Legacy.
Beep!
Even as Jeong Hyeon-su was organizing his thoughts, sweat beading on his forehead, his smartphone rang.
Ding-dong!
When he checked the message, his expression twisted slightly.
“What is this?”
Continued in the next episode ▶
Monopolizing Regression Martial God
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