The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 21

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Chapter 21. Clues (3)
Behind Jung Hyun-soo as he entered the Corridor, dozens of Stone Spirits followed in his wake.
No longer nameless—a long shadow fell across his own strike team, stretching from O Il-ho all the way to O O-sip-ho.
Ssshhh.
At the appearance of an intruder, the fifth-floor boss revealed itself.
A Horse Shadow Snake.
It was massive and grotesque—far larger than anything Jung Hyun-soo would have expected to encounter at this depth.
Ordinarily in such a situation, one would panic or cry out in alarm, readying oneself for battle.
But to understand this boss’s true nature and execute a proper strategy, he absolutely could not let a single word escape his lips.
‘Or rather, it’s the emotion carried in that voice that matters.’
Perhaps it was best to think of this as a preview of the Sentiment Leech—that nightmare of strike teams in the mid-to-late floors, a creature that devoured emotion and soul alike.
In any case.
Before a boss designed to be challenged by a well-formed strike team, Jung Hyun-soo simply stood his ground.
The Stone Spirits, having been granted temporary names and the conditions for their liberation, merely waited.
These beings, whose emotional structure differed from that of humans, simply obeyed commands; and Jung Hyun-soo, directing them, revealed no particular emotion toward the boss.
But someone was watching this standoff unfold—the Library’s master himself.
“What… what is this human?”
Barely past being a rookie fresh to the Tower, yet utterly unmoved in the presence of an overwhelming leviathan.
And alone, no less.
Certainly there were those who challenged the Tower solo,
but when confronted with such overwhelming physical dominance early on, such hunters invariably showed emotion—and that emotion became the snake’s meal.
How could anyone remain so composed before a Horse Shadow Snake that grew stronger with each surge of fear?
Even if one could control their expression, the snake would detect the leaking emotional tremors and devour them, its forked tongue flickering greedily the whole while.
Yet that peculiar response wasn’t forthcoming.
The creature’s body should have swollen, its scales grown lustrous, its teeth sharpened to daggers.
Thud!
Faced with Jung Hyun-soo allowing the first strike, the Library’s master found it utterly absurd.
“What… what is that?!”
Jung Hyun-soo launched himself from the ground in a single explosive bound.
Despite his frame being smaller than the creature’s head, he showed not a shred of fear toward the massive monster.
‘It’s hardly amusing.’
Just before the return, he’d faced one of the Three Disasters—the Apocalypse Dragon itself.
And before that, another of the Three Disasters, the Colossal King, had fallen by his hand. On the way to eliminate those creatures, he’d encountered their subordinates: dragons and giants alike.
Combat with massive monsters was old hat. He knew the strategy, and wasting time was beneath him.
Airborne, Jung Hyun-soo reached out his hand.
Whoosh!
Below him, O Il-ho hurled the weapon he’d been holding.
Jung Hyun-soo snatched the longsword from the air mid-flight and, in one fluid motion, drove it deep between the scales of the Horse Shadow Snake.
Spurt!
Blood sprayed.
“Tch! As if that would work!”
The Librarian snorted. The Horse Shadow Snake was no creature to be cleared by such a shallow wound.
Though it hadn’t gained strength through emotion-feeding, the snake could not be vanquished without a direct strike to its true core.
Crash!
The snake’s massive body slammed straight down to the earth, its muscles convulsing with ferocity.
A crushing body press!
An attack that would pulp its target flat and leave no corpse intact.
“Tsk.”
Jung Hyun-soo, as if he’d anticipated it, kicked off the longsword he’d driven into the ground and vaulted clear with effortless grace.
Whoosh!
Splurt!
The Library’s master’s expression contorted subtly.
The same pattern repeated itself. The snake reared skyward, coiled like a spring, attempted every strike in its arsenal—only to watch each one parried, each move foiled.
And simultaneously.
‘That man…’
Jung Hyun-soo was drawing closer to the snake’s head.
The evasion was uncanny, as if he saw through everything, as if he was sidestepping attacks he’d already seen a thousand times. It was deeply, profoundly unnatural.
But could such a thing even be possible?
Even if hunters who encountered the snake first had shared all their wisdom, could anyone truly know every pattern well enough to counter it flawlessly?
“Hrk!”
Yet that creature evaded everything. The tail spear—his saving strike.
Held in reserve until the final moment, the attack from his blind spot came with such ease that he simply rotated his body and let it slip past.
Even with superior footwork, vision, and skill, it should have been impossible.
Yet it had become possible.
“No… it can’t be.”
Watching the black shimmer coalesce along the Greatsword that Jung Hyun-soo had drawn, the Librarian was seized by inexplicable dread.
“Please tell me I’m wrong.”
But doubt had always been a hunter of men.
The shimmering Greatsword struck with absolute precision—at the one place that should never, ever be hit.
The Horse Shadow Snake’s fatal weak point.
Information that shouldn’t exist until after the sixtieth floor had been cleared—yet how did he know? How had he struck with such surgical precision?
Burst!
The core of the Sentiment Leech.
When he struck the nucleus lodged precisely above the molars with devastating accuracy, blood erupted like a burst of fireworks.
Shrieeeeeek!
The Shadow Snake screamed.
But it wasn’t over.
Now Jung Hyun-soo’s entire body convulsed with explosive power, muscles surging in the flash of brilliant light.
The Cheon-pae-gwi-wang-mu amplified by Pae-cheon-gi, further magnified by the inherent properties of Yeok-bal-san-gi-gae-se—this was the force that manifested.
“No! No, no, no, no!”
The Library’s master let out a final wail, but steel has never shown mercy.
Crack!
The defense mechanism guarding the core crumbled to nothing beneath the Hyun-cheon-gwi-won-gong technique, and the Overlord’s strength crushed it again in the split second before regeneration could occur.
The Stone Spirits under Jung Hyun-soo’s command seized the weakened snake’s body.
Crash!
The Horse Shadow Snake’s form twisted violently as the core was struck, then went limp.
Thud.
With that heavy sound, the Shadow Snake lay motionless.
But.
“What… what the hell is this?”
Jung Hyun-soo didn’t stop there.
Like a surgeon extending his hand, O O-sip-ho carefully passed him a Dagger.
Whack!
O Il-ho, watching nearby, struck O O-sip-ho’s back of the head.
Then he gripped the blade himself and offered the handle to Jung Hyun-soo as demonstration.
Armed with the knife, Jung Hyun-soo began harvesting the Shadow Snake’s corpse.
He knew well that something valuable could be extracted here.
[You have successfully extracted the Simultaneous Output Organ!]
The Simultaneous Output Organ.
Ordinarily, releasing skills and mana of different natures required cultivation and enlightenment as a foundation, but refining this organ into an elixir could save an enormous amount of time.
“Grraaagh! That damned bastard! How the hell did he figure that out?!”
The intruder, having thoroughly looted the Shadow Snake, began walking toward the Library.
The clear message should have appeared, yet the Librarian trembled as the intruder approached.
“Fire.”
At Jung Hyun-soo’s word, O Il-ho picked up a Torch. From O Il-ho to O O-sip-ho. In an instant, fifty torches were burning.
“Before I burn it all, you’d better bring the materials I ask for.”
“…What?”
The Library’s master stared blankly.
“You understand what happens if you try any tricks, yes? Total incineration.”
Compared to the Tower’s administration, the Librarian was small fry, but Jung Hyun-soo had no intention of negotiating with him—rank holder or not.
“Bring me everything you have on Orc Warlords, Overlords, and the Nameless Kings. Before I strip away your own name.”
Jung Hyun-soo layered threat upon threat—the Tower’s most forbidden weapons.
“This… this is going to be a problem.”
“You mean your superiors? They won’t care whether you live or die—you know that, don’t you?”
Jung Hyun-soo’s knowledge of the Tower was flawless.
“No choice then. Light it.”
The Librarian’s face went ashen.
Yet Jung Hyun-soo showed no mercy.
Whoosh!
He had come searching for something necessary, but he saw no reason to waste time on unnecessary complications.
The Library exists to be guarded. If a Hunter climbing the tower strips it bare?
Naturally, that becomes a problem for him too. But Jung Hyun-soo had already cleared the fifth floor with perfect martial dominance.
“Enough! Enough! Please, enough!”
Until now, other Hunters had either groveled before the Library’s keeper hoping to gain something, or fled from the snake and accepted a subordinate position entirely.
But the intruder—a black-market fugitive, once a king of the dark world—displayed a completely different caliber of technique.
It was an obvious truth: whoever possessed superior information held absolute advantage.
“I-I’ll give it to you! Please!”
The intruder had the power to grant names and free the Stone Spirit; with his mightiest weapon—the serpent—defeated, surrender was his only option.
Whoosh!
“Why… why…?”
“You should have brought it sooner.”
The intruder was merciless.
* * *
A Gate that had manifested near Solae Mountain in Incheon.
Measured at B-Rank, it was a large-scale dungeon where mobs emerging from the Gate included the Greenskin clans—now considered a traditional fixture—in considerable numbers.
According to the hazard-scale classification system, it was confirmed as B-Rank hazard with large scale, and the Gate Management Bureau had approved the Hanwool Guild’s request for clearance; preparations for the run were nearly complete.
The Battle Mages of the Hanwool Guild—one of South Korea’s most renowned magic guilds—were each making final preparations.
They checked Scrolls, combat Artifacts, Staves and short wands, and confirmed the Potions and emergency items they would use.
As the moment of entry drew near, the Battle Mages standing before the Gate wore expressions tinged with frustration.
“… Why’s he taking so long?”
Jung Hyun-soo, who had agreed to participate with Hanwool, had yet to arrive.
“We still have… one minute left.”
“Has he caught main-character syndrome already? Even so, for a joint operation, shouldn’t he be here five minutes before?”
“If you think about prep and strategy coordination, he should’ve shown up an hour ago.”
“I wonder if he’s even studied how to fight Orcs.”
“Still, he’s Garam, so he must have.”
Im Hyun-min, the Hanwool Guild’s Third Clearance Leader and commander of this operation, checked his watch.
“When the time comes, we enter.”
“That’s our team leader for you. Sharp as a blade.”
“And here he is, late despite requesting the slot. Typical Garam.”
“I suppose he thought we’d wait, but just because he’s Jung Chul’s direct subordinate doesn’t mean anything to us—we’re Hanwool.”
It was then, with twenty seconds remaining.
[Attention.]
At the Tower’s announcement—now routine to them—the Battle Mages’ eyes widened in shock.
[Hunter Jung Hyun-soo of South Korea has cleared the Trial Tower’s sixth floor with an SSS-Rank record!]
And the Tower’s portal opened.
Through a burst of brilliant light, three striped slippers appeared, stepping out.
Seeing Jung Hyun-soo emerge in slipper attire, a Greatsword resting against his shoulder, the Battle Mages could only stare in blank bewilderment.
“He… cleared the Tower again in the meantime?”
“I’m Jung Hyun-soo. Shall we depart now?”
Without waiting, he took the lead toward the Gate.
To be continued in the next chapter ▶
The Sole Devourer’s Regression Martial God
Author
Cheon Ya
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Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
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