The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 24

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Episode 24. Clue (5)
[Name: Jeong Hyun-su]
[Stats: Vitality (20), Strength (21), Agility (23), Mental Power (34), Stamina (27)]
[Skills: Five Kings Martial Art – Heaven Tyrant Return King Martial Art (7-Star), Illusory Heaven True Qi (10-Star), Tyrant Heaven Qi (9-Star), Dark Heaven Return Origin Technique (5-Star), Existence Imprint, Naming Magic]
[Traits: Tyrant King’s Talent, Reverse Eruption Opening World, Simultaneous Output]
Jeong Hyun-su had claimed the Simultaneous Output Core he’d extracted from the shadow serpent as his own.
As a result, he could now channel both the nullifying function of the Dark Heaven Return Origin Technique and the overwhelming force of Tyrant Heaven Qi simultaneously.
He would neutralize the ogres’ formidable aura with the return origin technique, and in that fleeting moment of vulnerability, the Tyrant Heaven Qi would tear through without mercy, detonating them from within.
Roooaaarrr!
Five ogres fell to Jeong Hyun-su alone in the span of mere seconds.
Enraged by the reality that they’d been defeated by a human who stood barely half their height, the surviving ogre hurled the hammer clutched in its hand at Jeong Hyun-su with all its might.
Whoooosh!
That single blow carried more force than an ordinary artillery shell.
And Jeong Hyun-su was facing away, turned to look behind him.
“Watch out!”
Ji Min-jeong amplified her magical voice in warning at this fresh danger. Jeong Hyun-su didn’t even turn around.
The space around him was already within his sensory domain.
The Dark King’s concentration—sharp enough not to miss even the faintest whisper—was already tracking not only the hammer’s strange presence as it cut through the air, but its trajectory at every instant.
Jeong Hyun-su sprang upward and caught the hammer mid-flight.
“…!”
His forearms swelled with the impact of the catch, sinews bulging visibly. In that moment when the tendons stretched taut and held firm, the strain wrote itself across his body in rigid tension.
Craaaaaash!
The hammer, now saturated with Tyrant Heaven Qi amplified to its peak by his Reverse Eruption Opening World trait, drove downward into the earth.
The Tyrant King’s strength knows no distinction between weapon and wielder—that raw, terrible force crashed down without mercy upon the ogre lurking below, waiting for its opening.
Thud!
It was devastation incarnate. Without even retrieving the hammer, Jeong Hyun-su swung the Demon-Slaying Blade in his left hand.
“…madman.”
Im Hyun-min forgot entirely that he was mid-incantation and let out a breathless laugh.
It was an astonishment that no words could adequately capture.
Not mere surprise born from unusual strength relative to his debut or age.
The truth was simple: a person sees only what they know.
Im Hyun-min was a mage.
As captain of a Conquest Party of some considerable renown in Hanul, what he perceived in Jeong Hyun-su’s control of magical power bordered on the miraculous.
More than skilled—it was refined.
He released his mana at precisely the right moments to minimize waste. Each discharge was calibrated to deal exactly the damage needed to harm an ogre, no more.
His attacks seemed reckless in their ferocity, yet he struck only at vital points; and that precision in targeting those vitals necessitated a body of equal perfection.
Spirit, technique, and flesh moved as one. The result was this mastery on display before them.
‘As though he knew it in advance.’
He understood that this precise amount of force would shatter a skull, that this exact angle would cleave through the tender heart protected by the rigid breastbone.
Such meticulous calculation—including the inherent strength of the Demon-Slaying Blade he wielded—surely transcended what mere genius could explain?
‘No.’
Im Hyun-min acknowledged it plainly to himself.
This was a realm only endless experience could reach.
The weary accumulation of countless encounters, the battlefield familiarity born only of those who had lived and killed, died and survived against ogres in such theaters of carnage.
Yet he was undoubtedly a Rookie.
The Tower does not lie. What it records cannot be hidden, so he was certainly a Rookie.
How many ogres could he possibly have faced until now?
Was Garam’s instruction truly exceptional?
Impossible. Even if remarkable, it remained within the same tier-ten guild framework.
The Jeong Family’s martial arts, for all their power, had produced another daughter of that generation—yet she was merely outstanding for her age, nothing more than an ordinary Rookie among her peers.
Im Hyun-min found himself at a loss for how to process this sudden mutation that had appeared before him.
In that moment, Jeong Hyun-su’s gaze turned toward him.
“Ah.”
Im Hyun-min at once recognized his own error.
That freak was demanding it: why weren’t they using magic?
Pop! Bang!
Stung by the silent rebuke, Im Hyun-min completed his incantation and spoke the word.
“Fire Storm.”
The concentrated flame of magic consumed the wounded ogre utterly.
Not a single ogre passed beyond Jeong Hyun-su’s back.
As a result, goblins waging siege warfare on the city walls were swiftly eliminated, and the soldiers fought with renewed confidence.
The knights defending the walls were rapidly grinding through goblins rather than the ogres themselves.
In the end, one person had created this state of battle.
The knight order fought valiantly, and Hanul’s mages unleashed considerable firepower to delete many goblins, but the most crucial tactical factor lay with that mutant.
A solitary figure dominating the open field with overwhelming presence—pinning down the ogre, holding it back, dictating the flow of the entire battlefield.
Crack!
It was the moment Jeong Hyun-su split the ogre clean in two along its grain.
“Ah…”
A single soldier standing on the city wall despaired at the sight before him.
Another green horde was joining the fray.
“Oh, orcs!”
Weaker than ogres, certainly, yet still a fierce and warlike tribe of greenskin—each one perfectly capable of casually crushing a lone human.
The soldiers blanched at the sight of the orc war-host, numbering nearly as many as the goblins.
“Has the God truly abandoned us?”
As though hearing a knight’s lament, Im Hyun-min was suddenly seized by a strange and powerful unease.
‘This is a B-Rank Gate. This is utterly unreasonable, isn’t it?’
He checked if it might be a double Gate out of caution, but felt no such shift.
The unexpected variable sent a throb of pain through Im Hyun-min’s skull.
If that orc host joined the battle, the tide would turn in an instant.
The orcs—tougher, faster, and stronger than goblins—would scale the walls in moments, and though the mages’ firepower was considerable, the soldiers couldn’t hold long enough for it to melt away all their numbers.
And if the ogre intervened on top of that, total annihilation would come in a flash.
Im Hyun-min had to make a decision.
“Team leader, isn’t something wrong here?”
The Conquest Party members, sensing the dread, grew restless.
They could all die like this. Hunters live by risking their lives, true enough—but who would willingly fall victim to such an unforeseen variable?
In that moment, Jeong Hyun-su also spotted the orcs suddenly entering the fray. A green mass approaching from behind the ogre.
They drew closer and closer to the ogre.
The ogres bellowed something at the approaching orcs.
The distance between them narrowed further.
Thud!
The lead orc—massive as a smaller ogre itself—took a punch from the scowling ogre.
One blow.
The orc didn’t stagger back. Instead, it stood firm.
Though a tooth had been knocked loose, the orc didn’t budge an inch, and the ogre seemed taken aback.
It tried to pull its hand free.
Crack-crack-crack!
The orc twisted the ogre’s arm.
And then—
Whoosh!
It swung an enormous Battle Axe and lopped clean off the ogre’s head.
— Raaaaaaaaaah!
The orc roared. The war cry was suffused with a battle spirit so potent it seemed tangible.
Jeong Hyun-su smiled at that orc.
“So it’s you.”
— Lead found: Orc Warlord confirmed in existence.
That very familiar strength resonated through the cry. A terrible force lay dormant in that orc—the audacity to uproot mountains and shake the world itself.
The orc’s motives or circumstances didn’t matter.
— Tyrant King’s Talent confirmed real.
— Your trial begins now. Compete against this rival and forge undeniable achievements.
The orc struck at the ogre from behind.
Ogres and orcs mingled together, slaughtering one another.
And then—
Boom!
Upon that distant hill, a colossal ogre with golden-hued skin sat in a palanquin and looked down upon the battlefield below.
A mighty ogre, devouring fresh prey alive.
— Stage Boss has appeared: Ogre Lord!
Jeong Hyun-su charged toward the Ogre Lord.
“Jeong Hyun-su! Where are you going!”
Now that the Orc Warlord had appeared—intent on sweeping away the ogres and building an orc world—this Defense Game was effectively complete.
Jeong Hyun-su’s only goal now was to face that Orc Warlord and claim victory.
It had to be Jeong Hyun-su himself who inherited the Tyrant King’s true power.
— Crraaaagh!
The Ogre Lord on the hilltop hurled the massive bone it had picked clean across the field.
Crack!
— I am the king of the orcs! Rimgorge Ironhide!
Even as Rimgorge Ironhide made no effort to hide his rage at the Ogre Lord, who had ruled the orcs through overwhelming racial superiority, his gaze kept drifting toward the human across the way.
Sniff-sniff.
He drew in the scent. The thick reek of blood. In the stench of enemies and fallen orcs alike, Rimgorge Ironhide sensed something familiar and felt the surge of combat fever rise in his chest.
Combat itself was the proof that an orc was alive!
— I will kill them all! Those orcs who help me slay them shall have teeth! Ogre teeth! I will give them all. Teeth of the Ogres I have slain, they are yours!
A band of formidable orcish bodyguards, born from blood-soaked stone alongside Rimgorge, charged forward in a frenzy.
But Jeong Hyun-su, rushing toward the enemy opposite Rimgorge, had no such bodyguard.
One.
A mighty Phoenix spread its wings in the empty air above, then swept away the ogres standing before Jeong Hyun-su.
“Ugh, hah!”
It was Im Hyun-min.
He didn’t know all the details, but the elements to see the ending of this Defense Game were now in place.
Either the fortress would stand until the Durait Kingdom’s border lord arrived, or they would hunt down and kill that Ogre Lord.
And Jeong Hyun-su was going to hunt the Ogre Lord. A reckless move. He hadn’t made it in agreement with anyone.
“The conquest must belong to Hanul.”
It was a powerful resolve to land the final blow himself.
Since dealing the killing blow alone wouldn’t be enough, he’d used the Flame Phoenix, an area-effect spell, to incinerate the ogres.
Merit Score.
When the Gate is cleared, the Merit Score is calculated under strict judgment.
From the position of needing to deliver decisive contributions, Hanul’s pride wouldn’t allow the highest commendation to go to Jeong Hyun-su.
“Everyone squeeze out your mana. If anyone walks out of here without depleting theirs, I’ll take them down before reporting to the chairman.”
At Im Hyun-min’s threat, the mages too steeled their eyes with fierce determination.
No matter how remarkable a Rookie, the pride of Hanul’s Conquest Party was at stake.
They might have lost the tower-climbing records, but they couldn’t lose Gate Merit Score to some newcomer.
What kind of disgrace would that be?
“It’s still too early in his first year!”
The limiters the mages had been observing until now came off, and fierce firepower erupted in blaze.
Ji Min-jeong likewise cast spells with wild abandon, refusing to yield.
Since the ogres carrying the most important Merit Score were concentrated around Jeong Hyun-su, they had no choice but to clear his path and lend their support.
The Ogre King Rimgorge Ironhide and Jeong Hyun-su charged forward at tremendous speed.
When the Battle Axe cleaved an ogre’s waist, the Demon-Slaying Blade severed its neck cleanly.
Thud-boom!
Before the two of them, an enormous creature came flying like a cannonball.
Even Jeong Hyun-su had no choice but to evade such overwhelming force.
It was the commander of the ogres who had invaded the Durait Kingdom — the Ogre Lord himself, stepping forward.
Befitting a B-Rank Dungeon’s boss, he radiated such tremendous power that only hunters of Platinum Grade or higher could manage a direct confrontation.
Yet neither Jeong Hyun-su nor Rimgorge backed away, both releasing their Tyrant King’s Talent.
Jeong Hyun-su’s Reverse Eruption Opening World.
The power felt different.
‘The characteristic must be different?’
Greed stirred for a moment, but Jeong Hyun-su knew well enough that victory was the only way to claim it.
“Listen up, you dumb orc bastard, and listen good.”
Rimgorge tilted his head in confusion.
“That one’s mine. Get in my way and I’ll kill you, so go deal with the small fry on the side.”
Jeong Hyun-su spoke those words and rocketed forward with the Dark Heaven Return Origin Technique and the Five Kings Martial Art – Heaven Tyrant Return King Martial Art pushed to their absolute limits, while Rimgorge Ironhide, catching himself an instant too late, gave chase.
With each movement of the Orc King, the earth trembled, as though a star itself were shifting across the heavens.
To be continued ▶
The Solitary Regressor God of War
Author
Cheon Ya
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Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
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Date of Publication
May 26, 2026
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