The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 25

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Episode 25. Promotion (1)
Rimgorge’s battle-axe descended with enough force to split the earth itself.
The Ogre Lord swung the hammer in his grip to intercept the blow.
Crack!
The blade of the battle-axe vibrated in the deafening roar that threatened to burst eardrums.
Whoosh!
The Ogre Lord brought his forearm crashing down like a second hammer, and Rimgorge staggered backward under the knockback.
Just as the Ogre Lord was about to follow up with another crushing blow, Rimgorge surged to his feet and rammed his forehead at him.
Crack!
Despite the powerful impact to his jaw, the Ogre Lord grinned wickedly.
Though Rimgorge possessed abnormal strength—enough to pulverize ordinary ogres—the Ogre Lord was on an entirely different tier of durability, exceptional even among his kind.
Boom!
Struck by the Ogre Lord’s pillar-like leg swinging down like a maul, Rimgorge went flying, coughing up blood.
Crash-crash-crash!
Rimgorge was no ordinary orc either. Despite taking considerable damage, his thick neck had absorbed the impact, and he got back up nonetheless.
He grinned wickedly as well—though with broken teeth and blood streaming from his nose, the sight was far from pretty.
“Spirit, at least.”
It was revealing whether this one was a contender for the Hegemon’s Gift.
What was striking was that, judging by the state of his teeth, he was still in a growth phase.
Extrapolating his eventual potential, the orc chosen by the Hegemon’s Gift would surpass the Ogre Lord at his prime.
He had the makings of an Orc Warlord, no doubt about it.
Of course, the fact that he’d been sealed in a Gate and his record left in the Tower suggested he’d never realized that potential, reduced instead to servitude.
Not that Jung Hyun-soo concerned himself with such matters.
Flare!
Rimgorge surged forward with Qi blazing like flame—that power called Mana by Hunters, Aura by the knights of the fantasy realm encountered in Gates, and Aura by martial artists as well.
His absolute power and the drive he displayed proved why the Hegemon’s Gift had chosen him.
But.
Crash-crash-crash!
“Tch.”
It was predictable.
Charging without hesitation, showing no retreat even before strength—that was admirable, certainly.
Boom!
Yet strike rock with an egg long enough, and the egg’s shell simply breaks.
Jung Hyun-soo had never lived that way. In his former life, his epithet was the Dark King.
He’d died by treachery at Seon-woo Hyun’s hands, yes, but he’d never been the type to fight battles he couldn’t win.
Destroy the enemy, certainly—but always with victory in mind, grinding relentlessly toward that goal, and retreating when necessary.
Survival alone was true strength.
The Hegemon’s Gift’s nature was such that if the odds became truly unreasonable, even he would simply abandon the fight.
Rimgorge’s reaction time grew steadily slower as the Ogre Lord’s powerful punches sent him flying backward.
“Hey, pig.”
Jung Hyun-soo, who’d been observing for a moment, stepped forward. Seeing him drag the extended Cham-ma-do behind him, the Ogre Lord halted.
“You talking to me, you little punk?”
The Ogre Lord exhaled sharply.
Rimgorge was growling as well, but Jung Hyun-soo ignored him entirely and closed the distance to the Ogre Lord swiftly.
Sensing something was wrong, the Ogre Lord reacted.
Thud!
Jung Hyun-soo simply threw the Cham-ma-do. The force behind it was unremarkable.
The Ogre Lord thought the same and moved to swat it aside.
Whoosh!
That was when Jung Hyun-soo’s hand came through.
It was a technique martial artists called Geum Na-su. Like a serpent coiling from ambush, the attack wrapped around him, and the Ogre Lord’s reaction was locked.
The thrown Cham-ma-do struck in that exact breath he’d allocated to his response, and Jung Hyun-soo had found the gap.
The Ogre Lord was left with only one choice: to ignore the fragile human body.
He moved to knock aside the incoming Cham-ma-do.
Pop!
Jung Hyun-soo’s fist, concentrated with the Cheon-pae-gwi-wang-mu, struck. The human’s attack, which he’d dismissed, slammed directly into his elbow, and pain flooded in.
The bodies of humans and ogres are different. Yet any living creature has weak points.
And since ogres too command Qi, the Vital Points spoken of by human martial artists certainly existed in them as well—points that doubled as weaknesses.
Thud!
Jung Hyun-soo’s Mana, driven directly into the concentrated Qi nexus of the elbow, pierced into the ogre’s interior.
It was a technique commonly called the Cham-twe-gyeong among martial artists.
The Cham-twe-gyeong that followed the precisely timed Geum Na-su.
As a result, the Cham-ma-do hurled at the Ogre Lord’s shoulder—whose reaction had been forcibly delayed—lodged itself firmly in place.
Grraaaaaaah!
Jung Hyun-soo had no need to pull it free himself.
The Ogre Lord, consumed with rage at having allowed an attack from a mere morsel of a human, simply wrenched out the embedded Cham-ma-do with its other hand and swung it wildly.
Naturally, Jung Hyun-soo had already anticipated as much and dodged clear.
Lim Hyun-min was at his wit’s end.
Even as he fired Fireballs in supporting fire, he couldn’t fathom how the man struck with such precision, withdrew just as cleanly, and delivered damage so methodically.
The Ogre, armed with a powerful body and natural ferocity, continued its assault even as blood poured from its wounds, though its reaction speed had clearly diminished.
In that moment, the Ogre thrashed about violently.
Krraaagh!
Jung Hyun-soo anticipated the attack from its uninjured arm and dodged it as a matter of course.
In the gap that opened, he planted his foot on the Ogre’s knee and pushed off hard into the air.
Like a rocket launching skyward, Jung Hyun-soo drove his forehead directly into the creature’s jaw.
Crack!
A strike to the jaw normally sends the brain reeling.
But an Ogre, packed with powerful jaw structure, skeletal frame, and dense muscle, barely felt such a blow.
“Damn.”
Lim Hyun-min realized things were about to go wrong.
The Ogre brought its intact arm’s elbow down in a hammer strike. Jung Hyun-soo appeared unable to possibly block it.
Just as Lim Hyun-min was about to chant a Binding Spell to save him.
Riiiiip!
The Ogre’s left shoulder—it was being torn clean away?
“What… what is this…?”
The scene was so absurd it broke his concentration entirely.
At the precise moment the elbow would have come down, Jung Hyun-soo flowed the attack past him, and in the opening thus created, he seized the wound that had opened on the shoulder and tore it away completely.
Krraaaaaaaaaaaagh!
A shriek mixing rage and agony swept across the brutal battlefield.
The wound was deep enough to expose the shoulder cartilage and bone structure within. The Ogre leapt and bounded, its form wracked by the scarring left by the concentrated Pae-cheon-gi unleashed at the moment of tearing.
It was the work of combat mastery honed through countless encounters.
“Hah.”
Yet the man himself remained dissatisfied.
B-rank Gate boss or not, his body’s current state—breathing hard, pulse racing in combat against this creature—displeased him immensely.
Of course, such thoughts were fleeting.
“Time to finish this, I think.”
The Ogre Lord’s rage had reached its zenith. Proof of it rippled across the space itself—a prickling Qi so dense the air grew sharp enough to sting skin.
The vast reservoir of Qi that proved why the creature bore the title “Lord”—it was clear now that it was being concentrated, compressed into a final, catastrophic strike.
— This is enough. Fall back.
A Magic Voice from Lim Hyun-min reached Jung Hyun-soo’s ears.
A calamitous blow was about to descend. There was no one who couldn’t see it coming.
Ogre Blaster!
A technique wielded only by the mightiest of Ogres.
Even the compressed Qi alone made breathing difficult. Among the final bosses of B-rank Gates, this appeared to be among the very apex.
A single trajectory carved itself through space.
Boom! Boom!
It charged forward, pulverizing the ground beneath. It bore the ultimate destructive force of an assault meant to obliterate everything in its path.
Even as the stroke gouged a furrow in the earth, Jung Hyun-soo stood unmoving, composed and utterly unmoved.
“What are you doing? Why aren’t you running?!”
“Could he have run out of Mana?”
At his subordinate’s words, Lim Hyun-min prepared a Binding Spell anew. He would bind the man, then drag him to safety and save him.
Should Garam’s successor and currently South Korea’s most promising hunter die here, the fallout would be unmanageable.
Just as his spell was about to reach Jung Hyun-soo.
“Hm?”
Lim Hyun-min caught sight of something descending from the sky.
A missile?
Why would such a thing suddenly appear in a fantasy world setting?
He wondered if he was seeing things, but what fell toward them was unmistakably a missile.
Boooooom!
An explosion erupted in the next instant.
But something was different.
It wasn’t some overwhelming inferno swallowing the area whole.
One thing.
“Huh… what…?”
Lim Hyun-min realized that the magic he’d just chanted to save Jung Hyun-soo had vanished.
And it wasn’t just his spell—the entire raiding party’s magic was being nullified as well.
Naturally, anything else drawing on a different source of mana suffered the same fate.
The Ogre Blaster that the ogre had unleashed simply ceased to exist, its overwhelming might evaporating without a trace.
Lim Hyun-min stared at the ogre, now left with nothing but an empty fist extended, and his mouth fell open.
“A… an AMP?”
There was no mistaking it—this was an AMP. To mages, it was a poison far more terrifying than any toxin, utterly unmistakable.
Yet…
‘How on earth did he get hold of that?’
An AMP was nearly impossible to obtain.
It barely appeared as a reward beyond the Tower’s fortieth floor or from S-rank dungeons.
Lim Hyun-min had never even considered the possibility that he’d openly seized one from a Gate.
But if Lim Hyun-min was shocked, the Ogre Lord was far more so. His one devastating blow—a technique honed for certain death—had been rendered completely useless by that single AMP, and Jung Hyun-soo was not about to let the opportunity slip away.
Whoosh!
Though his own mana had scattered as well, Jung Hyun-soo’s Cham-ma-do sliced through the empty air.
The Ogre Blaster was a guaranteed killing blow technique. The backlash naturally left him in a temporarily incapacitated state, giving him no way to defend himself.
Slash.
This was the moment when his pure physical training, cultivated over years, showed its worth.
Though it wouldn’t have met the Hegemon’s standard, the Cham-ma-do he wielded with fierce determination severed the Ogre Lord’s neck clean through.
With the Gate’s final boss dead, victory was now assured.
“The Border Count has arrived!”
“The Order of Knights!”
Countless mounted soldiers then emerged from behind the Gorge.
The plan had been for the Border Count to arrive at that moment of desperation—but there had been no desperation to experience.
Before he could even taste disappointment, Lim Hyun-min found himself at a loss for words in the face of this unprecedented result, achieved by a single man.
‘That bastard is insane.’
And that insane bastard…
…now walked toward Rimgorge, who was still rolling across the ground with the Ogre Lord’s severed head.
“We still have unfinished business between us, don’t we?”
Rimgorge growled.
Seeing Rimgorge radiate its Qi, Jung Hyun-soo spoke.
“Give up.”
As Rimgorge clearly had no intention of doing so, raising its Qi higher, Jung Hyun-soo hurled a tremendous fist toward it.
Continued in the next episode ▶
The Sole Inheritor: Return of the Divine Master
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