The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 28

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Episode 28. Promotion (4)
The moment Jeong Hyeon-su stepped onto Floor 10, he felt eyes upon him.
“…The Sanctuary’s Holy One?”
“Challenging Floor 10 already?”
Breaking through Floor 10 determined the promotion from Rookie to Bronze—the true starting point of a professional hunter’s rank.
Those watching the live broadcast reacted with visible excitement at Jeong Hyeon-su’s arrival.
“As I’m speaking, the Sanctuary’s Holy One—Jeong Hyeon-su, who could well be called the future of South Korea—has arrived at the Palace of the Nameless King!”
Baek Seong-ju, the MC of the Kill Point channel, spotted Jeong Hyeon-su standing in his distinctive training clothes and continued with barely contained enthusiasm.
“Remarkable, truly. I thought he’d take some preparation time, but here he is, challenging promotion right on Floor 10!”
Jeong Yong-hwa, standing beside him, made a disapproving face.
“…Still no gear. Can’t figure out what he’s thinking.”
Jeong Hyeon-su remained in his training clothes, looking as if he’d simply stepped out for a neighborhood stroll.
“Heh, what’s your take, Hunter Jeong Yong-hwa?”
“Take on what?”
“Why, whether the Sanctuary’s Holy One can clear this with an SSS Rank rating, naturally?”
Jeong Yong-hwa clicked his tongue dismissively.
“He’ll clear it, obviously. What era do you think this is?”
“Yes, it’s an era where everyone knows the Nameless King on Floor 10 is absolutely clearable—it’s a Raid Boss, after all.”
Participants who gather within the time limit face the trial of subjugating the Nameless King, stationed deep within the palace’s heart.
Many years have passed, and strategy guides exist now; failing to clear Floor 10 is nearly impossible.
“That’s why building achievement points is so difficult. Unless you clear it solo and fast, there’s really no way around it.”
“You’re saying an SSS Rank rating is impossible this time?”
“That’s the situation. Some subscribers say I’m jealous of the Holy One and tearing him down, but this time it simply can’t be helped—that’s just how it is.”
“True, the rules mandate forming a party, so there’s no way to monopolize the achievement points! Ah, even as I speak, hunters are approaching the Sanctuary’s Holy One!”
The camera zoomed in on Jeong Hyeon-su as he engaged in conversation.
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“Hello, Hunter Jeong Hyeon-su.”
Jeong Hyeon-su turned to look at the figures approaching him.
A tank in expensive-looking armor carrying a shield, and a healer in priestly robes.
“I’ll be direct: join us for this raid. We’ve already assembled a full group.”
The tank pointed confidently to his side, where hunters who appeared to be his companions stood waiting.
They wore costly equipment and looked well-trained. Clearly, they’d been coordinating for Floor 10 for some time beforehand.
“They’re promising hunters not bound to any of the messy major guilds. What do you think?”
“I think it’s fine.”
“Is that so? Then shall we brief you on the strategy…? Huh? Where are you going?”
“I have my own business to attend to.”
“I… beg your pardon?”
“I appreciate the offer, but I have no intention of clearing Floor 10 with you.”
“Hahaha! Of course you wouldn’t, you fools. After building an SSS legend all this time, why would I split the take with the likes of you?”
Jeong Hyeon-su, about to walk past them, stopped at the familiar voice.
“There, the Sanctuary’s Holy One. You’ve got an eye for quality. Recognized my worth at a glance, didn’t you?”
Standing there was a short-haired girl who looked to be less than 160 centimeters tall, her tone boastful despite her diminutive frame.
‘Ju A-yeong.’
To meet her here, of all places.
An absolute throne established even in this era—one of the transcendent beings represented by the Ten Kings and Seven Evils.
Ju A-yeong, known as the Blade of Lazy Evil, was the small girl standing before him.
Yet her small stature meant nothing—she could not be underestimated.
She possessed a monstrous gift that allowed her to wield blades more viciously than anyone in the world, the curse of the Lion Heart Blade Demon born into her very being.
“What are you babbling about, shrimp? Don’t muscle in on adult conversations.”
At the hunter’s words, Ju A-yeong’s expression turned pitying.
“…Don’t you realize how exhausting life becomes when you don’t know your place?”
“What did you just—”
“You don’t belong here, you pathetic worm.”
“Now wait just a minute—huh?”
The hunter about to flare up felt a chill run across his throat.
Eyes that were barely half the size of normal ones. No emotion whatsoever dwelt in those tilted corners.
Pure contempt.
That emotionless regard that saw the hunter as something less than human made Jeong Hyeon-su shake his head.
The Blade of Lazy Evil had always been like this—anyone weaker than her, whether human or monster, was treated as vermin, and that cruelty was simply ingrained in her nature.
— I wasn’t always like this, you know? The world made me this way. The world did.
‘So he’s been slacking off.’
He’d never truly trusted her, but seeing this old colleague from his Rookie days—whose arrogance had been perfected even back then—stirred something like warmth in him.
“Hey, where do you think you’re going!”
Jeong Hyeon-su simply walked forward, his back turned, as if that were answer enough.
“You, at least, could grant me the honor of fighting at my side.”
“…And you’d overwhelm me to prove who’s the strongest?”
“See? Conversation flows when people understand each other. These vermin make me want to tear my hair out just hearing them speak.”
From the arrogant swordsman—who carried a thin blade on his back and prattled on endlessly—old memories flickered past.
“…But why won’t you look at me?”
“Your offer is kind. I’ll have to decline.”
“What? Then who exactly are you going with?”
“Why? Will you kill me if I seem inferior to you?”
“Of course. You should die too.”
Ju A-yeong’s sincerity came through loud and clear.
Her arrogance was such that she could never tolerate being dismissed.
Remembering the fate of this villain—dead because of that very nature, destined to die again for it—Jeong Hyeon-su let out a quiet laugh.
“That won’t happen.”
“Why not?”
“Because I won’t be going with any other hunters.”
“Does that even make sense? This place forces Party Play.”
“Which explains why you’ve been stuck here so long.”
That arrogant disdain festered into something worse—a hatred of humanity itself.
Whenever Ju A-yeong encountered someone beneath her station, she felt a revulsion as acute as obsessive-compulsive disorder.
“A lion doesn’t play with rats.”
She ransacked Gates at will, yet she remained trapped at Rookie rank—a true heretic.
“You have no idea how happy I was to see you. And now you just walk away from me like this?”
“You need a lesson first.”
“A lesson? Good idea. I should teach you one too. Maybe then you’d learn to listen.”
“Wait—are we fighting right now?”
“Someone stop them!”
As several hunters moved to intervene, Ju A-yeong released her mana in full.
A Blade Wind, refined through the Lion Heart Blade Demon’s authority to the level of mastery, erupted from her and struck down the approaching hunters.
“Get out of here, you small-timers. Before I kill you.”
It was power no Rookie could possibly possess.
Because it took time to fully awaken the Lion Heart Blade Demon’s nature, Ju A-yeong’s name didn’t appear in the early-floor Achievement rankings,
but she had rolled and trained through the Blade Arts so relentlessly that she operated in an entirely different weight class.
“I was going to go easy on you, but I see that won’t work. I’ll drag you along myself.”
“Sister? I don’t see one.”
At Jeong Hyeon-su’s offhand glance around the room, Ju A-yeong charged straight at him.
“As long as she doesn’t die—”
Ju A-yeong had been thinking she could simply clear it herself if she left him alive, but the shadow that fell across her vision made her eyes go slack.
“Take a nap.”
A fist casting that shadow. Its owner spoke one sentence and drove it forward.
Crack-crack-crack-crack-crack!
“Gack!”
Ju A-yeong flew backward in a straight line with a single cry of agony, vanishing from sight.
Jeong Hyeon-su, having gently touched the warmth of his old childhood companion once more after so long, stepped into the portal entrance leading to the palace.
“You’re really going in alone?”
The crowd watched his actions with confusion.
“How is that even possible without being a Summoner?”
“Maybe he is a Summoner?”
“You idiot, where have you ever seen a Summoner with stats like that? What have we been clearing this whole time?”
In a dungeon where Party Play was mandatory, the only profession exempted was the Summoner.
Yet even most Summoners refused to solo Raid Boss dungeons when they could help it.
The boss encounters were simply designed so that no one at this rank could clear them alone.
Jeong Hyeon-su vanished in that moment.
The crowd gasped.
“…He really is a Summoner?”
“Turn on the broadcast! If there’s a Jeong Hyeon-su channel, stream it now!”
But the channel wouldn’t open.
* * *
Jeong Hyeon-su had entered Floor 10 thanks to Seu-il and O-il, who had taken their names in the Sanctuary.
[O-il, a member of the Sanctuary, has been summoned.]
“Grrrrk, master. You called?”
[Seu-il hums contentedly in the Sanctuary’s refreshed space.]
“Yes. Are you ready?”
“An orc lives always for battle!”
Jeong Hyeon-su turned his gaze from O-il. The palace lay in near-ruin, half-collapsed. Before its gate stood knights clad in corroded armor, with soldiers arrayed behind them.
[Unnamed knights serving the Nameless King prepare for battle.]
[At the command of an unnamed knight, the unnamed soldiers take up their weapons.]
[Under the unnamed knight’s direction, the unnamed soldiers fall into formation.]
[An unnamed soldier sounds the horn.]
Poooooooo!
As the horn blast rang out, the unnamed knight at the fore raised his sword and brought it down.
The blade pointed to the intruders: Jeong Hyeon-su and O-il.
“If you get unsummoned here, handle it yourself.”
“Tsk! You do your best, master!”
The Earth Star Immediate Record that O-il had once possessed now belonged to Jeong Hyeon-su.
Yet for all that, O-il was a Named Entity of such caliber that he consumed seven slots in the Sanctuary—a space that had once accommodated nearly three hundred monsters across two floors.
“Grrraaaaaaah!”
O-il beat his chest, stoking his battle spirit.
[The Vanguard trait’s effect is activated.]
Jeong Hyeon-su charged forward without waiting to be told, leading the way.
Feeling his physical prowess amplified by the Vanguard effect, Jeong Hyeon-su wielded the Demon-Slaying Sword.
Always faster, always stronger than yesterday.
That attack—sharpened through daily breakthroughs and growth—was enough to annihilate the unnamed soldiers pouring from within the gate in an instant.
[The unnamed knight perceives the threat of your martial prowess.]
[The unnamed knights gather.]
[The unnamed knights prepare their blade formations.]
Once, there was a kingdom that ruled its own world. Before the last stand of knights who guarded that kingdom’s throne, Jeong Hyeon-su could only prepare the Thousand Defeat Returning King Technique.
Thousand Defeat Returning King Technique—Mount Tai Shattering.
Before the firmly arrayed blade formations of the knights, the Vanguard descended, bearing a tempest of sword energy.
Continued in the next episode ▶
The Sole Devouring Regression Martial God
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Cheon Ya
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