The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 30

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Episode 30. Promotion (6)
Sparks erupted where the Unnamed King’s Longsword intercepted the Demon-Slaying Sword’s horizontal sweep.
Thanks to Simultaneous Output, the corrupted energy spewing forth was annihilated in real time, leaving the Unnamed King utterly defenseless.
The Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art dances. Tyrant Power radiates from the surge of energy, and Jeong Hyun-soo delivers a brutal kick to the Unnamed King’s body from where he stands.
The king staggers backward, powerless, before pressing his hand to the ground and rising.
“You’re putting on a show.”
Jeong Hyun-soo received a gaze full of contempt.
Those who exist in the Tower, especially Stage Bosses bearing such a theme, are ultimately those who have submitted to the Tower.
“In a way, you could call it a choice for survival. But tell me, boy—is that really right?”
The Unnamed King’s body flinched.
“You sacrificed your entire kingdom as an offering so you could live alongside your knights and royal guard.”
[The Tower judges your statement as Taboo.]
[A warning is issued. Should you carelessly reveal the Taboo, you will pay the price.]
“Ridiculous. Why is that Taboo? It’s just something only those who know understand. Most of the nameless dead that exist from the first floor to the ninth—they’re all citizens who used to live in your capital, you worthless bastard.”
The Unnamed King lowers his head.
“Did you think it wouldn’t come to this? You knew it would. The Tower appeared in your kingdom too, and you challenged it.”
Jeong Hyun-soo leveled the Demon-Slaying Sword.
“Just keep your mouth shut. I don’t need your sob story. I need to climb, and anyone in my way dies.”
Those bound to the Tower, living out their lives and performing duties on their assigned floor, often believe they will eventually be freed—but the Tower is not such a place.
Seon Woo-hyun and the Holy Maiden, who formed the Final Pact alongside Jeong Hyun-soo, were offered such a proposal but refused.
Seon Woo-hyun had shown an obsession with rule bordering on madness; Jeong Hyun-soo carried the stench of a con artist—both reasons for the Tower’s rejection.
In any case.
“Enough cheap philosophy.”
Jeong Hyun-soo charged forward, the Demon-Slaying Sword held horizontally.
Corrupted energy—commonly called Demonic Energy—radiates intensely from the Unnamed King’s body.
At a glance, his stats appeared to have skyrocketed explosively.
The force behind his descending blow was considerable.
Crack!
Oil, watching debris scatter from the palace, spoke.
“Master… something feels wrong.”
“Nothing strange about it.”
Jeong Hyun-soo’s expression remained unconcerned.
“True enough—after all, the master possesses that strange power, doesn’t he?”
At Oil’s mention of the Dark Heaven Return Origin Art, Jeong Hyun-soo offered no reply.
— O… ra…….
The king opened his mouth. Unlike before, not an indirect message, but direct intent.
A voice like metal scratching—suffused with corrupted power.
Jeong Hyun-soo drove the Demon-Slaying Sword downward from above.
Clang!
Swift, whirling Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art. Within that flow, the king’s eyes blazed intensely.
Whoooosh!
The Longsword cleaved the air. Demonic Energy follows in its wake, draping down like a veil.
The Unnamed King’s gaze seemed almost to smile.
— Useless… fu…….
But then his eyes widened in shock as he stared at Jeong Hyun-soo.
Overwhelming Tyrant Power radiates from Jeong Hyun-soo’s body. The Tyrant Half-Formation of the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art.
The sole secret technique of the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art—one that breaks momentum, suppresses energy, and reverses it to claim an emperor’s blade as one’s own—unfolds in Jeong Hyun-soo’s hands.
Not Dark Heaven, but Heavenly Tyrant.
As Jeong Hyun-soo draws in the king’s Demonic Energy—which had been targeting Dark Heaven—through powerful Tyrant Power, the Unnamed King’s center of balance crumbles.
That disruption was enough.
Jeong Hyun-soo lowers his waist, compressing force like a coiled spring, then snaps his elbow and shoulder open.
The king’s Longsword grazes past. Pivoting, the king slashes down, meeting Jeong Hyun-soo’s blade.
Steel strikes steel. Jeong Hyun-soo whips his body upright, detonating magical power in reverse.
The king tried to resist—
“Earth Star Instant Energy manifestation.”
[Your entire ability stats surge dramatically.]
Overwhelming dominance manifests, crushing the king beneath it.
His elbows, shoulder blades, breastbone—all his joints shatter. The Unnamed King stares at Jeong Hyun-soo with eyes that cannot believe what they see.
Rip!
The Demon-Slaying Sword pierces through his body. Its wild inner force tears apart the radiating magical power.
[You have succeeded in clearing the 10th Floor of the Tower of Trials.]
[You have satisfied the Hidden Condition.]
[You have acquired the skill ‘King’s Wrath’.]
[‘King’ has been successfully defeated. The King’s stature has risen ever so slightly.]
[Clear Grade: SSS Rank]
Jeong Hyun-soo gazed calmly at the collapsing remnants of someone’s kingship beyond the torrent of cascading messages.
‘As long as the world I live in doesn’t end up like that, it’s fine.’
This is why the tower’s such a mess.
* * *
[Announcement.]
[The Korean Hunter Jeong Hyun-soo has successfully cleared the 10th Floor of the Tower of Trials at SSS Rank.]
The shock of another tower notice that shook South Korea sent the Hunter Network into uproar.
└Damn it, I said Jeong Hyun-soo’s definitely going to fail this time.
└└Why? You got money on Jeong Hyun-soo failing or something, you traitor bastard?
└└How is betting on Jeong Hyun-soo’s failure traitorous?
└└Can’t you see? Jeong Hyun-soo himself is now the very future of South Korea.
So much so that the unbroken SSS Rank run stretched all the way to the 10th Floor held singular significance.
└No but seriously, how the hell did he clear it?
└Please release the footage…….
But information about how Jeong Hyun-soo had cleared it was never released.
No live broadcast, and afterward not a single edited video or anything like that was ever put out.
People had no choice but to flock to the Garam Guild’s page on the Hunter Network.
└Is Garam still radio silent?
└They only ever announce the important stuff there anyway.
└└Ever since the guild chief evolved into Bright Hyun-soo, they haven’t posted anything.
└I tried calling, but it’s like they just yanked the phone line.
└└ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
The world had truly descended into chaos.
Everyone clamored to see the Holy Maiden’s success, its secret, and the process behind it, yet the man himself was simply gazing into a calm teacup.
“You’ve accomplished something remarkable.”
It might have seemed like praise on the surface, but Jeong Cheol’s words carried thorns.
“Well, it’s…….”
“You should have given me some warning. The moment I saw you heading straight for the 10th Floor with summoned creatures and going in right away, I was left with nothing but my thumbs to twiddle.”
The 10th Floor was undoubtedly a formidable place.
Jeong Hyun-soo was exceptional, but Jeong Cheol hadn’t foreseen him approaching it like this, so he had no choice but to voice his reproach.
“As I mentioned…….”
“Sure, gaining a skill by meeting the condition to clear it alone through this method sounds fine. But I don’t want to lose a son who rushes off just to get a skill.”
“As you can see…….”
“You cleared it with absolutely no danger, is that what you’re saying?”
There was no ground to stand on with results-only reasoning.
This wasn’t a conversation about such things.
Someone who remembered the Dark King of a previous life would have gasped in astonishment, but Jeong Hyun-soo merely scratched his head with an embarrassed expression.
“I apologize.”
“…Please, if something happens or you’re about to do something that defies common sense, at least give me a heads up.”
“…I’ll do my best to try.”
There are insiders within the Garam Guild.
Yet Jeong Cheol could certainly have been told, but Jeong Hyun-soo still carried within him the unilateralism of those days when he’d lived as a black-listed fugitive. That solitary streak born from it remained.
Family was precious, but in their daily interaction and emotional exchange with them, he was still insufficient, so this sort of thing always lagged one step behind.
“Go on, get some rest. You must be tired.”
“Yes.”
As he rose from his seat and left the guild leader’s office, Jeong Cheol’s voice settled into his ears.
“Your mastery of the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art was impressive.”
Jeong Hyun-soo stopped and turned back.
But there was only the figure of Jeong Cheol reviewing the piled documents without so much as sparing him a glance.
Jeong Hyun-soo was clumsy, and Jeong Cheol was clumsy too.
The early days they were building together.
Jeong Hyun-soo found it somehow precious.
* * *
Once you clear the 10th Floor, you can truly be called a Hunter.
[Name: Jeong Hyun-soo]
[Rank: Bronze]
[Ability Stats: Life (30), Strength (32), Skill (45), Spirit (54), Endurance (47)]
[Skills: Tyrant King Martial Art-Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art (10 Stars), Illusory Heaven True Energy (10 Stars), Tyrant Heaven Energy (9 Stars), Dark Heaven Return Origin Art (6 Stars) Existence Engraving, Naming Art, King’s Wrath, Earth Star Instant Energy]
[Traits: Tyrant Genius, Reverse-Burst Energy Opening World, Simultaneous Output, Seongso]
[Possessed Items: AMP (4), Champion Trophy (10)]
Jeong Hyun-soo sat in the Training Hall, reviewing the rewards he’d earned this time.
Promotion from Rookie to Bronze Rank. Now he could freely enter A-Grade Gates as well.
[Skill: King’s Wrath]
[Rank: Unique]
[Description: When a subordinate under your command dies, all of your Ability Stats increase by 10%.]
“Hmm. Just as I thought.”
It was a broken skill—the more subordinates a king commanded, the more formidable his abilities became.
‘King and subordinate.’
But the Tower, as always, offered no precise clarification.
Jeong Hyun-soo understood that his Tyrant Genius trait had evolved, that his kingly stature had risen—but was that truly kingship?
What even defined a subordinate?
Would it manifest simply as a product of sworn loyalty?
‘I’ll have to find out by testing it directly.’
If wielded properly, it had the scent of something useful.
Seuil, for instance. Or Oil.
[Oil, taking a nap in the Seongso, is suddenly crushed by a demon’s weight.]
[Seuil, researching AMP blueprints in the Seongso, startles and hurls his pen!]
“They’re startled rather quickly.”
Jeong Hyun-soo immediately noticed the Champion Trophy—finally ten of them completed.
“Open the Trophy Shop.”
With a simple command, a window materialized before his eyes.
Countless listings, and at the very top, items the Tower seemed to recommend, captured his attention.
[Sword Demon’s Ghost Blade]
[Rank: Rare]
[A longsword once wielded by a man known in life as the Sword Demon. Grants access to the exclusive skill ‘Ghost Energy’.]
[Price: 8 Champion Trophies]
[Black Star Cloak]
[Rank: Rare]
[Absorbs starlight from the night sky to cloak oneself in darkness. Grants the exclusive skill Shadow Concealment Art and increases dark attribute resistance.]
[Price: 9 Champion Trophies]
[Immortal’s Heart Armor]
[Rank: Unique]
[A metal breastplate forged by sealing the heart of a fallen great hero. Grants the exclusive skill Life Force Absorption and, under special circumstances, confers an invincibility effect.]
[Price: 10 Champion Trophies]
Beyond these were the Sage’s Crystal Orb, the Adamantine Half-Soul Armor, and other items of at least Rare Rank featured in the recommendation list.
But this time around, Jeong Hyun-soo would not be fooled.
Typically, ten Champion Trophies were what elite Hunters possessed after climbing roughly forty floors of the Tower.
In that sense, they were truly remarkable items, but—
‘There’s always a catch.’
The exclusive skill Ghost Energy embedded in the Sword Demon’s Ghost Blade, once activated, corrupts the spirit body with Ghost Energy.
The current Jeong Hyun-soo would not be consumed, but he had no interest in acquiring such trash—something bordering on psychological illness, requiring him to devour the souls of others to grow stronger, with penalties for failure if he couldn’t meet the time limit.
The Black Star Cloak?
‘The higher the dark attribute rises, the more vulnerable to light attribute he becomes. Why wear something that melts the moment you’re hit by a lightning beam?’
The Immortal’s Heart Armor was worse.
An Immortal’s Heart Armor would be different, but this was a dead great hero’s heart crammed into a chest piece.
Filling one’s life bar with the exclusive skill was gnawing away at the future.
Even if he could meet the conditions and gain temporary invincibility to conveniently clear a Tower stage, that was the limit.
‘That great hero’s corpse would target his body.’
Then what he should aim for was simple.
“Purchase Trait Enhancement.”
From the start, Jeong Hyun-soo’s goal had been to strengthen the Seongso.
Don’t be swayed by temptation; buy what you actually need. That was the fundamental rule of the Tower.
To be continued ▶
The Sole Devouring Regressor God of War
Author
Cheonnya
Publisher
Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
Published by
Grae Publishing
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Publication Date
May 26, 2026
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