The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 42

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Episode 42. The Expert (2)
“It’s been a while, Guild Master.”
“That it has. I hear you’ve been making quite the name for yourself lately?”
Not long ago, the Association Knights had achieved a remarkable feat by apprehending one of the Song brothers, who had been slapped with a Black-Ranked Criminal designation—the most dangerous criminal classification in the world—and Seon-woo Yong-nam had personally led the operation.
“Everyone did their best.”
“Hmph. As they should have from the start. How much have we poured into this, and it took until now to catch those wretched small-time crooks?”
At Ji Sang-uk’s words, Seon-woo Yong-nam lowered his head.
“My apologies.”
“Man, don’t get so serious—I was only jesting. What’s the matter with you?”
“Then I’ll take my leave.”
“Under other circumstances I’d insist on a cup of tea, but I can’t very well keep you when you’re in the middle of work. Go on, then.”
Seon-woo Yong-nam turned at once.
Through the Magic Circle he opened with a fingertip, there was not the slightest hesitation in the way he disappeared.
The Mana Tracking of Ji Sang-uk—said to rival even Association Chairman Seon-woo Hyeon—seemed to register not at all to him.
“Now then, why is Hyun-su suddenly poking around in Association Knight affairs?”
As he spoke, Ji Sang-uk cast a subtle glance toward Jeong Cheol.
‘Didn’t you tell the chairman?’
The suspicious traces converging on the Garam Guild from across the globe.
Having confirmed that sophisticated magical manipulation had taken place, Ji Sang-uk kept his eye on the Association.
‘Then again, the man suspects everything, doesn’t he?’
There could be a traitor within Garam itself, and perhaps that’s precisely why he’s moving this way.
“There’s nothing wrong with dedicating oneself to the work of entering the Association and setting its affairs in order.”
“Tsk, Chairman Jeong. You don’t understand your own son at all, do you?”
Ji Sang-uk adjusted his fedora as he spoke.
“If you ask me, your eldest is not the sort to set a disordered house straight. He’s the type who’d simply burn the whole structure down and be done with it.”
Rebuilding it—that’s a job for someone with the aptitude for it.
‘Someone like yourself….’
Of course, whether such a thing would ever truly come to pass remained uncertain.
But the fact that he harbored such seeds of potential and had caught Ji Sang-uk’s eye was alone enough reason for him to make this journey to Garam Guild in person.
His sole aim was the perpetuity of Hanul Guild.
Not to rush headlong chasing the heights of the current era, but to remain eternally ready, never letting opportunity slip through his fingers—that was the standard of an illustrious house as Ji Sang-uk saw it.
Ji Sang-uk let out a hollow laugh. How long had he revealed his true nature, yet already he was moving even the great figures among the Association Knights?
“But what is this one scheming now, I wonder?”
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Jeong Hyun-su, forcibly transported by Magic Circle via Seon-woo Yong-nam, was surveying his surroundings.
The subtropical climate clung to your skin with every breath you drew; the towering vegetation that had grown skyward in response to the moisture and oppressive heat.
“Just as anticipated, nothing surprising here.”
For anyone born and raised in South Korea, landing in such a place meant nothing but despair.
Even for a Hunter.
The Amazon—one of the Five Demonic Realms on Earth, located in South America.
Before the Hunter Era, it would have remained a frontier untouched by human hands; now it had become a land where nothing could be done.
Unlike developed nations with established governmental systems, the developing nations of South America saw Hunters commit crimes and corruption in pursuit of their own power, saw them flee toward China or Russia when Tower raids failed, saw the Towers collapse—
Dungeons spawned rifts in rapid succession, and the Amazon became a land teeming with Demon Beasts.
Rustle, rustle!
Beyond the thick growth of the jungle that swayed, a silhouette that resembled something humanoid emerged.
In times past, one might have mistaken it for a native; in this age, survival here was impossible unless you were an Awakened.
It drew closer.
The nearer it came, the more clearly its shape revealed itself—grotesque beyond measure.
The upper body seemed like that of a withered woman, but the musculature was composed of deep crimson root-like tendrils.
A plant-type Demon Beast, with three flowering buds blooming like blossoms across the chest and abdomen, opening to reveal glistening blood.
Upon spotting Jeong Hyun-su, the Demon Beast’s arms writhed; the ends of its root-like tentacles were tipped with sharp fibrous blades that looked lethal.
The luminescent iris at its core burned with madness.
Shhhhh!
The stem-tentacles of both arms split into four branches, sweeping down upon Jeong Hyun-su.
At the same moment, a single line of text etched itself clearly before his eyes.
[One Day]
It was a magical message left by Seon-woo Yong-nam, who watched from somewhere.
Survive one day in the Amazon.
It was the condition Seon-woo Yong-nam had set for bringing Jeong Hyun-su into the Association Knights.
Jeong Hyun-su closed his eyes.
The whisper of falling leaves, a blade cutting through wind. The guttural snarl of a Demon Beast.
In a crisis that felt like death hovering at his very fingertips, his feet stretched out, tracing movement through space.
Blue Spirit Thousand Phenomena Chain Cloud Transformation.
Jeong Hyun-su’s body moved, riding upon a Mana shaped like blue wind.
With wisps of Mana coiling around his feet, his body began to shift, drawing a streamlined arc as it swept through the air.
The Demon Beast’s claws followed uselessly in his wake, all of them missing by empty space.
Shriek! A vicious snarl!
Sensing danger as Jeong Hyun-su took position behind it, flowers bloomed across the creature’s body.
Each petal sharpening into a blade as fibrous and keen as the rest—just before—
Crash!
Jeong Hyun-su’s Heavenly Tyrant Return King Technique unfurled. A single blow, thick with overwhelming power, shattered the Demon Beast utterly, leaving only splintered wood fragments scattered on the wind.
A Demon Beast whose name none knew.
In the Five Demonic Realms, in the Amazon, creatures far stronger than this one seethed in abundance, and at their heart lay a towering structure—collapsed, transformed into a colossal Gate—that birthed such monstrosities.
One.
But the dread that clung to the Amazon was rooted in far more than that single reason.
“What the hell? I was planning to drain that one tonight—who smashed up my toy!?”
Jeong Hyun-su fixed his gaze on the man who had emerged across the clearing.
A tattooed figure draped in a leather rider’s jacket—incongruous against the subtropical climate—bearing Slavic features. The man’s eyes fell upon Jeong Hyun-su with undisguised contempt.
“You yellow bastard just broke my entertainment for the night?”
An unusual Mana radiated from him.
Gold-ranked strength or higher.
“A newbie, are you? Still wet behind the ears?”
But here, the Ranking System of the civilized world held no sway.
“Get down on all fours. Then I’ll take care of you through the night in the Five Demonic Realms.”
“…Blue-ranked, then?”
Wanted criminals fleeing from civilization. Fugitives hunted by Association Knights. The Five Demonic Realms had become the haven where such men congregated.
Demon Beasts stalked men, and humans who had chosen to become beasts gathered in this forsaken place.
Creatures living by the logic of pure strength, pursuing survival in a land of savages.
Dimitri, one of their number—a Blue-Ranked Criminal—narrowed his eyes at Jeong Hyun-su’s words.
“Blue-ranked… perhaps?”
In his eyes, the young oriental before him seemed delicate enough to enjoy and then sell off for a tidy profit. The boy’s composure irritated him.
“Even if you got lucky enough to run this far, anyone can tell you’ll never reach Green-rank. But that explains why you’re here at all.”
His tone dripped with contempt, insufferable in its arrogance.
“I’ll make you regret not getting caught by the Association instead, kid. Hehehehe.”
From Dimitri’s hand, a Blue Flame Beast took form from his Mana. Then it surged forward in a straight line toward Jeong Hyun-su.
This was the very blow Dimitri prided himself on—a strike that had even felled Association Knights.
Jeong Hyun-su drew his right fist back in response.
A crackling sound.
A red oxidation aura began to coalesce around his arm.
“Frontal combat against me? You’re out of your mind, you bastard!”
Dimitri unleashed the Blue Flame Beast at once. Its gaping maw opened wide, ready to swallow Jeong Hyun-su whole, radiating a sinister power.
Jeong Hyun-su took but a single step forward.
The old tree beneath his foot snapped clean in two. As the power he had seemed so casual about moments before suddenly exploded into full force, Dimitri sensed something had gone terribly wrong.
“What—what is this!?”
His drawn fist was already extending forward.
That one punch.
Crash!
A single strike of the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Technique – Tyrant King Single Strike slammed into the Blue Flame Beast.
“Gahhhhh!”
Dimitri’s blue Mana shattered, and the shockwave hurled him through the air, slamming him against an old tree that cast deep shadows.
“Urrrkhhh!”
Dimitri spat out blood, blackened and rank, from his mouth.
His insides had been utterly shattered.
But worse than that was—
‘I… I can’t feel anything?’
Nothing registered from his lower body.
“Gasp… gasp…”
Dimitri expelled labored breaths, slowly turning his gaze downward.
“Screeeech!”
His waist and legs bent at a grotesque angle came into view—his spine completely buckled, Dimitri was impaled in place.
“P-please… save me……”
Jeong Hyun-su gazed at Dimitri with cold, indifferent eyes and simply walked past him.
That gaze resembled an absolute being stepping over an insect in its path.
Dimitri was stunned.
‘How… why……’
A boy still wet behind the ears possessed the eyes of the Black-Ranked Criminal known as the King of the Forest.
And this absurd power—where did it come from?
Jeong Hyun-su did not kill Dimitri.
A merciful death was a luxury for criminals who lived in the forest.
He knew those who dwelt in the Amazon well.
Because he himself was the Dark King, a Black-Ranked Criminal.
How could he forget those hellish years, struggling for survival through the Five Demonic Realms in his desperate youth?
“This place suits me better.”
This accursed dampness that permeated the forest was far more familiar to Jeong Hyun-su’s life than anything else.
Guilds and all that nonsense—combat in this demonic realm was what Jeong Hyun-su did best in this world.
Seon-woo Yong-nam had assigned him a mission: survive here for one day.
And so that was his plan.
‘Hmm, if these twin rocks are here, this should be near the uppermost reaches of the Amazon River.’
The closer to North America and the United States, which still played the world’s police, the safer the territory.
Given that he’d been dropped into what could be considered a safe zone in deference to Jeong Hyun-su’s backing, there was some merit to the assessment.
Since all that mattered was passing the test cleanly, Jeong Hyun-su headed toward the safe zone he remembered.
The closer to the United States, the fewer criminals and the lower their ranks—but the tropical rainforest of the Amazon teemed with powerful Demon Beasts that had claimed their territories.
Seon-woo Yong-nam, watching from a distance as Jeong Hyun-su entered a cave with a clear view of a colossal collapsed tower transformed into black wood standing at the heart of the region, was dumbfounded.
“There’s no foolishness quite like his. Though I doubt he’s doing it blindly……”
Seon-woo Yong-nam, hovering high in the sky, observed a serpent beneath him with a body as thick as a modest apartment building.
The madman had crawled into the lair of one of South America’s Five Great Demonic Beasts, the mightiest of all in the Amazon.
To be continued ▶
The Lone Devourer’s Return
Author
Cheun Ya
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Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
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Grae Publishing
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Publication Date
May 26, 2026
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