The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 47

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Episode 47. Playing With Fire (2)
“Yamal!”
Yamal, the tank from the Guild Knights, snapped his eyes open as searing pain blazed through his forearm.
“Ugh!”
He’d walked the Elite Course, survived countless Field Missions, yet nothing in his life had prepared him for this.
To have his arm severed in a single stroke by some masked stranger in direct combat.
“Send backup now—!”
“Impossible! The mana’s gone haywire!”
The voices of the battle mages carried a bewilderment that belied their training.
During a Field Mission, unforeseen complications were always possible, but this…
“Damn it, this is AMP, isn’t it?”
The mana in the vicinity had gone silent and still as if refined to absolute purity—unmistakably the effect of an AMP.
Every mage’s gaze snapped toward Jung Su-jin as if by agreement.
“You bitch! How dare you craft something like this using Guild property!”
For mages, it was a weapon of utter devastation. The very thing that was forbidden—AMP.
A product of civilization predicted to emerge from Gates in distant futures where Mage Engineering had reached staggering heights—a Steampunk world, or perhaps from certain upper layers of the Tower.
“Insane! How was I supposed to develop this? Are you out of your mind?”
“You bought it.”
Jung Hyun-soo exploited the opening, closing the gap in an instant.
Sweeping Yamal aside, he surged forward—a force of nature, a lord of that space itself.
[Tsk tsk, master. AMP reserves are down to three now.]
Whoosh!
Jung Hyun-soo’s blade swept through the air with lethal precision.
Against the raw power amplified by his Vanguard Trait and the Reverse Explosive Sword Edge Technique, the mages—stripped of their ability to manipulate mana in this space—were utterly defenseless.
A head arced through the air, trailing hot blood in its wake.
“Damn!”
Yamal cursed and charged at Jung Hyun-soo.
This was a true emergency.
He had to complete his mission here, and complete it he would.
The tank’s duty: to secure the safety of the battle mages who could no longer fight.
“Think Seon Woo-hyeon will reattach your arm if you crawl out of here alive?”
“The Guild Master might…”
“He will. He loves a good show. Poor bastard.”
Crash!
Jung Hyun-soo brought his Battle Axe down without mercy.
Yamal blocked with everything he had. Even with equipment issued by the Guild Knights and his dedicated Strong Wall skill, the shockwave he couldn’t fully absorb made his skull ring like a bell.
“How much longer!”
He spat blood and shouted.
The AMP wouldn’t last forever. In fact, its effect on mages was so potent that its duration was mercifully short.
“That’s it!”
The moment the battle mages sensed the mana returning from the air and began their incantations, an invisible blade pierced through their throats.
“Choke—!”
Mana returning. What was needed to strike first in that moment was Mana Sensitivity and control.
Jung Su-jin’s magic, born of an innate sensitivity so exceptional that even Seon Woo-hyeon coveted it, pronounced a death sentence upon their enemies.
With only two battle mages remaining, they desperately manifested their shields.
“Die!”
They were about to unleash a barrage with all their remaining strength when—
“AMP deployed. You—take that one.”
“What? You psycho—!”
As the shockwave expanded through the air, the battle mages felt despair settle over them.
Thud!
Just before mana ceased responding once more,
the spear of magic, conjured with extraordinary sensitivity, pierced Yamal’s heart, while Jung Hyun-soo’s ruthless blade reduced the battle mages to corpses.
In the land where five battle mages and a tank lay dead, blood pooling into the sewers, Jung Su-jin gasped for breath and asked:
“Who are you?”
“Personal questions later.”
“What?”
“It’s not over yet.”
Jung Hyun-soo’s gaze fixed not on Jung Su-jin, but across the way.
Click, click.
“I have no idea what I just saw.”
Ballak walked toward him from across the way.
Crack!
The drainage pipes twisted throughout the area from the shockwave emanating from Ballak.
The ground caved inward, and sewage rushed into the sunken space.
Jung Hyun-soo’s eyes went wide.
A memory from that day flashed through his mind—the gravity mage who used binding-class magic while destroying Garam’s front gate.
“Recruit. Explain yourself.”
Before Ballak finished speaking, everything nearby was sucked toward him and shattered into fragments.
“Why did you kill them?”
“Because they deserve to die.”
Jung Hyun-soo immediately unfolded the Clear Spirit Thousand Appearances technique.
Clear Spirit Thousand Appearances—Ten Thousand Form Flow Guard.
A flowing, windlike motion rippled through space. Jung Hyun-soo soared upward from where he’d been standing moments before.
Boom!
A devastating force warped the space itself. Jung Hyun-soo slipped through between the gravity spheres like water, leaving only afterimages in his wake.
But his opponent was Ballak.
A member of the Assassination Squad, secretly selected by Seon Woo-hyeon without the knowledge of the Guild Knights hierarchy.
The final gravity sphere, spewed out in rapid succession, locked onto Jung Hyun-soo.
An awkward landing position descending from mid-air—exactly what any observer would call a disadvantageous moment.
Space contorted. Ballak’s terrifying power amplified both the strength and size of the final remaining gravity sphere.
“Tch!”
Jung Su-jin moved to provide support, but Sierra appeared before her.
“Let’s see how brilliant you really are, shall we?”
Whoosh!
Illusion Magic poured forth from Sierra’s fingertips.
The hidden magical blade concealed within forced Jung Su-jin to immediately envision a dissolution incantation.
Jung Hyun-soo stood facing Ballak’s danger—a threat that seemed fundamentally different from other Hunter Knights.
Crash!
He pulled up the Dark Heaven Return technique to deflect Ballak’s gravitational field.
Part of the gravity sphere dispersed, its trajectory warped, flying backward to rupture the drainage system.
Splash! Splash!
The water was sucked in, compressed, and then burst forth from the ruptured drainage beyond.
Jung Hyun-soo charged toward Ballak as though riding atop that torrent of water.
“Foolish.”
Ballak sneered at Jung Hyun-soo closing the distance.
It was almost common sense that mages were weak in close combat. Yet Guild Knights were expected to transcend such convention.
Especially for the Assassination Squad, whose purpose was to eliminate obstacles threatening the Guild’s protection.
Weaknesses were something they had to overcome naturally.
Boom!
Ballak stamped his foot hard against the ground.
His signature wave-type gravity magic—Black Requiem!
Multiple layers of gravitational fields compressed at ultra-high speed, detonating in rapid succession.
Bang! Bang!
Boom!
A one-hit instant-kill spell personally designed by the Guild Master for crushing those who dared approach—lethal magic.
The space near the point of impact tore open like a black disc, and its deafening sound echoed like Mozart’s unfinished masterpiece, the Requiem.
“I’ve heard that Garam has a Skill that neutralizes magic.”
One thing.
No matter how powerful, no Skill could be infinitely strong or usable without limit.
The greater the effect a power wielded, the more constraints bound it.
This was the law of this era, the law established by the Tower and Awakening.
“Let’s see you try!”
“Very well.”
Beyond the explosion, eyes flashed brilliantly, meeting Ballak’s gaze.
Ballak felt his heart suddenly plummet without warning.
Clearly, he held no disadvantage—not in hand-to-hand combat, not in magical power, not in any aspect.
Jung Hyun-soo appeared wholly preoccupied with deflecting the Black Requiem’s gravitational explosions through the Dark Heaven Return.
“Come on then. Let’s see how long you last!”
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
The Dark Heaven Return energy contained in Jung Hyun-soo’s Battle Axe was steadily dimming.
The Hunters Guild’s Assassination Squad. Ballak, one of Seon Woo-hyeon’s blades, wielded power that undoubtedly placed him among the elite of hunters.
Without being a leader of one of the Top 10 Guilds, victory could not be easily claimed, and no matter how Jung Hyun-soo had once reigned as the Dark King in his past life, he was woefully insufficient now.
One.
“Three shots remaining. Sail. Activate AMP Concentrated Mode.”
AMP was not invincible.
The wider the range, the weaker the control. That was why Jung Hyun-soo had narrowed it through Sail.
It was an advance made for that very purpose.
He had poured all his strength into positioning himself within the distance Sail had calculated.
[Master, how many shots will you use?]
Until now, it had been one.
For this very moment.
“Two should suffice.”
“What—!”
Ballak was no fool.
Even as he fought Jung Hyun-soo, he had been analyzing the battlefield. He had detected it twice — moments when the ambient mana had stopped flowing.
The only thing that could accomplish that artificially was an AMP, something that emerged only from specific Gates.
It was exceedingly rare, strictly controlled by the Guild.
That Jung Hyun-soo possessed two AMPs, items that sold for over a billion won on the black market, was already shocking enough.
[Laser Dart.]
Space tore open, and beyond it—a pair of crimson eyes grinning wickedly.
The moment Ballak saw the bizarre machine, its body reduced to nothing but a skull, his eyes flooded with pure horror.
Two AMPs, their range compressed and power amplified through the concentrated mode, descended.
“Kuh—heurghhhh!”
The Black Requiem, unleashed at full power, stuttered to a halt, and Ballak’s mana pathways surged with backflowing energy as blood poured from his mouth.
“I’ll send Seon Woo-hyeon your way eventually.”
“Who are you really—”
“How long did you think Garam wouldn’t find out?”
Had the Assassination Squad’s covert project to eliminate Garam Guild already been exposed?
It had to be reported.
One.
Jung Hyun-soo seized Ballak with both hands and tore him apart.
Rip—ahhhhhhh!
Sewage erupted from the fractured drainage canal, gushing violently and engulfing the shredded Ballak.
“Grab my hand.”
Jung Hyun-soo seized Jung Su-jin’s hand as she unfurled her Flight Magic, and they soared upward.
“The woman?”
Instead of answering, Jung Su-jin pointed to the heap of ash accumulated in the section where water had not yet filled.
“Thanks to the distraction, it was simple.”
Sierra, her resolve shattered at the sight of two AMPs, had suffered an ignominious defeat at Jung Su-jin’s hands, leaving no corpse behind.
Jung Hyun-soo threw the Battle Axe, its blade already dulled from exhaustion, with his last ounce of strength.
A final blow channeling even the Earth Star Instant Rise—a force of such magnitude that even Jeon Jung-guk’s still-blue-rank dynamic vision could not follow it.
“Kkhuk!”
Jeon Jung-guk, crouched low, took the impact on his skull and was hurled backward.
“Will it be all right like this…?”
“If you were Seon Woo-hyeon, what would you think when you saw and heard all this?”
Jung Su-jin, a mage-theory slave, fled the scene.
In the process, five Battle Mages, one Tanker, Ballak of the Assassination Squad, and Sierra all fell, while traces of AMP remained at the site.
“…I’ll be at least a Black-Class Wanted Criminal.”
No one could ever suspect Jung Hyun-soo’s existence.
No matter how advanced Magical Forensic Analysis might be, the Black Requiem had obliterated the entire area beforehand, so they would either conclude that Jung Su-jin’s abilities were terrifying or—
“You’ll be labeled a—”
A powerful fugitive of the Guild. They would judge that Jung Su-jin had joined the most-wanted criminal mage group, the one hoarding the most AMPs, and would begin mounting a response.
In other words…
“They’ll be chasing ghosts for a while.”
Jung Hyun-soo gazed at Jeon Jung-guk’s collapsed skull drifting away in the current.
The dead tell no tales, after all.
“And we haven’t even begun with Spirit Summoning yet.”
“What?”
“Doesn’t matter.”
Jung Hyun-soo first took Jung Su-jin to the Blood Lotus Safe House, which he had prepared in advance.
Continued in the next episode ▶
The Monopolizing Return Martial God
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