The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 48

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Episode 48. Tit for Tat (3)
The topmost floor of the Hunter Association’s tower rising above Paris held nothing but a strange silence.
Silence was a familiar virtue in this place, yet its quality now carried something different.
Someone had shattered that silence.
“I bring a report.”
An answer came in response to the broken quiet.
“What is the outcome?”
“…We have lost Jung Su Jin.”
At his subordinate’s report, Seon Woo Yong Nam closed both eyes.
Yet the Qi Wave that flowed from him carried undisguised anger, and the power that came with a level to match the heads of the ten great guilds pressed down on all sides.
The mage’s complexion went pale in an instant.
“Have you found Balak?”
“We located the magical traces left by Black Requiem’s manifestation.”
“His whereabouts?”
“…Unclear. We glimpsed memories of four AMP detonations in the surrounding area. Given that….”
“He’s dead then.”
The subordinate lowered his head.
Seon Woo Yong Nam held a cold fury, and his mind raced all the faster for it.
Someone had dared to interfere in the Association’s affairs.
A skilled fighter with the strength to kill an Association Knight without hesitation, and the audacity to match.
On top of that, the ability to use and smuggle AMP out without the Association’s permission….
“It must be one of the blacks. Or perhaps Russia or China….”
Could it be America?
The Association was a supranational body involved in the hunters’ world. Seon Woo Hyun’s power grew with each passing day, and the great powers naturally took precautions. Enemies were many, but he trusted in Seon Woo Hyun’s capabilities.
Crisis was inevitable if one were to emerge victorious and seize the perfect prize at the end.
Losses in the process were to be expected.
Jung Su Jin had slipped through their grasp, and the Assassination Squad’s Balak had been eliminated.
Six other Association Knights had also perished, and the tank was dead as well.
The concurrent sweep of blue-ranked wanted criminals and mafia extermination barely registered in his mind.
“Find them without fail. It is the only way to demonstrate the Association’s authority.”
“…What should we do about Jung Su Jin’s sibling?”
“Do you have a location?”
“We have managed to trace their general movements.”
Jung Su Jin was the object that the Association’s chairman desired. But this time, the line had been crossed.
No matter how much Seon Woo Hyun treasured Jung Su Jin’s talent, this could no longer be tolerated.
“Execute them. I will report to the chairman; prepare Marshal.”
The mage’s eyes trembled faintly. But the matter was grave.
He bowed his head in lieu of an answer, and Seon Woo Yong Nam turned his gaze away.
It was a death sentence.
* * *
Kim Chun Sik, sitting in the safe house that Hyul Ryeon had prepared, showed unmistakable signs of anxiety.
“Surely you can’t just bring me here without thought to the consequences?”
“In the current situation, this was the first priority.”
“Damn! Killing an Association Knight and coming here…!”
“There’s nothing to worry about. I’ve erased all traces.”
Jung Hyun Soo’s voice was endlessly calm.
It wasn’t confidence, exactly. What emerged was more a tone suggesting that things could only unfold as he expected, but from Kim Chun Sik’s perspective, it was maddening.
“How did you even know this was a safe house? What makes you so certain they won’t find us?”
Everything came down to Jung Hyun Soo. During his time as the Dark King, he had learned of an old branch in this location.
It had been an old outpost then, but now it was a newly completed building—a safe house even the Association would struggle to locate.
The traces he’d left were erased through the experience honed during long years as a wanted criminal, and later perfected through a life spent fleeing from Calamity Deities—rich experience in the complete erasure of evidence.
“…What comes next? We can’t stay here forever.”
Jung Su Jin looked anxious.
How could she not be?
Now she would face the Association’s relentless pursuit. Even alone in such a position, the weight would wear at one’s spirit, but she had a family to protect.
“Of course we’ll bring your sibling first.”
At that answer—as though he had read her thoughts—Jung Su Jin’s eyes wavered.
“How will you…?”
“The Association’s dogs will come. Once they do, we’ll catch and kill every last one of them.”
Jung Su Jin suddenly recalled the terrifying magic that Balak wielded.
Monsters of that caliber are a dime a dozen under Seon Woo Hyun.
“…Stronger ones will come.”
“Of course. He won’t stop at Seon Woo Hyun—the vice-chairman will play a sure card at his discretion.”
“Any way I look at it, we don’t stand a chance?”
“We can’t manage it alone.”
“…You’re saying you’ll exclude us?”
Kim Chun Sik felt like he’d stepped in something foul. Pursuing traces of Avalon, the holy relic paired with the Holy Sword Excalibur, meant he’d stumbled straight into the Calamity Deity.
“…The math doesn’t add up. Getting involved in smuggling out a wanted criminal of the Hunter Association…”
“A wanted criminal? A victim who’s lived an exploited life.”
“We’re not an organization that does charitable work.”
“And yet you’re still hesitating, even though you must’ve considered holding the Association’s secrets over their heads?”
“What if it leaves a mark on Seon Woo Hyun?”
Jung Hyun Soo let out a quiet laugh.
“Hyul Ryeon has no intention of entangling itself further.”
“That’s reassuring.”
“When we hand over the goods to the Knight King of England later, make sure the name Kim Chun Sik reaches his ears. But for that math to work…”
“Yes?”
Jung Hyun Soo’s eyes gleamed with predatory sharpness.
“We’ll have to sacrifice one branch.”
“What the—did you just say?”
“The branch protecting his little sister will become a battlefield where we face off against the Association’s dogs.”
Kim Chun Sik felt a migraine coming on.
* * *
After the rendezvous with Kim Chun Sik, Jung Hyun Soo made his way back to the Association Branch first.
“Who goes there.”
“Jung Hyun Soo of Garam Guild.”
Balak and Sierra, who’d come along as nominal guardians, had already become High Ghosts.
As for everyone else, they naturally had no awareness of their presence at all—but still, this was supposedly the Hunter Association.
The external database remained intact. The surprising part was that Kang Hyun Woo had flown to Paris.
“I heard there was a problem, so I came in person.”
Kang Hyun Woo, whose betrayal of Garam Guild made him effectively part of Seon Woo Hyun’s faction.
A smug smile played at the corners of his mouth—Seon Woo Yong Nam’s failure clearly amused him.
During that process, Jung Hyun Soo’s absence must have been noted. He was likely thinking of him as the link that would pass down the Five Kings’ Martial Art.
“While we were heading out to catch criminals, some seniors suddenly told us to wait, then vanished.”
“And then?”
At the sound of the voice, Jung Hyun Soo turned around.
Seon Woo Yong Nam was standing behind him, having received word of the entry.
“Continue, apprentice.”
“What’s there to say? They told me not to do this or that, so I just stood around doing nothing. To kill time, I went in anyway, and that’s it.”
Seon Woo Yong Nam’s gaze landed on Jung Hyun Soo with cutting sharpness.
“Is that all?”
“There’s no clear completion condition like a Tower or Gate. You need experience to handle something. All I saw was chaos in various places with nothing worth my while.”
Jung Hyun Soo is a Holy One who brings calamity. But a Holy One all the same.
He wouldn’t have known of the battle where Balak—that pillar built skyward stone by stone—had fallen in combat,
nor would there have been anything for him to do in a scene of systematic suppression by Association Knights.
Balak had been attached as insurance—to kill him if deemed dangerous, or to recruit him if he seemed sympathetic—but Seon Woo Yong Nam clicked his tongue at the sight of Jung Hyun Soo.
‘Good combat sense, but decision-making in the field hasn’t outgrown his peers?’
His assessment of Jung Hyun Soo sufficed for now. His priority lay with tracking down and eliminating the forces connected to Jung Su Jin, who’d fled.
That he couldn’t recognize the very orchestrator of this incident standing before his eyes was likely due to Jung Hyun Soo’s age and his previous record.
Until recently, the boy had been a worthless hooligan drifting through the social pages—the very premise that such a nobody could orchestrate such a conspiracy against the Hunter Association, which manipulates the world’s hunters, was inconceivable.
“I’ll notify you of the decision later. Go on.”
Seon Woo Yong Nam withdrew his gaze from the two members of Garam Guild and turned away.
* * *
“The Association Chairman’s protégé has deserted.”
It was what Kang Hyun Woo told him the moment they returned to the lodgings.
For now it was being treated as classified information, but it would eventually come to light.
“Deserted? What do you mean?”
“The Chairman is certainly a genius. But his greatest genius lies in his greed.”
Kang Hyun Woo seemed to understand Seon Woo Hyun’s true nature well enough.
“His ambitions are grand, and he has much to prove.”
“So the magical thesis published under the Hunter Association Chairman’s name was actually created through Jung Su Jin, a genius, is that what you’re saying?”
That’s the public image.
A political mastermind who nonetheless leads the charge against Wanted Criminals, wielding the Association’s full power.
And beyond that, a theorist who carves time from those efforts to contribute to magical advancement.
He knew it already, but pretended otherwise.
“Yes.”
“So what then? Find her and return her to the Chairman?”
At Jung Hyun Soo’s words, Kang Hyun Woo let out a soft laugh.
“You’re still so young.”
“Young?”
“Not that you’re dull. I’d say you lack experience. Jung Su Jin is held captive by the Chairman because of her younger brother. So…….”
Seon Woo Hyun fixed his gaze on Jung Hyun Soo and spoke.
“Seize the brother, and that woman will come crawling back to the Chairman of her own accord. Despite her blessed talents, she’s foolishly sentimental about blood. Unlike you, her attachment to family is almost pathetic. Yet she won’t abandon it. Remarkable.”
The contempt in Kang Hyun Woo’s words was unmistakable. Jung Hyun Soo had to suppress the murderous intent that rose with each syllable.
Not yet.
Because…….
‘You’ve swallowed the bait.’
“To become a great leader, you must cast aside personal sentiment. Only when cold, calculated magical power flows instead of blood can you grasp the strength you desire. Isn’t that right?”
A gentle smile, but one that showed Jung Hyun Soo the depths beneath.
Of course it wasn’t true trust.
It was a test, a traitor’s way of gauging reaction—a sounding-out before judgment formed through working together.
“We need to locate her first.”
“I’ve already commissioned reliable people. Word will come through.”
“Where is she?”
“…You don’t need to know the details.”
“If this is a chance to earn points with the Chairman, shouldn’t we do it together?”
“Don’t worry. When opportunity presents itself, I’ll let you know. Oh, and no matter how bored you get, don’t call for the woman.”
He had no intention of calling her anyway.
This night required assessing his forces and plotting strategy anew.
First and foremost.
“Why not? The women in Paris are incredible.”
“Han Ul is interested in you. Take Ji Min Jung. Then Han Ul becomes yours as well. There are plenty of women. You can claim them once you have power. All of South Korea will be yours—what’s the problem?”
“Sounds busy.”
“It should be. A man needs to live busily in pursuit of success. That’s how the fruits taste sweetest.”
Kang Hyun Woo left with those final words. Jung Hyun Soo watched his departing back with barely concealed mockery.
“Busy indeed.”
Wipe out the Garam Guild, suck up to the Chairman, arrange marriage talks with Han Ul.
Words spoken to a traitor who swallowed the bait—one who would soon be dead, living a busy final existence.
Buzz-buzz-buzz.
The smartwatch vibrated.
— Yes, sir. Shall we slip the word to Kang Hyun Woo?
Jung Hyun Soo gazed up at the moon-lit night.
The moon was waning. The new moon would soon arrive.
He hoped the sky this traitor would see for the last time would be darker than ever before.
“Proceed.”
In the reflection of the glass window, Jung Hyun Soo’s eyes were colder than the fading moonlight.
Continued in the next chapter ▶
The Regression Martial God Monopolizes All
Author
Chun Ya
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Kim Seok Hwan, Choi Se Ra
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Publication Date
May 26, 2026
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