The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 50

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Episode 50. Tit for Tat (5)
Kang Hyun-woo charged forward with apparent confidence, but doubt coiled in his chest.
‘Of all people, Marshal.’
He knew the Association Chairman’s inner circle harbored plenty of rough types.
Heretics who bowed to nothing but Seon Woo-hyun’s absolute force and authority.
Though he couldn’t say how many existed, Kang Hyun-woo—who had spent years quietly gathering intelligence on Seon Woo-hyun’s voice—knew Marshal well.
The memory of him laughing beneath the night sky, reveling in slaughter, remained vivid before his eyes.
“Hmm, should I just wipe everyone here out? Or should I torture them first to find out why they’re lurking around in the first place?”
Marshal grinned wickedly, raising his fist.
“No, actually, just keeping them alive works. I’ll have them spill everything in front of the Chairman, then have the Annihilation Squad dispose of them. This’ll be fun, won’t it?”
Kang Hyun-woo’s expression twisted slightly.
The “fun” Marshal spoke of was likely the Garam Guild’s Annihilation Squad.
The Association Chairman erased his own failures. In doing so, he ultimately sought to become the flawless king of Hunters.
“Just keep your mouth shut.”
“Why? Still have some conscience pricking you after such a perfect betrayal?”
“Shut your trap!”
Kang Hyun-woo bellowed and surged forward.
To counter him, an invisible Magic Barrier formed around Marshal’s forearms.
Force Break.
Marshal’s specialty—a technique that shattered all Mana within the barrier’s radius.
Kang Hyun-woo spun the Mana within his body to meet it.
The vibration of Mana flowing through his Mana Circuit projected outward, releasing a powerful Qi Wave.
The two forces collided head-on, and the nearby ground trembled.
Marshal’s smile deepened.
“Great! Now that’s how a sub-guild master of the top ten should fight!”
A blue sphere of Mana crashed down relentlessly before Marshal.
Detonation Smash!
Marshal’s explosive magic manifested—destructive power that could erase an entire area. Before it, Kang Hyun-woo did not retreat but met it head-on.
Red energy expanded outward from his arms.
A strike of the Red Dragon Rising Slash, ascending from below with such overwhelming force that gravity itself seemed to layer upon it.
Boom!
“But I wonder if you can afford to be so relaxed here.”
“What?”
“Sorry, but wouldn’t the higher-ups be quite concerned about this matter?”
Kang Hyun-woo’s gaze shifted to the opposite direction.
Jung Su-jin—known as Seon Woo-hyun’s disciple, yet the target of magical theory exploitation—her Achilles’ heel.
A group of Battle Mages had rushed toward the hidden safe house where her brother was sheltering.
“Damn fools. Why’d you have to come alone, huh? Alone.”
It was why he had let Jung Su-jin escape with Jung Woon-chan while the two of them fought.
…….
Yet Kang Hyun-woo showed no sign of wavering.
“Oh? So you’ve got some guts after all?”
Without bothering to answer, Kang Hyun-woo resumed the fight.
He closed the distance in an instant, pressing forward with close combat; Marshal unfurled a Blow Vector against him.
A seasoned Battle Mage in melee range, Marshal formed a shockwave before him and drove Kang Hyun-woo back with force. Then—
Crack!
The back of an apprentice mage’s head from the pursuit squad—the one closing in on the Jung siblings—exploded apart.
Struck down by an ally wearing the Association’s Apprentice Knight Robe.
“Wh-what?”
“Ambush! All units, battle stations!”
The apprentice members of the Annihilation Squad, realizing their comrade’s death, began to respond.
But a moment’s gap was fleeting; a human life was no less fragile for it.
Slash!
The attacker who seized the massive Chammado that had fallen to the ground—Jung Hyun-su—severed the heads of three apprentice Annihilation Squad members with a single stroke.
Faced with the surreal scene of corpses rolling across the ground, Marshal’s carefree smile shattered.
“Who the hell is that?”
Kang Hyun-woo launched another ambush.
“I said, who is he!”
“Beats me.”
His answer was calm, but Kang Hyun-woo’s surprise was no less genuine.
Jung Hyun-su’s technique was unexpectedly clean and vicious.
‘He kills people as naturally as breathing.’
Recently, he’d thought Jung Hyun-su’s skills were decent enough for his rising reputation—he’d beaten actual Gold Rank Hunters and even toyed with a Platinum. But this? This was something else entirely.
Jung Hyun-su knew how to kill. Really knew how.
‘Has he been hiding his true strength this whole time, slaughtering people all along?’
Kang Hyun-woo had conducted a thorough background investigation, yet now he found himself questioning whether he’d missed something critical.
‘I should cross-verify through Blood Chain. And I need to contact Ha-omun.’
Soon, Garam would be erased from the world.
If Jung Hyun-su—who was supposed to vanish alongside it—had hidden connections Kang Hyun-woo didn’t know about, that would become troublesome.
The Association Chairman was thorough. He might demand accountability.
‘Once I awaken the full power of the Five Kings Technique, the Chairman won’t stand a chance against me.’
Envisioning that future, he had the confidence to weather any accusations of betrayal.
Bang!
Toward Marshal’s densely concentrated Mana Wave crashing down from the front, Kang Hyun-woo lowered his head and drove his fist upward.
* * *
Boom-boom-boom!
Even rotten fish could still pack a punch, the saying went.
Despite being a traitor, Kang Hyun-woo was still the Garam Guild’s Vice-Master by title—and his combat power rivaled that of the Annihilation Squad.
‘That’s the real problem.’
The third-strongest person in the guild matched the level of a mere Annihilation Squad member.
What, then, of the rest?
If Garam was to survive in the days ahead, it would need to grow far stronger.
And the Hunter Association itself—which commanded the Annihilation Squad and countless elite forces—had been decimated in an instant when catastrophes descended. That too lay in Jung Hyun-su’s distant vision.
Crunch.
For Jung Hyun-su, who could see that distant future, the battlefields yet to come were far too many to count.
The Heavenly Tyrant Return King Technique erupted, and immense force tore through the Annihilation Squad’s apprentice unit.
Magic energy flared from all directions in response.
Jung Hyun-su’s thigh muscles swelled taut and powerful.
He moved in a zigzag pattern, weaving through the barrage.
Behind him came fireballs, ice spears, and blade-shaped wind magic in rapid succession, each detonating as it struck.
Whoosh!
Jung Hyun-su emerged from the flames, Chammado in hand.
The remaining mages trained their magic on the enemy who had butchered their comrades.
Their coordinated assault bore the hallmark of systematic squad-combat training.
Concentrated firepower rained down on Jung Hyun-su, momentarily caught off-balance.
Multiple elemental spells crashed down simultaneously.
Slash-slash-slash-slash!
Black smoke coiled from Jung Hyun-su’s Chammado as he didn’t merely block the magic—he carved clean through it.
“What—!”
Without taking a single hit, Jung Hyun-su spun his body with practiced ease, slicing through the magic, and was suddenly upon the apprentice unit.
They scrambled to react, but the seasoned fugitive moved first.
Waists severed. Not one, but three fell in moments.
Boom! Boom!
Bang-bang-bang!
Sniper-fire magic came rushing in, but Jung Hyun-su had already penetrated the formation’s core through the Blue Spirit Eternal Form.
An individual defeating a group was normally a near-impossible task.
Against the Annihilation Squad—the Hunter Association’s elite, forged through rigorous training and real combat—it should have been suicide.
And yet.
Absolutes never truly existed. There were always exceptions, and now was one of them.
“What is that monster—!”
To Marshal, it was nothing short of horrifying. His enhanced vision caught Jung Hyun-su’s face—that of barely a young man, his features still soft and downy.
Yet this boy was slaughtering the Annihilation Squad.
It was as though their roles had inverted entirely—as if he were the annihilator, carrying out his duty with merciless efficiency.
Boom!
“Ugh!”
“Where’s your focus?”
Distracted by the shocking spectacle, Marshal lost his concentration and felt pain flare across his shoulder.
“Damn ape!”
Marshal unleashed his Mana in all directions, fury rising. Mission completion was no longer the issue.
The casualties among the Annihilation Squad he’d brought were already catastrophic. His standing in future evaluations could very well be compromised.
“To move up to the higher ranks, you have to prove your command ability. How are we supposed to do that?”
The bat-like creature’s mockery—and the fact that he seemed to know their internal politics all too well—stoked the fire of my rage even hotter.
“Shut your mouth!”
I wanted to cut off Jung Hyun-su immediately, but Kang Hyun-woo pressed his assault, blocking my path.
In that opening, another Annihilation Squad member’s body flew in half. The entrails of a mage severed at the waist soaked the floor.
Standing in pools of blood, an unexpected reservoir of power emanated a sinister death aura that danced and twisted.
The number of Annihilation Squad members had already halved.
“I command it! All remaining tanks, form ranks at the front! Mages, cast Integrated Magic Circle Formula Sixteen in unison!”
The expressions of the Annihilation Squad hardened with resolve.
It was a method of annihilation born from sacrifice—a gamble purchased with their own blood.
“You should have done this from the start.”
Jung Hyun-su drew the Chammado, which had been carving through the Annihilation Squad all this while.
“Lies! Look at him—his breathing is ragged!”
“I’m exhausted. Tanks, hold on just a little longer!”
A battle that separates life from death cannot help but be fierce. Before a fight waged with everything you have, both body and spirit are devoured in an instant.
Jung Hyun-su, standing before the Annihilation Squad, was clearly worn down. His breath was shaking, and his fingertips trembled faintly.
Even so, Jung Hyun-su steadied his breathing once and rushed forward.
The mages began their incantation.
Precisely targeting a moving object is no simple task. If you widen the range to compensate, the spell’s power diminishes dramatically.
Thus the countermeasure was born—the Hunter Association’s Integrated Magic Circle Formula Sixteen, the annihilation formula, required a tank as its anchor.
The tank pins Jung Hyun-su in place, establishing a fixed coordinate point from which every mage in the Hunter Association channels their full power in a resonance of Mana, summoning a single spear of magic to descend.
‘When we captured the Blood Dragon.’
The memory surfaced of when they subdued the Blood Dragon, the right arm of the Explosion Destruction Dragon Althanaza.
Back then, it had been the personal guard of Guild Master Seon Woo-hyun, not apprentices, and their numbers had exceeded two hundred—that much was different.
What mattered was that Jung Hyun-su had experience with this.
‘The bastard tried to take me with him too.’
Or rather, he simply didn’t care whether I lived or died.
Jung Hyun-su opened his mouth, watching for that final crushing blow.
“Oil Summoning.”
There was no need to expend the last remaining AMP.
[Sacred Sanctuary member Oil descends into the mortal realm.]
“Uaaaaaaaahhhhh! Master! Is this the Orc Liberation Front?”
“It’s a necessary step. Kill all those scrawny bastards.”
An enormous orc suddenly materialized, radiating overwhelming combat power—a monster the size of a wyvern, wielding a Battle Axe and swinging it in wide arcs.
Crash!
“Cough—hack—gaahhh!”
The mages’ resonance shattered instantly, and they all vomited blood. The shock was so severe it damaged their Mana Circuits.
A formula with such devastating power must have equally obvious weaknesses.
The crude orc had burst into the formation precisely where a single point of impact would devastate them all.
“Where are you looking?”
Jung Hyun-su’s Chammado severed the neck of an Annihilation Squad tank who had failed to process the situation.
To be continued in the next chapter ▶
The Sole Inheritor of Regression
Author
Cheon Ya
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Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
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May 26, 2026
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