The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 55

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Episode 55. Prelude to Revolution (4)
A long-awaited eruption of interest.
Though in reality, compared to the Tower’s previous announcements, it was something like live broadcast coverage.
In any case, those who had been waiting for Jeong Hyun-soo’s exploits erupted in cheers.
— Did you see? Did you see, guys?
— Gallery General Updates.MP4
— Who was the bastard who doubted Jeong Hyun-soo?
└My apologies, my apologies!
It was a dazzling return that made the long absence fade into insignificance.
He had not revealed himself publicly, yet Jeong Hyun-soo flaunted his existence in a way no other Hunter in the world could match.
— Is he really going to clear floor twenty at SSS Rank too?
— How? Things get seriously harder from here on out.
└Even if he somehow makes it through floor twelve, can a Desert Howler on floor thirteen really be solo-hunted?
└└Don’t you know the Jeong Hyun-soo summoner story?
└└└??But still, how does he solo hunt with summons from the lower floors?
└└└I don’t know, but Hyun-soo seems like he could do it.
└└└Bullshit. He’s gonna hit his limit soon.
[Must Read. Information about the enemies Jeong Hyun-soo will face up to floor 20]
Hey everyone. I’m just your average Hunter-bro grinding away climbing the Tower to make a living.
(Porsche 911 verification photo)
(Platinum Hunter Grade verification photo)
As you can see, just your typical Hunt-bro.
But still, based on my experience, I wanted to write, analyze, and share a post targeting your average Hunt-bros who probably couldn’t make it past floor eleven.
Once you break through floors eleven and twelve, you hit an expansive desert right away. It’s brutally difficult — Desert Howlers swarm you from every direction.
Just thinking about those endless days of fighting howling mobs still makes me sick.
You grind through Howlers all the way to floor fifteen, beat the boss Howler, and then floor sixteen opens up.
Floor sixteen is a poison-contaminated wasteland. A desert filled with toxic miasma. If you don’t have poison resistance, you’re done from here. You need resistance training, antidotes, or poison-related artifacts equipped before entering.
It costs a fortune.
Anyway, if you get past this hurdle, the floor eighteen boss is something called a Pest Hydra, and man, I just got PTSD writing this far.
That’s where it all goes to hell. A summoner?
How are you supposed to handle the poison the Pest Hydra spews — it’ll dissolve you where you stand.
In my honest opinion, even being generous with Jeong Hyun-soo, maintaining his current results only goes up to SSS Rank, period.
Of course, that alone is an incredible achievement, so I’m not trying to hate on him. He’s still the nation’s hope. Anyway, catch you later.
A post uploaded to Hunter Net began to catch fire.
Realistic takes clashed with fan conviction that Jeong Hyun-soo would definitely push higher, and amid the crossfire, accusations of Platinum Grade manipulation and reports flooded in until the post was eventually deleted.
That was the scale of Jeong Hyun-soo’s influence.
[Announcement!]
[We are pleased to inform you that Jeong Hyun-soo, a Hunter belonging to the Garam Guild of South Korea, has cleared floor 12 of the Tower of Trials at SSS Rank.]
He continued proving it with results.
* * *
Jeong Soo-jin felt as if she were witnessing a miracle unfold before her eyes.
“This is insane…….”
[Entering floor 13 of the Tower of Trials.]
She could only stare in awe at Jeong Hyun-soo’s retreating figure as he stepped out of the corridor and onto the openly desert terrain of floor thirteen.
The Tower-climbing restriction of once per day.
Normally, even with a straightforward clear, one would rest after ascending a single floor.
But Jeong Hyun-soo climbed the Tower again the next day, bringing his siblings Jeong Soo-jin and Jeong Woon-chan with him.
The only condition was that they stay still, and the siblings witnessed a clear so swift it was almost dizzying, doing nothing at all.
“See you tomorrow then.”
Once he defeated the boss, he turned and left without a second glance, leaving the siblings behind in the fully cleared space.
Departure was free, so as long as a day didn’t pass, they could stay as long as they wanted.
The next day, and the day after that.
Jeong Hyun-soo climbed the Tower.
“Why are you pushing yourself like this?”
“Because I want something.”
He dismissed it in a single sentence and drew out the Demon-Slaying Sword.
“I’m clearing this floor in the shortest time possible too.”
Howwwwl!
Jeong Hyun-soo faced a pack of Desert Howlers rushing toward him.
Beyond the swirling sandstorm, the beasts formed an encircling formation.
To the naked eye it was a desert, but the sculpted rock formations and cliffs created a labyrinth.
Take a wrong turn and you’d find yourself chased endlessly by Desert Howlers, spinning in circles forever.
“Ugh…….”
Jeong Soo-jin clutched at her ears.
‘So this is Howling…….’
They’d said it contained the power to steal your sense of direction, and true to their word, the pressure descended at once.
“Keep your wits about you and follow me.”
“W-where are we going?”
“Look up at the sky.”
“…?”
“The constellations spread above hold the key to finding your way.”
Jeong Hyun-soo interpreted the stars through knowledge and logic.
If one merely followed the pattern discovered by that eccentric mage in the near future, floors thirteen through fifteen became genuinely trivial.
“Remember this. Whether Tower or Gate. That cursed thing hides hints in plain sight.”
Jeong Hyun-soo’s gaze fixed on the central star suspended in the stage’s sky—whether truly the heavens or a false illusion warped into existence, no one could say.
He traced the connections: the Pole Star of the Labyrinth, the right-angled triangular pattern, and what was called the Maze Guardian’s pressure point.
The angles between these three points and the baseline revealed the labyrinth’s daily rotation.
“Ah…!”
Jeong Soo-jin’s mind raced, pieces falling into place.
“Calculate the angle formed between the large ladle pointer visible through the skylight and the Pole Star, against the angle formed by the baseline carved into the stele at the maze’s entrance and the Vega-Altair line in the skylight.”
Of course, Jeong Hyun-soo had no need to calculate.
The answer was already there.
[The Tower admires your insight.]
Normally, enormous calculations and formulas would pass between those points. This too belonged to the Tower, but to the realm of celestial physics.
It should be expressed in mathematics, the language of physicists, but when you already knew the answer, there was no need.
“One pole, two angles, three skylights. The angle’s corrected, the stars are decimals. The loop runs backward. The path turns right. When three stars overlap there—”
Where Jeong Hyun-soo pointed, three stars crossed at an exact intersection.
“The door opens. Run!”
He drew the Demon-Slaying Sword in the same motion.
[Vanguard Commander activates.]
[The Reverse Outburst Mechanism’s effect envelops you.]
Now it was simply a matter of charging forward.
And not long after.
[Announcement!]
[We hereby inform you that Jeong Hyun-soo, Hunter of the Garam Guild in South Korea, has cleared the 13th Floor of the Tower of Trials at SSS Rank.]
Another world announcement displayed itself today.
[The Tower confirms your insight.]
[Though the intermediate steps are questionable, the result is certain. Achievement settled.]
[You are awarded a High-Grade Mana Stone.]
“Just as I thought.”
What Jeong Hyun-soo aimed for on the 13th floor came through exactly as planned.
“A High-Grade… Mana Stone? What on earth is that?”
“Something humanity will encounter when its first steps reach the 50th floors.”
“…?”
Every time Jeong Soo-jin listened to Jeong Hyun-soo speak, it felt like encountering a foreign language.
“It’s fundamentally different from the common Mana Stones used until now—mere fuel for Artifact enchantment or magical scrolls. This isn’t just a perfect substitute for fossil fuels; it brings revolutionary efficiency. It’s humanity’s future and the vanguard of revolution.”
“Really? Where would anything so grand exist? No matter how much the Tower appeared and the world changed…….”
“It will align with the theory you’ve developed. Research it a little and you’ll see for yourself.”
“For that I’d need a proper lab. As you can see, I don’t even have a research facility—I’m stuck clinging to the Tower.”
She couldn’t remember the last time she’d properly bathed.
But Jeong Soo-jin knew how difficult it was to secure a true safe house.
Seon Woo-hyun would never give up. He would tolerate no blemish, however small.
“Don’t worry about a safe house. I keep my promises.”
Jeong Soo-jin was honestly skeptical.
“Why are you going this far for me?”
“Because you’re worth it.”
“Where did…….”
“I know you’re not much use in combat. You’re weak in that department.”
Jeong Soo-jin couldn’t honestly deny it.
“But your strength is that your mind can forge magical theory, and it happens to always be practical. Look at the Mana Stone Artifact alone.”
It was Jeong Soo-jin who was the monster capable of translating the idea into reality — swapping out ordinary batteries for Mana Stone Artifacts.
“Target the commercialization of High-Grade Mana Stones. You can do it. Proceed under the Garam Guild name and you’ll be fine. I’ll sweep away any obstacles that get in your way.”
“Is that the condition of our agreement?”
“Yes. Within days, I’ll provide you with a perfect hideaway and research facility. You’ll be astonished when you see it.”
Jeong Soo-jin, coexisting with Seuil, devoted herself to magical research from dawn to dusk.
Jeong Hyun-soo found himself brimming with anticipation for the research yields to come.
* * *
At that same moment, Buckingham Palace in Britain.
Though it had served as the royal residence since ancient times, it had become a veritable fortress of natural defenses under the direct command of the Knight King, who had come to power after the Hunter Cataclysm.
Click, click, click!
The Knight King appointed himself as such, yet possessed no Round Table of his own.
Instead, he commanded twelve knights in rigorous hierarchy—those who obeyed his word absolutely.
Twelve knightly orders led by four dukes and eight marquises, all of whom answered to the Knight King’s command.
“The King approaches! All present, rise and show proper respect!”
The commanders of the knightly orders serving the Knight King’s will were perpetually occupied.
They rotated between Gates and the Tower, and their duties in raising and expanding the nation’s prestige never ceased.
Four knightly orders, the minimum necessary to protect the Crown, stood watch in rotating shifts.
The current Duke of Buckingham, sporting an impressive beard, fixed his gaze upon the golden-haired woman entering.
Her form, sensual and taut, could not possibly be concealed beneath the light armor she wore. Yet lust kindled nowhere within him.
The world’s mightiest knight. The marks of a powerful body grown alongside her illustrious deeds.
The symbol of knighthood itself. She who had been granted awakening by their sovereign and raised to the rank of duke now spoke.
“Duke.”
“Yes, great Knight King.”
“Am I truly king of the knights?”
At the King’s words, the Duke of Buckingham’s expression darkened. The King’s gaze fixed upon empty air.
That glorious Round Table. Above its ceiling, where the King issued his solemn commands, hung the severed head of someone.
A wretch who, despite having received the honor of appointment as royal attendant,
Had concealed and pilfered a clue regarding the companion of the Holy Sword he so desperately sought, then fled in sacrilege!
“My apologies. However, we have made discreet contact with a group from the East called the Blood Alliance, who claim to have located Avalon.”
“I heard that news ages ago. I summoned them—why do those wretches not show their faces?”
“The intelligence remains incomplete, Your Majesty. Given the gravity of the matter, I humbly beseech your patience.”
“In the meantime, the sorcerer’s master grows in base strength. Shall I, the knights, fall behind? Send the knights to the East at once.”
[Announcement!]
[It is hereby announced that Jeong Hyun-soo, a Hunter of the Garam Guild in South Korea, has cleared the Tower of Trials, Floor 15, with an SSS Rank rating.]
“A curious fellow indeed. I hear he has devoted himself to martial arts. While we are about it, seek him out and attempt to convince him to accept knighthood.”
This conversation took place in Britain on a certain day.
Continued in the next episode ▶
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