The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 56

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Episode 56. The Holy Blade (1)
Jeong Hyun-soo began his inventory check as soon as he woke.
Having pushed through the accumulated tower climbs in a single stretch, rewards from each floor had piled up considerably.
[Fragment of Constellation]
[Grade: Rare]
[Description: Awarded only to those who have broken through the Labyrinth Constellation’s shortcut method.]
[Effect: Periodically senses the surroundings and locates hidden paths or traps.]
[Item Name: Twilight Ear Carapace]
[Description: Spoils granted to one who has dispatched a Desert Howler in a single strike.]
[Effect: Resistance to illusion and sonic attacks.]
[Skill: Sound Wave Mapping usable.]
“Decent haul.”
Combined with the Desert Black Compass obtained from Floor 11 previously, and an artifact that reduced magical consumption by a fraction, the results were hardly shabby.
Truth be told, Jeong Hyun-soo’s standards were simply that demanding—had a typical hunter climbing the teens of the tower received such items, the world would turn upside down.
“Mm.”
[Name: Jeong Hyun-soo]
[Ability Stats: Life (47), Strength (56), Skill (62), Spirit (72), Endurance (63)]
[Skills: Five Kings Martial Art – Heavenly Tyrant Return King Technique (10-Star), Illusory Heaven True Energy (10-Star), Present Heaven Return King Technique (10-Star), Blue Spirit Myriad Phase Technique (10-Star), Existence Imprint, Naming Art, Earth Star Instant Energy, Wrath of the King]
[Traits: Tyrant Genius, Reverse-Burst Energy Opening World, Seongso, Simultaneous Output]
The rate of growth in his ability stats—cultivated through relentless training and combat—was nothing short of remarkable.
His rank was still Bronze, yet his physical capabilities alone were approaching Platinum-level hunters.
It was all the harvest of clearing the tower at SSS Rank. The blessing of growth speed different from others supported him steadily.
“Seuil.”
[At your call, Seuil stops his research and peeks his head out curiously, asking what you need.]
“How’s the AMP blueprint?”
[Seuil informs you it’s roughly 96% complete.]
The Association had likely already begun countermeasures, but even so, the AMP remained an efficient weapon against all who wielded magic and incantation.
[However, Seuil expresses doubt over whether mass production would even be feasible given the material supply constraints, even if completion were achieved.]
“I’ll handle the supply side. You focus on design and refinement.”
[Seuil grumbles that he’ll do his best.]
Progress was indeed moving smoothly in the direction he pursued.
‘Still not enough.’
Yet Jeong Hyun-soo could not be satisfied with this smooth progress.
What he would have to face was far too much, and his enemies were far too vast.
“Tower transport.”
And so Jeong Hyun-soo climbed the tower.
[Announcement!]
[We hereby inform you that Hunter Jeong Hyun-soo, belonging to Garam Guild of South Korea, has cleared Floor 16 of the Tower of Trials at SSS Rank.]
On Floor 16, he had defeated the water spirit that had befouled the oasis of the desert.
The reward he obtained was the Bottle of Pure Water—an elixir with the power to purify corrupted things.
Jeong Hyun-soo did not stop.
[Announcement!]
[We hereby inform you that Hunter Jeong Hyun-soo, belonging to Garam Guild of South Korea, has cleared Floor 17 of the Tower of Trials at SSS Rank.]
[Announcement!]
[We hereby inform you that Hunter Jeong Hyun-soo, belonging to Garam Guild of South Korea, has cleared Floor 18 of the Tower of Trials at SSS Rank.]
In the linked section of the combined stages, he had torn open the heart of the Pest Hydra.
The Seven Poison Heart he obtained was known to be an elixir that conferred poison affinity.
[Announcement!]
[We hereby inform you that Hunter Jeong Hyun-soo, belonging to Garam Guild of South Korea, has cleared Floor 19 of the Tower of Trials at SSS Rank.]
The Temple of the Sun—the end of the desert stage.
Having subdued the guardian that stood at its entrance and seized the Key of the Sun, Jeong Hyun-soo had finally earned the right to challenge the final boss that guarded Floor 20.
* * *
Jeong Hyun-a logged into the Hunter Net as if she had been waiting for this moment.
She sought to find the post she was looking for above all else, but—
[This post has been deleted by the author.]
“Ha, instant backpedal, huh?”
The post in which a Platinum-ranked hunter had recently attested his rank and boldly proclaimed that Jeong Hyun-soo would at best break the previous record at Floor 18 before stalling had vanished.
It had garnered over a hundred thousand upvotes.
That many people had wished for Jeong Hyun-soo’s failure, yet once again he had shattered such hopes into pieces.
It was rather satisfying, in truth.
Once upon a time—not long ago, even—he had been blood kin whom she despised.
But then he suddenly came to his senses and started doing things he’d never done before, becoming the pride of Garam.
[LMAO where’d that Platinum scrub Jeong Hyun-soo go, the one who was stuck at level 19?]
[Leave it, Platinum did what Platinum does.]
[Anyway, Plat’s Plat.]
A Platinum Hunter was, in a sense, the benchmark of a successful Hunter.
└That’s why there are so many idiots who get high off being Platinum and think they’re the standard themselves.
└└For real LMAO, Platinum itself is legit though.
Platinum Hunter was where the stage began for the genuine ones—those who had proven their talent and climbed through effort.
“Platinum, huh….”
It was also Jeong Hyun-a’s target Rank. At least reaching Platinum would mean she had what it took to work as a Garam Hunter without shortcoming.
“What kind of person does that even?”
Unlike Jeong Hyun-a, who hadn’t escaped Rookie, there was Jeong Hyun-soo at Bronze Rank.
Yet he was writing down miracle-like records that even Platinum Hunters couldn’t dare attempt, which made him deeply puzzling to her.
If he possessed abilities that impressive, why had he lived so pathetically until now?
“Sigh. I don’t know. Let’s just train.”
Jeong Hyun-a thought of Jeong Hyun-soo.
Jeong Hyun-soo poured every moment outside of the bare minimum food and rest into nothing but training and clearing dungeons.
Jeong Hyun-a decided to do the same.
She’d come to understand that to grow stronger, everything else had to be stripped away.
So Jeong Hyun-a skipped school.
‘I’ll ask them to get me a private tutor for the business classes I need….’
“Right?”
Huff, huff!
Jeong Hyun-a, together with Haengbok-i, began not with the usual light run but with something far more demanding.
Powerful stamina and endurance, agility, reaction time.
She was determined to build everything up steadily, piece by piece.
* * *
[You have entered the 20th Floor of the Tower of Trials.]
Jeong Hyun-soo had reached the deepest sanctum of the colossal Temple of the Sun, positioned at the tail end of the desert stage that began on the eleventh floor.
The skylight lay open wide, letting in sunlight as real as the world above, and the altar gleamed with golden light pierced straight through.
A circular magic circle bearing the sun’s seal was carved into the floor, while unknown characters blazed along the walls, rippling in patterns across the stone.
“These are all defensive magic circles. Of course, you’d know that already.”
“Yeah, instead of helping, go fiddle with the advanced magic stones over there in the corner.”
In a way, it was the same as telling her to get lost since she was no use, but Jeong Soo-jin showed not the slightest sign of being offended.
“Be careful.”
Knowing Jeong Hyun-soo’s abilities, she stepped back. It seemed the author would be going solo today as well.
But as was known, the stage’s final boss that appeared every ten floors was recommended for party hunts.
‘Will he be alright?’
In the meantime, Jeong Hyun-soo inserted the key he’d obtained from the nineteenth floor.
[The ritual begins, and the Sun’s Judge appears.]
Click, click!
From across the temple, in a space where sunlight danced, a colossal warrior clad in solar armor materialized.
‘The Solar Blade, the Radiant Shield…..’
One of the other main reasons Jeong Hyun-soo had pushed himself to reach the twentieth floor.
With those two, he would finally be able to obtain Avalon, the sheathe of the holy sword that would draw forth the Knight King.
[Foolish climber, are you prepared to receive the judgment of the sun?]
“Spare me the nonsense, you trash who sacrificed the world you once ruled to the tower just to live alone.”
[You know much, climber. But do not abuse that knowledge, lest you incur the curse of causality.]
“I’ll handle that myself, so shut your mouth.”
The Sun’s Judge’s Solar Blade from the twentieth floor’s final boss began to burst into flame.
As the sun-blade he lifted soared high, the magic circle on the ground below responded, blazing with light.
Jeong Hyun-soo’s breath fell heavy and deep.
A scarlet, tyrannical force surging from his entire body—the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art.
The amplified might from Reverse-Burst Energy Opening World and the Vanguard’s effect crashed down upon the Judge.
Boom!
[…!]
The Radiant Shield in the Judge’s grip went flying, crashing into the altar.
Crack!
The altar’s wall crumbled down.
“…fall for the same trick twice?”
Jeong Hyun-soo grinned and leveled the Demon-Slaying Sword at the Judge.
[Twice…?]
“Oh, it exists, I assure you.”
Naturally, Jeong Hyun-soo had fought the Sun’s Judge in his past life as well.
Drawing on those memories, the accumulated strategies of Hunters since then, he had orchestrated a flawless counter-attack from the Judge’s opening strike, seizing undeniable advantage.
The Judge gripped the Solar Blade with both hands and channeled magical power upward.
Whoooosh!
Flames erupted from the solar sword like a beam of light, tearing through the altar.
Zzzzzing!
Jeong Hyun-soo, as if he’d been waiting, anticipated the strike and unfurled the Blue Spirit Myriad Phase Technique.
Riding the power of the Wind King, a blue afterimage soared skyward as Jeong Hyun-soo stomped down on the solar blade and launched himself upward again.
Crash!
The Demon-Slaying Sword, wreathed in the Present Heaven Return Origin Art, collided with the Solar Blade.
Explosions of flame vanished and reappeared in stuttering succession.
[Before this light, all things shall turn to ash!]
The Judge’s voice boomed across the chamber.
Jeong Hyun-soo’s eyes blazed.
A sun judgment that would incinerate the entire stage.
In other words—what later Hunters would analyze as a nuclear beam.
It was sheer madness.
This was why the twentieth floor and beyond belonged to the Platinum realm.
Because only those who survived the twentieth floor were promoted to Platinum Rank.
A finishing technique.
An absolutely devastating blow unleashed at the speed of light.
There was only one choice.
Either block it somehow, or kill before being killed.
Jeong Hyun-soo began moving with the Blue Spirit Myriad Phase Technique.
“Regrettably, I had a contingency in place.”
[…!]
The spot where Jeong Hyun-soo stepped was precisely where he’d thrown the Radiant Shield on the first exchange.
The moment he stood atop the Radiant Shield—whose effect blocked light-based attacks—the nuclear beam activated.
BOOOOM!
Shielded by the magic circle’s nuclear resonance erupting upward, Jeong Hyun-soo converted all his magical power into the Present Heaven Return Origin Art and swung the Demon-Slaying Sword.
Whoooosh!
With precise distance calculation, the blade aura born from his magical power cleaved through every trace of solar judgment existing in the space.
And at its end—
[What… nonsense is…?]
“Done, you bastard.”
Jeong Hyun-soo sneered at the Judge’s despair as its throat was severed at the blade’s tip.
[If only one like you had existed in our world…….]
“Such hypotheticals are meaningless.”
A world consumed and swallowed by the Tower in defeat.
Jeong Hyun-soo collected the Solar Blade and Radiant Shield, leaving behind the High Priest’s dissolution—he who had sought to survive by offering faithful believers to the Tower.
Continued in the next chapter ▶
The Monopolizing Regression Martial God
Author
Cheon-ya
Publisher
Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
Publishing House
Grae Publishing
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Publication Date
May 26, 2026
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