The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 60

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Episode 60. The Holy Sword (5)
Gawain was the youngest knight recruited into the Round Table.
The Holy Sword trait doesn’t simply make one strong through appointment alone.
Knight’s Aptitude—without exceptional talent, it cannot fully blossom.
In that regard, Gawain was undeniably special.
“I’ll show you what humility truly means.”
For such a man, Jeong Hyun-soo’s emergence could only be grating.
Here was Jeong Hyun-soo, who transcended the records Gawain had been building and summoned monsters from a previous generation.
He would prove himself before the King, displaying his true mettle.
Gawain advanced into the center of the Strate Room. It was the King’s Seongso, but precisely for that reason, it was also a sacred ground where any power could be unleashed.
In fact, it served as the arena where knights dueled before the King.
Silver chandeliers glittered from the ceiling, and the cold marble floor reflected light like a mirror.
The flowing power of the Holy Sword permeated everything.
The air, thick with silence and fighting spirit, began to settle heavily.
Gawain’s eyes flashed sharply as he raised his longsword.
“Begin.”
The tip of his blade gleamed brilliantly like a fragment of the sun. His body’s muscles were wrapped in the aura of a warrior’s passion burning hot.
Jeong Hyun-soo slowly raised the Demon-Slaying Sword to meet him.
Its end was wreathed in crimson energy.
The power of the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art.
Gawain charged toward Jeong Hyun-soo.
Daybreak Charge.
Gawain, surrounded by explosive radiance like dawn light, surged forward in a straight line.
It was a strike accompanied by power that disrupted the opponent’s vision with blinding luminescence.
Roar!
Jeong Hyun-soo immediately deployed the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art and unleashed the Tyrant’s power.
Reverse-Burst Energy Opening World.
Gawain’s eyes widened at the eruption of pure force that shook the very earth.
“Urgh!”
The trajectory of Gawain’s previously refined charge twisted violently. He was sent reeling by nothing more than a raw outpouring of power.
Whoosh.
Naturally, his blade whipped past Jeong Hyun-soo, and having seized the initiative, Jeong Hyun-soo had already slipped to the side.
Boom!
A heavy punch. Gawain desperately blocked the fist extended from his left side with his forearm.
Crack!
“Gack!”
Even his Full Plate couldn’t absorb the impact. The force was brutishly overwhelming.
There was no room to feel the sharp sting in his arm. Gawain felt a chilling shudder down his spine and retreated at once.
“This bastard…!”
But the attack didn’t follow. It was merely a feint.
Because of this, the retreating Gawain once again surrendered the initiative to Jeong Hyun-soo.
The Demon-Slaying Sword fell from above to below. Gawain concentrated his magical power to meet it.
Twilight Upper Slash.
A sword flash like the breaking dawn flared brilliantly.
Gawain, the Knight of the Sun.
True to his epithet, it was a fast and devastating strike.
Gawain believed with absolute certainty.
No matter how talented, a Rookie climbing the lower levels of the tower.
There was no reason he should lose in a direct test of strength.
Yet.
Crash!
“Kgh-hghhck!”
The moment their blades met, Gawain was sent flying backward.
It was a moment that showcased Jeong Hyun-soo’s mastery—his critical use of Earth Star Instant Energy to completely suppress Gawain with sheer force.
“No… this can’t be….”
Gawain was shaken.
“Is it over?”
Jeong Hyun-soo’s utterly indifferent demeanor felt strange. Gawain had never seen anyone direct such an attitude toward him.
“Not yet… not yet.”
Gawain pushed himself to his feet.
He didn’t believe it, but he’d decided not to deny reality any longer.
“Come in.”
He knew that stubbornness and turning away wouldn’t erase what he’d just experienced with his own hands.
He was a knight.
He couldn’t give up. Especially not when he was the Captain of the Royal Guard protecting the King of Knights himself.
Gawain, the Solar Knight.
The future of British chivalry.
As Gawain underwent his investiture and fully awakened the solar power within him, his eyes burned with golden light.
“Noon assault?”
Solar High Smash.
The moment Gawain’s secret technique—a skill that symbolized him—dispersed, the red aura vanished from Jeong Hyun-soo’s body, replaced by black Ghost Energy.
And then the Demon-Slaying Sword was swung.
Gawain’s single blade made the Strate Room shudder.
A shockwave like the setting sun rippled outward, whipping the hair of Edwin and the King of Knights as they watched.
Ordinary ground would have split, buildings would have crumbled, but the densely concentrated Seongso held firm, reinforced by the King of Knights’ magical power.
Yet.
Not everything remained firm.
The return-origin vortex created by the Dark Heaven Return Origin Art—a black maelstrom that scattered the sunlight without trace.
Literally blown open, through that hollow space, Gawain’s frozen expression was vivid and clear.
Not content with that, Jeong Hyun-soo spun the Demon-Slaying Sword once more.
The jet-black mass that had consumed the sunlight descended upon him. Gawain could not yield.
Red Horizon.
From his body surged waves of crimson, like the setting sun breaking through dusk.
Phantom sword-strikes born from red afterimages assailed Jeong Hyun-soo from all directions.
Not from the front alone but from every quarter—the Strate Room filled with sunset-colored illusion-blades. Each one a lethal reality, each one a secret technique.
Jeong Hyun-soo closed his eyes. The sunset filling all sides offered no advantage anyway.
He surrendered himself to stillness. Following the current, he moved his body.
Crack-crack-crack-crack-snap!
Beyond the sunset, a blue wind swept through.
Blue Spirit Ten Thousand Image Technique. Weaving between the sunset, wind billowed through the gaps in the illusion-blades.
The afterimages tangled. Scattered—that was the word.
Gawain, who sought to dominate space and strike the true form, found he couldn’t even draw breath.
“What kind of monster is this….”
Nothing worked. Versatile. Every technique Gawain prided himself on had been rendered useless.
Whiiiine.
A wild wind blew. Then it became a tempest that crashed down upon Gawain.
Boom!
“Aaaaaaagh!”
The sunlight erupting from Gawain’s body vanished.
Jeong Hyun-soo had his throat in his grip.
Edwin found it utterly surreal.
“…That’s Bronze rank? The Association are insane bastards.”
The King of Knights too was shaken by the sight beyond all expectation.
He’d known Jeong Hyun-soo had something, but to demolish Gawain like this.
He’d been utterly helpless. Every technique was dismantled, and he’d been overpowered in raw strength too.
“Enough. That’s enough.”
The King of Knights spoke.
Yet Jeong Hyun-soo did not release his grip.
“Gawain, surrender. You’ve lost. And I’m acknowledging it. You’ve proven yourself sufficiently.”
Once the King of Knights openly declared Jeong Hyun-soo’s victory, he finally released Gawain.
“Hack!”
Gawain, fallen to the floor, trembled with humiliation.
“Next time, learn to understand your place.”
Jeong Hyun-soo drove that final barb home like a dagger, but Gawain couldn’t even mount a defense.
“Well then, as you wish….”
“Not yet, Your Majesty.”
“Hmm?”
At Jeong Hyun-soo’s words, the King of Knights tilted his head.
“You’ve beaten Gawain—what else is there?”
“I cannot accept it myself, Your Majesty. Your knights are the finest in all Europe. Given the importance of this mission, shouldn’t we all be of one mind and one purpose?”
“But…?”
“I will prove it directly against them.”
The King of Knights looked at Edwin.
“Edwin, what is he saying right now?”
“I beg your pardon, Your Majesty. It appears he wishes to demonstrate his prowess against all the knights who will accompany us on this expedition.”
“That’s what I thought, isn’t it?”
The King of Knights found the situation absurd.
“Eastern sage. You’re not disrespecting me right now, are you?”
The knighthood was the King of Knights’ own creation. A one-on-one duel verification with Gawain was one thing, but to face the entire knighthood?
“The terms of the agreement are valid, Your Majesty.”
“Ha, look at this guy?”
The King of Knights let out a derisive laugh. Then, for a moment, he folded his arms and glared at Jeong Hyun-soo.
Soon, something rather shocking came from that open mouth.
“Better yet—change the terms. How about receiving my strike?”
“Your Majesty, how could…!”
Even the eternally composed Gawain was taken aback by such an outrageous proposal.
“This will end in death! Are you going to make the Garam Guild your enemy too?”
“Edwin, Gawain lost so uselessly that my honor seems to have suffered. So I need to show it.”
Gawain’s head dropped.
“Of course, I won’t give my full strength. How about it?”
Gawain, the youngest of the Round Table’s twelve knights, was Platinum-tier. The mid-ranking dukes were glorified Diamond-tier Hunters, while the dukes were Master-tier.
But the King of Knights who commanded them stood alongside Seon Woo-hyun and Alexander in the Challenger realm.
A single strike from the King of Knights, who reigned above even the Grand Masters—the world’s strongest—transcended all measure.
“Jeong Hyun-soo, don’t be reckless. You’ll die.”
Edwin’s concern for Jeong Hyun-soo was genuine. A Challenger-tier Hunter whose mere movement warranted the label Calamity-class.
Normally, Jeong Hyun-soo would never be reckless.
But.
Unlike Alexander and Seon Woo-hyun, when it came to the King of Knights, he had confidence.
— Bored out of my mind. Want to take my strike? It’d be worth your while too, wouldn’t it?
The King of Knights, trapped in a world where everything had perished and even the Round Table’s twelve knights had vanished, had communicated with only a handful of humans—and one of them was Jeong Hyun-soo.
That was why they had exchanged sparring bouts countless times.
Countless times.
So Jeong Hyun-soo knew the King of Knights well.
“Now?”
“Are you insane? No matter what, if word spreads that I asked you to face Gawain first before receiving my strike, my honor will be dragged through the mud. The Round Table will tell me to stop.”
“Your Majesty, how dare you presume….”
“That’s the level of conviction you need to be a member of the Round Table! In any case, these are my subordinates.”
The King of Knights was subtly proud of their loyalty, but Jeong Hyun-soo simply listened.
“Interesting though uninspiring. Get yourself together and let’s do this tomorrow.”
The moment the Eastern sage decided to receive the King of Knights’ strike.
“Haven’t we located Kang Hyun-woo’s whereabouts yet?”
“No, Chairman. The Garam side says he’s on personal leave.”
Chae Mu-sik made no effort to hide his displeasure at Kang Hyun-woo’s absence—the key piece needed to strike at Garam.
“Even if that bastard is the vice-guild master of Garam, are you telling me Songgwang can mobilize its full power and still not find him?”
“Well then….”
“How frustrating! Consider other possibilities. For instance, that bastard might be thinking of something else entirely!”
He was a worm of a man who called them sworn brothers yet betrayed them nonetheless.
“Keep Garam under thorough surveillance.”
As the chairman of Songgwang, Chae Mu-hyun possessed a fairly keen eye, but even he did not know.
Garam was simply going about its business as usual, while it was the Hanwool Guild that stirred in the shadows instead.
Under Ji Sang-wook’s command, Hanwool’s mages moved with meticulous care to stay hidden from both Songgwang and the Association’s sight, preparing for the coming battle.
To be continued ▶
The Monopolizing Return Martial God
Author
Cheon Ya
Publisher
Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
Published by
Grae Publishing
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Publication Date
May 26, 2026
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