The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 65

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Episode 65. Light and Shadow (3)
[Entering the Eclipse Archive.]
The dungeon unveiled an endless succession of new stages before the knights.
An Archive Hall with stone shelves arranged in concentric circles.
“They said it was an underground crypt……”
“When has a Gate ever lived up to its name?”
Edwin dismissed the knights’ muttering and fixed his gaze on Jeong Hyun-soo.
“What’s your read?”
Questions could wait. For now, Edwin had committed himself to securing Avalon alone.
He watched Jeong Hyun-soo closely as the man surveyed their surroundings the moment they entered.
“That looks like the focal point.”
Edwin’s eyes followed to the tip of Jeong Hyun-soo’s finger.
Three symbols adorned the top of the shelving: a crescent moon, a half moon, and a sun stained black—all radiating an unmistakable significance.
“If that’s the focal point……”
“I suspect we need to touch them in the desired sequence and arrange them. Up there.”
“Precisely!”
At the center of the ceiling, anyone could see the space designed to receive those very symbols.
Move the New Moon, Half Moon, and Black Sun—tracing the three vertices of a triangle—and complete the puzzle as intended!
“So we just divide the group and collect them?”
“No. Master-tier enemies will appear here as well.”
Edwin’s expression hardened.
“Surely you don’t mean……”
“Noblesse Oblige again, I’m afraid. I’m counting on you.”
Unlike Jeong Hyun-soo, who smiled wickedly, Edwin could not return it.
The logic was sound. As a knight, as one of the strong, taking the lead was only natural.
Through that righteous principle and Jeong Hyun-soo’s flawlessly correct and swift orders, they had cleared two stages without a scratch.
Yet in that process, the burden had fallen entirely upon Edwin alone.
While his body grew subtly heavier, his subordinates brimmed with vitality.
“Commander, thank you for your efforts.”
“We live because of you, sir.”
“Truly an exemplar of knighthood.”
“Long live the Marquis Edwin!”
At someone’s cry—at the sound of his name—Edwin let out an awkward cough.
“Ahem. As one of the strong, it is my duty to set an example and take the vanguard. Think nothing of it.”
Then he drew his Longsword.
“Captain, so which way do we proceed?”
Even Jeong Hyun-soo found Edwin’s sudden enthusiasm almost incomprehensible.
‘He changes that much just from hearing his name?’
That’s what made a persona so terrifying.
And these knights were no ordinary lot either.
They had already known Edwin disliked being called Lancelot, so without needing Jeong Hyun-soo’s signal, they dangled the carrot immediately.
“The Black Sun first.”
“Hmm, and your reasoning?”
“Just intuition… really.”
There was no need for elaborate logical deduction. A large group was here; clearing swiftly was the priority.
“Hmm… If the theme of this place is darkness, then the eclipse represents the sun being consumed. The Eclipse! Of course—the Black Sun is the lynchpin!”
“Quite perceptive, Edwin.”
“Ha. In my younger days, they called me a candidate for Chancellor.”
“Then I’ll leave it in your hands.”
Energized, Edwin strode majestically toward the far side of the Archive Hall.
And then.
A wave of shadow-attribute magical power came hurtling from beyond.
[The Shadow Librarian hurls the Curse of Knowledge.]
“Impossible!”
Edwin’s blade flashed, cleaving the incoming curse asunder.
Jeong Hyun-soo likewise drew his Solar Blade, channeling magic into it to illuminate the surroundings.
Swish-swish!
The shadow vanishes. More precisely, it flees from the light of the sun.
[Activating the Solar Blade’s exclusive skill: Directed Light.]
The brilliance intensified.
Before the path forged by sunlight, shadow held no dominion.
But this place was the domain of eclipse—a space where even the true sun itself was devoured.
“What—?”
Curses flew at Jeong Hyun-soo’s Solar Blade from both sides.
[Shadow Librarian applies the Curse of Knowledge to the Solar Blade.]
[The Solar Blade’s exclusive skill, Directed Light, weakens in effectiveness.]
[Shadow Librarian applies the Curse of Knowledge to the Solar Blade.]
[The Solar Blade’s exclusive skill, Directed Light, weakens in effectiveness.]
The brilliant light of the Solar Blade—which had blazed with near-absolute invincibility across two stages—began to dim.
The Shadow Librarian drew closer, its presence swelling with mounting confidence.
Sensing the danger, Edwin turned to Jeong Hyun-soo.
“Keep going.”
“…Will it work?”
“It’s a calculated move. Once it draws near, I’ll annihilate it.”
“Annihilate…?”
— I have a way to strip the curse from us.
Jeong Hyun-soo’s voice carried through the mana link, and Edwin’s breath caught.
The Shadow Librarian had shown a pattern: fleeing from light, keeping its distance.
And from afar, it cursed the Solar Blade—the very source of that radiance—to dull its edge.
Banking on that logic, it drew near. But what if Jeong Hyun-soo succeeded in breaking the curse in an instant?
‘…It would be over.’
Scrape.
Cutting through the curses that periodically flew his way, Edwin faced the Black Sun veiled by moonlight—a total eclipse rendered in solid form.
And the moment he moved to wrench the Stone Tablet free—
Whoosh!
The Shadow Librarian, emboldened by the dimmed sunlight, revealed itself.
A long robe hung draped across its hunched frame, which cut an eerie silhouette. Pallid skin and eyes dark as pitch radiated an otherworldly aura.
Even as it reorganized a misplaced tome, the restless librarian condensed immense dark magical power into its palms.
Two librarians in total—and curses aimed at both Jeong Hyun-soo and Edwin descended upon them.
Jeong Hyun-soo released an otherworldly black aura.
The Dark Heaven Return Origin Art manifested.
Hisss—
In an instant, every curse that had been devouring the blade vanished.
A power superior to mere Curse Dispelling—wielding the absolute authority of a king, pressing all back into the void. The Shadow Librarians recoiled in horror.
They attempted to react, but no response could ever move faster than light itself.
Zing!
[Solar Blade’s exclusive skill, Directed Light, activates.]
The terrible counter-force contained within the Solar Blade’s radiant burst swept the shadow away entirely.
Shrieeeek!
[Shadow Librarian vanishes.]
[Shadow Librarian vanishes.]
“Done!”
Edwin cried out in triumph as he seized the Stone Tablet.
That was when it happened.
[The Heart of Shadow has confirmed the presence of the intruders beyond doubt.]
Simultaneously, an iris began to carve itself into the ceiling of the Eclipse Archive Hall.
A vast eye, slowly opening.
“Move counterclockwise.”
“What… what is that?”
[Abyss Lord awakens.]
[The Abyss Lord’s left eye turns toward the Eclipse Archive Hall.]
“That’s the final boss of this Gate.”
Which meant, from this point on, it was a race against time.
Following Jeong Hyun-soo’s instruction, they moved in a counterclockwise circle.
The gaze of the being called Abyss Lord swept the Archive Hall in the opposite direction, so their eyes never met.
Yet the problem remained: Shadow Librarians, aware of their comrades’ destruction, came rushing from all sides.
“Everyone in the order—throw yourselves flat!”
“B-but curses are coming from everywhere—!”
“Don’t resist. Once we clear the stage, you’ll all recover!”
“Gah!”
The overlapping shadow curses were rendering the knights powerless. With the Librarian on their backs, they ran.
Fortunately, though the Librarians wielded potent curses, their physical abilities were unremarkable—the knights managed to evade even while cursed, if barely.
“Cleave!”
Edwin struck at the curses relentlessly and claimed the Stone Tablet.
“What’s the sequence?”
“This time it’s New Moon, Half Moon, and Black Sun!”
Edwin vaulted skyward, dodging the curses. The eyes of the creature called the Abyss Lord bore down on him with terrible speed.
Those eyes blazed with violent light. There was no mistaking it—a catastrophic beam was about to erupt.
Roooaaaargh!
A ray of devouring darkness poured forth, and Edwin spun his body through the void.
Tracing an elegant arc, he drove the Stone Tablet into place exactly as Jeong Hyun-soo had commanded.
“Please…!”
Failure would mean everything was lost.
Librarians surged from all sides, and as though their safety were beneath consideration, the beams erupting from those eyes annihilated everything in their path.
[You have successfully cleared the Eclipse Archive.]
At the same moment, the eyes vanished as if they had never been.
[Proceeding to the next stage.]
“I never thought I’d be so grateful to hear those words.”
Edwin felt a weight lift from his shoulders at last.
Yet he couldn’t bring himself to celebrate unreservedly.
“What exactly was that just now? The final boss?”
“Doesn’t it look that way? The monster’s name has ‘Lord’ attached to it.”
Everyone’s expression darkened.
A single eye had appeared, and the power it had displayed was enough to freeze the blood in one’s veins.
“Judging by appearance, it seems to be around Grand Master-tier…”
“In a complex multi-stage dungeon, don’t bosses normally weaken when you clear the stages and complete the hidden objectives?”
The knights turned toward Jeong Hyun-soo, their expressions tinged with expectation.
Surely this young Saint had grasped some crucial detail that might tip the scales.
‘That logic makes sense, too.’
But Jeong Hyun-soo shook his head.
“Originally, I planned to do exactly that.”
“Originally?”
“But I think the situation is a bit different.”
“Different how?”
“Do you remember that message? That the Abyss Lord’s left eye was focused on us?”
“Hmm…?”
“Then doesn’t it stand to reason there’s a right eye as well? There could be more eyes.”
Edwin’s face went blank before he suddenly stiffened.
“You mean there’s another group besides us…?”
“It’s a possibility we can’t rule out. And this is a one-time dual complex multi-stage Gate.”
The implication was singular and clear.
The knights under Jeong Hyun-soo’s command were making steady progress, demolishing each stage as they went—but those destroyed stages wouldn’t respawn.
And if a trailing group entered in their wake…?
“Those bastards are getting a free ride!”
“The Association?”
“There’s no way to know for certain.”
But if Jeong Hyun-soo’s assumption was correct, then whoever they were had also faced the terrifying might of that Abyss Lord.
“…So we can’t just hand them the reward without lifting a finger. But even so, don’t we need to bring down that final boss to claim any compensation?”
“But we can’t do favors for others either.”
Jeong Hyun-soo offered no confirmation either way.
There was no need to defeat the Abyss Lord. From the outset, it wasn’t a boss meant to be killed by design.
‘For now…’
He needed to identify whoever this mysterious second group was that had been following them.
He had a rough idea, but certainty was dangerous.
Which was why Jeong Hyun-soo intended only to clear at exactly the right moment.
“We’ll leave the mobs behind this time.”
The others still couldn’t fully trust Jeong Hyun-soo’s judgment.
Even with their own eyes, hearts wavered—but a commander’s order was absolute, and they had no choice but to obey.
To be continued ▶
The Regressor Who Devours All
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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