The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 66

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Episode 66. Light and Shadow (4)
[Entering Nautilus Garden.]
The next stage was Nautilus Garden.
Jeong Hyun-soo was formulating a strategy based on the intelligence the Knight King had provided.
He sprinted through a garden where obsidian fungi and black vines twisted together like a fence.
Crack-crash!
The pursuit of a Platinum Rank Death Hound—opposed by a Shade Weaver, an Upper Platinum-tier enemy.
To handle the Death Hound, he slipped into the space created by the obsidian fungi’s spore clouds and maneuvered around before it arrived, evading cleanly.
As for the Shade Weaver, it had woven a net of vines to block the escape route, but he outpaced it.
“Evasion and dash efficiency are reduced in this area.”
Jeong Hyun-soo had predicted the debuff precisely.
Of course, with no need to actually fight, the party escaped without incident.
“The exit is this way.”
They had to ignite three stone pillars scattered throughout the garden.
The Shade Weaver and Death Hound guarding them were annihilated through a swift ambush.
It was a result that captured both tremendous speed and flawless efficiency—even the effects.
Swift and decisive.
[Entering Silent Bell Cloister.]
Also known as the Soundless Corridor.
A space where soundless bells were arranged throughout.
A single monster stood guard at the far end of the long corridor.
[Null Canter]
[Rank: Upper Master]
A priest with only his mouth barely open. Yet the moment his lips parted, the bells vibrated.
“…!”
Edwin, sensing something amiss, tried to order caution.
But no sound emerged from his lips. Simultaneously, he felt that strange sensation of his voice being pulled away into the distance.
Then a powerful sonic wave crashed over the order. Jeong Hyun-soo raised the Radiant Shield.
Boom-boom-boom!
[Null Canter uses Soundless Sonic Wave.]
Jeong Hyun-soo clenched his teeth against the brutal force. It was a mid-tier boss of Upper Master Rank.
He managed to block that single attack, but its power reverberated entirely through his body.
He had to deploy every function of the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art just to defend against it, and the priest had only begun chanting the first verse.
A hymn—to what terrible and unknowable god, he could not fathom—sent echoing outward.
Against that soundless reverb that could not be reached even by calling out, the order trembled.
Fear rippled through them.
Before the eyes of those frightened knights, Jeong Hyun-soo raised his hand.
Even as he blocked the sonic wave, he signaled with his fingers.
Edwin to the left, half the order to the right, the rest facing forward.
Narrow as the space was, dispersing the sonic wave remained crucial.
Null Canter’s sonic attack, meant to strike the clustered formation, spread slightly instead, and Edwin drew his blade down in a sharp arc.
The left section was severed, and the remaining knights held their defensive stance as one, enduring the assault.
The secret lay in nothing other than Jeong Hyun-soo deploying the Radiant Shield a step ahead of everyone else.
Thanks to the coordinated effort of weakening an already-weakened sonic wave further, the distance to Null Canter narrowed.
Null Canter continued his solemn, silent hymn.
As they drew near, his eyes—already degenerated—were nowhere to be seen.
Just as a creature that had lived for ages in a cave needed no eyes, the wrinkled folds where eyes presumably once existed created an unsettling grotesqueness.
Though soundless, the hymn seemed to reach its climax—the prominent veins in his throat pulsed with eerie clarity.
Without a sound, the corridor vibrated.
Even Edwin had to grit his teeth at that moment.
A green wind erupted from Jeong Hyun-soo’s body.
Clear Spirit Myriad Phenomenon Technique—Reverse Step. The Wind King’s power rode the sonic wave and surged back outward.
The pressure of the sonic wave concentrated across his entire frame, which he countered by simultaneously deploying the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art.
Having reached Null Canter’s feet, Jeong Hyun-soo hurled the Radiant Shield.
His Solar Blade, revealed behind it, brimmed with crimson force.
Heavenly Tyrant Return King Technique—Single Point Pressure.
The target was not Null Canter himself.
It was the threshold beneath his feet. A crack appeared in the jet-black door, and the vibrations created by the hymn pushed to its extreme forced the door wide open.
At Jeong Hyun-soo’s gesture, everyone rushed forward.
[Deepest Black Sun Sanctum opens.]
Edwin’s mouth fell open. The knights were equally stunned.
“…made it!”
“Damn, we nearly died out there!”
The voices of the knights rose again.
Though it had been brief, having endured that corridor where all sound was devoured, his own voice felt strangely distant to him.
“…thanks.”
Jeong Hyun-soo again.
Edwin’s face bore the exhaustion of a man who had just tasted the insane sonic assault of a mad Upper Master blockading a narrow passage.
“Without you, we’d all be dead.”
Jeong Hyun-soo’s quick thinking had triggered a monster level downgrade. The creature’s rank had dropped because of his intervention.
If Jeong Hyun-soo had been Silver Rank, that thing would undoubtedly have been Grand Master tier; if merely Gold, it would have become a calamity of Challenger rank.
When the Knight King’s twelve knights had launched their expedition, that silent priest had indeed manifested as a Challenger-grade calamity, killing two Round Table Knights in the process.
“Is this… the final stage?”
“I’m terrified to know what comes next.”
The tension of a final stage breeds fear of the unknown.
Would the master of this Gate—the Abyss Lord who had revealed only a single eye—emerge now?
“Look, look there!”
A circular antechamber. The walls were lined with shadowy silhouettes of knights—indistinct, almost spectral.
At the center of the floor, an altar with the Shadow Spear driven through its heart.
And standing at that very center: a suit of armor, alone.
The helmet slowly lifted its head. The flash of malevolence that gleamed between the gaps looked like an omen of disaster itself.
[The Last Warden awakens.]
Silence fell over everyone at the message.
[Grade: Undetermined]
“What kind of cruel joke is this!”
The grade was unset. For humans, nothing bred fear quite like the unknown.
“It has to be at least Upper Master rank, doesn’t it?”
“I’ll handle it.”
“We’ll assist you.”
The enemy appeared singular, and the knights moved to unite their strength. But Jeong Hyun-soo stepped forward before them.
“I’ll take this one.”
“What?”
“Let me handle it. If it’s Master Rank, I can win.”
At Edwin’s words, Jeong Hyun-soo shook his head.
“This is something I must do.”
Jeong Hyun-soo understood the meaning of that “Undetermined” grade.
Especially if it was the Last Warden—the very obstacle that had doomed the previous expedition.
“Its grade shifts depending on the opponent it faces in combat.”
“…what did you say?”
To Edwin, this was utterly unprecedented.
The system might display “Undetermined” as some sort of glitch, but how could anyone possibly know such conditions beforehand?
“If you’re wrong, you’ll be cut down in a single stroke!”
If it merely hid its true grade, then logically, any boss stronger than the previous stage would be Grand Master tier.
Against a beast of such power, regardless of all his sacred arts and everything else, his head would be severed with a single blow.
“I’m certain.”
“Wait, hold on!”
Frustration suddenly welled up in Edwin.
It wasn’t that he denied Jeong Hyun-soo’s achievements. But—
Even so, there had to be limits.
What could that man possibly know that made him so assured?
And this was a single-entry Gate. A stage with unprecedented conditions and scale.
Even with prior information, if he hadn’t experienced it directly, how could he speak with such certainty?
“If you’re right, it’s not enough—but if you’re wrong, you die!”
“I cannot die just yet.”
In this life, Jeong Hyun-soo wanted to leave his mark on the wall itself. That’s why he stepped forward.
“Please trust me.”
At Jeong Hyun-soo’s certainty and his pleading tone, Edwin squeezed his eyes shut.
“Do as you will. But if I sense danger, I’m stepping in.”
“That’s what comrades are supposed to do, isn’t it?”
“What?”
“I’m going.”
Edwin watched Jeong Hyun-soo stride forward, a wry smile crossing his face.
“Colleagues, he calls us…”
He’d worried that if the boy insisted so stubbornly on command authority, he’d become drunk on orders and rank. But the man simply persuaded instead.
He could have crushed the matter with the authority granted to him, yet he chose to convince.
Every argument he laid bare beforehand seemed illogical and difficult to accept—and yet they all proved sound.
Yes, that was the sort of man he was.
Which was precisely why Edwin worried.
[The Last Warden reacts.]
[Rank is being set.]
[Rank: Silver]
The corner of Jeong Hyun-soo’s mouth lifted slightly.
One rank above the strongest of the enemies participating in the Raid. No—one rank above the average.
The Round Table Knights, including the Grandmaster, would have needed to face the Last Warden of the Challenger.
But his opponent was Silver Rank.
The Last Warden moved.
[The Last Warden uses Knight Charge.]
The Last Warden transformed into shadow, then reappeared directly behind Jeong Hyun-soo and attacked.
[The Last Warden uses Grave Stab.]
A shockwave erupted from the downward strike, crashing over Jeong Hyun-soo.
Boom!
The assault didn’t stop there. Eclipse Cleave.
Twin crescents of cutting force unfurled in succession—
Zing!
Radiance erupted from Jeong Hyun-soo’s form, devouring the slashing shadow.
“Merely Silver.”
The crescent slash the Knight King had heard from the surviving Duke was nothing like this.
The ultimate skill of the Challenger and the full power of Silver were separated by a gulf between microbe and higher organism.
Jeong Hyun-soo counterattacked.
Clear Spirit Myriad Phenomenon Technique – Reverse Step.
He redirected the Last Warden’s persistent Knight Charge, letting it slide past.
The same pattern again—Grave Stab, this time stronger and twisted once more, but it fell within his prediction.
Jeong Hyun-soo’s kick, channeling the Dark Heaven Return Origin Art, collided head-on.
The power of the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art, output simultaneously through Dual Core, added its full force.
Crack!
The Last Warden flew backward.
It was overwhelming.
The Last Warden’s helm groaned as it fell back. Adjusting it and straightening its posture, the Last Warden rushed forward again.
[The Last Warden deploys Eclipse Cleave in a triple strike.]
“Hmph.”
One more set. That was all.
Crescents carved through the air. Silver remained Silver.
Heavenly Tyrant Return King Technique – Heaven and Earth Single Flash.
Jeong Hyun-soo’s Solar Blade struck the dark core at the center of the Last Warden’s chest directly.
Shatter!
The Last Warden disintegrated into shadow fragments and vanished.
At the same moment, the silhouette on the antechamber wall blurred, and a circular platform in a deep well emerged into view.
This was the true heart of the deepest sanctum.
“…There are no words for this.”
Edwin was about to approach and praise Jeong Hyun-soo for his overwhelming victory over the Last Warden when—
[The System revises its pending judgment.]
[The existence and ability of Jeong Hyun-soo cannot be Bronze Rank.]
[Final determination: Platinum Rank equivalent. Gate difficulty has been adjusted accordingly.]
At that message, Edwin and every knight in the order gasped in shock.
Every one of them.
Save one—Jeong Hyun-soo himself, who simply nodded calmly.
Just as planned.
Continued in next chapter ▶
The Solitary Regression Martial God
Author
Cheon Ya
Publisher
Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
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Publication Date
May 26, 2026
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