The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 69

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Episode 69. Light and Shadow (7)
The Knight Order, stationed in a Gate that had been nothing but an abyss moments before, stood bewildered.
“Why is this…?”
The landscape had transformed abruptly. Where shadow had reigned, golden light now rippled across the Seongso, and upon the Jade Throne sat the King of Knights.
Before the sight of the Round Table, Edwin gripped his chest and wondered.
‘Am I dead?’
“Well now, Lancelot. It seems you’ve endured quite the ordeal.”
“…….”
“You look a mess. But that aside, I’m curious about this present situation—explain yourself, Lancelot.”
“…Edwin.”
Edwin opened his mouth.
“Since I’m dead anyway, I’ll speak plainly, Your Majesty. My name is Edwin. I truly…despised it. Why Lancelot, when I had a perfectly good name of my own?”
“What…?”
“But aside from that, I was grateful to serve you all my life. To live as a knight—it stirred the heart. It was an honor to serve you as both ruler and sovereign.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes.”
“I understand. I shall grant your request and end your suffering shortly, Lancelot. For now, simply rest.”
Edwin, who had believed himself dead, sensed something amiss.
“How did this come to pass, Eastern sage?”
“Nothing remarkable, Your Majesty. I obtained Avalon and, confronted by a Transcendent being guarding it, I fled—and arrived here.”
Even Jeong Hyun-soo hadn’t anticipated this outcome.
“In truth, with this fellow’s aid, I attempted to summon you through Avalon as a medium, but……”
“So everything was displaced into my Royal Palace?”
“I’m told the magical deviation remained within acceptable parameters.”
“It was a stability check! At least the formula didn’t seem like it would fail, so I executed it, and—!”
Rather than drawing the target toward them, they had become fixed to it.
“That is likely because my Jade Throne resides here.”
At the King of Knights’ words, Jeong Hyun-soo let out a soft laugh. Had he been in slightly better circumstances, another remark might have escaped him.
“…The sun cannot move, after all.”
The King of Knights’ eyes widened.
Then they curved softly. It was a smile like a crescent moon—unfitting for one who proclaimed himself the sun.
“You flatter well enough.”
“I speak only to preserve my life, Your Majesty.”
“Your request is granted.”
The sun rose.
The beloved homeland. The sun, cursed to watch helplessly as the nation he had ruled and raised fell to ruin, now rose with sword in hand.
The sun, whose heart had rotted under that curse in his former life, unable even to avenge his cherished subordinates, now blazed with light.
The true Radiant Sword. The Holy Sword Excalibur.
“Come to me, my companion.”
The King of Knights reached forth. It resembled the art of summoning objects from thin air that he wielded, but it was not.
It was instinct. One could know the moment one saw. And so the heart stirred, and stirred it did.
The scabbard cut through the void and flew forth, then vanished. Yet in vanishing, it did not truly disappear.
“…!”
For the first time, the Holy Sword itself cast a shadow—not reflected in Welsh gold, but born from itself.
Light and shadow had become one at last.
Those who had once been one, then divided, were reunited. The abyss now swallowed the stage of that reunion.
Boom!
The Abyss Lord moved first. The power of Transcendent Grade, still silent, burst forth.
A threefold wave of darkness swept across the battlefield. The King of Knights wielded the scabbard he had finally obtained.
Radiant Flash.
The light of the Holy Sword refracted through the scabbard, unleashing power that scattered the encroaching waves of the abyss in reverse.
Brilliant light!
The Seongso blazed like a dazzling sunrise. The vision of the Knight Order members blurred for a moment, then steadied—and there before them stood the King of Knights, resolute.
The very battlefield he had longed to stand upon. The king at the vanguard turned briefly to look back.
“Knight Order—follow me.”
The valiant sun-knight charged forward, and the Knight Order members, assembled for the emergency, rushed upon their enemy.
Thundering hoofbeats!
Light and shadow collided once more. The Knight Order members who had cut through the abyss pressed their assault fiercely.
The king was made whole. At last the long-cherished desire was fulfilled, and moreover, righteous fury burned within him toward the enemy that had invaded his palace.
The released wrath became a true strike that protected the kingdom, slaughtering the abyss. Within that darkness, the King of Knights carved a single streak of light.
Pillars of shadow surge up from all directions around the king, unleashing a relentless barrage of attacks.
“Trivial.”
The King of Knights opened his palm. Light erupted forth—a true shield of radiance, forged from the concentrated essence of pure magical power.
Boom!
Their respective powers exploded against one another. Beyond that collision, a second impact followed.
The Abyss Lord swung a greatsword condensed from darkness, aiming for an oblique line. The King of Knights crossed his left hand holding the Holy Sword Excalibur with his right hand gripping the Shadow Scabbard of the Radiant Sword.
Crash!
The incoming trajectory was refracted. The wall ahead crumbled. Seongso erupted. Even beyond the debris, the King of Knights’ eyes blazed with light.
The harmonization of light and shadow—as if law and destiny were locked in contest, the two became entwined and inseparable.
Whoosh!
The Abyss Lord’s entire body transformed into shadow. Simultaneously, a colossal spearhead descended from the void.
Spear of the Abyss.
A terrible technique that had claimed the lives of countless Hunters, yet Jeong Hyun-soo said nothing.
There was no need. With the Shadow Scabbard in hand, the King of Knights had achieved perfect compatibility.
He possessed an overwhelming advantage—at least against the Abyss Lord, the most catastrophic matchup imaginable.
Precisely because the Abyss Lord understood this, he had not dared approach the King of Knights, not even when Avalon was absent.
An arch-nemesis. No—a natural predator.
“It is called Sunlight Severing Shadow.”
With those words, the King of Knights’ body blazed with light. Even the sun itself seemed dimmed by the spear of darkness created in that instant. For a moment, the shadows deepened, but it was futile.
The Holy Sword raised high unleashed brilliance more dazzling than the midday sun, consuming the entire battlefield.
The light decomposed and evaporated the trajectory carved by the spear of darkness into nothing.
As if the last puddle of water vanished before the burning rays of the sun.
Ssssshhhhh—
The Abyss Lord dissolved within the light. The nightmare that had slain at least ten thousand Hunters appeared and vanished in the same breath.
“You fought with proper dignity. You possessed the virtues of a lord.”
It was the King of Knights’ assessment as he watched the Abyss Lord make one final gesture of resistance, arm outstretched.
The abyss, accepting only shadow, could not touch the perfected light.
As the lord vanished, the army that followed dissipated naturally.
[Complex Multi-Gate Heart of the Abyss has been cleared!]
At the message that reached his ears, Edwin collapsed onto his back.
“Hah.”
A hollow laugh escaped him unbidden.
An expedition he could never have predicted until the very end. Was it even an expedition?
“It was a homecoming, wasn’t it…….”
To think it would end in Seongso. Buckingham, which had boasted of being an impregnable fortress, lay in ruins. The space where the king dwelled was now open to the air. Seongso had vanished.
One thing remained.
The Jade Throne alone—the seat where the king sat—remained intact, and the exposed sky gleamed brilliantly.
It was the liberation of the king.
At last, the absolute one who had been confined in so narrow a space fulfilled his long-cherished desire and attained his freedom.
[Calculating rewards.]
“Yes, what must be done should be done.”
[Rewards will be distributed according to Merit Score.]
[The primary contributor is Franklin Hamilton.]
“…Who?”
“What did you just hear?”
“Franklin Hamilton?”
“What kind of quaint name is that? Sounds like someone who’d be wielding a hammer in some remote countryside workshop.”
“What fool would dare appropriate our Majesty’s merit—wait…….”
One of the knights, unable to accept the result and indignant, suddenly stopped mid-sentence.
The gaze of a middle-aged knight, senior in rank and long-established in his position, fell upon the solemn sovereign.
Merely light. Truly a complete Transcendent Grade powerhouse. The king of England. His expression seemed ambiguous.
“How long it has been.”
Franklin Hamilton.
One who had gained absolute power yet, constrained by limitations, could not even properly climb the tower.
Even called by his true name rather than the alias Arthur Pendragon that he had claimed, the king appeared serene.
“Your Majesty…?”
“Tell me, my knights. Arthur Pendragon. Is he truly the King of Knights?”
The people exchanged puzzled glances.
“Forgive us, Your Majesty. We do not grasp your meaning…….”
“Is he not merely a figure from some hollow myth? Surely, if one is to be called the King of Knights, the true mark of dignity lies in demonstrating before all that one can strike down with a single blow the lord of the wicked enemy who dared breach the royal castle.”
The knights merely blinked.
“King of Knights Franklin. Who would deny the achievements built upon this true name alone?”
Jeong Hyun-soo sighed as he watched his old friend, thoroughly pleased with the exploits he had wrought.
‘That’s what happens when you live hidden away from the sun for so long.’
And there he stood—the King of Knights, emerged from his cramped hideaway into the light and promptly “healed.”
Though he’d joined only at the very end, the King of Knights’ achievement in vanquishing the Transcendent Grade Abyss Lord—an entity that was all but everything in this struggle—drew no doubt from anyone.
[The second-highest Merit Score is awarded to Hunter Jeong Hyun-soo.]
“I commend your service.”
The Merit Scores, plainly revealed by the system, drew unanimous acceptance from all who had fought alongside them.
Had Jeong Hyun-soo not been there, how many would have fallen?
[The third contributor to this victory is Edwin Blake.]
“You have earned your commendation as well.”
“…I thought I was going to die.”
“That weakness is yours to overcome. Redouble your efforts.”
After that, the Merit Scores of the remaining participating knights were distributed. And finally.
[As a reward for clearing the hidden Complex Multi-Gate, the Heart of the Abyss, the Shadow Scabbard of the Radiant Sword is granted to the expedition.]
[Since the highest contributor’s Merit Score reaches eighty percent, ownership is transferred accordingly.]
“A just decree.”
With this, England stood ready to take flight.
The King of Knights—or rather, Franklin—grasped the scabbard in hand as though claiming what was rightfully his, about to commend the efforts of all when the system spoke once more.
[The second contributor’s Merit Score also exceeds ten percent.]
[Therefore, the fractional ownership necessary for complete release of the Shadow Scabbard shall be distributed according to Merit Score.]
[Ownership Status of Shadow Scabbard: Franklin Hamilton 82%, Jeong Hyun-soo 13%]
[Without Jeong Hyun-soo’s consent, Franklin Hamilton cannot fully exercise the authority of the Shadow Scabbard.]
“Hah.”
Franklin let out a hollow laugh.
In the clashes of transcendent masters, a single trivial matter can tip the scales. And now, looking at this situation, it meant he could only wield eighty-two percent of his full strength at his discretion.
He had broken one shackle only to find another had taken its place—and that shackle was Jeong Hyun-soo.
“It seems we have quite a great deal to discuss, don’t we?”
The King of Knights’ satisfaction had dimmed slightly.
The boy before him was undoubtedly his savior.
Yet he knew all too well how cunning and thorough the boy was, and now, faced with the prospect of what demands might come regarding this ownership stake, Franklin’s mouth had gone dry.
To be continued ▶
The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything
Author
Cheon Ya
Publisher
Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
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Grae Publishing
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Publication Date
May 26, 2026
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