The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 78

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Episode 78. The Bait (5)
The next morning, before dawn.
Whiiiiiii—
In the biting Siberian snowstorm that swept down at that very moment, laden with the malevolent magical power of the wasteland, Ivan saw his siblings off.
“Brother…….”
Anna wore an expression of inexplicable worry, but at the mention of going to South Korea, Nikita seemed oddly excited.
“Anna. See you in a little while.”
Due to the nature of the Hunter Protection Program implemented by Songkwang Guild, the three of them had decided to move separately.
To evade any possible pursuit by Russian authorities, it was best that they scatter.
The Drakov siblings had never spent a day apart in their lives, but this was only for a few hours at most.
“Once you cross the border, you’ll find a temporary magical circle that Songkwang set up for Gate raids in the Wonsan area. From there, we’ll transfer to South Korea.”
“Yes.”
So until then, just say goodbye for now.
The door of the car carrying Anna closed.
Vroom!
The vehicle, equipped with tires designed for traversing the Russian snowfields, began to move.
Anna looked back, but the thick snowstorm obscured everything.
Only the faint glow of the tail lights from the trailing vehicle was visible.
Anna forced herself to settle her heart.
A strange new challenge. A car heading toward a developed, advanced nation, leaving behind Russia with its suffocating control, oppression, and grinding poverty.
‘It’ll be fine.’
She thought of her brother, who had worked so hard all this time. The world had recognized the skill of a man who had survived supporting his family with his life on the line.
So wouldn’t a guild like Songkwang come scout him out like this?
Telling herself it was just anxiety from entering an unfamiliar environment, Anna gazed out the window.
The car pressed onward. Relying on its navigation through the snowy fields, it crested stones and forded across frozen streams.
“Um… how long will it take?”
At Anna’s question, the driver glanced at her through the rearview mirror.
The answer came from the man in the passenger seat. He was a Hunter from Songkwang, he’d said, and a bodyguard.
“Soon.”
“Soon…….”
Anna fell silent. But not long after, a flash of light appeared ahead of the vehicle.
Anna’s heart began to race.
Just as she’d feared.
“Ah…….”
The car came to a stop. A soldier blocking the road came into view. It was a Russian checkpoint.
‘A protection… program, but?’
They were supposed to pass right through the checkpoint location?
“What’s taking so long?”
“Sorry, Dmitri. There’s just so much snow coming down.”
“Ugh, freezing. An ungodly amount, isn’t it?”
The driver spoke fluent Russian.
That a massive guild like Songkwang would recruit such talent made sense, but something about the two men’s interaction felt off.
The soldier holding his rifle at the checkpoint peered briefly inside.
The driver and bodyguard merely smiled faintly.
“Not bad, huh? Just the one?”
“That’s right.”
“Got it. The goods?”
The man in the passenger seat handed over a bag.
As the soldier took it, the contents briefly revealed themselves—modern firearms and Russian currency rolled up inside.
“Good. See you again later.”
Tap-tap.
The soldier tapped the car door enthusiastically, a signal to proceed.
Whoooosh!
The vehicle immediately began to accelerate. The moment it passed over the snow-covered road, Anna asked.
“Um… what’s happening?”
“What do you mean what’s happening…….”
The man in the passenger seat grinned widely. In that moment.
Booooom!
An explosion erupted beyond the checkpoint. The soldier who had been waving moments before was consumed by the blast before he could even react.
“…?”
“This is something that must absolutely never come to light.”
The explosion erupted, and the car came to an abrupt halt.
“Any other surveillance equipment in the area?”
“None detected, sir.”
“Okay, good.”
The man in the passenger seat glanced backward through the side mirror.
Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh!
Beyond the snow field, demonic beasts came surging toward them.
“The Demonic Beast Lure really works. I’ll tell the lab that its effectiveness has been proven.”
The aftermath of the explosion quickly transformed into a scene of demonic beasts raging in frenzy.
After observing it for a moment, the Hunter tapped the driver’s shoulder, and the SUV pulled away as if nothing had happened.
“Anna.”
“Yes?”
“Welcome to South Korea.”
Thunk.
Without warning, the man in the passenger seat drove something into Anna’s forehead.
Immediately, a searing pain bloomed from that spot and radiated outward.
“Ahhh, ahhhhhhhhh!”
It was agonizing. Anna’s tears flowed freely from the pain, and through the blur of her vision came the face of the guard, grinning wickedly.
“This is called Solitude. If you disobey our orders, you simply die. Khe-khe-khe.”
Anna felt despair wash over her in that instant.
“But it’s better than freezing to death out there or being eaten by demonic beasts. Hehe. Well, the pain certainly won’t kill your brother—the one who won’t die anyway, right?”
With those words, Anna lost consciousness.
* * *
Kim Chun-sik was surveying the area with an artifact said to be equipped with a function that could detect life signs even through heavy snow.
“Ugh, it’s freezing. Do you really think those bastards will come?”
The cold was truly biting. Despite piling on items related to Cold Resistance, the protection was incomplete, and the chill seeped steadily into his bones.
Against such a blizzard, Jeong Hyun-soo—a high schooler who had somehow been dragged on this business trip all the way to Russia, seeming unfazed by the cold—stood firm and silent, staring down into the expanse below.
“Yes.”
“…….”
Once again, that high schooler Jeong Hyun-soo had made an impossible prediction.
It differed from what Chae Mu-hyun had said—that he would come to meet a Russian named Ivan.
‘He’s going to wipe out this entire village by luring demonic beasts to it?’
Jeong Hyun-soo had heard that Chae Mu-hyun dreamed of achieving the realm of Ultra-regeneration through forbidden human experiments and such.
That he would use Ivan as a sacrifice to develop a skill directly—one normally achievable only through innate ability.
If that were true, then covering up traces was the logical move, to avoid detection.
But…….
No matter how he looked at it, Kim Chun-sik felt a visceral rejection.
He wasn’t unaware that Songkwang Guild would commit countless illegal acts for profit. Still, it was a major guild.
But the fact that a top-ten guild of South Korea would openly do such a thing—the real source of his psychological resistance was: how could this Jeong Hyun-soo possibly know such a thing and speak with such certainty?
Such an act could be stopped. But how did this person already know and prepare countermeasures for it?
That was when it happened.
Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep—
The artifact that Jung Su-jin had made detected a biological signal.
Two people were moving. When he concentrated his magical power, they became clearer.
“Damn…….”
A curse escaped Kim Chun-sik’s lips. They were Korean.
It was still difficult to confirm they were Hunters from Songkwang. Though they wore Cold-Weather Combat Suits, they bore no guild insignia.
That made it suspicious. And each drew out a bag they were carrying.
Bang!
Something exploded.
“Wait, just a moment!”
Jeong Hyun-soo instantly vanished from Kim Chun-sik’s sight. He rode the blizzard itself as if flying, charging toward the mysterious men.
“Gasp!”
The men were startled as Jeong Hyun-soo suddenly materialized before them.
“Songkwang?”
“…!”
The men froze.
“Actually, an answer isn’t even necessary.”
From the start, Jeong Hyun-soo had come with certainty. He was the one who had gathered all the intelligence in preparation for his revenge against Songkwang.
Ivan.
He too had encountered the records of an unfortunate Ultra-regeneration Hunter who had vanished after a lifetime of suffering.
“Die!”
The men, bombarded with one shock after another by Jeong Hyun-soo, pressed their attack without hesitation.
Their form alone told the story.
“Chae Mu-hyun’s dogs.”
Jeong Hyun-soo’s body spun in a tight circle, and riding that centrifugal force, his foot swept in a half-arc and crashed into another Songkwang Guild Hunter beside him.
Crack!
The direct hit snapped the Hunter’s neck at a perfect right angle.
“…!”
A single blow had shattered his cervical spine—instant death. The men’s shock deepened.
“…Higher Rank?”
A Platinum Rank Hunter had fallen with one strike. Such overwhelming skill warranted the question.
Of course, Jeong Hyun-soo offered no answer. He gathered the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art in his fist.
“No need to know.”
Boom!
A single punch infused with the Reverse-Burst Energy Opening World exploded forward.
Crackle-snap!
The aftermath of the concentrated magical power swept clean across the ground itself.
The packed snow split and fractured, and through the barrier of deeper, thickening snow, Jeong Hyun-soo’s fist tore through.
The man crossed both arms to block. But he had made the worst miscalculation of his life.
“…What?”
The magical power concentrated in both his arms evaporated in an instant.
Whoosh—
Riding winds dark as pitch and dissolving together with his own vanishing power, the blow struck with tremendous force, slamming into his forearms.
Crack!
“Ugh—ughhhhhhhhhhhh!”
A pain unlike anything he’d ever known came crashing down.
“Ngh—unnhhhhh!”
His own arms, reflected in his wide eyes, were utterly mangled.
The bones in both forearms were completely shattered by the punch, and fragments of bone poked through the skin.
Consciousness felt like it would slip away. The situation itself was unbearable.
More than anything, the gaze of the man staring down at him from beyond produced a terror so profound he couldn’t bear it.
“Any desire to confess?”
“Pant… pant…”
The man’s breathing turned ragged. If he confessed, would that Chae Mu-hyun from the Songkwang Guild let him live?
“Frankly, it doesn’t matter.”
But the man before him seemed to understand the same thing. No—if anything, this man now appeared far more terrifying than Chae Mu-hyun.
“Wait! I… I only did as I was ordered. I—sob-ugh!”
The man appealed through tears.
“If I defied Chairman Chae’s commands… surely you understand what would happen to me!”
The words held a certain logic, but Jeong Hyun-soo only sneered coldly.
Smack!
A brutal fist sent the man’s head flying.
“Chae Mu-hyun doesn’t make just anyone clean up his mess.”
Jeong Hyun-soo searched the man’s belongings.
Beep-beep!
Various items issued to him came into view.
Security was airtight, and the programming would almost certainly include an auto-destruct function if an unauthorized user attempted access.
“Seuil.”
Jeong Hyun-soo possessed the fruits of advanced Magical Engineering.
And alongside that, a brilliant theoretical mage of comparable talent.
“Analyze it for me. In exchange, I’ll throw in as much pizza and cola as you want this time.”
[Jung Su-jin says she’ll consider it if you throw in chicken too.]
“What kind?”
[She insists on fried chicken—specifically the original golden kind fried in the first batch of oil, freshly made. She’s made her preference quite clear.]
“Fine, deal.”
Jeong Hyun-soo immediately transmitted the belongings to Seuil and Jung Su-jin, then picked up the Twin Blades he’d brought as a portable weapon.
Screeeech!
The Demonic Beasts they had summoned bore down on them, and behind them lay the village where Anna and Ivan had lived.
Fortunately, since this was the first operation, their numbers were not great.
“Why don’t we loosen up and rejoin the others?”
With Ivan properly tracked, Jeong Hyun-soo—now able to corner Chae Mu-hyun and the Songkwang Guild—threw himself at the Demonic Beasts.
Continued in the next episode ▶
The Returning Martial God Who Monopolizes All
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Cheon Ya
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