The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 79

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Chapter 79. The Hook (1)
Ibaan narrowed his shoulders, mindful of the Hunters seated on either side of him.
It was something he’d learned through long years of habit—he knew his frame was massive, and in cramped quarters—
Though he’d only ridden in a car a few times, Anna had taught him that passengers beside him grew uncomfortable, and he’d committed it to memory.
The landscape outside shifted moment by moment.
The car that had left the Snowy Plains pressed southward without pause, and managed at last to cross the border.
“…What about Anna and Nikita?”
Standing before the flickering Temporary Magic Circle, Ibaan glanced about.
“Ah, those two arrived first and moved on to Seoul.”
At Chae Mu-hyun’s words, Ibaan tilted his head.
“But we were supposed to… go together….”
“Isn’t it terribly cold? Unlike you, those two haven’t Awakened—they’re ordinary people.”
The cold was certainly bitter. Anna and Nikita wore the coats Ibaan had forced upon them, and they were Russian.
Watching him, Chae Mu-hyun clicked his tongue inwardly.
‘Pathetic fool.’
Why would he cling so stubbornly over mere blood relations?
Yet Song Gwang’s strategy team had already made thorough preparations to secure Ibaan’s containment.
At first, they’d even considered powerful sedatives or magical hypnosis, but decided to keep that as a last resort.
Given Ibaan’s abilities, which appeared close to Super Regeneration, drugs could be neutralized quickly, and his Spirit seemed likely to resist as well.
“Look here. See where Anna and Ibaan are.”
Chae Mu-hyun handed his smartphone screen to Ibaan.
“Anna! Nikita!”
There they were on the display.
Walking with the security detail that had departed with him, they passed between the steel forest of buildings utterly unlike the Vladivostok where he’d lived.
“Keep showing him things like this and tracking becomes disadvantageous in every way. You may not know it, but the killers sent by the Russian authorities target families too. Keep that in mind.”
At Chae Mu-hyun’s words, Ibaan had to make a choice. He knew he was being foolish, but there was no other way.
Nikita and Anna were in Seoul.
“…I’ll go.”
“Then let’s be off. To a reunion.”
Ibaan surrendered himself to the magic circle. At once, a dizzying sensation washed over him. But it faded just as quickly.
His Trait regenerated everything. Soon his insides settled, but worry for Anna and Nikita gnawed at him.
Moments later, Ibaan found himself standing in a dimly lit place that reeked of dampness.
“Where is this…?”
“You wanted to meet Anna and Nikita, didn’t you? I told you not to come.”
“No, I…”
“The Safe House. Go in and have your reunion.”
Chae Mu-hyun pushed the door open at once.
The space reeked of disinfectant mingled with the clatter of scattered implements.
Glass capsules lined the walls, each containing forms that seemed alive yet perfectly motionless.
Each time the dim lighting flickered, the silhouettes beyond the glass revealed themselves—respirators, nutrient tubes, injection apparatus tangled around human shapes.
Ibaan’s gaze crept slowly toward the center of the space.
The floor was orderly, yet that very neatness felt obscene.
It showed how someone had treated humans as if methodically disassembling and reassembling them. Logically, Ibaan could not accept what his eyes reported, but his instincts screamed the truth.
“Anna!! Nikita!!”
A raw, piercing scream tore from Ibaan’s throat.
Anna and Nikita were fixed to restraining beds positioned at the center of that malevolent space.
Their skin had gone deathly pale, and they lay motionless with eyes sealed shut.
Ibaan recalled the two figures on the phone screen from moments before. Now he realized he hadn’t truly seen their eyes then.
His head snapped toward Chae Mu-hyun.
“Welcome to Song Gwang.”
It was an elegant greeting, as if welcoming a guest to a high-society gathering.
And then.
Crack-crack-crack!
“Kyaaaaaahhh!”
Hunters stationed all around fired Restraint Artifacts at Ibaan.
Ibaan bolted through the barrage.
Thud!
As a Restraint Artifact embedded itself and began to spread across his body, he tore it out with his bare hands.
Blood sprayed and the torn flesh left a gaping crater, but living tissue swiftly surged back to fill the void.
Watching him, Chae Mu-hyun felt exhilaration bloom in his chest.
‘That’s it. Exactly that.’
He wasn’t simply hoping that Chae Mu-hyun would strengthen his Skill through Ibaan and achieve Immortality.
That expectation would be what Chae Mu-sik desired, and Chae Mu-hyun’s standing would rise once that expectation was fulfilled.
An Immortality Skill?
Truth is, he had no intention of creating one. If Chae Mu-sik didn’t die, how else would he ever claim the chairman’s seat?
Crash!
Ibaan hurled himself at the Hunter blocking his path. His frenzied fists turned the Hunter into a crimson blur as it flew backward.
Chae Mu-hyun whistled.
“Hey, Ibaan. That’ll do.”
Hunters with their weapons trained on Anna and Nikita came into view. Ibaan ground his teeth.
“…Don’t.”
“Well, then you’ll need to cooperate with us a little, won’t you?”
“Cooperate…?”
“That’s right, Ibaan. If you just follow our orders, at least Anna and Nikita won’t come to any harm. But if you keep this up… I can’t promise what might happen.”
Ibaan’s head drooped. He sank to his knees.
Chae Mu-hyun’s spreading smile reflected in Ibaan’s pupils.
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At that same moment, Kim Chun-sik stared at the monitor filled with Chae Mu-hyun’s face and cursed.
“That damned bastard! He’s not even human, is he?”
In the end, every word Jeong Hyun-soo had spoken proved true.
The existence of an illegal human experimentation facility, Ibaan dragged into it, coercion using Anna and Nikita.
To counter this, Jeong Hyun-soo had used Kim Chun-sik to secretly implant a Tracking Artifact and a Mana-Linked Nano Camera developed by Jeong Su-jin into Nikita.
Since Ibaan was so dull-witted, it hadn’t been particularly difficult.
“Right now the Three Major Powers are converging on this location, so Song Gwang is about to meet its end… Where are you going?”
Kim Chun-sik watched Jeong Hyun-soo’s back as he walked away without listening, and wondered if his ears were deceiving him.
“Surely… you’re not thinking of storming in alone, are you?”
“I have to.”
Kim Chun-sik thought he was hearing madness.
“Song Gwang’s core members are all stationed there, sir!”
“And?”
“What do you mean ‘and’? It’s dangerous! Have you lost your mind wanting to die?”
“That’s not it. But I can’t shirk my responsibility, can I?”
“Excuse me?”
Jeong Hyun-soo had known Ibaan would be captured. He’d anticipated they would use Anna and Nikita for coercion, and it had come to pass.
And he had allowed it to happen.
Deliberately, to pinpoint the location of this illegal experimentation facility.
“The suffering they endure should be minimized. I’ll rescue them, and I’ll seek their forgiveness.”
“…!”
Kim Chun-sik’s mouth fell open. There was no lie in Jeong Hyun-soo’s words—anyone could see that.
But the problem was that most people wouldn’t proceed this way.
Naturally, under the pretense of safe extraction, they would wait for Garam, Hanul, and the Blood Association to arrive.
And naturally, Song Gwang’s mad scientists, eager to experiment on the captive Ibaan, would inflict suffering on him in the meantime.
“Ugh…”
Kim Chun-sik shuddered merely from imagining it.
Coerced using beloved family members, forced to endure human experimentation for their safety.
His flesh stripped away, his blood drawn—yet he possessed Super Regeneration.
He’d heal instantly, which meant they’d extract samples with frenzied abandon. Until they understood the mechanism behind how he recovered….
“Sigh. Fine, I understand. Let’s go.”
“You’re staying.”
Kim Chun-sik, having somewhat awakened to a similar sense of responsibility, was immediately stopped by Jeong Hyun-soo.
“What?”
“At your level, you’d just be dead weight.”
Separate from his rage toward Song Gwang, Jeong Hyun-soo did not underestimate the power of a Tier Guild.
“I can’t protect you.”
At those words, Kim Chun-sik went rigid.
“Then what can I do…?”
“Stay here and keep feeding me information.”
Kim Chun-sik clenched his jaw.
“I’ll do it right.”
“Good.”
Kim Chun-sik would manage well enough. After this, he’d rise to become the master of the Blood Association, a major player who could sway global information.
With that said, Jeong Hyun-soo erased his presence entirely and approached the experimental facility.
It was a place of rigorous vigilance.
Jeong Hyun-soo traced the most natural fluctuation of environmental energy through the area, pinpointed the position of each Hunter standing guard, and slipped into the darkness.
‘Three at the entrance.’
He had to finish them in one stroke. But they were watching in his direction. Jeong Hyun-soo needed a victory that was both covert and absolute.
“Hmm, now that we’ve finally got someone with actual regenerative ability, think the Guild Master’s desired skill will actually be created?”
“Who knows. Before that happens, if the test subject dies again, it’s impossible.”
“…God, I hope not. Then we’d have to go traipsing around the world hunting for more specimens.”
Chae Mu-hyun’s dogs. Dogs sent out to search for those with regenerative abilities to achieve Immortality, and to locate wives to be sacrificed to produce useful pawns—Chae Mu-hyun’s dogs.
A collection of trash that enviously mimicked the Association Knights that Seon Woo-hyun commanded.
Chae Mu-sik was the type who, if he possessed skill and loyalty to Chae Mu-hyun, wouldn’t hesitate to spring a wanted criminal from prison.
“Ha, still—once this job’s done, we get leave, right? Where are you headed?”
“Me? Obviously I’m taking some girls out on a yacht. Up there I’ll just—bang!—send them all flying.”
“You’re talking shit. Does that kind of thing even fit inside a toilet paper roll?”
Crude jokes of the lowest order. Anyone could see they were either wanted fugitives or mercenaries cycling through the front lines.
They were seasoned enough in their own right, but once the vulgar banter began, it was enough to ensnare their attention.
This was the difference from Seon Woo-hyun’s true hunting dogs, who permitted no such slack,
and it was the decisive gap between a major player who as an Association Chair manipulated world Hunters and a greedy strongman who remained trapped in a Tier Guild.
It was also the criterion that determined life and death.
Now within effective range, Jeong Hyun-soo’s hands moved without hesitation.
Crack.
He seized both sides of the man’s neck and twisted. The moment the head spun around, the other two reacted swiftly.
“Intrusion—!”
Thud.
His hand jammed straight into the man’s throat.
Jeong Hyun-soo tore at the vocal cords to prevent even a scream, and simultaneously extended his palm horizontally.
Crack!
“Gahhh!”
The remaining man, struck in the lungs, collapsed instantly. All three went down without so much as a sound.
Static.
A voice crackled through the artifact they’d been using to communicate.
— Team Three, anything to report on your watch?
Jeong Hyun-soo paused to think.
— Team Three, respond.
Was this really Team Three’s post?
— This is Team Three. We’re currently… in the middle of a shift change.
It was a communication network linked as one for emergencies. Confirming this, Jeong Hyun-soo leaned against the door.
It was shift-change time. Which meant.
Footsteps—footsteps—
enemies who needed to be eliminated were drawing near.
Using the Dark Heaven Return Origin Art to deaden his presence as much as possible, Jeong Hyun-soo prepared for the ambush.
To be continued ▶
The Sole Devouring Regressor
Author
Cheon Ya
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Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
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May 26, 2026
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