The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 80

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Episode 80. The Hook (2)
In the outskirts of Paju, Gyeonggi Province, stood Songgwang’s human experimentation facility.
It was an underground building accessible only through an unregistered magic circle that Songgwang possessed, a precaution to avoid drawing attention from the floating population.
Still, the perimeter required constant vigilance, and guard rotations were not optional but essential.
Three of Songgwang’s Hunters were walking toward the checkpoint, headed in to relieve the shift on duty.
Whish.
A faint breeze swept through.
It might have seemed unremarkable to anyone else, but the Hunters immediately sensed something wrong.
A door opening from inside the building—and wind rushing in?
Wind could come from outside, but…….
Crash!
With keen aura sense, they caught the barest hint of something amiss, but that was all.
The head of the Hunter who had opened the door caved in on the spot.
It was the aftermath of being struck by something dark and impossibly violent that had surged in with the breeze.
“What the—!”
“Intruder!”
Jeong Hyun-soo’s ambush, channeling the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art and every trait he possessed, carried exactly that much force.
Wee-woo! Wee-woo!
“What the—this is insane!”
Jeong Hyun-soo had deliberately triggered the alarm himself.
He entered the facility alone out of responsibility.
If an intruder warning sounded, danger was inevitable, but it would spare Iban and his family the suffering that his ambition might otherwise have brought them.
‘They’ll all converge here.’
And given the nature of what was about to unfold, Songgwang would show no hesitation.
He would sweep up Iban—the most crucial piece—and Iban’s family, the chain that bound him, then evacuate this place in record time.
Bang! Bang!
The two remaining Hunters fired mana bullets at Jeong Hyun-soo from both sides.
‘Mercenary background,’ he noted.
Jeong Hyun-soo steadied his breath and twisted his body. The mana bullets grazed past him.
Fluorescent lights flickered, illuminating pooled blood on the floor as Jeong Hyun-soo surged forward in a straight line.
Bang!
The second shot rang out half a beat too late, but the eyes of the Hunter who fired it widened sharply.
Jeong Hyun-soo ran straight toward them without even dodging—as though he had predicted the trajectory of their fire in advance. The impossibility of it struck them hard.
And that was the end.
Jeong Hyun-soo used the recoil of the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art to channel force through the Hunter’s gun hand and brought his arm down.
Ting!
The gun bounced across the floor, and the Hunter’s neck snapped.
Merciless, but clean.
Bang!
As though he had eyes in the back of his head, Jeong Hyun-soo twisted his body lightly to avoid the shot and glanced back.
Crackle!
— Team 6! What’s your status?
— This is Team 6! We have an intruder!
— An intruder? How many?
Bang!
The last remaining Hunter fired his gun wildly at Jeong Hyun-soo.
To take down two men so quickly—his skill was extraordinary. He was superior in every way.
And his hands showed no mercy.
Click—click—!
He fumbled with trembling hands to change the magazine.
— Team 6! Report! How many intruders? What weapons are they using? Give me intel now!
The Hunter continued trying to slot the new magazine with shaking hands.
A mercenary who had survived firefights. He knew fear in combat but never faltered—yet he was failing to load the magazine for the third time now.
There was something horrifying about this opponent. Shrouded in shadow, his eyes gleaming like a predator’s…….
“Gasp—!”
And those eyes were looking down at him now.
A merciless figure radiating terror like a demon crawling up from the depths of an abyss.
— The opponent is…….
He never finished what he was trying to say.
Crash!
His head had exploded under the force of Jeong Hyun-soo’s relentless blow.
Bang!
Behind the gunshot that erupted from a belatedly squeezed trigger, a voice cut through.
— Squad 6! Report! How many intruders?
Crackle!
Jeong Hyun-soo crushed the Artifact and walked down the corridor.
Before turning the corner, he drew another Artifact from his pocket.
An EMP that Jeong Su-jin and Seuil had fashioned.
Fzzzzzt!
The spreading electromagnetic pulse rendered nearby communications and surveillance equipment useless.
“Damn it all!”
The security officer monitoring from the Central Control Center slammed the Artifact he was holding against the desk.
Bang!
The Artifact shattered under the impact, useless as slag.
“Send every combat operative to Sector 27 immediately!”
He pressed the alert button simultaneously, then dialed at once.
Wail! Wail!
— What’s happening?
“An intruder has breached the facility. Sector 27 is compromised. Since the enemy has penetrated our perimeter, I’m initiating lockdown procedures per protocol.”
His report was directed to none other than Chae Mu-hyun.
— We’ll analyze the details later. The intruder must be eliminated—swiftly.
“Understood. I’ve already dispatched the Gwangrang team.”
— No, I’ll head there myself. Did you say Sector 27?
“Yes.”
The Gwangrang units were an elite combat force composed entirely of Platinum-tier Hunters.
While they annihilated the intruder, this laboratory had to be permanently destroyed.
Since backing up the classified intelligence they’d catalogued took priority, the officer could only watch the progress bar climb with anxious eyes.
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— So what’s the plan?
To Kim Chun-sik’s question, Jeong Hyun-soo answered tersely.
“Get Iban and his family out. Secure evidence of what Songgwang has done. That’s all.”
— Is it really that simple?
“It’s not difficult. At this point, protocol dictates they’ll try to back up research materials one more time before destroying everything.”
He only needed to obtain that data.
— Ah, such an elegant solution…! If it were that easy, we’d have shut down every major guild’s corruption and crime by now!
That was Kim Chun-sik’s point—whether it was truly so simple.
— Have you ever been here before? No? Since it’s an underground structure, I can’t provide structural support like last time!
“I understand.”
He’d never expected that from Kim Chun-sik in the first place.
From here on out, he had to rely purely on his own abilities.
Thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud.
Jeong Hyun-soo heard rapid footsteps approaching from ahead.
Multiple footfalls, each distinct yet overlapping, echoed through the corridor and drew steadily closer.
“About eight of them, maybe.”
But the aura he sensed was formidable.
Platinum-tier, at minimum.
And the stronger they were, the more information they carried, each one different in their own way.
Moments later, exactly eight Hunters blocked his path.
The expressions of the Hunters who spotted Jeong Hyun-soo shifted subtly.
“What? So this is the intruder?”
“Just one?”
“…Don’t be careless. If one person took down those mercenaries, he’s strong enough to warrant caution.”
“It’s just those merc bastards being garbage, that’s all.”
“Hey, where did you come from?”
“Will you tell us?”
“Just kill him. We need to get out of here.”
A space where cruel human experimentation proceeded—so heinous that they naturally accepted destroying and abandoning it.
Elite Hunters who thrived as parasites in such darkness, composed entirely of criminals.
“So you’re Gwangrang.”
“Oh, you know us?”
“I’m curious about this, though. Mind if I rough him up a bit?”
“One last time—where are you from, and who are you? How much do you know about this place, and how much have you already sent out?”
To one of the Gwangrang members’ questions, Jeong Hyun-soo spat out a single phrase.
“I’ve got something to say too.”
“What…?”
“The Central Control Center—I’ll spare exactly one of you. Whoever tells me where it is.”
At Jeong Hyun-soo’s words, the Gwangrang members exchanged glances, their expressions betraying disbelief.
“This guy’s actually insane.”
“Hey, you’re not even close to that level, friend.”
Platinum-tier powerhouses. The Gwangrang had once been an elite unit composed of at minimum Blue-tier fugitives.
“Just because he killed a few Silver and Gold-tier scrubs guarding the perimeter…” one muttered in disgust.
“Just kill him.”
The Platinum-tier hunters rushed toward Jeong Hyun-soo.
Only then did Jeong Hyun-soo release the magical power he’d been containing, and their eyes widened in shock.
A skin-prickling, tyrannical force. It wasn’t merely the density or volume of magical power—it was the aura of killing intent born from a person’s very presence.
Thick, suffocating killing intent.
It was so overwhelming and paralyzing that even the Gwangrang, who took pride in having killed many, felt their spines shiver.
‘Is this… someone who’s been killing since birth?’
Contrary to what one might expect of an intruder, the young man’s face was unguarded and youthful.
Yet the killing intent he carried by nature was so intense it seemed like a demon sent down from heaven itself.
“Hyaaaagh!”
The one at the very front rushed to intercept Jeong Hyun-soo.
A Songgwang hunter who relied on martial arts, using his solid, muscular frame.
As he threw a punch, a shockwave erupted outward.
Boom!
Jeong Hyun-soo immediately reversed the shockwave’s pressure using the Dark Heaven Return Origin Art.
“Ugh!”
Blood sprayed from the hunter’s ear as the twisted rebound slammed into him. But he didn’t retreat.
As if to prove his Platinum-tier status was no accident, he held his ground and prepared another punch—
Crack!
Jeong Hyun-soo, his Vanguard Characteristic fully activated, hooked the hunter’s wrist with a perfectly calibrated technique and hurled him.
Splaaash!
The Gwangrang member’s body tore apart, blood fountaining.
Another Gwangrang, unconcerned with his ally’s fate, had launched a space-severing strike in that instant.
Of course, Jeong Hyun-soo, having sensed it, used the falling corpse as a shield to reduce their numbers while perfectly defending himself.
“This bastard…”
As one fell so quickly, panic flashed across the Gwangrang’s faces.
“He excels in melee combat. Remember that.”
Bang!
A gunshot rang out immediately. Mana Bullets.
But unlike the mercenaries they’d faced earlier, this was remarkably precise fire.
Another hunter pressed the attack on Jeong Hyun-soo—a Gwangrang with arms of solid metal, pressing him head-on.
Jeong Hyun-soo didn’t hesitate. He deflected the metal arm using the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art, then drove forward with a counter-push.
“Hgh!”
Jeong Hyun-soo exhaled sharply and concisely. His entire body’s muscles swelled with intense force.
Boom!
“Ugh!”
The hunter who’d woven a barrier of cold air spat blood—he never imagined raw physical power could punch through it.
In the swirl of frost and killing intent, firelight flickered.
Thundercrack!
The sniper’s muzzle flashed, but Jeong Hyun-soo, having predicted the trajectory, twisted his head at the last instant and dodged.
Crash!
The glass pods of the laboratory, already visible through the shattered wall, simply exploded into fragments.
A storm of shards momentarily obscured the sniper’s vision.
Jeong Hyun-soo used the fragments’ reflection lines, accelerating through them at amplified speed via the Cheongyeong Mansang-gong.
“Hah…!”
Eliminating the most dangerous threat—the sniper. His fist rose into the man’s field of vision.
The Gwangrang members clenched their teeth and tried to keep pace, but they simply didn’t have the momentum to close the gap.
Boom!
The sniper fired at point-blank range, but the airborne Jeong Hyun-soo deflected the bullet with a single Short Sword he carried, his eyes squeezing shut.
Crack!
Jeong Hyun-soo spun around, crossing his arms to shield himself just as he was about to obliterate the sniper’s head.
Boom!
A tempest forged from blood crashed into him with devastating force.
To be continued ▶
The Sole Inheritor of Return
Author
Cheon Ya
Publishers
Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
Published by
Grae Publishing
Contact: [email protected]
Publication Date
May 26, 2026
UCI
G720:N+A327-20260515012
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