The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 81

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Episode 81. Hooking (3)
Ella, the Crimson Blood of Gwillang. Awakened with the Trait of Healing Berserker, Ella Bright tore open her own arm with her fingernails.
Shriek!
Blood sprayed into the air and ignited. The crimson essence transformed into scarlet flame, the mana particles in the sky coalescing into a tempest that engulfed Jeong Hyun-soo and detonated.
Boom!
The air shuddered. Ella, who had just unleashed that self-inflicted explosion across the front, had already lost her focus.
Madness gripped her more than pain—a frenzied exhilaration. The blood evaporated and reacted with mana particles in the air, spawning detonation.
But when Jeong Hyun-soo’s silhouette appeared through the hazy red vapors, Ella flinched.
The Dual-Thought Recording Plate.
The strange ability to sustain two simultaneous thought streams lit up, overlaying trajectories, velocities, and mana flows upon Jeong Hyun-soo’s vision, reading them all at once.
And with the Dark Heaven Return Origin Art alone, he could reverse Ella’s barrage in an instant.
Crash!
The other half of his consciousness tracked an alternate path of the incoming assault.
“Monstrous…!”
A splitting of thought—strange to describe, felt only by those who endured it directly.
With two parallel combat calculations running, as though he were two people at once, Jeong Hyun-soo advanced without a single misstep.
Crash!
Ella hurled herself forward with a thrust, but Jeong Hyun-soo did not dodge.
Instead, he calculated the overlapping angle of Hart’s sniper line—the one that had barely kept him alive moments before—and positioned Ella as his own shield.
Ping!
The bullet pierced through the crimson mana haze and grazed Ella’s shoulder, detonating on impact.
Bang!
A flash burst forth from Beyond.
Jeong Hyun-soo rode that recoil and unleashed the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art.
His right arm, infused with the power of the Tyrant King, drove mercilessly toward Ella.
Crack!
Blood and mana burst forth, yet Jeong Hyun-soo pressed forward even harder in direct collision.
“Ugh!”
For Ella, it was the blood mist forged from every ounce of her strength.
No matter how reckless, direct confrontation should have been impossible—yet the unknown intruder kept forcing his way through.
“What are you all doing!”
Ella shrieked in frustration. But help would not come.
The problem was not teamwork; the crimson mana vapor she had created was itself a zone of death.
To enter was to perish in the explosion. Only someone like Jeong Hyun-soo, wielding the Dark Heaven Return Origin Art to erase mana the instant it touched him,
while simultaneously using the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art to suppress it—only someone with such mastery could step into this space.
The only help possible was Hart, the sharpshooter.
Bang!
Hart’s desperate gunfire rang out, and Jeong Hyun-soo raised his palm.
Bullets dropped through the clenched fist, filling Ella’s entire vision.
Ella gritted her teeth. She tore her own arm clean off. The price of severing one limb was supposed to grant a massive counterattack, but—
“Did you think I’d let that happen?”
“No—!”
Jeong Hyun-soo seized Ella’s body and hurled her against the wall. The detonation came a moment too late.
Kaboom!
“Ella!”
“Damn it!”
With his back to the explosion erupting behind, Jeong Hyun-soo sprinted forward, his eyes locked on Hart across the way. The predator bore down with ruthless intensity, and Hart fired desperately, his trigger finger a blur. Jeong Hyun-soo kicked the debris scattered across the floor aside.
Boom!
The distance closed faster still, and Jeong Hyun-soo released the Dark Heaven Return Origin Art.
The air pressure reversed and twisted in an instant.
Under the force of return, Hart’s sniper rifle barrel warped, and the barrel exploded.
A ruthless inversion of power—magical control of merciless precision.
It demonstrated how profound his mastery of the Dark Heaven Return Origin Art had become, how infinite its applications.
Bang! Bang!
In the burst of light, Jeong Hyun-soo rode the smoke pouring from the ash and advanced. His movement was a single, direct line of flame—ruthless and cold.
Hart raised his hands in desperation, deploying a defensive barrier. But Jeong Hyun-soo, riding the updraft created by the fire using the Cheongryeong Mansang-gong, split the barrier open and forced his way through.
“Damn….”
Hart, now trapped within his own barrier, despaired. Jeong Hyun-soo flicked his fingers at him without expression.
Squelch!

A hole opened between Hart’s eyebrows. Jeong Hyun-soo had flicked one of Hart’s own bullets away with his thumb, firing it back like a hidden projectile.
In the fading crimson mist emanating from Ella, only Jeong Hyun-soo’s breathing could be heard, quiet and steady.
Flare!
The Facility Manager’s expression crumpled in the Control Tower where he sat.
Five of the seven lights representing Gwillang had gone dark.
“What in hell got in here?”
He stared at the extinguished monitors, hoping they would flicker back to life.
Meanwhile, Jeong Hyun-soo faced two Gwillang operatives standing in direct confrontation before him.
Rad Mirov, master of cold, and Gross Pendle, wielder of self-detonation.
They stood with their backs to the Laboratory’s central hub, now exposed by the blast.
Glass frozen by Rad’s frigid power gleamed brilliantly, and the air had grown so laden with cold that it drifted like needles through the space.
Rad Mirov, frost clinging to every fingertip, had shaped the walls, ceiling, and floor into a single dome of ice.
‘I have to fight at full strength.’
The five he’d already killed were admittedly weaker than Rad, but Rad himself harbored no confidence that he could dispatch them so swiftly and cleanly.
What worked in his favor was that his opponent had sustained considerable wounds.
And since the man was surely exhausted, Rad had deployed his ice sector from the outset to seize victory.
Behind him pulsed an enormous mana reactor—Gross Pendle, radiating with the violent crimson light of detonation, his magical power churning the air itself.
‘Cold and explosion. This is interesting.’
Jeong Hyun-soo exhaled slowly, dragging his fingertips across the frost gathering on the wall.
At that same moment, Rad cleaved through the air.
Fracture Liquid.
Space tore open as frost cascaded forth, seven layers of ice spears projecting simultaneously.
Jeong Hyun-soo unfurled the Cheongryeong Mansang-gong, inscribing a trajectory as he evaded.
Transformed into a ribbon of blue wind, he deflected the first strike to the side, then curved the second’s trajectory with the Dark Heaven Return Origin Art gathered at his fingertips.
Crack!
He shattered the third ice spear on impact.
Shatter—
Fragments scattered like snow, and light exploded around him in a collision of frost and brilliance.
“Die!”
Gross, positioned behind, bellowed with a roar.
The Mana Core in his chest ignited, and his Mana Energy Pattern surged violently upward.
The air itself cried out.
Jeong Hyun-soo drove forward, pushing off the ground with the balls of his feet. The pressure of the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art shattered Rad’s barrier, and he charged through.
Crunch!
Shattered ice fragments lodged in his skin. Yet he paid no heed, accelerating instead.
Ice attacks rained down like precipitation. Rad opened his palms.
“You won’t get through!”
He deployed his signature Execution Technique: Absolute Frost.
Whiiiing.
Cold swept across the battlefield as if the entire arena had frozen solid.
In a stillness that seemed to have frozen even time itself, only Jeong Hyun-soo’s eyes flickered with a pale blue radiance.
Thump!
Jeong Hyun-soo felt his heart suddenly surge into rhythm—an uncanny sensation, different from his usual pattern. His breathing grew labored, yet something whispered to him in a voice without words.
He could not stop.
Rather, he had to surrender his body to the frost storm converging upon him.
The power of return. Jeong Hyun-soo severed even the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art and opened both palms wide. The cold rushed into him.
“What—what the hell is this insanity!”
It was nothing short of a nightmare. The sensation of losing dominion over his own chill was utterly devastating.
“What are you doing, Rad? Freeze him, even a little!”
“Damn it, I can’t! You bastard!”
The Dark Heaven Return Origin Art’s domain expanded. Rad’s ice, finding no purchase, merely churned and surged, and the moment it congealed at the center, it froze solid.
Crack!
Jeong Hyun-soo unleashed the Earth Star Instant Energy.
The concentrated Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art inscribed a trajectory piercing through the condensed cold, and beyond it, Jeong Hyun-soo’s expressionless face bore down upon Rad.
Boom!
A sharp explosive sound tore through the air, and a blizzard detonated.
Where that explosion had swept past, the mage who had wielded the cold was gone. In his place lay only shattered ice and blood.
Confronted with the sheer, overwhelming force of Jeong Hyun-soo’s technique—which had pulverized a human body into mere fragments—Gross Pendle felt something akin to awe.
“Haha!”
Gross had already sensed his own death. And so he burned all the brighter.
A Trait born of self-destruction—the stronger for every last thing it consumed.
A Trait that detonated Life Energy, known by another name as Innate Vital Energy; it belonged to Gross Pendle, who had once been an Experimental Subject of Song Gwang.
Jeong Hyun-soo activated the Dual-Thought Recording Plate.
One consciousness calculated the phase of the explosive wave. The other reorganized the Laboratory’s structure.
‘Iban and his family should already be gone.’
He wouldn’t have left anything important nearby.
Two thoughts converged, and Gross Pendle deployed his self-detonation technique, the Reverse Explosion.
“Die!”
Unwilling to live any longer as an Experimental Subject, he had sworn loyalty to Chae Mu-hyun, and in doing so had come to suppress and hunt those in the same wretched position as himself—Gross Pendle.
He hurled a detonation at Jeong Hyun-soo, burning his own Life in the process.
“You can’t possibly escape. Khkh. Here is absolutely——”
Pendle had seen Jeong Hyun-soo fight at close range with savage ferocity. So he had unleashed a tremendous amount of Innate Vital Energy at point-blank distance, certain no one could survive——but.
Click.
“What—what is that!”
Pendle’s eyes wavered as Jeong Hyun-soo suddenly produced a gun from nowhere.
“I can see your little suicide bombing coming from a mile away. Why would I just stand here?”
Jeong Hyun-soo, who had taken the gun from Hart, squeezed the already-loaded trigger in preparation for combat.
Boom!
A powerful Shotgun. Pendle’s upper body was blown clean away, swept into the wide spread of buckshot that erupted forward.
Jeong Hyun-soo had already spun away.
Boom! Bang!
Kaboom-boom-boom-boom!
As Hart died, the Mana scattered by his passing spread wildly, and hot flames began to surge from the heart of the Laboratory.
Jeong Hyun-soo looked up at the flickering surveillance camera.
He pulled an EMP Device from his pocket and threw it. The screen went dark.
“Garam’s… Sacred Power?”
Only then did the Facility Manager identify who had laid waste to this experimental facility.
Seven members of Gwillang defeated.
The backup——?
“Almost done… just a little longer……”
But would they even hold out until then?
Just as he wondered where on earth Chae Mu-hyun, who was supposed to be deployed, could be——
Ding!
The Facility Manager’s expression brightened at the message displayed on his screen.
“The Chairman… is coming himself?”
Given the gravity of the situation, there was a problem with how it would end, but honestly, he felt he bore no responsibility.
Chae Mu-hyun’s anger would be less if they lost it than if it were stolen.
Beyond that, Garam’s Sacred Power……
The intruder, who knew nothing of his place, would surely fall in a single strike——or so he thought.
“…So this is the backup file?”
“Huh?”
He jolted at the voice coming from behind him.
A lean man with sharp, glinting eyes stood there.
While all of Jeong Hyun-soo’s aggro had been drawn, Kim Chun-sik had followed the path of devastation he’d carved through and finally found his way to the Central Control Room.
His fist drove into the Facility Manager’s face.
To be continued ▶
The Sole Devourer’s Return to Divinity
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Cheon-ya
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Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
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