The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 85

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Episode 85. Hooking (7)
Chae Mu-sik found the current situation, to be honest, difficult to accept.
He had never been fully confident that his human experimentation facility—something tantamount to taboo—would remain completely hidden.
That’s why he had prepared contingency measures.
If Chae Mu-sik had simply followed the existing system he’d established, there would have been no reason for discovery.
But this time, a specimen with the super-regeneration Trait had come through—one he couldn’t afford to let slip away.
Of course, having taken the risk, failure now meant exposure.
‘Two of the Top Ten Guilds rushed in like they were waiting.’
It meant Garam and Hanul had set a trap and were lying in wait.
Song Gwang had been the one trying to devour Garam in the first place, yet he’d had no idea whatsoever.
‘Kang Hyun-woo?’
Chae Mu-sik’s thoughts turned to Kang Hyun-woo, Garam’s vice-guild master, who had come to Song Gwang first with a proposal to strike at Jeong Cheol—but he quickly shook his head.
That required too much foresight. Especially drawing in Hanul? That wasn’t an easy task by any measure.
Suddenly, Chae Mu-sik’s gaze shifted past Jeong Cheol’s back, toward Jeong Hyun-soo.
‘It’s him.’
It was intuition, but the feeling seemed right. Hadn’t this man shown unusual audacity from the start, coming here alone like that?
“I didn’t realize my vision had become so narrow.”
“Is that your final words, Chairman Chae?”
At Ji Sang-wook’s remark, Chae Mu-sik slowly raised his fist.
“Unfortunately, I have no intention of dying here.”
Chae Mu-sik remained outwardly calm, but killing intent radiated from him as he showed his will to fight.
“Good. I thought you’d just surrender unconditionally.”
The mana around Ji Sang-wook had been honed to a razor’s edge.
“If you strike first, shouldn’t you be prepared to be struck in return?”
A magical circle formed above Ji Sang-wook’s head.
No sooner had one circle appeared than it began to multiply, forming twelve layers stacked like a tower, each rotating in a different direction.
Each layer symbolized a different law.
Time, space, gravity, cold, vacuum, dimension…….
As Ji Sang-wook snapped his fingers, the air screamed.
Zing!
The absolute magic that defined him—the Absolute Ice Magic.
Space froze, and as if even light itself had been consumed by the cold, it seemed to stop.
Against that great spell, Chae Mu-sik thrust his fist forward.
The punch from his Supremacy Fist connected.
Boom!
The cold exploded backward, completely severing Chae Mu-sik’s magical power wave.
Light froze solid, heat was torn away. Lightning crackled suddenly in the gap between temperatures.
With a single gesture from Ji Sang-wook, an absolute-zero circle formed beneath Chae Mu-sik’s feet, engulfing the heat wave pouring from his body.
Crack! Crack!
Sizzle-sizzle-sizzle!
Amid the sound of space tearing, Chae Mu-sik’s magical power—like a sun stained red—gradually fractured and scattered.
Would the Supremacy Fist be bound by Ji Sang-wook’s magic like this?
Crackle.
A sudden fissure appeared in Ji Sang-wook’s absolute-zero barrier. And then…….
Burst!
From within, a martial master radiating extreme heat emerged once more.
Though half his body was frozen, suffering severe frostbite, Chae Mu-sik had forced his way through the barrier and escaped.
“Hah…….”
But his injuries looked grave.
Ji Sang-wook’s powerfully concentrated magic had proven remarkably effective, and seizing that opening, Jeong Cheol now stepped forward.
Treading on a faint golden radiance beneath his feet, a single blade, honed to razor sharpness, leapt upward.
Three currents unfolded simultaneously from that blade.
Hwan Cheon Ki.
Dark Heaven Return Origin Art.
Mu Sang Jin Gyeol.
The inheritor of the current Immortal King and master of Garam.
Jeong Cheol drew his blade slowly. The mana in the air lost direction, scattering as if wandering.
From the path traced by his blade, golden lines rose.
Shatter!
Beneath them, a wave of black light intersected.
Mu Sang Jin Gyeol, Third Form.
Cheon Geuk Gwi Sim.
Jeong Cheol’s blade split apart the crimson fist of Supremacy hurtling toward him. Heat erupted in both directions.
Whoooosh!
Scarlet flame erupted outward on both sides, while a blade stroke nearly silent in its precision drove toward Chae Mu-sik.
The sheer force radiating from this life-and-death duel between titans who now dominated South Korea’s Hunter world was staggering.
“Gahhk!”
Iban shielded Anna and Nikita from the shockwave with his back, pulling them far from the epicenter. Any closer and they’d be consumed.
The collision of Grand Masters—beings who transcended the merely superhuman—showed no mercy.
As Iban fled, something like a powerful missile streaked past his shoulder.
“Kragh!”
A chunk of his shoulder tore away, blood spraying. He thought it was Chae Mu-sik’s feint—but no.
“Huh…….”
A thick, cleanly severed arm crashed down upon him.
Jeong Cheol’s strike had been so precise it seemed to cut through light itself—Supremacy’s arm lay severed.
Blood dripped steadily. To anyone watching, Supremacy was clearly losing.
One.
Yet Supremacy’s eyes showed not the slightest surrender. Would he charge in even unto death?
‘That can’t be…….’
Chae Mu-sik’s paramount concern was survival. This madman sought immortality—he’d never throw away a winnable fight.
Then Chae Mu-sik’s remaining arm moved.
“Finish him.”
Ji Sang-wook pressed forward again without hesitation, offering no opening.
Despite his title of Grand Mage, facing Supremacy one-on-one put him at a disadvantage in matchup.
If he couldn’t fell Supremacy with spells prepared in advance, Ji Sang-wook would be the one left helpless.
But he had Jeong Cheol. And Jeong Cheol, having bought time to cast again, stood ready with formidable magic once more prepared.
Standing at the forefront, Jeong Cheol pressed Supremacy back again.
A martial artist with one arm didn’t simply fight at half strength—the loss was far more severe.
Squelch!
Jeong Cheol’s pitiless blade buried itself deep in Supremacy’s abdomen.
Then.
“Khahahah!”
Supremacy laughed even as he coughed blood, seizing Jeong Cheol’s blade with his remaining left hand.
Blood ran from his hand where the sharp steel cut into him. Yet rather than pull the sword away, wasn’t he dragging it deeper?
And from Supremacy’s back, a scarlet stream of blood suddenly erupted.
Craaaaaash!
Thump! Thump!
The heartbeat of the mortally wounded Supremacy, which had been fading, surged back to life with newfound strength.
Seeing Chae Mu-sik resurrecting before his eyes, Jeong Cheol immediately abandoned his blade.
Shatter!
“Krhehe, quick reflexes.”
Jeong Cheol stared at the sharp talons that had just raked through the space where he’d been standing.
“An arm growing back? This monster—he’s already transcended humanity!”
The severed arm had regenerated.
But what had grown in its place was clearly no human limb.
Thicker in girth, and the flesh itself looked less human and more like that of a demonic beast.
Most striking of all, each fingernail gleamed like a crescent moon blade—sharp and cruel to behold.
“Did you make a contract with a demon, Chae Mu-sik!”
At Ji Sang-wook’s cry, Chae Mu-sik slowly pulled the blade free from his abdomen.
His pupils had split vertically like a cat’s, and Chae Mu-sik grinned wickedly.
Sharp fangs emerged from his mouth.
“It’s called Blood Heart,” he said.
Squelch.
His split skin peeled back, revealing beneath it muscles dense as steel, and Chae Mu-sik walked forward.
“Ah, Father…….”
Chae Mu-hyun watched Chae Mu-sik approach. Terror gripped his every feature.
Chae Mu-sik extended his hand toward Chae Mu-hyun, who trembled violently from the shock.
“Yes, my son. Don’t worry.”
“Ah, Father… Ahhhhhhh!”
Crunch.
Ji Sang-wook felt a wave of revulsion as he watched Chae Mu-sik tear out Chae Mu-hyun’s heart in an instant and chew it in his mouth.
Blood relations nonetheless. Yet Chae Mu-sik felt no guilt, consuming it as though it were the most natural thing in the world.
“Chae Mu-sik. Tell me—is that why you fathered so many children?”
“A price to be paid.”
His children’s hearts.
It was something no true human being could ever commit, yet Chae Mu-sik had carried it out with utter indifference.
Muscles so grotesquely enlarged that they tore through the very clothes he wore.
But when Ji Sang-wook saw the massive scar running across Chae Mu-sik’s pectorals—still glistening with blood—he furrowed his brow.
“To heal the wounds from the Black Dragon, you’ve abandoned your humanity!”
“To kill a beast, becoming a monster isn’t such a terrible price.”
“Silence!”
He was no longer the leader of the Top Ten Guilds.
This was humanity’s enemy—nothing more than a vile demon to be subjugated.
Ji Sang-wook stretched out his hand.
A Dimensional Rift carved from the fissures of space itself. The rift tore open through the hellish flames Chae Mu-sik had unleashed.
Jeong Cheol rushed through the gap, raising an extra blade he’d brought with him.
Chae Mu-sik’s even more devastating Yeom Cheon Gwi Myeol.
Ji Sang-wook’s Absolute Ice Magic—Bing Si Gong.
Jeong Cheol’s Cheon Geuk Gwi Sim.
Formidable techniques collided once more, each wielded with full force.
Crack-BOOM!
Space fractured, and sound itself vanished.
Iban flew beyond the blast, cradling his younger siblings, while everything moved in slow motion.
Temperature and magical power exploded outward, scattering metal, blood, flame, and ice in all directions.
Demonic Energy consuming his entire body—this Demonic Energy born from coveting powers forbidden to humans, transcending mere magic itself—Chae Mu-sik charged forward ablaze with it.
Not blood, but crystallized red Mana. The Demonic Energy pulsed like a heartbeat, shattering Ji Sang-wook’s barrier.
Crack!
Jeong Cheol’s blade shattered.
In that instant, as the sticky Demonic Energy erupted from the eyes of the demon contractor gaining the upper hand against two leaders of the Top Ten Guilds, Chae Mu-sik sensed something.
The air fell silent. When he turned, he felt the currents of the void hold still.
A shadow cast by a presence that had vanished now stretched long behind Chae Mu-sik’s back.
It was Jeong Hyun-soo.
“You…!”
From within the vortex of Demonic Energy, Jeong Hyun-soo’s hand had already pierced through Chae Mu-sik’s chest.
The weakest point—the surest victory. Seizing the moment, Jeong Hyun-soo tore open the wound Chae Mu-sik had taken from the Black Dragon and seized his heart.
“Please, don’t do this. I was wrong.”
Chae Mu-sik’s voice trembled with desperate pleading.
“Song Gwang will disappear today. And I will live in silence. I will swear an oath if you wish. So please…AHHHHHHHHH!”
Jeong Hyun-soo crushed Chae Mu-sik’s heart—even as he channeled Demon’s Whisper—to pulp.
Heart and the grey light of Dark Heaven Return Origin Art exploded outward.
Red and black shadow intertwined, and beyond them came a screech that tore at the ears.
“KIIIIIIIII!”
The sound of the demon’s shadow being ripped apart.
Everything collapsed. Sound was sucked away, the massive frame of Supremacy Fist Chae Mu-sik crumpled and compressed, then vanished into a single point.
It was done. As Jeong Hyun-soo confirmed Chae Mu-sik’s form—dragged toward the demon realm by the screams that always followed a demon contractor’s fall, paying the price of his sins—his own body gave way.
Boom! Crash!
The Experimental Lab, unable to withstand the collision of absolutes, collapsed. Jeong Cheol rushed toward Jeong Hyun-soo’s falling form with a grave expression.
Yes. His father.
So Jeong Hyun-soo could let go without regret.
[Trial of the Tyrant King successfully completed.]
[Reward has been granted.]
[The Immortal King has awakened from long slumber.]
[You have earned the acknowledgment of the Immortal King.]
[The Ghost King takes notice of you.]
[The Trial of the Ghost King begins.]
[The King of Hwan Cheon expresses his disappointment in you.]
[The Wind King worries about your speed.]
To be continued in the next episode ▶
The Sole Eater’s Return Warrior
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Cheon-ya
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