The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 94

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Episode 94. A Threefold Gain (4)
The lord of the orcs.
And it was Oil, one born with the makings of a war general.
The Combat Aura radiating from that innate potential was beyond imagination, and Gwon Gang-pal’s own was ferocious enough to startle.
Oil, whose Combat Aura blazed forth with power enough to make skin prickle, watched the ogre charging at him and let out a howl of protest.
“What manner of insult is this to a sacred orc!”
Gwon Gang-pal nodded in acknowledgment.
Orcs, as history told it, were a warrior race—to die fighting on the battlefield was their honor. To use them as slaves would naturally make their eyes—
“Our orcs do not use such sordid machines!”
Whether anger heightened his eloquence or not, Oil’s threats poured forth now in torrents, unlike his usual spare speech.
“That’s what this is about?”
Gwon Gang-pal could only shake his head in disbelief.
The grotesque mechanical mine. Inside it, the appearance of the laboring orcs was indeed bizarre.
One orc fitted with a Steel Prosthetic Arm, drilling holes with mechanical drills, while beside him another pushed a heavy cart, steam hissing from a prosthetic spine of brass and iron.
Others outfitted with brass mechanisms went about their mining work with diligence—every last one of them bodily modified orcs.
Thanks be to the machine god!
The interior of the mine was lined with inscriptions in the Green Skin Clan’s tongue, and before Oil stood ogres equipped with steam engines.
“Sunglasses?”
An ogre standing unmistakably as an overseer, whip in hand and sunglasses across his eyes, stepped forward before Oil.
Braga, the mechanical overseer.
A modified ogre whose shoulders had been replaced with a thick steel frame over three meters in height.
Half his skull was leather; the other half was a grotesque brass skeleton with pipes running through it.
What manner of transformation had befallen this mechanical overseer Braga that even his lower body bore a Steam Engine Locomotion System—none could say.
His right eye bore a red Magitech Stone Lens, and his dual fields of vision perpetually wavered, trembling without cease.
Click! Click! Click!
Steam erupted from the spine as muscles contracted violently. Simultaneously, the Saw Blade mounted on his arm began to spin.
Whirrrrr!
The saw blade lunged at Oil in an instant. Oil met it, swinging his Battle Axe to parry.
Clang!
Then the reinforced ogre brought down a Hammer gripped in his uninjured hand.
Oil didn’t bat an eye.
“This is—counterfeit! A shabby ogre!”
A test of strength began between them.
As the ogre overseer opened the steam valve at his wrist, trying to bear down and crush Oil, the pistons began to hammer.
Whoosh! Huff-huff!
Click-click! Bang-bang!
“…Labor cannot cease. Efficiency loss—subject to termination…!”
Simultaneously, the orcs around them began to respond, their embedded mechanical devices resonating in unison as they were forced into runaway states.
“Master…!”
“Don’t worry. I’ll handle it.”
At Jeong Hyun-soo’s words, Oil launched into combat in earnest.
Combat Aura blazing forth. Before it, the steam engine trembled and roared.
Boom!
After the impact of the spinning saw blade tearing through the air, the steam exploded outward.
The heat from steam pressure raised to its limit and released would incinerate everything in its path—such was its principle.
But Oil, in turn, radiated his own Combat Aura against it.
Crash!
The opposing forces canceled each other out, and Oil swung his Battle Axe.
Smash!
The ogre overseer’s Saw Blade was sheared clean away. Yet from the valve region where the mechanical device was embedded, a new surge of tremendous force erupted.
A Magitech Pulse Impact.
The overheated core even discharged electric current, but Oil paid it no mind.
“No spirit, ogre. Worthless…nothing! Haaaaaarghhh!”
A crimson aura burst forth from Oil’s body.
Though he could not master the Tyrant’s Succession itself, Oil had learned to handle the fragments of the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art through sheer instinct.
The Battle Axe infused with that power carved a brilliant arc of light.
Crack!
Metal and bone separated, and the ogre’s skull cleaved away from its body.
From the fallen ogre, now sundered between bone and brass, flowed oil instead of blood.
“No spirit, no ogre. This is no ogre at all!”
Oil denied it vehemently even as he pried the ogre’s teeth from its jaw.
For orcs, the fangs of a strong enemy held incalculable worth.
“Good work.”
After crushing an attacking orc slave beneath his palm, Gwon Gang-pal flicked a chestnut at the creature’s forehead to subdue it—and to him, Oil’s antics looked nothing but pathetic.
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Once the ogre overseer fell, the labor pit was cleared with remarkable speed.
Oil burned with fury at the sight of the modified orc slaves, ground down for ruthless efficiency.
But Gwon Gang-pal and Jeong Hyun-soo had no reason to heed Oil’s mood, and so they searched among the scattered Magitech Stones.
“Hmm, but none of these are operational.”
Gwon Gang-pal tried activating the drill the orc slaves had used, hoping against odds, but it gave no response.
Worse, even striking the ore with a pickaxe dealt no physical damage whatsoever.
“We’ll need to establish full Ownership.”
“Is that so? Well, then. We’d better clear the rest first.”
“Master! What do we do with these half-wit slaves?”
At Oil’s question, Gwon Gang-pal let out a soft laugh.
“Who are you calling a half-wit?”
“These aren’t true orcs!”
“True enough. So what of it?”
Jeong Hyun-soo turned to Oil and explained.
His speech was often halting, but his mind was far from dull.
“Once we take the master of this Mine, they’ll be freed naturally.”
“Is the master here an ogre as well?”
“Yes.”
Even in this steampunk world, the hierarchy between ogres and orcs remained unchanged.
Oil was primed for chaos, instinct-driven rage at his own race’s origins burning within him, ready to erupt at any moment.
Jeong Hyun-soo saw no reason to restrain him. Let Oil rampage here all he wished; it would keep him quiet until the next trial.
Thump! Thump!
“Master! Lead the way! The master here! I’ll smash it!”
Gwon Gang-pal spoke from beside him.
“Can that one creature really destroy everything?”
Jeong Hyun-soo merely shrugged—and in that gesture lay his answer.
“It’s hard. Then again, that’s why he brought me this far.”
In raw power, Gwon Gang-pal was nearly Jeong Cheol’s equal.
The passage split into two paths, but Jeong Hyun-soo had no hesitation.
“We go up.”
The lower level held computational enhancement parts meant for Seuil, but that chamber could only be entered once he claimed ownership of the Mine.
So his priority was to secure the Mine through conquest.
Clang! Thump!
The lift from the first floor bore them upward, and instead of cramped tunnels, a gleaming brass-bright industrial processing route spread before their eyes.
“My. Ogres can build something like this?”
“The ogres didn’t build it. They’re merely put to work as overseers here.”
“I see.”
Gwon Gang-pal found the rhythm of the turning gears on all sides and steam pipes descending from the ceiling, pulsing with mechanical precision, utterly captivating.
He had traversed countless Gates, but never anything like this.
‘How in the world did he know such a place existed…’
The floor beneath them lay covered in blood-red iron plating, etched with arcane runes, and through the grooves flowed the refined fuel of Magitech Stones like veins of plasma.
“Why make it like that instead of artifacts or magical materials?”
This was the very seed of the Magitech Stone Revolution yet to come.
In the inter-racial war about to unfold, the reason higher races would wield overwhelming civilization was precisely this technique of Magitech Stone application.
This Mine, keeper of such secrets, would be an endless source of inspiration for Jeong Su-jin.
The air held a strange, neither-hot-nor-cold discomfort, a mixture of oil and electrical current scent.
Whirr! Click! Whirr! Click!
Enormous gears meshed together, and turning in rhythm with them came mechanical monks into view, rotating with the teeth.
“Life is imperfect…machines are…perfect…therefore…the imperfect must be replaced by the perfect…”
[First Processing Route]
The monks, standing before the seething Smelting Furnace, halted all at once and turned their gaze toward the intruders.
Whirr!
The Smelting Furnace blazed not with flame but with red magical power during refinement.
Each furnace bore a Magitech Stone Core that channeled energized mana, which ogre technicians nearby converted into steam and fed as propulsion through their engines in continuous labor.
The labyrinthine network of pipes hissed and steamed. An ogre technician spotted Jeong Hyun-soo and his companions in the treacherous terrain and swung his hammer at a button nearby.
Whirrrrring!
A Gear Smith making the rounds to repair the Smelting Furnace.
A Steam Spirit maintaining its form through medium pressure materialized, while Magitech Stone Drones deployed for mining operations swarmed overhead with a buzzing whine.
“Graaaaaaah!”
Naturally, the Orcs were the ones shouldering the dirtiest work at the Smelting Furnace.
“Looks like Orcs are cheaper than those machines.”
“You just go catch them and bring them back.”
Oil’s face was flushed a deep crimson.
“I’ll kill them!”
“Go on, then.”
Oil charged forward with fierce determination. The Rune Smiths hurled their Hammers at the oncoming Orc.
Crash!
Oil never once dodged.
“Damn it, at least try to avoid some of them, you idiot.”
Gwon Gang-pal clicked his tongue as he watched Oil deflect the Battle Axe head-on.
“That’s how he learns.”
“I… I just don’t know how to dodge….”
Yi Ban shrank back for some reason, and in that moment the Hammer Oil had deflected slammed into the pipe network.
Hissssssss!
The pipe shattered, and steam came pouring out.
Crash!
Clang!
Oil, now in a rampage, tore through the Gear Smiths. A Steam Spirit appeared above him.
Oil swung fiercely, but since the Steam Spirit was a semi-ethereal entity, his blade passed through it without purchase.
At the same time, the Magitech Stone Drones began their approach.
Boom!
Caught off guard by the explosion, Oil was hurled backward.
“Hyaaaaaargh!”
Oil sprang up from the ground with a battle cry.
“…Do we really not need to help?”
To Yi Ban’s question, Jeong Hyun-soo and Gwon Gang-pal answered by snatching the incoming Hammers out of the air and flinging them back—a display of remarkable skill.
“That’s how he learns.”
“Sir?”
“That brute was born to fight. The problem is he’s too simple-minded, so his body needs to learn the hard way.”
Oil, now drenched in blood from ineffective strikes against the Steam Spirit and no defense against the Magitech Stone Drone’s explosions, was growing furious.
The Combat Aura that erupted from him happened to intersect with the next explosion.
“Huh!?”
Seeing that the forces had canceled each other out perfectly, Oil tilted his head in confusion.
Gwon Gang-pal’s expression brightened.
“Yes! That’s it!”
But Jeong Hyun-soo beside him was smirking for a different reason entirely.
“Hardly.”
“What? You saying Oil just ignored his own strength? Come on, even he’s not that stupid!”
“Hyaaaaaargh! Oof!”
Gwon Gang-pal spotted Oil getting blown away by the explosion—having uttered nothing but a roar instead of channeling his Combat Aura at all.
……
His expression was one of outright contempt—the look one gives to pure stupidity.
“Don’t underestimate an Orc’s intelligence. He needs more beatings before he’ll understand anything.”
Gwon Gang-pal found himself unable to argue the point.
Continued in the next chapter ▶
The Sole Devourer: Return of the Martial God
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Cheon Ya
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