The Regressed Martial God Monopolizes Everything - Chapter 97

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Episode 97. Two Birds with One Stone (7)
Ivan Drakoff stood face to face with an Ogre Berserker whose eyes blazed with primal fury.
Not merely a mindless brute, but a grotesque hybrid—scrap metal and muscle fused into something nightmarish and other.
Before him, Oil churned out killing intent with the ferocity of the mad, fighting without pause, yet the ogres he faced numbered more than one.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The ogres from the upper platforms did not simply hold their ground; they plummeted downward toward their enemy.
Ivan found himself facing two Ogre Berserkers at once, his fists clenched tight.
Holding steady with his body, blocking—that much he could manage.
Ivan stared at the ogres in silence.
Thick, corded forearms. The weapons they wielded were grotesque, terrible.
The reek of oil carried with it a bloodlust that bore down upon his shoulders like a weight.
An Ogre Berserker raised the spear in its grip. Ivan steadied his breath.
For days now, from the moment he entered this place, he had been testing the Incantation Method that Jeong Hyun-soo had taught him.
Thwack!
A searing pain exploded through his shoulder.
He had not even reacted. He never intended to dodge—only to block, to endure.
Ivan wrenched the lodged spear free. Ordinarily he would have left it and evaded the next blow.
Cough!
But he had rapid regeneration.
The second Ogre Berserker struck in from the side, its fist shattering ribs and tearing blood from his throat.
Yet as the punctured shoulder and fractured bones knit themselves back together, Ivan’s breathing began to deepen, to recover.
Cough!
The ogre’s fist came again. Ivan raised his guard.
The impact shattered the bones in his forearm. Still, even as it happened, Ivan did exactly as Jeong Hyun-soo had instructed.
The ogre, oddly, whipped its foot across Ivan’s calf. His knee bent backward unnaturally—and yet Ivan invoked the Incantation Method even then.
Crack.
And yet.
Still, Ivan endured.
He did not fall.
His left arm hung tattered, but with the one that remained he raised his guard anew.
Cough!
Ivan, stubbornly holding his ground, felt the sharp pain lance through his forearm as fine cracks spiderwebbed across the bone.
His mouth twisted into a pale grin.
The bone had cracked.
‘But it did not break.’
A small human, standing tall. Insignificant beside an ogre, offering no threat of consequence—and yet Ivan would not yield.
The Ogre Berserker, enraged by his refusal to break, vented a furious torrent of scarlet steam.
Within that haze, only a strange dark-blue radiance shone.
Like the eternal permafrost of frozen Siberia.
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[Ivan Drakoff has reached the first trial of the Immortal King’s Standard.]
Jeong Hyun-soo’s fist clenched as he read the system notification.
Ivan had finally grasped the thread of the Immortal Demon God Technique, and Kwon Gang-pal was overwhelming the Ogre Administrators.
Whoosh!
Jeong Hyun-soo targeted the Regeneration Energy Generator on the next platform.
Three spinning axes intersected there, supplying regenerative energy to all the weapons arrayed throughout the platform.
And standing guard before it—an ogre.
In another time, he would have met it head-on without hesitation, exchanging blows in brutal direct combat.
Even if not—he would have simply severed that generator and moved on. But now he had many ways to weave it together cleanly.
To ensure the Wind King would not be disappointed, Jeong Hyun-soo unleashed killing intent toward the Ogre Administrator.
The Ogre Administrator, responding to that bloodlust, raised its Mace.
Crack!
Jeong Hyun-soo drove in to meet it. Just before the ogre’s Mace could fall to the ground.
At that precise instant, his foot twisted, the trajectory warping.
“…!”
A single feint.
Creating the illusion of imminent collision, Jeong Hyun-soo had stripped the Ogre Administrator of its footing, and now a crimson radiance coiled around his fist.
Heavenly Defeat Returning King—Reverse Destruction Strike.
The burden borne by the body, the rotational force it created—he channeled even that power backward, converting it into a single strike of raw physical impact.
Boom!
From within the damaged rotating shaft’s gear teeth came a grinding screech.
The impact sent the massive gear spinning in reverse, and cracks spider-webbed across the regeneration chamber.
Jeong Hyun-soo launched himself upward into empty air in one fluid motion.
The Ogre Administrator’s assault crashed down not on Jeong Hyun-soo, but on the regeneration chamber a second time.
And Jeong Hyun-soo, who would never miss such an opening, seized it without hesitation.
A single strike channeling the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art tore through the ogre’s brass armor.
Next came the final platform: a massive crimson Mana Stone heart that pulsed with periodic energy discharge.
‘The center can’t be hit directly—I need to reverse-engineer the regeneration structure,’ he reminded himself.
Jeong Hyun-soo summoned Seuil at once.
[Kek-kek, Master, what do you need?]
“Read the magical power conduits in reverse and hack through them.”
[Kek-kek, this scent feels familiar…!]
Seuil embedded her hovering head-form into the core while Jeong Hyun-soo positioned himself with her secured on his back.
A massive shadow descended.
Steelbone, commander of the Ogre Supervisors.
An enormous ogre standing well over three meters tall came charging forward, equipped with three Steam Pressure Tanks and intent on annihilating Jeong Hyun-soo.
One eye blazed with crimson Mana Stone; the other socket glowed with charred flesh still smoldering.
“Loop, inviolate. Intruder—disassemble.”
For the first time, words escaped its mouth. Though communication seemed impossible and unnecessary regardless.
The mechanized ogre existed only to execute its programmed commands.
Steelbone vented two of the Steam Pressure Tanks, surging forward with explosive propulsion.
The Piston Hammer carved a titanic arc through the air; the wind of steel whistled past Jeong Hyun-soo’s face by mere inches.
He slid sideways using the Blue Spirit Infinite Form Technique, evading by a breath.
In the same motion, he channeled the Heavenly Defeat Returning King—Reverse Destruction Strike into his elbow.
Crack.
Steelbone’s eyes flared as the blow connected.
“Efficiency—sufficient.”
As if unmarked by the strike, Steelbone’s torso flexed like a steel plate and snapped back into place.
Had he inflicted no damage at all?
Yet Jeong Hyun-soo pressed on methodically, undeterred, weaving the next sequence of his assault.
Steelbone thundered forward with a relentless charge.
Jeong Hyun-soo prepared the Dark Heaven Return Origin Art.
He reversed the incoming force, redirected it with the counter technique—the Ghost Gate Lock—twisting his opponent’s center axis.
His driven fist collided with the metal plating, sparks cascading outward.
Where his knee crashed down came only a hairline fracture, yet the mechanism reactivated immediately with metallic shrieking.
The mechanical joint struck by his elbow dented inward, groaning, and resumed function once more.
One.
Screech.
Steelbone’s attack trajectory warped. Exactly as Jeong Hyun-soo intended.
Every single blow had been threaded with the subtle art of the Foot Meridian Technique.
Internal destruction, not mere impact—the pinnacle of the Foot Meridian Technique manifested its result.
A body refined with such precision meant that the tiniest internal shock reverberates through a mechanical organism as a catastrophic trauma.
Yet the Regeneration Energy Loop bound to it restored Steelbone once again.
Following the corrected pathway, Steelbone hurled an axe toward the hacking Seuil.
Jeong Hyun-soo wrapped the Ghost Gate Lock of the Dark Heaven Return Origin Art around himself, caught the axe mid-air, and sent the force recoiling back.
The axe, its trajectory warped by the returned power, embedded itself in the platform’s wall and exploded into fragments with a deafening crack.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Beyond, Steelbone charged ferociously, launching a full body tackle.
In that instant, Jeong Hyun-soo unleashed the Blue Spirit Infinite Form Technique, riding the engine-born airflow to vanish from sight as if extinguishing a flame.
Then his descending foot appeared from empty air, striking Steelbone’s head with perfect precision.
Boom!
Oil streamed from Steelbone’s eye sockets.
Steelbone forcibly ejected his closed fists—three overheated tanks vented steam pressure in a frenzied rush.
Red vapor exploded across his entire frame; Jeong Hyun-soo advanced directly into the maelstrom.
[Kek-kek, Master, the hacking is past eighty percent.]
Jeong Hyun-soo released the Destruction Chaos Strike of the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art.
Steelbone’s fists collided head-on—metal crumpling under a savage assault as both fighters traded blow for merciless blow.
Boom!
Then, the accumulated damage from the Foot Meridian Technique caused Steelbone to stagger.
Red vapor reversed its flow.
“Efficiency…decreasing…recalculating…operating…….”
But Jeong Hyun-soo wasn’t one to miss such an opening. It was possible because he had clearly diminished Steelbone’s regenerative capacity across the tenth and eleventh floor platforms.
Had he simply forced his way through recklessly, he would have had to face the overheated Steelbone—that nightmare of the exploration teams when it underwent infinite regeneration.
But with the Foot Meridian Technique gnawing away at his insides and his recovery slowed further, there was nothing to fear.
[Hacking 92% complete. Tch. Easy…!]
Had the Loop Core sensed danger?
It deployed a crimson barrier.
At the same moment, Steelbone took a full defensive stance.
Steelbone, radiating a pressure that seemed to stop one’s breath, appeared to be drawing all Mana Stone cores to maximum capacity, wringing out its life energy for one final attack.
Maximum output. The execution technique with axe and hammer both running at full power.
Jeong Hyun-soo’s eyes gleamed.
He had to map the optimal trajectory in that narrow window. Seuil had to remain safe, and he had to weather this attack.
Thud!
Jeong Hyun-soo gathered his magical power, targeting the central axis where all of Steelbone’s impact would converge.
[Earth Star Instant Energy manifests.]
The explosive force of the Heavenly Tyrant Return King Martial Art.
He fused it with the Dark Heaven Return Origin Art through simultaneous output.
And finally layered the Blue Spirit Infinite Form Technique on top—three Tyrant Martial Arts in total burst forth.
Crack!
The force drove into Steelbone’s central axis. His entire body—the very frame of steel plates that made up his form—seemed to rupture and sever from within with a sickening sound.
Whoooooosh!
Red steam and Mana Stone dust exploded outward. The mightiest of the Ogre Supervisors crumbled.
[Tch, master, the hacking is complete.]
[The Loop Core will soon collapse.]
[Master, control of the orcs has been granted to the core.]
Jeong Hyun-soo felt all strength drain from his body, yet managed a bitter grin.
“You eat that Loop.”
[Kekeke, master, you’re really confident you won’t regret this?]
He was already bound by the Tower’s contract anyway. What Seuil was thinking, he had no idea, but it was probably nothing more than a line born from some adolescent delusion.
“Just upgrade yourself.”
[Keke. Understood. It’s nothing compared to me, but I’ll consume this Loop.]
Once that happened, the mine would belong to the Loop, the Loop would be consumed by Seuil, and Seuil’s master was Jeong Hyun-soo.
[Kruk. Kuk. My thoughts are growing faster. Master. What will you do with the orcs?]
Jeong Hyun-soo looked down at Oil on the floor below, covered in blood and roaring as he wrenched the Ogre’s neck free.
“Ogerrrrr annihilation! Orcs! Freedommmm!”
There was a friend calling out for liberation, after all.
“Free all the orcs.”
“Understood.”
[You have cleared the Wonsan Advanced Mana Stone Mine.]
[Ownership of the mine is hereby confirmed as belonging to ‘Jeong Hyun-soo’ in perpetuity.]
[You have successfully liberated multiple orcs.]
[You have obtained the title: Orc Liberator.]
[Your relationship with the Ogre race has decreased by 1,000,000.]
[Your relationship with the Steampunk Worldview has decreased by 20.]
[Ivan Drakoff barely passes the Immortal King’s Standard.]
Covered in blood and losing consciousness as he fended off the Ogre’s fist, Kwon Gang-pal descended to the floor below and killed the Ogre, and with that, the mine fell under Jeong Hyun-soo’s ownership.
Continued in the next episode ▶
The Sole Inheritor Regressor Martial God
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