The Regressed SSS-Rank Supporter Who Turned Dark - Chapter 1

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Prologue
Ten years. I’d been exploited for ten years.
Unable to endure it any longer, I swore vengeance and set it in motion.
“If I live as a tool again, I’m nothing but a dog. A dog.”
I made that vow.
In this life, I would never be anyone’s instrument again.
#Episode 1
“What a mess.”
My body was in absolutely catastrophic condition.
My left arm was gone—I couldn’t even see where it had been severed.
Blood cascaded from the gaping hole torn through my abdomen.
Most of my equipment lay destroyed; the only weapon worth anything was a sword snapped to roughly one-third its original length.
Laughter bubbled up unbidden.
“Hehehehe, hehehehehehe!”
Lee Hyun hurled curses at me with both barrels.
“Cha Eun-sung, you bastard! What the hell are you doing?!”
Lee Hyun’s condition was even worse than mine.
His lower body had been completely severed, and his entrails spilled grotesquely from his ruptured abdomen.
“Quite the sight.”
A smile spread across my lips.
“You bastard! Answer me! What the hell is this?!”
Ha—even in that state, he was screaming his lungs out. He must be absolutely furious.
“Can’t you see?”
I let out a derisive snort and replied.
“I’m taking you all down with me. All of you. Hehehehe. Hehehehehehe. Ugh.”
The potions I’d consumed earlier were wearing off, and pain was beginning to creep back in.
“So what do you mean by that?! You son of a bitch! Why did you do this?! Why?!”
“You don’t understand? You still haven’t grasped the situation?”
“That’s what I’m asking! What do you mean?! Cough!”
“I can’t kill you all directly. How could a mere tool like me ever kill such accomplished rankers? Ugh! This is the only way to drag you down with me. Hehehehehehe!”
Thirty-six hours earlier.
We’d set out to conquer the Dragon Lord’s Nest.
The boss, the Dragon Lord, was an 11-star monster—a calamity capable of reducing an entire nation to ash single-handedly.
France had fallen that way, and Japan’s entire mainland except Hokkaido had been reduced to wasteland.
Our Raid Party, composed of South Korea’s top-ranked hunters, had finally reached the Dragon King’s Chamber where the Dragon Lord dwelt, after overcoming countless hardships, and the boss battle had begun.
When the battle had reached its crescendo, I executed the plan I’d been dreaming of for so long.
The first thing I did was drive the Dagger of Instant Death through the throat of Ra Si-hyun, the mage responsible for binding the Dragon Lord.
Thwack!
“Gack!”
Ra Si-hyun let out a single scream and collapsed, dead on the spot.
“Insignificant insects dare defy me!”
Freed from his chains, the Dragon Lord descended into absolute madness.
“Roooaaarrr!”
Tank Kim Gang-min took the full brunt of the Dragon Lord’s breath and was reduced to charred ash.
“Cha Eun-sung, you insane bastard!”
Ranged dealer Chae Gwang-jin drew his bowstring toward me, but did he really think I hadn’t anticipated something so obvious?
How meticulously I had prepared for this.
Who had crafted those arrows again?
Boom!
The arrowhead detonated in a catastrophic explosion.
“Ahhh!”
Chae Gwang-jin, cursed with the inherent fragility of a ranged dealer, had his entire face obliterated by the blast.
“Aaahhh, aaaahhhhh!”
Crack!
Rendered suddenly blind, Chae Gwang-jin experienced the honor of having his upper body devoured whole by the Dragon Lord, who had closed the distance in an instant.
“Just hold on!”
Healer Baek A-young of the Raid Party attempted to breathe life back into Chae Gwang-jin, but that too was merely a reaction I had calculated for.
Whoosh!
Baek A-young cast her healing magic, yet Chae Gwang-jin’s wounds remained utterly unhealed.
That’s right—go ahead and try all you want.
See if even a speck of healing takes hold.
Before entering the Dragon Lord’s Chamber, I had laced my enhancement potion with copious amounts of Leaf of Death extract to inhibit all healing—there was no way it would work.
And there was one more thing.
Bzzzzzzzz!
A swarm of insects descended upon Baek A-young from nowhere.
The Eternal Hell Bees—perhaps she’d heard the name before.
They inhabit the Primordial Jungle, a four-star dungeon, and I still shudder remembering the effort it took to cultivate them… let’s not dwell on it.
“Kyaaaaaahhhhh!”
Exquisite. Absolutely exquisite to watch her perish.
“Lalalalala.”
As I watched Baek A-young being stung and devoured by the Eternal Hell Bees, I found myself humming with delight.
After everything she did to me.
“Cha Eun-sung, you fucking monster!”
“You fucking monster!”
Twin brothers Moon Dae-han and Moon Dae-sung, the secondary dealers, hurled curses at me and charged, but I’m afraid you’ve got the wrong target.
“Perish, insignificant vermin.”
The Dragon Lord pursued the twin brothers.
“Damn it!”
Main dealer Lee Hyun desperately tried to salvage the situation, darting this way and that, but nothing could change what was already written.
A Raid Party stripped of its mage, tank, ranged dealer, and healer—how much longer could they possibly endure?
It took less than five minutes for the Raid Party to be completely annihilated.
In the process, I too was battered and broken, but at this point, what did it matter?
If I could only make these inhuman beasts suffer, if I could only kill them, then my life was worth nothing in comparison.
I was a support-type Hunter—a non-combatant—and with my abilities alone, I couldn’t so much as scratch them, let alone kill them.
What good was being SSS-rank?
A supporter was nothing but a tool in the end.
This was the only method: to unleash this filth and obliterate the Raid Party.
Because of my decision, not just South Korea but the entire world would walk the path toward destruction, yet I couldn’t have cared less.
Humanity?
They could go to hell.
A world already broken beyond repair—what did it matter now whether it fell or not?
“So it really is about revenge? You’re committing this insanity because of your petty vendetta?”
“Petty?”
Rage surged up inside me like a tide.
“You enslaved me for ten years. Is that petty to you?”
At first, I thought it was teamwork, friendship.
But it wasn’t.
As time passed, they only exploited me, never giving me fair treatment.
They constantly disrespected me, looked down on me, discriminated against me—all because I was a supporter.
Yet it was ultimately thanks to me that they became top-ranked Hunters, not just in South Korea but among the world’s elite.
Of course, I wasn’t so petty as to do this merely for such reasons.
The decisive reason that made me swear revenge was….
“Then what about letting my mother die? Is that petty too?”
….
Lee Hyun fell silent, unable to speak.
Three years ago.
The region where my mother lived was occupied by monsters.
I begged them.
Please, just this once, help me. Save my mother.
But their choice was not to save my family, but to conquer another dungeon that had become a major issue at the time.
Under the pretext of sacrificing the few for the many, they ignored my desperate plea.
And so my mother died.
How could a mother whose son was a Hunter—and among the top-ranked ones at that—be killed by monsters?
They came to her funeral and offered hollow condolences.
‘We’re sorry. It turned out this way.’
‘Have a proper funeral.’
‘It’s the weight of being a hero. You have to endure it—what else can you do?’
The media, those parasites, praised me with grandiose phrases like [a decision to save the nation] or [a noble sacrifice].
It went without saying that it was all spin orchestrated by them.
After that, everything changed.
They feared I’d harbor resentment over that affair, so they subtly pressured me by using my Sister as leverage.
Furthermore, they monitored me to prevent me from interacting with other Hunters, and even went so far as to obstruct my path.
Though I was merely a tool, I held value as an SSS-rank Support—that much they couldn’t deny.
So I made a vow.
I would have my revenge on them, no matter what.
Since today marks Mother’s death anniversary, I suppose this lavish memorial spread will suffice as my final offering.
‘Forgive me. I couldn’t protect you to the very end.’
I couldn’t help but worry about my Sister, left alone after this ordeal, but she would be fine.
I’d made arrangements for her, after all.
It would be difficult, certainly, but she was resilient enough—she’d manage without her foolish older brother.
“Khehehe!”
Lee Hyun laughed.
“Cha Eun-sung, you bastard. Does doing this bring your dead mother back to life? Khehe, khehehehe! Fine, let’s say you succeeded in your revenge. But how could your precious Sister possibly survive when—”
Lee Hyun never finished his sentence.
Crunch!
The Dragon Lord’s maw swallowed Lee Hyun’s head whole.
Crunch, crunch!
My, what an appetite our Dragon Lord has.
It seems His Majesty was quite famished.
The Dragon Lord turned his gaze toward me.
A chill ran down my spine.
Under that stare, my heart—no, my very soul—felt as though it were shriveling.
Don’t falter.
I have my trump card.
“You… are an existence I cannot kill.”
As an 11-Star Boss Monster, the Dragon Lord seemed to recognize me at a glance—or rather, what I possessed.
“That’s right. I am one you cannot kill.”
With those words, I retrieved three stone orbs from my inventory and displayed them.
A brilliant shimmer.
The orbs each radiated red, yellow, and blue light, revealing their true forms.
The Dragon King’s Wish Orbs.
This was the culmination of a plan completed through countless trials and tribulations.
According to ancient texts discovered in a dungeon, gathering three Wish Orbs and presenting them to the Dragon Lord would grant a wish.
Now came the moment to verify whether those words held truth.
“I wish to make a request.”
“By the covenant passed down since the genesis of all things, I shall grant your wish.”
“My wish is…”
Squelch!
The Dragon Lord’s hand pierced through my chest—directly through my heart.
“Gahhhhk!”
Words failed me entirely, and I could only exhale in frustration.
When would it be…
A wish…
You said you’d grant it…
“What you truly desire shall be fulfilled through death.”
What kind of bullshit is this, you damned lizard bastard…
‘Damn it, is this how I die? Without even making a wish.’
My consciousness grew increasingly hazy.
And when I opened my eyes again.
“Son, son.”
“…?”
“Even if you’re sleeping, eat something before you rest.”
Mother was looking down at me.

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