The Regressor Plays the Game Too Well - Chapter 133

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Episode 133
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Barkal’s tail had been severed.
Yet even with his body mutilated, his HP remained abundant.
It hadn’t been depleted nearly as much as I’d hoped.
Seeing this, Jin-woo’s expression darkened.
I had unleashed the most devastating burst damage skill available.
It would have been wonderful if he’d died instantly.
So Barkal truly is different, then.
Though honestly, if he’d fallen so easily, I would have been disappointed.
Where’s the thrill in that?
With that thought, Jin-woo glanced back at Luna, who was cheering from behind.
The reason I’d asked her to cheer from a distance in the first place was to protect me once my burst damage skill ended.
After all, there’s no telling what variables might emerge.
Moreover, if she fought alongside me while I used my burst skill, there was a risk Luna could get caught in the crossfire.
That’s why I’d kept her from fighting.
But now?
Things were different.
‘The burst damage is over. Now it’s time for sustained attacks.’
This was precisely when Luna’s true power needed to shine!
If only I fought alone?
I was still in a precarious position.
I’d used nearly every skill I could muster, and my remaining MP was nearly depleted.
On top of that, the Berserker state was steadily draining my HP.
Attacking Barkal recklessly to recover wasn’t feasible either.
But if I deployed Luna now?
Everything would be solved.
With that conviction, Jin-woo quickly called out to her.
“Luna, let’s go!”
“Chirp!”
As if she’d been waiting for this exact moment, Luna launched herself forward.
Even with just me, the size disparity was already staggering.
And now Luna, who was even smaller than I was, was charging in?
Barkal couldn’t even muster a sneer at the sight.
Barkal had been considering targeting Jin-woo, but his gaze shifted to Luna as she hurtled toward him.
Yes, I’ll kill that creature first.
Look at how that tiny fly approaches with surprising speed.
More importantly, if that fly dies, Jin-woo will surely suffer a blow.
Barkal considered using the typhoon nucleus in his grasp but decided it was too wasteful for a mere fly, so instead he opened his colossal maw wide, attempting to swallow her whole.
Barkal’s jaws yawned open to a scale incomparable to Luna’s.
Yet Luna merely laughed with delight at the sight of Barkal, charging headlong toward him.
‘Could it work?’
Even I harbored doubts about whether this would succeed.
Still, I trusted in Luna’s strength.
And then.
Just as they collided—or rather, as Barkal attempted to swallow Luna whole—
Luna defied the laws of momentum, pivoting her flight path at an impossible angle.
At even greater speed, she twisted perpendicular to her original trajectory and struck Barkal’s cheek directly.
With a diminutive hand.
Yet the force behind it….
BOOM―――――――!
“Ugh!”
Barkal’s entire body shuddered violently from the impact.
I blinked in disbelief at what I was witnessing.
Such overwhelming power that Barkal’s head snapped back and his body convulsed?
How was that even possible?
From such a tiny frame, such tremendous force emerged?
When I tested Luna’s strength earlier, I had sensed she wielded power beyond her stat allocation.
But this—this was far beyond that.
Could such a thing truly exist?
The question arose unbidden.
‘Could it be a racial trait?’
Weren’t there instances where a pet’s abilities demonstrated efficiency far exceeding their stat values?
Wasn’t the Apostle’s skill of Force Release the same principle?
Force was generated by combining Strength, Agility, and Vitality, yet it displayed an efficiency surpassing the sum of those three attributes.
Among high-tier races, pets occasionally exhibited such phenomena.
Particularly, even before my regression, Lin’s Black Dragon demonstrated this.
Yet even that paled in comparison to Luna.
But thinking about it, wasn’t it only natural?
Luna’s race was none other than a demigod.
So even if she displayed efficiency beyond that, it made perfect sense.
‘So that’s why not all her abilities have been unlocked yet.’
If all of Luna’s abilities were fully awakened?
Honestly, the game itself might have collapsed even without my intervention.
I couldn’t help but grin at the sight.
Barkal now?
The eye of the typhoon?
There was nothing to fear.
Basic attacks had ceased to be merely basic.
‘Shall we begin then?’
The instant Jin-woo moved with that thought in mind.
Barkal couldn’t comprehend the current situation.
That blow from Luna, no larger than a gnat.
It was far beyond imagination.
Of course, it didn’t match the strike Jin-woo had unleashed—the one that severed his tail.
But it was an impact powerful enough to shake his entire body.
From nothing but that creature’s fist.
How could this possibly be happening?
Stunned momentarily by the absurdity, Barkal could see it clearly.
Jin-woo charging straight toward him.
“KRAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”
So he unleashed a tremendous roar, attempting once more to harness the power of the typhoon’s core.
But what was this?!
In that instant, Luna rushed at him and swung her fist once more.
Thud——————Crash!
Perhaps because she’d swung so hastily?
The impact was weaker than before.
But the moment Barkal attempted to channel the typhoon’s core, the flow was severed.
His power crumbled entirely.
Now was the moment.
I felt it and descended with blinding speed.
And alongside Gram, I swiftly wielded another blade.
Slice! Slice!
Merely ordinary attacks.
But with every buff and all my strength added, the power was immense.
Even stronger than Luna’s strike.
“KRAAAAAAAH!”
Barkal shrieked in agony.
But this wasn’t the end.
Luna rushed in again, driving her heel upward into Barkal’s jaw.
Thud——————————Boom!
“Cough!”
Barkal’s body rocketed skyward, blood spraying from his mouth.
I used Blink to ascend above him.
Gripping my blade, I plummeted straight down.
Whoooooosh!
A devastating strike.
So overwhelming that even Barkal lost consciousness.
Above all.
I stored the blade that had pierced his brow in my inventory and drew out Mjolnir.
Mölnir was more powerful in terms of attack power than anything else.
But I hadn’t drawn it out solely for that reason.
My MP had recovered to a certain extent.
I activated a skill.
None other than the skill of Mölnir, the Hammer of Thunder.
“God of Thunder.”
In that instant, it felt as though the entire world was being drawn into me as I gripped Mölnir.
For a moment, I truly appeared as an overwhelming god.
And then.
Rumble, rumble, rumble!
Thunder began to strike all around.
The sky that had been clear until moments before now darkened as thick storm clouds gathered, casting the surroundings into shadow.
From the pitch-black clouds, I could see lightning crackling intermittently.
An eerie, brilliant blue lightning.
Rumble, rumble, rumble!
The entire atmosphere resonated with the roar of thunder.
Barkal could no longer think of anything.
And I stowed even Gram away, drawing out a staff instead.
None other than
『Threads of the Heavens』
*Grade: Epic
*Magic Attack Power: 750
*Durability: 2,000/2,000
*Equip Restrictions:
→Upon equipping, magic-type skill efficiency increases by 30%
→All cooldown times for dark magic-type skills decrease by 30%
→Skill ‘Falling Threads of the Heavens’ becomes usable
→5% chance to apply critical damage to all magic damage
An Epic-grade staff obtained in Garun Territory.
Threads of the Heavens.
A staff that heightened the efficiency of magic-type skills and allowed the use of Falling Threads of the Heavens.
Gripping it, I immediately activated a skill.
“Falling Threads of the Heavens.”
From the storm clouds overhead, massive bolts of lightning began to descend like a cascade.
I smiled as I watched it unfold.
But this was far from the end.
After expending all the MP I had recovered considerably through Falling Threads of the Heavens,
I used an Alchemist’s Elixir here.
“Alchemist’s Elixir.”
As my MP fully recovered once more,
“Thunderbird’s Roar.”
A lightning skill capable of sweeping away most enemies with a wide-area attack.
A skill activated by consuming a full third of my MP using the Sage’s Extremity.
An enormous skill unfolded, one that seemed poised to engulf the entire earth in the Thunderbird’s Roar.
But this was not the end.
There remained one final skill left to cast.
A skill that would consume every last drop of my remaining MP.
“Divine Punishment.”
――――――――――――――――!
The entire world was dyed in lightning.
Bolts of thunder descended as if to obliterate creation itself.
Yet Barkal could sense it.
Such attacks alone could not kill him.
Though he was damaged now and his body momentarily immobilized.
Still, he could feel it.
These attacks would not be his end.
Not so long as the Typhoon’s Core existed.
With the Typhoon’s Core protecting him, he could withstand this once.
Moreover, these skills were not merging into one as before, making survival far more likely.
He would survive.
At that thought, Barkal’s eyes widened.
And in that instant, he could move.
Evade like this?
No, evasion would be impossible.
He had to block the attack.
A way to block it?
None existed.
Better to forgo defense and simply endure.
Then, in that fleeting moment, he would strike back.
Thus could he achieve victory.
Barkal had found his path to triumph.
He would slay his opponent and claim victory without fail!
That obsession rekindled Barkal’s will to live. But then.
“Shhh!”
Jin-woo suddenly drew in a sharp breath, then seized both Mjolnir and his staff simultaneously, beginning to spin his body.
His movements appeared strained, labored.
What could he possibly be attempting?
“Nnnngggghhhhh!”
A sound as though lifting something impossibly heavy.
Hearing this, Barkal’s expression shifted to confusion.
What was he trying to do?
Depending on the circumstances, I might have needed to counterattack immediately.
I focused.
And then.
Barkal couldn’t help but be astonished.
All the lightning bolts falling toward him were converging and moving as one.
Surely he shouldn’t have been able to gather the lightning bolts like before?
Before, everything had combined from the start and been fired all at once, but this was different.
The bolts that had already been fired were now converging together.
He was trying to gather the lightning bolts that were being fired across a wide area into one mass.
How was that even possible?
Just as Barkal was pondering this question.
Jin-woo let out a soft laugh.
‘The God of Thunder is incredible.’
Just as Barkal thought, Fusion Clash was still on cooldown.
But the God of Thunder had an effect that allowed him to control lightning itself.
Above all.
‘It triples the power of all lightning-type skills!’
With that thought, Jin-woo gripped his power tightly.
I never imagined that controlling lightning would be this exhausting.
But this was the end.
There was a slight gap, but it was fine.
The moment Jin-woo thought that.
Barkal could also feel it.
There was still a small opening.
This was his chance.
If not now.
He would die.
No matter how much the Typhoon Core protected him, he couldn’t defend against that.
He couldn’t afford to be choosy about his methods.
Feeling the threat to his life, Barkal quickly activated the Typhoon Core.
To counterattack and strike Jin-woo.
But then.
TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
“Cough—cough—cough!”
He felt an impact more powerful than ever before detonate at his throat.
And he could hear it.
“Screeeee!”
A voice as if telling him not to ignore it.
In that moment, Barkal realized.
The pain had been so overwhelming that I couldn’t seize that moment of opportunity.
And I could feel it.
A single bolt of lightning descending toward me.
It was as if a god himself were casting down divine judgment.
Cleaving through all the atmosphere, even warping the space itself.
Not as powerful as the first strike, but certainly potent enough to split a mountain in two.
Seeing it, Barkal closed his eyes.
And….
CRAAAAAAAAAAAACK!
The lightning bolt pierced directly through Barkal’s head.
Like a thunderbolt splitting a tree, it tore through from Barkal’s head to his severed tail.
And he was split cleanly in two.
A deep, rumbling groan.

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