The Regressor Plays the Game Too Well - Chapter 135

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Episode 135
135
After several impressive videos surfaced.
People erupted into chaos over two major points.
First.
【So Hwang Kyung-ma-jeol is from the Han-sung Guild】
[Last time, those elite Han-sung Guild members got completely dominated.
So doesn’t that mean Hwang Kyung-ma-jeol is also from the Han-sung Guild?
That seems to be the case?]
-There’s definitely a possibility.
-Yeah, but the video clearly shows him dominating, yet the other party members seemed genuinely unaware of his identity.
-Though Queen Yuna seemed to know?
-Yeah, Yuna definitely seemed to know.
-She only seemed surprised by his skills, not by his identity.
-Right.
Did Jin-woo join Yuna’s guild?
This was the biggest point of interest.
Naturally, the Han-sung Guild had issued no official statement on the matter.
People’s curiosity only grew more intense.
The Han-sung Guild and Hwang Kyung-ma-jeol.
Neither was a topic to be taken lightly.
And if Hwang Kyung-ma-jeol joined the Han-sung Guild?
-They’d be both a powerful faction and individually the strongest?
-When will our Kaiser coin skyrocket?
“Hahaha, there’s no way Kaiser can ever win this, right?”
-Is it even possible?
-They’re powerful as a group and the strongest individually—how could Kaiser possibly win?
It was only natural that everyone thought this way.
It wasn’t that they were unaware of Kaiser’s Guild’s strength.
But the Han-sung Guild wasn’t an opponent to be dismissed either.
The Han-sung Guild was only somewhat weaker in influence and power than Kaiser’s Guild, and was widely considered the second strongest as a single guild.
But Jin-woo joined the Han-sung Guild?
People could only come to the conclusion that the Han-sung Guild was now the strongest.
But that wasn’t confirmed yet, was it?
Neither Jin-woo nor the Han-sung Guild had said anything.
Everyone was staying quiet, so there was no room for further speculation.
【But what is Hwang Kyung-ma-jeol’s actual class?】
Haha, seriously though.
He seems to handle magic at nearly the highest level.
And his skill ranks all seem to be Unique or higher.
Whether it’s Unique or Epic, who knows.
But to learn skills like that, job rank must matter too.
That said, his swordsmanship skills don’t seem weak either, right?
What exactly is his job?]
It became a world mystery, haha.
-No, I’m genuinely curious.
-For real;;;
Hahaha, what else could his job be? Probably something damn good.
-Why are you asking if you don’t know? It’s just that we can’t even guess what kind it might be!
-Hey, doesn’t it seem more like a Mage class than a Warrior?
-Oh? You read that post too?
-What post?
-I’ll send you the link. Check it out.
Everyone had their own theories.
Then a post like this appeared.
【Hwang Kyung-ma-jeol Job Speculation】
[Honestly, everyone’s probably curious about Hwang Kyung-ma-jeol’s job.
Let me break it down for you.
It’s just my speculation, so feel free to ignore it.
Looking at the skills shown in Hwang Kyung-ma-jeol’s video, there’s a skill that enters Berserker mode.
Other than that, there are faint traces of Warrior-type characteristics.
There are also many skills that can be used as common skills.
But then suddenly he uses magic fluidly?
And before even obtaining a World Class?
That makes me think he didn’t get something like a Spellsword, but rather obtained a top-tier Magic class job instead.
What? You might say that’s nonsense.
Have you ever seen Hwang Kyung-ma-jeol use a skill that only Warrior classes can use?
Most of them are skills that can be used commonly.
But not magic skills.
So I suspect he obtained a high-tier Mage job.]
-??????????
-Wow, that’s more logical than I expected.
-It makes sense.
Some people made fairly sharp deductions.
But most people wanted to dismiss it as unlikely.
Well, regardless of such speculation.
The conclusion was one and the same.
Haha, those idiots should just watch it when the video comes out.
-All these theories become trash the moment the video releases.
Haha, for real.
Once Hwang Kyung-ma-jeol’s video dropped, all those speculations would become meaningless anyway.
And sure enough.
Jin-woo’s new video had been uploaded.
The viewers had no way of knowing, though.
Normally, a video of Jin-woo conducting a territory war should have been released.
But I didn’t want to display that level of power.
The scale itself was entirely different.
So after discussing it with Young-jin, we reached a decision.
The event tournament video didn’t seem necessary, and there wasn’t anything particularly suitable for the next upload.
The decision came faster than expected.
None other than the video of Jin-woo traveling across multiple regions and hunting giants.
What if we split that into a total of seven episodes?
It would be substantial.
It might seem loose, perhaps.
But surely Jin-woo wouldn’t have filmed it that way.
And then the long-awaited first video went live.
A video of capturing the first giant.
-Oh! New video’s up!
-Insane!
-Hey, all you guys who were speculating, eat your words!
-This is crazy! Absolutely crazy;;;
-Wow! I’m getting chills.
It was a video so breathtaking that everyone rushed to shower it with praise.
The beginning of the video wasn’t particularly different from ordinary ones, actually.
The Rocky Mountains was an unfamiliar location, but nothing extraordinary about it.
However, a place no one had ever seen before was quite remarkable.
A place that was neither city nor village.
It was natural to find it unfamiliar.
Because it was a territory beyond the city that only Jin-woo could access at present.
It was inevitable that no one would know of it.
Hwang Kyung-ma-jeol—that is, Jin-woo—walked through such Rocky Mountains and encountered a giant constructed from massive boulders.
A giant of truly breathtaking, colossal proportions.
At the mere thought of how to confront such a creature, one’s head throbbed with pain.
People found themselves swallowing hard reflexively.
-H-he’ll use magic, right?
-Insane, you’re saying he’ll take that down with a sword? Alone? That makes no sense.
-fr fr lol
-No, how is he supposed to take that down with a sword?
-Can you even take it down with magic?
-Beats me.
While everyone was so focused on watching Jin-woo, he took the initiative and moved first.
Jin-woo leaped forward, dual blades in hand.
The sheer speed of his movement left the spectators astonished.
How could a Mage move with such velocity?
Yet it was possible he was using magic to enhance his speed, so they continued to observe.
As Jin-woo rushed toward the giant, he activated a skill.
It was a swordsmanship skill.
In an instant, he unleashed six consecutive blade strikes in rapid succession.
The assault carried tremendous force, carving six long gashes across the giant’s chest.
Yet, as one might expect from a giant, it showed no sign of being fazed and instead counterattacked.
The giant’s fist hurtled forward with terrifying speed.
Suspended in mid-air as he was, Jin-woo found it difficult to evade.
But he simply gripped one blade tighter and thrust it toward the colossal fist barreling down at him.
And in that moment.
A sharp whistle cut through the air!
Blade energy erupted from the sword, piercing clean through the giant’s fist.
The way it seemed to ignore all defense sent shivers through the crowd.
Could such skills truly be low-grade?
Could a Mage even learn swordsmanship skills like that?
-Insane! Wasn’t he supposed to be a Mage?
-Wow, how did he even learn skills like that?
-I mean…
-He’s just demolishing the giant…
The footage showed him defeating the giant using only swordsmanship skills, as if mocking every theory that had been proposed until now.
It was the first video.
Many had speculated that Jin-woo was a Mage.
But this footage shattered that assumption in an instant.
Once the video was uploaded, the theory that he was a Mage had already vanished.
As a result, the mystery only deepened.
-So what’s his actual class then?
-Is he a Spellblade or something?
-But he doesn’t just use swordsmanship skills;
-It looks like he uses all kinds of combat skills?
-This is crazy, absolutely crazy.
-What class uses both melee combat skills and magic skills?
-For real;
-I’m genuinely curious.
-I wish someone would just tell us already!
Ah, I’m really curious.
I wish you’d tell me straight up what’s really going on!
I wish he’d reveal it publicly.
Most viewers wanted him to.
But I didn’t say anything about it.
After all, no one likes revealing their class.
So people began speculating wildly once again.
Some of them thought like this.
-He released this video on purpose right now.
-?? What are you talking about?
-No, think about it. While everyone’s speculating he’s a Mage, he releases a video where he only fights with sword skills? Doesn’t that seem odd?
-Now that you mention it, yeah;;;
-Wow, so this was all part of a bigger plan?
-Insane;;;
-Yeah, that could be it.
That all of this was Jin-woo’s grand strategy.
When they thought about it, everyone agreed it made sense.
The speculation that this was Jin-woo’s intention.
Well, needless to say, it was all wrong.
He’d simply used his sword because casting magic felt too bothersome.
Later, he even got lazy enough to release a video where he defeated a giant using only magic.
Anyway, causing the viewers to misunderstand like this?
That was actually Young-jin’s doing, not Jin-woo’s.
“Phew, another success.”
Even if it was work with a friend, shouldn’t I do it properly?
That’s why Young-jin was putting in more effort than Jin-woo realized.
Of course, Jin-woo didn’t know all of it.
But that was fine.
Money spoke volumes.
Didn’t he give a generous bonus this time too for the hard work?
An amount that naturally brought a smile to his face.
‘I need to put more thought into the editing.’
The viewers were dancing in the palm of Young-jin’s hand.
* * *
Meanwhile, Jin-woo, who had become the subject of all these speculations, had decided to visit his parents’ home once a week for a meal.
Today he was dining at his parents’ house.
But what was this?
He sat there with a vacant expression, simply lifting his spoon.
“Jin-woo, is something wrong?”
Jung Kyung-sook noticed how absent-minded he seemed while eating.
Jin-woo only then snapped back to attention and laughed awkwardly.
“Haha, it’s nothing. Really, it’s fine.”
“Is something the matter?”
“That’s what I’m saying.”
Now even Father Seung-min was worried, so Jin-woo smiled as if to say he was fine.
And he spoke.
“Ah, I’m just tired, that’s all. I was drowsy and spacing out. Nothing serious.”
“If that’s what you say, then that’s that. Just leave it.”
“Hmm.”
“Still….”
Father Seung-min simply coughed and withdrew as if he understood.
Mother Jung Kyung-sook still seemed troubled and gazed at Jin-woo intently, but
since her son said he was fine, she decided not to pry further.
He was a son who managed things well on his own, after all.
Now that he was grown, he even gave his parents an enormous allowance.
To trust and wait when he said he was fine—that too was what family did.
Jin-woo watched his parents and grinned, then spoke.
“No, really, don’t worry. It’s not that things aren’t going well or anything like that—I’m genuinely just exhausted. I play games all day long, so why am I this tired?”
“Phew! Alright, the money’s nice and all, but do it in moderation!”
“And exercise a bit too.”
“Haha, I’m working on it.”
As Jin-woo regained his spirits and spoke, his parents accepted it and moved on.
Min-ah also said it was needless worry.
So they couldn’t interfere further.
But Jin-woo’s heart was far from as at ease as his words suggested.
Why, you ask?
It was obvious.
‘Why can’t I do it?’
His mind brimmed with frustration.
The reason was simple—crafting had continued to fail for days now.
Unlike making ingots, crafting proved considerably difficult.
Part of me wanted to seek out Nível.
But I decided against it.
Wasn’t there a book that had imparted the know-how?
Crafting was ultimately something one had to do oneself.
That feeling still hadn’t come to me.
‘Sigh, let me try again once I get home.’
Would Lee Yeon’s words finally prove correct this time?

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