The Regressor Plays the Game Too Well - Chapter 175

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Episode 175
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Wars rarely unfolding as anticipated was hardly a novel occurrence.
With countless variables at play, nothing could be deemed truly unexpected.
Yet when circumstances shifted despite accounting for those very variables, it became unbearable for a commander.
Kaiser was experiencing precisely that now.
Barmon’s colossal barrier had inflicted staggering casualties.
Skills reflected back had spawned innumerable losses.
Though the dead numbered fewer than a hundred, the wounded were twice as many.
The battle’s momentum turned against us.
Kaiser clenched his teeth and surveyed the three before him.
From Ren who initiated first to Yuna, and now Barmon himself.
Each had seized the initiative with formidable skills before launching their assault—standard doctrine in warfare.
I had attempted to counter with equally devastating force.
Yet I could not help but hesitate.
Especially after witnessing Barmon’s skill just now.
That skill surely had a cooldown, but if similar abilities existed in their arsenal, we would face total annihilation.
This realization allowed Kaiser to understand.
“…The God Series.”
At Kaiser’s murmur, the Demon King Kan and the Hero Ren who had drawn near, along with the most trusted Raigan and Valen, all shook their heads in disbelief.
Could it be that three God Series users existed on their side?
Or was it four if we counted Jin-woo, who had yet to appear?
All of them trembled involuntarily.
If we’re not careful…
Won’t we lose?
Before despair could consume them, Kaiser’s voice rang out.
“Enough!”
Seeing their expressions darken with defeat, he commanded them to cease.
They regained their composure at his words.
Kaiser’s charisma was something everyone acknowledged without question.
All of them straightened and awaited his orders.
Kaiser would not surrender here—he would devise a strategy.
True to form, Kaiser spoke rapidly.
“God Series users cannot be faced alone. Ren and Kan will form one team to engage Barmon, while Raigan and Valen will target Yuna.”
“…Understood.”
“Of course.”
“I acknowledge.”
“So it shall be.”
All nodded gravely.
Kaiser continued.
“I’ll handle the mysterious woman who appeared first.”
As the only God Series user in the Kaiser Alliance, I must step forward myself.
Everyone nodded in agreement at those words.
Who else would face the remaining God Series user if not me?
With that, Kaiser gave the signal.
Four figures burst forward rapidly.
Four people rushing toward Yuna and Barmon.
Kaiser charged forward as well, watching them.
He was rushing toward Ren, a woman whose name he didn’t even know.
Ren smiled faintly at the sight of Kaiser, gripping her sword.
It was a smile bordering on mockery, as if everything was unfolding exactly as expected.
Kaiser found that smile deeply irritating, so he accelerated even further, increasing his speed.
He rushed forward with the intent to cleave her in one stroke, holding his sword low, and when he reached her, he raised it to strike.
But.
Clang!
Sparks erupted as his sword was blocked with almost contemptuous ease.
Even without using all his skills, that strike would have been nearly impossible for anyone else to block or evade.
Was she truly a God Series user?
As Kaiser was thinking this, he saw Ren’s sword gleaming with a bluish light.
She had activated a skill.
Kaiser realized this and immediately retreated, trying to create distance.
Then Ren opened her mouth.
“You are not my opponent.”
Her polite and courteous words made Kaiser’s expression contort involuntarily.
Was she belittling him?
Or was she speaking of Jin-woo?
Either way, his mood was far from pleasant.
Before he could speak again, he prepared to charge once more.
But then, a dragon emerged from behind Ren.
At the sight of that creature, displaying golden scales and an imposing presence, even Kaiser couldn’t help but shudder and retreat.
A dragon appearing so suddenly.
Was it a skill?
No, that couldn’t be. Kaiser knew better than anyone that a summoning-type skill could never manifest so vividly.
Didn’t he have quite a few summoned creatures under his command?
Comparing them to this made no sense.
But.
Was she a God Series summoner?
No, if that were the case, the attack she launched initially wouldn’t have been so overwhelmingly powerful.
Kaiser’s mind raced so intensely he felt heat in his head.
Then Ren spoke softly.
“Then allow me to summon your opponent.”
With Lin’s words, the Yellow Dragon began to roar.
【ROOOOOAAAAAR!】
The roar shook every molecule of air around them, and even Kaiser found himself breaking into a cold sweat as he prepared himself.
Was that Yellow Dragon truly his opponent?
If I fight at my best, I might actually win.
If I give it everything I have.
But the moment he thought he could win by the narrowest of margins—
The air tore open, and space itself began to split.
What in the world is that?
As Kaiser stood momentarily dazed, his eyes snapped wide open at what emerged from the rift.
A small angel—tiny in stature yet wielding a colossal spear that dwarfed her body by more than a dozen times over.
Kaiser recognized that angel well.
“…Jin-woo.”
Yes, it was none other than Jin-woo’s pet.
That very ‘pet’ who had displayed extraordinary prowess in the last war.
Jin-woo’s pet gazed at him with casual indifference, letting out a languid yawn before gripping the spear properly.
Then—
WHOOOOSH!
A brilliant light erupted forth, and the diminutive angel transformed, reverting to her true form as a woman.
Confronted with a beauty so breathtaking it stole the breath from his lungs and a golden spear suffused with azure light, Kaiser found himself swallowing hard without thinking.
In that instant, Kaiser’s instincts took over and he raised his blade.
CLANG! BOOM!
“Ugh!”
The spear came hurtling through space as if tearing reality itself, and Kaiser couldn’t even process what was happening.
He was amazed he’d managed to block it, but when had she even swung the spear?
It defied comprehension.
No process—only the result manifested.
This time, he’d managed to defend himself.
But could he block the next strike?
At that thought, Kaiser felt a chill run down his spine as he forced himself to concentrate.
If his reaction faltered even slightly—
He would die instantly.
His death would mean nothing less than defeat in this war.
All the buffs he’d layered upon his legion would vanish.
They would crumble immediately.
Just as Kaiser was gritting his teeth, preparing to face Luna—
Lin smiled softly and spoke.
“Then I shall take my leave. I hope you and Luna have a pleasant time together.”
How could she say something so tactless?
When Kaiser’s focus wavered for just a moment, he sensed the chill and swiftly raised his sword again.
Simultaneously, the grating screech of metal filled the air—a sound he despised.
Screeeech!
That piercing noise made Kaiser’s expression darken.
It wasn’t the sound itself that troubled him.
That spear aimed at him was far too powerful.
Merely defending against it demanded every ounce of his strength.
If this prolonged into a war of attrition, I’m at an absolute disadvantage.
With that assessment, Kaiser rapidly unleashed every skill at his disposal.
This was no time to conserve power with Jin-woo in mind.
If I fall here, the loss would be far greater than any alternative.
So I drew upon all my strength.
Regardless, Luna—now transformed into an adult woman—rubbed her drowsy eyes and gripped her spear once more.
Her bearing suggested Kaiser barely warranted her attention.
At that, Kaiser’s fury ignited.
How dare she display such composure against me.
Absolutely unforgivable.
Whoosh!
Kaiser surged forward with explosive speed, sword in hand.
Simultaneously, a golden aura of battle enveloped his entire body.
A buff that strengthened him proportional to the number of soldiers under his command.
Though its duration was brief, the effect was devastatingly potent—Kaiser smiled at this.
Merely ten seconds.
But ten seconds would suffice.
I’ll annihilate this pet called Luna and cut down Jin-woo as well.
With that conviction, Kaiser accelerated further as he charged at Luna.
The air burst repeatedly, sending shockwaves rippling outward.
Pure acceleration born from raw stats alone.
A speed scarcely perceptible to anyone on this battlefield.
Thus Kaiser was confident.
With such raw power, I have no doubt I can cleave through anything.
‘I’ll bisect her spear and all.’
Kaiser’s eyes blazed as he swung his blade with the momentum of his charge.
Accelerated by his speed, the sword carried with it an absolutely devastating physical force.
At this rate, I truly will sever everything in my path.
Screeeeeech!
The blade, swung with unrefined velocity, shattered the air into fragments as it descended to tear Luna asunder.
In that instant.
A brilliant flash.
Light blazed forth.
The spear blocked the sword.
The blocked physical force transferred to Ren, transforming into impact.
But that impact transmitted through the ground beneath Ren’s feet, overturning the earth itself.
Crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch! Boom!
Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack!
A massive fissure erupted, splitting the center of the battlefield into a gaping chasm.
A chasm of unimaginable proportions.
Kaiser was astounded by the power he himself had unleashed, yet Ren, who had blocked it, was equally incredulous.
Trembling, trembling.
Kaiser’s hands quivered as they gripped his sword, yet Ren stood before him, blocking that very blade as though it were nothing.
Seeing Ren like this, Kaiser attempted to strike again with both hands on his sword, but found it wouldn’t move at all.
Rather,
Crack.
his own blade had fractured.
This couldn’t be.
This couldn’t possibly
be.
“Grraaaaaaah!”
I cannot fall to Jin-woo’s mere pet—not to Jin-woo himself.
Driven by that singular conviction alone, Kaiser moved with explosive speed.
I still have buffs remaining.
He swung his sword with devastating velocity.
But.
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
Though he struck with blinding speed, Ren parried each blow with effortless grace.
Not once had boredom left Ren’s eyes throughout this entire exchange.
How could I possibly overcome this monster?
As Kaiser grasped at his fading consciousness and prepared to advance once more,
something flashed.
Boom!
“Gah.”
An attack he hadn’t detected in time.
The intense impact to his abdomen sent Kaiser sliding backward considerably before he lifted his head again.
This won’t do.
I must find some way forward.
As Kaiser thought this and raised his head,
he realized he’d been driven back far enough to see the entire battlefield at a glance.
And what Kaiser’s eyes beheld in that overview was….
“This… this is impossible.”
Without my presence, there were indeed elements of vulnerability.
Yet even so, hadn’t he provided buffs to his own forces?
He harbored not the slightest doubt that they would be overwhelmed.
After all, the number of Rankers he possessed was considerable as well.
More than that, among them were dozens who had transcended into Hidden Classes.
So how could this be happening?
The Yellow Dragon and Ren were trampling his Rankers underfoot, while his ordinary troops were being trampled by the Rankers of Han-sung and Barmon’s Guild.
Even the enemy’s remaining common soldiers were lending their strength to the slaughter.
Witnessing this, Kaiser’s mind went blank.
If it were merely this, it would be another matter.
With the command staff—Raigan and Valen, and Ren and Kan—present.
He had believed they could win by any means necessary.
Yet what was this?
Ren and Kan, trampled beneath Barmon’s heel.
And Raigan and Valen, becoming porcupines under Yuna’s arrows and fading away.
Even the command staff had fallen.
What remained was only himself.
Kaiser racked his mind for any stratagem to achieve victory in this war.
But then, seeing a brilliant flash descend from the heavens, he lifted his gaze.
Five bolts of lightning were falling.
Five bolts of lightning erupting from a single spear began to coalesce, intertwining in a spiral before descending toward Kaiser.
A speed beyond reaction.
Kaiser could not block it—he could only open his eyes wide and face the lightning.
As a result.
“Cough—”
Spewing blood, he could see Brewnack embedded in his own heart.
How much vitality remained?
Before he could even check, Kaiser, his vision turning ashen, thought to himself.
‘I will repay this humiliation no matter what.’
He had lost the Guild War.
But the main force still remained, did it not?
While he could not touch Han-sung Guild, Barmon’s Guild could absolutely be annihilated.
From now on, he would not concern himself with justifications or trivial matters.
He would act solely for revenge.
As Kaiser harbored such thoughts, his consciousness was ejected from the Guild War and he awoke in the Guild Headquarters.
The moment the Guild War ended, he would strike at Barmon.
He was resolving himself thus when.
Boom.
He felt a tremendous impact that shook the entire Guild Headquarters.
This Guild Headquarters, so close to the Lord’s Castle?
How was this even possible?
As Kaiser was seized by doubt.
Someone rushed toward him urgently.
“Ah! G-Guild War is over! Alliance Commander! Please hurry! We’re under attack!”
“What do you mean….”
Before Kaiser could even collect himself.
An Alliance member cried out desperately.
“The Guild War was a trap! Hwang Kyung-ma-jeol—no, that bastard Jin-woo came alone!”
At those words, Kaiser’s blood ran cold, but that was only the beginning.
As if his very soul had fled his body, his mouth and eyes stretched wide open, and his frame trembled violently.
No, surely not.
Had he planned all of this for this moment?
“Ah, ahhh.”

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