The Regressor Plays the Game Too Well - Chapter 190

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Episode 190
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Namil, Vice Commander of the Imperial Knight Order.
She held the position directly beneath the Commander, and was known throughout the Empire as the strongest woman alive.
She was the one who had reached transcendent power.
Even she had harbored doubts about the Emperor at first.
But the moment she embraced darker thoughts, her hesitation dulled away.
After hearing that reasoning, she remade her resolve.
She was the Emperor’s loyal blade.
A tool was merely a tool.
There was no need to understand orders.
One simply carried them out.
As a blade, she would cut down enemies.
That singular purpose alone drove her forward.
Those other transcendent powerhouses were already being handled by her superior and Marquis Kawen, another transcendent force.
Moreover, though many spoke of the Imperial Knight Order as inferior, the commanders of numerous knight orders across the Empire had gathered together to face the Abyss Knight in a fierce struggle.
If someone like her went there, she would only become a hindrance.
Namil understood her role better than anyone.
She had to face the next most threatening presence in this war.
At first, she had considered drawing her blade against the knights under Count Zapin’s command.
But that was not it.
Those knights were strong.
Strong enough that she would need to exert her full strength against them.
Yet they were merely individuals.
In this war, facing such opponents was not the right choice.
As their forces were pushed back, she needed to face the most troublesome threat.
That was her duty.
The knights and mages under Count Zapin’s command?
Each of them was indeed a nuisance.
But there were threats far more vexing than them.
None other than the travelers they had dismissed.
She had witnessed those who, having arrived in this world not long ago, had already obtained tremendous power.
First, she had observed the traveler who unleashed countless arrows.
No.
There were plenty of knights capable of handling this one without her intervention.
Next, she had observed the traveler who cast countless spells, moving across the battlefield to aid where needed.
This one was not it either.
Though more troublesome than the archer traveler, there was a suitable person from the Magic Tower to face them.
Indeed, one could see them being engaged immediately.
Then only one traveler remained for her to face.
And so I could finally meet them.
The most troublesome of all the travelers.
“….”
“From this moment forward, I shall face you.”
The traveler who spoke with natural informality was a woman riding a dragon whose golden scales gleamed brilliantly as it soared through the heavens, wielding a blade as vast as the sky itself.
Without question, she was the most troublesome among all the travelers.
She unleashed the Yellow Dragon’s sweeping attacks at precisely the right moments, and with her own wide-ranging assaults, she slaughtered the Empire’s forces wherever she went.
Moreover, she seemed to know exactly where the weaknesses lay, making her the very architect of the Empire’s greatest casualties throughout this war.
It would be no exaggeration to call her the most vexing of all enemy combatants.
Namil had finally found the place where she was needed most, and drew her blade.
I heard she was called Lin of the Heavens.
How arrogantly she bore the name of the Heavens, standing beneath the same sky as Emperor Barmon himself.
I could not allow it to pass.
As Namil stepped forward to block her path, Lin merely regarded her with cold, indifferent eyes.
It had been far too long.
Since I had seen such a dismissive attitude.
Leaving nostalgia behind, Namil moved forward.
The Imperial Knight Commander’s blade was elegant.
Like spring blossoms that flutter and bloom delicately.
Namil’s blade was different from that of the Knight Commander.
After winter passed and spring arrived, when all living things cast their seeds and new shoots sprouted forth.
When every living creature regained its vitality and moved with the greatest vigor.
Summer.
Namil’s blade was like summer itself.
Whoooosh!
The blazing sword vibrated fiercely, its heat intensifying.
Her body burned hot, awakening every muscle.
As if roused from slumber, vigor seized her entire being.
Simultaneously, she moved forward, pointing her blade at Lin.
Her sword, thrust forward with the charge, was as sharp as the brilliant sunlight of summer.
In an instant, closing the distance as if flying, Lin descended from the Yellow Dragon, blocking Namil’s blade.
Having intercepted Namil’s sword as it rained down upon the Yellow Dragon, she was pushed back considerably.
Clang!
Yet rather than being driven back while tearing through the air, she fluttered backward as if struck by a petal dancing through empty space.
The sight—evidence of how minimal the impact truly was—caused Namil’s expression to contort.
Though it was not her full strength, the fact that she had dealt no damage whatsoever was incomprehensible.
Yet Lin, as if she had anticipated this, raised her other hand holding the blade and pointed at Namil with her index finger.
Simultaneously, from the fingertip erupted a small sphere like the sun itself.
Whoooosh!
No—it was not merely like the sun.
Tiny and feeble, yet the sun itself.
The moment Namil realized this, she raised her sword to block, meeting the sun with a blade that evoked the essence of summer.
Shhhhiiiiing!
Metal melted halfway and scattered through the air.
A stark contrast to Lin, who drifted back with languid ease.
Namil couldn’t even muster an expression of frustration.
Unable to do anything about her melted armor, the moment a shadow fell from above, she swiftly escaped the spot.
Crunch!
A massive maw descended late, snapping down.
The Yellow Dragon had bitten at the very place where Namil had stood.
【Roooaaarrr!】
The Yellow Dragon roared in fury and exhaled from its gaping jaws.
Namil saw it coming and moved, but not fast enough.
Having barely dodged the bite, her stance was awkward.
And Lin seized that opening, closing the distance.
Appearing from behind, Lin gripped her sword and thrust with elegant precision.
Like the summer sun blazing down on a cloudless day.
A thrust more like the summer sun than even Namil, who bore the title of Summer’s Blade.
Having seized such a fleeting gap so exquisitely, Namil could only endure it.
There was no shadow to escape into.
A flash of light engulfed her.
Thunk!
“Ugh.”
She yielded her left shoulder in frustration, but it was fine.
Her right shoulder remained.
There was no problem gripping the sword.
In that instant, she twisted her body to minimize the damage.
Lin couldn’t help but admire Namil’s response.
Thinking that NPCs were indeed different, she shortened her grip on the sword.
The power might diminish, but she could swing it faster.
Namil too shortened her grip on the sword.
Both gripping their blades short, they bared their teeth like beasts and rushed at each other.
In the moment of their fierce charge.
Namil could see the Yellow Dragon diving at her flank.
Grrr!
She ground her teeth and twisted her body mid-air.
The sound of muscles and bones wrenching echoed as she forced the twist, but there was no choice.
This was better than taking the hit.
Evading the Yellow Dragon’s attack and turning to strike Lin, but Lin’s attack was faster and fiercer than Namil, whose center was thrown off by the forced twist.
Clang!
Screech!
Namil barely managed to block the first strike, but couldn’t defend against the second.
Blood sprayed as her right shoulder was slashed open.
“Tch.”
Swallowing back a grimace, Namil retreated, and the Yellow Dragon lunged forward again with its fearsome maw wide open.
Lin’s expression was equally grim—she hadn’t anticipated Namil being this formidable.
Even with the Yellow Dragon joining forces, Lin’s combined might should have been overwhelming, yet victory still eluded her grasp.
Namil’s desperate evasion was impressive, but the truth was Lin herself fell short.
With that thought, Lin activated another skill.
All her buffs were already active.
Without them, even Lin couldn’t have pressed Namil this relentlessly.
This was what made Lin truly terrifying.
She enhanced herself and the Yellow Dragon with buffs, then coordinated their assault to suffocate her opponent.
A method capable of toppling even enemies stronger than herself.
Yet she was far from weak against Da-in either.
One only had to witness the carnage she’d left in her wake.
‘This is difficult.’
Namil gripped her blade shorter and pushed her speed to its absolute limit.
Her accelerating velocity, like shifting gears higher, resembled a typhoon sweeping across a summer’s day.
As Namil’s output and speed surged with mounting ferocity, it was Lin and the Yellow Dragon who grew increasingly frantic.
Yet despite raising her output and speed, Namil felt herself being pushed back rather than gaining ground.
She attacked faster, but Lin blocked with ease, while the Yellow Dragon seized every opening to strike.
Each time, Namil accelerated further to neutralize the assault, but even that had its limits.
When Namil used skills to attack, Lin didn’t even block—she simply evaded swiftly using the Yellow Dragon.
This alone made the disparity painfully clear.
Her attacks were fierce, yet she gained nothing in return.
As time wore on, anxiety naturally consumed Namil.
She’d exhausted nearly all her skills, and while she dealt damage, not a single blow was critical.
Worse still, even the damage she inflicted was swiftly healed by Lin, who embraced it all like the vast heavens themselves—a sight that filled Namil with dread.
“Huff, huff, huff.”
How much time had passed?
She couldn’t say, but after fighting without even noticing her surroundings, Namil could see the Imperial Knight Commander collapsed on his knees in the distance.
He had been defeated by Count Zapin.
No, this couldn’t be.
She had to step in and help him immediately.
Yet Lin still stood firm before her, blocking her path.
At first, it was Namil who had held her back.
Now the tide had completely reversed.
There was no opening to break through.
Initially, there had been gaps where she could occasionally attack.
As time wore on, such hesitation faded away entirely.
Namil had grown accustomed to my attacks, and both the Yellow Dragon and Lin themselves had grown stronger.
I watched the battlefield with teeth clenched.
‘…I was wrong.’
Travelers were being summoned to my side as well, yet even they were being pushed back.
To seize victory here, either Marquis Kawen or the Imperial Knight Commander and his knights—who were currently locked in combat with the Abyss Knight—would need to intervene.
Instead, it was the commanders who were losing ground.
Above all, Marquis Kawen was nowhere to be seen.
Facing this dire situation, Namil abandoned further deliberation.
‘Do not think for yourself.’
It was the conviction I had held firm and followed all along.
So I resolved to do the same once more.
I would simply capture Lin before me.
There was nothing more to accomplish here.
Just that much.
So I drew upon my secret technique.
The Sword of Summer—my greatest skill.
In that instant, the atmosphere transformed.
The oppressive heat of summer and the humid, heavy air created an almost tangible illusion of suffocation.
The entire area had become summer itself.
Mere swordsmanship affecting the surroundings to such a degree.
It was truly a remarkable technique.
But I was not the only one holding back my techniques.
Lin, seeing me like this, raised her sword toward the heavens.
“Clear skies.”
Simultaneously, clouds vanished and the sun shone upon Lin.
Blue and crimson auras enveloped her.
Her eyes blazed with light.
I too unleashed my ultimate technique and rushed toward her.
The moment our blades were about to clash.
I could see it.
A shadow falling over my head.
Without thinking, I looked up, and there the Yellow Dragon hung with energy blazing, its maw wide open and eyes gleaming with power.
There was no opening until the very end.
My thoughts ended there.
Roooooaaaaaarrrrr!

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