The Regressor Plays the Game Too Well - Chapter 77

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Episode 77
Episode 77
Garn Territory was the region following Felciana and Margantia, so it maintained an appropriate level range of 100 and above.
Up to a maximum level of 130.
Though the level range itself wasn’t particularly wide, it was still quite a popular destination.
Why, you ask?
Because there’s a separate area where you can achieve explosive leveling if you play your cards right!
Since the surrounding terrain consisted more of Mine Fields than granaries.
There were many rocky mountain formations.
Well, there’s a lore explanation that minerals were abundant here, making the territory prosperous.
But that hardly matters.
What truly mattered were the monsters inhabiting these rocky mountain regions.
‘Black Mountain Ants.’
Individually, they were considered the weakest among level 110 monsters.
They were even said to be weaker than level 100 orcs in comparison.
That says it all.
Of course, each possessed exceptional brute strength and hardened exoskeletons, but still?
They hardly deserved the prestige of level 110 monsters.
So wouldn’t they be too easy to fight?
That’s where you’d be mistaken.
They hunted in groups of at least ten.
Without an area-of-effect mage, party hunting them was practically impossible.
They went by many names—quantity hell, overwhelming numbers, and so forth—but they had one most common epithet.
The gateway to explosive leveling!
So why had Jin-woo come here?
Wasn’t it obvious?
“Hahahaha! There’s no better place than this!”
He’d come all this way to test his skills.
Could Jin-woo, barely level 57, actually hunt here?
Of course he could.
With his stats, what was the problem?
If he couldn’t handle this, he should quit gaming.
Besides, Jin-woo possessed multiple area-of-effect skills.
Starting with Brionac, he had a total of three area-of-effect skills.
There were nine skills in total he needed to test.
Including Brionac, that made ten.
There was no better place to test them than here.
Anywhere else would be half-hearted and awkward.
It was far better to test them here while achieving explosive leveling simultaneously.
‘If I can actually achieve explosive leveling, that is.’
My level growth has slowed considerably lately, which is the problem.
I wasn’t holding out much hope.
Even so, I’m hunting down swarms of creatures over 50 levels higher than me.
My level should go up.
If it doesn’t go up even with this, honestly, it would be absurd.
It would be a situation where I’d have legitimate grounds for a lawsuit.
I was hoping for at least a 5-level increase.
Jin-woo surveyed the surrounding terrain.
‘At least the location is perfect.’
The highest point among the rocky mountain terrain.
Using an area-of-effect skill from here would have the strongest impact possible.
However.
Rustle, rustle, rustle, rustle.
From a distance, the glossy black insectoid monsters all looked like cockroaches?
Other than that, there wasn’t really any problem.
Above all, because the range was so wide, I was drawing aggro from many of them.
It’s a problem, but this level is definitely manageable.
Thinking this way, Jin-woo pondered which skill to use first against the swarming monsters.
Still, among the wide-range skills, the most reliable one would be ‘Sweeping Gale’, right?
Recalling that long-forgotten skill, Jin-woo smiled.
‘It’s a good skill, but I haven’t been able to use it.’
I obtained it after parting ways with Kong Yuna’s party.
But I had no opportunity to use it.
So much happened after meeting Wirun.
This was my first battle since then.
Well, that makes sense.
Finally, I could test its true power.
Jin-woo prepared the skill toward the Black Mountain Ants visible in the distance.
This wasn’t simply to test the effect of Sweeping Gale.
‘Since it’s a magic-type skill, I can also see the effect of the Sage’s Extreme.’
Jin-woo smiled knowingly at the thought.
What would a Legendary+ grade skill be like?
Still, first I wouldn’t adjust my MP to increase power or range.
I used it in its completely stock state.
I needed to know what the completely unmodified state was like before deciding how to adjust it afterward.
Then shall I begin?
There’s no need to hesitate about this.
“Sweeping Gale.”
The moment I spoke the skill name quietly.
The air around me changed.
The air around me grew bitterly cold.
In that instant, a pristine chill surged forward, descending upon the blackened earth like a torrent.
It didn’t take long for the dark ground to transform into white.
Merely the work of wind, after all.
A biting gale that froze everything in its path.
That flesh-searing, frost-laden wind consumed everything upon the earth without exception.
Crackle—crackle—crackle!
“….”
The power exceeded my expectations.
This shouldn’t have been the original power level.
Most importantly, the skill fired without any delay the moment I activated it.
Jin-woo confirmed this and swallowed hard without thinking.
And in that moment.
Shatter!
The ice covering the earth shattered in an instant.
I could see countless black ants turning to ash and vanishing.
And in that moment, an avalanche of incredible messages flooded in.
[You have obtained an enormous amount of experience!]
[Level Up!]×6
[You have obtained additional stat points.]×6
[You have defeated over one hundred monsters in a single strike for the first time.]
[You have reached Level 60.]
[You have acquired the Normal Skill, ‘Tiny Heal’.]
[You have acquired the First Title, ‘Slayer’.]
[You have acquired a First Title.]
[Through the Title Hunter effect, you have obtained an additional stat point.]
“…Wow.”
The words that escaped Jin-woo’s lips unbidden.
But the aftermath that followed was extraordinary.
Shrieeeeeeeek!
The Black Mountain Ants, being a collective organism, swarmed toward Jin-woo in fury.
Their numbers seemed even greater than the ones I’d slain.
But Jin-woo wasn’t worried.
I still had several shots left.
I’d gained six levels from that single sweeping gale alone.
Which meant….
“This is power leveling! Hahahaha!”
A skill test?
Ah, forget about that for now—leveling comes first!
What does a skill matter compared to that!
Level is what matters!
In that instant, my mind went blank.
There was no one who could stop me in that state.
* * *
A full day had passed since I uploaded the Orc Karan video to Jinu TV.
Naturally, most of the major guilds had obtained clues by then.
The direction was so clear, after all.
But guilds that actually cleared the Quest?
Extremely few.
Even the guilds that major corporations invested heavily in couldn’t get past it.
The difficulty was that demanding.
Since it was their first time facing this boss.
Well, that’s understandable.
Of course, the exceptional ones cleared it with room to spare.
So did anyone surpass me?
Unlikely.
Rather, as more and more people attempted it, my reputation only grew higher by the day.
Everyone had been given the exact same conditions.
How could I have defeated that boss so effortlessly?
-Yeah, the Nen Village boss was a pushover.
Haha, oh, for real.
“The Nen Village boss is so weak. Lol”
People even began criticizing Orc Karan, the boss of Nen Village.
If Orc Karan weren’t weak, none of this would make sense.
That’s how desperately they wanted to believe it.
But naturally, such opinions couldn’t last long.
– Hahahaha yeah. The Mountain Guild took on the challenge and was defeated miserably, right?
└For real, I was watching and thought Mountain Guild was incredibly weak?
└??? It’s not that Orc Karan is weak, it’s that the world is weak.
lol that’s hilarious
-No, it’s insane. The regeneration is ridiculous. Every phase transition recovers almost half the health from what was depleted. How do you even clear it?;;
-Yeah, seriously;;;
Lol but isn’t there a 30-second cut?
└For real, how did Hwang Gyeong-ma-jeol do it;;;
Every time people chimed in, everyone had no choice but to reassess me.
Soon, more people began attempting to come even close to my record.
Yet not a single person had come anywhere near it.
A record that countless massive guilds couldn’t break despite their efforts.
The users could feel it.
-I can really feel the wall here.
-Wait, isn’t he someone who started at the same time as us?
└No, no. Hwang Gyeong-ma-jeol started ten years ago, apparently. Delete this post.
└Oh, really? Did he regress or something?
└What is this guy even talking about;;?
-No, but even rankers take a full hour at least; yet Hwang Gyeong-ma-jeol cleared it in seconds, not minutes;;?
-It’s truly worthy of the Emperor’s shock and the Demon Realm’s despair.
-If his skill is at this level, it’s basically confirmed.
-Insane skill;;?
While everyone marveled and praised Jin-woo enthusiastically.
Only one person could not.
A player who had delivered overwhelmingly superior results compared to the other users.
Had Jin-woo not existed, this player would have undoubtedly claimed the overwhelming first place.
But because Jin-woo existed, this unfortunate player was pushed down to second.
Grrrrind—!
Kaiser gnashed his teeth while watching his video record.
A solo clear in forty-seven minutes and thirty-two seconds.
Not only did he finish within an hour,
even that record deserved to be praised as extraordinary.
Yet Kaiser still gnashed his teeth and roughly slammed the capsule.
Crash!
His hand throbbed with pain, but that wasn’t what mattered right now.
He already knew his record wouldn’t be better than Jin-woo’s.
But this? This wasn’t right.
A record that differed by nearly a hundredfold.
Now that he actually felt the magnitude of that gap,
his teeth ground together.
‘Damn it.’
His preparation had been lacking, and his skills and leveling still felt insufficient.
But wasn’t the same true for Jin-woo?
Yet he’d grown to this extent regardless.
And even faster than Kaiser had.
Which meant—how much stronger was he now?
Kaiser grasped his dizzy head at the thought, then fixed a sharp gaze on the Secretary waiting nearby and asked.
“Did you find any useful ones?”
“Yes, of course.”
The Secretary answered immediately to Kaiser’s question.
He nodded and looked at the Secretary as if to say hurry up and report.
The Secretary continued.
“First, we found a man named Valen and a man named Raigan.”
“…So you recruited them?”
“Yes. He accepted once I presented a substantial sum. It appears Jinu TV’s influence played a role as well.”
Kaiser nodded in agreement at the Secretary’s words.
Of course it had to be that way.
Valen and Raigan.
Both were names Kaiser had heard before.
They must be formidable talents indeed.
That’s why the Secretary had reported on them.
But such individuals were now joining his ranks?
Normally, it would have been impossible.
However.
‘They’ll have no choice but to gather if they want to restore their wounded pride.’
Kaiser gnashed his teeth at this thought.
Though he’d failed to recruit Jin-woo.
It didn’t matter.
He would gather every other skilled individual and crush that bastard.
He knew it was impossible right now.
‘We have no way to strike at him immediately, and even if we did, we’d probably lose.’
Kaiser was frustrated, but he had to acknowledge the stark reality.
He understood that no matter how many they threw at him, they couldn’t win.
But if not now, then someday things would be different.
They would grow and become stronger too.
Just wait a little longer.
‘In the end, when it all comes down to it, I’ll emerge victorious.’
Without fail.
That’s how it would be.
To achieve that, he needed to recruit outstanding talents.
It wounded his pride that he had to resort to this for now just to strike at that bastard.
But there was no other choice.
So he resolved to swallow his pride for the moment.
It was the birth of an anti-Jin-woo faction.

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