Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 358

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To the Battlefield of Justice!

‘How can I become stronger?’

Ekaterina asked, having even abandoned her pride as a Dragonkin.

Her appearance as she asked that question was utterly wretched. Her arms were dangling as if they were about to be severed, and both legs were deeply cut, with blood gushing out.

Fortunately, she had only been grazed in the neck, narrowly avoiding death, but in the end, it was the same as always.

She had, once again, been defeated by a human.

‘This is absurd.

This really doesn’t make sense.

Kim Yu-hyun, just what are you?

Are you even human?’

‘I live like this because I’m human.

You crazy woman.’

‘···Stop calling me that.’

No matter how good her recovery abilities were, she had lost too much blood to even move.

Ekaterina sighed, acknowledging her defeat once again.

‘Monster.’

‘You’re one to talk.

You’re the real monster.’

‘Ha.

What kind of monster suffers such humiliating defeats against a human?

A human who says they can’t even bother killing me because my level is too low, even when I beg to be killed.’

She wanted to win, to defeat that man and stand above him, laughing triumphantly.

But Ekaterina was now instinctively feeling it.

No matter what she did, she could never surpass that man.

Just as the humans said, he was a terrifying man who couldn’t be beaten even if she died and came back to life.

‘···Do you want to become stronger?’

Normally, he would have left her lying there and gone on his way.

But today was different.

Kim Yu-hyun was looking down at the sprawled-out Ekaterina, asking that question.

At that question, Ekaterina nodded, wearing an expression that said, ‘Isn’t it obvious?’

She wanted to become stronger, strong enough to defeat that monster called Kim Yu-hyun at least once.

‘I can’t tell you everything, but I can tell you how to follow me.’

‘Really?

Can you really make me stronger?’

‘That depends on how well you follow me.

However, there is one condition if you want to know the method.’

If she could become stronger, what condition could possibly matter?

Ekaterina looked at Kim Yu-hyun, signaling him to quickly state the condition.

‘Listen carefully.’

‘···Listen carefully?’

‘Listen to me, and to Lord Zion.

If you listen well, I will also tell you well.

If you don’t listen, I won’t say anything either.

Do you understand?’

It was the first time in her life that she was being asked to listen to a human.

If it were the old Ekaterina, she might have just started another fight right there.

But until now, she had been brutally defeated by a ‘human.’

She had inflicted damage, but it wasn’t enough to decisively affect the outcome, and Kim Yu-hyun didn’t consider her attacks very threatening.

For that reason, Ekaterina had begun to see humans in a new light.

A race that couldn’t even live for 100 years, cowards who became arrogant and complacent with just a little strength.

Disgusting beings who cried like babies in the face of death, no matter how strong they were.

That was all she had thought until recently, but Kim Yu-hyun had changed her perspective.

‘Perhaps humans are more amazing than I thought?’

And that thought progressed further as she watched a man named Zion Klausen.

He clearly possessed only a tiny bit of power, yet that monster Kim Yu-hyun obeyed him without complaint.

Having grown up in a world of ruthless survival of the fittest, she had begun to reconsider Zion, and with Kim Yu-hyun’s cold warning added to the mix, she had come this far.

“Dragonkin!

Has one who was intoxicated with vile fighting finally become completely corrupted!”

“We will skin you and use it as a banner for our descendants of light!”

Haa.

Ekaterina sighed, picking at her ear.

Even while fighting Kim Yu-hyun, that unparalleled cheater of a man, she hadn’t heard such childish words.

She would have preferred them to say something like that right before slitting her throat after defeating her.

What kind of nonsense were they spouting without even engaging?

“How noisy.”

Pajijik!―

Crimson electricity crackled from the horns on the woman’s head!

At the same time, Ekaterina kicked off the ground and snatched the weakest-looking of the angels flying towards her, landing on the ground.

“Let go, let go!

You filthy lizard!”

Not a lieutenant, but an angel stuck in the lower ranks.

That was her first sacrifice.

Ekaterina stared blankly at the angel whose neck was in her grasp, then ruthlessly raised her hand and tore off a handful of flesh from the angel’s abdomen.

“Kuaaaaak!”

Chunks of flesh and some internal organs dangled and fell with red blood.

Ekaterina threw the screaming angel onto the ground with a blank look, then frowned at the red flesh in her hand and threw it away as well.

“Disgusting.”

No matter how many times she looked at it or smelled it, she couldn’t sense any strength.

When Kim Yu-hyun’s blood had touched her hand, an incredibly intense scent that could almost be called ecstasy had stung her nose, but the angel she had just grabbed was not even close to Kim Yu-hyun’s hair, literally trash.

“As expected of the corrupted.

To think they would even drag in a Dragonkin.

Are you that afraid of being judged!”

“That Dragonkin is also a filthy being who does not follow the will of light.

We shall purify her!

Every last piece of flesh!”

“Yeah, yeah.

Whatever, just come at me.”

Still, the scent coming from some of them in the back was unusual.

Realizing that those few were strong opponents who could at least give her a fun fight, she unleashed a blue light from her eyes and began to face the angels rushing and flying towards her.

Unlike Ekaterina, who fought alone, the angels had their own strength, but they always preferred to work together to minimize their losses and perfectly kill the enemy.

Therefore, the angels took their positions and alternated between attack and defense, becoming each other’s spears and shields, and attacked Ekaterina.

Pit!

Pshuk!

Forcibly creating gaps where there were none, and inserting attacks in those fleeting moments, shallow but clear wounds gradually increased all over Ekaterina’s body.

Judging that the lower-ranked angels were useless, the few higher-ranked angels took on the main offense and defense, while the rest continued to annoy the opponent, making it impossible to distinguish between the main and supporting attacks.

Originally, all available higher-ranked angels would have been mobilized to finish off this Dragonkin, but most of the forces were currently moving to the rear to defend against the demons’ surprise attack.

‘If we capture and kill the Dragonkin here and hang her head, we can plummet the morale of these dirty heretics!’

It seemed that this Dragonkin was their hidden card, but no matter how battle-crazed this race was, Masael, a high-ranking angel, thought that she would only be a victim to be butchered and killed in the face of the angels’ attacks and defenses, where the majority moved as one.

In addition, if he caught and killed the Dragonkin, he thought that he might be able to surpass Shaiella, who was said to be the best among the current high-ranking angels, and take her place, so he thought even more about catching and killing that arrogant reptile.

“Push her!”

He was well aware of how dangerous the Dragonkin were.

Recovery power that surpassed not only the angels but even the demons, and an enormous desire for battle.

Not to mention physical abilities and the skill to handle mana [magical energy], all of which combined to create a tremendous synergy effect.

Therefore, they had to relentlessly push her to forcibly create an opening and inflict a fatal blow that even her excellent recovery power could not handle.

The best was to destroy the heart in one blow, or to cut off the head.

Otherwise, there was a high probability that she would somehow return her body to near normal with that monstrous recovery power.

“Keok!”

Of course, Ekaterina’s counterattacks were terrifying.

The moment even a slight mistake was made, the angels were caught in her hands, and with a crunching sound, their bodies were torn off, and blood splattered.

The high-ranking angels, who could be said to be their main force right now, were still intact, but the lower-ranking angels had already been massacred, and the middle-ranking angels were being hunted down one by one.

If they continued to lose their comrades like this, even the high-ranking angels would eventually be caught and crushed by the hands of that brutal Dragonkin woman due to being outnumbered.

‘I can’t lose any more of my comrades like this!’

Masael thought that now was the time to gamble.

He told the other high-ranking angels to watch for the right moment and rushed towards Ekaterina.

Alone, it was an act close to suicide, but at the right time, the remaining middle-ranking angels jumped in with the determination to die, hindering Ekaterina’s interception.

Chwaaak!

“Keuak!”

Ekaterina’s counterattack was sharp, as if shouting that it was a useless act.

While easily dodging Masael’s attack, she grabbed the wings of a middle-ranking angel as if an eagle were snatching a rat and snapped the angel’s back in half.

With a chilling snap, the angel in her hand stuck out his tongue and died.

Ekaterina, holding the corpse of such an angel, shook her head from side to side as if handling a doll with a broken string, and instead of wearing her usual madness-filled smile, she sighed.

‘It’s not fun.

I don’t feel any excitement, let alone tension.’

She didn’t feel that thrilling sensation at all, where her heart would race, and all the senses in her body would become so sensitive that she couldn’t even tell if it was tension or pleasure.

Thinking about the past battles she had with Kim Yu-hyun, Ekaterina didn’t like the current situation at all.

It was as if she had been enjoying delicacies all her life and was suddenly eating garbage.

She was clearly engaged in a desperate battle where blood was splattering, and flesh was flying.

She was brutally killing enemies, and her body was covered in wounds.

Normally, all of this would have been so thrilling and fun that she would have gone crazy.

However, no matter how many enemies she killed and how many wounds she sustained, Ekaterina couldn’t be satisfied.

Having already met and fought the strongest person in the world, she couldn’t adapt to fighting these small fries.

‘Ah, this is really pissing me off.’

As she had more 잡생각 [jap saenggak – idle thoughts], her body became sluggish, and her reaction speed slowed down significantly.

As a result, she narrowly missed the enemy, and conversely, the angel’s attacks penetrated deeper into her body than before, creating wounds that cut and stabbed deep into her body, causing more blood to flow.

Watching this, Masael cheered.

No matter how good her recovery power was, there was a limit, and it seemed that this Dragonkin had reached that limit of recovery.

As the number of wounds increased, her recovery power could not keep up, so the wounds gradually increased in number and depth.

He thought that as she bled twice as much, even the Dragonkin’s body, which was like steel, could not withstand it and had reached its limit, so he twisted the sword he was holding and flew like lightning.

“Stop her from moving!”

“Yes!”

All the high-ranking and middle-ranking angels rushed in at the same time, using their weapons to cross and pass through Ekaterina’s neck and shoulders, locking her in place and forcing the Dragonkin to kneel.

When the opponent could not resist the force coming in at once and bent one knee, Masael did not miss the opportunity and thrust the sword he was holding forward.

‘I’ve got her.’

Puuuuuk!

The long sword, imbued with blue light, pierced through the woman’s chest.

Red blood seemed to gush out like a fountain, but it was soon blocked by the sword, and only the Dragonkin, pierced by the sword and unable to move, was staring at the sword and the angel.

“Hoo.”

Exhaling, Masael released the hand holding the sword’s hilt and stepped back slightly.

He seemed to have judged that it was most important to secure a safe distance in case she might counterattack, even with this level of attack.

“Cough.”

However, he smiled as the Dragonkin woman coughed up dark red blood.

No matter how much of a Dragonkin she was, she could not defeat them, who were working hard to complete their mission!

“···Thank you for your hard work, my comrades.

We have punished the abominable enemy who rejected the light and threw themselves into chaos.”

Masael said that and grabbed the sword’s hilt again to finish her off.

At that moment, Ekaterina, who had been coughing up blood, twitched and moved her body, so he immediately pushed the sword in again, inflicting another fatal blow.

“Kululk!”

“Foolish one.

From the beginning, you were a vile race, so I expected you to fall for the whispers of heresy.

You pride yourselves on being so strong, but you are judged by us, the descendants of light.

Please rest in peace, knowing that you are honored···.”

“What are you saying, you pigeons.”

Saying that, Ekaterina reached out and grabbed Masael’s wrist.

At the same time, before he could even stop her, she pushed his hand towards her, piercing her body to the end of the sword, creating a sight that could almost be called a skewer.

“I thought it would be better if I made a hole like this.”

A fatal wound that no race, not even angels or demons, could ever withstand.

She was constantly coughing up blood from her mouth, and red blood was pouring out of her wounds.

However, Ekaterina had a nonchalant voice as if she didn’t care about that at all.

“As expected, I don’t feel anything.”

Kwak!

Ekaterina grabbed both wings of Masael, who had come to stab her with the sword.

Then, with a gruesome smile, she mocked this stupid pigeon who was staring blankly at her.

“What should I call a pigeon without wings?

A mole cricket?”

“Wa, wait!”

Wait my ass, you mole cricket bastard.

Muttering inwardly, Ekaterina tore off both of the angel’s wings.

So that this arrogant pigeon bastard could never fly in the sky again, and so that he could never mock the world with those wings, spouting nonsense about light and justice.

“Kuaaaaak!”

Masael, whose bones, muscles, and flesh were all torn off, instantly became a hideous sight.

He struggled and thrashed the sword that was stuck in her chest in an attempt to somehow bring down this monster, but Ekaterina did not react to the angel’s movements as if a bug was resisting.

“Shut up.”

Wadeudeuk!

Showing fangs sharper than blades, the Dragonkin bit off the angel’s neck.

A fountain of blood gushed out, and one of the high-ranking angels rolled his eyes and died.

And in that blood, the woman who had thrown away the corpse stared down at the sword stuck in her chest, grabbed the hilt, and slowly began to pull it out.

“Mo, monster···.”

One of the middle-ranking angels muttered in a voice of disgust as he watched the scene.

Ekaterina would have normally just ignored it.

But this time, she couldn’t ignore it.

She felt quite wronged that she was being called a monster because it reminded her of that man.

“The real monster is someone else, you idiots.”

―――――――Author’s Note―――――――

Zion: Hey, you crazy woman!

Kill them nicely!