I’M A Max-Level Regressor [EN]: Chapter 120

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I had been watching one guy from the start.

Excluding Riyeon, Kang Jahee, and the Black Lion, the remaining four were all long-range support-type Awakeners.

The first to be eliminated was the close-quarters combat type Awakener, leaving only the ‘mage’ type enemies.

Whirring! Crack!

In an instant, a whip extended and lashed fiercely at my side.

The suit doesn’t cover every part of the body completely.

The side is one of those areas, as it needs to stretch frequently for various movements.

There’s a small opening for flexibility, and the whip struck it precisely.

“……!”

Pshoo!

I silently endured the pain.

I saw something red splatter to the side, but I didn’t care.

Seeing this much blood is as common as breathing in a fight.

“Eek……!”

The guy, panicked by my relentless charge, quickly reached out.

Weeing.

A dot formed slightly in the air, undoubtedly a frontal defense barrier.

A blue magical barrier created to act as a shield in front.

‘How naive.’

This guy is underestimating me too much.

Boom!

I kicked off the ground with all my might, launching myself into the air.

Wiiiing.

The defense barrier spread out, but the shield only covered a predictably limited area.

Like clearing a hurdle, I easily jumped over the barrier.

The next moment.

As calculated during the jump, my body was positioned directly above the guy’s head.

In a situation where I could lightly step on his head as if it were a stepping stone.

Crackle.

From here, I reinforced my right leg, infused it with magic, and forcefully stomped on the guy’s head.

A leg capable of cracking asphalt and shattering concrete used as a stepping stone with its instantaneous power.

Especially on the head, where the suit’s protection is weaker, the perceived power would be even greater.

Crack!

A single stomp.

Crackle!

And the guy’s neck, crushed by a vertical force rather than a horizontal one.

“Ugh…….”

A leg attack that concentrated hundreds of kilograms of immense pressure into a single point.

The guy wasn’t prepared to withstand it, and thanks to that, the guy, whose height drastically decreased, became a guest of no return.

The fallen guy’s neck was shrunken, like looking at a turtle.

His neck bones were completely shattered, causing his head to sink down.

“No…….”

“What, did you think a single whip strike would do something?”

Kang Jahee seemed quite taken aback by the Myth’s attack, which completely ignored her attack and took one of their lives.

It’s not that I didn’t suffer any injuries from her.

But since I had fundamentally enhanced my body, the injuries weren’t severe.

Right then.

I pretended to say something to Kang Jahee and then used the Blink Ring as a surprise attack.

The advantage of this Blink Ring, obtained from Park Hyung-san, is its freedom to switch space and location.

Of course, you have to be careful when using it if there are Awakeners who can cause magical interference.

However, in my past life, I knew that Riyeon, Kang Jahee, and the Black Lion had no abilities of this kind. Absolutely.

“Stay focused?”

“Ah…….”

Another guy came within range.

These guys, no matter how I look at it, seem to be hired by the Dark Forest.

They have more flaws than I thought.

Or are they underestimating me?

There were too many gaps to give them the title of coming to ‘assassinate’ someone.

They might call themselves A-rank or B-rank experts.

But to my eyes, who had been to the end of EX-rank, it looked like the fidgeting of a beginner.

“Hap!”

With a powerful shout, I slammed Wilson, taken from subspace, directly into the guy’s face.

I was secretly hoping that he would somehow block it or evade it with agility.

Thud……!

The guy, unable to react, died with his head exploding while standing.

That expensive-looking suit was of no help in protecting the only weak point, the face.

Like that.

The excessively unbalanced one-to-ten fight was halved in the blink of an eye, adjusted to a one-to-five imbalance.

* * *

Seven minutes later.

“Why aren’t any of the spells working?”

The Black Lion was doubting his own eyes.

He had already unleashed dozens, no, to exaggerate a bit, over a hundred spells targeting Myth.

Distortion that confuses visual information.

Hallucinations that blur the line between reality and imagination.

Visual disturbances that temporarily cause blindness or block vision.

The Black Lion used his entire repertoire of spells.

If he had poured this much, Riyeon, a member of the Five Stars Seven Swords and a skilled swordsman, and Kang Jahee should have taken care of it.

But the spells didn’t work on Myth even once.

Even though he was clearly hit by spells covering his entire body, he wasn’t affected at all.

S-rank.

In the Black Lion’s life, he had never felt his abilities were so useless.

In the meantime, two assassins died.

In the end, only the three who came from China remained.

Right then.

Flash.

The location of Myth, who was in a close battle with Riyeon and Kang Jahee, changed in an instant.

He appeared in front of the Black Lion, who was keeping a distance and using spells as a check.

“Is something not working well?”

“Damn it!”

The Black Lion bit his lip.

At this rate, his contribution to the team would hit rock bottom and keep falling underground.

The problem was.

Even the brief moment the Black Lion tried to think and judge was not allowed.

Thwack!

“Ugh!”

Myth’s Jinkwon [a martial art technique focusing on speed and precision] struck the Black Lion’s abdomen like lightning, and a tremendous shockwave shook his internal organs.

Even though it was a high-end enhanced suit that would have absorbed more than 80% of the power, the remaining 20% caused internal injuries.

The moment the Black Lion’s body folded like a bow, exposing his weakness, Myth immediately grabbed his collar.

“A human shield is perfect for battle. Let’s test your friendship.”

Then, Myth, naturally grabbing the Black Lion’s neck, stared at Riyeon, who was rushing straight at him.

The Black Lion kept struggling and casting spells on Myth, but none of them were useful.

The Black Lion’s strength was the numerous spells that made the person being hit lose their mind.

But as it happened, the ability Myth gained from eating Magos’s Eye was a perfect ‘counter’ to the Black Lion.

“…….”

Myth didn’t even glance at the Black Lion and watched Riyeon.

Kang Jahee seemed to be circling around the outside, planning to aim for Myth’s back depending on the situation.

‘Time to choose.’

I thought, looking at Riyeon’s murderous eyes.

The reason these guys are called vicious is that they neatly ignore the major premise of ‘never killing allies’.

If I use the Black Lion as a shield, what choice will Riyeon make?

‘She’ll kill him.’

Since they’re not blood brothers but a strategic cooperative relationship.

I thought she would sacrifice the Black Lion and aim for me.

‘If so.’

A smile appeared on Myth’s lips after finishing the calculation. It was a perfectly rational and valid strategic prediction.

* * *

Five minutes later.

“Wow, look at these bastards?”

Namina, who arrived at the scene, clicked her tongue at the jamming devices attached to all the surveillance equipment.

It seemed to be a new device from the Chinese underworld that had never been distributed domestically.

In other words, it seemed to be one of the strategic devices secretly developed by the three major corrupt guilds.

Beep. Beep beep.

Using the tablet PC she brought, she linked it to the local CCTV and examined the screen.

“It’s perfect?”

It appeared as if there was nothing in the space where Namina and the KSA agents should have been captured.

The scenery was the same, but it appeared as if there were no people at all.

It was the same not only in the visible part but also in the part detected by infrared rays.

“First, you guys recover all these jamming devices and set up a defense line around the entrance.”

“Yes, I understand!”

The agents who came with Namina moved in an orderly manner at her command.

She immediately activated the state of her enhanced suit and moved towards the dungeon.

“I’ll go now.”

“Please let me assist you from the side, Branch Manager.”

Then, Choi Ji-hyuk and Yoon Byeol-i, who were watching, immediately approached Namina.

They had been unable to enter the dungeon because of Shin-hwa’s warning-like request.

But since the skilled Namina had arrived, it seemed safe enough to enter now.

“Okay. But don’t get carried away with enthusiasm and rush ahead. If additional victims occur here, Kang Shin-hwa’s ‘design’ will become meaningless.”

The two nodded at Namina’s words. The two immediately took their places behind Namina.

“Let’s go in right away. Shin-hwa said he would handle it himself, but I can’t just stand by and watch this dangerous situation.”

A quick entry began.

After the entry into the dungeon was over.

The desolate scenery inside, not outside the dungeon, unfolded before the eyes of the three.

After walking deep inside the dungeon for about 5 minutes, following the footprints.

Just as they crossed a small hill and entered a forest area overgrown with grass and trees.

“Huh……?”

Namina was able to see the Black Lion’s corpse, completely covered in blood, lying at the entrance.

Judging from the very long trail of blood leading from far away.

It seemed that he had crawled here somehow to survive in a collapsed state.

But unfortunately, he couldn’t reach the entrance, and the Black Lion’s body was cold.

Judging from the huge circular wound in the middle of his back, it seemed that Shin-hwa’s ‘Magic Ball’ had struck his back and cut off his breath in an instant.

“How many magic circles are there?”

Namina clicked her tongue.

In the battlefield vaguely visible in front, there were numerous magic circles that seemed to have been laid out by the Black Lion.

There were so many that it was dizzying just to look at them, but for some reason, Shin-hwa didn’t seem to be affected at all.

“Here too…….”

“It’s here too.”

Next, the state of the assassins discovered by Choi Ji-hyuk and Yoon Byeol-i was no different from that of the Black Lion.

As if they had all made a promise, none of them had intact faces.

Twisted left and right, crushed, and the face was rather sunken inward instead of outward.

There were quite a few corpses whose condition was so severe that the expression ‘crushed’ was appropriate.

Anyway, from the point of invading a private dungeon without separate approval and maliciously installing jamming devices.

There was already more than enough room to consider that they had the intention to attack or assassinate Shin-hwa.

The problem was that it was not a clumsy assassination attempt, as many as ten people were mobilized.

It would have been a group of skilled people who came in, but Shin-hwa brilliantly handled the one-to-ten battle.

“How could he fight like this……?”

Namina clicked her tongue at the sight of Shin-hwa visible between the dense bushes in front.

He was fiercely fighting a melee with the remaining two Awakeners.

Two men and women who seemed to have reached the realm of S-rank at a glance.

The elegant strikes of the sword and whip they wielded were dividing the space in various ways and driving Shin-hwa.

Shin-hwa was steadfastly fighting back without even uttering a groan.

It seemed that the numerical inferiority was not even a problem to worry about or consider for him.

“…….”

Gulp-.

Namina, who was unknowingly assimilated with Shin-hwa’s composure and calmness in overcoming the numerical inferiority, swallowed dry saliva.