I’M A Max-Level Regressor [EN]: Chapter 285

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‘Myth, I’m so sorry.’

Nicholas burst into tears.

His bloodshot eyes were filled with blood vessels as if they would burst at any moment, and the color of his tears was also red.

‘Damn it… A regressor couldn’t properly change the past and is now asking his colleague for help again.’

Nicholas blamed himself.

How much had he bragged?

He had boasted in front of Myth, saying this was the life of a regressor, and made all sorts of fuss.

Looking back, it was a foolish thing to do.

He thought he knew everything, so he couldn’t think beyond that. It was an irreversible, fatal mistake.

‘If the Altar is completed, it’s over.’

He gritted his teeth.

In Myth’s timeline, the Altar of the Nas Continent must be nearing completion.

The final turning point.

Once this is completed, Reccerro, the one who serves the Demon King Reknat, will have the power to manifest his spirit.

And.

Shuaaaaa.

“What the hell, seriously.”

Forty years later, what Nicholas sees before his eyes are purple streaks constantly pouring from the sky.

The Demon King is descending.

Not only the Nas Continent.

Now, all spaces connected to Earth and the Mugang Continent will be ravaged by the Demon King’s hands.

Just then.

“Found him!”

He thought he had hidden deep inside a cave, but Reccerro’s followers finally found him.

“Haa.”

A cave he had entered for the first time.

He doesn’t know if the end of this cave is a dead end or if there is another way out… but he has to run anyway.

Isn’t there a saying, ‘Do your best and leave the rest to heaven’?

Now, he can only entrust it to the heavens and Myth.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

Leaving behind the trail of blood flowing down his leg, Nicholas began to run again.

A desperate struggle, unable to run properly and dragging one leg across the ground.

* * *

The Secret Dungeon was cleared quickly. Marina did not participate in this raid.

In fact, there were no problems with the raid even without Marina.

Because ‘Team Osaka’ had been the official owner of the Secret Dungeon, she had participated in case of emergencies.

It seemed she now had definite trust in me, believing that I would clear it well on my own.

For me, it was more comfortable without Marina than with her.

Of course, I know that time stops, but there was a chance she might see something uncomfortable.

Anyway, after smoothly clearing the boss monster, I was able to cross over to the Nas Continent as usual.

But.

[The connection to the Nas Continent is being maintained.]

[The connection can be maintained for 00 hours, 29 minutes, and 59 seconds.]

‘Why is it so short?’

The duration was too short.

At this rate, I would have to meet Zaire, confirm the revelation, and move around before being forced to return to Earth.

“Zaire, Zaire!”

First, I looked for Zaire.

There was no way to find out why the time was so short by just trying to figure it out.

It was much better to move directly and face any situation during that time.

“You’ve come.”

Zaire, whose complexion was paler than before, greeted me. He was smiling, but he lacked vitality.

“Are you alright? Your complexion….”

“It’s because of my chronic lung disease. I’m fine. It’s quite a troublesome disease, but paradoxically, it’s not enough to kill me.”

“Please, take this.”

I handed him a small healing potion.

It was a potion that Han So-joon had made before, and it was said to be excellent for treating internal injuries rather than external wounds.

He had made so much of it that it wasn’t difficult to give one to Zaire.

He is an important messenger to me. If something were to happen to his health, Nicholas’s message might be cut off.

“It’s full of divine power. Where did you get it? Ah… I understand without you saying.”

There was no need to explain to Zaire that we were meeting by crossing dimensions.

Perhaps that’s why, even though I’ve only met Zaire a few times, I felt a deep sense of kinship.

What should I say?

It felt like there was an ally in this huge flow that I was struggling with alone, without telling anyone since my regression.

“I need to deliver this and then go to sleep immediately. My headache is getting very severe… It seems a revelation is coming soon.”

“Another one?”

“This revelation itself was not long. Perhaps the revealer is trying to send it to me in parts.”

“I understand. Thank you so much.”

I immediately received the parchment from Zaire.

This time, it contained content written in a mixture of Mugang Continent language, Korean, English, and various other languages.

It felt like it was mixed with about eight languages.

I knew all the languages, but trying to interpret them all at once suddenly made my head throb.

Of course, my modified brain quickly resolved the confusion and translated the content to fit the context. Good job, brain.

“Hey, you….”

A curse almost came out.

‘You probably have a space-time buff, right?’ This was also obtained by catching a big shot named Livain.

I immediately realized that he was saying it jokingly, but a moment of anger rose up.

It seemed that the fact that he had teased and played with me so much in my past life had become a repeated learning.

‘This bastard, no matter how I look at it, he seems to be putting on a brave face when he’s really in a difficult situation.’

It was an intuition.

It was also a similarity between me and Nicholas.

When the risk is too high or when you might really lose your life, you pretend to be okay.

Anyway, I had saved the space-time buff, so I just needed to go to Jang Dong-shik and deliver the Great Shift formula.

And I could ask Marina to check the reset state of the Secret Dungeon.

Since clearing the inside would be quick anyway, time would not hold me back at all.

Before being forced to return.

I traveled around various places on the Nas Continent as quickly as possible, as much as time allowed.

The magic power is definitely abundant.

The recovery rate of magic power is faster than on Earth, which seemed to be a very useful variable in battle.

‘The aura of dark energy felt in the overall atmosphere is definitely weaker than when it will be connected to Earth in five years.’

I didn’t have dark energy myself, but I knew the characteristics and feeling of dark energy itself.

Mana is a force that accompanies nature, so it is a force that exists everywhere.

But dark energy is different.

It is artificially created by summoning evil energy, so it does not exist in the natural world.

Even if it exists, it is clustered in some object.

The dark energy begins to surge when the altars are completed and activated throughout the continent.

To give a modern example, if the altar is a factory, dark energy is the smog emitted by that factory.

Anyway, the fact that there is less dark energy than in the future meant that something important was missing from the altar.

‘I definitely know why it’s now.’

I didn’t confirm it directly with Nicholas, but I seemed to know why he sent me to this era.

The Altar is about to be completed.

In addition, it was just before Reccerro’s power became stronger, and therefore, it was also the time when he had the most difficulty paying attention to other things.

This is because he had to put the most effort into the human sacrifices for the altar.

For Reccerro, it was the last hurdle to overcome, and therefore, the time when he thought he had arrived.

‘If I can undo the Great Shift… at least Reccerro will lose another space to escape to. That’s the biggest thing.’

I wanted to return to Jang Dong-shik quickly. Perhaps because I was so impatient, time felt like it was passing more slowly than I thought.

“Hoo. Hoo. Hoo.”

I took several deep breaths, feeling the cold wind blowing through the winter weather of the Nas Continent.

Clear air, clear energy.

The time to taste this cleanliness was also running out.

Because the time of blood and war would soon come.

Finally, the finale of the regressor ‘Kang Shin-hwa’ was approaching.

* * *

Soon after.

Kwaang!

“Jang Dong-shik! Hurry up and take it!”

Shin-hwa, who had entered Jang Dong-shik’s safe house, threw the parchment with all his might as if throwing a baseball.

Because he had contacted him as soon as he came out of the dungeon, Jang Dong-shik did not ask what the situation was.

“Is this that…?”

“Yeah, that’s right. Hurry up and interpret it and start right away! There’s not much time, so hurry!”

“Could it be…?”

“Never mind the ‘could it be,’ just hurry!”

Jang Dong-shik was about to ask if Shin-hwa was already traveling back and forth to the Nas Continent, but he closed his mouth.

Anyway, that part was Shin-hwa’s responsibility, and it was not a problem that could be solved by him presumptuously being curious and stepping in.

“Clothes….”

“Just do it!”

Jang Dong-shik was about to pick up his clothes because he was shirtless, but Shin-hwa made him kneel down.

Soon, Jang Dong-shik looked at the parchment Shin-hwa had handed him and began to quickly interpret the contents.

And after understanding the contents, he closed his eyes and entered concentration. It was an unstoppable development.

Just then.

“Ah!”

Jang Dong-shik exclaimed.

Shin-hwa immediately understood the meaning.

“Is it a magic power problem?”

“That’s right.”

“Can’t be helped. I’ll add to it.”

“Thanks. I don’t have a small amount of magic power either, but this damn curse is consuming too much magic power.”

“That’s why Reccerro’s curse is so difficult to deal with. He’s a guy I really want to kill.”

Shin-hwa gritted his teeth and revealed his animosity without hesitation. Of course, he intends to beat him up somehow soon.

“Hoo.”

Jang Dong-shik immediately concentrated.

Shuaaaaa.

Shin-hwa immediately assisted with magic power.

Jang Dong-shik felt Shin-hwa’s magic power coming in heavily from behind and flinched.

The purity of the magic power was several times higher than his own, and the stability of the magic power itself was also very high.

If his magic power felt like unstable waves of the sea.

Shin-hwa’s magic power was as stable as a calm lake, so there was no problem at all in accepting it. There were no variables either.

So he could completely devote himself to the formula related to the Great Shift. He had a reliable place to rely on for the magic power problem.

How long had that time passed? Jang Dong-shik’s eyebrows furrowed as he repeatedly concentrated and reversed the formula.

“……Damn it.”

“Why?”

“It’s not just the Great Shift formula that’s placed on him. Suicide curses, runaway hallucinations, abnormal vision, etc… He’s placed all sorts of restrictions inside.”

“Reccerro?”

“Yeah. Reccerro, that son of a bitch, was he planning to use and discard the apostles from the beginning? This was devised from the time he left the mark of the Order on me.”

“In the end, no one is important except himself. It’s a very Reccerro thing to do. Isn’t it?”

“The fact that I devoted my life to such a guy even for a moment is a great sin. It’s really a great sin….”

Jang Dong-shik clutched his throbbing forehead.

Everything was a chess piece to Reccerro.

Jang Dong-shik had no choice but to clench his fist at the strong sense of betrayal that surged up.

Kuddeudeuk.

The sharp fingernails that tore the skin of his palm finally drew blood. It was red blood filled with anger.