I’M A Max-Level Regressor [EN]: Chapter 298

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“What is it, some kind of time-delayed manifestation?”

The Demon King’s name rang out clearly.

The name of the Demon King, which would have made my knees buckle and my mind go blank in the past…….

Why does it sound as insignificant as a neighborhood mutt’s name now?

Having crushed even Reccerro, I figured it wouldn’t matter if the Demon King manifested.

Because I had already achieved my goal.

So, I really indifferently watched Lechnat approaching rapidly from the sky.

The streak of light that seemed to be packaging him, just before it reached the altar!

Pow!

I struck it with all my might.

I delivered a refreshing blow, perfectly timed through flawless calculation.

-Cough!

That was the end of it.

‘That thing,’ which took the full force of the powerful punch, flew far away instead of reaching the altar, and then scattered into dust.

“What the hell?”

I chuckled in disbelief and slumped down on the spot.

Just in case, I looked at the sky again, but nothing else happened.

Moreover, the sky, which had been pouring with heavy rain, became a clear sky with bright sunshine as if nothing had happened.

It was amazing.

As if foreshadowing a brighter future, beams of light poured down through the clouds.

It felt like a path to heaven, something you would only see in movies or novels, had opened.

“Haa……. Oops.”

I was about to lie down on the edge of the altar, but I realized I had forgotten the most important thing and stood up again.

That was the destruction of the main altar.

Only by destroying the core embedded here can all the functions of the altar be completely stopped.

It is still operating now. Only Reccerro, who was injecting dark energy, is dead.

Soon.

Crack! Crack! Crunch!

With all my strength, I grabbed the purple core embedded in the center of the altar and crushed it.

Seeing the gemstone shatter coolly and scatter into dust made me feel relieved. It was really refreshing.

“Ah, right. I said I would definitely desecrate the corpse.”

My body is heavy, but I can’t break a promise. A man’s word is his bond, isn’t it?

I watched the colorful spectacle of gemstone dust scattering here and there, and took off my pants and underwear in front of Reccerro’s corpse.

And.

Swaaaaa.

I relieved myself on the dead guy’s body.

Is desecrating the dead too much?

This guy has killed hundreds of thousands of people on the Nas Continent so far. Considering that, this revenge is rather timid.

“Phew…… That’s refreshing. So refreshing. Kah-ah-ah, spit!”

I even spat phlegm on it.

If someone saw me, they might criticize my character.

Well……. I don’t care at all.

Because that ‘someone’ wouldn’t have the ability to kill Reccerro like me, nor the power to save the world.

I’ve always been this kind of guy.

This means I am qualitatively different from Nicholas, who always pretends to be refined and noble.

“……Is it okay over there, really?”

Thud!

Only then did I lie my exhausted body on the marble floor of the altar and speak in a whisper.

I’m done here.

Is he alright?

Just because I finished things here didn’t mean I could meet Nicholas…….

I felt relieved, yet also empty.

Clearly, all of this was done for my sake, but at the same time, it was also to help Nicholas.

The guy who kept believing in me even in the worst situations and tried to convey clues somehow.

Considering his pain and hardship! It felt like we should be facing each other right now, shedding hot tears like in a movie.

“The sky is clear here…….”

With a hollow feeling, I couldn’t continue speaking and pretended to grab the sun above my head with my hand.

I hoped that the bright sun would be shining high in the sky in the world where he is, just like here.

I wished that the light of blessing would permeate him. I wanted to see Nicholas like crazy right now.

* * *

At the same time.

“Ah…….”

Nicholas sighed.

“You rat-like bastard. Now I will kill you and put an end to this tiresome chase.”

Dozens of surrounding black magicians were about to pour blazing flames on him.

Whirr.

A huge circular fireball was created in the air, and it fell vertically, out of control.

The invincible barrier had also disappeared.

Moreover, he no longer had the strength to escape.

He wanted to throw himself off a cliff to commit suicide, but he didn’t even have the strength to do that.

‘I’m sorry, Shin-hwa…….’

Nicholas shed hot tears.

The plan failed.

As a result, all of Shin-hwa’s time, struggling somewhere in the past, is about to become meaningless.

His left chest felt heavy, his heart ached and throbbed as if it had been stabbed with a knife.

It can’t be helped.

Doesn’t a loser’s words just become excuses no matter what they say?

Nicholas barely wiped away the endlessly flowing tears and faced the approaching fate.

Kwaaaa!

The fireball was falling.

The moment that hits his head, his whole body will be crushed and burst like mashed potatoes.

He thought it was a humiliating end.

“Hoo.”

Just as Nicholas, who had resigned himself, was about to close his eyes.

“……?”

Nicholas could feel it.

It was only for a fleeting moment, but!

It was as if everything had stopped, and time was no longer flowing.

That included the black magicians in front of him, the fireball above his head, and his own body!

None were exceptions.

‘Ah……?’

He couldn’t say it out loud, but he could exclaim inwardly.

Could it be? ……Could it be?

The next moment.

Shwaaaaa…….

A dazzling flash, more brilliant than anything else in the world, began to engulf the earth in an instant.

And everything that had existed in the places where that flash passed turned into a handful of ashes and scattered.

It was a perfect ‘deletion,’ leaving no trace at all, as if erasing it neatly with an eraser.

‘Haha, hahahaha, hahahahaha, hahahahahahaha! Kang Shin-hwa, you’re the best. You did it. You did it!’

It wasn’t like he had heard from someone that if the timeline changed entirely, the world he lived in would change like this.

But Nicholas could already guess enough just by looking at the unfolding scene.

‘You won……. You killed Reccerro. You twisted time. You changed all the future with your own hands!’

Nicholas clenched his fists with a joyful smile.

Numerous moments of struggling in their respective worlds, unable to reach each other, flashed by like a panorama.

After preventing the Great Disaster.

When he felt that everything had gone wrong, the choice to send Shin-hwa back to the past without regret was spot on.

He could say with certainty.

Even if Nicholas himself had gone.

Or even if he had sent another member of the Nine Lords, he wouldn’t have been able to achieve such a dramatic reversal.

Because they were all beings who needed time.

They lacked the potential to absorb all abilities and powers like a sponge in a short period of time and grow like Shin-hwa.

‘It’s okay to disappear now. If only the world you live in, and the time after that, can be stabilized in peace…….’

Nicholas spread his arms with the most carefree expression in the world and closed his eyes.

The flash, which had already come close, evaporated all the black magicians who had been alive until just now.

And.

Shwaaaaa.

Soon, Nicholas was also sucked into that flash.

Even while being scattered into tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of pieces, Nicholas’s face was brightly smiling.

Until his form fluttered in the wind and disappeared……. He was really smiling brightly.

No regrets.

It was an expression that seemed to express all of his emotions with just that one phrase.

‘It’s over.’

With that last thought.

Nicholas’s thoughts, existence, emotions, etc.……. All of that stopped right there.

The memory ended there.

* * *

I don’t know when it was.

I was lying on the marble floor, resting, and suddenly fell asleep, and when I opened my eyes, I was in front of the Secret Dungeon.

It felt like I had jumped through space and time simultaneously.

I don’t know what happened in the middle, but anyway, I was back on Earth.

“Hmm…….”

I was glad it wasn’t some shocking development like, ‘Everything until now was a dream.’

Perhaps the link that would allow me to return to Earth was activated at the same time as Reccerro’s death.

It was a bit disappointing.

I wish I had time to say goodbye to Macadi or Oblan, but things turned out this way.

But when I thought about it, they weren’t people I would never see again.

In 2025, the dimensional gate connecting Earth and the Nas Continent will open.

At that time, I will be able to meet them without difficulty, and the two will naturally recognize me.

Of course, by then, I will undoubtedly be living a leisurely life in my retirement spot.

I will probably go over to the Nas Continent to meet Oblan and Macadi for a while and then return to be holed up on the island again.

“It was the most spectacular five months of my life. The life I will live from now on won’t be more colorful than this.”

I smiled and reviewed the past. It was a time when I ran forward without looking back.

In the early days of my regression, I ran like crazy to get stronger.

Recently, I gritted my teeth and ran to match Nicholas’s arrangements.

“Keu-ha.”

All my feelings were buried in this sigh.

Burnout.

It felt like I had burned everything white.

“Now I can prepare for retirement with peace of mind. Whew.”

A sigh of relief came out involuntarily.

Every time I prepared for retirement, I wondered if I was abandoning the future too irresponsibly.

Now was the time to eliminate all future troubles.

Four of the five apostles are dead, and Jang Dong-shik is no longer an apostle. He is my helper.

In addition, Reccerro, who plunged the Earth into the abyss of disaster in the future, was definitely killed.

Because I threw him into the huge underground fire of the altar.

By now, he is probably wandering around the afterlife and being tormented by the people he has killed.

If there is a god, if there is good and evil, I hoped that he would definitely fall into a fiery hell to suffer eternally.

Well, if I have to pay for my sins, I am willing to go next to him after I die.

“…….”

Just in case, I took out my smartphone and went to Nicholas’s SNS [Social Networking Service]. Just in case.

[Today, this place is a must-see for New Yorkers!

I want to talk about Michael Basset’s bakery!

What is the secret hidden in the bread that Michael makes?]

“Nicholas, you bastard, are you even trying to do a broadcast that you never had in your past life…… You’re doing all sorts of things, you bastard.”

I chuckled.

It’s really a move by a guy that doesn’t match Nicholas from my past life at all. Of course, I didn’t dislike it.

I guess.

Maybe not.

I thought that if I killed Reccerro and reversed the future, Nicholas might not regress either.

I guess that was just my delusion.

“It’s enough if he’s doing well, well. If Nicholas regresses, he might become a mastermind who interferes with my retirement.”

I chuckled at the absurd thought.

Yeah, this is good as it is now.

Perfect.

My mission is over.