I’M A Max-Level Regressor [EN]: Chapter 202

202. Chapter 202

Of course, as of 2020, I am the only person in the world who can read the Mugang Continent language.

Earth and the Mugang Continent wouldn’t be connected until 2030, and until then, there was no connection between the two.

The problem was that the Mugang Continent language was written on the body of Agaut, an Orc from the Nas Continent.

This couldn’t have happened unless someone artificially wrote it.

First, I carefully removed the chest area of the armor and spread it out in front of me.

The inscription was hard to see because it was stained with Agaut’s sweat and blood.

Soon, the content came into view.

“……What is this nonsense? The guy I killed three times because of the Flower of Rebirth was a fake?”

I couldn’t believe it, but I had no choice but to trust the seriously written phrase.

However, the only disappointing thing was that there was no other content written other than this phrase.

I searched the dead Agaut’s entire body so thoroughly that it was embarrassing, but that was all that was left.

It was absurd.

Who on earth was trying to deliver a message in this way?

Right then.

I pondered over a word that stood out on the remaining message. It was ‘we’.

“Could it be, Nicholas?”

The scope of my thoughts expanded.

I, the Nine Lords, killed Lecherous. So, ‘we’ here must refer to the Nine Lords.

There is only one member of the Nine Lords who can send this kind of message. It’s Nicholas.

“……Damn it, what’s going on.”

I couldn’t help but swear.

As time goes by, I long for everything around me to be gradually resolved and untangled.

It’s like playing twenty questions, but instead, the question marks are just increasing.

Nicholas hasn’t even shown any signs of regressing yet, so what is this message all about?

“Did he send it from the future?”

Suddenly, that thought occurred to me.

Let’s put aside other random thoughts and assume that this message is 100% true.

Then, the fact that the Lecherous we killed was not the real Lecherous must have been discovered later.

Until I prevented the Great Disaster in 2052 and prepared for retirement, Nicholas and I believed that we had truly killed Lecherous.

In other words, it makes perfect sense if he is conveying a fact that I learned after regressing to the past.

“I feel like I’m going to lose my hair…….”

Just broadening the scope of my thinking slightly made my head throb.

I nervously grabbed my hair and pulled it out, and dozens of strands of hair were torn out at once.

“Don’t tell me there were many things we didn’t know. Please, Nicholas, I sincerely beg you. I want to retire.”

Believing that Nicholas was listening somewhere, I muttered while looking up at the sky.

The tearful words were sincere.

Work hard, make money, and increase my strength.

Save some of the people I regretted not being able to protect in my past life, and nurture them enough as talents!

I believed that if I did this much, my retirement plan would be as smooth as a sports car speeding down the highway.

But the reality is a gutter.

The increasingly tangled clues are making my head even more complicated.

The facts that I would rather not have known are coming to me so kindly. Damn it!

“…….”

First, I took Agaut’s will and armor.

It wasn’t 100%, but it seemed 99.9% certain that it was a message left by Nicholas.

Perhaps he left it in the Mugang Continent language.

It was to avoid the Nas Continent language or the Earth’s language, which could be interpreted in 2020.

Is he trying to send me a message?

Anyway, until now, I felt like I was the only one who had learned new facts.

Today was different.

I could feel Nicholas’s will to communicate with me now.

‘I need to be more wary of Michelle.’

I must bury what happened now. Perfect camouflage is essential so that not even the smallest clue remains.

Because of Agaut’s will, I had a reason to reach the boss monster in this dungeon.

Secret Dungeon.

True to its nickname, many secrets seemed to be hidden here.

[To resolve the rapid imbalance of dimensions, you will be forcibly returned to your original space in 5 minutes.]

[Starting the countdown.]

“5 minutes. So, for the remaining 300 seconds, I can go anywhere in the Nas Continent.”

As soon as I saw the notification window, I started sprinting north as fast as I could.

I didn’t know where this was, so I just ran.

Now that I’ve set foot on the land of the Nas Continent, I wanted to see any point of it.

From the fact that the surroundings were quiet even though I had a battle with Agaut, it was definitely not a downtown area.

As expected, even though I ran at a high speed of over 200km/h for more than a minute, there was no sign of people.

But.

“They came all the way here to abandon this statue. Well, it’s possible since it’s a mortal enemy to Lecherous’s Dark Order.”

There was a statue in the forest, broken, trampled, and covered with moss.

Jared von Yucales.

A hero known to have unified the entire Nas Continent 1000 years ago and became the emperor of the Krivia Empire.

According to the history of the Nas Continent that I studied in my previous life, he was revered almost as a god beyond a hero.

Anyway, he was honored as a hero of the continent for a long time.

But everything changed as Lecherous’s Dark Order, the ‘Lechnat Order’, took control of the entire continent.

The first thing they started was to deny the glory of the past.

In particular, they thoroughly insulted Jared, who had executed the ‘Demon King Lechnat’, the source of the Order’s founding.

They burned historical records, destroyed ruins and old imperial palaces, and demolished and discarded statues in remote areas.

One of them seemed to have been abandoned in the place where I am now.

“Even if I don’t know anything else, it’s certain that the land I’m treading on is the surface of the Nas Continent.”

It felt real.

I had never dreamed that I would set foot on the land of the Nas Continent in 2020.

But now it has become a reality.

“Nicholas, can’t you just regress and solve it yourself instead of suffering so hard? Is there a reason why you can’t?”

I looked up at the sky again and shouted. Why couldn’t he choose the fastest and easiest way?

“Should I just pretend I don’t know and live my life?”

I also had that thought.

Even if I don’t intervene, time will pass without much happening for the time being.

“Let’s think about it step by step.”

Knowing that there was no point in thinking about it in advance, I shook my head and shook off the complicated thoughts.

The bigger problem was how to deal with Michelle when I got back.

I need to consider whether to keep testing the waters until the end or go all out.

[5 minutes have passed and the return is in progress.]

Soon, I began to return to the battlefield of the Secret Dungeon, the space where I was originally.

The scenery of the Nas Continent, which I had become familiar with in a short time, quickly disappeared.

The background of the Secret Dungeon replaced the darkened space.

It was the battlefield I had returned to, keeping a secret that only I knew.

* * *

“Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere? What on earth happened?”

Michelle was the one who ran to Shin-hwa, worrying about him more closely than anyone else, contrary to expectations.

When Shin-hwa looked around, most of the Black Orcs had already been neatly dealt with.

This was because Toshio’s firepower had increased as Agaut disappeared.

Ordinary Black Orcs could not withstand the fierce storm of cold air sweeping through the vast battlefield.

Thanks to this, there were many corpses of Black Orcs who had frozen to death here and there.

“Agaut had isolation abilities. I was dragged into a dark space where I couldn’t see anything.”

Shin-hwa smiled and lied to Michelle with a calm expression.

Michelle knows that Agaut spoke the Nas Continent language.

That’s why she seemed very curious about whether there was any connection.

“What happened to Agaut?”

“He died. It was a complete brawl and dogfight, but anyway……. The spoils are a bit meager.”

Shin-hwa dusted off the dust on his shoulders and took out the Keldia Dagger and a few Dimension Stones from his subspace [a personal storage dimension].

The Keldia Dagger was obtained from the Black Zone in the Northern War a long time ago.

But because it was a weapon born in the Nas Continent, he took it out as if to show it off. For disguise.

He only took out a few of the highest-grade Dimension Stones that he had been storing in his subspace and showed them.

“Was there any clue as to why this happened?”

“I want to know the reason too, but unfortunately.”

Shin-hwa shook his head at Michelle’s question. His acting was so skillful that he admired himself.

“Anyway, I’m glad you returned safely. More than that, I took it for granted, but come to think of it, you eliminated an SSS+ rank boss monster?”

“I was lucky. Not to be humble, but I was really lucky.”

Shin-hwa waved his hand.

This battle ended earlier than expected because an unexpected gamble hit the mark.

Just because the opponent’s rank is high doesn’t mean the battle will be long, he thought happily.

“Let’s move forward again. I’m glad it worked out well.”

“If you don’t mind, can I take a look at the dagger I got from Agaut?”

“Of course.”

Shin-hwa immediately handed the Keldia Dagger to Michelle. It was a consistent item, so there was no room for suspicion.

Anyway, they started moving forward again like that.

And what happened with Agaut was buried as a secret known only to Shin-hwa.

* * *

30 minutes later.

“I think it would be better to explore this fork in the road separately. As you can see ahead, the forks eventually merge.”

“What’s the composition?”

“Would you like Shin-hwa and I to take the left side, and the two of you to take the right side?”

When the fork in the road that had been in sight appeared, Michelle suggested it first.

The proposal was to have Shin-hwa and Michelle form a team on the left side of the fork, and Toshio and Marina on the right side.

‘Oh ho.’

It didn’t seem like Michelle divided the teams without thinking.

The fact that she was using the ‘timely’ fork in the road to eliminate prying eyes was also plausible.

Toshio asked.

“What about Shin-hwa?”

“It would be easier for me to accompany Michelle-nim, who is a genius at reconnaissance. Isn’t it practically being carried? Haha.”

I joked.

Inwardly, I thought the time had finally come.

Maybe Michelle thought the same.

I was getting sick of watching and measuring this and that.

Even if nothing happened today, it seemed like we would be entangled in a bad relationship again someday.

Then!

The sooner the exorcism, the better.

10 minutes later.

When we had moved far enough away from Toshio and Marina and had entered deep into the fork in the road.

I casually spoke to Michelle, who was moving while keeping a proper distance.

“VVIP [Very Very Important Person], why are you coming all the way to a place like this to watch me?”