I’M A Max-Level Regressor [EN]: Chapter 216

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Early the next morning.

-Kheu-uh-uh…….

-Keoheo-uh-uh…….

I watched Shami and Chloe, sound asleep in the Cat Room I had made for them at considerable expense.

Chloe hadn’t really thought much about it, but somehow she ended up staying at our house every other day.

She was so clean and got along so well with Shami that I couldn’t help but feel like I had become half a butler.

I smiled as I watched the two of them sleeping with their white bellies exposed.

‘I guess the necklace made of the Flower of Divinity isn’t enough to completely undo the curse.’

It was a shame.

I had succeeded in lifting Lecherous’s ‘Great Curse’ on Shami with the necklace made of the Flower of Divinity.

In other words, Shami would not go berserk or become a seed of curse that would drive people crazy.

However, the ‘catification,’ classified as a minor curse—though it might be a bigger curse for Shami—remained.

This curse had to be lifted for Shami to return to her original form as a princess.

There was still no sign of any change or any indication that Shami herself felt anything.

Scratch, scratch. Rub, rub.

I took turns scratching the space between the eyebrows of the sleeping Shami and Chloe with my fingertips.

-Myth…… Uh-eum-nya.

“Shami, Chloe, thank you so much. I’m getting a lot of benefits from the dungeon I learned about thanks to you.”

-Eum-nya……. I like Myth, so I like it too……. Thank you always. For taking me in……. Keuheo.

“Is that sleep-talking, or are you talking?”

-Keuheo-uh-uh-uh…….

Judging by the way she was talking, it seemed like sleep-talking, but Shami’s words sounded quite touching today.

In any case, just looking at her sleeping soundly made me feel healed.

My meeting with Nicholas also left a deep impression, and I was very grateful for the time I had spent with him.

Starting tomorrow, he would be traveling all over Gangwon-do [a province in South Korea] for three nights and four days, which sounded like a lot of fun.

Five minutes later.

I took a sip of canned beer on the terrace, where I could see the city’s night view at a glance, and fell into thought.

It was a time to seriously organize my thoughts for the last time before I started to get really busy.

Once I started moving like crazy, I wouldn’t have time to think about my future plans.

“Keueu……. Let’s make one thing clear. I’m not going to worry about the Great Disaster scheduled for 2052 right now.”

I want to worry about the future after enough time has passed.

Even if Nicholas doesn’t regress, I think I can start preparing from about 2032. That’s still 20 years away.

In any case, I’m not going to follow in Nicholas’s footsteps, who was always preoccupied with worries about the Great Disaster right after his regression.

“There are only two cases of intervention this year. The ‘European-American Awakened Association’ dispute and the Russian cataclysm.”

Apart from these two cases, there were no incidents in which many talented Awakened died or were seriously injured.

Of course, there are major and minor issues around the world, but no important people will die in the future.

Who can say that one person’s life is more precious than another’s, but from the perspective of the ‘world’ as a whole, it is not a death that would have a significant impact.

I’m not saying that I should intervene and decide who lives and who dies out of excessive meddling.

In particular, in the case of issues involving Awakened in Latin America or Africa, even the distinction between good and evil is ambiguous.

Saving someone could lead to leaving the roots of a future villain.

So, the only two important events for me this year are these two.

And after that, until 2025, when the NAS continent is connected, there will be uneventful days without any major accidents.

“Then all that’s left are the four Apostles and Lecherous. It’s the clearest goal, but it’s also the most difficult opponent.”

I bit my lip.

Apostle Jang Dong-shik is not exactly an ally, but he is not exactly an enemy either, so he is excluded.

The remaining Apostles, Elijah, Ayla, and Livy, were bound to be formidable adversaries in one way or another.

Livy is the leader of the world criminal organization ‘Revengers,’ so touching him would be tantamount to declaring war on the entire Revengers.

The same goes for Elijah.

If I officially confront Elijah, the arrows of attack from the Elijah Group will be directed at me all at once.

And even if I were to deal with all the Apostles, I would still have to face the final boss, Lecherous.

[The Lecherous we killed was not the real Lecherous. The real one was somewhere else entirely.]

Even if I recall Nicholas’s message that the Lecherous we killed in our past life was not the Lecherous we knew.

The quest to find the real one could be added as a new mission.

“Lecherous, you damn son of a bitch. I’ve been disgusted by your face since I saw it in person in my past life.”

Whoosh!

A fist of fury tore through the air.

If I hadn’t kept my sanity, the entire balcony wall would have been blown away.

Anyway, to sum it up.

Intervene in two incidents.

Kill the Apostles and Lecherous.

This is the only way to fulfill Nicholas’s request to me and open the way for me to retire with peace of mind.

It seems simple, but it won’t be easy.

Of course, I don’t think Nicholas would have left me clues without a plan.

There must be a shortcut.

Rather, I believe that I will definitely create a divine move that will catch Lecherous off guard!

“I hope it’s all over this year.”

I’m already excited because I heard from Jin Bo-mi that it would be completed by the end of the year.

I shivered at the chilly spring cold that came in the early morning, and I turned on the TV as a habit.

And as always, I tuned in to the Awakened News channel.

But right then.

“Breaking news! We have just received a report that there was a clash between the American Awakened Association and the European Awakened Association 30 minutes ago!”

“What, already? It’s not time yet? It shouldn’t be until April 20th?”

I was startled.

The incident happened more than ten days ahead of schedule?

It’s a major incident.

Hundreds of talented Awakened on both sides died, and the incident later escalated into an international issue.

If the situation had unfolded without me being able to do anything, I would have been caught off guard.

“We are reporting the breaking news again because both sides immediately refrained from armed conflict and attempted to make emergency contact through a hotline!

And just now!

The spokespersons for the European and American Awakened Associations have officially announced that both sides have made ‘big’ concessions!”

“What? They made concessions? So, they’re not going to fight?”

I felt a tingling sensation in my head.

Because my expectations were shattered.

Am I embarrassed? Yes.

Do I think it’s ruined? Absolutely not.

Rather, the best-case scenario, where things are going too well, has arrived before me.

“I haven’t even intervened yet, but the all-out war between the American and European Awakened Associations has been averted!”

My fingertips trembled.

It wasn’t just because I was happy that there was less work to do, but because it felt like a truly meaningful turning point in my regression had occurred.

I held my breath and listened more carefully to the report. There might be something else.

“According to the agreement reached in the emergency meeting, the two sides have decided to divide the newly discovered dungeons according to the allocation of personnel in the joint expedition.

For the three EX-rank dungeons that are difficult to judge, they have decided to conduct a joint raid and then distribute the spoils in proportion.

Both sides’ spokespersons said that the big decision of Kenneth and Silas, the heads of the headquarters, to resolve the issue through dialogue before it escalated into a bigger problem was very effective.

As a result, the conflict between the two associations, which was on the verge of erupting, has been resolved amicably.”

“……I got away with it without lifting a finger.”

It really happened that way.

Originally, the ‘joint expedition’ claimed that it would have all the ownership of dozens of dungeons it had discovered.

Of course, it was impossible for the claim to monopolize the dungeons that had been discovered through cooperation to be accepted.

So, in my past life.

‘Now that this has happened, let’s just kill all the annoying bastards and monopolize the dungeons!’

An all-out war broke out on the spot, swept away by someone’s words. It was an accidental major incident.

But this time, that didn’t happen.

“Could it be……. Did killing the VVIP make things flow this way?”

I made a plausible guess.

The VVIP would have had many connections with the American and European Awakened Associations.

And it would have been possible for him to sow discord in the middle.

“I feel so good!”

There was no need for long words.

It was the moment when the third of the four major incidents of 2020 that had been giving me a headache disappeared.

I checked with Lee Ha-sung yesterday about the Great Light Insect Terrorist Plan that I had solved before, just in case, and he said that there was nothing wrong.

Hwa Kwang Industries has greatly increased the security level of the entire production process, making it almost impossible for Jin Geuk-myeong to have any influence.

“Then, if I can just stop the Russian cataclysm in June! My work within the Awakened System is done.”

So sweet.

That’s the word that best describes the current situation.

In fact, the all-out war between the two associations was the most difficult part to approach.

I couldn’t just follow them around for no reason, and it would be ridiculous to tell them not to fight before they fought.

It was an incident in which two groups that had been growling at each other suddenly fought accidentally, even though they had shown no signs of fighting.

It was difficult for me to intervene by grabbing a specific point.

So, while I was racking my brains for a way to approach the situation, it was resolved naturally like this. Like a Christmas present.

“That’s a huge profit.”

It felt like a much bigger benefit to me than the Happy Colas I had obtained this time.

This is because the incident in which talented prospects who could grow into promising talents in the future were killed in large numbers was resolved smoothly.

I should keep an eye on the news just in case, but there shouldn’t be any problems since both sides have made official announcements.

Even if there are future conflicts, they will be limited to sporadic small-scale conflicts. It is also an issue that has already been made public.

“Then there’s no need to delay any longer. I should head to America right away?”

I immediately thought of the Flower of Transcendence.

In the U-1224 dungeon managed by the Elijah Group, there is a Flower of Transcendence that I really want to get.

It is also the last remaining puzzle of brain modification, and it is also a dungeon that only I can raid at the moment.

This is because the U-1224 dungeon also has a concentrated fire zone like the Japanese Secret Dungeon.

This is a dungeon that Elijah ordered to stop raiding because he lost a large number of Awakened in the exploration process.

I can’t keep playing the role of a follower in front of the Apostles forever, and the day I break up with them is not far off.

In the future, Elijah and Ayla will ask me to participate in their evil deeds, but I have no intention of doing so.

But they won’t let go easily, so the only way to cut ties is for one of us to die.

“This time, I will secure all the means for me to grow from Elijah, including the Flower of Transcendence, and return.”