Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 342

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The Turkey Hunt in the South

‘What on earth is going on…?’

Shaiella couldn’t understand the situation unfolding before her eyes.

She had always been assigned to various tasks outside the Sanctuary.

Especially without her kin noticing, avoiding the watchful eyes of her nagging brother, Ru, she would seek out the strong among various races or even demons, engaging them in battles and eliminating them discreetly.

Her position might be ‘high-ranking,’ but in terms of practical experience, Shaiella was confident that she could hold her own against even the highest-ranking Celestials [divine beings or angels].

Yet, even Shaiella found herself unable to grasp the current situation.

Clearly, what had flown before her eyes was nothing more than a gust of wind and a streak of moonlight.

Without exaggeration or understatement, that was all there was to it, but what followed revealed that it was not ‘all’ at all.

Splat!

Several Celestials flying right behind her were instantly torn apart in a shower of blood, scattering in all directions towards the dark night sea.

If Shaiella hadn’t narrowly avoided it, those pieces of flesh sinking into the dark sea might have been her.

“Everyone, get down to the ground!”

Shaiella shouted instinctively.

The full power of the Celestials cannot be unleashed in the air.

Even as descendants of light, only gods can freely roam the skies.

Otherwise, it was only easy prey for hideous monsters.

Whoosh!

But the opponent seemed to know this all too well, attacking again as if it were a joke.

It wasn’t magic, nor was it anything involving a great number of techniques.

As Shaiella saw it, the dark man in front was simply swinging his sword.

Each time the weapon flashed in the moonlight, drawing a clean arc, the surrounding mana [spiritual energy] surged, and then something indescribable rushed towards them with a terrifying force.

‘Wh-what!’

Just moments ago, the ground seemed within reach if they stopped flapping their wings, but now it felt so far away. Shaiella felt as if each minute and second stretched into decades.

Slash!

If only there had been screams, the fear might have been lessened.

She could have diluted the emotion by getting angry at the descendants of light for screaming so pathetically.

But all she heard was the sound of blood spurting and flesh and bone being cleanly severed.

There were no screams, not even the last breath or sigh as life slipped away.

This was, quite literally, a massacre by a cruel hunter.

“Kuh-ugh!”

Barely reaching the ground, Shaiella rolled across the floor without slowing down.

She had acted instinctively against the eerie energy aimed directly at her head, and instead, that energy sliced through the torso of a Celestial falling behind her.

“Sh-Shaiella-nim!”

“What on earth is…!”

The sound of landing on the ground was barely twenty.

In just a few attacks, half of the proud descendants of light, who numbered in the dozens, had been torn to pieces in the air without even a scream, reduced to fish food.

‘Everyone, run away!

Run!’

Shaiella wanted to turn around and shout.

She considered fleeing the most dishonorable thing, but that only applied to ‘battles.’

In a situation like this, where they were being hunted rather than fighting, she knew that holding out without running was the most foolish thing in the world.

However, the hunter who was hunting them had no intention of allowing even that.

“Ah.”

With a short sigh, the neck of a lower-ranking Celestial woman was cleanly severed.

As a fountain of blood spurted, it briefly obscured the vision with a red mist.

“Uh.”

Another sigh escaped as this time, a male Celestial’s waist was cut in half.

The lower-ranking Celestials, who were merely trying to deliver the judgment of light to the castle and city of Hispania from the night sky, could not detect the hunter’s movements at all.

The level is different, the class is different, the quality is different.

No matter how wide they opened their eyes and looked around, all they faced was the sensation of being powerless and collapsing with a burning sensation.

They could not even see the afterimage of the sword the man wielded.

“Stop it!”

Only Shaiella could somewhat hinder the hunter’s cruel hunt.

Noticing that the man’s attacks were focused on the lower-ranking Celestials who were likely to escape, she unfolded the spear she had received from Ru and chased after the hunter.

A struggle to save even one more of her kin.

However, as if mocking Shaiella, the hunter evaded her pursuit with fluid movements and steadily killed the Celestials who were struggling to escape.

Eventually, when the number of Celestials dwindled to single digits, the man subtly changed his course.

As if a cat playing with a mouse, he deliberately cut off their wings first, then their arms and legs one by one, until only a torso remained, rolling on the ground like a lump of meat.

“Aaaagh!

Uaaagh!”

Only after dozens of Celestials had died did screams finally erupt.

Piteous cries begging to be saved, saying it hurt too much.

But soon, those screams turned to silence with a chilling thud!

The moon had long hidden behind thick clouds as if foreseeing the current tragedy.

Moreover, it was an unusually dark night with no stars visible.

In that darkness, the Celestials were experiencing hell itself.

“Keureuk!”

With the last remaining Celestial spewing blood from his neck, the hunter’s movements ceased.

Hoping that she wouldn’t have to see any more cruel scenes, the moon finally peeked out, and Shaiella, who had been trying to grab the hunter’s ankle by any means possible, was finally able to identify the man who had been slaughtering the descendants of light.

“You are!”

She clearly remembered, how could she forget?

The man who, with a human body, had defeated her, who was said to be the best among the descendants of light and even among the high-ranking Celestials.

Her wings had been cut off, and her entire body was covered in bruises from being beaten.

She hadn’t even been careless, but even though she had been defeated so badly, Shaiella never felt anger.

Rather, she was just glad to have finally met a worthy opponent, a strong person worth defeating.

So, after that, Shaiella focused not only on healing her body but also on improving her skills.

To fight that human man again properly.

To educate that man in her own way!

‘I was sure that if I worked a little harder then, I could reach him….’

Something was wrong.

No matter how she thought about it, this situation was very, very wrong.

He was an unexpected strongman on the human side, but he was still human.

A weak race that aged quickly, got hurt quickly, died quickly, and became arrogant quickly.

Shaiella had no doubt that if she, a descendant of light, became stronger, she could subdue him with a little effort and have a pleasant education time.

It wasn’t a conclusion drawn from excessive confidence or arrogance.

At the time, even as her wings were being cut off and she was being beaten to a pulp, she had managed to gauge the opponent’s skills to some extent.

Even though the opponent was stronger now, she could close the gap between herself and that human man.

If she didn’t let her guard down, didn’t become arrogant, and put her heart and soul into education as she had always done, she could definitely defeat him!

“…What are you.”

Shaiella paused, took a breath, and opened her mouth, afraid that her voice might tremble with tension.

No matter how she thought about it, this was not a normal situation.

In front of her, who could be considered almost the strongest among the Celestials, except for the highest-ranking ones.

The man was mocking her as if to say, catch me if you can, while cutting down the other Celestials one by one.

Shaiella instinctively realized that there was not a shred of mercy in his actions.

A cruel hunter who was similar to her but also completely different.

No, that was far beyond the scope of a hunter.

To put it bluntly, the man in front of her was a monster. She had called him a monster before, but that was because he was a human who showed skills that humans could never show, but the feeling was completely different now.

‘A real monster that will chew up everything that gets in its way.

A terrifying monster that is worse than the demon bastards, one that everyone would believe if they said it came from hell.’

If she met that man, she would have a good time hitting and being hit by each other and talking.

And have a pleasant discussion about education.

That was Shaiella in the past, and the current Shaiella wanted to beat that crazy bitch from the past until dust came out on a rainy day to wake her up.

That monster was no longer someone she could do anything about.

She hadn’t even clashed with him yet, but Shaiella, who had been trained in actual combat, could sense that.

“Are you backing down without even fighting?

I wonder if you’re really the Celestial I saw before.”

But that monster hadn’t just become insanely strong in terms of brute force.

She didn’t know who he had been hanging around with, but his ability to provoke his opponents had also grown remarkably.

“Are you scared?

Are you frightened?

I thought you would laugh as your kin were being torn to pieces.

You were giggling even when your wings were being torn off and you were being beaten to a pulp back then.

Ah, perhaps your family is among them?

If so, I’m very sorry.

Tell me what they look like.

Maybe I can find you a few pieces.”

Even for a Celestial, there were provocations they could endure and provocations they couldn’t.

In that sense, bringing up family was definitely the latter.

“…Human!”

The reason she had barely been holding onto was combined with fear, tension, and anger, and finally snapped.

Watching Shaiella fly at him like lightning, Kim Yu-hyun exclaimed.

In just a few months, the opponent’s skills had grown so much that she could be called a different person.

Kim Yu-hyun thought that if he and that Celestial had fought back then, he would have had a hard time.

Of course, the current him had already far surpassed that woman.

Just as that woman said, he had long since returned to being a monster.

Thwack!

“Cough!”

Something welled up from her stomach and slowly rose up, eventually gushing out of her mouth.

Kim Yu-hyun’s sword didn’t move, and there was no trace of Shaiella’s blood on it, but she momentarily thought that the sword had pierced her torso.

The pain she felt in her stomach was as hot as if it were on fire, and it was an intense, twisting sensation.

Drip―.

Dark red, dead blood flowed from the woman’s mouth.

Evidence that her internal organs had been completely wrecked by just one attack.

“…”

Shaiella stared blankly at the sticky, dark red liquid on her hand.

She was used to battles, injuries were always common, and she had bled countless times.

But this was the first time that her insides had been completely messed up after being hit just once, and her body couldn’t handle it and spat out blood.

It was absurd, but she couldn’t believe it, but everything that was happening now was reality.

The corpses of the Celestials scattered around her and the stench of blood in the air were clear evidence of that.

“Ha.”

If she fought, she would definitely lose, and she would be brutally murdered like the other members of her race.

Thinking that, Shaiella felt her heart grow colder than ever.

She slowly released the strength from her body, which had been overly tense with all sorts of emotions, and poured breath into her burning heart to cool it down.

As the tense atmosphere that seemed about to explode subsided in an instant, Kim Yu-hyun inwardly exclaimed, impressed.

Even though she was an enemy, being driven into a situation where she absolutely couldn’t win like now, and even being provoked, maintaining her composure and preparing to fight was something that only a seasoned pragmatist could dream of doing.

“It’s a pity.”

“What’s a pity?”

“That I can’t tell you more about the greatness of our descendants of light and the joy of education.

It seems like my education will be over today.”

“That’s too bad.”

“…Instead.”

Shaiella slowly readjusted her spear and continued.

“Instead, I will educate you on how strong our descendants of light are.

I’m worried that you might think of us easily because you’ve massacred our kin, but from now on, I’m going to engrave in your head that the descendants of light are never easily defeated.”

She seemed to be saying something cool, but in the end, it meant that she had no intention of dying easily.

Kim Yu-hyun lowered his sword slightly as if to concede the first move, as if welcoming her to struggle even more, and stared at Shaiella.

The composure that only the strong could show, and Shaiella smiled and rushed towards Kim Yu-hyun with her shining spear without hesitation.

Thwaaaack!

And a sound several times louder than before echoed, and a moment later, the Celestial woman, who seemed to have completely lost consciousness and rolled her eyes, collapsed onto the ground.

The scene of her sprawled out and spewing red blood from her mouth and nose didn’t look very good, even for a Celestial.

Kim Yu-hyun sighed, fiddling with his hand.

‘Her body isn’t as strong as Ekaterina’s.’

He didn’t know it yet, but the recovery power and physical durability of a Yongin [Dragon Person] were superior to those of Celestials or Demons.

Kim Yu-hyun, who had been wielding his sword and throwing punches and kicks at that Yongin, was naturally swinging his fist according to that standard, but since the hardware was different from the start, it was perhaps natural for Shaiella to sprawl out like this.

‘She’s not dead yet.’

Kim Yu-hyun spun the sword in his hand and fell into thought.

He had been faithfully carrying out Zion’s order to kill all the pigeons [messengers or spies] trying to enter Hispania without knowing anything.

Originally, the situation was that he should kill this woman as well, but Kim Yu-hyun was currently in a dilemma.

―I’m sorry.

―No way?

―…I’m a little weak to motion sickness.

―

Even for Kim Yu-hyun, who ran around like crazy and used his lightness skill as if he was flying, the feeling of getting on a boat and taking the waves with his whole body was something he really didn’t want to experience again after Murim [a martial arts world].

As a result, Zion’s plan to wait on the ship and sink the enemy ship when it approached was changed to just waiting on the coastline and killing all those who tried to enter Hispania.

There was nothing particularly wrong with it, but Kim Yu-hyun was secretly feeling a little prideful and was worried that Zion’s plan was going in a strange direction because of him.

‘Now that things have come to this, should I interrogate the prisoner?’

Thinking about Zion, he was the kind of person who would praise him more for extracting as much useful information as possible from the enemy before killing them, rather than just killing them unconditionally.

Kim Yu-hyun, who had seen, heard, and learned so much while sticking with him, decided to try Zion’s way instead of his own style.

Drag―.

Kim Yu-hyun grabbed the ankle of the woman who had completely lost consciousness and dragged her away.