Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 376

Reversal

There were times when the character Kim Yu-hyun was so frustrating that readers occasionally forgot something.

Although the novel wasn’t exactly aiming for extreme, refreshing satisfaction, Kim Yu-hyun, the protagonist, was definitely an overpowered character.

Just look at that sword flying around next to Kim Yu-hyun.

In the Murim world [a world of martial arts and cultivation], the Sword Arts of Supreme Mastery was so astonishing that everyone who saw it was amazed.

Kim Yu-hyun had long since reached a level that most experts couldn’t even dream of, and he was using the Sword Arts of Supreme Mastery so freely.

And that’s not all.

What about the internal energy, the mana, that he wielded?

He wasn’t the protagonist for nothing; he wasn’t overpowered for nothing.

It was no joke that he had cleaned up the Demonic Cult with a single swing of his sword at the end of the Murim world.

“Hypocrites.”

Kim Yu-hyun had lost loved ones to those who called themselves the orthodox faction.

Naturally, he was burning with animosity towards those who were extremely pretentious and hypocritical, just like the Celestial Race.

“···!”

“··· ···!”

The commotion on the ground was more beautiful to Kim Yu-hyun than any music.

Because the scene he was about to show was the last thing they would remember in their lives, a scene from the hell he was gifting them.

Woo-oong.

The sword, filled with mana, made a grand sound.

As if eager to unleash its master’s anger on the enemies, as if wanting to go wild for the first time in a long time, it shook and urged Kim Yu-hyun fiercely.

“···.”

The longer scars etched into the earth were boundary lines only he could recognize.

He had personally wielded his sword to mark them, to prevent allies from being caught up in the attack.

Once he confirmed that they had crossed that boundary, Kim Yu-hyun no longer hesitated.

The sunlight reflected off the sword’s blade, shining eerily and shattering into fragments.

Kim Yu-hyun swung his sword for the first time towards the zealots who were blankly staring at him from below.

Clang!

The first thing the army of the Holy Prussen heard was a sound like glass breaking.

And immediately after, they were engulfed in light, with the last thought of their lives being that everything in front of them, the entire world, seemed to shine first in blue, and then in pure white.

Kugwagwagwa…

“···.”

Ril, who had been massacring the soldiers of Hispania and Nudia, couldn’t hide her bewilderment.

With a single swing of the sword in the air, a significant number of the Holy Prussen army waiting behind had simply disappeared.

Without even a scream, without even a single drop of blood.

Literally, they had all turned to clean ash.

“Wh, what…”

But the suffering of the Holy Prussen and the Celestial Race was just beginning.

The moment he dropped to the ground and plunged the fearsome sword into the earth, all the Holy Prussen soldiers in the area were caught in the shock and scattered in all directions.

Some exploded on the spot, and others had parts of their bodies burst into blue flames, but they weren’t even aware that their bodies were burning.

Their minds and bodies were unable to rationally process the situation.

Whoosh.

Kim Yu-hyun slowly rose to his feet, created a massive mana storm in the area, and pointed with one hand towards the enemies who were pushing into the formations of Hispania and Nudia, while drawing his sword with the other.

…Swae-aek!—

Then, a sword in the air slowly turned its tip towards them, as if it were alive.

Soon, it flew through the wind as it had when it first appeared, and began to pierce and kill all the soldiers of the Holy Prussen.

Thud!

Thwack!

“Ugh!”

“Kuaaaagh!”

No matter how thick their armor, no matter how well they wielded mana, it was useless.

Whether the opponent was human, fairy, or even Celestial Race, the sword indiscriminately pierced them, creating a storm of blood in the area.

“Waaaaa!”

“Sir Kim Yu-hyun!

Sir Kim Yu-hyun!”

“The kingdom’s sword has arrived!”

“Push forward!”

The soldiers knew that this was the time to raise their spears and swords against the enemies.

They pushed back the Holy Prussen army, the zealots of light, who had been fiercely pressing them, driving them beyond the line Kim Yu-hyun had created.

“Wh, what is this!

Kugh!

Kyak!”

The higher-ranking Celestial Race, who had been fighting Zanne and Rishikida, couldn’t concentrate on the battle because of the unidentified sword that was eerily targeting their necks or hearts.

They couldn’t understand how the sword was moving on its own without anyone wielding it, and the sword was flying in to exploit the gaps whenever Zanne and Rishikida attacked, as if it had a mind of its own. Conversely, when they attacked the two women, it deliberately made obvious attacks to hold them back.

As a result, they couldn’t figure out what to do.

The mid-ranking Celestial Race, who had been supporting them until just now, had long been beheaded and pierced through the heart by the sword.

They were only able to endure this much because they were higher-ranking Celestial Race; otherwise, they would have collapsed in the same way as their comrades, spilling blood.

Whoong!

Woong!

However, the sword made a strange sound, as if mocking the Celestial Race’s resistance.

As if telling them to struggle more, as if to make its master and itself more entertained.

“Kuaaaagh!”

Realizing that they would be cornered and hunted like beasts if they continued like this, they braced themselves for a blow to the back and thrust their attack towards the sword flying towards them.

They thought that if they could withstand the attack just once or twice, they could break the sword and escape from this place.

Woong.

If Kim Yu-hyun’s Sword Arts of Supreme Mastery could speak, it would have said this:

You moron.

‘Ah?’

The sword, which had been flying as fast as they were, suddenly changed direction.

As if proving that it had intended to do this from the beginning, it gracefully changed its course and began to literally skewer the soldiers of the Holy Prussen.

‘C, crazy…’

It was shocking to be deceived by a mere sword, not even a living creature.

They let out a short sigh at the tragedy that would follow and sensed their end.

Thwack!

Thud!

Pshwiiik!—

Two swords pierced through their back and out through their chest.

Red blood gushed out from there, creating a faint blood mist that gradually disappeared.

The higher-ranking Celestial Race, who had believed that they would naturally judge the sinners who were rushing into this battlefield without knowing their place, could only make a gasping sound without even screaming.

“I stabbed the heart, Rishikida.”

“That’s right.

But whether you stab the heart or the lungs, you die anyway.

So…”

“So, the score is tied?”

Zanne said with a brighter smile than ever before, even though they were a mess.

Rishikida nodded as if it were obvious.

“When I first met you, you seemed as rigid and inflexible as any knight of the kingdom, but has Sion influenced you?

You’ve become quite an interesting woman now, haven’t you?”

“Thank you for the compliment.

I’m trying to become a knight worthy of the most precious master in the world.”

“That doesn’t sound sincere, does it?

It doesn’t sound like you just want to be a ‘knight’.”

Puhwak!

Zanne said that and mercilessly pulled out the sword that was stuck in the higher-ranking Celestial Race’s torso.

Rishikida also retrieved the sword that had completely torn apart the opponent’s lungs.

Pshwish…

With the sound of air and blood gushing out, the Celestial Race collapsed forward.

Zanne, who let out a sigh, looked around.

The formation, which had been a mess and on the verge of collapse, had been restored at some point. Inside the boundary created by a single sword strike, a sword was flying around like crazy, and beyond that, it was possible thanks to a man who was rampaging and literally massacring, to the point where the word ‘monster’ was not enough to describe him.

“…Honestly, it’s a bit embarrassing to say this.”

Zanne, who couldn’t understand Kim Yu-hyun’s majesty with her eyes, her mind, or her skills, muttered as if she had forgotten that this was a battlefield.

“I wonder how I survived when I crossed swords with that man before.”

“You’re not the only one, Zanne.”

“You too?”

“Yes.

I even had an enemy who gave up defending and rushed at me as if asking to be killed.

I thought that Sir Kim Yu-hyun was watching over me at that moment, but I didn’t know it would be to this extent.

That’s…”

How did they survive?

Zanne and Rishikida took a breath while thinking about that and went back to the center of the battlefield.

Unlike Hispania and Nudia, who had found some breathing room, the Holy Prussen side, who had been rushing in excitedly, was in a state of chaos.

Until just now, they had been solidifying their victory, but suddenly a human man fell from the sky and was literally causing a ‘disaster’.

“N, no way!

Wh, what is that!”

The Holy Prussen’s paladins and soldiers were the ones who had remained unshaken, chanting the will of light even in the moment when Sion struck them and they were defeated.

They were so firm in their misguided beliefs that they could be called zealots.

Even for those soldiers of the Holy Prussen, the scene unfolding before their eyes was beyond the scope of perception that ordinary people could accept.

“Ah ah…!”

Even screaming was not allowed.

It wasn’t even that the sword was swung right in front of them, but once a blue flash flickered, their lives were cut off without them even realizing it, and they simply collapsed.

It wasn’t just the soldiers of the Holy Prussen who were afraid.

The fairies, who regarded humans as mere inferior beings, and even the Celestial Race, who were more passionate than anyone else in completing their tasks.

All of them had become terrified beasts in front of the monster called Kim Yu-hyun.

I will kill you all.

The mid-ranking Celestial Race couldn’t even move from their spots, as if the anger and murderous intent were striking down like lightning right in front of them.

The few higher-ranking Celestial Race tried to encourage them, but it was useless.

Only they, the higher-ranking Celestial Race, and the extreme zealots who believed in the light very firmly in a bad way, were able to come to their senses and shout the light in the face of a situation that could only be understood as a transcendent existence.

‘This won’t do.

If we continue like this, we’ll all be massacred by that unidentified human!’

The highest-ranking Celestial Race, Ril, had not yet returned from being defeated by Sion’s attack, and Sha, who had participated in the battle, shook her head at Ril’s cruelty in the previous battle and was taking care of the wounded instead of participating in this battle.

She would fly in with reinforcements as soon as she heard the news, but the higher-ranking Celestial Race, Kiriel, who sensed that everything would be swept away by that man before that, decided to be prepared to die.

If she could somehow block that man and inflict even a small wound, she would be able to instill the will of light back into those who had completely lost their minds, and if she did, she thought that even if defeat was inevitable, they could avoid annihilation.

The moment Kiriel, who had finished thinking, drew two swords and tried to fly towards Kim Yu-hyun.

‘Ah?’

Suddenly, Kiriel felt something plunging down from the sky and aiming directly at her, and almost reflexively crossed her two swords to barely block a spear that was flying towards her neck.

Surprised by the unexpected attack, she checked the identity of the one who had ambushed her.

“…Ah, ah?”

She couldn’t control her trembling voice and let out a sigh.

The one who had unleashed a murderous attack on Kiriel was a woman she knew well.

The same glamorous appearance as herself, and the pure white wings on her back, were proof that everyone was Celestial Race.

“Sha, Shaiel?”

“Hello, Kiriel.

Long time no see.”

The voice, the appearance, and the tingling power that was transmitted from the sword to her hand were all clearly Shaiel that Kiriel knew.

The younger sister of the highest-ranking Celestial Race ‘Ru’, and the most outstanding Celestial Race among the higher-ranking Celestial Race, had disappeared in southern Hispania a while ago, causing her brother a lot of grief, but suddenly appeared here, on the battlefield of Nudia.

Kaga-gak!—

Kiriel, realizing that she was being pushed back little by little as sparks flew, desperately used all her strength to push Shaiel’s attack to the side.

Immediately after, she quickly distanced herself and looked at Shaiel, who was staring at her with sparkling eyes, and shouted in a hurried voice.

“Wh, why are you!

What are you doing, Shaiel!

Why, why me!”

“Ah ah.

Don’t be like that.

Everyone is doing that, aren’t they?

The Celestial Race are fighting for the task, and the followers are fighting for those Celestial Race.

And I was fighting for education.

Then, now I have a personal reason, so I’m fighting you.

That’s all.”

“What are you talking about… what nonsense!

Don’t joke around; we have to do something about that man, that man…”

Kiriel had to stop talking and desperately twist her body in alarm.

If she had been even a little late, her neck would have been half-cut off, and she gritted her teeth in dismay, having almost been killed by a colleague who had been fighting together to complete the task until recently.

“Don’t covet him.

I’ll kill you.”

“Shaiel!”

“He’s mine.

Only I can do that.

Only I can be tormented by that man.

You guys don’t have the right to suffer at that man’s hands.

Don’t even imagine it, because I’ll kill you all before that.”

‘Crazy woman!’

That was the word that came to Kiriel’s mind.

Honestly, it was already incomprehensible enough to torment other strong people to the point of death while talking about education, but why was she suddenly changing her mind and saying nonsense about wanting to be tormented!

“How much did Lord Ru cherish you!

Are you betraying the expectations of the person who even gave you that spear?”

“…This?”

Shaiel looked at the spear in her hand for a moment and nodded.

Then, without a moment’s hesitation, she threw Ru’s spear far away.

“Sha, Shaiel!”

“Take it.

And tell my brother.

I’ve found my own reason, so please stop telling me that I have to complete the task.

Tell him this is proof of my words.

Ah, wait.”

Shaiel, who clapped her hands lightly as if she had forgotten something and smiled, picked up a soldier’s spear that was lying around.

Then, she turned the end of it towards her former colleague and opened her mouth with a bright expression.

“Come to think of it, I can’t tell my brother my words, can I?”

“…?”

“Because your neck will be cut off by my hand.”

She thought she was an S [sadist], but it turned out she was an M [masochist], and it was a one-person coup by a Celestial Race who had awakened to that tendency thanks to someone.