Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 377

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Counterattack

‘Damn it, I can’t let this go on any longer.’

Believing in the superiority of the celestials, Lil swung her iron club, determined to crush their enemies completely. She gritted her teeth and spread her wings.

The unidentified man was still wreaking havoc among their allies, and her superior and mid-tier celestials seemed to have been killed, or were nowhere to be seen.

She had hoped that other superior celestials like Kiriel would either capture the man or at least buy some time, but Kiriel had also disappeared.

Unable to bear it any longer, Lil finally turned to confront him herself.

Since the current disastrous situation was all caused by that man, she thought that eliminating him might shift the momentum back in their favor.

‘He’s strong!’

He was not a demon, nor a beastman, nor a fairy, nor a dragonkin.

And certainly not a celestial like herself.

The man’s identity was human, just a human, one of the very humans they had looked down upon.

A mere human, a lowly human, slaughtering the sacred Prussen army, fairies, and even celestials without discrimination, evoked both fear and awe in those who witnessed it.

“Hoo!”

Lil swung the iron club in her hand with all her might.

While the man was focused on the allies in front of him, she aimed to exploit the opening and inflict a critical blow.

However, what followed left her blurting out in astonishment.

“What?”

Clang!―

Without even looking at Lil, he continued to wield his sword, slaughtering enemies, while casually reaching out and striking the head of the iron club.

The fist, made of flesh, blood, and bone, struck the head of the iron club, which was larger than a human head. Yet, instead of the man’s hand being torn apart, the iron club lost its force and bent in a strange direction.

‘Wh, what kind of human is that!’

The shock reverberated through her hand, causing Lil to tighten her briefly relaxed mind with tension before rushing towards the man before her, Kim Yu-hyun.

Knowing that the enemy was far stronger than she had anticipated, she now had to risk her life and do her best, which, in a way, was better for clearing her head.

“Human!”

“…You seem a bit different.”

The man, who had shown no signs of fatigue despite slaughtering so many, turned towards Lil with a faint smile.

At that moment, Lil experienced a sensation she had never felt before.

A chilling shiver ran down her spine, and she was seized by the illusion that death was standing before her, mouth agape.

“Good.

I was wondering what I was even doing.”

Kim Yu-hyun gently swung his sword, nodding as if he was quite satisfied with his new opponent.

His sword, which had slain hundreds, no, nearly thousands of enemies, was still without a single drop of blood.

Watching this, Lil once again realized that her opponent was stronger and more terrifying than any enemy she had ever faced.

To give such an opponent the initiative was nothing short of suicide.

Without hesitation, Lil swung her iron club, trying to smash his head in one blow.

‘Now that it’s come to this, I can’t give him any distance.

He’s still a living being, so if he suffers a critical injury, he’ll have trouble moving and will eventually die!

I’ll aim for one, just one opening!’

Whoosh!

Woo-oong!

A sound that sent shivers down the spine just by hearing it.

The massive iron club cut through the air, circling around to land a single, effective hit.

Kim Yu-hyun watched this, slowly erasing the smile from his lips.

The enemy was strong, of course.

But if asked if he was at a disadvantage, that was not the case.

He was simply contemplating.

How should he kill her to quell this still-raging anger? Should he tear her apart, explode her, split her in half, or perhaps turn her to dust?

Whoosh!―

As if exploiting Kim Yu-hyun’s moment of contemplation, Lil’s iron club flew straight towards his head.

As if expecting it, he lightly dodged it and was about to close the distance to get rid of this troublesome iron club when another attack thwarted his plan.

“···.”

Kim Yu-hyun had never faced an opponent who wielded such heavy weapons, one in each hand.

Most of the formidable adversaries he had encountered in the Murim world [a world of martial arts and warriors] always wielded only one weapon, be it a sword, a spear, or a saber.

Of course, some used quite unique weapons, but he could confidently say that none wielded such ridiculously large weapons.

The power was certain, but the openings were also clear, and the distance was so long that the opponent could exploit the gaps to lure him in.

Above all, for those who saw their weapon not merely as a tool but as a companion that perfectly compensated for their small flaws, an unwieldy weapon was nothing more than a burden.

‘First Form.’

Kim Yu-hyun, who had been evading Lil’s attacks, suddenly stopped in his tracks.

He positioned his sword in the center, right in front of his eyes, and gazed at Lil, who was swinging her iron club at him from afar.

‘What is he doing?’

Lil, taken aback by Kim Yu-hyun’s unexpected behavior, subtly twisted her wrist, diverting the attacks heading towards him slightly backward.

If an opponent who had been dodging her attacks all along suddenly reacted like that, anyone would naturally become suspicious.

Lil hesitated for a moment, then realized that dragging things out would only put her at a disadvantage.

Whether it was a trap or not, she had no time, and even less of a choice.

Thwoom!

Whoosh!

If the opponent wasn’t moving and simply standing still, she could aim well enough.

If he wasn’t planning to move, he shouldn’t move at all.

She would aim beautifully for his head and turn it into mush without giving him a chance to block or dodge.

As Lil thought this and the iron club flew accurately towards the opponent’s head, the sword in Kim Yu-hyun’s hand moved very slowly.

‘Oh.’

It wasn’t a grand motion or a flashy swordsmanship.

Kim Yu-hyun swung his sword with a slightly awkward movement, as if a young boy was holding a real sword for the first time, marveling at it and struggling with its weight.

Thwoo-oong―.

In that instant, Lil suddenly felt as if her body was floating.

Even though she was wielding a heavy weapon that ordinary humans wouldn’t even dare to think of swinging, she suddenly soared upwards as if caught in a massive storm.

“Ah?”

Finally, she realized why she was suddenly shooting into the air.

The moment that thin sword lightly struck her iron club, the massive iron ball instantly flew into the air, taking her along with it.

Gnashing her teeth, Lil once again tightened her grip on the iron club, pulling it towards her.

At the same time, she spread out the several pairs of wings she had neatly folded away, securing her position in the air.

The reason Lil insisted on using the iron club among other weapons was precisely that.

It was a difficult weapon to handle on the ground, but when swung from above, it became more terrifying than any other weapon in the world.

Looking down from above was far more helpful in grasping and predicting the enemy’s movements than simply looking from the front.

Furthermore, if she bound the enemy’s feet with magic and then struck down properly, the situation would be over.

“Die!”

Woo-oong!

Thud!

A massive crater formed where the iron club struck.

Lil continued her attacks, constantly moving her position to prevent Kim Yu-hyun from counterattacking recklessly or evading from afar.

Not just attacks coming from the front, but iron clubs coming from above, below, and both sides.

Moreover, the opponent was clearly looking down on her movements, so others might have considered it a considerable disadvantage.

However, Kim Yu-hyun thought this method was rather better.

Although it wasn’t very high, the fact that the opponent had clearly gone up into the air allowed him to move on to the next form without much worry.

‘Fourth Form.’

Evading Lil’s attacks with ease, Kim Yu-hyun aimed at Lil, who was flapping her wings above.

Soon, a translucent blue energy flickered at the tip of his sword, and before the opponent could even notice, it shot straight up.

‘Sever.’

Swish!―

By the time Lil realized Kim Yu-hyun’s attack, it was too late to react.

A time gap had occurred as she was retracting her iron club, and Kim Yu-hyun’s attack was far too fast.

Especially with the weapons and armor gleaming in the afternoon sunlight, Lil was late in realizing that one of them was flying towards her.

Thwack!―

“Kuh-uck?”

With a burning sensation in her shoulder, Lil dropped one of her iron clubs.

Following that, all sensation disappeared from one of her wings, and she fell straight to the ground.

No matter how hard she tried to move her wings or use her arms, it wouldn’t work.

‘Th, this is ridiculous!’

The wound wasn’t deep.

It was only about the size of an arrow piercing through, but for some reason, not only was it not healing, but all sensation had disappeared.

As if it had been completely scorched from the inside, destroying everything, Lil bit her lip until it bled from the indescribable pain and glared at Kim Yu-hyun, who was watching her from afar.

‘I’ve got her.’

Confirming that his attack had hit the opponent, Kim Yu-hyun hastened to finish.

Strong, but not a threat to him alone.

But if left alive, she would become a more terrifying presence to others than any other enemy.

Therefore, Kim Yu-hyun thought it best to eliminate her as quickly as possible to remove the danger itself.

“Kuh-uck···.”

The pain didn’t subside but grew increasingly worse.

Lil tore off a piece of her clothing to examine her wound.

Blood was flowing, but the bleeding wasn’t significant.

However, the surrounding area was already turning black and necrotic, as if the blood wasn’t circulating.

‘What, what is this…!’

Lil didn’t know, but Kim Yu-hyun had perfectly mastered the simplest and most effective method of subduing the strong in this world.

A method that had worked very well even in the Murim world: completely disrupting the opponent’s internal energy or mana circulation, making it impossible for them to even move.

The principle was to concentrate his power on one point, create an ‘entrance’ in the opponent’s body, then penetrate inside to block the internal pathways and cause an overload.

It didn’t need to last permanently.

Even if it only lasted for a few minutes, any strong person would eventually become an ordinary being, driven here and there, meeting a miserable end.

‘I was going to use it on the Murim Alliance guys, but I didn’t expect to use it on the celestials.’

Kim Yu-hyun thought that although they were from different worlds and different beings, they were amusingly similar.

All of them loudly proclaiming that they were clean and righteous.

Trash who morally claimed they were right, yet committed all sorts of atrocities behind the scenes.

If he had to find a difference, it would be that the celestials were more beautiful than the Murim Alliance guys.

He could summarize it to this extent.

‘Kim Yu-hyun?

When did you arrive?’

‘Just now.

But… Eos?

Why is your leg…’

‘It’s nothing.

I just grazed it with an arrow.’

A lie.

It was clearly a lie.

Otherwise, there was no way she wouldn’t be on the battlefield.

Even now, she was having trouble walking, so there was no way her injury could be minor.

‘More importantly, go quickly.

The battle should be in full swing by now.

There’s a strong person in the enemy camp that no one expected, and we’ve had to pay a heavy price because of them.’

‘···.’

An unexpected strong person, huh.

That was the problem.

That was what was making my precious people get hurt and die again.

“Eighth Form.”

It might be unfair.

To be honest, the celestials hadn’t directly harmed Kim Yu-hyun.

However, the tragedy for them was that they had treated Zion hostilely.

And that Zion had been manipulating everything from the start.

“Knot.”

The moment Kim Yu-hyun took a step, the distance closed in an instant.

Even Lil, as a top-tier celestial, could only describe that time as a blink of an eye.

With the paralysis that had started in one shoulder and wing still spreading throughout her body, making it difficult to even move, the execution that Kim Yu-hyun personally delivered was unavoidable.

‘Ah.’

Although she couldn’t properly see the opponent’s movements, Lil, as one of the strongest of the celestial race, had an excellent instinct and could feel it.

That flash of light shooting towards her was the coldest and most brutal light in the world, determining her end.

“···Hmm?”

Suddenly, Kim Yu-hyun twitched an eyebrow.

He felt a presence rushing towards this form without fear, and he wondered if it was strong enough to stand before him, so he completed the ‘Knot’ as it was.

Kwaaaang!

Slash!

The sound of something heavy colliding and being cut off at the same time.

And following that, the sound of liquid splattering in all directions reached Lil’s ears.

When something warm splattered on her face, Lil finally understood what had happened.

“Sha!”

Another woman, the top-tier celestial ‘Sha,’ staggered backward.

She had apparently flown urgently from the camp upon hearing the news that the sacred Prussen army was being utterly defeated and massacred, and she was currently as shocked as Lil.

‘No way…

I took a perfect defensive stance… How?’

Blood gushed from her chest, which had been split open.

The shield, cleanly cut in half, shattered and fell to the ground a moment later, and Sha trembled and collapsed in place.

“Sha!

Get a grip, Sha!”

“···.”

Kim Yu-hyun frowned slightly as he watched the crumbling woman.

The opponent hadn’t rushed towards him without thinking.

He immediately turned around and split the magical attack that was flying towards his back in one strike.

Kwang!―

“Lil!

Take care of Sha and retreat!”

In that gap, another top-tier celestial, Hon, shouted at the two women.

Lil immediately hugged Sha and spread her wings, which were just beginning to recover from the paralysis, and immediately took off into the air.

Kim Yu-hyun wanted to eliminate those two celestials on the spot, but he was once again stopped by the magic that Hon unleashed in the air.

“Hon!

What about the others···.”

“It’s Cha’s order.

Retreat immediately!

This is beyond our expectations; if we lose more here, we’ll never be able to recover.

We can gather the fragments anytime.

But not the chunks.”

At Hon’s words, Lil nodded as if understanding and turned to leave diligently.

Kim Yu-hyun stared intently at that sight, aimed his sword at Hon, and opened his mouth.

“Those things like light and justice are truly pathetic.”

“Shut up, human.

You better be prepared.

The eight rays of light will soon come to judge you personally!”

“The eight rays of light.

I guess that’s what you’re referring to, but it’s a shame.

When we meet later, it seems like it’ll be six rays instead of eight.”

“What are you···.”

Swoosh!―

Only then did Hon realize the existence that was rushing past him at an incredible speed, heading towards Lil, who was diligently flapping her wings.

He desperately opened his mouth to warn her, but Kim Yu-hyun’s sword technique was already far ahead of his words, far faster, and far sharper.

Thwack!

“···Ah?”

With a short exclamation, Lil looked down at her chest.

A blue blade was reflecting the sunlight and sparkling, and red blood was gushing from it.

The speed of her wing flapping gradually slowed, and the vitality in the woman’s eyes gradually disappeared, and soon Lil began to fall with Sha still in her arms.

―――――――Author’s Afterword―――――――

I was originally going to write it as soon as I got home and do a double update, but

As I mentioned in the notice, I was busy making corrections thanks to something….

I would like to reiterate that all female characters appearing in the story are adults.

I would like to inform you that Trisha has been revised to be exactly twenty years old.

I have been diligently searching for and correcting parts that were expressed as not being adults yet, but there may be parts that I missed and could not correct, so if anyone finds that part, please let me know….