Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 384

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Not yet!

Kim Yu-hyeon’s Sword Arts faithfully carried out his commands.

With the intent to slaughter those trying to escape, it unleashed a flash of light and flew, shattering the woman’s heart in one blow.

Even a member of the Celestial Race couldn’t withstand such extreme damage, and in the end, Rill crumbled, becoming scattered light first.

“…”

Sha, barely holding onto her consciousness, could only watch the sword that emerged from Rill’s chest, unable to do anything.

Although their personalities often clashed due to their differences, they were still top-tier Celestials who had joined forces to complete their race’s mission.

Her comrade’s life was fading before her eyes, her vitality gradually disappearing.

The wings that had been moving busily stopped at some point and began to fall.

‘Rill.’

Calling out the name of her now lifeless comrade, Sha lost consciousness, or rather, that was all she remembered.

But when she woke up, she was staring at what seemed to be the ceiling of a barracks.

Was she lucky enough to be rescued by the soldiers of the Holy Prussen, the fairies, or even her own race?

Or was she seeing some kind of illusion as she fell, already dead?

Or perhaps, she was now…

“You’re awake, Sha.”

“…Ah?”

A familiar voice, a very familiar voice.

A top-tier Celestial who, like herself, didn’t appreciate the excessive use of power, Ru.

While she was talking with him, there was a woman by his side.

A high-ranking Celestial, Ru’s younger sister, who, despite her position, always wished to fight on the front lines.

“Sha, Shaiella?”

As Sha reflexively tried to get up, she widened her eyes.

An indescribable pain pierced her entire body, and her vision turned white as if she would lose consciousness at any moment.

“Ugh…!”

Unable to even scream, Sha could only groan in agony, unable to move.

Barely following her senses, she confirmed that the source was near her chest and realized that the wound she had suffered when struck by the unidentified man was still a problem.

‘Human… it definitely looked like a human. To be attacked by a human, and to have the healing be so slow.’

Though not as much as Dragonkin, Celestials also had a knack for self-healing.

Even Shaiella in front of her had her wings cut off, but before long, new wings had grown, fluttering her beautiful wings as if nothing had happened.

“Sha, Shaiella.

How… how are you…”

“I’m fine.

As you can see.”

Shaiella had suddenly disappeared while carrying out her mission in the South.

Lower and mid-tier Celestials thought it ominous that she, a powerful figure even among the high-ranking Celestials, had disappeared, and Ru was trying hard to hide his anxiety over his sister’s disappearance.

But when the person in question appeared before her, looking perfectly fine, Sha couldn’t help but be surprised and bewildered.

“He, here… perhaps?”

“If you’re thinking of the Holy Prussen side, or the Sanctuary, I’m sorry to disappoint you, but no.”

“No…?”

At Sha’s reaction, Shaiella subtly rose from her seat and moved out of her sight.

Then, Sha was finally able to see Kim Yu-hyeon, who had been watching them from behind.

“Yo, you!”

“You survived.

You should have died instantly, but I guess being a top-tier Celestial means you have excellent recovery.”

From Sha’s perspective, it might seem like mockery, but Kim Yu-hyeon was genuinely impressed.

He had never seen anyone survive his attack head-on.

Of course, the Eighth Form wasn’t the best martial art he could perform, but even in the Murim [martial arts world] where strong people were abundant, everyone’s face turned pale when forming a connection.

In that sense, the fact that she had survived in a situation where she knew nothing, and had faced it head-on, was quite surprising to him, even though she had defended herself.

‘I can see why Lilith told me to be so careful about the top-tier Celestials.’

He had met a total of three top-tier Celestials this time.

However, he hadn’t faced all three at once, but had faced one separately and was about to kill them when another intervened and incapacitated him, and then, with the help of the other, he had managed to kill the first opponent before leaving the scene.

If the three of them had rushed in at the same time and attacked together from the beginning, wouldn’t the situation have changed a bit? Kim Yu-hyeon thought, warning himself to tighten his grip again.

“Sha, Shaiella.

Why is that man here!

Don’t tell me… were you captured too?”

“Yes?

Ah… yes, you could say that.”

Sha bit her lip at Shaiella’s answer.

It was clear that Sha, who remained a high-ranking Celestial, would not have been able to face such a strong person.

Even she, a top-tier Celestial, had failed to block his attack and suffered a fatal wound that threatened her life.

Furthermore, Rill, also a top-tier Celestial, had been stabbed in the heart by an inexplicable sword movement and had died.

“Shaiella.

Did you roughly explain the situation to that woman?”

“Ah, I’m sorry, Yu-hyeon. I was just about to start.”

“…Huh?”

What was that supposed to mean?

Situation explanation?

No, more than that, why was Shaiella doing such a thing, of all people?

“Listen carefully, Sha. First of all, I was defeated by Yu-hyeon over there, and I was captured.”

“In the South… in the South? But how did you get here in such a short time…?”

“Because he’s skilled enough to do so. Anyway, I’ve decided to follow him from now on, not the light. I was captured, but staying is my own decision.”

“Wh, what are you saying?”

It was unbelievable, a foolish thing.

Who was Shaiella!

Ru’s younger sister and a central figure even among the high-ranking Celestials.

Above all, she was a faithful being who enjoyed personally teaching those who did not believe in the light.

So much so that she had been honored by Ru, not just because she was his blood relative, but because she had been recognized for her contributions and had even received his spear!

“Foolish, foolish talk!

Shaiella, why!

How can you so confidently say that you have betrayed your race, your blood, the light!”

“It’s simple. Brother and Sha, you are the kind of people who fight for something and are willing to sacrifice, so shouldn’t I be able to do that for what I want?”

“It’s different!

We only fight for missions, for duty, for truth!

We absolutely do not fight to satisfy personal desires or selfish interests!”

“Is that so? In my opinion, I don’t see much difference between me and you.”

“Ru was worried about your strange heart, but he said that he wouldn’t worry too much because you were a noble descendant of the light!

Are you planning to disappoint your brother!”

“Brother will understand me. And, if he’s disappointed, it can’t be helped. I’ve already made up my mind and decided to oppose my race, so it’s already over.”

“Shaiell…”

Sha stopped speaking and clutched her chest, gasping for breath.

The wound that had barely healed reopened and bleeding began, and the pain that turned her vision white came with the chilling sensation of death.

“Haa, haa…”

“Sha!”

Startled, Shaiella hurriedly tried to use healing magic, but Sha refused.

Although she acted a bit strange and said incomprehensible things, she was still Ru’s blood relative and someone she could trust to some extent, so she had been very worried about Shaiella’s disappearance.

But the person in question appeared before her, looking perfectly fine, and even said that she would now walk a different path, so she should know that.

She was momentarily angry at the sight of her thinking only of herself, without thinking at all about her blood relatives or comrades whom she had been worrying about.

“Sha. The wound is still deep. Yu-hyeon’s attack is completely different from ordinary ones. It’s so terrifying that it twists all the mana inside us. If you don’t receive healing magic…”

“If I don’t receive it, I’ll die? So what? If I live, if I survive, what am I going to do next?”

It was an obvious question, and an obvious answer.

Shaiella couldn’t answer the question right away and just looked at Kim Yu-hyeon.

“There’s someone who wants to talk to you. But since you look so terrible and miserable, I thought it would be better to heal you at least roughly before meeting them.”

“…”

Sha stared at him as if she was dumbfounded by Kim Yu-hyeon’s words, gritted her teeth, and brought her hand to her chest as if she was going to stir up her wound and die.

But Kim Yu-hyeon’s movements were much faster than that, and almost at the same time as she felt something flashing, Sha lost consciousness.

“Ah.”

It all happened so quickly that even Shaiella, who was right next to her, couldn’t react.

Kim Yu-hyeon looked down at Sha, who had collapsed and fainted, and clicked his tongue.

“These people have an unbelievably strong faith. Without knowing what’s right and what’s wrong.

No, maybe they know but pretend not to know.”

After that, Kim Yu-hyeon muttered to Shaiella in a cold voice to quickly heal her properly.

It was something he could do, but the picture of him creating it with his own hands and then healing it himself wasn’t exactly pleasant.

Confirming that mana was gathering in Shaiella’s hand, who nodded as if to leave it to her, Kim Yu-hyeon left the barracks to inform Zion that he still needed more time.

Woong―.

Of course, he had deployed Sword Arts in case the woman inside rejected his minimum goodwill and ran away.

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“… ….”

“… …, … ….”

The faint sound coming into her ear awakens the sleeping brain.

Soon, the body that had been stiffened by the faint light coming through the eyelids moves little by little, and Sha is able to regain consciousness with difficulty.

‘…Am I still not dead.’

Thinking that, Sha smiled faintly and shook her head.

This isn’t that she didn’t die, but that she couldn’t die.

Although she doesn’t remember well, she still remembers the man who rushed at her just before she lost consciousness, as befitting a top-tier Celestial.

She clearly felt the heavy impact on her body right after that.

He must have noticed what she was trying to do and immediately stopped her.

‘Even Shaiella didn’t seem to notice.’

Is he really not a human, but a high-ranking demon who has transformed?

Sha thought about the relatively likely preconditions and wondered what the situation was like.

She seems to have been captured by the enemies along with Rill’s death, so what happened to Hon, who was trying to get her and Rill out, and what happened to the soldiers of the Holy Prussen who were still alive and retreating?

Could it be that they were all killed by the human man called Yu-hyeon earlier?

She was just about to worry about whether they had been brutally massacred.

Splash―.

Suddenly, something cold touches her forehead.

Soon, she feels a moist sensation and someone’s touch, and Sha reflexively moves her body to grab that someone’s hand.

“Are you feeling a little better?”

A voice that is different from the man she faced earlier, a very gentle and soft voice.

Sha stops moving at the sound that strangely brings stability and only tries to grasp the situation by looking around.

Soon, she is able to see a man sitting next to her.

He has a very beautiful appearance, as if she is looking at her own race, but he is not a Celestial because he does not have wings that should be behind him.

Next, when she looks at her ears, she sees that they are also very ordinary, so she is not a fairy either.

His pupils are not triangular like the eyes of a Dragonkin, so in the end, this man is human.

“…”

Sha sighed inwardly and blamed herself for being pathetic.

Even though she is not in her right mind, she still thinks that the descendants of light and humans are similar.

It seemed that the tremendous shock to her body from the aftermath of the battle had not yet been resolved.

Thud―.

She feels a cold sensation on her forehead again.

Only then does Sha realize that this unidentified man is changing the wet towel on her forehead and hurriedly tries to get up.

“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”

“…Huh?”

Sha wondered if she had heard something wrong for a moment.

The phrase she just heard is part of the doctrine of light that only the Celestial race knows.

The clergy of light in the Holy Prussen and other places, and the fairies, all know the doctrine of light, but what they know is only the basics, and only the Celestial race knows the teachings beyond that.

The phrase that came out of the man’s mouth just now is clearly something that only the Celestial race knows, even though it is a phrase that lower and mid-tier Celestials learn.

‘But how does a human know that?’

It was strange.

No, it’s beyond strange, it’s completely impossible.

The Celestial race manages the phrases so that they are never leaked to the outside, and those who oppose the descendants of light will only try to find out information on this side, but they will not try to find out the phrases.

But how does this man know that phrase?

“Top-tier Celestial, Sha. Is that correct?”

“…”

“Silence is affirmation among humans. So I will take it as affirmation.”

“What is it this time? After the human who gave me humiliation, what, did you send someone to comfort me? That’s absurd. Do you think I look like a human?”

“I didn’t come here to comfort you. To be exact, I just came to check some information.”

“Information?”

At those words, Sha thought of Shaiella’s face.

Seeing her completely friendly appearance to the human side, it seems that she has completely turned her back.

Sha thought that she had probably told these criminals even the most detailed parts about the Celestial race.

A betrayal of a comrade that she had never even thought of, even a betrayal of a high-ranking Celestial, not a lower or mid-ranking one.

Sha decided not to say a word in order to increase their suspicion and to confuse them, as she did not know how far the information had leaked.

After that, various stories came out of the man’s mouth, but Sha did not react.

Sha did not answer any of the man’s questions asking whether the information that Shaiella had told him was true or false, and clearly showed that her will was already firm.

“You don’t seem to have any intention of talking.”

“…”

The man shrugged his shoulders at Sha’s silence and stood up from his seat.

Then, he continued in the same gentle tone as before.

“Are you a sinner, so you can’t talk to those who don’t follow the light?”

“…”

“That’s a shame.”

The man who was looking down at Sha slowly turned his body.

And then, he continued in the same gentle tone as before.

“Though persecuted, they are not abandoned; though knocked down, they are not destroyed.”

“…? Si, wait a minute. Wait a minute? What, what did you just say?”

Looking at Sha, who was shouting in a completely different, very urgent voice than before and even flailing her arms.