Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 412

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No Hope

A secluded clearing relatively far from where the two armies were fighting.

In that place, five of the highest-ranking celestials, each capable of erasing an entire territory with a few flicks of their fingers, had landed.

However, there was no sign of composure on the faces of these powerful beings.

Rather, although they tried not to show it, the tension that occasionally peeked through revealed just how significant a battle they were about to face.

Thud, thud.

A man walked towards them with an overly relaxed demeanor, facing those who would make even the highest-ranking demons nervous.

In the current situation, he was the strongest enemy, so others would have been even more tense than they were, but this human showed no such signs at all.

But that was only natural, extremely natural.

Unless a god came, it would be impossible to defeat this man.

Without exaggeration, he was the strongest being in the world, unafraid even of death.

“Normally, I would want to take you down one by one from now on.”

Kim Yu-hyun opened his mouth in an extremely cold tone.

He drew his sword from his waist and lightly slashed through the air as if cutting something.

Then, suddenly, a long sword mark appeared on the ground before him, forming the shape of the character ‘one’ (一) [the number one in kanji/Chinese characters].

“The Young Master told me to give a warning as a ‘courtesy,’ so I will.”

His eyes and voice were truly eerie.

Kim Yu-hyun pointed the tip of his sword at the sword mark and continued.

“If you cross it, you die.

If you don’t cross it, you live.”

It was a statement that was more than arrogant; it was outrageous.

Until now, no being had ever said such a thing to the highest-ranking celestials, so the celestials would have been justified in sneering at the fact that a mere human was making such presumptuous remarks.

However, he was the one who killed their comrade, Lil.

Lil had given him the opening while trying to escape with Sharr, but seizing that opening was also a skill.

He had previously split Sharr’s defensive stance with a single blow, so even if he was arrogant, it was confirmed that he possessed that much strength, so there was no need to get excited rashly.

“And, if you run away, you live.”

But Kim Yu-hyun’s last words were openly provoking them.

“Ha.”

The first to react was Dan, who was known to be as fierce as Cha.

Looking like a boy with a slightly youthful face, he glared at Kim Yu-hyun with very sharp eyes, similar to his, and raised one corner of his mouth as he spoke.

“That’s why humans die early.

They get drunk on one victory and act arrogantly until their heads fall off.”

“It’s quite a funny joke to hear that from a comrade of those whose heads have fallen off.”

“Oh, is that so?”

Dan sneered and approached the line that Kim Yu-hyun had drawn.

Then, he stood askew, acting as if he might cross the line, sending a warning not to do anything with such a prank.

“If you cross this, you die.

Then, isn’t there an option?

If I cross this line, you die.

Like that.”

Whoosh!

Almost simultaneously with the end of that sentence, Dan’s figure disappeared.

A terrifying speed that not only ordinary people but even skilled individuals could not notice at all.

Not even the wind or sound could be heard, but Kim Yu-hyun was different.

“···!”

Dan was the first to go on the offensive, but Dan was also the one who was surprised.

As if he had read all of his attacks from the beginning, he simply evaded his surprise attack and smoothly bent his sword, aiming precisely at his neck.

‘This guy is insane.’

If he had been alone in this place, he might have had a hole blown through his neck without being able to resist, just like Lil.

But now he was not alone, and unlike Lil, there was someone to watch his front, back, and sides.

Kim Yu-hyun, with a gleam in his eyes, immediately folded his sword and evaded Hon’s attack that was flying in from the side with an impossible movement.

At the same time, he effortlessly dodged Finn’s attack, who was aiming for the next moment, and tried to cut her leg by targeting her opening, but thanks to Ann, who came in like a ghost to defend at that timing, it was in vain.

“···.”

Without even a moment to show his disappointment, Kim Yu-hyun dodged Cha’s attack, which was accurately coming in to target the back of his head, by a hair’s breadth and quickly stepped back.

It was a series of events that happened in just a few seconds, in the time it took for the wind to blow briefly, in the blink of an eye.

‘Each individual’s skill is definitely superior to mine.

But it’s a one-versus-many fight.

Moreover, their teamwork is so natural, as if they are one body.’

Each and every attack could inflict serious damage to his body.

Those who possess such skill and power are not simply fighting individually, but one attacks, another defends, another counterattacks, and another creates openings.

All actions are connected as smoothly as water flowing, or even more naturally and organically.

Like gears turning without rest, if you get caught in between, you will be torn apart and disappear without a trace.

‘Sixth Form.’

Then, what if it’s not an attack that comes in one by one, but an attack that goes to everyone?

After gathering more mana than ever before, Kim Yu-hyun lightly swung his sword.

‘I am.’

The radiance emitted from the sword shines so brilliantly that it crumbles.

In the wave of light spreading in all directions, Dan involuntarily exclaimed, “Wow,” with sincerity.

“What are you just admiring?”

Ann, who immediately pointed out that posture, raised all of her mana and created a barrier.

On top of that, Finn used her mana to form an auxiliary magic circle, and in case the barrier broke or Kim Yu-hyun’s surprise attack targeted that gap, she would defend.

“Dan!”

“I know!”

At Cha’s shout, Dan immediately kicked off the ground forcefully and soared into the air.

At the same time, Hon fired ranged attacks at Kim Yu-hyun from behind him, and immediately after, Cha grabbed Dan and charged towards the opponent.

At that very moment, the radiance focused on the sword exploded in all directions, unleashing an unimaginable storm of mana.

“Kuaaaak?”

“···Crazy bastard.”

As a word that was hard to tell whether it was a curse or a compliment came out of Cha’s mouth, Dan, who was screaming, was so dumbfounded that he couldn’t help but laugh.

It was truly amazing that he, who had pride in being a celestial and a descendant of light more than anyone else and even hated treating other races as living beings, was acknowledging his opponent in this way.

“Go in!”

Fortunately, Hon’s attacks partially offset the radiance, clearing a path for Cha and Dan.

The moment the two highest-ranking celestials regained their senses at Hon’s shout and rushed towards Kim Yu-hyun, a streak of light flew towards their necks and waists.

“Don’t stop!”

Ann and Finn’s barrier, which seemed to be blocking the radiance, was bounced off as it was and collided with the streak of light flying towards Cha and Dan.

Then, with a crash!

The mana of each other shattered and scattered, and a fleeting gap opened among the radiance.

Cha immediately took advantage of that moment and increased his speed even more, and Kim Yu-hyun also realized that the opponents immediately acknowledged that they could not win individually and were trying to face him with perfect cooperation.

Since Kim Yu-hyun had not even thought about avoiding it in the first place, he unleashed the Sixth Form followed by the Fourth Form, then gripped his sword again and lunged to cut down the two celestials who were fearlessly jumping towards him in one blow.

“Cha!”

At that very moment, Hon, who had been following closely behind, hiding all his energy and even concealing his appearance, thrust the spear he was holding forward, precisely at Cha and Dan.

Kim Yu-hyun, who was about to face not the opponent’s flesh but their weapon, clicked his tongue and released sword energy to offset the attack, and at that moment, Finn, who was closely attached to the back of the barrier that Ann had cast and was flying in with a terrifying momentum, gripped her sword and roughly slashed upwards as if to cut Kim Yu-hyun in half from below.

“Crazy?”

But soon, Finn spat out a curse and screamed, because Kim Yu-hyun had changed the trajectory of the surprise attack that she thought was perfect by simply hitting the sword’s blade with his hand.

If the calculation was off even a little, his hand would have been cut off as it was, but Kim Yu-hyun executed it without a moment’s hesitation and succeeded as if he had not even thought about the possibility of failure in the first place.

Thanks to that, just as Finn, who had become completely defenseless, was about to be caught in Kim Yu-hyun’s grasp.

Cha’s hand grabbed Kim Yu-hyun’s wrist and pushed it to the opposite side, preventing that much.

But thanks to that, Cha, who had narrowed the distance with Kim Yu-hyun, had no choice but to receive Kim Yu-hyun’s attack, and soon he let out a scream that he couldn’t even remember when he had made, due to the tremendous shock and pain that exploded in his side.

“Kuh-uh-uhk!”

Even though it was the body of the highest-ranking celestial, plus it was protected by mana, it was of no help at all.

With just one ordinary-looking kick from a human, both the outside and the inside were completely shaken up.

“Duck, Cha!”

Thanks to that, Dan, who had reached a blind spot where Kim Yu-hyun’s sword, hands, and feet could not reach, was about to split Kim Yu-hyun’s crown with his axe, which was his main weapon, at that moment.

Swoosh!

‘As expected!’

What Hon had told them, something they couldn’t believe without seeing it with their own eyes.

The sword that the human man named Kim Yu-hyun controlled at will was really flying in front of their eyes.

Like a living creature, like an existence that knew how to harbor hostility towards its enemy, Dan couldn’t help but think, ‘What kind of human is this?’ as he looked at the sword that was gleaming with murderous intent and flying accurately towards his heart.

“Get out of here!”

Of course, thorough preparations had been made for that as well.

Ann, who had suffered large and small injuries because she had used the barrier to protect Cha and Dan, who were approaching Kim Yu-hyun, instead of using it to protect herself, was able to prevent Kim Yu-hyun’s Sword Control Technique from being blocked by Ann and failing to get its master out of that chaotic maze.

‘There are many.’

Kim Yu-hyun was convinced that the only way for the enemies to deal with him was to slowly chip away at him in this way, accumulate damage, tire him out, and then forcibly create a non-existent gap and stab a fatal blow through it.

Those who are already outstanding in their individual skills thoroughly refrain from individual attacks or actions and only cooperate to entangle him, narrow the distance, and focus on attacking and defending.

If a weakness is visible in his eyes, another person immediately covers it, and if he tries to attack that gap, another person prevents his attack from going any further.

If he ignores that and tries to eliminate one, there is a very high possibility that he will fall into an even bigger trap.

What he is facing now is very similar to facing a well-organized formation.

‘It’s like seeing the Mandarin Duck Formation [a military formation used during the Ming Dynasty] that I’ve only heard about.

If they attack, they only focus on attacking, and they never hesitate because they believe that others will defend for them.

I can see clearly what they want and what they are thinking, but I can’t rashly crush them.’

Kim Yu-hyun clicked his tongue inwardly and immediately distanced himself from Cha, who was closest to him.

He immediately realized that there was nothing to gain from being in this constantly rotating formation for a long time, and he created distance before they could do anything.

“Hoo.”

“Haa···.”

“What kind of monster is that?

What is that human?”

“You’re telling me.”

As the distance between them and Kim Yu-hyun increased, the highest-ranking celestials each uttered a word.

Pure admiration and an exclamation of disbelief.

They couldn’t believe how a human, whom they thought was the lowest, could be so strong.

“How long do we have to respond like this?”

Finn muttered in a slightly dissatisfied voice.

They were also the highest-ranking celestials, and of course, they had their own pride.

But what they were actually doing was a perfect one-versus-many battle.

Even if the same celestial saw it, it was hard to see it as a glorious or sacred battle waged by the descendants of light.

“Don’t be mistaken.

If we can’t win against that man here.

Even if we win, if we suffer great damage and can no longer fight, then either way, it’s our defeat.

Even if you’re dissatisfied, bear with it.

After all, that human is just a fallen one who is with sinners.

There’s no courtesy to give to such a guy.”

At Cha’s cold answer, Finn muttered something in a dissatisfied voice, but since his words were not exactly wrong, he couldn’t openly resist.

In fact, even though they were attacking by thoroughly dividing their roles in this way, it was like this, but if they thought they were fighting individually, they would have been killed by that man one by one, like Lil.

It was quite disgusting, annoying, and a little embarrassing, but it was this method that killed the highest-ranking demons one by one without much damage, so there were no further objections.

“Let’s go again.

Focus.

While we are wasting time like this, our fellow humans are suffering more.

Put aside our pride and honor for a moment and focus only on the anger towards the sinners and the desire for the task, and engage in battle.”

The others nodded at Cha’s words and began to narrow the encirclement towards Kim Yu-hyun again.

This time, they changed the order, with Hon and Dan standing at the forefront to receive Kim Yu-hyun’s attacks, Finn harassing him and forcibly finding gaps, Ann preparing for a counterattack, and Cha preparing for any unforeseen circumstances.

The first attack that Dan unleashed was blocked by Kim Yu-hyun as expected, but the next blow from Finn lightly grazed Kim Yu-hyun’s shoulder.

The moment Kim Yu-hyun, who showed a flash of anger in his eyes, tried to strangle her to death, Cha blocked the attack by a hair’s breadth, and Ann helped him to separate Finn from Kim Yu-hyun.

The highest-ranking celestials boasted movements that were perfect, to the point that nothing but the word ‘perfect’ could come out, to catch a huge and terrifying monster.

They were the ones who caught the highest-ranking demons in this way, so they were able to withstand the super-large figure Kim Yu-hyun without any problems.

Of course, crises always struck them without warning.

“Heuk?”

Finn involuntarily screamed as the Sword Control Technique grazed her neck.

If she had been even a little late, a red line would have appeared on her neck as it was, and soon a stream of crimson blood would have gushed out.

“Cha!

I’m going to you!

Be careful!”

Cha, who was engaged in close combat with Kim Yu-hyun, immediately prepared for the warning flying from behind.

But suddenly, he felt strange, and he had an ominous feeling that if he avoided this attack, he might suffer an even bigger blow.

After only a few seconds of deliberation, Cha decided not to avoid Kim Yu-hyun’s Sword Control Technique and just give up his shoulder.

And that decision proved to be truly wise.

“What, what is it?”

“Two of them?”

If Cha had twisted his body to avoid the first attack, another Sword Control Technique would have cut through Cha’s waist as it was in that gap.

Kim Yu-hyun had used the second Sword Control Technique before even the highest-ranking celestials could notice.

‘How on earth did God, the Light, create such a monster?’

To the point that he even had such thoughts, this man named Kim Yu-hyun was just unbelievable.

Even though five of the highest-ranking celestials were perfectly executing attacks and defenses without giving him a chance to catch his breath, he showed no signs of being nervous or tired.

However, he was not making a condescending expression either, he was really hiding even a single grain of emotion and engaging in battle with everything hidden.

Because of this, he couldn’t even grasp what this man was aiming for, whether he was tired, or what he should do in the future.

‘This is a big problem.

Time is dragging on more and more.’

He thought he could kill this man and return in a short time, but it was a big miscalculation.

Rather, this man is holding them back and not letting them go.

If his attacks seem to barely reach, they escape with the support of their allies, but even though the opponent is only one person, they were dodging their attacks by a hair’s breadth.

“Dan!

One more time!”

At Cha’s shout, Dan gritted his teeth and armed himself with the determination to hit the attack this time.

Fortunately, Finn and Ann’s defense was perfect this time, so Kim Yu-hyun had no choice but to take a step back for a very brief moment.

Thinking that he wouldn’t be able to inflict a fatal wound, but at least he could inflict an injury, Dan swung his axe without a moment’s hesitation.

“Ta-da.”

Until he heard a sweet voice full of feminine charm suddenly coming from behind him.

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Why are you coming out of there―