Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 414

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No Hope

Thwack!

Whack!―

Lucia relentlessly pummeled Ru’s face twice.

Before this, countless shields from Ekaterina, tricks from Lia, and the added interference from Trisha and Rishikida made it impossible for Ru to dodge everything, no matter how skilled he was.

‘These filthy creatures!’

Ru gritted his teeth, trying to shake off the human who dared to mar his face.

However, an arrow suddenly struck him, creating a small wound, and he realized that the one who shot the arrow was a fairy who once revered the Celestials.

“Thank you, Sirien!”

Lucia expressed her gratitude and attacked again.

Ru grabbed her, determined to prevent any further interference, but he was taken aback when she smiled instead of crying out in pain.

Individually, they were opponents he could easily crush.

However, it wasn’t as if they were weak or untalented.

They were skilled enough to wound him if they put their minds to it.

With such skilled individuals swarming him, he didn’t even have time to use healing magic.

“Nyaaaang!”

Ru tried to turn away from the attacking Myo-eun, but Lucia, still in his grasp, clung to him, refusing to let go.

As he tried to shake her off, the human mage’s binding magic ensnared his other hand, and Ekaterina and Rishikida relentlessly stabbed at him, making it impossible to escape.

Ru gritted his teeth and chose to minimize the area being attacked by turning his body.

Immediately after, Ru’s blood splattered into the air for the first time, marking an injury.

“It landed!”

I’m the first!

Lia jumped for joy.

However, the opponent was still a top-tier Celestial, considered one of the strongest, second only to Kim Yu-hyun.

Ru roughly slammed Lucia into the ground and kicked her away.

Simultaneously, he swung his spear, knocking away the annoying Dragonkin woman and the human knight, and blasted a barrage of attack magic at Raido, tearing apart the binding magic.

“Nyaang?”

“A mere beastkin.”

The first to die would be the cat who dared to act so presumptuously.

Ru planned to crush her and then slowly kill the others, but he was forced to turn around due to a burning sensation on his back.

“No one dies!

Otherwise, all the points I’ve earned with Zion will be deducted!”

“That crazy human, really!”

That woman was definitely a Stigmata holder.

Only that could explain how someone with almost no mana could perform such impossible miracles.

A Stigmata [a mark or sign of divine favor] was a trace of God, of light, left on this earth.

And those who bore that mark should help the descendants of light complete their mission and establish the will of light on this earth, but Ru couldn’t understand why the Myo-eun woman and that human woman were rejecting it.

“Foolish ones!

Why do you reject the light!

What is the reason for doing this!”

“Why do you keep asking the obvious, you crazy pigeon bastard!”

Whack!

Boom!

When Ru swung his spear at Trisha’s whip, a massive explosion occurred, momentarily blinding and deafening everyone.

Ru, who was closest to the explosion, quickly scanned his surroundings, and in that moment, Rishikida’s sword flew straight for Ru’s heart.

Ru tried to counter by thrusting his spear to crush the head of the woman holding the sword, but Lucia burst through the explosion and deflected Ru’s attack in a completely different direction.

“Human!”

Ru bit his lip, trying to deflect Rishikida’s attack with a kick.

However, Ekaterina relentlessly dug in from the side, slamming her massive tail into his back and completely throwing him off balance.

‘Damn it!’

In that moment of falling, his neck was exposed.

A predator who wouldn’t miss that opportunity, Lia, bared her fangs and lunged, determined to bite his neck even if it meant getting injured.

Of course, Ru wouldn’t just stand by and watch.

Even though his hands and feet were bound, he wasn’t helpless.

If he didn’t have teeth, he would use his gums. He forcefully spread his wings and managed to blow away the presumptuous cat who had recklessly charged at him.

“Get away, you filthy things!”

Kwargh!―

He gathered all his mana and slammed it into the ground, causing a massive explosion that sent everyone flying in all directions.

“Kyaaak!”

“Nyaang!”

“Uwaaaak!”

Ru immediately got up and focused his attack on Ekaterina, who was the most exposed.

She had excellent recovery abilities and was being healed with magic, making her incredibly difficult to kill, but that also meant she could be killed.

Ru believed that Ekaterina was absorbing almost half of all attacks and providing opportunities for others, so he decided to eliminate her first.

If he could get rid of the Dragonkin, the others wouldn’t be able to recover as quickly, even with healing magic, making everything much easier.

“The pigeon is targeting the lizard!”

“I told you not to call me that!”

The women immediately realized Ru’s intentions.

They had been tormented by Kim Yu-hyun and had prepared for how to deal with someone stronger than themselves, knowing what methods the strong would use.

“Raido-nim!”

“I know! Don’t nag me, you guys!”

Raido, who was expected to pour even more healing magic onto Ekaterina, suddenly changed his incantation and unleashed a barrage of powerful attack magic.

He fired all the spells before Ru could even reach Ekaterina, taunting him to try and touch her if he could.

Kwargh!

Kwang!―

Of course, Ru’s mana was far superior to Raido’s.

It was absurd to think that his magic could harm Ru’s body.

However, the explosions of various spells disrupted his vision, hearing, and even his ability to sense energy, completely preventing Ru from using any of his senses.

After a few minutes, Raido’s magic suddenly stopped.

From Ru’s perspective, it was like being caught in an endless rain, but the other women knew when the magic barrage would end because Raido had marked the timing.

“Nyaang!”

The first to attack was Lia, who would never normally initiate an attack.

She had mainly used her claws and fangs, which could inflict physical wounds, like human melee weapons.

Therefore, Ru planned to raise his spear to block her attack before she could even get close.

However, instead of swinging her claws and baring her teeth, Lia moved around Ru at her maximum speed, which she never used, even in battle.

Pajijijik!

Pajijik!―

Blue electricity scattered behind her, and strands of mana connected around her.

Just as Ru was trying to figure out what the cat was doing, Rishikida and Lucia struck in perfect harmony, catching him off guard.

Individually, they couldn’t overwhelm Ru, but they were more than capable of tightening the noose around him.

When one created an opening, another would strike, and when one went on the defense, the other would prepare a counterattack, preventing Ru from attacking or defending freely.

This alone was annoying enough, but the flames that constantly harassed him whenever he lost sight of them caused Ru immense pain.

As expected of the name Stigmata, it inflicted damage on the top-tier Celestial’s body without hesitation, preventing him from concentrating and preparing for all attacks.

“Move!”

Thanks to that, Ekaterina, who had returned to her role as an attacker, launched several terrifying attacks that Ru couldn’t ignore.

Each attack could be fatal to a top-tier Celestial.

Those who he initially thought were insignificant had joined forces and were attacking him, leaving Ru with no good options.

“Nyaang!

Trisha!”

“Evasion!”

At that one word, everyone who had been beating him suddenly disappeared like the tide receding.

Ru, left alone, blankly exclaimed, “Huh?”

Trisha then ignited her flames on the mana that Lia had spread out.

Kwajijik!

Boom!

Bang!

Kwang!

Kwang!

Unlike Raido’s magic barrage, an even stronger explosion continued relentlessly.

The frenzy continued until Lia, who had consumed every last strand of mana around her as the source of the explosion, disappeared, and Ru’s appearance, revealed after a while, was quite disheveled.

“Rishi!”

As if she never expected it to end with just that much, Lucia shouted, and Rishikida raised her sword again and charged at Ru.

Ru, in a disheveled state, flapped his wings and tried to attack the woman who was fearlessly charging at him, but he felt a murderous intent from behind and sensed an ambush.

‘Trap!’

The momentum from behind suddenly stopped, and the attack came from the side again.

He quickly turned his gaze in that direction, but all he saw was Rishikida coming towards him.

‘Where?’

There was no way that woman would attack alone; it was just a decoy.

Ru, expecting a real attack from another direction, was pushed back by Rishikida’s sword strike and wore a look of disbelief.

Even though the human was now openly charging head-on, he had suffered so much that he didn’t even think of it as an attack.

Clench!―

There would probably never be a more humiliating disgrace than this.

As a top-tier Celestial, he had suffered every possible insult.

He wanted to grab them one by one and tear them apart, but he couldn’t do anything properly on his own, so Ru was on the verge of dying from frustration.

‘Calm down.

If I’m like this, then that Kim Yu-hyun guy must be the same!

By now, my comrades will have dealt with him and be coming here.

So, I just need to hold on a little longer.’

Ru comforted himself with that thought.

However, a moment later, Ru felt a chill run down his spine and turned around with a ‘no way’ feeling.

And he was horrified to see Kim Yu-hyun standing there, whom he thought he would never see again.

‘Why is that man here?’

No, it can’t be.

Please, no.

Ru shouted and shouted inwardly.

That man shouldn’t be here; he must have just run away after failing to defeat their comrades, and that’s why he ended up here. He imagined all sorts of reasons.

“Ah.”

However, Ru soon saw something in Kim Yu-hyun’s hand and sighed.

“Ann···.”

A woman covered in blood, it was impossible to tell if she was dead or alive.

Because she was slightly shorter than the other comrades, Ru immediately recognized her as Ann.

Five comrades went to fight that man.

But the monster Kim Yu-hyun arrived before him, and in his hand, Ann, one of those who were supposed to fight him, was dragged along, covered in blood.

No one else was in sight.

No top-tier Celestial was chasing after the fleeing Kim Yu-hyun or desperately flapping their wings to retrieve Ann.

That meant only one thing.

“It’s all over.”

―

Zion watched the increasingly unfavorable war situation and smiled contentedly.

The top-tier Celestials had all left the battlefield, but Kim Yu-hyun was either taking care of them all or they were being torn apart by the women who were eager to gain merit.

The remaining high-ranking Celestials were being enthusiastically slaughtered by Shaiella, who wanted to impress Kim Yu-hyun, and the northern warriors led by Zhan and Eos were literally massacring the enemy’s flanks and rear, gradually completing the encirclement.

The beastkin and fairies who had come from Hispania were also putting on a great performance, and he could somewhat understand why they had ignored the humans and claimed that they were next after the Celestials.

“Yeah, this is more like it.”

Watching the gradually collapsing enemies was simply refreshing.

In addition, the sudden appearance of someone he hadn’t heard from in a while made him smile even more.

“I’m back, Zion.”

“You’ve returned?”

Lilith’s safe return meant one thing.

The top-tier Celestials, who were the enemy’s greatest force, had been almost completely annihilated.

“It was just as you predicted.

Kim Yu-hyun was just putting on a massacre.”

“I told you.

Even if the top-tier Celestials and the highest-ranking demons joined forces and attacked him, he would frown a few times and then cut them all down.”

“I thought it was absurd at the time, but after seeing him fight, I think it might be true.

Really, how can a human do that?

No matter how I think about it, it’s impossible.”

What can you do, that guy is the protagonist.

Zion laughed inwardly.

“Ah, but I didn’t see Sha.”

“Huh?”

“I saw Ru fighting with the kids, but there were only five pigeons fighting Kim Yu-hyun.

Not six.

It looked like Sha wasn’t there at all?”

“Hmm.”

At Lilith’s words, Zion stroked his chin with a thoughtful expression.

He thought Sha would fight alongside her comrades, but if she didn’t show up at all in this final battle, the conflict must have been very great.

‘If that’s the case, there’s no need to push her and tear up a card that we could use.’

The descendants of light had betrayed them, betrayed the world, and betrayed the light, but in the end, everyone in the world had grown up listening to all sorts of good stories about them.

So, there must be some lingering attachment to them.

Rather than stepping on that part and causing confusion, Zion decided to use that part to prevent the continent from falling into even greater chaos after this war.

‘Either way, someone has to be the light, and someone else has to be the darkness.’

From the beginning, the demons just need to stay in their place as darkness.

Since Lilith is with him, he can coordinate and use her as he pleases.

The next step is to find someone who can be the light that this side can rely on, and that has already been done.

All that remains is for her to accept it and become a true descendant of light.

“Lilith-nim.”

“Yeah?”

“Are there any monsters left?”

“Huh?

Uh… I’ve used all the monsters under me, Bahamut is already dead, and all that’s left are the monsters under Bel.

Why?

Ah, are you perhaps trying to take advantage of this opportunity to attack the pigeons’ sanctuary…?”

“The same as last time.”

“…What?”

Lilith reacted as if she didn’t understand what he was saying.

Of course.

Saying ‘the same as last time’ ultimately meant that.

“Our army is about to capture and kill all of Sacred Prussen, the radical fairies, and the Celestials.

Please attack the rear.

So that I can’t concentrate and end up letting some of them escape.”

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