The Regressor Only Protects Me [EN]: Chapter 110

110. A Being as Massive as a Mountain (1)

Thrum-!

The entire building shook.

I quickly got off the Ogre and strode into the complex.

From the entrance, countless Warriors of Balance lay dead.

Only corpses remained, burned to a crisp or electrocuted.

Some surviving warriors were fleeing towards Anyangcheon [a stream in Seoul], and I watched them, ordering Choi Myung-joon.

“Capture those who throw down their weapons and surrender, and kill all who resist.”

“Yes, I understand, Hyung-nim [older brother or respected male figure]. Leave it to me.”

Choi Myung-joon gripped his dagger, looking around as he answered.

The support force dispatched here totaled 300 men.

Choi Myung-joon would lead these 300 to hunt down the remaining stragglers.

There was no change from the initial objective.

‘However.’

There’s always a ‘what if’.

What if the Second Army Commander’s 3,600 suicide squad managed to achieve victory here in Bisan-dong?

Of course, that would be a very good thing.

I ran towards the burning apartment complex.

Warriors were staggering around the complex like zombies, groaning.

A warrior whose face was burned, skin melting, reached out to me, saying.

“Kill me…….”

Most of the warriors wanted to die quickly, and I granted their wish.

The spheres scattered in all directions.

The skin of the warriors struck by the spheres was easily pierced, like tofu.

Thud thud thud-!

The warriors died with their bodies riddled with holes.

I didn’t stop, killing the enemies one by one.

The smell of burning corpses, screams, and sparks flying in the air filled this place.

The smell of burning flesh, heart-rending screams and groans, and brilliantly blazing flames.

The corpses covering the ground kept tripping me, and the air entering my mouth was hot.

Throughout the run, my five senses made me realize that this was a battlefield.

And once again, the building shook.

Kugugung……!

The entire building vibrated as if there had been an earthquake.

At that moment, a red bar flew in from the front.

Whir-. Ping!

“?!”

It was quite threatening, but the spheres orbiting me deflected the incoming bar.

I stopped and looked at where the bar had come from.

There was a fat man there, and he screamed in agony.

“Ah-! Ack ack. It hurts. Haa. Metal balls? Metal balls! Who are you!!!”

Unusually for this era, the man had a belly as big as a mountain.

The identity of the red bar was the man’s long tongue.

Like a frog, he could harden his tongue and extend it far.

Another Player of Balance.

I looked at him closely.

‘A guy resistant to fire? No, he’s weaker than that.’

No matter how I looked at him, he didn’t seem like the ‘Fire Player’ who had devastated Bisan-dong.

He was probably just a lackey.

He began to provoke me as if he were something special.

“Too bad-. I could have ki, killed you in one blow. You, you. That’s a very bad choice. Soon. You’ll kneel before me and beg me to kill you, you will. This, this body is Kim, Kim Yong-pyo, a close confidant of Lord Park Ji-soo. Haha! If you kneel now……!”

Whir-. Whir. Slurp.

The man’s tongue wriggled and went back into his mouth.

He kept laughing heartily, and I silently reached out to him.

Then, I clenched my outstretched hand tightly.

Squeeze-.

Then, the spheres scattered haphazardly in the air quickly gathered towards him.

Whir-. Shushushushuk-.

“Huh? Huh?”

The frog man tried to avoid it, but it was already too late.

Shushushuk-. Squish!!!

“…….”

The spheres instantly gathered together, compressing him.

The man, whose entire body was crushed like pounded rice cake, fell down dead without even making a sound.

When I released my clenched fist, the spheres scattered again and orbited me.

The technique from just now was Compression.

It’s an attack technique that gathers the scattered spheres to a designated center point.

‘Too weak. This guy isn’t the Fire Player.’

And if you’re going around saying you’re ‘Lord Park Ji-soo’s closest confidant,’ you should at least have the combat power of Jin Jae-hee.

This frog guy was definitely just a lackey full of bluff.

‘If he’s Park Ji-soo’s closest confidant, he probably wouldn’t be in Bisan-dong.’

I hurried on my way again to find the Fire Player.

He must be an internal member of the suicide squad.

The apartment complex was still seething with an unknown power.

If he’s a Player with this much power, he’s definitely a talent I shouldn’t miss.

But I had to hurry.

If he’s recklessly pouring out his power like this, it must mean he’s cornered.

My pace quickened.

‘The sound is getting closer. Building 208. No, is it towards Building 207?’

I hurried towards there.

Most new apartment complexes have artificial streams inside.

And the artificial stream was full of the corpses of warriors.

I stepped over the corpses of the warriors and headed straight for Building 208.

I could feel the hot energy little by little.

The temperature here was so high that I couldn’t breathe without wearing a fire suit.

But I couldn’t stop.

A bright red light was being emitted from the narrow alleyway.

I immediately turned the corner and faced the scene before me.

“……!”

Whirr-!

The entire apartment was burning as if it were firewood.

The light emitted by the fires was blinding.

The burning apartment was Building 206, where Jung Hyun-soo was the leader.

But since it was burning like this, the soldiers of Building 206 were probably annihilated.

And the power was felt in Building 208, right next door.

Here and there, the corpses of warriors who had been electrocuted were visible inside the first-floor lobby.

I carefully entered the lobby of Building 208.

“…….”

Sure enough, the corpses of warriors who had been electrocuted were scattered here and there in the hallway.

Rustle-.

They were so brittle that they would crumble with just a slight step.

At that moment, a woman’s bizarre laughter was heard from the crack in the elevator door that had opened.

I slowly headed towards there.

* * *

“Keheok. Heoeok. Gaaaaaak! Aaaaaack!”

“Haa. Haa.”

Kwon Jung-yeon, gripped in Jung Hyun-soo’s hand, trembled, her entire body electrocuted.

Jung Hyun-soo released his grip, and the Player of Balance, Kwon Jung-yeon, fell straight down.

Thump. Thump, thump! Crack!

Kwon Jung-yeon collided with the inner walls of the elevator shaft, falling helplessly.

Jung Hyun-soo only lowered his eyes, staring at Kwon Jung-yeon, stained with blood down below.

Kwon Jung-yeon lay there with her bones twisted, and bright red blood was scattered all around her, as if tomatoes had been dropped.

Jung Hyun-soo was relieved only after confirming that she was dead.

“Haa. Haa. Hoo. Heu.”

Jung Hyun-soo breathed irregularly, then burst into tears.

Even if he could miraculously survive in this state, Jung Hyun-soo no longer had a reason to live.

His one and only father had died. Now, he had nothing left.

Tears burst out from that emptiness and despair.

“Kkeueueu…… Kkeuheueueu……!”

The boy suppressed his sobs, staring at the upper part of the passage from within the deep abyss.

What should he do now?

What should he live for, anyway?

The world had been destroyed, and now that his last remaining family member was dead.

Jung Hyun-soo still needed an adult. He still needed a family.

Losing all of that now was as good as the end.

The elevator shaft was filled with his sobs. And then, a woman’s voice was heard.

“……You’re sad too, aren’t you?”

At that moment, Jung Hyun-soo felt his heart sink.

He barely turned his eyes to look at the woman who was lying down.

Kwon Jung-yeon was still alive.

Her body had not fully recovered, and bones and muscles were exposed here and there, but she was definitely alive.

She was too weak to even lift her head, but she continued to speak, lying next to him.

“It’s hard, isn’t it……? Like your heart is being eaten away. Life really sucks, doesn’t it? I used to not understand why people committed suicide…… How could you throw away the life you got? It’s a waste!”

Kwon Jung-yeon slowly raised her upper body.

“But…… now? I think I know a little bit.”

Then, she reached out her blood-stained hand to Jung Hyun-soo, who was lying down, and continued to speak.

“That’s because…… the life you’re going to live in the future……! You’re sure it’s going to be harder than the pain of death! So……! Dying is easier! Ahahaha……! Anyway, I’ll regenerate if time passes……! Ahahaha……! But you can’t, can you? Looking at you…… it doesn’t look like you’ve awakened for long. You don’t know how to recover or how to grow…….”

Kwon Jung-yeon crawled over and grabbed Jung Hyun-soo’s neck.

Even if Kwon Jung-yeon’s stamina was depleted, killing a powerless boy was nothing.

Kwon Jung-yeon grinned, revealing her blood-stained teeth.

At the same time, she put strength into her hands, which were gripping the boy’s neck.

This was above the ceiling of the fallen elevator.

Above it, the woman was laughing strangely, killing the boy.

“Noona [older sister or respected female figure]…… will make you comfortable. Let’s meet in hell together……! Let’s be friends there……? Huh……?”

“Keuheu…… Uuuuueue…….”

Jung Hyun-soo reached out and pushed Kwon Jung-yeon’s face away.

But Kwon Jung-yeon didn’t stop.

“It’s okay…… It’s okay. It’s okay! Just bear with it a little. 5 minutes? No, just 2 minutes……!”

Kkuuoooouuuuk…….

Jung Hyun-soo gasped as if in pain.

Kwon Jung-yeon, with half of her muscles exposed, was consumed by madness and laughed hysterically.

“Puhahaha……! Ahahahahahaha! Hahahahahaha! In the end, it’s my victory! I won! You’re at least an A-class artifact user, right……? Me……? I’m C-class? But I worked my ass off…… and became this strong…… Hahaha…… Hahahaha!!!”

Jung Hyun-soo gradually lost consciousness, and now he couldn’t even hear Kwon Jung-yeon’s laughter.

The strength in Jung Hyun-soo’s hand, which had been pushing Kwon Jung-yeon away, gradually weakened.

It was the very moment when his breath was about to be cut off.

Thump-!

* * *

“……!?”

“…….”

Sion, who came out of the elevator door, grabbed Kwon Jung-yeon’s neck.

Sion, who picked her up with tremendous force, pushed Kwon Jung-yeon against the wall as it was.

Bang-!

Then, he began to pry open her mouth with one hand.

While watching her struggle to get out with her mouth wide open, Kang Sion opened his mouth in a low, dark voice.

“……Of course, I agree. Because I was like that too. Because I tried to give up on life too. Because I thought the days to come would be worse than dying.”

At that time, Kang Sion’s spheres appeared one by one in the air, and soon became as small as grains.

Compression.

The spheres gathered together and mercilessly entered Kwon Jung-yeon’s mouth.

As a result, her cheeks began to swell more and more, and Kang Sion continued to speak.

“But there’s one thing I realized.”

Now, Kwon Jung-yeon’s neck, chest, and stomach were swelling.

Kang Sion’s spheres had penetrated from her esophagus to her intestines and filled them.

“That’s not something you should say in front of a kid.”

Kwon Jung-yeon had no choice but to look at Sion’s eyes while suffering. Kang Sion’s eyes were full of anger.

Kang Sion hated people like Kwon Jung-yeon the most.

People who instill such ridiculously shitty values into children.

Those who don’t even deserve to be adults.

Kang Sion had always lived with his younger brother, Kang Jun-ho, in mind, from the past to the present.

Because he had committed an unforgivable sin against Jun-ho, he wanted to make up for it even in this way.

Kang Sion’s hand was still gripping Kwon Jung-yeon’s neck.

And he concluded harshly.

“……Die peacefully.”

After finishing speaking, Sion lightly spread his palm.

Dispersion.

It is a continuous attack technique that follows Compression, creating the same effect as shrapnel exploding by sending the gathered spheres all at once in all directions.

The destructive power surpasses that of an ordinary bomb.

When Kang Sion used Dispersion, Kwon Jung-yeon’s body, which was full of spheres in her mouth and intestines, exploded.

Peobeong-! ……Thud thud thud.

As pieces of flesh burst in all directions, Kwon Jung-yeon disappeared without a trace.

Even so, Sion frowned, as if his anger had not subsided.

It was over.

The Player of Balance, who had caused a huge wave in Bisan-dong, died at Sion’s hands.

In the end, a ‘what if’ situation that Sion had not predicted occurred.

The suicide squad in Bisan-dong had won and survived.

Jung Hyun-soo, who was lying on the ceiling of the elevator, sobbed and called out to Kang Sion.

“Lord……!”

Jung Hyun-soo’s voice was pathetic.

The elevator shaft was filled with the boy’s sobs.

Sion, who was looking at him, panting, soon said.

“……Let’s go home.”

At the lord’s comforting and gentle voice, Jung Hyun-soo answered with tears in his eyes.

“……Yes.”

Hyun-soo took a deep breath and said again.

“……Yes.”

* * *

The defense of Bisan-dong also ended in Mangyeong’s victory.

It was the only result that deviated from Kang Sion’s expectations.

In addition, Kang Sion also recruited a new A-class Player.

The war was now over, leaving only the mop-up operation.

Meanwhile, at Uiwang Station in Uiwang-si, Gyeonggi-do [city and province in South Korea].

In this place, filled with the corpses of people and monsters, the ‘boy’ raised his head and looked at the administrator ‘J’.

(To be continued in the next episode)