The Regressor Only Protects Me [EN]: Chapter 200

200. Farewell and Reunion (8)

I turned my gaze away from her.

The city was collapsing. A one-sided massacre was unfolding, and the defense of Mangyeong was, in any case, my victory.

Now, what needed to be done was clear.

It was to minimize the damage from the war as much as possible.

Either way, I had the future to consider, and preserving resources for preparation was necessary.

Whether it was ogres, humans, or food.

-Kuaaaaaaa!

An ogre roared and ran through the opposite street.

I looked at it and said to her again.

“There’s no need to protect it.”

“What do you mean?”

Jin Jaehee’s voice lowered slightly, becoming calmer.

She answered immediately, and I answered right away as well.

“Just what it sounds like.”

I created spheres and moved them throughout the city.

It was to chase after the escaped Woo Jihae and to clean up the battlefield. Jin Jaehee’s voice trembled.

It was a powerless, trembling voice I had never heard before. I looked at her once more.

She clenched her fists and said nothing.

I just hoped she would stay silent.

Whatever she said, our thoughts were different now.

But Jin Jaehee opened her mouth.

“I-.”

But she couldn’t continue her sentence.

The moment she parted her lips, an enormous sonic boom and wind swept in from afar.

Kwagwagwagwang-!

Wheeeee-!

A wind so powerful that even a tornado would take a step back instantly struck the city.

Kukwakwakwang-!

I blocked the wind and barely opened my eyes to identify the thing that had sprung up from the distant part of the city.

“……!”

It had a body large enough to easily straddle a mountain.

It was a golden hydra giant with three bodies connected to one massive tail.

The thing roared.

“Those who oppose the gods-”

“-must be-”

“-vanished from this world-!”

The cry covered the entire Seoul area.

And I saw Choi Myungjoon falling like a red meteor.

* * *

Inside the Metro underground tunnel, people’s voices echoed everywhere.

“The cult leader is enraged!”

“The underground is collapsing. Move to the surface. Hurry!”

“Hurry. Grab the food first.”

“What about the war? What’s going to happen to the war? The hunters!”

“Hey! Ah, come on!”

The Metro citizens grabbed only a bit of food and water and began to flee towards the light.

The cult leader’s rage meant the downfall of the Metro.

He was a player who had conquered two kings with his powerful strength, and according to rumors, he had come down from the North.

In any case, the citizens, realizing that there was no hope in this war, abandoned their defense zones and were busy running away.

Among the fleeing crowd, there was a woman walking in the opposite direction.

Colliding with the shoulders of the running citizens and falling in the hallway several times, the woman barely managed to get up and leaned against the wall.

The woman was Woo Jihae.

There was a huge hole in her stomach. She was somehow stopping the bleeding and healing with her artifact ability, but she couldn’t stop the overflowing blood.

“Hoo……. Hoo…….”

Woo Jihae tried to maintain her composure, exhaling only small breaths.

She sensed that she didn’t have much life left, but she couldn’t give up.

At that moment, a young boy stumbled and fell on Woo Jihae’s leg while running away with his parents.

The boy was small and had a youthful face. Woo Jihae thought that he was probably a child born during the League [a period of societal upheaval or organized conflict].

Children of the new generation who didn’t even know what the original world was like.

Children who thought this was normal.

The boy cried.

Then, the young couple who had gone ahead returned, carried the boy on their backs, and started running away again.

Woo Jihae watched the scene with blood-stained vision, then lowered her head.

The ground and the cave were shaking at regular intervals.

Perhaps the cult leader’s merciless massacre had begun.

Woo Jihae also succumbed to the cult leader’s overwhelming power. There was no chance that Mangyeong, which was opposing the cult leader, would survive.

‘……No. I have to come to my senses.’

Originally, she could have died comfortably on the battlefield, but Woo Jihae mustered her last strength and returned to the unit.

It was because she wanted to take care of the people who were left behind.

But now, it was the limit of her strength.

Woo Jihae slid down the wall and breathed even more heavily.

She sensed that this was the limit and watched the people scurrying around with dim eyes.

Then, in the faint scenes, Woo Jihae saw someone approaching her.

And the man who approached her gently grabbed her shoulder and shouted.

“Are you okay? Jihae! Jihae……! Blood, blood……! Doctor. Doctor!”

Woo Jihae barely mustered her last strength and looked at the man holding her.

It was Lee Hoseung.

Lee Hoseung took off his coat and put it over Woo Jihae’s wound.

He barely lifted Woo Jihae and headed outside.

“The underground is collapsing……. Quickly. We have to get out quickly…….”

They had to move quickly, but it was difficult to support the injured Woo Jihae and escape through the winding underground.

They fell several times and barely arrived at the entrance to the underground world where light was pouring in.

Lee Hoseung looked at the pouring rays of light.

Hundreds, no, thousands of people were climbing that hill to survive.

The people who had despised going to the surface, calling it an act of rebelling against God, were now going to the surface where light was pouring in without any hesitation to survive.

Lee Hoseung was momentarily horrified as he watched the magnificent sight.

Kugugugugu……!

The underground was collapsing.

Lee Hoseung turned around with Woo Jihae on his back.

The people who had not yet escaped were being buried alive in the collapsing earth.

It was a terrible sight.

“……!”

At that moment, Lee Hoseung felt his body become heavier.

When he checked the complexion of Woo Jihae, who was on his shoulder, she was already limp.

Lee Hoseung slowly put her down and put his ear to her nose.

“……Jihae?”

Even a small breath could not be heard.

Woo Jihae had finally passed away.

“Jihae……. Jihae……?”

Lee Hoseung raised his lowered head again and stood there, staring down at Woo Jihae.

Nothing like a drama or novel happened.

Death doesn’t wait for people. It doesn’t give you time or a chance to say goodbye.

You just die.

There is nothing after death.

That is the truth of the world.

It was a very simple truth, but Lee Hoseung had only just realized it.

“I’m sorry……. I’m sorry……. I’m sor…….”

Kugugugugung……!

The underground began to collapse even faster.

Lee Hoseung left Woo Jihae behind and crossed the underground ridge where light was pouring in.

And the scenery of the city he faced was hell itself.

A mysterious golden monster with three human bodies tied together was destroying the city in the distance.

It was so huge and magnificent that he immediately understood why the people of the Metro forces worshiped him as a god.

Inevitable destruction.

Lee Hoseung looked up at it and didn’t even realize the identity of the monster flying from behind.

Several ogres were swarming out in groups and running towards the fleeing citizens.

And Lee Hoseung was also caught by an ogre.

* * *

I looked at the golden monster and took out the Stone Knife.

That was a variable.

I could have ended Round 2.5 like this, but now there was only a little left.

‘Damn it!’

Now I had no choice but to take out the Stone Knife.

This was an item that could definitely finish off any target.

Of course, it was a one-time use item, so I had to use it carefully.

I turned to Jin Jaehee and said.

“You stay and clean up the battlefield. You have to prevent any more damage.”

“……You?!”

“I’m going to end this fight.”

“Let’s go together…….”

As Jin Jaehee tried to get up, I shouted.

“That’s an order!!!”

At my voice, Jin Jaehee stopped her rising body.

I said again.

“Because it’s an order. Please stay still and don’t meddle.”

And I held the Stone Knife straight and flew up.

As I rose into the sky, the wind raged.

Wheeeeeooooooo-!!!

The raging storm made it impossible to even open my eyes.

The thing’s three bodies were emitting different abilities.

From the central human body, a huge flame covered the city, from the right human body, a raging wind, and from the left human body, lightning struck and struck the city.

I used spheres and lines to create a kind of windbreak and quickly approached the thing.

The thing also recognized me and shouted so loudly that my eardrums were about to burst.

“You dare-”

“-to challenge me-”

“I am the only prophet in this world.”

“The path I take is the shortcut to salvation-”

“What would you know-”

“-King of a small city-!”

A huge hand reached out, cutting through the air.

Boom-!

I twisted my body to avoid the hand and poured the lines gathered together onto the thing’s skin.

The lines, which were infinitely large by human standards, felt as small as toothpicks when they met the thing.

Of course, my small attacks were unlikely to work on the thing.

But my purpose was only to swing the Stone Knife once on the thing’s skin.

Holding the Stone Knife straight, I finished preparing to charge.

Complete deletion.

Probably the best item in the League that can make something that didn’t exist in this world.

Originally, it was the administrator’s ability, but now it’s mine.

“Shallow trick-”

“-Insufficient intelligence-”

“I’ll kill you-”

The thing now stopped smashing the city and began to pour all its attacks on me.

I twisted the lines.

“!”

I was going to use the technique I used when I caught Kim Kangseok.

If I intricately weave the lines and spheres to create a device, I will be able to block the thing’s movements.

I started gathering strength.

This was something I had never used in the past rounds, and it consumed a lot of mental power.

‘Kkeueut……!’

It was so painful that I naturally started bleeding from my nose.

But I had to do it.

To face better results, and above all, to meet my brother.

I decided to pour everything I had into this.

The huge lines formed a curve, and their ends met each other.

And those lines combined with other lines to create a huge chain.

Whiririririk- Clank!

The dozens of chains bound the thing’s neck, hands, and feet and firmly fixed it to the ground.

The thing screamed in agony, but I didn’t give up and pushed even stronger power into the chains.

At this point, I felt like blood was rushing to the top of my head, and red wounds began to swell all over my body.

“Shallow-”

“-Shallow tricks-!”

The thing, bound by the huge chains, struggled to break free, but my Stone Knife had already touched the thing’s body.

“…….”

At that moment, the thing’s body began to break down into molecular units and disappear.

* * *

Jin Jaehee collapsed on the asphalt and watched Kang Si-On’s performance.

And the first thought she had was that Kang Si-On had grown like crazy.

It was a fantastic artifact.

The chains that Kang Si-On created were more beautiful than the golden monster’s huge arms.

The huge chains covering the clouds, the sky, and the earth looked like the power of God.

Even in the League of her past life, and in this life.

He had never shown what a limit was.

Especially now, Kang Si-On suppressed the enemy based on the artifact power that was as powerful as Kang Si-On, whom she had met in Bitnam.

“…….”

She was happy that Kang Si-On had grown, but on the other hand, she was also saddened.

It was because of the despair that she would no longer be helpful to him.

With just the abilities she saw now, Kang Si-On had stronger power than anyone else in this League.

Now, he no longer needed her by his side.

Jin Jaehee thought.

Is this the end?

Even if she just left him alone, Kang Si-On would be able to end this League.

Jin Jaehee was sure of that.

Because Kang Si-On had achieved dazzling growth and had a perfect plan to end the League.

And was her role all this?

Originally, Jin Jaehee came up from Busan to Anyang to raise Kang Si-On.

And anyway, Jin Jaehee achieved her goal.

Everything left was up to Kang Si-On.

For the past few years.

Jin Jaehee had done her best to protect him, and as Kang Si-On had said, her duty to protect him may have disappeared.

But she couldn’t explain this feeling of emptiness.

Without her knowing it, a drop of tears welled up in her eyes and flowed down her cheek.

Jin Jaehee sat down and silently watched Kang Si-On’s performance.

But then she smelled cigarette smoke and turned to look.

A man stood there with a cigarette in his mouth.

The man said.

“I heard a rumor that there was a woman by Hyung’s side……. And that woman helped Hyung even at the cost of her own life. When I first heard that news, I was relieved.”

The man blew out cigarette smoke.

Jin Jaehee’s eyes, looking up at him, were shaking wildly.

“I’m going to thank you……. Above all, for protecting Hyung [term of endearment, like ‘bro’ or ‘older brother’]. Hyung pretends to be strong every day, but he’s weaker than anyone else. I know it well. I pretended not to know that Hyung was sobbing every night, covering himself with a blanket. Looking back now, I think that’s what it was like. What is it? Why is this man crying? When I think about it, family is just another person after all.”

Tick-.

The cigarette butt that the man threw away spun around in the air and fell to the ground.

The man’s voice had no emotion in it.

Was he happy? Was he sad? Was he moved?

Jin Jaehee couldn’t know anything.

“Your role is up to here. You can leave. You have fulfilled your mission.”

The man took out one hand that he had been holding in his pocket.

As he reached out his hand, fragments of the surrounding buildings soared into the sky.

Kuguguggeugeugeu…….

It wasn’t just the fragments around him.

The powerful force felt from the man lifted all the fragments that had spread throughout the city into the sky.

The man, no. Kang Junho looked into Jin Jaehee’s eyes, who was sitting down, and concluded.