The Regressor Only Protects Me [EN]: Chapter 93

93. Pamian Apartment Complex (1)

“…….”

I will remain calm.

I will calmly respond to any enemy attacks or traps.

My hands trembled violently, but my mind was set.

I slowly raised my head and looked forward.

A long streak of light stretched from the darkly lit city, heading towards us.

Judging by the numbers, it seemed to be the vanguard of the enemies.

Even so, it was comparable to our main force.

My heart pounded.

“Nervous?”

Jin Jaehee’s voice.

I naturally turned to look at her.

She was already chain-smoking her fifth cigarette, preparing for the upcoming war.

Her legs, precariously perched on the railing, swung back and forth, tapping against the railing supports.

When I didn’t answer, she turned to look at me while still sitting.

Then, she put another cigarette in her mouth and exhaled smoke.

She asked me if I was nervous, but it seemed like she was the one who was nervous.

In fact, it was a moment where you couldn’t help but be nervous.

I exhaled.

There was no more room for hesitation.

I’ve done well so far.

And I couldn’t die until I met my brother again.

“Commander, prepare for a preemptive strike.”

A preemptive strike was necessary.

I needed to know how the enemy would respond.

The commander nodded at my command.

* * *

The advance party heading towards Mangyeong.

In the front row were shieldbearers with torches, in the middle row were melee warriors with spears and weapons, and in the rear row were archers.

It was a typical unit composition, but this composition had proven its efficiency throughout history.

And Mangyeong initiated a preemptive strike.

Glass bottles soared from Mangyeong and rained down from the sky.

Whoosh-. Clang!

One archer was hit directly in the head by a glass bottle falling from the sky and died instantly.

“Attack!!!”

The first discoverer sensed the danger and shouted to the unit, and the warriors of Dongahn quickly formed a defensive formation.

Now, glass bottles began to fall in countless numbers.

Whoosh-. Clang! Clang! Clang!!!

The shieldbearers hurriedly raised their shields to block, but it was not enough.

‘As expected… those damn glass bottles greet us first.’

However, the warriors of Dongahn were not just idly standing by while preparing for war.

They had learned in advance what Mangyeong’s weapons were and had prepared a strategy to respond.

The commander of Dongahn, sitting still on the back of a monster deer, waved his hand at the warriors, watching the enemy’s bombardment.

It meant to scatter.

The advance party warriors, having received the order, now hid in the buildings.

The vanguard of 2,000 men quickly disappeared into the buildings from the eight-lane road.

Then, flames flew onto the eight-lane road, which was covered in oil due to the broken glass bottles.

Clang! Whoosh-!!!!

The flames, meeting the oil, spread rapidly.

The dark night city instantly burst into flames.

Warriors who couldn’t hide inside the buildings were trapped in the inferno and began to shout, begging to be killed quickly.

“Aaaaaaah!!! Aaaaah!!!”

“Aaaaaaaaaaah!!!!”

Some warriors, already buried in the inferno, were burning into black charcoal.

Even with shoes on, it was difficult to walk on the burning oil. The shoes melted, causing pain, and if you happened to fall, you were devoured by the fierce flames.

The smell of burning filled the surroundings.

The commander of Dongahn turned the reins of the Toontoon [a type of monster deer] and took refuge inside the building.

Because the enemy’s aerial bombardment had not yet reached this place.

The road was blocked, becoming a sea of fire.

The advance party of Dongahn now had to move stealthily.

“The enemy has initiated a preemptive strike. What are you going to do?”

From Dongahn’s perspective, they would inevitably lose the siege if they couldn’t deal with Mangyeong’s catapults [makeshift artillery using bottles].

Above all, the commanders of Dongahn already knew that Mangyeong’s weapons were excellent.

Therefore, Dongahn needed to utilize its own advantages.

Dongahn’s own advantage.

That was the overwhelming number of troops.

The Dongahn commander ordered the subordinates who had flocked into the building.

“Execute the plan. Warriors, advance to the apartment complex in 5 minutes.”

“Yes! Understood…….”

“Yes!”

They weren’t just passively taking it.

The mission of the Dongahn advance party was to completely disrupt the enemy’s main defense points.

The mission was simple.

To render Mangyeong’s catapults useless, they had to infiltrate between the buildings and slowly advance towards the enemy’s base.

Fortunately, Anyang is a large city.

The space between buildings is small, and the buildings are densely packed.

And the Dongahn advance party continued their stealthy advance.

The roads were already a sea of fire, and the wanderers of the roads, belonging to no force, were burned to death for no reason.

And the place where the two forces first made contact was Bisan-dong, Mangyeong City, the Pamian Apartment Complex.

That was their first contact point.

* * *

Bisan-dong Pamian Apartment Complex.

A huge residential area in Bisan-dong, with two underground floors and 32 floors above ground.

There are 35 buildings, with a total of 4,250 households.

After the destruction, this place was newly created by Madam Bisan-dong as a street of gambling and entertainment.

Dongahn’s first goal was ‘Recapture of Bisan’.

It was Park Ji-soo’s intention to reclaim the place taken away by a humiliating diplomatic agreement with blood and force.

The Anyangcheon Stream flows in front of the Pamian Apartment Complex.

It was Mangyeong’s main source of drinking water, and there was also a vehicle bridge used in the old world.

The Dongahn advance party began to cross that bridge.

The sight of 2,000 troops crossing the bridge in order was truly spectacular.

However, the soldiers of Mangyeong were not just idly standing by, allowing the warriors of Dongahn to cross the bridge comfortably.

The Dong leader of Mangyeong shouted to fill the night city.

“Fire!”

At the same time, the soldiers of Mangyeong began to fire crossbows from the windows inside the apartment.

The rate of fire was about 10 shots per minute.

Due to the night, Mangyeong’s shooters could not see the warriors of Dongahn accurately.

In the first place, it was almost impossible to hit the enemy with modern rifles without night vision equipment.

Anyone who has been in the military would know.

Night shooting is just shooting by feeling.

Night shooting is all or nothing.

Either you hit everything, or you miss everything.

That’s why Zion conveyed a strategy that would allow our shooters to hit the enemy.

That was to concentrate fire on only one place.

The important thing was that the enemy didn’t know where the arrows were coming from either. It was judged that this could be used to inflict sufficient damage.

Mangyeong’s arrows continued to be fired.

And Zion’s plan gradually began to work.

From some point on, the warriors crossing the bridge began to hear the sound of air being cut.

But by the time they realized it, it was already too late.

Whoosh-. Thwack!

“Ugh……!”

A monotonous whistling sound was heard, and the warrior hit by the arrow fell forward.

The fired bolt hit the warrior’s right eyeball.

The bolt was so powerful that it penetrated the eye and came out the back of the head.

The unit was greatly shaken when the warrior running alongside him died.

“Enemy attack!!!”

“Ugh…… Ugh!”

“Everyone, lie down!!”

Everyone is equal in the face of death.

Everyone was terrified and lay down on the ground.

And that was what the soldiers of Mangyeong wanted.

The warriors who had prostrated themselves on the ground to avoid the bolts were killed with the bolts embedded in their backs.

Thwack thwack thwack!

The commander of Dongahn shouted at the warriors who were trembling on the ground.

“Pass quickly! Hurry!!! Don’t delay!”

A dark night city that couldn’t be seen.

Arrows flying from somewhere.

The warriors panicked.

The warriors who had already crossed the bridge were also at a loss and were busy hiding.

The surprise attack of Dongahn seemed to be failing like this.

But just as there is a hero in Mangyeong, there was also a hero in Dongahn.

“…….”

Clatter, clatter, clatter!

The hooves made a loud noise as they met the asphalt.

A woman riding a deer grabbed the reins and ran towards the bridge.

She fearlessly ran towards the bridge where arrows were raining down.

A Dongahn player wearing a goblin mask.

Her blonde hair was flying wildly.

She was holding a spear on her back and a small shield made by modifying a car door in one hand.

The goblin mask fearlessly rushed towards the direction from which the arrows were still flying.

In the middle, one bolt flew straight at her.

Whoosh-. Clang-!!!!!

But the bolt was deflected by her shield.

The penetrating power of the bolt was so strong that sparks flew at the moment of impact.

Thanks to this, the goblin mask also dropped the shield.

But she didn’t hesitate just because she dropped the shield.

“……!”

The goblin mask didn’t care and urged the deer even more fiercely, rushing forward.

As the rain of arrows subsided, she took out the spear she was carrying on her back and approached the apartment complex.

Zhao Zilong [a famous Chinese general].

The soldiers of Mangyeong who saw her for the first time all thought of the Chinese hero.

The monster deer Toontoon, which she was riding, jumped over the wall of the apartment complex in an instant.

Swoosh-!

Inside the complex, soldiers of Mangyeong with weapons were facing the goblin mask running towards them.

The panicked Mangyeong shooters shouted.

“……Shoot! Shoot!!”

“Ughyaaaaa!!!”

“Die!”

The soldiers of Mangyeong were embarrassed by the bravery of the goblin mask.

Some tried to resist by shooting spears and arrows, but it was useless.

The combat power of the goblin mask was not at a level that the soldiers of Mangyeong could handle.

Because she was a player.

Whoosh-! Slice-.

When she swung her spear once, the necks of the two soldiers in the front row were cut off.

The goblin mask didn’t rest.

She kept swinging.

Every time she swung, the soldiers of Mangyeong died indiscriminately.

The severed necks flew into the air, and when she stabbed her spear, they fell down at once.

The goblin mask accurately aimed the spear only at the soldiers’ vitals.

The goblin mask, who had jumped into the enemy camp alone, disrupted Mangyeong’s defense forces and quickly secured Dongahn’s attack route.

It was a hard-won opportunity for Dongahn. The warriors of Dongahn did not miss this opportunity.

“Now’s the time-! Charge!”

“Uaaaaaaaaa!!!”

“Aaaaah!!!”

The advance party of 1,800 men, passing over the scattered arrows and the bodies of their comrades, rushed into the complex.

They started fighting with the soldiers of Mangyeong, easily crossing the apartment complex with swords and blunt weapons.

The goblin mask surveyed the battlefield where blood and flesh splattered.

And soon, she found a man.

“…….”

“…….”

The two made eye contact.

The man was Choi Myungjoon of Mangyeong.

The best fighter in Mangyeong who protects this place.

The goblin mask stared silently at Choi Myungjoon and then grabbed the reins. Then, she rushed towards Choi Myungjoon without hesitation.

The soldiers of Mangyeong came out like ants from all over the apartment complex to defend, and the warriors of Dongahn who crossed the wall fought to break through them.

“…….”

50 elite members were stationed next to Choi Myungjoon.

As they watched, Choi Myungjoon silently grabbed a knife and slowly moved forward.

Towards the goblin mask running towards him.

Soon his pace quickened, and he began to run.

And when the two passed each other, Choi Myungjoon swung his dagger at the goblin mask.

Whoosh-. Stab!

Choi Myungjoon’s dagger was stuck in Toontoon’s neck.

On the other hand, the goblin mask’s spear, which aimed for Choi Myungjoon’s neck, passed by his cheek.

-Wheeeee! -Wheeick!

Toontoon writhed wildly as if in pain.

Thanks to this, the goblin mask rolled backwards from Toontoon.

Thud!

Choi Myungjoon tried to finish it without missing the opportunity.

But the goblin mask did not allow Choi Myungjoon’s attack.

As Choi Myungjoon dug into her, the goblin mask clenched her fist tightly and dug in even more, hitting his chin from below.

Thwack!

“Ugh……!?”

“…….”

Even after hitting Choi Myungjoon’s chin, the goblin mask did not stop.

Once straight to his right rib.

Once again, a jab towards the left jaw.

Every time the goblin mask swung her fist, her blonde hair fluttered.

But Choi Myungjoon did not back down easily.

Again, holding the dagger, he seized the opportunity and swung it at the goblin mask.

Slice-!

The goblin mask momentarily pulled her head back, but the front of the mask was split vertically.

Choi Myungjoon staggered and regained his posture.

“This X year……! It hurts like hell……!”

Again, Choi Myungjoon tried to grab the goblin mask’s neck, but she quickly stepped back.

Clatter.

The goblin mask split in two and fell to the ground.

Naturally, her face came into Choi Myungjoon’s eyes.

“…….”

“…….”

Strong people recognize each other’s skills with just one competition.

Choi Myungjoon, who succeeded in the attack.

The goblin mask who was attacked also recognized each other.

That they were the top-level power of each force.

Swish…….

Blonde hair naturally fell to her waist.

And Choi Myungjoon was a little surprised to face the goblin mask’s face.

“…….”

Big eyes on a youthful face.

But determined eyes.

She was a Western girl with blue eyes.

The space between Choi Myungjoon’s eyes narrowed.

“This…… X hair…… Yankee year. Who are you?”

“…….”

But she couldn’t speak Korean.

I couldn’t even hear it.

The goblin mask picked up her spear again, which had fallen on the ground.

In this bloody battlefield where the troops of Mangyeong and Dongahn were wielding weapons at each other,

The goblin mask and Choi Myungjoon were aiming their weapons at each other.

“……Don’t you talk? Then shall we have a conversation with our bodies?”

Choi Myungjoon grabbed the knife first and rushed in.

Taat-!

Choi Myungjoon watched the goblin mask’s movements.

The goblin mask.

After the destruction, it was the first existence to confront Choi Myungjoon.

No, it was the first existence that Choi Myungjoon was pushed back by.

That was the player.

(Continued in the next episode)