The Regressor Only Protects Me [EN]: Chapter 99

Fight in the Flames (2)

“Hah……!”

My breath came in ragged gasps.

At the same time, sparks flew in all directions, sticking to various parts of my fire suit.

The subordinates running with me were all engulfed in flames.

This feeling… it’s been a while.

Round 1, that feeling from when I was fighting tooth and nail with Kim Dong-gil’s Blue Team across the barricade.

Back then, I had a powerful weapon called a pistol, but now I had the spheres.

There’s no need to hold back.

With the enemies right in front of me, there’s nowhere to retreat.

I will defeat them all here.

“…….”

Artifact release.

The spheres began to orbit evenly around my hands.

It was thanks to the training over the past year.

Thanks to Jin Jae-hee’s guidance, I was able to move forward quickly.

Because she was a regressor [someone who has been reborn or sent back in time], she knew how to quickly grow the artifact.

This power was cultivated solely to meet my younger brother, Jun-ho.

Feelings like guilt, loss, or depression are not needed for killing.

I erased these emotions and immediately clashed with the enemies along with my subordinates.

* * *

The soldiers in the front lines knocked down the warriors with firm resolve.

They knocked the warriors down onto the hot oil, stabbed their necks, and smashed their skulls with axes.

The combat power of the soldiers who learned Choi Myung-joon’s killing techniques was outstanding.

No, more than that, they had no fear of killing people.

The temperature in this area soared due to the flames, and sparks were flying everywhere like flower petals.

The soldiers wearing fire suits were safe, but the warriors who weren’t burned to death.

Nevertheless, the number of warriors was large, so the battle entered a new phase.

It unfolded fiercely.

The battle had already begun, and the enemies began to respond.

Sion slowly walked into the burning battlefield where humans were randomly entangled.

He was not afraid even when he saw warriors with axes in front of him.

He simply crossed his fingers and released a sphere towards the warrior rushing at him.

Pow-pow-pow-!

In an instant, the warrior collapsed helplessly to the side with wind holes all over his body.

The sphere that passed through the warrior’s body went forward and stopped in the air, vibrating.

Sion carefully grabbed the hand axe that the warrior had dropped.

Then he looked forward again.

Asphalt filled with blood and fire; here, soldiers and warriors from two forces were entangled in a desperate fight.

It was a living hell.

All kinds of flesh and blood splattered, and some were being fried alive in the burning oil.

Those fried in oil made sounds of “uh, uh” and died without even screaming.

But through those flames, Sion’s subordinates jumped in without hesitation.

Flames soared, and fire quickly spread along the asphalt into the complex.

Whoosh- Whoosh-!

Axes, knives, and stones flew from all over the asphalt where flames were rising.

At that time, a warrior who had kicked a soldier into the burning oil approached Sion with a knife.

The middle-aged warrior shouted desperately at Sion.

“You son of a bitch-!!!”

The warrior’s attack was simple, and Sion easily avoided his attack by twisting his body.

Then he brought the axe down on the staggering warrior’s neck.

Thud! Chwaarruk…….

“Keuhuk……!”

The blood that gushed out from the warrior’s neck splattered everywhere.

The warrior groped for the hand axe stuck in the back of his neck and knelt down in front of Sion.

Tang-!

At that moment, a small vibration rang out from behind Sion.

It felt like hitting an iron plate with a blunt blade.

Sion only turned his eyes to look at him.

A warrior had aimed a spear and stabbed Sion in the back.

But Sion didn’t budge.

Because Sion’s ability, ‘Sphere,’ was wrapped around his entire body, there was no problem.

When the attack didn’t work, the warrior’s face turned pale.

“Ah…… P, Player……!”

Swoosh-. Crack!

Sion immediately reached out and crushed the warrior who had aimed the spear.

Thud, thud…….

The warrior’s blood splattered on the surface of the gas mask, and Sion wiped the blood from his goggles with his sleeve.

They were afraid of Sion even though they didn’t know he was a lord.

When Sion approached, they hesitated and were busy backing away.

This was because they realized that ordinary people were no match for players as the rounds progressed.

Players were truly powerful.

Since they didn’t come close, Sion had no choice but to approach.

‘…….’

Sion reached out.

Swoosh-!

Then, countless spheres covered the hesitant warriors like a meteor shower.

Pow-pow-pow-pow-!

The enemies fell helplessly.

“……Ugh.”

At that moment, Sion touched his head.

This was because after the third attack, he felt a momentary dizziness.

Jin Jae-hee said that this feeling was when one-third of his ability was reduced.

All of a player’s abilities are not infinite.

Moreover, when operating so many spheres, a lot of mental power was consumed.

But I can’t stop here.

A murky view because I was wearing a gas mask.

In that view, Sion’s spheres jumped into the flames.

His spheres began to heat up in the flames.

Soon, they began to burn fiercely.

“……!”

Without hesitation, Sion sent the spheres heated in the fire towards the enemy reinforcements crossing the bridge.

Pow-pow-pow-pow-pow-!

His spheres passed through the flames and poured down on the rushing warriors.

“Aaaagh……!”

“Ugh……!”

“Kyaaak!”

The warriors who were not wearing armor became minced meat and fell on the asphalt.

Another approach reaction was felt from the left.

Sion only turned his head.

Swish-!

But at the same time, a spear was stabbed into Sion’s back.

Stab-!

Sion narrowed his eyes in pain.

‘…….’

The number of spheres he could use was limited.

He could use about 73 spheres.

Of these, 22 spheres were attached to the body.

When he was subduing the enemy reinforcements just now, he also sent away the defensive spheres attached to his body.

So now Sion’s body was defenseless.

The guy took advantage of that gap to attack Sion, and then whispered from behind.

“Did you think you were the only player on this battlefield……? I’ll kill you.”

The guy was a middle-aged player.

The guy’s ability was Mirage.

It was to create mirages for a certain period of time by consuming mental power.

But whether the guy’s ability was Mirage or whatever.

Sion’s ability had already far surpassed the level of an ‘ordinary’ player.

Jin Jae-hee told me about Awakening 1 and Awakening 2.

Artifacts can evolve in proportion to the caster’s training and ability.

Jae-hee initially named the time when the artifact was first opened as ‘Awakening 0.’

All these names were given by Jin Jae-hee herself.

Because there was no longer an institution in this world to define anything.

What you get through months of training in the ‘Awakening 0’ state is ‘Awakening 1.’

Even if you have only mastered ‘Awakening 1,’ you can create a unique gap in power with ordinary players.

And ‘Awakening 2,’ which only the top-class players in the league can obtain.

There was definitely a higher level of ability, but Jae-hee said she had never seen it in her previous life.

And Sion was already using an artifact similar to the ‘Awakening Level 2’ stage.

The regressor’s training method was on a different level.

Sharp thorns sprouted from Sion’s spheres.

Then they flew towards the enemy.

Stab-!

Sion’s spheres were stuck in the back of the enemy player, and then.

Stab, stab, stab, stab, stab, stab-!!!!

The player, who had instantly become a hedgehog, vomited blood and fell forward.

“Keuhuk…… Aaa……!”

It was to increase the killing power by making the spheres into long wedge shapes.

When transformed like this, it was sharper and had more penetrating power than the existing spheres.

Originally, ordinary humans could pierce the skin with ‘spheres,’ but players are different.

To deal with players, you had to have more powerful destructive power.

All those wedges that stopped in the air obeyed only Sion’s orders.

Already, wedges were floating and vibrating in the air of the battlefield.

The reason why he didn’t use this ‘wedge’ from the beginning was simple.

Transforming the shape like this requires twice as much mental power as before.

Drip-.

Blood flowed down from between Sion’s lips inside the gas mask.

I needed to end the battle quickly.

Because the fire was spreading quickly and my mental power was running out.

No matter how much the fire suit blocks the fire to some extent, it does not block it infinitely.

The soldiers’ stamina was also running out.

Sion floated all the wedges in the air.

It was that moment.

“…….”

It was clear that it was Sion who stopped the wedges in the air, but at this moment everything in this area stopped.

The small sparks flying in front of my eyes.

The warriors and soldiers wielding axes and daggers at each other.

The warriors burning to death.

The soldiers running forward with fire on their fire suits.

All of these things stopped, and the only things moving were Sion’s two eyes.

‘……What is it?’

His black eyes moved once to the left and once to the right.

Time had definitely stopped.

Is it a system error?

Could it be that Sion was the only one who escaped from that error?

And Sion faced it.

In the burning battlefield where Myeongyeong’s soldiers and middle-aged warriors were clashing.

With a man who looked exactly like himself.

He was just himself.

The man was dying from the middle-aged warrior’s knife.

“…….”

Sion couldn’t help but be embarrassed by the extraordinary phenomenon.

But soon time began to flow again.

At the same time, ‘that self’ was also naturally obscured and disappeared by the warrior.

His wedges floating in the air poured down on the warrior, and time flowed quickly again.

Pow-pow-pow-pow-pow-pow-pow-pow-pow-pow-pow-pow-!!!!

* * *

“Cough……!”

The sound of burning, screams, shouts, and heavy breathing intertwined and lingered in my ears.

I collapsed to the floor with a faint groan. Then I took off my gas mask.

“Hueu…… Puhah……! Ugh……!”

Even wearing a fire suit and a gas mask, it was maddeningly stuffy and hot.

I vomited a series of painful coughs.

It was maddeningly hot and painful.

“Cough……! Cough! Ugh……!”

I immediately lay face down on the floor and vomited.

My whole body was drenched in sweat.

I was out of breath and my mind was dizzy.

I lay face down, coughed, and looked at my gloves.

The fireproof gloves were burning.

The area was so hot that I didn’t even know the gloves were on fire.

This place was full of oil and fire.

Burning corpses and fleeing people. There was no separate living hell and hellfire.

“Lord……!”

“Lord!!!”

The soldiers rushed to me and began to escort me.

Even while continuing the battle, the soldiers’ eyes were on me.

And a young voice lingered in my ear.

“……Lord……! Are you al…… right……?”

“……Ah.”

It was the voice of my younger brother, Jun-ho, which I vaguely remembered.

At that voice, I slowly raised my head and looked forward.

A young boy was running towards me.

A faint silhouette cutting through the flames blocked my view.

It was Jun-ho.

My younger brother, Kang Jun-ho.

The boy running towards me was clearly Jun-ho.

I called that name with trembling lips.

“Jun-ho…….”

But the world was not easy.

The boy I saw again was not Jun-ho. It was Jeong Hyun-soo, the leader of the 206th building, carrying a bow.

“Lord!!! I…… I’m Hyun-soo!”

At that voice, the hand I had reached out to the boy hesitated and naturally retreated.

Chwaarruk-!

Jeong Hyun-soo came through the oil full of flames and supported me.

I raised my head and looked at Hyun-soo in the vision of the all-red background.

“Lord……! Lord! Are you okay……! Support has arrived!”

Hyun-soo’s face in the faint vision shook.

‘Ah, that’s right.’

Jun-ho would probably be a fine young man like Hyun-soo by now.

He would be taller than me.

Because I can’t keep up with the physical development of kids these days.

I thought he would be 15 years old already.

“Let’s go……! I’ll escort you!”

Building leader Jeong Hyun-soo may be a classmate of my brother.

Because they are the same age.

Whatever it is, none of that matters now.

The battle was continuing, and I was the supreme commander of the battlefield.

I had to end this operation.

“……The enemy?”

“Almost all…… have been defeated. Our combat soldiers are mopping up the remaining rabble.”

I looked around while being supported by Hyun-soo.

All sides were on fire.

Looking around, it seemed that the soldiers had defeated most of the warriors as he said.

The soldiers were indiscriminately slaughtering the fallen warriors.

The warriors’ corpses were so full that the asphalt could not be seen.

The blood-soaked warriors were hoping to die quickly, and the surviving warriors were fleeing towards Anyangcheon.

I got up from my seat with Hyun-soo’s support.

I wiped the sweat flowing from my forehead and looked at the bastards’ base where flames were flying.

‘……It’s hot.’

It was painful just to breathe.

The flames that met the oil soared indiscriminately, and the surrounding area was like a furnace.

If I didn’t have a fire suit, the temperature would have been so high that my bare skin would have burned.

But with this, they would have been almost annihilated.

To the point where recovery is almost impossible.

What to do.

Park Ji-soo will now have to increase troops from Anyang Station.

If they don’t take over this Bisan, the flanks will be unstable.

This place was land that they had to occupy.

But as long as I’m here, I won’t give it up easily. Never.

I walked down the street full of blood and corpses while being supported by the soldier.

At that time, a name filled the complex.

“Kang Sion! Kang Sion! Kang Sion!”

“Kang Sion! Kang Sion! Kang Sion!”

The soldiers filling the apartment windows were shouting my name.

It was the sound of Myeongyeong’s soldiers, who were moved by the victory, shouting.

With this, the enemies’ morale was brutally trampled, and the allies’ morale soared.

But the war was not over.

“The fire is too…… fierce. Take the troops and retreat to the base…….”

“……I will obey. Lord. D-don’t say any more. Blood……!”

Hyun-soo supported me.

At that time, someone shouted and approached me.

I frowned when I saw him.

(Continued in the next episode)