The Regressor Only Protects Me Chapter 99

#Episode 99. Fight in the Flames (2)

“after……!”

My breathing became increasingly difficult.

At the same time, sparks were flying everywhere, sticking to the firefighter’s uniform.

All of the men running with me had their whole bodies on fire.

It’s been a long time since I’ve felt this sensation.

Round 1, that feeling of a close combat between Kim Dong-gil’s team and the barricade.

At that time, I had a powerful weapon called a pistol, but now I have a ball.

There is no need to show any consideration.

There is no place to retreat when the enemies are right in front of you.

We will defeat them all here.

“… … .”

Artifact opening.

Spheres began to orbit steadily around the hand.

It was thanks to the training over the past year.

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

Because she was a regressor, she knew how to grow artifacts quickly.

This power was developed solely to meet his younger brother Jun-ho.

Emotions like guilt, loss, and depression are not necessary for murder.

I erased this feeling and immediately confronted the enemies with my subordinates.

* * *

The soldiers in the front line pushed the warriors down with strong will.

They threw warriors into the hot oil, stabbed their necks, and chopped their skulls with axes.

The fighting power of the soldiers who learned Choi Myeong-jun’s killing techniques was excellent.

No, rather, he had no fear of killing people.

The temperature in the area soared because of the fire, and sparks were flying everywhere like flower petals.

The soldiers wearing fire-retardant clothing were safe, but those without were burned to death.

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

It unfolded fiercely.

The battle has already begun, and the enemies have begun to respond.

Zion walked slowly into the burning battlefield where humans were tangled together in a disorderly manner.

He was not afraid even when he saw warriors with axes before his eyes.

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

Pavababak-!

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

The sphere passed through the warrior’s body and moved forward before stopping in midair and vibrating.

Zion carefully picked up the axe that the warrior had dropped.

Then he looked ahead again.

On the asphalt filled with blood and fire, soldiers and warriors from two forces were locked in a fierce battle.

There was no such thing as hell.

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

Those who were fried in oil died screaming and groaning without even being able to scream.

But Zion’s men jumped into the flames without hesitation.

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

Boom- Boom-!

Axes, knives, and rocks flew from all over the blazing asphalt.

At that moment, a warrior who had kicked a soldier into the burning oil approached Zion, holding a cleaver.

During this time, the warrior shouted desperately towards Zion.

“This fu*king-!!!”

The warrior’s attacks were monotonous, and Zion easily avoided his attacks by twisting his body.

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

Phew! Thud… … .

“Keuk… … !”

Blood spurted from the warrior’s neck and sprayed in all directions.

The warrior knelt before Zion, caressing the hatchet stuck at the back of his neck.

Tank-!

At that moment, a small vibration rang out behind Zion.

It felt like hitting a metal plate with a dull blade.

Zion just turned his eyes and looked at the guy.

One of the warriors aimed his spear and stabbed Zion in the back.

But Zion did not budge.

There was no problem because the ‘sphere’, which was Zion’s ability, was wrapped around his entire body.

When the attack failed, the warrior’s face became stern.

“Ah… … Ph, player… … !”

Whirik-. Whack!

Zion immediately stretched out his hand and aimed his spear, crushing the entire body of the warrior.

Thud… thud… .

The warrior’s blood was sprinkled on the surface of the gas mask, and Zion only wiped the blood off his goggles with his sleeve.

They were afraid of Zion, even though they did not know that Zion was their monarch.

As Zion approached, he hesitated and was busy backing away.

As the round progressed, it was realized that even ordinary people were no match for the players.

Because the player was truly powerful.

Since they did not approach, Zion had no choice but to approach.

‘… … .’

Zion stretched out his hand.

Whirik-!

Then, countless spheres rained down on the hesitating warriors like meteors.

Pavabababak-!

The enemies fell helplessly.

“… … Ugh.”

At that moment, Zion touched his head.

Because after the third attack, I felt like my head was spinning for a moment.

Jin Jae-hee said that this sense is now reduced to one third of its ability.

Not all player abilities are infinite.

Besides, operating this many spheres consumed quite a bit of mental power.

But we can’t stop here.

Blurry vision due to wearing a gas mask.

In that vision, the spheres of Zion leapt into flames.

His spheres began to glow with flames.

It soon began to burn fiercely.

“… … !”

Without a second thought, Zion fired a sphere of fire at the enemy reinforcements coming across the bridge.

Pavabababababak-!

His sphere passed through the flames and rained down on the rushing warriors.

“Ahh… … !”

“100 million……!”

“Whoa!”

Warriors without armor were literally crushed to pieces and fell to the asphalt.

Another approaching reaction was felt from the left.

Zion just turned his head.

Phew-!

But at the same time, a spear was thrust into Zion’s back.

Phew!

Zion frowned in pain.

‘… … .’

The specifics he can use are limited.

Approximately 73 spheres were available.

Of these, 22 are spheres that are attached to the body and used.

Just now, when I was subduing the enemy’s central forces, I also blew away the defensive sphere attached to my body.

So now Zion’s body is defenseless.

He took advantage of the gap to attack Zion, and then whispered behind his back.

“Do you think you’re the only player in this battlefield… …? I’ll kill you.”

He was a player during his time.

His abilities are a mirage.

It is a skill that uses mental power to create a mirage for a certain amount of time.

But whether his power is a mirage or whatever.

Zion’s abilities have already far surpassed the level of an ‘ordinary’ player.

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

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

Jaehee initially named the time when the artifact was opened as ‘Awakening 0’.

All of these names were given by Jin Jae-hee himself.

There was no longer any agency in this world that could define anything.

What you get after training for dozens of months in ‘Awakening 0’ state is ‘Awakening 1.’

Even if you only practiced ‘Awakening 1’, you could create a power gap that was unmatched by that of ordinary players.

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

Although the abilities of higher dimensions clearly exist, Jaehee said that he had never seen them in his past life.

And Zion was already able to use artifacts similar to those in ‘Awakening Stage 2’.

Because the training methods of the regressors were on a completely different level.

Sharp thorns sprouted from the sphere of Zion.

Then it flew straight towards the enemy.

Phew!

Zion’s sphere was embedded in the enemy player’s back, followed by:

Pok, pok, pok, pok, pok, pok, pok-!!!!

Black thorns haphazardly stabbed the player’s back one after another.

“Keuk… … Aah… … !”

The player, who had instantly turned into a hedgehog, fell forward, spitting out blood.

“… … Cluck! Cluck!”

The sphere was shaped like a long wedge, doubling its lethal power.

This change made it sharper and more penetrating than the original sphere.

Normally, a normal human would be able to pierce the skin with a ‘sphere’, but players are different.

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

All those wedges that stood still in the air followed only Zion’s command.

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

However, the reason why this ‘wedge’ was not used from the beginning is simple.

This is because transforming the form like this requires twice as much mental power as before.

Gulp-.

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

There was a need to end the battle quickly.

Because the fire was spreading quickly and my mental strength was at rock bottom.

Even though fire-retardant clothing may block fire to some extent, it does not block it infinitely.

The soldiers’ physical strength was also declining.

Zion lifted all the wedges into the air.

That was the moment.

“… … .”

It was clearly Zion who stopped the wedges in midair, but at that moment, everything in the area stopped.

Small sparks fluttering before my eyes.

Warriors and soldiers swinging axes and daggers at each other.

Warriors dying in flames.

Soldiers running forward with their fire-fighting suits on fire.

Everything stopped, and the only thing moving was Zion’s two eyes.

‘……what?’

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

Clearly time has stopped.

Is this a system error?

Could it be that Zion is the only one that escapes this error?

And Zion faced it.

In a fiery battlefield where soldiers of Man-gyeong and warriors of Dong-an clash.

With a man who looks just like me.

He was just being himself.

The man was dying after being struck by the warrior’s sword during the battle.

“… … .”

Zion couldn’t help but be bewildered when faced with such an extraordinary phenomenon.

But soon time began to flow again.

At the same time, ‘himself’ was also covered by the warrior and naturally disappeared.

Time began to pass quickly again as his wedges floating in the air rained down on the warriors.

Pababababababababababababababak-!!!!

* * *

“Cough… … !”

The sounds of burning, screams, shouts, and gasping for breath all rang in my ears.

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

“Whew… … Phew… … ! Ugh… … !”

Even though I was wearing a fire-fighting suit and a gas mask, it was still incredibly stuffy and hot.

He let out a series of painful coughs.

It was crazy hot and painful.

“Cough… … ! Cough! Ugh… … !”

I fell to the floor straight away from my lying position and vomited.

My whole body was drenched in sweat.

I was out of breath and dizzy.

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

The fireproof gloves were on fire.

The area was so hot that he didn’t even realize his gloves were on fire.

This place was a place of both oil and fire.

Burning corpses and people running away. There was no separation between living hell and inferno.

“Your Majesty… … !”

“Your Majesty!!!”

The soldiers came rushing towards me and started escorting me.

As the battle continued, the soldiers’ eyes were focused on me.

And then a young voice lingered in my ear.

“… … Military… … Sir! Are you… … okay?”

“……ah.”

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

I slowly raised my head at the voice and looked forward.

A boy was running towards me.

A faint silhouette emerged from the flames, obscuring the view ahead.

It was Junho.

My younger brother, Kang Jun-ho.

The boy running towards me was definitely Junho.

I called that name with trembling lips.

“Junho… … .”

But the world wasn’t that easy.

The boy I saw again was not Jun-ho. It was the 206th unit leader, Jeong Hyeon-su, who was carrying a bow.

“Your Majesty!!! I… … am Hyeon-su!”

At that voice, the hand that had been extended to the boy hesitated and naturally withdrew.

Chorrrrrr!

Jeong Hyeon-su came through the burning oil and helped me up.

I raised my head and looked at Hyun-soo in a field of vision filled with red.

“Your Majesty… …! Your Majesty! Are you alright… …! Support has arrived!”

Hyunsoo’s face shook in his dim vision.

‘Oh, that’s right.’

Jun-ho must have grown into a mature young man like Hyun-soo by now.

He must be taller than me.

These days, I can’t keep up with the pace of development of children.

I thought to myself, she must be 15 years old now.

“Let’s go… …! I’ll take you!”

Captain Jeong Hyeon-su may have been his younger brother and classmate.

Because we are the same age.

Whatever it was, it didn’t matter now.

The battle was ongoing, and I was the supreme commander on the battlefield.

I had to finish this operation.

“……small?”

“Almost all of them… … are gone. Our fighters are currently mopping up the remaining thugs.”

I looked around while being supported by Hyunsoo.

There was chaos all around.

Looking around, it seemed as if the soldiers had killed most of the warriors, just as he had said.

The soldiers were slaughtering the fallen warriors indiscriminately.

The corpses of the warriors were so thick that the asphalt was not even visible.

The warriors covered in blood were hoping to die quickly, and the surviving warriors were running away towards Anyangcheon.

I got up from my seat with Hyunsoo’s support.

I wiped the sweat from my forehead and looked at the camp of the men from which sparks were flying.

‘… … hot.’

I was just breathing, but it was excruciatingly painful.

Flames shot up haphazardly as they met oil, making the surrounding area look like a blast furnace.

It was a temperature that would have burned my bare skin if I hadn’t been wearing a fire suit.

But this would have pretty much destroyed them.

So much so that revival was almost impossible.

What should I do?

Park Ji-su will now have to increase the number of troops at Anyang Station.

If we don’t take over Bisan here, our sides will be unstable.

For them, this was a land they absolutely had to occupy.

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

I walked down a street filled with blood and corpses, supported by soldiers.

At that moment, a name resonated throughout the room.

“Kang Shion! Kang Shion! Kang Shion!”

“Kang Shion! Kang Shion! Kang Shion!”

The apartment windows were filled with soldiers shouting my name.

It was the shouting of the soldiers of Man-gyeong, thrilled by their victory.

With this, the enemy’s spirit was mercilessly trampled, and the morale of our troops soared through the roof.

But the war is not over.

“The fire is too… … strong. Retreat to the camp with the troops… … .”

“… … I will serve you, Your Majesty. Say no more. Blood… … !”

Hyunsoo supported me.

Just then, someone came towards me and shouted.

I frowned when I saw him.

(Continued in the next episode)