Absolute Regression Chapter 588

Episode 588 When you realize that being alone is harder

The sword dance and the sword king walked through the dark passage.
This time, the walls were covered with all sorts of patterns, letters, and pictures. The style was similar to the paintings they had seen before, but different. It didn’t seem like they were drawn by the same person, but they gave off a similar feeling.

‘Are they death brothers?’

I thought that might be the case.
Since I had discovered the destruction method in the picture earlier, I didn’t take each letter lightly.

“Look here.”

There was a picture where the sword dance was pointing. The pattern that had previously been used as a destruction method was drawn here as well.

“It seems like a design that has meaning to those who created this place.”

The Sword King nodded once and didn’t say anything else.
That was when the two reached the middle of the passage.

Ss …

The moment I felt the formation being activated, my surroundings changed in an instant.

‘Here?’

The blue sky reflected beneath his feet. This place, which felt like he was standing in the sky, was where Geommu-geuk had sent out his prayer.
So below was the sea. Above, it was infinitely clear and peaceful, but below, it was an endless abyss of a sea.

“Teacher!”

The sword dance called out, but the sword king was not there.

“Should I have re-tied the rope?”

Of course, it was a joke. Even if I tied the rope, I wouldn’t be able to enter this space with the Sword King. This was definitely a gate that each of us had to pass through.

“You’re not just making me suffer while you play and watch, are you?”

At that moment, when Geommugeuk’s voice was ringing out loud, someone appeared in front of him.
Surprisingly, the opponent was Geommugeuk himself. Geommugeuk was not surprised even though another version of himself had appeared.

I know very well that this method of revealing oneself was often used in magic and formations of the past. This gate will be a gate to test one’s inner strength.

This is my heart, so trust me.

With that determination, Geommugeuk approached him first.
Geommugeuk looked at his face quietly and spoke to himself.

“long time no see.”

Another swordsman looked at me with a puzzled look at the greeting, “It’s been a while.”

“I see you sometimes.”

If others heard it, they would think he was crazy, but in reality, whenever he takes a break alone, he sometimes faces his lonely self before his return.
One day, he stood facing a large hole between him and told himself not to fall into it.

“You came here today to get me into trouble.”

At that moment when another person’s eyes sparkled, the place where he was standing changed in an instant.

The sword dance was running.

‘Here?’

The place he was headed to was the Cheonma Hall within the Cheonma Shingyo.

‘father!’

That was that day. The day when all the Cheonmajeon family members were killed by Hwamugi!
Geommugeuk ran to Cheonmajeon, desperately calling for his father. This shouldn’t have happened, but at that time, he was too excited to make a different judgment.

Corpses lying on the ground. All of the members of the Cheonmajeon clan, including those who didn’t know how to do martial arts, were lying on the ground. I was even more excited by the sight.

‘The outer garden is intact, so how on earth did the Cheonma Hall get breached?’

As if answering that question, a figure appeared.
A person with his arms crossed looking down on the wall surrounding Cheonmajeon. He was the former Sehonmajeon.

It was a sight that had not been seen that day in the past. An illusion that could only be seen in this current formation.
Since he had considered him a traitor, his appearance must have been visible. Because this place was his own heart now.

I could see the shape of a firearm in the distance.

I couldn’t see his face, but I could feel him smiling coldly in my direction.

A single ray of black energy flew in without a word.
Ian was also seen throwing himself in front of him.

‘Ian.’

He felt the sword energy that had pierced Ian’s chest pass through his own chest.
As he fell while covered, Ian’s hot blood flowed down to his chest.

That day, which I had tried hard not to recall because I was so helpless, was vividly replayed in Jinbeop.

At that moment, someone walked up to him and looked down at him as he fell. He was neither a fire weapon nor a demon lord.

He was a bloodthirsty demon with a large sword on his back. His eyes were extremely cold.
Next to him stood the evil soma, looking down at him. His smile under the mask was unfamiliar. The other demons gathered around him as he died.

The big fist of Kwonma was visible, and the face of Ilhwageomjeon with heavy makeup was also visible. The smell of drunkenness vibrated, and Mabul’s body emitted a red light instead of a golden light. The pictures on the poison pouch on the Poison King’s waist were not cute as they are now, but rather scary.

They were all looking down at themselves and laughing at themselves.

The swordsman could tell that this formation was bewitching him. That day, everyone was a traitor.

-Be angry!

So he wanted to make his blood boil like lava.

If he had been an ordinary person who had not regressed, this pain and hatred would have dominated him. The unknown energy that Jinbeop emitted was endlessly paralyzing his reason and drawing out suspicion and anger. It was an energy that an ordinary person could never stop.

This formation was the Blood Wave Mad Spirit Formation, which stimulated the anger and hatred deep in people’s hearts and drove them mad.

But it didn’t work on Geommugeuk.

‘From the beginning, when I first regressed, I thought they were all traitors.’

That’s how I came here.
But why did I treat them so sincerely? Because this life is different from the last.

It doesn’t matter who betrayed you in your past life. The demons in this life are different people. They were made into different people. Their fates have all changed.

Looking up at the demons who were laughing at the sword dance, he smiled brightly instead.

“Where have you been?”

The swordsman got up. Before he knew it, Ian’s body had disappeared, and the wounds that had pierced his body had also disappeared.

As Geommu-geuk smiled and greeted them, Jin-beop dug into another weak point.

-Are you really going to protect them all?

When I looked back, there were others.
Not only the demons, but Ian, Seo Dae-ryong, Jang Ho-e, and even his friends showed up. Bisain, Jin Ha-gun, Jin Ha-ryeong, Han Seol. Even the guards and Jo Chun-bae. Everyone he knew showed up.

-You’re arrogant. Life is hard enough protecting yourself, but how can you protect so many people?

Another self walked towards the sword dance.

-Admit it. It’s hard. Admit it’s really hard and you can’t do it.

with a plop.

The demons began to grab the arms and legs of Geommugeuk and hang on to him. Geommugeuk began to be dragged into the abyss beneath his feet.

Everyone else rushed in and started to drag the swordsman away. They were all shouting for help.

In this way, the sword dance fell into the abyss.

At that moment, another swordsman looked down at the water with a satisfied face.

Phew! Phew!

Geomwugeuk jumped out of the water again.
Everyone who had pulled him up had lifted Geomwugeuk up onto the surface of the water.
They were not the ones who had formed the formation that had pulled Geomwugeuk up just a moment ago. They were making the same expressions as those who were with Geomwugeuk right now.
The formation had not been able to control Geomwugeuk’s mind.

“I’m not tired.”

-Don’t fool yourself.

The sword dance drama could be felt. The moment you admit that it is difficult, the person who has fallen into the formation will collapse.
At the same time, the method of destroying this formation does not acknowledge that. So that the formation can be convinced.

“It’s not as hard as you think. Once you realize that it’s harder to be alone.”
“!”

This time, Geommu-geuk walked towards his other self.
Everyone was standing behind this Geommu-geuk, while the other Geommu-geuk was alone.

Geommu-geuk looked at his other self. He was not just an illusion created by the formation. He was his own self before his regression.

“Because you were there, I could create these people. I really mean it.”

That’s why the gaze looking at me was so gentle.

“Isn’t it hard? It is hard. Don’t you want to go somewhere alone? Sometimes I want to go. But if you were me, you would know.”

Now the sword dance did not speak to himself, but to the one who created this gate.

“You’ve never lived a life alone. You’ve never spent so many nights alone, or walked endless paths talking to your own footsteps. When you experience that terrible loneliness, you know. That alone time isn’t so good, that it doesn’t give you a sense of freedom. Don’t you know that alone time is only valuable when you have someone to go with you?”

Geommugeuk spoke to himself and Jinbeop with even softer eyes.

“This strategy doesn’t work on me, so back off now.”

The moment he finished speaking, surprisingly, the formation began to collapse.

Sssssss.

The people around him began to disappear one by one.
Geommugeuk turned around and watched them disappear. They were the ones born from his mind and disappearing into his mind.

“See you all at our school!”

The others disappeared first, and the Mazones disappeared last.
They disappeared in the form that the Sword Dance Theater wanted, because they were created by his own mind.

Bloodthirsty Demon sits with his long sword planted on the ground and holds out a glass of wine. Evil Demon takes off his mask. Drunk Demon staggers and falls over. I’m sorry, brother. Poison King squats and looks at the poisonous insect. Ilhwa Sword Lord draws his sword and aims it at himself. Ma Bul makes a Buddha statue. Seop Hon Ma Lord greets happily.

And as always, Father laughed.
The moment Father disappeared, the formation completely disappeared and Geommugeuk was left standing in the dark passage again.

“Phew.”

Geommugeuk let out a small sigh and slowly walked to the end of the passage.

Clank.

Then the door at the end opened.
In fact, he passed this gate more easily than the first one. Because he had a stronger mind than anyone else, the Blood Wave Light Spirit was unable to penetrate his mind.

But the Sword King was not there yet.
Instead of entering through the door, Sword Dancer sat down with his back to the door and looked at the passage he had passed through.

“Stop wandering around and come out.”

Geommugeuk sat down and closed his eyes.

How long have you been waiting like that?

“Phew.”

The Sword King appeared with a long sigh.
From his sigh, you could tell how difficult this passage had been. Who had caught him and dragged him into the abyss?

“Thank goodness you shook it off.”

The Sword King asked with a surprised expression, seeing that the Sword Dance Theater came first.

“Wasn’t it hard for you?”
“Because my life is so simple.”

Is that really so? The Sword King, who had been looking at the open door behind him, asked again. The smell wafting from there was a smell that no martial artist could resist. That peculiar and pleasant scent that emitted from elixirs.

“Why didn’t you go in alone?”
“Because I have enough loyalty to endure it.”

The Sword King approached the Sword Dance Theater and said.

“I acknowledge your loyalty and give you half this time too.”

The Sword King opened the door wide.
The Sword King and the Sword Dancer looked inside, but this time they were speechless.
A greater emotion than when they first entered the room bloomed on the faces of the two.

“You’re right. What we’re saying is that the room wasn’t the one we were going to enjoy.”

This room was truly a space for the unmanned. All sorts of elixirs were displayed on the display stands on all sides.
Geommugeuk walked slowly.

“Can I really have half?”

The Sword King nodded.

“These are things you can’t buy even if you have money, but still?”

Even if you have a lot of money, it is not easy to obtain the elixir here. Of course, you can obtain it. If you pay tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of nyang for one elixir.

The Sword King nodded and said.

“I have that much sense of duty. Okay, I’m hungry, so let’s eat first. If we leave some, it will only do good things for others.”

The Sword King threw the elixir in front of him to Geommu-geuk.
Surprisingly, the elixir he had just thrown turned out to be Shinhwadan (神火丹), which had effects comparable to those of the Everlasting Ginseng.

“I never refuse elixirs given to me.”
“Half is yours.”
“I will gratefully take it.”

The sword dance asked, chewing up the Shinwhadan.

“But can I just give elixir to someone I’m supposed to fight?”
“So I take it too?”

The Sword King also chewed on the Yeongdan.

Geommu-geuk sat down first and began to dissolve the medicinal effects while chanting.
Geomwang also approached Geommu-geuk while trying to chant.
He stood in front of him and quietly looked down at Geommu-geuk.
Since he was chanting while dissolving the medicinal effects, now was the perfect opportunity to attack. Naturally, a strange sense of tension spread throughout the air.

“What if I take you by surprise when you’re having fun?”

Geommu-geuk closed his eyes and said nothing.
The Sword King bent down, looked at his face, and spoke again.

“Can you talk while exercising? You can even move.”

Still not saying anything, the Sword King tried to stab him in the eye. At that moment, Sword Dancer turned his head away and opened his eyes.

“I believe that he is not that kind of person.”

The Sword King shook his head with an expression of “as expected.” He spoke and moved freely during the exercise. He was a small cult leader who had already surpassed the general crowd.

When the Sword King sat cross-legged next to him, this time Geommugeuk asked.

“What if I finish first and then attack?”

The Sword King said, closing his eyes.

“Okay, then do that.”

He started eating breakfast as if he really believed in the sword dance.

After looking at him for a moment, Geommu-geuk closed his eyes again.
The two of them concentrated on their luck and dissolved all the potion.
After finishing their luck, Geomwang threw another elixir at Geommu-geuk.

“This is delicious too.”

This elixir was Jeokundan.

“Considering the nature of the medicinal properties, it seems like these two could be dissolved together?”

He threw another elixir at Geommu-geuk. This time it was the So-myeong-dan.

“Are you sure you want to eat it all?”
“You don’t like it? If you don’t like it, then don’t eat it.”

When the Sword King reached out and asked for his hand back, Geommu-geuk put the spirit tablets he was holding into his mouth repeatedly.

“No way.”

The two took the elixir, dissolved it, took it again, dissolved it again, and repeated this process. They never thought that one day they would feel full after taking the elixir.

When the luck was over, the two people’s eyes were extremely clear and deep.
In particular, the internal energy of the sword dance was like his prayer. It was so clear and deep that it was impossible to measure its amount.

However, there was still some elixir left there, so Geommugeuk took his share.

“Who are you saving so much for?”
“Who would you give it to?”
“It’s all in vain if you put it in someone else’s mouth. Just eat it yourself while you can.”

However, Geommu-geuk took it in his arms and stood in front of the door again.
The dark passage radiated even more powerful energy than before.
Geommu-geuk could feel it instinctively. This was the final gate.
Beyond that, there must be something the Sword King desires. The core of this underground treasury was not the treasure or the elixir, but right there.

“At this point, you must confess. In fact, I can pass all the gates here, but I pretended to be difficult in order to test you. Now that the test for you is over, I will let you pass the last gate.”

The Sword King made another confession.

“I almost died at the gate earlier.”
“…….”
“…….”

Geommugeuk entered the dark passage first and asked him.

“Are you giving me half this time too?”