The Regressed Mercenary’s Machinations Chapter 766

Episode 766 My World is… … (1)

Dddddddddddd!
Jisel gritted his teeth and tried to pull out his arm, drawing out his magical power. But it wasn’t easy.
Even with the sword stuck in his body, Rahamod was holding on to Jisel with all his might.
Jisel glared at Rahamod with cold eyes.
It seemed that Rahamod was willing to accept the loss since the match wouldn’t be easy.
However, Jisel didn’t panic. There were plenty of ways to escape. If he lacked the strength, he could just cut off his wrist.
Astion would hate it, but if he made a prosthetic hand that moved with magical power even without a hand, he would have no problem living.
And now, there was an even better way.
“You made a mistake.”
Jisel poured all his magical power into Gramdir.
Until then, his attacks had been blocked by his energy, but now that the sword had dug into his body, it was different.
Paaaaaaaah!
“Keuuuuk!”
A boiling groan burst from Rahamod’s mouth.
Because Giselle’s magical power exploded inside Rahamode, tearing everything apart.
No matter how great Rahamode’s regenerative power was, it was dangerous if he was hit from the inside.
However, Rahamode did not collapse easily.
He gritted his teeth and poured out his energy. The energy enveloped Giselle’s body, binding him tightly and restraining his movements.
The more he did, the more Giselle poured out her magical power. She intended to destroy Rahamode’s body from the inside and end this battle.
This situation was not limited to just the two of them.
Kwajijijik!
Grondal’s halberd dug into Taghmah’s side.
“You bastard! What were you thinking right now…”
Grondal also realized that Taghmah had been attacked on purpose. Taghmah also poured out his energy and grabbed Grondal.
The movements of both Giselle and Grondal were tied down.
Accordingly, Rahamode and Taghmah were also in serious danger.
Reckless actions like now would not only not turn the tide of battle, but would also lead to their deaths.
However, Rahamod and Taghmah risked
their lives not to win the battle,
but
to create
a
single
opportunity
.
“
Keuu
…
The priest who had been fighting Erenes rushed straight towards Deneb. Munaref also changed direction.
Giselle tried to move right away, but Rahamod’s restraints were still strongly pressing down on his body.
Rahamod risked his life and poured all his strength into restraining Giselle.
“Ugh…!”
Giselle gritted her teeth and spurted out threads of magical power.
Paaaaaaaah!
Hundreds of threads exploded and entangled Munaref’s body.
Even so, Giselle did not feel relieved and quickly turned her head. This was because the priest on Erenes’ side was also moving.
However, the priest was interrupted by an unexpected person.
“Euaaaaaaah!”
Lionel blocked the priest’s path with a scream that was almost a scream.
He was supporting Erenes from behind. Since the fight was so intense, he would have been an obstacle if he had stepped directly into the front.
On the contrary, that was why he was not affected when Tagmah struck Erenes down.
He also knew that he had to protect Deneb. He didn’t like her, but that was a separate issue.
However, with Lionel’s skills, it was impossible to properly deal with a superhuman. He simply chose to block her.
Kwaaaaah!
The two collided violently. Normally, Lionel should have been thrown backwards.
However, he used all his strength to endure the impact and hugged the priest.
Although they both rolled on the ground, he was able to protect Deneb safely.
“This bastard!”
The priest raised his hand to strike Lionel. However, he couldn’t follow through immediately.
Swish!
“Euuuuuu!”
The divine power in Lionel’s body strongly penetrated the priest’s body.
The priest, who was already exhausted, felt a burning pain all over his body.
Normally, he should have prepared himself to die and poured explosive energy into Deneb, but now, the pain alone was enough to scatter all his concentration.
“Get out of the way! You bastard!”
The priest barely held onto Lionel’s head, barely holding onto the pain.
“Ugh……”
Lionel resisted the strong force digging into his body and hugged the priest tighter. Then the priest now hit Lionel’s head hard with his fist.
Kwaang! Kwaang! Kwaaang!
Lionel poured all his mana into blocking the impact, but he knew he wouldn’t be able to last long. Still, he gritted his teeth and forced himself to hold on to his senses.
“Lionel!”
Erenes hurriedly approached the priest and attacked him. However, the priest took the attack and attacked Lionel without thinking.
The most important thing right now was to somehow deal with Deneb.
Still, Erenes bought him a little time. Giselle turned her head towards Munaref again.
Tdddddddddddd!
Munaref was trying to move forward even though his steps were tied by Giselle’s technique.
He stopped for a moment.
Piss!
The magic thread snapped, and his body began to rush forward again.
Giselle tried to continue to bind Munarev by emitting magic thread again, but it only slowed him down.
Thud thud thud!
Munarev broke through Giselle’s obstruction and advanced toward Deneb.
Even though his speed was slowed, he was still a superhuman. He would be able to reach Deneb in the blink of an eye.
“Julian!”
The only one who could stop him was now Julian.
At Giselle’s shout, Julian hurriedly chased after Munarev.
However, Munarev was still faster.
“Deneb!”
Julian threw himself with all his might.
Had he ever exerted this much strength in his life?
He felt his flesh tearing and his muscles tearing, but he ran without caring.
Even so, Munarev’s back was out of his reach.
Giselle continued to bind Munarev’s body, but in the end, he could not stop him.
Gradually, more and more. Munarev was reaching out to Deneb.
Knock!
Yulien’s body creaked as if it was screaming, unable to overcome the force.
Still, he couldn’t stop. All of his will was focused on chasing Munarev… no, more precisely, protecting Deneb.
Paaaaah… …
In that moment, Yulien felt something strange.
As if the flow of time had suddenly stopped, everything around him was slowing down.
Munarev, Giselle, Grondal.
The blood-splattering shouts, the rough breathing, even the wind brushing his body.
Everything was slowing down.
‘This is… … .’
He didn’t know why, but if it had slowed down like this, he felt like he could catch up to Munarev now.
However.
His body felt heavy, as if he had fallen into the deep sea. A suffocating pressure was coming over him.
His consciousness had reached the rift in time, but his body couldn’t keep up.
The gap between his mind and body.
That gap was digging into his heart like despair.
Only then did Julian realize.
This was the time a superhuman sees.
And that he wasn’t a superhuman yet.
It was just a coincidence that occurred when his concentration and immersion reached their peak.
‘Superhuman… … .’
He had to reach the level of a superhuman. Only then could his body follow this mental time.
However, becoming a superhuman wasn’t something you could just want to become. If it were that easy to reach the level of a superhuman, he would have done so long ago.
‘Deneb… … .’
Munarev’s body was getting closer and closer to Deneb.
Julian could only watch as he dragged his heavy body along.
Thump thump… … .
Munarev opened his hand. Darkness slowly began to gather in his hand.
In just a little while, Munarev’s hand would crush Deneb.
‘No… … Don’t… … .’
Julian gritted his teeth. He tried to stop Munareb somehow.
One step at a time. He walked with difficulty.
Even so, Yulien couldn’t close the gap with Munareph.
It was impossible to close that gap unless you were a superhuman.
‘Giselle… …’
– A superhuman, you know. You have to establish your own world to get there.
That’s what Giselle said about the steps to becoming a superhuman.
Even he, who always showed the way clearly, spoke vaguely about that.
– Some people with strong convictions become superhumans, but that’s not always the case. Some people can gain enlightenment while eating, and some can become superhumans by just ignorantly training.
― That’s why I’m saying that you have to establish your own world. The reasons for crossing the wall are different for each person.
― So what do you do? I can’t explain that clearly either. You have to figure it out on your own.
Of course, Yulien and Kyle didn’t understand that. It was so difficult and so far-fetched.
Even though he had already reached the highest level, Yulien always stayed at the threshold.
‘My world… … .’
He was just an ordinary person from the countryside. He
had no grand goals, nor any strong desires for anything.
He had lived a hard life as an orphan. Surviving hunger, cold, contempt, and rejection was his priority.
Then he met his friends.
Kyle, who was rough but cheerful, Astion, who seemed a little crazy but knew a lot.
And… … Deneb, who had always protected and taken care of him since he was young.
Thanks to those friends, he was able to avoid going down the wrong path.
Astion was the reason his ordinary life changed.
― The prophet inside me said that! We are the ones who will save the world!
No one believed Astion’s words. They just thought that a strange friend was making a fuss.
Astion, who had amazing knowledge, taught his friends how to become stronger. They were able to become stronger little by little under Astion’s guidance.
Deneve often told her friends.
– Let’s live by helping the needy with this power.
Yulien nodded to her words.
Saving the world was too grand for him, but he thought he could do it.
He knew how much the powerless lived in pain, and he had experienced that painful life firsthand, so he had no resistance.
That’s why he tried to live by helping people. Then he met Giselle and was able to come this far.
He still couldn’t believe that someone as insignificant as him could save the world.
When Giselle said the same thing, he just tried to become that kind of person.
He lived by helping the needy and punishing evil.
So was that his world?
‘… … .’
To be honest, it didn’t make sense.
He had lived with that belief until now.
The goal of helping people still hadn’t led him to become a superhuman.
It was just a way of life, not a world that made him up.
So what on earth should he do? How could he break the wall and become a superman?
Time, which had been gradually slowing down, now seemed to have stopped completely.
In it, Julian had countless thoughts and looked back on the past, but he couldn’t figure it out.
Then suddenly… … .
A scene from the past that he had forgotten flashed through his mind.
―Eat this. I’m fine.
The girl handed bread to the haggard-looking boy.
The girl, whose bones were almost bare, looked very hungry, but she smiled and shared what she had.
The boy, who had collapsed on the street from hunger, was able to sustain his life with just one piece of bread that a girl had offered him.
―You can sleep here. I’ll keep it a secret.
The girl found the boy trying to sleep secretly in someone else’s storage room, brought her blanket, and covered him with it.
Thanks to the girl, the boy was able to endure the cold winter without freezing to death.
―You can cry when you want to.
When the boy was holding back tears in a corner after being falsely accused by the villagers, the girl came to his side and comforted him.
At those words, the boy burst into tears in front of another person for the first time in his life.
―Don’t ever let go of this hand.
One day, when a great fire broke out in the village, the boy who was doing odd jobs at someone else’s house was trapped in the fire. The
frail boy was afraid of the fire and just cowered in a corner. Even then, the girl hurriedly came to the boy, grabbed his hand, and led him.
Thanks to the girl, he was barely able to escape and save his life. The girl smiled brightly at the boy with her blackened face.
―Don’t worry. I will protect you. The
girl was so kind and strong.
The boy trusted and relied on her a lot. That’s how the boy grew up under the girl’s care.
Even though time passed and he became stronger than the girl, the boy always followed the girl’s words.
Helping people in need and living a good life were all beliefs that the girl led him to.
The boy didn’t reject them. The boy didn’t doubt them.
That was the boy’s way of living in the world.
– I will protect you.
Just as the girl had done, the boy wanted to do that too. And he wanted it more intensely than anything else.
To always be able to protect the girl… … .
To become stronger than anyone else.
‘Ahh… … .’ Only
then did the boy realize.
My world… … .
was not any beliefs, goals, or desires.
‘Deneb.’
There was only you.
Kwaaaaaaaah!
Blue light gushed out from Yulien’s eyes.
At the same time, his body quickly moved towards Deneb.
His body was no longer heavy.
There was nothing binding him anymore.
However… … .
‘Just a little more.’
It had to be faster. Munareph was already reaching out his hand towards Deneb.
Paaaaaaaah… … .
In that moment, spirits blossomed around Yulien.
Beings that had been dwelling in the invisible world had revealed themselves, drawn by Yulien’s will.
Although they were still weak beings, they listened to Yulien’s sincerity more than anyone else.
The spirits pushed Yulien’s back as if breathing life into him.
The touch was light and warm, but it contained the principles of the world.
And at that moment,
the world responded to Julian’s wind.
Paaaaah!
His body flew through space like a comb.

* * *

Munareph smiled in repentance.
He was finally able to kill the woman with the cursed divine power.
If he could just touch these fingertips, everything would be over. Believing and confident, he stretched out his hand.
Phew!
Something blocked his hand. His hand was piercing through the back of another person.
Deneb, feeling something strange, stopped praying. Then slowly raised his head.
“You, Yulien…”
Yulien was standing in front of him. His heart was pierced by Munareph’s hand.
Deneve’s eyes trembled at the unbelievable reality. She stood up unsteadily, doubting her own eyes.
Yulien just smiled. As if this was nothing.
As always, he just looked at her and smiled gently.
Yulien slowly raised his hand and caressed Deneb’s cheek, which was shedding tears.
Then he said softly.
“Don’t worry… I… will protect you.”
“You, Yulien.”
Deneb grabbed Yulien’s shaking body. Yulien’s face was quickly turning pale.
He was dying, his chest pierced, consumed by darkness.
“Ah, ah… no… no.”
Tears flowed continuously from Deneb’s eyes.
She couldn’t let Yulien die like this. She couldn’t let him go like this.
She promised to always protect him.
“Yulien-!”
So the girl.
Longed for the boy.
Kurururururung!
Darkness covered the sky of Valscrum, gathering even thicker.
Dark clouds swallowed the sky and thunder shook the earth.
But it was not a sign of despair.
Paaaaah!
The sky split open.
Divine light pierced through the blackened clouds.
And that splendid and great light.
was pouring down on Deneb.