Bloodhound’s Regression Instinct

Chapter 29

“Rebels.”

Zack’s face hardened as he saw Yan, who quickly figured out their identity.

“Who… are you?”

They were ‘revolutionaries’.

They were not yet at the stage of overthrowing the empire, but they had the goal of someday causing a ‘rebellion’.

But how did he already know about their goal?

The revolutionaries had planted five spies in this training camp, excluding himself.

Four of them here were his comrades who had been his subordinates in the organization.

And there was the chief instructor who had been secretly working for the special mission team before they entered this training camp.

“Ah.”

Zack sneered.

His yellow teeth gleamed.

There was no way that any of the five here had leaked the information.

They had no reason or time to do so.

If the information did not leak from them, then there was only one person left, wasn’t there?

“It’s the chief instructor.”

He was the only one who could talk to him.

Besides, he seemed to have inherited the chief instructor’s black shadow sword.

That meant he was a comrade of the revolutionaries who had been captured by him.

But.

‘My brother is dead.’

So even if he was the chief instructor’s man, he had no intention of sparing or forgiving him.

Zack made up his mind and opened his mouth.

“The chief instructor won’t say anything if I step in myself.”

No matter how crazy he was, he wouldn’t dare to harm him, who worked for the same organization.

“What should we do?”

“The chief instructor won’t stay still.”

The members waited for Zack’s instructions, wavering.

Zack was the highest-ranking person here who could talk to the chief instructor.

Zack laughed loudly, as if he had nothing to worry about.

“Kill that bastard! I’ll take the responsibility!”

* * *

Outside the training camp, a field.

There, a fierce metallic sound echoed.

Clang clang clang!

Yan fended off the sword energy that was aimed at him and flew towards the mountain.

“Hahaha! Where are you running, you rat-like bastard!”

Zack chased after Yan, laughing wildly.

Yan swung his black shadow sword behind him.

Sssss.

A black shadow shot from behind towards the instructors who were pursuing him.

The shadow changed into a blade shape right in front of the instructors.

It was the skill that the chief instructor had shown before, the black blade.

Clang!

Zack pulled out a red sword energy and wove it.

It was the sword thread, the exclusive weapon of the fifth-grade knights.

The red thread cut the black blades in one go.

The cut black blades fell powerlessly on the spot.

“Did that bastard chief instructor teach you all this already? I wanted to have a go with him, but this is good too!”

“With your pathetic skills?”

Yan sneered at Zack, who was completely ignorant of the chief instructor.

He could bet his entire fortune that if they fought, Zack would turn into a handful of blood before he could count to five.

Yan spun his body in the air.

Then he swung his black shadow sword at the red thread that flew towards him.

Clack!

It sounded like metal and metal collided.

Yan didn’t stop there and took out a dagger from his chest and threw it at Zack.

Swish!

Clang!

The dagger that flew fiercely fell futilely in front of the protective device that covered Zack’s body.

Zack scoffed at that crude move.

He had to be at least a sword thread user to hurt him.

“You thought you could hurt me with this kind of thing… huh?”

Zack moved his eyes forward again and was bewildered.

Yan’s figure disappeared from his sight.

That meant.

‘He wasn’t trying to hurt me, but to distract me.’

Gnash.

Zack gritted his teeth and shouted.

“Where did that son of a bitch go!”

“He turned the direction over there! Number 2 and 3 are chasing him!”

“Follow him quickly!”

Zack and his members’ figures shot towards the mountain.

* * *

As Yan ran down the mountain slope, Momon spoke to him.

[Why don’t you use magic? You could take care of those scumbags right now, couldn’t you?]

‘I don’t know if the chief instructor is watching.’

And he had to capture and interrogate the instructor who looked like the leader, Zack.

He didn’t want to waste the golden opportunity that came to him on his own feet.

But if the chief instructor saw him somewhere and stopped him…

‘It would be like giving a dog a bone and taking it back.’

He would have to reveal his hidden magic.

He had to move the stage to the mountain where he could avoid the eyes.

Fwing.

As Yan was thinking, a thin needle flew from the left towards him.

Yan lowered his posture as if he fell to the ground and dodged the needle.

In that state, Yan put his hand on the ground.

Then he blew mana into his shadow.

Then the shadow wiggled a few times and sprang up.

-Grrrr.

It was the ‘black shadow wolf’ that Yan had reinterpreted from the chief instructor’s black shadow sword.

The black shadow wolf, which had a complete wolf shape from the shadow, growled and looked around.

Yan put his hand on the head of the black shadow wolf.

“You take care of the left.”

As soon as he said that, the black shadow wolf melted into the shadow.

Yan looked at it and turned his black shadow sword back into a shadow.

Instead, he pulled out a sword from his waist, kicked the ground and flew to the right bush.

Then he quickly stabbed the sword with the negative energy he drew from the mana heart.

Squeak.

“Damn!”

Someone swore and jumped out of the bush with a metallic sound.

The man was holding his right arm with his left arm.

Blood dripped from his right arm.

“This brat!”

“You call that stealth.”

Yan sneered at the man and kicked the ground again.

He reached the man’s front in an instant and swung his sword.

Clang clang clang!

The sword and the sword collided.

But the man was not used to his left hand, and his body was gradually pushed back as the offensive intensified.

It didn’t take long for him to launch a one-sided offensive.

Squeak.

The man’s arm floated in the air.

“Aaaah!”

The man who lost his left arm screamed and fell to the ground.

Yan looked down at the man with cold eyes and stabbed his sword into his heart.

“Guh, guh.”

The man’s focus gradually blurred.

Yan confirmed that the man’s breath was completely cut off and turned his body.

“Aaaah!”

A scream of another man echoed from afar.

The black shadow wolf had taken care of the man on the left.

[How is it, isn’t it much more useful than the black shadow sword?]

Momon said in his head with a smug tone.

It was amazing.

The combination of magic and skill was enough to be called the manifestation of a legendary spirit.

He could fight the enemy by himself without fine control.

As he admired the black shadow wolf, he heard the sound of leaves falling around him.

Swoosh.

Yan’s eyes sank.

He felt the presence of three people.

“Two of them are already dead.”

Zack narrowed his eyes as he saw his subordinates who had turned into corpses.

“He definitely has the quality that the chief instructor would covet.”

No matter how much he hated him, he had to admit that one quality of his.

Zack gave a hint to his subordinates on both sides and spat out words he didn’t mean.

“You’re good enough to be highly valued by the ‘organization’. Come with me…”

Crash!

The subordinate who was approaching Yan stealthily flew far away as if he was hit by a train.

And what was there?

‘A beast?’

Something like a beast was wandering around.

It looked like a black-haired wolf.

-Grrrr.

Zack was shocked as he identified the identity of the thing with his eyes narrowed.

“Magic?”

It was not just a wolf, but something made of mana in the shape of a wolf.

He couldn’t make something like that with a normal skill.

A force that moves by itself away from the caster…

It looked similar to the chief instructor’s ‘black blade’ at a glance, but it was clearly different.

The ‘black blade’ was just that the chief instructor didn’t hold the sword himself, but controlled it with the mana connected to him.

But the wolf didn’t seem to be controlled at all.

Zack stared at the wolf.

And he decided that it couldn’t do fatal harm to him.

The subordinates were killed by surprise without noticing it, but he was different.

He had already memorized the wolf’s appearance with his eyes.

Zack sent a message to the subordinate who stopped approaching from the right.

-You attack from the right, I’ll go in from the front.

The subordinate nodded slightly.

Zack looked at Yan again.

“A wolf made of shadow… Interesting trick.”

Momon sneered in his head.

[What a rotten eye. What can he do with that frozen eye? Tsk tsk.]

Yan didn’t react at all and bent his knees in place.

Zack laughed.

Yan looked like he was surrendering.

“Good, you’re good enough to be used by the ‘organization’.”

Zack pulled out his sword and hung it on his shoulder and walked slowly forward.

“But you have to pay for hurting my brother. Where should I cut you?

Finger? Toe? Since we’re going to dream of revolution together, I’ll take just one.”

Zack dragged the time with words he didn’t mean.

He was going to subdue Yan as soon as he entered his range and torture him as much as he could.

At that moment.

Yan straightened his bent knees and kicked the ground.

Bang!

Crack-!

The ground cracked like a spider web from how hard he kicked.

“!”

Zack was startled.

He missed Yan’s figure.

‘Damn it!’

Zack turned his head to his subordinate.

Ouch.

But the subordinate’s face was already smashed by Yan’s knee.

‘He’s fast!’

Zack tensed up.

In an instant, four of his subordinates were killed.

He was careless, but the guy used some unexpected moves.

Zack blew mana into his sword.

Then the red thread that he had seen before appeared again.

‘The rebel’s skill, the Red Revolution.’

Yan’s eyes sparkled as he saw the red thread.

The Red Revolution was a skill that the rebel leader had created himself.

It had an excellent feature that it could produce more powerful destructive power than the same grade of the realm.

‘But it burns blood to maintain that state.’

That’s why he could go into a dangerous state of anemia without any countermeasures.

The rebels’ way of making up for that drawback was bloodsucking.

Because of the appearance of taking someone else’s blood, the ‘Red Revolution’ was treated like magic in his previous life.

Yan sent the black shadow wolf back into the shadow and took out the black shadow sword.

The black shadow wolf wouldn’t do its part against the rebels who used the sword thread.

Yan bent his knees as before and put strength on his toes.

Then he cast the 2nd circle magic on his whole body.

Body Enhancement was applied only to the body, unlike other magics.

So even if the chief instructor saw it, it would be vague to define it as magic.

He felt much more strength in his body than before.

He felt a sore feeling in his thighs and a strong load.

If he kicked the ground like this, he could charge at a fast speed like an arrow.

This was the way he quickly dealt with the subordinate who approached him stealthily from the right.

But before Yan kicked the ground.

“Die!”

Zack ran towards Yan first.

The red thread flew threateningly towards Yan’s heart.

Yan jumped high on the spot.

Dust clouds spread out.

Yan jumped up to a height that a normal person couldn’t reach and looked down.

He saw the red eyes in the dust.

He quickly covered his body with the black shadow sword.

Whirr.

Two red threads shot from the dust towards Yan who was floating in the air.

Clack!

Clack!

Yan fended off the red threads and stimulated the mana heart.

Whoosh.

A stream of negative energy stretched out from his heart and rotated in his body.

Then it overlaid on the black shadow sword.

He felt a slight dizziness from the mana deficiency.

Yan bit his teeth.

“Black Shadow 1st Style – Rage”

The shadow that stretched out from the black shadow sword covered the dust and made it dark.

Then, in no time, it formed a black hemisphere that surrounded Zack and the dust.

Yan focused his mind and twisted the black shadow sword.

Then.

Thud.

A fierce sound came from inside the black hemisphere.

The shadow blades inside the hemisphere indiscriminately chopped the inside.

‘It’s still lacking compared to the chief instructor’s rage.’

The ‘rage’ that the chief instructor showed before wrapped a hill in an instant and cut down the trees.

Compared to that, he barely wrapped a distance of 10 meters and it took a little time.

‘But it’s not enough to not kill a 5th grade knight.’

A scream of tearing came from inside the black hemisphere.

Yan landed on the ground and swung the black shadow sword to release the rage.

“Huh, huh.”

Then Zack’s figure, who had his right arm and right leg cut off, appeared.

Zack, who only had his torso left, had a face that couldn’t believe the situation.

Yan looked at Zack and walked up to him and stuck the black shadow sword in his shoulder.

“If you want to die without pain, you better answer well.”

At Yan’s words, Zack gritted his teeth.

At that moment, he felt a faint gaze on his back.

‘He finally came to watch.’

It was the chief instructor.

But he couldn’t back down.

He had to ask Zack what he had to ask.

Yan turned his back so that he couldn’t see from behind and took something out of his pocket and whispered in front of Zack.

“Do you know what this symbol is?”

It was a pendant.

Zack’s eyes widened for a moment as he confirmed the symbol.

Yan rejoiced.

He wondered if there was any connection between the chief instructor’s tattoo and the symbol on this pendant, but the question was somewhat solved.

‘He definitely has something to do with the rebels.’

Zack’s eyes shook, but his mouth didn’t open.

Yan smiled and pulled out the black shadow sword and hung it on his shoulder.

“Where do you want to start? Finger? Toe?”

At that, Zack’s eyes froze.

The same words he had said before came out of Yan’s mouth.

“I have the confidence to find out, do you have the confidence to hide?”

Yan’s cruel smile darkened Zack’s eyes.