Genius Regressor Makes Mythic Items

Like a ghost or a witch’s scream in a movie, “Kyaaaaa!!”

A high-pitched scream ripped through the air.

It was no wonder.

“My arm! My arm!”

The black woman screamed, her right arm had disappeared without a trace. Only a wisp of white smoke, pitifully rising in its place.

The pain from losing her arm was excruciating, but Marlina’s mind was filled with another shock.

“How… How did you penetrate Lord Quetzalcoatl’s aura?!”

The dark green and gray aura, the aura of Constellation Quetzalcoatl was considered a divine energy, not mere magic. How could something penetrate this divine energy and sever her arm?

Of course, this was just her immediate emotional reaction to the sudden turn of events.

‘That lightning… It must also have divine energy!’

Her rational mind quickly assessed the situation. The problem was, ‘Is that power strong enough to break through Quetzalcoatl’s aura?’

The electricity that burst from the Heavenly Demon Sphere.

‘I definitely compressed it with my aura!’

The dark green aura that had condensed the fragmented Heavenly Demon Sphere into a tight mass. Not only did it break through, despite adding an extra layer of Quetzalcoatl’s aura for defense, the lightning that burst from the Heavenly Demon Sphere annihilated her right arm.

Divine energy against divine energy. When viewed from the basic concept of divine energies,

‘Is his divine energy stronger than mine?’

This could only mean she was outmatched in a battle of divine powers.

“Ridiculous!”

Marlina shouted out involuntarily. Understandable, as it was.

‘The domain of the Feathered Serpent extends over the entire eastern region of the Dnipro River!’

The domain of the Feathered Serpent. The domain created by the Death Constellation, Quetzalcoatl, was akin to his sanctuary. Moreover, it drew its power from the fertile black earth, the Chernozem.

In Marlina’s ears, “I aimed to finish this as quickly as possible, but… this is the Feathered Serpent’s domain, I see.”

A clear voice echoed. Before Marlina could turn her gaze, “Bull Rush!”

She swung her remaining arm.

Thud

A massive clump of bones flew out from within Quetzalcoatl’s aura. The clump was the size of a large boulder.

However, Shimun, who twisted his body to activate his Dragonoid form, easily punched the chunk apart.

Crack

Smash!

The heavy bone mass shattered instantly.

Shimun dusted off his hands, a grin forming on his lips.

‘Creating bones out of aura… The domain of the Feathered Serpent sure is powerful.’

In necromancy, bones or corpses were necessary materials for casting spells. And how well one could make do without those materials, was a measure of a necromancer’s overall skill.

Marlina, who created something from nothing using just aura, was practically at the level of Death Lord Malik, the world’s greatest necromancer and Desperado’s core member.

“At this rate, you might even rival your brother.”

However, “Your overall structure and detail of magic are lacking. You’re just wielding brute force.”

“You piece of-! How dare someone who’s not even a necromancer speak of necromancy in front of me?”

“Even though it’s a different field, necromancy has similarities to alchemy.”

Shimun glanced at the scattered bone fragments.

“If it were your brother Malik, he would have disassembled those bones before my fist hit, and linked them to other bone spells.”

A typical technique among the top-rank diamond magic casters, affecting already manifested spells unless it’s a unique case like spirit magic.

“You talk too much!”

Marlina’s eyes twitched as she spread her remaining arm wide.

“Yes, there is a difference between my brother and me. But…”

Gathering dark green aura around her, it began to condense at the point where her right arm had disappeared.

“Not with you!”

With a fierce shout,

Kwaaahh!!

An intense aura exploded out.

Toong

Shimun, who was about to counter with the Heavenly Demon Sphere,

‘This isn’t necromancy, but a pure concentration of divine energy? As expected of the Death Lady, she’s not completely foolish.’

He immediately grabbed the condensed demonic energy and kicked off into the air.

“Where do you think you’re going!”

Marlina swung her reconstructed right arm, formed from dark green energy.

Swish

The concentrated aura that had passed under Shimun’s feet suddenly changed its trajectory like a snake chasing its prey.

At the same time,

“Die!!”

Marlina lunged, her aura-formed arm striking directly at Shimun.

“Post-Mortem Rigor! Immobilizing Death!”

Her remaining left arm kept moving, casting curses non-stop.

In a moment of imminent danger, “How simple.”

Shimun calmly extended his hand.

Snap

His fingers flicked.

Whoosh!

A crimson blade, radiating intense heat, materialized.

Amazingly,

Slash

“What!”

The blade sliced through Marlina’s arm, formed from Quetzalcoatl’s aura, like rotting flesh.

Fwoosh!

It then incinerated the concentrated aura hurtling towards him.

Sizzle

Blackened smoke, the result of the burnt aura, spread like a dark cloud. Yet, Marlina’s vision wasn’t obscured. Not just because this was within the domain of the Feathered Serpent, but also because of the crimson blade in Shimun’s hand.

Fwoosh

The heat it radiated was incinerating even the residual aura.

Marlina stood, dumbfounded.

“Both are divine powers… but this is Quetzalcoatl’s sanctuary…”

She couldn’t even think of restoring her severed arm. She could only stare at the figure of Shimun, shimmering with heat.

“Calling them the same divine energy is a bit insulting, don’t you think?”

Step

Shimun took a step forward as he spoke.

Just one step.

Sizzle

“Ugh!”

The searing heat of his presence jolted Marlina back to her senses.

“Setting aside the basic difference in caliber, you’re trying to compare yourself, who shares power with Malik, to me, who wields it alone?”

His words were calm, but they hit with clear precision.

Marlina’s face contorted not with anger, but with shock.

“How, how do you know that?!”

Her voice trembled with confusion. Shimun simply scoffed and continued, “Oh, well, since your brother is currently in the middle of a ritual, it’s not entirely accurate to say you’re sharing the power.”

“You! Do you know everything about us?!”

“I knew your ritual was nearly complete as soon as the Outbreak occurred.”

“Argh!”

Marlina bit her lip hard.

“And yet, you’re still acting so arrogantly! Even knowing what’s about to happen?!”

“Why wouldn’t I?”

Shimun shrugged nonchalantly despite knowing what was to come.

Then,

Step

He took another step forward.

Naturally,

Sizzle

“Kyaaaak!”

The scorching heat burned Marlina’s flesh even more intensely than before. Panicking, she tried to escape using the power of her remaining arm.

‘What is this! My aura!’

But the aura of Quetzalcoatl, her lifeline and power, was burning away in real-time due to the intense heat.

Swish

Shimun’s advance was relentless. Shimun raised his crimson blade.

“W-wait! If you kill me, my brother won’t stand for it!”

Marlina frantically extended her remaining arm.

Sizzle!

Her arm quickly started to burn.

“You know who my brother is, right? Death Lord Malik! The world’s greatest necromancer!”

Facing death, no pain could reach her. Shimun glanced down at her briefly.

“If the Malik I know is the same, I doubt he’d even bat an eye at your death.”

He murmured indifferently.

“Burn. Laevateinn.”

Laevateinn ignited.

Fwoosh!

A massive surge of heat slashed through the air. Marlina didn’t even have time to scream. She vanished in the crimson flames, along with the thick aura of Quetzalcoatl.

Fwoosh

Laevateinn’s lingering flames consumed every trace.

“……”

Shimun silently watched the few remaining ashes, presumably Marlina’s. In his previous life, the villainess Death Lady Marlina had been notorious.

She became infamous right after the Chernozem Incident.

Successfully completing the ritual at Chernozem, she and her brother completely mastered the power of the Constellation.

But, ‘This time, it’s over for Marlina.’

In this life, she died at the turning point. Even with Quetzalcoatl’s power to back her, Marlina wasn’t a significant threat.

It was a matter of caliber. Even if a child wielded a legendary sword, they could only swing it wildly.

Of course, ‘A legendary sword in a child’s hands is still a legendary sword. It doesn’t mean there was no damage.’

Shimun’s gaze shifted to the main team, cloaked in radiant light.

‘Thanks to Yujeong, many lives were saved.’

In his past life, it was a Silver-grade Outbreak, unlike this time. The casualties had been even more severe. While Nikita, the only ranker, was tackling the Outbreak, everyone had been wiped out by Marlina’s surprise attack.

Ironically, only the most endangered internal team had survived. Of course, even they suffered heavily, half of them died fighting the players resurrected as her slaves. Compared to the near annihilation of his previous life, this was a much better result.

Of course, ‘It’s not over yet.’

The matter of Chernozem wasn’t completely resolved.

‘Everything up till now was inevitable once the Outbreak happened.’

Now was the crucial part.

‘Kim Shihyuk has entered the Outbreak, so there shouldn’t be any problems.’

Shimun surveyed the area, now clean and clear thanks to Laevateinn’s flames.

The land, previously scorched black and barren from Marlina’s aura, only the immediate area remained untouched by her aura. The surrounding vegetation was wilted but not entirely dead.

Shimun nodded in satisfaction.

‘The land’s not completely corrupted yet.’

Furthermore, ‘With Marlina dead, Malik himself will have to move to expand the domain of the Feathered Serpent.’

As he predicted,

Ssssss

With the sudden surge of dark green aura, “Tsk. Useless.”

A cold-voiced Black man appeared.

A man with the same ash-gray hair as Marlina appeared.

It was the Death Lord Malik.

“I generously granted you power, and you couldn’t even leave behind a single bone.”

He sneered, glanced at Shimun, and stretched out his hand to grasp something in the air.

“Rise, Marlina. Your role isn’t over yet.”

He called for his sister, who had vanished. Surprisingly,

“Kyaaaak!!”

With a piercing scream, a faint shape materialized. It became clearer, taking on a familiar form. It was Marlina, who had just turned to ashes.

『It’s hot! It’s hot!!』

The heat from Laevateinn must have been intense. In her molten form, she kept screaming.

Malik frowned at the sight of his sister.

“Incredible… It even burnt the soul.”

But it wasn’t her death that bothered him. It was the scars left on her soul.

“You. How did you do it?”

Malik’s gaze shifted to Shimun. There wasn’t a hint of sorrow for his lost sister in his eyes. Only curiosity, “That’s not something normal divine energy can do… How did you burn both body and soul?”

A mage’s curiosity. Though it was a shocking situation, “Why don’t you find out for yourself?”

Knowing well who Malik was, Shimun simply adjusted his grip on Laevateinn.

Provoked,

“Interesting.”

Malik’s lips curled into a slight smile.

“Do you think you can manage that against me?”

“It might not be impossible… though it would surely be troublesome. You would have the whole domain of the Feathered Serpent to yourself.”

“Oh? So you know about the Domain of the Feathered Serpent.”

“Of course. I also know that once I destroy the ritual altar guarded by your Brotherhood of Death, most of this will be over.”

Malik’s face instantly hardened at those words.

“… How do you know that?”

“Well, I might have died once and come back to life.”

“Is that so? In that case…”

Shuaaaaa!!

A torrent of aura far surpassing Marlina’s erupted.

“I’ll just have to kill you a second time to find out!”

In an instant, the dark green aura took the shape of a massive scythe. Unlike Marlina’s earlier attacks, this was a perfectly refined divine energy aiming for Shimun’s neck.

However,

Fwoosh!

Shimun simply swung Laevateinn with a relaxed smile.

‘That sword… I see. So he can wield divine energy as well.’

Malik immediately recognized Laevateinn’s power, his eyes twitching.

‘But even so… You’re no match for me with a Constellation backing me.’

He poured more power into his large scythe.

At that moment,

Chill

“Guh!”

Despite receiving unprecedented support from Constellation Quetzalcoatl, a chilling sensation crawled up Malik’s spine. Following his instincts, he changed the attack’s trajectory.

The choice was a wise one.

Thoom!

A thunderous resonance erupted.

Crack

A crack appeared in the massive scythe formed by Quetzalcoatl’s divine energy.

Fwoosh

Deflecting the impact from Laevateinn, Malik turned to see the source of this crazy ambush.

“Lee Yujeong…!”

Bathed in radiant white light, a warrior woman wielding a mace wrapped in the same light. But she seemed to pay no attention to Malik.

“Sorry, orabeoni. I was a bit late setting up Raphael’s blessing for the main team.”

Boldly turning her back on Malik, she only looked at Shimun.

“It’s okay. You arrived just in time.”

Shimun greeted Yujeong with a gentle smile.

Then,

Snap

Shimun snapped his fingers.

Already, at his ankles, two pairs of golden wings sprouted.

Flap

“Yujeong, as I mentioned before, I’ll leave this to you for a while.”

“Leave it to me.”

Pow!

Shimun kicked off and darted away in an instant. Knowing exactly where he was heading, Malik immediately sprouted wings made of bones and gave chase, but that was as far as he got.

“You!”

“Where do you think you’re going?”

“Curses!”

Malik was forced to stop his pursuit due to the chilling sensation overwhelming him.

Whoosh!

A piercing sound whizzed past his head. He dodged it, but the secondary wave of divine energy caused Malik to frown.

“Yujeong. Do you have a death wish?”

“Dying… from a necromancer like you, did you just say that?”

Yujeong’s eyes were filled with genuine amusement.

“Forget that nonsense. I have something to ask you.”

“Step aside right now, and I might consider answering.”

“Why do that?”

Yujeong’s eyebrows arched as she raised her hand filled with divine energy.

“I have a special remedy that your kind can’t resist.”

At this, “Hah! Are you going to torture me? You must really want to die. Lee Yujeong.”

Malik sneered, spreading his arms wide.

Shuaaaa!

The dark green aura erupted from him, piercing the clouds.

“This is my Constellation’s domain.”

Just by looking, and actually experiencing it, Malik was an overwhelming presence.

“Even if you’re called a Saintess, you cannot beat me here.”

“Aha!”

Yujeong burst out laughing and raised her palm to the sky.

Fwaaa!

A light comparable to Malik’s aura descended.

“Sorry to say.”

As Yujeong grasped the light,

“You’re not the only one with a Constellation’s blessing, you bastard.”

Flap.

Wings as white as snow unfolded behind her.

—

Boom!

A constant barrage of explosions continued.

The shockwaves fiercely battered the eardrums, but the three combatants, the cause of the explosions, continued their battle without pause.

Bang!

Soon after, haruto dissolved into the air.

Swish.

Reappearing high above, he chuckled, “Haha! I thought stalling for time would be easy…”

Pretending to wipe non-existent sweat, he grinned.

“Even dealing with just two of you is draining me. Rankers sure are something.”

His gaze was fixed solely on Kim Shihyuk, not Nikita. It was a clear sign of disrespect towards one party. Yet, nikita didn’t seem to take offense.

If anything, ‘As expected of the Sword Saint. Experiencing it firsthand, he’s much stronger.’

She deeply agreed with Haruto’s behavior internally.

‘His reputation doesn’t do his skill justice.’

Typically, a ranker’s value influences national power and is often slightly exaggerated.

But Kim Shihyuk wasn’t exaggerated at all; if anything, he was underappreciated.

Meanwhile,

“Damn it…”

“Is he even human like us?”

The internal team, trapped within a distorted space, could only watch the battle in awe. Of course, there were two exceptions.

“Damn! This place is blocked too. Kid, how about over there?”

“It’s the same here.”

Go Malsuk and Yuto swung their fists and swords in all directions.

But,

Zinnng.

Their attacks seemed to have little impact. The spatial walls showed no sign of damage.

In their ears, “You know, isolating you bastards during a fight is no easy task~.”

A sly voice reached them. It was Haruto, floating high in the air.

He,

Swish!

“Damn it! How scary.”

Dodged the incoming strong auras of Kim Shihyuk and Nikita.

“See, combat isn’t really my thing.”

He shrugged with a playful grin, while Kim Shihyuk and Nikita closed in, narrowing Haruto’s escape path with a barrage of auras.

Pow!

They closed the distance in an instant using airwalk.

“Hmm. If I use the power of the edge here, it’s going to be tough for a while…”

Haruto glanced at the closing duo.

“Well, I guess I have no choice.”

With a regretful face, he extended his hand, “Alright, Edge Beast. I’ll need your assistance.”

Before they could reach him, Kim Shihyuk’s sword, wrapped in a sharp aura, aimed for Haruto’s hand.

Whoosh!

But, “Reverse Space-time”. Haruto’s lips moved first. Amazingly, Kim Shihyuk’s sword, which was about to slice Haruto’s wrist, abruptly stopped.

Clunk.

And it wasn’t just that.

“……”

“……”

Even Nikita’s thrown kunai and the undead moving toward the entrance. It was as if time had stopped within the entire Outbreak’s interior. Everything froze.

“Phew. If I had been a bit slower, my wrist would have been cut off.”

Haruto, the only one still moving, clutched his bleeding wrist.

“Fortunately, I don’t need to see that crazy doctor for cure. Now then…”

He snapped his fingers with a grin.

“I’d better get out of here before getting caught up in this mess.”

Haruto vanished from sight.

Just like that, the internal space-time began to collapse.

Crack, crack

—

Weeeeeooo!

Various sirens blared from all directions, pounding the eardrums.

Waaaannng, waaannng!

Roaring with terrifying intensity, the sirens were suffocating just to hear.

In reality, a woman with distinct eyes fell into the chaos of a city, resembling a scene from an apocalypse movie.

Step

“W-where is this…?”

Go Malsuk stammered, an unusually pale look on her face, as she stepped back.

It was inevitable.

“Why is this place…!”

Even now, as a platinum player, this was a location that had relentlessly haunted her nightmares.

And, as always, an all-too-familiar, horrific wail echoed.

Kraaaaa!

“Run, Malsuk! Run, quickly!”

“Mom!”

An all-too-familiar scene replayed.