Genius Regressor Makes Mythic Items

Chapter 47. Unexpected Reunion (2)

TL: xLordFifth
ED/PR: The reader

“It’s nicer than a sewer.”

Unlike the smelly and damp sewer, this passageway was well cleaned. Its simplicity in construction seemed to bring out a beauty of its own.

The air too felt fresh, perhaps due to ventilation somewhere, devoid of the typical mustiness of underground spaces.

However,

– Wow, this is insane.

– LOL. Is this even human?

– It’s not, right?

– Right, forgot about that.

The viewers were solely focused on the spectacle unfolding in the center of the corridor.

It was to be expected. From the perspective of the spectators, it was impossible to appreciate the environmental details.

“Hit!”

Thwack.

“Them!”

Crack.

“Hard!”

Smash.

Like a game of whack-a-mole,

The massacre led by the girl who smashed drakan skulls one by one attracted considerable attention.

– Suddenly went on mute, can’t hear the sound, but Marnel’s strength is seriously insane LOL.

– Drakans are top-tier in gold rank, right? Specialized in strength and toughness.

– Yep. Their only weakness is their head. But smashing them like that with a bludgeon is tough unless you’re platinum rank.

– That’s why dwarves start appearing from the platinum rank LOL.

The chat was bubbling with excitement over Marnel’s feats.

Shimun felt the same.

‘As expected of a dwarf. The strength is incredible.’

One of the characteristics of dwarves was their legendary strength, regardless of gender. While male dwarves typically had bulky physiques, and female dwarves were slightly more defined, to platinum-ranked players or equivalent like Shimun, it was clear.

‘That’s all solid muscle.’

Female dwarves could arm-wrestle orcs and win, after all. However, there was one puzzling aspect.

‘Isn’t Marnel still quite young? That level of strength seems a bit excessive.’

Marnel’s strength was unusually formidable, even for a dwarf.

While it’s true dwarves exhibit great strength from a young age,

“Thump thump thump!”

Ratatat.

The ease with which she shattered the skulls of drakans, proud members of the dragonkin, was bewildering.

Nonetheless,

‘I can’t just stand around doing nothing.’

Whoosh.

Shimun naturally bent down to dodge an ax flying from behind and then,

Pssh!

Drove his elbow into the gut of a drakan sneaking up from the rear.

Drip drop.

Saliva—or rather, blood—dripping, the drakan fell.

An ‘instant death’ caused by attacks to vital points, combining [Ogre’s Physique] and [Black Panther’s Physique].

Shimun’s actions didn’t stop there.

Snap.

With a flick of his fingers as he turned around,

Creak crack.

“Screeech!”

“Grooogh!”

Thorns made of condensed stone from the ceiling, walls, and floor impaled the drakans that were charging at him from all sides.

Within just 3 seconds,

Over a dozen drakans were dead.

This presented a different kind of shock from Marnel’s massacre.

– … What am I watching right now?

– Seriously WTF. One-hitting drakans?

– LOL. I can’t even. It takes me at least three castings to take those down…

– Why so surprised? From the start, Lord Shimun declared himself a mage, didn’t he? So it was astonishment. Didn’t see that martial arts move just now?

The viewers reacted more vehemently than during Marnel’s massacre.

-“This guy was like this even during the last special arena. It did draw a lot of newcomers.”

-“He’s got it all, really got it all. Wait. Now that I think about it, his face too…”

“Stop! Everyone, hands off your keyboards!”

[User PossibleGuy has donated 300 AP.]

=Bro… you’re overwhelmingly capable!

Although donations and messages of support followed intermittently, Kim Shimun had no time to pay attention to them. A chilling sound of cutting through the air was captured.

“Hmm.”

Kim Shimun lightly dodged with his body. Something long and fast whisked past Kim Shimun. It was an arrow.

Upon identifying the direction from which the arrow came, Kim Shimun was a bit surprised.

“Draco? There was a Draco here too?”

Draco, like drakan, belongs to the lowest tier of the dragon race appearing from the upper gold tier.

Unlike the burly drakan, the slender Draco lacks in strength and stamina but makes up for it with agile movements and prefers long-range and surprise attacks, making them more troublesome.

“Kreuk! Fire!”

Peep. Several arrows flew simultaneously. Even as the lowest of their kind, the arrows shot by Dracos were as thick as javelins.

Kim Shimun immediately activated Odin’s Eye.

‘A volley, huh… Smart. But the direction is somewhat peculiar?’

True to his suspicion, the Dracos’ arrows were not aimed at Kim Shimun but at Marnel. Probably, they had decided to eliminate the relatively weaker Marnel first.

‘This is why dealing with intelligent beings is so bothersome.’

Kim Shimun, clicking his tongue at the sly decision of the Dracos, snapped his fingers towards Marnel.

Snap. Curr.

A small vibration caused walls to spring up around Marnel, not just solidifying them randomly but making them squishy like mud to completely prevent any mishaps from penetration. Following that. Woong. Kim Shimun’s left eye turned golden.

‘Not six but nine.’

The number of Dracos calculated was six based on the several arrows fired. The calculation wasn’t wrong, but there were three more Dracos armed with daggers lurking around them. Likely, the six archers were a decoy to strike the flank of whoever would rush in.

‘Really cunning.’

Kim Shimun, shaking his head, extended a finger towards them.

“Keuk! It’s magic!”

“Fire! Stop him from casting!”

Unlike the drakans, who foolishly charged in, the Dracos quickly notched their arrows upon catching sight of Kim Shimun’s casting posture. But.

‘I can see it all.’

The activated Odin’s Eye perfectly read the trajectory of the haphazardly shot arrows. Kim Shimun paused his finger flick and, with minimal movement, dodged them while advancing towards the Dracos.

Originally, he intended to sweep away the surroundings like he did with the drakans but, ‘Even with reduced operation of Odin’s Eye… the consumption of conversion power is too great.’

With Odin’s Eye, simultaneous body conversion, the massacre of drakans, and creating a protective wall for Marnel, even Kim Shimun, with his overwhelming specs and recovery speed, found the consumption of conversion power quite substantial. Fortunately.

Crack.

“Kreuk! How, how did you know?!”

“What power!”

“Kreuk! So fast!”

It wasn’t as if there were no countermeasures prepared. Wasn’t this what human body conversion and Heavenly Demon Divine Art were for? Kim Shimun neatly struck the vital points of the three ambushing Dracos.

How could Dracos withstand Kim Shimun’s fists when even drakans couldn’t? Kim Shimun quickly disposed of the three Dracos and then charged straight into the remaining archers.

Thwack!

“Krrrr!”

“Ju-just…”

With movements infused with the subtleties of Heavenly Demon Divine Arts, he severed the breaths of the Dracos one by one.

‘That was easy.’

It wasn’t something you’d expect to hear after facing the dragon race.

Indeed, ending the battle so effortlessly, Kim Shimun shook his wrists lightly.

Then.

“Uh.”

A small spasm ran through his left eye.

Having become a characteristic of Odin’s Eye, Kim Shimun realized that it wasn’t just a simple twitch, and immediately threw his body to the side.

Whoosh!

A fierce sound of cleaving air whisked by.

It seemed as if its target was not Kim Shimun from the start, as it flew directly towards where Marnel was.

“Marnel!”

“Eh?”

Marnel, who had just finished dealing with the last Drake and was turning around, astutely.

“Hup!”

Quickly hid behind the protective barrier Kim Shimun had erected.

“Haaaap!”

Boom!

The projectile, weakened by the protective barrier, was easily struck down by Marnel.

As a result, the giant projectile lost its power and sailed through the air.

Or rather,

It seemed to fly back to where it came from.

It wasn’t just Marnel’s senses and brute strength that made it possible.

‘Something is pulling the axe.’

A faint energy of unknown origin was pulling on the long, ax-like projectile.

And when the axe returned to its owner’s hand.

“My god…”

The eyes of both Kim Shimun and Marnel couldn’t help but widen.

-Oh my… What is that?

-What am I looking at right now?

-That’s insane…

The figure standing and filling the corridor was a drakan of perhaps six meters or more.

Its menacing gaze matched its significant stature, now focusing on a small girl.

“It’s you. The participant of the Arena that Lord Sargas himself mentioned.”

‘What?’

Kim Shimun’s head snapped towards Marnel. And for good reason.

‘A participant of the Arena?’

He had thought Marnel was just a dwarf that appeared momentarily in a special Arena. But a participant in the Arena? Then, Kim Shimun’s eyes calmed.

‘So that’s why she’s so strong.’

If Marnel was a player equipped with a status window, like himself, the fact that Marnel, still not of age, could massacre drakans, made sense.

‘So that’s why I got that notification.’

Before entering this place, he recalled the system window he had seen.

[You are moving to the Arena. ‘Northern Sewage Facilities’.]

[Due to special circumstances, all broadcasted dialogue will be muted.]

Remembering this, a smirk appeared on Kim Shimun’s lips.

‘Earth isn’t a regular Arena yet. That’s why they blocked the broadcast.’

Technically, it was just the content of the conversations, but still. And the system referring to this place as the. ‘Northern Sewage Facilities’ like a map, meant…

‘This must be Marnel’s Arena.’

Contact from Earth’s Arena to a dwarf’s Arena, it was because of that, the system sent a warning even after setting up a barrier.

‘This really fits together too well.’

Had he not requested Doria Mountain Mithril from the last special Arena? Or had he sold it or used it all? He wouldn’t have crossed over to the dwarf’s Arena and met Marnel.

It was truly a stroke of luck upon luck. Well, anyway.

‘I should deal with that guy first.’

The feeling was that if they could just deal with that draconian who seemed to be the boss level, this arena would come to an end.

“It looks like a variant of the draconians. Just need to distribute the Yin energy properly…”

The moment Shimun thought so and took a step forward,

Tap.

With the sound of light footsteps, Marnel’s twin braids fluttered in front of Shimun.

Before they knew it, Marnel had dashed up right in front of the draconian variant. Clenching a hammer larger than her own body, she spun in the air.

Then,

“Hiyaaaah!”

Boom!

A deep vibration resounded.

Before entering this place, Shimun had felt a similar vibration from the sewer walls.

“Such a powerful vibration… Is that Marnel’s special ability?”

Shimun watched the draconian variant rolling on the ground from the powerful vibration with interest.

“Knocking down a draconian variant in one hit would mean at least S-class power.”

The surprise attacks of Dracos were to blame, Yes. And the scene of them slaughtering the Draconians just before. It seemed unnecessary for Marnel to join the fight… Or so he thought.

Eeek!

“Ugh!”

Before Odin’s eye sent another warning signal.

This time, Odin’s eye sent not only a warning but also a ringing in his ears, prompting Shimun to quickly draw up his alchemy energy.

“Marnel! Duck!”

Snap.

At his shout, he flicked his finger.

Ssskrrt.

Walls formed instantly from the ceiling, the floor, and both sides, blocking in front of Marnel as she quickly ducked with her hammer.

Crack!

The wall, covered in a frosty whiteness in the blink of an eye, shattered like glass.

Astonishingly, a chilling spear thrust through the shattered wall, barely grazing the back of the ducking Marnel, and plunged into the ground.

“Ah, that’s cold!”

Though it had shattered upon hitting the ground, the cold carried in it seemed to persist. Gripping her hips and waist, Marnel hopped back to Shimun’s side.

“Wow… If it weren’t for you, I would’ve become a frozen kebab. Hehe!”

Even having been at death’s doorstep just moments earlier, Marnel’s laughter was devoid of any fear.

Normally, one might have offered a dry laugh at such brazen humor, but,

“Be careful.”

Shimun only looked ahead with a stern expression. And for good reason.

[Due to a special condition, the hidden boss. ‘Half-Draconian Sarku’ appears.]

-What in the world! Another hidden boss?

-Seems like this guy’s a hidden boss magnet LOL.

-Seeing a hidden boss in Silver is already surprising, but a second consecutive hidden boss…

-What kind of arena is this with hidden bosses popping up during map transition!

“A hidden boss, huh…”

What condition had been fulfilled to suddenly bring about the appearance of a hidden boss?

Unexpectedly, the hidden boss himself provided the answer.

“When did these earthlings start using alchemy of such level…”

A man mixed with irregular blue scales throughout his body. Half-Draconian Sarku, waving his reptile-like tail, walked towards them from in front of the draconian variant.

“I never imagined… humans.”

“I apologize for my unseemly appearance. The dwarf’s strength was greater than expected…”

“Ah, I know. That’s a player, after all. It was bound to be tough for you.”

“Not tough.”

Had he just been rolling on the ground?

The draconian variant, seemingly unfazed, straightened up, brushing off the spot where the hammer had hit, then twisted his neck side to side.

“I’ll make sure to deal with that female dwarf.”

“Really? Then I’ll…”

Sarku’s words trailed off as his gaze shifted towards Shimun.

“I need to examine this mysterious intruder.”

As soon as Sarku finished speaking,

Pzzzt.

A cold frostbite assailed Shimun.