Five-Time Regressor Walks the King's Path - Chapter 15

Five-Time Regressor Walks the King’s Path

[Translator –  Grass]

[Proofreader – Valirius]

 

Chapter 15

Sohon continued to train in swordsmanship with me.

Sometimes just swinging.

Sometimes against monsters.

Sometimes practicing with me.

Sometimes meditation for image training.

After endless practice, three weeks passed by.

Sohon continued to wield his sword and improve his skills, even neglecting sleep to practice his swordsmanship.

I continued to train Sohon as his sword skills grew more sophisticated.

Sohon had a gift for the sword.

Sohon, who had wielded a sword for 20 years, absorbed my swordsmanship like a sponge in just three weeks.

This guy had the qualities to be a warrior from the beginning.

All I did was cause those qualities to bloom.

 

[You are becoming ‘Villager 1′. Erosion rate: 65%]

 

And my erosion rate also grew along with Sohon’s sword skills.

Once again, after another week, I was watching Sohon. My memory as a regressor had become quite blurred.

Sohon held the sword.

The sword with aura fell forward at a rapid pace.

 

First Form—

Electro Epilepsy.

 

There were sparks.

It wasn’t entirely satisfactory, but its speed exceeded that of the knights who had honed their swordsmanship.

Followed by a sword.

Lightning followed by lightning.

 

Second Form—

Lightning Death Blow.

 

He concentrated and practiced the sword technique that I taught him for a whole day.

After so much continuous wielding throughout the day, Sohon was now able to wield his sword without stopping for nearly an hour.

The sword dance, where lightning followed the tail of lightning, seemed quite usable, and seemed to be able to beat 100 people alone.

 

And the sword returned to the sheath.

The eyes of Sohon closed.

The aura in the sheath rose.

The lightning did not cease in the sheath.

And when Sohon’s eyes opened, the sword had already found its place.

 

Third Form—

Lightning Sword Extraction.

 

The sword spat out lightning.

The sword drawn in the air caused an afterimage and slowly disappeared.

Although it was not the fastest, it seemed that the first preemptive strike could be successful.

“Sohon.”

“Yes, Big Bro.”

“You can call me teacher.”

“Yes, Teacher.”

“Four weeks, almost a month. It was too short a time to teach you everything.”

But I felt like I didn’t have any more time.

The erosion rate was 65%.

My memory was fading as time passed.

“I’m cursed. If you don’t knock down the demon king, I’ll go back to becoming the ‘Villager 1’ that I possessed.”

“Yes, Teacher.”

The eyes of Sohon, who had begun to regard me as a teacher for a month, turned to me.

I smiled softly at his appearance as if he believed everything I said.

“I don’t know how much more I can teach you in the future. It’ll be a month at the longest, a week at the shortest. I will teach you everything during that time.”

“Yes.”

“The demon king is waging a war of conquest. You will have to go to the battlefield alone when I lose all my memories.”

As I said so, I held out my Heavenly Star Sword to Sohon.

“Be a warrior. Because you have the qualities of a warrior.”

“Just leave it to me.”

A pleasant answer came from Sohon, who received the Heavenly Star Sword from me.

And then a month passed…

 

[You are becoming ‘Villager 1′. Erosion rate: 100%]

 

I completely became Villager 1.

 

* * *

 

“Teacher.”

“Huh? Who are you?”

A man dressed in dirty clothes called another man walking through the village as ‘teacher’.

Of course, the man who was called a teacher had a strange reaction.

“Big Bro.”

“What do you mean by that? Who are you?”

He called him by a different name.

But the response was just the expression of a frightened man.

Seeing such a face, he turned away slowly and was silent for a moment.

He proceeded to the battlefield as the man had asked before he lost his memory.

His name was Sohon, the first disciple of Ha Chun-Sung.

A year, then another year.

Sohon lived on the battlefield.

He wielded the sword taught and given by Ha Chun-Sung and confronted the demon king’s army.

When Ha Chun-Sung disappeared, the demon king began a full-fledged war of conquest.

As if to relieve the anger he bottled up for ten years, he advanced the demon army like a wild horse running free.

On the battlefield, Sohon wielded his sword without end.

As if he contained the memory of the lost Ha Chun-Sung, it was possible to see Ha Chun-Sung from his sword.

And then a year. Another year passed.

Sohon’s sword never stopped.

Before he knew it, he was called a warrior.

He was Sohon, who smiled bitterly rather than smiling brightly, dressed in a shabby outfit, but he was a warrior admired by everyone.

And time went by again.

Sohon continued to cut down the demon king’s army, toppled the Four Heavenly Kings, and finally stood before the demon king.

The demon king trembled at the sight of Sohon.

It was because he realized that a new warrior had appeared as the rumors said.

He was called a warrior and the hope for many people.

This was the qualification to be called a warrior in ‘The One and Only Warrior’.

Sohon, who fulfilled this qualification, was a real warrior.

“That sword.”

The Heavenly Star Sword received from Ha Chun-Sung caught the eyes of the demon king.

Now he knew.

A month after Ha Chun-Sung disappeared. The demon king hesitated while moving the demon army.

He thought that Ha Chun-Sung would suddenly appear and topple his demon army, claiming to be a warrior after finding a way.

However, in the end, there was no Ha Chun-Sung.

Meanwhile, the demon king realized his true nature.

He was the demon king himself. He was capable of dominating the world.

The demon king fell into war and conquest.

Ten years of peace were broken in no time.

It was the appearance of a new warrior who returned to him the moment he broke the peace.

A warrior raised by Ha Chun-Sung who he couldn’t help but resent.

“Villager 1.”

As soon as he muttered that name, a black aura rose from the demon king’s hand.

His eyes were stained with anger.

The demon king’s grudge against Ha Chun-Sung, who killed the Four Heavenly Kings twice and smashed up the demon king’s castle, was stronger than expected.

“Come.”

The voice of the arrogant demon king rang out.

At that moment, the sword moved from the Sohon’s sheath.

 

Third Form—

Lightning Sword Extraction.

 

The quickest path.

A sword technique which could succeed in preemptive strikes in any situation, was wielded against the demon king.

However, due to the quick reaction of the demon king, Sohon, who did not reach the level of Ha Chun-Sung, only cut off his arms instead of his neck.

Drip.

Blood dripped from the demon king’s arm.

The demon king noticed it.

Sohon was not weaker than him.

“Warrior!”

Ki arrows poured out from the demon king.

Sohon’s blade painted the image of a sword to face the barrage of ki arrows that stretched out from all sides.

 

Second Form—

Lightning Death Blow.

 

The second sword technique, which was wielded numerous times on the battlefield, was used.

That swordsmanship cut down the ki arrows endlessly.

And it was the demon king’s sword that reached the end.

The sword of the demon king that let out a black and hideous aura began to collide with the sword of Sohon.

His breathing became rough, and Sohon’s eyes quickly followed the demon king’s every move.

 

[Swinging a sword isn’t everything. Look carefully at the opponent’s sword. Find the flow of the opponent’s sword. When the flow of the sword is cut off, the opponent’s sword will not beat your sword.]

 

He heard the voice of Ha Chun-Sung from somewhere.

The sword of Sohon penetrated the gap of the demon king’s sword and cut him in the chest.

In anger, the demon king took out another sword and attacked Sohon with two blades.

 

[The angrier the opponent is, the rougher he becomes. Anger is a source of power, but it makes you lose your reason. Look at the injured opponent. A wounded person unconsciously tries to cover his wound. Look at the gap.]

 

The voice of Ha Chun-Sung was heard again.

Taking advantage of the wound that the demon king unconsciously blocked, Sohon’s sword cut the demon king’s leg.

The demon king moved away from Sohon and shot ki arrows.

Darkness permeated the floor and tried to cover Sohon.

 

[The injured opponent always tries to keep a distance. Don’t miss it. Stick to them tenaciously. Then the more you do that, the more your opponent’s breathing is disturbed.]

 

Sohon ran without regard.

The leg that encountered the darkness of the demon king turned black, but he covered the remainder of his body with aura and persistently chased the demon king.

The demon king eventually gave up using ki arrows and darkness and took up his sword again.

 

[Don’t give the other person a chance to breathe. An opponent who can’t breathe always has a gap. Don’t just aim for the vital points. When the opponent finds out that you’re aiming for the vital points, they’ll never show them.]

 

Wounds decorated the demon king’s body.

The demon king’s eyes, which began to grow an urgent desire to stop him, shook, and Sohon’s eyes locked onto him became more intense.

 

[And when your opponent shows his vital point…]

 

Aura formed on Sohon’s sword.

There was a spark.

 

[Never miss it.]

 

First Form—

Electro Epilepsy.

 

The quickest stab followed that spark.

Spark.

“Keuahk!”

The demon king’s cry rang out.

The demon king, penetrated by Sohon’s sword, trembled once.

Soon after, the demon king’s body slowly began to bend forward. Sohon, seeing this, stepped away from the body of the demon king.

In the end, the demon king died.

“Teacher.”

Sohon called out to his teacher.

He turned his head and began to run outside.

He passed the battlefield that he’d been fighting on for years.

When they heard that he had defeated the demon king, he passed by those who came out to welcome him.

He forgot that he was hurt by the demon king and ran all day to return to his hometown where his journey first began.

At the entrance of the village stood ‘Villager 1’.

He was looking at Sohon and, likewise, Sohon was looking at him.

A tear trickled down from the eyes of Sohon.

“Teacher, I did it.”

With the words of deep emotion from Sohon, the Heavenly Star Sword reached Ha Chun-Sung.

 

* * *

 

[Congratulations. You are the 2nd to clear Floor 23.]

[The ‘Proprietor of Floor 23’, ‘The Spirit of All Things’, congratulates you on your clearing and grants you a reward.]

[The ‘Proprietor of Floor 23’, ‘The Spirit of All Things’, returns your memories.]

 

As soon as the letters rose in the sky and my vision disappeared for a moment, it was the final face of Sohon that came into my eyes again.

He was crying.

Because he was happy he’d done it.

And he was saying that he had become a true warrior.

In the black space where the memory was thrown to the end, I slowly raised myself up, wrapped my face with my hands, and swept down.

“…Did he do it?”

Sohon had knocked down the demon king.

He did it.

In the end, he did it

“Time, what happened to clear time?! ‘The Spirit of All Things’!”

 

[The ‘Proprietor of Floor 23’, ‘The Spirit of All Things’, tells you that one month has passed.]

 

A month.

 

Perhaps the passage of time on Floor 23 was much faster than I thought.

But a month was too long.

A month. I’ve spent too much time targeting a single Floor.

“Damn it.”

Uttering a curse, I rose from my seat and hurriedly tried to go up to the next Floor.

But at that moment, a word came to my mind from the message I just saw.

My eyes slowly grew bigger, and I parted my lips.

“‘The Spirit of All Things’, I’m the second to clear?”

 

[The ‘Proprietor of Floor 23’, ‘The Spirit of All Things’, to this question, responds with a ‘positive’.]

 

Second.

I’m second?

It woke me up.

I invested a month on Floor 23.

One month. It was a month.

This was definitely a Floor that required solo clearing.

Of course, a month was long, but the time to raise a warrior was definitely necessary.

But someone was faster than me.

‘Who is it?’

Was it Sword Queen?

Sword Queen would have followed right behind me.

But if that’s not the case…

Yashin.

At that moment, a name crossed my mind.

It occurred to me that man might have moved.

“I don’t know for sure who it is.”

I couldn’t be sure.

But it was unacceptable for anyone to get ahead of me.

“I’ll follow you right away.”

I ground my teeth.

Thanks to that, the feelings mixed with despondency just after clearing were finally calmed down.

‘Thank you.’

I felt like I had to thank them.

I got up from my seat with my legs tightened.

I was so glad to see my body again after a long time.

There was nothing more realistic than returning to my body.

“Let’s go.”

With that, I climbed the stairs.