Five-Time Regressor Walks the King's Path - Chapter 4

Five-Time Regressor Walks the King’s Path

[Translator –  Grass]

[Proofreader – Valirius]

 

Chapter 4

Bang!

As soon as the cactus saw the person suddenly appear, the train filled with the sounds of gunfire and screams.

With this as a distraction, Igor smashed the head of the cactus.

In an instant, everyone’s expressions changed.

“Mr. Igor?!”

And among them, it seemed that Heo Na-Yeon was the most shocked.

She couldn’t even close her mouth at Igor’s unexpected behavior, while Igor simply pulled his spear free and began to silently move into the next car.

“Wait. Wait, Mr. Igor!”

Shocked by Igor’s advance, Heo Na-Yeon ran after him. I also got up from my seat and pulled out the long sword.

The newbie group was finished.

And that was also what Igor had decided.

“Oh, aren’t you Lightning Emperor?”

And as soon as I was about to move to the next car like Igor, I turned my head to the voice calling out my past designated name.

“……Grand Wizard?”

The black hat he’d been wearing for five years and the same color of dark eyeliner.

I remembered them clearly.

It was Grand Wizard.

“It’s been a long time.”

With my reply, Grand Wizard greeted me warmly from the front seat, three rows away.

Grand Wizard, he was one of the regressors who leveled up to 502 in the previous regression.

I didn’t think he’d come up to Floor 2 at the same time as me.

“You survived.”

“You as well, Lightning Emperor.”

“I’m no longer Lightning Emperor. The designated name has been reset.”

“Haha, I’m no longer Grand Wizard, either. I’m Bambi Staylor.”

“Ha Chun-Sung.”

With our brief introductions over, Bambi approached as he walked along the hallway, looking over my body with a smile.

“I see. So this is how Mr. Ha Chun-Sung looked in the past?”

“Don’t look at me like that. Anyway, I didn’t see you come in, so you must’ve entered before me, right?

“Yes, it seems Floor 2 was already cleared when I entered, so I somehow wound up at the starting line.”

I clicked my tongue at Bambi’s words.

Crown Road had one expedient.

It was that when entering the next Floor, even if you entered just before the Floor was cleared, you were seen as a participant and the stage was cleared.

According to Bambi, those ahead of us cleared Floor 2 with the worst timing.

‘It also means that more regressors won’t be entering for a while.’

I couldn’t see anyone coming in behind us, meaning we needed to clear the Floor with the members we had now.

“Bambi, your skill?”

“It’s Telekinesis, the same as the last regression. What about you, Mr. Ha Chun-Sung?”

“Me? I’m not going to tell you.”

“As expected, you have an amazing personality.”

Bambi responded as if he was already familiar with my answer.

What an uninteresting fellow.

If it’s Telekinesis, it would be revealed soon anyway, which was why he revealed it.

After hearing about Bambi’s skill, I became lost in thought.

Telekinesis. Telekinesis.

At that moment, I glanced out the window.

The sound of the moving car outside.

“Hey, Bambi.”

“Yes, go ahead.”

“Can you go outside?”

When I pointed at the window, Bambi laughed and opened the window.

“Of course.”

An excellent answer.

Yeah, there was no need to go through each car to reach the engine room.

We’d get there in an instant if we went outside.

“Help me up. And if you’re going to follow me, then follow me.”

“Haha, a temporary alliance to clear the Floor.”

Bambi let out a distinctive laugh and turned his hat in preparation as I stretched my body out through the window.

Bambi’s Telekinesis wrapped around me at that moment, and I was immediately thrown onto the roof.

‘Mana.’

The moment I was thrown onto the roof, I gathered mana at my fingertips.

Another factor that made humans transcendent in Crown Road.

This ability to make the body stronger than humanly possible was used at the fingertips.

At the same time, the moment my fingers grazed the rooftop, I grabbed hold of it. Doing the same to the ends of my toes, I then stood up.

A strong wind.

I felt the mana coursing through my body and let out a long breath.

“Shit.”

“Are you cursing as soon as I brought you up?”

“It’s annoying. Having such a small amount of mana.”

And to top things off, the mana’s pathway around the heart was a mess.

An unpleasant feeling as if a solid wall had been built.

This was a really annoying feeling.

Breaking down this wall was the prerequisite to growing stronger, but to break this wall you needed stats in magic power.

“Don’t you like it? Knowing that you can grow stronger. It always feels new to me.”

“You can say that because it’s only your third regression.”

If you repeated this five times, you would only get annoyed.

Up to the third time, I also thought about how to break it down in a neater and quicker manner. But now, it was just annoying.

If we’re going to regress, at least give us a nice body like in the novels.

‘The only thing left was experience.’

But even that had become obsolete by the Floors changing.

The problem was that it may not just be Floor 2 that changed.

“Bambi, do you know anything about the Constellation changing?”

“Oh, I heard something.”

I asked just in case and was met with an unexpected answer.

“What the, you did? You should have told me sooner.”

“I thought hearing about it after we’d cleared Floor 2 wouldn’t risk you losing spirit.”

Then came the cold reply.

“No way.”

“Do you remember that cool person who regressed about ten times?”

“Yeah, that senile old man who is crazily persistent.”

“Yes, he’s experienced it once. The Constellation change.”

“Constellation change…”

“Yes, changes in the Constellations.”

Just hearing the name made me feel uneasy.

“So… There’s no way that all the other Floors have also…”

“Correct! Mr. Ha Chun-Sung just gets it. All Constellations except Floor 1 will be changed. It’s like Floor 50.”

Unlike his bright tone, it was the worst answer.

I felt dizzy for some reason, but maybe it was just me.

“Then all my efforts from regressing five times are…”

“Yes, all gone.”

Shit.

In a situation where I couldn’t help but curse while shaking, Bambi linked arms with me and nodded his head.

“We might be able to make it to Floor 50 this time.”

“Shut up. I’m going to beat it.”

“Haha, how interesting.”

After giving a warning to Bambi for creating unnecessary anxiety, I strode off atop the roof.

I don’t need anything.

First, I must clear Floor 2.

‘A total of 20 passenger cars.’

We were currently in the last car, so I quickened my pace as there were 19 more cars to go through.

19 cars.

18 cars.

17 cars.

16 cars.

15 cars.

When I’d moved across five cars, the sound of gunshots rang out from behind.

It was probably the sound of a newbie or Igor fighting a Cactus Bandit.

As soon as I began to step forward, thinking ‘let’s not care’, I stopped the leg I’d begun to move.

“Hey, hey. That.”

“Looks like it’s a tunnel.”

Appalled by Bambi’s carefree voice, I held up my long sword.

Mana moved to the tips of my fingers and flowed onto the long sword’s blade.

I stabbed the long sword covered in aura into the roof, drawing a circle around myself.

Crunch.

The moment the wooden roof was cut by the aura-covered long sword, I crashed down through the floor.

As soon as I fell down to avoid the tunnel, Bambi immediately followed, and the train entered the tunnel. I breathed a sigh of relief.

I almost got thrown into the desert from smashing into a tunnel.

“I don’t think you have time to be relieved just yet.”

“I know.”

I replied to Bambi as I looked around.

After entering the tunnel, the lights flashed on in the car.

And under the scarlet lights among the wide aisles, I saw dozens of cacti.

Our appearance seemed to briefly shock them, but they soon aimed their pistols at us.

“Grand Wizard!”

“I’m Bambi!”

In an instant, the cacti’s pistols all fired at once.

The number of cacti was 19.

There were 19 pistols, too.

19 shots without overlapping bullets.

The moment the 19 bullets came upon us, Bambi reached out to both sides.

Immediately, the activated Telekinesis covered the flying bullets.

Suspension.

There was a white spark from the long sword’s exterior.

The effects of the aura changed according to my characteristics, and my foot extended far forward for the next position.

The long sword stretched out in a straight line between the bullets that were skillfully stopped midair by Bambi’s Telekinesis, splitting the cacti’s heads along with a motionless bullet.

First Form—

Electro Epilepsy.

And without stopping, the blade continued.

Second Form—

Lightning Death Blow.

Simultaneously with the spark, the heads of the five cacti instantly split.

“As expected, Lightning Emperor! It’s a sword like lightning!”

“This isn’t the time to be impressed, you fight too! I’m already at my limit!”

A dull pain came from the tip of my finger.

It was a rebound because my body wasn’t used to mana.

I was definitely going to be sore tomorrow.

“Yeah, I will.”

The moment the rest of the cacti aimed at us for the next volley, Bambi used Telekinesis.

18 bullets, excluding the one I cut, had already become Bambi’s.

He immediately fired the bullets away from him.

Boom Boom Boom!

The heads of the cacti burst instantly from Bambi’s bullets.

With the rest of the cacti all over the floor, Bambi smiled and let out a short breath while I clicked my tongue.

I had to acknowledge his skills when it came to Telekinesis.

Originally, for an F-rank Telekinesis, you could hold a stone at most.

However, he subdivided Telekinesis to lift a person and block a bullet smaller than a finger.

“It seems Mr. Ha Chun-Sung worked out before. Seeing as how you’re able to easily use sword skills, even if you’re a regressor.”

“Cause I was a soldier. If I didn’t get into the Special Forces, I would’ve had less vacation, so I exercised like hell.”

Thanks to that, my basic physical strength could see the light of day.

Still, I was considerably clumsy.

“This is why I don’t like regressing. Whatever I do, everything is awkward.”

“What are you saying when you did so well? But anyway, what skill did you really choose? It doesn’t look like it’s a passive skill.”

As a regressor, Bambi saw my condition and inferred instantly.

But I didn’t have any plans on answering, so without saying a word I sheathed my long sword at my waist and looked outside.

Still inside the tunnel.

This tunnel seemed longer than I thought.

“Shit, I don’t have time.”

Did they do this to prevent people from going up on the roof?

Even now, the Sahara Worm was crazily chasing us.

I couldn’t wait for the train to leave the tunnel.

“We’re moving.”

“We should.”

As Bambi agreed with what I said as we approached the door of the coach, I violently swung the door open.

Bambi’s Telekinesis immediately activated, blocking the bullet that flew over. I pierced through it and used my sword skills.

My creaking legs and arms.

Strength that could barely hold the weight of the sword.

I desperately cut the cactus, barely maintaining the faint aura.

14 cars.

13 cars.

12 cars.

11 cars.

10 cars.

I was out of breath and my muscles screamed.

Only being level 10, there were too many Cactus Bandits to pierce and my stamina was now starting to reach the limit.

But I couldn’t stop.

It was because I knew that the moment I stopped, the aura would, too. I wouldn’t be able to move for some time due to the muscle pain.

“Next!”

“Yes!”

Working with Bambi, I continued to move through the cars one by one.

I can’t breathe.

I felt like my vision was blurred, but clenching my teeth, I finally opened that last door.

Chiiiiiiiiiiiik!

Strong heat and smoke from the steam engine poured out as soon as the door opened.

As soon as I arrived at the engine room in the last car, as if it had been waiting, a gun pointed directly at me.

A double-barrel shotgun.

With a gun I remembered seeing a long time ago in a game, the cactus was pointing at me.

“Lightning Emperor!”

Bambi yelled, implying that even he couldn’t stop it. I knew this, and was already extending my foot.

With my right foot as the center, I pushed forward.

The sword in my hand was aiming for the head of the cactus. The cactus with the shotgun, with his strange fingers…

Was pulling the trigger.