I Regressed, But the World Isn’t Destroyed - Chapter 58



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058.

“Are you Lee Do-hyeok?”

A glance that seems to scan up and down.

The fighting spirit that keeps seeping out.

The body, trained to the limit, writhed as if it would burst at any moment.

“What the heck, this rascal beat Choi Kang-cheol?”

A look and look that openly provokes him.

Kwabna is a famous battle fanatic.

If this place weren’t the chairman’s office, fists would have come flying before glances.

That wasn’t all.

Everyone in the meeting room was looking at him.

A total of eight pairs of eyes.

Of course, the meaning contained in each gaze was different.

Anticipation, interest, indifference, murder, affection······

“···”

Lee Do-hyuk also looked after them.

The first person whose eyes met mine was the mad horse, Chen Tao.

As soon as he saw him, Lee Do-hyuk started to laugh.

Chen Tao’s gaze becomes even more intense as the overflowing murderous intent stirs.

But that’s it.

Once you enter the chairmanship, attacks on each other are nullified.

Lee Do-hyeok’s gaze continued to look at the rest of the group.

The great magician Eileen, the saint Eliza… and finally Marcus.

And, conclude.

“hmm.”

9 Heroes.

The pinnacle of all hunters.

“Is this it?”

Phew-!

At that moment, a strong wind blew.

A punch fired by Kwabna.

Lee Do-hyuk slightly turned his head to avoid it.

of course.

Pot!

And don’t forget to counterattack.

Lee Do-hyuk’s legs swung like a whip.

Boom!

A loud noise erupted.

But it didn’t go in properly.

“···Huh?”

Kwabna’s thicker arms than others blocked Lee Do-hyeok’s legs.

Kwabna smiled, revealing his teeth.

Originally, I would have continued the follow-up attack here, but···

‘Is this how it’s activated?’

The effect of the meeting place where they gather.

They say that no one can harm anyone in this place.

Only the sensation remains at the tip of the toes, and no shock is transmitted.

Bam.

Lee Do-hyeok retrieved his stretched-out leg and used his magical power to examine the surrounding space.

Magic is a name given to those who use magical power to create something beyond their own abilities, such as 『Babel』, which most high-level hunters can use.

And the “Hero’s Hall” is one of the many arts of the great magician, which no one in the world can compare to.

It’s amazing that the spirits of the nine heroes from all over the world have been gathered here, but what’s more, it has this effect.

Although it wasn’t his specialty, Lee Do-hyuk, who was quite knowledgeable about magic, couldn’t help but become curious about this place.

Lee Do-hyeok began to secretly weave his magical power into a thread and feel the space around him.

Of course, it wasn’t an act of pure curiosity.

There were more than one or two wizards who had their visions revealed in front of him.

Stop─

But at that moment.

The broken thread of magic.

“···Ugh.”

Then a languid tone was heard.

There was no need to look into who the owner was.

“Hey, newbie, you’re pretty cocky, huh?”

The Great Mage, Eileen.

She, the owner of this space, noticed what Lee Do-hyuk was doing.

“···I’m quite curious.”

Lee Do-hyeok answered, hiding his slightly surprised expression.

There’s a reason they’re called the 9 Heroes.

I didn’t know I would get caught so quickly.

‘···?’

Eileen’s presence was felt strongly at that time.

As her gaze was fixed on Lee Do-hyeok, a strange sensation was felt.

The magic that groped him like he had just done before.

Pfft!

Lee Do-hyuk spread his magical power around him, scattering Eileen’s magical power as she examined him.

“Oh, sorry. I’m curious too.”

“..Let’s put aside our curiosity for each other.”

“Yeah, whatever you want.”

‘You told me on purpose.’

I quickly gave up on looking into the ‘Hero’s Hall’.

I know for sure from what I just saw.

Even though he was Lee Do-hyeok, he couldn’t defeat Eileen using his magical powers while he was in this space.

‘What if it was outside…?’

Well, the long and short of it is that we will have to see it eventually, but I think it is too much for now.

Magic wasn’t his main field, after all.

Rather than that···

“What, you, the newbie, were a magician too? I didn’t feel that way.”

It seems like Kwabna has lost the interest he had before, perhaps because of the exploration battle using Lee Do-hyeok and Eileen’s magic power.

What’s annoying is the way you call him, just like before.

Because you’re a ‘newbie’.

It is true that Lee Do-hyeok is the latest of the nine heroes to become one of the nine here, but I don’t really like that title.

Even if Choi Kang-cheol, one of his previous nine heroes, was treated as the last among them.

It was not possible to be called by that name forever.

“Here. Is it completely impossible for us to face each other?”

First of all, I needed to organize my own ranking.

Lee Do-hyuk looked at Eileen and asked.

The answer came right next to me.

“Hehehe, it’s possible! Eileen! Hurry up and open the arena.”

Kwabna said that and smiled, showing his teeth.

Now, the magic power of Kwabna is seeping out and exploding.

“Oh my. How ignorant.”

“Wait a minute, I’ll go first..”

“You can’t do both. You can only do it once a day. Do you remember?”

“Shut up. Chen Tao. I’ll go first. Or you come and fight me.”

Kwabna’s appearance radiating speculation as he glares at Chen Tao.

It’s a showdown between a savage dragon and a mad horse.

That would be fun to watch too, though-

Ugh.

Looking at Chen Tao biting his lip, it seems like the two have already sorted out their rankings.

Well, Chen Tao’s ability doesn’t seem to go well with Kwabna’s.

It might be okay in reality, but it was bound to be disadvantageous here.

anyway.

Phew-!

An arena appeared before their eyes, with a tremendous amount of magical power being released and lights flashing.

thud!

Suddenly, Kwabna appeared to jump into the middle of them.

And the sight of it emitting a rough magical power as if telling others to hurry up and come towards it.

‘Is this the second time we’re facing off against a transcendent level?’

Lee Do-hyuk also licked his lips as he entered the stadium.

Although his unique ability has recently been upgraded to the transcendent level and has evolved once again, the first condition for its activation remains the same.

First of all, confront the opponent·········

Tiring-!

That was when.

[‘Yeolhana’ donated 1,000,000 won.]

-Wake up, warrior…!

A notification that wakes up Lee Do-hyeok, who was lost in reminiscence.

“ah.”

Only then did Lee Do-hyeok come to his senses and look at the sponsorship notifications floating before his eyes.

[‘Lee Do-hyeok’s disciple’ donated 1,000 won.]

-Excuse me, over there?

[‘Yobungi’ donated 3,000 won.]

-Where did the broadcaster go..?

[‘Seonwoo93’ donated 5,000 won.]

-The silence of God

The screen is full of notification windows.

I was so focused on reminiscing about the past that I forgot about the chat window and the sponsorship notifications.

Swish-

-Ugh hahahahahahahahaha

-I told you that you have to shoot about 1 million volts to get throughㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ The chat window is filled with laughter at Lee Do-hyuk’s appearance.

Lee Do-hyuk looked at the remaining sponsorship notifications to see why.

[‘Transparent Ice’ donated 100,000 won.]

-Swoop.. Will 100,000 punches work?

[‘rfhjogba’ donated 300,000 won.]

-If 100,000 doesn’t work, 300,000 volts!

“···aha.”

It turned out that there were more than one or two sponsors who woke up Lee Do-hyeok from his reminiscences, and the amount of sponsorship gradually increased.

It started out as a thousand won unit, then ten thousand won unit, and finally 100 thousand won unit, and when a huge donation of 1 million won came in, Lee Do-hyuk realized it.

“Ahem. Sorry. I was just thinking about something else for a moment…”

Even at the point when it had barely been a minute since the broadcast started, that was Lee Do-hyuk.

-Kkkkkkkkk what is this new money collection method?

-Keep on going lol

-Now, even in collecting money, he has a crazy talent that surpasses his teacher, Jiang Chu. But the viewers were not offended at all by Lee Do-hyeok’s appearance.

Just as good-looking guys can make people burst out in laughter with just one word, guys who are good at broadcasting have a way of making viewers laugh no matter what they do.

Lee Do-hyuk was closer to being good at games than good at broadcasting, but from the viewers’ perspective, that’s all there is to it.

“Thank you all for your support. Yeolhana-nim, Transparent Ice-nim, rla… Ah, if there’s a mission you want, please let me know. I’ll count it as a mission you’ve received.”

Lee Do-hyuk, who is belatedly reacting to the support.

His gaze turned once again to Kwabna on the screen, then away.

‘I never thought I’d see you here.’

“Oh, by the way, who is this guy? Iron Fist Pro?”

-yep

-There’s a crazy guy named Kwabna

-That son of a bitch who debuted and swept away all the Apipans

– He’s so damn good that it’s annoyingㅋㅋㅋ In the last competition, he just played around with Anatol in the semifinals. – Huh? Isn’t that what Dohyuk Sensei was talking about ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Lee Dohyuk asked the viewers a question about Kwabna, and continued his thoughts.

A story about Kwabna that quickly pops up in the chat window.

There was a lot of praise for him.

If it’s true, then it’s a natural thing.

If it’s the Kwabna that Lee Do-hyeok knows, then there’s no way he can’t play this game called Iron Fist.

He was a hunter born with a natural talent for fighting.

Probably the same thing happens here.

Of course, the Khwabna he knew and the Khwabna of now cannot be considered to be completely the same person.

Beings living in different timelines.

But there was something consistent about Kwabna’s appearance then and now.

‘It’s been a long time since I’ve seen that guy, but really…’

You still look like you want to lose.

-Honestly, I’m really curious who would win if the two of them fought.

-Sigh… No matter how much sensei you are, Kwabnaren…

-Oh my

-Can’t we see it now? If Dohyuk wins the twerk competition, Evo will go too, right?

“Yes. I have to go out.”

-Wow

-How much is the Evo prize money? Would Dohyuk sensei miss it?

-Really lol

-Wow lol I’m really looking forward to seeing Dosensei and Quabna fight

At that time, a call for support came.

Tiring-

[‘Yeolhana’ donated 1,000 won.]

-The mission is to say that you shot Baekmaneon.. To win Evo.. Geonwoong?

A donation that contains the wishes of many viewers, no, Korean Iron Fist gamers.

How much humiliation did Korea, which was considered the world’s strongest country during the Ice Age, suffer during Iron Fist?

The Korean Iron Fist scene was used to hearing things like ‘a luxury supporting actor’ and ‘just licorice’ at every competition.

However, even though they did not have a championship trophy, Anatole and Beyond showed world-class skills, so there was an expectation that one day Korea would be able to stand tall in Iron Fist as well as Ulpa.

But then, a genius, a monster, a disaster called Kwabna appeared.

At this point, it seemed like it might be possible for Korea to win the trophy before Kwabna’s retirement.

“Winning? Isn’t that a given?”

-Wow, you’re so confident

-His declaration ㄷㄷ

-If you win, you get to go to Kwabna?

But if it’s Lee Do-hyuk…

If it’s Lee Do-hyuk, the ‘disaster’ and ‘spot’ that fell into the alley…

Hmm… I wonder if you could cast Quabna? That’s it?

To the average Iron Fist fan, that might sound like nonsense, but at least a significant portion of Lee Do-hyuk’s viewers truly believed it could be possible.

-Let’s go

-First of all, let’s start with the race for first place.

-Is Kakashi coming out today too?

“Okay, then-”

Clank-

[GET READY FOR THE NEXT BATTLE!]

“Let’s get to first place quickly.”

**

“Ugh.”

That moment.

Far away in Africa.

“what’s the matter?”

“My ear suddenly feels itchy.”

“Hehehe. Who’s talking about you?”

“what?”

A man who had been picking his own ear asked with a frown.

“There’s one of the superstitions in Asia that is Korean. If your ears suddenly start tickling, it means someone is talking about you. A Korean staff member told me.”

“Heh! That’s funny. I don’t believe in such superstitious things.”

The man said, grinning.

His true identity is Kwabna.

Kwabna did not believe in any of the superstitions of the East or of his native Africa.

It wasn’t like that from the beginning.

His great-grandmother, who was over 100 years old, was a respected shaman known as the Great Mganga (witch doctor).

Even as a child, Kwabna had believed her great-grandmother’s words without question.

But what changed Kwabna’s mind was the prophetic words his great-grandmother had told him.

‘I’m going to be a witness to the end of the world or something…’

Something Kwabna once heard when he was young.

At that time, I had trouble sleeping at night because I was worried that things might actually turn out as they said.

But about a year ago, just before she passed away, my great-grandmother left a will saying that what she said then would not come true.

That drove a wedge into Kwabna’s thoughts, who had already grown skeptical about shamanism as he grew up.

He even went so far as to leave a strange comment.

‘What was it? Did it say to watch out for ninjas?’

I think there was some kind of explanation before that, but I don’t remember what it was.

‘Oh, that was it. The lightning cutter…?’

A memory that suddenly came to mind at that moment.

But Kwabna still had no idea what it meant.

Surely he didn’t actually prophesy that he would start Iron Fist, and even if he did, the ninja character Hattori in Iron Fist doesn’t use Raijin-ryu.

In fact, it wasn’t something to be taken too seriously since it was something said by an old man just before he died.

Anyway.

“Tell the club. Tell them that Iron Fist is finished with this tournament.”

“…what?”

“They said it was full of strong guys. That was a complete lie. After winning this competition, I’m going to change the event.”

Kwabna considered himself a warrior born at the wrong time.

What he wants is to fight the strong.

And then defeat them in a bloody fight.

But Iron Fist has no more strongmen left to defeat.

“I think it would be better to announce it before the competition starts. That way, they’ll have more fun with me.”

Rather, only the weak are left trying to defeat him in some way.

Kwabna never thought that he would be defeated, even if it was just for a little while.