Regression Sword Apocalypse Reconquest - Chapter 90
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Episode 90
Not satisfied with brutally murdering his subordinates, Lee Myeong-cheol forced Se-hyeok to sacrifice his colleagues. He took out his gun first after observing Se-hyeok’s expression.
Crunch!
Se-hyeok quickly cut off the necks of Lee Myeong-cheol’s men who were riding in the same mining car and pushed them out of the mining car.
“Cha Ye-seong, stop thinking about helping and just focus on defense! Stay behind me!”
After giving the invincible shield of the Samshingi to Cha Ye-seong, who was riding in the same vehicle, he pushes it backwards.
There is another reason why I didn’t put this on either Go Jeong-hwan or Choi Seong-hyeon when the rocks fell earlier.
Next, draw your sword forward.
Lee Myeong-cheol and his men began shooting at Se-hyeok and Cha Ye-seong.
The bullets glowed faintly and disappeared when they touched Sehyuk’s body.
Absorbs bullets with the suit’s projectile absorption.
A gun aimed at the head area that cannot be absorbed is knocked back by the Dimensional Adjuster’s spatial distortion.
Sehyuk’s sword flashed.
The heads of Lee Myeong-cheol and his subordinates roll down.
“Ugh, euaaaah!”
Luckily, Lee Myeong-cheol’s subordinate, who was able to avoid Se-hyeok’s sword, pulled out the grenade’s tweezers and attempted to blow himself up, but Se-hyeok stopped him by cutting off his wrist and sent him back to his comrades.
Kwakwang!
The severed wrist falls into the abyss, and the sound of the grenade held in the wrist exploding is heard.
A mining car that moves alone without anyone controlling it.
Headless corpses riding on it.
It was a hideous sight to behold.
It may be a less gruesome sight compared to their mental state.
‘It may be inevitable to survive, but at least we cannot tolerate people being used and exploited.’
Killing to survive is acceptable.
Sehyuk has been like that too.
In a ruined world filled with monsters and humans who are no different from monsters, there is no choice but to kill to protect one’s body.
However, the argument is that killing must be done within limits.
Turn the mining cart and head towards the collapsed rubble.
The mine tracks, despite being paved with stone, still floated in mid-air.
We clear the rubble to find Choi Sung-hyun and Go Jeong-hwan.
Not only Cha Ye-seong, but even Agiyong is struggling to move the stones away one by one.
When we clear it about halfway, we can see the bloody arms and legs of Choi Sung-hyun and Ko Jeong-hwan.
“eww….”
The two groaned briefly.
He was showing some signs of respiratory distress and was struggling to breathe, but he was still alive.
A gentle magical wave was flowing out from the two’s bodies.
This is a trace of the automatic defense shield of the plate armor that was attached to each person’s clothes and the activation of Choi Sung-hyun’s first work, the magic barrier.
The two were able to survive the collapsing ceiling. And the reason Sehyuk expected the two to survive was thanks to these two abilities.
Treatment is also progressing rapidly.
Sehyuk used the protection option of the Samsingi, a set item that rivaled the legendary items he had obtained, to heal the two’s limbs. While granting healing and regeneration.
“This time again, I owe you my life.”
“thank you.”
Choi Sung-hyun and Go Jeong-hwan limped onto the mining cart, enduring the pain.
Once again the mining cart drives towards the surface.
The internal threat has been eliminated, and the external one is no longer there.
Because all the people who could threaten us are dead.
Now it’s time to gather some usable crafting supplies from the giant scrapyard of empty sappers.
And, during the exploration process, Se-hyeok discovered the things Lee Myeong-cheol had done.
The captains who commanded the soldiers of the deserted engineers each seemed to have their own small autonomous districts in the castles of scrap iron, like medieval knights.
The entrance to the scrap metal castle you first enter, a giant map hanging in the center.
During the exploration process, Sehyuk discovered that each area had a name tag indicating whose territory it was.
The area under Lee Myeong-cheol’s control was terrible.
Squeak. Squeak.
Numerous noose ropes hanging from a huge wooden platform.
On that rope hang rotten, blackened human beings.
It’s a gallows.
You can probably guess what happened.
This must be a trace of Lee Myung-cheol executing people while he was exercising military dictatorship in his autonomous region.
And on the wall behind the execution grounds, there was a yellow piece of paper with large letters written on it that started with, “Mandatory Rules for the Lee Myung-cheol Autonomous District.”
There were rules such as the rule that orders had to be obeyed, the rule that resting outside of work hours was not allowed, and the rule that driving on the right side of the road was always required.
The grim part was that if you didn’t follow all these rules, you were put to death.
‘You’re a control freak.’
Meanwhile, Se-hyeok discovered a small photograph on the execution platform.
A photo with worn corners in a broken frame.
I feel like I’ve taken it out quite a bit.
Sehyuk found a familiar face in the photo.
‘It’s Lee Myeong-cheol’s.’
A photo of an old woman with a hunched back, a man a little taller than Lee Myung-cheol, and a younger version of Lee Myung-cheol.
It’s probably a family photo.
The burn scars on an old woman are visible in the photo. Her bent back shows how much she has suffered.
I’m getting the general idea.
This old woman might be Lee Myeong-cheol’s mother or someone similar to her.
You must have had a hard time raising two boys alone.
But Lee Myeong-cheol’s older brother died from assault in the military.
Sehyuk put down the photo and looked around the execution grounds.
Blood-splattered norms. Black corpses that squeak and blow in the wind.
It started out as a justified revenge, but it ended up being the result of choosing the wrong path.
If the process is wrong, there’s nothing that can be done about the wrong result.
‘I realize that I have become much more numb.’
Meanwhile, Sehyuk was surprised that he had such emotional thoughts.
To myself, who looks back and thinks that I was the same before and after my regression.
While they said they would live a human life, didn’t they completely exclude and exploit hostile beings?
To some extent, it could be said that this is an ‘adaptation’ to the ruined world, but compared to ordinary people, it can only be said that it is a state of excessive apathy.
I feel like maybe some of the humanity that was worn down from traveling around the world is returning.
Sehyuk looked at his colleagues searching the surroundings together.
Seong-Hyeon Choi is picking up a bunch of stuff from a pile of scrap metal. Jeong-Hwan Ko is calmly checking to see if there are any living enemies.
Even Cha Ye-seong cremating the corpse with a small dragon.
‘If you look at it that way, meeting these people was also a deliberate and purposeful recruitment.’
But now they are quite valuable colleagues.
Suddenly, I think of the fortress.
A person who had a long-standing bad relationship with Cha Ye-seong.
What was especially admirable about Cha Ye-seong forgiving him was that she had mercy that Se-hyeok didn’t have.
Now that I’ve met some trustworthy colleagues, I wonder if the world could change and become something better.
Suddenly, that thought occurred to me.
Of course, the time to let go of those feelings and Sehyuk’s mental preparation were still far away.
After clearing out the huge fortress, we return to our base.
As an epilogue, when I went back later, there were new corpses there.
They were seen exchanging bullets with each other.
* * *
When they returned to base in the vehicle they had stolen from the deserters, Han Si-Hyeon surprisingly welcomed them with his arm linked.
Although he looked very angry.
“What’s going on?”
Han Si-Hyeon didn’t answer, but the reason was quickly revealed.
Someone came running out, sliding down, to greet them.
“That! That!”
A white-skinned woman who is gasping for breath and unable to form sentences properly.
Upon closer inspection, it turned out that he was the temporary leader of the Fairy Tribe, the Fairy Merchant who had provided the opportunity to meet Han Si-hyeon and had been taken advantage of by Se-hyeok while extorting all sorts of tricks.
‘Why is it like this?’
It’s no wonder that someone who always tries to show off his dignified and noble appearance reveals his true feelings in such an ugly way.
And Sehyuk quickly realized the reason.
“Um, um, what is the World Tree in the cafeteria?”
The World Tree is a great incarnation of nature that fairies have worshipped as a god since ancient times.
Se-hyeok brought Han Si-hyeon to find such a seed near this mansion, and he was growing it in the garden near the cafeteria.
The fairy approaches Sehyuk with an expression that looks almost like she’s about to cry and leans her face against his.
“How on earth did you grow the Great Mother Tree, the source of the Elves’ power? Our lineage was cut off after we fell here!”
“I picked it up.”
“That’s not what I’m saying!”
Sehyuk dodged the fairy who grabbed him by the collar and tried to shake him.
The fairy also kept trying to catch Sehyuk, but he would never be caught.
Meanwhile, Han Si-hyeon was looking at Se-hyeok with an angry expression.
“You should have told me when the guests came. That’s why we had a huge fight. Right, Lord Yevlen?”
“I had to fight to lose all my strength.”
Han Si-Hyeon looks at the fairy merchant as she says that. The fairy merchant nods.
Sehyuk looked at the two with a bewildered expression.
“And yet you even made a statement about that?”
“anyway.”
Han Si-hyeon keeps turning her head away with a crooked expression.
Meanwhile, the fairy merchant steps forward again.
“I originally stopped by to see how you were doing, but now that I know there’s a World Tree, it’s a different story.”
Yeblen, the fairy merchant. Yeblen, who gave up on shaking Sehyuk by the collar, clasped his hands together and looked at Sehyuk.
It’s a look that doesn’t even allow itself to hide its earnest gaze.
“Please. I will do anything as long as my honor and pride are not damaged. Won’t you give me a piece of the World Tree?”
The leader of the practical fairies who have a lot to devour.
“Help rebuild the elves.”
Such a being bows its head.
If it were a game, it would have felt like a legendary sub-quest would have started.
It just so happens that I was planning on calling you once already.
Because there’s so much to unpack.
However, there was an unexpected benefit to be gained from it.
‘Perhaps, if I combine the items I have now, I can create an elixir that will raise my combat power level by one level more than it is now.’
At this time, Sehyuk planned to grow the World Tree with the help of fairies.
Because if you grow the World Tree, there is a way to raise the level of Sehyuk as well as your colleagues.
And the item I originally wanted to obtain was a secret technique that greatly strengthened my companions.
This is the vision of nature that the fairy elders have.
If I had to pick the strongest druid race, I would definitely say the elven and beast races.
Didn’t Yevlen personally open the door to a glimpse into the great secret arts passed down among the fairies?
By returning the crown, a symbol of natural eldership.
If there are conditions, there are two: the learner must be a Druid and must have the permission of an elder.
But I said that it would probably be possible with the elder’s permission, so it will be possible.
The person to learn from is also the Druid Han Si-Hyeon, so he is perfect.
“How could it not work?”
Yeblen, who continues to yearn.
In addition to this, he even offers to listen to anything as long as it doesn’t involve insulting the fairy?
I can’t miss this golden opportunity.
“Then, I wonder if you would come with me to get some stuff.”
The angle is set.
The angle of eating is like the day you board the so-called old-timer-driven bus.