Damned 13th Regression – 202



<Regression number 13 is damn right, episode 202>

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She walked through the desert.

When they were thirsty they drank water from the hole and when they were hungry they ate tree bark.

But in the desert even that has its limits.

Her legs gave way and she sat down under a dry tree.

She was something out of this world.

I gave my name and the sword I had honed to someone else.

She gave it all up on her own.

The reason was somehow childish.

‘Even if I don’t work hard to save the world someone will save the world.’

She was always carrying something.

Some called it a great cause.

Carrying the cause of the Chinese people he killed his brother and his wife and for the sake of his young nephew he killed his father and a fellow executioner who came to assassinate him.

Assassination murder arson massacre.

It wasn’t that she was strange.

People were killing people everywhere.

Monsters came out of hundreds of dungeons and talented people and their sponsors gained power by dealing with them.

The system was on the verge of collapse when warlords and ethnic minorities rose up throughout China.

He boasted of his revolutionary ideas by burning yesterday’s neighbors alive and stabbing family members to death with bayonets if they had different views.

A madness of destruction swept over the homeland.

There was no point in carrying it or swinging the sword anymore.

‘Why did I do that?’

The things I had killed and burned so far weighed heavily on my shoulders.

She turned her attention to the dungeon.

Believing that his sword a clear enemy of humanity would be meaningful he toured the ‘Infinite Labyrinth’ a huge dungeon in Shanghai.

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Before she knew it she was called the Demon Sword of Shanghai.

…

When I was brought to the barbell I actually felt at ease.

It felt as if I had lived here to fight.

As much as he was killing a huge enemy he was saving the world.

‘Teacher Liang please take a break.’

‘Liang Xian! I want you to show me your best on the hunt today too!’

Every time I heard gratitude from my colleagues and citizens I felt a new emotion.

It was a feeling of fidelity.

Every time he fights he steadily saves people one step at a time.

‘It’s hard and tiring but.’

There is meaning in what you carry.

she thought.

The blood buried in the past may be for this moment.

…

It was an illusion.

It was an arrogant illusion as if he was something.

A monster that looks exactly like you like a mirror has come.

‘R’ the monster from the future said:

I only died on the 39th floor.

His father’s disciple named Joo Gong-hyuk saves the world.

…

My struggles meant nothing.

Even if there is no one like me someone will save the world.

The feeling that I was saving the world every time I killed a monster was an illusion.

Even if I didn’t kill him someone would have.

then.

‘Why am I fighting?”

The salvation of the world has already been decided.

There is nothing I can carry.

‘It’s ugly.’

She realized why her incarnation was the ‘four evils.’

‘My life is stained with blood. ‘It means nothing.’

Without realizing it the corner of my mouth twitched miserably.

They burned people and killed their families.

Even pleas for his life were turned on deaf ears saying it was the will of the country.

He plunged an heirloom sword into the intestines of his father who was yelling at him for his iniquity.

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Thinking was always late.

When a bullet flew I reflexively cut it.

If he thought something was wrong he stood on the other side and turned the tip of his sword.

I couldn’t figure out which one was correct.

It was packaged as agreement and duty.

When I came to my senses the corpses of rebels and government soldiers were piled up like a mountain.

And then runs away to Babel.

I felt relieved.

“Tsk tsk tsk tsk.”

I can’t help but laugh.

A human being with corruption.

Are you trying to attach meaning to something like that?

“You are an ugly year for the world. Liang Xian.”

She abandoned her country and her family.

Finally he abandoned himself.

…

The father she once killed said.

‘If you empty humans from humans. God remains in his place.’

Grrrr─

A monster grabbed her ankle as she meditated under the tree.

Plague Ant.

The cursed old tree picked her up and prepared to kill her.

Her hands unconsciously went to her waist.

It was always where the sword was.

‘ah.’

Of course there is no sword or anything.

It gave to the future monster.

There is no such thing as a sword.

A giant tree giant grabbed her ankles and swung her to the ground like a whip.

bang!

I fell defenselessly to the ground and my arm joints were bent in the opposite direction.

Internal organs ruptured on impact. Blood poured out of the esophagus and nose the blood vessels in the eye burst and one eye turned red.

Kiiii…

The roots and branches of the Plague Ant intertwined to form a heavy mace.

The mace rose high to strike her head.

“…Hmm.”

I was dazed from shock.

The round mace looked like a human face.

‘Don’t burn my house down!’

‘Aide Liang! I really committed a traitorous act….’

‘It would be nice if you had four incarnations. ‘Because you can kill in various ways without getting tired of it.’

‘Save me Shien. I was against Master!’

‘Crazy bitch! Because you turned away the party’s last bastion….’

The faces of the people I had killed so far flashed by.

The last face to overlap was Liang Xian.

It was the face of his past self.

‘asleep.’

The simple plain and elegant self from the past distorted his face in an ugly way.

‘Please die.’

The mace fell to crush the nameless woman’s forehead.

“ah….”

A fleeting moment. she is.

I wanted to rip off all the boring cotton in front of me.

Her face was stained with blood.

Keeeeeeeeeeee!

Plague Ant who was wielding a mace glowed brightly swinging the cut branches.

What colored his face was not red blood but Ant’s sticky sap.

She suddenly realized that she was holding something.

I unconsciously pulled it out of my belt and felt a distinct sensation in my hand.

‘The feel of the “hilt”?’

The hilt of the sword felt familiar and comfortable as if it had been held since birth.

It fit perfectly in my hand and no matter how hard I held it I couldn’t feel any discomfort in my fingers.

I could see something he was holding in his hand.

The black line wriggled as if it were alive.

Just holding it. It was ‘something’ that could not be described as a knife.

It felt like if I took my eyes off even for a moment I would be sucked into the thin black line.

Kieeek! KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

“It’s noisy.”

The black line bent strangely and dug into Plague Ant’s body.

Debris and sap splashed wildly and soon became quiet.

She stood there blankly and looked back at her hands.

There was no knife there.

I don’t have a knife.

I felt the hilt of the sword.

The taste of the hand that had just been cut rang through the improbable hilt of the sword.

“Kick.”

She ate the Ant’s shell.

She made a splint by breaking branches and trudged back through the desert.

There was no feeling of futility in my steps like before.

Instead I was filled with a strange desire.

‘God’ came into her empty space.

no. It’s not what came in it’s what’s left.

A ghost that burned people to death.

A friend who was always with her in her secret place.

Let us empty ourselves of humans.

Only ghosts remained in that place.

* * *

Kim Jin-tae opened his eyes due to a sudden stimulus.

Dazzling lights and a magnificent orchestra filled the hall.

The place where he was standing was the banquet hall of the Unique City Company.

‘Congratulations on your victory on the 43rd floor!’

‘A toast to the heroes who wiped away the stigma brought about by Joo Gong-hyeok!’

My ears were deafening from the noise of the celebration.

Kim Jin-tae felt that his field of vision was narrow.

The mask on his face obscured the outside of his vision.

‘It’s frustrating.’

Kim Jin-tae raised his hand to take off the mask.

However rather than taking off the mask the hand grabbed the microphone.

The lips spoke strange sounds that I had never even thought of.

“Next is the turn of Kim Jin-tae the expedition vice president who contributed to the 43rd floor expedition. Please welcome us with applause.”

‘I’ called ‘me’.

A man with a smiling and cheerful appearance came up to the podium.

‘grow.

I handed the microphone over to ‘me’.

“Oh my~ I haven’t done much~ Ugh! Seonhwa oppa is here!”

‘I’ greeted him jokingly from the podium.

Her younger sister Seonhwa wearing a dress smiled and clapped.

It was a strange combination.

I am Jintae Kim.

But there stands Kim Jin-tae.

The same ‘me’ is standing next to me.

His sister claps for him.

‘Even if it’s frustrating please wait for a while.’

I heard someone’s voice in my head.

It was another ritual that allowed me to move my hands and tell stories at will.

Only then did Kim Jin-tae come out of his dazed state.

‘I’ was not ‘Kim Jin-tae’.

Copy of it. It was Kim Jin-tae’s shadow that appeared on the 20th floor.

The real Kim Jin-tae made eye contact with the masked ‘me’.

“Haha so isn’t this all thanks to expedition leader Alphard who selected me?”

I Alphard wearing a mask picked up the microphone.

“Just because I selected her she doesn’t get the name Kirinah. Be proud.”

“Hahaha. “It would be nice to have the CEO fly.”

Kim Jin-tae scratched his head in embarrassment.

Giraffe (麒麟兒) Kim Jin-tae.

Not a first-generation awakener like Christina or Ymir but a promising star who is growing noticeably among the second-generation hunters.

A man who never betrays the cheers of many people and the expectations of his younger sister.

‘I was a much better person than I thought.’

The fake Kim Jin-tae whose body was taken away sank below consciousness.

* * *

Normally Kim Jin-tae was hazy as if he was dreaming but sometimes his consciousness became clear.

He could see everything behind Alphard like a ghost.

He cornered Joo Gong-hyuk talked to an unknown colleague and was warmly revered as the next president of the Company.

And periodically entered the metal capsule.

It was reluctant to have an oxygen respirator called ‘Shuu -wook ─’ in a sloppy liquid that seems to be choking.

‘Maybe they should have put some conditions on it when they took my body.’

The alpha factor implanted by Liang Xien’s clone R.

It was ignited and the future ‘Alfard’ took over his body.

Kim Jin-tae had no intention of handing his body over to someone else.

His strong ego rooted in the characteristic “vessel of a great hero” was impervious to clumsy mental brainwashing.

Joo Gong-hyeok thus broke his optimistic self.

To corner him use his words and manipulate him according to the situation.

But it was a handshake.

The day Kim Jin-tae’s heart was broken the day his own existence was denied.

Alpha immediately captured Kim Jin-tae.

Jintae Kim spoke to Alpha.

‘Are you targeting me from the beginning?’

The other person answered from the other side of my subconscious.

‘no. You were one of the candidates. It’s just that the situation was the same and there were other candidates.’

Alphard pulled out characters from his memory.

‘Soma Sangai Hayeonsi Christina C Mahadeva Edgar Andrews Ymir Ömer Ashik….’

‘Out of all those people I was chosen by chance.’

‘It’s not a coincidence. Your prospects are highly regarded. Even though he was killed in action he also carefully recorded the “Vessel of the Great Hero” in the future.’

Kim Jin-tae was shocked when he heard that he was going to die.

‘Warrior? ‘What am I going to die on the way?’

‘Not in the future we envision.’

‘Then what happens to me? Am I disappearing because I’m pushed by you? Or will they be released someday?’

‘Do not be afraid.’

Alphard answered in a business-like but kind manner.

‘The day Joo Gong-hyeok dies I will set you free. Please be patient until then.’

‘….’

Kim Jin-tae was internally relieved.

When I was in pessimism I didn’t care what happened to my body but when I was semi-forcibly trapped in a mental prison my thoughts changed again.

‘I want to go out and eat something delicious say hello to my friends and see my younger brother.’

‘We will do our best to accommodate you.’

Alphard answered politely.

‘So does this capsule. I’m in there for 6 hours a day and it’s really boring. Normally I feel like I’m watching a movie in the back but when I’m in here…’

Giiing─

Alphard opened the capsule and stood up.

Copy Kim Jin-tae’s consciousness returned to the dream state.

“If you don’t do this you’ll be in trouble later.”

Erasing the current statement from Kim Jin-tae’s consciousness he put on his clothes.

When I opened the door ‘Z’ was waiting at the table.

Alpha gave a light greeting.

“It’s been a while since we met in person. “Zarathushtra.”

“What is the condition of your body?”

As Z asked bluntly Alphard rolled his shoulders.

“No problem for the next few years.”

“I see.”

Alphard pulled up a chair and sat across from him.

“Rather than that we don’t even use dedicated ‘communication’. “Why did you request to be alone without the other colleagues knowing?”

“…I have something to tell you.”

“what?”

Knock knock knock.

Z tapped his fingers heavily on the desk as if he couldn’t speak easily.

“Alpha. “What do you think of the Demon King you met on the 43rd floor?”

“About the Demon King? It’s not difficult. “He is a genius.”

Alphard declared without hesitation.

“He understands the battlefield outside the battlefield and achieves his goals regardless of power or location. “You can count on one hand the number of people who understand specifically how he thinks and how he solves missions.”

Alphard looked back on the memories of the 43rd floor.

Planet Hetrae.

While others were focused on eliminating the enemies in front of them on the ground the Necromancer expanded the battlefield beyond the planet.

‘I don’t know what method was used but it must have been the Four Spirits King who summoned the Satellite God.’

It was not by chance that I had a satellite machine.

It was obviously brought in with the intention of having a ‘planet’ background.

‘Although what he brought was a Mega-Deus class machine it would have been difficult to achieve this level of effect if it had been a land-based combat machine as well.’

When the Necromancer King sent the beastmen into outer space Alphard was confident.

That he was the only one who used the space field provided by the mission.

‘Apart from being capable. Ordinary humans can’t think or come up with ideas that far.’

If you go through it a few times and become familiar with the situation it may be possible for your ideas to reach a completely different place.

It was an area that Alphard could not understand.

“That’s why he’s a genius.”

“I see.”

Z stopped tapping his fingers on the desk.

“Then Alpha. What do you think of our archenemy Joo Gong-hyeok?”

“Joo Gong-hyeok?”

Alphard struggled to speak easily.

Whether it was the Four Spirits King or Joo Gong-hyeok Alphard was able to freely express his thoughts.

The problem is ‘Z’s intention in asking the question.

“Zarathustra. “Are you looking at me now?”

Alpha stared at Z with calm eyes.

“If you have something to say don’t spin it around and say it straight away. Zarathustra.”

“i get it.”

Z slowly closed his eyes.

“Our great enemy Joo Gong-hyeok and the hero of history King Saryeong….”

“What about Joo Gong-hyeok and King Salyeong?”

“It appears to be the same person.”

‘Z’ was Babel’s first to guess that King Salyeong and Joo Gong-hyeok were the same person.

Only some angels and demons knew this.

In addition King Saryeong was a ‘people from the future’ who revered him as the only hero worthy of standing up to Joo Gong-hyeok.

Any other person from the future would have been shocked but Alphard didn’t seem that surprised.

I just nodded quietly.

“I had a vague guess. “We had a lot of records to draw conclusions from.”

“okay. “Up until now I thought that Joo Gong-hyeok had been blamed by the Four Spirits King but at some point it became unnatural to explain it that way.”

“It’s not that we left no evidence at all. “Especially for me.”

Alphard had memories of Kim Jin-tae.

Although Joo Gong-hyeok never openly revealed to Kim Jin-tae that he was the King of Death he thought he would come as his subordinate so he reacted somewhat laxly.

Thanks to this Alphard was able to be sure this time.

“What are you going to do?”

Z continued speaking seriously.

“Our final plan had the survival of the ‘Death King’ as a prerequisite. Even if Joo Gong-hyeok disappears King Salyeong can carry out the final war on his behalf. However if the Demon King was a fictional being that did not actually exist…”

“hmm.”

“The plan may not be sustainable.”

Alphard narrowed his eyes and rubbed his chin.

“It’s difficult.”

“Far more colleagues died than expected. Since S has been deleted there are 5 people still alive. “Without the Demon King we cannot win the final war.”

Alpha asked calmly.

“What are the variables that can be used when we think there is no Necromancer King?”

“It’s not enough. So Hildegard and some angels are the limit.”

“Then Zarathustra. “Are you sure you won’t kill Joo Gong-hyeok?”

Z calmly answered Alpha’s sharp question.

“Alpha. “Our plan does not end with killing Joo Gong-hyeok.”

Future people must conquer Babel.

Garbage of humanity. Punishing Joo Gong-hyeok was just the process.

Z said the slogan that future people always shout.

“Our number one goal. “Kill Joo Gong-hyeok and save the world.”

“hmm.”

“Let’s switch back and forth.”

Kagak Kagagak

Z engraved the words on the table.

‘First goal. ‘Save the world and kill Joo Gong-hyeok.’

Alpha and Z agreed with each other.

“We must prepare for the final war. For that we also need Joo Gong-hyeok.”

“We need to gather new power as well. “Among the hunters there is a force worth seeing….”

Z gave a simple solution.

“Raising dragon spirits.”

“Dragon God?”

“It was definitely among the recorded plans. “Use the Dragon God to eliminate Joo Gong-hyeok or use him as bait in the final war.”

“i get it. “I’ll tell Kurosh (K) who infiltrated the beastman tribe.”

“Then the Four Heavenly Kings Heydrich who is cooperating with us…”

Z told Alpha about his future plans.

The fate of the beings shaking Babel changed with a few words of conversation between them.

Beep─

A communication from ‘G’ was transmitted to their minds.

[Here is ‘G’. Area 55 northwest of Company. I found the Great Death Worm.]

The response of the 5th floor super level monster ‘Great Death Worm’ disappeared a few days ago.

When the demonic supply monster which had turned most of the vast 5th floor into a wasteland disappeared the future people dispatched G to investigate the situation.

The contact has finally arrived.

“What is the cause of Death Worm’s disappearance?”

[The situation is urgent. Liang Xian who had gone missing was found. It is a very dangerous situation.]

“Liang Xian is there?”

There is a clue to strengthening our power.

Alphard made that judgment and gave an order.

“Do everything you can to get her out. “Death Worm is a special level of semi-large power even among the transcendental level. You can’t do it alone…”

[No Alphard. I hope you come here as quickly as possible and save me.]

An image was transmitted to Alphard’s mind.

The gasp that was not captured in the communication was conveyed as is.

[The body was split in two. Blood loss and organ leakage are also dangerous. The cut part does not stick to her. Immediate salvation….]

“Go now.”

Alphard quickly got up and said goodbye to Z.

“See you next time. “Comrade of Divine Spear.”

Z was no longer there.