The Regressor is too Powerful in Martial Arts – Chapter 7

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: JayM
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The orcs kept swarming in, and I kept thrusting the bamboo sword into the orcs’ necks.

The orcs had enough intelligence to use tools, but they didn’t have enough to perform a coordinated attack. So they just charged haphazardly while I dodged the axes being swung at me from all directions, guiding them to hit the ground or other orcs.

“Gwee-ik…!”

“Gwae-aek…!”

Every time I swung the bamboo sword or dodged an axe, the sound of a pig being slaughtered was heard as orcs fell one by one.

Of course, this didn’t mean that the number of orcs was decreasing.

‘This isn’t it…. A little slower, and more naturally.’

What I wanted from this dungeon was real combat.

Combat that could help me assimilate my pre-regression techniques into my current body.

As such….

‘It’s not a bad feeling.’

My thrusts gradually became more precise and more efficient.

Then, at a certain moment….

Pah-ak…!

An orc’s head exploded from my thrust.

“……”

“…Gwik?”

The orcs that were charging at me also saw that and, as if realizing something was wrong, stopped in their tracks.

On the other hand, I felt my arm moving as I intended, making me smile.

“Not bad.”

Resonance.

When my thrust pierced an orc’s body, a shock with a frequency close to the orc’s body’s natural frequency was applied.

At this time, the vibration that I applied was amplified, and that magnified vibration then tore apart the orc’s body.

‘It’s difficult to find the natural frequency of a living creature as it isn’t a uniform material like steel or glass, but….’

With my extrasensory perception, which was far more sensitive than other people’s, it was possible.

All that was left was to vibrate the bamboo sword to match that frequency and thrust at the opponent.

This young body had now made that possible.

It was when I was thinking that…

It seemed that the Awakener System had seen my thrust and recognized it as a form of swordsmanship.

“No, it’s not really a form or anything.”

It was certainly an efficient thrust, but to call it a form was a bit much, wasn’t it?

In the first place, it was just a principle that was good to apply to thrusts, and it was possible to do similar things with other techniques too, not just with thrusts.

…Hmm?

“Ah, come to think of it, at this point in time, this technique would only be thought of as theoretically possible and is still under research, so no one would have actually used it in real combat yet, right?”

Well, it felt easy to do because it was me, but generally, figuring out a monster’s natural frequency and imbuing an attack with an appropriate level of vibration was no easy task.

The group that created this technique before my regression had done something similar by attaching a device that created vibrations to a spear.

“Please name it simply as ‘Resonance’.”

It was called by the same name before my regression.

The Awakener System said that and recorded the data about Resonance in its database.

This act of recording in the database might look like the Awakener System was arbitrarily saving my technique, but it was actually similar to the Awakener System acknowledging the copyright for the technique.

‘Other people can also use Resonance, but in return, they pay me a usage fee… Is that how it works?’

Even though I say that, I didn’t know the details well because, up until now, no one had used the techniques I created before my regression, so I had never received a usage fee before.

Well, since the techniques related to the martial arts I created were unsuitable for mages or knights to use, that was only natural.

Even the Resonance I had just registered, although it was a theoretically realized technique pre-regression, almost no one could use it in real combat back then, so it would be difficult to expect a usage fee for it in the future.

Anyway…

“Compared to its power, the force I put into my arm isn’t that strong….”

Realizing that the strain on my arm was not that great compared to Resonance’s power, I looked at the terrified orcs.

Yes, that is how you should be.

You shouldn’t just charge in without knowing anything. You should look at me and be terrified.

I saw the orcs’ familiar reaction and readjusted my grip on the bamboo sword.

‘I’ve completed Resonance, so….’

Next, shall I try to replicate killing several orcs at once with a single Resonance?

While thinking that, I shot out into the midst of the orcs.

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After that, the orcs that tried to stop me literally exploded.

I didn’t just simply kill the orcs.

I researched how to use Resonance from more varied stances and at more varied angles.

Through trial and error, there were orcs that I couldn’t kill in one go, but overall, the results were satisfactory.

‘And not a single drop of blood splattered on me.’

The orcs whose bodies exploded due to Resonance splattered blood in all directions, but no blood splashed to the direction I was in.

Even if blood had gotten on me, I could have erased it with magic before leaving the dungeon, but it was still better not to get any on me at all.

‘Anyway….’

This dungeon is starting to come to an end.

I thought that as I looked at the huge cavern in front of me which was tens of times the size of the passages I had passed through so far.

Usually, there were two kinds of things in a cavern like this in a dungeon.

Either a force of troops of a different kind from what I had encountered before was waiting for me…

Or if not that…

“Are you the boss here?”

“…Kruk…!”

It was the space where the dungeon’s boss resided.

Considering the scale of this dungeon… At most, the boss would be a chieftain-level, I suppose.

Of course, the chieftain was not alone.

Behind him were two of the greenskins’ unique shamans, famous for casting buffs on allies and debuffs on enemies, and in front of him, orc warriors wearing heavy armor and holding huge shields were on standby.

‘It doesn’t seem to be an individual specialized in command….’

The orc chieftain stared at me silently and drew a huge sword.

Although it was a huge sword, to him, it was closer to a one-handed sword….

‘Still, by human standards, it’s definitely a huge sword.’

It was a sword as huge as my pre-regression self was tall.

If the current me got hit by something like that….

‘No matter how much I strengthen my body with internal energy… if things go wrong here, I could be finished by the wind pressure of that thing alone….’

It meant that just the sword grazing me or me deflecting it could cause me damage, so I had to dodge it perfectly.

Furthermore, that was a story for a one-on-one situation.

‘If the other orcs interfere with me, and the shamans weaken me while simultaneously strengthening that chieftain’s physical abilities….’

Then it would be difficult for me to perfectly dodge his sword.

Orcs, contrary to their appearance, were quite agile.

“…Ha… hahahahaha…!”

Good grief.

To think that I, who never even gave orcs a second thought before my regression, was getting nervous while looking at an orc.

Of course….

‘It’s just that it’s difficult, not that it’s impossible.’

I thought that and gripped the bamboo sword.

Then, my body became heavy.

The orc shamans must have cast a curse on me.

But I didn’t care.

“3.”

I moved my feet and dove into the midst of the orcs.

The orcs were certainly agile for their appearance, but when I, strengthened by internal energy, decided to use footwork and approach them, they couldn’t even react to me properly.

Of course, when I dove into their midst, they tried to attack me by swinging their shields, but….

“2.”

I used my lightness technique to dodge their attacks.

It wasn’t a particularly systematic lightness technique, but it didn’t matter.

It was enough to dodge all the attacks until I broke through the orc warriors in front and got to the orc chieftain.

“1.”

Having broken through their ranks like that, I swung the bamboo sword.

It wasn’t a thrust using Resonance like before.

Because the orc chieftain’s unique frequency, caught by my extrasensory perception, was completely different from that of ordinary orcs.

With just the bamboo sword, I couldn’t create the vibration that was natural to him to cause Resonance.

Therefore…

‘I’ll bring it down.’

I jumped into the air and brought the bamboo sword down on the orc chieftain’s head.

Since it was a bladeless bamboo sword, I couldn’t expect sharpness on my slashes….

‘I’ll smash it!’

I brought the bamboo sword down on the orc chieftain’s head as if I was using a blunt weapon.

Kwajik…!

The bamboo sword, strengthened by mana, crushed the orc chieftain’s head.

The bamboo sword, despite being strengthened by mana, couldn’t withstand the impact and exploded.

“Gwe-he-aelk?”

I heard the orc chieftain’s death cry as it landed on the ground.

And after snatching the dying orc chieftain’s sword….

“Huup…!”

I drew a circle and swung it around in a wide arc.

*KWAAAAA…!*

The orc chieftain’s sword that I swung cut through not only the armored orcs, but also the collapsing orc chieftain and the orc shamans behind him….

It split the upper and lower bodies of every orc in that spot.

Tududuk….

Having defeated all the orcs like that, I looked at the orc chieftain’s sword in my hand.

‘It’s a better-maintained sword than I thought.’

It was a crude sword that wasn’t particularly sharp, and it wasn’t properly balanced, but its durability alone was not bad.

Well… I couldn’t carry around a huge sword like this, so I would have to leave it here.

It was when I was thinking that.

Woooong….

Light gathered in the center of the cavern, and something began to form.

‘The dungeon clear is complete, so it’s time for the reward to come out.’

According to experts’ claims, it was highly likely that the one who created the dungeon was the Black Fog, seeing as the things inside the dungeon were monsters.

But there was also the claim that since a reward called an artifact was given out like this when a dungeon was cleared, it was not solely the work of the Black Fog’s power.

‘The Black Fog wouldn’t prepare an artifact that would be helpful to humanity….’

The one giving this artifact would, of course, be a being with power similar to the Black Fog but was friendly to humanity….

So, it would be a reward given by the Awakener System.

‘Since it’s given by the Awakener System, which is friendly to humanity, usually the reward that person needs most is given.’

A moment later.

The light took the form of a bracelet with a small gem and was placed in my hand.

“…A bracelet.”

It seems like I could hide this somehow… I thought that as I put the bracelet on my arm.

Then, the bracelet, which had been much too big for my childish arm, shrank and became a perfect fit.

And right after that, upon learning the identity of the artifact, which had been engraved in my head, I couldn’t help but laugh.

“A Subspace Artifact?”

The size of the subspace built into the artifact itself was not that large.

Should I say it was the size of a slightly large bag?

Subspace artifacts themselves were expensive, but they weren’t that rare.

But the Awakener System seemed to have judged that this subspace artifact was absolutely necessary for me right now.

“……”

I turned my head and looked at the orc chieftain’s sword that I had swung a moment ago.

With this subspace artifact, I could take this out with me, couldn’t I?

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A few hours later.

The teachers of the elementary school swarmed in front of the dungeon that Han Geon-woo had entered.

“Hoo… A dungeon in the school… What a pain.”

“Still, don’t you think it’s fortunate that it appeared in a corner where the kids wouldn’t go? Just imagine if it had appeared in the middle of the playground. If some fearless kids had gone in, it would have been a huge disaster.”

“That’s true, but….”

They were all heavily armed.

As most of the teachers at the elementary school were Awakeners, they too were qualified to clear dungeons.

“Everyone, prepare to enter!”

At the words of their superior, the principal, the chatting teachers shut their mouths.

And with the principal in the lead, they entered the dungeon one by one.

The teachers who entered the dungeon were then bewildered by a situation that they didn’t expect.

“…Ugh…!”

“What is this?… The smell of blood?”

Upon entering the dungeon, they had discovered the scattered corpses of orcs that were already dead.

“Orcs…?”

“This… The difficulty of this dungeon must be considerable….”

“No, more importantly… They’re all dead?”

Seeing that, the teachers realized that something was strange.

Because this meant that there was an intruder who had trespassed on the school grounds.

And it was a skilled Awakener who could handle strong monsters like orcs at that.

“It also means that there is someone who secretly entered the school by breaking through its detection barrier.”

…Having thought that far, the principal looked at the tense teachers and spoke.

“First, we’ll begin a search for the intruder. And if the intruder is not found by the end of the weekend, we’ll close the school for a week for the safety of the children. So, everyone, head to your respective positions.”

“Yes!”

“Yes!”

“Yes!”

And so, the Awakener-specialized elementary school ended up having an unscheduled school closure.

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T/N – I like Resonance as a skill. I had always been a fan of those techniques that ignore armor and just destroy the enemy’s insides directly. I hope he uses it on more than just sword thrust.

Also, lol at the unscheduled break. MC really gave himself a vacation there. Though he probably doesn’t like it because he won’t be able to use the school’s training room for a week.

If you find any mistakes, feel free to point them out in the comments.