The Regressor is too Powerful in Martial Arts – Chapter 8

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: JayM
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“What? A temporary school closure?”

[Yes. It’s a measure for the safety of the children, so we ask for your cooperation.]

“Ah, yes. Of course.”

The weekend of the week I had cleared the orc dungeon that appeared in a secluded corner of the school.

After eating dinner with my mother and watching TV, my mother was talking to someone on the phone.

‘The voice coming from the other side of the phone… is our principal’s?’

A sudden school closure.

They must have discovered the dungeon I had cleared.

Well, if a dungeon was discovered but all the monsters inside were dead, wouldn’t anyone be wary?

‘I could have burned all the orc corpses with Samadhi True Fire, but….’

If I had done that, it would have been judged as a completely new type of dungeon with no threats, including monsters and traps, and the matter would have grown much larger, with researchers from various countries being dispatched, instead of ending with just a school closure.

I thought it was better to have it end with just an unknown intruder clearing the dungeon.

‘The school will probably try to uncover the intruder’s identity with the help of the government agency, but….’

Before I returned, I had burned everything in the dungeon except for the orc corpses… even the mana, so they wouldn’t be able to find out anything.

It would be impossible even if they mobilized a psychometry ability user.

Psychometry worked by reading the memories of mana scattered in the air, so if one erased all the mana as I had done, it wouldn’t work.

So, no matter how competent the government agency was, finding a trace of me in the dungeon was next to impossible.

“Haaa… What should I do about this?….”

Anyway…

It seemed like the school had decided on a sudden closure because of what I had done.

And my mother, who heard this, muttered as if she were a little troubled.

“What’s wrong, Mom?”

“Ah, Geon-woo. They said that the school is closing for a week starting tomorrow….”

“School closure?”

“Um… It means that you don’t have to go to school for now.”

I listened to my mother’s words like an innocent child who didn’t know what a school closure was.

To be honest, I also couldn’t guess why my mother was troubled.

After pondering for a moment, my mother made a call to someone.

‘Ms. Jae-hee? What’s going on with you this weekend?’

“Yes, Team Leader. I was wondering if I could possibly take a vacation starting tomorrow.”

‘So suddenly? A day or so is fine, but….’

“Well… For a week.”

It seemed like my mother had called her company.

‘No, Ms. Jae-hee. I can’t even give you a day, but you’re saying you’ll take a week off? And you’re not telling me this on Friday, but applying for it so suddenly on a Sunday?’

“Well… Is there no way? The elementary school my son attends suddenly said they’re closing for a week… I can’t just leave my son, who has just started elementary school, alone.”

‘That is… Haaa….’

Aah….

It seemed like my mother was anxious about leaving me at home alone.

And the person called Team Leader seemed to understand my mother’s situation and made as much of a concession as possible.

‘…Still, please come in tomorrow. We have an important meeting tomorrow. I’ll process it as a vacation starting from Tuesday, so just for tomorrow, try to leave your son with someone else.’

“Yes, thank you. Thank you.”

…And so, my mother managed to get a four-day vacation.

And she started calling other places to find a place to leave me in.

“Oh, could you possibly… Ah, really? Sorry… then I’ll try contacting someone else.”

“Could you look after my son for a bit…. Hm? Ah, since school is closed anyway, Ha-eun said she’ll sleep over at her grandmother’s for a week…? Your husband took a vacation too…? Ah, I see….”

“Hey… You’re busy… Right, that can happen.”

But with my mother’s narrow network of contacts, it seemed that she couldn’t find a place to leave me on Monday.

It was starting to get late, so calling someone now would just be a nuisance to others….

“……”

In the end, my mother couldn’t find anyone to leave me with for tomorrow.

“…Right, it’s just one day, isn’t it…? One day should be fine. Our Geon-woo is a smart boy….”

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The next day.

That is, Monday.

My mother, who had finished getting ready for work, grabbed both my shoulders and spoke.

“Our Geon-woo, you can be alone today, right?”

“…Yes.”

I nodded my head for now.

I thought my mother’s worry was excessive, but that was only because I was a regressor.

What if I were an ordinary 8-year-old child?

‘She would have worried that I’d cause an accident if I was left at home all alone and get hurt in the process.’

Thinking of it that way, her worrying about me was actually quite normal.

For a normal parent, it was an extremely natural thought process.

“When it’s lunchtime, you can get rice from the rice cooker and take out the side dishes from the bottom shelf of the refrigerator to eat….”

“Yes.”

“If a stranger tries to come in, hide under the bed….”

“Yes….”

…That’s natural, right?

While thinking something was strange, I nodded my head at her words for now.

“Okay, then Mom’s going to work, so as soon as I leave, you have to lock the door right away, okay?”

“Yes.”

My mother said that to me until the very end, and only then, while saying that she was late, did she leave for work.

As my mother had instructed, I locked the door as soon as she left, and….

“…I’m finally alone.”

I went straight to the kitchen, took out a kitchen knife, and brought it to my room.

From now on, I was going to do something that my mother would have freaked out over and stopped immediately if she saw.

“Let’s see….”

I held the kitchen knife and looked around my room.

And after making a rough estimate in my head….

Puk.

I stabbed one of my hands with the kitchen knife I was holding.

Naturally, blood started to flow from my hand that was stabbed by the kitchen knife. I ignored the pain and started drawing a magic circle on the floor with the flowing blood before the wound stopped bleeding.

Yes, a magic circle.

‘It’s the magic circle in the school’s training room.’

A magic circle that gathered mana.

I was drawing it with my blood.

The one at the school was a magic circle drawn with powder made from grinding a magic stone, which served a similar role to a monster’s heart, but how could I get a magic stone?

I could have taken the magic stones when I caught the orcs in the orc dungeon last time, but orc magic stones had low purity, so it would have been difficult to expect an effect even if I drew a magic circle with them.

‘If I had to, there’s a way to use a monster’s blood instead of a magic stone, but similarly, not only is there no way to get other types of blood, but orc blood is of low quality too.’

For that reason, I was drawing the magic circle with my blood instead.

My blood was blood that had been infinitely purified because I had circulated energy through it and expelled impurities from it since I was a baby.

Moreover, it was also familiar with mana, so it was a pretty good material for drawing a magic circle.

At least, it would be of better quality than orc blood or orc magic stones.

“Hoo….”

I completed the magic circle before the blood stopped flowing.

I then let a little bit of mana flow through the magic circle to activate it.

Woooong….

Then, with a soft starting sound, the mana in the air began to gather around the magic circle.

‘…It seems like it’ll take time for the mana to gather here like in the school’s training ground.’

It was unavoidable since the size of the magic circle was small compared to the one in the school’s training ground.

But it was enough.

‘Whether I’m at school or sleeping at night, I’ll be able to gather a considerable amount of mana. And before I go to sleep at night or after I wake up in the morning, I just have to absorb the mana gathered here while doing Qi Circulation.’

Satisfied with my work as I watched the mana gather, I looked at the floor, which was drenched in my blood.

It went without saying, but if I left this as it was, my mother would see it and faint.

Therefore, I erased all of the blood that I had used to draw the magic circle with Samadhi True Fire.

‘Only the blood.’

From the completed magic circle, I erased only the blood.

The already activated magic circle did not disappear just because I erased the blood.

Because what was important was the flow of mana.

Unless a mage came over and deliberately disturbed the mana flow, the magic circle itself would be maintained.

Of course, after erasing all the blood, I didn’t forget to wash the kitchen knife that I had used to stab my hand and return it to where it was before.

“Good….”

Having finished everything, I sat in the middle of the place where the magic circle was.

‘It seems like my body is almost ready to withstand the Divine Art of Harmony.’

I repeatedly inhaled and exhaled.

The mana collected by the magic circle I had just drawn began to gather in my room, and I greedily drank them all in.

The mana that entered my body like that, along with the mana that had previously accumulated in my Middle Dantian, that is my heart, was converted into internal energy as it passed through my meridians, and it began to accumulate not only in the Lower and Middle Dantians but also in the Upper Dantian.

‘…This is the Divine Art of Harmony.’

It was a martial art I had created, and I knew about it beforehand, but it was a truly absurd martial art.

There were many types of internal energy, but… to think….

‘It converts all the energy I absorb into an energy that can replace all of the various types of resources needed to use supernatural abilities… whether it’s magic, aura, or psionic powers.’

This was on a different level from me imitating magic, aura, and psionic powers.

What I had been doing up until now was, in the end, just an ‘imitation,’ so mages, knights, or psionicists of a much higher level than me might have felt a sense of incongruity with my techniques.

But now that I’ve learned the Divine Art of Harmony… It was just that the energy was a little different, but I could use magic, aura, and psionic powers completely now.

No, it wasn’t just those three.

‘Theoretically, I should be able to use all techniques, including Spirit Arts, and even those with few users or those that aren’t well known.’

I could completely use techniques that were impossible for me to even imitate before.

In fact, with just that, one could say that the Divine Art of Harmony had already done its part.

But as if it wasn’t satisfied with just that, the Divine Art of Harmony had a completely unexpected function.

“…To think I can interfere with spacetime….”

I lightly raised my hand and grasped the empty air.

I could feel the space distorting, albeit slightly.

‘It’s merely an interference, but that’s because it’s only been a few hours since I started to seriously operate the Divine Art of Harmony.’

The Divine Art of Harmony was, when you got down to it, a martial art in which all of me was concentrated.

A martial art in which everything I had seen, heard, and experienced was concentrated.

…The experience of my regression was also concentrated in this martial art.

So, I could understand why the power to interfere with time was included.

I could also understand why I too could interfere with space, which was closely related to time.

…On top of that, there was the Awakener System, which seemed to be trying to shower me with something.

With all these conditions met, if I couldn’t become strong, that in itself would be a problem.

I thought that as I continued to operate the Divine Art of Harmony.

However, even if the Divine Art of Harmony was a peerless martial art that was officially recognized by the system, it would be meaningless if its realm was low.

As a result of training all day like that….

“Geon-woo, Mom definitely told you to eat lunch when she left, right?”

“……”

I had forgotten to eat lunch, and my mother, who had returned home, had found out about it.

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T/N – Finally! I thought we’d have to wait until high school or something before he gets to train his OP martial art. I’m really liking his martial art more and more. This basically means he can use any technique in the world when other people are restricted by the talent they have and the energy they generate. I hope he can make combo techniques from different power systems with this. Always a fan of those.

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