The Regressor is too Powerful in Martial Arts – Chapter 13

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: JayM
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As I said before, I only remembered an extremely small part of the information about the Villains who would appear in the future or the incidents that would occur because of them.

At most, it was about incidents that were famous enough to reach my ears or incidents that were directly or indirectly related to me.

And even those had a high possibility of changing due to my actions, so this was a situation where they could only be used as reference material.

But that didn’t mean that the information from before my regression had lost its value.

‘Because the information I remember isn’t just about incidents.’

I had in my head information that numerous experts in the future had analyzed, reviewed, concluded, and announced.

For example, information about a method to roughly guess the environment inside a dungeon from outside the gate.

For example, information about a method to observe a gate before it was even created.

…And information about the results of a comparative analysis of the Black Fog’s activity patterns.

That vast amount of information was dormant in my head.

‘And I can use it completely.’

Recalling the activity patterns of the Black Fog, I looked around the places where the Black Fog was likely to create a gate.

I found the traces of a gate that was scheduled to be created a short while later, and I visited it again at the time the gate would be created.

Then, if the dungeon beyond that gate was one that suited my level, I would clear it, but if it was a dungeon of such a low level that it wouldn’t be worth my while, I would scatter my internal energy, which I had appropriately converted into mana, to make other Awakeners notice the gate’s existence.

‘Because it’s better to use an ambiguous dungeon that won’t be of any help to me for the growth of other Awakeners.’

Recently, I had been repeating the act of sending the doll to check on dungeons and leaving them to other Awakeners in that way.

But today was different.

Today, I had discovered a dungeon that suited my level.

‘Strictly speaking, it’s a little lacking compared to my level, but….’

Still, since it was a tricky dungeon with monsters that were famous for being difficult to clear, it would be left alone if I didn’t clear it.

Thinking that, I sent the doll into the dungeon.

Hweee-ing…!

Upon entering it, the first thing that greeted me was a fierce wind.

Even though it was a fierce wind, it wasn’t strong enough to blow a person away. But still, an ordinary Awakener would have had their movements restricted.

‘…A canyon.’

The scenery that came into my sight after breaking through the wind was a pair of giant cliffs.

Usually, the monsters that appeared in a canyon like this were set.

‘Monsters capable of flight.’

Monsters that freely flew between the canyons and troubled Awakeners.

Among them….

“Krawrrr…!”

“Kyaaak…!”

The residents of this dungeon, who had noticed my presence when I entered, revealed themselves.

A reptile with two legs, a tail, and wings.

It was similar to a Dragon in that it was a winged reptile, but unlike a typical dragon, its forelegs were one and the same as its wings… It was a subspecies of dragons, to be specific.

A Wyvern.

“I’ve run into some decent ones.”

The Wyvern was a famous monster known to be among the top in terms of strength compared to the numerous flying-type monsters, to the point that it was common sense for any party not composed of veteran Awakeners to immediately flee upon discovering a Wyvern in a dungeon.

Even veteran Awakeners tended to avoid a fight with one if the dungeon’s terrain was not advantageous to them.

‘This canyon terrain is by no means advantageous to Awakeners.’

The strong wind blowing in the canyon gave strength to the Wyverns that rode the wind as they flew.

Moreover, since they would try to rest in their nests somewhere on the cliff without ever coming down to the ground, one couldn’t use the strategy of waiting for them to get tired.

“This is truly the worst kind of dungeon.”

What probably happened to this dungeon before my regression was that someone had discovered it, had gone outside and reported it, and then the numerous mages dispatched after receiving the report would have entered the dungeon and cleared it by using their magic all at once to destroy all the terrain.

Since it was possible to clear a dungeon in that way.

It wasn’t very efficient and the reward was small compared to the effort, but it was a way to demolish a dungeon that was definitely tricky to clear.

Of course, I was different.

“Since I came here for training anyway, shall I try playing here while sealing my magic and psionic powers?”

An ordinary Awakener would normally run away from this immediately, but not me.

“The enemies here just happen to be ones that fly in the sky….”

Shall I try refining my lightness technique here?

While thinking that, I wrapped my legs with internal energy and put strength into them.

Kwaang…!

Right after that, I shot up vertically as if I had been launched.

‘Riding Qi to Defy Gravity.’

I, who had defied gravity using internal energy, had risen to a position higher than the Wyverns.

And the Wyverns had not yet grasped the situation…

‘Thousand-Pound Drop.’

While lowering my center of gravity as much as possible with internal energy, my body, which had been soaring in the sky before, plummeted at a speed faster than when it had first shot up.

KWANG!

Next, I stomped down on the body of a Wyvern with my foot.

The mass contained in my foot, which had been made heavy by the Thousand-Pound Drop, and the stomping speed, which was much faster than my soaring speed, were enough to shatter the body of even a Wyvern despite its hard scales.

Thud!

The corpse of the Wyvern, which had died without even letting out a death cry, crashed to the ground and made a loud noise.

The other Wyverns finally turned their heads and tried to look my way, but my movement was faster.

‘Walking on Air.’

A skill that lets me run in the sky as if I was stepping on air.

Using this, I swung my sword and tore the wings of the nearby Wyverns.

‘Not bad.’

I felt my internal energy flowing stably as I slaughtered the Wyverns.

The Wyverns, as if saying that they wouldn’t just take this, tried to attack me by riding the wind, but their intelligence wasn’t very good.

As a result, they just charged towards me and tried to bite my body with their teeth or stab me with the claws of their hind feet. If not that, they just tried to burn me by breathing fire from their mouths.

They charged at me without considering any formation or tactics at all.

‘If I had been just an ordinary Awakener with good strength or speed, that alone would have been a crisis for me, but….’

Lightness technique was a term that encompassed both movement skills and body arts.

Well, the interpretation varied from person to person, but at least that’s how I interpreted it.

Among them, body arts simply meant a way to move the body well.

For reference, dodging an opponent’s attack by moving the body and taking a good position to attack the opponent at the same time also belonged to body arts.

‘In other words… to use lightness technique means….’

It meant not only moving quickly, but also to evade the opponent’s attacks and preemptively take a position to attack the opponent.

I used lightness technique in the air while dodging all of the Wyverns’ attacks with minimal movement.

The places I was in right after dodging the Wyverns’ attacks were all good positions to counterattack the Wyverns that had attacked me.

Naturally, I wouldn’t miss such opportunities, so I swung my sword and cut off the Wyverns’ wings.

“Kieee….”

“Kie-ek…!”

Some of the Wyverns that saw this began to flee on the wind.

Although they were Wyverns with low intelligence, they must have had some learning ability.

I finished off the Wyverns that hadn’t fled, whether their learning ability was low or they had given up on surviving, and watched the fleeing Wyverns.

‘They’re fast.’

They were slightly slower than me, who was running with Walking on Air, but they were still pretty fast.

I could catch up to them with just Walking on Air, but then it would take quite a while to catch up to them all and kill them.

Even if it was for training, I didn’t want to waste that much time, so I decided to use a slightly higher-level technique.

‘Soaring Through the Void.’

Like Walking on Air, it was a skill for traversing the sky, but it was on a completely different skill level.

It was the highest realm of lightness technique, which was practically no different from the art of flight.

And….

‘It was a realm that my pre-regression self couldn’t reach.’

I used it here through the doll.

“Kiek?!”

“Ke-ek?!”

The next moment, I confirmed that my doll had caught up to the fleeing Wyverns.

Of course, the fate of the Wyverns was also decided here.

A fate of the same end as their kin before this.

KWANG! KWANG!

Just as the Wyverns’ heads were separated from their bodies, I heard two loud booms.

To be precise, it was a loud noise caused by a shockwave… That is, the sonic boom that was created as my doll flew.

For a moment there, I had broken the sound barrier.

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“…Hoo….”

After dealing with all the fleeing Wyverns, I returned to my original location and cut off the necks of all the Wyverns that had crashed to the ground.

Tearing the Wyverns’ wings in the sky was done solely to take away their air superiority, as it wasn’t a wound that would lead to a fatal injury.

Thanks to that, there were quite a few monsters that had survived crashing to the ground.

But that didn’t matter now.

‘Still, I shouldn’t overuse Soaring Through the Void.’

Having cut off all the Wyverns’ necks, I checked my doll’s condition and thought that.

It was certainly enough to be a trump card that could produce a speed on a different level from Walking on Air, but….

My doll’s body, given the materials used on it, was able to withstand the pressure of supersonic speeds, but….

‘The internal energy consumption is too severe.’

The disadvantage was greater than that.

I had used Soaring Through the Void for only a single moment.

Even so, about half of the internal energy remaining in the doll had disappeared.

The doll’s internal energy efficiency was lower than my main body’s, but even considering that, I had been infusing the doll’s body with internal energy for a while now.

An amount close to tens of times the internal energy in my main body had been stored in its Dantian.

Even though I had stored that much internal energy, when I used Soaring Through the Void, half of it evaporated in an instant.

If I were overflowing with internal energy like before my regression, it might be different, but at least for the current me, it wasn’t a skill to use lightly.

“Well then… Enough with the reflection for now….”

I muttered that and raised my head.

Because there was a monster perched on the cliff while looking down at me… observing and assessing me with caution.

And it was an individual that was much larger and darker in color than the other Wyverns, with old scars all over its body.

‘That must mean it has lived for quite a long time.’

It was probably the leader of the Wyvern pack I had just killed.

In other words, it was highly likely to be the boss of this dungeon.

That creature was now just watching me with caution.

“A wise one.”

This monster was wise.

Perhaps because it had lived a long time, it was quick-witted.

The aura it gave off was by no means weak either.

‘If only I could put living creatures in my subspace artifact, I would try what is commonly called Taming on it….’

It was a monster that made me have such a desire.

“It’s a waste, but….”

Still, since the boss was such an outstanding Wyvern….

“I can look forward to this dungeon’s reward, right?”

As I said that for the Awakener System to hear while I raised my sword, the leader Wyvern roared as if it knew that I was trying to kill it.

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T/N – You know, a fellow translator once said to me that translating technique names for Martial Arts novels was a pain. I now feel their pain. Jeez, those are long…

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