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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: JayM
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‘…About 5%, I guess.’
I checked the doll’s body and then looked at the corpses of the ogres and trolls.
The doll’s body was certainly stronger than my pre-regression self’s, but that was only the body.
The amount of internal energy was a different story.
‘No matter how much better the quality of the internal energy is than before my regression, the quantity is absolutely insufficient, so performing the same level of martial prowess as before my regression is difficult.’
The doll’s physical abilities were resolved thanks to the branch of the World Tree and the ten-thousand-year-old cold iron provided by the Awakener System.
But the internal energy that moved the doll was only about as much as the main body had granted it.
Just that light horizontal slash from a moment ago had used up 50% of the internal energy remaining in the doll.
‘And no matter how good the materials I used were, the efficiency of the internal energy is low, perhaps because it’s not my own body.’
Right now, the doll might be stronger than my main body, but if the efficiency of the internal energy was this low, a day would come when the doll would become weaker than my main body once my internal energy exceeded a certain level.
I thought that and turned my body.
Although I had annihilated the ogres and trolls, this alone didn’t solve the entire situation.
“Tsk… Dodge!”
“Annoying bastards…!”
The Awakeners around the gate were struggling against the goblins and orcs.
Perhaps it was to move quickly, but some of them weren’t wearing any armor at all, and in the case of their weapons, most of them were equipment meant for delivering a strong single blow.
Right.
They had originally come here to fight only ogres and trolls, so they would have brought equipment suitable for fighting such monsters.
But that was the problem.
That type of equipment might have been good for fighting ogres and trolls, but it was disadvantageous for fighting goblins and orcs.
‘When fighting monsters like ogres and trolls, it’s common to wear light armor and carry weapons that deal strong single blows as much as possible… When fighting monsters like goblins and orcs, it’s common to wear sturdy heavy armor and carry weapons good for fighting against a group.’
The goblins, whose individual blows were not strong but who used tactics like applying poison to their weapons or hit-and-run, were especially a problem.
Because when fighting them, even a very small wound could easily worsen the situation.
“Keuk…! A mere goblin…!”
Just then, an Awakener who seemed to have little experience was wounded by a goblin and became enraged.
That Awakener was probably someone who had looked down on goblins until now.
His pride must have been hurt by the fact that he was wounded by such a goblin.
“You idiot! If you’re wounded by a goblin, fall back!”
“Uwaaaaah…!”
“Damn it…!”
The Awakener, whose pride was hurt like that, charged forward as if he would kill the offending goblin no matter what.
“Haaa….”
“……”
The veterans who saw that Awakener did not help him.
No matter how capable of a rookie he was, they couldn’t break their formation to save him.
Because if they recklessly broke the formation to save him, the goblins would take that opening and attack.
They couldn’t sacrifice their other comrades to save him.
“Keok?!”
Naturally, the Awakener who had charged in alone was surrounded by the monsters, and without being able to hunt even a single monster properly, his wounds only increased.
“…Haaa….”
I let out a sigh and dashed forward.
While cutting down every monster in my path.
And….
“There won’t be a next time, kid.”
“Keok?!”
I snatched the surrounded Awakener and dashed out.
Having broken through the middle of the monster pack like that, I threw the Awakener I was holding back to his original position.
“Uwaaaaah?!”
“Shut up! Do you want to attract the attention of all the monsters here?!”
As the Awakener I threw went flying through the air, a quick-witted veteran shouted that, caught him, and immediately entrusted him to a mage in the rear for treatment.
And that veteran, whose eyes met mine, gave me a light nod before facing the monsters again.
‘I think I can leave this place to the veterans.’
They weren’t Korea’s best Awakeners for nothing.
Although they weren’t wearing suitable equipment and their formation was a mess right now, the veteran Awakeners weren’t being pushed back much.
Though, if someone made a mistake, charged out alone like just now… or if this turned into a long battle, the story would be different.
Furthermore….
‘There are monsters that have broken through the encirclement.’
Although the Awakeners had formed a line as if to surround the gate, some monsters had slipped through between them.
Some of those monsters were aiming for the Awakeners’ backs, but the ones that weren’t had probably already escaped Yeouido Park.
‘There were Awakeners controlling the civilians, so there won’t be any civilians remaining nearby, but….’
If a monster were to escape beyond the control line, civilian casualties could occur.
And since goblins were also cunning, the Awakeners might have difficulty in tracking them.
Since the monsters hadn’t broken through in one direction but had scattered in all directions instead, it was impossible for even me to handle all of them alone.
‘I expected this situation, though.’
While thinking that, I drew up the remaining internal energy in the doll’s body and opened my mouth.
“Detection, Tracking.”
My main body might be a different story, but the extrasensory perception of the doll I currently possessed wasn’t very sensitive.
Therefore, I had to widen my detection range with the assistance of word-command magic.
Just in case, I monitored not only the Yeouido Park area, but all of Yeouido as well.
Next, based on the traces found by my thus-expanded perception, I tracked the monsters’ locations.
‘…Fortunately, they’re all within range.’
The monsters fighting the other Awakeners in Yeouido Park as well as the monsters that had escaped were all in a position where my next attack could reach them.
“…Hey, there! Watch out!”
An Awakener shouted while looking at me.
Because from the outside, it looked like I was just standing still, and an orc, who saw that as an opportunity, had swung its axe at me.
Of course, I was aware of the orc’s presence, so it wasn’t a problem.
Thok.
“Gwe-hiik…!”
I blocked the orc’s attack by catching the blade of its axe with my hand.
At that, the orc was bewildered, but I pulled the axe as it was and cut the orc with my sword.
Chwaak…!
Having cut down the orc like that, I looked at the axe the orc had left behind.
“…This should be enough.”
I stuck the sword I was holding into the ground and picked up the axe with one hand.
And I brought my other hand to the flat of the axe blade and….
Ting…!
I tapped it lightly.
Shatter…!
Then, the head of the axe I was holding shattered into pieces.
This went without saying, but the axe wasn’t so weak as to shatter with just a light tap.
It was just….
‘Resonance.’
I had broken it using Resonance, the technique I used before in the orc dungeon.
Like that, the axe was divided into dozens of pieces and floated in the air.
Of course, the reason they were floating in the air was that I was holding them with my internal energy.
“…A telekinetic…?”
“But… he was using a sword until just now? Then isn’t he a knight who uses aura…?”
The surrounding Awakeners made various guesses upon seeing me like that, but I didn’t react to them.
I just did what I had to do.
“Ten Thousand Flowers in a Rain of Petals.”
With my word-command, the shattered axe pieces all soared into the sky at once.
And when they had risen to a certain height, the axe pieces in the sky scattered in all directions.
“What, what the…?!”
“Is he trying to attack us too?!”
And the axe pieces that scattered in all directions fell straight down towards their targets.
“No, that’s not it…! It’s perfectly avoiding us and precisely targeting only the goblins and orcs!”
The fallen axe pieces precisely pierced the heads of all the goblins and orcs.
The rather cunning goblins, and the surprisingly agile orcs.
But their cunning and agility didn’t help them avoid the rain of metal falling from the sky.
“Kiyaaaak?!”
“Gwe-haelk?!”
And so, the numerous monsters that had come out of the gate were annihilated in an instant.
Some of the Awakeners who saw this were so relieved that their tension broke, or perhaps they felt such awe at my martial power that they even collapsed on the spot.
“What… is this?”
“Is that the same kind of Awakener as us? He’s on a different level.”
No, more importantly….
“That person… Does anyone know him?”
At the veteran Awakener’s question, everyone fell silent.
Well… There was no way anyone would know me.
But if by some chance it was revealed that I… to be precise, that my doll was an unregistered Awakener, or that it had no identity, it would become troublesome.
Therefore, I…
“Return.”
I chose to send the doll back home on the spot.
“No, wait a minute…!”
“Just for a moment is fine, let’s talk…!”
Some Awakeners who noticed that my doll was about to disappear tried to stop it, but by then it was already too late.
And so, I was able to prevent the Yeouido Disaster, where numerous Awakeners had died before my regression.
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That evening.
After finishing school and returning home, I watched the news with my mother.
[Around 10 AM today… the monsters that came out of the gate in Yeouido Park were all killed by an unidentified Awakener….]
[At the same time, it is reported that gates of a similar type to the one in Yeouido Park appeared in New York’s Central Park, London’s University of Westminster square, and other locations, and that the gates there also released many monsters much faster than existing gates. For more details, we go to our correspondent in New York….]
[Experts have stated that if the unidentified Awakener had not appeared, there might have been up to tens of thousands of casualties….]
[It is reported that bodycam footage of the unidentified Awakener who appeared in Yeouido Park has been leaked….]
[The government has revealed that discussions are underway on whether to consider the said Awakener a hero or a potential criminal….]
This Yeouido Disaster… No, since I stopped it, it wasn’t a disaster anymore… But anyway, the incident that would have originally led to a disaster was an unprecedented event, so every channel that showed the news was covering the story.
“…I’ve eaten well.”
And I, who was involved in the said incident, didn’t want to watch the tedious news, so I quickly finished my food and got up from my seat.
“Geon-woo, you have to chew your food properly.”
“Yeees.”
Actually, my body had no problem even if I swallowed my food without chewing.
I replied vaguely while having that thought, put my dishes in the kitchen sink, and went into my room.
And then….
“……”
I quietly locked the door so as not to make a sound.
“Let’s see….”
Having locked the door, I took out some alcohol and snacks from the subspace artifact.
Where did the alcohol come from, you ask?
It was nothing special. I just bought it at a convenience store through the doll.
Since the doll had the appearance of someone in their late 20s, the convenience store part-timer didn’t even check for an ID.
Even if they had tried to check, I had many ways to trick them somehow.
‘Originally, no matter how much of a regressor I am, I had no intention of drinking alcohol with a young body unless it was absolutely necessary….’
Shouldn’t I give myself this much of a reward for all the trouble I went through in making the doll and preparing for the disaster?
For that reason, I quietly enjoyed the alcohol in my room.
Of course, it was a secret from my mother.
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T/N – Yeah, crack a cold one after a job well done. I highly doubt that it could negatively affect the MC’s reconstructed body no matter how young he is.
Anyway, the situation was handled perfectly. It’s just a pity that he wasn’t able to help the other countries as well, though it’s understandable right now. Hopefully, this novel doesn’t devolve into the “Korea no. 1” cliche and the MC helps out other countries too later on.
If you find any mistakes, feel free to point them out in the comments.
