The Regressor is too Powerful in Martial Arts – Chapter 20

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: JayM
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After hearing Yeon Mi-rae’s answer, we decided to have dinner first.

Even though we were having dinner, the one here right now was my doll, so it didn’t really need to have a meal, but Yeon Mi-rae did.

Therefore, I rummaged through the backpack Yeon Mi-rae had brought, took out the combat rations, and frowned.

‘…Honestly, these combat rations… Not only are the calories needlessly high, but the taste isn’t great either….’

Well, the high calories were natural considering the purpose of combat rations, but still, I wished they had done something about the taste.

In the future, improved combat rations would keep coming out, and the taste would improve as a result, but….

While thinking that, I put the combat rations into a bowl and then heated them with Samadhi True Fire.

I burned off some of the calories and also the substances that adversely affected the taste.

This way, the calories would be reduced to the level of a normal dinner, and the taste would be better than the original combat rations.

As I was thinking that, Yeon Mi-rae was watching what I was doing with her eyes wide open.

“What?”

“…Weren’t you… an aura… ability user?”

“Hmm….”

I pondered for a moment.

Would it be better to hide the fact that I was a martial artist?

I could just say that I was a multiple-ability Awakener.

Although the existence of multiple-ability Awakeners hadn’t been revealed yet, in the future, a fair number of multiple-ability Awakeners would be born, even if they were rare.

I thought that, but I shook my head.

The current Yeon Mi-rae was as good as a fanatic who believed in me.

There was no need to lie to her.

Though I wouldn’t tell her everything.

“Strictly speaking, no. For now, just know that much.”

“Yes… Is that so?”

Since I said I didn’t want to talk about it, she seemed to respect my wishes.

Still, I was thinking of telling her about the truth to some extent when I treated her constitution.

Because she also needed to know how she was being treated.

And she had to choose…

‘Whether to become a martial artist who uses the same internal energy as me, or to become a knight who uses aura like other people.’

I thought that while feeding the immobile Yeon Mi-rae with the cooked combat rations

“……”

“Open your mouth.”

“Yes….”

However, a situation like the ones from romance novels where one feeds a sick woman didn’t occur.

And for good reason….

“…I know it’s rude to talk while eating, but… why is the spoon floating in the air?”

Because I was using the technique called Void-Grasping Hand to lift the spoon and bowl and feed her.

From Yeon Mi-rae’s perspective, it looked as if the spoon and bowl were moving on their own while feeding her.

Thanks to that, the atmosphere was quite far from what one would expect from a romance novel.

“To answer your question, this is also because I’m not a simple aura ability user. I’ll tell you the details tomorrow when I treat your constitution.”

“Alright.”

At my words, Yeon Mi-rae nodded her head and accepted the food I gave her.

Right after she finished her meal, I cleared the dishes.

“Purification, Cleanliness, Dry.”

Because doing the dishes was a hassle, I used word-command magic.

I did see Yeon Mi-rae’s eyes tremble as she saw that, but she shouldn’t be surprised by just this.

I organized the luggage while thinking that, and then I looked at Yeon Mi-rae.

Her body had also recovered to some extent while she was eating dinner as she was getting up from her spot.

“Can you walk?”

“Yes… Please give me the backpack too.”

For a moment, I wondered if she was overdoing it, but she wasn’t the type to be stubborn for no reason.

Moreover, she had an accurate grasp of what she could and could not do.

For her to ask for the backpack meant that she had recovered enough to walk with it on.

Thinking that, I gave her the backpack.

Yeon Mi-rae took the backpack from me, put it on her back as if she was used to it, and then looked at me.

That must mean she wanted us to move right away.

“This way.”

I said that and walked ahead.

Of course, the direction we were headed was where the boss of this dungeon, the warlord-level commander monster, was.

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The orc was one of the most popularly known monsters among those that came from the Black Fog or the dungeons created by the Black Fog.

After all, the orc species was a regular in various fantasy stories.

Of course, the depiction of the orc species varied from fantasy to fantasy.

As such, the types of orcs that came from the Black Fog were also diverse.

Though they were diverse, that didn’t mean that there were no commonalities that applied to most orcs.

“The orc is a species that is considered the closest to a ‘military’ among the monsters that come from the Black Fog. They have their own ranks based on strength, and the superiors can command the inferiors as they wish.”

Yeon Mi-rae laid out what she had learned about orcs in school.

Yes, that was the orc.

Their intelligence was certainly on the low side, but they still were able to form an army.

Whether the reason was that they revered strength, or that the strong orcs just crushed the weak orcs with force, this system was always present as long as the number of orcs belonging to the tribe was not abnormally small.

Therefore….

‘The more outstanding the commander’s level, the more dangerous the army is bound to be.’

An army that absolutely followed its superior’s orders was that much more threatening.

Even more so if it was an army that prioritized orders over their own lives.

Yeon Mi-rae and I looked at the orc settlement from the top of a high hill.

I could see numerous houses made mainly of wood, stone, or animal hides inside, and I could confirm that one orc was sitting on a particularly fancy chair in a particularly fancy house.

And with that orc as the center, numerous orcs were lining up and training by swinging their swords or spears.

“…The orcs… are training…?”

“Are you surprised? It’s actually not that strange.”

Yeon Mi-rae seemed bewildered seeing that, but I wasn’t surprised.

Orcs also had a certain amount of intelligence.

The reason why they were training was probably because they had gotten inspiration from something and were training to make it their own.

“In this case… it seems like they’re training to imitate the techniques used by other Awakeners.”

“…Ah, I’ve heard about that. That in cases where a gate disappears without the dungeon being properly cleared, a new gate leading to that dungeon later appears in a different location….”

“Yes. It means that we’re not the first to have entered this dungeon. Though the gate we used would have been different.”

Considering that the orc shamans had forcibly closed the gate when we entered the dungeon, the Awakeners who had entered before must have been unable to retreat and died at the hands of the orc legion.

We were safe only because I was an Awakener with out-of-spec abilities. There was no way that ordinary Awakeners could have beaten an orc legion.

“…!”

As I was having a conversation with Yeon Mi-rae, the orc sitting on the chair raised its head.

“Uh…?”

“It noticed us.”

I hadn’t particularly hidden my presence, but still, to notice our existence from this distance…

That one didn’t seem to be an ordinary orc either.

‘Though it’s still just an orc.’

The Orc Warlord stood up from its throne and let out a roar.

“Uoooooooooooooooh…!”

Although we couldn’t interpret the orc’s language, seeing all the orcs in the orc settlement stop what they were doing and pick up something that could be used as a weapon from nearby upon hearing that roar, it seemed like the Orc Warlord had informed the other orcs of our presence.

‘Still, he looks very flustered.’

Did it think that the main force that had gone to the entrance earlier had taken care of us already?

“Ugh… There are too… many.”

Yeon Mi-rae looked at the orcs appearing from all directions and was disgusted.

The number of orcs she had killed earlier was around a few hundred.

But the orcs that had appeared in front of us now were….

‘…At a low estimate, it seems to be in the tens of thousands.’

It seemed like it would be about that much if you included not only the orcs that were outside, but also the orcs that were coming out of the buildings.

Killing them one by one would be quite a hassle.

‘Even if I kill 5 per second, it means that I have to keep swinging my sword for over 2,000 seconds… That’s more than 30 minutes, isn’t it?’

I’ll pass on that kind of trouble.

And besides, just saying that I would kill 5 per second was easy. In reality, it was quite a troublesome task, so it would most likely take much longer than that.

If I did that, Yeon Mi-rae, who was still a high school student, would go home late tonight.

If someone heard what I was thinking, they might have questioned if that was the main problem here, but anyway, for that reason, I decided to use a simpler method.

Tuk.

“Huh?”

I placed my hand on Yeon Mi-rae’s shoulder and wrapped a barrier made of qi around her body.

She also noticed that I had done something around her and looked at me with curious eyes, and….

“Follow me slowly.”

I said that to her and walked ahead first.

“…Uoooooooh…!”

The Warlord, who had noticed that I had begun to approach its side, roared.

“Chwi-ik…!”

“Kwi-ik…!”

Then, the orcs that had been scattered about began to run in one direction all at once, as if they had set a target.

That is, towards me.

I looked at the orc pack and thought.

‘As expected, for dealing with large numbers, ordinary martial arts… that is, martial arts that use weapons like swords, spears, or bows, or unarmed like fists or feet, aren’t suitable.’

But there were definitely martial arts suitable for dealing with such large numbers.

“Vibration, Amplification.”

However, I had only laid the framework for that martial art for now, and its realm wasn’t very high yet, so I set up some word-command magic to help it along.

The martial art I had decided to use against these tens of thousands of orcs was none other than….

‘Sound Art.’

A martial art that used sound, that is, the vibration of air, as a medium.

Clap!

I clapped my hands lightly to unleash the Sound Art.

And the small sound that started from that clap was amplified by my word-command magic and headed towards the orcs. The moment the orcs heard the clap….

Puhwak!

Kwajik!

Crack!

Some orcs bled from their eyes, nose, and mouth… from all of their orifices.

Some orcs exploded as if they had been crushed or had collided with something formless.

And the iron equipment that the orcs were holding shattered as if they were made of glass.

Kwaaaaaa…!

Chwaaaak…!

It wasn’t just the orcs that were damaged by the Sound Art though.

The mountain where the sound had spread to had a landslide, and the river where the sound had spread to had its water soar up against gravity.

A disaster.

Could there be a more fitting description for this?

With a single clap of my hands, everything in the dungeon was twisted and a disaster occurred.

“Gwee-ik….”

“…Uooooooh…!”

A few orcs survived amidst that disaster.

Though they were only the Warlord and the orcs that seemed to be its immediate aides.

Since the realm of my Sound Art wasn’t very high yet, it didn’t work on orcs above a certain level.

Shnk.

And the orcs that had resisted my Sound Art had their necks fly off at a wave of my hand.

And so, the Orc Warlord and its legion, which would have been nothing short of a disaster for ordinary Awakeners, disappeared at my hands.

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T/N – Damn, that Sound Art attack was pretty badass! And that hand wave at the end… A good way to sell his OP-ness and a good way to end the chapter.

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