I’m not a Regressor

I am not a returner Episode 398

Interlude – Fate is like a torrent (1)

The blood-red magic that surged like an explosion spread like fog.

Isabella, who had been crouching in the blood-red fog, slowly got up.

The magic that was thick like fog flowed into her body.

“…ah.”

Isabella came to her senses and slightly pulled down the white blouse she was wearing, letting out a low exclamation.

The stigmata of leech engraved on pure white skin.

The eleventh stroke engraved next to it was tinged with blood and was emitting red light.

“Oh Mr. Oh Jin…!”

Isabella rushed towards Ojin with an excited expression.

Isabella jumped up and clung to Ojin like a cicada with her arms and legs and rubbed her cheek against Ojin’s head, screaming almost like a scream.

“Kyaaa! 11 stars! “It really has reached 11 stars!”

Isabella, who shed her usual elegant and polite appearance, let out a scream of excitement.

but.

She drank Ojin’s blood and reached the threshold of the 11th castle, but was eventually blocked by a wall and could not cross the threshold for quite a long time, so she could not help but be excited.

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“Whoop whoop whoop whoop.”

Isabella jumped up and clung to her like a cicada, causing Ojin, who was caught between the overwhelming mass of flesh, to shake his body without even being able to say a word of congratulations.

The strong scent of roses fills my nose and the heavy pressure felt through my thin blouse.

Even though I couldn’t even breathe properly, the vain thought that it wouldn’t be so bad to just suffocate and die like this filled the top of my head.

“What are you doing so rudely?”

Cassia frowned and pulled away Isabella, who was clinging to her like a cicada.

“Huh, sister?”

“I understand that you are happy to have become 11, but will the Colgrande family be able to save face if you stick to it without any hesitation?”

“Ugh.”

Isabella bit her lip at the sharp words.

Ojin lightly patted Isabella’s shoulder, who was looking gloomy.

“congratulations.”

“Hmm. I’m sorry, Oh Jin. I got so excited without realizing it…”

“No. “I’ve reached the 11th star I had hoped for, so it’s worth getting excited.”

And what.

To be honest, it wasn’t a bad experience enough to warrant an apology.

“But has it really become 11 stars?”

Ha-eun approached Isabella and gently pulled down her blouse to examine her stigmata.

The 11 strokes carved next to the stigmata were clearly visible.

Ha-eun stamped her feet and shouted as if she was being unfairly treated.

“How can you possibly get 11 stars just by touching me once?!”

“Hey, sister.”

The expression is too vulgar.

“me too! Strengthen me too with that black cloth or something!”

“What kind of reinforcement NPC am I?”

“No, if I got stronger by sucking your blood and touched the stigmata and got to 11 stars, is that a strengthened NPC or what?”

“uh?”

what?

After listening to it, it seems plausible.

“anyway! “If we can imbue the stigmata with the power of the Black Heaven, isn’t it also possible to have the Stigmata of Dragon?”

“That…”

It’s probably possible.

The trick itself for imbuing the stigmata with the power of the Black Heaven will be the same.

However, in that case, Ha-eun will be affected by her ‘domination’.

‘That’s right, even if it doesn’t matter.’

The Heavenly Demon said that if his Dark Heaven completely disappears, all beings who received the power of the Dark Heaven will die together, so the same would probably be true for him as well.

in other words.

This time, it means that if Ojin’s Black Heaven, not the Heavenly Demon’s Black Heaven, disappears, Cassia and Isabella will die along with it.

If Ha-eun’s stigmata is imbued with the power of the Black Heaven, she will also die along with it.

“…no.”

“why!”

“You don’t know what the side effects will be, right? And the constellation of Dragon may be angry that they touched his stigmata.”

“It doesn’t matter that she just sleeps in the temple.”

“But that doesn’t work.”

In the case of Isabella and Cassia, they were under the influence of the Heavenly Demon’s dark heaven from the beginning, so even if there was nothing they could do, they could not cover Ha-eun’s stigmata, which was shining cleanly, with black clouds.

“Hey.”

[Don’t force yourself to say no. And doesn’t it mean that receiving the power of the Black Sky will make you stronger?]

“Still, it’s a bit unfair that I’m the only one with a 10-star rating.”

[Power easily gained can easily disappear. Like your child, you too should not hope for a lucky break and work hard to improve your strength on a regular basis.]

“…For that matter, isn’t it because Ojini became 11-star this time because she received strength from Polaris?”

[That…]

Vega is speechless and looking at Ojin’s thoughts.

Oh Jin chuckled and nodded.

“Well, honestly, I also became stronger by chance.”

It’s not that the efforts I’ve made so far haven’t been of any help.

It was also true that it was embarrassing to call it a state that Oh Jin had achieved on his own.

‘therefore.’

He needed time to completely make the power he gained by chance his own.

No matter how sharp a sword you have, if the skill of the swordsman wielding it is poor, it will be no better than a kitchen knife.

“Ugh… okay. Why not give up receiving the power of the Black Sky?”

Ha-eun sighed and turned around.

“Then let’s go back and have dinner. hungry.”

“no.”

I shook my head quietly.

“why? “Will you come back later?”

“I’ve been thinking about it and I plan to stay here for a while.”

“…what?”

“I don’t know if I should call this a closing training, but… I’ve gained a lot, so I’m going to focus on training until it’s completely mine.”

Oh Jin’s eyes lit up as he touched the stigmata engraved on his left chest.

As there is no way to know when the Heavenly Demon will move again.

He had to make this power completely his own as quickly as possible.

After Isabella reached level 11, Ojin accelerated her training even further.

A crazy training schedule of up to 20 hours a day.

Even if an awakened person possessed a superhuman body, the training continued for over two months with a terrible schedule that would have caused him to fail in just a few days.

Oh Jin devoted himself to training, even providing lodging and food within the facility, as if it was a waste of time to travel to and from the training facility, which was only 15 minutes away.

From dealing with the power of Stigmata, which had grown significantly upon reaching the 11th level, to expanding the scope of the development of the control sanctuary of Black Heaven, which had bloomed for the 12th time.

Even during the training, where it would not be surprising if he fell out of exhaustion, the smile on Ojin’s lips never left.

How could it not be fun?

The biggest reason why the repetitive act of ‘training’ is stressful in the first place is because growth is so slow that it is difficult to feel.

My body is so tired that I collapse from exhaustion, but I don’t feel like I’m making any progress day by day, so who can enjoy training?

Of course, everyone knows that each day accumulates and becomes the foundation for growth, but humans easily lose motivation when there is no reward in sight.

However, in that respect, Ojin’s ‘training’ was a bit different.

Because he achieved such rapid growth at once by absorbing the springs of Polaris and the Milky Way, he was able to become stronger day by day just by learning how to handle powers he was not yet familiar with.

It felt like the latest weapons were suddenly supplied to the military, which had only old, rusting weapons.

It felt like my level was rising rapidly by simply learning ‘how to handle it’ without needing to increase my strength.

For three months, I devoted myself to training in the personal training room, forgetting about day and night with the power of endorphins gushing out of my head.

Even Oh Jin, who had been training in a closed facility without even going out as the seasons changed, also reached a limit.

“Ugh…”

Ohjin woke up and clutched his head, feeling a crushing headache.

‘Where… is this?’

A mattress and blanket that gently wraps around your body.

It was not the sleeping room attached to the training facility where I had been sleeping for the past three months.

It wasn’t such a soft bed.

With that thought in mind, I looked around and what I saw was…

“…is it my room?”

Although I had been confined to a training facility for three months, it felt a bit unfamiliar.

It was clearly his room.

Ohjin got up from the bed and looked around the room, where not a single dust had accumulated, as if someone had been cleaning it consistently while he was away.

“Ugh.”

A pounding headache.

When I frowned and grabbed my head.

Sweet.

The door opened and Isabella came into the room.

“Are you awake?”

“Why am I in my room?”

When I said it out loud, it seemed like something strange.

It was a question that could easily have come up from the perspective of Oh Jin, who had been confined to a training facility for the past three months and had been practicing day and night Jangcheon.

“ha.”

Isabella let out a deep sigh and glared at Ojin with fierce eyes.

“You really don’t remember?”

“…memory?”

After washing up at the end of the sanctuary development training, I lay down on the bed in the sleeping room and closed my eyes for a moment.

“After that, we received a report that Ms. Oh Jin’s vitals were abnormal, so we urgently sent her sister to bring her home.”

“Your vitals are abnormal?”

“yes. “The training facility is equipped with sensors that can always check Oh Jin’s physical condition.”

“ah.”

I wasn’t really paying attention, but maybe something like that was installed?

‘Then, something suddenly happened to my body while I was sleeping.’

Ojin narrowed his eyes and was lost in thought.

“…Did deploying the sanctuary put a strain on the magic circuit?”

After three months of training, we succeeded in increasing the range of the sanctuary to tens of meters around us.

As the amount of magical power input increased, a problem may have occurred in the magical power circuit.

‘If not, it could be the influence of the Black Sky.’

Although he was barely able to control it with the power of the Lyra Stigmata, the Black Heaven he possessed was in a precarious state where it would not be surprising if it exploded at any time.

Perhaps, while he was asleep, Heukcheon went on a rampage to take over his body.

“No, it’s not like that.”

Isabella shook her head resolutely.

“According to the analysis of Mr. Oh Jin’s current condition by Col Grande’s professional medical staff, it is not a problem of sanctuary development or black sky.”

“then?”

What on earth happened to his body without his knowledge?

Oh Jin swallowed his dry saliva with a nervous expression.

“Mr. Ojin’s current condition is…”

After a brief pause, Isabella continued speaking with a distorted expression on her face.

“I’m overworked.”

“…what?”

“It’s overwork, overwork! No, do you know what a device is?! “Of course, it takes a toll on your body as you sleep for 2 to 3 hours a day!”

Isabella’s nagging poured out like rapid fire.

“Anyway, it’s absolutely stable for the time being! Do you understand?!”

Ojin had no choice but to nod calmly as Isabella’s eyes filled with anger.