I’m Not a Regressor - Chapter 255

I am not a returner Episode 255: Heavenly

Dragon (7)

“Oh Jin… I’m so scared of you.”

Isabella, caught in Barbatos’s grasp, called out to Ojin in a thin, trembling voice.

However, unlike her voice filled with fear, the corners of her mouth were raised high as if she was having a hard time holding back the laughter that was about to burst out.

[Hehehe. Did you hear, human?]

Since Barbatos could not see her expression, he made an arrogant expression as if he had won.

Humans are social animals.

He knew well how important relationships with other people were to them.

Among them, some people even act irrationally, giving up their own lives for others.

‘They’re stupid.’

Dragons do not form societies.

They are complete as one and perfect as one.

Therefore, from Barbatos’s perspective, the sight of people sacrificing their lives for others felt extremely foolish and ignorant.

A living thing that can exist only with others.

The human race was a race that contained weakness from its fundamental design.

“Please save me, Oh Jin!”

A woman caught in his hands lets out a pitiful scream.

It’s a nice scream to hear.

Barbatos twitched the corner of his mouth and turned his head with a leisurely gaze towards the human who dared to hurt his body.

He must be shaking by now with a pale, exhausted expression…

[…Hmm?]

Barbatos’s eyebrows furrowed.

The corner of his mouth, which had been twisted in anticipation, fell again.

Contrary to his expectations, the expression on the face of the human who had burned off one of his wings was not one of fear.

“Uh… um. “Do you want me to live?”

A somewhat embarrassed expression.

Barbatos made an incomprehensible expression as he saw Ohjin scratching his head while bursting into laughter.

“No matter what, I don’t think we can keep Barbatos alive.”

[What?]

Barbatos’ expression distorted.

It’s clear that he’s the one who took the hostage.

Why does his name suddenly appear here?

“Oh, is that so?”

And why is the woman being held hostage nodding as if nothing is wrong?

It was full of unknown things.

Barbatos frowned and opened his mouth.

[What nonsense are you talking about now…]

“I understand. Then I will kill you.”

Isabella burst into laughter and gently placed her hand on top of Barbatos’ hand holding her.

The feel of soft hands beyond the scales.

It was as fragile a hand as he thought.

“Dragon’s blood… what does it taste like?”

but.

It took less than 10 seconds for the feather-soft touch to turn into excruciating pain.

[Kaaaaaa!!]

Crack, crack, crack!

The purple scales shrivel.

The skin is torn and red blood gushes out like a fountain.

[What is this?]

Barbatos urgently looked down at his arm.

Scales cracked as if a hammer had been struck on a glass mirror.

With a terrible pain, the hand that was holding Isabella was cut off like a cube.

“Hmm. “I had high expectations because it was said to be dragon’s blood, but it turned out to be fraudulent.”

Isabella, who was lightly sitting on the floor, lightly dabbed the blood pouring everywhere with her fingertip and touched it to her tongue, frowning in displeasure.

Blood was pouring like a waterfall from Barbatos’ arm, which had been cut into cubes, but not a single drop of blood splattered on her clothes.

The blood that poured down like rain passed through her body like a living creature.

“If I had known that I would be this weak, I would have come alone.”

Isabella waved her arms lightly, as if swatting away flies, with a listless expression, as if her excitement had waned.

Sigh!

The blood pouring from the wound turned into a sharp blade and cut into Barbatos’ body.

[Kaaaaaa!]

Barbatos let out a scream and flinched back.

Coo!

A 50-meter-long object fell to the ground.

The battle was over in less than 5 minutes.

Ojin nodded as he approached the fallen Barbatos.

“I told you. “The power will be full and overflowing.”

It is an undeniable fact that the Heavenly Dragon Barbatos is a monster so powerful that it destroyed an entire country.

But that was a story from 6 years ago.

Compared to then, the level of awakened people has grown so much that it is unrecognizable.

And Oh Jin was a talented person who was selected as a ‘chilseong’ among those who had awakened to a higher level.

‘I’m not even the strongest.’

Because of the restrictions of Riak and Vegaya’s laws, they cannot use all of their original power, so even if this is left out of the discussion.

Isabella alone is a strong woman whom Ojin cannot even dare to think of dealing with without using Gaecheon.

No matter how named he was, his power was not at a level that Barbatos, who was ‘only’ a 9 star, could deal with.

‘We all came together just in case… but there was no need to do that.’

Ojin narrowed his eyes as he looked at Barbatos, who was completely devastated.

I don’t think I have any energy left to use the curse anymore, so I just had to go and finish it off.

“I will finish it.”

“wait for a sec.”

I grabbed Isabella’s shoulder as she tried to approach Barbatos.

Intuition, not logic, instinct, not reason, was shouting.

‘There’s no way it can end like this.’

[My child.]

When you think like that.

Vega came next to Ojin.

[I can sense an extremely unpleasant energy from those horns.]

Vega frowned and pointed to the two black horns on Barbatos’ forehead.

Horns that grew in deformed curves.

It changed its appearance into a dragon’s form and grew to several meters in size, and an ominous energy that sent chills down the spine was flowing out.

[Ah ugh. Ah.]

Barbatos, who had fallen, groaned.

[Kaaaaaa!]

Barbatos began to frantically scratch his head on the floor, writhing in pain.

The black horn on its forehead began to emit light and vibrate.

Barbatos suddenly opened his eyes and raised his head.

[Ahhh. Yes yes yes I can hear it.]

What can I hear?

Barbatos was nodding his head into the sky with a blue face.

I looked where his gaze was directed, but there was just empty space.

I couldn’t see anything else.

Barbatos stood up shakily and bowed his head politely toward the empty space.

[My master… grant grace to your lowly servant… bestow great darkness.]

It looks like an awakened person praying to the constellation for strength.

Did the ‘owner’ listen to his earnest request?

Wooooow!

Barbatos’ scales, which had been shining bright purple, began to turn a dull black color.

A frighteningly thick magical power spread around his body like fog.

[Krrrrrrr!]

Barbatos trembled as if he was shaking with fear and raised his bowed head.

A gloomy blue fire burned in his amber-colored eyes.

[Hahaha! thank you! thank you! My master!]

Barbatos cries out thanks to an invisible person.

His entire body was stained with black light, and he fiercely bared his teeth as he glared at Ojin and the others.

[I will admit it, human. You guys have become stronger than you were six years ago.]

His wings, which had been pierced and burned by Ojin’s spear, were regenerated again.

Barbatos stood up resolutely, spreading his black wings wide.

[But.]

Rumbling!

The ground shakes as if an earthquake has occurred.

A breathtakingly powerful energy emanated from Barbatos’ whole body.

[Don’t think that this Barbatos is the same as it was 6 years ago!] A

swarm of light that turned black swept around.

“I guess there was something hidden.”

Ojin clicked his tongue and looked at the black horns growing on Barbatos’ forehead.

A black horn that did not exist in Lee Shin-hyuk’s memories.

The horn, which felt ominous from the first time I saw Barbatos’ photo, finally revealed its true power.

As of now, it is unknown who gave Barbatos the ‘grace’.

‘We’ll just have to beat it up and find out.’

Ojin grabbed Dantalian and raised the magic power of the stigmata.

A blue thunderbolt blazed on the pitch-black spear blade.

“Hmm. “Is that the secret number that the Heavenly Dragon saved?”

Isabella looked at Barbatos up and down, her eyes shining with interest.

Scales turned black.

The dense magical energy emanating from the 50-meter tall body was emitting an incomparably more powerful energy than before.

“I’m a little disappointed that this is all it is.”

Isabella lightly traced the palm of her hand with her fingernail with a leisurely smile on her lips.

Red blood flowed down her palm.

The droplets of blood changed into the shape of a huge scythe.

He twirled his blood-covered scythe and licked his lips like a hunter stalking his prey.

“Crumbling! “I don’t know who the owner of that guy is, but he’s at the level of a guy who borrows other people’s power and whines.”

Riak also snorted and nodded as if he agreed with Isabella’s words.

Oh Jin chuckled at the sight of the two leisurely preparing for the second round.

‘Well, you’d think I’d become quite strong on the subject.’

Even if it received the grace of a divine being, could a cat become a tiger overnight?

‘In the end, the fundamental difference in power cannot be overcome.’

Ojin, who had received Vega’s ‘blessing’ until now, knew better.

The gap that had been between heaven and earth until now has become no more than the sky and a mountain.

In the first place, we planned this party considering the possibility that Barbatos might be hiding something.

[How dare these guys…!]

Is it because the reaction was so different from what I expected?

Barbatos glared at Ojin and the others who were standing leisurely with a harsh expression on his face.

[Let’s see how someone can say something like that while writhing in pain and dying!]

Barbatos shouted with a fierce roar.

“Then shall we begin phase 2?”

When Ohjin laughed and pointed the tip of his spear at Barbatos.

“Ojina wait a minute.”

“huh?”

Ha-eun, who had been standing still until now, stepped forward.

She grabbed Ojin’s shoulder, pulled him back, and walked one step forward.

“What’s wrong, sister?”

“….”

Ha-eun glared at Barbatos with deeply sunken eyes.

He looked back at Ojin and opened his mouth quietly.

“Can I deal with it alone?”

“what?”

Oh Jin frowned as if wondering what kind of nonsense he was talking about.

“You’re going to deal with that guy by yourself?”

“huh. “Please come here.”

Ha-eun nods.

Ojin shook his head resolutely.

“If you’re going to say something like that for revenge or something, then stop it.”

I couldn’t let Ha-eun be in danger just for that reason.

“It’s not about revenge.”

“then?”

“….”

Ha-eun turned her head towards Barbatos.

A dragon emitting a gloomy black light.

Why?

Even though just a moment ago, I clearly saw him lying in a state of complete disrepair.

To her, that jet-black dragon felt more frightening than any other being.

“If not now.”

As Ha-eun walked toward Cheonjuryong, she recalled the memories of that day.

Memories of crying while trapped in pitch-black darkness without a single ray of light.

Even after six years, a terrible nightmare is engraved in my mind and cannot be erased.

“From now on… I feel like I won’t be able to escape again from now on.”

As Ha-eun said that, her legs were trembling pitifully.

Just like that day 6 years ago.