Regression Is Too Much - Chapter 360



360 – Regression (8)

There may be some people who are pouting and saying, “There are always hidden pieces in tutorials,” but in fact, it is not against logic that there are hidden pieces in tutorials.

What is a tutorial? The starting stage that everyone goes through. The learning stage that everyone must go through. This is a tower that tries to kill people by testing them, and the survival rate of the tutorial itself is not that high, but anyway, the basic gist is ‘learning’. You learn how to fight, you learn how to use your abilities, and you get the idea that the tower forces you to make a choice. The tutorial forces people to learn.

In such a place, in the learning ground where everything begins, in the tutorial that everyone who survived the tower knows, there is something hidden… isn’t it inevitable? Isn’t it plausible to anyone that there is actually a secret hidden in that familiar place?

In addition, the symbolism of returning to a tutorial that has already been completed and finding a secret. Isn’t this a truly fitting beginning for ‘regression’? If this were a novel titled ‘The Regressor Returns’, this would be the first episode. Usually, in a novel where a regressor who has experienced all sorts of hardships and ultimately experienced bitter failure returns for the first time, the first thing he does is a monologue saying, ‘Hmm. This is a tutorial. The secret of this place will be revealed in 10 years.’

“I’m a little anxious…”

Of course, if I am different from them, it is that I have not regressed after seeing the passage of more than 10 years… and also, the fact that ‘there was a hidden piece in the tutorial’ was not revealed in the future I was in. So, it is possible that all of this is my delusion.

“Just give it a try.”

For someone who has time to spare, or to be exact, someone who has unlimited everything except for their ‘mental power’, I think this kind of attempt can be a healthy stimulus to life. I’ve been stressed out from the recurrence of my past, so I think it’s okay to allow myself this kind of pleasant exploration activity.

“Hey, status window!!!”

“It’s true! It’s true!”

While I was lost in thought, people started shouting out the status window. Choi Ji-won was guarding me from the corner of the empty lot. I leisurely accepted her gaze and headed towards the pile of weapons.

There were already several passengers in this place, which was filled with every weapon imaginable by modern standards: swords, spears, axes, hammers, hatchets… Among them was a man I remember.

“Hmm… hmm…”

A man searching through a pile of weapons. A man who believed that there would be a hidden piece among these weapons. In fact, when I was first summoned to the tower, I also searched for weapons diligently after seeing this man. At that time, there were no results.

“This time it’s different.”

But this time it’s different. First of all, I’ve become stronger than anyone else. Not only do I have a lot of magic power, but I’ve also come equipped with an eye that sees souls. In other words, I’m a fucking monster that can be called a second-timer, a munchkin, a monster, and so on.

“Move over for a moment.”

“Uh, uh uh…”

“Yes, yes…”

I naturally defeated others and released the magic from my body. As pure white smoke spread and people’s bodies froze, I felt the ‘Awe’ trait being activated. It’s because I’ve only dealt with ridiculously strong guys recently, but the Awe trait is really good when dealing with ordinary people.

‘The problem is that it’s so strong that it’s easy for ordinary people to deal with it anyway.’

Anyway, I released a lot of magic power, focused on my soul, widened my field of vision, and looked closely at the pile of weapons.

“…”

“…”

“What, what do you have?”

“…There isn’t any.”

To my surprise, the pile of weapons was literally just a pile of weapons. There were no special ‘hidden weapons’ or anything, just… just iron weapons.

‘I was slightly expecting it.’

Jiwon has a weapon and companion named Boongboong, and Kang Chan and Michael Jeter have two strong fists.

On the other hand, I was using a sword, but I didn’t have any unique weapons, and I was just using a standard dwarf sword the whole time, so that was really disappointing. I thought to myself, ‘Isn’t it time to get my hands on a rare weapon?’, but it seems like that was just a wishful thinking on my part.

‘It’s still okay.’

Still, it was okay. There’s still something to try.

[I suffered damage.]

[You will return to the moment you first entered floor 0.]

***

In fact, when I first entered the tutorial, there were people looking for hidden pieces. One of them was the guy who was searching through the pile of weapons earlier.

To be more specific, we can say that there were three people: a man digging the ground, a man rummaging through a pile of weapons, and a woman swinging a knife (Choi Ji-won).

“They aren’t giving it to me…”

The thing I checked earlier was the weapon dummy, and the next thing I tried was swinging the sword. I tried swinging the sword very fast – more specifically, about 5 times per second – in perfect posture for 3 days and nights, and as a result, I can confirm that there is no achievement in the tutorial for swinging the sword a lot.

In the end, two out of three were in vain, and all that was left was digging the ground.

“I’ll dig the ground next to you too.”

“Oh, yes. Okay.”

-Papapapapak!!!

“?!”

Of course, the speed at which I dig the ground is incomparable to that of an ordinary person. I dig the ground at an incredible speed, like a machine, and in the process, I block the piles of earth that are about to collapse with my cold air.

“Oh, it’s not too deep…”

“Just wait.”

By the time they dug and dug, clearing away rocks, throwing away strange animal bones, and digging deep enough that the people watching from above retreated in fear of falling,

-Bang!

“ok?”

For the first time, I heard a sound that I shouldn’t have heard. The reason why I shouldn’t have heard it is because the tip of my shovel is now surrounded by a lot of magic power, and even rocks of any size go in without a hitch.

So if there’s something that my shovel can’t penetrate, that gray-white boulder.

“This is it.”

Likewise, it means something surrounded by magic power. This is the ‘hidden piece’ I was looking for…!!!

With a smile on my face, I increased the amount of magic power I had on my shovel. After digging a few times, the shovel quickly broke, so I asked the people watching from above to throw me a new shovel.

-Snap!

“hmm.”

There are already four broken shovels. But there is some success. The grayish-white boulders are crumbling smoothly, and if we just dig a little bit more like this.

-Thud!

“Okay.”

There was a hole. It wasn’t big enough for my entire body to fit through, but it was big enough for my head. I decided to stick my head in with a big smile on my face and enjoy the hidden piece I had found.

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Tutorial Underground. What on earth was hidden there…!

“A maze… is that it?”

The dungeon beneath the tutorial. The inside looked like a maze. However, the inside was empty, creating an eerie atmosphere.

“where…”

Just as I was about to go inside to check it out, something, something… the structure felt strangely familiar. Well, I guess I should say that it felt like I’d seen the structure somewhere… That’s…

A strange thing that comes to mind on the edge of your seat, something you clearly know but somehow can’t recall…

“25th floor?”

It was only then that I realized what the discomfort was. I hadn’t cleared the 25th floor yet, so I couldn’t remember the details, but I was sure that the 25th floor maze looked like this…!

Yes, I said it was the Tutorial Island Underground. I wondered why I forgot such an obvious detail, but it seems my memory was interfered with because I haven’t been to that floor yet.

And if that really is a 25-story maze.

“…”

This is a waste. That maze… is empty.

This is a world built by angels. A kind of space created for each tutorial.

As it was a space created for the tutorial, the maze simply existed and had nothing of value inside it. Wouldn’t it be a problem if an ancient monster were sleeping inside it? So… in terms of games, it’s dummy data.

“Hey, what do you see over there?”

“It looks like there’s a hole…”

Ignoring the chattering people above, I unleashed my magical power.

Not yet… Not yet.

[I suffered damage.]

[You will return to the moment you first entered floor 0.]

***

All my previous attempts had failed, but there was one last hope. The last thing I tried was none other than activating the hero trait.

“Everyone, just trust me.”

“Oh, oh…!”

“Regressor, regressor!”

“Yes, you are a regressor.”

There was an incident where someone guessed my true nature without me even revealing my identity, but with the help of various characteristics, I was able to successfully activate the ‘Hero’ characteristic. Since people weren’t enough, I also received help from the ‘Goblin Shaman’ and the goblins.

Anyway, the feeling of omnipotence welling up in my body again. The overwhelming power that enveloped my entire body.

“Stay away.”

When I activated the ‘Hero’ trait targeting most of the Earthlings, I was able to fly in the sky. I am not at that level now, but with the help of the limited hero trait and careful magic control, I was able to recreate that, albeit clumsily.

-Wow.

I sprayed my magical power like that and floated slightly into the air, about a meter, and slowly moved to the outskirts of Tutorial Island.

It’s obvious what I’m going to try last.

“Let’s go.”

I intend to fly as far as I can over that poisonous swamp.