The Martial God who Regressed Back to Level 2

[Translator - Asura]

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Side Story 28

-Oooooo... ?

-Did the Lee Hayeon route open up???

-It says you need to go with either Lee Hayeon or Lim Gayeong... is this the same as what happened with Sophia last time?

The chat window started to fill up rapidly at Yoon Seah's words.

-lol, but why do you need one of the two?

-The two of them do travel together as a set, right?

-No, that doesn't mean that they would even share a husband. lol

-Huh...? Could it be...

-No, isn't it just a route decision? If you bring Lee Hayeon you go to the Lee Hayeon side, if you bring Lim Gayeong you go to the Lim Gayeong side. lol

Unlike Sophia's case, the condition that he had to go in with either Lee Hayeon or Lim Gayeong.

People's imaginations began to run wild.

-Let's just drag anyone over right now?

-frfr lol.

-No no, we need to choose carefully, we don't know what kind of route will come out.

-But, does that mean the woman Seong Jihan-nim chooses here, is someone he has feelings for in reality?

-hehehe, who knows...

-Don't keep tying them together ㅡㅡ How could the Blue Administrator get tangled with a human.

It seemed like if he chose one of these two, they would even get involved in reality.

"......Let's go to a different place first."

"Yes."

There wasn't just one Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams on the wall.

Seong Jihan decided to enter one where he didn't need another person for now.

'Should I start by seeing what's the difference between the small and large sizes of the formations?'

Swoosh.

He approached the smallest of the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams that were chaotically spread across the wall.

And when he put his hand in the center of the formation.

Sss...

The symbols of the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams transformed into a Taiji and tried to pull Seong Jihan in.

[Will you go with 'Disciple of the Martial God'?]

However, before that.

A message popped up asking Seong Jihan if he would go with Yoon Seah.

'There's a confirmation process.'

When he pressed yes.

Shuuuuuuu...!

Seong Jihan and Yoon Seah were both sucked into the Taiji at the same time.

The place he entered like that was.

"Here is..."

"Uh... isn't this our house?"

It was a very familiar place for both him and Yoon Seah.

It was the two-room basement where Yoon Seah lived before she died.

"It's definitely a familiar sight."

Step. Step.

Yoon Seah nodded, looking at the trash that was scattered on the floor.

Yeah, this was how her uncle's room should be.

"Stale air, a thick smell of cigarette smoke, and a pile of cigarette butts by the liquor bottles... it really feels like my uncle's back."

"......"

"Uh, but was Sophia-nim here too? I thought you said you protected her from a powerful monster then..."

Seong Jihan shook his head at Yoon Seah's question.

"Well, it wasn't like this. Seong Jihan in that world was actually doing very well."

"Huh? My uncle...?"

Yoon Seah blinked as if she didn't believe him at Seong Jihan's words that he was doing well.

Seong Jihan here was only a ‘Martial God’ who had descended.

In her mind, her uncle was still nothing more than a gambling addict.

"Yeah. Here... it doesn't seem like that."

Seong Jihan looked at the notebook that had been written on densely on the desk.

That seemed to be the notebook he used to write predictions when he was betting.

'He was a gambling addict when he died, and became a soul of Taiji?'

Rustle.

Seong Jihan quickly flipped through the notebook and frowned.

Seong Jihan here was betting the same way he did when he was a loser.

'Actually, the Wanderer's Eye was a gift that could have made you rich if you could control it well.'

The Wanderer's Eye had the description: 'Understands other players well.'

If you properly used it, you could raise your winning percentage in predicting the results to over 55%.

This kind of winning rate was higher than the rate at which casinos rip off customers.

If Seong Jihan had been able to use it well, he could have become rich.

'I actually did make money.'

After giving up on the greed to make up for everything he had lost in one go since Yoon Seah died,

He started betting with the mindset to just survive each day, and then the situation started getting better.

But Seong Jihan here.

'He's still so full of the greed to turn everything around in one go.'

After seeing the recent betting list in the notebook and understanding his psychology, Seong Jihan.

Whoosh...!

Burned the notebook in one go.

"Uh... that was the notebook that my uncle cherished like a treasure..."

"A treasure, my foot."

Swoosh.

As Seong Jihan moved his hand once.

Whoooosh...!

It seemed like the entire room was burning with blue flames.

And then, the trash was completely removed. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"It's much easier on the eyes now."

"Wow... when I woke up, I was surprised to see that the room was clean. So, you were the one who cleaned it like this."

As Yoon Seah was looking at the cleaned room with a curious look.

Rumble...!

The entire building trembled.

"Aaaaah...!"

"What, what is it...?!"

Screaming started to come from the upper floor.

"Uh... what's happening?"

"Let's go outside for now."

When he went outside the building with Yoon Seah.

Whoooooooo...!

In the sky where the sun should have been.

A huge Taiji was spinning in reverse.

And then.

"Sa, save me...!"

"What is that!!!"

Everything in the world started to get sucked into that Taiji.

Not only the people living on the ground.

Even the buildings were being pulled out, and everyone was swept up in the flow of the Taiji.

Seong Jihan, holding onto Yoon Seah and resisting the flow of the Taiji, looked around.

'Dongbang Sak... I can't even see him?'

Unlike Sophia's time, Dongbang Sak wasn't even leaving a trace, besides the Taiji.

Then, one side of his head started to hurt as if it was being stabbed.

And then.

[...Shit. Is this a dream?]

Like before, a memory arose in his mind.

[I was sure I would make money this time...]

Seong Jihan, looking at the blown-away ceiling, muttered as if he was dumbfounded.

He was a complete mess, not having washed or shaved.

And then soon.

Shuuuuuu...!

Seong Jihan also started to fly towards the sky where the Taiji was spinning in reverse, but.

He didn't take his hand off his phone, even while getting sucked in.

[No, I won! Masied won!!!]

[Aaaaah... shit, I finally won...!!!]

Even while being swept up by the Taiji.

Seong Jihan was ranting about what was happening, saying he had finally won the money.

[Stop with the bullshit. I'm telling you to stop with the bullshit!!!]

Even while getting sucked into the Taiji, he wasn't intimidated at all.

He was just going crazy with anger.

Thud, thud, thud...!

And even while his body was being torn apart by the Taiji.

[My... money...]

Seong Jihan, with his eyes flipped, showed his overflowing will for money.

'Ha...'

What could he even say about this?

Was he even a soul of the Taiji?

Seong Jihan was to the point where he was even doubting that this guy was really a soul of Taiji.

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And then.

[The power of the fragment is being fused.]

Paaah...!

A faint light flashed on Seong Jihan's body, but.

'......No. There's no change.'

His abilities didn't increase at all.

The Seong Jihan from the American Sword before had at least raised his stats.

Was it because this gambling addict didn't have any abilities?

'This... this is a waste of a Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams.'

As Seong Jihan was dumbfounded and chuckled in disbelief.

The world around Seong Jihan and Yoon Seah was completely swept up by the Taiji.

[The Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams is collapsing.]

Soon after, a message popped up that the formation had collapsed.

And then.

Flash...!

The two of them returned to the bottom of the Abyss.

* * *

"......Huh."

Seong Jihan chuckled looking at the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams that had disappeared from the wall.

All he did after going in was clean the room.

And before he could do anything else, the Taiji started spinning and it was over.

-What? Is it over like this?

-Is there no heroine this time?

-Did he just get sucked in and die while gambling?;

-This is kind of a bad ending without a single dream or hope ㅡㅡ;

-Wouldn't normal people all die like this if they experience that kind of natural disaster...

The viewers who were curious about what would come out this time were also left dumbfounded with the ending.

'Is it better not to go into the small Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams?'

As Seong Jihan was feeling lost while looking at the disappeared symbol.

"Um... Martial God."

"Why?"

"I, I saw a vision..."

Yoon Seah cautiously opened her mouth.

"A vision? What did you see?"

"It was a scene where my uncle was getting angry, saying why a Taiji was created when he finally won money."

"......I saw the same thing."

"You saw it too, Martial God?"

Yoon Seah was surprised and then continued speaking.

"But after seeing the vision of my uncle dying... my level went up."

"Your level went up?"

"Yes... it's weird, right? My uncle died but I leveled up. Geez."

Yoon Seah reacted like it was absurd, but Seong Jihan had a good idea of what might have happened.

'When the power of the fragment fused, did it also have an effect on Seah?'

Yoon Seah had followed along as the Disciple of the Martial God.

What she had seen was just the Taiji and Seong Jihan getting sucked into it, but.

It seemed like even that had become experience that helped her level up.

Of course.

"So, how much did your level go up?"

"1."

It didn't seem like it had been an enormous help to her growth.

'Still, there's a lot of Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams... if I absorb all of that, her level will go up quite a bit.'

His stat Blue hadn't increased right now, but if he removed a bunch of Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams, it might go up by 1 point or so.

Seong Jihan regained his composure and looked at the other Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams.

'Right. It doesn't take long to remove them... I should clear the small ones first.'

He had recovered the soul of the Taiji of the gambling addict Seong Jihan in less than 5 minutes.

He could clear the other formations just as fast.

"It seems like there's going to be a lot more scenes of your uncle dying in the other formations."

"I think that will be a little heartbreaking..."

"Still, it's for the sake of leveling up, so endure it."

"Ah... yes."

As Yoon Seah nodded, Seong Jihan immediately moved to the next formation.

Paaah...!

Like that.

-Oh... is this set in China? But why is he waking up on the side of the road...?

-It seems like he's a homeless person...

-No, even before the bad ending, the situation is the worst lol;

-Frfr...

-A new background...! Uh, but is that like a warehouse there;

-Huh??? This is a ship lol

-Is he smuggling himself in or something???

-I think he said they were escaping because Korea was on the verge of collapsing.

Seong Jihan experienced fragments of Seong Jihan living at the bottom and then dying dozens of times.

And then.

[Stat 'Blue' increases by 1.]

His abilities finally increased after about that many.

'Ha... do I have to remove over 30 of them for it to go up?'

Seong Jihan thought that and looked at Yoon Seah.

"......My heart feels heavy. I should have been by my uncle's side."

"It's just because that guy was pathetic."

"Even so..."

Yoon Seah's face turned dark as if Seong Jihan's end was her fault.

Well, it was pretty tame that he had died while gambling in the beginning.

In the small Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams, the situation for Seong Jihan was all miserable.

"More than that, how much did your level go up?"

"My level? Ah."

Yoon Seah, who had finally come to her senses at Seong Jihan's question.

Opened her status window.

And then, she widened her eyes.

"Uh... I've been promoted?"

"You got promoted?"

"Yes. I'm Silver League Level 85."

She had gone from Bronze to Silver without a promotion match.

And her level went all the way up to 85?

'If she can skip promotion matches... then she could reach Diamond quickly.'

Seong Jihan's eyes gleamed as he saw Yoon Seah's growth.

"How's your stamina?"

"Me? Well... I was just watching, so I'm fine."

Yoon Seah answered while looking dumbfounded at her status window, where her level had jumped greatly.

"Then let's keep erasing them."

"Ah..."

"Does seeing your uncle die bother you?"

"That's... a little..."

When Seong Jihan saw that Yoon Seah hesitated, he brought out a motivation to stimulate her.

"However, you need to grow in order to save the Witch of the Void."

"Huh? Me...?"

"Yeah."

He didn't explain the details, but since the Martial God said so.

Yoon Seah's expression quickly became determined.

"......I understand. I was being a little greedy. I'll follow you forever."

"Okay. Let's go."

And like that, one week had passed since Seong Jihan began to dismantle the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams in earnest.

"......Now, only that one is left."

On the Abyss wall.

Only the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams that Yoon Seah had first discovered the letters on, remained.

[Translator - Asura]

[Proofreader - Gun]

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