Regression Is Too Much

69 – The Regressor Accepts Fate (5)

Father!

My mind is blank.

Father!

Dazedness with a heavy taste, as if waking up from a long sleep. It’s the kind of blankness that spreads from deep inside the brain.

“Father!”

“Uh, uh uh?”

“Father! Are you okay?”

My eldest daughter-in-law was gently patting me on the shoulder.

“Ah, thank God… honey!”

After sweeping her heart, the eldest daughter-in-law brought her eldest son into her hospital room, and soon after, her other sons lined up like sausages to fill the empty space in the hospital room.

“Father… “

The sons surrounded the bed with worried faces.

“Why are the expressions like that? I haven’t been sick for a day or two.”

Looking at the faces of my sons and daughters, I feel like my mind is clearing up a bit.

My memory, which had been turbid as if I had eaten ink, was slowly coming back.

Yes, this is inside the VVVIP room of the hospital where I have been hospitalized for the past two years. In the meantime, my health has been deteriorating, but I never thought it would deteriorate to the point where my memories were jumbled like this.

“Dad, but he said he looked bad while sleeping… “

“I had a dream. A dream from when I was struggling on the 3rd floor. Why? What can I tell you?”

“Child, Father! Have you already heard enough to stick in your ears?”

The eldest son bursts into a small laugh. The gloomy atmosphere brightened a little.

“Yeah, looking back on those difficult times now, they are all memories… “

It has been 70 years since the Tower was cleared. Humanity has regained tranquility.

The god who cried out for the destruction of mankind was terribly defeated by me and withdrew with a promise to the next one, and I became a hero who saved mankind.

It has been 70 years since he has lived as the world’s best celebrity with wealth and honor. My body was incomparably healthier than other old people, but the problem was in my mind.

“I think it’s time to go.”

Maybe it’s because I repeated the regression too many times in the tower? Confusion of memories has occurred frequently in recent years, and there have been frequent cases of fainting suddenly.

“Son.”

“Yes, Father.”

“I… I am about to leave now.”

The body is healthy.

That’s the problem. Only the body is healthy.

I was afraid of what I would do if I wasn’t sane. I couldn’t let the old man with dementia wield the divine power latent in my body.

“… Father.”

The eldest son bows his head. He was the eldest son who had been holding on to me for the past few years, but he seemed to feel that his decision was firm now.

“In the meantime… I was really, really happy. I considered myself lucky because my father was my father.”

“Father, me too!”

“Father… !”

My family shed tears in a race.

After accepting their complaints with a big smile, I cleared my throat slightly.

“Come on, let everyone step back now. I think I need some alone time.”

“… Thank you so much, Father.”

Families leave the hospital room one by one, wiping away tears.

After watching the departing people for a while, I removed the curtain next to the bed and looked out the window.

[Grandpa Junho! You must give birth!]

[You are the pride of Korea.]

[All the people are cheering for you to shake off and wake up!]

Bouquets and banners filled one wall of the hospital. At a glance, there are more than a few hundred.

“You don’t have to give birth, you have to get better, you bastard… “

Looking at that, I was sure.

It was worth struggling in my own way in the tower that tried to destroy humanity.

What I did wasn’t wrong.

“… Good work. It’s Junho.”

After praising myself, I slowly scattered the mana that swirled around my heart.

Slowly, the vitality drained from my body.

It was a peaceful and quiet death.

[Damaged.]

[Return to the moment you first entered the 66th floor.]

“aaa!!!”

He groped for breath.

You can touch the body of a 20-year-old, not an ageless body with unprecedented power.

Where are you? Isn’t that a hospital room? What am I doing?

“… Are you awake?”

Doksoohee looked down at me from the side as if he was pitiful.

Seeing her face slowly brought back memories.

Yes, I was on the third floor. I opened the stone door on the right, and reached a room with the same design as the one on the left.

The last thing I remember was losing my mind when a mysterious voice suddenly said, “Courage is important in a warrior. Face your fears.”

Did I come to see the ‘most feared scene’ by the tower? The fear I felt right before is so vivid.

“I guess the one who overcomes ‘fear’ first is the structure that awakens others. Thank you Wake me up.”

“… Thank you.”

I thanked Dok Soo-hee while wiping the nape of my wet neck.

“By the way, what kind of illusion did you see that made you sweat so profusely?”

“… I saw the worst ending I could think of.”

My goal is not just clearing the tower.

If one day we don’t find a way to get rid of this regression skill… After clearing the tower, you may fall into eternal bondage. If that happens, my mind will slowly be shattered.

The words of thanks to Dok Soo-hee are not empty words. The timing of waking up was good. Because I was afraid of what I would do when my mind was broken after realizing that I was not allowed to rest.

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There are literally no limits to what a lunatic with immense power can do. After watching the fantasy of committing crazy things, I wonder if my mentality will be fine after returning to reality.

“By the way, what kind of fantasy did Suhee see?”

Dog Soo-hee was smiling lightly, but she had a single tear running down her cheek.

“… Me?”

Doksoo-hee smiles and wipes away tears.

“I saw the driving force that pushed me forward.”

“… “

“Well, it’s done because I cleared it. Right? It seems that roughly two hours have passed. Shall we just wipe our sweat and move on?”

My mouth was smiling, but I could feel the sadness.

“… I wiped all my sweat. Let’s go.”

I got up without further questioning.

**

As if the path to the right was all about overcoming fear, there were no additional illusions or crossroads.

“Oh, are you here?”

As I walked along the road like that, I found Kang Chan and An Kyung Jun leaning against the wall and waiting.

“You cleared it sooner than I thought, right?”

“Yes. Dolls made of clay everywhere? Machine? Comes over… The strong spirit wiped it all out.”

“… Pretty strong. The soul.”

Brother Chan nodded at Ahn Kyung-jun’s words.

As far as Chan-nim admits, that native guy is really strong.

“That, more than that. I was investigating this place because it was very suspicious.”

Come to think of it, Kang Chan and An Kyung Jun were waiting at the entrance of a certain room without entering.

“… What is this place?”

Looking at it from a distance, I saw a kind of den-like space.

There is a dangerously shaking torch hanging on the wall, and a wooden support structure is embedded in the wall.

A large chunk of metal rolling around on the floor is a bonus.

“The mine… I guess?”

Yes, the first image that comes to mind is a mine. I think the underground tunnel I saw in the book looked like this.

“Ha, but the ceiling is too high for that… “

Ahn Kyung-jun’s point was valid. I heard that usually mines have low ceilings so you have to keep your head down, but this space had a high ceiling. At least 20 meters.

“Besides, this metal. It’s not usually metal.”

Kyung-Jun Ahn held out a chunk of silvery metal to me.

“Would you like to hit me?”

“… Do you want me to hit you?”

“Yes. Hit me gently.”

“… “

I carefully tapped the lump of metal with my fist.

“Ah… !”

It was just a really weak blow, but I felt a heavy impact on my fist. It felt as if metal had hit me in reverse.

To the extent that if I hit him a little harder, he might have come back.

“What is this… “

“I’ve been experimenting with it a few times, and it doesn’t seem like an ordinary metal.”

Thanks to his strong spirit, Ahn Gyung-jun, who broke through the left room in an instant, waited for us and conducted various experiments.

“This metal is… When a certain level of shock is applied, it has the property of returning the shock.”

“… You say you return the shock?”

If you heard of science, you would jump in surprise. Return the shock

“Yes, I need to find out more, but…” “

It’s a mine where rare metals roll around. Could it possibly mean anything?

I don’t know how to accept this.

“Once… Shall we go in?”

You can’t solve anything just by worrying. After all, you have to stick your head in the jaws of a tiger to find out what’s wrong.

I took the lead again this time, and Chan hyung-nim took the lead.

“… Hmm.”

There will be something. It is an environment where it is not strange even if something protrudes like a wolf hiding in the ceiling.

However, although I was walking with high spirits, I couldn’t feel anything.

Gulp.

The silence was like the calm before the storm, so I swallowed without even realizing it.

**

I think I walked for about 10 minutes.

“… It’s a particularly big lump here.”

I see several chunks of metal much larger than the others. Is it a sign of something? I moved my steps without letting go of my guard.

Around the time I had completely passed the mysterious metal mass.

“?!”

Because I was the one who had high spirits, I was able to recognize it immediately.

The back of the group. An anomaly is felt.

“Careful… !”

I tried to warn you, but it was too late.

A large chunk of metal that has just passed begins to rise into the air. The lumps cut into indiscriminate shapes form and come together.

The speed is so fast that you can barely see the assembly process.

Clap. Clap. Clap.

A lump of metal that literally coalesces into a two-legged, two-armed giant in the blink of an eye.

“Sir… !”

We were quickly caught up.