Genius Regressor Makes Mythic Items

Crunch.

The sound of flesh or something organic producing such sounds could be heard.

Fwoosh!

The sound was of a body, inflicted by the murderous, even diabolical black flames, regenerating. Despite boasting such tremendous regenerative abilities.

『Aaaagh!』

The dragonkin, Medusa screamed, producing a sound akin to scraping metal and hurriedly backed her massive 8-meter frame away.

Fwoosh.

Using her Dragon Force, she brushed off the black flames clinging to her arm.

Sizzle.

Through the white smoke, her scorched black skin was revealed. But more than this relentless burning sensation.

『Damn it!』

The question that had been tormenting her since her chest was first pierced continued to gnaw at her nerves. Medusa glared sharply at the cause of the current situation.

『What on earth… who exactly are you?!』

She fixed her gaze on the fallen angel with the burning black wings. However, despite her fierce rebuke.

“I already told you earlier.”

Unperturbed, the fallen angel didn’t flinch.

“Find out for yourself.”

Shimun smirked.

Fwoosh!

Once again, he unleashed the ferocious black flames.

『Damn it!』

With a shriek, Medusa slashed her sharp claws through the air. The Dragon Force, mimicking the shape of her claws, sliced through the black flames, but that was all. Even though she interrupted the flames midway.

『Argh!』

The heat searing her skin made Medusa retreat again. Her sharp fangs bit down hard on her lips. The accursed black flames were bad enough.

‘For some reason, he even perfectly resisted my mental control.’

The mental control that had initially brought this fallen angel named Shimuel here. He had completely resisted it. Even though that mental control.

‘The mental control, powered by the Sin of Lust, didn’t work on him….’

The relic one of the Seven Archdemons, the Sin of Lust, had left behind. Considering it held the power for mental control.

‘It means no technique based on the Sin of Lust would work on him.’

Drip.

Bright red blood trickled down from her tightly bitten lips.

It wasn’t surprising. The power of the Sin of Lust was blocked?

This meant.

‘I have to abandon all the power I hold as the manager. I must face him solely with my true strength…’

It meant she had to relinquish all the powers she possessed as the manager of the Cradle of Indulgence.

Did he read her thoughts?

“Why? Are you losing your confidence?”

His voice, imbued with the arrogance characteristic of fallen angels. Yet, strangely, it didn’t feel excessively haughty. Raising her head, she saw.

Flap.

“Despite being an evolved species with a true name…”

The enormous black flame wings, almost double his size. Flapping as he taunted.

“This is quite disappointing.”

Shimun’s sneer almost made Medusa grit her teeth.

『Do you think that petty provocation will work on me?』

Having already healed her burns, Medusa faced him with composure. Shimun tilted his head to the side.

“Was it not? Your earlier reaction suggested otherwise.”

『Hohoho! I was honestly taken aback.』

Medusa burst into laughter.

『Even though you’re a fallen angel handling Devil Energy… I never imagined you could so easily resist the power of the Seven Deadly Sins.』

“Ah, I agree. If it were the old me, it would probably have been troublesome.”

『The old you?』

Medusa raised an eyebrow at his reply. But asking further would. Likely bring back the same answer as before, “Find out yourself.”

『Hmph! It doesn’t matter. Even without mental control…』

Crunch.

She clenched her sharp claws firmly.

『There are many ways to make you confess!』

Buzz.

She swung her arm, the power so concentrated it caused a faint ringing. A force far beyond the energy of ordinary rankers’ aura. However, no matter how powerful the attack.

“It’s monotonous.”

It meant nothing if it didn’t hit.

Flap.

Rising higher, Shimun easily evaded the attack.

Then.

Fwoosh.

As he summoned the black flames intending to counterattack.

“Hmm?”

With a hint of curiosity.

Flap!

Flapping his wings faster than before, Shimun soared even higher.

Below him.

Swoosh!

The ashen claw marks imbued with Dragon Force narrowly missed him. But without even glancing at it.

Fwoosh.

He clutched the black flames in one hand and dashed forward like lightning. The reason was simple.

Crrreeek.

As if the concentrated Dragon Force was merely bait. A statue with an astonished expression extended a sword towards him. And not just any sword.

Humm.

A sword imbued with the ashen Dragon Force of Medusa.

But.

Thunk.

With a dull sound, the statue was sent flying backward. Struck by the concentrated black flames. Flapping his gigantic wings, Shimun continued to hurl concentrated black flames.

Boom, boom, boom!

The statues flying in from all directions were repelled by the black flames, crashing to the ground.

In response.

『Hmph! There’s a reason you’re the leader.』

Medusa snorted and swung her sharp claws again. But this time, instead of Dragon Force in the shape of claws,

Ssssss!

The ashen Dragon Force spread out in circular waves, extending in all directions. The statues touched by the ashen waves momentarily lost their black flames.

Crunch, crunch.

With a scattering of stone dust, the statues suddenly began clumping together in mid-air.

Clang!

Craaaack!

Colliding and intertwining. In an instant. The statue grew as large as a giant.

Groaaaannn….

A bizarre sound, neither a scream nor a moan, emanated from hundreds of faces.

Then.

Thud, thud, thud.

A giant fist, imbued with ashen Dragon Force, flew towards Shimun. Yet, even before this overwhelming attack.

“Recycling petrified beings into a golem… what a morbid hobby.”

Shimun chuckled.

『Hoho! Don’t worry.』

Medusa, releasing a cackle, maneuvered through the giant golem’s blows.

『You too will become part of this morbid hobby!』

Her fangs and claws, dripping with ashen power, charged towards him. A seamless combination attack from the massive statue and the evolved species Medusa, with no visible gaps in their timing.

But Shimun’s eyes and lips merely curved into a smile.

‘Operating such a massive golem purely with Dragon Force, without a central core?’

The core was essential for a golem. But that mass of statues forming a golem was hastily constructed without a core, sustained purely by Medusa’s Dragon Force.

Indeed, her vast Dragon Force made the impossible possible. But that was all.

“Truly impressive, but…”

Snap.

As Shimun muttered, snapping his fingers.

Thunk.

The once-massive statue’s body froze, as if an illusion.

Then.

Crumble!

The statue crumbled like a biscuit.

Then.

『What…』

Medusa, charging towards him, hadn’t even grasped the situation.

Thunk.

A white hand suddenly gripping her forehead. Or rather, simply placed against her forehead, as it should be said.

“You were up against someone too strong.”

With a faint whisper.

Boom!

A black explosion erupted.

*

The 8-meter tall body, now headless.

Thud…

Billowing white smoke as it slowly collapsed.

Medusa, one of the beings who had caused immense damage to the European Union in a past life, was falling. But the one who had blown off Medusa’s head.

‘Indeed, her defense is weak in this state.’

Shimun looked down at Medusa’s massive body with indifferent eyes. The reason was simple.

‘Up until now, even the rankers of the European Union were able to handle this.’

Although there was some damage. No matter how formidable the evolved species Medusa with a true name was. She couldn’t withstand the combined attacks of the European rankers.

Yes.

‘Up to this point.’

Shimun, maintaining his tension, watched Medusa’s falling body carefully.

‘Now that she is using her power at the level of a demigod, the real battle begins.’

As if to prove his thoughts.

Crack!

The sound of bones twisting. Medusa’s falling body suddenly halted.

Then.

Crunch!

Snap.

The sounds of flesh tearing and bones breaking.

Two sounds harmonized as Medusa’s body lifted itself up.

Her shattered head was quickly rebuilt.

Sssss.

Ashen scales began to sprout over the once fleshy upper body.

Eventually, reminiscent of a naga.

『You…』

With her face now covered in scales, her body even larger than before.

『You will pay dearly for making me shed my skin!』

Hiss!

Her snake hair glared at Shimun. Indeed, befitting the true form of an evolved species.

Hwaaaa!

The intense force enough to make the atmosphere tremble swept over. But that was it. Calmly facing it, Shimun raised his hand with an indifferent expression.

Shimun didn’t wait for Medusa to shed her skin without a reason.

『Hyaaah! Die!!』

Her snake hair, now nearly a meter longer, lashed out simultaneously.

Ssssr!

The snakes darted at a speed incomparable to before. In Shimun’s right hand, black flames roared to life. Unlike before.

Hummm!

These flames were darker and emitted a menacing hum.

‘Let’s see how far the Devil Energy here can go.’

With a satisfied smile, Shimun reached out his hand towards the incoming snake heads.

Then.

As though the entire space was moving.

Rumble.

A massive vibration shook the air, and an abyssal aura rapidly gathered in Shimun’s hand.

Hissss!

As the gaping snake heads collided with Shimun’s black flames.

Boom!

With a deafening sound, an enormous wave of black flames erupted. So immense it could be called a tidal wave of black flames.

Sssssk!

Kiiiii…

In an instant, it disintegrated the hundreds of snake heads filling the area. Naturally. It directly struck Medusa, their source.

『Screeeeeaagh!!』

A scream so intense it seemed to rattle the very core of the world. The defense and regeneration of an evolved species shedding its skin. It was deemed worthy of being called demi-god level.

However, the tidal wave of black flames Shimun unleashed was beyond what Medusa could withstand.

『B-burning! It’s burning hot!!』

Painful screams burst forth incessantly. But the one who caused this calamity.

“Hmm…”

Shimun did not seem particularly pleased. And for a good reason.

‘Even after gathering all the remnants of Devil Energy left here, she withstood it?’

The very reason he had waited for Medusa to shed her skin was to test the remnants of the Devil Energy left behind.

‘If this is the result of using the power of a fallen angel equipped with Tarnhelm… it’s not satisfying at all.’

The fallen angels were a race born from Devil Energy. A being from the seven sinful races using devil energy against an evolved species with a true name. And yet, unable to penetrate it?

Of course.

‘Compared to the remnants left behind by Mammon, this is just a tiny fraction…’

The remnants of the devil energy he encountered in Mammon’s tomb in the Celestial Realm. The remnants that made up the entire Inquisition Dimension.

Compared to that overwhelming quantity, the remnant devil energy he used just now were minuscule.

Even so.

‘The firepower of the black flames is less than half that of Laevateinn.’

From Shimun’s perspective, accustomed to handling myth-class weapons, the situation was far from satisfactory.

‘Well, if the Sin of Lust recovers a bit, it might be different.’

Though when that might happen was uncertain. As he mused to himself, a sharp screech pierced his ears.

『Hyaaaah! You wretch, I’ll tear you apart!!』

Medusa had somehow escaped the tidal wave of black flames. Her entire body half-melted, she seemed to have converted all her pain into rage.

『I’ll rip your soul out and burn it for all eternity!!』

Ssss!

Her partially regenerated eyes, along with her remaining eye, emitted an ashen glow. Following this, her relatively intact snake hair, too, mirrored her gaze.

Shimun’s body.

Crack.

Rapidly began to paralyze. More accurately, it began to turn to stone. The power of an evolved species with a true name.

Medusa’s authority.

‘Petrifying Gaze.’

It was the Petrifying Gaze. Yet, even as his body was being turned to stone in real-time.

“This is interesting.”

Shimun chuckled.

『Interesting…?』

Her eyes flickered with ashen light.

『Very well. Let’s see if you still find it amusing when your body is shattered into pieces!』

Despite her newly grown size of nearly 10 meters.

Wham!

She moved with graceful, swift motions and swung her huge tail.

Or at least tried to.

『What?!』

In her field of vision.

Crunch, crunch.

Until stone fragments began to fall from Shimun’s petrified body.

In addition.

Whirr!

A sharp, ringing noise came from his left eye. Noticing the reptilian slit of his eye, characteristic of dragonkin.

‘The King’s Eye?! How can a fallen angel…’

Her jaw slightly dropped in astonishment.

Snap.

His fingers snapped again.

Swish.

『This can’t be!』

Hovering above, she saw a scythe-like curved blade and screamed. It was only natural.

『Harpe?!』

The cursed weapon that had ruthlessly slaughtered countless previous Medusas.

Wasn’t it Harpe?

Despite her astonishment.

What dominated her mind was sheer ‘curiosity.’

‘How can a fallen angel possess both the King’s Eye and Harpe….’

The King’s Eye. And the scythe-like blade Harpe. These items had nothing to do with fallen angels.

Then.

‘Wait. Now that I think about it, he did snap his fingers….’

Snap!

She remembered Shimuel snapping his fingers. Before she shed her skin. The huge statue she summoned with her maximum authority.

And now.

The scythe-like blade Harpe that Medusa could never mistake. These unbelievable series of events flashed through her mind.

‘Could it be…? No way…!’

She drew a singular possibility.

『You! Are you perhaps Kim Si….』

Just as she was about to utter a name known among the dragonkin.

Slash.

Her neck was cleanly severed like tofu.

*

Like a building collapsing.

Thud!

A heavy vibration echoed underfoot. Shimun glanced momentarily at the immense 10-meter body and the astonished face below.

Swoosh.

He looked down at Harpe, which began to dematerialize.

‘So it’s a specialized weapon. The rebound is quick.’

Knowing well that Harpe had no use unless facing specific evolved species like Medusa.

Step.

Without hesitation, Shimun turned towards where the Sin of Lust lay.

– How on earth did you know Harpe was deadly to Medusa?

Lucifer’s bewildered voice questioned.

“Just… saw it once before.”

Shimun replied succinctly. Naturally.

– When? That Medusa, Ravi, clearly said her predecessor died ten thousand years ago.

Lucifer quickly pointed out the contradiction in Shimun’s brief answer, but that was all.

“Who knows… maybe my foresight kicked in?”

– Pfft! Oppa, you’re such a tease, aren’t you?

Shimun’s reply and the Philosopher’s Stone’s reaction elicit laughter.

– What the hell! What are you both talking about? What is it? Include me! Tell me!

Lucifer huffed and puffed, bouncing around.

And.

With a smirk at Lucifer’s childlike reaction, – Shimuel… no, Shimun-nim. We have followed your orders and completed the preparations.

A voice from a fallen angel echoed in Shimun’s mind.