The Regressor Can Make Them All

Chapter 483

A demonic being capable of wielding hundreds of Cursed Eyes at will, one that boasted archery skills that rivaled those of even the Visionary herself—that was who Heaven Eye was.

Although he had appeared only in the late stages of the war between humanity and the Demon Force—therefore lacking an extensive battle record—Heaven Eye’s power was in no way inferior to that of the other Ten Evils.

In a way, he’s the most troublesome.

Aside from the sniping prowess to pierce his enemy’s weakness, no matter their identity, Heaven Eye possessed the survival instincts to slip away from any situation. He, unlike most demons whose minds had twisted beyond reason, remained cold and calculating.

Thanks to that, Heaven Eye had stubbornly survived even as the other Ten Evils and the Six Harbingers of Destruction fell one after another in the previous timeline.

And while he was alive, he hunted countless heroes with his long-range abilities—so many that his head count ranked among the top three across both the Ten Evils and six Harbingers of Destruction.

He has to be killed if the opportunity arises.

No matter the timeline, Se-Hoon’s judgment of Heaven Eye had been such. Yet even now, Se-Hoon failed to find a proper chance. Despite rampaging all over the world by Doppelganger’s side, Heaven Eye had always remained just beyond reach. Not even once had he exposed an opening.

I need to lure him out.

To do that, Se-Hoon knew he had to bring out a bait so dangerous that even knowing the risk, the target would be unable to help but draw near. Previously, it had been the Harbinger Shard he got from the Destroyer of Moralities. And now? Baek-Yeon had offered the bait herself with her legacy.

Regardless of whether that was a coincidence or actually Baek-Yeon’s intent, Se-Hoon took it as the perfect chance to strike Heaven Eye. He spared no effort in deploying every means at his disposal to get rid of the cancer.

Necromancy: Tidal Surge of the Netherworld

The darkness of the Netherworld spread across the ground from the Earth, surging past the horizon in the blink of an eye.

What is this…?

Peering down with the Cursed Eye embedded in his left cheek, Heaven Eye wore an expression of utter disbelief. Every inch of land within several dozen kilometers—everything visible—had been engulfed by darkness and turned into Se-Hoon’s domain.

Even the Eternal Nocturne didn’t go this far.

Was it truly possible to unleash a Perfect One’s power to such an extent? The scope surpassing understanding, Heaven Eye was petrified by the unbelievable sight. In fact, he would have remained that way had it not been for Tuner’s soul within the Cursed Eye on his right cheek.

“You idiot! Quit gawking and RUN!!”

“!”

Snapped out of it by Tuner’s shout, which pierced through his skull, Heaven Eye’s face hardened at the utterly dire situation of facing Se-Hoon. There was no time to be distracted; Heaven Eye immediately activated his Cursed Eyes as he fell back to the ground.

Space · Shear · Distort · Transfer: Cursed Eye Unleashed

Woong!

Four pupils tore open in the air. Among the stolen Cursed Eyes that Heaven Eye had activated, the ones with spatial abilities began resonating with each other, amplifying the others’ powers.

Sacrifice all the eyes and escape in one burst…!

To break him free from Se-Hoon’s domain, cracks spread across the four eyes like blood vessels as space was warped to its limits—

Boom-

A golden flash burst upward from the darkness below.

“?!”

His field of vision snapped downward, out of his control—his Cursed Eye of Perception had detected something. Realizing that, Heaven Eye fired the warped space he’d prepared in that direction without hesitation.

CRACK!

The force, powerful enough to cross dozens of kilometers in a blink, crushed space itself as it roared toward the unidentified threat. It got closer and closer to the golden flash, then…

Shing!

A chilling sound of something being sliced in two reverberated like a whisper in Heaven Eye’s ear. The warped space then split cleanly in two, along with two of the Cursed Eyes that were preparing short-range teleportation.

“…”

A single sword slash grazed past his eyelids. Heaven Eye, who had believed he had executed a flawless counterattack in an instant, was rudely awakened to reality by the second strike that followed, as if it were a mockery of his efforts.

Heaven Eye stared downward, unable to believe it, until he finally saw the sword user who had swung the blade: Aria Myers.

“Too la—”

“Mhm.” Smirking arrogantly up at Heaven Eye, Aria aimed her blade at him once more. “Too late.”

Myers Style Light Sword Technique: Dawnlight, Chaos Refraction

Slash-

A gleaming sword strike severed both of Heaven Eye’s hands just as he reached under his arm to draw his longbow. The attack fragmented at that point, turning into dozens of arcs that additionally sliced through his head, neck, heart, lungs, spine, and legs.

Without even a chance to resist, Heaven Eye’s entire body had been rendered apart.

CRAAACK!

Ripping through space even after Heaven Eye, only then did the golden slash finally dissipate.

I still-

Finding himself facing death in the blink of an eye, Heaven Eye looked toward Aria through his fractured vision. Before his consciousness faded, before it became truly irreversible… he had to do something. However, that thought could only echo helplessly in his head, unable to take form before vanishi—

“Idiot.”

At Tuner’s cold voice, Heaven Eye’s will suddenly surged into his Cursed Eye of Perception.

Woong!

Through his skewed vision, Heaven Eye saw countless possibilities unfolding like a vast stream. Dozens of gray lights fired like arrows through the flow, with rays collapsing within the raging stream. But there was just one single beam that traced a complete circle—and linked from beginning to end.

Swish-

Within the gray circle, a single strand of hope seized through death manifested instantly right where Heaven Eye and Aria stood.

Future Realization: Cursed Eye Overlap—Reversal

Dozens of Heaven Eye’s Cursed Eyes overlapped. An amalgam of countless sigils and colors blended together into a form that had never existed before. Together, they created a time-space Cursed Eye that could reverse time itself—but only in a defined space and under a predetermined outcome.

Crack-

Time was turned back.

“!”

As the slash Aria delivered traced backward along its original path, Heaven Eye’s broken body, on the verge of death, was seamlessly reconnected.

Eventually, everything returned to the moment and position of the first clash.

CRUNCH-!

However, unlike before, the force of space that had originally been fired at Aria swallowed Heaven Eye

instead.

Splat!

His left arm and right leg were torn off by the space’s jagged edges, but the rest of his body disappeared without a trace.

“…”

Aria frowned, having lost Heaven Eye in an instant, and turned her gaze toward the Netherworld below where Se-Hoon waited.

“Are you able to spot where he went?”

“…Hmm. No. He’s definitely not around here.”

Whatever the means, Heaven Eye had escaped beyond the outer rim of the dimensional rift that Se-Hoon had trapped him in.

“…Sorry. I must’ve let my guard down too much,” Aria said with a scowl, sighing softly after.

If only she’d known Heaven Eye had such a trick up his sleeve, then she would’ve attacked more thoroughly—not giving him the chance even if he reversed time. Alas, she had been blindsided from an angle she had never anticipated.

Seeing how Aria had deflated, Se-Hoon calmly consoled her, “You don’t need to blame yourself too much. I didn’t know Heaven Eye had that kind of skill, either.”

“Really?”

“Yes. I also don’t believe Heaven Eye knew himself.”

Being a wielder of the power of Perception himself, Se-Hoon knew. Heaven Eye hadn’t consciously triggered it; rather, a future where he escaped death just so happened to materialize in that form. The process adjusted to match the outcome, not the other way around.

“…What a bizarre sequence of events.”

“Well, that’s how the powers of the Perfect Ones tend to work out.”

With a slight shrug, Se-Hoon tilted the edge of an Eye of the Nether as if raising an eyebrow at her.

“Let’s get you back now. It’s quite hard for me to maintain this state.”

“Got it.”

Nodding, Aria threw herself back down into the darkness covering the ground, and her surroundings changed immediately to blue skies with a distant black tower in the background—the uncanny area known as the Netherworld.

Furthermore, there was already a skeleton servant waiting politely beside her.

“So I just wait here again, right?”

“Yes. I’ll inform you the moment Heaven Eye resurfaces.”

“Alright. I won’t miss him next time—so call me immediately.”

Sheathing her Dawnlight, Aria began exploring the area with the skeleton following close behind.

Meanwhile, Se-Hoon severed the connection that linked his view to the skeleton’s before turning his attention elsewhere.

WOONG!

Standing in front of a massive magic array that stretched beneath the black tower at the center of the Netherworld, Se-Hoon sighed and rubbed his eyes.

“Whew… This really won’t be easy.”

Heaven Eye—now an entirely different entity from the one he knew—had killed Baek-Yeon and inherited the Cursed Eye of Perception. Against such an unpredictable mass of variables, Se-Hoon’s strategy was simple: use every bit of power he had accumulated.

Woong!

Just like when he dismantled the Offering ritual in China, he activated the Heavenshrouded Eyes of the Netherworld—Wurgen’s Final Revelation—but over the entire world to track Heaven Eye’s movements. Excluding the continents corrupted by the Abyss of Demons, the scope still covered half the planet, which was something only a Perfect One could handle.

Thankfully, though, Se-Hoon could outsource the effort to solve the issue with surprising ease.

Woong-

On the opposite side of the tower from where Se-Hoon stood, Lea operated the Sphere while carefully observing celestial bodies formed along five orbital paths.

“Hmm, Eurasia seems to be somewhat stabilizing…”

Hundreds of millions of stars shimmered softly above the planetary model—those who had overcome death under the Blessing of the Eternal. Through Lea’s unique skill, Phase Manifestation, they had all become pillars connecting the surface and the Netherworld.

With the connections to the hundreds of millions, Se-Hoon was able to distribute the burden he alone would’ve shouldered evenly among them all. And as a result, what should’ve been a technique that collapsed in under a minute was nearly permanent.

It’s just a hollow shell.

The true strength of the Heavenshrouded Eyes of the Netherworld came from its boost to necromancy, nearly infinite mana, and defiance of death—all of which were inactive. Partly, that was because Se-Hoon was avoiding using the Hero’s Ring and also just because he deliberately suppressed those aspects in favor of expanding the range and duration.

Well, the important thing right now is disrupting Heaven Eye’s movements even somewhat.

Track Heaven Eye’s location with the Heavenshrouded Eyes of the Netherworld, then send in allies who can go toe-to-toe with the Ten Evils to obstruct him. Simultaneously, Seon-Woo and Jason were moving together to recover Baek-Yeon’s legacy slowly. Together, the two concurrent plans formed the core of the operation.

The attempt just now was not bad for the first one… though it did reveal some problems for us.

Although Heaven Eye still didn’t seem to know how to use the full power of the Cursed Eye of Perception that had allowed him to escape at the last moment, the encounter—and all future ones—made it a given that he would grow more adept.

To minimize variables as much as possible, they had to kill Heaven Eye before he adapted completely to the eye.

I guess that means we need to recover Baek-Yeon’s legacy quickly enough to provoke him into acting rashly…

The real question then was, how much could Seon-Woo and Jason recover? For now, he was leaving it in their hands. However, considering one lacked ability while the other had personality issues… who knew which way things would swing?

If things go seriously sideways, I’ll have to step in myself…

Whenever that time came, if it did, Se-Hoon knew he’d likely have to push himself and use the Hero’s Ring to fully activate the power of Perception.

Falling into thought, pondering the various possibilities, Se-Hoon heard a familiar voice in his ear not long later.

“Administrator!”

Recognizing it as Terra’s, who was currently housed within the Warhound and sent to support Seon-Woo and Jason, Se-Hoon responded immediately.

“What is it?”

“We just discovered a new piece of the legacy!”

At the good news, Se-Hoon raised an eyebrow in surprise. He’d expected it would take more time than that—especially since they were using a workaround method that didn’t use the power of Perception—but they’d found something already.

Huh…. Jason is more competent than I thought.

Revising his assessment of Jason, Se-Hoon quickly replied to Terra. “Show me.”

“Yes, sir!”

Strengthening their connection, Terra began sharing the Warhound’s vision with Se-Hoo. A ridgeline atop a mountain filled his view, then he noticed Seon-Woo and Jason nearby.

“Ugh… Blurgh…”

“Weak.”

Seon-Woo was leaning over a cliff edge, vomiting uncontrollably, while Jason stood beside him while staring down indifferently. From just that, it was clear their legacy hunt clearly hadn’t gone smoothly.

Knowing the likely culprit, Se-Hoon turned the Warhound’s gaze to them and asked, “Um… Sir. How exactly have you been searching so far?”

Wasn’t the method to use Enhanced Vision to scan the area, then have Jason inspect the suspicious spots?

“I just carried him on my back and ran,” Jason answered flatly, turning to look at Se-Hoon.

“…You carried Seon-Woo on your back?”

“Yes.”

“…”

Se-Hoon made an odd expression. Jason—of all people—carried someone else? Just that thought alone gave him an eerie, indescribable chill…?

…Wait. He ran?

Knowing that the man before him could cross continents in a matter of minutes, Se-Hoon glanced at Seon-Woo, who was still purging his insides over the cliff. Then, slowly, he cautiously asked, “You didn’t, by chance… run at full speed, did you?”

Surely even Jason wouldn’t have overlooked something that basic.

Alas, contrary to his hope, Jason returned a blank stare.

“Is there a reason I shouldn’t have?”

“…”

A reply devoid of even a speck of empathy. Sighing, Se-Hoon turned to the other party involved.

“Terra. Why didn’t you stop him?”

“Uh… well…” She hesitated briefly, then answered in a small, careful voice. “…Was there a reason to stop him?”

If only one person suffered, they could recover Baek-Yeon’s legacy faster, and humanity—especially the Administrator—would be thrilled. From Terra’s perspective, that outcome was tenfold more beneficial.

“…”

Furthermore, due to their shared link, Se-Hoon could sense just how sincere Terra was being.

Turning to the half-dead Seon-Woo, all Se-Hoon could do was mutter an apology.

“…I’m sorry.”

He had forgotten just how utterly heartless the Perfect Ones and their clones could be.