The Martial God who Regressed Back to Level 2 Novel

Chapter 426

Uh-huh.

Sung JiHan extended his right hand to Asoka as promised, in order to use the Extermination.

However.

"Do I really have to use the Extermination on him?"

"Why."

The hand of the administrator who should have shot the laser did not obey the command immediately.

"I have a bad feeling about this. I think he might ruin our great undertaking."

If our "great undertaking" refers to becoming the Red Administrator.

It would be great if that fails.

Thinking that way, Sung JiHan commanded the administrator.

"It's okay. My intuition is fine. Just shoot."

"But..."

"Listen to me."

"You will regret it. Definitely."

While saying that, the hand of the Red Administrator eventually gathered its strength in one place.

Red Power

Extermination

Ziiiiing...!

A burst of red light exploded forward, and a bright beam of light instantly engulfed Asoka.

Even though Pithia used Gilgamesh as a shield and barely blocked the powerful blow.

The Extermination, except for the Taegeuk Sword, was Sung JiHan's most powerful attack, but...

"The enemy's power is well condensed."

Asoka calmly received the attack of the red light with one hand.

- Wait, what?

- We're both level 8 Seongjwas, but there's a huge difference between Eve and her.

- Should I search for Siddhartha?

- I already did, but there's not much information available.

When people once again questioned Asoka for easily blocking the Extermination...

"I will thoroughly investigate."

Sssss...

Behind Asoka, a wheel made of skulls.

The image of the Golden Wheel came to mind.

"Cheonsucheonan."

In an instant.

Inside the wheel, light sparkled from the eyes of the skulls.

Chiiiiing!

From the red wheel, shadows of dark colors spread in all directions.

A total of one thousand shadow tendrils.

They expanded to a certain extent, and then spread towards the Extermination all at once.

And.

"Hand..."

Crackle!

All one thousand shadows transformed into the shape of hands and collectively grabbed the beams of the Extermination.

"It's completely sealed off. It feels like the power of the Extermination is being dismantled bit by bit."

How can a level 8 be this strong?

While Sung JiHan was thinking that, the hand of the administrator was trembling even more.

"Crazy...! What did I say! I said it was ominous!"

"No. You haven't used all your power yet, right? Use more. On the enemy."

"Understood. I will bring out more of my abilities!"

Papapot!

From the Extermination that was caught by the shadows, energy surged once again.

Some of the one thousand shadows broke free.

"There was still some room left. I should have used all my strength."

Asoka advised Sung JiHan and closed and opened his eyes.

Then.

In an instant!

From the one thousand shadows, spheres of light rose together.

While illuminating the shadows, the spheres of light coexisted in a strange way.

"That looks similar to Shinan."

The appearance of the spheres of light summoned by Pithiana and Sung JiAh.

And as the spheres rose,

Pssssst...!

The strengthened enemy destruction was disintegrating much faster than before.

- What's with that powerful presence?

- Wasn't it supposed to mean Avalokitesvara?

- Seems to be related to Buddhism, that person.

- But he looks too ominous to be Avalokitesvara -_-

- Seriously, that shadow looks like the devil's hand.

It was too ominous to be Avalokitesvara, the Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Bodhisattva.

But its power was undeniable.

Even the full-powered enemy destruction couldn't penetrate it.

"I need to find a way to deal with that power."

Turning back time seemed like a possible solution, using the Reverse Flash technique, but Avalokitesvara was different.

The Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Bodhisattva was unique.

With its thousand arms and eyes, it was powerful enough to disassemble and analyze the enemy destruction in an instant.

If a situation arose where they had to fight, they needed to find a way to overcome it.

[Master! This person knows too much about the enemy's power...! A different kind of power. We need to use Void, Void!]

"We've been countering Void for a while now."

[Now is not the time to be complacent!]

That's true.

Sssss...

Sung JiHan drew in the power of Void from his face.

Although Ashoka wasn't an antagonistic presence, Sung JiHan couldn't afford to be powerless like this.

And then.

"Strike him down with the Void Sword. So that I won't be overwhelmed by you."

Ashoka's voice echoed in Sung JiHan's mind.

Although his lips didn't twitch, he clearly conveyed his intentions.

"...The enemy, indeed seems to be non-existent."

Shuuuu...

Sung JiHan ignited the Dark Eclipse and infused it with the power of Void.

And with a light swing of his sword.

Shaaaak!

The shadow of the Thousand-Armed Bodhisattva, which had been easily suppressing the enemy destruction, was cut down in an instant.

"I found a way to deal with it quickly..."

Then, Ashoka sighed as if regretful.

After teaching him, he disappeared like smoke.

"But I also have a trick up my sleeve."

Kururur...

As the Golden Wheel of Dharma turned, soon.

Time stopped.

The Dark Eclipse, containing Void, also stopped.

The right hand, emitting the enemy destruction, all froze in place.

Thud. Thud.

Only Ashoka approached with an unscathed face.

"Don't be flustered, stay calm. And use the Reverse Flash..."

While his voice echoed in his mind, Sung JiHan's brain.

Just like before, he was giving him hints on how to overcome it.

But.

Sssss...

"It seems resistance is possible like this."

Before Ashoka could reveal the method, Sung JiHan resisted the power of time manipulation.

The method was simply using the Reverse Flash together.

Thud.

As a result, the movement of the Golden Wheel of Dharma stopped.

Pssst...!

The color of one of the golden skulls turned red.

- What's this? It's not a lag, and suddenly it's progressing so smoothly.

- It felt like the screen was paused...

- Oh, could it be that he used time manipulation?

- Sung JiHan had a countermeasure after all!

Even in the paused chat window, the chat messages quickly appeared.

Ashoka looked at Sung JiHan with a slightly surprised expression.

And then.

"I apologize for saying that your talent was ambiguous last time."

"You were saying a lot about not being able to complete the Taegeuk Sword."

"But then you saw me defeat the Time Reversal with the Hwagwang Banjo before I could even teach you."

Even though Asoka sent a message in her mind.

"The retrieval of the hand has been determined to be impossible. Master, I will carry out the second command."

In appearance, she showed a faithful attitude as a servant of the God of War.

"The second command?"

"I will seal that hand."

Before he could finish speaking, something terrifying happened.

Drrrrrr!

The Geumnyunjeokbo turned two wheels.

And then, time stopped.

Sung JiHan used the Hwagwang Banjo just like before, but...

"This... It seems like I can't respond immediately like before."

Whether he used more power from the Geumnyunjeokbo or not, Sung JiHan couldn't regain control of his body immediately.

Ssssss...

While he was momentarily frozen, Asoka, who had approached close by, said.

"Get some rest."

Thump.

With her finger, she poked the red eye on the back of Sung JiHan's hand.

"What did you say...! No. What, what is this?"

Ssssss...

At first, Sung JiHan resisted, but the shrinking red eye soon diminished.

Rather than an eye, it became so small that it looked like a dot.

"Hmm...!"

And when it finally became small, Sung JiHan regained control and frowned at the sealed red hand.

This is the first time he has been pushed back so one-sidedly since Dongbangsak.

And the Administrator's hand is being sealed so easily.

"...The opponent is weak against emptiness."

In order to escape from the water, Sung JiHan tried to draw more power from the emptiness.

But.

"Don't do that. If you draw more power from the emptiness, the time to talk will be reduced."

"To talk...?"

"Yes. Since you and I don't have many chances to meet in person."

Saying that, Asoka clasped her hands together.

And then.

Kururur!

A giant hand rose from the floor of the arena and covered the two of them from the outside.

"This is..."

"Even if we stop time, the Administrators might still observe us. So I prepared this."

If we're inside this palm, the Administrators can't see us, right?

No, how is that possible...

When Sung JiHan looked at Asoka as if she were absurd.

"Now that the preparations are complete, let's talk."

He comfortably sat on the palm of his hand.

* * *

"...What do you want to talk about?"

"I analyzed the extermination. You... didn't have any ambitions for the Unification."

"If it's the Unification..."

"I mean becoming the Administrator of the Red."

Sung JiHan's eyes showed a hint of surprise.

Did he already know that the entire human race was the Administrator of the Red?

But.

"You can know that by analyzing the extermination?"

"I can know."

"You're quite something."

"Thank you for the compliment."

Seeing Asoka, who was completely relaxed, Sung JiHan thought of the sealed Asoka.

He was really impolite.

'Come to think of it.'

That Asoka had something to give him.

A piece of gold sculpture with the inscription "금각禁覺" engraved on it.

Sung JiHan took it out from his inventory and showed it to Asoka.

"This is...?"

"It's the item you gave me from the seal. You said to pass it on to my future self, never forgetting the oath of 금각."

"금각... Throughout countless ages, I have never forgotten that oath."

"Is that so?"

"If I had forgotten the oath and attained enlightenment, I would have become Siddhartha and taken the place of my disciple, Sariputta."

Sung JiHan looked at Asoka, who spoke seriously, with disbelief.

No, if he realized what he was, he would have taken the place of the Buddha.

"Ha... Be grateful that you're not a Buddhist."

"Hehe. That's a shame. There are many good teachings inside."

Asoka heard those words and laughed more joyfully than ever.

And then.

"Wait, can you hand me that item?"

"Why?"

"What I did in the past was sloppy. Let me complete it a bit more."

Upgrading is always welcome.

Sung JiHan handed the gold sculpture with 금각 engraved on it to Asoka.

And then.

Ziiiiing...

The gold sculpture turned into a small golden wheel.

"Now, I can turn back time once. With your level, you should be able to go back up to a day before."

"...With this?"

"Yes. When it's dangerous, just break this."

Sung JiHan thought as he witnessed Asoka's astonishing power.

"If I had realized it, could I have taken the place of Sariputta, the Buddha's disciple...?"

If that were the case, the Buddha's real name would have been Gautama Siddhartha.

Sung JiHan asked Asoka, who was quietly looking at the completed gold wheel.

"Aren't you... regretful?"

"What do you mean?"

"That you didn't become the Buddha."

"Not at all."

Swoosh.

Asoka handed the gold wheel to Sung JiHan and asked with a serious look in his eyes.

"Aren't you the one who should be regretful?"

"Me? I have no such thing."

"Don't you have the position of the 'Red Administrator'?"

"Oh, that."

After saying not to be greedy for the unification, he asks about it again.

His hand must have been sealed.

Sung JiHan revealed his true feelings.

"To become an administrator, I would have to sacrifice 6 billion people. Would you call that madness?"

"If you become an administrator, can't you revive all the people you sacrificed?"

"Oh... really?"

If it's with the power of an administrator, it's more than possible. I can bring back the physical information of those who were destroyed and replicate them exactly the same.

"Replicate... Then they wouldn't be exactly the same as the original person, right?"

"It's the same from the perspective of others, if not from the person's own perspective."

That's true, but...

Sung JiHan thought.

"If someone kills me and then replicates me through that process... Can that be considered the real me?"

To others, a replicated human may seem the same as the original.

But from the perspective of someone who dies, life is only one.

Whether or not there is a spare replicated human is not important.

"If that's how it is, I won't do it."

"Is that so..."

"Yeah. Even if others don't mind, I can't bear to see my family die and then be resurrected."

"In the end, is it because of your family? Is that why you give up being an administrator?"

"Well, it turns out that way... Is there a problem?"

Asoka smiled happily and nodded.

"No, there's absolutely no problem. You're the one... I've been waiting for."