My name is Lee Seojun, a Korean transfer student.
I am a regressor.
Before I regressed, I remembered that I was on the verge of death after fighting against someone that I am very familiar with.
Noah Ashton.
An irregular and an unstable variable that exists in the apocalypse.
As a foe he was unbeatable.
As a friend he was reliable.
As a lover he was—*Cough* Forget what I just said.
Perfect memory really has its downside…
Anyway, I was just trying to clear the dungeon my school suddenly turned into but I didn't expect Noah and other well-known figures in the apocalypse to appear while I was fighting the Hobgoblin Captain Knight.
Luckily, they had come to help and not kill me.
But I doubt I can secure all the cheats in this place, kinda disappointing.
…
Noah stood there beside Seojun with his right hand tightly gripping his spear.
"Wow, I didn't expect the goblins to be this civilized…" Noah muttered before he suddenly appeared in front of the Hobgoblin and thrust his spear to its head.
In the last seconds the spear managed to get deflected, "Shame, at least I got one tho." Noah said as the spear on his hand was nowhere to be seen.
-Tsuk!
The sound of a Hobgoblin drowned in its blood catches the attention of the remaining Hobgoblin.
[You killed a Hobgoblin Knight, +3,500 Experience +3,500 Universal Coins]
One of the hobgoblin knights was found with its neck stabbed through by a silver spear.
Lee Seojun's face tensed up at the sight, 'His growth is somehow abnormally fast, in the past regression that I spent with him, he had always struggled to fight against monsters at this point of time. Noah, you're truly an unpredictable wild card!'
"Knight? I didn't expect you folks would have such a thing…" Noah muttered before he was approached by all the remaining Hobgoblin knights.
As the Hobgoblin Knights Captain smashed its shield on the ground a shockwave suddenly knocked Noah back a few metres away before one of the Hobgoblin knights was about to slice him in half.
Noah managed to dodge in time in exchange for his whole left leg below the knee but fortunately they began to regenerate.
'They are getting stronger?' Noah thought.
'It seems that the second phase is starting.' Lee Seojun thought with a drop of sweat flowing on his face.
[One of the Six Hobgoblin Knights have been defeated, the phase 2 will begin]
[All Hobgoblin Knights and Knight Captain are allowed to use their special abilities.]
'One of the easiest ways to defeat this boss is by killing all of the other knights at the same time which will not be utterly impossible in the first phase and the most annoying gimmick hasn't yet happened…'
'All of the Hobgoblin Knights have a different coloured eyes that emanates the same colour, the colour corresponds with their own speciality, Orange for offense, Green for healing, Black for stealth, Blue for defense, Red for magic and lastly Yellow for a random ability.'
'Yellow was a literal gamble, I hope none of those abilities from the overpowered end of the spectrum appeared, anyway the next gimmick is also pretty annoying and kinda gets on my nerves sometimes… well, it's more like all the time, like the knights are already pretty annoying—'
Lee Seojun's inner monologue has come to a halt as he was brought back to reality by Noah.
"Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla."
Lucas, who saw the scene, asked, "What was that?"
"I just feel like someone is overexposing something…" Noah muttered as a notification appeared once again.
'…' Lee Seojun stared at Noah intensely before he recounted the events.
He as always doing everything a regressor would do, gather cheat items or something, he defeated 4 elite mini boss, he finished a hidden quest, he caused the dungeon (which was his former school) level to rise as usual to get some special stuff, he went to defeat the first floor boss, Noah and others entered too, Noah helped him, Noah kills one of the hobgoblin knights (it was the red one).
[Due to the death of one of the Six Hobgoblin Knight, the ability of the deceased will be inherited by the Hobgoblin Knight Captain.]
[The Hobgoblin Knight Captain acquired the 'Rune of Sorcery']
'There it is,' Seojun thought as he grimaced at the memories of fighting the Hobgoblin Knight Captain, 'And it just has to be the Rune of Sorcery…'
From the Hobgoblin Knight Captain's palm manifested a 1 meter big fireball, strange ancient letters were engraved on the full-plate armour.
The fireball was launched at them.
"Hey, Miss hot head, stop him." Lucas said to Ruby.
"I can't."
"What do you mean you can't? Your ability is fire manipulation."
"And? I am not all powerful!"
"Guys, dodge!" Nigel shouted to everyone.
Everyone managed to dodge the blast,
"That was close…" Noah muttered as he was carrying Lee Seojun who was red from embarrassment in his arm.
'I lowered my guard…' Lee Seojun thought before he gritted his teeth, 'We cannot leave the boss room unless we defeat the knight captain, and this isn't so bad. Look on the bright side, I can use this opportunity to learn the Runic language…'
"Hey, don't just laze around, we need to defeat this bastard fast." Noah shouted at Lucas' group.
'Status.'
-Ding!
[Status]
[Name] Noah Ashton
[Age] 17
[Species] Human
[Job] None
[Title] Goblin Slayer (Tier 3)
[Level] 7
[Experience] 1,370/6,400
[HP] 500/500 → 550/550
[MP] 250/250 → 300/300
[Physical] 50 → 55
[Mental] 48 → 53
[Spiritual] 25 → 30
[Ability] Regeneration
[Skill] Item Repair (F), Spearmanship (F), Intimidation (E)
[Trait] Goblin's Nightmare (F)
[Universal Coins] 3,907 → 7,407
Standing before the furious Hobgoblin Knight Captain and his remaining five knights, Noah showed an expression of calmness and determination as he decided to give it his all.
[All enemy have been greatly strengthened by {Rage}]
[All enemy have ignored the effects of Goblin's Nightmare (F)]
[Your ability Regeneration have been greatly weakened by the effects of a curse from the {Rune of Sorcery}]
[All enemy have been greatly strengthened by the effects of {Blessing of The Knight}]
[The fallen member of the Six Knights have returned from the underworld through {Necromancy}]
[A lich had been created.]
[Warning!]
[An unprecedented change occurred!]
[The dead monsters will rise once again as undead]
[All Floor Boss have been strengthened]
[The difficulty of the dungeon had risen from D to C]
"Ridiculous…" Lucas muttered at the sight.
'Yeah… this was truly ridiculous…' Lee Seojun innately agreed.
"Wow, it has only been like what? Not even a day and all of this happened, crazy stuff." Noah muttered.
[You have successfully reached the third phase]
[All members of the Six Knights and the Hobgoblin Knight Captain will return after death as an undead.]
[The Lich cannot be killed before the Hobgoblin Knight Captain.]
"Sick." Noah muttered as he stared at the notification.
Before any of them could react the Orange Knight managed to cut Noah's arm clean off, 'Scary, their stats surpassed mine so overwhelming them with physical strength is out of the equation, my fear factor is also useless without strength, items? The book's useless, the staff useless, my spear? Not really a weapon that would defeat this kind of monster, my regeneration is also not that good now due to the curse, I'm pretty much out of option… unless?' Noah looked towards Fiona.
"Fiona." Noah said.
"Y-yes?"
"Touch me."
Everyone went silent.
"I-I didn't know you were into that kind of thing!?"
"Oh? I mean to use your ability on me for context."
"Ah-is that so? I was surprised—"
-Smack!
Nigel managed to block a flying kick from the Orange Knight, it left him with a broken right arm and the knight shaking legs.
"Ah! Let me help you—" Fiona said out of concern as she reached out her hand.
"Let him be." Noah said coldly.
"W-what? But his right arm is broken!" Fiona said with a worried tone.
"I need you to use every single drop of your energy to 'heal' me no matter what or else we're dead." Noah said.
Noah said this with two purposes, one, to experiment whether Fiona's skill can dispel curses, two, to experience a woman's touch—I mean to experience her skill because Noah saw how much pleasure everyone that was healed by her felt while he was regenerating in the background.
"B-but…"
Noah stabbed himself in the stomach with his spear, "There, my wound is worse, heal me."
"A-alright." Fiona finally gave in and healed him.
On the other hand, Lee Seojun, Nigel and Lucas was forced to fend off against the Knights and Knight Captain while Noah was enjoying himself.
Fiona fell to the ground but fortunately was caught by Ruby, she seemed to suddenly have a fever.
"So that's what happened when you ran out of mana?" Noah said, staring at her unconscious and pain riddled face.
[Your ability Regeneration synchronized with the healing energy that entered your body]
[Your body has been purified]
[+10 Physical]
[Your Regeneration has entered the state of {Overclock}]
[You will be able to regenerate your whole body even from a single atom effectively making you an immortal]
[This state lasts for only 20 minutes]
"So 20 minutes of pure violence? I'm in." Noah's aura suddenly changed as he grabbed his spear and rushed towards the Blue Knight and thrusted his spear into his shield.
This ended up with his spear stuck to the shield, the Orange Knight seeing the opening quickly slashed through Noah's body like butter until it was stabbed itself.
It was Noah's spine, he grabbed it mid regeneration and planted into the Orange Knight's armour opening. He then quickly jumped and grabbed into the Knight's head and then smashed his head into the helmet until he crushed its head.
His regenerating face was filled with fury as he lunged at the stunned Blue Knight and stabbed him using Orange Knight's blade from under his chest through the back of the Knight's head.
[You killed a Hobgoblin Knight, +3,500 Experience +3,500 Universal Coins]
[You killed a Hobgoblin Knight, +3,500 Experience +3,500 Universal Coins]
Like a wild beast, Noah rushes towards the Knight Captain that stabbed down his blade to pin Noah on the ground, as if he wasn't feeling any pain, Noah quickly moves and let the below waist half of his body left behind and regenerates a new one, from that point Noah mauled the Knight Captain.
Despite being thrown away multiple times, his brain splattered multiple times, his body crushed into pieces, his body burned, melted, frozen, decayed, he never once stopped and he finally managed to push his arm through the eye hole of the helmet even though it broke his arm and fingers, even though it ripped his skin off, he finally pierced the Knight Captain's head.
He created a distance before rushing to the Green Knight and Yellow Knight, the Black Knight was nowhere to be found.
From behind him appeared the Black Knight that smashed Noah and created an explosion that engulfed the 8 meter radius in a merciless flame.
The Black Knight's hand also exploded, suddenly his body faded into the darkness as he was nowhere to be found.
The corpse of the Knight Captain, Orange Knight and Blue Knight began to rise once again before Noah suddenly appeared behind the Orange Knight with the corpses of the Green, Black and Yellow Knight tied together with their own guts and their bodies half eaten.
"It's good that none of you are tired yet, it has only been 11 minutes~" His face revealed a twisted smile as he quickly bit through the Orange Knight helmet into his brain.