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◈ Regression is Too Much

Chapter 090

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The Regressor is flustered (11)

"There are countless of them..."

The roaring wind seemed to have died down for a moment.

"...Huh? Huh?"

"What… what did you say?"

The people who heard my words fell into a panic.

"Why aren't you coming over here? Isn't it all over?"

"So what do we do now?"

Those who were relatively far away and had a weaker grasp of the situation were joking around, trying to be leisurely.

"Joong-hyun-ssi, William-ssi, first, please gather everyone and make them aware of the situation. I will leave the otherworlders to Baron George."

"Ju-Junho-nim..."

"I have things to think about. For now, we must gather the people."

"Understood."

Joong-hyun and William, clenching their teeth, ran around to gather the people, and Baron George hurried down below the castle walls.

"..."

And my gaze was fixed beyond the darkness, on the monstrous horde that must be swarming towards us.

"Have I already failed?"

A number of monsters so great that counting them was meaningless. I had to discard any thought of fighting to win early on.

But if the true objective of Floor 4 was to simply endure that onslaught, then I could only think that I had missed something, and had already failed.

Or was the goal of Floor 4 to get out alive through the portal? Was it, from the very beginning, a floor with a hellish difficulty where only five out of one hundred could survive?

No, that couldn't be it. It was still only the 4th floor. I felt that it couldn't be a floor with such an absurd level of difficulty this early.

"If that's the case..."

For now, there was no choice but to do my best. Even if I had to regress later, first I would gather all possible forces and resist.

If it seemed truly impossible, I would regress, clear quickly through the portal, and then look up other people’s reviews online. This would be the most rational course of action.

"Everyone has gathered."

I heard Joong-hyun's voice calling for me. I lifted my head to check behind me, and saw hundreds of people gathered in the wide courtyard, looking up at me.

"Is it… is it true that monsters are swarming in?"

"Are you sure about this?"

Voices filled with terror erupted spasmodically from here and there. I imagined this was probably how people would react to the news that a nuclear missile was flying toward Seoul.

"...It is true. Monsters, in a number so large they look like a tidal wave, are flocking to this place."

"...My god."

"Shit, shit, shit..."

Despair descended upon the crowd. There were some who doubted the truth of my words, but if they just used their heads a little, they would realize that there was no reason whatsoever for me to lie.

"...So. What are you planning to do now?"

The man with the familiar grumpy expression asked.

"I imagine you must have some sort of plan, to stand so confidently before everyone like this. If there was truly no hope, you would have hidden long ago."

"That's right. I intend to resist until the very end."

I turned my gaze from the people and looked around at the tall castle walls.

"By any chance, is there anyone here who has a trait useful for large-scale killing? Something like a wide-area attack..."

Everyone's gaze turned toward the woman with the jutting chin, but she lightly shook her head.

"...My trait is powerful, but that means I can't use it multiple times. I overdid it earlier, so I think two more times will be my limit."

Her words certainly had a point.

"In that case, is there anyone who has a ranged weapon, like a bow?"

"The Tower only gives out close-combat weapons, what do you mean a bow?"

That, too, was a fact.

Unlike the towers in other fantasy settings, the weapons provided in the Tower so far had all been melee weapons. This meant that weapons like bows or even crossbows had never been distributed.

"Yes. I expected as much."

I turned my head again and looked down at the people in the courtyard.

"Therefore, I believe it's right for us to boldly abandon the castle walls."

"Why, why would we abandon them?"

"Because they're too wide."

The castle walls. Under normal circumstances, they would have served as our most reliable defensive barrier.

But a thing like a castle wall is meant to be used in fights between humans. Against a nearly infinite number of monsters like this, the area was far too vast.

If the castle walls could stop the monsters, that would be great. But if the monsters had the ability to break through the walls, we did not have the ability to stop them.

"When we have no ranged weapons and no large-scale killing traits, defending the castle walls seems like a distant dream. Even if we could stop the monsters from climbing up, it's a structure where the moment one person gets tired and a breach is made, everyone is doomed."

"Then..."

"Let's hold out inside the castle."

Narrow passages. A small number of entrances. It's perfect for waging a defensive battle. After all, the most important thing when fighting against superior numbers is to narrow the front line.

"Thanks to the narrow passages, we don't have to worry about being surrounded. We just need to block what's in front. If we can block off the passages leading into the castle, we can survive."

There were a total of six passages into the castle. Today, Baron George had hastily blocked three of them.

"Baron-nim, the barricade work. Is it possible to do it now?"

"...I don't know what the speed of the monsters will be, but at best, it would be about one more location. I'm too exhausted from work during the day."

"That's more than enough."

If we were to block a total of four passages, then the remaining two would be open.

"What you all have to do is simple. Please take turns with each other and just block one passage. And please, survive until the very end. That will be enough."

"B-but, aren't there two passages? If we only block one..."

A player asked with a confused expression. At that moment, Yoon Joong-hyun, who was next to him, lightly tapped his shoulder and cut him off.

"Don't you feel it?"

"...What is it?"

"Ha, honestly."

Joong-hyun glanced up at me and let out a hollow laugh.

"It's not like I was revealing my full power either... but I never imagined it was to this extent."

In that smile, astonishment, a sense of inferiority, and relief were all mixed together.

"Joong-hyun-ssi is right. One of the passages, I will block it."

Looking down at Joong-hyun, I smiled lightly.