I’m not a Regressor

t any attention,] she said in a muttering voice.

“Huh? Don’t pay attention to what?”

[T-this lady will now take her leave!!!]

“…”

Vega turned her body away in an escaping manner.

Her body burst into radiant silver rays and moved into the necklace.

“…What was that?”

Although he looked towards the necklace with a puzzled expression, there was no reply.

Super awkward silence—

A gloomy atmosphere settled down in the lonely cavern.

“Huh.”

Ohjin scratched his head while moving his body.

There was something left that was more important than how Vega had fed him.

“Heh, hehehe!”

Laughter naturally flowed out.

Saliva started to form all around his mouth as he looked at the black drinking glass stuck on the middle of the stone statue’s forehead.

“Now, should we take a look at the loot?”

Jumping lightly onto the statue’s head, Ohjin grasped onto the black glass with a chuckle.

Clunk— 

The black drinking glass popped out of the forehead with a dull clinking sound.

‘What ability will this have?’

Ohjin touched the black glass with shining eyes.

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He could feel a somewhat sticky and ominous aura from the black light that was subtly leaking out.

Although he felt unpleasant from the uneasy aura—

‘Let’s start by taking it out of here for now.’

—he couldn’t leave behind the star relic he had worked so hard for.

There wasn’t a way to know the star relic’s ability right away, but you could easily commission a professional appraiser and determine the ability and rating.

“Since I worked so hard to earn it, I hope it’s rated above 3-Star.”

Just a 3-Star would be worth around 100~200k dollars.

If it was a 4-Star, you could aim for over 500k dollars.

‘Damn.’

Just thinking about it was electrifying.

Rum, Rumble—

“…Huh?”

Just then, a somewhat strange sensation spread across his body.

—the unknown feeling of exaltation he had felt before.

A hot sensation heated up his body like he had drunk a highly alcoholic beverage.

‘What’s this?’

A deep thirst burned his throat.

Ohjin followed his instincts and grasped the black drinking glass with both hands.

And then—

[The Black Heaven is absorbing the Black Star’s power from the star relic!]

—a message appeared before his eyes.

“Black Star’s power…?”

‘What’s that?’

Rumblee!!— 

Before he could continue his doubt, a black cloud flowing out of his fingertips covered the star relic.

“Kugh!”

Mana flowed in through the black cloud.

Different from normal mana, a sticky and unpleasant mana seeped into his body.

 

[The Black Star’s power has successfully been absorbed!]

[The Black Heaven’s trait is evolving!]

[The Trait ‘Black Curtain’ will now not only hide the Black Heaven’s presence, but all presences.
This effect can be controlled with the user’s will.]

[A part of the requirements for the Black Heaven’s third awakening has been accomplished.]

 

Rumble— 

Like the black clouds covering the star relic had finished a good meal, they wriggled and sunk back into his body.

“Ha.”

Ohjin looked down onto the black glass in his hands with a hollow expression.

‘What’s this?’

‘Are you telling me the Black Heaven also had the ability to absorb the power in star relics?’

‘Anyways, is this really a star relic?’

He had never heard of something called the Black Star’s power from a star relic before.

“…Is this perhaps the unpleasant aura Vega was talking about before?”

It was nothing but a simple theory for now, but the thought that this star relic was different from others emerged.

“Oh, wait.”

Whether the star relic was different from others or not…

Hadn’t the Black Heaven gobbled up the power inside of it anyway?

“I-Is it possible that this became trash?”

Although he urgently flipped around the black drinking glass in his hands, the sticky and unpleasant aura he had sensed at first seemed to have vanished.

“No.”

‘What is this…?’

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“My-my star relic.
Where did my star relic go?!”

Rage boiled up.

“Ah, this can’t be.
Noo!!”

It was a star relic he had not even determined the star ranking or ability of.

He threw a fit from the hollow feeling of shredding an unscratched lottery ticket.

“FUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKK!!!”

The cry echoed throughout the entire cavern.

Shoving his fist up his mouth, Ohjin cried out with tears.

“Urgghk… uhk.
Fuck… fuck… the star relic I worked so hard for… son of a…”

Thinking about it objectively.

You could never say he was at a loss.

Even though it was somewhat unpleasant, he had absorbed the mana inside the star relic and achieved a part of the requirement for the Black Heaven’s third awakening.

Moreover, the useful trait he was using, ‘Black Curtain’, had also undergone an evolution.

In reality, he had earned a reward incomparable to that of your average star relic.

‘I know.’

‘But what do you want me to do with this damn feeling of unfairness?’

This was in the territory of emotional rather than rational.

You could say it was the feeling of when a child received a 3-part combination robot out of a Christmas box from their parents compared to receiving a stack of cash instead.

Even though you would have enough cash to buy the robot and have money left over, you would still feel an unknown disappointment.

“God dammit.”

With a hollow expression, Ohjin touched the black drinking glass that had become trash.

Step, Step— 

“Huh?”

The sound of footsteps echoed in the cavern.

Ohjin turned his head towards the location the sound was coming from.

“Oh, wait.
It looks like someone arrived before us.”

A group of people wearing black robes that encompassed their entire body walked out of the densely packed stalagmites.

‘Who are those fuckers?’

There were five of them.

A sticky and unpleasant aura was flowing out of the hooded beings.

Just like…

The aura he had felt from the black drinking glass.

“Hm… we couldn’t possibly imagine that there would be someone who entered the gate faster than us.”

A voice that made one’s mind feel comfort.

Amongst the five people, the one in the middle stepped forward and folded his hood.

A light-brown-haired youth with half-shut eyes looked at the black drinking glass grasped within Ohjin’s hand and let out a deep breath.

“Are you perhaps looking for this?”

Ohjin asked as he raised the black drinking glass in his hands.

“Haha.
Yes.
But it seems that we were too late.”

The brown-haired youth scratched his head with an innocent expression.

“That’s an object we really need… what to do…”

Smile— 

With a bright smile, the youth slightly opened his half-shut eyes.

The retina seen between the narrow eyes shined eerily.

“Ah, is that so?”

Ohjin twirled around the glass in his hands.

Approaching them step by step, he held out the black drinking glass.

 

“Then, do you want to buy this off me?”

 

Smile— 

He asked with a bright smile that mirrored the youth’s.