Infinite Evolution Hunter - Chapter 100

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100
“I’ll go through the sky.”
I answered Bae Na-young’s question about how to reach Beijing, China.
“The sky? By airplane?”
“Airplane… yes. A kind of aircraft, you could say.”
Bae Na-young tilted her head at my vague response.
“Let’s depart once the sun sets. There’s something I need to do before then.”
“Yeah? What is it?”
“Access my consciousness.”
“You want me to go inside your head?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“This way we can communicate without speaking.”
Being able to converse silently while infiltrating would be a tremendous advantage.
“That’s true, but… do you really trust me?”
“I do.”
My immediate answer moved Bae Na-young so deeply that her eyes glistened with emotion.
“But your mental barrier is so strong—it won’t work, will it?”
“I learned how to control my barrier from Eres this time. It should work now.”
Remembering that moment, my forehead throbbed where I’d been flicked.
Bae Na-young steeled herself and gently grasped both sides of my head with her hands.
“I’ll do it.”
The sensation was entirely different from when Eres had synchronized me with the World Tree. Then, it had felt like something forcing its way in, but now it felt as though her presence gently and warmly enveloped my entire consciousness.
[Can you hear me?]
Bae Na-young’s voice resonated inside my mind.
[I can. Can you hear my voice too?]
[Yes.]
Bae Na-young withdrew her hands and our eyes met. With this connection, I could essentially read her thoughts whenever I wished, and since it was bidirectional, she had opened her heart to me as well.
Night fell, and we boarded the aircraft.
“Oppa, this airplane looks a bit different from normal ones.”
“Yeah, but it’s not a regular airplane—it’s a low-orbit aircraft.”
“You mean a spacecraft?”
“Exactly. We’ll jump from the stratosphere above Beijing.”
I pointed upward with my index finger.
“You’re jumping from that high?”
“If we fly in normally, the brainwashed Chinese Military will bombard us. If we go by land, no matter how careful we are, we’ll be surrounded by tens of millions of Chinese people. I considered going by sea and river, but it would take too long, so I ruled that out.”
I felt slightly exhilarated at the thought of seeing space.
“We’ll jump while wearing an invisibility cloak in the stratosphere. Being small and invisible, we won’t show up on radar either.”
“That sounds fun.”
Bae Na-young, who used to be terrified when I carried her and ran fast, had grown fearless these days.
Upon reaching the target altitude and gazing out the window, I beheld the azure Earth and the vast cosmos beyond. The vista, unlike anything I had witnessed before, rendered me momentarily speechless as I stared into the heavens.
“We’re approaching the target point!”
At the pilot’s announcement, Bae Na-young and I moved toward the ejection hatch and sealed the door behind us.
I embraced Bae Na-young, and she enveloped us both in her protective shield. I gave the camera a thumbs up, and the pilot began the countdown.
[You alright?]
Despite her fearlessness, this was her first experience of such magnitude—her heart raced with anticipation.
[Yeah, no problem.]
[Hold on tight.]
[Got it.]
“3! 2! 1! Jump!”
The hatch door swung open, and we plummeted from the stratosphere. I enlarged myself to three meters and cradled Bae Na-young in my arms. Even with her shield, withstanding the impact and heat generated from such an altitude would have been impossible otherwise.
The wind tore violently around us.
Without equipment, a human falling from the stratosphere would perish from atmospheric pressure, extreme cold, and oxygen deprivation long before striking the ground. But I faced no such concerns, and Bae Na-young, now an S-Rank Hunter, possessed a superhuman physiology. With my protection and her shield layered atop it, our descent proceeded smoothly.
Beijing from above appeared far more serene than anticipated. The battle raged on the city’s outskirts, and the devastation visible on television had already been largely cleared away.
[Surprisingly, it doesn’t look that different from normal?]
[Really? I thought it would be completely scorched—a sea of flames.]
I conveyed my impressions to Bae Na-young.
Citizens worked with synchronized precision, clearing the rubble of destroyed buildings. Soldiers and vehicles moved with urgent efficiency, operating as a single organism without a moment’s waste.
They had mentioned fortifying the outskirts of Beijing into a defensive position, and it appeared the brainwashed citizens had been mobilized en masse.
In my previous life, the Succubus Queen had seized Zhongnanhai, where China’s key governmental institutions were concentrated. I had targeted the same location this time, and fortunately, I detected her presence in that identical spot.
The Succubus Queen’s appearance differed little from human form. She was merely a woman radiating sensuality—no horns, no tail. Yet her immense life force revealed her to be far more than human, far more than an ordinary monster.
The Queen sat in a chair, legs crossed, draped in a blood-red dress. Despite reducing an entire nation to ruins, she gazed peacefully upon the lake before her. Her composure was utterly unshakeable.
[I’ll go in first. If anyone rushes to interfere, block them.]
[Understood.]
I hurled Bae Na-young skyward, allowing her to cast levitation magic, while I maintained my descent without slowing. I had already broken the sound barrier.
I boosted myself to maximum capacity with my life force and prepared for collision with the Succubus Queen.
As we entered the Succubus Queen’s expansive mind control field, she sensed our presence and turned her gaze skyward.
A figure erupted from behind the Succubus Queen. It was Hong Long, the Chinese Hunter. He perceived me clearly despite my invisibility—after all, the displaced air around me was visible to any keen observer.
Hong Long’s Tai Chi Fist could easily alter my trajectory mid-fall. Without Bae Na-young’s support, I would have been forced to respond with full power, and he likely would have perished. But with her assistance, I could subdue him without killing him.
Bae Na-young’s mind control from above seized Hong Long’s body, freezing him mid-motion. In combat between S-Rank Hunters, such a momentary lapse was fatal.
I struck Hong Long’s abdomen, sending him flying, and crashed down upon the Queen’s head. She attempted relentlessly to breach my mental defenses, but my barrier held firm.
Boom!
My fist drove into the Succubus Queen’s skull, generating a shockwave. Though my speed had diminished from the collision with Hong Long, the impact shattered the surrounding earth and sent a column of lake water surging skyward.
The Succubus Queen was never a monster of exceptional combat prowess. Hong Long’s brainwashing stemmed not from her fighting ability, but from her mental dominance.
Not all S-Rank Hunters possessed S-Rank mental barrier skills. Thus, the Succubus Queen’s formidable mind control was sufficient to momentarily halt or disrupt even an S-Rank Hunter’s movements. After that, her other brainwashed hunters would completely suppress the target, and with time, she could deepen the brainwashing further.
Yet even the legendary Succubus Queen could not have anticipated an assault of this magnitude falling from the heavens.
The impact of my descent had cratered the earth, and lake water now flooded inward.
I seized the dazed Succubus Queen’s throat as she lay crumpled on the ground, leaped upward, and slammed her onto an island beside the lake.
Crash!
Despite her specialization in brainwashing, her status as a Legion Commander-class monster meant her skull remained intact even after the fall and the violent impact against the earth.
“Let… go…”
Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!
I gripped her throat with my left hand, draining her life force, while my right fist hammered down in relentless succession. After all those grueling days of struggle, having favorable matchups that made the work flow smoothly felt absolutely exhilarating.
“Break the brainwashing.”
“I’ll do it…”
Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!
I hadn’t drawn the blade from my hand, and I wasn’t even using my full strength, yet I continued striking with enough force to shatter an A-rank monster’s skull in a single blow—her head remained intact. As a Legion Commander, she was remarkably durable.
However, as her life force drained and her brain rattled from the impacts, the brainwashed humans around us collapsed like puppets with severed strings.
Bae Na-young descended gracefully.
“Can you do what you mentioned back then?”
“Let’s try. The Blue Dragon couldn’t even get close. Since she’s humanoid and can communicate, the odds are much higher.”
“What are you planning to do?!”
I pressed the Succubus Queen’s head against the ground.
“Now… stay still~”
Bae Na-young brought both hands to the Succubus Queen’s head.
“Ha! A mere human daring to interfere with the mind of the Nightmare Queen… you must be dreaming…gggkkk…aahhh…”
Only the Nightmare Queen’s right eye rolled back, and bizarre sounds leaked from her mouth.
“Is this it…?”
Bae Na-young stirred through the Queen’s mind. Normally it would be impossible since the Queen’s brainwashing ability surpassed Bae Na-young’s, but with her already subdued beneath me, she couldn’t defend against the direct intrusion into her consciousness.
“Kkhik? Kuk… ik…!”
The Succubus convulsed, producing grotesque sounds.
“Bae Na-young, is it working?”
Bae Na-young was too focused to hear me. I kept watch over the surroundings while waiting for her to finish. The brainwashed humans lay sprawled across the ground, leaving the city silent as a tomb.
“Phew… I think it worked? I was anxious since I’d never succeeded before, but her mental world was similar enough to a human’s that it took hold. Now she’ll answer whatever I ask.”
We’d attempted to capture monsters emerging from the Gate and extract information, but their minds contained nothing—only commands to kill humans.
“When does the next Legion Commander arrive?”
“Soon. The Ice Dragon falling wasn’t part of the plan. Neither was my defeat.”
The Succubus Queen answered, her eyes devoid of focus. Yet she wasn’t entirely lucid—her speech was slow and drool dripped from her mouth. None of her former seductive allure remained.
“When is soon? Who’s coming?”
“I don’t know. We merely follow the Supreme Commander’s orders.”
“Supreme Commander?”
“The one who commands all Legion Commanders. A being of power far beyond our station.”
“Is it a monster? The Destruction God’s strongest subordinate?”
“Destruction God?”
“The thing trying to devour Earth.”
“Destruction God… that existence is not such a thing. It is merely a fragment of the universe moving according to instinct. It has no subordinates.”
“What? Then what are the monsters? Who’s sending them?”
“That would be the Administrator… kk…kyeek!!”
The Succubus Queen’s eyes rolled back and her body convulsed violently.
“Hey! Hey!”
I struck the corpse’s head like I was repairing a broken machine and breathed life force into it, but the breath simply ceased.
[Your level has increased.]
“There was a protector embedded in its mind. It prevented any discussion of something called an ‘Administrator.'”
“Administrator? What’s that?”
A name I’d never heard before. I’d have to ask Eres about it later.
“Oh, it looks like the Chinese government sent aircraft. Kyaa! Brother? What’s wrong?!”
I scooped Bae Na-young into my arms.
“They’re not trying to take us. They’re trying to bury us here.”
It wasn’t a transport plane. Five fighter jets were approaching.
“What?!”
Boom boom boom crash!
Missiles streaked across the sky in succession. Though many civilians lay collapsed around us, they bombed the city without hesitation.
But even so, they couldn’t match my running speed.
If I were alone, I’d charge straight through those missiles, taking them head-on to bring down all the fighter jets, but with Bae Na-young beside me, I couldn’t afford to take such risks.
Bae Na-young fired mana balls from over my shoulder like a machine gun.
Dozens of violet mana balls struck the fighter jet ahead.
Boom crash!!
One fighter jet exploded, and the others immediately scattered upon witnessing the mana balls’ destructive power.
Whoosh!
An arrow several times larger than normal grazed past my cheek. Looking toward where it came from, I saw Tian Fei.

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