Infinite Evolution Hunter - Chapter 119

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119
Behind me, more Angels surged forward like a tidal wave.
I raised both hands toward the sky and unleashed aura in rapid, compact bursts from my palms.
I lacked Bae Na-young’s delicate control, but with enemies blanketing the heavens, what I needed wasn’t precision—it was volume.
Under the relentless barrage of aura like machine-gun fire, the Angels spewed blood and crashed to the ground.
I absorbed the life force from the fallen Angels and converted it back into aura, allowing me to sustain this assault for hours.
“Hong Long! Cover our rear!”
At my command, Hong Long nodded and moved to intercept the Angels diving from behind.
I handled the frontal assault with sheer numbers while Hong Long defended the rear, with Jin-hyung positioned to protect Bae Na-young.
Meanwhile, Yang Sang-heon activated his acceleration skill and rushed toward the fallen person, his movements with the Light Sword flowing as smoothly as water. Behind him, the white luminescence traced by his blade curved and twisted through the air.
I didn’t know what Gaff had done, but Yang Sang-heon had clearly advanced at least one tier. If he continued growing at this rate, he might become Korea’s fourth S-rank Hunter, following Bae Na-young.
Yang Sang-heon hoisted the wounded onto his shoulder and began sprinting toward us. Moments later, missiles streaked down from the sky in our direction.
I’d wondered why Japan hadn’t sent reinforcements—apparently, as Director Baek Young-shin had warned, they intended to incinerate the area as if deploying nuclear weapons. Since we hadn’t obtained Japanese authorization beforehand, we’d received no intelligence about the missile strike.
“Yang Sang-heon, hurry! Behind me!”
Yang Sang-heon sprinted behind me with the rescued person, laid them on the ground, and shielded them with his own body.
I enlarged myself and positioned myself in front of the group, bracing for the explosion.
Boom! Crash!
The missile embedded itself in the earth, then shattered into fragments without detonating, its kinetic force alone pulverizing it.
“What? It didn’t explode?”
Yang Sang-heon lifted his head.
“A dud?”
Hong Long, who had braced for the blast, tilted his head in confusion.
“Brother! This person is Hunter Akiko, right?”
Yang Sang-heon dusted himself off and recognized the fallen person. She was Akiko, Japan’s S-rank Hunter. I wasn’t sure how she’d ended up alone here, but her body was covered in wounds.
Since Angels kept arriving and I couldn’t move freely, I concentrated life force and shot it toward Akiko. The moment she received it, her wounds sealed shut. At this rate, she wouldn’t die.
“Yang Sang-heon, you help Hong Long cover the rear!”
I fired aura forward to hold back the Angels, but their numbers were overwhelming.
“Damn it… there are so many.”
Yang Sang-heon’s expression twisted with disgust at the sight of the Angels. There were so many that the corpses of the fallen were piling up and hindering our combat.
While I continued processing the endless stream of Angels, I glanced back at Bae Na-young and saw black blood trickling from her nose.
“Bae Na-young!”
I shot life force toward her.
“…I’m fine… almost done…”
Bae Na-young was scrambling the Angels’ minds through Angelus’s head. This was only possible because they were all connected; it wouldn’t work on other monsters.
The Angels near us trembled as if struck by a mental shockwave, then one by one lost consciousness and plummeted. The distant Angels fell like victims of a plague.
Most died when their heads cracked against the ground, while those who survived had vacant, unfocused eyes.
Bae Na-young withdrew her hand from Angelus’s head, breathing heavily, and wiped the blood from her nose.
“Are you alright?”
With Bae Na-young’s mental assault, the Angels’ attacks ceased and they turned toward her.
“Yeah… but I can’t handle anything Fifth Tier or above. Their structure is fundamentally different.”
The Fourth-Tier Dominions holding law tomes and the Fifth-Tier Virtus wielding dual swords remained suspended in the sky, unscathed by Bae Na-young’s assault.
“That’s still enough.”
The numbers that had once reached tens of thousands had dwindled to mere thousands. They no longer descended, instead maintaining their positions to protect the Gate and the magic circle that hung open in the sky.
“That magic circle seems to be what opened the Gate. If we don’t destroy it, they’ll keep coming.”
Just as Bae Na-young said, angels were being continuously reinforced from the Gate. Once their numbers reached a certain threshold, a portion would descend to the ground and attack. Now I understood why Gaff had called them weeds.
But that wasn’t all—a monster was descending from the center of the Gate. That creature, a massive sphere formed by overlapping rings densely studded with eyes, was the Third-Tier Ophanim.
“Just as Gaff said, it seems even something of that caliber can’t cross over easily.”
The Ophanim was straining to tear through the invisible barrier of the Gate with raw force. Lesser angels threw themselves between the Gate and the Ophanim to assist it. As the angels burst apart and the Gate’s membrane stretched further, it was only a matter of time before the Ophanim descended completely.
“Alright, let’s destroy the magic circle first. Hong Long takes the front, I’ll cover the rear, and Yang Sang-heon, protect Akiko.”
Yang Sang-heon cradled Akiko like a princess and took his position beside Bae Na-young. Earlier, he’d been too focused on survival to notice, but now that he had the leisure to look around, he kept stealing glances at Akiko’s face, his cheeks flushing red.
Meanwhile, the reinforced angels from the Gate had gathered in sufficient numbers and sent their forces toward us.
Bae Na-young and I unleashed torrents of Aura bullets in all directions as we charged forward. Angels fell from the sky like dust.
“Looks like I have nothing to do.”
I handled the majority, and Bae Na-young cleaned up whatever I missed. We eliminated them all so thoroughly that nothing reached Hong Long.
As if on cue, it wasn’t the small fry but a swarm of Fifth-Tier Virtus that descended. Virtus were roughly B-Rank Hunter level—not particularly difficult opponents individually, but their sheer numbers were overwhelming.
Ten-year-old children rushing an adult wouldn’t be frightening, but hundreds or thousands charging with murderous intent would be unstoppable even for the strongest adult. Similarly, this mass assault of angels posed a genuine threat.
I drew a blade from the back of my right hand and seized it with my left, then infused it with Aura and hurled it like a spear.
The blade pierced through a Virtus’s chest and continued skyward, tearing through every angel in its path before vanishing into the heavens.
“Keep moving!”
If we stopped, we’d be buried under the falling corpses of angels.
Fortunately, the magic circle wasn’t far, and we reached it quickly.
Light beamed upward from the edges of the magic circle.
“Is this… some kind of protective barrier?”
I pressed my hand against the pillar of light and pushed, but even my strength couldn’t budge it.
“Cover my back.”
I left the group to handle the angels and infused my hand blade with Aura, then drove it straight into the pillar of light like a punch.
Crack!
The blade didn’t break, but it couldn’t pierce the barrier either. Just as the Gate couldn’t be destroyed by physical force, this light protecting the magic circle was immune to physical attacks.
I tried stabbing and slashing repeatedly, but nothing worked.
“Brother, wait.”
Bae Na-young approached the magic circle, and we switched positions—I moved back to defend against the angels.
“…This magic circle doesn’t have much time left. It seems to be powered by mana stones, and the light is gradually weakening.”
Bae Na-young pointed to the mana stones embedded throughout the magic circle.
“How much time is left?”
“The Gate opened about fifty minutes ago, and if that much time has passed… probably around ten minutes before the energy cuts out.”
We’d eliminated one wave, but thousands of angels still filled the sky, and their numbers continued to grow.
“You’re asking us to hold them off for ten minutes?”
Yang Sang-heon’s face went pale as he pointed to the endless stream of angels descending from above. For an A-Rank Hunter like him, this was genuinely overwhelming.
“Hmm…”
“Hunter Akiko! Are you alright?”
Yang Sang-heon approached the groaning Akiko.
“What? Lee Ji-seok, Hong Long, and Bae Na-young? Did you come to help?”
Yang Sang-heon spoke in English, and Akiko responded in fluent Korean.
“Your Korean is quite good.”
“Who…?”
The three of us, all S-rank, recognized her immediately, but Yang Sang-heon didn’t. Disappointment flickered across his face.
“We can exchange names later. Right now, we need to stop that.”
“Ah… I was hoping this was a nightmare.”
“It certainly feels like one. But we can manage. We just need to hold on for ten more minutes.”
“Will reinforcements arrive in ten minutes?”
“No, that Gate will close in ten minutes. Yang Sang-heon, if this is too much for you, fall back—”
“Ten minutes isn’t that long!”
Yang Sang-heon poured more light into his blade than usual and stepped to the front line.
He’d fallen for Akiko at first sight. Smitten with a world-renowned S-rank hunter, no less.
Bae Na-young drank a mana potion to restore her reserves, then gripped her staff once more.
Akiko raised both palms upward and pulled as if drawing something from the earth. Silver orbs erupted from the ground.
“With this formation, we should be able to block anything.”
Hong Long shook out his hands, loosened his body, and assumed the ready stance of Tai Chi.
“They’re coming.”
A swarm of Angels—nearly a thousand strong—cascaded down upon us like a deluge.
A violet aura radiated from Bae Na-young’s staff.
Corruption enveloped a range spanning hundreds of meters, corroding the Angels from their wings outward. At least half of those caught within became combat-ineffective.
“Damn. You have a girlfriend, yet you’re turning your eyes toward another woman? You’ve got nerve.”
Hong Long, startled by the sheer power of Bae Na-young’s magic, glanced back at me.

“I’ve never looked at another woman.”
“Then why were you staring at Adriana so intently?”
Bae Na-young spoke with ease despite casting magic. She hadn’t said anything before, but it seemed she’d been holding this in.
“That’s just because I liked her training method. Why are we talking about this now? Everyone, focus ahead!”
Because Bae Na-young’s Corruption spread so wide, its power had to diminish—anything Rank 5 or higher broke through the curse and descended.
I enlarged myself and stood at the front, swinging my colossal blade to cut down the incoming creatures.
Hong Long, Akiko, and Yang Sang-heon handled the ones I missed.
A Rank 4 Dominion in the sky watched us slaughter the angels, then raised a grimoire in its hand. The tome opened on its own, fluttering with a rustling sound as its pages turned.
In that instant, over a hundred Princhipatus lined up perfectly in the sky, positioned outside Bae Na-young’s Corruption range.
“Something’s coming! Everyone behind me!”
The Princhipatus’s light-attribute attacks wouldn’t harm any of us individually, but so many of them concentrating their fire at once was a different story.
Fwoooosh!
Beams of light shot from the Princhipatus’s staffs converged into one. The light, now as massive as my enlarged body, incinerated the angels in its path as it hurtled toward us.
I crossed my arms to shield my face and lowered my stance.
Behind me, Bae Na-young cast a shield, protecting everyone and holding the line.
Boom, boom, boom, boom!!!!
My armor cracked and burned, but the damage wasn’t severe. My wounds healed in real time.
Since angel corpses were scattered all around, there was plenty of life force to recover.
The beam discharge that lasted twenty seconds finally ended.
Seeing we were still alive, the angels swarmed toward us again.
“How much time’s left? Eight minutes?”
“Only two minutes have passed?!”
At Hong Long’s words, Yang Sang-heon cried out.
“But we can manage.”
Hong Long was right. The attacks were taxing, but four S-Rank Hunters and Yang Sang-heon at A-Rank—five of us total—weren’t about to fall here.
Once the Gate closes, Japanese forces and the World Hunter Alliance will combine their strength to annihilate the rest.
Crack, crack! Rumble, rumble….
As we were killing the angels, the sky tore open and something burst through with a deafening sound.
“It’s come down….”
Ophaniel was descending through the Gate. Around it, the blood of angels used as sacrifices to breach the Gate’s defensive barrier rained down like a storm.

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