Infinite Evolution Hunter - Chapter 129

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129
Just before Peter shoved away Jin-woo’s summoned bear that was pinning him down, Jang Mi delivered a soccer kick to Peter’s head. She hoped it would knock him unconscious.
“What?!”
However, the sparks erupting from the foot that struck Peter were sucked into him. Jang Mi felt not only the flames but also the full force of her kick being absorbed.
Boom!
The wrist of the bear summon Peter was holding exploded. He had absorbed the attack Jang Mi delivered to his head and released it through his hands.
With that blow, the bear summon vanished and Peter rose to his feet.
“Grraaaaaahhhhh!!”
Peter roared, his entire body already transformed to a sickly green, his face now far more orc-like than human.
“What is this?! He’s completely a monster! Sir, what do we do?!”
Jang Mi shouted, spotting the broadcast drone filming from above.
“Since I’m here, stop screaming.”
Ji-seok was already behind her.
“Jang Mi. Take the other team members and head to the Academy.”
The team members had rushed over abandoning their base to save Jang Mi. The game wasn’t what mattered now.
The monstrous Peter grew wary of me as I suddenly appeared.
“What could possibly make a person turn into this….”
I picked up a potion bottle that had fallen to the ground.
From the blue liquid clinging to it, I sensed the aura of a magic stone.
“Did he consume a concentrated solution made from magic stones?”
Was this the secret behind his insane growth?
But then I remembered Jae-in’s warning that this was dangerous. The test subjects had died or transformed into monsters. And now Peter had actually transformed into one.
“Grow a bit more. I’ll find a way to reverse this later.”
I approached and drove my fist into Peter’s abdomen.
Surprisingly, Peter reacted somewhat to my speed. Though not enough to dodge.
Thud.
“Hmm?”
A dull sound rang out and I felt no impact from the punch. It was as if my fist had been caught by an invisible force as it extended.
“He absorbed my power?”
Peter swung both arms at me as if to shatter my face.
“Tch.”
I quickly moved one hand to deflect both arms coming toward me.
I blocked Peter’s movements, but again I felt resistance and couldn’t inflict damage.
“So he can only expel through his hands, but can absorb through his entire body? There’s a traditional method for dealing with abilities like this.”
While evading Peter’s counterattacking arms, I drove aura-infused punches into both his sides.
“Kyaaahhh!!”
There seemed to be no damage, but he couldn’t keep up with my speed and only took hits. And as Peter shrieked and complained, no trace of humanity remained visible in him.
I could have unleashed one powerful attack exceeding his absorption limit, but I deliberately stacked impacts slowly to capture him alive.
“Why? Is it over now?”
His body began cracking as the absorbed power filled to its limit. It was a matter of capacity. Hastily becoming a monster and gaining strength meant he could never have a wider vessel than me.
“Come on, grow stronger.”
I met Peter’s incoming punch with my own fist.
Boom!
The impact was stronger than expected, pushing me back a step, while Peter crashed several meters into the ground with only bone remaining where his right arm’s flesh had been torn away.
When I approached Peter, who lay unconscious, his arm was slowly regenerating.
“Huh… This level of regeneration is comparable to a troll’s?”
“Peter! Tyler!”
Allen rushed over belatedly, followed by the American Team players.
“You. What is this?”
I picked up a potion bottle from the ground.
“It’s classified American information, so it would be better if you didn’t concern yourself with it.”
“This happened on Korean soil. You unleashed an uncontrollable monster—how can I not be concerned?”
“I’ll be taking Peter with us.”
Allen approached Peter without answering.
“We need to investigate first before taking him.”
“Who do you think you are? Just because Korea possesses the World Tree, do you think you can act so arbitrarily?”
“Arbitrary? The World Tree Academy only authorized its use for training purposes with fellow hunters from other nations against monsters. You conducted human experimentation there and call it arbitrary? If people like you run rampant further, who will stop them?”
“Do you know who we are? Do you think you can touch America and walk away unscathed?”
“What if I don’t stay quiet?”
Allen and I faced off against each other.
Just then, the drone mediating the match was hit by a stone bullet and fell. Black-suited hunters closed in from all directions.
The American players slowly retreated upon seeing them.
“…So this drug creates something like a special forces unit?”
Some hunters had scales protruding from the exposed skin between their suits, while others had skin that had turned green or brown. However, unlike Peter, they didn’t appear to have lost their sanity.
If each of them possessed strength comparable to Peter’s, it would be revolutionary. We could cultivate A-rank hunters in mere weeks, and with luck, even S-rank hunters.
“You don’t need to know. Either way, you’ll have to return that potion bottle, Peter, and Tyler.”
“I can’t do that.”
“You won’t listen. Don’t resent what happens next.”
Allen drew two daggers from his waist.
“Haste! Strength! Decrease Ability!”
As a buffer, Allen cast buffs on himself and his allies while applying debuffs to me.
Allen lowered his stance and approached at a speed that flaunted his S-rank status, staying low to the ground. He swung his daggers, aiming for my ribs.
Still, the fact that he wasn’t targeting vital points suggested he didn’t intend to finish me off entirely.
But.
Boom!
Since Allen was an S-rank hunter, I didn’t hold back like I had with Peter. I struck his head with full force as he came in low.
Allen was driven into the ground, creating a massive impact that sent dust flying.
Allen, sprawled flat on the ground, tried to get up.
“…How… did you resist… the debuff…”
But he couldn’t rise and lost consciousness instead. Buffs shouldn’t have worked on me. I’d been trained by Bae Na-young, so my resistance to debuffs was strong, and after acquiring the Elevation of Existence skill, my resistance to all attacks had increased.
“You won’t come at me?”
The American Special Forces, who hadn’t expected Allen to be overpowered so quickly, hesitated.
I found myself conflicted too. We’d been getting along without major issues with the United States, but now that it had come to this, should I just overturn everything?
Whether they read my thoughts or not, the Special Forces steeled their resolve and closed in.

A unit composed of multiple soldiers at Peter’s level of strength—I couldn’t afford to hold back against them.
The Special Forces soldiers lowered their stances as they rushed toward me.
Crack-crack-crack!
Just before the Special Forces soldiers could lift their feet, a bolt of lightning descended from the sky, splitting the space between them and me.
“What a mess.”
Amy descended from the heavens, surveying the scene with a glance. Her hair was disheveled—whether from sleep or the lightning strike, I couldn’t tell—and she wore casual clothes with empty hands.
“What’s going on here~?”
“Didn’t you know? It looks like they were made with this stuff.”
I held up a potion bottle with a bit of liquid remaining and pointed it at the Special Forces.
“I didn’t know.”
Amy’s gaze slowly turned toward the Special Forces, then slowly back to me.
“You didn’t know?”
“Never seen them before~? Did you melt magic stones~?”
“We’ll investigate the incident and report the results. Allen and Peter are coming with us.”
“Why~?”
“Why, you ask?”
“Yeah. Human experimentation and human rights violations~?”
“That too, but the more critical issue is control and management. Didn’t you learn anything from the Japan incident? Experiments conducted without the World Tree’s permission are already uncontrollable, so what has the United States done while Peter overdosed and transformed into a monster?”
“Right~ I have nothing to say~”
Would I have to fight Amy too? It wouldn’t be as easy as with Allen. But I didn’t think I’d lose either.
“Hunter Amy! Please don’t hand them over!”
One of the Special Forces soldiers approached Amy.
“You stay quiet.”
Amy, uncharacteristically firm and cold-eyed, silenced him with her words.
Amy’s abilities were definitely superior to Allen’s. Even if Hunter Jung Min-gi hadn’t gone all out, he wouldn’t have caught a blade’s edge with his fingertip—and just now, her approach was so fast that I didn’t sense her until she was quite close. I could only hope she’d make the right choice.
“Sorry~ I guess it won’t work~”
Amy, who had been deliberating, shook her head with a troubled expression.
“Why? You don’t seem very favorable to this. Is it because it’s your homeland?”
“That’s part of it~ but really it’s because of him~”
Amy pointed at Allen.
“Allen?”
“Yeah~ he’s my younger brother~”
“Your real brother? But you have different last names?”
“I changed my name when I got married~”
“…There’s no need to say more. Come at me.”
“I’m sorry.”
Amy stopped dragging out her words and opened her eyes wide, looking directly at me.
Amy unleashed lightning in all directions like a human Tesla coil.
The special forces operatives had no choice but to retreat, dodging the bolts of electricity.
I charged forward, my entire body encased in armor.
Lightning grazed my body, but it wasn’t enough to harm me.
Crackle!
However, her speed was extraordinary. Her body, moving like the lightning she unleashed, had essentially become one with the electricity itself.
I pushed my vitality to its maximum, accelerating to my absolute limit.
“Ugh!”
A special forces operative who had approached to secretly retrieve Allen and Peter was struck by lightning, his arm severed and sent flying.
“If you don’t want to die, get away.”
If Amy hadn’t blocked it first, that man would have died by my hand—he should be grateful to her.
And so our game of tag began. My speed was far from slow, but I couldn’t catch up to her. I found myself desperately wishing for the movement technique Eres had used. I had a premonition that with the Existence Elevation skill I’d acquired, I could definitely master it.
But I didn’t have it now, so I had to face her with the abilities I possessed.
In any case, those lightning attacks couldn’t continue indefinitely. In a battle of time and stamina, I held the absolute advantage.
Noticing this, Amy stopped her random discharge and fired a thin, needle-like bolt of lightning with precision, piercing the gaps in my rapidly moving armor.
Lightning struck near my knee, causing my muscles to contract and throwing off my balance. I tumbled to the ground, but quickly planted my hands and rolled forward to land on my feet. The damage was minimal, but it significantly hindered my movement.
“Targeting the gaps in my armor while I move at high speed—impressive. Truly the world’s strongest hunter.”
“I’m not the strongest. But if you believe I am, why don’t you just give up now?”
“I can’t do that.”
I charged again. I tried to deflect the lightning aimed at the gaps in my armor with my sword, but I couldn’t block the bolts arriving too quickly without any preparation.
Lightning struck the gaps in my armor again, and my feet came to a halt.
Amy pondered how to topple me as I charged like a tank, while I contemplated how to catch her as she moved like a hummingbird.
An idea struck me, and I approached Amy again.
Whoooosh!!!
Before she could fire her lightning needles, I exhaled a tempest of freezing air from my mouth.
Frost and cold spread across a radius of ten meters.
The lightning lost Amy’s control within the frigid air, and she could no longer target the gaps in my armor. As Amy herself was exposed to the cold, her movements became sluggish.

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