Infinite Evolution Hunter - Chapter 130

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My frigid attack froze Amy’s body in an instant.
Seizing the momentary opening I’d created, I drove my fist hard into her ribs.
Seeing my fist coming, Amy conjured a shield of compressed lightning around her side, blocking the blow.
Boom!
My fist shattered the shield and plunged into Amy’s waist, sending her flying backward.
“Cough…”
Amy regained her balance mid-flight, hovering in the air as blood spilled from her lips.
“Surrender.”
I hadn’t drawn my sword, unwilling to kill, but I hadn’t expected her to retain consciousness after taking my enhanced fist.
Amy didn’t answer my surrender offer—she simply climbed higher into the sky.
She knew I couldn’t fly, so she intended to attack from above. If Amy could move through the air as swiftly as she did on the ground, this fight would drag on indefinitely.
Even if I threw my blade or conjured spears, Amy wouldn’t be caught off guard.
I considered converting my life force into an aura and firing it like a beam, but the risk of miscalculation meant she could die—so I held that as a last resort.
I dodged Amy’s cascading attacks from above while searching for a solution.
As her barrage struck me, I recalled what Jang Mi had told me—how when I’d grown angry after she’d fought the Americans and I’d scolded her, an invisible force had crushed her, suffocating her breath.
What Jang Mi felt resembled the attack Eres had used against me.
I’d searched my memories for how she’d done it and practiced, investing considerable time, only to fail spectacularly.
But in crisis, I grow stronger.
Even as my thoughts scattered, her relentless barrage continued to strike my body.
The more I fought her, the more impressive she became. It was warriors like her who had allowed my past self to endure ten years against the Destruction God’s forces without immediate collapse.
I realized once more how much of a frog in a well I’d been—both in my past life and until now.
I stopped chasing Amy and focused my mind instead.
Fall. Fall. Fall.
Crackle!
Drop!
Crack!
Fall!
“Damn it, it’s not working.”
No matter how hard I concentrated or imagined crushing Amy with my will, nothing happened. I’d simply taken a barrage of lightning while standing still. The damage wasn’t severe, but it was there.
Amy watched me with a puzzled expression, wondering what I was doing mid-fight.
Then she seemed astonished by my durability. No matter how many times her lightning struck true, I kept coming at her as if unaffected.
“You’re really tough… then I guess I can get serious?”
Amy pointed her index finger skyward like a blade, and storm clouds converged around it. The discharge of lightning in the air became extraordinary.
“I won’t kill you, right?”
Amy spoke those words, then brought her raised hand down toward me.
A bolt of lightning several meters thick descended upon me.
Crackle-crack-crack-crack!!!
The fallen lightning wasn’t just massive in size but devastating in power—it pierced my armor and burned my entire body. Worse than the physical damage was the lightning coursing through my brain and muscles, leaving me unable to think clearly or move.
“Ahhhhhhh!!!”
Through the haze of confusion, I screamed and thrashed, desperate to escape the lightning’s grip.
“Ugh….”
In that instant, Amy’s body went rigid. My roar had done it—the same oppressive attribute that Eres had wielded with her Lion’s Roar now flowed through my voice.
I’d experiment with the details later. For now, I kicked off the ground hard enough to crater it, launching myself skyward. I had to seize her before she broke free from the paralysis. My raw strength and elasticity propelled me forward like a bullet.
Amy’s body remained locked in place after taking the brunt of my Lion’s Roar, but she didn’t plummet. Moreover, the paralysis was already wearing off—her limbs were beginning to move again.
I enlarged myself mid-flight. I hadn’t needed it until now, so I’d never bothered, but this extended my reach considerably.
With both speed and size on my side, the sheer pressure of my approach drained the color from Amy’s face.
She tried to climb higher, to escape into the sky, but my hand closed around her ankle.
“Let go!”
Crackle-crack-crack!
Amy channeled another full-power surge of lightning directly into my body.
But after taking lightning strike after lightning strike, my body had already begun to adapt.
When I smiled, electricity didn’t just dance across my skin—it crackled and sparked from between my teeth as well.
Amy’s expression turned ghastly, as if she’d seen a ghost, and together we plummeted toward the earth.
As we fell, I swung my arm and hurled her body down against the ground.
Boom!
Amy crashed hard and lost consciousness, unable to rise.
I surveyed the surroundings—everything lay in ruins. Yet around Allen and Peter, the lightning hadn’t touched a single stone. Even in the chaos of battle, those two protected their charge. Remarkable women indeed.
While we fought, Academy personnel had begun flooding the area, and the Special Forces, realizing this, had vanished without a trace.
* * *
“Minister, do you understand why treaties exist?”
Baek Young-shin asked the US State Department Minister.
“Ahem….”
“Ah, perhaps you don’t know the meaning of the word ‘treaty’?”
“No…. It’s just….”
“Whose idea was it to conduct human experimentation on another nation’s soil?”
The US State Department Minister, ground to dust by the interrogation, had nothing to say. Under normal circumstances, America would simply muscle through and claim ignorance, but here—the evidence, witnesses, and perpetrators were all on the other side.
Had everything already been exposed, America might have simply shrugged it off as they usually did. But Korea, for reasons of its own, had chosen not to publicize the incident.
“Director Baek Young-shin, you certainly have a sharp tongue. Why don’t you tell me what you actually want?”
“First, the obvious: cease all experiments immediately and return your Special Forces to American soil. If they’re spotted on Korean territory even once more, America won’t set foot anywhere near the World Tree. And we’ll release all the evidence we’ve gathered.”
“Understood. Then, release Hunter Amy and Hunter Allen to us.”
“That’s a separate matter entirely. They attacked Korean Hunters on Korean soil without justification—there’s a price to be paid for that.”
“…”
Director Baek Young-shin secured massive compensation and converted several key patents that America had wielded over Korea into joint ownership between the two nations. Now those patents could be manufactured without American permission or royalties. The economic gains this would bring were incalculable.
The sum was staggering, but America couldn’t bear the loss of two S-Rank Hunters in custody, so they swallowed the bitter pill and accepted.
“Are you even human~?”
I asked as Amy was released.
“Look who’s talking.”
“When you called me the world’s strongest, you said it wasn’t true~ but honestly, I always thought no one could beat me~”
“Same here.”
“Let’s try again next time.”
Amy crossed over to the American side and retrieved her equipment—a short sword and dagger—from the US military, fastening them behind her waist.
Allen also wielded two daggers, dual-wielding in both hands. It seemed to be the family’s fighting style.
“I hope we don’t have to fight again~”
“That sounds like you’re saying you’ll definitely kill us if we fight again now that you have weapons?”
“Oh my~ That’s not it~”
“I don’t want to fight either, so manage your country’s people better.”
Amy waved her hand and departed.
* * *
With the United States forfeiting from the World Tree League, the tournament concluded with Korea’s victory.
The United States claimed Peter’s deteriorating health as the reason for their withdrawal, but no one believed it.
Thus, the United States ended up in last place after their pointless participation in the league. There was no doubt that Allen would receive proper treatment from the United States after causing such an incident.
Korea’s dissatisfaction over claiming the prime location was settled through superior performance.
* * *
“Jae-in.”
“Yes….”
Jae-in responded, having given up questioning why I kept bringing her things.
“Analyze this and produce it for me.”
I handed her a blue potion bottle.
“… Isn’t this the potion the United States was using? How did you obtain it?”
“I snuck in and took one.”
“What are you planning to do?”
“Assemble trustworthy researchers into a dedicated research team. Resume animal testing and extract as much data as possible. I won’t spare resources, so continue even if you fail. However, human experimentation is absolutely forbidden.”
“Will there ever be a need for this?”
“I hope not. But if we could create S-rank hunters in a short period by abandoning humanity itself, it might become necessary later.”
“So I need to establish a research team to minimize those side effects?”
“Exactly.”
“Sigh…. I’m already stuck on something, and now you’re adding more burden.”
“Stuck on what?”
“The Blue Dragon’s heart.”
“Ah, you mean creating a core from the Blue Dragon’s heart?”
“I have the theory, but I can’t bring myself to conduct the experiment.”
“Why not?”
“There’s only one in the world. If I fail during the experiment, that’s the end of it.”
“Just do it. I trust you, Jae-in.”
“Chairman. Beyond the Blue Dragon’s heart being precious, you know what happened when Japan touched that magic circle they didn’t understand, right?”
“…”
“And you said the core thrown into the Gate was incredibly powerful?”
“That’s right.”
“If this succeeds, it will definitely produce power dozens of times stronger than Japan’s core. The damage would be catastrophic.”
“Even underground?”
“We’d trigger a massive earthquake.”
“What about the sky?”
“It’s unstable up there. The failure rate would only increase.”
“Hmm… So what do we do? I don’t know anything about development.”
“That’s why I’ve been thinking—please take me to Tellus.”
“Ah, to learn their technology?”
“Exactly. What I learned from Sono Rim before proved incredibly helpful. Even just getting ideas would be valuable, and if I’m lucky, maybe someone there knows how to handle a Blue Dragon heart.”
“Fine. I’ll mention it to Director Baek. I’m coming with you. We’ll set up a dedicated team for the Mana Stone concentrate potion when we get back.”
“Why are you going, Chairman?”
“I need to meet with Eres.”
There’s so much I don’t know. Including my own abilities.
“I feel much more reassured with you coming along, Chairman.”
Jae-in and I had planned to go alone, but Bae Na-young grew anxious about sending me through the Gate by myself, so we decided to go together. Besides, we had Hunter Jung Min-gi and Hong Long with us, so there shouldn’t be any major problems.
* * *
Ji-seok, Bae Na-young, and Jae-in headed toward the Bridge Gate, deliberately maintained for exchanges with Tellus.
It was the same Gate through which Sono Rim and Blitz had crossed—a place where only relatively weak monsters emerged, so it posed no burden to Sono Rim’s nation of Malbokia.
“Salute!”
The soldiers on guard duty and hunters saluted the three of them.
“Thank you for your service.”
“We appreciate your cooperation with the entry procedures.”
Following the soldier’s instructions, they underwent fingerprint scanning, retinal scanning, full-body X-rays, and even a magical dispelling incantation before finally being cleared to pass. Given the sheer number of incidents that had occurred, passage to and from Tellus maintained the highest level of security.
Only a handful of Tellus residents who had come with Sono Rim and undergone the complex verification process directly could cross into Korea.
The three of them entered the Gate while receiving salutes from the soldiers.
On the Tellus side, soldiers guarding the Gate to Malbokia stood at attention. But the actual sentries were not human—they were a Lion Beastman and Lizardmen.

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