Infinite Evolution Hunter - Chapter 176

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Ricaros, having reclaimed his giant form, approached Blansar.
“Blansar….”
Blansar’s body had been absorbed into Brixel, his lower torso torn away and consumed. An ordinary human would have perished instantly, but as a member of the Giant Race, he was granted a final moment to speak.

Looking upon Blansar, Ricaros’s face bore the anguish of wishing he had suffered this fate instead. Though Blansar had betrayed him, his affection for the Giant Race transcended even that betrayal.
“I… die with… honor….”
“Yes. I will remember your honorable death. Rest now, warrior. I will follow soon.”
Blansar’s eyes closed. When I first saw him, his gaze had been fixed helplessly upon the ground, but only as death approached did peace finally find him.
“….Are you alright?”
Bae Na-young tapped the leg of the now-giant Ricaros.
“My vengeance is not yet complete. I will raise a cup in his memory over Brixel’s corpse.”
Ricaros bent his body and reached toward the Soul Urn.
“Not yet.”
Jae-in stopped him.
“Do you still intend to save the people of the Ark? Would you stake the lives of the Earthlings fighting outside for their sake?”
“But Brixel can no longer control the golems, right?”
“That’s correct. With Brixel’s main body severed from the Soul Urn, all golems will cease their activity.”
“Then Yang President will hold them back well enough. In the meantime, we’ll seize the Ark and head to the Moon.”
“The Moon?”
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“Pour everything into it! Kill that demon!”
General Samuel, commanding this operation, shouted without tiring.
The destructive power of nuclear warheads was formidable, but their effect in the airless void of space differed from Earth.
Radiation grew stronger than on Earth, but Brixel’s body, a mass of corpses, sustained little damage. Moreover, without atmosphere, the impact from shockwaves was minimal.
[Why do you not understand my grand purpose?! All doomed species must be preserved!]
Brixel’s flesh rushed toward me from all directions.
“What meaning is there in sacrificing innocent lives for that?!”
I evaded the attacks, unleashing my aura like beams of light to incinerate his flesh.
This exchange continued for some time. Since my objective was merely to buy time, I didn’t overexert myself.
[Do you expect those hiding in the Ark to accomplish something?]
Had Jae-in and Bae Na-young been discovered?
[Do not hope. That device is not so simple to… ah… no!]
With Brixel’s scream, the forward upper section of the Ark exploded, and his compressed flesh poured into space.
What had emerged so far already dwarfed the hastily assembled Earth fleet, and tens of times that mass now filled the void.
Brixel’s colossal form, now as vast as the Moon itself, cast a tremendous shadow upon Earth. As if heralding the end of all things.
[Ah… no! If my main body is exposed, they will come!]
“They?”
[The Ark…. My thousands of years of effort!]
Watching the Ark expel its main body and rapidly flee toward the Moon, Brixel shrieked in anguish.
The moment the Ark separated, every Gate that had been open vanished, and the golems ceased their movements.
[It’s all over… everything’s finished….]
“Will you give up?”
[No, I can simply start from the beginning again. Time is infinite, after all. The Ark can… destroy Earth and begin anew.]
“And who said I’d allow that?”
Brixel absorbed all the scattered golems and flesh fragments, then moved his massive body toward Earth.
Until now, Brixel’s movements had been constrained by the need to defend the Ark, but since I’d decided not to protect it, there was no reason for him to remain here.
“Stop him!”
“General Samuel! We’ve exhausted all our missiles!”
“Ram the ships into him if you must!”
Though they didn’t actually attempt suicide attacks, the Hunters aboard the vessels hurled spears, arrows, and magic, while the Fleet’s main cannons unleashed relentless barrages.
But against his colossal form, it was like spitting into the wind.
“If that thing reaches Earth, we’re all dead!”
I switched from launching aura attacks to deploying a domain, intercepting his body with my power.
Within my domain, his body burned away, but Brixel pushed through with sheer mass, penetrating my domain and drawing ever closer to Earth.
I needed to strengthen my domain further. More powerful, more expansive.
Yet when I concentrated the domain to increase its density, its size diminished, and when I expanded it, the density became far too weak.
His acceleration was rapid, and the hastily constructed rockets and ships’ thrusters couldn’t keep pace—the distance widened steadily.
In the end, I alone pursued him, piercing and burning his body indiscriminately, but considering his relentless acceleration, I couldn’t incinerate everything before he reached Earth.
[Chairman! I’m sending reinforcements to Earth! Please hold him off until then!]
A transmission came through from Jae-in.
“There’s no time! Hurry!”
Brixel approached Earth at a speed far greater than when I’d gone to the Moon.
The problem wasn’t Brixel reaching Earth and absorbing life forms.
The collision of that massive body alone would destroy Earth.
I needed more power. But Space was a realm of death, devoid of any life force to absorb. It was the complete opposite of deploying my domain on Earth, where life force overflowed.
Here, my strength only diminished.
Earth wasn’t far enough for Brixel to miss, nor close enough to replenish my power.
My family on Earth and everything I’d protected thus far existed there. I wouldn’t allow them to be destroyed by this mass of flesh fleeing from the Destruction God—not by something that wasn’t even the Destruction God itself.
I drew upon every ounce of life force and spiritual energy I possessed, deployed my domain at full strength, and drove it deep into Brixel’s body.
Everything my domain passed through burned to ash.
I felt my strength draining away, but I didn’t stop. Even if it cost me my life, I had to stop him.
[This body was accumulated over thousands of years. Do you truly think you can destroy it with that?]
Brixel was right. As my life force drained, my body withered. To completely destroy his form, which had grown as large as the Moon, my life force would be depleted first.
Earth drew closer. If only I could draw upon the life force of that star brimming with vitality! I gazed at Earth, yearning for its power.
Then Earth’s blue light shone brighter, gathered, and shot toward me.
That blue light passed through Brixel without affecting him and poured into me.
The blue light was the source of life itself. I felt the life force of the seas and lands, the forests, and all the living creatures dwelling upon them.
My body couldn’t withstand the overwhelming power—it felt as though I would burst apart.
[Protect them.]
The voice echoed through my mind. For some reason, I recalled the blue-haired woman I had met when I obtained the Existence Elevation skill.
The voice fell silent, but I had received the request loud and clear.
I converted the overflowing power into spiritual essence and aura, deploying my domain. A crimson field expanded around me, growing larger and larger, its destructive force intensifying with each pulse.
I accelerated my assault through Brixel’s interior. With spiritual essence coursing through me, my movement speed increased dramatically—I no longer needed to push off the ground with my feet.
[ROOOAAARRR!!!!]
When several times the previous volume erupted at once, even Brixel couldn’t withstand it and let out a agonized scream.
“Just a little more!”
Earth was running out of time, but at this pace, I could incinerate everything before we even reached it.
[Even if I perish! You alone! Earth must be saved! I will end this!]
Brixel inflated his body, expanding his volume. Though his density decreased, it made him far more difficult for me to attack.
Unsatisfied with that alone, Brixel split himself in two and continued toward Earth.
“What…?”
If I pursued one, I’d have to abandon the other. I could launch ranged attacks, but their power diminished with distance.
“Damn it!”
My body was brimming with power, but unlike Brixel, I only had one body.
[Chairman! Reinforcements are coming now!]
A Gate opened above Earth, and a giant’s head emerged from it.
“The time has come to repay my debt! Brixel!”
Ricaros, having reclaimed his original form, stepped through the Gate wielding a colossal sword as tall as himself.
Ricaros’s blade, capable of cleaving mountains, bisected Brixel vertically.
Though his body reformed like liquid, the severed portions shattered and vanished, reducing his overall volume.
[Ignorant Giant Race who knows nothing but combat! Get out of my way!]
Brixel didn’t slow down, colliding with Ricaros and absorbing his body.
“The original owner of the stolen body has arrived! Now I’ll reclaim what’s mine!”
But Ricaros, who had absorbed the soul that had been trapped in the Soul Urn, also absorbed Brixel’s body in turn.
It was like water and oil consuming each other.
[No…! This can’t be!]
His body visibly shrank at an accelerated rate, yet his velocity toward Earth remained undiminished.
Then a massive Gate opened before Earth, and the Fleet that had fallen behind emerged.
“Is… is the giant on our side?”
“Commander! Your orders!”
Ricaros and Brixel’s bodies were so tightly fused that the Fleet couldn’t attack.
“This body will collapse anyway! Warriors of Earth! Attack!”
At Ricaros’s command, the Hunters on deck unleashed their assault on Brixel.
On the deck stood figures who hadn’t been visible in the operation’s early stages.
“You thought Earth only had you~”
Amy, unleashing lightning so brilliant it illuminated all directions.
“Don’t forget about your older brother just because you’ve grown stronger.”
Jung Min-gi, the Hunter, relentlessly firing crescent-shaped auras.
Akiko and Yang Sang-heon had joined the fray as well.
Even though Brixel was being confronted, monsters continued to emerge from Earth’s existing Gates, so not all Hunters could participate in the operation.
However, now that Earth was on the verge of destruction, every available Hunter had mobilized.
[Die to such inferior civilization?! I, a descendant of the Administrator, am dying?!]
Brixel’s anguished cry reverberated through everyone’s minds, and the Hunters’ morale surged even higher.
As Earth drew closer, my power intensified, and I deployed my domain to its maximum extent.
The expanded domain consumed Brixel entirely. Had he not separated himself, he might have reached Earth instead.
Brixel’s colossal body burned away, revealing a man’s spirit form huddled at its core. That spirit remained unburned even within my domain. Upon closer inspection, his facial features differed slightly from humans, and he stood somewhat taller.
“So you gathered that body together, and now only your spirit remains.”
[You… what do you know…]
“How would I understand the thoughts of a madman like you? Tell me what you know about the Administrator. I’ll send you off peacefully.”
[You wish to know about the Administrator? Very well… then I shall tell you!]
Brixel’s spirit form shot toward me.
I raised my arms, reinforcing my aura and spirit form as I defended.
However, his spirit form held no intention to attack me—it sought to enter my body.
But my mind, fortified by a powerful mental skill reaching S-rank, was impenetrable even to Eres…
Through my dimming vision, I could see Earth.

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