Infinite Evolution Hunter - Chapter 200

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Amy’s increasingly sharp lightning strike descended upon Marbas’s chest, but he didn’t budge an inch from where he stood.

“Human woman, such electricity is not even ticklish to Demon Lord Marbas….”
Crack crack crack crack crack!
While Marbas spoke, dozens of attacks hammered across his entire body.
“Uuuaaargh!!!”
An enraged Marbas roared and charged forward. His roar was not merely a sound wave but also an oppressive aura that stimulated the target’s fear.
Amy wrapped her body in lightning faster than the speed of sound and pressure could travel, simultaneously leaping backward.
The electrical shield neutralized most of the oppressive aura. It seemed she had conducted considerable research during my absence.
Though she couldn’t perfectly defend against the pressure—her legs trembled slightly—she shook it off and evaded just before Marbas reached her.
My eyes widened at her progress.
I thought I was advancing alone, but that wasn’t the case. Yang Sang-heon, Jung Min-gi, and Amy had all grown stronger in my absence.
Amy’s barrage of lightning struck Marbas’s face as he charged forward in fury, but he reacted as though he’d merely been hit by strong wind, his clawed hands slashing in rapid succession.
Amy narrowly evaded the attacks of Demon Lord Marbas, delivered at speeds rivaling lightning itself.
Her expression as she dodged an attack that could sever her head by the thickness of a sheet of paper was not fear but exhilaration.
She evaded his crude assaults as though dancing.
“Hmph!”
After a prolonged one-sided barrage, Marbas stopped attacking.
“What? You’re not continuing?”
Amy spoke rapidly, breathless with excitement. In her accelerated state, her speech didn’t drawl as it normally did.
“You’ve lost your vigor. Boring.”
He trudged away.
“I’m going to hunt for food.”
Though Marbas didn’t need to eat, he enjoyed chewing and swallowing the animals he hunted, so even in the Demon Realm he would personally hunt his own food.
“Wait, go hunt through the Gate. I’ll guide you.”
If I let him go unsupervised, he might hunt livestock or, in the worst case, devour humans. I should use this opportunity to clear some difficult Gates and recover resources.
“You stay here~. I’ll guide you~.”
Amy, having caught her breath, stepped forward.
“Will you be alright?”
“Only someone at my level can control him, right~?”
“I suppose….”
“It’s been a while since I’ve tackled an S-rank Gate~? Come along~. Black Lion.”
Whether Marbas took a liking to her or not, he snorted but followed obediently.
“…Why is he like that?”
The way people looked at Marbas was unusual.
“He seems to have taken a liking to her.”
Yang Sang-heon, who had arrived at some point to watch, spoke. Several other Hunters had observed the fight from a distance.
“Didn’t Amy get married?”
“She got divorced. She changed her surname back from Gibbs and now hunts under her own name.”
“Heh… So you’re following the Demon King just like that?”
Powerful ability users often had eccentric personalities, and Amy was no exception.
Even though Marbas claimed he wasn’t hurt, he’d taken a barrage of attacks without complaint and acknowledged Amy’s strength.
After finishing my sparring match with Marbas, I returned home and spent time with my family.
Since I didn’t need much sleep, I sat by the window of Lee Ji-seok’s House while everyone slept, gazing out at the night.
Even as night fell, I observed the souls of the people moving about in World Tree City. It was a habit and training I’d developed since returning from the Demon Realm.
By now, my accuracy had improved enough to distinguish individual souls from a distance. Generally, exceptional people had pure, powerful souls that were easy to identify.
“Souls… I’ve never even heard of such a thing in my past life. Hmm?”
I spotted a soul distinctly different from human ones.
While human souls concentrated around the heart, this person’s soul had a cold sensation spreading throughout their entire body.
“Not murky, but something…”
I focused harder, straining my eyes to see more clearly.
It was different from other races like Elves or Dwarves, different from Angels brimming with light, and different from the Demon Race saturated with demonic energy.
It wasn’t just the color or distribution that differed—if a human soul felt like a slowly burning flame, this mysterious soul’s owner felt like a high-viscosity liquid.
I watched the figure carefully, indistinguishable from a human in appearance, when another person with the same soul appeared and joined them, moving in one direction. More of these beings gathered one by one until about ten of them left World Tree City.
They didn’t emanate a sense of danger, but something felt distinctly suspicious, so I followed them.
Getting closer, I could definitively tell they weren’t human.
Their hearts didn’t beat, their muscles didn’t move. An ordinary person wouldn’t notice, but I could see it. And the way mana flowed across their skin indicated they weren’t in their true form—something magical was layered over them.
Once they left the city, they boarded a car hidden in the Forest and headed toward an abandoned quarry in North Korea.
Their actions grew increasingly suspicious.
At the quarry, they climbed onto a bare rock formation.
When one of them placed their hand on the rock, it crumbled like sand, revealing a Corridor descending underground.
They entered the Corridor, and the sand reformed into rock once more.
“What in the world…?”
I was about to approach when I sensed other souls and stopped.
They were the same type of soul as the mysterious beings that had just entered, but they didn’t resemble humans or any living creature. The soul was contained within the rock itself.
“There’s no point in waiting any longer.”
I’d observed enough, so I approached the location of that soul, but it showed no reaction.
Up close, I realized it wasn’t rock at all—it was a dull gray chunk of metal.
Yet a soul was contained within it.
“What is this…?”
I ran my hand across the rough metal surface.
The sand-like soul inside panicked, moving frantically within the metal and spinning faster.
The texture was cold like metal.
“Should I smash it?”
I raised my fist to strike.
“W-Wait, please!”
The rock spoke.
“What are you?”
It trembled and transformed into the shape of a human woman, but unlike the beings I’d been tracking, there was no concealing magic—her entire body and clothes were made of the same metallic material as the chunk from moments before.
“We have no intention of fighting.”
“I demanded to know their identity. Why did they approach the World Tree?”
“That is….”
The way her eyes darted back and forth was no different from a human’s.
“Are you buying time, trusting your allies behind you?”
Her eyes widened in surprise.
“We are… Metalim.”
“Metalim?”
“I don’t have the authority to provide that information. Will you follow me?”
“Lead the way.”
She walked toward the boulder, and once again it transformed into sand, revealing an underground corridor.
She and the other Metalim entered first, and I followed. There was no one behind me.
“I apologize.”
After descending for about a minute, she stopped and spoke, and sand poured down between us. I brushed it away, but the endless cascade was impossible to clear completely.

“We harbor no intention of becoming your enemies.”
She spoke as she vanished into the earth beyond the sand.
Her spiritual presence moved rapidly underground, growing distant. I pursued by digging through the sand, but she had already receded beyond my ability to sense.
“Damn it….”
I brushed away the sand and rock that had buried me and climbed back to the surface.
“Director Baek Young-shin.”
I called for Director Baek Young-shin immediately.
“What is the matter?”
Director Baek Young-shin, groggy from sleep, entered the Control Center while adjusting his glasses. Despite just waking, his hair remained perfectly neat.
“An otherworldly entity has infiltrated the city. I pursued them, but lost the trail.”
“They keep coming without tiring. I wonder if Earth has something particularly delicious?”
“Indeed.”
Before Director Baek Young-shin arrived, I ordered the city sealed. Since the city was self-sufficient, a temporary lockdown posed no problems.
After entrusting command to Director Baek Young-shin, I toured the city to check for other spiritual presences, but found none like theirs.
“Here is the personal information of the missing persons.”
By the next morning, Director Baek Young-shin had gathered information on those currently unaccounted for.
Looking at their faces, I identified those I had pursued moments earlier.
“Ridi isn’t human?”
My colleague from the Research Facility, who had worked alongside the Metalim named Ridi, was shocked by my revelation.
“You didn’t notice anything strange while working together?”
“Not at all. She was gentle and worked well. She was always cheerful and quite popular.”
I interviewed the other colleagues, but their answers were similar. The difference was that she worked with even greater diligence than ordinary people.
Ordinary humans complain when tired and slack off. Yet no matter how exhausted she was, she worked silently with a smile on her face.
“Hmm…. There could be others in different countries as well. For now, let’s send out a warning.”
“However, Hunter Lee Ji-seok cannot possibly visit everywhere, can he?”
“I can find them.”
Jae-in stepped forward.
“We haven’t finished developing a device to detect souls yet, but finding humans disguised as humans is simple. They lack vital signs—no heartbeat, no muscle movement, no body heat, no respiration, right?”
Jae-in quickly assembled a detection device and tested it on a golem at the Ark on the Moon.
The device beeped with an alarm and fired a red laser pointer at the golem’s chest.
“It’ll work on the same principle.”
Jae-in sent what she’d created to the heads of major nations worldwide first.
“Hundreds of missing persons have been reported from all over the world.”
“They already knew and fled….”
“Ji-seok~”
Amy entered the conference room.
“Hmm?”
“What’s this~?”
Lying on the floor was a human with a body that gleamed silver. It possessed the same soul as the ones I’d been tracking.
“…Where did you catch it?”
“It was coming out of a Gate, and this one just bolted off somewhere~ I thought it was weird, so I stopped it, but it attacked me~ So I zapped it with lightning and brought it here~.”
“Was it strong?”
“Yeah. Really fast and tough~ But electricity worked well on it, and Marbas was with me too~”
“You would’ve won even if you’d fought alone. It was weak.”
Marbas stood behind Amy with his arms crossed and spoke.
“Good work.”
I locked the man I’d captured in a space made of transparent reinforced glass.
“Mmm….”
Not long after, he stirred awake.
Unlike Ridi, the Metalim I’d met before, this one shone with a bright, smooth silver luster—almost like a work of art.
I dragged over a chair and sat in front of his transparent prison.
“You’re Metalim too, aren’t you?”
There was no answer, but I saw him flinch slightly.
“What’s your purpose?”
“…”
“You infiltrated our territory and conducted some kind of activity in secret. That alone is enough to consider it hostile. However, you don’t seem to have caused any actual damage. So let’s talk. Why did you come?”
“…”
He ignored my words and looked around frantically.
Then he sharpened his hand into a point and slashed at the wall.

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