Infinite Evolution Hunter - Chapter 213

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Elchai absorbed the Imperial Noble guards on our side.
With Imperial Nobles plastered all over him like a patchwork armor, Elchai channeled Amy’s electricity directly into the ground.
“It’s not working. Then there must be another way!”
Amy stopped her discharge and concentrated electricity in her feet, then sprinted across Elchai’s massive body like it was a Training Ground.
As if her feet were magnets, she clung to Elchai’s body as she ran.
Wherever she passed, deep charred trenches burned into his flesh.
“Gaaahhhhh!!!”
As the damage penetrated his armor and reached him directly, Elchai thrashed in agony.
He swung his arms trying to grab Amy, but his strikes kept missing against her squirrel-like speed.
“Die!”
Elchai raised spines across his entire body like a porcupine.
But Amy was already running elsewhere before the spines could even fully emerge.
“Stop that bitch Ban!”
Elchai shouted, and the crown blazed with light.
Ban’s eyes, which had been vacant beside the Throne, ignited like a machine powering on, and his body shot toward Amy like an arrow.
“What?!”
Ban launched at Amy with a speed that even an average S-rank Hunter couldn’t evade. But Amy was among the fastest Hunters on Earth.
Amy twisted her body to dodge, spraying electricity at Ban as he passed, but he absorbed it completely and changed direction to charge at her again.
“Hahahaha! You think a mere human can defeat a direct descendant of the Adamant Royal Family?!”
Elchai ignored the fact that Ban was being hit and unleashed spines indiscriminately. Even if they struck, they dealt no damage to Ban anyway.
Under the combined assault of Elchai and Ban, Jung Min-gi and Amy were gradually pushed back.
“Min-gi! Do something about him!”
No matter how much electricity Amy poured out, Ban absorbed it all and kept charging.
“Ban Adamant! Come to your senses!”
Jung Min-gi swung his sword, but it had no effect whatsoever due to the Adamant’s inherent resistance to physical attacks.
“If you keep this up, I won’t hold back either!”
Though Ridi had asked for restraint, I had no intention of sacrificing Jung Min-gi’s life and my own.
A blinding torrent of electricity filled Daejeon completely.
“Impossible! A human still possesses such power?!”
Just as Ban rushed at Jung Min-gi, Amy’s electricity poured down upon him.
The Royal Family’s sword that Ridi held couldn’t withstand power beyond a certain threshold, so the plan was to overload it.
The interior of Daejeon turned white.
“Foolish humans! The difference between a single sword and a royal’s limits is like heaven and earth! Even ten of you couldn’t reach his threshold!”
Elchai shielded his eyes with his arm and laughed.
“Aaaahhhhh!!!”
Ignoring Elchai’s mockery, Amy screamed and unleashed her electricity. Though it had no direct effect on Ban as Elchai said, the force of the discharge pushed him back, preventing him from advancing on Amy and Jung Min-gi.
“Huff… huff…”
Amy, having exhausted all her mana, breathed heavily.
Electricity crackled across Ban’s body, but he remained unharmed.
“Look at that! Ban, he’s returning what he absorbed as is….”
Despite pouring all her power into the attack, Amy showed no sign of frustration.
As Amy displayed her composure, Elchai’s eyes widened in alarm as he glanced around.
“Forgot? I didn’t come alone, you know~?”
Jung Min-gi drew his sword back and focused intently.
Elchai’s spine tingled with dread. That blade had cleaved even the Demon King’s arm. No matter how much armor he wore now, Elchai had no confidence he could withstand that attack.
“B…. Ban! Block it!”
Ban threw himself between Jung Min-gi and Elchai, and Jung Min-gi’s sword traced a smooth arc.
“Min-gi!”
Amy tried to tell Jung Min-gi not to cut Ban, but his focused eyes saw nothing else, and his ears heard no sound.
Even Ban, who stood in the way, didn’t enter his line of sight—only Elchai existed in his vision.
“Huh? He’s not cut?”
Neither Ban nor Elchai bore any wounds.
“Uuuuhhhhh…”
With Elchai’s anguished cry, his enlarged body crumbled eerily, and the Imperial Noble soldiers he had absorbed fell to the ground as fragmented metal scraps.
“What is this…. What have you done?!”
The slime-form Elchai couldn’t comprehend what was happening. Suddenly his body felt severed in two, and he lost control over the severed portion. It was as if all the nerves in his limbs had been cut, yet they remained attached.
“I severed his soul.”
Jung Min-gi sheathed his sword at his waist.
“That’s possible~?”
“I learned it while recalling my battle with Marbas. When my soul mixed with physical force, I could cut that monstrous body. So this time, I eliminated physical force and aimed only for the soul.”
“Grrrrr….”
Elchai, now in slime form without his armor, crawled forward. His soul had been bisected and should have died long ago, but he desperately clung to life by turning the crown’s power to control Metalim upon himself.
“Hmm…. I couldn’t sever it completely. Since this is a new technique, my training is still far from sufficient.”
“Min-gi~ how far are you planning to go~?”
“My goal? Isn’t it the same as yours?”
“Want to bet on who surpasses Ji-seok first?”
“Let’s talk about that after we leave.”
Jung Min-gi approached Elchai, who crawled in slime form, and drew his sword to deliver the final blow.
“Can’t…. die…. I’m…. the king….”
An emergency escape hole opened beneath Elchai as he crawled toward the Throne, and he tumbled into it.
“No!”
He swung his sword too late, managing only to sever part of Elchai’s body. Yet even so, Elchai survived and escaped.
“Tenacious as a vermin….”
The passage was barely large enough for the crown to fit through, so Jung Min-gi couldn’t follow.
“Min-gi~! I worked so hard to buy you time~! How can you let him escape~?!”
“…I’m sorry. Jae-in said no Metalim could escape from the Sanctuary. Let’s head back to the Sanctuary for now.”
Jung Min-gi, who had grown overconfident, hung his head in shame.
On the way back, Metalim citizens had risen up, and he could see destroyed buildings and captured Imperial Nobles.
The Imperial Nobles had monopolized all power and withheld even food, so the citizens had endured their rule without resistance for a long time.
My body had been strengthened to rival an Imperial Noble through Jae-in’s alloy reinforcement, and my stomach was well-filled with magic stones. Though I lacked combat technique, our numerical advantage was dozens of times greater, making suppression a matter of moments.
The area before the Sanctuary was festive.
“You’ve arrived?”
From afar, Jung Min-gi saw Amy approaching, and Jae-in greeted her first.
“The King?!”
Ridi rushed out as well.
“Here. He’s safe.”
Min-gi handed the unconscious Adamant King to Ridi.
“Ban.”
Ridi embraced the Adamant King and wept.
“Goodness, all that I consumed just vanished.”
Jae-in murmured upon seeing the metallic tears, and Yang Sang-heon whispered, “Brother, be tactful,” giving Jae-in a gentle tap on the back.
“Ahem. So, it’s over now, right? I thought the two of you would manage fine even without the President coming.”
Jae-in changed the subject.
“…”
Jung Min-gi gazed toward the distant Mountain.
“Min-gi let someone escape~”
“Let escape? Who?”
“Elchai~!”
“… A Hunter?”
“Ahem…. I didn’t expect there to be an escape route beneath the Throne….”
Jung Min-gi hung his head in shame.
“The Sanctuary’s magic that Jae-in manipulated is currently active, so even Elchai cannot escape. I wanted to finish this with my own hands, but this works out.”
Ridi raised the Adamant sword high.
“Look at that. I gave Ridi the opportunity to take her revenge.”
“You seemed more serious lately, but your original personality has returned.”
“Sang-heon, I can hear you.”
“Haha. It’s good to see you brightened up.”
“But, is it okay to be this relaxed?”
“Jae-in, it’s fine. A man without a crown has nothing to fear. But, the crown—where is it?”
“…”
“Surely…. You couldn’t retrieve it?”
Ridi’s silver face grew even paler.
“Seal off the perimeter immediately! Keep Metalim away from the Sanctuary!”
Ridi issued the command, and the Metalim who had been in a festive mood looked at each other in confusion.
“Move quickly!”
In an instant, the atmosphere transformed into that of a battlefield.
“Min-gi~ you were too relaxed at the end there~.”
Jung Min-gi also felt the weight of responsibility and began searching for Elchai.
However, for a human accustomed to fighting humans and monsters, finding Elchai among the numerous similar-looking Metalim was not easy.
“Hm?”
“Jae-in, what’s wrong?”
“Someone just disappeared into the ground.”
“What?”
“Right there—whoosh. Wait?! There again!”
Metalim vanished without a sound, sucked into the earth with a wet slurp.
“…Get away from there!!”
Though Ridi’s voice rang out, the Metalim citizens stared blankly at her, unsure whom she was addressing.
The ground erupted upward as an enormous Elchai burst forth.
His body had swollen further after absorbing the gathered Metalim civilians, yet his face remained warped and melted from Jung Min-gi’s assault—the damage still evident.
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Elchai crawled through the narrow, foul-smelling secret passage, grinding his teeth.
“Kgh… If I don’t repay this humiliation, I might as well be dead…”
Elchai barely held his crumbling body together with his crown as he crawled through the Underground Passage.
“Damn these surface dwellers… I’ll slaughter every last one… I am Elchai of the Rhodium Family… Now that I am the King of Metalim, how dare they…”
As he crawled shamefully through the cramped passage, a twisted hatred swelled in his heart like a balloon.
After crawling for some time, he reached the tunnel’s end.
Elchai poked his head up cautiously to check above. It was the Sanctuary.
On one wall of the Sanctuary, Bourbon lay coiled in chains inscribed with magic that bound Metalim criminals.
Elchai used the crown’s power to instantly absorb the Metalim guarding him.
“Bourbon!”
Elchai lowered his voice and roused the unconscious Bourbon. His condition was poor, but not fatally wounded.
“Ah… Uncle? Uncle!”
“Quiet, you fool!”
“…Yes.”
Even in this moment of reunion, his uncle cursed him.
“I’ll free you from the chains, so listen carefully to what I say.”
“Uncle, what happened to your body?”
“Shut up and listen to me!”
“…Yes.”
Elchai issued orders to the silent Bourbon.
Whether from severe injuries or the dire situation, Elchai’s judgment was not what it usually was.
Elchai failed to notice how Bourbon’s gaze had shifted—the way he now looked down upon his weakened uncle.
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The colossal Elchai swung his grotesquely elongated arms like a monkey’s in all directions.
“I sought to nurture you, yet you betray me! But I shall show mercy and grant you another chance! Become the blood and flesh to rebuild my kingdom!”
Though they fled hastily, those Metalim who couldn’t escape in time were absorbed by Elchai, who grew without limit. Their gathering to celebrate victory had become nothing more than feeding him prey.
“Min-gi!”
Amy cried out.
“I know! I know!”
Jung Min-gi hastily assumed a drawing stance, but—
“You think you’ll fall for the same trick twice?!”
Elchai hurled his colossal frame, now towering like a mountain, directly at Jung Min-gi.

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