Infinite Evolution Hunter - Chapter 214

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Elchai rushed straight toward Jung Min-gi to disrupt the casting of his dangerous technique.
But in doing so, he took the full brunt of both Amy’s and my attacks with his entire body.
Even as I unleashed my assault, I couldn’t discern Elchai’s true intention. If I simply chipped away at the absorbed Metalim bit by bit, a mere brute of a monster like him held no terror—and Elchai surely knew this.
“Ridi, we just need to scrape all of it away, right?!”
I shouted toward Ridi, who stood at a distance cradling the unconscious Ban.
“That’s correct. If everyone evacuates, there will be no more Metalim to absorb… Oh!”
Ridi’s face hardened.
“Bourbon! He was in the Sanctuary! Elchai may have done something with him there first!”
“Damn it….”
Rumble, rumble, rumble.
The ground trembled with a sound emanating from within the Sanctuary.
“Too late to realize it now! He has awakened. Now I shall present this wretched Monster Planet to Lord Tae-ryong, and I shall begin a new dynasty on a new world!”
Elchai, his intentions exposed, stretched his body to seal the entrance of the Sanctuary like a wall.
With the conviction that only moments remained, he fashioned spears from his absorbed form and hurled them, firing metal fragments like artillery shells.
Just as humans die when they lose blood, Metalim perishes when it loses its body—an attack normally impossible to execute. Yet with certainty that everything would soon end, Elchai’s assault showed no restraint.
“Cover me!”
The moment Jung Min-gi shouted, he entered his concentration without waiting for the others.
Amy and I, trusting in Jung Min-gi’s conviction, threw ourselves forward and intercepted the barrage of attacks.
Neither of us were Hunters specialized in defense, so we were covered in wounds in an instant, but wounds were not the concern now.
“Will you fall for the same trick again?!”
Elchai poured the majority of his mass into a crushing assault, overwhelming the two of us protecting Jung Min-gi.
“Yang Sang-heon!”
“I understand!”
I spread my Light Sorcerer ability wide, and Amy braced her back against mine, preventing us from being pushed back.
Amy did not miss the momentary opening that appeared after Elchai’s massive attack.
Amy kicked off from my shoulder as I collapsed from exhaustion, launching herself upward.
Blue flames erupted from her eyes, and a torrent of electricity cascaded from her body like a waterfall, pouring directly into Elchai’s core.
“Screeeeeee!!! Bourbon, is it time yet?!”
Elchai shrieked as he lost most of his armor and could no longer dissipate the electrical discharge, flinging his remaining body like a projectile.
“Min-gi! I can’t hold any longer!”
Amy, her face drained pale from the excessive discharge, urged Jung Min-gi on while continuing to block the attacks.
“Move.”
Amy dodged from before Jung Min-gi, who had completed his preparation.
“Bourbon!!!”
In response to Elchai’s desperate cry, something erupted from the Sanctuary.
Crash!
Before Jung Min-gi could even swing his blade, a dragon of crimson lava burst forth from Elchai’s chest. Elongated like an Eastern dragon, its skin was densely covered with black, jagged spikes.
Though Tae-ryong had supposedly attacked Elchai, the three of us instantly recognized that this was no ally.
Jung Min-gi released the power he had accumulated, swinging his blade upward from below.
Slash.
Jung Min-gi’s blade cut through skin, splitting Tae-ryong’s head vertically.
“… Tae-ryong?”
Ridi stared blankly.
Tae-ryong not only reattached what had been severed, but enlarged his body further.
He then glared at Jung Min-gi, who had shown hostility toward him.
“That was supposed to be my secret blade that severs souls….”
Even Jung Min-gi felt his strength draining. He’d already unleashed a desperate attack twice today.
“Die, all of you! Wretches! Divine judgment by fire shall befall you ungrateful vermin!”
Bourbon screamed from beside Tae-ryong.
“You…. foolish bastard…. Why did you….”
Elchai, with a gaping hole through his chest, slowly crumbled while glaring at Bourbon.
“Hmph! Why should I listen to someone with no power? The Platinum Family will establish the next dynasty.”
Bourbon snatched the crown from Elchai’s head and placed it upon his own.
“Now I am the king of Metalim!”
Tae-ryong raised both hands toward the sky and swallowed Bourbon, who was screaming, headfirst.
“…Hah…. I kept that nephew alive, and now both Metalim and Earth are finished. Tae-ryong will devour everything….”
Elchai’s words ceased as he hardened into stone.
Tae-ryong paid no attention to the others and began burrowing into the ground, as if intent on consuming everything beneath this land.
“At this rate, he’ll reach the core!”
The three launched attacks, but their exhausted strikes only sent ripples across Tae-ryong’s body, dealing no damage.
“Huff…. Huff…. Even at full strength, it would’ve been impossible.”
“Damn it!”
Faced with an impossible situation, Jung Min-gi cursed aloud.
“He truly is the god of Metalim, so why….”
If Metalim’s king and ancestor was the Adamant Royal Family, then Tae-ryong was their god. Ridi couldn’t comprehend why he would destroy Earth and kill Metalim.
“Everyone, move!”
Jae-in, who had fled to a distance lacking combat prowess, opened a massive Gate. The Sanctuary’s defensive magic circle had been completely destroyed, and with the Imperial Noble subdued, nothing remained to prevent Gate creation.
The Gate was enormous, as if to transport something vast.
“Not water! It’ll explode!”
Jung Min-gi shouted. The dragon’s heat was scorching even from a distance, and Tae-ryong’s magma was a flame that burned not just flesh but souls themselves. Pouring water directly would cause a catastrophic explosion underground.
“I know!”
And what burst forth from the massive Gate Jae-in opened was a head he’d seen many times before.
“Never thought I’d be so glad to see that dragon’s mug….”
Jung Min-gi, who had fought Albert during the exchange tournament, felt one corner of his mouth rise.
“Albert, go!”
The ice dragon Albert that emerged from the Gate drove his head into the ground and breathed an ice breath at Tae-ryong, who was burrowing deeper.
Tae-ryong’s skin cooled and hardened black from the ice breath.
Tae-ryong pushed away the blackened skin from the torso that had been hit by the breath, formed a new head, and a body grew behind it.
Albert poured ice breath upon Tae-ryong, who had completely emerged from the ground, but Tae-ryong shed the black skin like molting and gradually enlarged his body, slowly advancing toward Albert.
Albert was only half the size of his mother, the Ice Dragon, whereas Tae-ryong was even more colossal than his mother.
“Betty! Charles!”
Jae-in cried out.
Two more dragons burst forth.
Though slightly smaller than Albert, when the three dragons unleashed their ice breath simultaneously, at last they matched Tae-ryong’s power.
“Jae-in, what are you doing?”
Min-gi’s eyes wavered upon seeing the three dragons. Could a single individual truly create such things?
“This is bad….”
Jae-in’s complexion darkened.
Tae-ryong drew upon the magma flowing through Earth’s depths, granting him limitless power, but the three young dragons’ breath would soon reach its limit.
[Grrrrrrr.]
The three young dragons’ ice breath ceased, and their hardened scales shed away, revealing their raw bodies beneath.
Faced with Tae-ryong’s brilliantly luminous crimson form, the Ice Dragons began to retreat.
“How do we stop that~?”
Amy’s electricity proved useless, and Min-gi’s slashes had no effect.
How could anyone possibly withstand such a monster? Despair descended upon them all.
Thud, thud, thud, thud.
Heavy footsteps echoed from behind.
Everyone turned to see the enlarged Ji-seok emerge from the Gate and charge toward the magma.
“Chairman!”
“Brother, Amy, didn’t you say we didn’t need to come?!”
Ji-seok rushed past Min-gi and Amy, shouting as he went.
“Ahem…. My apologies.”
“Hahahaha~.”
Amy’s earlier expression of despair had vanished, replaced by delighted laughter.
Ji-seok collided with Tae-ryong, his body erupting in black smoke. Yet the magma that melted stone and metal could not consume Ji-seok, who continued to regenerate.
As Ji-seok pressed forward without yielding, Tae-ryong spewed magma from its maw directly onto Ji-seok’s face.
“Chairman!!!”
“Brother!”
Jae-in and Sang-heon rushed forward in alarm, hoping to contribute even their meager strength.
“Kraaaaaaaa!!!!”
The magma streamed away from Ji-seok’s face, and from his exposed mouth poured forth a frigid breath that crashed upon Tae-ryong’s visage.
The Dragon Heart absorbed from the mother of the three dragon siblings dwelled within Ji-seok’s body as well. Through continuous evolution, his breath had now become even more formidable than his mother’s.
“Ah…. So that’s the kind of person my brother is.”
“Sang-heon, should we even consider the chairman a person?”
The two trudged backward reluctantly.
“Where are you going?! Aren’t you going to help?!”
Ji-seok cried out upon seeing them retreat.
“Ah, yes, yes! Albert! Betty! Charles!”
At Jae-in’s command, the three dragons unleashed the ice breath they had recharged in the brief moment.
The balance of power between Ji-seok and Tae-ryong had completely collapsed, and Ji-seok pinned him down.
Amy, Jung Min-gi, and Yang Sang-heon all struck away the lava pouring down on Ji-seok to help however they could.
With the force of severing his neck, Ji-seok seized Tae-ryong’s throat. Though Tae-ryong possessed a massive spiritual form, Ji-seok’s unified assault could inflict tremendous damage upon both his body and soul.
“Stop.”
“Huh?”
A woman with blue hair had appeared beside Tae-ryong at some point.
“Gaia.”
When Ji-seok ceased his assault, Tae-ryong also halted his attack, withdrew, and turned his gaze toward Gaia.
“Those who awakened you are already dead. Now, let go of your wrath.”
Gaia, a remarkably powerful incarnation of Earth, addressed him with utmost courtesy.
[Grrrrrrrr…]
Gaia’s intent reached him, and Tae-ryong turned his head.
“Thank you.”
Gaia bowed to Tae-ryong as he returned through the Sanctuary’s opening.
After he entered, the lava within the Sanctuary cooled instantly.
“Gaia, we finally meet.”
“Because you brought so many people to Earth, my strength has grown. I have more composure than before. However, it was reckless. That existence is the primordial fire linking the Monster Planet and dimensions. Had he acted in earnest, you would already be dead.”
“Well, that’s fortunate. Anyway, Gaia, can we meet and talk from now on? I have so many questions. If we can communicate with each other, then in future battles….”
“I must go now.”
“What?”
“I’ve expended too much power. I must go.”
“You were only here for five seconds?!”
“Farewell.”
Ji-seok reached out his hand, but Gaia vanished like mist.
“Damn it… Still, Gaia’s increased strength must be a good sign, right?”
Ji-seok scratched his head.
“Grrrrrrrr….”
Albert, Betty, and Charles approached Ji-seok with low growls.
“Hey! You guys! Come back!”
Jae-in shouted, but Albert paid no heed and opened his mouth wide toward Ji-seok.
“Chairman! Please don’t hit them! I raised them with so much difficulty!”
Jae-in rushed toward Ji-seok in panic.

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