Infinite Evolution Hunter - Chapter 224

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224
After Mars annihilated the black hole created by the antimatter cannon, he turned his gaze toward me, and I met his eyes directly.
Warriors from Earth and Tellus fixed their hopeful gazes upon me.
“Damn it… Retreat!”
“There’s no other way?!”
“There isn’t!”
The antimatter cannon was my last resort in this situation.
“Mars’s objective is to recover the essence! If we distance ourselves from the fire essence buried in the ground, we can survive! Run!”
I had no idea how much stronger Mars would become once he claimed the heart essence, but right now, all these people couldn’t stop him. Holding this position would only mean a meaningless death.
“Hmph, cowards, are you? I’ll deal with you after I claim the heart.”
Warriors scattered in all directions, and Mars’s gaze turned toward the ground beneath us.
Mars knelt down and drove his fist into the earth.
The moment Mars’s arm touched the ground, the surface melted away.
Ridi had buried the essence far deeper than the length of Mars’s arm, but he simply extended his limb, reaching deep underground toward the buried essence.
When Mars withdrew his hand again, the fire essence rested in his palm.
“Now the hunt begins.”
Mars swallowed the essence and smiled with unbridled madness.
As he consumed the essence, the hollow cavity where his heart had been filled completely, and simultaneously, his shattered spear and shield materialized anew in his hands. However, his armor remained unrepaired, leaving him half-naked.
“Don’t flee to Earth! Scatter to the Mars Orbital Shelter and the Underground Base for now!”
I climbed into the Mars exploration rover.
“But there’s nowhere to escape there either?!”
The driver asked while pressing the accelerator to the floor.
“Do you know what happened to Wihol? We can’t bring everyone back to Earth even if we all die here! We’ll figure something out once we get there!”
Even as I rallied the people, I thought this might be the end. But rather than bring them back to Earth without Ji-seok, it was better to die here.
“Why does this bastard only chase after me?!”
Mars thundered after me, his footsteps shaking the ground.
“Salamander did the same thing! Damn it!!”
It was good that I was buying time for others to escape, but it looked like I was really going to die.
I had told Ji-seok to leave Mars to me, but now it seemed everyone on Mars would perish.
The shadow of Mars’s colossal foot eclipsed the rover I was in.
“Ahhhhhhh!!!”
Everyone in the vehicle screamed. That foot possessed heat and physical force hotter than lava itself. The Mars exploration rover would undoubtedly melt in an instant.
“Damn it… I didn’t want to use this method, but…”
I reached into my infinite pouch and pulled something out.
Mars’s foot slammed down hard, and a deafening roar erupted from the flames and impact.
However, the rover I was in broke through the inferno and continued racing across Mars.
The vehicle was merely singed by the fire, otherwise unscathed.
“What?! What is this?! How did I miss?!”
There was no way Mars could have lost track of the rover’s movement.
I glanced back and carefully returned the object I had pulled from my infinite pouch.
“Director, is that really important right now?!”
The driver didn’t even glance back, keeping the vehicle moving forward.
“It’s Akiko the Hunter!”
What caught Jae-in’s eye was Akiko, whose weapons had been upgraded with golden Adamant.
Just moments ago, she had fashioned wedge-shaped Adamant projectiles and struck Mars’s ankle, disrupting his orbit slightly—but that small interference had saved Jae-in’s group.
Akiko wasn’t alone. Jung Min-gi and Amy had joined the fight as well.
“We’re saved! All the time we risked our lives to buy was worth it!”
The Hunters erupted in cheers at their arrival.
“So now I have to deal with this bastard on Mars too, after Earth? Jae-in….”
Though the Gates on Earth had become less demanding, S-rank Hunters like me had mountains of work. Expanding to Mars only made my schedule more suffocating.
“Min-gi, stop chattering and cut that thing down!”
“Finally, worthy opponents appear! Let me ignite the flames of combat!”
Mars roared, and fire erupted from his form, transforming the Martian surface into an inferno.
“This madman!!”
“Aaaahhh!!”
Jae-in’s exploration vehicle nearby flipped from the flames.
If the vehicle hadn’t been engineered to withstand Mars’s harsh environment, I would have been incinerated.
Jung Min-gi leaped into the air, closing his eyes to concentrate. The surrounding air stilled and grew heavy.
After a brief moment of focus, he unleashed a sword strike.
“Hm!”
Mars deflected the invisible slash with his shield, then thrust his spear at Jung Min-gi.
Akiko’s ranged weapon struck Mars’s hand again, while Amy darted erratically around Mars’s head, crackling with brilliant electricity.
“Annoying insects!”
Missing Jung Min-gi, Mars shifted his target to Amy, swinging his circular shield in wide arcs.
“Kyaa!”
Amy nimbly evaded Mars’s assault, but was forced to retreat.
Each swing of Mars’s shield unleashed waves of flame, searing Amy’s body crimson.
Even the electricity Amy generated raised her body temperature, yet Mars’s vicinity blazed like standing beside the sun itself.
Akiko intercepted Mars as he pursued Amy.
Today, Akiko—equipped with Adamant weapons—proved most effective.
Though Mars’s flames poured onto her Adamant weapon, it absorbed the inferno and immediately expelled it back, accelerating the projectile.
“Such power cannot wound my body!”
Mars drove his spear and shield down to embed her Adamant weapon in the ground, but Akiko wrenched it free and attacked again.
“I’ll deal with you first!”
Mars ignored Akiko’s assault and charged at her directly, while Albert and the Younger Siblings—who had been fleeing—descended upon Mars from behind, exhaling frigid breath.
“Bothersome creatures!”
Mars spewed flames and rushed toward the three dragons.
Individually, none could withstand Mars’s assault for even a moment, but by taking turns, they drew his attention away.
“Hah….”
In that moment, Jung Min-gi concentrated atop the overturned armored vehicle, and Mars’s gaze suddenly fixed upon him.
“Don’t think I’ll just sit here and take this!”
Mars’s heart thundered violently, sending shockwaves rippling in all directions.
The shockwave from Mars’s complete form did far more than simply boil the blood.
“Ugh!”
Jung Min-gi could endure the boiling sensation, but the shockwave stirred his fighting spirit so intensely that his concentration shattered.
“Damn it!”
Jung Min-gi abandoned his focus and unleashed an aura, but even a direct hit on Mars’s body dealt no damage.
The fighting spirit affected Amy far more powerfully.
Even as her body burned, Amy wrapped herself in lightning and flew directly at Mars’s chest.
“At last, a true warrior has come!”
Mars roared and swatted the incoming Amy away with his shield.
Amy bounced back like a ball, but the full force of her physical assault sent Mars’s shield-bearing arm recoiling as well.
“Kahahaha! Impressive!”
Amy corrected her trajectory before hitting the ground, landed, then zigzagged across the earth to build momentum before launching herself at Mars again.
“Amy! Stop!”
Jung Min-gi called out, but Amy, unable to maintain her composure, didn’t hear him and continued her assault.
“Ugh…”
As Amy prepared to charge again, her body wouldn’t move. Bones shattered throughout her frame, and her legs refused to obey.
Amy gazed at Mars with blazing eyes and limped forward.
“Amy, snap out of it!”
While Akiko and the Blue Dragons drew Mars’s attention, Min-gi approached Amy, but she accelerated on her broken legs.
Unlike Jung Min-gi, who calmed his mind and focused, Amy had surrendered to a state of selfless rage.
She prayed. For her body to move like lightning. To become lightning itself. To topple that cursed giant.
Amy had a perfect example before her eyes. The fire giant’s body bore human form, yet it wasn’t made of true flesh and blood. A giant of compressed flame.
Then. So could I.
In an instant, electricity erupted from Amy’s body, shattering her insulating suit, and brilliant light radiated outward.
As the radiance faded, Amy appeared transformed. Her skin had turned blue, her form ethereal like a fairy. Her body had become electricity itself. But not the chaotic, scattered sparks that flew in all directions—instead, electricity compressed into a solid, unified form.
Amy examined her hand with a smile, then launched herself toward Mars.
“Here I come!”
“Come on!”
For Mars, who fought not for a purpose but for the sake of fighting itself, Amy’s transformation was a delight.
The others had no chance to intervene. Amy’s strikes landed faster than Akiko’s Adamant weapons.
Mars parried Amy with shield and spear.
Each time Amy collided with him, Mars’s weapons chipped away bit by bit, yet he seemed genuinely overjoyed.
Just as Mars appeared to be losing ground, his eyes snapped wide open.
Realizing he’d been unconsciously targeting the same spot, Mars opened his face and thrust his spear along the incoming attack’s trajectory.
“Woman! You always aim for my face!”
“For someone so brutish, you’re not bad!”
Amy didn’t dodge the spear; instead, she accelerated. Though she’d gained new power, Mars’s pulsing energy drew out her fighting will even further.
Amy’s body ignited as she barely evaded the spear, but rather than retreat, she pressed forward, coiling around Mars’s spear and arm like a serpent climbing upward.
And with that, the blade pierced straight through Mars’s chest.
“We’ve won!”
“Excellent! Did you see the power of the United States?!”
Even in this moment, there were US Military soldiers drawing lines between nations, but no one cursed them—everyone cheered together.
Amy, who had pierced Mars’s chest, plummeted helplessly toward the ground.
“W-wait! She’s falling! Catch her!”
The supporting mages caught the falling Amy with telekinetic magic.
“Krraaahhh!!!”
Mars thrashed about in agony.
“Min-gi…”
As Amy drifted away, she called out to Jung Min-gi.
Though Mars’s pierced chest was already beginning to heal, the shockwave from his heart had ceased, so Jung Min-gi immediately entered a state of concentration.
“All units, attack! Don’t let him recover!”
The surviving Mars Allied Forces unleashed their full assault upon Mars.
“Krahaha, what a festival!”
With a hole through his heart and his body battered by attacks raining down from all directions, Mars laughed maniacally.
Then Jung Min-gi’s head lifted slightly.
“If you want to live, everyone scatter!”
At Jae-in’s command, everyone stopped their attacks and threw themselves flat to the ground.
“You dare challenge me?!”
As Mars charged forward, Jung Min-gi’s blade swept out, severing Mars’s right arm and shield diagonally from his body.
Yet his torso remained intact, and Mars thrust his spear with his remaining hand.
Jung Min-gi was equally outnumbered.
Jung Min-gi’s blade swept out once more, and Mars’s left arm, right leg, and waist were severed, and finally his head was sliced clean off.
But with only his head remaining, Mars flew at Jung Min-gi with his mouth wide open and swallowed him whole.

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