Infinite Evolution Hunter - Chapter 250

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250
Ten million Armet worms capable of turning humans into zombies pouring onto Earth was nothing short of a nightmare.
Our world already had plenty of enemies, and adding creatures like these would only complicate matters further. Even if I couldn’t return, I had to stop them at all costs.
“Bae-sho! Didn’t you say you wanted peace?!”
Vito’s blade came slashing toward me, but I had grown accustomed to evading it. His sword was far too transparent—stripped of will by the Armet’s influence.
“Of course I do. I want peace. If your kind willingly surrenders the resources we desire, there would be no need to use the Armet at all.”
“That’s called plunder!”
His words and actions were worlds apart. He spoke of peace, yet his movements prepared for war, and madness gleamed in his eyes.
After evading Vito’s blade, I charged forward to land a punch on Bae-sho’s scribble-covered face.
“Not so fast!”
Bae-sho scratched his ritual vessel, and Vito hurled himself between us.
“I expected as much!”
Vito could only follow simple commands. In this case, protecting Bae-sho was his directive, and he had rushed to intercept me with his stance compromised.
I delivered a side kick to the off-balanced Vito.
He didn’t dodge—instead, he raised his blade defensively.
A chill ran through my entire body from foot to head. I forcibly halted my kick mid-strike and leaped backward.
The tip of my foot that had grazed his blade vanished cleanly, as if severed.
“Good instincts. That’s right. Anything that touches this blade ceases to exist. I’ve borrowed the power of a Beast that devours existence itself.”
This cursed blade was flawless in both offense and defense.
It was a troublesome weapon to face, but I had already grasped the full extent of its capabilities.
As I retreated, Vito’s blade pursued me like a serpent, burrowing through the air.
I quickly shifted direction to keep Bae-sho in sight, then kicked a stone from the ground and hurled it at him.
Vito’s blade bisected the rock I’d thrown. It wasn’t merely cut—the middle section simply vanished, consumed entirely.
Vito prioritized defending Bae-sho over attacking me. Seizing the moment when his body rotated, I closed in again and drove my fist toward his ribs.
Vito pulled his blade back to defend, but my fist reached his ribs first.
Clang!
Yet his body was hard—as if I’d struck the body of Chon, one of Exos’s strongest members.
“Did you think the blade was all I had?! Foolish! Inside my masterpiece’s body, I’ve packed countless strongworms. You might be able to cut his skin, but his body is absolutely impenetrable!”
Bae-sho spoke with pride.
Beneath the skin where my fist had landed, hundreds of long worms writhed before settling.
“What do you think humans are…”
“Don’t misunderstand. I didn’t cast the ritual because he’s an Outer. This human named Vito simply accepted the ritual exceptionally well. All the other Exos members are dead.”
This maniac was equally insane regardless of species—I understood that much.
“Now, stop resisting and cooperate in entering your world. I need talented individuals.”
“As if I’d let someone like you set foot in my world!”
I kicked stone fragments from the ground at Bae-sho, each infused with aura to make them a genuine threat. Vito’s blade moved to intercept the fragments again. I closed in once more and delivered a low kick to his thigh.
It was harder than kicking an iron pillar would have been.
“Kahahaha! Didn’t I tell you it wouldn’t work?! The strongworms spreading throughout his entire body boast the greatest hardness among all Beasts!”
The hilt of Vito’s blade came flying at my head.
I seized his wrist and stopped him.
I tried to press down, but the beast called Kangseong-chung seemed to bolster Vito’s strength, and even in a contest of raw power, I couldn’t gain the upper hand.
Vito’s eyes came into focus. Within those murky pupils, I saw despair and defeat.
“Rest now.”
Through his wrist, I absorbed his life force.
Naturally, when life force is stolen, one dies. That’s why living opponents—especially the strong ones—lock their life force away tightly to protect it.
But Vito, who had lost the will to live and become a zombie, had life force as open as a warehouse with its doors flung wide.
“No! My masterpiece!”
The sword in his hand clattered to the ground, and Bae-sho let out a wail as Vito withered and twisted before his eyes.
“Go well. I’ll make good use of your life force.”
“My sister….”
“!”
Vito regained consciousness for a moment.
“Please….”
With those words, Vito collapsed to the ground.
“I can’t make that promise.”
From his crumbling body, Kangseong-chung writhed, but as the host had died, the beast soon ceased its movements.
Vito, once a powerhouse, had possessed considerable life force even in his zombie state. Thanks to that, my recovery exceeded one-fifth of my original total life force.
“How is this connected….”
A thin, crimson thread of life force stretched from my head into the black sky.
In Kagrun, the life force that leaked away even while standing still was being replenished by this crimson thread.
I grasped the fluttering crimson thread and closed my eyes.
Detailed information still wasn’t being transmitted through the crimson thread, but I could sense it had weakened as it wound its way across the vast distance to reach me.
I poured my life force into pulling the crimson thread toward me.
The thread twanged and snapped as I forcibly broke through the obstructions in its path, and the twisted knots loosened slightly.
Like a dam bursting, life force cascaded down into my body.
Until now, the supply of life force had been barely enough to breathe, but now tens and hundreds of times that amount flooded into me.
Boom!
Chon leaped down from his viewing platform. With the high gravity in this place, his landing resonated with tremendous force.
“Hahahaha! Bae-sho! Your slave lost to my slave! How pathetic!”
I ignored Chon and shouted at the dejected Bae-sho.
“That’s right. The one who made me a slave is here.”
“Still here?! You should leave now. The masters have things to discuss.”
Chon waved his hand dismissively at me.
“I’ve been here so long, my body got a bit compressed.”
As the crimson thread transformed into a crimson waterfall and spread thinly as a domain around my body, my skills returned. I straightened my body, which had been crushed by gravity, and fully recovered, my entire form wrapped in armor.
Now that I had broken through the interference in my life force connection, Kagrun could no longer seal my abilities. If Kagrun was the deep sea, then the life force pouring into me was like an oxygen hose.
The only regret was that the situation on Earth still wasn’t being shared with me. But seeing that life force was being sent, it was clear they were safe.
“Ah, now I feel alive.”
Chon flinched at the sight of me in armor, but realizing his own tension, his expression twisted in anger.
“A slave who defies my orders this many times is worthless. Now die.”
He had consumed a substantial amount of superior-grade rare stones, and his body had become even more solidified than before.
Chon struck his thick chest carapace, and the shockwave concentrated directly toward me. It was several times more powerful than last time, and if I hadn’t recovered my strength, it would have been enough to shatter me into pieces with a single blow.
It was an enviable species—to advance this much in just a few days simply by consuming rocks.
I raised my right hand and drew a blade from the back of my hand, launching it forward.
Boom!
“Huh… It didn’t penetrate?”
The blade I had fired was embedded in his chest carapace. I hadn’t expected even a sword imbued with this much aura could be blocked.
“Cough… This… is… impossible… Superior-grade rare stones…”
Chon collapsed forward right then and there.
“Father!!!”
Rockrel came rushing out belatedly.
“Recovery… Recovery…”
Rockrel brought a yellow rare stone to Chon’s mouth, but Chon was already dead.
“Father? And yet you received such treatment?”
“You ungrateful wretch!”
Rockrel attempted to use his ability to pull my body toward him, but my body remained rooted to the ground as if anchored.
“Gratitude?”
“If I had left you alone, you would have died! Is taking you in not a kindness?!”
Rockrel gave up pulling and threw his own body at me instead.
With both angular force and gravitational force, Rockrel came at me like a ray of light.
But now that I could even dodge actual light rays, his speed was slow enough to make me yawn.
I threw a punch at Rockrel’s face as he came flying.
Rockrel was startled and applied repulsive force to both his face and my fist, but it was futile.
The power in my punch exceeded Rockrel’s entire weight and acceleration, sending him flying pathetically and crashing to the ground.
No matter how special an ability is, an overwhelming difference in power renders it meaningless.
“You enslaved humans and speak of kindness?”
“Father’s… grudge…”
Rockrel struggled to his feet and reached into his pocket.
“Die…”
And he crushed Met right before my eyes.
“…What?”
“Do you know what aura is? I burned the worm in my head with aura long ago by expanding my domain. You little worm bastard.”
“Aaaahhhhh!!!”
I kicked Rockrel’s head as his body twisted and writhed in agony.
Rockrel’s head flew far away like a ball, and his body went limp.
Looking back, Bae-sho had already fled somewhere, but once I left this world, there would be no reason to see him again.
Now all that remained was to escape this world with Os-na and O-gun’s group.
As my strength returned, my ability to detect life force also returned, so finding Os-na wasn’t difficult.
However, Os-na’s life force detected at the entrance to the Underground Prison was far too faint.
“…How is he even alive with such weak life force?”
As her presence drew closer, I realized she wasn’t alone.
“I didn’t expect you to become this strong after regaining your power.”
Bae-sho stood behind Os-na, and Bae Na-young, her mask removed, clenched her teeth so hard that the tendons in her jaw stood out.
“Did you lose the Life Vessel?”
I ignored Bae-sho and asked Bae Na-young directly. Her body contained only the faintest spark of life, no different from the undead.
Before reclaiming my power, I wouldn’t have sensed it, but now it was unmistakably clear. She had abandoned her humanity to survive in Cagron.
“Yes. Will you mock me for becoming a Lich? For allowing this worm to steal my lifeline?”
“Not at all. In a world like this, there was no other way to survive. The fact that you’ve made it this far is remarkable. But… how long have you been here?”
The state of the soul within the vessel was deteriorating. I knew this from Vito’s world. This was what happened when a soul lived far beyond its natural lifespan.
“Too long. That much is certain.”
“Now then, save your reunion for when you return to your world. Os-na, open the gate to the new world! In this new realm, all will live in peace!”
“What nonsense. Did you get a worm implanted in your head too?”
“A pity. That a righteous human like you cannot comprehend my purpose. Os-na. Eliminate the interference.”
As I advanced, Bae-sho clutched the vessel and retreated behind Bae Na-young, whose sharp gaze fixed upon me.

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