Infinite Evolution Hunter - Chapter 251

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251
“Cowardly worm….”
Bae Na-young gnashed her teeth at Bae-sho, who cowered behind me as a shield.
“Bae-sho, if you can’t even face me alone, how do you plan to handle our world?”
“If that place beyond is swarming with monsters like you, then perhaps. But Vito told me—creatures like you are extremely rare, aren’t they?”
That damned Vito was useless even in death.
“That worm holds my lifeline in his grip. Don’t resent me.”
Black energy radiated from Bae Na-young’s body. Before, I’d only thought it dark, but now that my strength had returned, I could see it was a deep, shadowy violet.
“Listen, get your head straight. You don’t care if that bastard comes and destroys Earth?”
“So you want me to die? My own survival is what matters most to me. No one ever helped me, so why should I risk my life for strangers?”
“It’s a shame. I wish I could have been by your side when things were hard.”
“That’s all meaningless talk.”
“Os-na.”
Bae-sho seized Bae Na-young’s life vessel.
“Kgh….”
“Don’t waste time. You know I can kill you without mercy, don’t you?”
“Fine…. Life Drain!”
Under Bae-sho’s threat, Bae Na-young clenched her teeth and cast Life Drain. Her black aura whipped toward me like a lash, coiling around my casually raised arm.
“Why…. didn’t you dodge?”
“What for?”
“Pity? Or overconfidence? Either way, it doesn’t matter. It’s over now.”
Bae Na-young’s expression turned bitter as she drained my life force through the connected whip.
“Foolish move. In this land, not only does life not naturally regenerate—you lose what you already have.”
“Are you worried about me?”
“Madman. If you weren’t…. Haa…”
Os-na closed his eyes mid-sentence, savoring the concentrated life force he’d obtained after so long.
The sunken cheeks that had caved in without flesh filled out, and ashen skin flushed with color.
“To pour this much life force into a Lich’s body—you’re no ordinary human after all. But…. how are you not dead?”
“Who knows?”
Life force enough to fill several Liches was pouring into me.
“Os-na?! What are you doing?!”
“Tch…. Mind Control!”
As Bae Na-young attempted a mental attack through the whip following Life Drain, black energy surged from my head.
“Whoosh!”
I dispersed that mana with a gentle breath.
“What exactly are you….”
I shrugged my shoulders.
Now emboldened, Bae Na-young created a mana spear in midair without waiting for Bae-sho’s command.
As expected from the same person, the technique was no different from what my wife Bae Na-young used. However, unlike my wife’s mana sphere, crafted cleanly without waste, the exiled Witch’s spear was withered and bristled with thorns.
Skills reflect one’s mental world exactly. That desiccated branch of a spear revealed fragments of the path she had walked.
I had no time to admire the twisted mana sphere before it shot toward me.
The sharp spear spiraled through the air as if it would pierce my body effortlessly, but it vanished before reaching me.
“Os-na! Why did you dispel the spear?! Do you want to die?!”
“You stupid insect! Can’t you see that?!”
The aura of vitality I unleashed transformed into a domain, consuming the spear and spreading toward where Bae Na-young and Bae-sho stood. Even non-Hunters could perceive a domain of vitality, yet Bae-sho seemed to see nothing.
Bae Na-young took a step back.
“Os-na! Protect me!”
Bae-sho seized Bae Na-young’s Life Vessel and threatened her.
“How can I?! You fool! That’s not a power humans can use!”
Despite her defiant words, Bae Na-young couldn’t break free from Bae-sho’s grasp.
“Damn dogs! Two men ganging up on me?! If that’s how it is, you all die!”
Black energy swirled violently from Bae Na-young’s body, threatening to consume me, Bae-sho, and even herself in its vortex.
“Damn it!”
Bae-sho hurled the Life Vessel to the ground and fled backward.
Bae Na-young’s soul leaked from the shattered Vessel, exposed to Kagrun’s atmosphere.
In this world where souls do not exist—a world without Heaven or Demon Realm—the soul simply disperses and vanishes.
“So pathetically….”
Watching my domain of vitality spread before her and her own soul scatter behind her, Bae Na-young squeezed her eyes shut.
The mana storm she had created erupted, consumed by my domain of vitality as it filled the entire space.
Bae Na-young’s domain of vitality swallowed the mana tempest, filling the space completely.
“Aaaahhhhh!!”
My domain pierced through Bae-sho’s carapace, incinerating the Exos’s eyes, nose, flesh, and organs entirely. Yet the carapace remained.
“…Why won’t you kill me?”
Bae Na-young, who had entered the domain yet remained alive, asked.
“What kind of husband kills his wife?”
“…Did I marry you?”
Bae Na-young’s expression darkened sharply.
“That hurts. Please manage your expression better.”
“My Life Vessel is shattered. Even if you don’t kill me, I’m dead. And you want me to smile?”
Bae Na-young’s expression had already surrendered to despair.
“Well… it’s too early to give up. Look at that.”
Within my domain, Bae Na-young’s soul maintained its form without scattering.
I breathed vitality into Bae Na-young’s body and drew near to her soul.
“What is that? It’s already over. Once a soul leaves, it can’t be recaptured.”
As Bae Na-young spoke, I gently cradled her spherical soul in both hands.
“You… caught it? A human? A soul?”
Bae Na-young’s eyes widened as if they might burst from her skull.
I had traversed the boundaries between the Demon Realm and Heaven, playing tag with souls. Catching a soul was something I could do with my eyes closed.
I carefully brought Bae Na-young’s soul toward her chest.
“H-hey! What are you doing?! And you idiot! Do you think a soul just sticks back in like that?!”
Bae Na-young wrapped both arms around her chest and stepped back.
“Don’t just get angry—try to help me out. Are you really going to let me die?”
True to form, Bae Na-young’s emotions swung wildly.
Just as I was about to give up, she seemed to glimpse a thread of hope. She wielded the short wand she possessed, and a magic circle far larger than the room unfurled around her.
“And if you had this kind of trick, you should’ve mentioned it earlier!”
Light flashed from the magic circle, and a serpent crawled forth from the shattered Life Vessel. The serpent soared through the air, coiling around Bae Na-young’s soul in my hand, then rose gently and slipped into her heart.
“Phew….”
Her soul settled back into her body once more.
“So I’m human again now?”
No matter that this was Bae Na-young from another dimension, I disliked that she had become a Lich.
“It’s not that simple. Her soul hasn’t fully bonded with her body. But we can fix that later once we escape this place…. Thank you.”
Unused to thanking anyone, she bowed her head awkwardly, just barely.
“It’s nothing. Let’s go back now.”
“What about your subordinates?”
“Ah.”
“You forgot, didn’t you?”
“No. What about you? Don’t you have people to bring from Cagron?”
“I’ve already put those who agreed to come with me in my pocket.”
Bae Na-young tapped her infinite pouch lightly.
“Hmm…. Let’s go to the prison to get O-gun.”
Ignoring Bae Na-young’s cold stare, I headed to the Underground Prison.
“Boss! Why are you so late! We thought you’d abandoned us!”
O-gun, who had stretched one eye out through the prison door’s opening, shouted.
“I didn’t abandon you. I didn’t.”
“You were about to just leave and forget about us.”
Bae Na-young said casually.
“I knew it! Boss~!!!”
“You…. I saved you, and this is how you repay me?”
Bae Na-young whipped her head around.
“All of you, get in here.”
I pointed to the small infinite pouch Bae Na-young held.
“But, is this really okay?”
O-gun looked between me and the pouch alternately.
“The inside is wider than you’d think. We don’t have time, so hurry up and get in.”
“Ah, take off your carapace.”
Bae Na-young said.
“Huh?! Naked? Why?”
“Why indeed? Even if it’s cramped, we can fit this many, can’t we?”
“I need to bring all my subordinates with us.”
O-gun’s eyes wavered with anxiety as his mouth twitched.
“Former boss. Let’s go. The new boss will protect us, won’t she?”
The Warriors who had already removed their carapaces placed their hands on O-gun’s shoulders.
O-gun nodded and removed his carapace, then took a deep breath.
“I’m coming!”
As O-gun rushed forward, Bae Na-young extended her pouch, and he was sucked right in.
“Ooooh!! It’s sorcery!”
The remaining Warriors gasped at the sight they’d never witnessed before.
“Quiet. Get in, now.”
Bae Na-young urged the Warriors onward, and they quickly collected all the underground Warriors at an accelerating pace.
“How do we get back now?”
“Where is the World Tree seed?”
“Here.”
I retrieved the seed from my pouch and placed it in my palm.
“Good. This is our coordinates. We’ll cross using the power of Kagrun expelling the gas accumulated underground.”
“Gas? Like a volcanic eruption?”
“More like excretion. Kagrun is alive, after all.”
“Alive? A living creature?”
“You didn’t know? You kept making noise, and it writhed every time we pulled the World Tree.”
“Do the people of this world know about it?”
“Only as myth. But Kagrun is alive. It’s simply waiting to hatch.”
“What will something this massive become?”
“Does that matter? We need to hurry.”
I flew across Cagron’s sky to move forward.
“Wait! It won’t work!”
ROOOOOAAARRR!!!!!
A white vapor eruption appeared ahead in our flight path.
“No… No! No!”
Bae Na-young’s face contorted in despair.
“What? Why?”
“…It’s over.”
“What do you mean?”
“That was the eruption.”
“So? We can just wait for the next eruption, right?”
“Eruptions don’t happen that frequently. In all my time in this world, I’ve only seen three.”
“Then we just need to wait a bit, don’t we?”
“I’ve been in this world for two hundred years in Earth time. I can force and accelerate it somewhat, but now I’ll have to wait several more decades.”
“Two hundred years… You’ve been here longer than I thought?”
“A man like you is my spouse? Is something wrong with me in that world?”
“Don’t speak carelessly of my wife.”
“Hmph.”
“Then I’ll do this my way.”
“What are you planning?”
“Since I don’t know the direction, I’ll just fly out. Hold on.”
“Fly? This space is completely separated from the dimension we came from! There’s no way such a crude method could work!”
“So you want us to sit here and wait for decades? I need to leave quickly too, but your soul is unstable.”
“…”
“I’m not patient enough for that. I do what I can. And it’s not impossible—I’m still drawing power from Earth right now. That means my strength can reach that distance.”
Bae Na-young pouted but listened to me without protest.
“And my friends on Earth will figure out a way too.”
“You seem to have considerable faith in your companions.”
I could see old wounds etched across Bae Na-young’s face.
“I don’t know what you’ve endured. But if you come with me, I won’t let you suffer like that again.”
“All right. Let’s go.”
Bae Na-young, who had been sitting on the ground, took my hand and stood up.

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