Infinite Evolution Hunter - Chapter 269

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269
[Human woman. Weren’t you supposed to handle the Flame Dragon?]
Arnabel responded to Amy’s desperate plea for help.
“Your Majesty, how can you forget something like that?! Please, help me!”
[I cannot leave this place right now.]
“Please! If this continues, it’s all over!”
The Water Force was already stretched thin, and if she fell here too? Victory in the coming war seemed impossible.
“Ah….”
But no matter how strong her will, her body had no mana left.
The concentrated barrage from the Flame Dragon’s attacks unraveled my electrification starting from my fingertips and toes, and my body began dissolving into the Spirit Realm. There was no time to reach Arnabel’s Heart Chamber for recovery.
Like a lantern in the night, the faces of people on Earth flickered before me—my mother, my father, my troublemaking younger brother, Ji-seok and my colleagues, Min-gi still collapsed and unrecovered, and Marbas.
“I guess I can’t play anymore….”
Amy watched her dissolving hands, gave up, and closed her eyes.
Then lightning struck Amy’s head.
“What…. What is this?!”
Amy’s eyes snapped open in shock, and she scanned her surroundings frantically. Power surged through her body. All damaged parts were restored, and electricity overflowing within her body roiled around her, pushing back the flames.
[I helped you as you requested.]
“But you just said you couldn’t help!”
[I said I couldn’t go there directly, not that I wouldn’t help. Earth is one of the dimensions that uses the most electricity from the World Tree. I informed the Lightning Spirit King of its importance.]
“Thank you!”
[Shouldn’t you be thanking me instead of Arnabel?]
“…Lightning Spirit King?”
There was a pale blue squirrel crackling with electricity.
[What? Are you disappointed because I’m smaller than the Water Spirit King?]
“No. It’s not about size.”
[That comment is really irritating….]
“So, will you defeat that dragon for me now?”
[Are you insane? You’ll incur the Fire Spirit King’s wrath. I’ll lend you my power, so you handle it yourself.]
“Thank you!”
I would have preferred if he defeated it directly, but I was already overflowing with power. I could fight again.
[Here, now I’ll give it to you.]
“Huh? You haven’t given it yet?”
[That from before? That was just a fraction of my power from getting close. The real power starts now.]
The Lightning Spirit King’s fur stood on end, and electricity discharged from his tail, flowing into Amy.
“Kyaaaaa!!!”
From the intense electrical current, Amy’s body crackled and burned in places.
“Ah…. It hurts!”
[Your electricity isn’t pure, so the impurities are burning away. Endure it.]
Amy couldn’t focus through the pain. If the exhilaration from the new power hadn’t been greater than the suffering, she likely wouldn’t have survived it.
Though it lasted only seconds, to Amy it felt like hours.
At last, the impurities burned away completely, and her electrified body became even smoother, its radiance brightening.
“The world looks different. It feels like my body is floating.”
Nothing in this world could bind her anymore. Everything moved in slow motion. Had she not concentrated, she would have sworn the world had stopped entirely.
[Now you could be called the embodiment of lightning itself. Stay strong. I want to live a long life as the Lightning Spirit King.]
“Leave it to me!”
Amy rushed forward with her accelerated body. The Fire Spirits couldn’t even track her with their eyes.
As Amy passed through, she tapped the heads of countless spirits in quick succession.
“Whew!”
Amy slowed her pace and caught her breath.
The Fire Spirits whose heads she had touched as she ran past were electrocuted one after another and scattered.
“Now it’s your turn.”
Amy fixed her gaze on the Flame Dragon, and it stared back at her with burning eyes before unleashing flames from its maw.
“You’re too slow to catch me!”
Amy dodged the flames and flew toward the Flame Dragon’s head.
The Flame Dragon’s pupils tracked Amy’s trajectory with agonizing slowness, but its body couldn’t follow her movements at all.
Amy was certain of victory and confidently extended her fist toward the Flame Dragon’s head.
Just before Amy’s fist made contact with the Flame Dragon’s head, its body released a wave of fire.
“Kyaaah!”
Amy was helplessly pushed backward by the wave of flames spreading in all directions, barely managing to regain her footing.
“What is that?!”
The Flame Dragon was no mere lizard that only breathed fire from its mouth.
The colossal beast rushed forward, continuously releasing waves of fire that shattered the Water Realm.
No matter how much stronger and faster she became, if she couldn’t approach through the dragon’s waves, it was meaningless.
“More, more, stronger!”
She recalled the experience of boosting through willpower during the race with Marbas—the memory of flying toward Space.
Now she had far more power than then.
If she defeated the Flame Dragon, Dolphin would handle the rest. She had absolute faith that he would purify the water well on Earth and strengthen the Water Force.
“This is where I shine.”
Amy decided not to think about what came after.
Only one thought consumed her: pierce through the Flame Dragon’s waves and penetrate that head. She focused with singular determination and gathered her strength.
As Amy concentrated, the Water Spirits threw themselves forward to shield her from the waves.
Blue particles of light swirled and wrapped around her body in spiraling patterns.
“Here I go!”
Amy explosively released the power she had gathered and surged forward.
In an instant, light flashed brilliantly, and Amy vanished.
“Huh?”
Then Amy appeared on the opposite side of the Flame Dragon’s head.
“Why am I here? The Flame Dragon…?”
The Flame Dragon, startled, was turning its head toward Amy when a brilliant blue line of electricity streaked between where Amy had been and where she now stood.
Boom!
And in that instant, the Flame Dragon’s head exploded.
“Wow! Did you see?! Dolphin?! Did you see that?!”
Amy bounced around in excitement.
If I had pierced through the shockwave and struck its head directly, it might have lost all its power and died. But when I performed that spatial jump just moments ago, my body sustained no damage, and my mana loss was minimal.
[I saw.]
Kurban, normally taciturn, showed little reaction.
“Hmph. Boring.”
[Grrr…grrrrgh….]
The Flame Dragon, having survived with half its head blown away, shrank its body size while regenerating its head.
Then it drew in the Fire Spirits around it with a powerful suction force.
“I hate it when you get all slimy like that!”
Amy gathered her power once more.
Having grasped the technique, I appeared and disappeared repeatedly around the Flame Dragon, jumping from one point to another in rapid succession.
The Flame Dragon’s shockwaves and heat could not catch up to her.
“See you~”
Amy appeared before the Flame Dragon’s eyes and casually blew a kiss.
The Flame Dragon opened its maw wide to swallow Amy, but she did not dodge.
Zzzzzzzt!
Lightning spears pierced through the Flame Dragon’s body in succession, and its movement came to an abrupt halt.
Boom!
With a violent impact, the Flame Dragon’s body shattered into fragments.
Since the Flame Dragon had consumed all the Fire Spirits, there was no longer any force to oppose the Water Spirits, and the occupation of this territory was accomplished in an instant.
“Yes!”
[Well done. If Earth uses more electricity, you’ll be able to receive more power.]
The Lightning Spirit King, who had been hiding, emerged.
“Perfect! Since Ji-seok said he’d purify the water, we’ll have no choice but to use more electricity.”
Amy’s prediction was correct.
After Ji-seok kindly made his request to the entire world, the use of fossil fuels and nuclear energy was restricted, and the only available sources were magical stone energy and renewable power generation.
And renewable power generation inevitably came with increased electricity consumption.
Amy moved directly to the next stronghold.
Intoxicated by her overflowing power, she cried out as she ran between the Fire Spirits, but her voice was drowned out by her incredible speed—only the crackling of electricity could be heard.
When Amy stopped, a line of lightning was drawn along her path of movement, and the Fire Spirits caught within it scattered to pieces.
“How was that?! Fast, right?! Amazing, right?!”
[Yes. Impressive. Once we capture just a few more strongholds, I’ll step forward and settle things with Ignis.]
“What about my friend?”
[If that child is alive, she will be in the Deepest Level of the Fire Realm.]
“She’s alive. I’ll go rescue her.”
[Not you, nor even the Lightning Spirit King could evade the Fire Spirit King’s gaze in the Deepest Level of the Fire Realm. Wait until I deal with the Fire Spirit King.]
Though worried, even Amy had to admit that charging alone at an opponent so formidable that even this mighty Water Spirit King was cautious would be reckless.
“I understand….”
I could stake my life to save Baldri, but I had no intention of throwing myself away recklessly.
After that, Amy and Kurban continued to seize critical strongholds.
[This is the last one. Once we take this, Ignis will be isolated and weakened.]
The final stronghold was several times larger than the other outposts.
“Excellent!”
Amy entered through the breach first and dealt with the Fire Spirits, followed by the Water Spirits pouring in.
As the occupied territory expanded and Earth’s waters grew cleaner, the numbers of Water Spirits swelled exponentially, becoming a vast army incomparable to their initial force.
With their overwhelming numbers, Kurban didn’t even need to give orders. He too sprayed water and joined the assault. Though his combat strength wasn’t exceptional, he surpassed the lower-tier Water Spirits.
“This is the end!”
Amy charged toward the last remaining Fire Spirit.
“A bird?”
The Fire Spirits had been reptiles—frogs, snakes, lizards—but the last one was a Fire bird.
The bird flew straight toward Amy.
[Human! Evade!]
Kurban’s voice boomed with rare intensity. At that cry, Amy felt a chilling presence from the bird and hastily reversed course, sprinting backward.
As the Fire bird flew, its body swelled and transformed. The massive Fire Spirit—with a dragon’s skeletal frame and a bird’s feathers—tore through the Water Realm and continued to expand.
The torn Fire Realm and overflowing Water Realm merged, birthing a colossal space.
[Spirit King! Fire!]
“The Fire Spirit King? That thing?!”
[How dare you turn your back on me.]
Roooaarrr!!
The Spirit King unleashed a torrent of flames toward Amy.
The inferno’s power and range were incomparable to the Flame Dragon. It evaporated the very essence of water, turning everything it touched crimson.
Amy gazed upon the Fire Spirit King and commended herself for not rushing in recklessly. This was an entity she could not defeat, no matter how much her abilities had grown.
[Are you a Spirit Mage?]
The Fire Spirit King showed faint interest, observing Amy as she moved swiftly to evade the flames.
“No… well?”
[Why has such a feeble human come to this place?]
“Please leave Earth alone.”
[Earth? Ah, the dimension you hail from?]
“Yes. The people are suffering. Could you stop?”
[To abandon the pursuit of life’s purpose?]
“How is burning Earth your life’s purpose?”
[Amusing. You humans burned everything in this world, so we caught the scent of Earth. Had you remained still, we would never have sought it out. And now you demand we cease?]
“But if you do, Earth will be destroyed, and all the things Fire Spirits love to burn will vanish too.”
[Fire burns. That is our reason for existence.]
The temperature difference between us was far too great.
Ignis, showing no will to converse further, began unleashing flames once more.

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