Infinite Evolution Hunter - Chapter 279

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The Administrator’s piercing gaze fixed upon me. It was merely a glance—no projectile launched, no aura discharged.
Yet my senses screamed a dire warning: I must not let that gaze touch me.
I hurled my body sideways at near-teleportation speed, and the ground where I’d stood collapsed into a gaping void.
Landing, I propelled myself toward the Administrator, drawing a blade from the back of my hand and thrusting it forward, channeling my aura through the strike.
The Administrator swept his hand, and my blade and arm along its arc simply ceased to exist.
The Administrator’s eyes widened slightly. A touch of his annihilation force should have obliterated my entire body, yet only the contacted portion vanished—my form resisted the power of oblivion.
It was proof that I, too, possessed a divine essence beyond the World Tree’s domain.
The Administrator’s hand swept toward my head once more.
I ducked low and thrust my left hand forward, only to have it meet his palm and dissolve without resistance.
It was absolute destructive power that ignored all defense. Fortunately, he wielded it through reflexes alone—he possessed no technique like Hong Long’s.
Had the Administrator possessed combat experience instead of merely lying about pursuing truth, I would surely be dead already.
I regenerated both hands instantly and thrust rapidly at him, yet he blocked with a single casual sweep of his arm from where he stood.
Recognizing the futility, I retreated and unleashed an aura beam from my mouth, but his touch erased that too.
I widened the distance. White energy still flowed from beneath the Administrator’s feet into his body. As I pondered how to sever that power, he walked toward me and spoke.
“The great cycle was nearly complete. That’s why I focused so intently. Had you simply stopped and dealt with this when you returned to the past, I wouldn’t have suffered such losses.”
The Administrator exhaled heavily.
“…You knew I went to the past?”
“Yes. The World Tree undergoes bifurcation during significant events—they occur frequently. But yours was no natural split. I couldn’t possibly overlook a phenomenon of that magnitude.”
“Was it a god who sent me?”
I had always wondered who sent me back through time.
“Probably. I don’t know why or how. Once I become a god, I’ll understand. Though by then, you’ll already be dead.”
A white space emanated from the Administrator’s body.
“Gah!”
I expanded my domain of vitality to shield myself, but as the white domain pressed in, only a paper-thin layer of my life force remained.
Fortunately, I didn’t dissolve instantly upon entering his domain. I charged at him again. If this creature survived, my comrades above and Earth itself would be in peril.
“Raaahhh!!!”
When I struck with my blade, his annihilation shattered it; when both arms vanished, I spewed venom from my mouth.
Even the poison mist—not mere aura—dissipated in the air as though striking an invisible wall.
“Within this domain, your vaunted life-force absorption means nothing.”
True to his words, once the white domain expanded, I could no longer draw vitality from the outside world.
“My power isn’t infinite, I admit. But neither is yours.”
“…”
“You’re drawing strength from beneath this planet—the power you sought to become a god. The more you expend it, the further godhood slips away.”
There was a reason he didn’t obliterate me in one stroke. The Administrator hadn’t abandoned his ascension to godhood; he was conserving his strength.
“Does knowing that change anything? My power may not be infinite, but it approaches infinity. You have no chance of victory.”
“If I can hold out, my friends outside will find a way.”
“A way? Through tens of billions of monsters? That’s beyond optimism—it’s delusion.”
“Neither I nor my companions know the meaning of surrender.”
I wrapped aura around my body, my frame swelling to twice my height. Horns sprouted as they had in the Demon Realm, followed by a tail and wings.
“You look no different from a demon.”
“I’ve met demons and angels alike, but you’re the worst of them all!”
Ji-seok charged forward.
No matter how I reinforced my body, the Administrator’s gestures and gaze sent me flying.
If I couldn’t block it, I simply regenerated faster. Faster and faster, my limbs sprouted back as if shot from a cannon. Since the Administrator couldn’t decompose everything in this space at once, I only needed to move faster than those swinging hands or that piercing gaze.
Beyond merely swinging both arms, three-pronged tails sprouted like spears, piercing the Administrator’s body. As both hands and tail flew away, I lowered my stance and swept a kick at its legs.
The Administrator took a step back for the first time, caught off guard by the low attack.
“…”
“You call yourself a god? And you’re dodging attacks?”
I never believed my attacks could kill the Administrator in one blow. But clearly, something had an effect—it definitely dodged.
I regenerated my entire body and loosened up.
“Persistent, aren’t you? I have countless ways to capture you.”
As the Administrator raised its hand as if lifting something from empty air, characters erupted from the white space. I’d never seen these symbols before, and they flew toward me.
Not knowing what would happen if they touched me, I dodged, but there were far too many of them.
The elongated part of a bizarre character came at me like a serpent from my right side, and with nowhere left to evade, I kicked at the character.
But the character didn’t shatter or fly away—instead, it clung to my foot like sticky rice, immobilizing me. The Administrator’s gaze of annihilation shot toward me.
“Tch!”
I severed my own leg with the blade on my hand, escaping both the character and the force of annihilation.
Characters swarmed from all directions. Unable to kick them away directly, I released an aura the moment they drew close, bursting through them as I charged toward the Administrator.
“Like a moth drawn to flame.”
“Even if I burn to death, I’ll take you with me!”
Countless characters flooded the space, and I unleashed rays of light, incinerating them and carving a corridor toward the Administrator.
The Administrator, as if waiting, filled the corridor I’d created with the force of annihilation. It was the largest-scale attack yet, filling a passage twice my height.
With nowhere to escape, I crossed both arms to block. The force of annihilation decomposed my body, but I regenerated at an even faster speed.
After the annihilation force receded, only my head, neck, and upper torso remained, sent flying backward. Even those remnants were in poor condition—barely flesh clinging to bone. Yet, not completely annihilated, I regenerated in an instant.
“… Persistent indeed….”
It was the Administrator’s most decisive attack, yet it hadn’t expected me to endure it.
“Nothing special.”
In truth, it was an attack powerful enough to turn my hair white, but I bluffed.
My body was adapting to that assault. If I built up just a bit more resistance, I might be able to withstand its attacks. The problem was my life force. This wasn’t mere physical annihilation—it obliterated my spiritual form and consciousness as well, draining enormous energy to regenerate. One more hit, perhaps even just one more, and I would be finished.
“This time, I’ll end this for good.”
The Administrator gritted its teeth and opened its eyes wide, preparing to unleash the force of annihilation.
In that instant, the white space trembled as if struck by an earthquake, and the boundary with reality rippled.
“What…. What is this?!”
“What else? My allies.”
“I know the locations of all your allies above me! It can’t be them!”
Though the fleet possessed formidable firepower, they were outnumbered and couldn’t spread across the entire planet—they were gathered near the Tower, fighting.
“Really? Even the Exos?”
“What?! Didn’t those creatures go to the Void above the branches?!”
“I didn’t send all of them. I specially equipped them with the Destruction God’s larvae and Kagrun’s carapace. Those Warriors, even I can’t detect them. So I thought you couldn’t either.”
When O-gun and the Warriors moved, they made only the faintest of footsteps.
High-level magic was detonating ceaselessly above them, and monsters clashed with Warriors, but even the Administrator couldn’t afford to pay attention to footsteps in such chaos.
“Ah… This won’t work!”
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Around the time Ji-seok entered the Tower, figures crawled across the ground of the Monster Planet where war had erupted, moving with deliberate stealth.
All the monsters that emerged from the Gate rushed toward the Tower, and the farther they moved from it, the lower their chances of detection became.
“O-gun, former captain.”
An Exos Warrior ahead called out to O-gun.
“Shh!”
O-gun irritably raised one finger to his lips.
“No, former captain.”
“I said be quiet! And do you really have to keep saying ‘former’?!”
“Got it. But, the direction’s wrong. It’s not this way.”
“Ah… Really?”
O-gun rotated the unfamiliar electronic tablet this way and that, checking their position.
“Damn it. You look at it. I have no idea.”
The machines of the human world and the written characters of Korea weren’t something that could be mastered with just brief training. It was even harder for Warriors who had spent their lives avoiding intellectual work.
“Ugh…”
“Hurry! Faster!”
“Ah! Why are you yelling at me when you don’t know either, captain!”
“Quiet! Do you want to get caught?!”
O-gun and his subordinates continued crawling forward even as they bickered in hushed voices.
“You heard that everything depends on our mission, right?”
“Yes!”
“Once this is done, let’s grab some plastic and celebrate.”
“Yes!”
After traveling for a while, O-gun’s group looked back. The Tower appeared very small, and the monsters were no longer visible.
“Let’s go!”
At O-gun’s command, the Exos Warriors sprang to their feet and ran.
“We’re here!”
Rather than low crawling, they reached their destination in no time.
“Good! Install what you brought!”
Following O-gun’s orders, they installed the mechanical device they’d received from Jae-in.
“Installation complete!”
“The other teams did well too, right?”
Exos had divided into multiple teams to install the devices they’d received from Jae-in.
“…They must have done well, right?”
Communication was impossible, so no one knew the status of the other teams.
“Let’s trust they did well. Everyone, get out of here!”
“What about you, hyung?”
“I’ll watch until the very end and escape just before it detonates.”
The bomb operates on a timer, so if a monster arrives and touches it before then, all our preparation will be for nothing.
“Well then, we’ll stay with you too.”
“You all….”
O-gun seemed moved, unable to continue speaking.
“Right, if something goes wrong here, we’re all finished anyway. Let’s see this through together.”
O-gun and the Warriors surrounded the device, keeping watch in all directions.
“Finally…. It’s time.”
At O-gun’s words, the Warriors nodded in unison.
“Now get out!”
O-gun and his companions all rushed away from the device at once.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!
Dozens of powerful explosions erupted. The blast force concentrated vertically, as if a spear of fire had been driven into the Monster Planet.

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