Infinite Evolution Hunter - Chapter 280

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Dozens of bombs planted by O-gun and the Exos infiltration team detonated in rapid succession.
The flames from the explosions didn’t spread horizontally or form mushroom clouds—they erupted vertically.
The fire piercing through the underground surged upward, as if the god of flames had hurled a spear down upon the surface.
It was a custom bunker buster created based on the hypothesis that the Administrator’s power source lay within this planet itself, or deep beneath its crust.
The explosion, with enough force to obliterate an S-rank monster, detonated in a circular pattern, and from above, it appeared as a ring of fire encircling the tower.
“Retreat!”
“Is this the day of ruin…?”
“Who gave that madman the bombs?!”
“I knew it from when he self-destructed on Mars!”
The warriors fighting at the front threw themselves into the mages’ shields to escape the blast.
Though the force concentrated vertically meant only a fraction spread outward, even that portion’s flames and shockwave were extraordinarily threatening.
Once evacuation was largely complete, the ground trembled from the attack piercing through it, and an earthquake erupted.
From her ship, Jae-in gazed down at the devastated Administrator’s Planet with satisfaction and boasted to the researcher about the achievement she’d accomplished.
“It’s a mana core bunker buster made by replicating a dragon heart. Creating even one takes an enormous amount of time and money, so I can’t use it whenever I please, but if not now, when?”
“Well done, Director! Wait—Director! Look there! White smoke is leaking from the southern epicenter to the surface!”
“That’s not smoke! Those are thought-forms and spirit bodies! Success! We won’t need to deal with the replica World Tree!”
Jae-in had devised several strategies to conquer the Administrator, one of which was to eliminate all the fake World Trees. The Administrator’s Dimension parasitizing the World Tree couldn’t continue without the replica World Tree. Once the replica World Tree vanished, the tumor would detach from the World Tree, and this dimension would become a delicious meal for the Destruction God.
Now that she’d struck the Administrator’s power source in the underground, that plan was no longer necessary.
“Director! The eruption has stopped!”
However, the leakage didn’t last long.
“Damn it… Did he already regain control?”
Not knowing what was happening underground, Jae-in could only assume the Administrator had contained the explosion.
“Switch to Plan 2! All mages on the ships—prioritize attacking the replica World Tree!”
Now she had no choice but to burn all the trees on the planet to detach the tumor from the World Tree. Even if it meant killing everyone here, she had to protect those who’d evacuated and Earth itself.
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The explosion on the surface shook even the deep underground, and the hole Ji-seok had descended through collapsed as soil poured down.
“My… planet… my accumulated power!”
The Administrator felt his power leaking away to the surface.
“Now you finally look like a person.”
As the Administrator, who had always looked down on people, became bewildered, Ji-seok felt the suffocation in his chest suddenly lift.
“Where did it all go wrong? How could you, from a dying dimension, possibly possess such power?”
“A creature who’s done nothing but study locked away in a cell couldn’t possibly understand human potential.”
Though Ji-seok spoke mockingly, the Administrator’s thoughts spiraled deeper, and his expression grew increasingly cold.
“Fine. Since it’s come to this, I’ll simply revise my plan. However, breaking the vessel was a mistake. You should never have cornered me like this.”
The Administrator’s white domain, which had been flickering unstably from the explosion, vanished completely.
The energy that had been flowing gradually to the Administrator from the underground until now erupted like a volcanic discharge, pouring explosively into him.
Conversely, the Administrator’s presence grew increasingly faint. Though clearly existing before him, no life force, mana, or soul could be felt.
“When everything began, I was not wise. The vessel I created then grew beyond my expectations, and fixed to this planet, I could not escape it. You’ve cost me considerable power, but in doing so, you’ve freed me from my shackles.”
All the white energy was absorbed into the Administrator, and silence descended upon the underground.
“The path to becoming a complete god has grown more distant, but I suppose I can achieve semi-divine status now.”
The Manager clenched and unclenched his fist, gauging his own power.
“…”
Ji-seok knew those words were no bluff. Though the Manager’s presence had diminished, the power flowing into him was incomparably vast—far exceeding what Metatron, Gaff, and Eres combined could muster.
“Die.”
The instant the Manager’s hand swept through the air, a force of annihilation shot forth horizontally. The sheer magnitude of this obliteration—far beyond anything before—sent an icy chill down Ji-seok’s spine.
He reflexively leaped upward, but his lower body vanished in an instant, leaving behind a deep, unfathomable wound carved horizontally across the wall.
“Ugh!”
Ji-seok regenerated his lower half while simultaneously releasing aura beams from both hands.
The Manager merely glanced at the beams, and they dissolved as if erased by that single gaze.
Before that devastating stare could reach him, Ji-seok hurled himself downward again. Barely regenerated, his left side vanished in an instant.
“Like a lizard that keeps regrowing no matter how many times you cut it.”
Watching Ji-seok regenerate once more, the Manager looked down at him as one might regard an insect.
“Tear me apart all you want. If you can’t kill me, I only grow stronger. No matter how much power you possess, killing me won’t be easy.”
At Ji-seok’s words, the semi-divine Manager’s brow furrowed.
Indeed, Ji-seok’s regeneration speed was accelerating. Before, even a fingertip’s touch of annihilation would erase an entire arm; now only the direct impact point vanished.
“Very well. Now I’ll end this.”
The Manager’s gaze shifted upward, and tens of millions of tons of earth annihilated, carving a circular passage.
“Where do you think you’re going!”
Sensing danger, Ji-seok rushed toward the Manager, but he ascended with movements that defied gravity itself.
There was no shockwave from the high-speed ascent. He simply moved—a graceful glide—yet his velocity exceeded supersonic speeds by dozens of times over.
Ji-seok pursued desperately, firing aura beams from behind, but the Manager merely turned his head and casually unleashed a gaze. The beam dissolved instantly, and that same annihilating stare targeted Ji-seok.
The narrow passage offered no escape. Unable to descend or dodge against the walls, Ji-seok crossed his arms and took the full brunt of the annihilation force.
He had only just adapted to the annihilation, yet the semi-divine Manager’s attack rendered all that adaptation meaningless.
The annihilation emanating from the semi-divine being could obliterate anything in a single instant—whether the World Tree, any entity from the Void, or any matter itself.
Ji-seok changed his approach. If he couldn’t endure it, he would simply regenerate faster.
“Aaaaaaahhhhh!!!”
Ji-seok regenerated simultaneously with annihilation, piercing through the obliteration and ascending.
Bones exposed, limbs vanishing and regrowing in endless cycles—his mind could barely function—yet his resolve to capture this creature never wavered.
“Resisting even the power that annihilates existence itself… You are dangerous. I will dispose of you without fail.”
The Manager and Ji-seok erupted onto the surface like projectiles.
“Die together with your allies.”
Rising high into the sky, the Manager unleashed a vast wave of annihilation toward the ground.
“No! Everyone, take cover!”
“All personnel, evacuate!”
Jae-in spotted the crater opening in the ground and, before even seeing the Manager, commanded the entire army to retreat based on her ominous premonition.
“Too late.”
This was not merely overwhelming strength—it was swift, with a range that covered everything.
The Manager appeared as if teleporting, and most hadn’t even reacted. If the annihilation reached the surface, not only the monsters but the allied forces would be annihilated entirely.
“I won’t allow it!”
Ji-seok unfurled his domain with a singular resolve—to protect them all.
Some might call Ji-seok soft for shielding his allies even in this final confrontation, but it was precisely because he was such a person that this many soldiers had gathered here, willing to stake their lives. Without them, he could never have fought the Administrator to this extent.
As he ascended to the surface, Ji-seok developed a faint resistance to the power of annihilation, allowing him to endure with only his armor being torn away—but the power of annihilation passed straight through his domain unimpeded.
“Damn it!”
Following the stream of annihilation descending toward the surface, Ji-seok enlarged his body as he fell. He absorbed the power of annihilation with his own form, regenerating repeatedly while continuously expanding. His body grew to the size of a colossal giant, yet still many of his allies remained in the danger zone.
Enlarging his body alone wasn’t enough—no amount of vitality could suffice, and time was running out.
Black wings erupted from Ji-seok’s back and spread wide. As the Administrator’s power of annihilation evolved, so too did Ji-seok’s regenerative power, and the enormous wings unfolded, cycling between annihilation and regeneration, spreading wide enough to blot out the sky.
The wings, grotesquely elongated compared to his body, stretched dozens of kilometers from tip to tip.
Though riddled with holes, the wings managed to block some of the annihilation’s force.
Allies and monsters not covered by the wings were annihilated, and the earth, already ravaged by earthquakes, was cleanly carved into a massive crater.
“This damnable bastard!”
A beam of life force erupted from Ji-seok’s maw toward the Administrator—a massive orb of aura as enormous as his giant body—but it too dissipated before reaching its target.
Yet it wasn’t without effect. The Administrator couldn’t exert his power in multiple places simultaneously, so the discharge of annihilation ceased.
“Resume the attack immediately!”
The mages and spirit summoners of the fleet who had survived the mysterious onslaught unleashed their attacks toward the Administrator, while dragons and combat robots soared into the sky.
“These insects refuse to surrender.”
Finding it tedious to break through Ji-seok’s interference and annihilate them one by one, the Administrator conjured burning meteors around himself.
“Creation is the divine prerogative. Consider it an honor to die by the hand of a god.”
“Meteor!”
Meteor is a summoning spell requiring multiple S-rank mages to cast for extended periods, with a long descent time before impact.
The Administrator created dozens of them with effortless ease and hurled them toward the surface.
“Deploy full battleship shields!”
As the meteors slowly descended, emergency sirens wailed across each vessel.
“We can’t deploy shields in time! We lack both mana stones and mages!”
The shields never materialized. The massive meteors fell, spawning countless smaller fireballs, leaving no gaps to escape through.
Crew members on deck trembled as they looked up at the sky.
Monsters and allies on the ground were annihilated without resistance, while the demonic-looking Ji-seok spread his wings, blocking what little sunlight remained. Above, countless massive burning meteors fell endlessly from the heavens.
“What are you doing?! It’s not over yet! Get your heads in the game!”
Jae-in’s voice pierced through like a scream.
“Combat robots! Dragon squadron! You don’t need to block everything! Just stop the big ones however you can!”
The combat robots and dragon squadron that had been charging toward the Administrator shifted their priority orders.

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