Infinite Evolution Hunter - Chapter 282

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Every soul aboard the vessel roared in unison. We fear not death, they cried. Let us charge forth at once!
Witnessing warriors who willingly sacrificed themselves for the future and their families, Jae-in felt her spine tingle with an exhilaration she had never before experienced.
“Excellent! We move! All battleships! Fire everything! Abandon all thoughts of retreat! No need for defense! We need only create a single opening!”
The vessels that had been evading the Administrator’s assault from all directions lowered their shields and charged toward him.
The main cannons roared to life, powered by the collective resolve of warriors prepared to sacrifice their very lives.
Mages and spirit summoners positioned themselves at critical nodes of the high-tier synchronized magic circles inscribed upon the ship decks, channeling their mana.
The supreme mage stationed at the circle’s center wrung every last drop of power from the assembled force, conjuring spears of flame and ice.
“Hmph! Such attacks are meaningless!”
The Administrator created a vortex of the Destruction God’s power with a single hand, absorbing the incoming dragons and combat robots, its pull now turning toward the battleships.
Even as the vessels engaged their thrusters to escape the vortex, the pull—as relentless as a black hole—warped the steel hulls, which screamed in agony.
Yet not a single ship retreated. Every crew member fired whatever ammunition they possessed at the Administrator, desperate to land even one strike.
“Let us die together, you wretched beast!”
Jae-in gritted her teeth and unleashed a barrage from her mana rifle. The bullets curved and were drawn into the vortex, yet she fired on, clinging to the hope that even one might slip through.
Ji-seok seized the precious opportunity his comrades had created, approaching the Administrator from the opposite direction of the vessel.
“Do not dare hope for another fortunate touch!”
The Administrator unleashed a vortex with one hand and the power of annihilation with the other. The pulling and pushing forces completely dominated the space.
Stone caught between the two forces split in half—the upper portion vanished, the lower shattered into fragments and was drawn inward.
There was no opening to be found.
Ji-seok assessed the vitality remaining within him. Could he truly pierce through the annihilation force and slay the Administrator with what life remained? The odds were slim.
“But I must try.”
I cannot falter here. If I flee now, I will never have another chance to capture him.
Even if Violet were to eliminate the insect gnawing at the World Tree’s branches and save Earth, he would surely return for vengeance.
Ji-seok steeled his resolve and ignited the vitality within his body, prepared to incinerate even that annihilation force itself.
Just before Ji-seok collided with the annihilation force—
“Oppa!”
“?! Bae Na-young!”
At the sound of Bae Na-young’s voice, Ji-seok halted his approach and turned. A Gate opened in the dust-shrouded sky above the Monster Planet, and Bae Na-young emerged. And Violet as well.
“Where is Ji-ho?!”
“Ji-ho and Mother are fine! Now go kill that bastard!”
Bae Na-young’s staff glowed brilliantly, conjuring a small magic circle from which a crimson tide of vitality poured forth.
The cascading vitality rushed toward Ji-seok’s body like water finding its home, and he absorbed it.
Forcibly extracted vitality is naturally difficult to absorb, allowing only minimal use. But this was refined, and he could sense the will of those who sent it.
Those who sent this vitality were willingly sharing their life force with me.
“I’ve gathered the strength of Earth’s people!”
“You…”
Sensing their will, it was not forcibly taken, but carelessly draining vitality would endanger their lives.
“Hurry! If you keep absorbing, the people will die!”
Vitality was drawn out in real time, flowing into Ji-seok.
“We’ll talk later!”
I surged forward toward the Administrator, my entire body radiating aura.
“This ends now!!!”
Like a bullet, I pierced through the broad sweep of annihilation force and closed the distance.
“You’re the one who ends!”
The Administrator withdrew the vortex that had been devouring the Fleet, concentrating the annihilation force that had scattered in all directions solely upon me.
As I drew closer, the annihilation force intensified, causing my body to dissolve faster—yet my regeneration accelerated in kind, making it appear as though I never dissolved at all.
Each time my body dissolved, my resistance to the annihilation force increased infinitesimally.
Through hundreds and thousands of regenerations, my accumulated resistance shortened the time annihilation could affect me, and by the time I closed within one hundred meters, the annihilation force no longer inflicted any damage upon my body.
“Impossible! This is the power of a god! How can you—a mere mortal—?!”
“My evolution knows no limits!”
My body no longer dissolved, yet the annihilation force still battered against me like a fierce wind, attempting to drive me back.
When the annihilation force proved ineffective, the Administrator—who had remained stationary until now, attacking both the Fleet and me—ceased his assault.
He hurled himself through the rift consumed by the vortex, into the Void beyond.
The Void was uncharted territory to me. I had to capture him here, but the distance remained.
Boom-crash-crash-boom!
“You fool! Have you forgotten about us?!”
“Pour everything into it!”
Attacks erupted from the battered vessels ravaged by the vortex, targeting the Administrator. The crew had already donned emergency spacesuits.
A half-spirit Administrator could easily withstand magic or arrows. Yet despite becoming a half-spirit, the Administrator—who had possessed a physical form until recently—remained bound by his own subconscious.
He glanced toward the ships and annihilated the attacks, but his movements slowed ever so slightly.
“Well done!”
Seizing that opening, I closed the gap and plunged my hand into his chest.
“Cough….”
The Administrator’s face twisted in agony as my hand pierced his chest. My life-force aura blazed within him, making recovery impossible.
“Damn you… finally….”
I recalled the past. The monsters he sent had slain my family, my comrades, even me. After being resurrected, how much suffering had I endured? Now, at last, it was over.
“Please… let me live. The future depends on my survival….”
“Silence. You have no right to speak of the lives you stole.”
With a sharp grip—
I seized his throat with my other hand.
“Gasp….”
I absorbed the energy from the Administrator’s body. What I could not absorb before—spirits and thought-forms—I could now decompose and absorb. If I merely killed him, some fragment might elsewhere recover its power and attack again.
“I… die like this? Not caught in the World Tree’s collapse, not by a god’s hand, but by a mere human?!”
“You were once human too. Had you not forgotten that, had you preserved the dignity of others, you would never have met such an end.”
“…Yes… this is the end.”
The Administrator released his obsession, no longer resisting my absorption.
“But… I won’t… die alone… I’ll take your child and the dimension you cherish with me….”
Yet the Administrator, unable to relinquish his final rage, left behind a curse and dissolved into nothingness.
“I’m going back!”
I rushed urgently toward the Gate through which Bae Na-young had come.
“Brother, what’s wrong?”
“He sent the Lighthouse into our dimension!”
At Ji-seok’s words, Bae Na-young’s face drained of color. She rushed through the Gate first, with Ji-seok and Violet following close behind.
“Na-young! Take Ji-ho and run!”
“Got it!”
Bae Na-young flew toward the World Tree House, while I stood atop the World Tree’s peak and gazed upward at the sky.
Earth trembled. But it wasn’t just Earth. The sun, countless planets, stars, and space itself—all shuddered in unison.
“Gaff! Send me back to the Void!”
I screamed at the heavens.
“It’s already too late. You need to escape.”
Gaff emerged through the black clouds.
“It’s not too late yet! If I go out there and absorb the Lighthouse, I can stop this!”
“It is too late. He didn’t send just one or two Lighthouses. The branches are completely covered in them, glowing crimson. The Destruction Gods are swarming mindlessly, having forgotten the World Tree’s very existence.”
Since this branch could collapse without threatening the Demon Realm itself, Gaff remained composed.
“I won’t give up. I can’t!”
“This dimension is lost. The Administrator is dead anyway—you can simply move to another dimension.”
“This is my home!”
“I understand. Your power has grown beyond what it was before fighting the Administrator. But countless Lighthouses, countless Destruction Gods—there’s nothing you can do.”
I clenched my teeth.
Is this the end?
Can we only flee? What about Earth’s people? How many can evacuate? If we start now, most won’t make it.
Can a life of wandering, stripped of nation and civilization, truly be called prosperous?
I know how the people of Metalim and the Ark have survived. Refugees can never maintain their former lives.
Finding a new world, settling it, reclaiming what we had—it would take years, perhaps decades.
But there was no other way. I squeezed my eyes shut.
“Director Baek Young-shin… evacuate everyone possible…”
“Brother!”
Bae Na-young burst into the Research Facility.
“Ji-ho—!”
Already pale from the crisis, her expression twisted further.
I moved before she could even speak.
I flew toward the World Tree House, with Bae Na-young at my heels.
“Ji-ho!”
The small boy’s body convulsed, trembling violently.
“Ji-seok! What’s wrong with him?!”
I had no mind to answer Mother’s cry. I immediately infused him with life force, but there was no response. It was neither curse nor anything I could identify.
“I’m going to the Research Facility! Mother, Mother-in-law—go with Violet!”
The trembling in my arms drove me faster. I unfolded a domain of life force to shield Ji-ho from harm and rushed into the Research Facility.
“Chairman! The Moon!”
Jae-in, who had returned to the Research Facility, pointed at the screen.
“Ji-ho first! Please look after him!”
“I’ll examine Ji-ho!”
Ye-seul and Alice clustered around Ji-ho, inspecting his condition.
“Chairman, something’s wrong. The dimensional distortion is accelerating, but the Moon’s collapse is happening too soon.”
The lunar surface fractured with deep cracks, crimson energy seeping through the fissures.
“What about Luna City’s evacuation?”
“Luna City is already empty. Earth is the real problem. We won’t have time to evacuate most people….”
On Earth, the Ark had been prepared across continents as a contingency. If we crammed everyone aboard, there was technically space for all—provisions and power could be sorted later, and at least we could escape this place. But there simply wasn’t time to load the people.
“Chairman…. Don’t burden yourself with guilt. You’ve done all you could.”
Jae-in placed a hand on Ji-seok’s shoulder, seeing his anguish.
“We’ll wait until the last moment, then relocate the Ark to another dimension. Then we’ll begin anew in a new world.”
Director Baek Young-shin made the decision to share Ji-seok’s burden and left the Research Facility first. The tasks ahead of him were unimaginably vast, and he would have to make countless difficult choices.
“How is Ji-ho?”
Ji-seok checked Ji-ho’s condition once more.
“We’ve administered sedatives and reduced the seizures, but we can’t determine the cause.”
Ye-seul wiped the sweat from Ji-ho’s brow, while Bae Na-young gripped his hand tightly.
“The Moon is collapsing!”
As a researcher’s cry rang out, the lunar surface split across the screen, and everyone’s attention snapped toward it.
The Moon fractured into several massive pieces, and from within, crimson energy erupted toward Earth. The scarlet torrent curved with precision, its trajectory shifting directly toward the World Tree Research Institute.

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