Infinite Evolution Hunter - Chapter 91

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I threw a punch targeting a single weak point, and it connected. The Blue Dragon lost his balance.
Tangled together, we plummeted like a crashing aircraft, smashing through the frozen ogres below.
The public imagines battles between dragons and S-rank hunters as elegant affairs—magic clashing with aura, graceful and magnificent. But I’d dragged this blue beast into a brawl. Against an opponent wielding dragon tongue magic and breath attacks, maintaining distance would put me at a disadvantage since I lacked ranged options. So I closed in.
Even after the fall, I stayed glued to the Blue Dragon’s body, driving short, rapid punches into the same spot.
It raked its claws across my back, trying to dislodge me from its body.
Despite my aura armor, the claws carved furrows across my back like a plowed field. But the force wasn’t enough to pierce bone and reach my organs.
I’d hoped the blood from my back would corrode its claws, but of course—it was a dragon. Its talons remained pristine.
Even as it gouged my back, arms, and throat repeatedly, it regenerated the wounds without hesitation, continuing to hammer me with its fists.
[Enough of this! Freeze!]
Deciding the situation was dire, the Blue Dragon conjured an ice storm around us with dragon tongue magic.
The intense cold froze my body from the surface inward.
I radiated heat in response. My warmth couldn’t eliminate the cold entirely, but it prevented my body from freezing solid. I never stopped punching.
[You… monster! Die now!]
It swung its tail. The grotesque whip-like appendage, studded with blade-sharp segments, tensed and transformed into a gleaming sword.
I tried to evade, but focused entirely on melting my arms and torso, my body wouldn’t respond quickly enough.
The icy blue blade pierced my back and drove clean through, emerging from my chest. My lungs were punctured, my heart grazed. Without my S-rank mental fortitude skill, I’d have lost consciousness from the agony. Without my evolved body, this single blow would have killed me.
“Brother!”
From a distance, Bae Na-young cast Corruption and hurled mana spheres, but they had no effect on the Blue Dragon’s scales. It didn’t even acknowledge her, perhaps because its eyes were magically defended against that weakness. After all, once I was dead, she’d be no match for it.
Watching the Blue Dragon’s tail protrude from my chest, pain and heat surged through me, but the only effective way to attack was to brutishly strike with aura. My speed had dropped dramatically, but I kept throwing punches.
I generated heat to resist the relentless cold, regenerated wounds, and attacked with aura—my life force draining rapidly. I was absorbing minute amounts of life force from its body to replenish myself, but it stopped offering it freely. It protected its own vitality, and what I could absorb plummeted.
I saw a confident smile in its eyes—the smile of certain victory.
My greatest weakness was the absence of skills. In other words, I had no attack method beyond direct aura strikes. Knowing this for some time, I’d spent the past months searching for a solution.
I’d tried shaping aura into blade-like forms on my knuckles to serve as weapons, but attacking with aura alone, without a base weapon, was far less effective. The difference between wrapping aura around a suitable weapon and bare-handed strikes was enormous.
If bare aura alone could be powerful, Jung Min-gi would have fought with aura blades formed from his bare hands.
I’d tried several weapons afterward, but lacking a class, the power of aura-wrapped weapons differed little from aura blades formed on my knuckles.
I’d concluded I had to create weapons from my own body. So whenever I had time, I’d practiced imagery training—reshaping bone and armor into weapons—but never once succeeded.
But if not now, when? At this rate, I die. Do I die alone? Bae Na-young, desperately casting spells behind me, dies too. If this cursed lizard melts all the ogres, reclaims its power, and exits through the Gate, everyone outside dies as well.
Staring at the Blue Dragon’s tail protruding from my chest, I craved—more intensely than ever before—a weapon like its own, the strength to kill it.
I wished my hands were blades.
Crack!
[Screeeee!!!]
As my right fist struck its belly, I felt a sensation different from striking an unyielding wall.
Curious, I lowered my fist and saw a blade jutting from my knuckles. Like the Blue Dragon’s tail, it was composed of multiple segments, but they were rigidly aligned into a single, unified sword.
Matching my knuckle’s width, the blade extended roughly the length of my hand along my arm’s axis. Though I called it hand-length, given my massive eight-meter frame, the actual length approached a meter.
A thin layer of aura wrapped around it, possessing the power to pierce even a dragon’s scales.
This was it. This would work.
I drove it deeper into the Blue Dragon’s agonized body with force. Bit by bit, the blade sank further into its flesh.
[Argh! Die!]
It unleashed its breath directly at me, clinging to its belly. No matter how much heat I generated, taking the breath head-on, my body began freezing instantly.
The weapon I’d hastily forged froze solid against its body, then shattered under its thrashing.

This was an attack the creature accepted would cost it dearly. The blue light within its chest had nearly vanished, and the breath’s frigid cold had frozen even itself, yet it refused to stop the breath—determined to end this battle with this final assault.
With what little vitality remained, I generated heat and clung to life with stubborn desperation, but my reserves were nearly exhausted. The cold crept steadily into my mind.
[SCREEEEEECH!]
With the creature’s cry, the breath ceased.
‘What… is that?’
Straining to look up, I saw dark holes bored through the creature’s eyes.
In that moment, Bae Na-young’s Corruption—evolved during our battle—concentrated its power upon the Blue Dragon’s eyes, boring through them like a magnifying glass focusing sunlight into a beam that necrosed everything it touched.
[I’ll kill you first!]
Enraged at losing an eye, the creature shifted its gaze from me to Bae Na-young.
Time seemed to slow. What could I do? Fashion another blade at my wrist, scrape together every ounce of aura I had left, and drive it through? No. I couldn’t kill it in one strike, and I’d be left helpless. To break free from this trap, restoring my vitality was paramount. The creature raised its head to target Bae Na-young, stretching its neck long and exposed—as if offering it to me on a platter.
I’d shaped the helmet’s mouth with teeth as sharp as a monster’s, reinforced them with aura, and bit down on the creature’s neck.
Beginning was difficult. But having drawn a blade from the back of my hand once, I summoned those same sensations to forge razor-sharp teeth.
[SCREEEEEECH!]
I’d succeeded in turning its attention away from Bae Na-young. I drove the armor’s teeth deeper into its neck, absorbing the vitality that poured forth, and the creature’s blood flowed into my mouth.
“Ugh…”
Animal blood is warm. I’d never tasted it, but common sense told me as much. Yet this creature’s blood was as cold as if it had condensed its own ice breath.
When I’d drunk the dragon’s flame essence, my organs had felt like they were melting. This time, the cold froze my mouth and insides solid.
But simultaneously, I drew in the Blue Dragon’s vitality without resistance, and my life force surged back in an instant.
I converted the absorbed vitality into heat, thawing my body and regenerating the cells that had frozen and died.
[Stamina increased by 1.]
[Strength increased by 1.]
[Stamina increased by 1.]
[Strength increased by 1.]
[Agility increased by 1.]
…
Status window notifications cascaded before me, each announcing a stat increase.
[You leech!]
Unable to find any opening to attack Bae Na-young, the creature thrashed desperately, trying to shake me off.
[Absorbed vitality exceeds the Awakened One’s life vessel capacity. Expanding vessel.]
The stat increases weren’t the end of it. Before, when I’d absorbed excess vitality, I’d expelled it as heat, but now my body greedily devoured the creature’s blood. As my body’s composition ruptured and regenerated repeatedly under the excess energy, my life vessel expanded.
As my body regenerated in real time, my muscles grew tougher and my bones and armor hardened like dragon scales.
The cold of the dragon’s blood and the heat resisting it swirled simultaneously within me.
The vortex divided, settling into both lungs. I gathered and condensed the incoming cold in one, while the generated heat accumulated in the other.
[A-rank Durable Body skill is being replaced with S-rank Dragon’s Body.]
It was common knowledge that dragon blood was used to craft elixirs and potions. But no human had ever directly bitten into a living dragon and drunk its blood as I did. Even if I explained this method to others, they couldn’t execute it.
They lacked the courage to bite a dragon’s throat, the strength to pierce its scales, and the body to absorb its blood.
The creature’s tail embedded in my chest had resisted my potent blood until now, but as it lost cold and vitality, it began to dissolve slowly. Realizing this, I stopped stemming the bleeding and let my blood gush forth. As the creature’s tail dissolved, I filled the gap with my own flesh, gripping its tail tightly within my body.
The tail of that thing embedded in my chest hadn’t dissolved in my toxic blood until now, but as it lost its coldness and vitality, it began to slowly melt. Once I realized the tail was dissolving, I stopped the bleeding and let my blood gush out. As the tail melted and created gaps, I filled them with my own flesh, gripping that thing’s tail tightly within my body.
[Roooaaarrr!! Let go! Let go!]
The creature thrashed against me, clinging to its belly, but its strength had visibly waned. Its claws could no longer pierce my armor.
I continued draining its vitality and blood while Bae Na-young concentrated her Corruption behind me, relentlessly boring holes through its eyes as if she meant to hollow out its brain.
Weakened and helpless, it writhed across the ground.
Thud.
My body completely dissolved its tail, and the appendage that had jutted before me severed and fell away.
[Grrr… ugh….]
The frigid aura emanating from its body faded entirely, and its thrashing ceased.
Without lowering my guard, I continued drawing vitality and blood from its limp form. The icy mass accumulating in my lungs grew steadily larger.
When its heartbeat slowed to nearly nothing, I lifted my face from where it had been buried in its neck.
The Blue Dragon, once magnificent and imposing, now lay with its tail severed and its body shriveled and drained of blood and life force.
I looked down from above at the creature struggling to breathe.
“Why won’t you just leave us alone?”
[The flow… the flow cannot be defied.]
“The flow? What flow?”
It’s always spouting nonsense about the flow, never bothering to explain clearly.
[….The universe cycles endlessly. For a new universe to be born, the old one must perish….]
“If this god is destroying the universe anyway, why must you kill all of us?”
[The power of will is formidable…. A universe brimming with will cannot simply be unmade.]
“So you’ll slaughter every living thing on Earth to erase that will and destroy this universe too?”
[How foolish. Death is not the end. Don’t you understand that your bodies and souls become the foundation for the next universe??]
“Of course I don’t understand. Come on then. Do you think we’ll go quietly?”
I raised my foot over the Blue Dragon’s head to crush it.
[Very well…. Struggle all you wish….]
Crack.
I shattered its skull, and its heart stopped.
[Level increased.]
[Level increased.]
[Level increased.]
“Brother….”
Bae Na-young approached, her skin mottled with frostbite from the frigid aura.
“Come here.”
I embraced Bae Na-young, melting the frost with my warmth and sharing my life force with her.
I had no intention of resting, but there was no time to catch my breath. Countless wyverns descended from the distant sky, and massive monsters surged across the ground, kicking up clouds of dust as they approached.
“Let’s go back.”
I turned toward the Gate.
“Na-young, go ahead. I’ll destroy this and catch up.”
Two towers held the Gate open, and beside them stood rows of inactive towers. The Blue Dragon was dead, but there had to be another way to dissolve the Ogre—it couldn’t rely solely on the dragon. Besides, those monsters behind us could breach at any moment.
“You need to hurry.”
Bae Na-young placed her hand on the Gate, but it wouldn’t let her through.
“Huh?”
I extended both hands toward the Gate, but instead of passing through, I encountered resistance as if touching a wall.
“I can’t get in?”
Bae Na-young’s complexion turned ashen.

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