Chapter 345

Reincarnator – Chapter 345 : Refinement (4)

—booom!—

It continued to destroy and regenerate his body amidst the pillar of flame .

The Immortal Soul squeezed out every drop of power in the body to save its owner .

It frenziedly regenerated new tissue and burnt up pieces of bone .

—rumble—

As he grabbed the hammer again, Hansoo felt that the Immortal Soul’s mastery had risen by quite a bit .

He didn’t have the time to slowly raise its mastery .

The war had begun, and he needed to stop it before it blew up completely .

It would be nice if Melchizedek was on the first floor, but he had to prepare for the worst case scenario .

A scenario where he’d have to go up against Clementine and Melchizedek’s underlings and forcibly take over the control center .

‘It’s… not quite enough . ’

Hansoo mumbled as he felt the Immortal Soul’s mastery level rising .

This was a good method, but it wasn’t enough .

He needed a stronger opponent .

Something that could push him beyond burning his flesh .

Something that could push him to his limits .

‘Well, they never died easily… There’s a chance they can do that to me . ’

—clank—

—clang—

Hansoo tightened his grip on the hammer, mumbling to himself as he watched the three silhouettes walking out from the now-dispersing pillar of flames .

…………………………………………… .

‘What the hell are those things…?’

Kiriel mumbled as she looked at the three figures that were slowly walking towards Hansoo .

‘Are they transcendents as well?’

If Hansoo, a transcendent, could withstand having flames melt down his skin, then the only reasonable explanation that his opponents could do the same must be because they were also transcendents .

Maybe they were even stronger .

They didn’t seem the least bit injured from the flames—the same flames that had even burned Hansoo .

At that moment, a thought flashed past Kiriel’s head .

3-Star transcendents .

‘Shit… This isn’t good . ’

There were three of them as well .

‘I must help . ’

But as Kiriel was about to dash towards Hansoo—

—clang!—

—the sound of something clashing with another rang throughout the air .

Then—

—swooosh!—

Something flew out at lightning speed and smashed onto the debris near Kiriel .

“Hansoo!”

Kiriel dashed towards the pile of debris in dismay .

But then her expression changed .

—jijijijiiiik—

‘It’s not Hansoo?’

—crackle—

—kacha—

Kiriel mumbled as she looked at the strange thing crawling out with broken limbs .

She’d thought that it would be much stronger than Hansoo since it had been able to withstand those flames .

So she’d expected Hansoo to be flung away .

But in the end, the one sent flying had been one of the three beings that had walked towards him .

The thing crawled out from the debris and stood up, looking at its right arm expressionlessly .

—crunch!—

It snapped it off with its left arm, and then threw it to the ground .

—chijijik—

‘Machine? No, a cyborg?’

There was indeed flesh, muscle, and bones within the wound .

But there were also strange machine parts in between the bits of organic matter .

As though a human and a machine had been merged together .

The mysterious being, who had just broken off his arm, looked around its surroundings .

Then it flew towards Kiriel at a speed faster than when it had been flung away .

—booooom!—

Kiriel quickly reinforced the space around her body, and cut across the air with the Ark-Roa’s Fang in her hand .

—clank!—

As soon as the cyborg saw the fang, it raised its left arm as if it were trying to protect itself .

Instantly, a translucent, hexagonal shield appeared in front of the cyborg .

—ooooong—

Inside the cyborg, strange nanobots vibrated as they supplied the shield with energy .

—booom!—

The fang and the shield collided .

‘They can even use skills? . . . And what is that?’

Kiriel looked at the strange machine parts that were emitting light from the cyborg’s hands .

She had been envious of the strange tools that Jack had used in the past .

But now it seemed like those were mere toys compared to this cyborg’s contraptions .

She looked at the cyborg’s left arm which had been split apart by the fang…and then smiled .

‘Good enough . ’

Kiriel’s expression lit up .

It was not weak .

It was stronger than normal transcendents because of its strange skills and advanced technology .

It was at least several times stronger than those on the brink of being a 1-Star .

But that was it .

They may be a threat to normal adventurers, but they were still a level below her .

‘But seriously… it’s well-designed . ’

The strange machine parts and nanobots seemed to have been there since the cyborg’s creation; they had strengthened its every movement and skill .

Kiriel decided to slowly split it apart so she could analyze as much as she possible .

But then—

“Ahhhh!”

The normal adventurers accompanying Jack had been watching the scene in a daze, when suddenly they started to scream and run away .

‘Damn . . . ’

Kiriel had been slowly walking away as well, but now she clenched her teeth .

She realized why they were acting this way .

—whooosh!—

She could feel the heat of the flaming pillar as it descended .

Power that could even melt down Hansoo, who was countless times stronger than herself .

If the pillar were to hit her, she would most likely end up half-dead .

‘Damn it! I might die!’

While Kiriel tried to run away from that location—

—crunch!—

—crack!—

—the cyborg she’d been fighting with had flung itself at her to hold her down .

“No…!”

She tried to smash away the cyborg with the fang in her hands, but its spine seemed to hold some strange mechanism that activated a form of gravitational pull on Kiriel .

‘Damn!’

Kiriel frowned as she penetrated the cyborg with the fang .

Due to the differences in their strength, she’d been able to puncture a huge hole straight through its chest to its spine . But the cyborg ignored the blow as if it were unaffected by the pain, smashing its legs into the ground .

—booom!—

—boom!—

The Nelkipa’s skin was resistant to the flaming attacks, yet it could also be burrowed through with ease .

The cyborg planted its feet deeply into the skin, effectively immobilizing its own body as well as Kiriel’s movements .

‘Damn it!’

Dodging the descending attack was now out of the question .

Kiriel sank down to her knees as she looked at the flaming pillar; it was nearly above her head .

—whoooosh!—

“Go”

“Huh?”

Something appeared by her side and smacked away the cyborg from holding her down, then pulled on her arm .

—tonk!—

Kiriel flew backwards the moment the cyborg lost its grip .

—booooooooooooooom!—

A huge pillar of flame slammed onto the spot where she’d been just moments ago .

“Hansoo?”

‘Did he push me away?’

Kiriel found her balance and then stared at the flaming spot .

Hansoo had flung her away and received the attack instead .

—clank!—

She heard the sound of something breaking again, and an figure flew out from the flames .

“Woah…”

In a daze, Jack and the other adventurers stared at the figure coming out of the flames .

Hansoo walked out from the flames with the hammer in his hand—his muscles and skin were constantly being healed .

—chiiii—

The head of the cyborg, despite having received such damage, was constantly looking back and forth between Hansoo and the surrounding people .

—crunch!—

Hansoo stomped over the cyborg’s head as he spoke .

“Melchizedek prepared quite well . It even applied a repulsion coating . ”

Kiriel then realized what was going on .

As to how this thing, which was weaker then herself, had managed to withstand the heat that could even melt down Hansoo .

‘ . . . Yeah . It must’ve prepared . ’

Melchizedek was a being that had been made from the main planet Angkara and then sent here .

It would have data about that place’s weapons .

Of course, it would’ve long prepared its forces for the war against Angkara .

But Kiriel couldn’t relax .

That planet belonged to a race that could fire these powerful attacks without stopping .

For Melchizedek to prepare a war against such a race?

She could vaguely guess the strength of Melchizedek’s forces currently running around Nelkipa .

As well as the forces of the race Melchizedek had prepared this much for .

‘This is just the beginning…’

The flaming pillars and the cyborgs that withstood them were just the beginning .

Kiriel then looked to Hansoo and asked:

“Are you okay?”

Hansoo nodded .

“I’m feeling great . ”

Hansoo smiled contentedly as he looked at his body that was regenerating at a much faster rate than before .

The best environment to train .

Of course, he wanted to just sit around here and continue training .

‘Can’t forget my goals . ’

Becoming strong was just part of the process .

What mattered was the victory itself .

And what he needed for a victory was not training, but real battles .

It was better for the Immortal Soul when one received many different types of external stimuli as well .

Of course, he wasn’t worried that he wouldn’t receive such stimuli .

‘For it to be capable of making transcendent level creatures… I guess I won’t be bored on the journey to the research center . ’

Hansoo mumbled as he looked at the crushed head beneath his feet .

…………………………………… .

—rummblee—

‘All three died…’

The giant train continued to dash forward, despite having received countless strikes thanks to the repulsion coating .

The humanoid standing in the center of the research center frowned as three signals disappeared from its head .

It thought that three of its artificial transcendents would be enough to win when fighting amidst the flames .

One of the beings was much stronger than it had expected .

‘I’ll need to hurry a little more . ’

“Kang Hansoo… He is called Hansoo . ”

The humanoid continued to stare at the test tubes in front of it, mumbling the name of the man its three underlings had been compiling data for .

—bubble bubble—

In one of the test tubes, an artificial transcendent jolted as Melchizedek mumbled Hansoo’s name .