Chapter 364: Reincarnator – Chapter 364: The buried natives (1)

Reincarnator – Chapter 364: The buried natives (1)

—booom!—

Hansoo frowned as he stared at the monster furiously attacking him .

‘God damn it . ’

Quirae .

Integrating the genes of the things it’s eaten to reinforce its weak points and strengthen its strong points .

They repeated this and strengthened their race as a whole .

Their strength hugely depended on what they ate .

So Hansoo knew—

—that this strength was not something that came from eating humans .

…ssssss…

Hansoo frowned as he felt the 4th-level monster threatening to break apart his arm .

It wasn’t much different from before in terms of looks .

The Quirae’s armor-like exoskeleton was still there, and if one ignored the spikes on the back of their bodies, they still looked like armored humans .

The issue was what was inside of it .

If the thing inside the armor was once a human, it was something much more cruel and evil now .

A new race .

‘The original owners of the blue armor… they seem to have been quite strong . ’

—booom!—

A force shocked his entire body, and not even his evolved blue armor could handle it, even as it sucked in energy at an insane rate .

They didn’t have anything particularly special about them .

But they had focused on their abilities as a ‘lifeform’ .

Powerful physical strength .

Endless vitality .

Powerful defense and adaptability .

Overflowing mana .

Whatever it had eaten, the Quirae had definitely eaten something with immense physical abilities .

And Hansoo thought of a race .

‘This is what I wanted to become . ’

Change a weak body to something powerful, providing a tremendous amount of adaptability with the Spirits .

Generate mana with the Mana Jade and a powerful life force from the World Tree .

Gain the weapon from this zone and continue upwards .

Although the ones in front of his eyes didn’t have the Dragon God Armor, it was almost similar since of the Quirae’s hard exoskeleton .

Although he had to open the Abyss due to a change in plans, if he hadn’t done so then he would’ve first taken over Nelkipa and then headed towards the moon which stored the Dragon God Armors, the .

‘Well, the story’s a little different now . ’

Lost in thought, Hansoo swung his hammer and smashed down at the head of the 4th-level Quirae .

—boom!—

The Quirae’s exoskeleton, which was as hard or even harder than the Dragon God Armor, smashed apart and its inner flesh crushed .

—kiiiing!—

The blue armor went berserk as it started crazily sucking in Hansoo’s energy .

And the blue armor condensed all around Hansoo’s body and released the stored energy inside it, providing him with powerful strength .

As if it were saying that it couldn’t let its precious host die .

—crunch!—

Hansoo’s original strength had combined with that of the blue armor’s .

And Hansoo used this newfound strength to grab onto the Quirae’s mouth that had opened up wide .

—split!—

The mouth that could even crush the city’s alloy walls couldn’t withstand Hansoo’s strength, and he ripped it apart .

But even as it died, the 4th-level monster grasped Hansoo’s arms as he ripped apart its mouth .

—crunch!—

Literally overflowing with life force—

—the 4th-level Quirae continued to survive and linger on .

Kyaaaak!

And as if the others couldn’t waste the small chance that 4th-level Quirae had created for them, the surrounding 2nd and 3rd-level Quirae screamed as they charged towards him .

Hansoo scoffed at this sight and squeezed out the mana in his body .

And the Mana Jade made a strange sound similar to a complaint, since the blue armor was already draining it .

As if complaining about how this was all too much for it to take .

But apparently the Mana Jade knew that it was also nothing without its owner, and it seemed strain itself to squeeze out more mana .

Soon the blue mana turned red .

—booom!—

Hansoo’s Pandemic Blade exploded out from his body and surrounded him .

—swoooosh!—

“Kya… kuhak!”

The 3rd-level Quirae managed to withstand the Pandemic Blade before it started to melt down like snow under a blazing sun .

Hansoo breathed in deeply as he examined this new strength from the Pandemic Blade .

It was growing .

The Immortal Soul was continuously growing from the outside stimulus .

As his Immortal Soul grew, he also became stronger .

And as his overall strength rose, his Pandemic Blade became stronger as well .

Stimulus and battle created powerful beings .

Like a steel-blade being tempered with every swing of a hammer, he became stronger every time his path was blocked .

He continued to grow and became stronger .

‘But it’s still… not easy . ’

—booom!—

Hansoo smashed away the 4th-level Quirae after covering his hammer with the Nine Dragons Strike and frowned .

Melchizedek wasn’t suppressing their growth since it just needed to teleport them away .

And as if they were thankful about it, the Quirae didn’t go against Melchizedek and only focused on increasing their forces .

The result of their collaboration was beyond reason .

Despite having crushed countless 4th-level Quirae, they continued to crawl out from the depths .

Unlike the 2nd and 3rd-levels who seemed numb to the deaths of their comrades, the other 4th-levels screamed at seeing the deaths of their own kind and charged at him crazily .

Towards him, who was killing their kind, but could still strengthen himself .

A precious food source .

And Hansoo frowned at this .

‘ . . . I cannot get past them at this rate . ’

No, he could buy time .

But at this rate, Melchizedek would activate the Quantum Transmission .

And at this rate, he’d fail to escape this place as well .

He and Kiriel would fail at becoming stronger, and Enbi Arin would die .

‘Kiriel . What are you doing now?’

Because the Quirae had devoured another race, an unknown variable had occurred .

And he needed a new variable as well .

—booom!—

Hansoo smashed away a Quirae charging towards him and looked into the distance .

…………………………………………… .

“The inner area is a bit a different from the outskirts . Those things are really vicious… ugh…”

Kiriel, covered in the green liquid, frowned as she heard N-Aroel’s speech .

“So what was your original plan?”

N-Aroel pointed with trembling fingers .

“If you go a bit off from the central area… there’s a control center where you can control Mimir and the Fusion Reactor . Even if you don’t break the Quantum Transmission machine, you can still stop it . Damn! I didn’t mean that we should head towards the center!”

The nine Dragon God Soldiers, including R-Zairon Nell, frowned .

But they still didn’t feel good about this .

‘Slightly off from the center…’

According to the current pattern, these things were stronger the closer they got to the center . Moving slightly away from the center wasn’t enough to make them sigh in relief .

Not when they were looking at the corpse of the 4th-level Quirae in front of them .

And their gruesome expressions proved it .

“Haa… Haaaa . ”

“Dammit… You’re telling me that these things will swarm us once we go deeper?”

“Ugh… Captain . Can’t we just go around?”

The two 4th-level Quirae .

They’d almost died from just dealing with two .

No, if that woman called Kiriel hadn’t helped, then at least one or two of them would’ve died .

‘But she wants to go into the same place these things are swarming?’

The Dragon God Soldiers freaked out .

Even if they’d lost the strength from the Flame, they would have a higher survival rate if they hid in the outskirts .

Dying like this—it would be a worthless death .

And R-Zairon Nell thought so too .

‘ . . . Should we escape?’

Charging in was only possible when they had a chance at winning .

Even if it were the outer areas of the center, the Quirae would rip them apart .

Since countless others would swarm in while they were busy fighting a few .

‘Dammit… How can a race like this exist?’

Words continuously appeared on the panel while they scanned this 4th-level monster, but every sentence was full of errors and failures .

The aliens and these insects were annoying enough, but for these things to be on Nelkipa…

‘Damn… Right . This whole Nelkipa is suspicious too… We need to take into account the other variables as well . ’

R-Zairon Nell made a decision .

To retreat .

“We’ll retreat . There… is no chance of survival at this rate . ”

All the other Dragon God Soldiers nodded .

They could only move forward by paying with their lives .

They’d fought for a very long time and knew that reality was colder and harsher beyond reason .

But at that moment—

—a single streak of light ascended into the sky .

It looked like a skill had created it .

And Kiriel sighed in relief as she spoke to the surrounding Dragon God Soldiers and N-Aroel .

“Let’s go inside . ”

“ . . . I told you . It’s the end if we go in and get surrounded . ”

—crack—

R-Zairon Nell stepped on a corpse by his feet and shook his head .

“I told you, I’m not alone . ”

‘I trust in you, Hansoo . ’

Kiriel giggled as she looked at the bright and blue light that had risen far up into the sky .

………………………………………

“Phew . I know she’lld understand . ”

Hansoo breathed in and out and then looked towards the hole projecting the bright blue light .

Although it was originally covered by a metal wall, the 4th-level Quirae had broken past it in a hurry .

It was impossible to get to the Quantum Transmission machine in time .

But Kiriel would do it .

She was a smart child .

He just had one job .

To create a path for them .

Also, he was curious .

‘Let’s see… what could be inside?’

As to why these things were trying to stop him from entering .

—booom!—

Hansoo started to charge towards the giant hole where countless Quirae had formed a blockade, preventing him from advancing further .