Chapter 371: Reincarnator – Chapter 371: Inheritance War (1)

Reincarnator – Chapter 371: Inheritance War (1)

“Woah…”

After coming down, Kiriel regretted her previous decision not to follow Hansoo after reading the Quirae’s memories .

‘What a sight . ’

Looking at the bright blue sphere through the glass panel, it felt like she was walking through space .

Like she had become a God who could walk in the air .

The Quirae wasn’t interested in anything other than eating, so it hadn’t looked down .

But looking at the scene down here, it was truly marvelous .

At this moment, Kiriel heard Enbi Arin’s voice .

“ . . . Heh, Melchizedek . I didn’t expect that thing to keep something like this hidden beneath the Aokan . ”

She hadn’t even dreamt of something like this when she was saving the people .

‘Damn… I didn’t even know what the enemy had up their sleeves . Why did I even try to defeat them?’

Thinking back to it, she was embarrassed beyond reason .

They had taken her hostage, used her, made her attack Hansoo, and some mysterious armor had almost killed her .

‘Wait… This does feel familiar . ’

But according to her own memories, she had never been here .

As Enbi Arin looked around curiously, Kiriel also roamed around and inspected the surrounding area .

There were three distinct things about this place .

The giant crystal that was supplying a tremendous amount of energy upwards .

The devoured corpses of a strange race that were barely maintaining their shape .

And the dried-up blue armor that race had apparently worn .

As Kiriel looked at the dried-up armor, she also came to the same question Hansoo had before .

‘What the… Then where did Hansoo’s armor come from?’

It looked like Melchizedek had been the one to find it .

And it had planned to use the corpses and the energy here to raise the Quirae and send them away .

It should have acquired the blue armor here as well .

But if every other armor had dried up, why was Hansoo’s still functioning?

‘Do the dried-up ones still function?’

Kiriel, who had the Dragon God Armor, reached out with her hands towards the blue armor in anticipation .

Although the Dragon God Armor she had on was strong, it was still a bit weaker in comparison to the blue armor Hansoo wore .

Although Enbi Arin could not control the blue armor and had almost died from it, that was a story of the past .

They, who had risen up to the level of a 3-Star, could easily support the blue armor with their mana .

But Kiriel was left disappointed after touching the blue armor .

…sssssss . . .

The blue armor disintegrated to dust the moment she touched it .

She had wondered, but indeed, these were all useless .

Completely dried up .

She grew even more curious about Hansoo’s armor and started to use her Psychometry .

‘Let’s see… Something should come up if I search this room . ’

And soon—

—ooooooong—

Her upgraded Psychometry started to sweep through the room .

………………………………………… . .

As Kiriel and Enbi Arin searched the area below—

Kyaaaak!

—a battle was raging on above .

Well, it was more like a massacre than a battle .

Kyaaak!

Countless Quirae were melting down from the red clouds .

Hansoo smiled bitterly as he looked below at the hard exoskeletons and the human appearances all melting down into nothingness .

“I am sorry that I couldn’t rescue you…”

“Krrrrk… ugh . ”

Hansoo mumbled as he looked at the women who were giving birth to more Quirae .

There was nothing he could do after the Quirae had infected them .

Nothing except to send them off peacefully .

So he had to clean this place up thoroughly .

If he didn’t, then the others coming up after them might end up as sacrifices as well .

The Quirae’s reproduction speed was infamous, even within the Abyss .

Like the Ark-Roa, they were a top priority target for any force once found .

The third floor of the Abyss, which had ignored this, had become the Quirae’s lair .

‘It was insane . ’

Evolving through humans was just the beginning .

The stronger the thing eaten, the longer its digestion, and it would go through more levels of evolution .

Humans bred 3rd-level Quirae, and the strange race here bred 5th-level Quirae .

Hansoo thought back to scenes created by the ones who had evolved past 20 levels and focused back on cleaning again .

He wanted to make this place, the Aokan, clean at least .

—booom!—

The red clouds that had been drifting around him started vigorously acting up and expanded at a crazy rate .

Kyaaak!

Aaaahh!

Hansoo went around Aokan while listening to the screams and soon reached the area where Kiriel had fought before .

‘Tsk . They all died . ’

Hansoo shook his head as he looked at traces of the nine—not even their corpses had remained .

Since Kiriel wouldn’t attack them first, there was only one reason this had happened .

‘There are always those who look to attack from the back . ’

—clank—

—clank—

Hansoo looked around at the nine sets of Dragon God Armor on the ground and then picked up three .

The others had been damaged too much to be of use, but these three still looked functional .

If he gave one to Enbi Arin, then she would use it well .

Hansoo stood up after taking the three sets of armor and then looked at the control center at the back .

‘Not bad . She does have some ability . ’

Hansoo thought as he looked at the control center cut cleanly in two .

Even if the Kiriel’s fang was a gift from the fairy .

Even if she had become a 3-Star .

Cutting something like that in two in such a clean manner was not easy .

But she had done it .

As soon as she climbed to the level of a 3-Star .

Hansoo whistled at the sight but then frowned .

‘ . . . ?’

The nine Dragon God Soldiers were dead .

But there were traces of teleportation .

Traces of minimal troubleshooting on the control tower, enough to reactivate it .

Hansoo frowned and thought back to Kriel’s words .

‘N-Aroel… Was that his name?’

—sssss!—

As Hansoo melted away the rest of the control center—

“Hansoo!”

—Enbi Arin and Kiriel shouted from a distance as they quickly dashed towards him .

Hansoo chuckled as he looked at the two arriving before him .

“You finished it quickly . Here’s a present, Arin . ”

—clank—

Hansoo handed Enbi Arin the Dragon God Armor still in the best condition of the three .

“Thank you . I’ll use it well . ”

There would be countless battles ahead of them .

The better their equipment, the better their situation would be .

—clakakakak!—

The moment Enbi Arin touched the Dragon God Armor, the armor quickly detached into countless pieces and surrounded her body .

Hansoo listened to the sounds of friction between the metal pieces and spoke to Kiriel .

“I wonder if you had fun looking at the museum . Did you enjoy watching the mummies and the ancient artifacts?”

The corpses and armor that looked at least hundreds of years old .

It wasn’t a stretch to call it a museum at that point .

Kiriel shrugged her shoulders and replied:

“Sure, I didn’t even need an audio guide . ”

Hansoo chuckled .

‘If I had an ability like that, I would have loved going to places like the museum . ’

An ability to read the past would be fun to use in a place like a museum .

Hansoo cleaned up his useless thoughts and asked:

“So, did you find out what happened to the armor?”

Kiriel’s expression turned serious and replied:

“Yes . ”

As to how only one armor could stay preserved .

She figured some things out as she read the past .

“That… something wore it until recently . ”

“It was worn?”

Kiriel nodded .

“Yes . ”

Hansoo realized what had happened from this short conversation .

“So… There are still surviving owners of this blue armor . ”

Kiriel nodded with a dark expression .

……………………………………………… . .

—kuuuuuooooo—

N-Akuon wore an excited expression as he listened to N-Aroel’s second story .

“ . . . So, other than those aliens and that new race, there’s another race still alive?”

N-Aroel nodded .

“Yes . I like that you’re quick to understand . After going into that hole, everything else was a corpse, but one was still alive . ”

“But… how? You said it was wearing that strange armor?”

N-Akuon made a confused expression .

He knew how the armor could’ve stayed functional and not dried up .

If it were equipped onto somebody still alive, it could absorb the energy from the host and maintain itself .

But according to what he’d heard, that armor was evil beyond reason .

The host should’ve long been dead from having that much energy absorbed .

But N-Aroel chuckled .

“Didn’t I mention that crystal before?”

“Oh…”

N-Akuon nodded .

The crystal that supplied a tremendous amount of energy .

If one supplied themselves with energy from that crystal, it could explain how the owner of that blue armor had survived .

Since that ridiculous amount of energy could easily supply the blue armor .

N-Aroel continued to speak .

“Maybe… the host had been able to survive thanks to the armor . A symbiotic relationship of a sort?”

The blue armor sucked energy from its owner and in return used its life support functions to keep the host alive .

The host supplied the armor with energy and barely managed to survive .

And as he heard up to this point—

—a question appeared inside N-Akuon’s head .

“Then… where did the host go? The owner of the blue armor . ”

N-Aroel laughed as he said:

“I love how well you understand these things . Right . That’s the third story I’m about to tell you . ”

N-Aroel pointed towards the head of the Nelkipa, the final destination of the aliens, and spoke .