Evolution Theory of the Hunter - Chapter 181

Chapter 181

“This is invincible?”

The Mantis raised its body once more as soon as he finished his words . Its back that had been twisted to the point that it seemed broken was recovered at some point .

It was like this as I thought .

I opened my mouth while clicking my tongue .

“That’s invincibility . ”

“An annoying guy I see . ”

“It’s better than ignoring damage . ”

I dashed towards it while kicking off the wall .

The Mantis made a metallic sound while showing its teeth .

Its sharp nails targeted me at the speed of light .

I deflected it using the Dancing Sword and approached it .

“Kik?”

“Uaaa!”

And I tossed him backwards after grabbing its waist .

A smash that incorporated pro wrestling suplex technique . It wasn’t something I learned, just imitating . From the sensation I felt throughout my body, its backbone probably got shattered into dozens of pieces .

“Kyak!”

“Damn!”

However, I had to retreat from the guy that slashed at me even after being smashed into the ground .

I understood to some degree with this .

Being invincible meant ignoring all damage received . However, it’s not that the attack itself is nulled .

It meant that I couldn’t destroy it like a cow horn . It becomes a lot easier to face if it’s like this .

I received a transmission from Dr . Suresh .

[We have confirmed it just now . That’s a mantis type monster . It’s true that we have put it in after designing . However, we have definitely not added such a function to it . In the first place, we didn’t think that such abilities could exist . ]

It did sound like an excuse but I didn’t think it was a lie .

Just copying a dungeon was huge work . However, if America was really able to create a Mantis that had an invincibility option then that could be seen as original creation not cloning . There was no way people that could create such a thing would ask me for help because they couldn’t create a mere reward system .

“I understand . I will trust you for now . ”

[Please come out if you feel that it’s dangerous . ]

“No, it’s fine for now . ”

[Then, then is there anything we can help…… . ]

I suddenly thought of something the moment I was going to say that it was fine .

At the very least, this dungeon was under the control of the laboratory . In that case, they would be able to know the number of monsters in it and the location of particular monsters .

“Can you find out where the Mantis leader is?”

[I will look for it . ]

“Please tell me as soon as possible . ”

After ending the transmission, I swung the Dancing Sword .

The Mantis that was jumping at me got deflected back again .

“What are you going to do? That thing won’t die you know? Wouldn’t it be better to go out?”

“We just need to locate the leader . Then those things are nothing . ”

They don’t die . But that doesn’t mean that a weak thing becomes strong .

At least, it has no choice but to be meek in front of me .

I slowly approached the Mantis that took out its head from the wall .

It straightened its back as if trying to intimidate me . It looked exactly like how animals are said to intimidate enemies by making their figures look larger .

Also, there’s a characteristic to those that try to do so .

It’s that they’re weak .

“Am I scary?”

“Kyak!”

The thing got its body stuck in the wall once more . This time, it was a force strong enough to cause the concrete inner wall to get destroyed and its head to go through it .

I attacked the leg of the Mantis that was getting its head out of the wall .

It lost its balance and collapsed on the ground with a cracking sound . I continuously struck whether it was the left leg, both shoulders, back, or spine .

“Kieek! Kyak!”

“You’re noisy!”

“Kyaht!”

“I said shut your mouth!”

“Kyaat!”

The Mantis made a threatening cry as its head got crushed to the ground .

I flung the Dancing Sword on that guy’s head .

Edward opened his mouth with a bitter expression as I was beating it up as if drumming .

“Is there a need to go to that extent……?”

“We need to tie him down until we know where the leader is . ”

“You’re not wrong but…… . ”

His line of sight went towards the screaming Mantis .

“What . Are you feeling sympathy for your fellow monster or something?”

“For one thing, I’m not a monster, and secondly, how about just tying it up instead of beating it up like that?”

“If there’s a rope that can die up a level 7 monster that is . ”

I tried searching in the Delta Store just in case .

Of course, it wasn’t like there weren’t things like rope . However, it was only at level 1 . I didn’t think that such a rope could suppress this guy .

Just beating it up was more comfortable in various ways .

The Dancing Sword attacked on its own so it wasn’t like I lost my strength too .

I waited for Suresh’s call to come while diligently beating it up .

However, unlike how Suresh told me to wait for a minute, a call didn’t come from the laboratory even though 30 minutes had passed .

I found it difficult to stall for more time so I tried using the rope as well but it was concluded that it would be difficult .

An hour passed like that .

The moment I was thinking that we had to leave this place .

A message appeared in front of my eyes .

– Attempting the impossible is a beautiful thing . You have obtained a new skill through effort .

– New ability ‘Armor Penetration’ has been added .

[Stats : Strength 750 Endurance 1,550 Reflex 850 Concentration 700 Defense 700 Psychokinesis 2,000 Armor Penetration 0]

I was able to confirm the addition of the new stat through the manual .

The new ability added after psychokinesis . However, the acquirement method was different as psychokinesis was something I got from the Endurance stat passing 1,000 .

In other words, it was the same method as obtaining the Effort skill .

Wait a minute…… .

This meant that I wasn’t using the Effort skill properly until now .

I knew that there were abilities pertaining to repeating a particular action .

The things I obtained through that were physical ability strengthening things such as Concentration or Reflex .

There was nothing harder than training such things on my own . Also, after obtaining 5 such skills, I didn’t think to get more skills . I had been thinking unconsciously that those were it .

However, another stat appeared in front of my eyes .

This meant that I was able to create many more abilities .

“What are you doing?”

“Ah . I was just thinking for a bit . ”

“How about leaving now? Even if the Mantis isn’t powerful you’ll be done in without being able to do anything if a few more appear . ”

“No, I think there’s a method . ”

“What are you…… . ”

“Wait a bit . ”

I checked the remaining Reward Points for now .

The amount remaining after raising Endurance was about 50,000 .

I increased Armor Penetration by one for now .

After confirming that it rose by 100 at once I started beating up the Mantis once more .

“Kyaak!”

Its reaction was strange . It did scream before as well but it didn’t feel like it was in pain . However, this time I definitely felt that pain was mixed in its scream .

This meant that damage was going through to the guy that had invincibility .

For it to be an ability that can even penetrate a invincibility stat .

This is pretty good .

I used the Dancing Sword to continuously beat it up and slowly raised the Armor Penetration stat .

And the moment it passed 500 .

“Kyaaaa!”

The Mantis’ right shoulder, the metallic exoskeleton became broken in an unsightly way .

Once I smashed down on its left shoulder it’s arm dangled . The Mantis collapsed on the ground while making a moan that sounded like it was in agony . Perhaps it was thanks to beating it senseless for a full hour, it had already pretty much lost its will to fight .

I opened my mouth while clicking my tongue .

“Monsters these days don’t have any backbone . ”

“Are you even human…… . ”

Edward looked at me as if he was fed up .

This guy was feeling empathy for the Mantis as I thought .

The Mantis that had its entire body dismembered made a final scream and drooped down .

For all limbs to be cut off and then have a sword in its heart for it to die, it was monster with tenacious life force .

Since it had invincibility on top of that, normal hunters would have had no choice but to escape .

Twitch!

“Hm?”

The thing that I thought was dead started moving little by little .

However, it only twitched a bit since its limbs were all cut off and attacking was impossible .

However, for it to not die even after its heart has been pierced .

Edward stuck his tongue out as if he was astonished .

“This is…… a guy with quite some life force . ”

“I think it’s more the invincibility than the life force . ”

“Invincibility?”

“Yeah . It doesn’t die before the leader dies . That’s why it’s still alive even after having its limbs cut off and his heart penetrated I suppose . ”

“I see . ”

“It won’t return to the void since it’s still alive . Ah . They said that items don’t appear in this dungeon in the first place . ”

It was still uncertain as to whether it was connected to the Alpha system or not .

But well, since I obtained an ability called Armor Penetration it can be said that I got a much larger harvest .

Beep .

A transmission came from Dr . Suresh belatedly .

[We have located the leader!]

“You didn’t contact in an entire hour . How did that happen?”

[The transmitter isn’t perfect yet . We have tried to contact you several times but…… . ]

“Well, it’s fine . Where is the leader?”

[For now, go straight through the passage…… . ]

I started thinking while listening to Dr . Suresh’s explanation .

It might be possible that these people knew the existence of the Mantis . There’s the fact that communication was cut off for an hour and it was suspicious that the transmission got reconnected as soon as the Mantis was caught .

However, I decided to be tricked for now .

If the place I’m at is a dungeon, then I am able to survive through any situation using the Immortality + Escape Scroll combo after all .

I slowly traveled through the dark passage . A knocking sound could be heard from behind my back .

It was the sound of the Mantis with its limbs cut off hitting the ground while moving . I looked momentarily to see if it regenerated its own body and attack but it seems it doesn’t have such abilities .

But I put Edward at the back just in case .

A 2 way passage appeared .

[To the right . ]

I moved on Dr . Suresh’s command without a word .

It was clear that the laboratory could see the inside of the dungeon like it was the back of their hand . How I’m fighting, where I am, and what kind of conversation I was having seemed to be clear to them .

It didn’t quite become a reason to suspect Dr . Suresh but it was difficult to believe that communication was cut off just during the battle with the Mantis .

However, there was no reason to put me into danger here when you think about it .

Maybe if I had already installed the Space Expansion Marble . There should be a mountain of things they should gain from me so there was no need to pointlessly put me in danger or use me as a guinea pig in an experiment and make me mad .

Half in doubt .

It would be possible to make a conclusion once I got to the end of this dungeon .