Reincarnator Chapter 371:
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 .