Infinite Evolution: My Idle Evolution System-Chapter 326: The Gate Is Evolving!?
"Dragon Slayer, if you have the balls, then come down here and face me like a man!"
Kaida wound up shouting, breaking the imposing stance of the Kingly Meister.
"...."
"Why are you ignoring me!? Scared!??"
"She's really out to make friends everywhere she goes today, huh?" Cassius asked Viola, softly chuckling at the incorrigible redhead.
"Is she always like this?"
Viola looked away from the loud draconic woman, instead attracted by the raspy voice that seemed to enter her ears and infect her mind with unscrupulous thoughts.
"You could say that…" she replied with a small blush. "She's never known when to keep her mouth shut. And because of it, she tends to find herself in predicaments like this one."
Finding the purple-haired beauty delightfully pettable, Cassius did just that.
Yet, he didn't look at her while doing it. Most of his focus was centered around how the brazen redhead would get herself through this tribulation she had incurred for herself.
The silent Dragon Slayer heard a fly buzzing in his ear, urging him to turn toward the woman with the mane-like crimson red hair.
"Were you speaking to me just now?" He asked, yet didn't seem to truly care about the answer he'd receive.
"You arrogant bastard!" Kaida shouted, her blood-red aura flaring above her. "You know damn well that I'm speaking to you! Now get your a*s down here and fight me! Or are you actually scared!?"
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"Scared?" The Dragon Slayer repeated, genuinely puzzled. "Why would I be scared of a mere huma—weakling? In my eyes, you're no more than a gnat, not much better than the rest of the useless trash in the world."
Cassius must say: this Dissonant played the part of a cold, indifferent swordmaster very well.
Even he wasn't sure that he could replicate the Dissonant's demeanor.
Kaida, however, did not hold the same level of appreciation for the Dragon Slayer's attitude. She practically blew magma out the top of her head, with her rage meter achieving all-time highs.
"We're fighting to the death right here and no—"
Before Kaida could even finish her threat, a change occurred in the World's End Gate.
It rapidly switched from a purplish-black color to a full-on pitch black. Yet, just as the gathered S-Rank Hunters thought it was finished, a dot of silver appeared on the Gate's surface.
That tiny dot quickly expanded and enveloped the entire Gate, making it turn from pitch black to a dazzling shade of silver.
"A Silver Gate!?" An S-Rank Hunter shouted, his jaw on the floor. "This is unprecedented!!"
Something similar was being voiced through the camera microphones of the reporters flying overhead in helicopters. The inexplicable changes in the World's End Gate left both them and the rest of the world in a state of extreme shock.
Never in their lives had they ever seen or heard of a silver-colored Gate!
Black was supposed to be the absolute upper limit of Gate Ranks!
But… But if that wasn't the case, then what exactly did a Silver-ranked Gate signify…?
What sort of absurdly powerful monsters resided within such a thing…??
"Have any of you read about Silver-ranked Gates…?" Arden asked, his gaze shakily flipping between the other Japanese S-Rank Hunters. "Luna? Rika? Viola? Any of you?"
The people he called out all shook their heads.
Kaida and the others also gave looks that emulated their bewilderment.
None of them had heard of a Silver-ranked Gate.
However, what even a monkey could understand was that even a Low-level Black-ranked Gate required all the Hunters in the world to team up together to clear. So then… just what sort of powerful force would one need to clear a Gate a whole Rank higher…?
The Dissonants weren't the least bit surprised by this development, but so as to finish their little play with flying colors, they copied the reactions of those around them.
Cassius found this sight quite comical, for it was like watching a bunch of stupid imps attempt to mimic the mannerisms of humans.
But with something even more mind-boggling happening to the area's center of attention, he felt it necessary to join in with the surprise parade.
"The silver…" The Kingly Meister murmured, his expression fitting whatever the mood of the very -human- group called for. "A flicker of gold has emerged in the middle of the silver mass… This…"
The gathered S-Rank Hunters all looked where the Kingly Meister was looking.
That was when they saw it—a flicker of gold—one that was in the process of replacing the silver. Within a mere moment, the silver had already been a tenth of the way replaced by the gold.
It was also during this same period of time that the countenances of the S-Rank Hunters drastically changed. The vast majority of them were faking it on account of their Extraterrestrial origins, but half the Japanese S-Rank Party were experiencing genuine emotions of astonishment.
Even Kaida, in all her fierceness, no longer retained the same fire within her eyes.
Gradually, the fire began to dim, dragging her deeper and deeper into the pits of despair…
"Cat got your tongue, girl?"
However, with the echoing of a voice that she'd grow to abhor, Kaida's fire had its original flare returned.
"Hwaa!? Whadja say, you damn brat!?" she shouted.
Her voice caused the other human S-Rank Hunters to snap out of the depressing morass that had caught hold of them all.
Cassius smirked, finding this whole situation so very amusing.
He knew there was something extremely odd about the World's End Gate, so it suddenly ascending three Ranks at once hadn't really exceeded his expectations. And by his calculations of the new Gate energy emissions, it had yet to achieve the transcendent EX-Rank.
At most, it was roughly at the Half-step EX-Rank.
Unless something unforeseen occurred, he didn't believe he'd have much trouble clearing the Gate.
Even so, it always paid off to be cautious.
And for something as significant as a Nexus Event, it was better to be extra, extra cautious.
Never could be too certain about one's circumstances…
