Infinite Job Transfers Starting from Mechanic Chapter 1215 - 667: First Hunt
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Upon Su Yu's earlier emergence, the Hunters lurking in the ruins were instantly roused, siphoning off a massive portion of his "existence."
That extraction's power proved nearly impossible for Su Yu to withstand; he scarcely dodged it by shifting into the Transcendence Domain and Cause and Effect Singularity states, yet the outcome remained quite limited.
Yet now, having assumed the "Existence Hunter" role, Su Yu at last possesses the strength to strike back!
Confronting those ravenous and horrifying stares, Su Yu triggered his freshly gained core skill, "Hunting Instinct."
Instantly, his gaze erupted with a matching intensity, fiercer still!
The stares appeared stunned, abruptly contracting all at once.
Thanks to Hunting Instinct, Su Yu could now discern the actual nature of those stares with perfect clarity.
"Ah, so they are 'Universes'!"
Those stares didn't stem from the myriad creatures or civilizations Su Yu had witnessed previously.
Instead, they originated from the awareness of the Infinite Universes themselves.
Within this "Existence Ruins," no regular being could endure survival.
Exclusively the consciousnesses of those universes endured, drawing on their immense essence to sustain themselves via "I think, therefore I am."
All the myriad creatures and civilizations Su Yu had observed before were simply lingering thought fragments from these universe-consciousness residues.
Those myriad creatures and civilizations amounted to mere illusory leftovers devoid of true self-awareness, hence missing any "I think, therefore I am," and unable to prey on other existences.
Exclusively these universes' consciousnesses qualified as Hunters amid these ruins!
A universe qualifies as a form of life, and thus can embody "I think, therefore I am."
Earlier, Su Yu had even clashed with a Primordial Universe's "Supreme Consciousness."
Nevertheless, that Supreme Consciousness had ditched the Primordial Universe and escaped via unknown methods, its whereabouts still unknown to Su Yu.
Should the "Supreme Consciousness" be present, it too might rank among the Hunters.
Yet Su Yu observed that amid these ruins, despite Infinite Universes, Dust Universes, Macrocosmic Universes, High Red Universes... endless infinities abounding.
Actually, merely one hundred seventy-eight genuine Hunters existed.
The horde of avaricious stares Su Yu detected came from precisely these one hundred seventy-eight Hunters.
Maybe at the outset of the Infinite Universe's Doom, Hunter numbers were infinite too.
However, over an indeterminable span of Time, they preyed upon and fused with one another in these ruins.
In the end, solely these one hundred seventy-eight survived.
Every one had engulfed innumerable fellows, their magnitude eclipsing any entity Su Yu had encountered.
Here in the Existence Ruins, universes number infinitely, partitioned into one hundred seventy-eight segments, each segment still infinite.
Hence, to Su Yu, these one hundred seventy-eight Hunters each consisted of Infinite Universes, forming colossal lifeforms.
Universes served merely as the fundamental particles constituting their "bodies," utterly trivial.
Lives and civilizations inside those universes merited even less regard.
Their forms, assembled from Infinite Universes, stretched so enormously that Su Yu couldn't glimpse their edges—an endless vista, dwarfing Su Yu in sheer scale by far.
One might dub them "Cosmic Hunters," fundamentally universe consciousnesses eternally preying on fellow universe consciousnesses, a title that fits "Cosmic Hunters" perfectly.
Their "existence" radiated such overwhelming potency that it could plunge any commonplace life into utter hopelessness.
How could puny lives or civilizations rival these majestic behemoths forged from infinite universes?
Particularly with one hundred seventy-eight of them, every eye locked onto Su Yu.
Yet Su Yu harbored zero despair; rather, he resembled a starving wolf or savage tiger catching blood's aroma, surging with thrill.
"So this is my Hunting Instinct..."
Su Yu realized this thrill stemmed from his class skill, Hunting Instinct.
This thrill signaled to Su Yu that hunting was feasible!
Despite these universe-consciousness "Hunters" appearing crushingly superior to Su Yu.
Still, Su Yu's instinct declared not his own frailty, but the foes'!
Su Yu inherently placed total faith in his Hunting Instinct, thus he plunged the Transcendence Domain without delay and plunged straight into one Hunter's "body."
These universe-consciousness Hunters boasted bodies immense and limitless.
Nonetheless, Su Yu's intrusion targeted not the universes composing its body.
For the body of infinite universes was just a phantom evoked by "I think, therefore I am," unreal, its "existence" exceedingly feeble.
Su Yu intruded into that Hunter's core "existence."
One could term it its vital essence or awareness origin.
"Existence" stands as an profoundly elusive yet tangibly real notion.
Not time, space, cause and effect, information, energy...
Nor any concepts routine to ordinary lives.
Existence forms the bedrock underpinning all worldly phenomena.
Whatever exists inherently bears "existence," a tautological certainty.
Typically, everyday lives cannot grasp such primal force; existence eludes sight and touch, let alone intrusion.
Yet through Hunting Instinct, Su Yu compellingly infiltrated this Hunter's "existence" in a manner defying ordinary comprehension.
Once inside, Su Yu's Hunting Instinct surged with greater fervor.
Hunting Instinct morphed into a colossal unseen maw, devouring the emptiness.
The intangible, shapeless "existence" got hauled into his voracious jaws.
As "existence" got absorbed, Su Yu sensed his awareness bloating "fuller" than ever, his personal existence surging upward.
[Gained Professional Experience 1000000...]
His brand-new "Existence Hunter" class saw its experience bar fill rapidly too.
This feeling delivered immense gratification to Su Yu, akin to a famished soul finally gorging itself.
The first foray allowed Su Yu to savor the rewards, validating his instincts; this "Cosmic Hunter," for all its apparent might, fell short against Su Yu!
"Buzz..."
Abruptly, the targeted universe consciousness unleashed an odd psychic ripple, wordless yet instantly conveying "shock" to Su Yu!
Evidently, this Hunter never foresaw this reversal. Among the one hundred seventy-eight Cosmic Hunters, a lone human like Su Yu flipped the script to hunt them.
How was this feasible?
Instantly after, this Cosmic Hunter's shock-laden psychic ripple fell prey to Su Yu's hunt as well.
"I think, therefore I am," that universe consciousness's shock ripple converted into "existence" form, becoming Su Yu's quarry and fuel for his consumption!