Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 109



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Ep. 109

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Morning has come to the forest where one could not see an inch ahead because of the fog and darkness.

Light poured down on the ground in the dark forest. The ground was slightly wet from the fog and dew that had fallen in the morning.

The damp dirt was covered with footprints, the marks left by pirates and walkers as they moved.

Now that it was morning, there were no major problems with movement or searching, unlike the previous morning.

But their mood was very different from when I arrived here a few hours ago.

Their faces, hidden by their helmets, were filled with unfamiliar emotions.

horror.

It is a fear that prey instinctively feel.

“Boss. Is your aide alive?”

“shut up.”

“…yes.”

As Dylan growled, the subordinate immediately wagged his tail.

Currently, they are using a detector to track down the missing deputy assistant.

The deputy aide suddenly disappeared during their attack. Most likely, the monsters had dragged him away.

‘Damn it! If the boss finds out about this…’

The deputy assistant is someone the boss personally assigned to assist Dylan.

If the boss finds out that such a person has been captured by a monster, he will never leave him alone.

In order to avoid an unfortunate future, we must catch the monster at all costs, whether it be capturing it alive or presenting its corpse.

“Enemy detected!”

As soon as the Walker pilot shouted, everyone fired simultaneously at the creatures hiding in the trees.

In less than a few seconds, the thing fell to the ground with only the lower half of its body remaining.

“… Chew, it’s a wood devil. There should be two more, so go find them.”

“yes.”

Since a while ago, only the poor Wood Devils had been dying, but the bastard wasn’t even showing his nose. It’s possible that he had left this place and run far away, but Dylan was sure that wasn’t the case.

‘He is a hunter.’

It is on par with the deadliest predators on this continent.

He will not stop killing until every single pirate who enters this forest is dead.

“Boss! Look over there!”

Then one of the subordinates pointed to the tree.

I raised my head, thinking it was a wood devil, but what I saw there was worse.

“… This fucking kid.”

From every tree hung flayed corpses.

That was the message.

A warning that you will be made like this too, or a provocation that you are only this good.

Dylan gritted his teeth as he read the meaning contained in the hanging corpse.

“Shouldn’t we be getting some training?”

“… … .”

Dylan and the other pirates present had little sense of camaraderie.

The reason I brought up the idea of ​​having to collect the body was none other than because of the other predators in this forest.

There are no predators around here large enough to threaten pirates.

However, the explosion at dawn and the movement of the Plantrizard herd could not rule out the possibility that distant predators might visit this place.

For example, ‘Hond Gigant’.

It is a bipedal carnivorous reptile with a body covered in scales as hard as the outer wall of a ship, and its jaws are powerful enough to easily crush even a heavy walker.

In addition, since they always move in pairs, you have to deal with both at once when fighting. It would be difficult for the people present to fight the Hond Gigant couple.

‘…They have a keen sense of smell.’

The monster that hung this corpse must have known this fact and did it that way on purpose.

They had to pass through here in pursuit of the missing assistant secretary. If so, there was a high chance that they would encounter another predator that came after smelling the corpse.

“Get those bodies out now… No, wait.”

Dylan, who was about to order his men to collect the body, kept his mouth shut.

‘No. Would he have done something so predictable?’

He predicted the landing point of the transport ship and laid mines.

It was highly unlikely that such a cunning man would have done anything to the corpse.

‘The body was hung in a low position.’

In the video sent by the subordinate, the body was hung quite high up, but not now.

It was low enough that even a pirate wearing a reinforced suit could jump in place, grab the body, and drag it down.

As if trying to induce them to collect the body.

‘Suspicious.’

Dylan grabbed his purple spray gun and sprayed it at the bodies hanging from the tree.

Purple flames shot out from the tip of the long barrel, burning corpses and trees.

The corpse, which had been hanging precariously, fell to the ground and exploded with a loud noise as soon as it hit the ground.

“This chewy!”

He had hidden a bomb inside the body. He had programmed it to explode on impact.

In other words, a double trap.

He set a trap that would be a problem whether he cleaned up the body or not.

“… Ugh, let’s get out of here as fast as possible.”

“All right!”

Passing through a bomb-lined path is never a pleasant choice, but it is inevitable. It is better than attracting the attention of other predators due to the explosion.

Dylan and the pirates quickly moved away, leaving the bodies behind.

“50 meters ahead, the deputy chief of staff has stopped moving!”

Dylan was getting closer to the guy, but he was still anxious. He had no idea what he was up to this time.

“Everyone stop.”

I guess he, wearing the mask of indomitability, will have to take a look for himself.

“You, you, and you move with me. The rest stand by.”

“yes.”

Dylan stepped forward with some of his men.

As they made their way through the thick grass, a wide open space appeared before them. The assistant was leaning against a tree stump in the open space.

The assistant’s reinforced suit was seriously damaged, as if the monster had bitten him.

Because everything except the abdominal area was torn off.

Dylan first looked around the clearing with the Indomitable Mask. If the thing was cloaked, it would appear as a purple glow, but there was no sign of any living creature around.

When the deputy aide checked, he saw that his body was moving. He was still alive.

“Hey, you alive?”

“Ugh, ugh! Ugh!”

He was so badly injured that he couldn’t move and just groaned. Dylan motioned to his subordinate.

One of the pirates cautiously approached the adjutant.

“Aide?”

“Ugh, ugh! Ugh!”

As the pirate approached, the assistant adjutant’s groans grew louder.

“huh?”

Only when he got closer could the pirate notice that there was something strange about the assistant’s body.

Because the deputy chief of staff’s stomach was strangely swollen.

The moment the pirate put his hand on his stomach.

As the armor burst, black bugs stuck inside burst out and attacked the pirate.

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‘good.’

The hidden tooth fairies have taken action. Now it’s my turn.

I was hiding in a metal canopy, and I was climbing up to the top of a large tree to avoid detection from the enemies.

‘It seems like the leader over there has also used his head.’

It was quite unusual for me to detect a bomb trap, but it was within my expectations.

They were so focused on the corpse that they couldn’t see above it, and so they didn’t find me hiding at the top of the tree.

‘I told you it’s in the palm of my hand.’

I jumped off the tree.

The target is a Walker preparing for battle in the rear.

My body, which has become extremely heavy due to the Nightmare Horizon effect, falls at a rapid pace. Walker, who was charging his plasma launcher because he heard screams from in front, does not notice me falling.

“100 million?!”

“evil!”

The walker that collided with me fell forward. Then, the launcher that was charging fired, turning the two pirates in front of me into dust.

“No, it’s that guy!”

The pilot’s shouts were heard from inside the cockpit. The plan was to crush them all at once, but unfortunately, it failed.

The thick steel armor surrounding the cockpit was bent like a twig from my collision with it, but not enough to kill the pilot.

The other pirates and Walker turn around in response to the pilot’s words.

I activated my ghost claws and reached inside the cockpit.

With a few wave of my hand, I silenced the pilot instantly and quickly leapt forward. A plasma beam passed over my back just in time.

“Pain relief activated!”

‘this!’

I thought I escaped safely, but I wasn’t. The heat ray destroyed the plate on my back.

The jamming property cannot be used until it is restored.

Following the heat ray, purple flames shot out from purple spray guns from all directions and struck me.

‘… It’s so hot.’

The fire of supernatural powers heats my outer shell.

The Purple Spray Gun is not only powerful in terms of destructive power, but also has the unique characteristic that its flames do not go out as easily as white phosphorus bullets. Since it is a flame made of unrefined psychic power, it will continue to burn until a certain amount of time has passed.

Currently, I have the superpower enhancement type, superpower resistance trait, and pain reduction trait.

Thanks to that, I was able to stop at feeling hot, if even one of these had been missing, I wouldn’t have been able to move properly because of the burning pain all over my body.

‘I used metal absorption, but it was a shame.’

The purple flames attached to his body made his invisibility useless.

‘… But there is a strategy that can be used even in this state.’

I rushed towards the remaining walker with my body engulfed in flames. The one charging its launcher quickly activated its secondary weapon, the grenade launcher, mounted near its shoulder as I ran towards it.

‘How stupid.’

A grenade containing condensed plasma energy hit my head and bounced off.

The ricocheted grenade landed in front of the pirates who were pouring psychic fire at me.

“What the…!”

Ignoring the loud noise behind me, I rushed at Walker. Unlike Walker, who had been helpless at dawn, he leaned over and deflected my thrusts.

The horn grazed the cockpit’s armor, leaving a long dent, but failed to penetrate. Walker dodged my horn and kicked me back with his foot.

Because I was concentrating on the charge, I was pushed back significantly by Walker’s kick.

‘It doesn’t matter though.’

Walker aimed his launcher at me, whose posture had collapsed, but his intention was not accomplished.

“Ugh, euaaaah!”

Because the supernatural fire that had enveloped my body had transferred to Walker.

The pilot inside was forced to bail out as the cockpit was engulfed in purple flames.

‘Where are you going?’

I swung my tail at him as he tried to run away.

He was hit by a tail covered in hard scales and flew far away, crashing into a tree. The moment he hit the tree, he looked like a mosquito that had been hit in the palm of his hand.

“Shoot! Shoot and kill him!”

The pirate leader who had gone ahead to scout had returned and was now shouting.

The auto plasma gun on his shoulder fired directly at me.

I turned my head to block the plasma bullet that was flying towards my arm. My head was throbbing, but it was still bearable.

‘Should we change seats?’

I dodged the psychic flames and plasma bullets and jumped among the pirates.

The Purple Spray Gun does not discriminate between enemy and ally. The pirates with heavy weapons stopped firing in confusion.

“You idiots! Shoot him now!”

The clever pirate leader tried to be evil, but it was too late. I pulled out all the weapons I had from my fighting arms.

First, he struck the head of the helpless pirate with a bone axe.

“Ouch!”

As his brain flew away, a blood-red vampire tentacle grabbed another pirate’s leg.

“100 million?!”

A pirate hanging from a vampire tentacle becomes a 1.9m long club that he uses to beat up other pirates.

“Ugh!”

“evil!”

Even pirates wearing heavy armor couldn’t withstand a club made of pirates wearing the same clothes. The pirates were thrown out like pins hit by a bowling ball.

Seeing that, the other pirates also decided to abandon their comrades and tried to activate their purple spray guns again.

I opened my mouth wide at them.

Pockets of malignant fungus are expelled from the mouth from an organ located in the back of the throat.

A black mass flies in a parabolic arc and lands behind the pirates wielding heavy weapons. With the sound of water balloons popping, vicious molds are released and stick to the pirates.

“Keep, keep kkeugyagyaggak!”

“Each of the babies!”

The pirates scream and fall asleep. The effects of space bacteria and rot fungus organs are now even stronger thanks to the contagion enhancement property.

The rot fungus, now much more vicious than before, quickly ate away at the pirates’ bodies.

“T, what the fuck… Retreat! Retreat!”

Walker was annihilated, and the remaining pirates were reduced by nearly half.

At the pirate leader’s order to retreat, the other pirates turned their backs and began to run away.

I didn’t chase them. Instead, I took care of the pirates around me who weren’t dead yet.

“T-T-stop… Ugh!”

‘You have to recover before you chase.’

I chewed on the head of the struggling pirate.

The plate that activates the radio interference property is also damaged, and his entire body is burned by the supernatural flames.

Rather than rushing to chase down the enemy, it is better to recover from wounds, recharge your body, and then move.

‘Anyway, I’ve already eliminated all the Walkers and the heavy machine guns.’

The one who appears to be the leader is armed with a purple spray gun and an auto plasma gun, but that’s it.

In this dangerous forest, they are no better than a wounded deer.

‘Now I’m the one drinking.’

It’s a shame that I won’t have any use for the traps I prepared, but that’s okay.

I also really like chases.