Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 110



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Ep. 110

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“Fuck! Fuck!”

Dylan kept swearing. The other subordinates beside him looked at him with anxious eyes.

‘I underestimated my enemy!’

They had been running away for a long time, but they were taking a short break, hiding behind a rock. There were only six people there, including Dylan.

I don’t know what happened to the other subordinates.

It was easy to imagine what kind of end they had met, seeing that the gunshots that had been heard in the distance just a few minutes ago had completely stopped.

‘shit!’

32 people including him and his deputy, and even brought 5 heavy walkers, but only six people were left.

Even if he escapes safely, there’s no way the boss would leave him alone after causing such a mess.

‘…Let’s contact the cruiser.’

However, the reason Dylan chose to contact the cruiser was because that was the option with the highest chance of his survival.

Because Dylan was the type that thought it was better to survive torture than to die.

Dylan pulled the wire from the terminal attached to his wrist and connected it to the terminal on the corner of the mask that resembled a death mask.

And as soon as he pressed the button on the terminal, communication with the cruiser was established. A short connection tone flowed out from the terminal, and the radio operator picked up his transmission.

“It’s Dylan. And you, boss?”

“You left for the interior of the continent this morning. You got information from the Heavenly Mother that you captured a while ago? That beast has treasure.”

“okay?”

Dylan breathed a sigh of relief at the signalman’s words.

The pirates who had been listening quietly from the side also looked relieved.

If there is no boss, Dylan becomes the top man in the Humanity Cartel.

If you catch the monsters and offer them up together with the cruiser’s forces before the leader returns, the severity of the punishment for them will also be reduced.

“There is a top-tier dangerous creature here. I will transmit the information, so please record it in the ship’s database.”

“Oh, I understand!”

As Dylan manipulated the terminal, the visual information about the monster recorded by his mask was transmitted directly to the cruiser’s computer.

“All information has been transmitted.”

“Okay. Our lives are in danger too, so immediately… .”

“Chijijijik”

Dylan tried to call for support, but suddenly there was static and the terminal went dead.

“You little punk! Bring the cruiser over here right now!”

“Chijijijijik”

“Chew!”

As he was about to slam the terminal down in anger, he heard the sound of trees breaking nearby.

The sound of the giant beast moving was a sound all too familiar to the pirates of this place.

“… … .”

Everyone trembled and covered their mouths.

It’s not like there isn’t a weapon among their arsenal that can harm the bastard.

The grenade launcher separated from Walker, the purple spray gun and auto plasma gun held by Dylan.

The problem is that you can damage it, but not enough to kill it.

We all knew what happened to the other pirates when the undead one fought back.

So they chose to hide and endure rather than fight back.

Hoping the bastard wouldn’t notice them hiding and would just pass by.

Thud, thud, thud.

The wet ground shook and vibrated with each step of the creature’s heavy feet.

As the footsteps grew louder, Dylan began to get confused as to whether the sound he was hearing was the man’s footsteps or his own heartbeat.

The sound of footsteps that seemed to go on forever stopped. On the other hand, Dylan’s heartbeat reached its peak.

“Grrrrrrr”

The bastard growls.

I could tell where the guy was because I could hear him so close.

He’s behind the rock where they’re hiding.

‘What the hell do I do? What should I do? Fuck, should I just jump in now? No. What if it goes wrong? Damn it! I don’t want to die!’

Dylan was so nervous that he seemed to be going crazy. His subordinates next to him seemed to be thinking the same thing, as their limbs were visibly shaking.

“Grrr”

The person who had made the pirates flinch in fear took another step forward.

The sound I could feel at my toes gradually died down.

Only then did the pirates sigh deeply in relief. Some pirates were so nervous that they took off their helmets and vomited on the spot.

A foul odor wafted over him, but Dylan didn’t blame his subordinate.

As expected from a cult, he had poor physical abilities and wanted to vomit, but he barely held it back.

The pirates who had been hiding behind the rocks got up one by one and looked around, and Dylan also took a deep breath and got up from his seat.

The bastard was nowhere to be seen, perhaps because he had already gone far away.

The moment I raised my head to stretch, thinking that I was relieved.

“… … .”

Dylan realized what it meant to have a frozen heart.

A purple mass was shining brightly on the old tree next to the rock.

“Found it”

As soon as Dylan realized this, he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder.

A thorn the size of a fruit knife flew out from the bastard’s tail and lodged itself in his shoulder.

The shoulder-mounted auto plasma gun also became stuck in the thorn and stopped working.

“100 million!”

“Huh!”

The thorn did not hit only him, and the pirates next to him also let out short screams. Then they fell backwards helplessly.

‘poison!’

“Uh-uh-”

The guy tilts his head, as if he hadn’t expected this.

Dylan, who was not poisoned by the venom thanks to the Indomitable Mask, quickly ran in the opposite direction. As he ran, the thorns flew back behind him and stuck in the ground.

Dylan injected himself with the strengthening agent in his suit and ran with all his might.

I had never used it because of the side effects, but now was not the time to think about side effects.

He had never witnessed such a realistic horror in his life.

When I first met his boss, it wasn’t this scary, even when he was laughing and slaughtering countless people.

Even the word monster is not worthy of describing him.

He is the very embodiment of the primal fear that all intelligent beings have.

“Gasp, gasp, gasp, gasp… .”

Dylan, who was running breathlessly, glanced behind him when he realized he couldn’t hear any footsteps.

Even though the bastard was out of sight, Dylan didn’t stop.

He could hear the wind in his ears as he ran like crazy. The sound of the air vibrating was too quiet to be a carrier-based aircraft, and there was no sound of flapping wings to be a pterosaur.

Dylan turned his head to the side to try to figure out what was coming from the sound, and finally was able to see the thing’s shape.

It was gliding between the trees, with four arms, thick legs, and a tail much longer than its body.

This is done by using the membrane that connects between the arms and the middle of the tail.

“Nimi, you can fly too.”

Dylan gave up on running.

The bastard flew at him as he stood there blankly swearing.

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‘So that’s why it happened.’

I looked at the mask in my hand. It was a piece of equipment I had taken from a dead pirate leader whose waist had been folded behind his back.

A silver mask that resembles a human death mask. I know what this mask is.

‘This is a cult quest reward, how did you get this?’

The Mask of Indomitable is a piece of equipment that grants the wearer immunity to poison and mental attacks, and allows him to see hidden targets.

It’s not a unique item, but it’s a reward that the cult gets for clearing quests, so it’s not exactly common equipment.

This is because the Mask of Indomitable is a piece of equipment that can only be obtained by clearing a relatively complex dungeon.

‘Are there any other players besides me?’

As a player, you may naturally accept the quest, but this is reality.

It was hard to imagine that the pirate in front of me fully understood the system called quest and obtained this equipment.

‘If there were other players besides me, how many would have come in?’

Until now, I thought I was the only one who entered the world of space survival, and I never thought there would be other users.

And when that happens, we have a major problem.

‘How should I treat them?’

It’s not something I should say, having eaten countless people, but if the target is a player, it’s a different story.

They are people who grew up and lived in the same world as me.

To be honest, he is closer to me than anyone else in this space survival world.

So, if by any chance they turn against me, would I be willing to fight against them?

The reason I’m worrying about this is because I’m an Eimorph.

If they are players who have enjoyed the game for a long time, they are likely to try to kill me, and I will inevitably have to become enemies with other players in order to ascend.

‘Because these are the conditions for ascension.’

Like Aimov’s ascension, other races also have ultimate goals that include the overthrow of races other than their own.

If other players are aiming for ascension, it is very unlikely that encountering them will be a friendly affair.

‘… No. There’s still too little information.’

It’s too early to judge and decide what to do with other players.

It’s much more productive to get enough information and then make up your mind.

I guess I’ll have to ask the pirates I paralyzed earlier. Where and how did they get the Mask of Indomitable? If they looted it, who did they get it from, etc.

I took the mask and devoured the cult leader’s body, leaving nothing behind.

‘Other people.’

If there are players somewhere in this world, I should meet them after I become as strong as possible. Even if I decide not to antagonize them, they may still antagonize me.

If you meet them in a weak state, you will only become a slave or prey to other players.

I have no intention of becoming someone’s slave or prey.

So right now I do what only Aimov can do.

Hunting, predation, and evolution.

‘You have to become stronger than anyone else to be able to make decisions freely at the moment of choice.’

So I went back the way I came.

The paralyzed pirates are probably still waiting for me eagerly.

But what was waiting for me weren’t pirates.

“Kurrrrrr.”

When I saw them, I quickly crouched down. The protective color effect was activated, and my body color changed to a similar color to the red tree next to me.

“Crunch?”

A large theropod with horns on its head tilts its head towards me from its gorging on pirates.

It was a dangerous creature, the Hond Gigant, with a body length of 20m and a height of 9m to the pelvis.

Two of the highest ranked creatures in the forest’s food chain were feasting on the paralyzed pirates.

“Krrrrrr?”

He couldn’t see me, but he sensed something different coming from me.

However, the smell of the cult’s blood coming from my body seemed to be mixed with the smell of the pirates’ blood here, making it difficult to distinguish clearly.

While one was concentrating on finding me, the other one was trying to sneak up on the pirate.

“Krrrrrr.”

“Kuaaaah!”

“Crunch… .”

The guy who had been looking at me finally stopped caring and roared at the other guy to tell him not to look down on me.

They ate all five pirates around the rock and leisurely left.

‘this.’

After confirming that they had left, I stood up from my seat.

‘I never thought the Hond Gigant would come this far.’

I thought about giving it a try, but it’s hard to compete with someone at my current level.

‘I can kill one somehow…’

The Hond Gigant is a powerful predator in its own right, but it also has some terrifying unique special abilities.

‘Madness mode is hard.’

Hond Gigant always travels in pairs, and when one of the same species dies, the remaining one’s specs increase dramatically.

The previously hard outer shell becomes even harder, becoming too strong to be hit by my psychic breath, and its jaw strength becomes strong enough to split my skull in two.

Even if I somehow win the fight, it would be a loss if my injuries get too bad. Because I still have enemies left.

‘Once those guys go back, we’ll have to move again.’

The habitat of the Hond Gigant is far from here. Perhaps they came here because of the bombs I used to catch pirates.

Once they are properly full, they will return to their habitat.

‘By the way, did you really eat them all without leaving anything behind?’

Since the Hond Gigants had eaten all the pirates, there was no one left to ask about the source of the mask.

‘But there are dozens of campsites nearby.’

If you go around and catch pirates and ask them questions, you’ll probably get some information. If that’s not enough, you’ll have to target cruisers.

‘Let’s rest for a bit before the Hond Gigant leaves.’

I don’t know how much of a stake the pirates I’ve taken in the Humanity Cartel have, but they’re all gone for now.

It will be some time before the enemies come for me again.

I climbed up the tree and crouched down.

After confirming that the protective coloration had been activated, I quietly closed my eyes.

As soon as I entered this continent, I was separated from the children, hunted pirates with strange names, and heard information about unexpected players.

The jumbled thoughts in my head slowly began to fade, and I began to feel sleepy.

‘Come to think of it, it’s been a long time since I slept alone.’

Number 26 has always been by my side, but after a long time, I am left alone and closing my eyes.

I slowly fell into sleep, feeling somehow lonely.