Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 112



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Ep. 112

In Space Survival, planets that do not have extreme ecosystems, such as rocky planets or ocean planets, and have a variety of environmental factors evenly distributed are classified as terrestrial planets.

PH-101 is a terrestrial planet with a large amount of water and a variety of plants and animals.

If you look up to here, it seems like a really nice place to live, but there is a catch.

PH-101 has a habitable ecosystem, but the creatures that inhabit the entire planet are by no means weak.

Plantrigards are weak in size but form groups of hundreds or thousands, or Hond Gigants have physical specs that rival those of top-tier players.

Not only is there no creature easy to deal with, but there are also many environmental factors and events on this planet that make it difficult for humans to survive.

There are rare instances of a planet-wide magnetic storm, or a massive volcanic eruption on Saintopia 01, a continent different from my own.

The swamps of the continent of Saintopia 02, where I am now, are also places that can be counted among the top ten most dangerous environments on this planet.

The vicious cycle of mushrooms constantly spewing out terrifyingly toxic spores, animals that died from poisoning and decaying into toxic gases, and animals living in the swamp absorbing the poison and becoming even more toxic has created a devilish realm where even those wearing protective gear can’t last for 5 minutes.

‘If it was a game, I would have come after becoming a semi-adult.’

In reality, on the contrary, it turned out to be a semi-adult.

“Squeak!”

A 4m long man-eating songbird struggles in my tentacles.

The creature’s name is Smogpad. It is a dangerous creature that is low on the swamp food chain, but cannot be underestimated.

Smog Pad has the ability to spray acidic liquid as a fog. The acidic fog it sprays can melt gas masks, so it has great synergy in swampy areas where the air is full of poison.

‘It has nothing to do with me, though.’

The erosion tentacles sucked hard into the smog pad they were holding onto with their six appendages. The hard carapace covering its back broke, and its long, stretched body collapsed and was sucked into my tentacles.

Toxic blood and fluids flowed from the creature’s body, but the other tentacles waiting below drank every drop without missing a single drop.

Even while the tentacles were eating, my body was busy working, swatting away insects that were rushing at me with my fighting arms and tail.

‘It’s comfortable because there’s a nightmare horizon.’

Although Aimorph has many arms, it only has one mouth, so its predatory activities are limited.

But now that they had seven mouths, eating was faster than hunting.

“Infection Enhanced Type (7/8), Special Defense Enhanced Type (4/4), Nest Enhanced Type (6/4)”

“There are two ‘types’ that can be specialized.”

Since entering the swamp, the number of specialization types has increased to two due to acquiring a large number of characteristics.

‘If we just collect one more infection-related trait and two more nest-related traits, we can fill all the types needed for evolution.’

When you acquire one type of Eimorph, the number needed to acquire another type doubles.

That’s why I originally planned to get the infection enhancement type first, and then the special defense enhancement type.

Since there were more nest-related characteristics than I expected, I changed the direction to first acquire the infection enhancement type and then the nest enhancement type.

After checking the text box once in the middle, I went inside the swamp.

This is to obtain rare characteristics that can only be obtained here.

As the water level of the swamp deepened, the number of creatures visible around gradually decreased. Instead, the bones of large, gigantic creatures were seen scattered here and there.

The toxicity of the fog over the swamp had become even thicker, to the point where the air itself could be called poisonous.

If I hadn’t been enhanced by the symbolism and characteristics of hunting, I would have died of addiction long ago.

‘It’s almost time to come.’

Before I knew it, the water level in the swamp had risen to my chest, but my body still felt as if it were on land, thanks to the new characteristics I had acquired here.

‘I never thought I’d get flippers and fins here.’

As its name suggests, it has claws on its hands and feet, and thin but wide fins have sprouted from the wrists of its fighting arms and on its tail.

Normally, it is folded tightly on land and is inactive, but when it enters the water, it unfolds like this to help with underwater activities.

‘It’ll be difficult to swim in this condition.’

Because my body weight is so much, I can’t swim in deep water and can only use it to move quickly in a swamp like I do now.

As I was swimming halfway through the swamp, my auxiliary organs detected something moving in the swamp.

A small lantern appeared in the middle of the quiet swamp. The pale, glowing lantern swayed gently until it noticed me and stopped.

‘Coming.’

The lantern, no, the eyes of the giant creature hiding under the swamp went back into the road.

And then, as the waves started to swell, the thing began to reveal itself.

First, ten long, spider-like legs emerged from the swamp. Each leg was covered with a hard shell, and they were nearly 10 meters long.

Then two pincers emerged from the surface along with the legs.

No, can you really call those tongs?

Each of the tongs was a whopping 2m long, so it looked so ferocious that even I would have a hard time resisting being hit by one.

The legs and pincers alone were enormous, but the body was much larger and wider than the legs. While the legs were similar to those of a spider, the body was oval-shaped and covered with a thick shell, similar to a crab.

Of course, no one would think of a crab when they see a creature with a shell as wide as 15 meters.

The top of the carapace was densely packed with thorns the size of an adult’s forearm, and the lower part was perforated with holes the size of a palm.

On the front of the armor, there was a mouth with teeth in a spiral shape like that of a seven-star eel, and four eyes that looked like lanterns.

The name of the creature that looks like a combination of a crab and a spider is ‘Swamp King’.

Saintopia 02 It is the most dangerous creature in the swamps of the continent.

Four eyes resembling lanterns look at me.

The moment I felt its gaze, two pincers flew towards my head at an unbelievable speed.

Sensing the signs of an attack with my auxiliary organs, I bent my knees and dove into the swamp. A heavy pincer brushed over my crown-like shell.

Before the bastard could continue his attack, I kicked the mud on the swamp floor and jumped upward.

It was closer to a swamp than a floor, so I couldn’t jump very high, but it was enough for me to be able to climb on top of it.

I climbed on top of him and attacked his armor using the weapons I had.

I opened my mouth wide and bit the hardened creature’s eyes, clawed at it with my fighting arms, and smashed its belly plate with my bone axe. The spikes protruding from its belly plate were cut off with each swing of my arm.

“Strange”

The guy shook his body as if he was annoyed. My body shook violently as if I was riding a rodeo machine.

To keep from falling, I stabbed the bastard in the stomach with my bony bladed arm that protruded from my back.

When I clung to it like a leech even though it was shaking, it twisted the joints of its pincers and some of its legs in reverse to strike me down.

The target is me on the back.

The claws at the end of its legs are as strong as pincers, but their penetrative power is so great that they can easily pierce through my skull shell.

I quickly jumped off its armor before the claws at the end of its legs could stab me.

However, the attack came at such a fast speed that one of my erosion tentacles was torn off by the attack.

“Pain relief activated!”

A sharp pain shot into my head, as if someone had hit me in the back with a cane.

“marvelous?”

The one whose attack failed let out a short cry as if surprised.

‘It’s strong.’

It is no joke, perhaps because it is a creature located at the top of the swamp ecosystem.

It is completely immune to attacks such as poison, parasites, and viruses. Therefore, the new infection-type traits I gained when entering the swamp are all ineffective.

And its carapace is resistant to all types of psychic powers.

The reason I didn’t use Ghost Claws when I slashed at its armor with my combat arm earlier is because it wouldn’t work anyway. Even if I shot psychic breath, it would only cause enough damage to crack it.

That is, there is only one way to attack the guy.

‘It must be subdued by force alone.’

The bastard has a very fast attack speed and is also quite strong.

On top of that, it has a thick back plate, high resistance to supernatural powers, and immunity to poisons and viruses.

If you look at it like this, it looks perfect, but it is not.

‘I can win.’

After a round of fighting, the other side only suffered damage to its armor, while I lost one of my erosion tentacles.

When I just looked at this, it seemed like I had suffered a huge loss, but I felt relieved instead.

‘As expected. I can pierce the armor as it is now.’

It may come as a surprise, but that tough, thick-looking carapace is the creature’s most vulnerable part.

Swamp creatures are known for hunting their enemies in unusual and bizarre ways.

The same goes for swamping.

Given its crab-like appearance and spider-thin legs, it’s easy to think that you’d need to neutralize its legs or pincers first, but that’s a mistake.

Its legs and pincers are so strong that they can withstand plasma heat without even a scratch.

It is so strong that it can be considered nearly indestructible, so there is no point in aiming at its pincers and legs.

On the other hand, the carapace is relatively less strong than the legs. If you have strong physical force, you can break the carapace.

And now I have strong physical strength.

“Strange”

The bastard only growled and didn’t move, perhaps recognizing me as someone to be wary of.

I also slowly circled around the bastard to take advantage of the opportunity.

During that brief standoff, it was he who attacked first.

“Strange, strange, strange”

White snake-like things wriggled out from the holes on the underside of its armor. These were the corpse-fish I had seen in the sewers of the space city before.

‘To be exact, it’s a strengthened version of that.’

The corpse larvae that emerged from the Swamp King’s body were on a whole other level than the hideous creatures we’d seen in the sewers.

In the game, the Corpse Catfish summoned by Swamp King ignores the player’s defense and deals fixed damage. This is due to the setting that it secretes digestive fluid that can dissolve even the hardest materials.

This is reality, so things might have changed.

‘I don’t intend to hit you on purpose.’

A swarm of corpse fish swims toward me to devour me.

I swung my long tail that was submerged under the swamp and struck the corpse catfish with it. The waves parted like the Red Sea, and the pieces of the corpse catfish that were shattered by my tail flew into the air.

Before the swamp waves could find their place, I lay down on my stomach and lunged forward.

My four arms and two legs kick the mud floor and my body quickly leaps forward.

“What a surprise!”

Swamp King roars and swings his two pincers, trying to crush me.

Just as the claw was about to land on my head, an arm with a bone blade engaged the claw.

A cracking sound, hard to believe as if body parts of living creatures had collided, echoed across the swamp.

‘Ugh!’

The bone blade is quite strong, but not strong enough to hold the claws for long.

Not only was the blade cracked, but the entire back of his arm was twisted in a bizarre direction.

The arms on my back were quickly disabled, but thanks to that I managed to correct the trajectory of the claws. The two claws barely grazed my body and slammed hard into the ground.

And for a very brief moment, Swamp King was left defenseless.

I focused my thrusting force on his head and struck the lower part of his armor. The two horns on my head pierced his armor.

“Whew, squeak!”

The bastard is greatly surprised, as if he hadn’t expected this. Acidic digestive fluid pours out from the bastard’s wound.

‘I can hold on!’

The skull is the hardest part of my body. Now is the time to trust it and endure it.

I instead used both legs to push the horns in deeper. The creature’s reddish-brown blood mixed with its digestive juices and soaked my body.

“Squeak!”

When he saw that I didn’t move, he spread out both of his tongs and grabbed my waist and legs.

A two-meter-tall press squeezes my body.

One of his legs broke in an instant, and his waist slowly crumbled under the force of the bastard.

If I were a normal person, I would have died from not being able to breathe before the pain.

Instead of putting distance between me and the creature, I wrapped my erosion tentacles around its belly and pressed my body against its belly. This allowed the horns embedded in its body to dig deeper and tear into its internal organs.

“Giriririk!”

The creature screams in pain as its insides are torn apart.

The force from the pincers that had been pressing down on me gradually released, and I grabbed the pincers with my lower fighting arm and pushed them away.

The corpse maggots clung to my body to protect their master, but I did not waver or back down.

I put my upper fighting arm inside the broken bastard’s belly.

Unlike the hard shell, you can feel the soft internal organs and flesh.

I grabbed them and pulled them out.

“What a weird feeling!”

Some of the bastard’s legs move to stab me.

I released the eroding tentacles that had wrapped around its armor and grabbed its legs.

Still, the power contained in the creature’s legs was by no means light. It tore off the entangled tentacles and stabbed me in the back with the claws at the end of its legs.

“Squeak, squeak!”

“Grrrrrrr”

From now on, it’s a fight to see who can last longer.

If only I didn’t have the regenerative ability.

If it weren’t for the extremely enhanced body due to the Type and Hunting symbolism and the Nightmare Horizon effect.

The last one standing may have changed.

“Strange….”

The Swamp King let out a final gasp and fell to the side. It spat out a few bubbles of reddish-brown blood from its mouth before moving no further.

I put my foot on the bastard’s head and roared loudly.

To inform you that the master of the swamp died by my hands.

And to announce that his body is mine.

The swamp dwellers who had been approaching are startled and disperse, wondering if there is anything to eat.

After chasing away all the thieves, I stuck my head inside the Swamp King’s stomach.

You can eat it with the erosion tentacles, but since you worked so hard to catch it, shouldn’t you taste it at least a little?

I bit the tender flesh inside the shell with my teeth, then chewed it lightly.

‘oh.’

I just put it in my mouth, but it already feels strange. I quickly swallow it down my throat before the Swamp King’s flesh melts on my tongue.

‘hmm.’

The number one food I’ve ever eaten is Sihyeon Yujin, and it hasn’t changed even once.

So I thought.

The more evenly and well-tuned the genetic essence of the object is, the better the taste will be.

But I was wrong.

To be honest, before eating it, I thought it tasted like crab meat because it resembled a crab, but that was a very wrong thought.

The taste of Swamp King was so good that I felt guilty for daring to evaluate it with such irreverent thoughts.

‘The best part of all is….’

Sihyeon Eugene’s taste was really good, but the portion size wasn’t that big. After all, it was human size.

But the one in front of me is a 15m long super luxurious king crab.

‘I’ve never had crab dishes before when I was human, but I’ve tried them all since I came here.’

If I hadn’t been in a situation where I was pressed for time as a symbol of hunting, I would have caught them and leisurely eaten them for several days.

‘Oh. I would have loved it if I had kids.’

When I meet up with 26 and Adhai again later, I’ll have to consider coming back to the swamp. Not for the sake of genetic purification, but purely for culinary reasons.

I quickly scraped off all the flesh and entrails attached to the inside of the king crab, or rather the swamp king’s shell.

As for the leg part, since I couldn’t break the shell, I inserted the erosion tentacles and blood-sucking tentacles inside and just ate the flesh.

Finally, after eating the eyes of the thing that resembled a lantern cleanly, a spear appeared indicating the predatory effect, just like when it eats other creatures.

‘Okay.’

Evolution is not far away.

After acquiring the genetic essence of the Swamp King, I continued to roam the swamp and kill other creatures.

The injury is not minor, but none of the remaining creatures can threaten me.

Having safely acquired two types, I escaped from the swamp with about 3 minutes left on the Hunting Symbol effect.

My combat arms and five erosion tentacles were carrying the corpses of several creatures.

I piled up food inside the cave that I had checked in advance.

‘I hope I won’t have to go outside because of side effects.’

Then, before the representation ended, I checked the message I had seen in the swamp one last time.

“The evolution condition from ‘adult’ to ‘quasi-adult’ has been met. Would you like to evolve? ”