Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 113



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Ep. 113

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Deep in the central forest of the continent of Saintopia 02, there is a place where electronic devices and communication equipment cannot be used.

It is protected by a powerful energy, so it cannot be observed from outside the planet or from the sky, and can only be reached by walking through the jungle maze.

The name of the place is ‘Temple of the Forgotten Land’.

Only the Earth Father, served by the Wolfs of Saintopia 02, knows the way to the Forgotten Earth Temple.

That’s how it should have been originally.

Those standing in the now forgotten temple of the land were not Wolf.

Inside and outside the temple were strewn with broken stone statues and human and cult corpses.

Inside the temple, a group of people were moving around, collecting corpses.

They were a cult of young humans with horns on their heads, but they had something in common.

The fact that they are all very handsome and male.

Those who invaded the temple were members of a powerful pirate group, the Humanity Cartel.

All of the pirates had tense and tired faces from the aftermath of battle, but one was an exception.

The cult girl with deer antlers on her temples had a big smile on her face. In her hand she held a golden spear.

“Hehe, there’s nothing sweeter than getting important items before others.”

A voice as beautiful as her appearance flowed from her mouth.

Her name is Muriel.

He is the leader of the Humanity Cartel.

A man approached her as she looked around the window with a satisfied look.

“Boss.”

“Why? Brother?”

“Well, there were a few casualties.”

Her gaze turned to the pirates lying behind her men. They were badly injured in the battle with the statues guarding the temple.

“Brothers, are you in a lot of pain?”

“Oh, no!”

“It’s okay! It’s just a little scratch!”

The injured pirates were terrified and tried to convince the others that they were okay.

Muriel walked up to them, glanced at them, and frowned.

“My brother is ugly, so I can’t do it.”

“S-save me! Kkeuk!”

“You too, oppa.”

“Please… evil!”

Muriel pretended not to hear and proceeded to spear and kill the pirates who were seriously injured or had facial scars, one by one.

Strangely enough, the golden spear’s light became brighter every time it killed a pirate, as if it was rejoicing after being soaked in blood.

“Thanks to you guys, the experiment was a great success.”

She nodded with satisfaction, looking at the single window that shone so brightly that it illuminated the inside of the temple.

After killing all the wounded, Muriel led her men and left the temple.

There is a makeshift camp set up by the Humanity Cartel away from the temple.

As she arrived, her men who had been waiting at the camp came out to greet her.

“Are you here?”

“Mother in Heaven?”

“I am currently training as you said.”

Muriel and her men entered the camp. In the center of the camp was a three-meter-tall beast chained up.

The appearance of the beast with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion was truly gruesome.

His entire body was covered in hardened scabs, and his wounds were rotting and growing with maggots.

All four legs had thick iron stakes driven into them, and around his neck he wore an iron collar with thorns embedded inside.

In addition, the intestines protruding from the wound in the side were tied up with thick wire connected to the wheel.

Muriel spoke in a bright voice to the beast, who seemed like it could die at any moment.

“Hey, Choi Seo, ah. No. Heavenly Mother. How have you been?”

“… … .”

When the beast called the Mother of Heaven did not respond, Muriel motioned to one of the pirates. As the pirate turned the wheel, the wire began to pull, pulling the beast’s entrails out.

“Kwaaaaah! This fucking bitch!”

“If someone asks you a question, you have to answer.”

“Ugh… Stop it!”

“Why are you ignoring me when I try to thank you for giving me the treasure? Do you still think I’m funny?”

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!”

The mother in heaven was in such excruciating pain that her insides were torn apart that she even wet herself.

“Hahaha, I’m really amazed that the transformation didn’t come off even after doing all this.”

“Euuuuuu… You b*tch… .”

“But how long can I hold out?”

As Muriel was laughing at the miserable sight, her subordinate approached her holding a terminal pad.

“Boss, this is an urgent transmission from the cruiser.”

“I’m busy right now.”

“It’s very urgent.”

“… Tsk.”

Muriel had no choice but to accept the pad.

What was displayed on the pad screen were video records transmitted from the camera mounted on the reinforced suit.

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‘phew.’

After regaining consciousness from the aftereffects of the hunt, I looked around. I was worried that I might go out of the cave, but that didn’t happen.

‘I ate a bit messily though.’

The cave walls and my body were covered in blood. My fingers were dangling with the remains of eaten intestines, and the floor was strewn with broken bones and pieces of flesh.

‘Then let’s get ready.’

After putting all the food I had prepared into my stomach, I left the cave.

Evolution cannot occur immediately even if all evolution conditions are met.

The time when Amorph is most incapacitated is when it is in a cocoon to evolve.

If you are attacked then, you will die without being able to resist.

‘It took six hours to evolve so far.’

It will probably take about the same or longer to evolve into a semi-adult.

To survive in this jungle for at least six hours, you need to be prepared.

‘Let’s block the cave entrance.’

I went outside and went to a nearby pirate camp. There was no one in the camp because the pirates had already eaten all of them.

The supplies at the campsite were still there, except for a group of guys like Wood Devil who came and took a box of calorie bars.

I picked up a small bomb from the campsite and returned to the cave, planting it at the entrance. When I detonated the bomb, the cave entrance collapsed and the inside of the cave was plunged into darkness.

‘Then shall we go?’

There is a large cavity inside the cave where I can evolve without any problems.

I walked deep into the inner cavity along the wall and found a suitable spot.

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

It’s been a long wait.

I said to the text box that was waiting for my response.

That we will evolve.

Then, a huge amount of mucus was secreted from my body in an instant. I lay down on the cool cave floor, feeling the stickiness all over my body.

The mucus not only covered my entire body, but also spread throughout the entire cavity. I quietly closed my eyes as the mucus slowly hardened and formed an egg-shaped form.

and.

‘hmm?’

I opened my eyes in a familiar space.

‘Here?’

Where I was standing was someone’s room.

A computer and VR headset in the corner, a poster of a classic sci-fi movie on the wall, and a blanket folded up on the floor.

I know the identity of this space.

‘My room?’

I looked down at my palms, wondering if I had just come back to reality.

What was there was the familiar hand of Aimov, only reduced in size to human size.

‘What happened?’

It was too realistic to be a dream. The musty smell of a studio apartment and the smell of kimchi stew coming in from outside were hard to believe to be fake.

I walked over to the computer and turned on the VR headset with the wires connected.

The screen reflected in the translucent visor inside the device was clearly the login screen for Space Survival.

‘It’s different from when it evolved into an adult.’

At that time, I assumed that the space I was in was an imaginary world. That was understandable, because the space I was standing in felt unrealistic.

But now, that boundary is very vague.

Judging by the weight of the device in my hand, it was difficult to tell if it was real or unrealistic.

I put down my VR headset and opened the door.

‘huh?’

The moment I opened the door, I was standing in another space.

It was a private house.

‘This is….’

A picture frame hanging in the hallway.

The picture in the frame is one I drew when I was in kindergarten.

As we enter, we see a middle-aged man and woman arguing on the floor.

Both had black paint on their faces, and their voices were unintelligible, with noise as if they had been mechanically altered.

They continued to bicker among themselves as if they didn’t know I was in the same room.

‘… … .’

I passed them and entered the innermost room.

A room with just a bed, a desk, and a closet. It felt more desolate than my studio apartment that I had seen earlier.

I walked over to the closet without even looking at the bed or the desk, and opened the door with both hands.

“… … .”

Inside the closet was a young child with his ears covered.

No, to be exact, a child with a burn scar on half of his face.

The child looks at me and opens his eyes wide with tears in his eyes.

I absentmindedly reached out to the child. The child also reached out in the same manner as I did.

The child’s expression changes as their hands touch.

The moment I realized that it was a smile.

The environment surrounding me turned into thick darkness.

‘You’re back.’

I stretched out my ‘sixth arm’ and tore the membrane covering my body.

The mucus that had filled the membrane poured out, and the cold, stuffy air unique to the cave enveloped my body.

It was like the pleasant coolness you feel when you come out of a bath with warm water.

I slowly raised my body by putting strength into my ‘tail’.

There was no light in the cave, so I couldn’t see anything with my eyes, but I could feel it.

Because the number of accessory organs under my chin increased from two to four, it vividly conveyed the changes that had occurred in my body.

‘Is this a semi-adult?’

Hatchlings that resemble spiders or scorpions.

Asexual and subadult creatures that walk on two legs, similar to humans or apes.

So what kind of animal would a semi-adult resemble?

I would say a giant snake. A snake with eight arms.

The newly transformed me no longer has what can be called legs. The arms that originally served as legs have been remodeled into new combat arms, so now I have a total of six combat arms.

‘Upper arm, middle arm, lower arm.’

Each has combat arms located near the shoulders, sides, and lower pelvis. As the legs have turned into arms, the upper body has also become longer than before.

And my lower body, where my legs had disappeared, was replaced by a thick tail as long as my torso.

In other words, if I were to simply express my current body, I would say it is similar to the Naga, a half-man, half-snake monster from Indian mythology.

You might think that without legs it would be slower, but that’s not the case.

From now on, locomotion is done by the blunt claws that are densely packed on the tail. The strength of the tail claws is so great that even when running on land, it can run much faster than before.

‘And it’s also useful when walking around underground or swimming.’

These changes allow the swarm to operate in a much wider range of environments than before, whether burrowing into the ground to ambush enemies or chasing them down as they escape into the water.

Additionally, the tail was an important means of locomotion and support for the body, and it also had scale-like shells of the same level as the head.

Its shell is divided into small pieces so that it can move freely, but its defense is not so low that it can be underestimated. If it hits the enemy with its tail, it will probably have the same power as my full-power charge.

‘In the past, many enemies were killed by wrapping them around this tail.’

Even the Swamp King that I had eaten before evolving would be crushed in a matter of minutes if I were to squeeze its back with this tail. Of course, it’s not stupid, so it won’t let me squeeze it easily.

As the overall body shape changed drastically, the shape of the belly plate, which had become enlarged due to the Nightmare Horizon effect, also changed slightly. The bulky and heavy belly plate changed into an elongated and less thick form that matches the snake-like body shape.

‘Let’s see.’

From now on, I will not walk on two legs, but will move by supporting my body with my tail. I tried moving my tail as an experiment.

Ssssssss

‘oh?’

Honestly, I thought it would be difficult to adapt to, but it wasn’t that difficult. The feeling of moving the tail was similar to the feeling of applying strength to the waist and flicking it here and there.

‘By the way, you’ve grown a lot.’

Previously, my body length was 12m including the tail, and 20m when I wore the hunting symbol.

But now, the role of the tail has become so important that it has grown to over 25 meters in length even though it is not used as a hunting symbol.

The mutations that occurred as they became semi-adults were not only their size but also their lower body being replaced by a tail.

“Grrr”

I opened my mouth wide. The lower part of my jaw split into two, and my mouth opened wider than before.

Sharp teeth were densely packed inside the forked jaw.

‘The tail is strong, but….’

The true power of the quasi-adult lies in one new trait it acquires.

That’s the chin.

“The Jaws of the Essence Harvester: You can activate the Predatory effect by simply consuming the head of a target that holds the genetic essence.”

The predatory effect can be achieved by eating only the head, without eating the entire corpse.

If you have the jaws of a pure harvester, you can obtain genetic essence from enemies very quickly even during combat.

That means growth is possible much faster than before.

‘Because of this, other players also tried to kill him in some way, starting from the semi-adult stage.’

Now that we’ve confirmed all the changes, there’s no reason to stay in that narrow cave any longer.

I lowered my body and crawled towards the cave entrance.

The cave became narrower as I approached the entrance, but I didn’t feel uncomfortable because I moved by digging through the surrounding walls with my six combat arms.

I easily made my way through the collapsed entrance and climbed up the redwoods nearby.

It pushed itself up by wrapping its tail around itself and using its fighting arms at the same time, so its ascent speed was extremely fast.

Ssssss

The best part is that it makes almost no sound.

Just as a snake makes no sound when it moves, so did my movements now.

As evidence, the Nightstalker, which was lying on the branch, was completely unaware that I was right behind him. The creature was yawning, as if it was bored waiting for its prey.

I quickly bit off the bastard’s head with my cleft jaws.

“Bang?!”

In an instant, the corpse of the Nightstalker, who lost his head, falls down.

‘There is no one on this continent who can restrain me.’

Now that I’m a semi-adult, predators like the Horned Gigant or the Swamp King are no match for me.

The only real danger is pirate players.

If only she were gone, there would be nothing that could stop my evolution.

‘I’ll try to talk to you first…’

If negotiations break down, she will be held responsible for what happens.

That is, the genetic essence that she possesses.