Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 115



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Ep. 115

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“Hey, it’s shift change time.”

“Phew, I thought I was going to die from boredom.”

“The temporary captain called. Go and come back before going to bed.”

“Damn, the kid who’s shifting with me is in the middle of self-development. Why isn’t he coming?”

The pirate standing guard outside the ship kicked the dirt in annoyance.

The pirate who took turns standing guard smiled bitterly and tried to comfort him.

“There’s nothing to be jealous of. He just has to write a report on the cargo he sent a few days ago.”

“Oh, that? That was about sending the captured Wolf slaves to a large camp in the jungle, right?”

“Yeah. He probably won’t be able to sleep since he sent dozens of people.”

“Heh heh, you idiot, you should have used it earlier. You’re really screwed.”

They started to make fun of their colleagues who were suffering from overtime work.

This is a boring border work that is done in three shifts. I can’t stand it without at least a little chat.

“Let’s have a cigarette.”

“I think the replacement will be here soon.”

“It’s an e-cigarette anyway, so what does it matter?”

“That’s true.”

The pirate who spoke first took out an electronic cigarette from his pocket and pressed a small switch. He took a deep drag of the strong synthetic drug contained in the cigarette and had a hazy expression on his face.

“What the fuck, this is sex.”

“I’ll suck on it and then I’ll… okay?”

The makeshift streetlights above their heads suddenly blinked and then went out.

As darkness fell, they turned on the headlights on their helmets.

“What happened?”

“Everywhere else is fine?”

“What’s going on there?”

“The streetlight here is out!”

When a colleague asked them from afar what was going on, they waved their hands and said that nothing was wrong. The streetlights above their heads were shining brightly.

“Did the power go out? Why all of a sudden… yuck!”

“what’s the matter?”

“Mommy, a mosquito got into my ear!”

The pirate, who had a cigarette in his mouth, nervously shook his ear and turned his headlights on the streetlight.

“huh?”

“What is this?”

As the two were looking at the streetlight, something strange caught their eyes.

Something like silver moss was growing from the bottom of the streetlight buried in the ground. The moss had spread all the way to the top of the streetlight.

“Is this moss?”

“Why is there moss all of a sudden? And why is the ground so wet when it didn’t even rain?”

As soon as he finished speaking, the wet earth began to stir. Then, soon, colorful plants began to burst through the mound of dirt.

The plant was a bright red vine with small, rake-like stems hanging down from its surface.

“What is this? Is it a mushroom? What is it?”

“… … .”

The pirate holding the e-cigarette frowned at the mysterious plant. It was a beautiful color that was pleasant to look at, but it felt rough somewhere.

He pulled out his communicator and called out to his colleague who was blankly staring at the plants.

“Hey, I have to let you know about this.”

“…beautiful.”

“what?”

“It’s so beautiful I’m going crazy!”

The pirate, who had not smoked, brought his face close to the plant with an ecstatic expression. Then, the vines that had been still flew up so fast that it was impossible to see with the naked eye and wrapped themselves around his face.

“What the heck!”

“Heh, heh, heh heh.”

The pirate looked horrified as he saw his comrade kneeling and face buried in the vines. He quickly activated the communicator and tried to contact the inside of the cruiser.

If it weren’t for the voice calling him from afar.

“female?”

The sound he could clearly hear was a woman’s excited moan. It was a humming sound that seemed to come from inside a cave, but it was unmistakable.

Because he really liked having relationships with women.

“That’s good. It’s been a while since I’ve drained the water.”

The pirate followed the voice with bloodshot eyes. He was so focused that he didn’t even notice the blood flowing from his ears.

“You fucking bitch, you’re screwed now.”

He followed the voice and dove into the bushes. Along with that, a familiar click came to his ears.

The sound was the sound of the mines buried nearby being activated. Super-hot flames rose from the ground, engulfing him.

–

‘Is this the beginning?’

The nest located deep underground reports to me that large and small tremors are occurring continuously on the surface.

Lying leisurely in the nest and linked to the nest, I could observe everything that was happening on the ground.

The area around the cruiser became a complete mess as pirates infected with the ‘hallucination bug’ jumped onto the mines. Even the pirates who avoided the hallucination bug’s surprise attack were not unharmed.

Because the seductive pheromones emitted from the ‘sticky spatula’ growing from the ground are binding them.

As the name suggests, the sticky spatula is a carnivorous plant that eats victims that approach its nest. It has almost no direct combat power, but it releases a unique seductive pheromone to keep enemies in check.

According to the setting, the seductive pheromone emitted by the sticky spatula gives fantastic pleasure to its prey, similar to a drug. It does not work on enemies whose flesh has been replaced by machines, such as cyborgs or androids, but it works very well on species like humans.

‘The kids who smell this probably want to eat all the dirt.’

In addition, I now have the pheromone enhancement trait. Since some of my physical traits are also applied to the nest, it will probably not be easy for them to withstand the pheromones emitted by the sticky spatula among them.

Some players in the community called me a “weakling morph” because I used this trait a lot in the past to fool other people.

‘It’s the fault of the one who gets caught.’

Anyway, since his colleagues suddenly went crazy and started acting wild, Heavy Walker, who was standing guard with him, would be extremely flustered.

We will try to respond to the attacks coming from all directions, but will it be easy?

Because the biological sensors mounted inside the walker would show nothing around the cruiser.

It would be impossible to see with the naked eye due to the thick fog surrounding it, as the ‘smog tower’ that emerged from the nest continuously spews toxic fog around the cruiser.

Although it is much less severe than the fog that spreads over the swamp, this fog is also quite deadly. If you stay in the fog for too long without knowing it, your lungs will become contaminated and you will die.

In fact, some of the Walker pilots stopped moving, perhaps because they had weak lungs to begin with. Other Walkers seemed terrified when their comrades suddenly collapsed, vomiting blood.

With all this chaos outside, what’s going on inside the ship?

‘I guess they’re trying to figure out what’s going on outside.’

That’s impossible.

The cameras connected to the temporary streetlights were all blocked by the ‘Gremlin Moss’. The same goes for the Storm Gun, which is the same machine.

Gremlin Moss is a counter trait to machines that operate in a different way, such as hijacking, jamming, etc.

Unlike hijacking and jamming, which use their own vibrational waves to control and disable machines, Gremlin Moss requires direct infection of the machine with Moss. Infected machines are completely disabled until the Moss’s 20-minute lifespan has elapsed.

The downside is that once a machine is infected with moss, it cannot be infected again, but it has the advantage of being able to infect enemies in their nests like now, and of being able to destroy multiple machines, unlike hijacking, which can only control one machine at a time.

‘It’s hard to infect enemies that move frequently like walkers or large machines like cruisers.’

Although there are still Walkers left, it seems that the enemy’s defenses have been neutralized to some extent.

Now it’s time to move on to the next step.

I unlinked the nest and started digging the ground just above my head.

If you keep going up like this, you’ll be right under the cruiser.

Although it was only about a hundred meters away, I started digging a tunnel with my body size of 25 meters, and soon reached the surface.

As I lifted my head slightly above the ground, the landing gear was right in front of me.

The entire outline of the cruiser is now perceived through the auxiliary organs under the chin, which have now been increased to four.

A cruiser with the elongated diamond shape characteristic of the cult.

The outer armor was ivory in color and smooth like an egg, rather than being as rough as Megacorp or Star Union.

‘I made it out of silver so no one would think it’s a cult warship.’

In contrast to black silver, a metal that weakens psychic power, ‘moon silver’ has the effect of amplifying the effects of psychic power.

‘It’s fortunate that we attacked the cruiser first.’

The pirate leader’s race is Cult. It is subject to Moonsilver’s strengthening effect.

‘Not anymore, though.’

I can hear the metallic sound of walkers wandering through the thick fog nearby, seemingly oblivious to the fact that I am directly beneath the cruiser.

I opened my mouth wide and pressed myself against the cruiser. The acidic fungal glands near my esophagus began to produce fungi of terrible power according to my will.

Acid Fungal Glands is a fusion trait that I created using the Acid Skin trait, which I received as a fluid trait.

Previously, you had to inflict damage to use the Acid Blood trait, but now you can spit out highly acidic substances at any enemy you want, whenever you want.

Soon, the acidic fungus that had been created in an instant came out of my mouth.

The green, acidic fungus that had migrated to the bottom of the cruiser instantly dissolved the ivory-colored moonsilver.

While the fungus was working hard, I activated the Tooth Fairy Nest. The Tooth Fairy Nest inside my back burst open, spitting out man-eating fleas.

Because they were strengthened by type, the appearance of the Tooth Fairies changed from before. Their size was the same as before, only the size of a child’s palm, but shells grew on their heads and bodies.

‘It looks like a flea is wearing a helmet.’

The tooth fairies saluted, as if they had read my mind. I found that quite cute.

‘Go inside the ship and chew through the wires connected to various important facilities. If necessary, you can even eat the crew.’

Dozens of tooth fairies entered the ship through the melted hole.

I waited for the hole to widen, feeling the fleas scattering throughout the ship.

I can feel the pirates on board are confused.

An all-out attack from outside, sudden damage to the bottom of the ship. It was all beyond their expectations.

As I was inspecting the internal situation with the auxiliary organ, I felt a sound approaching the hole inside the ship.

‘Can I come in soon?’

I grabbed the still-melting hole with my fighting arms. Grabbing it with all four arms, I stretched it out in all directions, widening the hole enough for me to barely fit through.

“omg!”

“Fuck! Shoot them all!”

The moment I climbed through the hole in the floor, I was spotted by cultists and human pirates wearing reinforced suits.

Surely they were the ones guarding the cruiser, so they calmly fired the purple spray guns they were holding.

‘It’s calm, though.’

The problem is that I have super reflective gloves.

‘Reflects some of the psychic power attacks.’

The psychic reflective gloves can be seen as a degraded version of the psychic power technique ‘Reflection’, or a psychic version. This is because when you take damage from a psychic attack, 30% of that damage is automatically reflected.

A flame made of psychic power engulfs my outer skin. It doesn’t hurt much anymore, perhaps because my outer skin was upgraded when I became a semi-adult.

‘And there’s no pain relief.’

It’s just hot enough to feel uncomfortable for me, but what about them?

Some of the flames that had been engulfing me flowed in the opposite direction.

At the end of it were pirates holding purple spray guns. Their faces turned pale as purple streams of flame flew towards them.

“Huh huh?”

“Everyone is bleeding… Kkaaaak!”

Since my gloves are sturdy, I don’t take much damage from the purple spray gun, but not them.

The pirates in their armored suits tried to put out the undying fire, but they knew best that it was useless.

‘Was the situation room this way?’

I ignored the pirates falling one by one and continued walking.

If you go up here, there is a situation room.

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A defensive position installed far from the cruiser.

Saintopia 02 Continent The closer you get to the central jungle where the Temple of the Forgotten Land is located, the more severe the radio interference becomes. This is due to the unique energy that the temple emits.

So Muriel built a fort between the cruiser and the temple to serve as a bridgehead and a temporary command center in case anything unexpected happened.

“I will stay here today.”

Muriel and her men, who were returning from dismantling the temple camp, decided to spend the night here. They were scheduled to board the transport ship and return to the cruiser early the next morning.

There was a reason why Muriel did not hurry back even though the enemy player’s attack was half-certain. It was partly because of the intermittent radio interference that occurred around here, but also because she wanted to get more information about the Aimov player from the Heavenly Mother.

“Kwaaaaah! Knock knock! Knock knock!”

“Brother. Since you’re not going to die anyway, pull hard.”

“yes.”

Even though it was the middle of the night, the torture of the Heavenly Mother was in full swing in the empty space of the defensive position. As the wheel turned and her internal organs, tied with wire, were torn, the Heavenly Mother cried out.

Muriel watched the scene with a bored expression.

“That must hurt a lot. Can you tell me at this point?”

“You fucking bitch! There’s nothing I can tell you to do!”

“That’s for me to decide. I’m sure you’ve fought him before.”

Muriel changed her mind because she began to question the attitude of her Heavenly Mother.

‘I’m sure I’ve met that guy before.’

She also knows that the 5th ranked Aimov player is notorious even overseas.

But the attitude of the Heavenly Mother was clearly abnormal.

She is also a ranker like Muriel. She is even a Wolf ranker, 15th, higher than Muriel.

Even if the opponent had a higher ranking in the past, isn’t he just an immature player now?

Besides, the Heavenly Mother that Muriel saw here was very talented.

‘Because I learned about deification.’

‘Deification’ is Wolf’s upper-level technique and is known to be quite difficult to learn.

As far as Muriel knew, the Heavenly Mother was not as ambitious as other players. Unlike others, she chose to live with the locals, and even learned divinization in the process, so it was clear that she was no ordinary person.

‘If I hadn’t brought that gear, I wouldn’t have been able to win.’

It was originally a ‘weapon’ brought to subdue the Father of the Earth.

Anyway, Muriel couldn’t understand why such a great heavenly mother was so afraid.

There is no reason for Wolf, who has acquired divinity, or Muriel, who has subdued Wolf, to fear him.

‘It’s clear that the two met and fought in a past game.’

That was the kind of reaction only someone who had met that guy and had experienced something bad.

‘Perhaps the Mother of Heaven suffered a miserable defeat.’

Muriel thought it was that memory that was making her afraid.

“If that guy is that scary, you won’t be safe either. If you don’t want to die… .”

“Tch! You killed my family. I’d sell my soul to that Aimov if it meant I could kill you!”

“Huh. Is that so?”

The designer, Muriel, knew best that the torture was extremely painful. But the Heavenly Mother did not give in.

Muriel motioned to the pirate to stop turning the wheel.

“Then, should we talk about the family you like?”

“what?”

As she flicked her hand, other pirates came in, bringing in the Wolf prisoners. The Wolfs, who had chains around their necks, were all young boys.

“You fucking bitch!”

“Okay, guys. Bring me the wheels.”

“Stop it!”

The pirates came carrying a wheel similar to the instrument used to torture the Heavenly Mother. The young wolves began to tremble in pain at the sight of the gruesome torture instrument.

“I’ll ask you one last time. If you don’t answer, all the Wolf friends here will be bragging about their long-term goals.”

“You bitch, you won’t feel satisfied even if you chew on it! You’re a person just like me! How could you do something like this!?”

“Ah, it’s noisy. Now, speak quickly. Otherwise, my brothers might do something bad.”

The Heavenly Mother could see that Muriel’s words were not a lie.

That vicious pirate chieftain had more than enough of that.

“…I’ll tell you. I’ll tell you everything, so don’t touch them.”

“It depends on your attitude.”

“What are you curious about?”

“Have you ever fought with that guy? Tell me what happened first.”

Eventually, the Heavenly Mother gave in to Muriel’s threats and began to speak obediently.

“… You know that too, right? The Battle of Planet Shepard.”

“You mean the battle on that jungle planet where four clans fought? There was chaos over capturing a single player… Oh. No way?”

“Yes. That’s why we gathered here to catch that Amorph player. I was the leader of the Savage Clan, one of the clans that participated at the time.”

Muriel didn’t know that the Heavenly Mother had once been a clan leader.

That would be the case, since the Heavenly Mother was famous for rejecting all offers to join famous clans in the game.

“At that time, the guy wasn’t a ranker. His evolution stage was only a semi-adult. So we thought we’d win easily. But… ”

“but?”

“It destroyed our ship less than an hour after we entered the planet. It also destroyed all but one of the communication towers that kept us in contact with ships outside the planet.”

“…what?”

“It must have been a plan to block our escape route. After that, we were hunted down by him one by one in the jungle. He acted as if he knew our plan, so no matter what we planned, it was useless.”

“… … .”

“A skinned corpse? That’s a joke. He’s been toying with us in all sorts of strange ways. Because of him, we’ve been divided and fighting each other. Well, that was his intention, I guess.”

The Heavenly Mother continued speaking calmly, but there was a deep emotion in her words.

“… There’s only one communications tower left? We can just call outside and ask for support.”

“Heh heh heh, that’s right. Only one of the four clans had a communications tower left, so at first we thought they had betrayed us. But as time went on, we were able to rely on each other. While waiting for reinforcements called by that clan.”

The mother of heaven speaks bitterly.

Judging by her attitude, Muriel could also predict what the future would be like.

Maybe reinforcements didn’t come.

But the truth that came out of the mouth of the Heavenly Mother exceeded her expectations.

“I found out later that there was a reason why that communications tower was left there.”

“What is it?”

“He left it there on purpose.”

“what?”

“The clan member at the communications tower is already dead, and the guy was impersonating the clan member all this time. He knew everything we were discussing, and he was reporting false information to the outside world.”

“… … .”

“After that, he deceived us many times. We couldn’t hold out and were annihilated, and my clan was completely torn apart. We were deceived so many times by him that we no longer trust each other.”

Hearing that, Muriel thought.

That Amorph player is a total lunatic.

And that she was in a really fucked up situation.

“Oh, it’s a game anyway… .”

“Yeah. It’s a game. But this is reality. He’s out in real life. How can you be so calm when you can’t even imagine what kind of terrible tactics he’ll use?”

“… Even so, it’s only an adult!”

“While you’re lounging around here!”

The scream of the Heavenly Mother cut off her words. The spirit of the moment was so terrifying that Muriel flinched.

“He must have finished all the preparations to take you down. The cruiser must have fallen into his hands by now.”

When Muriel heard that, she began to feel very anxious.

‘By any chance? No. That can’t be.’

She tried to appear calm and called her subordinate in charge of communications to contact the cruiser.

It took some time to establish communication with the cruiser, as communication was only possible through special equipment due to radio interference in the jungle.

After a while, her subordinate brought an activated communicator. She accepted the communicator and asked the cruiser in a trembling voice without realizing it.

“Hey guys, is everything okay over there?”

“Chijijijijik”

Instead of an answer, all that came back was noise. When her gaze turned to her subordinate, he nodded to her that they were already connected.

“If anyone is alive, answer!”

“Chisik, you, me? Chijijijik”

At the words heard over the communicator.

She felt fear and trembling.