Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 118



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Ep. 118

Night has fallen again in the jungle covered with redwoods hundreds of meters tall.

The dark green leaves and red tree colors combined to give the forest a blue tint.

In that gloomy, cold space, six heavy walkers were advancing with their lights on.

‘Let’s see.’

I looked down at them from the tree.

To be honest, since I’m a semi-adult, I could just go down and beat them all up, but there’s a reason I don’t.

‘Because I don’t want my appearance to be seen.’

If Muriel were to discover that I’m a quasi-adult, she’d either prepare accordingly, or try to escape into space to get away from me.

I don’t think there are any other ships besides cruisers, but if they have a means of escape into space, I can’t stop them.

To prevent this, you must first destroy all six at once so that the enemies cannot capture you with their cameras.

And I’m waiting for that gap to open up.

“I can’t even sleep. What kind of suffering is this?”

“Hey, are you sure you’re around here?”

“Yeah. He’s close.”

“Hey, that injured kid is still running around.”

“It’s fortunate that you’re close. Let’s catch you quickly and go back.”

Walker’s pilots grumble that it’s boring to chase after traces all day.

‘good.’

I guess I should hit it now since everyone is relaxed for a moment.

I was hiding in a convenient spot so I could attack them at any time, so I wrapped my tail tightly around a tree and stretched my upper body out over their heads.

As it happened, the number of walkers was exactly six, matching the number of tentacles I had. I quickly activated the erosion tentacles.

The erosive tentacles with six sharp appendages rained down like arrows, targeting the cockpits of the six heavy walkers with precision.

A tentacle penetrated the top of the cockpit, tearing off or crushing only the pilot’s head inside.

“…!”

The griffon wolf, who had been noticing me since a while ago, rushed forward. The vampire tentacle that shot out from my hand unfortunately failed to find its target and just hit the ground.

The griffon wolf that had run away jumped back up.

The creature’s body flies into the air, ignoring the laws of nature. It moves quickly, kicking the air as if there were invisible stairs in the air.

There was a chain around the bastard’s neck, connected to the walker, but it seemed like he had no intention of running away in the first place.

The griffon swoops down like an eagle that has spotted a fish. Its target is not my upper body, but my tail, the part that holds onto the tree.

I quickly released my tail, unfolded my gliding membrane, and flew to another tree. In an instant, the creature’s front legs struck the redwood tree.

Woojijik

The solid redwood was gouged out by the creature’s front paws.

“?!”

The bastard opened his eyes wide as if he didn’t know I could fly and dodge.

I moved to another tree and shook the tip of my tail.

A giant thorn larger than a kitchen knife flew towards the thing floating in the air.

The one with the eyes of an eagle read the trajectory of the flying thorns in a short moment and dodged them.

The moment it hit the ground, the walkers, all of which had lost their pilots, slowly fell forward.

“What? Why are all the signals cut off? Heavenly Mother? What’s going on?”

“The Walkers got hit by that guy.”

Muriel’s panicked voice came from the communicator inside the walker. The griffon answered briefly in a bird-like voice.

“What? You said you were hurt?”

“I recovered in the meantime.”

“What the heck?! What the hell are you talking about! Hey! Take out the camera on the walker and show me! I have to see it myself!”

You can’t leave it like that.

I activated my acid fungal glands. I vomited the fungus that had bubbled up from near my esophagus onto the walker’s cockpit.

The acidic fungus that fell on Walker splashed around and spread to all six bodies.

“I’m dealing with that guy.”

“Stop whining and get out quickly… sizzle sizzle”

“… … .”

The cockpit melted away, taking with it all the cameras and communicators. Griffin snapped the chain around his neck against the fungus.

When I saw that, I was sure.

He’s also a player.

“You too, play?”

“okay.”

The griffon answered calmly without taking his eyes off me. Then he frowned.

“… Damn, I thought I finally found happiness, but then I met a psycho bitch and a morph guy.”

Judging from the conversation they had just had before the Walkers died and her attitude now, Griffin Wolf didn’t seem to be on particularly good terms with Muriel.

‘Two players have already met.’

It seems like there are more players coming to this world than I thought.

‘We’ll find out later.’

First, I have to deal with the griffon wolf before Muriel gets here.

I’m not sure because the other side has been taking an ambiguous attitude since a while ago, but Muriel was enough to hit me with a punch for letting my guard down.

Perhaps sensing my hostility, the bastard slowly moved to the side.

A griffon slowly stalking its prey, its body low, like a lion stalking its prey. I, too, trailed my long tail and aimed for its weak point.

‘There’s a wound on your stomach.’

I know griffons are known for their incredible resilience, but this must have been a pretty deep wound. Blood was still dripping from between its fur.

As I examine him, his gaze also scans my body. The Griffin’s eyes have the effect of identifying the enemy’s weaknesses, similar to my ‘insight’ trait.

‘It’s no use even if you do that.’

If you look at the gap between me and him, I have a huge advantage. Besides, his injuries haven’t fully recovered yet.

If I were another Aimorph, he would know my identity and it would be incredibly frustrating.

As evidence, you can feel his heart beating fast. It is due to tension and fear.

“Kyao!”

After a brief period of exploration, it was the Griffin side that took the initiative.

The bastard roars briefly and flies towards me.

Wherever the bastard’s front paws were pointed was where my arms were.

‘I know you have a strong head.’

Considering the force with which he destroyed the redwood earlier, it seems like it might be impossible to cut off his arm, but it might be possible to break it. In other words, it’s better to avoid it than to get hit.

I twisted my body like a dancing cobra to avoid its front legs.

As the creature’s front paw slammed into the ground, a loud bang resounded like a grenade exploding.

The attack failed, and the bastard’s posture collapsed. I took advantage of the gap and pulled the bone axe out of my hand and swung it at the bastard’s back.

But just as the bastard failed to attack, my intention was also not achieved. In the meantime, the bastard twisted his body flexibly and narrowly avoided my attack.

The bastard took advantage of the recoil from twisting his body and kicked me with his hind legs near my neck, or more precisely, where the monster’s tentacles were.

‘this!’

I quickly pulled back and the tentacles only grazed me slightly, but it still caused considerable pain.

‘It’s pretty good.’

The monster’s tentacles are a trait based on superpower organs, so they are not seen in the game. No player among the Amorphs acquires superpower organs.

Yet, in a short moment, the bastard managed to grab the weak spot in my body.

I stood back and admired it, but the bastard didn’t follow up with a follow-up attack.

To be exact, I couldn’t. I was busy avoiding the erosive tentacles protruding from my back.

The tentacles pierce the ground and air where the creature was standing, and the creature narrowly avoids them by kicking the air and performing acrobatics.

But my means of attack don’t end here. The eye-shaped patterns on my head all light up at once.

The fear-monger suppresses the griffon’s mind.

The guy whose eyes became blurry for a moment. Griffin was immune to mental attacks, so he quickly came to his senses, but it was already too late.

“Huh!”

The vampire tentacle shot out from my hand and passed through the griffon’s side. The creature gritted its teeth and tried to dodge backwards, but my combat arm did not miss.

I used Ghost Claw while holding onto the bastard’s front paw. When my hand reached the bone and muscle part inside the paw, I released the special effect.

Of course, my hand was bigger than the guy’s front paw, so the guy’s front paw was torn apart by my hand that was formed from the inside.

“Kuaaaaang!”

The bastard screamed loudly, unable to bear the pain of his front paws exploding from the inside.

Meanwhile, my other arm grabbed the bastard by the neck, and I pinned him to the ground.

The bastard was thrown to the ground, unable to resist, and held in my hands.

I slammed my huge tail down on the fallen body of the bastard to finish it off.

“Ugh!”

The bastard is spitting blood. The blow just now broke all the bones in his back and legs.

If he hadn’t been a griffon with exceptional vitality, he would have died instantly.

‘The sense wasn’t bad, but the opponent was bad.’

The timing wasn’t good either.

I had subdued the guy. I grabbed him and lifted him up while he was barely breathing.

“I won’t kill you right now.”

“… … .”

“I tell you the whole truth.”

I don’t know what his relationship with Muriel is, but it’s true that they worked together. If that’s the case, then he must know a lot about Muriel.

I plan to decide whether to eat the guy or not after I get all the information.

But the guy reacted unexpectedly.

“Ugh, ugh, kuluck… As expected, nothing has changed.”

The griffon laughed, spitting blood. Of all the people I’ve killed so far, only one type laughed in front of me.

“Are you crazy?”

“Kuuk! Gulp, gulp… . That’s not a wrong answer. I’m going to do something crazy from now on.”

The guy who said that looked me straight in the eye.

There was some emotion seething in the eyes of the guy, glowing amber.

It was neither the fear of death nor the despair of knowing that I would soon be eaten.

The auxiliary organ under his chin guessed that the emotion was a fierce anger.

“I will tell you everything I know. If you ask for my cooperation, I will listen. If you want to use me as your slave, do as you wish. Even if you eat me, I don’t mind.”

“what?”

“But promise me this.”

The blood-covered gryphon speaks through gritted teeth.

“Give Muriel the greatest despair you can, you who are called Morphbak. If you promise me that, I will give you everything you desire.”

It seemed that the relationship between Griffin Wolf and Muriel was not very good. The griffon’s grudge seemed real to me.

“Yes, I will ask you to come and see me.”

“I know. Cool, that’s my position. But you know the downside of being a parasite.”

His gaze is directed towards my arm, the arm containing the parasite colony.

“Is this me?”

“Heh heh, how much I suffered from that… Kook, how much it is reality, kuuk! Kook… I don’t know if it’s different, but it’s probably not perfect.”

The Griffin Wolf’s keen eye was extraordinary. Of all the enemies I’ve faced and fought so far, none have been able to figure me out this quickly.

Thanks to acquiring the infection enhancement type, the number of parasites I can use has increased to 10.

Also, if I stay still and focus, I can control the body of a being controlled by parasites for 10 minutes. In the game, I’ve blown up clans with mimetic organs and parasite colonies more than once.

‘It’s true that it has some weaknesses.’

Although very effective in inducing internal strife within the enemy, the interrogation function itself was not greatly enhanced.

That’s why, as we saw in William’s case, even in extreme pain, people can remain silent or have other thoughts.

‘Besides, he knows quite a bit about me.’

From what I heard, it seemed clear that he had fought me a few times in the game. However, I had fought Wolf so many times that I could barely remember.

‘hmm.’

When I remained silent, the bastard closed his eyes as if to tell me to do as I pleased.

This dying griffon wolf is quite an interesting creature.

‘What should I do?’

I’d like to think about it some more, but I don’t have time.

After making my decision, I reached out towards the bastard’s head.