Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 119



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Ep. 119

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“… … .”

Muriel, sitting in the commander’s camp within the defensive position, glared at the monitor with a cold gaze.

The biosignal graph that had been fluctuating violently just a moment ago was now completely motionless and forming a straight line.

What does this mean?

“Boss, there is a lot of blood left here.”

In the footage sent by the subordinates, a pool of blood was seen. The results of the DNA test showed that it was all the blood shed by the Heavenly Mother.

With that much blood loss and the chip’s location undetected, one could only imagine what would have happened to Mother Heaven.

Aimov doesn’t make companions. By now, the Heavenly Mother would be swimming around in Aimov’s stomach in tiny pieces.

“Tch. This is annoying.”

The reason Muriel kept the Heavenly Mother alive was because her like-minded companion wanted a female Wolf slave.

The Heavenly Mother was a target that suited my colleague’s picky tastes. I planned to send her after training her appropriately, but things went wrong.

‘That fucking kid!’

If that infamous morphbag ate the Heavenly Mother and gained its traits, then it’s a headache.

She also knows that Aimov has a low chance of acquiring the trait.

But you never know what will happen in this world.

‘I don’t think I’ll win, but…’

Muriel opened the safe in the camp.

Inside the safe was an old communicator and a diamond-shaped kit.

The most powerful weapon Muriel possesses is the ‘Brain God’.

However, the Brain God is merely a means to gain an advantage in battle.

Her most ‘well-used’ weapons are the ones contained in this kit.

She put the communicator in her bosom, carefully held the kit with both hands, and sat down in front of the computer.

“Tch, I guess I’ll have to replenish it after this fight is over.”

She clicked her tongue and slowly opened the kit as if she was handling a precious object. Inside were various kinds of drugs and small mechanical devices.

Psionium, which elevates the user’s potential to the next level; Ultra Controller, a drug that greatly enhances the precision of psychic power techniques; Nano Spartan Module, which makes the body’s skin extremely hard while also increasing resilience; and more.

They were all powerful, but had serious side effects. If she hadn’t had a ‘different’ body from a normal person thanks to her ‘special privileges’, she would have thought twice about using them.

After examining the items carefully, she closed the kit and called her subordinate outside.

“Did you call?”

“Brother, an attack is coming soon. Gather all the captured slaves in the central square.”

“Slave? Okay, I understand.”

All of the Wolf slaves were intended to be used as reinforcement materials for the single spear.

For a moment, she felt it was a waste to throw away all the toys she had collected, but she shook her head.

Because you can always get those consumables again.

More than that, on the cruiser, the hard-earned Heavenly Mother, and even precious drugs and enhancement modules.

The damage that Aimov had done to her was by no means small.

‘You little punk, give up on dying nicely.’

Until now, Muriel had never let anyone who had harmed her go.

Aimoff, ranked 5th, will pay his debt with his own blood.

–

‘It’s finished.’

After confirming that the tenth nest was growing on its own, I released the link.

Cute spores spurt out mucus and toxic fog, and black waves on the floor advance without stopping.

So far, I have been planting nests in a siege formation around Muriel’s camp. I have completed ten nests, five above ground and five underground, nine of which are already connected and joined together.

Within ten minutes, the tenth nest will merge with the others.

Then my air strike against the enemy’s hideout will begin.

‘But there’s something I need to check before that.’

I headed towards the sixth nest I had planted through a pre-dug tunnel.

The underground world that had previously been filled with dirt, rocks, and tree roots no longer existed. It was filled with sticky mucus, malignant tumors, pustules that vomited disgusting mucus, and spores that constantly polluted the air.

I think it might be disgusting to some people, but to me it was a familiar space.

As I passed through the long tunnel, the sixth nest, an underground cave that I had dug, greeted me.

On the nest lay a half-man, half-beast Wolf.

She had the head of an eagle, long hair like a mane, and a body that was a mixture of lion and human. Her hands and upper body were that of a woman covered with lion hair, and her lower body was that of a lion, but without a tail.

‘It looks like it’s close to a beast, so I guess it’s at a high level of deification.’

If she hadn’t been so badly injured, she might have been quite a challenge.

She is now recovering quickly thanks to the effects of the symbiotic spores, but it will take several more days for her to be fully healed.

I laid down in the middle of the nest and called her.

“Aren’t you awake?”

“… … .”

I knew she was awake from the moment I entered the nest, because her heartbeat was different than when she passed out.

Griffin Wolf opened his eyes quietly.

“That’s unexpected. You’re not going to kill me?”

“no.”

“huh?”

“Your body will be of use later.”

Just because we didn’t kill Griffin Wolf doesn’t mean we’ll keep her alive in the future.

I crawled closer to her, picked up some blood on the floor with my finger, and put it in my mouth. It tasted so sweet that I would have believed that I was carrying honey instead of blood in my body.

‘It’s a shame I can’t eat it right away.’

It is to my advantage in many ways that Griffin Wolf is alive.

In the short term, she can provide useful information, from information needed to fight Muriel right away to information about the player’s presence.

You might think that you can just extract the information needed to fight Muriel and then kill her, but that’s not the case.

Even if you capture Muriel and extract information about the player, it will be difficult to know whether it is true or a lie if there is no one to cross-check.

‘And Griffin Wolf hates Muriel.’

In my opinion, Griffin Wolf’s skills are decent. If we take her with us to fight Muriel, it will be a decent force.

Since she was unconscious and the parasite was planted, betrayal is impossible. The intensity of the pain caused by the parasite is also greatly increased due to the infection enhancement type, so if she betrays, she will die immediately.

Unless I command the parasite to retrieve her, there are limited ways she can escape from me.

Aside from the short-term benefits, she could also be useful in the long term.

‘Because you can use it later to fulfill the Ascension evolution conditions.’

From the semi-adult stage onwards, the evolution conditions become much more difficult than before. You can’t evolve by just catching a few intelligent beings and acquiring a few types.

‘Instead, you have to hunt specific creatures or get unique traits or something.’

I have posted the newly updated evolution conditions.

｢Some of the evolution conditions from ‘semi-adult’ to ‘adult’ have been met.

APEX 0/30 (not achieved)

Only trait you have 2/10 (not achieved)

Type 4/6 in possession (unachieved)」

To evolve from a sub-adult to an adult, you must hunt 30 rare creatures classified as top predators, or ‘Apex’, and acquire 10 unique traits they possess.

The difference from before is that the condition is counted just by successfully hunting without necessarily eating the prey. The change occurred because it acquired a trait that affects the genetic essence absorption mechanism, like the jaw of the water harvester.

‘That doesn’t mean it’s gotten any easier, though.’

Apex contains powerful psychic creatures like Gallagon, as well as extremely powerful creatures like Skywhale and its superior species, Arcane Orca. Creatures classified as Apex are all incredibly powerful, and are extremely rare, making them difficult to find.

‘The reason I made a contract with Adhai was because it was necessary to hand over the semi-adult form.’

Gallagon is classified as a representative Apex. If you go to the Dragon’s Nest under Adhai’s guidance, you will be able to fulfill the evolution conditions without difficulty.

‘There is also a way to actively utilize the transcendence system, but…’

Right now I have two unique traits, both of which I got through the Transcendence system.

You might think that you don’t need to catch Apex because there is a Transcendence system, but there is a problem with that.

‘Not knowing the effect of a trait and being banned from using other traits.’

These two are the big drawbacks of the transcendence system.

The only trait you get from the Transcendence system is a completely new trait that did not exist in the game before.

Because of this, it’s hard to tell if this is useful to me right now or not, and I can’t know what restrictions it will have until I get the trait.

‘I guess I’ll have to make good use of both Apex Hunting and the Transcendence system.’

Anyway, keeping Griffin Wolf alive is in the same context as making a contract with Adhai.

Ascending from the adult to the ascension requires conditions that are incomparably more difficult than before. We don’t know what will happen later, but at this point, it is highly likely that her life will be needed.

“Ha, it’s still the same.”

She seemed to vaguely sense why I didn’t kill her.

Yet he didn’t seem particularly angry or offended by me.

‘Even if you are hostile to me, there is no way out.’

She is currently in a critical condition with serious injuries. And thanks to the symbiote I attached to her body, she is receiving healing effects and immunity to pollutants from the nest.

Even without using the parasite, she will die if you just release the symbiosis.

Of course, she is a player who knows me well. She would know how foolish it would be to resist in this situation.

“It doesn’t matter. As long as you keep your promise.”

“Mu-ri-el-eun-go-pa-re-da-deul-eul-i-seo-gwa-da …

“Okay. I, the Heavenly Mother, will follow you.”

It’s just as I expected.

She, who called herself the Mother of Heaven, made a wise choice.

The griffon wolf, who had been lying down, forced himself up and bowed his head to me.

“…I will recover as quickly as possible so that I can be of help.”

“It doesn’t matter. Just write as needed.”

In fact, the reason she can’t get up isn’t just because of the damage Muriel inflicted.

‘It’s partly my fault, but I guess there’s no need to say it.’

When I decided not to kill her, I removed the bio-signal on the back of her head with my Ghost Claw.

I made a few mistakes along the way.

Removing the chip with just Ghost Claws without the Dexterity trait was not easy, and it inevitably resulted in a massive amount of bleeding and aftereffects.

‘Well, if it’s the griffon wolf, it’ll get better soon.’

If it were a normal Wolf, she would have died the moment I pulled out the chip, but not her.

The ‘deification’ stage is quite high, so even without transformation, it inherits the abilities and appearance of the griffon mode.

In addition to the griffon’s resilience, you’ll also benefit from the healing effects of the symbiotic spores, so you’ll be healed enough to move along when I strike Muriel.

There’s something else I need right now.

“Mu-ri-el’s weakness. Speak.”

Before the nest is completed, you should learn as much as you can about Muriel’s equipment, her strengths and weaknesses, and her habits in battle.

There’s enough information about who the Mother of Heaven is and the players after we sort out Muriel.

–

Even though it was the middle of the night, the inside of the defensive position and the surrounding forest were as bright as day.

The large lights of the tall watchtowers kept constant watch over the walls surrounding the camp and beyond, while inside the camp hundreds of pirates stood with their eyes wide open, ready for an enemy attack.

The sight of the pirates, who were not paying attention at all, was such that they could have been soldiers. The reason they were so obsessed with security was because of their leader, Muriel.

She killed each of the Wolf slaves gathered in the square by stabbing them with a spear.

As if slaughtering an animal.

The pirates of the Humanity Cartel knew full well what would happen if they got on the wrong side of their rage-crazed boss. So it was only natural that discipline would be maintained.

In addition, the fact that all contact with the pirates who had gone out to search earlier had been lost made the pirates guarding the fortress even more nervous.

“Watchtower 1, all clear.”

“Watchtower 2, all clear.”

“Watchtower number 3, suddenly fog rolls in.”

“Here’s watchtower number 4, just like number 3, there’s fog.”

“Watchtower 5, fog? It’s not even raining, so why all of a sudden… Oh, I can see it from here too.”

Amidst ominous radio transmissions from the watchtower, the three pirates were moving Wolf’s corpse, which was strewn across the square, to the warehouse.

“It seems like the boss is really pissed off?”

“Mr. Ha, I hope you can get through tonight safely.”

“Hey, I have a magical amulet for you. Do you want to buy it?”

As the body was moved halfway, a thick fog began to settle over the defensive positions.

It’s not particularly unusual for fog to form at night in a hot, humid jungle, but it’s rare for fog to be this thick when there’s no rain.

Plus, the fog smelled bad. It was a familiar smell that anyone who worked as a space dog would know.

It was the smell of death. The kind of smell that crows would enjoy as they feasted on rotting corpses.

“Coolook!”

“Ugh, what’s that smell of a rotting corpse…?”

“Ouch, let’s take care of this quickly and go.”

The pirates who were removing the corpses hurried to the warehouse, feeling nauseous.

Arriving at the warehouse, they dumped the corpses from the cart into a corner. Dozens of Wolf’s corpses were already piled up like pyramids there. The dirt floor of the warehouse was soaked with blood and pieces of entrails that had flowed from the corpses.

The corpses piled up there all had their eyes wide open, as if they would not forget your sins even after death.

One of the pirates shuddered at the sight of that eerie sight.

“Fuck, that’s one of the top three fucking sights I’ve ever seen.”

“Stop whining and help me out.”

“Tsk, got it. Phew!”

The spitting pirate tried to help his comrades move the corpses that had popped out to another place.

“uh?”

It certainly would have been so had he not seen the corpse writhing before he turned his eyes.

“What just happened?”

He rubbed his eyes and looked at the body again.

As if to prove that he had not seen things wrong, the corpses among the piled up corpses that were touching the floor were being ‘absorbed’ into the pitch-black dirt.

He tried to report this strange phenomenon to his colleagues.

The moment he opened his mouth, a long, huge hand shot out from the ground. He was dragged into the ground without even being able to scream.

“Hey! Help me… Huh? Where did he go?”

“Huh? You were there a little while ago?”

There were lights hanging from the warehouse ceiling, so the interior wasn’t that dark. It was in such a bright place that my colleague disappeared.

“Hey, you punk! Stop messing around!”

“Are you kidding me even at this time! Come out quickly!”

Did their comrades hear them scream? The pile of corpses began to crumble.

The pirates expected it to be a mischievous prank from their comrades, but what emerged from the corpses was not their comrades.

It was a snake with six sharp appendages.

The snake bit the pirate’s head with bullet speed.

Blood gushed out like a fountain from the pirate’s throat as his head disappeared in an instant.

“uh?”

The pirate next to him came to his senses only after being splashed with his comrade’s blood. Only then did he realize that two of his comrades had been murdered in the warehouse.

“Ugh, euaaaah!”

He screamed and fell backwards, barely escaping the attack of the snake that had killed his comrade.

He crawled out of the warehouse in horror at the sight of the snake wedged between his legs.

As soon as he got outside, he blew the whistle around his neck loudly. The sound, like the cry of a bird of prey soaring through the sky, echoed throughout the defensive position.

“It’s the enemy!”

“where are you?”

“It’s a warehouse!”

Here and there inside the fortress, the pirates’ voices could be heard shouting, and the pirate who blew the whistle somehow got up and tried to escape.

Behind him, a loud noise was heard. It was definitely the sound of the steel bars supporting the building and the roof being smashed.

As he ran, he saw fragments of the building that had been a warehouse flying into the sky.

And as he was running away, something as thick and long as a redwood fell on his head.

Quajik

He was crushed to death by a huge object without even being able to scream, so he never realized that the huge object was the ‘tail’ of some creature.

｢■——-!｣

The ‘thing’ that struck one of the pirates with its tail and turned him into a blood cake roared loudly.

It seems as if they are going to start a ‘night hunt’ inside this fortress from now on.