Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 120



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Ep. 120

“What the heck, it’s a monster!”

“Kill that bastard!”

The pirates scream as they see me exposed in the middle of a fortified camp.

Then, rays of light poured down mercilessly.

The firepower created by the simultaneous fire of over a hundred pirates, dozens of walkers, and defensive towers installed everywhere was truly overwhelming.

If it hadn’t evolved into a quasi-adult, it would have suffered irreparable damage from this attack just now.

‘But not now.’

I can hear the rain pouring down on my bonnet from my outer shell. Their attacks are useless against the defense of my carapace, which is like a biological armor.

We need to remind those who waste bullets of the spirit of saving.

I jumped through the net and into the middle of them.

Six combat arms extend simultaneously, targeting armed pirates.

As it became a semi-adult, its arms and fingernails also grew larger to match its body size of over 20m.

Every time the claws grazed the pirates’ bodies, they split apart, and when they were caught by the fighting arms, they were sent flying far away, crashing into the fortress’ walls.

“Eww! Crazy!”

“Ahhhh! I’m dying!”

When the bone axe from the end of the fighting arm decapitates someone, the erosion tentacles will not forget to catch and eat the head before it hits the ground.

Some pirates, in a last-ditch effort, drew their sonic blades from their waists and rushed at me.

A super-sharp blade with cutting power capable of easily cutting through thick wood and hard metals flies in.

“Huh?”

Those swords that had given me a sense of crisis so many times before broke surprisingly easily.

The pirates have stupid expressions on their faces, as if they can’t believe the reality that is happening right before their eyes. Losing your mind during battle is more fatal than anything else.

They paid the price by having their useless heads separated from their bodies.

“Fuck! Just hit me!”

“Fuck!”

Heavy walkers fired their storm guns and plasma launchers from their arms at me as I clung to my comrades and slaughtered them.

A volley of depleted uranium bullets of an outrageous size and destructive plasma beams devastated the place I was in. The pirates who were dying with their limbs torn off by my hands were quickly reduced to pieces by the blind bullets.

‘What a pity.’

Looking at that sight, I thought I had wasted my genetic essence, but then a plasma energy with a power on a different level than that of the Gauss rifle struck my head.

“Grrrrr”

That attack would have pushed back a lot if it had been an adult.

Now, I just tilt my head slightly.

“Oh, you’re crazy!”

“Even the plasma launcher doesn’t work!”

The terrified cries of the pilots aboard the Heavy Walkers can be heard.

To be honest, it’s not like there was no damage at all. In fact, the part of my skin that was hit by the heat ray turned red because of the strong heat, and I was also feeling pain.

But it is at a level that can be tolerated and tolerated.

‘I should give back as much as I received.’

My jaw split into two and two organs inside my body rapidly activated.

Acidic Fungal Gland, a fusion trait created using the original acidic skin trait as a material.

A putrefactive organ, which is an organ that produces spores filled with putrefactive mold.

Two diabolical agencies are diligently preparing to inflict terrible suffering on their enemies.

Then, a green liquid and black spores passed through the throat and out of the mouth.

A contaminant that was deadly to both machines and humans flew towards the Heavy Walker and the pirates surrounding it.

The acidic fungus, which easily melts alloys, melts Walker’s gloves, allowing putrefactive fungi that can have a detrimental effect on human flesh to seep into the gaps.

The pilots were unable to dodge and were left covered in mold, howling.

“Kuaaaah! Sa, save me!”

“Kueeeeek!”

“Hey, hey hey! Careful… Whew!”

Walker’s thick armor, which normally protected the pilots from threatening environmental elements, has now become a prison that confines the pilots.

The walkers, whose minds were linked to the pilots, ceased firing and began to scurry about in place. The pirates who had been using the walkers as cover were crushed to pieces by the feet of the steel blocks that were several meters long.

“Wow, we can’t win!”

“Boss! We need a boss!”

As I destroyed both regular pirates and walkers without distinction, the remaining pirates fled in despair.

There is no need to chase after them.

The fog surrounding this fortress and the nests crawling up from under the ground will take care of them anyway.

“Whoa, kekeke?!”

“The fog is poisonous… kuuk!”

After only a few steps, they realized that their breathing was failing. The pirates forgot about running and fell to the ground, vomiting blood mixed with pieces of flesh.

The pirates in the fort were all wearing powered suits. Their helmets had anti-gas effects, but they were not enough to protect against the toxic fog emitted by the enhanced Smog Towers when the ten nests merged into one.

‘Even if we stop it, it won’t last long.’

The toxic fog, which has been strengthened tenfold, has a level of toxicity that is slightly less than that of the fog found in the swamps of the Saintopia 02 continent.

The protective effects built into the armor would only be enough to last a few minutes at most.

Although there were pirates who were less affected by the poison fog, they were not safe either.

“Ugh! Ghost! Ghost!”

“Heh, hehehe… flowers, the flowers are so beautiful… .”

This is because the hallucinogenic bugs that have burst out of their nests and the sticky spatulas that seem to have grown with the pirates’ blood are targeting them. They have also been strengthened tenfold, making it difficult for the pirates to avoid them.

The pirates probably thought this fortified camp was the safest place, but they were wrong.

They should have left the planet even if it meant disobeying Muriel’s orders.

‘You chose the wrong option.’

My erosion tentacles continued to harvest the heads of dying pirates lying on the ground, even during battle, like picking up fallen fruit from a tree.

“All walkers, retreat to the central square!”

“Retreat!”

The surviving walkers ceased their attack and hastily fell back. I know what they were expecting.

In the central square is the most powerful being in the camp.

Muriel, the leader of the Humanity Cartel and a 20th-ranked player.

She is waiting for me.

I crawled after the walkers, my upper body pressed to the ground.

Heavy Walkers are specialized in maintaining a line of battle and pouring firepower on the enemy, so they don’t have much advantage in mobile warfare. They still move much faster than humans, but they are no match for me, who moves as fast as a train.

I would cover them from behind as I got closer to the walkers. The toxic fog was thick outside, so they couldn’t even think of getting out of the cockpit, and could only wait for death.

When the remaining walkers were reduced to less than five fingers, I and the fleeing walkers reached the central square.

“… … .”

There stood a deer-horned cultist holding a brilliantly shining golden spear.

On his head he wore a cross-shaped halo-shaped headband with a soft purple glow, and on his body he wore a full-body suit-style reinforced suit.

Muriel, fully prepared for battle, was looking at me with an e-cigarette in her mouth.

I pounced on the fleeing Walker and pulled the pilot out. Then I grabbed both arms and both legs and pulled them in front of her.

“Two, boss! Save me… Kkaaaaaaaaaah!”

The strength of my combat arms is enough to tear apart the outer wall of a ship with my bare hands. Even if I wore a reinforced suit, it was not a strength that an ordinary person could withstand. The pirate I captured was desperately calling out to his leader, but his upper and lower body were separated and he died.

Muriel frowned at the sight.

“Tch, how barbaric.”

“Unexpectedly.”

“Unexpected? Huh, that’s what I was going to say. I never thought you’d become a semi-adult.”

Muriel spits and speaks annoyedly.

She didn’t seem particularly shocked or scared when she found out I was a semi-adult.

Muriel’s attitude in this place now was that of someone who believed she had the clear upper hand.

“I didn’t know you wouldn’t run away.”

She heard what I said and chuckled as if she had heard a funny joke.

“Run away? Me? I think there’s a misunderstanding… .”

As she said that, Muriel picked up the lighter in her left hand. She pressed the switch on the lighter, or rather, the terminal in the shape of a lighter.

Then, eight small spider-like machines emerged from the dirt around me and latched onto me. They were moving so fast that it was difficult to detect them with my lower jaw’s auxiliary organs, so I was unable to dodge them at all.

As the red light came on from the machine, my body started to feel heavy like water-soaked cotton. It felt like my life force was being sucked out by the machine.

‘Blood River!’

The name of the machine attached to my body is Blood Reaver.

It is one of the only war weapons used by Star Union.

It is a weapon that attaches itself to the victim at a very high speed and quickly absorbs their life force. It also has very high durability, making it nearly impossible to destroy the machine alone once attached to the body.

Moreover, it is impossible to detect, as if I could not detect it with my auxiliary organs right now, and the surprise attack speed is incredibly fast.

These traits make Blood Reaver one of the deadliest weapons in the game against creature players or enemies.

I couldn’t resist at all and just ended up hitting my head on the ground. Even if I wanted to get up somehow, I couldn’t move a single finger.

“Do you think I’m completely unprepared to fight a monster like you?”

Muriel walked towards me, smiling triumphantly.

The moment she raised her spear high.

I struck her in the side with my fighting arm.

“Huh?!”

She barely avoided my attack. My sharp nails left a thin gash on her side.

My erosive tentacles blasted at her as she quickly retreated.

She quickly parried attacks from six directions with her single spear. While she was deflecting the tentacles, I crouched down and pulled out my bone axe, aiming for her ankles.

“Where!”

Her body glowed purple as she soared into the air. She landed lightly a long way away as my bone axe swept across the floor.

Her suit rippled and healed the wound on her side. Within seconds, her body was back to its pre-fight state.

In contrast, her face seemed to have lost a lot of its composure compared to a while ago.

“How can I move when Blood River is attached?”

“Is this true?”

Instead of answering, I got up and brushed off the blood rivers stuck all over my body.

On top of the jet-black spider-like machine, silvery moss grew thickly.

‘It would have been dangerous if I hadn’t known in advance.’

Even if you attach just one Blood Reaver, it has an effect that is greater than if I injected neurotoxin into a biological enemy. So, the enemy hit by this machine will have their life robbed and their body paralyzed, making it impossible to defend.

‘It’s not a one-of-a-kind weapon for nothing.’

The Heavenly Mother said that Muriel had two Blood Rivers, because Muriel had used them when she fought her.

As Wolf relies on physical performance for a significant portion of her combat, she would have had to fight Muriel in a greatly weakened state.

‘You’re using 8 of those on me?’

Contrary to what the Heavenly Mother said, Muriel had eight. And she spent all eight on me.

In the game, no player has used 8 of them on me at the same time. In the first place, since it is a unique weapon, it is not an equipment that can be obtained easily.

‘If I were an adult, I would have died by now.’

Even though it was a semi-adult, it couldn’t move a single finger as soon as eight of them were attached, so if it had been a sub-adult, its vitality would have been depleted and it would have died in an instant.

‘I did think about it a bit, but…’

I had activated Gremlin Moss before fighting her, to prepare for unexpected surprise attacks.

The silver mosses were ready to emerge through the pores on my outer skin, my carapace, at any moment, and thanks to this, I was able to effectively block the enemy’s spleen attack.

‘Once infected with Gremlin Moss, Blood River is useless for 20 minutes.’

By the way, you don’t have to worry about the life force stolen by Blood Reaver. Thanks to the human sacrifice effect, all the dead bodies that die on the soil of the nest, that is, this campsite, are like my energy.

Even at this very moment, its tail, which is touching the ground, is sucking up all the energy sent from the nest.

I finally took the spider machine off my head and threw it at her feet.

“Do you think I would have done anything to prepare for a fight with a monster like you?”

“… … .”

Muriel’s face hardened as I repeated what she had just said.

“… What an unlucky brother. I want to cut open his stomach and show him his internal organs.”

“It’s interesting to think about this. Please take a look.”

Muriel takes a fighting stance, holding a spear.

I don’t know what she’s thinking or what she’s planning. I can guess the other person’s psychology through their heartbeat or physical reactions with my auxiliary organs, but it’s not completely accurate.

But it doesn’t matter.

She doesn’t know about me, but I got some useful information about her.

‘The outcome of a fight comes from differences in information.’

Before setting up camp, I first created a nest and created terrain that was advantageous to me.

And I gathered as much information as I could about the enemies I was hunting and developed a strategy in advance on how to deal with them.

Having the upper hand in both terrain and information, I am left with only one thing.

Winning right away.