Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 123



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Ep. 123

‘Is this it?’

Muriel’s body was clean, without a single wound.

But the suit covering her body was not like that. It had holes here and there, exposing her pure white flesh.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Nano Spartan Module is a top-notch defensive module, but it is not omnipotent. If it is damaged to that extent, it can only be restored to its original state by replenishing the nano machines.

‘But I guess I’ve already used up that extra.’

I can tell by looking at those trembling eyes.

That she doesn’t have many cards left.

‘I have already confirmed all the equipment and techniques that Heavenly Mother taught me.’

Also, I recalled my memories of fighting the rankers before fighting Muriel, one by one.

What race they were, what skills they had, how powerful their equipment was, and what strategies they mainly used.

That’s why it was possible to easily predict what modules Muriel would be equipped with, and what psychic power techniques she would use in what situations.

‘I think I fought well.’

Muriel’s skills weren’t bad. For some reason, she even brought a fraudulent combination of a cult and a cyborg hybrid, so it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call her a formidable opponent.

If she had known a little more about my condition, my abilities, etc., she wouldn’t have been so easily taken advantage of.

‘At least I would have waited until I could use a trump card like the Brain God.’

If Muriel decides to run away, it won’t be easy for me to chase after her.

The large camp we’re standing in has a long-distance transport vehicle called a transport ship. Even if we can’t get off the planet, if we leave for another continent, we’ll never be able to catch up.

‘but….’

She didn’t act like that even though she had several chances to live.

And now.

The time to pay the price is drawing near.

“… Ugh!”

Muriel lets out a short sigh. The confident smile she had when they first fought is nowhere to be found.

With only one chance left for the Coordinator, she completely lost her will to fight.

Instead of fighting, there is only one path she can take.

“Damn it! Let’s just wait and see!”

Muriel screamed and pressed buttons at the side of her neck with her robotic arm.

Then, her body suddenly became as blurry as smoke and soon disappeared into the fog. It was a perfect hiding, as if she had never been there in the first place.

‘It’s not even in my sight.’

It was so bad that it wasn’t even detected properly by auxiliary organs.

If it weren’t for the vibrations of Muriel’s breath and her footsteps hitting the ground as she moved, I would have had no idea which direction she was running.

The Heavenly Mother, whose eyesight was far superior to mine, kept turning her head to look for Muriel.

“That girl still has something left.”

“I’ve never seen such a module in a game before.”

“… For now, I can’t see it.”

Considering that such a high level of stealth module has not been used until now, it must have limitations in combat use or have a limited number of retrievals.

“What are you going to do?”

The Heavenly Mother, who had not found Muriel, turned her head to me.

‘What should I do?’

Asking the obvious.

“Catch, kill, kill.”

“…good.”

No matter how great her stealth equipment is, she is ultimately in the palm of my hand.

‘Because this is my nest.’

It’s difficult to find her directly with just my auxiliary organs right now.

But the traces she left behind. They can be easily caught if you just link them to the nest.

‘How many times do I have to say this?’

Running away before fighting me was the only way Muriel could survive.

–

‘Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck… .’

In a forest covered in thick fog.

Muriel was hiding in the branches of a redwood tree hundreds of meters high.

This module was an experimental module developed by Megacorp Ranker, who shared her same views.

This module is made using ‘Giant Chameleon’ as a material, and grants the wearer advanced stealth abilities. It is obviously impossible to detect with the naked eye, and is not detected by detection equipment or techniques.

However, since it is not yet complete, there are many unstable aspects.

It was fine when moving carefully, but if you moved violently for combat or were attacked by an enemy, the stealth effect was immediately canceled.

Even the ranker who developed this module said that it was still an unfinished work and that it would only be good to use for escape in urgent situations.

Although we managed to escape from the enemy, problems still remained.

The chances of that terrible Aimov or the Heavenly Mother, who harbored such a strong grudge, giving up her pursuit of her were close to zero.

‘…there is no time to wait for the coordinator to initialize.’

Time works equally for both sides. She has no choice but to hide for 24 hours, but he does not.

‘If that Morphbak bastard is that guy, he might burn down this whole forest.’

If he was the kind of guy who hangs corpses on trees, he’d still be fine.

When she recalled the gruesome sight of her subordinates, she flinched involuntarily. It was because she had a strong feeling that a flayed corpse would be her future.

‘It won’t work.’

She used the remaining effects of the psycium to observe her surroundings. With her heightened senses, she could sense that there were no other enemies nearby.

‘I didn’t want to write this, but….’

There is nothing we can do as our lives are at stake.

Deciding that there were no enemies nearby, she pressed down on the button next to her neck. Then, a long string shot out from the nanosuit covering her neck and stuck into her ear.

The device she had just activated was one that enabled interstellar communication.

Before fighting Aimov, she had fused a military communicator she had stored in her vault with a Nano Spartan module.

Originally, it was intended to be used to order her men on other planets to bring her spaceships after the battle.

The reason it is not used during combat is because interstellar communication consumes a lot of energy. When this communication ends, the Nano Spartan Module will most likely be deactivated automatically, having consumed all of its remaining energy.

‘Please take it!’

In other words, this one communication is her lifeline.

While the short connection tone was ringing, a loud wind noise suddenly reached her ears.

When the giant bird flapped its wings, I heard a brief sound that soon disappeared.

‘what?’

I looked up at the top of the tree, but I couldn’t see anything.

I was thinking about moving, when suddenly a beep came from the communicator.

And then I hear a beautiful male voice.

“My Honey? What’s going on with the person who said that our communication could be wiretapped?”

“Brother!”

She had never thought that the voice she had always thought of as unlucky would feel so welcome now. Muriel barely held back tears.

“Brother, I’m in big trouble! Help me right now!”

“what?”

“I lost all my men and my spaceship to those guys and I’m being chased now! Come quickly!”

“Damn, those bastards again? You said there was a truce, but these dogs… Wait, what? Then what about my request? I asked you to save the female wolf.”

Muriel was irritated by the other person’s reaction of talking about slavery even in an urgent situation.

“No, shit! Brother! Does it matter if your little brother is going to die? And it’s not them, it’s someone else! There are only two of them, but their skills are no joke, so you have to come properly prepared!”

“Two? There were only two, and you attacked My Honey?”

“One is the Wolf Player I was going to give to my brother, and the other is the Aimorph Player!”

“… What? Aimov?”

“Oh! I said you were ranked 5th!”

When Muriel spoke of the enemy pursuing her, the other man fell silent.

“Anyway, there’s no time! Get ready as quickly as possible… Huh? Oppa?”

“… … .”

“Brother?”

“Oh, shit… bang]

“Oppa? Oppa? What the fuck! It’s disconnected?!”

Muriel hurriedly tried to call again after the sudden end of the call. However, the caller kept ringing and the other party did not answer.

“Damn it! Oh, no! Uh, if I hang up on my sister….”

She tried to call for help somehow, but a red light came from her wrist.

It was a sign that the Nano Spartan module was being disarmed. As soon as the red light went out, the nano suit covering her body disappeared and transformed into a small disc-shaped machine.

With her suit gone, she was practically naked. Although she was a strong cyborg, she was useless against the monsters chasing her.

The stealth effect from the experimental module is still in effect, but it is not permanent. When the effect ends, her life is over.

“Hey, hey! No! Nooooooo!”

Muriel, almost out of her mind, shook the disc in an attempt to somehow get the module working again. That wouldn’t bring back the nanomachines, whose energy had been completely drained, but she didn’t have enough sanity left to judge that right now.

“This can’t be happening… Eek?!”

As she was chopping at a tree with her disc, she heard the rustling of leaves. An animal was approaching the tree under which she was hiding.

There are only two animals that can walk so calmly in this toxic fog.

After a while, an animal with the head of an eagle and the body of a lioness with flexible but solid muscles appeared.

She took advantage of her bird of prey’s exceptional eyesight to carefully scan her surroundings and the trees above her.

Muriel held her breath as the gryphon passed the tree under which she had been hiding and disappeared into the mist beyond.

“phew.”

Only after she was sure she was gone could Muriel breathe.

‘…I have to move.’

There’s no telling when that griffon will return. Engaging in hand-to-hand combat with a griffon wolf without any protective gear is pure suicide.

‘Because I can’t even see that damn Morphbak.’

I had to get out of here immediately.

Having made that pledge, Muriel retrieved the disc she had used to strike the tree.

“huh?”

The disc was covered in black mucus. Her gaze turned to the wound in the tree.

From there, sticky mucus was flowing out instead of sap.

‘… … .’

She knows what that black liquid is.

That’s a substance that is automatically secreted from Aimorph’s nest.

In other words, the tree she had been hiding under until now was contaminated by Aimorph’s nest.

‘Come to think of it, earlier….’

Suddenly she remembered the sound of wings flapping before she called for help over the communicator.

There are no living creatures in this forest except for three.

So then, who made that sound?

Muriel felt the blood in her body go cold.

It wasn’t just her mood. Her body was also shaking as if she had been doused with cold water.

She slowly raised her head. Above her head there was nothing but thick branches and leaves.

She threw the disc upward, her whole body trembling.

The disc, which should have just flown upwards since there was nothing there, hit something in the air and fell.

Buzz buzz buzz

The figure of the bastard slowly appeared above Muriel, who was shaking like a possessed woman.

A long, snake-like creature was coiled around a redwood tree, looking down at her as she hid.

“Hee, heeeek!”

She tried to run away, but the thing was faster. A tentacle shot out from its back and grabbed her leg.

“Hey, let go of this… Gyaaaah!”

Six sharp appendages on the tentacles grabbed her legs and crushed them. Other tentacles then grabbed her arms and legs.

“Hey, save me! Save me!”

“Yes, I said so. I’ll go and show you my intestines.”

“That, that! Kkaaaaaaah!”

As her healthy limbs slowly crumbled, the purple glow in Muriel’s eyes disappeared. The psychic power technique had been canceled mid-cast due to the excruciating pain.

“Ugh… .”

“I’ve never taken off my clothes until now, but I’ve never thought about it.”

Muriel opened her mouth hastily, as it seemed as though the man would do as he said at any moment.

“W-Wait! Wait! Wait! Let’s talk! Give me a minute!”

“conversation?”

Aimoff paused at her words.

Muriel continued, realizing that the keyword she had spoken of was the last hope.

–

“I, I have a lot of good cards! You, you, it’ll definitely be to your advantage! That, that’s why let’s negotiate!”

Muriel spoke to me in an obedient manner, as if her life was at stake. I withdrew my hand from hers.

‘Negotiation.’

It’s too late to talk about negotiation now. She’s threatened my life several times, and her men tried to kill Number 26 and Adhai.

Plus she knows so much about me now.

‘If it goes to other players, it’s a big problem.’

I heard her talking on the communication device built into her suit earlier, so it seemed like there were other players she knew.

In order to prevent information leaks, Muriel must die by my hand.

‘That’s true, though.’

Information about those other players is quite interesting.

“Whoa, if you want, I, I’ll serve you! You, you know that! Eh, even Aimov can do that!”

Did he think I was being quiet and that he was tempted by his suggestion?

Instead of answering, I came down from the tree carrying Muriel.

‘You don’t know me yet.’

You don’t know me, so you can say such arrogant things without any care.

“Oh, I can do it whenever I want, as long as you spare my life… Huh?!”

I lifted the erosion tentacle that was holding her leg high up and pinned her body to the ground.

“Ugh!”

“Don’t be mistaken.”

Muriel spitting out black blood.

I flashed the tentacle that had grabbed her again, not caring about her reaction. Muriel’s eyes were filled with pain and fear, but I didn’t hesitate.

“Ugh!”

“Yes, this is what your body can do to me.”

“Th, th, ugh! That’s it, ugh!”

“It is only a matter of providing the right amount of meat.”

“Ah, ah, ah, ah!”

After more than ten strikes, bones, various machine parts, and modules burst out of her body, piercing her skin.

‘You’re a cyborg, so you won’t die from this.’

I didn’t intend to kill him yet, so I struck him just hard enough to break his waist.

“Ugh, creak, creak, creak… .”

Muriel, sprawled on the floor, groaning, looked like a dissected frog with barely any nerves left.

Her skin as white as jade, her beautiful appearance, and her wonderful horns were all gone, and all that remained was an ugly, broken mechanical doll.

“Did you ask me to negotiate? Okay. Listen.”

She raised her head with difficulty after hearing my dry voice.

“Are you going to buy it?”

“There are conditions.”

“I’ll listen to anything! I can do anything you tell me to do!”

Even if I don’t say it that way, you’ll have no choice but to listen to what I say anyway.

I activated the parasite colony in front of her. The parasite, strengthened by the type, stretched its body out, feeling good about getting some fresh air after a long time.

“That, that! Okay, shut up!”

I held Muriel’s head so she couldn’t resist, and I spit out the parasite. The black parasite wriggled and crawled into her nostrils.

“Keeek! Kkeuk kkeuk! Kreuk!”

“I will question you on the original condition.”

I told her, coughing madly, what was going to happen next.

“You have caused me a lot of harm and insulted me. Please help me repay that debt.”

“Th, what is that?”

“From now on, whenever you ask me a question, I will scratch your spine with this hand once.”

“what?”

She looks up at me with a blank expression after hearing what I said. She doesn’t seem to understand what I mean, but she will understand it anyway, even if she doesn’t want to.

“The number of times I answer the question is until the end.”

“Hey, hey hey hey! Wait, wait, wait, wait!”

“For your information, lying is useless.”

Muriel’s face turns pale when she sees the Ghost Claw trait activated on my hand.

She’s a cult member too, so she knows how much I can do with these nails.

“I’d like to ask. Who was the person you spoke to earlier?”

As the interrogation began, my sharp fingernails flashed purple.

–

By the time the game of death had begun between Muriel and me, I had managed to extract all the useful information from her.

‘It’s quite an obsession.’

Even though her spine had been scratched hundreds of times by the ghost’s claws, Muriel did not go mad. It was a glimpse into how great her zest for life was.

‘I almost died from the parasite’s influence several times because I had other thoughts in the middle.’

Thanks to my symbiotic spore properties, she didn’t die. I don’t know if that’s a good thing for Muriel or not, though.

“There is nothing more beautiful than this.”

“… Then, if that’s the case, then, will you, spare me…?”

“no.”

“That, that kind of thing!”

Muriel looks at him as if it’s different from what was promised.

I shook my head.

“My questioning is over, but there are still people waiting.”

“Okay, next?”

As I stepped back, a griffon appeared behind me.

“Muriel… ”

“Ah, ah, ahhhh.”

In the mouth of the Heavenly Mother was the clothes that little Wolf had been wearing. Muriel, seeing this, began to tremble like an aspen leaf.

“You ended up killing my family.”

“Oh, no! That, that was a misunderstanding…!”

“Even when you cut off my lover’s head, and when you tortured me, I hesitated. Whether it was right to kill you.”

“W-Wait a minute! Sister Seo-ah! Oh, we got along well, didn’t we! Yeah?”

“Yes. Two years ago, I saved you. I saved you because I thought you were the same human being… ”

The Heavenly Mother carefully put down the clothes she was holding.

Before she knew it, tears of blood were flowing from her eyes.

“I was wrong. Players like you should be extinct.”

While the Heavenly Mother spoke, I checked the symbiosis attached to Muriel’s body.

“I’ll be home for five hours. I’ll have to eat it, but don’t tell me it’s dead.”

“okay.”

“T, this is different from what we promised! You said you’d spare me! You said you’d spare me!”

Muriel cries at me as I leave.

Why don’t you keep your promise?

‘You never made a promise in the first place, but you keep it.’

I said I would help you pay off your debt, I never said I would save you.

But I don’t think it’s necessary to point that out.

Six hours later.

I returned to where they were.

“Hee, heeeek, heeeek, heeeek… .”

Muriel was still breathing, with only her head and upper body remaining. The Mother of Heaven was nowhere to be seen.

I don’t know what their relationship was, but it seemed like Heavenly Mother didn’t want to see Muriel die.

‘I guess there’s no need to call you.’

I picked up Muriel who was lying down.

“mom….”

She quietly recites her will.

Soon my jaw opened wide and I swallowed her entire body.

With that, Spacedog Ranker Muriel, who was ranked 20th, died.

“Predatory effect activated! ‘Muriel (Han Su-bin)’s special privilege successfully stolen!”

“It is possible to fuse the ‘Metal Absorption’ that was previously possessed.”

“‘Muriel (Han Soo-bin)’ special ability and ‘Metal Absorption’ trait are fused. Evolve into the ‘Plunderer’s Irregular Polyhedron’ trait!

“Plunderer’s Irregular Polyhedron: Devour a piece of equipment to specialize its unique abilities. This can only be done once per piece of equipment, and if you devour another piece of equipment, the special effects of the previous piece of equipment will be lost.

*P.S. You are death, the destroyer of the universe. But beware. The whole universe is watching you.」

What struck my head along with the taste of sweet, high-quality cake was a text box related to a new trait.