Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 142



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Ep. 142

As soon as I came to, I felt the liquid surrounding my body. It was thick and warm like amniotic fluid.

I tried to move my arms, but they didn’t move at all, as if they were paralyzed. My whole body felt numb, as if I had been heavily injected with painkillers.

‘I guess the mutation isn’t complete yet.’

I quickly figured out the situation and came to terms with it.

I can’t see because I can’t move my eyelids, but my body is probably still in a mushy state right now. All sorts of chemical reactions are occurring inside the cocoon, mutating my body into something new.

‘I think there’s about an hour or two left.’

Normally, I would go to sleep at this time, but for some reason I didn’t feel like it. I felt like I saw something important before looking at my old memories, but I couldn’t remember it.

‘It was definitely important…’

It felt like something was blocking my head, and I couldn’t remember anything. I thought about it for a long time, but I couldn’t remember anything, so I was getting more and more annoyed.

‘… Let’s close it.’

If it was important, it would come to mind eventually. I forced myself to stop trying to recall the memory.

‘Let’s just check what everyone is doing.’

To relieve the frustration that had built up in my mind, I turned my attention to the guys on the ground. I focused on the auxiliary organs to detect what was happening outside the cocoon.

Perhaps it was because I was in the middle of evolving. My only ability to sense what was happening on the ground above my head was limited.

And there was no one on the ground. All that could be felt was the hard shell of the Swamp King’s legs.

‘Where did they all go?’

The moments when I am most vulnerable are when I evolve and utilize the transcendence system, so I asked the guys to protect me before I enter the second stage of transcendence.

I hate to say this, but my relationship with those guys isn’t bad.

Not to mention No. 26, who has spent the longest time with me, Adhai admires me.

I also try to avoid doing things that they don’t like as much as possible. If there’s something they want, I want to give it to the extent I can.

Heavenly Mother is a bit ambiguous, but she also has her own goals, so it’s unlikely she’ll betray me. If she was going to betray me in the first place, she would’ve done it as soon as I entered Kochi.

There’s no way they’d leave me for no reason, so in this case there’s only one thing.

‘There are dangerous elements around.’

It was clear that something had appeared that could harm me and that I had gone out to eliminate it.

‘If there is anything that could attack me here… .’

The first thing that comes to mind is the Hondo Gigant couple.

Their habitat is quite far from here, but since they last devoured pirates, they have been coming into the forest more and more. They must be wandering around because they know that the taste of human and cult meat is a new world.

‘It can’t be them, because they built their nest in a safe place on purpose.’

Another risk factor is that there is a rescue team coming to save the personnel of the deep-sea research base, but this is also unlikely. My nest is quite far from the base.

‘Or perhaps Muriel’s colleagues?’

When I interrogated Muriel before, I heard that there were players who were supporting her. And that she had sent a rescue request before she died, but it was ignored.

‘I erased as many traces as possible.’

I could easily judge that they were wary of me from Muriel’s detailed account of the conversation. Still, just in case, I cleaned up as much of the traces I had left behind.

Before leaving the campsite, all artificial structures and weapons were ‘incinerated’ or buried underground.

There are traces of a cruiser that was struck by lightning and exploded, but that fact alone makes it nearly impossible to find my nest.

‘Because my nest is underground.’

It’s possible that players have discovered the nest using a technique I don’t know about, but that doesn’t make sense either.

‘If they found the nest, I’m already dead.’

With two players of Muriel’s level or higher, it should be easy to take down No. 26, Adhai, and the Heavenly Mother. It’s been four or five hours since I entered the cocoon, so there’s plenty of time for the situation to end.

So the fact that I’m still alive means that the two players didn’t come here in person. The level of the mysterious enemy should be considered as an opponent that can be engaged in combat with the kids.

‘In the end, we’re back to square one.’

I guess I’ll have to go look for it as soon as the mutation is over.

–

The Mother of Heaven is a ranker.

Although I am not particularly outgoing, I have experience running a large clan and have even taken on the role of leading raids to hunt boss creatures.

For example, he led the subjugation of the Sea Demon, a semi-boss-level creature, or participated in the subjugation of the Red Gallagon and Vortex One, which only rankers can dare to attack, etc.

Although she was proud of having been through all sorts of hardships, what she was seeing was quite surreal.

“Ahhhh!”

“Everyone run away!”

A sea demon that had grown to over 10m in size was slaughtering cult warriors indiscriminately in the middle of the forest. With each swing of its tentacles thicker than a log, the upper body of a cult warrior disappeared, and with each glow of the eye-shaped symbol on its body, the cultists bled from their eyes and ears.

Their leader was struck by the tentacles and died immediately upon encountering the Sea Demon, his whole body twisted like a fly that had been hit by a flyswatter.

“Shield deployment! Shield deployment!”

One of the female cultists squealed as she dodged the tentacles. The other cultists quickly deployed shields as she was the second highest ranking warrior after the leader.

But the shield was meaningless against Sea Demon, who was as adept at using psychic powers as Gallagon.

“Oh my god, are you dying?!”

A warrior who had bravely run forward with his shield suddenly stopped mid-air. Then, his limbs and waist began to turn on their own, betraying the will of his master.

“Kwaaaaah!”

Is this really the kind of sight it would be to see a child pulling out an ant’s leg? The warrior who was hit with five layers of the Sea Demon’s ‘Binding’ soon had not only his limbs but his upper and lower body separated.

“Oh, it’s no use… Aaaah!”

Meanwhile, another warrior was hit by a thick tentacle swung by the Sea Demon and was thrown into a tree. His neck was twisted in an odd direction, and he blinked a few times before moving no further.

It was a scene of horrific slaughter that was clearly visible to anyone.

Yet the reason why Heavenly Mother felt surreal was because of the waves that Sea Demon, or rather Number 26, would send out whenever he attacked the cults.

“Bad person! Bad person!”

“Ahhhh!”

“Who would hit the middle child!”

“Eek!”

In between screams, No. 26 would repeat the word “bad human” as he massacred the cultists, because he could not tell the difference between a cultist and a human.

“Damn it! Seal off the tentacles first!”

At the words of the female cultist, two cultists with weapons resembling spear guns stepped forward.

‘this!’

When the Heavenly Mother saw this, she quickly jumped down from the tree.

The net that this harpoon gun shoots has a fast shrinking effect when it hits its prey, but it is not enough to pierce the hard shell of the Sea Demon, but the Cult’s net is made of black silver.

‘If it’s Black Silver, No. 26 might get hurt!’

If Number 26 gets hurt even a little, the sleeping monster will definitely not like it.

But what she feared did not happen.

The moment he was about to touch the net, No. 26’s body shrank down and turned into a small balloon-like shape. The shrunken creature leisurely avoided the net and grew larger again, swinging its tentacles.

One of the cultists who shot the net barely managed to avoid it, but another was hit by a tentacle and had his upper body blown off.

The surviving cultists looked relieved for a moment, but it was still too early to feel at ease. The rocks and metal fragments on the ground shook and flew at a high speed towards his face.

He too ended up walking down the same path as his comrade with holes ripped through his face.

‘It’s pretty good.’

Despite his childish speech, No. 26 was fighting very well, as expected of a Sea Demon. He actively applied the skills he possessed.

‘I guess there’s no need to stay here any longer.’

The Heavenly Mother left the scene, leaving behind the scene of Number 26 destroying the cults.

The place her footsteps lead to is where Adhai is fighting.

Adhai was currently slaughtering cultists from other teams. Adhai, the only one of Aimoff’s comrades who could fly high, actively used his strengths to capture cultists and drop them to their deaths.

‘There is a flight technique among the psychic power techniques, but…’

It is impossible to avoid the attacks of Adhai, who flies faster than a bullet. If you get hit by his charge, you will go straight to the afterlife.

Besides, all the cultists who entered this forest are now out of their minds. This is because of the ‘deep sea terror’ used by No. 26.

‘More applicable than the game’s seed demon.’

According to the setting, the fear of the deep sea is a kind of phenomenon that occurs when the powerful psychic power energy that the Sea Demon holds leaks out. So, the closer you get to it, the more the minds of other creatures are adversely affected and collapse.

However, No. 26 implemented the horror of the deep by spreading psychic powers thinly and widely like a spider web. Most of the enemies were almost mentally sound, but instead, their means of communication and the use of several psychic power techniques were disabled.

To create an environment where they can block each other’s contact and defeat each other individually. That was what No. 26 intended.

Of course, the effect wasn’t perfect because the guy wasn’t an adult yet.

Since he started fighting directly, the deep-sea terror effect he used has been shaking up and down. If you’re unlucky, there may be some who escape from control.

Still, the tactic itself was effective enough that the Heavenly Mother couldn’t help but stick out her tongue.

‘… I wonder if anyone would say that Morphbak is not a friend.’

If No. 26 becomes an adult, he will become a tremendous monster.

‘In some ways, I guess I should say it’s fortunate.’

Should I be relieved or worried that that scary monster is my comrade?

As she was thinking that, she heard a sound above her head.

That was a scream.

The Heavenly Mother immediately stopped running. A few seconds later, the Cult Warrior crashed through the branches and fell to the ground.

There was a loud noise like a bomb went off and his body was completely blown to pieces.

A green dragon gracefully landed on a mass of unrecognizable pieces of meat.

The dragon with a long and slender body reaching 2m, huge wings larger than its body, and an impressive four horns and plump tail was Adhai.

Adhai, who had knocked down one cultist, was holding onto another with his front paws. Whether it was because he had used hyper-acceleration to ram it, the cultist he was holding was in a state where his body was crumpled in half, even though he was wearing a reinforced suit.

“Here” “Organize” “Complete”

“It’s fast.”

“I” “Great”

“Yeah. Good job.”

One team has already been cleared, and the other team will be cleared soon.

There were three teams of cult warriors she had detected. Now only one team remained.

“Enemy” “Remains” “Hunting” “Start”

“Wait a minute… something like this.”

The rest of the team tried to clean up together, but Adhai flew away first. She shook her head as if she had no choice and followed after Adhai.

–

“Gasp, gasp, gasp… .”

Cult warrior Olai hid behind a tree, breathing heavily.

‘Damn it! The commander, Edrin, and Isabelle are all warriors…’

The entire warrior corps that came to this planet were wiped out except for him. He was unable to contact them, but he was able to learn this fact thanks to the tools he had.

Unlike other cults, Olai was a so-called innovative cult that did not hesitate to use equipment from primitive races.

Before the mission began, he distributed small chips to the other members of the warrior group. It was a military tracking chip mainly used by Megacorp. It would be difficult to use on a long-distance mission, but it could be detected without any problem when operating around a specific area on a continent like now.

In addition, the enhanced suit he was wearing now was not the enhanced suit worn by ordinary cult warriors. It was a special custom enhanced suit obtained from the Carmelda family of Megacorp.

This reinforced suit has relatively low physical protection capabilities, but it has a powerful stealth effect, making it perfect for stealth missions.

Additionally, Olai had acquired the psychic power technique that erased the body’s movements, so he was virtually like a ghost.

‘Damn it! Why won’t you listen when I tell you to share such a good thing with me…!’

He was usually looked down on for liking monkey toys, but he was able to survive thanks to the equipment made by those monkeys.

‘If you can just get to the transport ship, you can survive.’

He has seen three monsters so far, but there are probably more dangerous monsters. They are probably mutations that have occurred due to contamination. The cleanup work must be expedited as much as possible.

After confirming that there were no monsters nearby, Olai moved again.

‘Just pass this place!’

There is a transport ship beyond the bushes. He ducked down quickly as he moved while making as little noise as possible. A black shadow flashed across the ground and disappeared.

What that means was proven by his colleague, Edrin.

‘Why is Gallagon here?’

He moved cautiously, thinking of his comrade who had been captured by the Green Gallagon and lifted several kilometers up before falling.

And when he finally made it through the bushes, the transport he was expecting was ahead.

However, the condition of the transport ship was very different from what he had expected.

“Kurrrrrrrr.”

“Krung.”

Two large theropods with huge horns on their heads were destroying the transport ship and chewing up the pilot inside.

Their true identity was a predator called ‘Manuk Arma’ in the language of the cult, and Hond Gigant in Megacorp. These were the monsters that were indigenous to Saigil 08 and lived in the volcanic zone, and they had entered the forest.

“Kre, sniff? Sniff sniff.”

“Kurrrrrr.”

One of the Manuk Armas sniffed something, his head pointed directly at where Olai was standing.

He has a very keen sense of smell. There’s no way he’d miss the smell of someone drenched in sweat.

Olai stepped back without a sound. He ran behind the bushes at full speed. He heard the roar of the men behind him, but he ignored them and ran like a madman.

‘Jeeeeeeenjaaaaang!’

Unfortunately, his escape was short-lived. The Green Gallagon circling overhead caught him off guard.

Although Olai was a man who did not hesitate to use any means necessary to survive, he could not control even luck.

He collided with a 2m tall object flying at a speed faster than the speed of sound and was reduced to a bug that had been hit in the palm of his hand.

–

“Hide and Seek” “The End”

She nodded in satisfaction as she looked at the fragments of what had been her enemy until just now.

Recently, she felt that her relationship with her elders had become more distant than before. Little adults and ugly friends often spent time with their elders, but she didn’t really do anything with them.

So she thought.

Let’s make a cool ball and get praise from the big guy.

She has hunted more than 10 prey in just one day. With this much effort, even an adult would be interested in her.

She licked the blood off her body and tried to turn back. She would have done so if a new enemy had not attacked her.

“Kuaaaaaaah!”

“pain!”

She was hit by a monster that suddenly appeared and rolled around on the dirt floor. She avoided fatal injuries thanks to her early reaction before the impact, but one of her wings was severely torn.

“You” “Me” “Pain” “Give” “Kill”

However, Adhai did not lose his fighting spirit and stood upright on all four legs, glaring at the guy. The little adult and his ugly friend were far behind.

It was because I was in a hurry and got ahead of myself.

So we have to hold out until they come.

“Kurrrrrr!”

“two?”

The disheartening truth is that there wasn’t just one.

One of them, the one that had struck her with its horn, rushed at her. She was barely able to avoid the attack because of her torn wing.

Unfortunately, it was impossible to dodge the second attack that followed, including the bastard’s tail. She was hit by the bastard’s thick tail and was sent flying into the tree behind her.

“pain!”

The shock caused blood to spurt out from the tentacles attached to her head. She tried to get up somehow, but her four legs were shaking without strength.

“Kurrrrrr.”

The one who had come close opened his mouth wide. Sharp teeth were sticking out. In a moment, those teeth would tear her fragile body apart.

“Death” “No!”

“Kuaaaah!”

It’s too early to give up.

She fired purple lightning with all her might. The purple lightning pierced the bastard’s eyes, causing blood to spurt out.

Even though her eyes were blasted and she must have been in a lot of pain, the creature did not back down. Rather, perhaps the attack had angered her, as she tried to bite her with her mouth even as she was struck by lightning.

“Big man” “Sorry”

She had done her best until the end, but it seemed like it would be over. She closed her eyes, sensing death.

But then I felt a vibration somewhere. It wasn’t painful at all, just something crunching against my teeth.

At first, the vibration was faint. It gradually grew louder, and at one point, it shook violently as if someone was grabbing her body and shaking it.

“What is it?”

“Krung?”

“Krrrrrr?”

The earthquake wasn’t just felt by her. The two beasts also looked startled by the sudden earthquake.

and.

The ground exploded and the beast that had been gaping in front of her was hurled into a tree.

[Z zu zu zu zu zu (How dare these crazy guys!)]

A giant dragon that lets out a roar that shakes the earth.

This is the big adult she has been waiting for.