Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 145



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Ep. 145

The name of the drug in the ampoule I am holding is Cyanium.

A drug that grants the user a boost each time it is used, but its duration randomly decreases.

I’ve written about this before when I was fighting the genetically modified human of the Eugene family, Sihyeon Eugene.

At that time, I was a corpse, so I ingested cyonium and temporarily gained the power of a corpse to fight her.

Anyway, I’ve already used it once. The duration should have decreased.

‘But this is an improved version of the one Muriel used.’

She enjoyed the boost for a much longer period of time than regular Psyonium, so I don’t know how long the effects will last.

‘Whatever it is, it won’t last that long.’

I would estimate it would take at least 5 minutes, and at most 8 or 9 minutes.

In other words, we should consider that the effect of Psionium ends earlier than the maximum duration of the ‘King of Monsters’. Common sense would suggest that it would be right to use the King of Monsters first, but there is a problem that needs to be considered before that.

‘The condition will be canceled when all energy is consumed.’

In the description of the characteristic of ‘organic evolution’, it is written that a huge amount of energy is consumed when transforming into the king of monsters.

‘Even the whirlwind of gods must consume a lot of energy.’

Both the ‘Whirlwind of God’ and the King of Monsters consume the bio-energy stored in my body.

‘The total amount of energy reserves won’t be a big problem.’

Before entering the second stage of Transcendence, it ate a lot of Swamp Kings and swamp creatures, and just a little while ago, it swallowed a whole Hond Gigant.

Both creatures are powerful predators that rule the continent of Saintopia 02. In addition, Aimorph is a creature with very efficient fuel economy, so I don’t think it will ever lack energy.

‘Of course, I can’t be 100% sure, but…’

Both traits are new traits that have not appeared in the game. Naturally, I have never used them myself.

However, there have been several instances of similar crises in the game. There was a time when they carried out a large-scale massacre in response to a large-scale assault by Outspacers, and there was a time when they flew into the atmosphere to intercept the ‘Nova’, a planet-destroying weapon of Megacorp.

In fact, it would be fair to say that the situation is better now than it was then, since we have more cards in our hands.

‘If only I had Aimov’s excellent sense and my own…’

As we have done so far, we will overcome this difficulty.

‘The only question left is when the Cosmic Bolt will fall.’

There is no way for me to figure this out at this point, but there is one way.

A predatory sense that alerts me to my impending danger. The moment a fragment of the future appears before my eyes, that is the moment for me to attack.

After making my decision, I took out the cyanide ampoule from Muriel’s kit.

And I kept the ampoule in my mouth. This was to avoid wrestling with my enormously large body to hold the ampoule in my hand.

‘It’ll be hard to eat once you reach the status of the King of Monsters.’

I was ready, but my predator senses hadn’t sent me any messages yet. I activated my organic evolution trait and chose the King of Monsters.

and.

“The location is not suitable. Please keep your distance from your allies.”

‘huh?’

The transformation did not take place.

‘You’re saying it’s not allowed here?’

There are many trees around, but the place I am in is flat. The description of the special condition only says that the required space is a radius of 100m, and nothing else is written.

‘Isn’t it okay for there to be obstacles? Oh. Wait, really?’

Distance from allies.

In front of me are number 26, Adhai, and the Mother of Heaven.

[Zuzu zuzuzu zuzuzu (Wait here for a moment)]

After telling the kids, I left the place.

The direction I’m heading is right by the river. There are no obstacles like trees there. I’m also far from the guys.

I ran with all my might, not knowing when the orbital bombardment would begin. Six combat arms, a tail, and blunt claws. Every organ in my body was used to the limit of its muscular power to push my body forward.

So, when I arrived at the riverside, I activated the trait again.

“The location is not suitable.”

And the message that it is not suitable always appears.

I looked around. This place was a riverbank, but the trees were so sparsely grown that it seemed like it was the edge of a forest.

Since there is no mention of allies and only mention of locations, it seems that the obstacle part was omitted in the description of the King of Monsters.

I quickly jumped into the river. Only after I reached the middle of the river did a message appear saying that I could transform into the King of Monsters.

‘Isn’t this more than 100 meters?’

The width of this river is not that narrow. It is easily over 100m from the center of the river to the shore.

The moment I thought about how big it would become.

Something passed before my eyes.

‘come!’

The scene of the Cosmic Bolt falling, the black flame tearing through the atmosphere and devouring all things and life. As soon as I recognized that scene, I immediately transformed into the King of Monsters.

‘Euuugh?!’

“Pain relief activated!”

Unlike other evolutions, I was hit with an excruciating pain. It was the most intense pain I had ever experienced.

Even with the pain relief activated, it was to this extent. If I didn’t remember getting burned all over my body when I was young, I would have lost consciousness right away.

Moreover, it wasn’t just the pain that was severe. Even while transforming, the energy consumption rate was incredibly high. It was an unimaginable sense of exhaustion, as if I had been shot with psychic breath three times in a row.

‘Ugh, ugh! I, I have to eat now…!’

I somehow managed to pull myself together and bit the thing in my mouth. The tiny ampoule broke and the cyonium inside poured down my throat.

“Ugh, ugh, ■■■■■■■■■■!”

Unable to bear the pain any longer, I cried out loud.

A wave of intense energy blocked my vision as the river evaporated and trees along the shore were uprooted.

–

“Cosmic Bolt ready to fire.”

“Energy output 500% charged. Dark matter regulator in operation. Initiating purification operation.”

“Coordinate input complete.”

“Expected damage assessment complete. Comparison with cleanup mission.”

In the situation room where preparations were underway to launch the Cosmic Bolt, the captain secretly bit his lip.

His men didn’t come until the final firing. He didn’t know whether they were alive or dead, or what had happened to them in Saigil 08.

‘I guess we’ll never know what happens next.’

The captain squeezed his eyes shut as he thought of his fallen men. Even as he did so, the count quickly dropped.

“Huh? Captain! A powerful wave of energy has been detected!”

Then the cult crew member observing the energy flow within the planet shouted. The captain opened his eyes at his words.

“An energy wave? A magnetic storm perhaps?”

“I don’t know! What, what is this?! It’s not planet-wide, it’s concentrated in a specific spot!”

“what?”

The sailor projected an image using his psychic powers. An entire continent within the planet was covered in a massive energy storm. All the cult members in the situation room were shocked at the sight.

“Oh, my God!”

“I’ve never seen such a flow of energy!”

Magnetic storms occur all over the planet, so they are not concentrated in one spot artificially. In other words, those energy waves were artificially created by a specific entity.

‘Could that be the source of contamination?’

The order given to the ‘Judge of Damos08’ was to purify the polluted Saigil08. That abnormal storm was definitely created by the beings that polluted the planet.

‘Damn! So that’s why everyone was wiped out!’

That continent is inhabited by the native Wolf tribe. The warrior group must have gone to capture the Wolf tribe and unfortunately encountered that pollutant.

A pollutant that exerts its influence on a continental scale. No matter how powerful the warrior corps is, it is impossible to survive against this ridiculous entity.

“Can we observe the source of contamination with a ship camera?”

“That, that energy flow is so strong… But I’ll try!”

The Cult crew manipulated the computer in the situation room using psychic power technology. After a few seconds, an image of the observed ground appeared above the center of the situation room.

The cultists screamed in unison as they saw the source of the contamination.

The captain didn’t scold them, because he too almost screamed the moment he saw ‘it’.

For some unknown reason the image quality was not very good, but everyone present could easily make out the appearance of ‘it’.

The reason was that ‘it’ was very large. When compared to the trees around it, its length was estimated to be at least 200m.

The pollutant had three heads in total. Except for the middle head, the other two heads were identical in appearance.

The two heads on the right and left resembled a carnivore with a pointed snout like the ‘Manuk Arma’, a native creature of Saigil 08, but they had no visible organs. Instead, horns grew in their place.

Instead of having eyes, long, thin tentacles beneath its jaws seemed to act as sensory organs. Even in the image on the screen, the two heads were constantly waving their tentacles.

And the head in the middle. That head had six huge horns, and a long, wide carapace on the back of the head that reminded me of a crown. Also, unlike the heads on either side, that head had eyes. Those eyes were constantly scanning the surroundings like a cunning snake.

Horns, a carapace on the back of the head, eyes. The captain thought that head was the one with the highest initiative.

The neck supporting the three heads was quite long and thick, reminiscent of a snake. At the point where the long neck and head met, a bundle of tentacles that looked like hair hung down.

Up until this point, the appearance was disgusting enough, but when it came to the body, it was even more spectacular.

A pitch-black carapace, seemingly made of the dark matter used by the cult, covered its back. On its back were eight spiral-shaped pits. And in the center of those pits, a row of pipe-like tubes ran down to its tail.

A gas of unknown composition continuously poured out of the coffin and rose into the sky. Perhaps this gas caused the image quality of the ship’s camera to deteriorate.

Going down from the carapace on its back, six legs were visible. No, to be precise, there were four front legs that seemed to act as arms, and rear legs that were much larger than the other arms.

Maybe the guy was crouching down and people mistook his arms for his legs.

The legs were all covered in a carapace of similar material to the back, and the joints seemed to be more numerous than those of a normal creature. The appearance reminded me of a long-legged insect like a spider, and it gave me an instinctive sense of disgust.

Especially between the legs, there were so many folds of flesh that it was not at all pleasant to look at. I don’t know what it was for, but if it was meant to be offensive to the viewer, then I would say it achieved its goal admirably.

Next to the hideous legs, the last one was the tail. The three-headed creature also had multiple tails. Its tail, which made up about a third of its body, split into two at some point on its lower body.

That means it had two tails. The right tail had a huge pincer at the end, and the left tail had a stinger that resembled a scorpion’s stinger.

“Three, three-headed demon… .”

Someone muttered at the source of the pollution on the screen. The captain thought his expression was appropriate.

The bastard’s appearance was exactly like that of an evil dragon from a cult myth.

The ‘three-headed demon’ spoken of by the sailors and a pollutant that threatens the security of the Cult Empire.

The captain shouted at the top of his lungs.

“Incinerate that blasphemous being immediately!”

“Okay! I’ll correct the coordinates!”

The Cosmic Bolt’s gun ports are aimed at the blasphemous being.

After a while, that pollutant will be removed, as it always is.

No. It had to be that way.

–

I had a new body, but I couldn’t see the change.

It would be a complete mistake to think that there is no need to worry about energy reserves. A huge amount of energy is being lost in real time.

It can’t be helped. After becoming the King of Monsters, the detection area of ​​the auxiliary organs has expanded enormously. It can monitor an area that is one third of the continent of Saintopia 02 where I stand.

In addition to the energy consumption, I managed to maintain my sanity amidst the massive amount of information. I tried to eliminate as much useless information as possible and focused only on the Cosmic Bolts falling from the planet’s atmosphere.

Finally, I delivered a message to the guys with the monster’s tentacles.

[Zuzu zuzu zuzu zuzu (Everyone, avoid it!)]

Perhaps the Mother in Heaven will understand what I am saying. No, she should understand.

I feel bad for the kids, but I don’t have time to worry because I feel like I’ll collapse if I lose my mind even for a little bit.

And finally the time has come.

Cosmic bolts fall slowly here, as if time has slowed down. The sky splits, the air vibrates, and the ground beneath my feet trembles.

In the space-time that had slowed down as if it had stopped, I raised my head toward the sky.

‘God’s Whirlwind!’

A pitch-black black light, with a row of pipes that glow golden one after another. Golden waves rise up my long neck.

The moment the light passed through the monster’s tentacles and reached my throat.

Through me, God swings the whip of punishment.

It was like lightning, and at other times it looked like hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of thin wires merging into one.

The important thing is that the lightning-like heat rays come out from three places in total.

Black flames and golden lightning clash as they descend to burn the ground.

At that moment.

The sky was torn apart.

This is not a metaphor, but the atmosphere of this planet is literally being torn apart as the lightning and cosmic bolts fired from the three heads collide, creating a massive shockwave.

The clouds disappeared and the aurora appeared out of nowhere in the sky where the magnetic field was strangely distorted. Along with the weather anomaly, dozens of fire whirlwinds descended from the sky to the ground.

The ground I was standing on shook as if there had been an earthquake, and the river water evaporated rapidly. The trees within a radius of several kilometers from where I was standing were all set ablaze.

‘Ugh!’

The king of monsters in adulthood, and the divine whip with the power of the god of thunder.

I thought it would be possible to this extent, but it is not easy. I checked my remaining energy even while spitting out lightning.

‘You’ll only get 3 minutes if you do well from now on!’

The effect of Psionium will not be released, but the King of Monsters and the Whirlwind of God are different. If the remaining energy is depleted, it will be canceled immediately.

‘Just a little more!’

Little by little, very little by little, the lightning began to push back the black flames, the Cosmic Bolts. If they pushed any further, the Imperial Carrier would also overload and the Cosmic Bolts would be forcibly stopped.

I thought I could hold out here a little longer, but suddenly dozens of heat rays poured down on me from the sky.

‘Mothership squadron!’

I hadn’t noticed it because I was so focused on the Cosmic Bolt, but before I knew it, the Cult’s warships were floating in the sky. The warships of the carrier squadron knew that the Imperial carrier was going to clash with me and came to provide support.

‘It’s hard to split up and attack here!’

Thanks to the King of Monsters effect, the heat rays they shot didn’t cause me fatal damage. It’s true that it hurts, but I can endure it.

However, it is true that it is difficult to maintain concentration because of the continuous pouring of hot rays.

‘There’s a way… Ah!’

Suddenly, a good idea occurred to me and I calculated my remaining energy.

‘It’s possible!’

There is a way to kill those pesky flies while still firing the Whirlwind of God. The downside is that it slightly reduces the duration of the King of Monsters.

The tentacles of the monster that accepted my will move. As it has three heads, the tentacles growing from the back of its head and neck are also generated from three places.

‘So psychic breath can also shoot in three directions.’

I’ve never really controlled the direction of my psychic breath before, because I didn’t need to.

The only constraint is that you have to maintain focus, but the direction itself can be controlled.

The only problem is that I’ve never actually tried it.

I don’t like having to gamble again, but I have no choice.

If I lose here, I’m all annihilated. Now is the time to make a decisive move.

The pipe that had been glowing gold earlier flashed purple this time. Similar to the whip of God, purple light advanced upwards from the tip of the tail.

All this time, I struggled to aim the monster’s tentacles at the target. It was never easy to control the tentacles on three heads at the same time.

It was such a delicate task that I would have failed immediately if Aimov’s excellent sense had not helped me. Blood flowed from my eyes and mouth without me knowing, but I ignored it.

I felt a pain that felt like my brain was going to burst, but I eventually succeeded. The monster’s tentacles listened to my command and aimed in the direction of the enemy ships.

‘it’s okay!’

The monster’s tentacles, which had absorbed all of the purple psychic power, waved gently like a conductor’s baton.

A purple sphere appears in front of the dragon’s head as it spits out lightning in time with the command.

When I used psychic breath before, it was quite large, but now it was enormous, perhaps because it was adapted to my body that was over 200m tall.

The enemy ships are panicking and trying to retreat, perhaps sensing the essence of the psychic power I created.

‘Where are you going?’

The dragon’s breath blasted towards their fleeing rear. The purple heat rays extended for several kilometers, slicing through the ships and leaving behind only a massive explosion.

Ships that fell outside the range of my heat ray quickly escaped the planet’s atmosphere. Those that did not fell to the ground in a hail of alloy.

‘I guess we only have 2 minutes left, no, maybe 1 minute left?’

As I withdrew my ships, I poured all my energy into firing the Whirlwind of God.

My vision becomes blurry as my remaining energy level nears zero. My arms and legs, which support my body, become weak and shaky.

Only the auxiliary organ under my chin, which has always been with me through life and death, continues to report to me the amount of energy consumed.

‘please!’

｢■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■!｣

Finally, I let out a roar as if screaming and poured out lightning.

Did that work?

A cosmic bolt descending to annihilate everything.

A black heat ray with a radius of several hundred meters blinked like a broken light bulb and then disappeared.

Just as the snake ascended to become a dragon, the lightning I shot soared high into the sky without any obstacles.

Then a second sun rose high in the sky.

I lost consciousness as I confirmed that it was the last flash of light from the Imperial Carrier that had been destroyed by the Whirlwind of God.