Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 171



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Ep. 170

Blood from the corpse spreads across the snowy field.

Amidst the eerie sound of leaves, a spider-like monster gallops.

The target he’s after is me.

Specifically, it was around my neck. He knew how and targeted my weak point right away.

Six erosion tentacles erupted from my back at once. They were originally strong, but now much stronger thanks to the synthetic scales they were covered in, and they spread their appendages wide to grab the thing.

The creature is about 4 meters tall. It is slightly smaller than the Heavenly Mother. Its strength is unknown, but it is not enough to overcome the disadvantages of its size.

The six tentacles and the creature’s eight legs collided. The loud sound of metal grinding echoed throughout the forest.

Compared to the erosion tentacles, the one that was much smaller in size crossed its legs and deflected the tentacles’ attacks. The one with the black metal skeleton dyed bright red quickly crawled over to me, climbing onto my tentacles.

The spider monster quickly approached my back. Its front legs aimed for the tentacles on my neck.

‘Where!’

I gave a big jolt to my body in time. The three mechanical claws at the end of my metal legs sliced ​​through the air.

I started to counterattack while the bastard’s posture was broken.

It raised its tail upwards and swung the pincers at the end of it in a big way. It quickly raised its two front legs, which had been kicking in vain, to defend itself.

Unfortunately, my pincers are the hardest part of my body along with my head shell. There was a heavy cracking sound as if I had been hit by a giant hammer, and the thing’s body was lifted into the air.

And the Heavenly Mother leaped up onto my fighting arm, and with all her might she struck the creature’s right legs with her two forelegs.

“Tch!”

The spider monster managed to change its stance even as it was sent flying by the pincers. Unfortunately, her attack only managed to crush one of its legs.

She and the spider monster crossed paths and landed on top of each other. Unlike the Heavenly Mother who gracefully stepped onto the snow, the spider monster was half-buried on the ground, perhaps due to her damaged leg.

“…It’s harder than I thought.”

[Zuzu zuzuzu (I guess so)]

Her blows were heavy enough to punch a hole through a ship, but instead of breaking the creature’s legs, they were merely crushed.

‘I guess it won’t work.’

Originally, I was going to eat the meat to confirm the identity, but the opponent is fighting better than expected. We don’t have much time left. It’s not wise to waste any more time.

I activated the ‘Insight’ trait that I had been saving.

｢Name: S-422

Race: Mass-produced Mu■■ ■■■■

Status: Contains information that cannot be verified.

Worn equipment: Contains information that cannot be verified.」

‘what?’

The information I got from Insight was not typical. I thought I saw it wrong, so I tried using it again, but it didn’t make much of a difference.

‘Why is he not a player?’

This is the first time since Muriel that information has been displayed as unverifiable.

“Leg damage status ‘serious’. Unrepairable. Main controller ‘Pira Eleven’ not responding. Continue fighting.”

While I was still using my insight, the guy who had been adjusting his posture started attacking again.

S-422 running quickly, swinging its seven legs.

I twisted my body and swung my tail forward. The snow on the ground began to scatter like a blizzard.

The creature ducked down to avoid my attack, then twisted its two front legs upside down and scratched the underside of its tail. A sharp pain surged through me as its scales and blunt claws were ripped off.

The erosion tentacle lunged to defend its master from attack, but it seemed to have anticipated this and leaped upward to dodge the attack.

My tentacles were stuck straight into the ground, and the one floating in the air was attacked by the Mother of Heaven.

Her most powerful weapon, her beak, clashed with the creature’s forelegs. The sound was more like real swords clashing rather than body parts clashing with metal.

“Injury to left leg number 2.”

“Ugh!”

The creature’s metal leg was cut as if by a knife. But the Heavenly Mother was not unharmed either, for the creature’s claws had cut into her side.

I crawled forward and opened my mouth wide at the thing while receiving her with my fighting arm. The acid fungal glands located near my esophagus in my throat activated, and soon a green acid fungus was shot out of my mouth.

“Acid hazard.”

The one still floating in the air forced its body to turn to avoid the flying liquids.

But this time, he couldn’t completely avoid it. The greedy fungi that touched his body began to eat away at his metal frame.

“88% external skeletal damage.”

The one who landed rubbed his legs against the snow, but it was too late. His legs were already in a state of irreversible destruction.

The bastard could no longer stand and collapsed in the snow.

‘It’s over.’

This guy’s main weapon up until now was his legs. It looks like he doesn’t have any other weapons.

‘No. There might still be something left.’

Since I couldn’t see the equipment he was wearing, there might be some kind of hidden weapon. I approached him while maintaining my guard.

“Confirmed that the main controller ‘Pira Eleven’ is experiencing communication failure. Defeat record has been registered in the database.”

The guy with his head down on the floor was muttering something incessantly.

“Incinerate, incinerate protocol initiated. 20, 19… .”

‘Incineration Protocol?’

“18, 17, 16… .”

I was about to finish him off with my combat arm when he suddenly started counting down.

“15, 14, 13… .”

‘no way?’

With an ominous feeling, I quickly grabbed hold of Heavenly Mother and crawled like crazy out of the open space.

“Hey, why are you suddenly like that?”

When I suddenly hugged her and ran, she shot a thought wave with a feeling of bewilderment. She didn’t seem to know why I was doing this, but there was no time to explain everything.

Instead of explaining, I continued to crawl forward, knocking down all the trees.

After about ten seconds, I felt a huge amount of energy and heat behind me, followed by a loud roar that made my auxiliary organs tremble.

The eyes of Mother Heaven, who was looking behind me, widened.

“This is crazy! Run fast!”

‘I know, too!’

I can already feel the unusual heat on my back and tail. Just looking at it, I can tell that the amount of energy generated from its body is greater than that of dozens of plasma launchers.

‘I probably won’t die, but…’

It is not the Heavenly Mother who is held in the arms of battle. I am so strong that my shell, arms, and legs will disappear, but she will burn without leaving any ashes.

I barely managed to escape the blast radius thanks to running frantically, using my three fighting arms, blunt claws, and even my erosion tentacles.

The Mother of Heaven muttered as she looked at the forest burning brightly in the fire.

“Was there someone like that in the game?”

[Z zu zu zu zu (I don’t remember)]

“yes?”

There were some creatures in the game that used self-destruction as a weapon. In the case of Megacorp, it was standard play to plant a bomb in the body of a useless employee and have them self-destruct, and there were also wild creatures that self-destructed and caused damage.

However, there has never been an entity that can cause an explosion of this magnitude.

‘Are you perhaps the remnants of the Spacedogs we met before?’

Suddenly, I remembered the giant Hulk mutant who had planted a bomb in one of my two hearts and caused me trouble. I was weak at the time, but the opponent was a fairly intelligent Hulk mutant, so I remembered it.

I immediately shook my head.

‘No, it’s unlikely to be that guy. It’s just too random for him to suddenly show up in a place like this.’

Rather, it would be more reasonable to assume that it is closely related to the new Screamer that we encountered on the Star Union warship before arriving here.

‘It’s overspecced for a screamer.’

Besides, I saw it when I checked with insight earlier.

The word ‘mass-produced’ is written in the name of the bastard’s species. There are two things we can learn from this word.

First, that the bastard was created by someone. And… .

‘He’s not just one.’

There may be dozens, or even hundreds, of monsters resembling Screamers somewhere on this planet.

‘… Let’s think about that later.’

We need to get out of here now. If a fire this big is going to burst out on this planet full of nothing but snow and ice, the Gallagons will definitely come flying in.

Or his colleagues.

‘The hunt was a failure today.’

From now on, you can never come near this forest again. The Gallagons will keep wandering around.

You should only attempt to approach the mountain range from the other side once you are sure it is safe to do so.

So we escaped the burning forest, but we faced a new problem.

“It’s dangerous to cross the snowfield.”

A black beacon is rising above the world filled with white. Everyone will be paying attention to this place, but it is too risky to cross the icy plains with no cover at all.

If my scales were white, I wouldn’t know, but since they’re a purple color close to black, they’d be easy to see from a very long distance in situations where there’s no snowstorm like now.

However, if you use ‘organic evolution’ to transform into a ‘smart underdog’ and reduce your size, the situation is not good.

You may end up fighting monsters of unknown identity and Gallagon. In that case, you should save one of the special states that can be transformed through organic evolution, ‘King of Monsters’, as it will be a trump card.

‘I have to go underground.’

There is a very large underground space beneath the ice rink.

The place I made my nest is not completely surrounded by walls, but is open on both sides. I don’t know if the underground space below here is connected to the nest, but it’s safer than walking on snow.

[Zuzuzuz zuuzuz zuuzuz zuuzuz zuuzuzuz (I’m going to break through the floor. Look who’s coming.)]

“okay.”

With the Heavenly Mother in charge, I repeated what I had done yesterday. I warmed my body with heat radiation and broke the ice with my fighting arms and tail.

“I think I should hurry.”

[Zuzuzu (Who’s coming?)]

“Dozens of Gallagons.”

The bad news from above made me speed up. I quickly dug through the ice, using my erosion tentacles and forked jaws.

Thanks to all my effort, I was able to complete the tunnel leading to the underground space. I quickly crawled out and sent the Heavenly Mother down first.

The Gallagons were now close enough for me to see. Fortunately, they were focused on the burned forest. They flew away, carrying the corpses of the dead creatures.

While the enemy was distracted elsewhere, I quickly hid the entrance to my newly-created cave.

After finishing all my work, I crawled down into the ice cave. Fortunately, no one seemed to notice me.

“You didn’t get caught?”

[Zuzuzu (maybe)]

Arriving at the underground space, I hurriedly left the place with my heavenly mother.

‘shit.’

I never thought I’d find myself in such a difficult situation because of a mass-produced monster whose creation I don’t know.

‘I don’t know who it is, but….’

It’s been a long time since I’ve had someone so annoying. It annoys me as much as the morph hunters did when they hindered my evolution.

‘Just try to find it.’

I have never forgiven anyone who has hindered my evolution. In the game, I have used every means at my disposal to retaliate against morph hunters.

The creator of the ugly spider monster. He too will follow the same path as the Morph Hunters.

–

A huge underground cavern with a radius of several hundred meters.

‘It’, which had been enjoying the cozy darkness while curled up, felt some vibration. It was clear that some idiot had dared to act violently on its territory.

This has been happening a lot lately.

Do hordes of ‘small beasts’ he’s never seen before rush at him, and do colorful flying snakes suddenly start scurrying around his territory?

‘It’, which had lived for countless years, did not like to move its body much due to its lazy nature. It only responded by roughly crushing or swallowing the ‘small beasts’ that pounced on it, and left the flying snakes alone.

However, today’s vibration was different from other anomalies. This is because the strong vibration shook ‘it’s’ nest.

‘It’ thought as the insolent bastards threatened even his own home.

If those fools keep trampling on his territory like that, won’t the serpents of the sky start to laugh at him? That ‘it’ has become so weak that it can’t even defend its own home.

‘It’ is lazy, but not stupid. In this harsh world, the only future left for the weak is death.

So we must show our enemies that the king of this underworld is still alive and well.

Today, the ‘thing’ that had decided to move tracked the scent of its enemies with its two long antennae. The tips of its old but still sharp antennae touched two fragrant streams of scent.

After a large shaking, the intruders entered ‘it’s’ territory. The scent of the two beasts reached his antennae.

Now that they have found their prey, all that remains is to find it and punish it. The ‘thing’ that had been filling the hundreds of meters of space unrolled its coiled body.

It’s time for the long-awaited hunting season.