Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 185



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Ep. 184

As I crawled out of the basement, white flakes began to fall from the dark sky. The once dormant snowstorm had returned.

The guy and I glared at each other through the falling snow.

“Why? I’ve grown up like you, so you’re not satisfied?”

The enemy player was laughing at me with a relaxed expression. Even in the fluttering snow, the golden figure was shining brightly and firmly protecting the summoner.

I didn’t react to the bastard’s laughter and just thought back to the fight we had just had.

‘That mysterious particle.’

At least it’s certain that it wasn’t made of psychic powers, because if it were, the reflective gloves would have reflected it at least a little.

‘Besides, size doesn’t matter.’

The golden figure is only about 5 to 6 meters tall at most, but that’s a trick. Just now, when the golden figure swung its sword-like arm, it grew in length.

No, to be exact, as he swung his arm, the arrangement of the gold particles that made up his arm changed, transforming into a thin, long sword shape.

‘It looks like a sword, but it’s actually under the bastard’s control.’

In other words, that golden figure is a summon that can freely change its body. There is no such concept of a summon in the game.

‘It’s either a new technology or….’

It could be an effect of the special privilege he possesses. Just like the ‘Plunderer’s Irregular Polyhedron’ I obtained by killing Muriel, he also killed someone and stole the special privilege.

‘At least two, or more.’

I tried using Insight on the enemy player to see if I could get anything out of it, but nothing came out. Just like when I saw Muriel, it said that it contained information that could not be confirmed.

The only information available was the enemy player’s name.

‘Jason.’

The fact that her real name was not revealed was also the same as Muriel’s.

Aside from what I saw with my insight, the name of the bastard didn’t show up properly even with the predator sense that was activated underground. Not only that, but it was also seen here and there in fragments amidst all the noise.

‘Is it because the player is the opponent?’

I don’t know why it came out this way, but I’ll have to think about that later.

After gathering my thoughts in a short time, I started moving again.

Blunt claws on the tail and lower body, and spikes that developed when it transformed into a bone beast, kicked the snow and ice hard.

My body, which was 100 meters long, shot forward like a storm. In an instant, I approached the cult player, or rather, Jason, and struck him down with my combat arm.

“joy.”

A golden figure blocks my attack with a snort. The bone spikes on my arms snapped as they made contact with the bastard’s shield.

“I told you it’s useless?”

Jason, who had been raising his left arm just like the figure, moved his right arm. The golden figure tried to attack me again, matching the summoner’s movements.

The golden sword cut through my skull and passed through. A fierce spark flew as my head met the creature’s sword.

As expected of the head shell, which boasts the best defense in my body along with the pincers at the end of the tail, it was not easily cut off. However, it was impossible to prevent a scar several tens of centimeters deep from being created.

“Let’s see how long we can hold out….”

While he was repositioning himself, I pulled out all six of the erosion tentacles from his back. They emerged like snakes hiding in the jar, entangling the golden shape.

I pulled the figure with my erosion tentacles, using my strength in that state. Jason, who was connected to the figure, also staggered for a moment.

I flew towards the hesitating creature, my tail sweeping the snow covering the ground. The pincers at the end of my tail opened wide.

Due to the Bone Beast, the pincers are roughly 10m in size. If you are caught by the pincers that are as hard as the Ice Horror’s shell, you will not be able to escape even with the Dragon Slayer set.

“Did you think so?”

But Jason was still relaxed. The moment he opened his mouth, the golden shape disintegrated into particles and escaped between my tentacles.

The form that reconstructed itself in the blink of an eye quickly formed a shield to block my pincers. The shield-shaped left arm was a much darker golden color than the rest of its body.

“It’s easy.”

And then a golden figure countered, like a fencer extending his sword. I raised my head to dodge the attack aimed at the accessory organ under my chin.

But the bastard’s attacks weren’t over yet. Jason, who had been standing still until now, kicked the ground and jumped into the air.

The shield that covered him disappeared, my tail brushed past his feet, and he flew up, stepping on the snow in the air like stairs, and lifted my chest.

Jason is a lot smaller than me, so I don’t have to worry too much, but the problem is the summon hanging from his back.

Because a huge golden blade reconstructed from behind the floating thing flew in to split my body apart.

‘this!’

It was a difficult situation to dodge to the side. I quickly opened the gliding membrane attached to my combat arm.

The original gliding membrane was designed for gliding and was not suitable for flying over the ground.

However, as my body grew larger, the gliding membranes on each of my six arms also grew larger. With six wings, each of which is easily several dozen meters long, it wouldn’t be impossible to briefly float my body.

I spread my membrane and swung my arms wildly. A strong wind blew beneath me and my body was lifted upward.

“Hey!”

Jason blinks as the wind blows towards him. The sword that was about to cut my abdomen suddenly scatters into golden particles.

“The remaining tricks!”

With his scream, the sword that had lost its physical power instantly returned to its original state and made a shallow cut at my exoskeleton. Meanwhile, I was floating in the air and fell backwards, swinging my tail forward as if sweeping a broom.

I thought he would create a shield out of a golden shape like before, but this time he did something different. He opened his left hand wide and an invisible energy field appeared and pushed my tail away.

It was a psychic power technique called ‘Reflection’ that reflected the opponent’s attacks.

A huge recoil came to my body as the energy contained in the tail was reflected, but I used the recoil to my advantage. My large body was pushed back a long way by the flow of reflected energy.

A giant spear made of golden particles flew towards me as I landed on the snowfield. I repelled the enemy’s persistent attacks targeting my auxiliary organs with my erosion tentacles.

The spear, whose orbit was distorted by the tentacles, turned into small grains of light and then returned to its owner’s body.

“You little punk. What can you do but run away?”

“… … .”

“Why are you keeping your mouth shut? You, the 5th ranked person? Huh?”

Jason looked at me and grinned, but I didn’t answer.

Because there was something more important than that.

‘What was that just now?’

In a matter of minutes, I gained two pieces of extremely important information.

‘When the bastard blinked, he lost his identity.’

Jason blinked for a split second as the wind blew as I flew into the air. In that split second, the golden shape disintegrated into particles.

It was literally a blink of an eye, but I didn’t miss it.

‘That figure is affected by his senses.’

In particular, vision seems to play a significant role in composing the form. Perhaps even shooting a sword or throwing a spear would be ineffective if it were out of sight.

‘And there is a cooldown time for changing shapes.’

After blinking, the reconstructed golden figure tried to cut me with its sword again, but failed. Immediately afterwards, my tail tried to swat at it, but it transformed into a shield and did not block it.

‘Unlike the first time, I blocked it with reflection.’

This part is still unclear. It is possible that he set a trap, or that he did it without thinking.

‘Let’s try it.’

I spread the film wide and swept the floor vigorously. The ground in front of me cracked open, and shards of ice and newly accumulated snow scattered into the air, obscuring my view.

And then I just turned around and started running in the other direction.

“Are you trying to run away from here without any cover?”

Running away? Of course not.

Although the difference in elevation on the ice plains is severe because of me, there is no place where I can hide. Furthermore, unlike my pitch-black body, it is covered only with pure white snow, so I cannot hide.

‘It doesn’t matter though.’

What I’m going to do from now on is to make it look like I’m ‘trying to hide my body’.

–

‘As expected from a Morphbak kid. He figures it out quickly.’

Jason clicked his tongue briefly in the white snow that was falling. It had been so long since they had fought that the bastard had already figured out the weakness of the special ability he had used.

The golden shape connected to his spine is actually a swarm of tiny particle-shaped parasitic creatures.

Because the creatures are so small and each creature is so closely connected, the entire colony appears to form a single entity.

Normally, it is stored inside Jason’s body, but whenever the privilege is activated, it comes out connected to the spinal cord as it is now, forming a golden shape.

In other words, Jason is a living nest and brain of parasitic creatures that resemble golden particles, and as such, his cognitive abilities are greatly affected.

What he cannot see, parasites cannot see, and what he does not know, parasites do not know.

‘To catch that in such a short time. I told you, he’s crazy.’

Strictly speaking, it could be considered a weakness, but Jason wasn’t too worried. He is a powerful psychic power user who holds the position of priest in the cult empire. He has plenty of means to enhance his cognitive abilities and senses.

Jason stood there and cast psychic spells that heightened his senses. Information about where the thing had moved began to flood into his head.

The aura of the guy moving away quickly, the thought waves flying somewhere like thin threads. Jason checked everything without missing even the smallest piece of information.

‘Ideological faction. Are you trying to call a slave?’

We already know that he is enslaving Wolf with parasites. We saw it with the eyes of the Temple Guardians.

‘Come to think of it, that griffon wolf, is he a player?’

Given the circumstances, it was highly likely that it was Wolf Player, as Muriel had left a message before she died.

‘Player.’

If it’s a man, he’s useless except for special privileges, so kill him right away, and if it’s a woman…

‘It’s been a while, Wolf Slave.’

Jason, who had decided to play with it for a bit and then kill it, leisurely followed the traces left by the morphbag.

The traces he left behind were almost gone in the heavy snowfall, but it didn’t hinder him at all. Psychic powers are barely dampened by snow.

He chased after the bastard with his ‘memory site’ activated, which reads the memories contained in objects.

He can’t escape.

After about five minutes, Jason stopped on a pile of empty snow.

‘Ha, what did I do?’

Reading the last remaining memory, the bastard was diligently digging the snow where he was standing.

It wasn’t some child’s play, and he ran away and then hid himself under the snow. Jason couldn’t help but laugh at the sight of the bastard’s vicious appearance.

‘Just in case.’

He activated a defensive psychic power technique called Reflection, then raised his arm high into the sky. Then, the golden-shaped sword attached to his back expanded to several dozen meters in size.

‘Is this good enough?’

Jason, whose form had grown to a size that was easily more than a third of the creature’s body, swung his arm wildly toward the snowdrift. His golden sword, now large enough to be seen from the vast mountain range in the distance, also plunged into the snow.

There was a loud noise and several pieces of debris flew into the air.

Through his heightened senses, he could feel that among the fragments were pieces of flesh from the creature’s body.

Looking at the pieces that had fallen to the ground, the part he had just destroyed appeared to be the thing’s arm. Huge finger joints, easily over 5 meters long, were strewn across the snow.

‘huh?’

Jason was startled to see that the debris was larger than he had expected. Even if the thing was about 100 meters long, its fingers weren’t that big.

‘What’s that big… Wait a minute?’

Jason, feeling something was wrong, quickly rolled his feet to raise himself up. At that moment, something huge popped out from under the snowdrift where he was standing.

“What the heck?!”

For a moment, Jason thought two small mountains had grown beneath his feet. What looked like a few dozen meters he could easily jump over was surprisingly a mouth.

The jaws that had been wide open on both sides under his eyes until now began to close to swallow him, like a bear trap covered with leaves.

I couldn’t get the timing right to activate my shield. I was already casting Reflection, but it was impossible to block the jaws of enormous size coming from all sides.

In the end, the only way was to pull back. He kicked the air and quickly fell backwards.

Jason barely managed to escape the jaws that were closing in like a wall trap in an ancient tomb. However, he did not expect the huge mouth that could easily pass tens of meters, so he could not escape without a single wound. Just before he escaped, one of his legs was scratched by the teeth embedded in the mouth.

“Ugh!”

The horse was scratched, but each of the teeth was taller than him. Since those huge teeth had passed through his leg, it would be more correct to say that his leg was torn rather than scratched.

“Mr. Nimi, what the hell!”

The Dragon Slayer set he was wearing helped his wounds heal quickly, but it didn’t take away the pain. However, it had been a long time since he had felt pain this intense, so Jason let out a crude curse.

The owner of the mouth in front of him slowly began to raise his body as if responding to the swearing.

“You fucking piece of shit… Huh, huh huh?”

For a moment I thought a solar eclipse was hitting this planet, but it wasn’t.

It was not the shadow of the moon, but a shadow created by some creature.

The owner of the shadow covering the snowy plain was someone he knew well.

The creature that Jason hates the most… .

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A monster he didn’t want to face even in his nightmares.

An Aimorph, hundreds of meters tall, roared before him.