Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 194



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Ep. 193

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The King of the Red Tree opened one of his six eyes.

Because his roots detected the intrusion of some creature.

It’s small in size but it’s quite heavy, so I wonder if it’s something with wings that’s caught there.

Winged ones. An arrogant race of people who stir up trouble here and there under the orders of the ‘Black Old King’.

But the King of the Red Tree liked them, because they tasted very good.

He couldn’t help but drool as he thought about the juicy flavor. A drop of saliva ran down his long chin, causing the surrounding snails to tremble.

The king knows well what effect his body secretions have on other creatures.

The creatures that came to kill the king also became his slaves as soon as they consumed the red substance. Even if the king ate their own heads, they only wanted the red substance.

He used this ability to repeatedly prey on all living creatures living in a certain spot and move. After hundreds of winters, his power has grown to the point where even the ‘Black Old King’ is on guard.

One day, he will eat up that insolent king. He vowed so and waited for a new slave to approach.

But as time passed, the unidentified intruder did not appear before him.

Instead, what came to him was an unpleasant sensation. It was pain and loss. It was a sensation that he had only felt when he was young and weak, and it pricked him.

Someone is destroying his treasure trove.

When the king realized this, he became angry.

Who dares to oppose the king of this red forest?

The first thing that came to mind was the ‘Black Old King’. He had come to punish him for eating his messenger, dragging his heavy buttocks.

But the king soon denied it. The ‘black old king’ he saw was a very large being. If that being came down here, he could never not know.

Other candidates came to mind, including underground snakes, beasts of the sky, and monsters living on mountain peaks, but none of them fit the bill.

It seems that the intruder causing trouble in his territory is someone who has been here for only a short time.

No. Now it was good to know the bastard’s true identity.

The intruder who ruined the food he worked so hard to gather deserves to die.

The King of the Red Tree sent a signal to the roots buried underground to capture the intruder and bring him here.

Then, several of the nearby worms tore open, releasing the creatures inside.

They were all different in appearance and race, but they had one thing in common: they were covered in red moss. They were all his faithful slaves.

“Kuaaaaaaah!”

“Grrrrr!”

“Keep on! Keep on!”

The slaves, under the king’s command, ran out to capture the target.

If you wait patiently, the slaves will come and capture the wicked intruder. It always has.

But this time too, reality turned out differently from what he expected.

One by one, the slaves who had run out to hunt prey began to lose their senses.

The noise that had been heard just a moment ago was now completely gone. An ominous silence filled the entire forest.

And the pain in my roots that I’ve been feeling since a while ago is getting worse.

At first it felt like being pricked by a thorn, but now it was as painful as being eaten by a swarm of bugs.

It was no longer a problem confined to the food pantry. His roots spread over a wide area and were being attacked simultaneously.

Eventually, the king, unable to bear the pain, opened all six of his eyes.

The king knows well what to do in such a case. He concentrates his senses on his roots and then separates each part where he feels pain.

It was quite painful every time I cut off the root, but it was much better than the pain of being eaten alive by a swarm of bugs.

As he cleared away his widely spread roots, his territory was quickly reduced.

It was obvious that it would take a long time to recover the territory. The king sent more slaves to capture the bastard.

Just as he was about to send a signal, something caught his eye.

He thought it was light seeping through the branches. Some of the branches that were intertwined and blocking the light had broken off and let in some light.

But it wasn’t. Its true identity was a bubble of light shining in countless colors. Bubbles of light and color wriggled like living creatures.

He couldn’t tell where it came from or who created it. It was just a dizzying wave of foam washing over him.

His heart began to beat rapidly as he saw the bubbles approaching.

Alarm, and fear. These were the emotions that had been dormant in my memory.

The king screamed without realizing it. He ordered his slaves to get rid of those bubbles right away.

Just a moment ago, the slaves would have jumped out to protect him, but not now. Even as he screamed, the gochis around him did not move at all.

As if his orders were not being conveyed.

Before he knew it, the bubbles had reached right in front of him. He quickly tried to pull his lower body out of the ground, but it was too late.

Bubbles began to crawl and cling to his body. His hard shell began to break as they touched him.

He doesn’t enjoy hunting his own prey, but that doesn’t mean he’s weak. His carapace is very tough, and his wings are strong enough to support his heavy weight.

But everything was useless in the face of bubbles.

The bubbles wrapped around him like a snake squeezing its prey. He remembered the time when he was weak and had been attacked by the snakes of the underworld. He writhed in protest as the most nightmarish moment came to mind.

But reality didn’t change at all, just like in his memory, when he was helplessly hit. The bubbles clung to him even more strongly, as if mocking his resistance.

He slowly suffocated in a bubble of infinite color and light.

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‘…I didn’t expect this.’

In front of me now is the master of the Red Forest, Glacier Fiend. The body of the fallen creature, emerging from the earth, was covered in bubbles of various colors.

On this frozen planet, a man who appears to have drowned is barely holding on to his life.

‘I thought only psychic breath was powerful.’

The three objects that the ‘Color of the Abyss’ applies to are the monster’s tentacles, the superpower reflective gloves, and the gaze of terror.

In the case of the monster’s tentacles, the strengthening effect was applied to the psychic breath shot by the tentacles, not the tentacles themselves.

The enhanced psychic breath has been changed from shooting heat rays to firing spheres.

When the sphere touches a target, it creates a bubble of color that causes a destructive effect. This bubble does not disappear when the target disappears, but instead rushes towards a new target nearby.

Like locusts that devour all the grain, they disappeared when there was nothing left to eat. In their place, only sticky bubbles remained.

In this way, I roughly verified the effectiveness of Psychic Breath by raiding its food storage. While I was at it, I decided to try out other characteristics as well.

Next I tried the super reflective gloves, but unfortunately I didn’t find any special effects. I guess I’ll have to get hit with a super power attack to see for sure.

The last remaining fear-monger. It has the ability to cause terrifying hallucinations in a single sentient being, driving them mad.

A little while ago, I decided to use the Fear Watcher on them while running away from their slaves. Honestly, I didn’t have high hopes for this trait since it only works on sentient beings. I just used it thinking that it would be lucky if they could at least tie up their feet.

But the results far exceeded my expectations.

‘It’s a different dimension.’

As I activated the fear gaze, all the strength left my body and a bubble of green and purple color formed.

The bubble, emitting a strange light, flew leisurely and landed on the head of Winterwalker, who was chasing me. As soon as it landed, the bubble swelled up and swallowed the bastard’s head whole.

The guy who had the bubble wrap turned inside out went crazy and collapsed after not being able to hold out for long.

The really scary thing happened next. As the target fell, the pile of bubbles exploded.

As it exploded, the bubbles clung to other nearby slaves, wrapping themselves around their heads just as they had with Winterwalker.

Physical strength and contagiousness. The buff received by the fear gazer is transmitted to the surrounding area through a medium called bubble.

The range has been shortened, but the power has been greatly increased. Also, the target range has been changed from being limited to intelligent beings to being applicable to multiple creatures.

After clearing out the slaves that had chased me, I immediately tested it on the Glacier Find. If it worked on him, future hunts would be incomparably easier.

I ran through the forest, activating the fear gaze one after another. A multitude of bubbles flew through the trees and towards the thing.

‘This is an advantage.’

This is because you can fire multiple times instead of the distance. It may not be so effective against fast-moving enemies, but it is very effective against enemies that are fixed to a specific point like now.

In the end, Glacier Find, who had been struck by the gaze of fear without even knowing English, fell before a being much weaker than himself.

‘I didn’t know it would be this easy to catch.’

Glacier Fiends are a much more difficult opponent than the Ice Horrors that can be pushed through with force. Without the Abyssal Colors, the slaves would not have been dealt with as easily as they are now.

They are addicted to drugs, but they still have their original abilities intact. In fact, they are more dangerous because they ignore death and cannot feel pain.

Moreover, the Red Forest is constantly visited by creatures that want to become slaves, so no matter how many you kill, there is no end to it.

However, that does not mean that the main body is weak.

It has a hard shell that is immune to all types of attacks, and wings that allow it to move quickly. If we only look at close combat, it is on par with the White Gallagon.

The only drawback is that it is slow on land, but since it has wings, it is hard to see that as a disadvantage.

He easily took down such a dangerous predator without a single injury.

‘Let’s kill him first and then think about it.’

Glacier Find was not dead yet, only unconscious. I approached him.

The head, which resembled a stag beetle, was covered in colorful bubbles. All six eyes were rolled back, and bloody foam continued to flow from the mouth.

I swung the pincer on my tail and struck the thing’s neck. With a loud noise, the carapace covering its neck cracked.

After striking it a few more times and breaking its shell, I raised my tail high again to completely crush its neck.

‘This is the end… Ugh?!’

“Pain relief activated!”

I felt a pain at the tip of my tail that was so intense I had never felt it before. Before I knew it, my legs gave out and I collapsed on the dirt floor.

‘Hot, hot!’

A burning pain. Suddenly, memories from my childhood came to mind.

When I was young, I was badly burned in a car accident. Because of that, I spent most of my childhood in the hospital.

The terrible burning pain I felt back then is now reappearing in my body.

‘I need to come to my senses!’

“Pain relief activated!”

Translucent text boxes started popping up in front of me as if something was broken.

I gritted my teeth and checked to see if my body was on fire.

There was no sign of a blazing fire anywhere on my body. Even as my mind began to become confused, I concentrated all my strength on my auxiliary organs.

The four accessory organs under my jaw went out to find the cause of my pain to save me. Then I found something at the end of my tail.

The surface of the tongs was covered in foam of various colors.

‘Color!’

I immediately opened my jaws wide and bit into the middle of the tail. Pieces of flesh were torn off, but it didn’t hurt at all.

The burning pain flowing from the area where the foam was applied was so overwhelming that I couldn’t feel any sensation in other areas.

I checked the foam covering the pincers while nibbling the tail.

The bubble was slowly but steadily growing in size. What had started out as a small splash had now engulfed the entire tongs.

‘Ugh…!’

“Pain relief activated!”

The pain was so intense that my jaw lost its strength. I couldn’t bite any longer, so I bit my lip and used my fighting arms and legs to pull the tail.

Then a horrible sound came from the tail. Muscles were torn and bones were broken. The carapace and synthetic scales were long ago destroyed.

The bubbles have already swallowed all of the tongs. The pile of bubbles, emitting a strange glow, is trying to eat up even my tail.

My mind was already at its limit with extreme pain.

‘please!’

Finally, he poured all his strength into his fighting arm. As a result, he was barely able to tear off the tail.

Two-thirds of the tail fell to the ground. The bubbles attached to the fallen tail instantly lost their characteristic luster.

As soon as the cause was removed, the burning pain that had been weighing on my brain disappeared as if it were a lie. Instead, pain arose from the severed area, but I didn’t have the strength to feel the pain.

As I lay there half-conscious, a new text box appeared before me.

｢Some of the evolution conditions from ‘semi-adult’ to ‘adult’ have been met.

APEX 2/30 (Not achieved)

With the death of Glacier Find, the light from the bubble attached to him disappeared.

The bastard was dead and the bubbles were different than before, but I couldn’t feel at ease.

The bubble created by Psychic Breath did not stop until the target disappeared. It is not yet known whether the bubble would truly lose its effectiveness if the circumstances were different.

‘… … .’

Since nothing would change just by looking at it, I reached out with one finger and poked the bubble.

When the pain started, I tried to cut off my finger right away, but I waited and felt no pain.

‘The effect is lost when you die.’

It seems that the bubbles created by the fear gaze act on the mind of the creature differently from psychic breath.

‘It may be the thing that brings the most horrible pain to the target.’

As soon as the foam touched me, I felt a burning pain. Glacier Find and the slaves who were hit by the foam must have had a similar experience.

‘…I have to write this carefully.’

I know now from my own experience.

The newfound abyssal color was literally a double-edged sword.