Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 196



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Ep. 195

‘also.’

He’s always kind and his speech is so childish that I sometimes forget, but No. 26 is a sea demon.

The Sea Demon has a strong sense of territory as well as a strong sense of camaraderie. It can’t help but end up like this when an enemy enters the place it considers its home.

‘But I think I’ve gotten a little stronger?’

I don’t know if it was killed by Demon Crash, but it looks like it was killed by restraint. I look up at Heavenly Mother and she nods.

‘Is it because of the green gallagoon I ate yesterday?’

Previously, the guy had grown rapidly in strength after absorbing the psychic power of a dead Sea Demon. It may have grown again thanks to eating the corpse of Green Gallagon, or more precisely, the psychic power contained in Gallagon.

‘Because both Gallagon and Sea Demon are powerful psychic creatures.’

[Zuz …

“Am I great?”

[Yeah]

When I sent out a wave that meant yes, the guy’s body glowed with joy. Seeing the light shining brightly in the dark cave, it seemed like he was quite happy to hear the compliment.

“I can do many things when I recover.”

[Zuz …

I put the snow banshee down in front of PS-111.

[Zuz …

“The head of the creature being held is confirmed to contain a large amount of energy.”

“No, my friend.”

The guy seemed to be lusting after the head of the Glacier Find I was holding. I was about to refuse, saying that this was not good enough, but before I could, No. 26 intervened.

“If a baby wants to grow, he or she has to eat a lot.”

“If I consume and analyze that creature, I can also acquire new abilities.”

“I said no. No.”

“yes.”

When No. 26 scolded him, the boy lowered his head with a sullen expression.

[Zuzu zuzuzu zuzuzu zuzuzu zuzuzuzu (I’ll eat instead and go out to get some new food)]

“Thank you for your consideration.”

After reading PS-111, I started preparing the meal right away.

A transformation mode that increases the chance of the predation effect appearing, Symbol of the Hunt. The cooldown has just ended.

‘I wonder what characteristics will come out this time.’

There are some traits that I’m aiming for, but how will they turn out?

I activated the symbol of hunting, anticipating the new traits.

–

Adhai, the exiled daughter of Odd Grad, woke up feeling an unknown chill.

It wasn’t actually because it was cold.

Because the place she is is one of the ten warmest places on this planet.

Gallagons, which usually occupy the top ranks in any ecosystem, do not nest anywhere. Gallagons instinctively seek out places where psychic power is concentrated.

Psychic power is the power to distort reality and transcend the laws of physics. The places where this power is concentrated are often abnormal.

If it’s a cold place, it’s warm; if it’s a hot place, it’s cool. That’s the dragon’s nest.

This cave was no different. Warm geothermal energy rose from the floor, and there was even a spring of fresh water nearby.

That’s not all. There were even vines growing on the cave walls that bore sweet fruit. The fruit was full of sweet juice and was a favorite treat for the younger members of the tribe.

Even though it was an unusually comfortable place, she felt uncomfortable because she knew where she was.

This is the place that the hatchlings reside, the place that their kind cherish the most.

It was clear how they viewed her. They knew that her scales were tinted with the color of vines, but they refused to acknowledge it.

To them, she will always be just a weak person with a disability.

If they were her ‘real family’, she wouldn’t have done this. They recognized her as a hunter.

She thought of them.

They took care of her, who was abandoned for being weak and small, and raised her to be a hunter.

He is an ugly but kind adult and friend.

A small adult who is kind but sometimes scary.

A weak child brought by an adult.

And the adult she liked. Strangely enough, he changed his appearance from time to time.

The little pink adult said that was called growing, but it looked very different to her. Her ‘former’ compatriots didn’t grow that way. She had never seen them grow bigger than they were, or shrink back down.

Still, she liked the older man. No matter how he changed, he was still the older man.

Of course, her recent appearance of being smaller wasn’t to her taste.

But now I wanted to see that ugly side too.

She slowly raised her body. And she concentrated her ‘strength’ like a little adult would do.

The little adult used her powers very skillfully. She could often do things that no other creature she had ever seen, not even the big adult, could do.

She spread her power wide and thin, so thin that no one other than herself could even perceive it.

The power that had turned into a thin thread spread out beyond the cave and into the outside. Her legs trembled as the power spread beyond her limit, but she somehow held on.

They see her as weak and incompetent.

It’s true that she’s weak, but she’s not incompetent. So she decided to use their arrogance to her advantage.

If I am weak, I have to find a way to win by waiting for my opponent to let their guard down. This is the method that older people often use when fighting their enemies.

With such a wide spread of power, she could see that the Watchers were asleep.

Now that she had the information she wanted, it was time to take action. She carefully stepped out of the cave.

Outside, her vine-colored kin were nodding and sulking, similar to hers.

As I felt when I first arrived, my fellow tribesmen were not in good condition. Most of them looked emaciated, and the hatchlings were very thin because they were not eating properly.

But she has no reason or time to care about that. She has to run away quickly while the guards are still distracted.

“Where are you going?”

Just as I was about to spread my wings to fly, a wave of thought flew in.

A beautiful creature resembling a white jewel or eye appeared in the forest in front of the cave.

The opponent, with its impressive black spots on pure white scales, was so beautiful that even Adhai could not help but admire it.

Adhai was born with a mutation, but her outstanding beauty was probably due in no small part to her mother’s influence.

But the true power of this female is not her beauty.

She is so strong that she not only rebels on this planet ruled by Odd Grad, but also builds a new group.

In fact, there are several other white people in this group besides her, but Ham Ort still maintains his position as leader.

When I saw that, her power definitely surpassed that of her white compatriots. It was probably somewhere in between white and black.

In other words, this is a being that he absolutely does not want to meet at this moment. Adhai became extremely nervous upon seeing the pure white female.

“Interesting” “How to use this”

Ham Ort tapped the thread of power that Adhai had spread with his foreleg. Then, the wide net that had spread out disappeared in an instant. It must have been released in an instant, taking away her control.

She was frightened by her opponent’s overwhelming power, but she did not back down. Ham Ort nodded when he saw that.

“Meaningless Resistance” “Meaningless” “Power Difference” “Don’t You Know?”

“acquaintance”

“Then surrender.”

“refusal!”

As the purple fire flickered in Ham Ort’s eyes, Adhai felt her body tremble. An overwhelming sense of intimidation came over her, just as when she had faced Odd Grad.

But she didn’t give up. The elders she looked up to never gave up, no matter how difficult the situation was.

Adhai braced her four legs and glared at Ham Ort. The tentacles attached to her mouth were tense, ready to shoot purple lightning at any moment.

How much time has passed?

The one who stepped back out of the two was surprisingly Ham Ort. She took a step back and sent out a short thought wave.

“The Daughter of the Star” “Grace” “I Like It”

The slightly crescent-shaped appearance of the opponent seemed to be mocking or admiring. However, that appearance was only fleeting, and she immediately raised her front paw and crushed Adhai.

“The Daughter of the Star” “Weak” “Ham Ort” “Strong Daughter” “Necessary”

Adhai and Ham Ort are more than ten times different in size alone. There is a huge gap in strength that is incomparable.

Even though he knew that, Adhai did not give up. He scratched at it with his claws and even shot purple lightning.

Everything was no use, but she continued to resist.

No matter how comfortable it was inside, I didn’t want to go back in. If I did what a strong opponent told me to do, it would be no different from when I was kicked out of my previous group.

While he was struggling like that, Ham Ort brought up something completely unexpected.

“Ham Ort” “Prepared” “Weak Daughter” “The Power to Make You Strong”

“Strength?” “Understand?” “Impossible!”

“Resistance” “I’ll explain when I close it”

As soon as he heard those words, Adhai stopped moving. Now that I think about it, Ham Ort could have broken at least her wing bones, but he didn’t.

It must be because they want something from that side.

One day, an elder said, when fighting a strong enemy, use everything at your disposal, even if it is the enemy’s strength.

“Description” “Request”

“Good” “Go into the nest” “Explain”

We still don’t know what Ham Ort wants or what he’s thinking.

For now, we need to figure that part out first.

–

‘I think this will be okay.’

At night, when everyone was asleep, I was tuning up the new nest. Based on the energy I gained during the day, this old underground cave had long since become the nest of Aimorph.

The floor was covered in swamp, which helped Aimov recover, and the ceiling and walls were covered in black mucus.

The heat rising from the nest is sucked up by the ‘smog towers’ and released underground rather than above ground, to prevent the steam from escaping through the cave entrance.

Of course, over time the land around here will completely dry up, but I don’t plan on staying that long so it doesn’t matter.

‘The symbiote is working well too.’

Number 26, who was seriously injured, had a broken beak and the body of the Heavenly Mother had the ‘symbiote spores’ I had planted attached to it. Healing fluid and energy are continuously being supplied through the spores connected to the nest, so by tomorrow morning, the wounds will be greatly improved.

By the way, it didn’t work on PS-111. It was a mutant Screamer, a hybrid of machine and organism, so it couldn’t be affected by the symbiote effect.

‘It’s a machine, so it has to take care of its body the most.’

Should we take comfort in the fact that we have the most efficient means of recovery among all of us?

I looked at PS-111, which had entered a dormant state. Traces of the food it had eaten during the day were floating next to it as it lay face down in the warm swamp.

It was the skull of a Glacier Fiend, a bone half-melted into a nest.

‘Ha, looking at that makes me feel annoyed again.’

The evolution mode of the ‘Complete Organism’, ‘Hunting Symbol’, greatly increases the probability of acquiring genetic essence.

The success rate of predation for Aimorphs is low. Usually, you have to catch and eat dozens of them to get the desired genetic essence.

However, if you have a symbol of hunting, you can get the predation effect by eating just one animal. The effect that increases the chance of predation also applies to genetic samples and creatures that I did not kill.

However, this case has the disadvantage of being obtained as an ‘imperfect trait’ rather than a normal state. However, imperfect traits can be used as materials for the transcendence system, and if the same trait is obtained twice, it can be restored to a perfect trait, so it is not completely useless.

Because of this, I used to use hunting symbols whenever I ate prey of strategic importance.

The problem is that it increases the probability of predation, not making it 100%.

That ugly stag beetle-like skeleton gave me no reward.

‘I knew it wasn’t necessarily a symbol of hunting…’

It’s a shame that the predation effect doesn’t work only on Glacier Finds.

Since no message appeared even after eating everything, I thought I had missed something.

After licking every drop of blood that fell to the floor, I realized that the predator effect itself had not been activated.

‘Ugh.’

One of the traits you can get from Glacier Fiends is the ability to create narcotic substances. That trait, combined with my ‘Smog Top’ trait, makes for a very scary trait.

It’s a shame that it didn’t have a predation effect so it could have been used as a fusion material.

‘… Tsk, there’s nothing we can do about something that has already failed.’

I checked the textbox to get the attention of the glacier finder.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get any traits from him, but I was able to gain the predator effect from other prey, the snow banshee and the shark bear.

The trait derived from the Snow Banshee’s genetic essence is ‘Stealth Movement’. It is a special defense series trait that drastically reduces the sound and traces made when moving.

In fact, it is closer to being inferior to the ‘Unknown Creature’s Fur’, which is a special perk of the ‘Clever Underdog’ mode, but it is not without its advantages.

‘Because it greatly reduces body weight as a side effect.’

When applying the stealth maneuver, the bone structure is replaced with a synthetic material that is very strong but light in weight. When applying the trait during the day, I actually felt a tickling sensation in the bones of my entire body like during puberty.

Anyway, if you have this trait, it will be of great help when you avoid enemy pursuit or hide even after disarming the clever weakling. I used stealth maneuvers a lot when luring enemies or setting traps during the game.

‘Then next….’

From the Sharkbear I didn’t kill, I got the ‘Enhanced Endocrine Gland’ trait as an incomplete trait. If I fuse this with the ‘Muscle Augmentation’ trait from the internal organ series, I can get the trait called ‘Berserk Synapse’.

Berserk Synapse is a fusion trait that secretes special chemicals that greatly enhance your physical abilities. With this trait, you become much faster, stronger, and have more vitality than before.

Thanks to this, it was evaluated as a trait with high general usability, although it is not particularly special in the game.

‘It’s one of the qualities I absolutely need right now.’

Berserk Synapse helps you use the energy stored in your body more efficiently. If you have this trait alone, you can lower the energy consumption of the Hunting Symbol or ‘God’s Whip’.

‘Let’s look for Shark Bear later.’

To use an imperfect trait as a fusion material, you need two copies of the same trait. To fuse Berserker Synapse, you need to obtain the material, Reinforced Endocrine Gland, once more.

With that I unlocked the text box.

Since I had finished tuning up the nest, I quietly immersed myself in the swamp. In the warmth that enveloped my body, I thought about the things I had to do next.

‘It’s a long-term war from now on.’

The experiments on the newly acquired traits are over, and a new nest has been secured. The babies are recovering quickly, so it’s time to start preparing to bring Adhai.

The White Gallagon that brought him here seems pretty smart, so this won’t be an easy fight.

‘You have to be as prepared as possible.’

In order to fully display good strategies and outstanding skills, you need to have a good foundation. And for Aimov, that foundation is none other than his characteristics.

You should have as many different types of traits as possible so that you can actively deal with any enemy you encounter.

‘If there’s Glacier Finds, Ice Horrors, and Gallagons, there’ll be others.’

I have a pretty good idea of ​​what creatures live around the dragon’s nest.

I thought about what to aim for before falling asleep.