Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 216



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Ep. 215

“Just now” “What?”

[Zuzu zuzuzuzuzu (I don’t know either)]

Adhai, who was riding on my back, sticks his head out and asks.

As I approached the nest, something suddenly jumped out. Without even looking to see if there were any enemies left, I slapped it with my wing arm. Thanks to this, the opponent’s entire body was destroyed and he died.

Upon examining the body, it was discovered that the dead subject was human.

‘Why are people here?’

He was wearing a specially made reinforced suit. It was gear that focused more on life-sustaining functions such as cold protection and temperature control than combat power.

Judging from the uniform alone, he looked like a researcher or explorer rather than a combatant, but this is also questionable. He couldn’t have come here alone, so there must have been a group or organization that brought him here.

‘This planet is not even on the navigation route.’

Jason was able to find this planet thanks to the planet’s location that he had been told by his fellow players. He said that this planet’s location was not recorded on the Cult Empire’s routes. I was also able to come here thanks to Adhai’s detailed instructions, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to come here easily.

In a remote corner of the universe where few people know about, an unidentified group of humans has already appeared, following the Screamers of the Star Union.

‘Are they here to get me too?’

Jason said that no other players would come here besides him, because he thought he could beat me on his own.

However, this is just his own thought, and it is unclear what his colleagues think exactly. It is possible that Jason has taken out insurance against failure.

If you’re unlucky, you may have to fight new players as well as Gallagon.

‘Let’s check.’

I put the tattered corpse into my mouth. I chewed the tasteless meat and activated the ‘Human-faced Host’ trait.

The genetic information contained in the corpse was transmitted to the organization that manages the human-faced insects. The organization that received the new information destroyed one of the five genetic information that it had previously stored. In the nest on its back, the existing one melted and disappeared in an instant, and a new human-faced insect was born.

‘Come out.’

The human-faced insect that received my command tore open the membrane of its tumor-like nest and came out. The insect, which had the same face as the corpse it had just eaten, looked around as if it did not understand its situation.

“■?!”

Then, the guy who realized he had turned into a bug tried to go crazy. I shot the brain waves that control the human-faced bug and forcibly calmed him down.

“I have a question. Answer me.”

As a human voice flowed out of my mouth, the fly monster with a human head began to tremble.

“Who are you and where do you belong?”

“■■ ■son… I, I, I am Colin Russell.”

A fly monster that was able to speak human language thanks to my permission. Under my control, the creature stuttered at first but gradually became stable.

“I serve Sihyeon Yujin.”

“Sihyeon Eugene?”

“Yes. He came here to accomplish a great task.”

What he said was something I never expected.

‘Sihyeon Eugene?’

It’s been a long time since I heard that name. The first formidable enemy I’ve encountered since coming to this world.

‘She might be dead?’

Two of my main traits were obtained by eating her: ‘Meticulous Organ’ and ‘Monster Tentacles’.

Now, thanks to the jaws of the harvester, you can just eat the head, but before, it wasn’t like that. In order to get the genetic essence from an opponent, you had to eat the whole thing, leaving no flesh behind.

‘She’s definitely dead. So either she’s a clone or someone impersonating her.’

When Sihyeon met Eugene, she was disguised as a member of the Spacedog Cartel. As the name suggests, her real identity is a member of the Eugene family, one of Megacorp’s Noble Capitals. It is not very likely that they stole the core technology of the enemy force, Star Union, to create clones.

‘Besides, cloned humans have many side effects.’

The clones of Star Union are mentally incomplete. They are beings who only care about their own identity and are not subject to anyone’s control. In fact, in the game, the clones appear as the main enemies of Star Union.

Would Noble Capital, with its sky-high ego, really invest in such an uncertain element? The chances of that happening are slim.

‘Then what’s left is….’

“She died a few months ago, by my side.”

“No, that can’t be. Since the day you swore to accomplish your great undertaking, you haven’t had a single day off.”

“Great undertaking?”

“To reclaim the name Eugene. To punish the traitor who usurped the position of head of the family. That is the destiny of Sihyeon Eugene.”

Now that I hear it, I can guess. One of the players Jason mentioned was the head of the Eugene family.

‘Did you say Akira Eugene?’

A player who insists on using only Japanese names and, according to Jason, acts like an old person with chuunibyou.

There is only one ranker with these two characteristics. If he is the ‘Megacorp ranker’ I know, then there must have been a lot of bloodshed when he took over the family.

‘He’s good at it, but his personality is really shitty.’

He was a ranker who was called a sociopath even in the community, so he would be even more so here.

‘I have a rough idea of ​​what the situation is.’

Before being devoured by me, Sihyeon Eugene was most likely the representative of the forces purged by Akira Eugene. The Russell family is a false family name used by the remnants to hide their identities.

It must have been quite an awkward situation for the purge forces when she died fighting me.

‘So that’s why you hired a substitute.’

The Sihyeon Eugene he’s talking about is probably the dead leader’s double. We should assume that the being impersonating her led his subordinates here.

I asked why I came here.

“Your Majesty Yujin said that there is an important relic here.”

“An artifact? What kind of artifact?”

“I don’t know about that. I just heard that the relic is somewhere in the Black Mountain and that I need to find it.”

I asked him a few more questions after that, but nothing more nutritious came out. When I asked him about the Screamer, he didn’t know anything about it.

‘It’s okay. I got all the information I needed.’

Fortunately, it doesn’t seem to have much to do with the players. On the contrary, the forces led by Sihyeon Yujin, or rather her double, are closer to the forces that hate the players.

‘I’ll have to catch Odd Grad and then look for him.’

There is one important piece of information that he didn’t tell you, but you can find out. Exploring this barren planet requires a lot of preparation. Weapons, equipment, and all kinds of supplies necessary for survival.

Of course, to distribute this, you need a ship. And a fairly large ship at that.

‘Probably somewhere near the outer planet?’

If you hit the ship, you can find out what Sihyeon Eugene’s forces are doing and where they are.

After gathering my thoughts, I sent the inmyeonchung back to its nest. Then, Adhai, who had been bored on my back, beamed with delight.

“It’s over?”

[Zuzuzu zuuzuzu (Sorry. Was it boring?)]

“It’s okay”

[Zuzu zuzu zuzu zuzu zuzu zuzu (Let’s just take what’s inside and go)]

I found some interesting information in an unexpected place.

After that, I raided the Hellside Hornet’s food cache with Adhai. Thanks to the traces left by Colin Russell, I was able to get to the food cache without wandering through the maze.

I checked the warehouse to see if there were any other new sources of information, but there were no survivors. The sealed space was filled with pods filled with putrefied, fermented liquid.

“This” “Taste” “Good”

The guy who tasted the gochi with his tentacles immediately had his eyes wide like crescent moons. It was the first time I saw Adhai make such an expression.

‘Is it that delicious?’

I took a sip from one of the dozens of kochi hanging from the ceiling. My eyes, too, were out of my control and curled into a crescent shape, just like the creature.

‘It’s so delicious?’

The taste was similar to a mojito, but it was much more tangy. The aroma was also excellent, and it felt refreshing all over my throat and body. It was so delicious that I forgot about the injuries I had sustained in battle.

[Zuzu zuzuzuzu (How many should I take?)]

“Agree” “Agree” “Agree!”

I took as many as I could carry. I could carry about 15 with all my fighting arms and erosion tentacles. The rest went into Adhai and my stomach.

So we made our way out to the Hellside Hornet warehouse, where we made a clean turn.

[Zuzu zuzuzuzu (Then let’s go back)]

Adhai and I spread our wings and flew into the sky. By the time we reached the nest, there would be movement in the Odd Grad flock as well.

‘Heal your wounds quickly in the nest.’

Targeting the White Gallagon that has gone hunting.

‘Then the question is how to hunt them….’

Even as I flew through the clouds, I kept wondering how I should fight the Odd Grad horde.

–

The forest was very old, filled with trees with branches growing in the tens and hundreds of thousands of years. Among the trees, the youngest could easily live for hundreds of years, and there, a beast was crouching low.

Even in the deep darkness, the beast’s amber eyes, which glowed like lanterns, had the head of a flying beast, four legs, and a thin tail. Two sharp horns sprouted from its head.

The beast picked a mushroom-like plant growing on the ground with its thick forepaws. It then picked up the plant with its beak and chewed it.

Even while simply satisfying its hunger, the beast’s gaze was fixed on one place.

The place the beast was looking at was outside the forest. There were steep rock cliffs and several caves. Most cliffs on this planet were close to crevasses formed by cracks in the ice ground, but that place was different.

Instead of the cold chill, a hot heat continued to rise from the bottom of the rock cliff. If there was someone who could sense psychic powers in this place, they would have sensed a vortex of energy rising from under the cliff.

The rocky cliff that the beast is looking at is the habitat of the gallagons, the dragon’s nest.

“… … .”

The beast that ate the plants, the Heavenly Mother, remained motionless again and focused on surveillance. For the past two days, she had not moved at all except for a short mealtime. She was very careful, knowing full well how dangerous it was to deal with Gallagon.

Besides, if she were alone, she might not know, but now she has comrades behind her.

‘You’re my colleague.’

Sea Demon, Gallagon, Screamer, and.

‘Eimov.’

How would Seo-ah Choi, the real herself, react if she were to tell him that she was moving with the 5th ranked player, Morph Park? She would probably get angry and tell him to stop talking nonsense.

I don’t know about Morphbak, but she didn’t like him originally. To be honest, she was closer to hating him. If she had met him when she first came to this world, she would have tried to kill him somehow.

‘Because that guy split the clan.’

It was then that she realized how fragile relationships in the game world can be.

Her clan, Savage Clan, originally had a small number of members due to its unique concept. However, after the battle with Morphbak, she was the only one left in the clan. All of her friends quit the game in disgust or left for other clans.

Because of this, she too was forced to be banished to the real world. At the time, Choi Seo-ah was escaping from reality for various reasons, and she hated Morphbak extremely.

‘… It’s ironic.’

Because of him, I was kicked out of the game and back to reality, but now we are comrades who have crossed the line of death. What is even more incredible is that my relationship with Morphbak has become much closer than that of my fellow members of the Savage Clan.

Since I poured my heart out to him a while ago, I feel a lot more at ease. He probably doesn’t know this though.

‘You seem to have no sense.’

Otherwise, there’s no way I wouldn’t know what No. 26 or Adhai are thinking. Just like in the game, the guy seemed really narrow-minded in his relationships with others.

‘Isn’t that something you don’t know?’

I don’t know what kind of people Heavenly Mother and Morphbak were in real life. Even though they were close, no one brought it up first.

‘I guess that’s natural.’

Now, she has a strong body, a slim figure, and a beautiful mane, but in reality, she is not like that. ‘Choi Seo-ah’, who is not the mother of heaven, is just an ordinary, or rather, below average, insignificant being.

That’s why she didn’t want to tell anyone about Choi Seo-ah. Maybe Morphbak was the same.

‘If you look at his personality, he definitely doesn’t have any friends… Hmm?’

She was chewing on the morph baguette in her mind when she noticed movement in the nest and her thoughts were interrupted.

She strained her eyes to focus. Several galleons were emerging from a cave in the cliff.

‘That’s?’

Two green-scaled Gallagons were carrying one Gallagon to another cave. The Gallagon in the hands of its kin was covered in blood, and none of its arms or legs were intact.

‘Ham Ort?’

It was a mess of a Gallagon, but she remembered what it looked like.

The White Gallagon, in a state of death with a broken horn and torn wings, was undoubtedly Adhai’s mother, Ham Ort. The Green Gallagons next to her roughly dragged Ham Ort into another cave.

‘What happened? Wasn’t he dead?’

Judging by his serious injuries, it didn’t seem strange that he would die immediately. And judging by the way the other Gallagons treated him roughly, he didn’t seem like he betrayed them too late.

‘Have you been taken prisoner?’

That’s when I think I should remember it because it’s important information.

A dozen White Gallagons burst out of another cave. They spread their wings and flew over the cliff, disappearing into the sky.

‘It’s started!’

She waited quietly for a while after seeing them go hunting. Only after there was no more movement did she move cautiously.

The black sky floating above the forest is shaking.

As if in response, a thick darkness rushed out from the cave deep beneath the cliff. The shadow rose up without a sound and flew up in an instant, disappearing into the clouds.