Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 218



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Ep. 217

A black entity emerges from the clouds. Despite its distance, it feels like an imposing presence that cannot be overlooked.

Flapping its wings, which were more than twice as large as its body, it landed above the forest.

As you get closer to him, the auxiliary organs start to buzz. This is due to the powerful psychic power flowing from the Black Gallagon.

The most powerful Apex I’ve ever fought.

The black dragon Odgrad stands before me.

“Big baby, be careful.”

Number 26, who was on board, warned me. The tension in his wavelength was evident.

I know very well how strong Black Gallagon is. I’ve caught it dozens of times in the game.

The only thing I didn’t expect was why he was here.

‘How did you know?’

While the Heavenly Mother was watching over the nest, she said she didn’t see any creatures entering or leaving the nest. The Green Gallagon Trackers haven’t returned either, so it’s unlikely that the creature knows of my presence.

‘Could it be that the Green Gallagon that was recorded in the cruiser’s records informed us?’

He may have reported to Odd Grad after seeing me fighting the cruiser.

But the question still remains: the White Gallagon with the broken wing clearly said it was a ‘trap’.

That means he had already figured out my plan, which was to ‘target the moment White Gallagon went hunting.’

The bastard showed up unexpectedly, causing quite a few problems.

I’m not in the best condition right now. The wounds on my body have mostly healed, but the problem is my special traits. The ‘Symbol of the Hunt’, the ability to grow large through ‘Organic Evolution’, and the ‘Revenant Organ’ are all sealed.

And my colleagues are scattered. I have to fight the guy with only No. 26, Adhai, and Nel Germa here.

It was no exaggeration to say that the situation was the worst, as it was an enemy that could not easily be guaranteed victory even if fought in the best condition, and had to be fought in an inadequate condition.

‘… Let’s calm down.’

This is not the time to be negative. It’s not going to change the situation. Right now, it’s much more productive to think about how to survive the formidable enemy right in front of you.

I watched the guy calmly. The guy who had landed on the ground didn’t rush at me but instead glared at me.

He too, like me, has set out on a search.

‘…He seems to be quite smart.’

Judging by its appearance alone, it was larger than any Gallagon I’d ever seen here. It was about the same size as when I grew up using the symbol of the hunt.

The body was long and slender, reminiscent of a snake, but it did not give off a slender feeling. It had solid muscles on its neck, chest, waist, and tail, and the top was covered in scales reminiscent of obsidian.

It had six curved horns on its head like those of a goat or sheep, and a tuft of long tentacles flowed down from the corners of its mouth like a beard.

When you look at it up to here, you might say it has a noble appearance like an oriental dragon, but I don’t think so at all. It’s because of its eyes.

Ham Ort, Adhai, and Nel Germa all had beautiful purple eyes that resembled amethyst. He also had purple gem eyes, but they felt completely different.

In Odd Grad’s eyes, only cruelty and cunning could be seen. It was a world of difference from Adhai, who had elegance and a hint of mischief in his eyes.

‘An enemy with a cruel personality.’

It would be better to consider it as an enemy closer to the player than a normal creature.

‘I heard you’re old, I wonder what it’s like.’

In games, aging status is rarely reflected in NPCs. In Gallagon, there is no difference between individuals of the same color.

But this is reality. Even Ham Ort is stronger than Adhai and Nel Germa, who are also White Gallagons. It is unknown what effect aging has had on Black Dragon Odd Grad, but it does not seem that his strength has weakened.

‘Even though he must have subdued Ham Ort, he didn’t have a single injury on his body.’

There were visible scars on the black scales, but they were not marks made by Ham Ort. In other words, he subdued Ham Ort without sustaining any injuries.

‘hmm?’

As I was examining the creature, I noticed something unusual. There was a ring with a jewel on its front paw.

‘I’ve never seen equipment like that before.’

This is an item that does not appear in the game. Judging from the refined form of the gem, it was clearly processed by an expert.

‘Let’s be careful.’

Just as I had discovered something peculiar about his body, he had also discovered something peculiar about me. He tilted his head at the number 26 on my back.

Both Black Gallagon and Sea Demon were powerful psychic creatures. They seemed to sense how dangerous each other was.

Eventually, the creature decided that it was superior to No. 26 and began to move. The psychic power that flowed like water across its black scales quickly gathered toward its head.

‘Coming.’

The first attack was a psychic breath. The creature quickly charged up its power and fired a dark purple, almost black, ray of heat.

I spread my wings and lifted myself up. The heat ray lightly brushed against the carapace under my lower body. The part that brushed against it evaporated without a trace.

‘… Reflection is impossible.’

It was meaningless because the shell disappeared before the superpower reflection armor could activate. I flew into the air to dodge the attack and tried to fly towards the thing.

Then the bastard raised his head as he fired his psychic breath.

‘Tsk.’

The thing kept spitting out without stopping, as if it had psychic power left over. The heat ray that devoured everything followed me behind. I beat the air with my wings to increase my flight speed.

While I was looking, Adhai and Nel Germa tried to attack Odd Grad. Nel Germa emitted energy first, but there was someone who stopped him.

A White Gallagon with a broken wing fired its breath to counter Nel Germa’s attack.

“traitor”

“Nel Germa” “Ham Ort” “Serving”

“Traitor” “Death”

“Fellow” “Processing” “Black Fellow” “Support”

“I” “Understand”

While Nel Germa was marking White Gallagon, Adhai came to support me. He performed a sidestep maneuver and went around to the back of Odd Grad before firing his psychic breath. A barrage of purple energy bullets, now his signature technique, flew towards Odd Grad’s head.

At this, Odd Grad paused his breath for a moment and raised his wings to cover his head. Adhai’s energy bullet hit the creature’s wing and exploded.

However, the bastard’s wings were intact, except for a little charring on the outside.

“stiffness!”

“Odd Grad” “Speaking” “Cheeky Thing” “Get Out”

Odd Grad, who had been coldly releasing his psychic blast, fired his psychic breath again. A ray of heat shot out of his mouth much faster than the one he had fired at me earlier.

‘trickery!’

When he attacked me, he shot slowly on purpose.

“!”

[Zuzuzu (Dangerous!)]

It was a close call. If Adhai wasn’t small or a little slower, he would have been hit by the heat ray and split in two.

The guy managed to avoid the heat ray by flying just in time, but he couldn’t stop his tail from flying away. The guy stopped in his tracks in pain as his tail tip burned.

Just before Odd Grad turned his breath to support Adhai, I poured out the energy I had been saving while Adhai was wasting time.

The power of the White Gallagon created by the monster’s tentacles advanced towards its head. Judging that it would be difficult to block it with its wings, it turned its head and fired a heat ray towards me.

The black, almost black heat rays that the thing vomited out and the vivid purple heat rays that I created were competing with each other. The impact caused the ground between the thing and me to split and the trees to shatter into pieces and scatter into the air.

‘… strong!’

I thought it would be a tough opponent since it was Black Gallagon, but I didn’t know it would be this bad. The output between him and me was similar, but the energy accumulation was on a different level. At this level, it was close to an Aimorph adult.

I focused on shooting the heat ray while looking towards Adhai. The guy barely endured the pain of his tail burning and dodged into the air.

After confirming the appearance, I stopped my breath. As the confrontation between the heat lines ended, the bastard’s psychic breath flew towards me.

Instead of flying up, I lowered my body. As expected, the thing figured I would fly up and turned its heat line upward.

Having tricked the bastard into making a mistake, I opened my mouth wide while keeping my body in a crouched position. My lower jaw split into two and a green mass of fungus gushed out from inside.

As the acidic fungus flew towards him, he spread his wings wide and shook them vigorously. Then, as if a small typhoon had occurred, the flying fungus scattered in the air.

‘A smart guy.’

As expected of an old man, he knows how to use his body well. Of course, I didn’t think he would get hit by acidic fungus and become faint.

I bought time with the fungus and jumped up onto the ground with my tail, kicking it hard. The thing tried to shoot the heat ray again belatedly.

If only the shattered clumps of fungus hadn’t come together again and come flying at him.

“what?”

Odd Grad fired short bursts of psychic breath at the fungus that moved as if attached to invisible threads.

While the bastard was distracted, I soared high into the sky.

Adhai flew towards me after I flapped my wings a few times to gain altitude.

[Zuzuzu (are you okay?)]

“Pain” “But” “Endurance”

It was only a brief exchange, but I could tell for sure that he was a formidable foe. He had such good sense that he was one of the top five beings I’ve ever encountered in this world.

Is that all? As expected of a Black Gallagon, his fighting ability is also top-notch. If it comes to a showdown of strength, I would lose.

‘We have to decide the outcome with an irregular attack.’

I know what traits and skills Black Gallagon has, but he doesn’t. He doesn’t know about Aimov, or me. He doesn’t know what powers I have, or how to use them.

[Zuzuzuzuzuzuzu (I need your help)]

“Yeah! Just trust me!”

Number 26, who was on my back, waved his tentacles.

At that moment, a psychic breath flew from below. After dodging it, I saw Odd Grad flying towards me.

“Trivial Things” “I Won’t Miss It”

The horn of the breath-breathing creature glows purple. It is not because of the glow of psychic power.

[Zuzu zuzuzu (Watch out for the top)]

“stomach?”

As the horn of the creature glowed purple, the flow of clouds began to change. Soon after, large waterspouts descended from the sky. In addition to hail and snow, the waterspouts were accompanied by purple lightning.

The powerful psychic power technique that can be used when you become Black Gallagon is called ‘Maelstrom’. As its name suggests, it is a technique that creates a powerful psychic storm.

[Zuzu zuzu zuzu zuzu zuzu zuzu zuzu zuzu (You have to keep moving to avoid lightning)]

“check”

I warned Adhai and moved again. As soon as I moved, purple lightning struck the spot where I was.

You should not stay still while under the influence of Maelstrom, as the lightning strike, slightly weaker than psychic breath, targets the caster’s enemies.

Odd Grad, who had caused a localized weather anomaly, followed us, flapping his wings. The psychic breath he fired grazed the tip of my wing.

I slowly slowed down while pretending to dodge the guy. That increased the chance of getting hit, but I had the 26.

The guy was adjusting the angle of his psychic breath just enough that Odd Grad wouldn’t notice. As a result, I either narrowly avoided the enemy’s attack or only suffered minor injuries that burned my shell.

“You son of a bitch!”

Odd Grad spouted out a slur of annoyance, as if he didn’t like the way I was dodging people here and there.

‘It’s now.’

I waited for him to show his emotions. I prepared my psychic breath while dodging his attacks. Then, when I almost had all my energy, I folded one wing and changed direction. My body, which had been flying forward, flipped to the side due to the recoil.

In that state, the monster’s tentacles once again spit out the power of the dragon.

The bastard calmly countered my breath, as if he had expected this from the moment I closed the distance with him.

The struggle began again. The creature was still relaxed. The tentacles attached to its mouth were emitting boundless power, and its amethyst eyes were filled with laughter.

Adhai is special, but regular Gallagons can’t move when they shoot psychic breath. I can also freely adjust the angle of my psychic breath, but the speed is reduced.

The enemy must know this too. It must seem foolish of me to be struggling in the middle of Maelstrom territory.

As he had thought, a purple lightning bolt struck my head. Just as the lightning bolt was about to strike No. 26, a new energy bullet flew in from afar. The lightning struck by the energy bullet exploded above my head.

“Pain relief activated!”

The supernatural lightning pierced through the shell and tore through the inside, but it was a tolerable pain. The lightning that fell into Maelstrom had less firepower than the breath that the caster directly shot. Furthermore, because Adhai detonated it in the middle, its destructive power was reduced even further.

The psychic reflective armor on my head activated as I was hit by the psychic energy. The energies that formed the lightning lost their target and scattered in all directions like firecrackers.

“Dare” “Troublesome”

To Gallagons sensitive to psychic powers, the explosion before their eyes would be similar to seeing a flare fired from a fighter jet.

Having succeeded in disrupting its vision, I activated ‘Abyssal Color’ and folded all of my wings at the same time. My body was thrown downwards, and its heat rays flew over my head shell.

Thanks to that, two more horns were broken, but it didn’t matter. After dodging the bastard’s attack, I spread my wings again and flew down below the bastard.

“The remaining tricks!”

The bastard’s horns flashed again, to block the lightning that was about to strike me, that is, him.

‘But the real attack is separate.’

This too was an illusion. When the bastard paused to control the lightning, I pulled out the weapon I had prepared.

Bubbles of green, purple, and all sorts of other confusing colors shoot out. A myriad of bubbles, or rather, a gaze of terror colored in the colors of the abyss, fly towards him.

The moment he attacks the bubbles, he’s finished. Those bubbles, the enhanced fear gazers, will burst, and 26 will take control and blow them up at him.

If it touches even one of the numerous bubbles, it is instantly incapacitated.

And he did exactly as I expected. The head of the one tuning the Maelstrom reflexively turned toward the bubble. The bundle of tentacles hanging from the corner of his mouth turned purple.

With less than a second left until the psychic breath was fired, the bastard’s eyes suddenly filled with confusion.

In an instant, the tentacles of the creature returned to their original color, and it flapped its wings vigorously. The carefree demeanor it had shown so far disappeared, and it retreated as if it had seen an extremely dangerous substance.

No. 26 tried to control the bubble and attach it to the thing, but the thing was already far away.

The plan to neutralize the bastard with an enhanced fear gaze failed.

“You bastard!”

Odd Grad, who was sending out strong waves of thought from afar. At first glance, he seemed angry, but there were other emotions mixed in.

It was definitely a feeling of caution and fear.

‘how?’

The bastard tried to breathe into the bubble as if it were a given. He actually gathered energy. However, just before he could fire, the bastard stopped attacking and retreated.

As if he knew my attack was dangerous and moved accordingly.

‘… You were wary of the Watcher of Terror? Do you know about me?’

It is unclear how Odd Grad knew the colors of the Abyss and avoided them, but one thing is clear from this.

The fight against Black Gallagon is not likely to be easy.