Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 219



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Ep. 218

Odd Grad, who had avoided the reinforced ‘Gaze of Terror’, did not attack us.

Just keep your distance and be on guard.

He had a hint of arrogance before he avoided me, but now he was completely different. He was extremely wary of us, or rather me.

The movement of my wings, the angle of my head, the swaying and fluttering of my auxiliary organs in the wind, and even the monster’s tentacles glowing purple and green.

‘I don’t get it.’

The creature’s gaze was fixed on the monster’s tentacles, as if it knew that these tentacles were a threat to it.

‘Black Gallagon has no espionage-related characteristics.’

Gallagons do not possess traits such as ‘Clairvoyance’, which allows them to gather information about their surroundings to see through the ground or behind walls, or ‘Insight’, which allows them to analyze their equipment or characteristics based on their appearance. Even the Red Gallagon, which only appears in events.

Gallagon is a perfect creature with a strong body that can survive in space, powerful psychic abilities, long lifespan, and even a social nature that hunts in packs with its own kind. It does not necessarily have to have espionage-related characteristics.

‘No, I don’t know about that.’

Didn’t Adhai show a different appearance from the regular Gallagon? Odd Grad might not be the regular Black Gallagon either.

‘Let’s write down some insights.’

Actually, when I went to find the Hellside Hornet, I used Insight on Adhai once. It wasn’t of much help, though, as no special information came out.

There was a high chance that no new information would come out of him, but still, I had to flap my wings to approach him.

[Zuzuzu zuuzuzu zuuzuzu (I’m going to get close to him. Help me)]

“huh.”

He tried to use the Abyss Color and No. 26’s combined attack as a desperate measure, but he was already caught. No. 26, who had been passive in order to hide his power, no longer needed to do so.

I strode forward, beating the air with my wings. As the distance between us closed, Odd Grad’s horns glowed purple.

I can hear a tiger growling far above my head. A psychic storm is brewing under the influence of the ‘Maelstrom’.

Purple lightning poured down behind me, and a tornado over 100 meters in diameter blocked my path.

The flight speed was drastically reduced due to the air-sucking water jet. At that moment, when the supernatural lightning was about to strike me, No. 26 stepped forward.

“Ugh!”

Have you ever seen lightning strike from the sky and come to a halt? Something that you can only see in pictures is happening on my back.

It feels like an auxiliary organ. Thousands, if not an incalculable number, of threads are sticking out from No. 26’s body, catching lightning. And the stuffed psychic powers are gathering into one point in the air according to the guy’s will.

“!”

Odd Grad, the one who cast Maelstrom, tried to regain control of the lightning later, but it was already too late. The psychic power that No. 26 had taken away had already turned into purple arrows and was aiming for the creature’s life.

Like an arrow shot by a god to kill the evil dragon, psychic power flew through the dark clouds. Unable to control himself, Odd Grad flapped his wings and dodged. The arrow changed direction and aimed at the creature, but it was difficult to keep up with its irregular movements.

“Big baby, I can’t do this for long because it’s hard.”

[Zuzuzu (It’s okay)]

Thanks to the time he gave me, I was able to catch up to him without any resistance.

[Zuuuuu zuuuuu (Help Adhai)]

“huh.”

At that moment, the small White Gallagon, Adhai, was fiercely attacking Odd Grad at close range. No. 26 used his psychic powers to assist Adhai’s energy bullets.

“Those damn creatures!”

Odd Grad began to fire psychic breaths, hissing with annoyance. While Adhai evaded the high-velocity heat rays with evasive maneuvers, I activated Insight.

“Name: Odd Grad

Race: Black Gallagon

Status: Strengthened (Dragon’s Power, ■■■ ■■■)

Skills Possessed: Super Acceleration, Psychic Breath, Dragon’s Heart, and many more… 」

‘…indeed.’

After confirming the bastard with my insight, I activated my psychic breath. Unlike the usual purple light, a strange light mixed with green, purple, and other colors enveloped my body.

A psychic breath enhanced with the colors of the abyss. Bubbles of destruction, tormented by endless hunger, form at the tips of my tentacles.

A bubble-shaped breath flew out to swallow the thing. The thing that was about to attack Adhai quickly retreated as soon as it saw the bubble.

‘I noticed it again this time.’

Thanks to the bastard stepping back, I had a moment to think about the information I had just acquired.

‘That guy has special abilities.’

You can tell by looking at the bastard’s ‘status’. It’s clear that the strengthened state had other special effects besides ‘Dragon’s Power’.

All Gallagons above Black Gallagon have a unique skill called ‘Dragon’s Heart’. When a normal player possesses Dragon’s Heart, they receive the Dragon Humanization effect, and in Gallagon’s case, they receive the Dragon’s Power effect.

The problem is the buff that comes after the dragon’s power. A normal black gallagoon should only have one dragon’s power, but this one has two buffs.

It is highly likely that the added enhancement effect is related to an unknown ability.

The unfortunate thing is that Insight doesn’t show you all of the abilities the guy has. This is because Insight doesn’t show you all of the opponent’s equipment, skills, or traits, but rather randomly.

I’d like to approach him again and use my insight, but it doesn’t seem easy. The guy who has been avoiding my attacks repeatedly is extremely wary of me. He’s a smart guy, so he won’t allow me to approach him any more.

‘I guess I should be thankful that he acted so passively.’

I don’t know how Odd Grad knew my trait, but because of that, my movements are limited. If he had been more active, the fight would have been much more difficult.

‘We need to change our strategy.’

I shot a short wave at Adhai. The guy who heard my wave hesitated in confusion, but when I shot a strong wave again, he eventually gave in.

“Big man” “Body” “Careful”

Leaving those words behind, the guy flew away in the opposite direction.

Odd Grad was watching me whether Adhai left or not. He knew that Adhai wouldn’t be able to hit him even if he attacked him.

‘You probably think that if you just catch me, it’ll be over easily.’

It’s a perfectly reasonable judgment for him. Of course, I acted this way because I thought he would make that judgment.

And the battle with him resumed. Perhaps because of No. 26, he had adjusted the lightning so that it would not strike the Maelstrom’s territory.

Instead, they increased the number of waterspouts coming down from the clouds, hindering my movement. They must have intended to intercept me while maintaining a distance and slowly dry me up to death.

As expected, the bastard kept his distance from me as much as possible and fired his breath.

No. 26 had already dispelled Ham Ort’s heat rays, but Odd Grad’s breath was uncontrollable. So, he was assisting by slightly changing the breath’s trajectory to cause it to deviate.

‘That alone would be a huge help.’

Actually, I had one ‘treasure trove’.

If Odd Grad wasn’t much stronger than I expected, or as dumb as the Black Gallagon I know, I would have used this move.

There is a trait I acquired from catching Skywhale before. It is a physical fusion trait that combines with the physical trait ‘Synthetic Scale’ that I already had.

“Imitation Scale: Inherits and strengthens the effects of synthetic scales. When receiving continuous energy-based attacks, the characteristics of that energy are imitated and reflected on the body.

*P.S. Originality is not important in nature. What matters is how you survive.」

‘Mimicry Scales’ is a similar but different trait to ‘Metal Absorption’, which allows you to eat metal and reflect its effects on your body. As described, Mimicry Scales mimics enemy energy attacks and provides your body with a resistance effect to said energy attacks.

For example, if you keep attacking me with a plasma launcher, the mimic scale effect will activate, greatly increasing your defense against plasma-type attacks. To the point where even a single piece of the scale cannot be broken by a plasma weapon.

It’s a great trait that dramatically increases Aimorph’s survivability, but it also has its drawbacks.

If you gain immunity to one type of energy, you cannot immediately gain immunity to another type of energy. This means that if you are immune to plasma, you cannot become immune to psychic powers. You must wait until your existing immunity system is lost to gain immunity to psychic powers.

‘So the cult players would alternate between different types of weapons.’

Of course, in my current situation, this isn’t a big disadvantage, since Gallagon mainly uses psychic power attacks.

The problem is that in order to gain the immunity effect of the Mimic Scale, you have to continuously receive enemy attacks.

It’s hard to be effective when fighting enemies like Odd Grad who can’t withstand my body’s attacks, because I’d die before the Mimic Scales could work.

‘If the plan hadn’t gone awry, I could have used it properly.’

Originally, I was planning to gain the immunity effect of the Mimic Scale while hunting the White Gallagon. I can easily withstand the psychic breath they shoot.

‘If I had known this would happen, I should have prepared in advance.’

If I had Adhai and No. 26, I could have activated the imitation scales, although it would have taken a long time, but I was careless. That’s what happened because I didn’t know that the bastard would rush in so quickly.

‘…It’s not too late to regret it later.’

I spun around, wrapping my arms around my wings. The incoming heat ray grazed the surface of my wings with a difference of a sheet of paper.

‘This won’t work.’

I thought about activating the mimic scales by being hit by the bastard’s breath, but I don’t think it will work. Those purple-black heat rays are not something that can be blocked with the body.

‘I can’t go on an adventure without even knowing what his abilities are.’

Whether you use imitation scales or something else, you need to know the creature’s abilities first to come up with an effective countermeasure.

‘It probably won’t be the ability to read information.’

If you think about it again, it’s unlikely that he knows about the color effects of the abyss that even the players don’t know about.

‘Then there is only one thing left.’

The ability to detect crises in advance.

Just like the ‘predator sense’ I have, he can analyze his surroundings and bring about miracles close to foresight.

‘This is more likely.’

He read my plan and moved without receiving any reports. Not only that, he came to help the one I was targeting among the 12 White Gallagons. These were actions he could take because he knew the future.

But there is also a question. As far as I know, there is no ability to see the future over such a wide area. Even the predator sense only shows me the immediate danger of death.

If he can read the future perfectly, there’s no way I can win.

‘No. That can’t be.’

If he had that ability, he would have killed me long ago. There were plenty of opportunities to do so, like when I first arrived on this planet, or when I was weak after my fight with Jason.

The reason he didn’t do that is simple.

‘There is a limit to our ability to see the future.’

The important thing is to know what its limits are. You need to know this to be able to attack it.

‘I have to find out from now on.’

And there are beings coming up here to help me with my experiments.

“Black People” “Support”

Two large and small gallagons with white scales followed me. They were Adhai and Nel Germa.

He seems to think I’m just acting as bait while Adhai escapes, but that’s not true.

The guy pretended to run away and retreated, then made a detour to help Nel Germa. Thanks to this, the two were able to quickly deal with the White Gallagon with its broken wing and come up here.

Odd Grad glared at us with cold eyes.

“Nel Germa” “Did you kill Ger Garuda?”

“hit”

“The Companion of Odgrad” “What was lacking that made you betray?”

“Ham Ort” “Speaking” “Odd Grad” “Liar” “Tyranny” “Weak Kindred” “Abandonment” “Killing” “Agreement” “Impossible”

Odd Grad remained silent in response to Nel Germa’s rebuttal.

After a brief silence, the bastard let out a tirade.

“It’s a pity” “The traitor who doesn’t reflect” “Only death”

“Nel Germa” “Immortal” “Dying” “Liar” “Odd Grad”

“Great Odd Grad” “I Don’t Die”

The man who said that turned his gaze away from Nel Germa and looked at me. His eyes, which had been filled with caution just a moment ago, now held a completely different emotion.

‘derision?’

“Great Odd Grad will not retreat” “No matter how strong the enemy”

It was a situation that could hardly be called leisurely, but the guy was laughing at me.

At that moment, I felt a thunderbolt strike my head.

At the same time that I realized this, Adhai and Nel Germa also quickly sent thought waves to me.

“Big man” “Over there” “My kind” “I feel it!”

“White Peers” “Approaching”

Although I couldn’t see them yet, it was clear that a horde of them was coming this way.

‘Maelstrom! You called your comrades with that!’

There aren’t many entities on this planet that can cause localized weather anomalies.

Except for the black dragon Odd Grad in front of me.

It’s true that he was wary of my attacks, but he also had a hidden plan.

“Great Odd Grad” “Strong Enemy” “Danger” “I Won Everything”

He sent out his ideological wave with great pride. Contrary to his words, his true intention was to run away and buy time until his compatriots arrived.

‘Don’t make me laugh.’

The saying that I have overcome all the enemies and dangers applies to me as well.

Because I too have overcome all kinds of enemies and dangers up until now.

‘Don’t think that only you can call your colleagues.’

This time it’s the same.