Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 243
Only Noblemtl
Ep. 242
In the game, the Star Union’s Mechanical Committee has an important feature.
Unlike the Seven Houses of Megacorp, the Prophets of the Cult Empire, or the Imperial Council, the Machine Council is comprised entirely of NPCs.
In other words, the Machine Committee appears only as an enemy or an aide.
As you play as a cyborg for Megacorp, a rival of Star Union, you will fight against the Machine Council. The former is to achieve the final ending goal of ‘unification’ like Aimov’s ascension, while the latter is to pass the Machine Council’s test to become the supreme leader, the Grand Leader.
I was playing as Aimop and fought against the Star Union Grand Commander player and then the Machine Committee.
The Machine Committee boasts a high level of difficulty as they are NPCs that appear as enemies in the second half.
First of all, each member of the Machinery Committee has an elite fleet under their command. Since they mobilize their own fleets in battle, players who challenge them also need to have forces equivalent to those of their fleets.
In addition, all the members are androids and can modify their own bodies. The modification style is different for each member, and they change their body parts frequently during battle depending on the opponent’s strategy.
But none of them were modified like the Pira Eleven before me.
Heavy alloy hoses were spread out all around like the body of an ice horror, and in the center was the upper body and face of a giant made of organic tissue and metal.
The shape of the face was very androgynous, and the eyes, larger than those of Adhaina or the Heavenly Mother, were replaced by camera lenses. The skin seemed to quiver as if alive whenever the creature moved.
‘That’s not Android anymore.’
Androids, unlike cyborgs, are completely machines, but they still maintain a humanoid form. If the members of the Machine Committee had to break away from their humanoid form, they would transplant their brains into combat machines and fight, rather than modifying them to that extent.
Rather, he was closer to PS-111. A hybrid of machine and organism.
‘Of course, that side is completely dominated by machines.’
Moreover, its appearance was incomparably worse than that of the PS-111. That ugly monster swung a hose at me.
The hose was as thick and long as the Ice Horror’s torso. Each hose was about 1.5 times as long as my body.
I raised my wing arms and combat arms to block the hose. Not only did it look similar, but its weight and defense were also similar to those of the Ice Horror.
While I was blocking the bastard’s attack, the guys behind me moved all at once. I activated ‘Hand of the Predatory Leech’ in that state.
‘huh?’
Unexpectedly, the enemy’s bio-energy was not absorbed. I bit the hose I was holding to check. The hard metal skin broke and a foul-tasting flesh flowed out from within.
‘indeed.’
The alloy hose had a surface covered with alloy scales, and the inside was made of biological tissue. Since it was not a living thing, it could not be absorbed by the predatory leech’s hand by just grabbing the surface.
Moreover, there was poison in the flesh. Judging from the tingling sensation in my mouth, it seemed to be a neurotoxin. The bastard didn’t swing the hose at me without thinking.
‘Are you trying to paralyze me? Not kill me?’
Then number 26, who was riding on top of my head, shouted.
“Big baby! Be careful!”
At the same time, another hose flew sideways and hit me.
I may not be small, but that bastard’s hose is much bigger than me. My body, hit by that bastard’s attack, was pushed back without me realizing it.
‘His strength is similar to mine, but….’
They are quite cunning opponents. I sent waves at them while blocking the oncoming attacks with my fighting arm.
[Zuzu zuzuzu zuzuzu zuzu zuzu (Be careful of his flesh. It’s poisonous.)]
I’m not affected by the poison so it doesn’t matter, but the kids aren’t.
The Mother of Heaven, who had been swinging her front legs to avoid the flying hose, retreated as soon as she heard my words.
Adhai flew in from behind and snatched away the retreating Heavenly Mother.
As Adhai performed acrobatic maneuvers to avoid the hoses shooting out of the canyon walls, the Sky Mother returned to her griffon form.
She quickly climbed onto Adhai’s back and took out a long golden spear from the backpack that Adhai had tied around his waist.
A hose flew in to crush Adhai. Just as he was about to grab hold of the three giant hooked claws, the golden spear of the priestess held by the Heavenly Mother began to glow.
The Heavenly Mother cut off all of the claws with a single blow. Adhai, as if he had expected this, flew quickly without slowing down at all.
Hoss, who had lost his claws, tried to catch up with the guy, but was unable to achieve his goal due to a blue energy bullet flying in from somewhere.
PS-111, who had been standing against the wall and firing a deflection shot, quickly closed his mouth and moved away. The ice wall split and the hose hidden inside moved to attack the enemy.
‘Where.’
The monster’s tentacles attached to the back of my neck and head responded to my will and prepared their psychic breath. Energy was quickly charged and in an instant, the entire bundle of tentacles turned purple.
A purple flame burst from my head and a violent psychic ray shot forward. Hoss, who was trying to crush PS-111, was hit by the ray and punctured.
At that moment, I felt large objects moving behind me. Pira Eleven had swung two hoses to hit me in the back of the head while I was distracted.
But what he doesn’t know is that I’m not losing my mind. I’m trusting the little guy above me.
Two hoses, which were overwhelmingly larger than me, stopped in midair as if they had hit an invisible wall. It was the power of Number 26, a being much smaller in size but by no means weak in strength.
The hoses tried to escape, but it was not easy to escape the net of psychic powers that stretched out in the tens and hundreds. I turned my head and destroyed the two hoses with psychic breath.
‘There are no major problems yet…’
“Pira Eleven fired the plasma cannon.”
“I lost my lower body.”
“Pira Eleven absorbed my fallen lower body.”
“Pira Eleven copied some of my traits.”
“Pira Eleven’s attack has been incompletely strengthened.”
“I’m dead.”
‘this!’
As I watched the images quickly passing before my eyes, I quickly tightened my tail. My body bounced sideways like a spring. Almost at the same time, a huge amount of plasma energy was released from Pira Eleven’s mouth.
A huge, thick beam of heat, like a beam fired from the main gun of a ship, burned the place I was. The ice floor quickly melted as if the sun had fallen.
The dry valley was filled with steam. Behind the white steam that hung like fog, Pira Eleven’s voice could be heard.
“Pira Eleven. Revised. Special Objective A’s judgment changed from ‘High’ to ‘Very High’.”
‘Did you just detach the main gun from the ship and attach it?’
The thing fired its heat ray again. But I wasn’t just sitting there. I fired a psychic breath from the tip of my tentacles in response to the green heat ray flying towards me.
Thanks to the ‘Dragon’s Heart’, I can unleash a terrifying amount of firepower when it comes to psychic power. The thickness of the psychic breath fired at maximum output is almost equal to the heat ray it shoots.
The heat rays of plasma emitted by the machine monster and the psychic breath I shot, which inherited the power of the dragon, collided in the air.
Then a huge shock wave hit the canyon. The canyon shook violently, and large pieces of ice more than 10 meters high rained down from above. The ice floor evaporated due to the heat.
‘Strong. But….’
Although his heat rays are terrifyingly powerful, they are no match for my firepower.
The green plasma beam was pushed back further and further. After a while, the bastard’s face would be obliterated by the reaction of his own attack and by my beam.
But what happened after that was different from what I expected.
Pira Eleven’s face began to split into countless particles.
‘what?’
The plasma beam stopped, and my psychic breath flew towards the thing’s head. Before that, its head had already been split into pieces, so the beam I shot only managed to burn a very small part of it.
‘Was it a drone?’
Its head was made up of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of drones smaller than regular drones. When I first saw it, I thought its face kept moving, but it turned out that it was actually made up of drones.
The scattered biological drones gathered in places that the psychic breath had not reached and formed a giant face shape again. And the hoses that had been wriggling on the ground moved on their own as if they were attracted by a magnet and connected under the face.
And then the guy spewed out plasma rays again. I also responded to his attack with psychic breath.
Once again, a clear-cut power struggle began, but I wasn’t happy.
‘… You really hit the weak point.’
I thought they were one entity because they were clearly the same biosignals that felt like auxiliary organs, but I was wrong.
The true identity of the Pira Eleven is a swarm of drones, or rather, very small modified biological weapons. In contrast to the Hoses, which are flesh-encased in a metal shell, these drones are made up of mechanical parts encased in organic tissue.
The plasma heat ray is not a main gun mounted in the mouth of the bastard. It is an illusion, and in reality, it is a biological drone that can fire plasma, firing the heat ray simultaneously at the right angle and timing.
‘Thanks to you, I was properly fooled.’
I quickly scanned my surroundings with the auxiliary organ under my chin while shooting my breath.
‘We need to cut off the energy supply first.’
My gaze was drawn to the hoses attached to the head of the drone. Some of the hoses were embedded in the walls of the canyon and the ground. It is unclear whether they were hidden for a surprise attack or to absorb energy.
‘I would have prepared for whatever it was.’
He’s a sly guy, so he must have set a trap.
‘So should I clean up the drone?’
If you have an enhanced psychic breath, it can be useful when dealing with a group of biological weapons. If you hit even one drone, it will automatically spread to surrounding organic matter.
‘The question is how efficient it is.’
Those numerous bio-drones are his terminals. Even if you manage to hit a drone, he’ll deal with it quickly.
They’ll either sacrifice a few drones to minimize the damage, or deploy the drones that have been hit by psychic breath towards where Nana and the kids are.
‘To stop it, we have to sweep it away all at once.’
When you enter this canyon, there are traps prepared.
Just then, the bastard’s head was blown off. As my breath struck the canyon, ice poured down on our heads. The ground, frozen solid by our fight, also melted and became sloppy.
I scattered waves while the bastard’s head came together.
[Zuzu zuzuzuzu zuzu (Find the bastard’s energy source)]
I left the guys with an important mission and ran along the road I came in on.
“Pira Eleven. Tracking has begun. Eliminate Special Target A, the highest threat. Engage other targets via terminal.”
Pira Eleven followed me from behind, with her head and hoses connected. Every time she moved, countless hoses dug into the ground.
I could see other hoses behind him, blocking the kids. If I were to look at the specs, they were close to ice horrors. If I were to be even a little late, the kids would be in danger too.
‘If this works, he’ll be dealt a fatal blow.’
At that moment, a plasma ray flew from behind me. The ray it shot passed over my armor as I crawled.
[Zuzuzu (are you okay?)]
“huh.”
As part of my carapace broke, I felt my body building up resistance to plasma energy again. My body was gaining new resistance to energy due to my ‘mimicking scales’ trait.
If it were any other time, I would have fought back, but now it was difficult to choose that tactic.
‘The future seen through the eyes of a predator. It has absorbed my flesh.’
As I watched the image passing by, it swallowed my torn lower body and mimicked its features. The plasma heat rays of the biological drones that made up the thing grew stronger, and the hoses changed into shapes similar to my pincers.
Just like PS-111 absorbs substances and transforms its body. The problem is that its transformation is much faster.
So I had no choice but to keep twisting my body to avoid his attacks.
As I was running, I saw a dark floor and wall in the distance. It was a nest I had laid out in advance when I entered the canyon. The nest had expanded beyond my expectations due to the steam and heat generated from inside.
“Pira Eleven. Question. Did you just lure her by believing in that? The synthetic substance containing the toxic ingredient secreted by Special Target A has already been analyzed. Perfect resistance has been secured.”
Until just a moment ago, he had been showing meticulousness in moving his mouth whenever he spoke, but now that the secret has been revealed, he no longer does that.
Pira Eleven nonchalantly destroyed the nest I had dug with a hose.
‘Of course not.’
In the first place, the nest is just a means to draw the picture I want. The real weapon is something else.
I linked with the nest and gave orders to the nest.
‘Blow out.’
The black mucus that had been stuck to the canyon walls spurted out like a fountain and fell on the creature’s head. The mucus spurted in all directions, covering the creature’s face and the hose.
The thing ignored the black mucus pouring out from above. Its mouth, made up of biological drones, opened and a green light began to burst out from within.
Just before the bastard’s attack was launched, I disconnected from the nest and immediately pulled out my next weapon.
Greens and purples and all sorts of strange colors invaded my tentacle bundle.
Perhaps he was alerted to the unidentified energy flowing out of his body. He stopped shooting heat rays and the biological drones that made up his face moved to disperse.
The guy tried to run away, but it was no problem.
I fired a psychic breath with ‘Abyssal Color’ applied.
My target isn’t the bastard’s head.
The chaos sphere, which had been flying far away from the thing’s head, exploded upon hitting the black goo that flowed down like a fountain from the canyon wall above the thing’s head. As soon as I saw the explosion, I spread my wings and lifted myself backward.
[Zuzuzuzuzuzuzuzu (avoid this too)]
Abyssal rain poured down over Pira Eleven’s head.