Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 269
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Episode 269 – Harvest (3)
The hallway was covered in blood, from the walls to the ceiling.
Because the pirates were blown to pieces by the ‘destructive sound wave’ I shot.
“Enemy, above, danger, measure, measure not… .”
The android, with only its head and upper body remaining, spat out a mechanical sound with its damaged vocal cords. I struck it hard with my winged arm.
‘The advance party is finished with this.’
Now, they will also realize that there is a considerable danger inside the fortress. The underground storage was robbed right before the auction? This is a completely different problem from the increase of madmen in the city.
‘Everyone in the fortress and all the visitors to the city will join forces to kill me.’
Every living thing and machine in this fortress is my enemy, except those I brought with me.
‘What should we do now?’
The first thing that comes to mind is to run away from the fortress, but getting out of the fortress right now isn’t a very good option.
The space fortress’s defense facilities are very strong, as they were built to fight against fleets. Naturally, there are more defensive turrets outside than inside. The moment you somehow manage to get out of the naval port by boat, you’ll be met with concentrated fire from the fortress’ batteries.
‘There’s no need to cause unnecessary damage.’
To neutralize this externally strong but internally weak orbital habitat, it is much more effective to destroy it from the inside.
The problem is how to attack it.
You can either go out there and kill people and move towards the command center, or you can breach the outer wall surrounding the fortress and wreak havoc on the interior.
Even when I destroyed Kesha Arma three times in the game, I did it in a different way each time. This time, I had many ways to take down the fortress, but I decided to try a new way. I used traits that did not exist in the game, unique traits created using the Transcendence system.
‘Strictly speaking, it’s a method I tried once.’
I opened a semi-transparent text box and focused on the ‘mutant virus host’ part of the special state of ‘Herald of Chaos’ and ‘Organic Evolution’.
When I first tried to combine the two traits while destroying the pirate slave market, they were both powerful crowd control tools, so they worked well together. They were especially effective when dealing with multiple enemies.
If I am properly prepared and given the right environment, I will be able to demonstrate explosive power that will shake the steel fortress I am standing on.
‘The method has been decided.’
Next is the location, which is nothing to worry about. I turned around and crawled inside the storage room.
“Aren’t we going out?”
“The terrain here is not conducive to large-scale combat.”
[Z zu zu zu zu zu zu (There is a way. Follow me.)]
PS-111, who was in the A-Sector storage unit, expressed his doubts when I returned. I took them inside the storage unit.
When I got to the middle of the D-Sector storage area, I stopped the kids and put my head against one of the walls.
“What is the big baby doing?”
“It seems like you’re looking for something.”
I didn’t bother explaining it to you since you’d know it soon anyway. I continued to feel the wall with the auxiliary organ under my chin.
‘It was definitely around here… Ah, I found it.’
In a remote corner of a large open space, I found what I was looking for: a subtle vibration.
I could feel a very faint vibration intermittently from beyond the wall. Having conquered the city many times, I know what this vibration means.
‘Subway lines.’
This space fortress is a space structure as large as the TNC Special Trade Center. It has several transportation means installed to efficiently transport a large number of residents at once, such as hover buses that fly in the air and subways.
And there is a subway line about 50m away from Area D in the underground storage facility.
Members of the Marcio Cartel, cartels from various constellations, and mercenaries from guests from Megacorp and Star Union. There will be many enemies moving on the train.
‘I can’t believe the subway is still moving, so I guess they haven’t all gathered yet.’
The country will be gathering troops from each sector of the fortress at the headquarters to counter the threat.
Of course, they won’t arrive at their destination on time.
[Zuzu zuzuzu (Everyone step back)]
No. 26 and PS-111, who heard my warning, moved away from me.
I opened my mouth wide in front of the point where I felt the vibration. My upper and lower jaws split apart as if they were going to be torn apart, and the molars attached to both sides were pushed outward.
My long neck throbbed, and soon a green liquid poured out like a waterfall from inside my mouth.
There was a sound like cold water being poured into a hot frying pan, and a plume of toxic fumes rose. The acid water cannon had blasted a hole about 10 meters in diameter through the thick alloy wall in front of me.
‘If it were a game, I wouldn’t have even imagined this method.’
Even for Aimoff, who can strengthen his body in various ways, it is by no means easy to break through an alloy wall tens of meters thick in one breath. This is especially true in a semi-adult state. If he had not had the ‘acid fungal gland’ strengthened by the ‘great infection body’, he would have had to come up with another method.
The acidic breath that had been melting the wall with great force suddenly weakened after a few seconds. This was because the fungal fluid inside the fungal glands had run out.
‘This is enough.’
After the acid breath stopped, I lowered myself down in front of the hole in the wall that was still melting. As I lowered my head in front of the hole, the two gun barrels on my back pointed into the hole.
As I tensed my back muscles in that state, two orange lumps were fired from the tip of the spore cannon.
The spores flew inward quickly like shells fired from a cannon. Soon, a loud explosion was heard from inside, and hot heat surged outward. The spores containing explosive fluid had burst.
‘It’s not over yet.’
Soon, those explosive fluids and acidic fungi will mix and cause an intense chemical reaction.
A moment later, the underground storage facility we were in also shook violently as if it had been hit by an earthquake. Every time the wall shook, a blast of heat strong enough to lightly roast a person gushed out from inside the hole. Inside the walls surrounding the storage facility, two types of chemicals caused a deadly chain reaction.
“Boom bang! This is exciting!”
“It’s an interesting chemical reaction.”
No. 26 glowed from its body, as if it was amused by the thumping sound of the storage room. PS-111 was fixated on the inside of the hole, as if it was interested in what I had done.
The noise and vibration continued for a while, then gradually died down and finally stopped.
I grabbed the ends of the hole with my wing arms and pulled. The damaged alloy plate shook and buckled.
[Zuzu zuzu (let’s go now)]
I crawled deep into the hollow alloy wall with the kids. After passing through the unevenly hollowed passage, a wide space greeted us.
A huge space with a musty smell. In the middle of it, you can see a track with a magnetic field flowing through it.
‘good.’
In a few minutes, the subway will pass by here again. We need to prepare to receive the passengers who are expected to come here.
I activated organic evolution for the first time in a long time. My body began to twist in the middle of the underground of a fortress floating in space.
There was a sound of skeletal distortion from the long fighting arms and wing arms. The long, spider-like legs were now distorted and shrunken to the size of a small lump.
In contrast, my body swelled up like a balloon being filled with air. The shells that had wrapped around my arms all went into my body, and a thick shell covered my enlarged torso.
As my body grew, my head also grew larger. My head became heavier, and my neck became thicker, almost indistinguishable from my body. Soon after the change began, my appearance became similar to that of a scarab larva.
Of course, the mutation wasn’t over yet. Holes were drilled into the carapace covering its body, and hundreds of tentacles were sprouting out from within.
The newly formed tentacles had a different appearance from the erosion tentacles I had. Overall, they resembled the legs of cephalopods like octopuses, but they differed in that the ends were split into three. They were roughly between 5 and 10 meters long. They were much shorter than the erosion tentacles.
The change didn’t last long. I felt my rapidly changing body stabilizing and opened the text box.
“Mutant Virus Host: Transforms into a creature that carries a virus that triggers mutations. Physical and internal organ-related characteristics are deactivated. The transformation state can be canceled at will by the user. The maximum duration is 3 days, and the cooldown is 30 days.
-Mutant Virus: Triggers rapid genetic mutation in those who come into contact with its tentacles. The mutation effect is random, but commonly causes extreme aggression.
The mutant virus host is a special state that was unlocked when raiding Pira Eleven’s support ship before leaving the Dragon’s Nest.
Unlike the ‘King of Monsters’, which increases combat power, and the ‘Clever Weakling’, which specializes in infiltration and assassination, this special state specializes in infecting and mutating enemies.
As you can see from the body shape, it is not very useful in close combat. Its speed is also very slow, making it disadvantageous in mobile combat. Since the physical characteristics written in the tooltip are sealed, fighting a strong enemy one-on-one is almost suicidal.
But there’s only one reason I chose this. It’s because of that ‘mutant virus’.
The genes of the enemy infected with the virus are rapidly mutated when hit by my tentacles. Normally, the moment the genes are damaged, the person would die, but this virus is not that easy. In order to prevent the virus host from dying, it modifies its body into a new form to match the mutation.
‘Just like NeXXroXX.’
Creatures infected with the mutant virus are transformed into beings like the space undead from classic SF games. They completely lose their sense of reason and become obsessed with killing other creatures until their body’s stored energy runs out.
Since the ‘other creatures’ mentioned here include me, the mutated enemies will also attack me. The next card I pull out here is the Herald of Chaos.
The Herald of Chaos has the ability to distort the senses of those around it. It can distort the senses of enemies infected with the mutant virus and manipulate them to target only certain targets.
‘And the madness bomb is a bonus.’
Mutated creatures are constantly fighting and dying. Naturally, the contagion effect of the Madness Bomb is also greatly increased.
The fatal flaw of the mutant virus host and the Herald of Chaos combo is that the speed drops to that of a snail. The original Herald of Chaos also has a penalty that slows down the body’s movements when activated, but this penalty is doubled.
But this is not a problem either. My friends by my side will protect me.
“Wow! The big baby looks like me again!”
“Congratulations.”
Number 26 was circling around me, glowing, as if he liked my transformation. He had also been very pleased with my first transformation at the slave market.
‘But not the other kids.’
By the way, Adhai said that it was okay for me to be ugly, and Heavenly Mother pretended that she was going to throw up. PS-111 didn’t leave any comments other than wondering about the various chemical reactions that were happening in my body.
‘You can’t please everyone.’
Personally, I like it in its current form.
‘That’s okay for now.’
I felt a strong vibration from the tracks and closed the text box.
Trains carrying offerings are coming here.