Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 286
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Episode 286 – Fable (3)
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Megacorp, a human community that thrived around the solar system, is ruled by seven families.
Five noble capital families based on Earth.
Two Prime Capital families based in the Martian colony.
Once a huge conglomerate, they survive today as family-run businesses.
And now, the interests of the Seven Houses are focused on other constellations, not the Solar System.
A-11 constellation.
One of the constellations that Megacorp has taken over after the Solar System, it houses a very important facility.
That is the building of the Megacorp dispute resolution team.
A direct agency of the CEO of the Conflict Resolution Team located on a terraformed planet, it exists to mediate disputes that arise between families within Megacorp.
The role of ‘law’ in Megacorp is to effectively protect the interests of the seven families. Therefore, all of Megacorp’s laws are decided by the heads of the seven families and their executives in secret meetings.
Of course, no matter how much time is spent on making it, the ‘law’ is not perfect. There are times when the law itself is contradictory, and interpretations can differ depending on each person’s position. The dispute resolution team exists to prepare for such times.
A large auditorium that can accommodate thousands of people.
In the center of the place stood the head of the dispute mediation team.
“This concludes the 17th meeting on the drafting of the ‘T&C·Egerton Interim Ceasefire Arrangement on the Armed Conflict’.”
His voice echoed through the microphone throughout the auditorium.
The auditorium was usually empty, but not today. Lawyers dispatched from the seven major families and reporters from major media outlets were sitting there.
The reason they gathered was as the head of the dispute mediation team said.
They gathered to resolve the armed conflict that arose between Noble Capital TNC and Prime Capital Edgerton, triggered by the collapse of the TNC Special Trade Center.
Once a request for mediation has been submitted to the dispute mediation team, the families involved must reach an agreement unconditionally. This is because families that refuse to reach an agreement will lose their status as upper-tier capital.
Of course, losing the capital’s status is much more detrimental than losing a dispute, so no family has ever refused to agree to such a thing.
However, the disadvantages of the agreement are by no means small. It is enough to greatly shake the family’s power.
Therefore, the lawyers of the families who participated in the mediation meeting must win at all costs. It is noble to bribe the enemy lawyers to benefit the family even a little, and if necessary, they will even resort to threats, kidnapping, and torture. This is what is called Megacorp-style mediation.
“We will accept your objection again in 24 hours.”
As soon as the head of the dispute mediation team finished speaking, the people sitting in the auditorium started to leave like an ebb tide.
Akira Eugene, who was watching this from a secret room at the back of the auditorium, turned off the monitor. An old butler was waiting behind him.
The long-running civil war has finally come to an end.
Early in the conflict, the TNC family lost an entire space city, and one of their heirs in the process. The losses were so astronomical that many predicted that the civil war would end with Egerton’s dominance.
In addition, the Edgerton family had recently succeeded in mass producing a new type of warship. Naturally, the early battle situation went in Edgerton’s favor.
If Edgerton had not lost his lord, the civil war would have ended long ago with TNC’s defeat.
“This situation has become a blessing in disguise for TNC.”
“It seems that the loss of the head of the household was fatal for Edgerton.”
“That’s right. Edgerton is still in a state of unstable condition.”
Denver Edgerton, nicknamed the Black Lion of Mars, went missing when the TNC Special Trade Center collapsed. Edgerton’s vassals and elders were too focused on their own interests to care about the war with TNC.
As the civil war dragged on, the weight of the scales shifted toward TNC.
Disarray in the command center and problems in the production process – these two factors led to Edgerton’s defeat.
The adjustment plan has not been finalized yet, but the trend cannot be reversed. Based on the adjustment plan, TNC will extract all kinds of benefits from Edgerton.
“Thanks to that, the Eugene family’s hand has reached Egerton, but it seems like we won’t see much benefit this way.”
“… … .”
The butler also knew that Akira had pushed Edgerton during the civil war. He sensed his master’s discomfort and quickly lowered his head.
His master did not support Edgerton because he liked them. It was to check the fact that TNC’s power had grown to the point where it threatened Eugene.
Akira secretly sent shadows to TNC to sabotage, while secretly supporting Edgerton with the Hulk mutant. Thanks to his help, things ended at this level, otherwise Edgerton would have suffered much greater losses.
Thanks to this, Akira’s supporters within Edgerton increased significantly, but Akira was not satisfied.
The butler thought that the master’s anger was due to his failure to achieve his goal of weakening TNC, but this was only half right.
That was one of the reasons, but there was another factor that made Akira uncomfortable.
That was the starting point of the civil war.
After investigating the cause of the collapse of TNC’s space city, Akira Eugene was able to determine who had instigated this civil war.
‘Eimov!’
That damn Morph-bag guy polluted the city the way he did in the game. He knew better than anyone, having lost a space fortress to him.
What makes him even angrier is that the guy and he were together in the same city for a short time. When he visited the space city, the guy was out in the dark somewhere in the city.
At the time, I thought it was the shadow that betrayed me, Sihyeon Yujin, but I was very mistaken.
If he had noticed even a little earlier, the civil war would not have happened.
The thought of that guy wandering around the universe somewhere laughing at himself made me feel like I was going crazy.
Actually, when he stole my pet Gallagon’s ring and mocked me with a tombstone, my blood ran cold.
‘Eimov, Beomho! How dare these bastards…!’
Beomho’s puppet, Sihyeon Yujin. Morphbak, who has already fed him two lies. Those who tormented him in reality are tormenting him in the other world as well.
Moreover, recently, there have been signs of unsettling movements even among those who share his views.
It’s been over half a year since Jubaka contacted her, and Chloe is holed up in the Mercury research base and won’t come out.
It all happened after Jason’s death.
‘The civil war is over anyway. Is it time to start wrapping things up?’
As Akira was thinking about what to do next, there was a knock on the door outside.
As the butler opened the door, a woman dressed in black came in and bowed politely to Akira.
“Akira-sama. The head of the St. Kay family, Walter, has arrived.”
“Ah, it’s good news after a long time.”
Akira smiled at the news that the person he had been waiting for had arrived.
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‘It’s been a long time since I’ve felt this way.’
This is the second time I have become an adult here, not in a game.
I had previously taken Psionium to block the Imperial Carrier’s Cosmic Bolt. At that time, I was able to properly feel the power of the adult for a short time. Even if I had used the ‘King of Monsters’ as well, it was enough to destroy the Imperial Carrier and its mother ship battle group.
My condition now is very different from then.
To be honest, I’ve never seen this happen in a game before. It’s because the only trait I have that’s been created by the Transcendence system is affecting my body.
‘Transcendence’ is a system that does not exist in the game. Naturally, the unique characteristics created through it do not exist either.
Because it has grown with new characteristics, its appearance has also become very different from that of the basic adult.
If I had to pick the three biggest changes, they would be body size, figure, and head.
First, looking at the body length, the length from head to tail has increased to about 60m. This can be considered to be more than twice the length before entering Kochi.
Not only that. Their body shape has also changed. If the form when they first entered the semi-adult stage was like a snake, and the form right before they became an adult was like a spider, they have now returned to a body shape suitable for bipedal walking, like in the past when they were a juvenile and subadult.
The fighting arms located before the tail starts from the waist have moved down and changed into legs. In accordance with the change in role, the joints have also taken the form of digitigrade legs.
However, the two wing arms and two fighting arms were still large and long, so it was close to bipedal walking with its forelimbs on the ground like apes such as gorillas.
My body height when standing on two legs is about 40m. Even when standing upright, it surpasses the body length of a white gallagoon. Of course, it is partly due to the length of the neck, but even if you exclude that, it is by no means small.
‘It wasn’t this big in the game, you know.’
From here, you have to subtract about 20m to get the original size of the adult. Not only did it grow in size, but its strength and defensive capabilities also seemed to have increased.
“The big baby is big!”
No. 26, who had been waiting by my side until I woke up from the cocoon, called everyone over as soon as the cocoon broke. The kids who had gathered at the crater from the pirate ship were amazed at my transformed body.
“Wow, look at its size.”
Heavenly Mother was amazed at my appearance, which was much larger than the one in the game. She must have felt the same way as I did, since she also knows the appearance of the adult in the game.
“Horn!” “A lot!” “Big!” “Perfect!”
Adhai seemed to really like my transformation. He kept circling over my head with his wings spread, exclaiming in admiration.
The most striking change in the body as it matures, as evidenced by its intense reactions, is its head.
When Aimorph becomes an adult, its head increases to three, with two newly grown heads visible at the ends of a long neck extending from either side of the central head.
The effect of the trait ‘Three Heads’ received as an adult privilege
The heads that felt my consciousness turned towards me.
The two heads on either side were generally similar in shape to the central head: two long tusks, a long, snake-like snout, accessory organs under the jaw, horns on the head, etc.
Instead, both heads were eyeless. Where the eyes should have been, horns were taking their place. Originally, there should have been no horns, but perhaps it was because of the unique trait it acquired just before it grew up? Each of the two heads had four horns growing out.
“Grrr”
“Grrrrr”
Having two additional heads didn’t make me more intelligent or give me two voices inside my head or anything like that.
Looking at the senses connected to the two heads, it seemed like they both had brains, but they were treated as parts similar to my arms or legs. If I had to make a comparison, I would say they were bio-robots that had self-awareness but obeyed the main body’s orders.
‘There were many times in the game when I felt frustrated because of this hair.’
There have been several instances where surprise attacks failed because the AI moved on its own if proper commands were not given. Of course, that doesn’t mean that the three heads are mines.
Even if the main body, the central head, is destroyed while possessing three heads, it does not die. This is because one of the two remaining heads takes over the consciousness and controls the body.
‘I don’t know if it’s the same here, but.’
And although two of the heads have no eyes, they have accessory organs. Thanks to the accessory organs attached to the three heads under the jaws, my senses have been heightened to an unprecedented degree.
‘… I think this is going to take some getting used to.’
It was more annoying than I thought because it felt like I could sense things happening several kilometers away right in front of my nose. I didn’t know it would be like this since the game ended with the minimap that could be observed expanding.
I tried hard to block out the information coming from my two heads.
“bowl?”
“Grrr”
“It tickles!”
As my consciousness faded, the two heads began to move independently. They bent their necks and approached No. 26, licking him with their tongues. The creature seemed to be in a good mood, emitting a twinkle of light in the middle of the desolate planet.
“Me too” “Me too”
“Grrrrr”
“Feeling” “Strange” “Amazing”
“I’m also very curious about what that feels like. Please tell me too.”
“Huh?”
“Thank you. It was very helpful.”
“Oh, I don’t have to do it.”
“bowl”
‘Like a retriever.’
I don’t know if it was just instinct or if my emotions were being distorted and conveyed, but the two heads showed a familiar attitude towards the children. It was a sight that anyone who knew Aimov would absolutely not believe.
‘If a sane person saw me, they would faint.’
Except for Mother in Heaven, the rest of the kids seemed to be quite enjoying playing with the two heads.
‘Originally, I wanted to talk about the illusion I saw in Kochi… .’
If you think about it, even the Heavenly Mother didn’t reach this stage. Among the visions she saw, there was none that competed with herself.
I was going to check with Jason, who had become a human-faced insect, but seeing the guys having fun made me put that off.
Instead, I checked the remaining changed parts.
The six horns and wing arms attached to the central head grew larger in line with the growth of the body, and the body’s outer shell became thicker like the outer wall of a space fortress. The muscles of the fighting arms and legs that support the body became thick enough to be called bio-armor.
‘Oh, should I consider this a change as well?’
The bio-cannon on my back was moved to my tail because of my new unique trait.
Thanks to that, I now have two tails. The two tails that split from my pelvic region as my body shape changed are each several tens of meters long.
The shape of the tails was also different. One tail had pincers, and the other had a bio-cannon. The part with the bio-cannon was a change that occurred because it reflected one of the two unique characteristics I had acquired just before evolution.
‘That’s it for the body check.’
It’s time to check out the two unique traits obtained before evolution, and the second stage perk of the space monster type.
‘First, the perks.’
I wondered what they would give me in the second stage. I opened the semi-transparent text box with such anticipation.
‘What is this?’
I was shocked when I checked the contents of the text box that appeared.
“2nd stage reward
Double-Helix Monolith: You can transplant any trait you have (except unique traits) to a friendly creature. The transplanted traits are permanent, and you can only transplant 2 traits per creature. The transplantable traits are affected by the level increase of the space monster type.
*P.S. It’s your choice whether you will be a leader or a destroyer.