Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 313
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Episode 313 – Monster Hunt (4)
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Sihyeon Eugene, wearing the white reinforced suit ‘White Maiden’, glared at the being in the darkness.
An unknown being who killed the assassination target of ‘Sihyeon Eugene’ in the past and then killed her as well.
The monster that had been tormenting her in nightmares for some time was found underground on a strange planet, and it was so strong that it was unrecognizable.
Even when he fought her, he transformed his body once. It was a change that could be called evolution.
The one in front of her now is the same. I couldn’t even guess how much it had evolved to become like that.
But she wasn’t afraid.
He’s also one of the targets she has to kill. There’s only one thing she has to worry about.
All of the senses in his body were focused on the creature’s movements. The shells covering the monster’s body were interlocking with each other, making a subtle sound.
She kicked the ground as she read that the bastard was about to move.
As expected, the left side of the bastard’s head slammed into the spot where she had been. She dodged by jumping into the air, landing on the monster’s neck and running away.
The right head turned towards her with its snout wide open. Then a clump of black mucus poured out.
Sihyeon raised her right arm forward as she ran. The White Maiden, the enhanced suit she was wearing, could change its appearance as the user desired. The enhanced suit covering her wrists unfolded like a funnel and transformed into a large shield.
She transformed her left arm while defending herself against the slime by turning her arm into a shield. This time, it was not her suit that had changed, but her entire body that had changed. The Gallagon genes injected into her body were activated, and a silver blade sprouted from the back of her hand.
Just as I was about to cut the bastard’s left neck with the blade.
The bastard read her intentions and swung his sword sharply at her neck. Because of her imbalance, the blade only managed to slash the carapace covering her neck.
The bastard’s arm flew towards her as she fell from above her neck. Even if she had protected herself with the armor, she would have been crushed by that huge hand. She jumped into the air and narrowly avoided the bastard’s arm.
But that wasn’t the end of the bastard’s attacks. The tentacles that had sprouted from his back were already within reach of her.
The tentacles, with their six appendages, were almost as long as a super-ship. It was impossible to dodge them. She quickly created wings on her back.
She quickly retreated, spreading her wings in a glide pattern, her tentacle-attached appendages barely reaching the tip of her wings before missing.
But he hasn’t given up yet.
The side of the head of the thing that had been resting its snout on the floor moved again. The thing’s mouth rose to swallow her floating in the air.
Sihyeon quickly pulled out the plasma pistol from her thigh holster after returning her right arm, which had been transformed into a shield, back to its original state.
The part she was aiming for was inside the bastard’s mouth. A green bullet of light was lodged inside the gaping maw.
“Okay!”
It was a small weapon, but it was clearly a plasma weapon. It didn’t seem to cause serious damage, but it was effective enough to slow down the enemy’s attacks. While her left head tilted its head in annoyance, she widened the distance between herself and the guy.
‘… strong.’
When they fought before, she had the upper hand. But she lost miserably when he struck her weak spot while she was off guard.
But now he has the upper hand over her.
There is no comparison in size or strength. She has a slight advantage in speed, but it is not a large difference.
‘The durability is also amazing.’
It was clearly unharmed even though a plasma bullet was lodged in its neck. It has incredible durability despite being inside the body and not protected by a shell.
‘The perfect biological weapon.’
The being before my eyes was the long-cherished wish of the Eugene family itself. If the shadow created by the Eugene family was a genetically modified weapon that was at least one generation ahead, then this guy was an entity of a completely different dimension.
When asked whether she could fight and win against such an opponent, or rather, whether she could ‘endure’, she was skeptical.
‘…but.’
But there is a reason why Sihyeon is standing here.
She also had a knife hidden away.
Layla Chamberlain, who came down to the underground with them, is hiding with the artifact ‘Abyss Destroyer’.
It’s a plan that still has a lot of unresolved concerns. But if things go according to plan, I’ll be able to give him a real kick in the butt.
With that hope in mind, I rushed at him again.
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‘How did you survive?’
I thought as I was hit by the flying sword energy.
She, Si-Hyeon Eugene, who does not stop her fierce attack even though she knows it is useless, is already a dead person.
I remembered it clearly, because I had acquired useful traits like ‘mimetic organs’ and ‘monster tentacles’ thanks to preying on her.
The one who was fighting me was definitely Sihyeon Yujin. Everything about her fighting style, movements, and physical reactions were exactly the same as the dead her.
Space Survival does not completely lack elements of reviving the dead, but they are extremely limited. Furthermore, this is not a game, but reality. It is questionable whether the traits or equipment that resurrect the dead will work properly.
If so, there is only one answer.
‘Clone human.’
The enemy fighting me is most likely a clone that Sihyeon Eugene prepared in advance.
While she was thinking about the identity of her opponent, a yak horn sprouted from her temple. With that, she swung her arm with the Gallagon claws protruding. The sword energy, much stronger than before, flew towards my auxiliary organ.
‘Two skills?’
As far as I remember, Shihyeon’s weakness was that she couldn’t use more than two genetic technologies at the same time. But now she was using the yak horn transplanted into her head and the Gallagon’s claw transplanted into her arm at the same time.
‘I was wondering how you cut off the horn.’
I turned my head and defended myself against the sword with the fangs that protruded from the sides of my mouth. The blades of the fangs were slightly nicked, but not seriously damaged. I then struck her head with my fighting arm.
“Tch!”
She clicked her tongue briefly and dodged my arm attack by jumping to the side. The erosive tentacles on my back poured in the direction she was avoiding.
As if she had read my attack, she transformed her arm back into a shield. The white shield and one of the eroding tentacles collided.
“Ugh?”
Although he succeeded in blocking the erosion tentacles with his shield, he looks quite confused. He must have realized that the power contained in the tentacles is by no means light.
I spread the membrane on one of my wing arms and swept the floor she was standing on.
Perhaps judging that running away like before was impossible, this time she deployed ‘Reflection’. Just before my wing arms could sweep her away, she stopped in place. The enemy did not miss that short gap and quickly escaped.
“…shit.”
She looked fine, except for the fact that she had been covered in sand, but her expression was not good. This was because the part of her arm that had been transformed into a shield was damaged.
‘Even the White Maiden isn’t omnipotent.’
I already know what kind of power suit she’s wearing.
Just like the Code Black I killed before, who was wearing the ‘Black Shroud’, she was also wearing a unique enhanced suit. White Maiden is a special enhanced suit with nanotechnology grafted onto it, and can freely change its shape according to the user’s will.
‘It’s equipment that greatly depends on the user’s level.’
In addition, it has useful functions such as self-repair and the ability to absorb other substances and use them as an energy source for the enhanced suit.
The disadvantage of the vision is that it cannot use more than two genetic technologies at once. The White Maiden, who can freely change her body, can effectively help with this disadvantage. It must have been given to her by the head of the Eugene family and the 3rd ranker, Akira Eugene.
‘Even the White Maiden has its drawbacks.’
If you receive an attack that is so strong that the durability of the reinforced suit cannot withstand it, the recovery process will be slow.
Unless she has other auxiliary equipment, she won’t be able to withstand the attacks of the Aimorph adult.
I looked down at the black-haired woman glaring through her teeth.
‘Looking at the unique reinforced suit, it seems like it’s Sihyeon Eugene’s clone.’
Her appearance was quite different from that of a typical clone.
According to the setting, Star Union’s clones do not receive complete memory transfer. This is due to several reasons, such as loss of memory data during the transfer process and discrepancies between the body and memory data.
But judging from his actions, he clearly remembered that he had fought me. It was as if his memories had been transmitted to me after he died.
‘Has a new technology been developed that I don’t know about?’
Of course, I think that is unlikely.
If that were the case, all the dead rankers would have been resurrected as clones and come to catch me. It would be reasonable to consider the clone of Sihyeon Eugene in front of me as an extremely rare case.
‘There’s no need to worry about it.’
You can just ask her directly.
At that moment, she glared at me and then turned around and ran to the other side. It looked like she had given up and run away in despair.
‘No way.’
I already noticed that he wasn’t trying to run away, but was trying to lure me.
There wasn’t just one presence I felt before meeting her.
Two, to be exact. There had been another presence besides Sihyeon, but it was barely noticeable now. Unless it had suddenly disappeared, it was definitely hiding inside that passage.
‘It definitely felt quite heavy.’
Before it disappeared, the vibration was felt quite loudly, meaning that the opponent was quite heavy.
‘No matter what happens, it won’t be easy to beat me.’
I prepared to prevent any surprise attack, and then followed the path that Sihyeon had taken.
The auxiliary organs attached to each head also constantly checked the surroundings for any unusual features. As a result, the auxiliary organs picked up a faint mechanical sound coming from one side of the wall. All of my snouts turned toward the sound.
“Damn it! He figured it out!”
Sihyeon shouted as if she was cursing at the sight of me. Her colleague disarmed the optical equipment that was made to resemble a wall, or rather, a wall, and raised his weapon at me.
A blue heat ray fired from the muzzle of the ‘Slayer’, a popular demolition weapon, flies towards the head in the center.
‘I knew it.’
I had anticipated this kind of surprise attack. I activated my ‘variable bio-weapon’ in advance while following behind Sihyeon.
The target of the mutation is the head. The thick shell of the Ice Horror is protecting the head in the center.
Of course, even the Ice Horror’s shell is not able to completely defend against high-powered material decomposition bullets. Instead, its incredibly thick shell is effective enough to protect vital organs, including the brain. The Slayer’s heat ray only made a hole in my shell and did not cause any further damage.
“Get back!”
The person wearing the uniquely designed reinforced suit just stared at me blankly, as if he didn’t know that I was okay.
I put strength into my two legs to return the favor as much as I received from the enemy. My gigantic body, 60 meters long, accelerates.
“this?!”
The enemy seemed to come to his senses only after seeing me approaching rapidly. The enemy, wearing a unique reinforced suit, let out a mechanically modulated scream and quickly avoided me.
As my reinforced heads hit the passage wall, the surroundings shook as if an earthquake had occurred. In that state, I swung my right tail with its pincers strongly.
The enemy who had dodged to the side hastily activated his shield, but that was a mistake. The moment he was hit by the pincers at the end of his tail, not only his shield but also the shield activation device on his wrist was destroyed.
“Ugh!”
Enemies hit by the tail flew like shells fired from a cannon and crashed into the opposite wall.
‘It’s solid.’
The enemy’s reinforced suit itself must have extremely high physical defense, as it was not broken by the attack just now. Of course, it couldn’t absorb all the shock, as the enemy stuck in the wall smelled strongly of blood.
‘Now all that’s left is….’
Only Sihyeon and Eugene. I used my strength in my neck to pull the heads out of the wall.
And when I turned my head, she was standing at the end of my line of sight.
‘huh?’
She was holding objects that looked like they had just been dug out of the dirt.
“Got it.”
Si-hyeon mutters coldly as if the scene up until now was an act.
She placed the crystal in her hand into a device that looked like a cordless vacuum cleaner. The crystal then began to spin violently and emit an eerie light.
“‘Si■ ■jin’ is ■■■■■■’s ■■■■■”
‘what?’
Suddenly, images appeared in front of me. I couldn’t see anything because they were covered in mosaics.
But I know very well what this phenomenon means.
‘Predator sense!’
Realizing this, I quickly covered my head with my wing arms and fighting arms. As soon as I bent down, an eerie glow covered my body.
I didn’t feel any pain. No, I didn’t feel anything. It felt like a light breeze was passing through my body.
Just as I was about to think that.
“Huh?! ”
Blood flowed from my mouth. Along with it, I felt excruciating pain from my combat arms. The two combat arms attached to my sides were twisted wildly and then shrunk rapidly.
Is this what it feels like to be forcibly turned into a mummy while still sober? I haven’t been in this much pain since I was hit by the ‘Gaze of Terror’ with the ‘Color of the Abyss’ applied. My legs lost their strength due to the pain beyond my imagination.
‘Uh, uh… . Th, what is this… ?’
And it wasn’t just the pain that surprised me.
A semi-transparent text box appeared in front of me. It was something I had never seen before.
‘I need to come to my senses! Right now, it’s more important than ever…’
There was a very dangerous enemy in front of me. I somehow managed to raise my body by applying strength to my wing arms.
“Why, why don’t you die? Are you not an outspacer?”
Sihyeon Eugene, who seriously injured me.
When I looked at his face, he seemed surprised that I wasn’t dead.
“Grrrrrrr!”
“… Tch!”
She took advantage of the moment when I was still unable to move properly and ran away carrying her injured comrade.
‘… it was dangerous.’
If she had just used ‘that weapon’ again, I would have been finished.
After she disappeared, I swept the dirt scattered around with my wing arms and stuffed it into my mouth. Thanks to the ‘digestion of inorganic substances’ characteristic of environmental adaptation, eating dirt can increase the regeneration effect. It’s not very efficient, but now is not the time to worry about that.
As I continued to eat dirt, the pain gradually subsided. The bleeding inside my body also stopped, and I recovered enough to stand on my own two legs.
However, the combat arm did not return to its original state.
You can see why by looking at the semi-transparent text box.
“‘■■ ■■■’ destroyed the genetic essence of ‘Outspacer’.
The ‘Parasitic Colony’ trait is disabled. You must prey on the relevant genetic essence to re-enable it.」
Sihyeon Eugene used me as a target.
‘… to take away Aimov’s special traits.’
It was a weapon that destroyed genetic essence.