Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 322
Only Noblemtl
The mansion will be guarded by No. 26 and PS-111. No. 26, who can mimic voices like me, and PS-111, who has knowledge of the cult society, will be able to deal with any problems that arise.
“Let’s stop by the large warehouse first.”
We flew to where the warehouse was located using Charas’ airship, which was brought by the Heavenly Mother.
At a time when the sun was still shining, the fortress was bustling with people. The waterfall, which looked like flowing wine, also found its color and emitted blue light. In the waterway connected to the waterfall, colorful hover buses were moving around, shaking the water surface.
As we passed the buildings shining brightly in the sun, a huge pyramid-shaped structure came into view. As we got closer, each and every block that made up the pyramid was a warehouse.
“There are a lot.”
“No matter who searches, there’s no way they won’t get caught.”
The warehouse that had been contracted in advance was located at the bottom of the pyramid, perhaps because of its size.
When I entered using Charas’ terminal pad, I saw that the entire Roberts mansion was large enough to fit inside.
‘But the height isn’t that high.’
It was lower than the tunnel I had fought the cultists through before entering the fortress. It was so low that I would have to lie face down if my body returned to normal.
Well, if you think about it, there’s no need for it to be that tall unless you’re putting in a creature with a very large body like a Cidemon or a Gigantherium.
“We have to find that kid as quickly as possible.”
“Small! Tall! Small!”
“I know.”
I left the warehouse hoping that the slave I was checking today would be ranked 22nd.
‘The warehouse is done. Next is….’
I entered the new destination with my small arm next to my chest.
“The hotel with the Coldblood slaves is on North Street?”
“It’s too risky to go directly to the hotel. Instead, it would be better to go to the slave quarters and wait.”
After completing the input, the airship flew straight in the opposite direction from the center.
The warehouse pyramid is a place where customers and merchants store their goods. It is located not far from the street where the luxury hotels are located.
As soon as we left the huge warehouse pyramid in the open space, buildings of a very different form from those in the downtown area came into view.
A large lake that looks like a water source. On top of it, buildings of various shapes float. They are expensive buildings that have magnetic levitation technology that is used on aircraft larger than hovercraft, that is, large ships. The appearance of the hotels floating on the lake reminded me of lotus flowers blooming on water.
‘That looks similar to what I saw in the game.’
If you go to an old planet like the capital city among the cult planets, you can see floating structures. This is because the cult culture, which prefers to live above ground and in the air rather than underground, and the fact that the entire race can use psychic powers, combined to create many buildings that float above the ground like this.
‘Of course, the players’ reviews weren’t very good.’
If the buoyancy device breaks, the building is finished. Unless it’s a concept play, there are very few players who live in such a building.
Anyway, this time we are not going to those fancy hotels. The airship quietly crossed the lake.
The hotel where the Coldblood slaves work, Roberts said, operates a slave-only dormitory, and that dormitory is located not far from the hotel.
The airship was headed to a place where there were beautiful, but somewhat old buildings. The area was home to facilities for the slaves working at the hotel.
After landing at an airfield near the area, I headed to the accommodations that Roberts had told me about with the Heavenly Mother.
“Looking at it, it seems like everyone is living as well as Megacorp Middle Capital.”
“Since they are slaves working at a luxury hotel, they will be treated differently.”
As it was the city with the highest concentration of wealth in Berzan 02, the cult’s slaves also had a fairly high standard of living.
The expressions of the slaves roaming the streets were not good, even in vain, but their behavior was so neat that it was hard to believe they were slaves. The buildings, other than the fact that they were old, seemed well-maintained.
‘Plus, there’s a watchtower.’
The area itself was filled with low-rise buildings, but there were a few tall watchtowers like the buildings in the center. Their main purpose was to watch over the slaves, but they also had the function of stabilizing public order. If there was a fight within the area, they would respond immediately.
‘If you’re going to fight, you should avoid the watchtower… .’
“!”
As I was looking at the watchtower and thinking about how to fight, the Heavenly Mother suddenly hit me.
“what’s the matter?”
“I found it.”
“What? Where?”
She pointed to a fruit shop. A familiar figure was standing in front of the shop.
It was a race of Coldbloods that seemed to have mixed characteristics of three animals: reptiles, humans, and beetles. The guy looked exactly like the photo I saw in Robets’ files.
“That’s right.”
“Are you sure?”
When I asked her, she nodded with confident eyes.
At least the Heavenly Mother was certain that her opponent was ranked 22nd. Her amber eyes were fixed firmly on the short Coldblood.
‘What should I do?’
The original plan for today was to check the face of the slave sold by Roberts to see if he was really the 22nd. Judging from the reaction of the Heavenly Mother, it would be safe to say that the goal itself was achieved.
“There’s no rush, so let’s wait and see.”
Still, just in case, we decided to keep an eye on Coldblood, who was estimated to be in 22nd place. My mother and I followed him while keeping our distance.
The guy bought some fruit and then moved on. After buying a few more items at the next store, he just browsed through the items on display.
‘I heard you’re short, but you really are short.’
Born with a dwarf trait like Adhai, the guy was unusually short. He was so small that he looked like a child dressed up as Coldblood.
‘huh?’
After a few minutes of chasing him, something felt strange. He stopped buying things and kept moving somewhere. At first he pretended to look around, but now he didn’t.
‘I’m not even going to the dorm.’
The moment I thought things were going wrong, the guy ran off into a deserted alley.
‘no way?’
“… I think that kid noticed that I was following him.”
I didn’t know it would get caught even though I was moving at a distance of hundreds of meters.
Even while chasing the guy, I kept checking to see if there were any detection technologies running around as auxiliary equipment. It definitely wasn’t psychic technology that detected us.
‘Did you bring any detection equipment?’
“There’s a change in plans. I need to talk about it today.”
I don’t know what means they used, but since they have already recognized our presence, we can’t go back like this. We have to negotiate here.
Even the Heavenly Mother, who understood what I meant, tensed up her body.
She and I followed the alley where the guy disappeared.
As expected, the short Coldblood was waiting for us, standing between the old buildings.
“Sister Seo-ah.”
Coldblood recited the real name of the comrade standing beside me. The reptilian eyes lingered for a moment on the Heavenly Mother before turning to me, who was beside me.
“…Moffak. It was your doing.”
This time, it was completely different from when I called my old colleague by his name. There was a dark light in the eyes of the 22nd person who spat out the derogatory remark about me as if chewing it up.
“Huh? Wait! Isabel!”
“… … .”
The bewildered Heavenly Mother tried to stop him, but it was no use. The 22nd, or rather, the Coldblood Ranker called Isabel, had already pulled out what appeared to be a weapon.
‘this.’
Judging from the atmosphere, it seems like it won’t be resolved easily.
Isabel ran towards me as if no further conversation was necessary.
An alley located between old buildings.
Isabel leaps toward me in a single bound, the sword in her hand flying towards my head with the swiftness of a wild beast on the hunt.
I kicked the ground with my four legs and pulled my upper body back while swinging my two tails at the same time. While I aimed for the curved sword with the pincers on the end of my right tail, I aimed for the enemy’s wrist with my left tail, which did not have the ‘Black Devourer Cannon’.
Although the size of the forceps has been reduced due to the ‘smart underdog’ status, it is still much larger than the sword that Isabel is holding.
‘I don’t know what the cutting power of the curve is, but the difference in size cannot be ignored.’
The blade of the curved sword is only about two finger joints wide at most. If the two collide, it would be difficult for the other side to avoid damage.
The opponent must have thought the same thing, as the hand holding the knife made a sharp turn. The sharp blade swept across the rough surface of the tongs, making an eerie cracking sound.
Meanwhile, my left tail moved to wrap around the opponent’s two arms like a snake that has caught its prey. Just as the tip of the tail was about to touch the opponent’s wrist, Isabel’s waist bent in a bizarre way. Her ankle rose in midair to almost the same level as her wrist and kicked the tip of my tail.
The two-tailed attack ended in failure. She used the recoil of her tails to retreat.
But I also predicted that it would be difficult to land a significant blow with the tail. I kicked the ground with my four legs.
“Tch!”
I hear a tongue-clicking sound from the enemy who just landed on the ground. He rolls to the side to avoid me charging at him like a bull. He kicks her with his hind legs like a horse, but she quickly dodges him.
Not only that, the guy climbed onto my back like an insect or a lizard climbing onto a wall.
‘Where.’
On my back, covered in thick fur, is a hidden nest of human-faced insects. Upon receiving my command, the human-faced insects prepared paralyzing sound waves from inside their fur.
Just as the five man-eating insects were about to unleash their deadly sound waves, Isabel pulled out another tool. The creature threw a small hexagonal plate-like tool into my fur, then jumped down from my back.
A loud, scream-like noise spread through the air from the human-faced insect. However, the sound did not reach the creature.
Because a shield was formed from the hexagonal plate that the guy threw and wrapped around my entire body. The sound waves of the human-faced insect were blocked by the invisible barrier and disappeared into nothingness.
The tool he threw was a device that creates a psychic shield. He threw it at me to block sonic attacks.
I slammed the shield with the pincers on my right tail and shattered it. A curved blade flew in through the gap in the shield that was torn like a piece of paper.
‘I knew it.’
I didn’t dodge the guy’s attacks.
As expected, the curved blade lodged itself in the horn of my head. The thin blade pierced the horn, creating a momentary gap between me and the guy.
Now that the guy is right next to me, it’s time for the heads on either side to come into play. The head on the left, which is closest to the guy, opens its mouth wide.
“!”
The guy’s eyes widened as if he didn’t know that the heads on either side would move. She eventually chose to abandon the curve. My teeth barely grazed the guy’s scale-covered arm.
As the left head moved, the right head, which had been waiting, poured a pile of putrefactive mold towards the guy. It would hurt quite a bit if he got hit, but he brought it upon himself.
The boy rolled over in a hurry to avoid the flying clump of mold. This time, however, he couldn’t avoid it completely, so some got stuck on the tips of his toes.
“Huh!”
The boy mercilessly cut off his own toes with his fingernails. His toes, blackened with fungus, lay scattered on the floor.
‘That’s pretty good.’
There was a brief lull in the fighting as the guy cut off his toe and fell back a long way.
I lowered my head to the center and pulled out the curved sword embedded in the horn with my small arm towards my chest.
‘Is this the first time you’ve seen this weapon?’
I thought it was some kind of super-vibration weapon like the Sonic Blade, but it wasn’t. It was just a simple curved sword without any buttons or mechanical devices.
‘Its sharpness and durability are formidable, though.’
I don’t know what kind of metal it’s made of, but it’s quite durable. Like the pincers on my tail, the horns on my head are quite strong. I didn’t know that even a weapon with great cutting power could collide with my horns and pincers without causing any damage.
‘I have to be careful because I have things I don’t know.’
I threw the curved sword behind me and stared at the 22nd ranked player, Isabel.
There’s no need to worry too much about the horn being damaged. It will regenerate soon anyway.
The problem is that the other side isn’t showing their true abilities.
‘Which Vortex One’s power did you borrow?’
If the core of Aimorph is how to acquire and use traits, the core of Coldblood play is the relationship with Vortex One.
Coldblood, whose entire race’s life has been mortgaged to Vortex One, has a greatly different fighting style depending on which being’s power he borrows.
Some of them will boost your melee skills to the limit, while others will grant you powerful psychic powers. If you pay the price of a contract, you can freely use the power of the Apex’s top-tier beings.
However, this is the realm of the cult. Like me, he has difficulty using his power recklessly.
The cultists, by definition, have a strong aversion to Vortex One. That’s why Coldblood is despised.
If we use Vortex One’s power here, all of Berzan 02’s military power will be concentrated on him.
‘Or maybe there’s some other intention I don’t know about.’
Since he knows my infamy, there is a possibility that he hid it on purpose. He didn’t use Vortex One’s power or his unique special ability. Just as I didn’t show off my cards, the other side did the same.
‘Let’s fight a little more… .’
“Wait a minute! Both of you, wait!”