Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 335
Only Noblemtl
Green, purple, and countless other colors tangle together to dye the black shell. The unholy colors that seem to represent chaos itself slowly creep into my head.
“Sssssss!”
“Ssssss!”
The collector bugs see me emitting an ominous light and quickly retreat. As always, those greedy ‘colors’ don’t care what their enemies do.
The predatory light resembling Aimorph wraps around the monster’s tentacles. The amount of energy gathered is much lower than when it was strengthened as ‘Tyrantroid’, but it should not be overlooked. The psychic breath strengthened by the color of the abyss is more threatening than anything else.
Just as water drops fall down stalactites, the energy gathered at the tips of the three-branched heads is realized in the form of a sphere.
As I was large, the psychic sphere that was enhanced with the colors of the abyss was also quite large. No. 26 riding on my back also controlled the movement of the sphere according to the timing.
A powerful psychic breath that flies at high speed. It explodes above the collecting bugs like a soap bubble popping when it hits an object.
There was no loud explosion like other times. The multicolored bubbles were very, very quiet, sucking up the swarm of insects. If one insect escaped, more death would come.
‘Okay, I guess we can end it here.’
The moment I thought that.
Something unbelievable happened even with my own eyes.
The bugs that touched the bubbles of the reinforced psychic breath turned blue and soon disappeared from my sight.
The queen appears through the gap created when some of the swarm disappears. Blue afterimages remain in her many eyes.
Alshas, who was riding on top of the queen, was laughing at me with the corners of her lips raised.
‘That was Warp Boy’s ability just now.’
According to the setting, Outspacers are beings who came from another universe. Therefore, their methods of hyper-light travel are different from those of other races.
In order for Outspacers to move, they absolutely need a bio portal. No matter how many metallic gremlins they eat, they can’t take away Warp Boy’s teleportation ability, ‘Warp Guide’.
If so, there is only one answer.
Player Perks.
Unlike in the game, you can either strengthen your legion without any restrictions, or you can obtain the ability to travel at superluminal speeds through some method I don’t know about.
‘… The good news is that it’s not exactly the same as the original.’
If they could travel faster than light without any special penalties like the Warp Boys, there would be no need to send troops to the bio portal. They could just bring the entire legion with a bunch of queens.
The queen with Alshas could be a highly mobile entity, or the entire legion could be limited to faster travel.
‘Either way, we have to deal with him first right now.’
Originally, I was planning on destroying the bio portal in the pit, but circumstances changed.
That queen is more dangerous than the portal, because we have no idea how powerful she is or what effects she has.
I released the Abyssal Color and prepared my normal psychic breath. After clearing out the enemies in front of me with the breath, I plan to approach the queen in one breath.
And just as I was about to put that plan into action, I felt a strong energy reaction outside the bio-dome. It was the lightning of the gods, the god of thunder, which I was familiar with from having been hit twice before.
The golden ray of heat pierced the outer wall of the dome and struck my wing, causing my body to sway and the psychic breath to fly in the wrong direction. The purple breath created a new hole in the dome that still remained in the water fortress and disappeared.
I lifted my head in the center and checked above.
Beyond the gaping hole were some unwelcome enemies.
Numerous ships filled the red sky. They were the elite fleet of the Surveillance Agency that we had seen before infiltrating Berzan 02. Among them were the Brain God and Imperial Carriers.
‘Alshas!’
He wasn’t just riding on top of the Queen and watching. He was probably using the clone to contact the surveillance agency off-planet.
“The situation is not good for MPS-05. There are too many enemies on the ground.”
“There’s a bad little brat over there who’s been bullying the big kid.”
Outspacers in front and below, and the elite fleet of the Surveillance Agency above.
This is the first crisis I have experienced since becoming an adult.
‘How do I break through?’
I have an Imperial Carrier, but its Cosmic Bolt has a recharge time so I can’t use it right away. I can withstand other attacks with my shell.
‘Should we encourage the Outspacers and the Cults to fight?’
For a moment, I had that thought, but then I denied it.
Alshas and the Outspacer Queen are not stupid. Even if I try to disrupt them here, the chances of them getting through are low.
‘Should I grow into a giant bone beast and fight? Or should I use the symbol of the hunt now?’
Both are not bad methods, but they lack the decisiveness to turn the tide of battle. Since there are so many enemies, there is a limit to how much I can catch and kill on my own.
Besides, the enemies are not a rabble. Even if they don’t fully understand my intentions, they will try to respond somehow.
‘We need one decisive blow to stop it.’
Just as the collecting insects that saw the colors of the abyss retreated in instinctive fear.
Overwhelming fear is required.
‘What could it be… Wait a minute.’
As I was thinking, a certain characteristic flashed through my mind.
A trait that has never been used since it was acquired from the pirate fortress.
‘Black Devourer Cannon!’
I opened the text box while fighting off the gathering bugs that were rushing in again.
“Black Devourer Cannon: Infinite power is in your hands. Fire a shell using 50% of your body’s total energy storage capacity.
*P.S. Please be careful.」
The Black Devourer Cannon is the only trait I created after escaping from the pirate-occupied space fortress. The bio-cannon on my left tail is an organ that exists solely for this trait.
Of the unique traits created using the Transcendence system, this trait’s tulip tip was the simplest. All it did was consume energy to fire a shell. There were no special precautions other than the fact that it consumed 50% of the maximum energy that could be stored in the body.
‘It looks okay up to here, but….’
The reason I thought I shouldn’t let my guard down when looking at the characteristics is because of the postscript at the very bottom.
I’ve seen a lot of traits in games and in this world, but I’ve never seen one that just says to be careful.
‘I was thinking of using it against Gigacracker before, but I gave up.’
I thought it would be beneficial to steal the Giga Cracker, so I gave up on the experiment. Since then, I never had a chance to use it, so I kept forgetting about it.
‘It just so happens.’
I flew out of the biodome, catching and tearing at the flying insects. A flock of flying monsters followed me, including the queen carrying Alshas and Isabelle.
As I came outside, many warships greeted me. The brains were activated, and the main guns of the battleships were firing.
The red sky with the rising sun of the night is dyed in gold and purple. Against it, I take out the best shield I have.
The formless haze flowing out from the whole body gathers into a flat plate shape. Completed as a transparent plate, it refracts and disperses natural light like a prism.
The only property that can reflect energy is the ‘complex spectrophotometer’.
The energy rays that filled the sky collide with the completed complex spectral body.
None of them penetrated the transparent plate. The lights that flew to kill me all returned to where they came from. The energy and the ships of the elite fleet collided and the sky lit up brightly.
“It is estimated that between 1% and 3% of the Cult Elite Fleet’s strength has been lost in the current attack.”
I can hear the voice of PS-111 above my head. It explodes so brilliantly, but the damage is minimal. I guess Alshas must have ordered it to respond.
‘doesn’t care.’
The real attack hasn’t even begun yet.
After blocking a single barrage, I immediately rushed towards the elite fleet. The group of Outspacers following me changed their target and moved towards the elite fleet.
Now that the fleet formation is in disarray, I made that choice to protect myself from my attacks.
‘Not a bad choice, but….’
It’s a big mistake in the current situation.
Cults and Outspacers. In the game, groups that are enemies of each other gather in one place.
I moved my left tail and aimed at the target. I used the Black Devourer Cannon with an unknown characteristic, with the cannon’s muzzle aimed at the enemy.
The moment the trait was activated, I was overcome with a feeling of extreme weakness. It was similar to the feeling I had when I first used psychic breath in my adult days.
What followed after my head went blank was a torrent of energy. A huge amount of energy was gathered into my left tail. It felt as if all the blood in my body was being concentrated in one place. It almost caused me to stop flapping my wings and fall.
Just before the last ‘it’ was launched, my auxiliary organs detected an anomaly.
The space around them is strangely distorted, as if something unidentified is twisting the space itself.
As soon as he realized that fact, ‘it’ was fired from his tail.
How should I explain that?
If the colors of the abyss were a clear example of what an excess of color and light was, it was quite the opposite. As the name of the devourer suggests, ‘it’ was sucking up all the colors and light.
‘It’ flies away, devouring light, air, color, and all the elements of nature. In its wake, only a thick darkness remains, something that can be said to resemble that unknown shell.
And when ‘it’ becomes invisible.
A strange thing happened among the gathered enemies.
When I first noticed the anomaly, I thought it was a very small dot. It was so small that I could have mistakenly thought I was seeing things wrong.
But it wasn’t.
It spread quickly like ink on drawing paper.
As the sun disappears and night falls.
Black ink robs the ships and outspacers of their color.
No one could resist the black ‘it’. Not the shields the cults boasted about, not the thunder of the brain god, not the blue light of the Outspacer. No one could escape ‘it’.
‘It’ that seemed like it would swallow up the sun disappeared in an instant.
The black that had encroached upon the canvas called the sky was disappearing, and red was filling its place.
Everything was restored to normal as if nothing had happened in the first place. Except for the ships and the outspacers that had been eaten by ‘it’.
The lucky survivors of the Collector’s Beetle and the Elite Fleet were only about 20% of what they had been before. The Queen with Alshas and Isabelle was also there.
They didn’t attack me.
No, to be exact, I don’t have the courage to attack.
How would you feel if you watched all your colleagues around you disappear in a matter of seconds?
I’m sure there’s only one emotion on their minds right now.
Overwhelming fear.
‘Activate Bone Beast.’
It’s time to put a stop to that fear.
–
“…oh my god.”
The Heavenly Mother stared blankly at the sky beyond the hole in the dome.
In the midst of a battle, she would remain motionless and still. This was something she could never have imagined, but at this moment, it didn’t matter.
Because the outspacer’s stake bugs that were fighting her were in the same condition.
A single drop of ink that fell on a piece of red paper soon spread out uncontrollably. The black ‘thing’ simply swallowed up the ships and outspacers that filled the sky.
There was no sound, not the usual explosions or screams of terror that are heard on the battlefield.
It was a silent massacre.
‘At that level, it’s almost like a vortex.’
She, too, was a ranker, and had hunted many raid bosses. The acts of destruction taking place in the sky were a sight that could only be seen when fighting Vortex Ones or Red Gallagons.
In fact, the Coldbloods she saved showed a similar reaction when they faced Vortex One. Judging from the way they were trembling behind her, they seemed more afraid than when they faced the giant monster right in front of them.
She fired particles that controlled the pressure at them while they were half-delirious from extreme fear. She used the particles to stimulate them very slightly, and they trembled.
“Everyone, wake up!”
“!”
“Now is your chance! Everyone, get on that airship over there!”
Thanks to this, 40 Coldbloods came to their senses and fled to safety. They were followed by the Mini Mutant Screamer and MPS-05.
The nickname of the safest city on the planet is now a thing of the past. It would be much safer to hide out in the sandy desert for a while.
“Goooooooooooo!”
‘Tch!’
As the Coldbloods and MPS-05 boarded the airship, the pileworms also began to move again.