Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 337
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‘I originally intended to be more frugal!’
Isabel’s special ability, ‘The Heavenly Eye of All Creatures’, is a very powerful ability. It’s a shame that such a precious tool has to be thrown away here. Alshas felt sorry about that.
Of course, it’s better than dying. If we successfully kill Aimov here, her position within the Returners will not be shaken.
‘I have to run away while Isabelle is summoning.’
The Alshas in this place is a clone. Her real body is not here, but in the surveillance office. This is because the distance that a clone made from a simulacrum can maintain is limited.
‘But no one knows that fact.’
Once the clones are gone, the main body plans to flee to another constellation, taking the Imperial Carrier with it. Up to five clones can be created, so if she decides to run away, no one will be able to track her. Even if Aimov tries to chase her, he won’t know what’s real, so it’ll be a waste of effort.
Alshas, who had gathered all his thoughts, called Isabel.
“Isabel. It is time to fulfill the contract.”
Then Isabel slowly turned her head.
The face of the guy with the lizard-like antennae showed no emotion.
“Summon Vortex One.”
Isabel keeps her mouth shut and does not answer.
The guy probably knew what that order meant, but Alshas was confident.
“Don’t worry about your missing sister. Cynthia just got an important clue.”
“shut up.”
“We’re going to rescue you soon… what?”
For a moment, Alshas thought he had misheard.
“What did you just say?”
Suddenly, the guy’s face was covered in scratches that reminded him of a cracked mirror. Instead of blood, a black liquid was oozing out of the scratches.
Isabel made a pact with Alshas and other members of the Returning Faction not to be hostile to them. The scars that kept appearing on her body were a penalty for breaking the pact.
Coldblood, covered in wounds, continued speaking with difficulty.
“Yeah, I know those guys tricked me. Sister, you’re already dead.”
“Are you crazy because of Aimov?”
“You, darlings, are the ones who have deceived me all this time. You wicked, cunning, seeds!”
Isabel vomited out black liquid and pulled out a sword from her waistband.
“You, the original, is, somewhere else, right? You, absolutely, won’t, escape, just like that.”
Even the song that I thought was just a simple weapon for self-defense.
Only then did she realize that the object was something she had never seen before, and that she also wondered why Isabel had prepared the curved sword.
“Wait, you?!”
“Dweller of the Abyss, Cooluck, tell the dweller.”
As the man tried to stab himself in the stomach, Alshas quickly raised his hand. The psychic technique of binding unfolded, binding Isabelle’s body.
“To track down and eliminate the cult ‘Alshas’… .”
“Crazy! Stop it!”
But the guy didn’t give up. Even though his whole body was twisted and deformed, and he was vomiting blood and black liquid, he tried to stab himself with the curved sword.
Alshas saw that and screamed at the top of his lungs.
“Damn it! Queen! Send him somewhere else!”
Isabel, her whole body twisted, was enveloped in a blue light. But soon the light suddenly faded as if it had been interrupted by something.
Meanwhile, Isabel finished her ‘speech’.
“I give my blood, my life.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the sword pierced his abdomen.
After finishing everything, Isabel collapsed on top of the queen’s body.
–
‘huh?’
The movement of the Outspacer group guarding the queen is strange. The sudden confusion is similar to when the Black Devourer cannon is fired.
‘Have you lost control?’
“Big baby.”
At that moment, the waves sent by number 26 from above flowed into me.
“It’s scary over there.”
[Zuzuzuzuzu (Scary?)]
“huh.”
The word “scary” in number 26. An expression used when encountering a very dangerous enemy.
‘Do you still have any hidden cards left?’
I thought maybe he had called an Outspacer Ranker or another Ranker, but that wasn’t the case. If he had, the wavelength of his superluminal travel should have been felt, but it wasn’t.
‘I have to check it myself.’
I flap my wings and kick the air. My body quickly approaches the swarm surrounding the queen. The out-of-control swarms are busy running away instead of attacking me.
Beyond the scattered crowd was a confused queen.
And on top of that….
‘Isabel?’
Coldblood, with his small and frail body, was lying on the ground.
Isabel’s body, lying on top of the queen’s, trembled as if she was suffering from epilepsy. A thick black liquid continuously poured out from the mouth of the man who was shaking violently.
It looks like dead blood, but it’s not blood.
The black liquid began to move on its own as if it had a sense of self, gathering into a single point in the air.
I know what that is.
‘Vortex One!’
There is only one person who can call him in this place: Coldblood Ranker Isabelle.
‘Could it be that Alshas ordered it?’
At first glance, I thought Alshas had ordered Isabel to do it. But upon looking back, I think I misjudged.
Because Alshas, who was next to Isabel, was not in good condition. He was shaking with fear.
Looking at it, it’s obvious who initiated this summoning. Isabel summoned Vortex One of her own volition.
‘… I don’t know why it turned out like this, but this is not the time to be like this.’
Isabel continued to tremble and vomit black liquid. She was still in the middle of being summoned, so she wasn’t dead yet.
‘If it was a game, it would have been a death sentence no matter what.’
This is reality. If you can pull him out during the ritual, you might be able to save your life. The reason I think so is because of the summoning method that is happening right before your eyes.
Like the Outspacers, the Vortex Ones are said to have come from another universe and are very different from the laws of this universe.
For example, Vortex One’s physical body is composed of a small amount of organic matter and a special energy called ‘the power of the abyss’. Simply put, it can be seen as an energy life form with an ego.
To maintain a body made of energy, a large amount of organic matter is needed, so in normal times, the body splits into several parts and remains in a dormant state.
And Coldblood is a living, breathing storage device that is optimized to protect the split Vortex One.
‘That’s why you die when you call Vortex One.’
The cosmic demons that emerge into the material world prey on the contractors, in order to obtain the energy source necessary to maintain their physical bodies while discarding the unnecessary storage devices.
Therefore, I must separate Isabelle before Vortex One is fully summoned. That is the only way to save her.
[Zu …
“I will help you.”
“Yeah! Let’s save my friend’s family!”
I closed the distance between me and the queen and withdrew my erosion tentacles. The six tentacles that protruded from my back headed towards the black liquid gathering in the air.
“Attack of the ‘■sikja’. It’s a room. ”
The unique wavelength of the Outspacers tickled my monster’s tentacles. The Collector Bugs, under its command, blocked the way in front of the tentacles. Like moths to a light bulb in the middle of the night, the Collector Bugs clung to my tentacles, preventing me from moving.
Only one tentacle managed to pass through the meat shields and spurt out the black liquid.
The moment I touched the black liquid, which was infinitely smaller than my tentacles, I felt an enormous repulsive force. Not only that, but the area where I hit the liquid was dug in as if I had been hit by a material decomposition bomb.
“Pain relief activated!”
After a long time, the ‘Pain Reduction’ trait was activated. An intense pain struck my mind, but I was not shaken. This was expected and intended.
‘Okay. Now that you’ve fed it, its obsession with its summoner should have lessened a bit.’
Some Vortex Ones attack the summoner during the summoning ritual, the process of reconstructing the body. Since they gave Isabelle other food instead of the summoner’s body, her life will be extended a little longer.
Then I approached the Queen again to personally separate Isabel. As I approached, the Queen attempted to fly at superluminal speeds.
“I can’t go!”
“!”
At that moment, No. 26 pulled out its saw-tooth tentacles and grabbed the queen. Just like when a giant octopus eats a shark or whale, numerous tentacles entangled the queen’s body. The queen, who had been glowing blue, returned to her original state.
“Damn it! Morphbak is all because of you…!”
Alshas, who saw that, let out a furious roar and struck down No. 26’s tentacle with the ‘Condemnation’ he was holding. Since it was forged from the horn of the Black Gallagon, the saw-toothed tentacle was cut off without a fight.
“ouch!”
‘How dare you!’
The two heads were engulfed in rage at the sight of No. 26 in pain. The heads, with their mouths wide open, fell upon Alshas.
“What the heck…!”
Alshas couldn’t even scream as my head was crushed against hers. At the same time, the queen’s body was also badly injured.
The queen fell to the ground with a scream of pain. The collector bugs that had been attacking me followed the injured queen.
The queen, who was stuck on the desert sand, began to glow blue and then disappeared.
If it were any other time, I would have tracked down the Queen, but now I couldn’t.
It’s because of Isabel floating in the air.
‘The tremors in my body are getting weaker.’
The black liquid coming out of the guy’s body had already spread to a size larger than the guy’s body and the queen. I’ve only been able to hold out this long thanks to the time I’ve saved, and in a few minutes, the black liquid will be completed as a vortex.
‘We’ll have to find a way.’
Although I’ve killed summoners before, I’ve never been interrupted mid-summon like this. I tried to pull Isabelle out with my erosion tentacles and combat arms, but the black liquid blocked my way.
There are many problems with using Psychic Breath or the Black Devourer Cannon. Not only is there not enough time, but if you’re not careful, Isabelle could die.
As I was pondering, the No. 26 on my back moved. Using the fins under its body, it crawled up to my center, right up to my head.
‘huh?’
“I will protect my friend’s family.”
The guy’s subsequent actions exceeded my expectations.
As the creature extended one of its tentacles, a purple stem appeared. The stem, rippling like the waves of the night sea, extended towards the space where Isabelle was floating.
‘That’s?’
The purple stems spread out like a curtain, wrapping around Isabel, just like a spider would wrap its prey around a cocoon. The curtain was lined with intertwined purple stems, creating geometric patterns.
A sudden energy barrier covered Isabel’s entire body, and the black liquid flowing out of Coldblood’s body was also blocked. The black liquid rushed to take Isabel’s body again, but it was all blocked by No. 26’s purple wave.
After the black liquid and Isabel were completely separated, the purple line created by No. 26 disappeared. Isabel’s body also fell to the ground like a kite with its string cut.
‘this!’
I quickly descended after the falling Isabel, barely catching her with my combat arms just before she hit the sand.
‘phew.’
To separate before death is success.
Of course, there are elements scattered throughout the process that are not understood, but there are more important things to consider right now.
I landed on the sand and spread my fingers to check on the guy.
The condition of the short Coldblood was truly miserable. His entire body was covered in wounds that looked like they had been stabbed with a blade, and a curved sword that we had seen before was stuck in his abdomen. A mixture of black liquid, blood, and flesh flowed out of his wounds.
The injuries were so serious that it wouldn’t be strange if he died at any moment, even though he was still breathing. I urgently activated the internal organ-related fusion trait ‘Ultra Jelly’.
Ultra Jelly is a special ability that consumes your stamina to create a high-calorie nutritional substance.
In the game, it was made in advance and used to recover stamina by eating it whenever needed. For example, when infiltrating enemy territory and engaging in continuous battles, or when you have used up a lot of stamina while building a nest, etc. In short, it can be called Aimorph’s potion.