Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 382



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“■■■!”

“■■■!”

Even as my own people were being massacred one after another, they didn’t seem to want to stop. They just kept biting at my outer skin with their teeth, as if this was the only way.

‘Where is the leader?’

If there’s a large group or more, there’s always a commanding entity, a ‘Titaboss’. He’s not among the intruders who boarded the ship, so he’s probably hiding somewhere in the group with the Warp Boy.

I moved towards the group where the titan boss was hiding, clearing out the enemies around me with my mouth and tail.

“■■■■■!”

From the group, entities several times larger than the Metallic Gremlin stepped forward. Those beings with black-tinted arms were ‘Wolfram Goblins.’ They were a superior species of Metallic Gremlin and specialized in long-range attacks.

A horde of Wolfram Goblins aim their arms at me. Thousands of boulders shoot out from their fingertips and rain down on me.

The projectile is the excrement of a Wolfram Goblin, and contains microbes that corrode metal. It would be fatal to a normal ship, but not this one.

I continued to advance, hitting the enemies with my body. And when I got close enough, I activated the heating spikes attached to my entire ship.

The black thorns glowed red as if soaked in blood. The metallic gremlins near the thorns melted away due to the high heat.

I poured hot, red-hot thorns on my enemies. Some sensed the danger and dodged away, but most did not. The silver cloud made by tens of thousands of them gathered together and holes were pierced by the thorns.

‘I guess he’ll try to avoid it next time.’

As expected, the Warp Boys demonstrated their abilities, and the silver clouds turned blue.

While they’re retreating, we need to harvest the enemy’s corpses.

As I was thinking that and about to move forward, something strange happened.

‘what?’

Suddenly, a powerful flow of energy was felt from all directions. This energy, felt close by, was a trace released when attempting to travel at superluminal speeds.

‘You’re not trying to retreat?’

The Warp Boys in the group are attempting to teleport to a close distance from me.

One third of the entire group of enemies appeared right in front of me. The remaining two thirds moved to the rear as if to block my retreat.

‘Why are you so aggressive?’

Even though they have different ecological mechanisms than ordinary creatures, they are still creatures. They eat when they are hungry, and they are afraid when their own kind dies.

It is abnormal to be so focused on attacking while so many of our own people are dying.

‘Thinking back, it’s kind of strange that I even showed up here.’

To feed that many metallic gremlins, you would need at least as much alloy as a space city. But this constellation has no metal structures and not many ships. Under normal circumstances, there would be no reason for them to show up here.

A large group that suddenly appears for no reason. Their behavior is different from that of the typical metallic gremlin.

I’ve seen something similar before.

‘Metallic Gremlins by Kesha Arma.’

There was a time when Cynthia, a player from the Returners, brought a large group of people to fight me. Even then, they showed strange movements.

‘Could it be that this was sent by a player?’

Thinking about it like that made my blood run cold.

If this is a trap, I’m in grave danger right now, because I don’t know when the players will barge in here.

While I paused for a moment, they quickly closed in on the encirclement. The enemies that appeared from the front were solely focused on climbing onto me and gnawing at my outer skin. They didn’t stop biting even right before they entered my mouth and were eaten.

‘…I have to get out of here as fast as possible.’

[Zuzu zuzuzu (Help me everyone)]

Unless I abandon ship, the traits I can use are limited. Here, I won’t be able to organize it by myself, but will need help from others.

“It’s a fight!”

“Outside” “Smell” “Strange”

“There seem to be more enemies than I thought.”

Number 26, Adhai, and the Heavenly Mother, who received my wavelength, prepared for battle.

“We will help you too.”

“Sister, wait a minute. We can’t do that.”

[Zuzu zuzu zuzu zuzu (Two of you stay)]

PS-111 also wanted to apply, but Isabel and I talked them out of it.

The guy and Isabel have a lot of metal in their bodies. If the part that controls their brain gets attacked by mistake, it’s a big problem.

So the rest of the guys except for those two came out.

“I thought there were a lot, but what is this…?”

The Heavenly Mother was surprised to see the silver monsters scurrying around as soon as she came out. She transformed into a griffon form and immediately sprayed agate particles that controlled pressure. The enemies around her were crushed in an instant.

“Enemy” “Past” “Adult” “Bullying” “Mood” “Bad”

Remembering the trouble I had with the metallic gremlin before, Adhai started slaughtering while wearing ‘Red Armor’. He pounded his enemies and turned them into pieces of meat.

“The little one is right! They’re the ones who bullied the big one! I’m going to punish all the bad kids!”

The last one, No. 26, also entered battle mode. The body of the guy floating in space grew rapidly. At the same time, numerous eyes appeared on its pink skin.

As the eyes, made of psychic power, glowed, the enemies flinched. The Sea Demon’s unique technique, ‘Deep Sea Terror’, was activated, showing the enemies terrifying illusions.

‘Okay. We need to clear these guys out quickly…’

Then suddenly, all the metallic gremlins in the vicinity started rushing towards No. 26. Including the ones fighting Sky Mother and Adhai.

“for a moment?!”

“Little Adult” “Danger!”

Not only that, the group behind me also simultaneously began to sail at superluminal speeds around No. 26. It was a natural movement, as if they had been aiming for this from the beginning.

‘shit!’

There is a huge gap between a semi-raid boss-level creature, a Sea Demon, and a single metallic gremlin. Even if hundreds or thousands of them rush in, it would be difficult to inflict damage on No. 26.

But there are more than tens of thousands of enemies fighting us right now. Even if we can’t defeat No. 26, there’s a good chance we can inflict fatal damage.

I quickly moved forward to block the enemies from No. 26.

I mobilized every means at my disposal, including the tail, the mouth, and the cannons on the ship.

Thousands died in an instant, but the enemy’s numbers were far greater. As many as died, they clung to No. 26.

“Big baby!”

‘We must abandon ship!’

Just as I was about to cancel the erosion and protect the guy, No. 26, covered in metallic gremlins, glowed.

‘huh?’

A creature with metal skins that were so close together that it looked like a silver jellyfish. The light streaming through the gaps had nothing to do with pain.

The color of that light was the color that No. 26 showed when he was in a good mood.

“■■■”

“■■■”

“It tickles!”

They were just sitting there, doing nothing, with No. 26’s body wrapped tightly. He looked so comfortable, like a baby in his mother’s arms.

Number 26 flapped his fins as if he was ticklish at the actions of those guys.

“What is it?” “What is it?”

“…Is that metallic gremlin flirting with him right now?”

Adhai and Heavenly Mother each say a few words at the sight.

‘What the heck happened?’

I used to surprise and deceive others, but now it was the opposite.

I, like the guys, could only stare blankly at the unimaginable sight.

The metallic gremlin’s strange behavior was not temporary.

Aside from the ones clinging to No. 26’s body, there were other ones hovering around him. Among them was the leader of the group, ‘Titarboss’.

No hostility was felt from any individual, whether they were the leader or a subordinate species.

Who could look at them and recall their notoriety as space raiders? Those who were just trying to tear me apart have become docile lambs.

‘I don’t know what happened, but….’

These guys are out of their minds. Even if they aren’t hostile right now, they could go crazy at any moment.

I approached to get number 26 out of the guys.

“■■■!”

“■■■!”

The reaction of the previously quiet group became more intense. They seemed ready to attack me if I came closer. The titabo’s also started secreting substances that strengthened the group again.

“Don’t hit me!”

No. 26, who saw that, struck them with his tentacles. The few that had gathered turned into corpses in an instant, floating in the weightless space.

Surprisingly, the metallic gremlins did not fight back. They remained calm and composed, even though they were aware that their own kind was being destroyed right before their eyes.

Moreover, it stopped being wary of me. It just stayed still even when I got close.

As if listening to orders from Number 26.

In the game, Sea Demon and Metallic Gremlin never meet. Their habitats are completely different. The two species have no common characteristics and cannot communicate with each other.

‘Even if the story makes sense, there’s no reason for them to listen to No. 26.’

If that were the case, I would have known a long time ago when I fought the Metallic Gremlin horde. This horde is something special.

‘Let’s start with number 26.’

[Zuz …

“huh.”

After hearing what I said, No. 26 moved its fins and approached me. The others who had been attached to it followed behind like baby birds following their mother.

No matter how many times I looked at it, it was clear that they were following number 26.

“Enemy” “Careless” “Now” “Opportunity”

[Zuzuzuzuzuzuzuzu (Wait a minute)]

Adhai tried to resume his attack while sending out ominous waves of thought, so I stopped him.

I don’t know exactly how this happened, but at least one thing is certain.

‘It wasn’t sent by the rankers.’

There is no reason for either the returning or ruling faction to do something like this.

“Eimov, wait a minute.”

Then the Mother in Heaven called me.

[Z(why?)]

“That titan boss looks like the one I saw when I fought him in Kesha Arma before.”

[Z(what?)]

“I can tell by the scar on his neck. It’s where I hit him with the priest’s golden spear.”

She was on board the ship, staring at Titabos with her amber eyes.

‘That group is the ones who fought back then?’

The horde of metallic gremlins summoned by Cynthia, a ranker of the Returners, withdrew during the fight because Adhai and No. 26 killed the one who summoned them.

At the time, I assumed that the enemy retreated because the tool that summoned them was broken. I also thought that the tool would have been shattered into pieces.

‘It was clearly said that the two of them killed and ate the enemy.’

Aadhai’s body structure is not suited to swallowing large objects. It probably sucked out the blood or bodily fluids first, and then No. 26 ate the remaining remains.

In the process, it may have interacted with something with the tool that summoned the metallic gremlin.

‘Let’s check.’

I moved my clawed tail to grab the titan boss. Unlike when I was tearing apart my enemies, I held it lightly. It didn’t resist at all, and the group it controlled didn’t react either.

[Zuzu zuzuzuzu (Everyone come in and see)]

I called all the kids outside, including Titabos. The rest of the group slowly circled around me like rings orbiting a planet.

“After comparing it with the stored biological data, it was confirmed to be a metallic gremlin subspecies, ‘Titarbos’.”

“You brought the titan boss?”

Isabel expressed her surprise at seeing the Titan Boss inside the ship. PS-111 also blinked the red camera lens and observed the being that was his polar opposite.

“Did you capture it with the power of the ‘middle baby’?”

“No. I didn’t do this.”

“Did it not Seo-ah unnie or Aimoff who did it?”

[Zuzu zuzuzuzu zuzuzuzu (to find out who did it)]

Isabel blinked, then quickly understood what I meant and nodded.