Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 388
Only Noblemtl
[Zu■zuzu (I did it)]
“■■■?”
I brought three heads close to the guy’s fins. The group that was protected by the fins safely crossed over to me. The last remaining one, No. 26, also quickly shortened its body and jumped into my mouth.
“Little Adult” “Are you okay?”
“it hurts….”
“Why is Star Union’s PMB here?”
“Eimov! Even if it’s you, Alpha Boy is in danger! If you don’t get out quickly… ”
Number 26, Adhai, Heavenly Mother, PS-111, Isabel. All safe. Prepare for superluminal travel to get out of here.
The energy produced within the body is released and changes into a blue halo. As usual, just as the entire body is about to turn blue, the light suddenly flickers and goes out.
‘huh?’
I tried the interrupted superluminal voyage again, but the light enveloped me like it had just done, then cut off midway, as if something had interrupted it.
‘Why is it like this?’
Then PS-111, which was inside my right head, spoke to me.
“’Aimov’. A specific energy field, presumably originating from outside the planet, has been detected. This energy field is blocking FTL travel.”
[Z(what?)]
I listened to the guy and focused on the auxiliary organs. Maybe it was because I was in the sphere of influence of the energy emitted by PMB, but I couldn’t feel the energy field the guy was talking about.
‘An energy field that interferes with superluminal travel… .’
As far as I know, there is only one entity that can prevent FTL travel, and that is the Vortex One, a being specialized in large-scale warp capabilities. He can artificially block FTL travel of other beings.
‘He’s here?’
This is not his habitat. Unless Coldblood summons him, it is impossible for him to appear here.
‘… No. Let’s put that aside for now.’
It’s more important to get out of LV-06 now. FTL travel is impossible, so you’ll have to fly out yourself.
I flap my wings hard and strike the air. The air is pushed out and my body is stretched forward.
My outer skin, a mixture of black and red, glows red due to the ‘Destroyer’s Carapace’ effect. This isn’t just because of the heat of the atmosphere. It’s because the energy generated by the PMB is burning my body.
“Pain relief activated!”
‘Ugh!’
The text box warns you to get out of here immediately.
The membrane on the wings is torn, and the carapace protecting the body surface slowly turns to dust. It is a pain as if the entire body has been put into a shredder.
Maybe it’s because of the pain that melts my body, but bad memories come back to me. I’m talking about the accident that day that changed my entire life and my family’s life.
‘No. I can tolerate this much.’
Unlike in the past, I now have a strong body and character. I continue to move upward without stopping.
Aimov’s body also understood my will. The membrane that seemed like it would be torn to pieces at any moment began to slowly regenerate. The outer skin and shell also slowly regained their original form.
The powerful healing ability, ‘Superior Homeostasis’, and the pain-relieving ‘Pain Relief’ are helping me not to lose my will to survive.
‘Just a little more…!’
As I flew so absentmindedly, the surroundings suddenly became dark. I had left the atmosphere.
I’ve almost escaped from the planet, but I can’t let my guard down here. The PMB that devoured the entire planet releases a huge amount of energy for the last time. If I get caught in it, I’ll definitely die.
‘We need to make some distance quickly.’
As I was flying with all my might as I was leaving the planet, I saw a small dot in the distance. I thought it was a piece of meteorite floating in space, but it wasn’t.
‘enemy!’
There are hundreds of torpedoes flying towards me. I can’t see exactly what class they are because they are so small, but they must be quite powerful.
‘I can’t waste time responding here.’
It’s hard for me to shoot them down one by one because I have to focus on things that are outside the scope of PMB.
Of course, it’s different if they’re on board my body.
[Zeuuuuu (Adhai)]
As I opened my mouth with my left head, Adhai took out the attack card he had prepared inside.
The guy with red light all over his body raised his head towards the direction the torpedoes were flying towards. A mythical power that only the greatest of the cosmic dragons, Red Gallagon, can wield. A ‘Starflame’ made by condensing starlight shot out from the tip of the guy’s tentacles.
A purple sphere flying at high speed collides with a torpedo. An explosion occurs as if the sun has appeared in that spot. The flying torpedoes disappear in an instant.
[Zuzuzu (good job)]
“Power of the Stars” “Use” “I’m Hungry”
[Zuzuzu zuuzuzu zuuzu (I’ll give you something delicious later)]
The guy leaned against my teeth, probably because he had expended a lot of strength.
Thanks to Adhai, I was able to block the torpedoes and continued flying away from LV-06.
And then, a moment later, my auxiliary organs began to vibrate violently. A shock greater than the pain I felt when I left the planet swept over my body.
“Big■■!”
“■■■■! Jeong■■ryeo!”
A blast of energy greater than the Starflame shot by Adhai struck me. My body went out of control and I collided with a small meteorite floating in space.
“■This■■’s wealth is ■correct■. It does ■something■ to■he■.”
“Un■! If you don’t ■, don’t ■!”
I can feel the kids inside my mouth talking. I don’t know if it’s because I got caught in the explosion or because of the pain, but I feel better.
I raised my head in the center while my body was buried in the meteorite.
In the distance, a massive vortex of light could be seen sweeping across the dark space. What had been a Megacorp colony only minutes ago was now nothing but cosmic dust.
‘I survived somehow.’
I barely escaped PMB’s sphere of influence. If I had been any later, I would have ended up like the planet that was shattered into pieces.
Of course, he is still quite injured, but this is only a minor injury. Since he has superior homeostasis, he can recover as much as he wants with time.
As I was thinking that and trying to pull out my body stuck in the meteorite, the auxiliary engine made a loud noise.
“I encountered beings I couldn’t escape from.”
Scenes covered in what seemed like fog appeared and disappeared one after another.
It’s been a long time since my ‘predator sense’, the trait that warns me whenever my life is in danger, has been activated.
And beings with forcibly activated predator senses appeared in space.
‘…this.’
Star Union, Megacorp, and Outspacer.
I am surrounded by fleets of three races that can never mix, whether in the game or in this world.
Green flashes of light pour down like a shower.
I forced my recovering wing arms open and flew up. The plasma heat beams fired by hundreds of battleships pulverized the meteorite below me.
While the battleships prepared to fire another salvo, countless corvettes and aircraft followed me. Countless plasma rounds struck my outer shell.
The attacks from the corvette class ships won’t do much damage to me, but that doesn’t mean I should let my guard down. It’s not good for the damage to continue to accumulate in a situation where a long-term battle is expected.
I sprayed the enhanced ‘Gremlin Moss’. A cloud that destroyed advanced equipment erupted from the biopipes attached to my body, covering the surrounding ships.
Some of the enemies that were chasing them were disabled by the gremlin moss. The aircraft and patrol ships that avoided the attack quickly dispersed and changed into a scattered formation.
And then, between the gaping gaps between the aircraft, flying monsters with large bodies slid in. Outspacers with bio-cannons as large as their bodies mounted on their backs shot something at me.
Projectiles that looked like nails with spores stuck all over them pierced my tail and hind legs. Soon, the spores swelled up into bubbles and hardened.
‘this!’
The attacks they fire aren’t meant to inflict fatal damage on me. They’re meant to slow my movements and gain an advantage in battle.
Then, the Outspacer monsters in charge of the attack started to target me. A large monster about 40 meters tall approached me at a very fast speed.
‘That’s?’
It was an outspacer of a type I had never seen before, with four arms, two legs, an elongated head, and a long tail. I tried to restrain it by pulling out the erosion tentacles with the ‘Medusa Organ’ activated.
Surprisingly, the thing twisted its body just before the tentacle’s appendage touched it, narrowly avoiding it. At the same time as it dodged, the blade on the end of its arm cut off my tentacle’s appendage. The appendage, which boasted considerable durability, although not to the level of a shell, was cut off without a fight.
‘I used the genes of the Hellside Hornet!’
Besides, I don’t know how it was modified, but the blade on its arm is sharper than the original. I struck its body with another erosion tentacle to prevent it from attacking any more.
The impact caused the enemy’s body to stagger and his movements to become slightly dull. I tried to grab him with my right tail, which had pincers, to finish him off.
The moment the pincers were about to strangle him, his tail stopped as if it had been caught in a restraint. It wasn’t just a feeling. A very strong psychic net was entangling my tail. In the meantime, the Outspacer was able to leisurely escape my pincers’ attacks.
‘Why psychic powers?’
I turned my head, wondering if there were any cultists hiding there, and saw a strange-looking flying object in the distance. I thought it was a drone for a large ship, but it wasn’t.
‘Screamer?’
The beings that interfered with me with psychic powers were the Screamers of the Star Union.
‘Screamer uses psychic powers?’
It is easy to confuse them with PS-111 and Isabel, but the original Screamer cannot use psychic powers. This is because cults with potential for psychic powers cannot be used as materials for cyborgs and Screamers.
Even the mutant Screamers we’ve met before were limited to the Overseer model for control, with limited use of psychic powers.
‘But how?’
Just as his abilities were very different from those of a normal Screamer, his appearance was also quite different.
The head was abnormally developed, and there were no metal legs for moving. Various mechanical devices were attached to the enlarged head. The face, covered with stitches here and there, was very ugly, but somehow familiar.
‘I feel like I’ve seen this somewhere… Oh, really?’
A being with a face more similar to a humanoid than a screamer radiated psychic powers. A faint purple net flew in to catch me.
I accelerated all at once and was out of the range of psychic power.
‘That face looks like Jason.’
Jason, a cult player belonging to the ruling faction. He was trying to escape using his special ability while fighting me before, but his head was cut off and he died. At that time, the rest of his body, except for his head, flew away at superluminal speed, so I was unable to secure it.
‘You used that body as material.’
I don’t know how he found it, but it seems that Jason’s headless body was found by his colleagues. And just like he made PS-111, he made him into a mutant Screamer. That’s why he’s able to use psychic powers so well as a Screamer.
As I was dodging the attacks of the Jason-made Screamers, a green light flashed in front of me. Megacorp and Star Union warships hurled plasma beams at me as I moved.
Among the numerous battleships, there were six Sachs Alpha-class battleships, which carried the highest members of the Star Union. Near the large battleships, which were clearly visible from afar, large and small Outspacers were forming a large formation and escorting the battleships.
It was a total offensive that transcended races. It was a sight not easily seen even in games.
‘Were there any outspacer rankers in the ruling faction?’
The only out-spacer ranker in the top 20 is #4. There are a few more below that, down to #40, but it’s hard to think they’ll go against #4’s wishes.
‘And Outspace has synergy when it unites with people of the same race.’
Alshas said so. There are two Outspacer rankers belonging to the Returning Faction. Since two of the rankers are on the same side, it will be easy to pressure the rankers of the same race who think differently from them.
Therefore, it is safe to say that the entire outspace follows the return wave.
‘What that means is that the ruling faction and the returning faction have joined forces to capture me.’
Or maybe the Outspace rankers formed a temporary alliance with the ruling faction.
It’s a guess, but considering the composition of the enemies, it’s more likely the latter. The leader of the Returning Faction is not the 4th, but the 7th, Beomho, and there are no cult ships visible here.
There may be cultists aboard the Megacorp battleship, but that’s not the case. If there were, they wouldn’t have used the Screamer made out of Jason, a former cult priest, so blatantly.
‘… I guess it’s good.’
It’s too early to feel relieved just because the cult is gone. The alliance between the Outspacers and the Ruling Faction is already a huge threat. They’ve prepared well to capture me, and they’ve used almost every means at their disposal.
On the other hand, this side is slightly unprepared. My condition is not perfect because I got caught up in PMB, and some of my characteristics are on cooldown.
‘There are no metallic gremlins or gigacrackers there.’
The area around here is currently sealed off from hypersonic travel for unknown reasons. Even if 26 were to call, it would take a while for the horde of metallic gremlins to get here.
Even if they arrive safely, their mobility is greatly reduced in a situation where hypersonic travel is sealed. Without a means of transportation, the metallic gremlins are nothing more than slow-moving targets, and are of no help in combat.
‘First, we need to make it usable for superluminal travel.’
Only then can we have a chance to retreat and reorganize, or call in reinforcements.
‘It’s fortunate that there are no Vortex Ones among the enemies.’
I thought he had taken control of Vortex One earlier, but I don’t think that was the case. He must have blocked the hyper-light travel in some way I don’t know.
If you want to turn the tide of battle, you have to get rid of him first.
As I was moving to avoid the heat rays, I turned my body sharply while using the ‘variable bio-weapon’.