Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 400



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‘This is not the time to be doing this.’

I hastily pulled myself up from the wreckage of the ship.

Five minutes at most? Within a few minutes, five Gigacracker ships will begin attacking.

Currently, I am caught in Akira’s trap and my recovery trait is sealed. If I were to do the current situation, I would be fatally wounded even if just one Giga Cracker fired its ion cannon. If five ships attack me at the same time, I would be guaranteed to die.

‘But intercepting it is impossible.’

I’ve countered the Imperial Carrier before, but things are a lot different now. The Hunting Symbol effect is only a few minutes away, and ‘King of Monsters’ is no longer usable.

So the only option left for me now is to leave this place right now.

‘Wait a minute, before that… .’

Unlike me, Akira, whose head was cut off, didn’t collide with the ship. Then he would have stayed there.

I used my auxiliary organs to check on the disabled Akira. He was still floating in the spot where I had hit him, not moving at all.

‘Okay. Okay… huh?’

But something was strange.

The guy who was running wild when his head was cut off is now sitting motionless, just like a dead corpse.

‘What happened?’

The creature has a special organ that keeps it alive, so it doesn’t die even if its head is cut off. In fact, Isabel blew off its head, but it quickly came back to life.

‘I need to go closer and check.’

I immediately released the ‘smart underdog’. My body grew rapidly in size, and my physique returned to its original form.

As his body grew larger, Akira’s head and the inactive MPS-05 he was holding became smaller than a fingernail. He put the mini-screamer back in his mouth, and carefully held the head with his small arms against his chest.

In that state, it spread its wings and flew near Akira’s body.

When I went closer to check, I could see that the condition of the creature was definitely not normal. The wound on the severed neck was wide open, and inside it was completely empty. The internal organs were completely gone, and only a small amount of bone and flesh remained.

‘The colors of the abyss are not the same.’

Psychic breath enhanced with ‘Color of the Abyss’ will indiscriminately eat any organic target. It will not eat away at the flesh instead of the outer layer.

‘Something inside came out on its own.’

Looking at the torn neck area, there is evidence that an object of approximately 60 to 70 cm in size has crawled out from inside, as if a person wearing a doll mask has taken off their clothes.

‘Is this a life-sustaining privilege?’

I thought it was a special organ that sustains life, like the heart or other organs. Now that I think about it, I think I was wrong.

‘Is it an independent body, or an organ that plays a role similar to a main body?’

What we thought of as Akira’s body up until now seems to be the opposite, not a body, but rather a concept of bio-armor. I never imagined that there would be this kind of special privilege.

‘If you had used this, you could have surprised me, but why?’

It’s strange that the guy who laid all kinds of traps to catch me missed this good opportunity.

‘Or maybe you couldn’t do it?’

Looking back, Akira didn’t abandon his fake body even when he was mistaken for Eimorph or attacked by the Abyssal Color. If he had this ability, he could have just escaped to his original body and created a new body.

What this means is that when there is only the main body, it becomes weak.

‘Or it takes time to create a new body after you get out.’

At least it is certain that you cannot arbitrarily separate your main body and fake body when fighting me.

‘I’ve already thrown away the fake body here, so the main body should be somewhere here.’

I abandoned my fake body, which was being consumed by the colors of the abyss, and looked around with my auxiliary organ.

The battlefield where heat rays, torpedoes, and ships were fiercely fighting until just a moment ago has now become much quieter. There were still ships fighting the metallic gremlins, but they were not many.

Except for the few remaining ships, the rest of the ships were already far away. The Star Union warships were nowhere to be seen. It was clear that they were all retreating to avoid Giga Cracker’s attacks.

‘There’s no one here.’

I searched the area thoroughly, but I couldn’t find any trace of him. While I was being pushed away by the ship, he escaped on another ship. He must be hiding somewhere in the distance among the ships that are hurriedly fleeing.

‘Should I chase after them?’

Akira is the CEO of Megacorp. No matter how vicious and selfish the Megacorp humans are, it is not easy to fire an ion cannon at the place where the supreme leader of the force is.

‘The problem is when another ranker sends it.’

It is presumed that Megacorp has other rankers besides Akira. First of all, there are two strong candidates: the head of the Garmelda family and a researcher from the Prime Capital Zhao family.

What if they prioritize killing me over the CEO’s life? They’ll die chasing Akira.

‘You have to get out of here.’

I exposed a lot of my cards in this fight. If I ever face them again, it’ll be a much more difficult fight than this one.

But it’s too risky to chase after him when he’s already got five Giga Crackers on the other side.

“Big baby.”

At that moment, No. 26 approached me. Perhaps realizing that the battle was coming to an end, his body had reverted back to its pink jellyfish-like form.

The guy was gently cradling his injured ‘right head’ with the fin he used as a leg.

‘You’ve worked hard.’

When No. 26 let go, the clone approached him, bleeding profusely, and bowed his head.

“You look very sick.”

[Zuzuzu zuuzu zuuzu zuuzu (It’s okay. You’ll get better soon)]

“really?”

[Yeah]

This clone is no different from my original body part, having been split apart thanks to the ‘Hydra Split’. I gently stroked the clone’s head and then immediately retrieved it.

“Aki, was that a porridge?”

Isabel, who had been buried in the fins with her clone, poked her head out. I shook my head in response to the guy’s question.

[Zuzu zuzuzuzu (He ran away)]

“You missed it? Could it be because of a special device?”

He also found Akira’s empty shell floating in space. He probably had an idea what was going on, seeing as how empty it was inside.

[Zuzuzuzuzuz zuuzuzuz zuuzuzuz zuuzuzuz zuuzuzuz zuuzuzuz zuuzuzuz (Sorry, I’ll explain later. The attack of the five Gigacracker ships will begin soon.)]

“what?”

[Zuzu (No. 26)]

Instead of explaining, I called number 26.

[Zuz …

“huh!”

A single silver tentacle protruded from the body of the creature, which was entangled in tentacles. As the tentacle glowed, the metallic gremlins scattered all around began to gather.

Among them was a small silver demon with blue markings on its body, Warp Boy. We need their help to get out of here safely.

[Zuzuzu zuuzu zuuzu zuuzu zuuzu zuuzu zuuzu zuuzu zuuzu zuuzu zuuzu (Tell them to send you to different places instead of all at once)]

“Why? The sparkles are weak when they’re alone.”

I know that too. Metallic Gremlins are stronger when there are a lot of them.

However, there is a reason why they ask us to separate them and move them.

“You’re trying to avoid being tracked, aren’t you?”

Isabel, who immediately noticed my intentions, sent a thought wave.

All superluminal voyages leave behind residual energy. The more energy generated during the voyage, the longer it lasts.

And if you have a device like a Warp Finder, you can track where a specific opponent has jumped to before the remaining energy is lost. Even if we get out of here together, the enemies and Giga Crackers will still chase after us.

‘That’s the only way to shake them off.’

If you divide the group based on the Warp Boys and have them each travel at superluminal speeds to different locations, several traces will be left behind.

Here, I plan to move without directly traveling at superluminal speeds, but rather by using the Warp Boy’s abilities to blend in with the leaping crowd.

If the enemy has recorded my energy signature, it is possible that they will follow me through the warp finder when I attempt to travel faster than light. To prevent this, I ask the warp boy to transport me.

I don’t know exactly where I ran off to, but there are many traces? They can’t help but worry about tracking me. Since they know how dangerous I am, it’s not easy to arbitrarily split up the troops to track me down. If they do, they might get defeated individually.

And while the enemies hesitate, me and the metallic gremlins can continue to attempt hypersonic travel and escape.

[Zuzuzuzuzu zuzuzu zuzuzuzu (We won’t fight this time)]

“You don’t fight with bad guys?”

[Z zuzuzuzuzu zuzuzuzu zuzuzuzu zuzuzuzu (Yeah. So those guys won’t get hurt)]

In reality, if the enemy chooses to split their forces and pursue us, we will have no choice but to fight, but that was not mentioned.

“Okay! I’ll ask the sparkles to move us!”

[Z (Yeah)]

The silver tentacles of No. 26 sparkled again.

The Warp Boys who saw that prepared for superluminal travel. As the blue tattoos on the silver background gave off a soft glow, the bodies of the metallic gremlins gathered here and there, including me, also turned blue.

[Zuzu zuzuzu (both come here)]

I put Isabel and number 26 in my mouth just in case something went wrong during the move.

As the blue light almost completely enveloped my body, I felt a very strong energy response from far away.

A ray of energy is coming at me at a very fast rate, coming from a distance that even my enhanced auxiliary organs cannot detect. It is a heat ray fired by Giga Cracker.

Just before the immense heat engulfed my body, the energy response disappeared in an instant. Instead, what I felt was a familiar pressure.

After a while, the pressure that had been weighing down my entire body was gone. There were no giant blue-green heat rays or broken metal shards around. It was just me, the kids, and a few metallic gremlins in a space filled with darkness.

‘It worked.’

Just before being hit by the heat ray, the escape via superluminal travel was successful.

[Zuzu zuzuzuzu zuzuzuzu (Can you tell me to move it one more time?)]

I asked Number 26 to get the Warp Boy who came with me to use FTL again.

The voyage was repeated several more times after that, crossing several constellations.

No one pursued us until the end of the hunting symbol applied to my body.

‘It’s over.’

A large-scale battle involving Megacorp, Star Union, and ruling and returning faction rankers.

It finally came to an end.

–

A room as clean and white as if carved from marble.

At the center of that space, which seemed pathologically clean, was a cylindrical tank with one side made of transparent glass. This tank was a rare facility installed only on some of Megacorp’s ships.

And now, inside it is Akira Eugene, CEO of Megacorp.

‘Damn it!’

Akira barely suppressed his surging anger as the tank filled with liquid.

‘あのくそモーフやろう! (Damn Amorph guy!)’

Aimov, the evil 5th ranker who has harassed him many times in the game.

He made every effort to catch the bastard. He recruited the 4th rank, who were his enemies, and borrowed various weapons and troops from other rankers of the ruling faction. He prepared so thoroughly that if it were a game, he would have won.

But the results were disastrous.

He lost most of his men and weapons, and most of his perks were exposed. He got away with it, and now he’s wasting his time in this fucking tank.

“Hey, sir, is there anything that feels uncomfortable?”

A man’s voice was heard through his slowly regenerating ears. Akira looked out of the tank with one of his newly formed eyes.

There was a man holding the captain’s hat in his hand. He was the captain of this ship. Thanks to his quick rescue efforts, Akira was able to get into the tank safely.

“What happened to the target of the expedition?”

Akira communicated with the captain through the chip connected to his head. The captain glanced at the monitor outside the tank and answered hesitantly.

“Hey, Giga Cracker fired the ion cannon, so I guess he didn’t die….”

“You idiot!”

Akira, angry at his subordinate’s stupid remark, hit the glass wall of the tank hard.

There’s a reason he didn’t use his superweapon to capture Aimov.

If you have a superweapon, it will be difficult to freely deploy your troops on the battlefield. If you are not careful, you may be caught up in the superweapon’s attack.

Aimov is a master at using his opponent’s weapons against him. He pretends to be killed by a superweapon, or steals it and uses it to attack us, etc. In the game, I’ve fought him with superweapons more than once and ended up getting hit in the face.

Knowing that, we used superweapons only in extremely limited ways in this suppression operation.

“Ahem, the search is currently in progress! Joe, if you just wait a little longer, the search party will bring you the results you want!”

“Even the smallest trace is fine. Take whatever it is, whether it’s tissue, a piece of metal, or anything else. If you’ve attempted superluminal travel, record all residual energy as well.”