I Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 121

Ep. 121

Darkness and fog.

Distant screams and heavy drinking could be heard from all over the camp.

Everything is the result of me and my nest.

Despite the commotion, Muriel and I, who were here, were observing each other without any disturbance.

When do I hit and how do I get out?

How to destroy the enemy’s numbers and how to make up for it if they fail.

Even though she and I are enemies, we both think the same thing.

Just before storming the camp, I received information about the enemy from Heavenly Mother.

‘He’s the type of person who fights while strengthening himself.’

From what I heard, Muriel was a type with a fighting style that was quite different from that of the general cult.

Space Survival is a game that guarantees a high degree of freedom, but that does not mean it can completely deviate from the play method suggested by the game company.

For example, if you are a Megacorp player and eat people to collect essence like an Amorph, or pursue a vegetarian Amorph, etc., it will be impossible to proceed with the game itself.

So, when you become a ranker, you can generally guess what kind of tactical strategy will be used depending on the opponent’s racial power.

If the opponent is a cyborg from Star Union, they are likely to strengthen themselves with various modules or prepare various traps to fight, and if the opponent is a cult, they often pressure them with psychic power techniques with various utilities.

Although there are no exceptions, it is safe to say that they do not deviate from the general framework.

So, if you have chosen the best card called Staghorn Cult, it would be most effective to choose a ‘cult-like’ tactic, that is, a method of toying the enemy with dozens or hundreds of psychic power techniques.

‘That’s how it should be.’

The Mother of Heaven said that Muriel was better at hand-to-hand combat than at using psychic power techniques.

By definition, the cult is a race that is good at supernatural powers but has subhuman physical abilities.

This is reality, so even if one’s physical abilities are improved somehow, it is close to impossible for the cult to win in close combat against Wolff, who has learned deification.

However, Muriel deviated from this common sense.

‘The fighting style of strengthening oneself is a method often adopted by cyborgs.’

For example, the navy blue full body suit she is wearing.

The appearance was very similar to when the nano-Spartan module was activated.

As the name suggests, the Nano Spartan Module is an auxiliary device that dramatically increases physical abilities by equipping the entire body with a nano-enhanced suit. It is mainly used by cyborg rankers when entering hand-to-hand combat because it strengthens them to a level slightly below that of Aimorph or Wolf.

‘That’s a module specifically for cyborgs. How did you use it?’

For some reason, Muriel was wearing equipment that other races, including the cult, could not use.

‘Even when I check with insight, nothing comes out.’

｢Name: Muriel (real name ■■■)

Race: Contains information that cannot be confirmed.

Status: Contains unverifiable information.

Equipment worn: Priest’s Golden Spear (Unique Grade) and many others.

Skills: Contains information that cannot be verified. “I

tried using Insight just in case, but all that came out was the golden spear she was holding, ‘Priest’s Golden Spear’.

‘Is it a new technology that nullifies insight, or…’

It is currently unknown whether it is because Muriel is a player and cannot know.

‘I have a lot to ask.’

After thinking about it for less than a few seconds, I withdrew the tentacle from the hole in my back.

Just as I felt when I saw Muriel, she also frowns when she sees my abilities that she has never seen before in the game.

Muriel moves slowly to the side. It seems like they have decided where to aim first.

Now there is only one thing left.

A signal announcing the end of the search war.

“hot!”

Muriel took the lead. She let out a short sigh and kicked the ground.

The moment she took her feet off the ground, a volley of my erosion tentacles shot at her.

Muriel raises her spear and flicks away the tentacle.

So, can it really stop my giant tail?

I put my upper body close to the floor and raised my tail and swung it.

She must have decided that this would be difficult to block, so she stamped her foot in the air. She was running around in the air as if it were the ground, completely ignoring the laws of physics, and stretched out her left hand towards me.

My movements slowed significantly as her hands glowed purple. This is the effect of ‘Distortion Field’, one of the advanced psychic power techniques.

The distortion field extremely slows down the movement of enemies within a certain space and makes the caster’s movement very fast. It may be that she is slowing me down and strengthening herself at the same time, but there is something she overlooked.

‘I have super reflective gloves.’

“How annoying!”

Her expression, which was floating in the air, crumpled. 30% of the negative effects of the distortion field would be reflected and applied to her.

Still, it is true that he can move much faster than me.

She dodged my slowed tail and counterattacked with her javelin. The priest’s golden spear pierced my tail carapace without difficulty, probably because I had consumed a lot of blood.

Muriel, who succeeded in making a small hole in the tail, stabs the javelin one after another.

‘I have to get out.’

Wounds on the body heal quickly thanks to the nest effect, but that doesn’t mean it can be hit by just about any attack.

I turned my body sharply, retracted my tail, and tried to hit her with the horns on my head. She also swung her javelin horizontally to cut off my head along with the horns.

The moment the horn and the spear touched each other, a sound similar to the metal sound made when a blacksmith struck a sword with a hammer resonated through the air.

“What?!”

Muriel’s eyes widen at the unexpected result.

My horns are made up of the same structure as my head carapace, which is the hardest part of my body. So, even if it collided with the priest’s golden spear, it was only scratched and not cut.

‘Of course, if we hit each other a few more times, we’ll get cut.’

She probably knows that too, so she’ll hit him with the spear again.

To stop that, my erosion tentacles attack her from all directions.

“…Tch!”

Muriel must have judged that it was impossible to avoid the six-pronged tentacles and the horns on my head even within the distortion field, so she kicked the air and stepped back.

Meanwhile, I also quickly crawled on the floor and escaped the area of the distortion field.

“Where!”

Muriel tries to resume the chase. I vigorously swept the floor with my tail.

She, who can move freely in the air, easily dodged my tail, but my intention just now was not to hit her.

When the strong sand dust created by the tail’s sweep of the surface separated us, I dug furiously into the ground with my fighting arms.

In an instant, the pit was completed and I quickly crawled inside.

Muriel seemed to have the means to see me even when my vision was obscured, so she was stalking my tail.

A single spear rushing through the dust. To stop her, the stinging organ at the end of my tail shoots out stinging needles.

“Tsk.”

As she bounced off the thorns flying out of the dust, I was completely buried in the ground.

“How annoying!”

Muriel can be heard sounding irritated on the ground.

Since I have detection technology, I can know my location, but since I am underground, it will be difficult to set up a distortion field.

‘Because you can only place it where you can see it.’

Muriel followed me and began stabbing the ground with her javelin. The javelin pierced the ground as easily as piercing the head and pierced my back and tail.

Fortunately, perhaps because her detection skills were perfect, she was unable to inflict fatal wounds on me.

‘You’ll recover quickly at this rate.’

I ignored Muriel’s checks and crossed the basement of the central square at breakneck speed.

As I move quickly while digging the ground, I see tunnels leading to the nest I had previously laid. They will come in handy at critical moments later.

‘This comes first now.’

The tooth fairy nests near my back exploded one after another. The strengthened man-eating fleas climbed onto the ground, digging into the soil with their sharp teeth.

While sending out the tooth fairies, it also activated the acidic fungal glands to keep the fungi in the mouth rather than releasing them.

‘This is enough.’

After getting ready in less than a few minutes, I broke the surface and ran out.

As I move up to 20 meters in size, the ground is distorted and waves of sand, stones, and earth hit Muriel.

While her vision was obscured by a tidal wave of dirt, I struck her with a bone ax on the head.

It was literally like a flash of lightning, but she did not panic and unfolded the distortion field.

My body slows down dramatically as I reach the short distance to her head.

She leaned back and easily dodged my axe.

The golden javelin in her hand pierces my side according to its owner’s will. Black blood spurts from my wound and a smile appears on her face.

But it is I who really wants to laugh.

‘Gotcha!’

My fighting arms grab the spear stuck in my side. So that she can’t take it out.

Muriel’s smiling expression hardens. And the tooth fairies that had been summoned from the ground moments ago clung to her face and upper body.

“The remaining tricks…!”

Muriel yells in frustration as the tooth fairies block her gaze. As she said, it’s just a leftover talent. Just because the field of view is obscured, the distortion field does not cancel.

‘That’s not what I was aiming for.’

My jaw opened wide on both sides and the acidic fungus waiting inside shot out like a stream of water.

A distortion field only slows down the movement of creatures within the area and cannot distort other physical laws.

“!”

Perhaps sensing something ominous, Muriel quickly turned her head even though she was blind. This caused most of the fungus to miss and only a small portion to land on one side of her face.

However, the fear of acidic fungi is not limited to its strong acidity.

Even a single drop of fungal fluid can spread quickly.

“Aaaah!”

Muriel screamed as the fungus spread, melting part of her face and horns. The tooth fairies that were blocking her view were also violently oxidized by the fungus.

‘It’s your chance!’

Perhaps because the mind is distracted, the effect of the distortion field becomes weaker.

I didn’t miss the opportunity and swung my tail hard.

“Tsk!”

She flies away after being hit by my tail. She was thrown onto the messed up square floor.

‘It was shallow.’

Despite the pain that melted her face, Muriel used multiple defensive measures at the same time to block my attack.

There is even a circular shield that momentarily protrudes from the wrist of the ghost skin suit, a psychic power technology that allows you to take 50% extra psychic damage instead of only 10% physical damage.

Although my attack was on target, it would not have caused her serious damage.

‘If it was a cult, it would have been knocked down by the attack now….’

“Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!”

As I expected, she quickly got up covered in dirt. The suit, which covered only the body except the head, extended to the face like a spider web, healing wounds.

‘…also.’

As she recovered quickly, I saw things on her face that couldn’t be seen in ordinary living things.

What was inside her half-melted skin was an ivory-colored alloy skeleton instead of white bones, and small mechanical devices and chips sandwiched between red muscles.

It was questionable from the beginning.

According to my memory, Muriel in the game was a cyborg belonging to Space Dog.

In addition, while using equipment that only cyborgs can use, he freely used the cult’s signature psychic power technology.

Even during the fight, I thought it was strange that they preferred hand-to-hand combat, which is uncharacteristic of a cult, but now all my doubts have been resolved.

‘A fusion of cult and cyborg.’

Standing in front of me is a combination that all cyborg players desperately want in the game, and a combination that was absolutely impossible due to balance reasons.

The cyborg, who has recovered, minus the melted horn, glares at me.

“How can that be?”

Regardless of balance, the cult’s physically weak body cannot withstand the cyborg transformation procedure. The reason that none of the cultists I have met so far has attempted to resist the parasite is because the pain is simply unbearable.

Considering that, it is unlikely that Muriel started out as a cultist and was converted into a cyborg.

‘In fact, it’s the opposite.’

They may have started out as cyborgs and turned the base race into a cult through ‘some kind of means’.

‘It’s similar to my transcendental system.’

Transformation abilities similar to Wolff, and the ability to take over ships that only Outspacers have.

I, who transcend the limitations of Aimorph with the Transcendent System.

Muriel goes beyond the limits of a cyborg and gains psychic power.

It somehow felt similar.

“…good. “Is this because it’s ranked 5th?”

Instead of answering my question, Muriel pressed her neck with her free left hand. A translucent button-like thing appeared where her finger passed and then disappeared.

Eventually, the effect of the button she pressed appeared.

The muscles on her body swelled greatly and her eyes glowed intensely with a purple glow. The left arm that was not holding the priest’s golden spear was fused with the suit and transformed into a mechanical arm.

‘I absorbed psionium.’

Just as Amorph can use the next level of evolution ability when consuming psionium, the same goes for cults and cyborgs. In the case of cults, psychic power skills that can only be unlocked through specific quests can be used, and the limit on the number of modules that can be equipped at once is lifted for cyborgs.

‘Which race was upgraded?’

Since human-based cyborgs are treated as cyborgs, it can be said that the module restrictions were lifted due to the psionium effect, but Muriel is a more complex being than that.

Since the race is an unusual combination of cult cyborgs, it is impossible to determine which side has been strengthened.

‘Maybe both had an impact.’

Her transformation ended with the headband she was wearing turning into a purple halo and floating behind her head.

“Because of you, I even used up my psionium and my favorite equipment. “I will make you pay generously for that later.”

After saying that, she arrived in front of me in an instant. It was so fast that even Aimorph, who possessed transcendental senses, could barely sense it.

‘danger!’

As soon as I instinctively turned my head, I heard a threatening sound tearing the air. It was the sound made by the spear she pierced.

If I hadn’t avoided it, the attack would have pierced the top of my head, which would have been dangerous.

‘Physical abilities have increased ridiculously.’

When I realized that fact, I swung my tail.

She had been avoiding my tail a while ago, but this time she didn’t move. Instead, it grabbed my tail with its mechanical arm. And then he started to give strength to the hand holding the tail.

｢Pain relief activated!｣

Not only was it breaking the thick carapace of the tail, it was also breaking the bones inside the tail. With this much strength, he could rip my tail off with his left hand.

I pulled out my bone ax with my fighting arm and struck her with it.

However, she easily blocked my attack with her javelin. The attack power of the javelin itself remained the same, but the force became so strong that my arm, which had used the attack, felt tingly.

“I’m not tired of it. Do you think this method will work for me?”

“How about that?”

“what?”

She asks back with a sadistic smile.

‘I already know that you have a shitty personality.’

She is not the only one with hidden cards.

And he was holding her down to use that card.

I grabbed her with my fighting arms and eroding tentacles to keep her from escaping.

Beneath our feet, the parasite I planted before sends a signal.

The host is going up now.

“no way?!”

As soon as Muriel shouted, the ground we were standing on exploded.

｢Murieeeeell!｣

What came up through the ground was the lion’s huge front paw.

With a roar like lightning striking from the sky, the lion’s paws fly towards Muriel’s legs.

“shit!”

When her calf was cut in half, her body glowed purple and disappeared in my hands.

And then she appeared from a distance away, looking fine.

“You fucking morph guy! What kind of a morph are you!”

“What are you saying?”

“What kind of companions does Amorph have with him?!

“Ah, that thing, thing, thing, thing, thing, thing, thing, thing.”

“profit!”

While I was calmly answering the angry Muriel, the Mother of Heaven crawled up from the ground.

“Choi Seo-ah, this sick bitch doesn’t even give up…!”

“Even if I want to die, I cannot die until I finish avenging my family and chewing off every single piece of flesh from the four years.”

Muriel, who wears psionium, is the mother of heaven, shedding bloody tears and vowing revenge.

And even me, who became a semi-adult.

Now that all the main characters have gathered, the second round begins.