I Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 341
Vortex One stopped its attack upon seeing the huge mining ship flying through space.
He’s thinking about whether to attack first, me or the mining ship.
Taking advantage of that opportunity, I took out the last card I had prepared.
‘It’s time to write King of the Monsters.’
‘King of Monsters’, one of the special states of ‘organic evolution’. Using this trait transforms my body into a gigantic creature.
Before, after consuming psionium, I became an adult and wrote the King of Monsters. At the time, the symbol of hunting had a cooldown so it could not be used together.
In other words, this is the first time that the king of monsters is used as a symbol of hunting.
My body grows with terrifying force in the empty universe. The ring of agony, which had once been much larger than me, suddenly became smaller than me. If I compare my current body to Giga Cracker, I think it would be about a third of the size.
Of course, growing to such an enormous size came with a price. Due to the enormous amount of energy consumed, I felt energy draining from my body in real time. If it weren’t for the dragon’s heart, which pumps out as much psychic power as the energy consumed, I wouldn’t have been able to last even a few minutes.
Currently, my body is maintained in a delicate state of balance.
‘good. It ends here.’
A symbol of hunting and the king of monsters.
I wrapped myself in the strongest cards I had and rushed at Vortex One.
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Vortex One applauds as he sees me rushing in at an overwhelming size. The force that manipulates gravity grabbed and twisted my body. The carapace crumbled, and pipes all over the body were broken. The arms and legs were twisted in bizarre directions and the bones were shattered.
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The cycle of agony didn’t stop there, but they clapped twice in a row. The left head and right tail make an eerie sound as they are crushed by an intangible force.
‘You can still do it!’
I moved forward without stopping.
Just as the guy was about to clap again, Aadhai, who had taken a detour to the other side, pierced him.
The force that was weighing down my body disappeared, and instead, energy bullets composed of the power of the abyss were fired from the numerous hands on the surface of the ring.
In the pouring black meteor shower, the red afterimage left behind by Adhai glows faintly. The guy skillfully avoided the barrage of energy bullets, which had almost no gaps.
It was the same in Berzan 02, but his flying skills have now reached the peak. Even dogfighting with rankers from Megacorp and Star Union was not difficult.
Perhaps because he judged that the Ring of Anguish could not be captured with energy bullets, he changed his posture. I’m trying to crush him with my gravity manipulation abilities.
At that time, No. 26, who was riding on Aadhai’s back, came out. A purple stream flowed from the end of the pink tentacle and wrapped around him and Aadhai like a skein of thread.
The sight of them being protected by a sphere made up of a vivid purple mandala reminded me of the protective shield Cynthia used to protect herself in the past.
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Soon, an intangible power descended on the protective shield created by No. 26. Even if they were Vortex One, the shield could not be easily broken, so the two were holding on well.
Taking advantage of that opportunity, I approached the enemy.
Before the guy clapped once more, I slammed into him with all my strength. The guy’s posture collapsed because he collided with me, who was bigger than him.
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The posture of the arms changed three times in succession. Energy bullets, gravity manipulation, and anti-elasticity blasted at me in quick succession.
Mind-numbing pain shakes my head, and I keep getting messages telling me that pain relief has been activated. I was barely able to survive thanks to Amorph’s unique strong vitality and the strengthening effects of various characteristics.
‘You can’t be pushed out of here.’
Withstanding the barrage of attacks, it wrapped around Vortex One with its elongated neck and back tentacles. Now that I was bigger than him, wrapping around an enemy with a thin body wasn’t a problem.
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‘Where are you going?’
It tried to run away by splitting its body, but this was also expected. When its body was about to split, its tentacles grabbed the parts where the core was hidden and prevented it from escaping.
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When I didn’t give up, it tried to change its body shape into a new shape. The intention is probably to maximize the destructive power by twisting the body once more in the half-remaining figure 8 shape.
It’s not a bad decision. It would have been a good decision if he had changed his form about 5 minutes ago instead of now.
A place quite far away from the space where he and I are floating.
Energy gathers at the center of a huge structure resembling a flower in full bloom.
Heavenly Mother and the MPS series decided to operate the ion cannon on behalf of PS-111, who was busy with Isabel. While I was using the King of Monsters to get his attention, Gigacracker’s ion cannon was ready to go.
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He realized that too and quickly tried to throw me off. I relaxed my neck and tentacles just in time for the creature’s anti-elasticity to erupt. My body, with no intact parts, be it wings or limbs, was thrown out of the thing.
‘now!’
At the same time, the ion cannon was fired.
The heat ray, which can split an asteroid in one blow, quickly approaches me and it. Its arms tried to distort gravity and change the direction of the heat rays, but it was already too late.
Because the turquoise death burned my whole body.
All the arms on the surface of the ring burned away, and the body supported by the power of the abyss collapsed like a sand castle.
The heat ray that dealt a fatal blow to Vortex One flew far past its original target and all the way to Berzan 02 behind it.
Gigacracker is one of the super weapons, but its essence is a mining ship. It is impossible to destroy a planet as large as Berzan02.
However, that doesn’t mean it can’t cause any damage. At least it’s enough to clean up the civilizations built on the planet.
As the ion cannon’s super-massive beam hits, the red planet’s clouds disperse. Crustal debris and sand generated by the explosion rose into the atmosphere at the point where the heat ray hit and then fell to the ground.
Of course, there will be no trace of the city hit by the heat ray, and cities far away will also be swept away by the falling debris.
Now the ‘Red Jewel’ of the cult empire no longer exists. All that remains is a barren star covered in sand.
After the heat ray was fired, Gigacracker returned to its spherical form.
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The condition of Vortex One, which had been hit directly by the ion cannon, was not good. There were many cracks on the torso, and there were almost no arms left. Black liquid continued to flow out into space from the cracked area.
That’s a sign that he’s reached a point where he can no longer maintain his body.
I flew towards him with my completely battered body.
I tried to resist the ring of agony by moving my arms, but it was just a meaningless hand gesture. I wrapped him around the neck right and center.
I held on to him tightly and bit his body with my double jaw. If your arm was struggling, it would grab it and rip it off, and if you twisted your body to escape, it would entangle you tightly with its tentacles.
Like a snake coiling around its prey, it slowly devoured it.
And soon, the ‘Avisual Core’ reached the tip of my snout.
‘This is the end.’
Without hesitation, I swallowed the core whole.
“Predation effect activated!”
A space demon incompletely summoned in Berzan 02.
The message announcing Vortex One’s death was not much different from any other message.
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“Please do it! Please do it! please!”
Alshas struggled to contact his colleagues.
Her airship was completely damaged when she got caught up in the fight between Vortex One and Aimorph. The rocket thrusters located at the rear of the airship were damaged, making it impossible to even land on a very nearby planet.
That was unfortunate enough, but something even more terrible happened.
The communication stone, which was a tool for her to communicate with her fellow returnees, was broken by impact.
‘This can’t be happening! ‘Why should I have to go through this!’
Alshas felt like he was going crazy as he was faced with a series of unbearable misfortunes. Doesn’t it seem as if the entire universe was determined to torment her?
I already know that I am not a good person. On the other hand, is he a wicked person who deserves to suffer such misery?
She thought no.
Most people live like her, exploiting others to a moderate degree. If she is a sinner, then everyone in this world, or even the real world, is a sinner.
In addition, the Returning Party, the faction to which Alshas belongs, moves to help ‘everyone’. If their great plan succeeds, everyone can be saved.
Although she does not completely agree with its noble meaning, she feels that it is necessary. That’s why I dedicated myself to the cause.
‘Just contact us! As soon as I get in touch, he’ll come save me!’
Alshas tried his best to fix the monument. His fingers were covered in blood from being pricked by wires or metal fragments, but he didn’t care.
It looked more like an ugly monster than a beautiful cult.
In fact, her fate was already decided from the moment Outspacer retreated.
But she couldn’t admit it.
Because she has always been an important person, whether in reality or in this world. Although she could use others like tools, she never imagined that others would abandon her.
“Just a little more….”
As I was trying to connect the wire to the tombstone, the ship trembled violently.
She froze in shock, as if something had collided outside the airship.
“Bah, what just happened?”
She hurriedly turned her gaze to the windshield.
Until a moment ago, I could see white grains the size of millet stuck together on a black background. But now, what was reflected in the glass was complete darkness.
‘Would you rather jump out of space?’
If you protect yourself with a psychic shield and move your body with levitation skills, you may be able to escape somehow. It wasn’t an absurd method at all since she had a superior psychic power output than anyone else.
The problem was oxygen.
Even if you escape after wearing a mask and protective clothing, you would need a large amount of oxygen to travel to another planet or ship. Otherwise, you will most likely die from oxygen running out before your psychic power.
‘I don’t want to die!’
Her selfish personality, which had been inherited from the real world, had a negative impact on her judgment. I only thought about what would be advantageous for survival, but it did not lead to action.
And time did not wait any longer for her indecisiveness.
“Heek?!”
The hull shook greatly. Surprised, Alshas dropped the tombstone he was holding.
Previously, it ended with a shake-up, but not this time. With a sharp noise, a part of the airship’s inner wall began to cave.
“Oh, no…!”
The wall is torn apart like an aluminum can being crushed. If it were outer space, the air would have escaped due to the pressure difference, but that did not happen.
What lay beyond the torn wall was not space, but a dark hangar.
Only then did she realize what had hit, or rather caught, the airship. The cult’s uniquely slender body began to tremble like an aspen tree.
The head of ‘it’, which surrounded the entire airship, came down.
“It would be nice to eat it right away, but we’ll have to wait our turn.”
‘That’, when Alsath saw Aimov’s white eyes, he wanted to faint.
Of course, fainting won’t change anything.
From now on, it’s Amov’s time.
A word from the author (author’s review) ｢Organic evolution: It is not the strong who survive, but the survivors who become strong. You can transform into one of several special states.
* King of Monsters: Grows and strengthens his body into a super-sized creature. The space required to use the feature is at least 100m radius. Because it is a special state that consumes a huge amount of energy, the state is canceled when all energy is used up. The maximum duration is 10 minutes and the cooldown is 30 days.
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* Cancellation and changes cannot be made during transformation. Special states share a cooldown.
* Afterwards, new special states can be acquired depending on the acquired characteristics.
*PS: Evolution and circulation. What awaits at the end? You might be able to find out. Watch the next episode.”