I Became an Evolving Space Monster

Episode 313 – Monster Hunting (4)

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Sihyeon Eugene, wearing the white reinforced suit ‘White Maiden’, glared at that being in the dark.

An unknown being who in the past killed the assassination target of ‘Sihyun Eugene’ and also murdered her.

The monster that had been tormenting her in nightmares for a while was discovered underground on an unfamiliar planet. It has become so strong that it is unrecognizable.

Even when fighting her, he transformed his body once. It was a change that could easily be called evolution.

The same goes for the guy in front of her right now. I couldn’t even guess how much it had evolved to look like that.

But she wasn’t afraid.

That guy is also one of the targets she has to kill. There’s only one thing she needs to care about.

All the senses in my body were focused on his movements. The carapace surrounding the monster’s body clicks together to make a subtle sound.

When she read that he was about to move, she kicked the ground.

As expected, the left side of its head hit the spot where she was. She jumped into the air and dodged it, landing on the monster’s neck and running straight ahead.

The right head turned towards her with its muzzle wide open. Next, a lump of black mucus poured out.

Sihyeon raised his right arm forward while running. The White Maiden reinforced suit she wears can change its appearance as the user desires. The reinforced clothing covering the wrists unfolded like a funnel and transformed into a large shield.

She transformed her left arm by turning her arm into a shield to defend against the slime. This time, it wasn’t the reinforcement suit that changed, but her body itself. The Gallagon genes injected into the body were expressed, and a silver blade emerged from the back of the hand.

That’s when I tried to cut off the left side of his neck with a blade.

The bastard read her intention and cleared his throat loudly. Because of the loss of balance, the blade only made a scratch on the carapace covering the neck.

The guy’s arm flies towards her as she falls from her neck. Even if you protect your body with a reinforced suit, if you get hit by that huge hand, you will be reduced to a pulp. She jumped into the air and narrowly avoided his arm.

But that wasn’t the end of its attacks. This was because the tentacles protruding from its back had already reached her.

The tentacle, which had six appendages, was almost as long as a corvette. It is impossible to avoid this. She hastily created wings on her back.

She spread her glide-shaped wings and quickly retreated. The appendage attached to the tentacle narrowly missed reaching the tip of the wing.

But the guy hasn’t given up yet.

The head of the creature that had its snout on the floor moved again. Its maw rose up to devour her while she was floating in the air.

Sihyeon returned his right arm, which had turned into a shield, to its original state and quickly pulled out the plasma pistol from his thigh holster.

The area she is targeting is inside the guy’s mouth. A green light bullet was lodged in the wide-open snout.

｢Grrrr!｣

It’s a small weapon, but it’s definitely a plasma weapon. It doesn’t seem to have caused any serious damage, but it was effective enough in slowing down the enemy’s attack. While the left head tilts its head in frustration. She widened the distance between herself and the bastard.

‘…strong.’

When they fought before, she had the upper hand. Although she was cruelly defeated because the bastard attacked her weak point while she was off guard.

But now he overpowers her.

There is no comparison in size or power. She has a slight advantage in terms of speed, but that is not a big difference.

‘The durability is also enormous.’

Even though a plasma bullet was placed inside his neck, he was still fine. Even though the inside of the body is not protected by a carapace, it has incredible durability.

‘The perfect biological weapon.’

The being in front of me was the Eugene family’s long-cherished wish itself. If the shadow created by the Eugene family is a genetically engineered weapon that is at least one generation ahead, then it is a being on a completely different level.

If you asked her if she could win against such an opponent, or if she could ‘hold on’, she was skeptical.

‘…but.’

Still, there is a reason why Sihyeon is standing here.

Because she also had a secret weapon.

Lyla Chamberlain, who came down to the basement together, is hiding with the relic ‘Abyss Destroyer’.

It is a plan with many uncertainties that have not yet been resolved. Still, if things go according to plan, I’ll be able to give that guy a proper punch.

With that hope in mind, I rushed at him again.

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‘How did you survive?’

I thought as I was struck by the flying sword energy.

Sihyeon Eugene, the girl who doesn’t stop attacking even though she knows it’s useless, is already dead.

I remembered it clearly because by feasting on her, I had gained useful traits such as ‘mimetic organs’ and ‘monster’s tentacles’.

The woman fighting with me was clearly Sihyeon Eugene. All elements, including her fighting style, movements, and body reactions, were identical to her dead counterpart.

The element of randomly reviving the dead in space survival is not completely absent, but it is extremely limited. Besides, this is not a game, this is reality. It is questionable whether the characteristics or equipment that resurrects the dead will work properly.

Then there is only one answer.

‘Clone human.’

The enemy fighting me is most likely a clone prepared by Sihyeon Eugene in advance.

While she was thinking about her opponent’s identity, a yak horn sprouted from her temple. In that state, she swung her arm with Gallagon’s claws sticking out. The sword energy, much stronger than before, was aimed at my auxiliary organs.

‘Two skills?’

From what I remember, Sihyeon’s weakness was that she couldn’t use more than one genetic technology at the same time. But now she was using both the yak horns transplanted to her head and the gallagon’s claws transplanted to her arms.

‘I was wondering how you cut the horn.’

I turned my head and defended myself from the sword with the tusks that sprouted from either side of my mouth. There is a slight scratch on the blade of the tusk, but it is not a major damage. I hit her on the head with my fighting arm.

“Tch!”

She clicked her tongue briefly and dodged the attack from my arm by jumping to the side. The eroding tentacles on my back shot out in the direction she was avoiding.

As if she had read my attack, she changed her arm back into a shield. A white shield and an erosion tentacle collided.

“Ugh?”

Although he succeeded in blocking the erosion tentacle with his shield, he looked quite embarrassed. He must have realized that the power contained in the tentacles is not light at all.

I spread the membrane on one of the wing arms and vigorously swept the floor where she was standing.

Perhaps because he decided that running away like before was impossible, this time he used ‘reflection’. My wing arm stopped in place just before it swept her away. The enemy did not miss the short gap and quickly escaped.

“…shit.”

Other than being covered in sand, she looked fine, but her expression was not good. This is because the part of the arm that was transformed into a shield was damaged.

‘Even though she is a White Maiden, she is not all-powerful.’

I already know what the reinforced suit she’s wearing is.

Just like the Code Black I killed before was wearing the ‘Black Shroud’, she was also wearing Yuil-class reinforced clothing. White Maiden is a special reinforced suit incorporating nanotechnology that can freely change its shape according to the user’s will.

‘It is a piece of equipment that greatly depends on the level of the user.’

In addition, it has useful functions such as self-repair and the ability to absorb other substances and use them as an energy source for reinforced clothing.

The downside of Si-hyeon is that he cannot use more than one genetic technology at a time. White Maiden, which can freely change its body, can effectively compensate for this shortcoming. It must have been given to her by Akira Eugene, the head of the Eugene family and the 3rd ranked ranker.

‘But White Maiden also has its drawbacks.’

If you receive an attack so strong that the durability of the reinforced suit cannot withstand it, as it is now, recovery will be slow.

She might be equipped with other auxiliary equipment, otherwise she wouldn’t be able to withstand the attacks of the adult Amorph.

I looked down at the black-haired woman who gritted her teeth and glared at me.

‘Seeing as he’s wearing a top-of-the-line reinforced suit, I think he’s Sihyeon Eugene’s clone.’

Her appearance was very different from a typical clone.

Due to the setting, Star Union’s clones do not even have their memories completely transmitted. This is due to various reasons such as loss of memory data that occurs during the transmission process and inconsistency between the body and memory data.

But looking at his actions, he clearly remembered that he was fighting with me. It’s as if memories were transferred to me after my death.

‘Has a new technology been developed that I don’t know about?’

Of course, I think that’s unlikely.

If that were the case, all of the rankers who died against me would have been resurrected as clones and would have come to catch me. It would be reasonable to say that the clone of Sihyeon Eugene in front of me is an extremely rare case.

‘There’s no need to worry.’

All you have to do is ask her directly.

At that time, she was glaring at me, then turned and ran in the opposite direction. It looked like he gave up in despair and ran away.

‘No way.’

I already sensed that their intention was not to run away, but to lure me in.

Before meeting her, I didn’t feel like I was popular.

Two, to be precise. There was another person other than Sihyeon, but I barely felt it right now. Unless it suddenly disappeared. It was clear that he was hiding inside that passage.

‘It definitely felt quite heavy.’

Before it disappeared, the vibration was felt quite loudly. It means that the weight of the opponent is considerable.

‘No matter what, it won’t be easy to defeat me.’

After preparing to prevent any possible surprise attack, I followed the path Sihyeon fled.

The auxiliary organs attached to each head were also constantly checking the surrounding area to see if there was anything unusual. As a result, the auxiliary organ picked up the subtle mechanical sounds coming from one side of the wall. All of my snouts pointed in the direction of the sound.

“shit! “He found out!”

Si-hyeon, who saw me, shouted as if he was angry. Her colleague disarmed the optical equipment that resembled a wall, or rather a wall, and raised a weapon towards me.

A dark blue heat ray fired from the muzzle of the standard Demolisher ‘Slayer’ flies toward the head in the center.

‘I knew it.’

It was predicted long ago that such a surprise attack would occur. I followed Sihyeon and activated the ‘variable biological weapon’ in advance.

The object of mutation is the head. The Ice Horror’s thick carapace protects its central head.

Of course, even with the Ice Horror’s shell, it is impossible to completely defend against high-firepower material decomposition bombs. Instead, its incredibly thick shell is effective enough to protect important organs, including the brain. The Slayer’s heat ray only punctured my carapace and did no further damage.

“Get back!”

The enemy wearing a uniquely designed reinforced suit was just staring at me blankly, as if he didn’t expect me to be fine.

I strengthened my legs to give back as much as I had received from the enemy. A huge body measuring 60 meters in length accelerates.

“What?!”

The enemy seemed to come to his senses only after seeing me rapidly approaching. The enemy, wearing a unique reinforced suit, let out a machine-modulated scream and hurriedly avoided me.

When my reinforced head hit the wall of the passage, the surroundings shook as if there was an earthquake. In that state, I strongly swung my right tail with its claws attached.

The enemy who had dodged to the side hastily activated his shield, but it was a wrong decision. The moment it was hit by the claw at the end of the tail, not only the shield but also the shield activation device on the wrist was completely shattered.

“Boo!”

The enemy hit by the tail flew like a cannonball fired from a cannon and landed on the wall on the other side.

‘It’s solid.’

The reinforced suit the enemy was wearing was not broken by the current attack, perhaps because it was a type with extremely high physical defense. Of course, as if the shock wasn’t fully absorbed, there was a strong smell of blood coming from the enemy stuck in the wall.

‘Now all that’s left is….’

Sihyeon and Eugene. I strained my neck and pulled the heads off the wall.

And when I turned my head, she was standing at the end of my line of sight.

‘huh?’

She was holding items that looked like they had just been pulled out of the dirt.

“Gotcha.”

Si-hyeon mutters coldly, as if what he had just seen was just an act.

She put the crystal in her hand into a device that looked like a cordless vacuum cleaner. Then the crystal began to spin violently and emit an eerie light.

｢’Shi■ ■jin’ is ■■■■■ of ■■■■■■ ■■■■｣

‘What?’

Images suddenly appear before me. Because there were so many mosaics, I couldn’t see anything.

However, I know very well what this phenomenon means.

‘Predator sense!’

When I realized that fact, I quickly covered my head with my wing arms and fighting arms. As soon as I bent down, an eerie light engulfed my body.

I didn’t feel any pain. No, I didn’t feel anything. I felt a light breeze pass through my body.

Just as I was about to think so.

“Huh?!”

Blood flowed from my mouth. At the same time, I felt excruciating pain coming from my fighting arm. The two fighting arms near the sides twisted wildly and then suddenly shrunk.

Is this what it feels like to be forced into a mummy while you are sober? I haven’t felt this much pain since I was hit by the ‘Watcher of Fear’ with the ‘Color of the Abyss’ applied. My legs became weak due to pain beyond my imagination.

‘Ugh… is this…?’

And it wasn’t just the pain that surprised me.

A translucent text box appeared in front of me. That was something I had never seen before.

‘I need to come to my senses! Now more than that….’

There is a very dangerous enemy in front of me. I somehow used strength in my wing arms to raise myself up.

“Why don’t you die? “Isn’t it an out-spacer?”

Sihyeon Eugene, who seriously injured me.

When I looked at his face, he seemed surprised that I wasn’t dead.

｢Grrrrr!｣

“…Chit!”

She took advantage of the fact that I was still unable to move properly and ran away with my injured colleague.

‘…It was dangerous.’

If she had just used ‘that weapon’ again, I would have been done.

After she disappeared, I swept up the dirt scattered everywhere with my wings and stuffed it into my mouth. Thanks to ‘mineral digestion’, which is an environmental adaptation characteristic, the regenerative effect can be increased even by eating soil. Efficiency is not high, but now is not the time to question that.

As I dug up the dirt, the pain gradually subsided. The bleeding inside his body stopped and he recovered enough to stand on his own two legs.

However, the combat arm did not return to its original state.

I could see why this was by looking at the semi-transparent text box.

｢’■■ ■■■’ destroyed the genetic essence of ‘Outspacer’.

The ‘parasitic colony’ trait is deactivated. To reactivate the trait, you must feast on the relevant genetic essence.”

Sihyeon Eugene used it against me.

‘…getting rid of Amorph’s characteristics.’

It was a weapon that destroyed genetic essence.