Chapter 336
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“…oh my god.”
The Mother of Heaven looked blankly at the sky beyond the hole in the dome.
To stay still and not move in the middle of a battle. It was something she could never have imagined, but at this moment today, it didn’t matter.
Because the pile bugs in Outspacer that were fighting with her were in the same state.
A drop of ink that fell on the red paper suddenly spread uncontrollably. ‘It’, which was just black, swallowed up the ships and outspacers that filled the sky.
There was no loud drinking, screams of fear, or any other sounds commonly heard on the battlefield.
It was a silent massacre.
‘At that level, it’s almost at the level of Vortex One.’
Since she is also a ranker, she has hunted several raid bosses. The act of destruction taking place in the sky was a sight that could only be seen when fighting Vortex One or the Red Gallagons.
In fact, the Coldbloods she rescued are showing similar reactions as when facing Vortex One. Seeing her trembling behind her seemed more frightening than when she faced the giant monster right in front of her.
She sent pressure-manipulating particles to those people who were in a semi-deranged state due to extreme fear. When I stimulated them very slightly with particles, their bodies started shaking.
“Everyone, come to your senses!”
“!”
“Now is your chance! Everyone get on the airship over there!”
Thanks to this, 40 Coldbloods came to their senses and fled to a safe place. The mini mutant screamer, MPS-05, followed behind them.
The nickname of the safest city on the planet is now a thing of the past. It would be much safer to hide for a while outside in the sand-filled desert.
「Guoooooooo!」
‘Chet!’
While the Coldbloods and MPS-05 boarded the airship, the pile bugs began to move again.
A 30m tall rhinoceros beetle monster swung its front legs the size of pillars supporting a building. The Mother of Heaven spread her agate-colored wings and flew upward. The pile bug’s claws narrowly landed on the spot where she was.
She flew away to avoid the attack and sprayed particles of the same color as her wings. The leg of the pile bug touched by the agate-colored grains was twisted grotesquely.
If it were any other creature, it would have writhed in pain, but it wasn’t a bastard. The pilebug didn’t care about the pain of losing one of its front legs, and aimed the bio files on its back and head at her.
‘I modified it so I can’t feel pain.’
She flew skillfully and dodged the flying bio stakes. I could see other pile bugs coming from a distance between the ruined buildings.
“Aadhai! “They’re coming!”
Taking cover behind a half-collapsed building, she called Aadhai.
He was looking at the sky outside the dome from the rooftop of the building on the other side. Purple eyes reminiscent of amethyst were fixed on the ‘black being’ that greedily devours ships and flying monsters.
‘Why are you doing this all of a sudden?’
I wondered if it was in fear like the other creatures here, but looking again, it didn’t seem like that.
What should I say about the appearance of a guy who has his eyes fixed and doesn’t move? It seemed like he was in a state of extreme immersion to the point of losing his mind.
At that time, the pile bug that was targeting her also found that little gallagon. A 3m-sized bio-pile was launched from its back.
The place where the stake is headed is the rooftop of the building where Aadhai is located. If you are attacked by that attack now that you are not protected by ‘Red Armor’, you will receive 100% fatal injuries.
‘We can’t leave it like that!’
She tensed her hind leg muscles and kicked the floor hard. Her body, which had the body of a cat and a wild beast, shot forward as quickly as an arrow. In addition, it accelerated by hitting the air violently with the wings on its back.
The body of a griffon with golden fur breaks through the wall of a collapsing building and soars to the rooftop of the building on the other side.
Just before the biological stake pierced Aadhai, she managed to grab it and dodge it. The sharp end of the stake barely scratched the horn on her head.
Only then did Adhai look back at her.
「Ugly friend?」
「Are you out of your mind? The battle is not over yet!」
“Battle?” “Hunting?”
Hearing those words, a red light flashed in Adhai’s eyes. The red pattern engraved on the snow-white body suddenly flared up as if on fire.
‘what?’
I was momentarily startled and looked back, but he looked the same as usual.
The guy shook his head once and spread his wings.
「Friend」「Say」「Right」「Hunting」「It’s not over」
「…Okay.」
「Together」「Hunting」
The guy who said that put on red armor and flew up.
‘Did I see it wrong?’
Deciding that she was mistaken, she followed Aadhai, who started fighting the pile bug.
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Aimorphs prey on other creatures and adopt their characteristics.
However, compared to the constantly evolving concept, there are not many features that organically change the body. The characteristic of frequently changing one’s body to suit the situation was closer to Wolff’s exclusive possession than Amov’s.
‘Complete organism’ that turns Aimorph’s body into a killing machine, ‘organic evolution’ that can take on various types of special states, and ‘variable biological weapon’ that transforms body parts into those of Apex. These are all things that did not exist in the game.
If any of those were in the game, the balance of space survival would have changed significantly.
Anyway, the ability to change one’s body was quite rare in the game. Under these conditions, ‘Bone Beast’, which strengthens the user’s body, was a very attractive feature.
A bone beast with body-related fusion characteristics created using ‘giant creatures’ as material.
When the trait is activated, armor similar to bone grows to protect vulnerable parts of the body. As a bonus, the size of the entire body increases by about three times.
I have used it many times in games, so I know well the changes that occur. However, this is the first time it has become a bone beast since becoming an adult in this world.
When the trait is activated, the material that makes up the bone armor flows out from the tiny gaps in the dark black carapace and scales. The materials that coated the shell instantly solidified and became a solid armor. Sharp thorns protruded from the completed white armor.
While I was wearing armor, my entire body also grew rapidly. My muscles stretched as if they were going to tear, and a creepy sound came from the bones inside my body.
1.5x, 2x, 3x. My body, which seemed to grow infinitely, stopped just before reaching 200 meters in length.
「Grrrrrrrrr’
「Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Heads on the left and right growl at the first change they feel. Their cries also became much more profound to match their enlarged bodies.
The muzzles of the two heads were covered with armor similar to a helmet made from animal skulls. Perhaps that’s why it gave the impression that it was much more fierce than before.
‘good.’
「■■■■■■■■!」
After completing the change, I roared powerfully. The heads on both sides cried out just like me.
The three heads roared at the same time, tearing the air and creating a sound similar to thunder.
「Kwagwanghanda! “Kwagwang!”
“My hearing function has been damaged. We recover with residual energy.”
Unit 26 and PS-111 on my body also reacted to my movements. PS-111 appears to have suffered damage from a temporary sonic boom.
[Zuz zuzuzu (everyone be careful)]
I waved my wings widely while warning the kids. The black wings, which are three times as large as my body, push my body forward with the air. I can see the sand-covered desert below being covered in pitch-black shadows.
「Susss!」
When the collecting bugs see me approaching, they let out a cry that is almost like a scream. Apart from fear, the insects are forced to charge because of the queen’s orders. Instead of dodging, I hit them.
The outspacers are smashed like flying insects that burst when they collide with the windshield of a moving car.
The vicious stomach juices and sharp teeth they boasted of were of no use. The power to melt the carapace was the same, but because the bone beast’s armor was so thick, it was difficult to inflict much damage.
「Bad flutter!」
「Sssyu?!」
“We are conducting supporting fire.”
No. 26 rode on my back, and PS-111, who was at the head of the center and moved to No. 26’s side, also helped me catch bugs.
Number 26, which grew its body again to tens of meters in size, took out tentacles with sharp saw blades. The collecting bugs that narrowly avoided colliding with me were hit by No. 26’s tentacles and shattered into pieces.
PS-111 lurked beneath No. 26 and supported us with its Demolisher-equipped tail. The material decomposition bombs he fired never missed, perhaps because they calculated the flight trajectory.
The enemies also launched a counterattack against us as we slaughtered the outspacers.
The main guns of the cult warships hidden among the bugs burst into flames. A baptism of purple light pours down on me. The Outspacer’s stomach acid and blood covering his body were hit by the heat rays and evaporated.
However, the skull-like carapace and the black scales underneath did not suffer much damage. Some of the protruding thorns were broken, but there was no significant damage. I swung my two tails towards the nearby battleship.
The clawed right tail collided with the battleship’s shield. The translucent purple protective layer cracked and shattered like a glass window. The pincer that broke the shield hit the front of the battleship hard.
A series of explosions occur inside the completely blown battleship. I stretched out my erosion tentacles and caught the falling battleship.
“Aaaah!”
The cult crew falls from the broken battleship. Some of them fell prey to my tentacles, while others fell to the red sand below.
I used the broken battleship as a bat and swung it at other ships and outspacers. Every time the battleship collided, dozens of collecting bugs were crushed.
Then, a change occurred in the movement of the insects that were gathered together. Those who received the queen’s instructions quickly spread out.
‘You can’t turn your back.’
I hit the back of the guys whose camp was temporarily destroyed. All heads opened their mouths wide and swallowed the retreating creatures whole. Perhaps because their bodies had grown so dramatically, each time they opened their mouths, more than ten animals entered the stomach.
“Predation effect activated!”
Thanks to swallowing hundreds of bugs, I finally achieved the desired characteristics. When I accepted, feeling began to return to my arm that had not moved. The ‘parasitic colony’ that had been banned due to the loss of genetic essence was finally restored.
‘phew. Just barely able to recover…’
At that time, a golden thunderbolt from afar passed through my body. There was no significant damage when hit by the main gun of a battleship, but not this time. This is because the white carapace that was grazed by the heat rays was broken.
As I faced the enemies surrounding me, I looked around with my auxiliary organs. A sphere measuring several hundred meters was floating alone in the distant sky.
‘That attack right now, is it really the Thunder God?’
The Raijin that I know is shaped like a flat mandala, and it didn’t look like that. If you overlap several mandala-shaped Thunder Gods and make a sphere, it would look like this.
‘Is it a reinforced type?’
It looks like an upgraded version, as it looks like it has more firepower.
‘I thought everything was broken.’
The scope of destruction of the ‘Black Devourer Cannon’ also included Thunder Gods. I thought they were all swept away along with the ships, but it seems that wasn’t the case. That’s probably the last Thunder God left in the Observatory’s elite fleet.
‘I think I know who’s controlling it.’
The orbital weapon Raishin can only be wielded by users of strong psychic power. It is probably something controlled by Alshas.
Thunder light gathers again on the Thunder God that failed to hit me. I also gathered psychic power without dodging.
Could it be due to the energy consumed by the Black Devourer cannon? Unlike when I fired wildly before, I clearly felt like my energy was draining away. Although he was recovering quickly thanks to the dragon’s heart, it seemed like it would take time to fully recover.
‘Let’s not think about anything else now and focus.’
Raijin, who has gathered energy to the limit, shines brightly. This might be what it feels like to face the sun directly. At the moment the yellow heat ray was fired, I also let out a breath of highly concentrated energy.
The dragon’s power extending into three streams collided with the Thunder God’s lightning. The shock wave generated by the collision between energies shook the sky of Berzan 02. Surrounding enemies were also swept away by the shock wave and collided with each other or fell to the ground.
‘It’s definitely strong, but…’
It’s not enough to beat me.
The standoff didn’t last long. Just like when a serpent swallows a smaller snake whole, the breath fired from its three heads consumed the lightning.
When the yellow light in the red sky was almost extinguished, a purple heat ray reached the Thunder God. What followed was an explosion strong enough to temporarily paralyze the auxiliary organ under the jaw.
An enormous amount of flames cover the sky, as if several nuclear bombs exploded at the same time. The few remaining battleships were engulfed in flames and oxidized to dust.
Beyond the blazing flames, Alshas and Isabel can be seen on top of the queen protected by collecting bugs.
The guy was very embarrassed, probably because his plan was falling apart in real time. It’s far away so you can’t see it, but you can definitely feel the emotion.
I aimed at it with my restored fighting arm. The guy who saw that took a big step back.
“What did you say? “Work together to overcome difficulties?”
“!”
There is a high possibility that the person here is a clone.
But it doesn’t matter.
No matter where you hide in this universe, no matter what weapon you bring.
I won’t stop until I feast on its essence.
A word from the author (author review) Please take care of zakuti.
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