Ep. 145
The name of the drug in the ampoule I am holding is Psionium.
It is a drug that gives the user a reinforcing effect each time it is used, but whose duration is randomly reduced.
I previously wrote about it when fighting against Eugene, the genetically modified human of the Eugene family.
At the time, I, a corporeal being, consumed psionium and temporarily gained the strength of a subadult body to fight against her.
Anyway, I have already used it once. Basically, it is true that the duration should be reduced.
‘But this is the improved version that Muriel used.’
She enjoyed the strengthening effect for a much longer period of time compared to regular psionium. So I don’t know how long the effect will last.
‘Whatever it is, it won’t last very long.’
It should be assumed to be at least 5 minutes and at most 8 or 9 minutes.
In other words, it should be seen that the effect of Psionium ends earlier than the maximum duration of ‘King of Monsters’. According to common sense, it would be right to use the King of the Monsters first, but there is a problem that needs to be considered before that.
‘The state is canceled when all energy is consumed.’
In the description of the characteristics of ‘organic evolution’, it is written that a huge amount of energy is consumed when transforming into the king of monsters.
‘Even God’s whip would consume a lot of energy.’
Both ‘God’s Rod’ and the King of Monsters consume the biological energy stored in my body.
‘The total amount of energy reserves will not be a big problem.’
Before entering the second stage of transcendence, I ate a lot of Swamp King and Swamp Creatures, and a little while ago, I even swallowed a whole Horned Gigant.
Both creatures are powerful predators that dominate the Seintopia 02 continent. Additionally, Amorph is a very fuel-efficient creature, so I don’t think it will run out of energy.
‘Of course I can’t be 100% sure.’
Both traits are new traits that have not appeared in the game. Of course, I’ve never written it myself.
However, there have been several instances where similar crises have occurred in games. There were times when they committed large-scale massacres against Outspacer’s large-scale assault, and there were times when they flew into the atmosphere to intercept Megacorp’s planet-destroying weapon ‘Nova’.
In fact, it would be fair to say that the situation is better now that there are more cards in hand than then.
‘If only I had Aimov’s excellent sense and my senses…’
I believe we will be able to overcome this obstacle as we have done so far.
‘The only thing left to do is when the cosmic bolts will run out.’
There is no way for me to find out this part in the current situation, but there is only one way.
A sense of a predator that tells me I am in danger. The moment a fragment of the future appears before my eyes is my time to strike.
After making my decision, I took out the psionium ampoule from Muriel’s kit.
Then I put the ampoule in my mouth and kept it. This is to avoid having to struggle to hold the ampoule in your hand with your enormous size.
‘It will be difficult to eat when you become the king of monsters.’
We’re ready, but our predator senses haven’t sent any message yet. I activated the Organic Evolution trait and chose King of Monsters.
and.
“The location is not suitable. Please keep your distance from our allies.
‘Huh?’
The transformation did not take place.
‘It doesn’t work here?’
Although there are many trees around, this place where I am is flat. The description of the special condition only states that the space required is a radius of 100m and does not say anything else.
‘Isn’t it okay if there are obstacles… Ah. ‘Wait, no way?’
Distance from allies.
Before me is No. 26 and Aadhai, the Heavenly Mother.
[Zuzzuzu zuzuzu (Wait here for a moment)]
After telling the kids, I left the place.
The direction I am heading is right by the river. There are no obstacles like trees there. There’s a lot of distance between them.
Since I didn’t know when the orbital bombardment would begin, I ran with all my might. Six fighting arms, tails and blunt claws. Every organ in my body was pushed to its muscular limit, pushing my body forward.
When I arrived at the river, I activated the trait again.
“The location is not suitable.”
And the message that it is not suitable appears without fail.
I looked around. Although this place was on the banks of a river, the trees were growing sparsely enough to be considered the edge of the forest.
Seeing that there is no mention of allies and only mention of the location, it seems that the obstacle part was omitted in the explanation of the King of Monsters.
I quickly jumped into the river. Only after arriving at the center of the river did a message appear saying that it was possible to transform into the king of monsters.
‘Isn’t this enough to go well over 100 meters?’
The width of this river is not very narrow. It’s just about 100m from the center of the river to the shore.
The moment you think about how big you need to be.
Something passed before my vision.
‘come!’
A scene where a cosmic bolt of black flame falls, tearing the atmosphere and devouring all things and life. As soon as I recognized the scene, I immediately transformed into the king of monsters.
‘Ugh?!’
「Pain reduction activated!」
Unlike other evolutions, an enormous amount of pain came. It was an extreme pain I had never experienced before.
This is even when pain relief is activated. If I didn’t remember getting burned all over my body as a child, I would have lost consciousness right away.
Moreover, it wasn’t just the pain that was severe. Even though it was transforming, the energy consumption rate was incredible. It was a feeling of helplessness beyond imagination, as if I had been shot with psychic breath three times in a row.
‘Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk! I have to eat now…!’
I somehow managed to keep my composure and bit down on the thing in my mouth. The small ampoule broke and the psionium it contained poured down my throat.
「Geuugh ■■■■■■■■■■!」
Unable to bear the pain any longer, I cried out loud.
A wave of intense energy obscured my vision as the river evaporated and trees along the shore were uprooted.
–
“Cosmic bolt ready to fire.”
“Energy output 500% charged. Dark matter regulator in operation. “Cleanup work begins.”
“Coordinates input complete.”
“Estimated damage completed. “Contrasting with the purification mission.”
In the situation room, where preparations for launching the cosmic bolt were in full swing, the captain secretly bit his lip.
His men did not come until he finally fired. He didn’t know if they were alive or dead or what had happened in Saigil 08.
‘We’ll never know.’
The captain closed his eyes tightly, thinking of his fallen men. Meanwhile, the count was dropping quickly.
“uh? Captain! A wave of powerful energy has been detected!”
Then a cult member observing the energy flow within the planet shouted. The captain opened his eyes at his words.
“Energy wave? Could it be a magnetic field storm?”
“I don’t know! This?! “It’s not planet-wide, it’s concentrated in a specific spot!”
“what?”
The sailor levitated the image with psychic power. An entire continent on the planet was covered in a huge energy storm. The entire cult in the situation room was shocked when they saw that.
“Oh my god!”
“I’ve never seen such a flow of energy!”
Since magnetic field storms occur all over the planet, they are not artificially concentrated on one point. In other words, low-energy waves were artificially created by a specific being.
‘Could that be the source of pollution?’
The order received by the ‘Judge of Damos 08’ is to purify the polluted Saigil 08. That abnormal storm must have been created by the beings that polluted the planet.
‘shit! So everyone was wiped out!’
That continent is where the Wolf natives live. Most likely, the warrior group went to capture the Wolfs and unluckily encountered that pollutant.
It is a pollutant that exerts influence on a continental level. No matter how powerful the warrior group is, it is impossible to survive against that ridiculous being.
“Is it possible to observe pollution sources with ship cameras?”
“Well, the flow of energy is so strong… I’ll give it a try though!”
The cult crew used psychic power technology and manipulated the control room’s computers. A few seconds later, an observed image of the ground appeared above the center of the situation room.
The cult members who saw the source of contamination screamed all at once.
The captain did not reprimand them. Because he almost screamed the moment he saw ‘it’.
For unknown reasons, the image quality was very poor, but everyone present was able to easily see what ‘it’ looked like.
The reason was that ‘it’ was very large. When compared to the trees around it, it was estimated that its length would easily exceed 200m.
The pollutant had a total of three heads. The three heads had the same appearance except for the middle one.
The two heads on the right and left resemble a carnivorous dragon with a pointed snout, like the ‘Manuk Arma’, a native creature of Saigil 08, but it had no visible visual organs. Instead, horns had grown in its place.
It had no eyes, but rather a long, thin tentacle under its chin that seemed to take the place of a sensing organ. Even in the image on the screen, the two heads were constantly flapping their tentacles.
And the middle head. Its head had six huge horns and a long, wide occipital carapace that resembled a crown. Also, unlike the heads on either side, that head had eyes. Its eyes were constantly scanning the surroundings, like a cunning snake.
Horns occiput carapace eyes. The captain thought that this head was the one with the highest level of initiative.
The neck supporting the three heads was quite long and thick, reminiscent of a snake. Where the head met the long neck, bundles of tentacles that looked like hair were hanging down.
Up to this point, the appearance was disgusting enough, but the body was even more disgusting.
A pitch-black shell covered its back, as if it were made of the dark matter used by cults. On its back were eight whirlpool-shaped pits. And in the center of the pit, tubes similar to pipes were placed in a row, leading to the tail.
A gas of unknown composition constantly poured out of the pipe and rose into the sky. Perhaps because of those gases, the quality of the images observed by the ship’s camera is poor.
Going down from the carapace on its back, six legs were visible. No, to be more precise, it had four front legs that seemed to act as arms, and it had rear legs that were much larger than the other arms.
Maybe he was crouching down and mistook his arms for legs.
The legs were all covered in a carapace made of a similar material to the back, and the joints seemed to be more numerous than those of a normal creature. The sight reminded me of an insect with long legs, like a spider, and gave me an instinctive feeling of disgust.
In particular, the area between the legs was full of folds and wrinkles, which never looked good. I don’t know what the purpose is, but if it’s to cause repulsion in the viewer, it’s safe to say that that goal has been successfully achieved.
After the horrible looking legs, lastly the tail. A guy with three heads also had multiple tails. Its tail, which accounts for about a third of its body, was split into two at some point on its lower body.
That means it has two tails. The right tail had a huge claw at the end, and the left tail had a sting resembling a scorpion’s poisonous sting.
“Three-three-headed devil…”
someone muttered, looking at the pollution source on the screen. The captain thought his expression was appropriate.
Its appearance was literally the evil dragon that appears in cult mythology.
The ‘three-headed devil’ the sailor spoke of and a pollutant who threatens the security of the cult’s empire.
The captain shouted at the top of his lungs.
“Incinerate that unholy being immediately!”
“All right! “Coordinates will be corrected!”
The cosmic bolt’s gunfire is aimed at a profane being.
After a while, that pollutant will be removed. As always.
no. It had to be that way.
–
I got a new body, but I couldn’t see the changes.
It was a complete misjudgment to think that there was no need to worry about reserve energy. A huge amount of energy is being lost in real time.
It has to be that way. After becoming the king of monsters, the detection area of auxiliary organs expanded enormously. It’s enough to monitor a third of the Seintopia 02 continent where I’m standing.
In addition to the energy consumption, I barely managed to maintain my sanity amidst the enormous amount of information. I ignored as much useless information around me as possible and focused only on the cosmic bolts falling from the planet’s atmosphere.
Finally, I delivered a message to them using the monster’s tentacles.
[Zuzu zuzu zuzu (Avoid everyone!)]
Perhaps the Mother of Heaven would understand what I meant. No, you have to understand.
I feel sorry for the kids, but if I lose my mind even a little, I feel like I’ll collapse, so I don’t have time to worry about it.
And finally the time has come.
Cosmic bolts fall here slowly, as if time has slowed down. The sky splits, the air vibrates, and the ground beneath my feet shakes.
In a time and space that seemed to have stopped, I raised my head toward the sky.
‘God’s whip!’
The pipes lined up in a pitch-black light glow golden-colored one after another. Golden waves rise up my long necks.
The moment the light passed through the monster’s tentacles and reached my throat.
God wields the rod of punishment through me.
It was like lightning and seemed like hundreds or thousands of thin heat rays merged into one.
What is important is that the lightning-like heat rays come out from a total of three places.
Black flames coming down to burn the ground collide with brilliant golden lightning.
That moment.
The sky was torn apart.
This is not a metaphor; the atmosphere of this planet is really being torn apart. This is because the lightning and cosmic bolts fired by the three heads collided, creating a huge shock wave.
The clouds disappeared and an aurora appeared out of nowhere in the sky, where the magnetic field was strangely distorted. Along with the abnormal weather, dozens of fireworks came down from the sky to the ground in the surrounding sky.
The ground I was standing on shook as if there had been an earthquake, and the river water evaporated at a rapid rate. Trees in a radius of several kilometers from where I was standing were on fire all at once.
‘Pfft!’
The Holy Body, the King of Monsters, and even the divine whip containing the power of the Thunder God.
I thought it would be possible at this level, but it is not easy. Even as I was spewing out lightning, I measured my remaining energy.
‘Three minutes at best!’
The Psionium effect may not be resolved, but the King of Monsters and the Rod of God are different. It is canceled as soon as the remaining energy runs out.
‘little bit more!’
Little by little, the lightning began to push out the black flame cosmic bolt. If we push further here, the Imperial Carrier will be overloaded and the Cosmic Bolt will be forced to stop.
I thought I could just hang on here a little longer, but suddenly dozens of heat rays rained down on me from the sky.
‘Carrier group!’
I couldn’t see it because I was focusing on the cosmic bolt, but before I knew it, the cult’s warships were floating in the sky. Knowing that the imperial carrier was colliding with me, warships belonging to the carrier battle group came to support.
‘It’s difficult to divide and attack here!’
Perhaps thanks to the effect of the King of Monsters, the heat rays they shot did not inflict fatal wounds on me. It’s true that it hurts, but I can endure it.
However, it is also true that it is difficult to stay focused because the heat rays keep pouring down on you.
‘There’s some way… Ah!’
Suddenly a good idea occurred to me and I calculated the remaining energy.
‘Is it possible!’
There is a way to kill those pesky flying boats while shooting God’s whip. The downside is that the duration of the King of Monsters’ duration is slightly reduced.
The monster’s tentacles move, accepting my will. Since it has three heads, the monster’s tentacles on the back of its head and neck are also created in three places.
‘So the psychic breath can be fired in three directions.’
So far, I have never really controlled the direction of the psychic breath. Because there was no need for that.
The only limitation is that you have to maintain concentration, but the direction itself will be controllable.
The only problem is that I’ve never actually tried it.
I don’t like having to gamble again, but I can’t help it.
If I lose here, I am annihilated. Now is the time to take a gamble.
The pipe, which had been shining gold earlier, now flashed purple. Similar to using God’s whip, purple lights advanced upward one after another from the tip of the tail.
Meanwhile, I struggled to aim the monster’s tentacles at my target. It was never easy to control the monster’s tentacles on three heads at the same time.
It was such a delicate task that it would have failed immediately if Eimov’s excellent sense had not helped me. Blood flowed from my eyes and mouth without me realizing it, but I ignored it.
The pain that felt like my brain was burning was overwhelming, but I succeeded in the end. The monster’s tentacles listened to my command and aimed in the direction of the enemy ships.
‘it’s okay!’
The monster’s tentacles, which have absorbed all of the purple psychic power, gently wave like a conductor’s baton.
A purple sphere appears in front of the dragon’s head, which spits out lightning in accordance with the command.
When I used the psychic breath before, the size was quite large, but now it was enormous, perhaps because it was tailored to my body, which was over 200 meters tall.
The enemy ships seem to have sensed the essence of the psychic power I created and are trying to retreat in a hurry.
‘Where are you going?’
The dragon’s breath exploded at their fleeing tail. A purple heat ray extending several kilometers away passed by the ships, leaving behind only a large-scale explosion.
Ships that were out of range of my heat rays quickly escaped the planet’s atmosphere. The ships that failed to do so became alloy rain and fell to the ground.
‘Now, if I do my best, I have at least 2 minutes left, maybe 1 minute?’
After retreating the ships, I poured all my energy into firing God’s whip.
As my remaining energy nears the bottom, my vision becomes blurry. The arms and legs that support my body lose strength and start shaking.
Only the auxiliary organ under the chin, which has always been with me through life and death, continues to report its energy consumption to me.
‘please!’
「■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■!」
Finally, I roared as if screaming and poured out lightning.
Did it work?
A cosmic bolt coming down to annihilate everything.
A black heat ray with a radius of hundreds of meters flickered like a broken light and then disappeared.
Just as the Imoogi ascended to heaven and became a dragon, the lightning I shot flew high into the sky without any obstacles.
Then a second sun rose high in the sky.
After confirming that this was the final flash of light from the Imperial Mothership destroyed by God’s whip, I lost consciousness.