I Became an Evolving Space Monster Chapter 193

Ep. 193

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The King of the Red Tree opens one of his six eyes.

Because his roots sensed the intrusion of some creature.

Although it is small in size, it is quite heavy, so I wonder if it is something with wings.

Things with wings. They are an arrogant group of people who wander around here and there under orders from the ‘black old king’.

But the King of the Red Tree liked them. Because they taste very good.

When he thought of that flavorful meat, he started drooling without even realizing it. As a drop of saliva fell down his long chin, the surrounding cocoons trembled.

The king knows very well how the secretions from his body affect other living things.

Even the creatures that came to kill the king immediately became his slaves when they consumed the red substance. They only wanted the red substance even if the king ate their own heads.

He used this ability to repeatedly prey on all living creatures living in a certain spot and move around. Now, after hundreds of winters, his power has grown to the point where even the ‘black old king’ is wary.

One day, even that arrogant king will be eaten. After making that promise, he waited for his new slave to approach.

However, as time passed, the unidentified intruder did not appear in front of him.

Instead, what came to him was an unpleasant sensation. It was a feeling of pain and loss. The feeling he had felt when he was young and weak came back and pricked him.

Someone is destroying his treasure trove.

When the king realized this, he became angry.

Who would dare stand against this king of the red forest?

The first thing that came to mind was the ‘black old king’. He said he personally came with his heavy ass to punish him for eating his messenger.

But the king soon denied it. The ‘black old king’ he saw was a very large being. If that being were to land here, he would never know.

Several other candidates came to mind, including snakes living underground, beasts in the sky, and monsters living on mountain peaks, but none of them were correct.

It seems that the intruder who is causing mischief in his territory is someone who has only recently arrived here.

no. Now, the identity of the guy was probably good.

The intruder who messed up the food he worked so hard to collect deserves to die.

The King of the Red Tree sent a signal to the roots in the ground. Catch the intruder and bring him here.

Then, several of the surrounding cocoons tore open and the creatures inside jumped out.

Although their appearance and race were all diverse, they had one thing in common: red moss covering their bodies. They are all his faithful slaves.

“Kaaaaaa!”

“Grrrr!”

“Kyung! Keungkeung!”

The slaves who received orders from the king rushed out to capture the target.

If you wait leisurely, the slaves will catch that wicked intruder. Because it’s always been like that.

But this time too, reality turned out differently than he expected.

The slaves who ran out to catch their prey began to lose their senses one by one.

I couldn’t hear any of the noise I had heard before. An ominous silence filled the entire forest.

And the pain in the roots that I was feeling earlier. It’s getting worse.

At first it felt like I was being pricked by a thorn, but now it felt like I was being eaten by a swarm of insects.

The problem was no longer limited to food storage. His roots, spread over a wide area, were being attacked simultaneously.

Eventually, the king could not bear the pain and opened all six eyes.

The king knows very well how to act in such cases. He concentrated his sensations on his roots and then isolated the painful areas one by one.

I felt quite a bit of pain every time I cut off a root, but it was much better than the pain of being torn alive by a swarm of insects.

As he cleared away the wide-spreading roots, his area quickly shrunk.

It is obvious that it will take a long time to recover the territory. The king sent more slaves to try to capture him.

Just as he was about to signal, something caught his eye.

He thought it was light seeping through the branches. Some of the tree branches that were intertwined and blocking the light were broken and the light came in.

But no. Its identity is a bubble that shines in numerous colors. Bubbles of light and color wriggled like living creatures.

I couldn’t tell where it appeared or who created it. It was just a dizzying wave of foam rushing towards him.

When he saw the approaching bubbles, his heart began to beat violently.

Alertness and fear. These were emotions that were dormant in the memories.

The king screamed without realizing it. I told the slaves to get rid of those bubbles right away.

Just a moment ago the slaves had come out to protect him, but not now. Even when he screamed, the cocoons around him did not move.

As if his orders were not being conveyed.

Before he knew it, the bubbles had reached right in front of him. He quickly tried to pull his lower body from the ground, but it was too late.

Bubbles began to creep up and stick to his body. When the foam touched him, his hard shell began to break apart.

He doesn’t enjoy hunting his prey himself, but that doesn’t mean he’s weak. His carapace was very hard and his wings were strong enough to bear his heavy weight.

But everything was useless in the face of bubbles.

The foam wrapped around him like a snake suffocating its prey. He remembered being attacked by an underground snake when he was still weak. When the most nightmarish time came to mind, he writhed his whole body and resisted.

However, the reality did not change at all, just as he was helpless in his memory. The bubbles clung even stronger, as if mocking his resistance.

He slowly suffocated in the infinite bubbles of color and light.

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‘…I didn’t expect this.’

Currently in front of me is Glacier Fiend, the owner of the Red Forest. Bubbles of various colors were sticking to the body of the guy who fell as he was coming out of the dirt.

On this frozen planet, a man who appears to have drowned is barely breathing.

‘I thought only psychic breath was powerful.’

‘Colors of the Abyss’ can be applied to three things: the monster’s tentacles, psychic powers, reflective gloves, and the Watcher of Fear.

In the case of the monster’s tentacles, the strengthening effect was applied to the psychic breath fired by the tentacles, not to the tentacles themselves.

The enhanced psychic breath changed from firing heat rays to firing spheres.

When the sphere touches the target, colored bubbles are created that create a destructive effect. These bubbles do not disappear when the target disappears, but instead rush towards a new target nearby.

Like locusts that eat up all grains, they disappear when there is nothing to eat around them. In the place where it disappeared, only sticky bubbles remained.

In this way, the performance of the psychic breath was roughly verified by robbing the guy’s food warehouse. While I was at it, I decided to try using other traits as well.

The next thing I tried was super reflective gloves, but unfortunately I couldn’t find any special effects. I thought I would have to be hit by a supernatural attack to be able to properly confirm this.

The last remaining Watcher of Fear. It is a trait that causes an intelligent being to go crazy by showing them fearful hallucinations.

A little while ago, while running away from their slaves, I decided to use Dread Watch on them. To be honest, I didn’t have high expectations because this trait only works on intelligent beings. I just used it because I thought it would be a good idea to tie my feet.

But the results far exceeded my expectations.

‘It’s on a different level.’

When I activated the Fear Watcher, all strength drained from my body and at the same time, a bubble mixed with green and purple was formed.

The bubble bubble, which gave off a strange glow, flew leisurely and stuck to the head of the Winter Walker who was chasing me. As soon as it stuck, the bubble quickly expanded and swallowed the guy’s head whole.

The guy covered in bubbles went crazy and collapsed before he could last long.

The really scary thing happened next. As soon as the target fell, the foam pile exploded.

As the bubbles exploded, they stuck to other slaves nearby and wrapped around their heads just like they did with Winter Walker.

Physical force and contagiousness. The strengthening effect received by the Fearful Watcher is spread to the surrounding area through the medium of bubbles.

Although the limited distance has become shorter, the power has increased dramatically. Additionally, the scope of the target was changed from being limited to intelligent beings to being applicable to many living things.

After clearing away the slaves that were chasing me, I immediately experimented with Glacier Fiend. If it gets through to him, future hunting will be incomparably easier.

I ran through the forest, activating fear watchers one after another. A lot of bubbles flew through the trees and towards him.

‘This is an advantage.’

This is because the distance is reduced but you can fire multiple times. It may be effective if the enemy has a fast movement speed, but if the enemy is fixed at a specific point like now, it is very effective.

In the end, Glacier Fiend, who was attacked by the Fearful Watcher without even knowing why, collapsed in front of a being much weaker than himself.

‘I didn’t know you could catch it this easily.’

Glacier Fiend is a much more difficult opponent than Ice Horror, which pushes with force. If it weren’t for the color of the abyss, the slaves wouldn’t have been dealt with as easily as they are now.

It’s just that he’s addicted to drugs, but he still has his original abilities. Rather, it is more dangerous because it ignores death and cannot feel pain.

Moreover, the Red Forest is constantly visited by creatures that want to become slaves, so no matter how many times you kill them, there is no end to it.

However, if you say that the body is weak, it is not.

It has a hard shell that is immune to various attacks and wings that allow it to move quickly. If we limit it to hand-to-hand combat, it is comparable to White Gallagon.

The downside is that the movement speed is slow on land, but since it has wings, it is hard to see that as a downside.

Such a dangerous predator was easily defeated without any injuries.

‘Let’s kill it first and then think about it.’

Glacier Fiend has only lost his mind and is not dead yet. I approached the bastard.

The head, which resembled a stag beetle, was covered with colorful bubbles. All six eyes were bugged out, and blood foam continued to flow from the mouth.

I swung the claw of my tail and struck its neck. With the heavy drinking, the carapace covering its neck cracked.

After smashing the carapace with a few more strikes, I raised my tail high again to completely crush its neck.

‘This is the end…Ugh?!’

“Pain reduction activated!”

I felt pain at the tip of my tail that was so intense that I had never felt it before. Without realizing it, my legs lost strength and I collapsed on the dirt floor.

‘It’s hot!’

Pain like being on fire. Suddenly, a memory from my childhood came to mind.

When I was young, I was seriously injured in a car accident. Because of that, I spent most of my childhood in the hospital.

The terrible burning pain I felt back then is now reappearing in my body.

‘I need to come to my senses!’

“Pain reduction activated!”

A translucent text box suddenly appeared in front of me as if something had broken down.

I gritted my teeth and checked to see if my body was on fire.

There was no burning fire anywhere on my body. Even as I was losing consciousness, I concentrated on my auxiliary organs with all my might.

Four auxiliary organs under my jaw searched for the source of my pain to save me. Then I noticed something at the end of the tail.

There was foam mixed with various colors on the surface of the tongs.

‘Color!’

I immediately opened my jaw wide and bit down on the middle of the tail. The flesh on the tail fell off, but it wasn’t painful at all.

The burning pain flowing from the area where the foam was applied was so overwhelming that I couldn’t feel any sensation in other areas.

While I was biting the tail, I checked the foam covering the claws.

The bubbles continued to grow in size, albeit slowly. What was just a small splatter at first had now swallowed the entire tongs.

‘Tsk…!’

｢Pain relief activated!｣

The pain is so intense that my jaw goes weak. Unable to bite it any longer, I closed my mouth and pulled its tail with my fighting arms and legs.

Then an eerie sound came from its tail. Muscles were torn and bones were broken. The carapace and synthetic scales had already been shattered a long time ago.

The bubble has already swallowed all of the tongs. A pile of bubbles emitting a strange glow is threatening to eat my tail.

My mind was already at its limit due to the excruciating pain.

‘please!’

Finally, he poured all his strength into his fighting arms. As a result, I was barely able to remove the tail.

Two-thirds of the tail fell to the ground. The bubbles attached to the fallen tail instantly lost their unique luster.

Once the cause was removed, the burning pain that was weighing down my brain disappeared as if it was a lie. Instead, pain came from the cut area, but I had no strength to feel the pain.

As I was lying down in a half-fazed state, a new text box appeared in front of me.

｢Some of the evolution conditions from ‘sub-adult’ to ‘adult’ have been met.

Apex (APEX) 2/30 (Not achieved) ｣

With the death of Glacier Fiend, the light disappeared from the bubble that was attached to it.

Even though it was dead and the bubble was different from before, I couldn’t feel at ease.

The bubbles created by the psychic breath did not stop until the target disappeared. We still don’t know whether that bubble has truly lost its effectiveness just because the circumstances are different.

‘….’

Since nothing would change just by looking at it, I stretched out one finger and poked the bubble.

As soon as the pain started, I tried to cut my finger, but I couldn’t feel anything even after waiting.

‘If you die, the effect is lost.’

Apparently, the bubble created by the Fear Watcher seemed to act on the creature’s mind differently than psychic breath.

‘It may bring about the pain that the hit target finds most terrible.’

As soon as the foam touched me, I felt the pain of being burned. Glacier Fiend and the slaves who were hit by the foam must have had similar experiences.

‘…I have to be careful when writing this.’

I understand after experiencing it myself.

The newly acquired color of the abyss was literally a double-edged sword.