Green, purple, and numerous other paints intertwine together to dye the black carapace. An unholy color that seems to represent chaos itself creeps into my head.
｢Sussss!｣
｢Susss!｣
When the collecting bugs see me emitting an ominous light, they quickly retreat. As always, those greedy ‘colors’ don’t care what their enemies do.
A predatory light resembling Aimorph wraps around the monster’s tentacles. The amount of energy gathered has dropped significantly compared to when it was strengthened with ‘Tyrantroid’, but this should not be overlooked. The psychic breath strengthened by the color of the abyss is more threatening than anything else.
Just as water droplets fall down a stalactite, the energy gathered at the ends of the three-pronged heads is embodied in the form of a sphere.
Since I was large, the psychic sphere reinforced with the color of the abyss was also quite large. Number 26, riding on its back, also controlled the movement of the sphere according to the timing.
An enhanced psychic breath that flies at high speed. It exploded on the collecting bugs like a soap bubble bursting when hit by an object.
There was no intense binge drinking like other times. The multi-colored bubbles very, very quietly sucked in the swarm of bugs. If one bug escaped, there would only be more death.
‘good. ‘I can finish this.’
The moment I thought that.
Something happened that I couldn’t believe even with my own eyes.
The bugs that touched the foam of the enhanced psychic breath turned blue and soon disappeared from my sight.
As some of the bugs disappear, the queen is visible through the gap created. Blue afterimages remained in its numerous eyes.
Alshas, who was sitting on top of the queen, was laughing at me with the corners of his mouth raised.
‘That was Warp Boy’s ability.’
According to the setting, Outspacers are beings from another universe. Therefore, the method of faster-than-light navigation is also different from other races.
In order for the outspacer to move, there must be a bio portal. No matter how many times they capture the Metallic Gremlin, it is impossible to steal Warp Boy’s teleportation ability, ‘Warguide’.
Then there is only one answer.
Player Perks.
Unlike in the game, you can strengthen your corps without any restrictions, or you may have acquired the ability to travel at faster than light speeds through some method I don’t know.
‘…The good news is that it’s not exactly the same as the original.’
If they were capable of traveling at faster than light speeds like Warp Boy without any significant penalty, there would be no need to send troops to the bio portal. All you have to do is bring a whole army with a number of queens.
That queen with Alshas may be an entity specialized in movement, or the entire legion may be limited in faster-than-light travel.
‘Either way, we have to deal with him first now.’
Originally, the plan was to destroy the bioportal in the pit, but things changed.
That queen is more dangerous than the portal. This is because we have no idea how much power it has or what effects it has.
I unlocked the color of the abyss and prepared a normal psychic breath. After clearing out the enemies in front of me with my breath, I plan to approach the queen at once.
And just as I was about to put that plan into action, I felt a strong energy response outside the bio dome. I’ve been hit twice so far, so I’m familiar with the divine lightning and thunder god.
A golden heat ray pierced the outer wall of the dome and struck my wing. Because of this, my body was tilted and my psychic breath flew in the wrong direction. The purple breath created a new hole in the dome that still remained in the water fortress and disappeared.
I lifted the head of the center and checked above.
Beyond the gaping hole were unwelcome enemies.
Numerous ships fill the red sky. These were the elite fleets of the Surveillance Office that I saw before infiltrating Berzan 02. In the middle were Raijin and imperial carriers.
‘Alshas!’
The guy wasn’t just sitting on top of the queen and watching. It is likely that the clone was used to contact an off-planet monitoring agency.
“The situation at MPS-05 is not good. “There are too many enemies on the ground.”
“There’s a bad flapper over there that was harassing the older baby.”
Outspacers in front and below, and the surveillance agency’s elite fleet above.
This is the first crisis I have experienced since becoming an adult.
‘How do I break through?’
There is an Imperial Mothership, but the Cosmic Bolt has a charging time, so it cannot be used right away. Other attacks can be withstood with my shell.
‘Will this lead to Outspacers and cults fighting?’
I had that thought for a moment, but I quickly denied it.
Alshas and the Outspacer Queen are not stupid. Even if I try to interfere here, the probability of it being overlooked is low.
‘Should I grow into a bone beast and fight? Or should I use the symbol of hunting now?’
Both methods are not bad, but they lack the decisiveness to change the situation. Since there are so many enemies, there is a limit to how much I can catch and kill them alone.
Moreover, the enemies are not a ragtag bunch. Even if they don’t completely understand my intentions, they will try to respond somehow.
‘To stop that, a decisive blow is needed.’
Just as the collecting bugs that saw the colors of the abyss retreated out of instinctive fear.
Overwhelming fear is needed.
‘What could there be…wait.’
While I was thinking about it, a certain characteristic crossed my mind.
An attribute that has not been used once since it was acquired from the pirates’ fortress.
‘Black Devourer Cannon!’
I opened the text box while fighting the collecting bugs that were attacking me again.
｢Black Devourer Cannon: Infinite power is in your hands. It fires a projectile by consuming 50% of the total energy that can be stored in the body.
*PS: Please be careful.”
The Black Devourer Cannon is the only trait created after escaping from a space fortress occupied by pirates. The biological cannon attached to my left tail is an organ that exists solely for this trait.
Among the unique characteristics created using the transcendence system, this characteristic’s tulle tip was the simplest. Because the end was to use up energy to fire the shell. There are no special precautions other than consuming 50% of the maximum energy your body can store.
‘If you look at it up to this point, it looks good…’
The reason why I thought I shouldn’t let down my guard while looking at the characteristics is because of the postscript at the bottom.
I’ve seen a ton of talents in games and in this world, but I’ve never seen one that just says be careful.
‘I was thinking of using it against Gigacracker before, but I gave up.’
I thought it would be beneficial to steal the Giga Cracker, so I gave up the experiment. Since I didn’t have a chance to use it, I kept forgetting about it.
‘It just worked out.’
I flew out of the bio dome, picking off the flying collecting bugs. A group of flying monsters followed behind me, including the queen carrying Alshas and Isabelle.
When I came outside, a number of warships greeted me. The Thunder God is activated, and the main guns of the battleships fire.
The red sky under the night sun turns golden and purple. Against him, I took out the best shield I had.
The intangible haze flowing from the entire body gathers in the shape of a flat tray. Complete with a transparent tray, it refracts and disperses natural light like a prism.
It is a ‘complex spectroscopic body’ with the unique characteristic of being able to reflect energy.
Energy heat rays filling the sky collide with the completed complex spectral body.
None of them penetrated the transparent tray. All the lights that flew to kill me returned to the place they came from. The energy and ships of the elite fleet collided, and the sky lit up brightly.
“It is estimated that between 1% and 3% of the strength of the cult’s elite fleet has been lost in the current attack.”
I can hear the voice of PS-111 overhead. Even though it explodes spectacularly, there is little damage. Alshas must have had them respond.
‘doesn’t care.’
The real attack hasn’t even started yet.
After blocking one round of fire, I immediately rushed towards the elite fleet. The group of outspacers following me changed their target and moved toward the elite fleet.
Now that the fleet camp is in disarray, they made that choice to protect themselves from my attacks.
‘It’s not a bad choice, but…’
In the current situation, it is a big mistake.
Cult and Outspacer. In the game, tribes that were enemies with each other gathered in one place.
I moved my left tail and aimed towards the target. A Black Devourer cannon with unknown characteristics was used with the cannon’s muzzle aimed at the enemy.
The moment the trait was activated, a feeling of extreme helplessness hit me. I would say it feels similar to when I first fired the psychic breath when I was a sub-adult.
After feeling dizzy, what followed was a torrent of energy. A huge amount of energy gathered into the left tail. It felt as if all the blood throughout my body was being concentrated in one place. Because of that, he almost stopped flapping his wings and fell.
Just before the last ‘it’ was launched, my auxiliary organs detected an abnormality.
The surrounding space is strangely refracted. As if something unidentified was twisting the space itself.
As soon as it recognized that fact, ‘it’ was launched from its tail.
How should I explain that?
If the color of the abyss was a clear example of the excess of color and light, it was quite the opposite. As its name ‘Gorgeous’ suggests, ‘it’ was absorbing all color and light.
‘It’ flies away, devouring light, air, color, and all the elements of nature. In the place where it passed, only thick darkness that could be said to be at least somewhat similar to that unknown cannonball remained.
And when ‘it’ becomes invisible to the eye.
An abnormality occurred among the gathered enemies.
When I noticed the abnormality, I thought it was a very small dot. It’s so small that you could easily mistake it for looking at it wrong.
But no.
It spread quickly like ink on drawing paper.
Like when the sun disappears and night comes.
Black ink robs the ships and the group of outspacers of their color.
No one could resist the black ‘it’. The shield that the cults boast about, the Thunder God’s thunder light, and the blue light of Outspacer. No one could escape ‘it’.
‘It’, which seemed as if it would swallow up even the sun, disappeared in an instant.
The black color that had encroached on the drawing paper called the sky disappeared and red filled its place.
Everything was restored to its original state as if nothing had happened from the beginning. Except for the ship that was eaten by ‘it’ and the group of outspacers.
Luckily, the number of collecting bugs and elite fleets that survived was only about 20% of what it was before. The queen carrying Alshas and Isabelle was also there.
They didn’t attack me.
No, to be precise, I can’t even think of attacking.
How would you feel if you watched all your colleagues disappear in less than a few seconds?
I’m sure there’s only one emotion in their head right now.
Overwhelming fear.
‘Activate Bone Beast.’
The time has come to put a wedge in that fear.
“Watch next episode”
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