Chapter 185
Chapter 185
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 185
Chapter Title: qiqi iykow gkk-185i
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 185
Chapter Title: Ep. 185
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I gazed down at the tiny dot embedded in the vast white snowfield.
Jason, his calf wound already healed thanks to the Black Galleron's armor effect, was staring up at me.
Compared to my 6-meter golden form, he looked small—but objectively speaking, Jason was far from diminutive. At 2 meters tall, he was among the largest of the Cult males.
'Doesn't matter to me.'
Whether 2 meters or 6, size meant nothing in my presence.
Thanks to activating the "Monster King" special state from my Bone Beast form combined with "Organic Evolution," my body had ballooned to an insane scale. My total length stretched 300 meters, and my lower jaw alone spanned dozens of meters.
Exaggerating a bit, I was a walking mountain range.
'To think I'd grow this massive without even reaching adulthood.'
Even I, who knew everything there was to know about Aimorphs, hadn't anticipated this. Jason certainly had no clue, oblivious even as I loomed above him with my jaws wide open beneath the snow.
Of course, he'd guessed I was hiding somewhere, which was why he'd unleashed that golden form. One of my combat arms had taken heavy damage as a result, but I'd actually felt relieved.
'That attack should've blown off a third of my body normally.'
His ultimate strike had merely wounded one arm. And from it, I'd confirmed one key thing.
The golden form needed time to shift shapes.
It wasn't long, but it didn't matter. In the heat of battle, even that brief cooldown could prove fatal.
"F-fuck! What the hell is this?! I've never heard of anything like it!"
Jason, who had been so composed moments ago, no longer appeared that way. He seemed to have lost his cool at the sight of my unimaginably enormous form.
'Truth is, my situation isn't great either.'
Maintaining Monster King demanded an enormous amount of energy. Even now, my reserves were depleting at a ferocious rate.
'If I hadn't devoured that Ice Horror, it'd be over already.'
Thanks to gorging on high-energy meat, I had a massive stockpile.
Unless I activated something as draining as God's Whip, I could sustain Monster King for a good 10 minutes.
I slammed a combat arm down onto the spot where Jason stood. As the park-sized limb descended, he desperately raised both arms to block.
My hand collided with the ice, unleashing a massive gust that scattered the snow. Through the swirling blizzard, I lost sight of him.
'Where'd he go?'
"...You goddamn Morph bastard!"
As if answering my question, his voice echoed from afar. Moments later, the golden form's greatsword came flying toward my auxiliary organ.
I raised another combat arm to shield it. The blade he'd conjured sliced into my forearm.
But my arm was so massive that the golden sword merely scored the armor plating around my wrist. Realizing the shallow hit, he spat a curse.
"Damn it!"
Jason now wore a headband I hadn't seen before—a cross-shaped halo glowing with purple light. It was the "Harmonizer," reward from a 9th-stage quest.
'Time to test it.'
The Harmonizer granted five extra lives. He'd used one already, leaving four.
I extended my combat arms to grab him. They swept through the piled snow, closing in. Just as my hand was about to seize him, he raised his left hand.
Defying my will, my own hand veered off course. He'd mixed Gravity Control and Reflection to shove it away.
As Jason blocked my assault, the golden form enveloping him shifted once more.
Its particles broke down into streams of light, lifting his body into the air.
'That's how he escaped underground.'
To catch the fleeing bastard, I unleashed my erosion tentacles.
Normally coiled inside my hollow back carapace, the six tentacles burst out through their membrane-covered ports when summoned.
Even without special traits, they were my longest appendages. With my body now over ten times larger, they'd scaled up absurdly.
In the raging blizzard, the six tentacles stretched after the golden light like dragons ascending to the heavens.
He dodged with acrobatic maneuvers, but how long could he evade tentacles swarming from all sides?
Sharing my thoughts, Jason hurled his "Purifier" into the air. The silver rod with its black-flame blade spun like a propeller, slashing at my tentacles.
Purifier was modeled after a famous sword from classic space opera media—nothing it couldn't cut, boasting immense attack power.
Under Jason's control, it effortlessly sliced my tentacles. The problem, however...
'They're too big for it to matter.'
Each tentacle was thicker than Jason was tall. A 1-meter blade like Purifier couldn't easily inflict lethal wounds, no matter how hard it tried.
His attacks were like an ant stabbing a human with a toothpick. Unless it hit a vital spot, it was harmless.
And even deep wounds would heal quickly thanks to my Regeneration trait, as long as the tentacles weren't severed clean off.
'Of course, it still costs energy.'
Each deep gash shortened my Monster King uptime, but I didn't show it.
My plan was simple.
Overwhelm him with sheer size—or the violence of scale. That was my weapon.
"Kuh!"
Judging Purifier ineffective, Jason recalled it. The light streams reformed into the golden form on his back.
Hovering via Gravity Control, he swung his arm, and the golden form attacked.
The glowing golden sword impaled one erosion tentacle, slicing more than halfway through but failing to sever it.
The pain was enough to trigger Pain Reduction, but I hid it. Seizing the moment while the form was pinned, I targeted Jason's main body with my other tentacles.
He flung open his auxiliary organs and charged. Jason hastily extended his left hand, activating Reflection to repel them.
But shaking off six tentacles—each hundreds of meters long—swarming from every direction was no easy feat, ranker or not.
"Urk!"
A tentacle's sharp auxiliary organ grazed his leg—the spot my teeth had torn and he'd healed.
"You little shit!"
Irritated by my focus on the same area, Jason bellowed. A massive purple whip erupted from his left hand, batting away my tentacles.
As he fended them off in rage, I closed in rapidly. My colossal frame's charge shattered the ice beneath, not just cracking it.
Amid the rising snow mist from my movement, I gaped my jaws wide. My lower jaw split in two, exposing the densely packed teeth within.
'I'll swallow you whole.'
Any other human would shudder at my abyss-like maw. Even Jason cursed as the dozens-of-meters-wide mouth bore down.
"Shit!"
Reacting to his swear, the golden form shifted to light streams. He barely escaped my jaws. As they slammed shut with a boom, he shrieked.
"You crazy bastard!"
The moment I heard his yell, an invisible force crushed my neck and head. Gravity Control, Binding, and several other psychic powers locked on.
'Guh!'
Immense power. Regardless of skill, his psychic output surpassed Specimen 026's.
My Psionic Reflection armor should have bounced it back, but he reflected that too, turning it against me.
"Die... Huh?!"
As he roared and twisted my neck, his body suddenly froze like a puppet with cut strings. Invisible threads had begun constricting him.
No need to say who wove those energy-compressed threads.
｢Bad guy! What're you doing to my baby!｣
Beyond the intensifying snowstorm, a pinkish-purple creature appeared.
The infamous game boss, one I'd never imagined as an ally.
And my first friend since arriving in this world.
C Demon No. 26.
While 26 fully unleashed her Binding, a dragon soared behind her.
｢Me｣ ｢Cold｣ ｢Endure｣
With vivid green wings and a long, plump tail, it was the little Galleron, Adhai. Riding it was an eagle-headed, lion-bodied Gryphon beastkin.
｢You damn punk, think you can escape?｣
Sky Mother in Gryphon beastkin mode growled via thought wave. Having synced many times before, they prepared a pincer attack.
Jason's eyes widened at the rapidly approaching Galleron and the one on its back.
"You fucker!"
Purple flames ignited in his eyes. Purple energy bled from his body, morphing into countless spikes.
"Morta"—an advanced psychic technique nullifying other psychics.
｢Huh? It's gone!｣
The spikes severed the invisible threads, instantly breaking 26's Binding.
Regaining freedom, Jason twisted his waist aside. Sky Mother, now close enough to touch, thrust her golden spear.
｢Tch!｣
The blade grazed his armor by a hair. His abdominal plating shattered, scattering Black Galleron scale fragments.
"How... dare you!"
Roaring in fury, Jason swung at Sky Mother. His synced golden form reshaped its arm into a sword, flailing wildly.
Adhai, carrying Sky Mother, evaded with astonishing aerial acrobatics. Jason blocked my erosion tentacles with Reflection while tracking Adhai's moves.
"Insolent cur!"
｢Danger!｣ ｢Danger!｣
Jason reached out, freezing Adhai mid-air like 26 had. He'd used Binding too.
Seizing the opening, the golden form swung straight down to bisect Adhai and Sky Mother.
'Like I'd let that happen.'
I fully extended the gliding membranes on my combat arms and whipped them fiercely toward Jason's position.
The result—size, weight, and power combined—was devastating. A gale of immense force battered him.
"Guhack?!"
Unable to reflect the natural phenomenon with Reflection, he took the full brunt.
The wind sucked air away and pelted his face with snow, forcing his eyes shut. The vision-reliant golden form crumbled to particles just before cleaving Adhai.
｢Don't hit little baby and middle baby!｣
26's psychic power from the snowfield flowed into Adhai. The clash of two mighty psychics weakened Adhai's Binding.
｢Thanks!｣
Freed, Adhai banked its wings and fled behind me at lightning speed.
"You Morph bastard! What trick did you pull to control a C Demon and a Galleron?!"
Opening his eyes to the sight, Jason ranted. The coordination shocked him less than me fighting alongside other monsters.
'Control? Nah.'
He seemed to think I puppeteered them via parasites, but that's impossible. Parasites can't micromanage multiples like this.
And I had more than three allies.
'One more to go.'
The snow-blanketed ice wasn't just home to 26. Her special guest lurked beneath, awaiting the signal.
[Zzzt (Now!)]
Screamer—no, PS-111—erupted from the snow.
The spider-like monster with a human woman's head and four pairs of legs. Beyond its mechanical flesh fusion, a new appendage had grown at its rear.
A tail, curved upward like a scorpion's, tipped not with a stinger but something else.
A sharp, harpoon-like point evoking a Demolisher.
'It worked.'
While I lured and fought Jason's minions, I'd secretly ordered PS-111 to absorb a Demolisher.
Having forged a new weapon, it activated it now.
A navy energy bolt vaporized falling snow en route to Jason's feet.
"!"
Too late to react fully, he twisted away—but his paralyzed thigh betrayed him again.
Demolisher's disintegrating force devoured his left ankle and below.
"G-gaaahhh!"
His left foot cleanly severed, Jason screamed. Seizing his panic, I smashed a combat arm down.
I felt the impact at my fingertips, but he vanished.
Soon, purple light flashed far away as his body reformed. His ankle regenerated, but the pain lingered.
"I-I'll kill you all!"
With his roar, a purple line shot from his head skyward. I knew what it meant.
'Neurogod!'
Like Muriel, he'd summoned his Neurogod.
'Using it here would catch him too.'
Even with Harmonizer evasion, Neurogod's AoE was too vast to fully escape. As a Cult ranker, Jason knew this best.
'He trusts something... or he's lost his reason to rage.'
Either way, he believed Neurogod could kill me.
In the game, yes. Here, no. With Monster King and Bone Beast active, even a direct hit wouldn't end me.
'But my allies would die.'
[Zzzt zzzzt (Everyone, to me)]
I extended a combat arm, scooping up 26 and PS-111. Clutching my companions to my chest with smaller arms, I retreated—only for Jason to charge.
"Where do you think you're going!"
Dozens of psychic techniques pinned my lower body.
"Morph bastard! You're dying here!"
His face twisted demonically. The golden form's blade behind him hurtled toward my carapace.
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'...Fucking Morph bastard. Annoyingly strong.'
Jason clicked his tongue inwardly.
He knew the devilish reputation of that Aimorph. But he hadn't expected it to fight this well in reality.
None of the rankers he'd killed had been as troublesome.
'Damn. Should've just waited for the Galleron.'
Coldblood rankers were tough too, but he'd had help then—Chloe and Cynthia made it easy.
With Black Galleron here now, the Morph would be dead already.
'Tch. Didn't expect allies.'
Even Akira, who knew the Morph best among his group, insisted it acted alone. Jason's own encounters confirmed its solitary nature.
In-game, it was a total loner—never cooperating or communicating.
Like an Aimorph craving all life as prey, everything was its enemy.
Communities even speculated it was a dev-made AI.
So Jason was stunned to see it with NPCs. Parasite slaves or a perk effect? Unclear.
'If this attack fails, I retreat.'
Humiliating, but necessary. Gathering intel would have to suffice today.
"Die! Die already!"
Unlike his cool interior, he outwardly raged like a madman. The frenzy was an act.
To pin the massive target, he had no choice.
'I can escape anyway.'
His third perk, from killing the Metallic Gremlin ranker, would let him slip away easily.
As the monsters and Jason traded blows, Neurogod finished charging.
'Kill it!'
"Die!"
Inner and outer voices aligned in his shout, yellow flames plummeted from the sky.
The orbital weapon called Neurogod unleashed transcendent power.
A divine manifestation worthy of "God's Will." Yet the Aimorph rebelled, spewing identical yellow flames from its maw—like a demon mocking godly might.
The two Neurogods intertwined, shaking the heavens. Psychic manifestations of snow, ice, and thunder danced in material fury—a sublime spectacle.
Even Jason, who'd anticipated it, was awestruck. Snapping out of it, he assessed.
'It's weaker!'
Compared to the one against the Imperial Conspiracy, this was feeble—like low energy output.
'Yeah. Dual gigantification plus Neurogod? Can't sustain both.'
When it grew mountain-sized, Jason had figured the energy drain would be extreme.
He was right. Cracks spiderwebbed its armor as it poured out Neurogod power.
Its dual-gigantification plating was insanely thick, but at its limit now.
'Chance is now!'
Jason focused; the golden form shrank. Its sword portion swelled endlessly.
Soon, the form vanished, leaving only a massive light blob over Jason.
Shifting evasion light-streams to offense, he retargeted.
Using it purely for evasion was a feint. Light-stream golden form was one of his strongest attacks.
'My body becomes the bullet.'
The Aimorph's carapace cracked, size shrinking. Neurogod lightning weakened sharply.
'Just a bit more... now!'
As Neurogod's glow faded, Jason commanded the golden form.
Fly forward, smash its head.
In that instant, his body was no longer on the snowfield. Black blood coating the form was absorbed into particles.
He turned to look back.
There lay the massive monster, a huge hole in its neck. It had dodged, so neck not head—but still fatal.
Like a puppet with severed strings, the beast's body slowly toppled.
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