Chapter 389

Green flashes pour down like a shower.

I forced my recovering wing arms and flew up. The plasma heat rays fired by hundreds of battleships completely pulverized the meteorite below me.

While the battleships were preparing to fire again, so many patrol ships and aircraft carriers followed behind me that it was difficult to estimate their number. Countless plasma bullets hit my outer shell.

Attacks from patrol class ships cannot cause much damage to me, but I must not relax because of that. In a situation where a long-term war is expected, it is not good for damage to continue to accumulate.

I sprayed reinforced ‘Gremlin Moss’. A cloud that destroyed high-tech equipment spewed out from the biological pipe attached to the body and struck the surrounding ships.

Some of the enemies that were following closely had stopped working because of the gremlin moss. The aircraft carriers and patrol ships that avoided the attack quickly dispersed and formed a spread formation.

And between the gaping aircraft, flying monsters with large bodies intervened. Outspacers, equipped with bio-cannons as big as their own bodies on their backs, fired something at me.

Projectiles that looked like nails with what looked like spores stuck to them got stuck in my tail and hind legs. Soon, the spores swelled like bubbles and hardened.

‘this!’

The attack they fired was not intended to cause fatal wounds to me. This is to slow down my movements and give the battle an advantage.

Afterwards, the outspacer monsters in charge of the attack started targeting me. A large 40m monster approached me at very high speed.

‘What about that?’

It was a type of Outspacer I had never seen before, with four arms, two legs, an elongated head, and a long tail. I tried to keep it in check by pulling out the erosion tentacles with the ‘Medusa organ’ activated.

Surprisingly, just before the tentacle’s appendage touched it, it turned its body and narrowly avoided it. As I dodged, the blade at the end of its arm cut off my tentacle appendage. The appendage, which boasted considerable durability even though it was not at the level of a carapace, was cut off without any use.

‘I used the genes of the Hellside Hornet!’

Moreover, I don’t know how it was modified, but the blade on that arm is sharper than the original. I hit its body with another eroding tentacle to stop it from attacking any more.

Due to the impact, the enemy’s body stumbles and its movements become slightly slow. To finish it off, I tried to catch it with its clawed right tail.

Just as the pincers were about to tighten it, the tail stopped as if caught in a restraint. It wasn’t just a feeling. A web of very powerful psychic power was entangling my tail. Meanwhile, the Outspacer escaped leisurely, avoiding the attacks of my claws.

‘Why psychic power?’

I turned my head to see if there were any cult members hiding there, and saw a strange-looking flying object in the distance. I thought it was an anti-ship drone, but it wasn’t.

‘Screamer?’

The beings who disturbed me with their psychic power were the Star Union’s Screamers.

‘Screamer uses psychic power?’

It’s easy to be mistaken because of PS-111 and Isabelle, but originally, Screamer cannot use psychic powers. This is because cults with potential for psychic power cannot be used as material for cyborgs or screamers.

Even the previously encountered Mutant Screamer had limited use of psychic powers, limited to only the Overseer model for control.

‘But how?’

Just as its abilities were very different from regular screamers, its appearance was also quite heterogeneous.

The head was developed to the point where it was malformed, and the metal legs it used to move around did not exist. Various mechanical devices were attached to the bloated head. The face, covered with stitch marks here and there, was very ugly, but somehow it looked familiar.

‘I feel like I’ve seen this somewhere... Oh, really?’

A being that looked more like an Inmyeonbug than a Screamer radiated psychic power. A faint purple net flew in to catch me.

And the result was my victory.

The blades on two of its arms were shattered.

‘Being sharp isn’t everything.’

I’m almost twice as big as him. Naturally, the size of the blade created on the combat arm is much larger.

But I guess he didn’t expect this situation at all. The thing with its long snout wide open showed a clear look of confusion.

Without missing the opportunity, the erosion tentacles reached out at the creature all at once. The tentacle’s appendages clawed at its legs and tail.

I held on to it tightly and tried to kill it with the Medusa organ, but I was interrupted. A huge heat ray fired by a Sachs Alpha-class battleship hit me directly in the back. One tentacle was torn off and the shell was dented. Because of that, I lost the outspacer I was holding.

The guy cut off the part that touched the appendage with the blade without hesitation and quickly retreated. As it is a special entity, it is highly likely that it is equipped with a means of recovery. I will recover and come back soon.

However, even after knowing that fact, I did not chase him.

Instead, I returned my deformed arm to its original state and spread a ‘shroud of darkness’ around my body.

The biological pipe that vaporized and sprayed gremlin moss this time sprayed a pitch-black fog. The enemy fleet’s main guns fired again, but no ship hit me as I hid behind the curtain.

In that state, I opened the mouths of each head. Then, as if they had been waiting, the kids inside jumped out.

[Zuzuzuz zu zuzuzuzu (I’m sorry, but I need to help you)]

「Hunting」「Starting?」

「There are a lot of bad people!」

「...Is this what happened in the end? “What can I help you with first?”

Despite this situation, what the kids have to do hasn’t changed much.

No. 26 will mark enemies using psychic power, while Sky Mother and Adhai will deal with the fleet. PS-111 will provide support fire above me.

What has changed is Isabelle’s role.

‘If you have the heavenly eye, you will be able to catch the enemy’s secret move.’

With Isabel’s privilege of reading the other party’s information, she can easily check who is interfering with faster-than-light travel. And if there are any other cards hidden by the enemies, Isabel will find them and let you know.

[Zuzuzu zuzuzuzu (Okay. You all understand, right?)]

「Yes! I understand!」

「Formidable Enemy」「Hunting」「Difficult」「Still」「I’ll try my best」

「Wow, it won’t be easy, but I have to do it.」

Members who can express their thoughts through thought and wavelength have sent messages telling us not to worry.

「Space, communication, difficulties, but I try my best.」

「I, too, will help.」

PS-111, who had learned from No. 26 that she could communicate with psychic power at the time of reconstruction, and Isabel, who had been transplanted with that technology, also responded, albeit in a slurred manner.

[Zuzuz, zuzuzu, zuzuzu, zuzuzu (Be careful not to get hurt as much as possible)]

「Yes! Even older babies shouldn’t be in pain!”

“Agree.”

Honestly, it is difficult to say that the current situation is good. Because I had never experienced a battle with a large fleet commanded by rankers of three races in this world. I hope the kids don’t get hurt, but that’s probably just greed.

‘but....’

Since coming to this world, my life has been a series of crises.

Numerous dangers and powerful enemies constantly obstructed my survival.

But it was always me who stood at the end.

It’s the same this time too.

I and my family will survive.

“Watch next episode”