I Became an Evolving Deep-Sea Creature Chapter 104

Chapter 104. The Last Turusain (2)

-This place was originally a research facility. During the Final War, this was where the imnse energy extracted from the Volcanic Crab was supplied to the holand. But we were defeated, and everyone died, so it’s a rather bitter ending.

-The Final War……. You an the event that led to the extinction of the Turusain?

Then how did this one survive?

-That’s right. And I am the last survivor. As for that matter, we will speak of it later. If our trust deepens, that is. In any case, what matters now is eliminating the Mother Nest, is it not? And rescuing your companion.

-Com… panion……? Hm.

-You bastard! Are you planning to abandon your companion!!

-Well, sure. If possible, I’ll save him.

-You morally bankrupt creature.

He wasn’t entirely certain yet whether Puyo counted as a companion, but if he was alive, he intended to rescue him.

-So, you said you’d help . That ans you have a thod?

-I have attempted to eliminate it several tis. I activated the laboratory’s security systems and attacked it, but that creature possesses sothing beyond the typical abilities of an ordinary Mother Nest.

-Sothing else?

-The ability to cross between illusion and reality. You’ve seen it, haven’t you? The massive wall blocking your path, or what appeared to be a true illusion.

-That wall…wasn’t it fake?

-Didn’t I warn you? No, no no no no. Wait a mont. Then were you planning to just fire at it without even knowing whether it was real or fake!!! You are more reckless than I imagined!

-Maybe.

He was confident he would survive sohow. And this wasn’t even his main body but a split soul, so although the original would suffer serious damage, he wouldn’t truly die. Like having extra coins to spare.

-…Hah. I understand the way your mind works. In any case, the opponent is not ordinary. It is clearly under the protection of sothing ‘other.’ Perhaps a being that holds divine authority. I do not know exactly what stands behind it. The Turusain invented elental recombination using material combiners, but even I do not understand the ability to turn illusion into reality.

Yul listened and then asked,

-What’s the solution?

-If it can turn illusion into reality, then reality can be turned into illusion. I observed it for a very long ti and reverse-engineered its technique. And I built a device to use it. A Reverse-Analysis Disassembler.

It was a small device fitted with a lens. It felt similar to a monocular.

-While firing a beam from the Reverse-Analysis Disassembler, it reverts reality back into illusion.

-Then shouldn’t you be the one to handle it? Why wait for ?

-You are not even surprised after seeing this? This is technology capable of reversing a portion of a god’s power.

He already knew the other was Turusain. Considering their technological level, it wasn’t that strange.

-Ahem. The Reverse-Analysis Disassembler depends on the user’s capacity. In other words, one must recognize that what stands before them is an illusion in order to reverse it. But I cannot do that.

-…?

-No matter how I try, I cannot perceive that reality as an illusion. It lies far beyond the realm of ‘sensation.’ Even supplenting my abilities with Mantra makes it impossible.

-Then why did you build it?

-…It turned out that way after I made it. And I no longer have the resources to create another.

Just as a mackerel cannot comprehend the vision of a mantis shrimp, that sensory domain existed on an entirely different dinsion.

-And then I happened to encounter you, soone capable of overcoming that limitation.

-You an the Deep King Tribe.

-The Deep King Tribe is a higher species. You can certainly use this. And you ca here to defeat it, did you not?

In short, Kaiman, the Turusain who had awakened thousands of years ago, had been waiting for soone capable of wielding this device.

There were still unknown factors, but he seed trustworthy enough.

-Fine. As long as we share the sa enemy, I can trust you.

Yul lifted the Reverse-Analysis Disassembler with Telekinesis.

-How does it work?

-Pour as much magic into it as possible. Shatter every illusion the enemy possesses.

-Alright. What will you do?

-I can control the remaining systems from here. The devices I previously used against it were neutralized, but not everything is gone.

* * *

-It’s true, I tell you. It trapped in a glass jar and kept dragging around!

-Is that so?

-Yes, yes! I know what abilities it used. Things like Telekinesis or rapidly evolving its own body. It doesn’t seem to use Mantra. And it has another strange ability—controlling seawater. Uh, what else did it have?

-Its size?

-Size…… you say? It was that size from the beginning.

-The Deep King Tribe race is originally larger than that.

-Oh, right. It can also transform into other creatures!! That might be why it’s small? And it can share ‘vision’ with those it contracts with.

-That is not a concern. He is traveling alone, and the ship above has moved to avoid the storm.

Puyo was being held by one of the small tentacles of a gigantic creature.

-Have you revealed everything?

-Huh? F-for now, yes.

-You are the first irregular I have encountered. You too shall be ‘modified.’ In a sowhat special manner.

-Ah, hahaha. Th-Thank you…… very much.

-Not now, it seems. He has arrived. Did he cooperate with the being beyond that door?

-The door beyond…… you an?

-Let us verify what the last Ancient One prepared.

At that mont, a bright light flashed from afar. In an instant, a hole was pierced through the massive barrier surrounding the deepest core of the Mother Nest.

It was Yul.

-If it operates like this, I won’t be able to use it many tis.

Yul muttered.

The Reverse-Analysis Disassembler appeared to have durability limits; after three or four uses, it was designed to self-destruct.

Yul’s entire body was drenched in blood because, before entering here, he had already dealt with all the Sea Horrors guarding the place.

The blood of the Sea Horrors diffused faintly into the ocean.

Using echolocation, Yul scanned the surrounding space.

‘This feels like a drilling rig.’

It resembled a massive offshore oil drilling platform. At the center stood a colossal cylinder descending into an unfathomable abyss below. A wide gap separated the cylinder from the surrounding ground.

According to Kaiman, the Turusain had drawn energy from within the Volcanic Crab.

‘Then that drill-like structure must be the energy extraction device, and the Mother Nest has occupied it.’

Biological tissue spread downward along the massive cylindrical structure.

And at the location where the Mother Nest would likely be, there stood a small girl—and Puyo, floating helplessly in midair.

-H-hiik!

‘The girl’s form is an illusion.’

He focused his mind and attempted to peer into its core.

As he poured magic into the Reverse-Analysis Disassembler and fired the beam, the original form was revealed.

Biological tissue spread across the entire drilling structure. And at its center stood a gigantic flower-like organism.

Around the flower, tens of thousands of tentacles had grown, each differing in size. Large, dium, and small tentacles writhed through the water.

-…Among my kind, I am the most exceptional……”

Sensing it was about to ramble on, Yul imdiately aid the UV Thermal Gun. A flash burst forth as he fired at maximum output without hesitation.

The high-powered beam tore through part of the Mother Nest’s body. The instant a long hole was carved into it, the Mother Nest cried out.

-I forbid that here.

-Forbid?

He tried to pour magic into the UV Thermal Gun again to fire another shot, but the weapon began transforming into sothing else.

The previously inert weapon writhed, turning into living biological tissue.

‘Is this an illusion?’

This was equipnt used by the Ktazar elite. It couldn’t be destroyed so easily. Yet even knowing that, it appeared as though it had completely changed into sothing else.

-It seems you have no intention of conversing.

-Is there any need?

Long, pointless dialogue. It was an enemy. No matter what it said, it would lie, and even if it spoke the truth, it would still need to be doubted.

-Just die.

There was no need to hear false information, and if the opponent knew sothing useful, beating it would eventually make it spill sothing worthwhile.

He twisted his body, reshaping the tips of his fins into blade-like edges. Spinning forward to generate a vortex, he severed every tentacle in sight.

‘It must know all the abilities I’ve shown.’

As Kaiman predicted, Puyo had probably revealed everything.

The fact that it sealed the UV Thermal Gun imdiately proved that much. Then he would simply use an ability he had never shown before.

Skill 「Madness」 activated.

His entire body flushed red as his physical capabilities surged explosively.

Normally, he avoided using this ability since it consud lifespan, but the Deep King Tribe possessed longevity beyond estimation.

Strength, motor control, agility, and combat sense skyrocketed. It felt as though he had beco three tis stronger.

He sliced off the large tentacles protruding from the front and tore apart the dium ones lashing toward him.

Though shaped like a giant flower, its lower half resembled a sea anemone.

-Arise.

-Hm?!

As he cut through tentacles and advanced toward the “core,” the Mother Nest issued a command, and dozens of Sea Horrors were generated from its lower body.

The phenonon began as each tentacle mutated.

‘This isn’t an illusion.’

After using the Reverse-Analysis Disassembler several tis, he had learned to distinguish illusions more easily.

That ability was the Mother Nest’s own power to create Sea Horrors.

Prepared Sea Horrors erged from within the tentacles and entered combat imdiately upon birth.

‘Now I see why it’s called a Mother. Every one of those tentacles produces Sea Horrors.’

The newborn Sea Horrors were of various types, but all had yet to find hosts to parasitize. Their physical capabilities were weak.

From small Parasites to mid-sized, unnad Sea Horrors, they poured out in waves.

Their forms were largely similar. A black, heart-like core with four flexible tentacles extending in different directions.

The Sea Horrors scattered to buy ti lunged at Yul, trying to burrow into his flesh, but they failed to pierce the hardened scales he had previously developed through evolution.

He crushed the small ones with Telekinesis and pierced or sliced apart the dium ones.

‘Stalling for ti.’

The enemy was preparing sothing else.

There was also a weakness in its ability to manipulate illusion. If it could freely turn illusion into reality—or reality into illusion—Yul would already be dead.

While analyzing the enemy, the Mother Nest transmitted a magic signal.

-What would you think if your purpose were determined from birth?

-…?

-Both you and I were given our purposes from the mont we were born. I have finally realized that my purpose was not simply to beco a Sea Horror Mother Nest and expand the domain of the Sea Horrors.

-Then what is it?

-To open the door through which the Sower may enter reality. I wished to avoid it until the very end, but now I have no choice.

Looking up, Yul saw that a massive door had ford in midair.

Rather than a door, it resembled a gigantic mirror. Around its brilliant, multicolored fra, so tallic substance emitted light along slanted surfaces extending in multiple directions.

As if the sun had descended into the deep sea that had known only darkness, the door manifested. From the empty space where glass should have been, sothing began to erge, and even the magic of the ocean itself started to change.

A voice rang out from the wall speaker.

-Damn it!! Deep King Tribe! Be careful! Sothing is descending from the non-physical world into reality!

-O little finger, O Sower…….