78 Tue – Invasion and Erosion (7)
‘Is there any problem?’
“Uh, yes.”
Kang Do-yeon, who took off the mask, nodded with a stiff face.
This is the Legion’s nest in the destroyed village.
It was a kind of stronghold base that focused only on digestion and decomposition, excluding absorption and analysis functions.
These strongholds were important places to feed the corps soldiers by disassembling them and replacing them with nutrients when they put in nutrients.
“Why did you give me a stop order? You must have seen me and told me to fight!”
‘It did. But things have changed.’
“situation?”
Kang Do-yeon, who was protesting, flinched in embarrassment.
‘He didn’t seem to want you to fight.’
The Legion released control of the intelligence and informed her of what had just happened.
Kang Do-yeon’s surprised face changed every moment.
“Eve.”
‘You know what I mean.’
She muttered blankly, frowned at her pounding hair.
It was Shinwoo’s will, not the army’s, to exclude her from the battle. The Legion simply accepted that will and granted that request.
Rather, the Legion was reluctant to remove her from the front line.
‘I honestly don’t understand. If you’re worried about getting hurt because you’re weak, it’s right to fight and become strong instead of just hiding and avoiding. You have to run away to run away forever. But if he wants to… follow him.’
“Then my empty seat. There is no one stronger than me.”
“You can make it.”
“..!”
Kang Do-yeon shook her head. The voice was heard from the stem of the divine tree used to make this stronghold nest.
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My head started to twist. By pouring all the energy stored in this stronghold nest, the cells rapidly divide and grow rapidly.In fact, this production method boasts the level of inefficiency of pouring water into the poison, but the food is abundant and overflowing, so I just took it.
Soon, human figures began to appear from the tree trunks. A female body, long black hair, a power engine embedded in her body.
“From now on, I will fight by myself. The burden of the Hive consciousness increases when operating the command object, but it can’t be helped.”
Eve, who created her own body in an instant, smashed a dried up tree, landed on the ground, and muttered coldly as she looked at Kang Do-yeon.
“ah…”
It was true that fighting was scary and awkward. It was also true that he was repulsed by the act of killing people who looked just like him, regardless of whether he was from another world.
But when she was really excluded like this, Kang Do-yeon’s heart ached for some reason.
“It’s strange. Why do you have such feelings?”
“…I don’t want to fall.”
Eve, the corps itself, immediately recognized the feelings of Kang Do-yeon, who was a part of her.
Even though she knew it, she did not hide it and said her true intentions.
“You’re afraid now, and you have hesitation. But apart from that, you have the fighting spirit and desire.”
“right.”
“It’s contradictory. After all, the emotions of pure-blooded humans are inefficient and garbage. They’re complicated and blatant, so it’s not uncommon for them to catch themselves.”
Eve pushed her masked face up to her nose.
However, Kang Do-yeon did not avoid that gaze.
“You’re right. But I want to be of help to you. It’s been 10 years. I don’t want to be helpless anymore.
“…”
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My shaky heart stopped agitating at this moment. It’s like wearing a mask. But now Kang Do-yeon is not wearing a mask.Eve slowly turned her head. At the same time I started counting.
[Are you balancing his request and the will of the person concerned? What will you prioritize?]
“The answer is already out.”
Eve quickly finished the calculations. In fact, from the Legion’s point of view, letting the one and only Submind play in the back wasn’t very appealing in the first place.
“Prove your will. Will, by using the most useful power that humans have.”
“You want me to prove it?”
“You said you would fight to protect it. Then, move there right now. They dare to attack our base, so Commander, sortie right now, kill them all and protect our nest.”
Eve showed the situation hundreds of kilometers away from here in Kang Do-yeon’s mind.
There was also a stronghold nest there. Now there was a group of troops heading towards the nest.
“Ha, but that’s too far! I’m running out of time!”
“I should have told you. Prove your will. You belong to me before you are his younger brother. It’s up to you to become stronger.”
“Ugh!”
Eve moved her body and attacked Kang Do-yeon.
Literally hugged It wasn’t an act of love at all.
“Ah… ah ah ah ah ah!”
With her eyes wide open, she could not bear the pain and screamed madly.
As Eve’s own body composed of pluripotent cells collapsed, it began to cling to Kang Do-yeon’s body and flow into it.
The pain caused in the process of reconstructing the whole body is similar to that of an infectious organism torturing the victim’s nervous system.
‘If you endure, you will gain strength, if you do not endure, you will be culled.’
Eve whispered into her mind, writhing in pain.
The celestial art was the basic medium through which the current legion used the power engine to express the power of form, and the celestial art operates according to the person’s will and soul.
No matter how heavy the power engine is, if the user’s will is weak, it will not be effective.
There was no problem with Eve herself, a super creature who had grown this much, but it wasn’t Kang Do-yeon.
In any case, to be strong, you had to prove yourself.
‘It was you who overcame it, but anyway, you gave me strength that others couldn’t get.’
The time of pain that seemed to last forever is over. Gang Do-yeon, who was left alone at the scene, got up with her remodeled body.
There is little change in appearance.
However, the number of dormant pluripotent cells in the body nearly doubled. In other words, the size of the power engine that replaces the heart has also doubled, meaning that its output has doubled.
“Huh…”
From her back with her head bowed as she exhaled a hot breath, a pair of huge wings piled up in black feathers spurted out at high speed.
Dark red ore flashed even in the joints of the wings.
‘The proof is not yet complete. Go and stop the enemies.’
She flew into the sky at once. It wasn’t just wings. Through the hole made in the armor on the back, it radiated propulsion at a tremendous speed.
“Time to choose.”
Hearing this, she muttered to herself.
You can’t have everything in this world. So I always had to choose one.
“What, what!”
“In the sky… Aww!”
Arriving at the scene at once, she landed on the ground without slowing down.
Along with the dust generated by the shock wave, those approaching the stronghold nest rolled over the floor. There were no legionaries near the nest.
Eve was all bitten backwards. This place is the only place for testing for strength training.
‘These are my enemies, the enemies of the Legion.’
A red light flashed from her darkened eyes, and she raised her head without a mask on and looked at them in bewilderment and fright.
“Woman..?”
“It’s a monster! Kill it!”
Embarrassed, they inertially grabbed their weapons and ran towards them.
She also made a choice. Monster, I sympathized with those words a hundred times.
‘I am a monster.’
In an instant, she swung her own wings that had become as thin as a blade.
The moment when the wings wrapped in dark red energy were swung like a blade. Fountains of blood spewed from all sides.
“Aww!”
Luckily, he survived the blow, and the armour covered the neck of the soldier who was attacking him with his sword, and grabbed it with his hand with sharp claws.
And it gave me strength.
“Ouch.”
The corpse with a broken neck drooped along with a crackling sound.
For a moment, she looked at the red cross eyes of the blue suit, which had cut off limbs and smashed while trying to kill her, and the face of the dead soldier.
The pain and shock of that time is still vivid today.
“Uh, uh…”
“Run away!”
Those who remained in the overwhelming sight turned and started to run away.
‘Hiding information is the basic of the basics.’
Eve, of course, gave the order to kill all those who found the nest.
Kang Do-yeon clenched her teeth and jumped off the ground.
With every move she made, people fell to the floor, dripping blood. The mask that read her emotions kept appearing and disappearing repeatedly.
‘Enough. At least when it comes to defense, I can make them fight without problems.’
But when she put her hand in the back of the last opponent she was running away from and pierced it.
Eve laughed happily.
“When is it time to defend…?”
‘It seems like the enemies are really coming together.’
The corps showed the breathing Kang Do-yeon the data brought by the scouts that are now everywhere.
Now, the identity of the corps is revealed, but one day passes.
Humans, who had not been able to respond properly and, at best, had been carrying out rescue activities on a regional basis, quickly gathered together and called an army.
‘Take your time, take your time as much as possible. We are spending all our power on erosion, digestion, and nest expansion, so now we have to stop it with only the troops we have produced in advance.’
The Legion decided to accept the challenge.