Chapter 122: 122
Ep. In 122
games, the Psionium effect lasts for 5 minutes.
It is a very useful drug because it can turn an unfavorable situation around if used at the right time, but it has a fatal drawback.
'Every time you use it, the duration decreases.'
The reduction time is randomly determined from a few seconds to a maximum of 1 minute. It can be said that an unlucky person can only use it 5 times.
So, players either used it up early in the game or kept it and used it carefully later in important moments.
These characteristics of Psionium work the same in reality. I, too, have used psionium since becoming an Amorph.
'I used it when fighting Sihyeon Eugene.'
Since I enjoyed the effect for 5 minutes at that time, if I consume other psionium in the future, I will be able to enjoy the effect for at least 4 minutes.
'But Muriel said it wasn't so.'
The Heavenly Mother said that Muriel used psionium when fighting her, and it lasted for 8 minutes.
'Is it an improved version of Psionium or a module that enhances the drug's effects?'
As there are many changes from the game, it is not clear what is causing this.
'doesn't care. 'Because that part isn't important.'
What is clear is that Muriel cannot enjoy the effects of psionium indefinitely.
If not, you would have used it right away when fighting me.
'The drug she used when she first fought me was Ultra Controller.'
The cigarette she smoked while waiting for me.
The solution contained in it was not a synthetic drug, but an ultra controller that improved the output and precision of superpowers.
She acted quite naturally, but I could tell right away because her smoke didn't have any of the hazy drug smell typical of cigarettes.
'A smart woman like that can easily overpower me, but she avoids it?'
My guess is that even if the duration of the psionium she used was increased, it would not have been able to eliminate the drawback of the original medicine, which was that the duration decreased each time it was used.
'If you just use it at any time, it will be difficult to use it later when it's really important.'
That's why she probably used psionium when she judged herself to be in danger.
'The maximum duration is less than 8 minutes. Assuming that the duration reduction is the same as regular psionium, it will be less than 7 minutes.'
In fact, it is unlikely that our fight will last 7 to 8 minutes.
Since both sides move at speeds far beyond humans, the battle will not be very long, no matter which side wins.
'Because my plan wasn't to hold out until the psionium effect ran out in the first place.'
I thought about this when I was talking to Heavenly Mother.
It's important to prevent her from doing things she can only do with psionium.
"…Even if there are two, it doesn't make any difference!"
After this, Muriel immediately went on the offensive.
As soon as her feet left the ground, a golden pike approached right in front of my nose.
The speed is literally like lightning.
I quickly raised my bone ax and hit it. When my bone collided with her javelin, there was a sound like a bomb exploding.
The pike is pushed upward and her posture collapses. My eroding tentacles rush forward with their six appendages wide open to swallow her whole.
"hot!"
Muriel spread her mechanized left hand wide. Her body slipped through the tentacles, slowed down by the distortion field, like a loach.
And she clenches her left arm into a fist. In that brief moment, my assistive organs detected a massive flow of energy moving from her body to her left arm.
This is a thunder arm module that is one of the higher-grade combat modules that cyborgs can equip. It shows excellent effects in both destructive power and penetrating power, so it can pierce even my semi-adult shell.
｢Where!｣
"Huh?!"
The Heavenly Mother jumped up and slammed her body into Muriel's side.
No matter how much Muriel's physical abilities improved, it was impossible to ignore the rush of a griffon that was over 4 meters tall and whose entire body was full of muscles.
Muriel's posture was disturbed and the direction of the mechanical arm was slightly shifted. Thanks to this, the yellow lightning that Muriel shot stopped at just grazing my back.
Of course, it didn't end without any damage, and I lost two erosion tentacles, but it was still bearable.
"Don't disturb me…!"
"Ugh!"
After releasing the energy, Muriel struck the Mother of Heaven with her heated left arm. The Mother of Heaven, with burns on her face and a broken beak, took a long step back.
'good.'
Now is her chance as she focuses her attention on other enemies.
I hit Muriel with all my force on her head.
"Oops!"
My horn broke her ribs and pierced her internal organs. Fortunately, she avoided penetration thanks to her belated retreat, but even a wound of this magnitude was fatal enough.
'no! 'It's not over yet!'
As I expected, her body glowed purple.
A purple halo floating behind her head. That's the effect of the cross-shaped halo headband 'Adjuster' she wears.
The Coordinator is one of the rewards for clearing the Cult's mid- to late-stage quests and grants the wearer the ability to move as a spirit a total of five times a day.
The cult's quest is divided into a total of 12 stages, and the Coordinator is unlocked with a stage 9 quest reward.
She didn't use the facilitator when she was hit with the acid fungus I shot.
'It's not that I didn't use it, but I couldn't use it because I didn't meet the conditions for use.'
Looking at her use of psionium after consuming it, she must have cleared up to level 8 of the quest.
'Whatever it is, there are three left.'
So far, Muriel has used the Attuner twice. I used it once when the Heavenly Mother came out of the ground and surprised me, and again when I stabbed her with my horn just now.
In other words, she only has three lives left.
I predicted where she would move and moved quickly. Purple particles were gathering in the air at a distance of about 100 meters.
"!"
Muriel, who has completed her spiritualization, opens her eyes when she sees me rushing towards her.
She raised her left arm to use the distortion field, but the Mother of Heaven would not just sit there and watch.
"I knew how to leave you alone!"
The Mother of Heaven, with half her face blackened, caught Muriel behind her. The half-broken beak bit hard into her left shoulder.
"Bwak!"
The distortion field was canceled while it was appearing due to my shoulder blade being crushed.
Muriel saw me approaching right in front and quickly took a defensive stance with the priest's javelin. "
Ugh
!"
One of my horns broke when the pike and horn collided. The pain felt like someone had hit my head hard with a hard object.
However, I was not the only one who suffered damage.
As I charged, the power I carried was contained in the horn, so Muriel, who blocked it, was also not safe.
Her right arm holding the short spear went limp. Thanks to the nano Spartan module surrounding the body, the arm stayed attached without falling off, but the inside must have been completely mush.
"Iik! "Die!"
She let out a yell that I couldn't tell if it was a scream or excitement and activated the Thunder Arm module again. As energy gathered in her left arm, the Mother of Heaven hastily removed her beak.
I also turned my body sharply to avoid the direction her arm was facing. The yellow heat ray grazed my side just a sheet of paper.
In the meantime, she disappeared as a spirit and reappeared on the watchtower placed around the camp.
"This is ridiculous…!"
Thanks to the spiritualization effect, there was not a single wound on her body, but her expression was different.
As he bit his lip, blood appeared at the corner of his mouth and his eyes were trembling slightly.
Now she was clearly weaker than before the fight.
'You're a foreigner. Muriel.'
If you fight passively or delay, the Psionium effect will run out, making it impossible to use the Adjuster.
On the other hand, if you actively engage in battle as you normally would, the likelihood of using a coordinator increases.
Either way, if she loses her Coordinator, she will have to rely solely on the resilience of her nano-Spartan modules to deal with us.
'I should have used it to escape in the first place.'
Starting a battle with us, or me, was itself a wrong choice.
I calmly told her the truth to her, who was afraid of us.
"It happened twice."
"!"
She will know best what I mean.
If those two times end, what will happen to you?
–
3 years ago from now.
Muriel fell into the world of space survival alone.
And that too while being possessed by a member of the Space Dog Cartel.
Even though she was ranked 20th and the leader of a large clan, it was all just a story in the game.
It was not easy for her, who was just a college student in the real world, to survive in this harsh dystopian world.
If she wasn't a cyborg with a strong body or if she wasn't so beautiful that she was loved by the boss, she wouldn't have lasted even two days.
Muriel's life was guaranteed thanks to the cult leader who cared about her.
A month has passed since I became the leader's lover.
Only after her survival was guaranteed was she able to see what she had received when she came to this world.
It was a kind of blessing and a 'perk' for those who came to this world.
The privilege she received was that she could change the cyborg's base race to another race.
In the original game, the base race of cyborgs was always fixed as humans, but she was able to change the base race to other races, such as Cyborg Wolf Cult.
It could be said to be a perk that reflects the characteristics of Space Dogs, a pirate group that includes various races.
Instead, the base race could not be changed without any restrictions.
Her original race is cyborg.
Perks could only be used by looting symbols of other races, converting them into 'modules', and wearing them. These limitations did not change even when changing races.
Additionally, only sapient races that the player could select could be switched, and switching to non-playable wild animals was not possible.
Anyway, realizing the potential of the privilege, she poisoned the leader to change the base race into a cult.
It wasn't that I loved him, and I thought he was just an NPC in the game anyway, so I didn't feel much aversion to murder.
She transformed the leader's horn into a module and converted it into a cult, targeting cartel members as her next targets.
It was not an easy fight since the cartel she belonged to was a powerful cartel, but she was somehow able to win.
After that, she met other players on her way to Cult Nature and grew with their help.
Two years have passed since she came to this world, and Muriel has become stronger. So much so that no one in this universe can treat her carelessly.
Moreover, since there were two rankers supporting her, crisis was as good as a word that did not exist for Muriel.
That is, until I met Amorph right now in Seintopia 02.
"Tsk!"
Muriel raised her javelin and blocked the arm struck by that damned Aimorph sub-adult. Muriel gritted her teeth because the guy's attack wasn't usually heavy.
Its strength has not decreased at all since it started fighting. Rather, it felt like it got stronger as the fight continued.
To be precise, it wasn't that the enemy was getting stronger, it was that she was getting weaker.
'no! There's no way I can lose…!'
"Ssivaaaal!"
Anxiety crept up on her, but she shook it off with a spirit of profanity.
The Thunder Arm module mounted on her left arm activated and yellow lightning passed through the arm.
Just as she was happy to see the guy with the severed arm, the Mother of Heaven swung her paw towards her face.
"Ugh!"
I threw my head back to avoid it, but the right side of my face was torn off in half by that bitch's attack.
'…I can recover from this much!'
The Adjuster only has two uses left, so it must be used sparingly. She swung her pike, believing in the resilience of the nano-Spartan module.
As the priest's golden spear cut into the side of the Heavenly Mother, Aimov's tail flew towards her.
Because it was in the middle of an attack, it was completely impossible to avoid it. I decided to block it, trusting in the defense power of the solid Thunder Arm module, but it was a bad choice.
"This profit!"
Her mechanical arm was bent abnormally by the ignorant tail. As if that wasn't enough, she floated in the air and fell miserably on the floor.
"Whoa?!"
Muriel spit out black blood from her mouth.
I fell to the ground several times during the fight, but this was the first time I vomited blood.
'Damn Amimorph bastard's tricks…!'
Only then did she become aware of the presence of fog that had completely enveloped the camp.
This fog was clearly created by Aimorph's nest. I knew right away because I had fought Amorph several times in the game.
However, since I had never fought an Amorph for as long as this time, I neglected the fear of the toxic fog.
In fact, she didn't make a particularly foolish decision.
The recovery power of the Nano Spartan module is frighteningly excellent. No matter how toxic the fog was, it could be recovered quickly as long as the module was functioning.
'The module's recovery is not keeping up!'
If she remains stable even for a short period of time, the module's recovery function will normalize.
However, the enemy did not allow even 'that short period of time'.
The Mother of Heaven ran towards Muriel, who was coughing up blood. Muriel jumped into the air and kicked the Heavenly Mother who was trying to attack her.
The enemy flew away, but another enemy attacked her.
Muriel managed to swat away the thorns coming from the front with her javelin.
'Oh no! I can still hold on…'
The moment I thought that, the enemy's tentacles flew in. I managed to bounce it off, but I couldn't stop it all. Half of her thighs were torn off by the previous attack.
'This can be solved by using another module!'
The moment I stood up, the paw swung by the Mother of Heaven was right in front of my nose. It was an attack that took advantage of the narrowed view on Muriel's right side.
'If you use a distortion field…!'
She quickly raised her recovering left arm and created a distortion field. The Heavenly Mother stopped in the air, but Eimov's horns aimed at her from the opposite direction.
"Oops!"
'After this…!'
Muriel flies through the air again, coughing up blood.
Her mind kept thinking of the next move.
Among the modules she has, there is one that can overcome this situation. It's a precious module, but I didn't use it often because the aftereffects were serious, but in this situation, there's nothing I can do.
'You can still win!'
I'm stuck. Both of her legs were broken.
She used her psychic power technique to levitate herself in the air and quickly thought of her next move.
Among her psychic power skills, there is one that can wipe out enemies. I've been saving it, but now is the time to act.
'If this is…!'
But I got stuck. Penetrating injuries were added to her shoulder and abdomen.
As fatal injuries occur one after another, the nanosuit rapidly slows down. While she was unconscious from the loss of blood, she continued to think.
'Next time…'
What should I do?
It seemed as if he knew what modules she had and what psychic power techniques she could use.
She was practically naked in front of him.
As I thought about that, the monster in front of me began to grow bigger and bigger. The thing that had grown by eating her blood, eating her flesh, and eating her emotions now seemed too big to handle.
Facing such a person brought back feelings that I had buried in my heart a long time ago.
Feeling hopeless and.
Fear of death.
"I don't want to die!"
Muriel, whose mind was pushed to the limit, once again ended up using the Adjuster she had promised to use sparingly.
Her body dispersed into purple particles and then gathered back together as far away from that monster as possible.
'no!'
As soon as her body regenerated, she regretted it. There was only one chance left.
Then the guy said.
"once."
Even though the distance from the bastard was more than several hundred meters, Eimov's words were heard as clearly as if they were stuck in her ears.
﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌
Support the Translation! 🌐✨
20 Advanced Chapters are currently available in Patreon, make sure to visit and support our team.
patreon.com/Immortal_author
https://ko-fi.com/immortalauthor
https://discord.gg/KscfBegBPT
Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone