Chapter 2310: Blessed Mutation (1/2)
After absorbing a copious amount of dark fog released by the topped alien statue, Grey Watcher Xarnus completely lost his human form!
Somehow, his implanted organs and altered genes all mutated into a huge monster that massed many times more than his previous form.
Where did all of this mass come from?! How come this priest became so strong?!
”He's too fast!”
The just-recovered Mirror Raiders tried to shoot their sole remaining enemy down, but the fleshy monster didn't even flinch as his fleshy body incurred some damage.
The blackened and bleeding wounds regenerated in seconds, making it seem as if none of the damage was able to stick!
The monster let out a deep-throated roar as it barreled straight towards one of the surviving Mirror Raiders!
”YOU WILL PAY FOR YOUR BLASPHEMY!”
With a huge, clawed hand, the monster grabbed hold of the Larkinson's armored form and lifted it up. The Grey Watcher lifted his captive even as the soldier kept firing his rifle in vain.
CRUNCH!
A sudden bite was all it took to crush the soldier's in half! The huge monster's sharp teeth crunched the upper body of the Larkinson apart, uncaring of the fact that he was chewing through a portion of armor as well. With a loud gulp, the Grey Watcher swallowed his crunchy meal!
With the remaining Mirror Raider firing lasers in the monster's back, the mutated Grey Watcher appeared disinterested in eating the lower body of his victim. The monster swiveled around and threw the bloodied remains at the other soldier!
Unprepared for such a move, the surviving Mirror Raider crashed onto his back from the force of the impact. Just as his armored form lifted himself up from his prone position, the thunderous stomping of the monster had already closed the distance.
A claw grabbed hold of the remaining soldier!
With a cruel grin, the monstrified Grey Watcher repeated his earlier act and bit off the upper half of the Larkinson's armored body!
With another series of crunching, the huge mutant swallowed the broken contents of his mouth. As for the bloody lower body, the monster turned to Ketis and immediately performed another throw.
This time, he missed!
”That trick won't work on me, buddy!”
Ketis had liberated herself from every piece of equipment that weighed herself down. Left with only a thin layer of advanced material, her underlayer vacsuit hardly afforded her any protection against attacks.
What was worse was that she had removed the helmet that had allowed her to ignore the suppression up to this point!
She no longer needed its protection. The broken statue of the Unending One had leaked out all of the darkness it previously held. The darkness still lingered, but was slowly starting to clear up. Ketis was able to maintain her focus a lot better now that the pressure that cloyed in her mind started to weaken.
Against a monster like this, Ketis needed all the mobility she could get. With her Rising Red Dragon shattered into pieces, the helmet that she retained would only do more harm than good.
In this crucial final struggle, the last thing she needed was a burden of several kilograms weighing down her head!
The only weapon she needed was a sword. She held her trusty cutlass, which held out remarkably well despite the battles she had lived through.
As for the laser pistol, she had already overheated it due to all of the full-powered shots she fired. Even if she was still able to fire a couple more laser beams, she had already seen that none of the damage stuck.
This monster's regeneration ability was too abnormal!
”YOU…” The mutated Grey Watcher uttered with his deep, beastly voice. His huge eyes looked down at Ketis with disdain. ”PUNY GIRL. YOUR TOOTHPICK CAN DO NOTHING AGAINST ME. WHERE IS THE CAT? IT MUST PAY FOR BLASPHEMING THE DARK GOD!”
The monster looked around and soon managed to spot Lucky crawling away.
”Lucky! Run!”
”Meow!”
Though the mutant cultist was able to traverse a lot of distance very quickly with his four powerful limbs, Lucky ignored all of his injuries and managed to squeeze out just enough speed to jump through the hole in the floor!
”YOU DETESTABLE CAT!” The monster roared with anger as his huge forelimbs reached into the hole, only to come up with nothing!
”Meow meow!”
Lucky strenuously used his claws to grip against the surfaces of the tunnel to arrest his fall. He managed to reach the other side of the small tunnel and grip onto the ceiling of the industrial processing hall situated underneath the shrine.
He managed to escape!
The furious monster pounded the floor of the shrine, causing some of the tiles to crack and the surface to crater.
However, the obsidian structure of the shrine resisted his attacks! While his huge fleshy physique granted him incredible strength, he didn't gain the ability to fly!
”Heh.” Ketis smirked as she held her cutlass with a two-handed grip. Despite its modest reach compared to her favored weapon, she knew that she needed to use both of her arms if she wanted to have any hopes of inflicting damage on this monster. ”You're dead, freak. Lucky will call for backup. I admit that you're powerful enough to crush anyone on foot, but we have mechs! If that's not enough, there are still some nuclear mines outside that we can use to blow your new body up! I wonder, will you be able to piece yourself together after suffering so much damage.”
The monster released a wordless roar that rang Ketis' ears like a bell!
It seemed the monster was not as impervious as she feared.
She grinned. As long as her opponent could be killed, she still stood a chance!
”Come then! Fight me to the end!”
The monster released another angry cry and stormed over to Ketis, who looked incredibly frail with just a single suit and sword to her person.
Yet the moment the monster came close enough to grab her body, she nimbly rolled away at the exact right timing!
Surprised at the fact he missed, the Grey Watcher froze.
A sharp cutlass sliced the monster's flank, inflicting a wide wound that cut as deep as a finger's length!
The mutated body rapidly regenerated the wound within seconds, but the pain that Xarnus felt was very real!
The Grey Watcher grew even more furious! The huge four-limbed monster began to thrash around as he chaotically attacked Ketis with successive swipes!
None of his attacks managed to harm Ketis!
Though the fleshy monster was much bigger than a puny human, the Grey Watcher's agility was not as good!
Even though the mutated cultist was able to sprint much faster, that was only when he needed to traverse a straight line.
In closer ranges, his huge bulk and enormous muscle mass limited his agility. As long as Ketis successfully predicted her opponents attacks, she was able to evade the monster's clumsy attacks, if only barely.
This was not the first time she fought a huge beast!
In her Swordmaiden graduation ceremony, she hunted down a huge exobeast under similar conditions!
No woman could call herself a qualified Swordmaiden if she didn't slay an exobeast while armed with just a single sword!