My Children Swarm the Cosmos – Chapter 44.1

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟒𝟒: 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐦𝐚 (4)

A living membrane spread like a dark and thick fog, consuming the space in an instant. Simultaneously, the final soldiers guarding the server room and deputy representative’s office on the lowest floor fired various firearms.

The war machine’s gauss cannons shot thousands of heated flechettes per minute. And the soldiers’ energy rifles fired rotating energy bullets with the power of optics, aiming at the Anima all at once with a refined aiming compensation system.

In the stopped time, the tiny chimeraz that made up the living membrane collided with each flechette and energy bullet. She identified the enemy’s projectiles every very short unit of time and moved the chimeraz that made up the living membrane one by one to match the projectiles.

The tiny chimeraz, close to liquid, exploded when hit by the enemy’s projectiles. It slightly reduced the kinetic energy and spin of the projectiles. It repeated this thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of millions of times.

It was less than a second.

The flechettes and energy bullets that reached Anima’s eyes suddenly dropped their downward angle of approach and fell powerlessly at her feet.

And since the living membrane itself was a living organism with body temperature, Anima adjusted her own body temperature to match that of the living membrane. Because of this, the soldiers’ equipment here couldn’t properly grasp her location or condition.

“Thermal smoke! Blow it away!”

Tung! Tututung!

The war machine’s small missiles and grenades were fired.

Boooom!!!

However, things like small missiles and grenades exploded upon firing, and instead engulfed the war machine. That meant they collided with something upon firing.

“What the?!”

Shooong. . .!

The war machine’s leg was severed,

Zheok. . .!

The soldier’s neck was cut off.

“Gasp. . . Gasp. . . Where is it. . .!”

The soldiers who witnessed the friendly fire damage right next to them fell into chaos. They rolled their bloodshot eyeballs around in the dark field of vision and exhaled roughly.

“Kyaaaak!!”

“Aak. . .! “

“Keuk . . .”

The death throes rang out one after another. There was no way to know where and how each other was dying.

“W-Where is it!!!”

Clang!

A bayonet was extended from under the muzzle of the rifle he was holding. Soon, the soldier caught sight of her shadow passing in front of him. So he pulled the trigger, but the bullet lost power and dropped as if in a dream. So he swung his bayonet,

“Damn it. . .!”

It wouldn’t swing.

It was as if he were fighting while submerged deep in water. Even though his arms and legs were powered by a battle suit, he couldn’t move quickly because of some resistance.

Soon, the shadow that had passed by approached again, and cut his throat before the victim even realized it.

Whoosh!

Thud. . .

Blood splattered on the floor, and the soldier whose leg had been cut off touched the warm feeling of the blood with the palm of his hand.

“. . .”

The soldier was met by her again.

It was a face that was inhuman, with not even a shred of mercy. The white spine-like sword held in her right hand seemed to be greedily sucking the fresh blood of the victim.

The soldier quickly pulled out a disposable energy pistol in a state of semi-panic.

“Dieeeee!!!”

Paakang!

The beam of light curved strangely and just grazed her shoulder before disappearing in a strange direction.

🔷🔷🔷

Once a planet teeming with life, a planet that had been developed by humans and was about to be developed, is now a planet that has been repopulated with chimeraz.

The amphibian-like indigenous creatures barked at the sight of a single Hounz in the swamp.

Keuhung! Woof woof. . .!

Hounz, who faced the indigenous creatures alone, let out a déchirant howl.

Kieeeeek!!!

Tatatat. . .!

The indigenous creatures and Hounz began to bite each other. The indigenous creatures, which were twice the size of Hounz, surrounded Hounz and kicked to bite its neck or tail.

Zhwaak!!!

At that moment, Hounz swung its tail and slashed the bodies of the indigenous creatures at once, and crushed their skulls in one bite with its tremendous bite force.

Keuhung! Keuhung!

The primitive teeth and claws of the indigenous creatures couldn’t even scratch Hounz’s exoskeleton.

The buildings built by humans collapsed under the bombing of the Cresecter swarm. Afterwards, the artificial structures were covered in organic tissue and took on a strange shape, as if they had slightly melted.

Xenotera, advancing over the ground, melted and absorbed vegetation and corpses, and then black blood vessels spread like roots and erected bizarre structures of chimeraz.

The night quickly darkened due to the rapid rotation.

Anima, who had returned to a neat red dress, stood before a young colony.

Puff, puff. . .!

Flesh-like lumps rose and began to swell near the colony. Then, the lower part of the colony split vertically, and a plump, 3-meter-long chimeraz-like larva crawled out from inside.

A round body, round eyes, two curved tentacles like feelers, and a downturned mouth. In a word, it looked like a hairless, reddish-brown larva.

“Open.”

Coo coo coo. . .! Zheee. . .

She spread hwe head wide open like a sunflower, revealing hwe entire head, including hwe brain and a pair of eyeballs.

Anima caressed his brain with her bare hands.

“Linnea.”

“Leeeeneeaaa. . .? “

She answered after her.

It was a girl’s voice with a bit of a strange feeling.

“You’re the leader of this planet and star system.”

“Aaaah. . .? “

“I’ll leave the genes of our race in the colony. Learn them all.”

“Aaaah. . . U. . . “

“Make this star yours. And protect it. Continuously increase your numbers and grow stronger. Report all the information you know to Kreion every 24 hours through the Mind Repeater in the coordinates I’ve given you.”

“Neeeeng. . . “

“. . .”

She reads the thoughts Linnea sends her.

“I’m sorry. But I’ve decided to leave right away.”

“. . .A-woooo. . . “

“Come to think of it, there are too many people in this galaxy. In order to truly expand as Kreion-nim commanded, we have to go to another galaxy.”

While Kreion was expanding in the human galaxy, she was expanding in the outer galaxies.

“I saw the information of a representative named Meary. There is a warlike race called Crolr in the Large Magellanic Cloud. They are a race that loves war.”

“. . .”

“It won’t be easy, but if we fight them and absorb their power, the chimeraz will become exponentially stronger. Since there is the Magellanic Stream, we can get there in two or three months by riding the ring formation.”

As the entire planet changed into an environment favorable to the chimeraz, she took her hand off Linnea’s brain.

➖Farewell. Make sure to survive.

It was a night when Lemegeton and hundreds of Cresecters ascended into the starlit sky.

Euryale moved vigorously, leaving behind the stars, and the Lemegeton swarm surrounded it.

The leader left alone on the planet looked up at the night sky like that and spoke for the first time after learning language.

“. . .I will pray for the day when you will return. My master. . .”

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