Ch.286Fable (3)

The human race that flourished around the solar system, Megacorp, is ruled by seven houses.

Five Noble Capital houses based on Earth.

Two Prime Capital houses based on the Mars colony.

Once a massive corporate alliance, today they continue to exist in the form of houses.

And now, the seven houses’ interests are focused not on the solar system, but on another star system.

The A-11 star system.

In this star system, one of those that Megacorp has dominated after the solar system, there is a very important facility.

It is the headquarters of Megacorp’s Dispute Resolution Team.

Located on a terraformed planet, the Dispute Resolution Team is a direct agency of the CEO and exists to mediate disputes between houses within Megacorp.

In Megacorp, the role of ‘law’ is to protect the interests of the seven houses. That’s why all of Megacorp’s laws are determined by the heads and leaders of the 7 major houses in closed-door meetings.

Of course, there is no perfect law in the world. Sometimes laws contradict each other, and interpretations can differ depending on one’s position. The Dispute Resolution Team exists precisely for such situations.

A grand hall that can accommodate thousands.

The head of the Dispute Resolution Team stood in the center.

“This concludes the 17th meeting on drafting the ‘Temporary Ceasefire Mediation Plan for the T&C-Egerton Armed Conflict’.”

His voice echoed throughout the hall through the microphone.

Usually the hall was completely empty, but not today. Lawyers dispatched from the 7 major houses and journalists from major media outlets were seated.

They had gathered to resolve the armed conflict between Noble Capital T&C and Prime Capital Egerton that began with the collapse of the T&C Special Trade Center.

Once a mediation request is submitted to the Dispute Resolution Team, the relevant houses must reach an agreement. This is because houses that refuse mediation lose their status as upper capitals.

Therefore, lawyers participating in mediation meetings must gain benefits by any means necessary. Bribing opposing lawyers is considered decent; if necessary, they don’t hesitate to threaten, kidnap, and torture. That’s what Megacorp-style mediation is all about.

“Objections will be accepted again in 24 hours.”

As soon as the head of the Dispute Resolution Team finished speaking, the people seated in the hall flowed out like an ebbing tide.

Akira Yujin, who had been watching from a secret room at the back of the hall, turned off the monitor. An elderly butler was waiting behind him.

The long-running civil war had finally come to an end.

In the early stages of the conflict, the T&C house had lost an entire space city and even one of their heirs in the process. The damage was so astronomically high that many predicted the civil war would end with Egerton’s victory.

Moreover, the Egerton house had recently succeeded in mass-producing new warships. Naturally, the early war situation flowed in Egerton’s favor.

If Egerton hadn’t lost their head, the civil war would have ended long ago with T&C’s defeat.

“It turned out to be a blessing in disguise for T&C.”

“It seems that losing their head was fatal for Egerton.”

“Indeed. Egerton is still in an unstable situation.”

Danver Egerton, known as the Black Lion of Mars. He went missing when the T&C Special Trade Center collapsed. Egerton’s vassals and elders, focused only on their own interests, neglected the war with T&C.

As the civil war dragged on, the scales tipped toward T&C.

Although the mediation plan was not yet complete, the outcome was already decided. T&C would use this mediation plan to extract all kinds of rights from Egerton.

“Thanks to this, House Yujin’s influence has extended to Egerton as well, but I won’t be able to gain much benefit from this situation.”

“……”

The butler knew well that Akira had supported Egerton during the civil war. He bowed his head, understanding his master’s discomfort.

His master didn’t support Egerton because he liked them. It was because T&C’s power had grown to the point of threatening House Yujin.

Akira secretly sent shadows to sabotage T&C while secretly supporting Egerton with Hulk Mutants. Without his help, Egerton would have suffered much greater losses.

As a result, support for Akira grew significantly within Egerton, but Akira was still not satisfied.

The butler thought his master’s anger stemmed from failing to achieve the goal of weakening T&C.

This was only half true. The real cause of Akira’s discomfort lay elsewhere.

It was the starting point of the civil war.

After investigating the cause of the collapse of T&C’s space city, Akira Yujin was able to confirm who had induced this civil war.

‘AMorph!’

That damn morph bastard contaminated the city using the same method he had used in the game. Having lost a space fortress to him before, he knew it better than anyone.

What was more annoying was that he and that creature had been in the same city together. When he visited the space city, the creature was operating somewhere in the city.

At the time, he thought it was the work of the traitorous shadow Siheyon Yujin, but that was a big misconception.

If he had noticed even a little earlier, the civil war would never have happened.

The thought of that creature wandering somewhere in space, mocking him, made him feel like he was going insane.

‘AMorph, Bumho! These worm-like bastards dare…!’

Siheyon Yujin, Bumho’s puppet. The morph who had already tricked him twice. Those who had tormented him in reality were tormenting him in another world as well.

Moreover, recently even those who shared Akira’s views were showing unsettling movements.

Jubaka hadn’t contacted him for over half a year, and Cloe was holed up in a research facility on Mercury, refusing to come out.

All of this had happened after Jason’s death.

‘…The civil war is over anyway. Perhaps it’s time to wrap things up.’

As Akira was thinking about his next move, someone knocked on the door from outside.

When the butler opened the door, a woman dressed in black entered and bowed respectfully.

“Lord Akira. Lord Wilter, head of House Saintkay, has arrived.”

“Ah, good news after a long time.”

Akira smiled at the news that the person he had been waiting for had arrived.

–

‘This feeling, it’s been a while.’

This is the second time I’ve become an adult outside of the game.

Before, I took Psyonium to stop the Imperial Mothership’s Cosmic Bolt. At that time, I could properly feel the majesty of an adult form for a short time. Even with ‘King of Monsters’ activated, I annihilated the Imperial Mothership and its fleet.

My current state is very different from then. This is because the unique trait created through the transcendence system is affecting my body.

‘Transcendence’ is a system that didn’t exist in the game. Naturally, the unique traits created through it didn’t exist either.

Having grown with new traits, my appearance has changed significantly from the basic adult form.

If I had to pick the three biggest changes, they would be body size, body shape, and head.

First, looking at body length, from head to tail tip, it’s grown to about 60m. That’s more than twice the size compared to before entering the cocoon.

That’s not all. My body shape has also changed. If my form when I first entered the subadult stage was like a snake, and my form just before becoming an adult was like a spider, now I’ve returned to a form suitable for bipedal walking, like in my Morphlet and Juvenile days.

The combat arms located at my waist before the tail begins have moved down and transformed into legs. In line with this role change, the joints have taken the form of digitigrade legs.

However, with my two wing arms and two combat arms still large and long, my bipedal walking was closer to that of gorillas and other primates, using my front limbs on the ground.

The height of my body standing on two legs is about 40m. Even just the height when standing upright exceeds the body length of a White Gallergorn. Of course, this is partly because my neck has lengthened, but even without that, it’s by no means a small size.

‘In the game, I wasn’t this big.’

You’d have to subtract about 20m to get the original adult size. Not only has my size increased, but my strength and defense seem to have increased accordingly.

“Big one is big!”

No. 26, who had been waiting beside me until I woke from the cocoon, called everyone. Those who gathered at the crater marveled at my changed body.

“Huh? Why is it so big?”

Sky Mother stared at me with a dazed look. She must know the adult form from the game, so she’s probably feeling similar emotions to mine.

“Horns!” “Many!” “Big!” “Perfect!”

Adhigh Orr seemed to like my new appearance. He flew around above my head with his wings spread, continuously exclaiming in admiration.

It’s understandable. The most impressively changed part after becoming an adult is my head.

When an AMorph becomes an adult, its head increases to three. Two new heads can be seen at the ends of long necks extending from either side of the central head.

This is the effect of the trait ‘Three Heads’ received as an adult perk.

The heads, sensing my consciousness, turned toward me.

The form of the two heads on either side was generally similar to the central head. Two long fangs, a snake-like elongated snout, auxiliary organs under the jaw, horns on the head, and so on.

Instead, the two heads had no eyes. The parts where eyes should be were occupied by horns. Originally there shouldn’t be horns either, but perhaps due to the unique trait I gained just before growing, each of the two heads had four horns protruding.

“Grrrr”

“Grrrrrrr”

Having two additional heads didn’t increase my intelligence or make me hear their voices in my head.

Looking at the sensations connected to the two heads, they seem to have brains but are treated like parts similar to my arms or legs. If I had to compare, they’re like bio-robots that have self-awareness but prioritize the commands of the main body.

‘In the game, these heads were frustrating.’

There were several times when I failed to ambush because the AI moved on its own.

So, is Three Heads a trap trait? Not at all.

Thanks to the increased number of heads, I don’t die even if the central head is destroyed. This is because one of the remaining two heads takes over consciousness and controls the body.

‘I don’t know if it works the same way here.’

And the two heads have auxiliary organs. Thanks to the three heads having auxiliary organs under their jaws, my senses have become incomparably higher than before.

‘…This might take some time to get used to.’

It was rather annoying to sense things happening kilometers away as if they were right in front of me. In the game, it only expanded the observable minimap, so I didn’t expect it to be like this.

I blocked the information being transmitted from the two heads.

“Grr?”

“Grrrr”

“It tickles!”

As my consciousness withdrew, the two heads began to move independently. They lowered their necks and licked No. 26 with their tongues. He seemed to be enjoying it, emitting sparkling light.

“Me too” “Me too”

“Grrrrrrr”

“Feeling” “Strange” “Amazing”

“I’m also very curious about what that sensation is like. Please do it for me too.”

“Grrrr?”

“Thank you. That was very helpful.”

“Oh, you don’t have to do it for me.”

“Grr”

‘Like a retriever.’

Whether it was just instinct remaining or my emotions being distorted in transmission, the two heads showed a friendly attitude toward the kids. It was a sight that anyone who knows AMorph would never believe.

‘In the first place, if a normal person saw my appearance, they would faint.’

Except for Sky Mother, the rest of the kids seemed to be having a lot of fun playing with the two heads.

‘Originally, I wanted to talk about the vision I saw in the cocoon, but…’

Seeing them playing so happily, I decided to postpone that.

Instead, I checked the other changed parts.

Six horns attached to the central head, wing arms that had grown even more massive to match the body’s growth, and the body’s outer skin had thickened like the outer wall of a space fortress. The muscles of the combat arms and legs supporting the body had grown so thick they could be called bio-armor.

‘Ah, should this also be considered a change?’

The bio-cannon attached to my back had moved to my tail due to the newly acquired unique trait.

As a result, I now have two tails. The two tails, which split from the pelvic area that formed as my body shape changed, each measured tens of meters in length.

The shapes of the tails were also different from each other. One tail had a pincer attached, while the other had a bio-cannon. The part with the bio-cannon was a change that occurred because one of the two unique traits I secured just before evolution was reflected.

‘That’s enough body checking.’

It’s time to check the two unique traits I acquired before evolution, and the Space Monster Type Stage 2 perk.

‘First, the perk.’

I wondered what would be given at Stage 2. With such expectations, I opened the translucent text box.

‘What’s this?’

I was surprised when I checked the contents of the text box that appeared.

“Stage 2 Reward

Double Helix Monolith: You can implant traits (excluding unique traits) you possess into friendly organisms. Implanted traits are permanently applied, and each organism can have up to 2 traits implanted. The traits available for implantation are affected by the stage advancement of the Space Monster Type.

*P.S.: Whether you become a Deliverer or a Destroyer depends on your choice.”