Chapter 62

〈 Episode 62 〉 Race War, The Girl Who Runs Through Dimensions

Asha was waddling around the Hive with a bulging belly. As long as she didn’t try to leave the Hive, the Bees didn’t stop her, and Asha was too bored to stay in the Laying chamber all the time, so she wandered around near the room when she wasn’t giving birth.

“Ugh…”

She flinched whenever the Larvae in her belly squirmed, but she was getting used to being pregnant, so walking wasn’t difficult. Now that she was quite familiar with Spell, she even had the leisure to float her body with Wind Magic and watch what the Bees flying next to her were doing.

“They’re always busy…”

The Bees always performed only their assigned roles. Bees caring for Larvae, Bees bringing food, etc. They were practically like machines.

During Asha’s stay, the Nest had been quiet except for the sound of the Bees’ wings, but a strange noise began to be heard from somewhere.

“It sounds noisy…”

She felt the Hive becoming noisy as she strolled through it. Even if the Bees didn’t make any sound, the sound of their wings was quite loud, and when dozens of Bees flew around, it inevitably accompanied a roar. Just as Asha was questioning the noise,

Crack- Thud!!

Suddenly, the wall next to Asha collapsed. Asha, startled, turned around and saw a Mantis the size of a building, to exaggerate a bit. Asha was momentarily taken aback by the sudden situation, but as she turned to run away, the Mantis snatched her up with its forelimbs in an instant and flew out of the Hive. Asha struck the Mantis’s belly with a burst of flames, but it didn’t budge.

“Ugh! Let go! Where are you taking me again…”

Numerous Bees chased after the giant Mantis that had snatched Asha, but they couldn’t catch up to her due to the desperate efforts of the Mantises that came with it. Thus, Asha was kidnapped from the Hive by the Mantises and dragged away.

Kidnapped by the Mantis in the blink of an eye, Asha arrived at the Mantises’ habitat after a flight of over an hour. The giant Mantis that had brought Asha down left for another place. Naked and pregnant, she was already feeling labor pains from the shock of the flight.

“Ah… It’s not time to give birth yet… Hngg♥”

Thud–

Asha knelt on the ground and gave birth to Larvae one after another. She had become accustomed to giving birth to Larvae quickly, and it only took 10 minutes for her belly to go from being as big as Namsan Mountain to flat again. The Mantises who had been watching Asha give birth to Larvae soon gathered the Larvae and took them elsewhere.

“Ugh…”

She could easily predict the future of the Larvae. Anyway, she wasn’t very happy that the Larvae she had given birth to were becoming food for the Mantises, so Asha became a little depressed.

‘Why did they bring me here?’

It was easy to guess that the Mantises were hostile to the Bees. It was fortunate that the Mantises didn’t kill her as soon as they saw her, but the reason they brought her here was a mystery. As Asha was thinking about this and that, a Mantis approached her and spread her legs with both arms. The Mantis inserted its triangular head into Asha’s open hole.

“Wait, why your head?! Cough, Kkeueueue!”

Crack-

[Pain Relief has been activated.]

A message appeared in front of Asha’s eyes, but she was in a state of shock from the pain of her intestines twisting. Blood splattered from Asha’s crack, torn by the Mantis’s sharp carapace, and Asha’s belly bulged out in the shape of the Mantis’s head. Asha’s Womb, which had been swollen with pregnancy until just now, barely accepted the Mantis’s head.

Crack!

The Mantis, having inserted its head all the way into Asha’s Womb, chewed up the Bee’s cocoon inside without leaving anything behind. The Mantis, having completely disposed of the cocoon, pulled its blood-soaked head back out.

“…”

Asha had already fainted from the pain that even her Skill couldn’t stop. The Mantis inserted its mating organ into Asha’s vagina, who had lost consciousness. As soon as the Mantis inserted its mating organ, it immediately began laying Eggs in Asha’s belly. Asha’s belly, which had been reduced in size, swelled up even more than when she was pregnant with Larvae.

[Seedbed Constitution is activated.]

[Seedbed Constitution’s level has increased. LV. 9 -> LV. 10]

[You can acquire the characteristics of your offspring as the level of Seedbed Constitution increases.]

[The conditions for the evolution of Seedbed Constitution’s Skill have been met.]

[The Skill will change when certain conditions are met.]

[Masochistic Tendency’s level has increased. LV. 1 -> LV. 2]

Special messages appeared in a row, but Asha was unconscious and unable to see them. Thus, Asha incubated the Mantis’s Eggs while unconscious.

“Kkeueueue!”

Asha regained consciousness from a sudden stomachache. As soon as she woke up, she saw her belly, which was swollen round even while lying down. Her belly, which was twice as swollen as that of a normal pregnant woman, was clearly foreign.

“I’m pregnant again… Are these guys trying to use me as a Seedbed too…”

Even she, who didn’t know much about biology, thought that something was wrong with her body, which was impregnating all sorts of inhuman beings. It was the same when she used Skills, but every time she saw this, Asha couldn’t help but feel that she was already far from being an ordinary human.

“Ah! Ahheueuk!”

[Pain Relief has been activated.]

Pshhh-

Asha’s belly writhed so much that it was visible from the outside. Asha clutched her belly and began to give birth to the Mantis’s Larvae. Unlike the Bees’ Larvae, the Larvae, which looked like Mantises, were not yet hard-shelled, so they could easily escape from Asha’s crack.

[Acquire the characteristics of your offspring.]

A new message appeared as Asha gave birth to the Mantis’s Larvae.

“Kkeuheuk! How long do I have to keep giving birth… Heuheuk! Ah, it hurts…”

Even though Asha had given birth to dozens of Larvae, her belly showed no signs of shrinking. The Mantis, who had no consideration for Asha, laid hundreds of Eggs in Asha’s belly, and the Egg sacs were waiting for the hatched Larvae to come out.

“Ah, Aheueuk!”

Crack-

Asha finally gave birth to all the Mantis’s Larvae after several hours, and she was able to rest only after expelling all the Egg sacs that remained in her belly.

Asha was looking at the new abilities she had gained from giving birth to the Mantis this time. The abilities she gained were sensitive ears and quick reflexes.

“Heuk… My bottom still hurts… But I thought I was going to die after being dragged here, so this might be a good thing… But Skills also evolve.”

This birth was painful even for Asha, who had experienced all sorts of things, but the accidental harvest comforted her somewhat. In fact, after giving birth to the first Larva, Asha began to hear all sorts of sounds around her without using Spell. She didn’t know it now, but quick reflexes seemed to be quite helpful too. Suddenly, Asha had another thought.

“Wait, can’t I get out of here?”

Unlike the Hive, which was blocked on all sides, the Mantis’s habitat was just a forest. The Larvae that Asha had given birth to had already scattered and disappeared long ago, and there were only a few Mantises around her. She might be able to escape if she used some stealth Skills and the sensitive ears she had gained this time.

‘It’s better than just laying Eggs here!’

Asha didn’t know where to go yet, but she decided to get out of here first. No matter how much it was her, she didn’t want to continue to experience the pain of her belly skin tearing.

“Ugh…”

Asha shuddered as she thought of the terrible pain she had just experienced. She turned on the map and began to move slowly, looking around.

Swish-

Asha moved carefully and hid in a tree. She climbed silently to the top of the tree and confirmed that there were no Mantises in the air.

‘Mantises have wings, but they can’t keep flying.’

Soon she came out of the habitat through the branches. She felt the forest becoming noisy not long after she came out, but Asha was fortunate enough to escape safely without being caught.

“Hah, hah…”

Asha, having escaped from the Mantis’s habitat, took out her equipment from the Inventory and ran away as far as possible from the habitat. In fact, in the forest divided into the Mantis’s territory and the Bee’s territory, moving away from the Mantis’s territory would naturally bring her closer to the Bee’s territory, but she couldn’t help it. When she felt that she had escaped from the territory to some extent, Asha took a breath and took out food from the Inventory to eat.

“The Mantises and Bees are at war, is this Romance of the Three Kingdoms or something… Ugh… I’m going to live. How many days are left now?”

[Quest 09: Survive for 90 days Remaining time 35D 13H]

It hadn’t been long since she had been in the Mantis’s habitat, so she still had to endure for another month to complete the Quest. Fortunately for Asha, most of the powerful predators in the forest had disappeared due to the insect conflict. Completely exhausted, Asha leaned against a tree, covered herself with a blanket, and fell asleep.

“Ugh, ugh… I can’t stand it anymore, now!”

Lucia, who had been alone for over a week, finally exploded. She threw the book she was reading and ran to the training room.

“If Mom or Auntie don’t come, I’m going to chase after them! Just you wait… If I find them, I’m going to hold them and cry all day!”

Lucia began to look through the books she had brought one by one.

“Everything about Teleportation Magic… I’ll put this in, A Study of Dimensional Magic… This is too difficult, so I’ll take it out… Physics and Magic… I’ll put this in too…”

Lucia, having gathered the necessary books, clenched her fist.

“It’s strange that Auntie disappeared suddenly… The necklace she gave me will be helpful… Auntie, wait for me. I’ll find out where Auntie is!”

Justitia’s Subspace, she had been with the Tentacle ever since she came here. In the time out of sync with other dimensions, Justitia had been violated by the Tentacle for over a month. In order to increase its numbers, the Tentacle repeated numerous experiments on her.

For several days, Justitia’s vagina and anus were filled with Semen until they burst, and she was absorbed into the Tentacle and lived as part of the Tentacle. The Tentacle tried to impregnate her several times, but after Justitia had a stillbirth of a child who had died once, she could no longer give birth to anything. After the Tentacle’s harsh experiments, she eventually couldn’t bear it and lost her original beautiful appearance and her intelligent reason.

“…”

The Tentacle said with a bitter feeling. However, Justitia could no longer hear his words. The Tentacle’s excessive experiments were irreversible for her, whose body was made up of Mana alone.

Her body was already assimilated with the Tentacle in many places, and black Tentacle strands were embedded in her pure white skin, and her blue eyes had also lost their light and turned white. Even though huge Tentacle strands were inserted into both holes and going in and out, Justitia no longer reacted.

The Tentacle cut off the Mana that it had been injecting to maintain her. As she was no longer supplied with Mana, Justitia’s body began to crumble from her limbs and slowly disappear.

Even though her existence was disappearing, Justitia was just staring at the void, stopped like a broken machine. Thus, she was gradually absorbed Mana by the Tentacle and her body disappeared. At that moment, an anomaly occurred.

Clatter!

The space shook with a chilling sound.

Crash!

Soon, one corner of the Subspace shattered in purple as if it were distorted.

“4th time… Auntie?! I found you!”

Lucia, who had grown up, appeared, stirring through the swaying space. She, who had grown up even bigger than Asha, was horrified to see Justitia, whose whole body was twisted by the experiments she had suffered from the Tentacle.

Lucia shuddered and said to the Tentacle, who was asking about her.

“One of you my ass! You ruin Mom and other people every time… I’m sick of you guys! Die!”

Wham!

Without further ado, she stretched out her fist, and her arm swelled up in an instant, crushing the Tentacle’s body. Lucia, who had crushed half of the Tentacle in an instant, chopped up the Tentacles connected to Justitia into small pieces by stretching her other hand like a whip. Lucia took out a strand from her leg and caught her as she was about to fall to the floor.

The Tentacle did not understand Lucia, who was attacking him. Surely she was infinitely close to him, but he wondered if there was a reason why she had to attack him.

“I’m… different from you guys. I can’t eat living things. So, disappear.”

The Tentacle, realizing that he could no longer reason with Lucia, tried to regenerate his crushed body and absorb Lucia.

As if to mock his words, Lucia attacked a few more times, and the Tentacle, unable to resist while absorbing Mana, shattered his body.

“I have Mana too, but I don’t use it much. My fist is enough to get rid of a bad kid like you.”

As the Tentacle completely lost its strength and died, Lucia stretched out her arms, transforming them, and absorbed all the Tentacles that filled the space.

“Ugh… It’s disgusting… Reproduction and absorption, you only have these sticky feelings every time… But more than half of the body I had stored to get here is gone, so I have to eat this at least.”

Unlike before, Lucia moved without any problems even after absorbing the Tentacles that filled the vast space. She swung her slender arms, which were different from when she was a child.

“This form is more comfortable after all. But I’ll shrink it again in front of Mom… Auntie! Are you okay?!”

Justitia’s appearance was miserable. Only the shoulder blades and part of the thighs remained of her arms and legs, and Tentacles were stuck in the dark blue flesh all over her body, dangling. Lucia’s eyes filled with tears as she saw her terrible appearance.

“Heuk… Auntie, you can’t die… This place is strange. I have to get out of here first.”

Lucia clenched the necklace in her left hand, took a stance while stepping on the floor, and thrust her right hand with a straight punch.

“Hap!”

Whoong-

At the same time as the necklace emitted light, the space where the fist had passed was distorted, and a purple light similar to the Quest’s portal flickered. Lucia hugged Justitia, who had become weak and infinitely light, closed her eyes tightly, and jumped towards it.