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After going down the stairs, I was able to enter a facility that I assumed was secretly built by aliens.

“This is… a culture facility?”

A long, complex facility with transparent glass tubes and machines boasting smooth curves.

I walked inside and looked around at the contents of the glass tube.

Near the entrance, it was a simple piece of meat, but as it went inside, it became more and more human-like.

And as I went a little further inside, the facility was filled with glass tubes filled with life forms that looked identical to humans on the outside.

Height: about 180 cm.

A body without flesh but full of muscles.

The skin color is brown, similar to that of a person with tanned skin.

The only difference from humans is body hair, which is either missing where it should be or hanging where it shouldn’t be.

There are no eyebrows or beards, but the stomach, back, and genitals are completely covered with hair.

And the most unusual thing is that all the faces and body shapes of the people inside the glass tube are the same.

The hundreds of humanoids cultured in glass tubes here were clones.

“Isn’t it special because it resembles humans on Earth? It’s a law of likeness called ‘imitation of an idol.’”

I turned my head towards the sound I heard.

The man in the glass tube opened his eyes and was looking at me.

This thing… spoke telepathically.

“The story is that, according to transcendental laws, the intelligent beings of the universe have this humanoid appearance. If you think about it, there isn’t much genetic difference between you and us. Well, it seems that there are quite a few non-humanoid intelligences in the universe.”

“Are you Darten?”

“Okay, seeing as you know that, you have Xenoglossy according to the information you gathered?”

The guy who was talking to me moves his body and smashes the glass tube.

bang!

I’m crying, I’m crying

The liquid filling the glass tube pours out, and the guy calmly walks out of the broken glass tube.

He doesn’t seem to care even if he steps on a piece of glass.

You have superpowers to strengthen your body.

“Originally, when a punitive force like you comes, my principle is to leave the place cleanly… but the ability you showed was quite unique, so I wanted to meet you in person.”

“Really? I also have quite a few questions for you.”

“Hahaha… Then should I answer your questions first?”

The guy walks inside, moving his body leisurely.

Clothes fly in from somewhere and are put on the guy.

He even possesses telekinetic powers.

“Then I will ask without hesitation. The destruction of the Earth in 30 years, what is that?”

“Ah? Since you know that, I guess you met the Oracle? That difficult woman.”

As he said that, he turned around and faced me.

The guy’s face with a strange sneer.

“Yes, 29 years remain in this time. Destruction… Actually, that’s not a big deal. The leader of the army of menas star people appears, and uses the collective consciousness of humanity as a medium to extract the source of the stars. The annihilation of mankind is a reaction to that.”

“Corps commander?”

“Haha! Didn’t Oracle give you more details? The commander of the corps is, um… yes, by your standards, they are SS level, and among them, they are called the Almighty. In fact, you have to be at that level to be able to touch the abstract thing called collective consciousness.”

And with those words, the guy in front of me kept his mouth shut.

Instead, the person in the glass next to me opened his eyes and started talking.

“Yes, you humans are a sacrifice! The gate that attacked your civilization! It is just a means to mature your immature collective consciousness by giving it psychic energy!”

The guy suddenly starts screaming.

‘Why is this kid screaming and making a fuss?’

The person who was screaming closes his mouth, and the person next to him begins to open his eyes again.

no…

Everyone in the glass tube opened their eyes and were looking at me.

“In the first place, an inferior civilization like yours cannot acquire superpowers before a prophet comes out!”

“To the Menas who rule one axis of the galaxy, you humans are just livestock raised to obtain the source of stars.”

“If the Menas guys are sincere, there is actually no need for the trouble of a gate. You can just break it with a planetary sledgehammer.”

“A thousand years ago, they actually destroyed planets and collected the source of stars, right?”

“You weak mankind will never escape destruction.”

Huhuhu hahaha hohoho

The secret underground facility was suddenly covered with the telepathic waves it was emitting.

Is this… the same mental wavelength?

“”Welcome to my clone workshop! Lim Yuhan! I am… the will of the Darten people, left behind by the fallen Darten. Their Hive Mind! True Darten!””

It was a hive mind formed through telepathic clones.

Hive Mind is treated as a quasi-S-class monster on Earth.

The last of the semi-S-class monsters I haven’t encountered.

It was also an evolution of the group spirit of old hunting.

“Has the mixing and turbidity of egos, which is the problem of the collective mind, been solved by preying on newly born and feeble minds of the same genes?”

“”Okay, have all your questions been answered for the last time in your life? I’m sorry, but you have to die here.””

“No, let me ask you one more thing. You said earlier that you were inferior, that you were livestock, that you were a weak human race, but if you think about it, weren’t you Darten treated in the same way by Saint Menas before humanity?”

“”…It is true that the level of your humanity is objectively falling. Although it has unique features like an oracle, it is a civilization without prophets.””

“No, you said there is almost no genetic difference? So the gate on your planet wasn’t open?”

Actually, this is what I’m most curious about.

What is a prophet, and does the civilization that has it suffer a different invasion method than the Gate?

I guess the prophet thing is related to the status of humans in the paracosm…

“”…!!””

The guys start running towards me without saying anything.

The sound of glass pipes breaking filled the basement.

Looking at his reaction, it looks like the gate was opened in the same way.

The prophet may be the civilization’s first person to develop supernatural powers, but the civilization itself does not mature to the level that Saint Menas would like.

I responded to the member of the hive mind who rushed to me with that guess.

“Wow!”

“What the hell is this!”

“This power…! Definitely not class A!”

“As expected, he is not an ordinary guy!”

Clones who are defeated by the power of the essence of slaughter.

Each individual’s level is B level.

It’s even more difficult because it uses telekinesis and body strengthening at the same time.

It’s better than I thought, but that’s it.

It’s not enough to deal with me, who is S-level and specializes in long-term warfare.

I asked a question while leisurely slaughtering the clones.

“By the way, why do you criticize humanity like that? Have you ever been harmed by Oracle? Or inferiority complex?”

It was strangely hostile to humanity.

“Hahaha! I have an inferiority complex?!”

“Hehe… I admit to jealousy, but it is not an inferiority complex!”

“I’m just annoyed by you guys interfering with the Ark plan!”

As soon as those words were finished, clones dressed in strange weapons came running from afar.

“What is the Ark?”

The clones aimed their weapons without answering my questions.

And then I was hit by a beam extending from the armament.

Particles fly at sublight speed and hit me.

High heat is generated in the area of direct impact, and air particles are heated along the moving trajectory, creating plasma.

And you get hit by those beams dozens of times in succession.

“Kaaaa!!”

The powerful shock and the unimaginably high heat heat my body, and I fly and crash into the wall.

‘It looks like a particle weapon, but this kind of shock? This… even adds telekinesis!’

His weapon was a combination of science and artifacts.

I am embarrassed to have been hit by an unexpected future weapon.

A hive mind with more power than expected.

As I felt the pain of my burning skin and flesh, I thought I had to give it my all.

The essence of slaughter, the union with the anger spirit is broken,

It merges with the essence of disaster, the Demon of Sorrow.

And then I realized the power of disaster.

If this…

I gathered my experience and blood demon energy and struck out a strong fist.

As a result, the entire underground facility was destroyed.

“Kwaaaa!!”

“This… is this?!”

The ones that survived were the clones outside the attack range.

Everything was cleaned in a straight line following the trajectory of my fist.

A passageway that opens up to reveal the ground level.

And depending on the scope of the attack, the underground facility collapsed due to torn pillars, floors, ceilings, and walls.

With the ability of the essence of disaster, my attack is maximized to the point where it is comparable to disaster.

“It’s worth the S-level value.”

It is more widespread and destructive than massacre.

” That’s ridiculous! There is no such thing as a superpower! Who the hell are you!”

“No, no! I will find out who you are!”

The remaining hundred or so clones cast telepathy all at once.

It’s not aimed at me,

Telepathy connects us to each other.

And that telepathy served as a bridge and brought in the enormous psionics that existed in the distance.

“Is the main body not here?”

I saw through the process with my magical eye.

The Spirit, the actual commanding tower of the Hive Mind and the essence of the mind, is not here.

All that is here are shells, clones, without any essence of spirit.

Still, there is something I found out about the hive mind with the original magical eye.

That is, the hive mind is an external path that does not belong to the specialization of physical enhancement, telekinesis, or extrasensory perception.

The spiritual essence is melted to form a paranormal spirit.

A paranormal spirit made of spirit.

The telepathy of the clones, amplified by the enormous psionics sent by the paranormal spirit of the hive mind, all focused on me.

There are dozens of telepaths who are strengthened by psionics and perform at a Class A level.

I scoffed at the telepathy trying to invade my mind.

“Are you going to interfere with my mind?”

I even deactivated the Hapshin and gathered all the Seven Spiritual Demons and contacted them through their telepathy.

Seven emotions that flow back through telepathy and mental perception abilities.

Anger, fear, sadness, hatred, pleasure, affection, desire.

“Huh, hehehehe.”

“Quaaah!”

“Ogogok! Five grains!”

Clones who laugh, cry, frown, moan, tremble, then snap and die.

Perhaps because I had no mental essence, I died when my emotions broke through the protection of the supernatural mind and filled it.

“The body… is not here.”

It’s unfortunate that my information was leaked, but it didn’t mean there was no result.