svetikya Chapter 413 The Evil God's Lava Evolves Successfully
Chapter 413 The Evil God's Lava Evolves Successfully
Chapter 413 The Evil God's Lava Evolves Successfully
Broly, carrying two goddesses on his shoulders and hooking a female doctor around his leg, flew towards the old port area.
You can see Scorpio from a great distance.
At this moment, Scorpio's bloodshot eyes looked dull and lifeless.
Upon closer inspection, its mountain-like body exuded an aura of impending doom.
The skin that had been smoothed out by Aqua's purification spell in the morning is now dry.
What's wrong with Scorpios?
Broly looked at Sumire Muroto, who had started touching Scorpio's skin as soon as she landed, and asked about Scorpio's condition.
He had already called out to Scorpio when he arrived earlier, but unfortunately, Scorpio didn't respond at all.
"Many Gastrea undergo molting or cocooning during their evolution. If you were to let Scorpio evolve, it would probably be in the process of molting or cocooning right now. What you see in front of you is probably the skin it's about to shed, or it could be a cocoon..."
Sumire Muroto explained that this was a directional speculation; if she hadn't known that Broly was trying to evolve Scorpio, she probably wouldn't have been able to quickly draw conclusions about the current situation.
"So, this is a normal phenomenon, but why do I feel that Scorpio's energy is still decreasing?"
Broly was still somewhat uneasy.
"Whether it's molting or cocooning, it's an extremely energy-consuming process for Gastrea. If the Qi you sense reflects the bioenergy within an organism, then a decrease is a normal phenomenon."
Sumire Muroto tapped the outer skin of Scorpio with her hand and found that the once tough skin of this big guy was now as easy to crack as dried fish.
In this case, the possibility of molting is greater than that of cocooning. Gastrea, which spin cocoons, usually make their cocoons very hard, the kind that even bullets cannot penetrate.
Is that so?
Broly didn't understand these things, but seeing Sumire Muroto's confident expression, he felt somewhat relieved.
"Isn't this dangerous?"
Eris, standing to the side, scrutinized Scorpio's enormous body and interjected with a question.
"Generally speaking, there is no danger, but it cannot be ruled out that some Gastrea may fail to metamorphose due to insufficient bioenergy accumulated in their bodies."
"Hey, isn't this dangerous?"
"Scorpio is so big, and it must have a lot of bioenergy to maintain such a large size on land."
"But Scorpio's energy has almost dropped to the same level as that of an ordinary person."
Broly said.
Upon hearing this, Sumire Muroto paused for a moment, then her expression changed drastically: "This is bad, Scorpio may not have enough accumulated bio-energy."
"What?"
"How could such a large body have the same bioenergy as an ordinary human? The only explanation is that during the process of evolution, that energy was consumed."
There's a long-standing theory among gastrulator researchers that those dormant zodiacal-level gastrulators are actually accumulating evolutionary energy for the next stage. However, this theory is so far-fetched that no one has ever believed it to be true.
It's actually true! The next stage of evolution, from stage five onwards, really does require a massive amount of biological energy!
"Now is not the time to talk about that. How can we help Scorpios right now?"
"We're trying to give it energy, injecting it with glucose or feeding it nutrient solutions, but Scorpio is too big. We don't even know where its mouth or main body is now."
Sumire Muroto was somewhat perplexed, but then she remembered Aqua's healing spell, which restored the target's body to its optimal state.
"Oh, right, we can have Lady Aqua cast a healing spell on Scorpio."
Upon hearing this, Broly looked at his goddess master.
"No problem, leave it to me."
Without a word, Aqua took out her staff and began casting her healing spell on the Scorpio in front of her.
"If possible, Lord Eris, please also bestow a lucky blessing upon Scorpio."
Sumire Muroto added.
"Eh, me?"
Eris pointed to his nose.
"Yes, I don't know what the evolution of Scorpio will be like. There may be some dangers involved. If your lucky blessing can really bring good luck, then giving it a blessing will also give it more protection."
"All right."
Eris nodded, raised her hands forward towards Scorpio, and began to cast her lucky blessing.
Two goddesses are casting spells.
The Scorpio, whose aura was originally weak, was suddenly pulled up.
The parched body gradually regained its moisture, and the dull red eyes regained their light.
"Phew~"
Just when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Scorpio had recovered.
The next moment, her breath began to fade even faster.
"Click~"
Its enormous body, like porcelain, made some noises and developed fine cracks.
"Ah, Broly, I don't think I can restore her lost life force!"
This was the first time Aqua had ever felt life slipping away rapidly in her own hands. Even with all her healing magic, she couldn't stop it, and she immediately panicked.
"The touch of absorption, the infusion of reverse life energy."
Broly quickly stepped forward, transforming his own aura into life energy, and poured it into Scorpio's enormous body.
The influx of immense life energy finally stopped Scorpio's decline and brought it back to its original energy level.
However, neither Broly, nor Aqua, nor even Eris who was merely casting a blessing of luck dared to easily stop the magic they were performing, which was transformed from divine power (qi).
As Sumire Muroto watched the three people with magical glows emanating from their hands, she suddenly felt a sense of urgency, like when she was in the operating room, racing against time to save critically injured patients.
This continuous output of life energy, healing energy, and lucky energy lasted for about twenty minutes before Scorpio's energy gradually calmed down.
"Phew, I'm exhausted!"
Aqua slumped down. Although her divine power was still sufficient, her physical strength was somewhat lacking. Holding the staff in one position for twenty minutes was indeed a new kind of torture for this goddess who lacked exercise.
"Now, everything should be fine, right?"
Eris also let out a breath; she was truly exhausted. Her divine power was no greater than Aqua's.
"The gas is gone, but I don't know the specifics."
Broly shook his head and said.
"Click, click..."
Just then, a sea breeze blew by, and Scorpio's body made that sound.
*Smack!*
The next moment, it seemed as if some supporting part broke, and Scorpio's huge body snapped in half and collapsed.
Broly reacted quickly, taking the three away from their original spot and flying into the sky. With a loud crash, a large section of the warehouses in the old port area below was smashed and collapsed.
"Did Scorpio die because its evolution failed?"
Sumire Muroto looked at the fallen Scorpio with a look of regret in her eyes.
"No, Scorpio is still alive."
Broly was certain of this; both the lingering presence of Scorpio and the continuously rising happiness value on the Crystal Palace panel proved it.
After the smoke cleared, Broly and the three of them landed again and began rummaging through the wreckage.
Soon, Broly found a thing that was more than half a person tall, had the aura of Scorpio, and looked like an egg.
"Huh, it's an egg-type evolution?"
Sumire Muroto was somewhat surprised, as this kind of evolution is relatively rare and usually only occurs in unique insects or birds.
"I can sense my divine power within this. Could that Scorpio guy have taken this opportunity to absorb our divine magic?"
Aqua walked over angrily, raised her hand and slapped the egg that was emitting a faint blue light in front of her, and then everyone heard a cracking sound.
"Oh, I didn't use any force..."
Aqua was startled.
"It's not my fault, this thing is just too brittle!"
Looking at the gash she had made on her testicles, the goddess frantically tried to shift the blame.
The next moment, a figure swiftly squeezed the gap into an even larger opening.
After being squeezed out of the egg, it rushed straight towards Aqua.
Before Aqua could react, she was tackled to the ground.
"What is this?"
Aqua struggled, but her hands and feet were entangled by the wriggling, soft substance.
The sticky feeling gave her a rather unpleasant experience.
"It looks like... a little octopus girl!"
Eris looked at the creature that had brought Aqua down and instinctively answered Aqua's question.
"What?"
Aqua looked up and met the gaze of a delicate face with exquisite features. The other person's black eyes with red pupils radiated an eerie light, and their head was covered in light blue hair.
But rather than hair, it was more like tentacles disguised as hair, because the ends of the hair were wriggling and climbing up Aqua's face, like tiny octopus tentacles, probing Aqua's face shape.
"what!"
Aqua gasped and instinctively rolled to the side, but the little octopus girl wrapped around her rolled around with her.
Once she calmed down, Aqua sat up and realized that it was indeed a non-human creature that had wrapped itself around her body.
"Is this a Scorpio?"
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Aqua asked Broly.
"Um."
Broly nodded.
Unlike the Cursed Child, who only grew some mutated organs or limbs after being perfectly Gastrea-ized, Scorpio's lower body is completely an octopus tentacle.
However, her upper body was indeed human, with smooth and translucent skin, and a teardrop-shaped navel on her abdomen, topped with two small, pink pearls like those of a newborn baby.
"Could you please ask her to stop bothering me?"
Aqua was tightly bound by the little creature that had hatched from Scorpio's body, its entire body wrapped around her.
The little guy seemed very curious about her; tentacles that looked like hair crawled all over Aqua's upper body, some even burrowing into her evening gown.
"Hey, you can't do that, Broly, stop her!"
Broly quickly stepped forward, reaching out to push aside the little guy wriggling haphazardly inside his master's evening gown, the fleshy hair that was about to attack the high ground of his chest.
"Scorpio, get off Master Aqua!"
When the little one looked over curiously, Broly held out his hand to her and began to persuade the little octopus girl.
"Daddy~"
Scorpio looked at him, her curious gaze shifting from doubt to surprise, and she even made a crisp sound as she left Aqua's body, only to entangle with a different target.
"What's going on here?"
The way Scorpio addressed Broly confused those around them, so Aqua asked Sumire Muroto about it.
"Being able to speak and have language abilities—has this meant they've regained their memories from their human days?"
Sumire Muroto thought for a moment, then walked over and squatted down, asking the Scorpio clinging to Broly, "Little guy, can you understand me?"
Scorpio glanced at the female doctor but paid her no further attention. He then meticulously examined Broly's body, using his tentacles to explore the boy's flesh just as he had with Aqua—a typical octopus behavior.
"Okay, so, who is he?"
Seeing that the little guy was ignoring her, Sumire Muroto changed her approach to talking to him.
"Daddy~"
And it worked; the little guy answered without hesitation.
Do you know what "Dad" means?
Sumire asked again, but the little one ignored her.
"Okay, so who is this?"
Sumire Muroto then pointed at Aqua and asked.
"Mommy~"
The little guy answered without hesitation once again.
"Huh?"
Aqua was complaining about how Scorpio had made her body all sticky, but when she suddenly heard that name and saw the little guy clinging to Broly, looking at her with innocent eyes, it felt like something had shot into her heart.
"Oh no, this... wait, this child actually called me 'Mom'?!"
From confusion to shock, and from shock to acceptance of the title, Aqua only needed one sentence to go through it all.
Suddenly, she felt that the stickiness on her body wasn't so unacceptable to God after all.
"And what about this one?"
Sumire Muroto pointed at Eris and asked again.
"She's also my mother."
The little octopus girl didn't hesitate at all.
The fact that she says more proves that she can do more than just call out "Dad" and "Mom".
"And what about me?"
Finally, Sumire Muroto pointed to herself and asked.
Scorpio glanced at her but didn't say anything.
"Come here, Xiaotian, let Mommy give you a hug."
Aqua clapped her hands and easily took Scorpio.
"One characteristic of egg-bearing organisms is the phenomenon of imprinting. Scorpios may mistake the first person they see for their parents."
"Then why didn't she treat you like her parents?"
Broly asked curiously.
"This is my second point. When you poured that energy into her, she could probably feel it, so she saw you as her parents. But I didn't pour that energy into her, so I don't."
Scorpio's attitude towards them was quite obvious. As for the difference between Muroto Sumire and them, it's probably that she doesn't know magic or ki. When Broly and the other two were charging Scorpio, she could only watch from the sidelines.
"Has Scorpio successfully evolved now?"
Broly asked.
"That depends on your definition of successful evolution. If it's just about regaining rationality and intelligence, then it seems like a success. But if it's about reverting to human form, then her lower body isn't feet."
Halfling, monster girl—that's what Scorpio looks like right now.
"Aqua-senpai, you can't do this! This child calls me 'Mom' too. Let me hold her too."
Just then, an argument broke out on Aqua's side.
Eris also wanted to hug Scorpio, but Aqua seemed to object.
"Hey, it's cracked, it seems like Scorpio has cracked."
Suddenly, Aqua exclaimed.
Broly and Sumire Muroto looked over and saw that Scorpio's body split in two, becoming two smaller Scorpios, who each embraced Eris and Aqua respectively.
Sumire Muroto's mouth dropped open. What had she just seen? The self-replicating division of a biological individual?
Oh no, that's not right. The volume has decreased; it should just be splitting.
But is this something that living things can do?
Oh, earthworms are barely acceptable.
"Oh, you guys... can you recover?"
During Eris's inquiry, the two smaller Scorpios came close together, and the point of contact melted, instantly merging back into a larger Scorpio.
Sumire Muroto looked up at the starry sky. If the term "mythical creature" used to describe the Gastrea of the zodiac was a figment of her imagination, then Scorpio is now a confirmed mythical creature.
The abilities she displayed were beyond the capabilities of normal living beings.
"The nascent form of an evil god," Sumire Muroto suddenly thought of this phrase.
And her idea wasn't wrong. Suspicion, exaggerated acting, and the power of lucky blessings created a super creature with divine power in the Black Bullet world.
Broly's expectations for Scorpios include things that bring them happiness, and for Scorpios, having family is happiness.
But she no longer has any family in this world, so in the process of evolution, doubt and exaggeration are in order to achieve the goal of having a family.
The evolution of Scorpio encountered an unexpected situation where biological energy was insufficient. Aqua, Eris, and Broly replenished her evolutionary energy together, which was the result of a lucky blessing.
Divine power transformed Scorpio's body, and Broly's energy filled the little one with the energy needed for birth.
In a sense, Aqua, Eris, and Broly are indeed the parents of today's Scorpios.
However, the bond of kinship is not blood, but energy.
The combined power of the two goddesses and the Saiyan's energy resulted in a combined output that lasted for twenty minutes.
(End of this chapter)