Chapter 413: Evil God Juvenile Evolution Successful

Broly carried two Goddesses on his shoulders, hooked the female Doctor under his foot, and flew toward the Old Port District.

From far away, they could see Scorpio.

At this moment, the eyeballs all over Scorpio's body were blood-red, looking dim and lusterless.

Once they got close, the mountain-sized body also emitted an aura of being at death's door.

The skin, made smooth by Aqua's purification spell in the morning, was now dry.

"What on earth happened to Scorpio?"

Broly looked at Muroto Sumire, who, after landing, had begun touching Scorpio's skin with her hands, asking about Scorpio's condition.

Earlier, when he had rushed over first, he had already called out to Scorpio, but unfortunately, Scorpio had no reaction to his shouts at all.

"Many Gastrea undergo molting or cocooning when evolving. If you made Scorpio evolve, then it might now be in the process of molting or cocooning. What's before your eyes should be the skin it's preparing to shed, though it could also be a cocoon..."

Muroto Sumire explained, and this was a directional speculation. If she didn't know Broly was trying to make Scorpio evolve, she probably wouldn't be able to quickly give a conclusion about the current situation before her eyes.

"So this is a normal phenomenon, but why do I feel Scorpio's Qi is still dropping?"

Broly was still somewhat uneasy.

"Whether molting or cocooning, for Gastrea, both are extremely energy-consuming for the body. If the Qi you feel can reflect the biological energy within a living creature, then a drop is a normal phenomenon."

Muroto Sumire tapped Scorpio's outer skin with her hand and found that this big fellow's originally tough epidermis was now like dried, brittle fish jerky, easily cracked with a tap.

Judging by this, the possibility of molting is greater than cocooning. Cocooning-type Gastrea generally make their cocoons very hard, the kind that bullets can't shoot through.

"Is that so?"

Broly didn't understand these things, but seeing Muroto Sumire's confident look, he felt somewhat relieved.

"This isn't dangerous, is it?"

Eris stood at the side, surveying Scorpio's huge body, and instead interjected with a question.

"Generally speaking, there's no danger, but it's not ruled out that some Gastrea, due to insufficient biological energy accumulated within their bodies, consequently fail their own transformation."

"Eh, isn't that dangerous?"

"Scorpio is so big, able to maintain such a huge body and move on land. Its internal biological energy cannot be lacking."

"But Scorpio's Qi now has already dropped to nearly the same level as an ordinary person."

Broly said.

Hearing this, Muroto Sumire was stunned for a moment, then her expression changed greatly: "Not good. Scorpio might have insufficient accumulated biological energy."

"What?"

"Such a huge body, how could its biological energy be about the same as an ordinary human? The only explanation is that during the evolution process, those energies were consumed."

"In the scholar circles studying Gastrea, there has always been a theory that those sleeping Zodiac Level Gastrea are actually accumulating energy for the next stage of evolution. It's just that this theory is too absurd, so no one has ever believed it's true."

"Unexpectedly, it's actually true. The evolution after Stage Five really requires enormous biological energy!"

"Now is not the time to talk about this. What should we do to help the current Scorpio?"

"Supplement its energy, inject glucose or feed nutrient solution. But Scorpio is too big. We don't know where its mouth and main body are now."

Muroto Sumire was somewhat at a loss, but then thought of Aqua's healing technique effect, which restores the target's body to its best state.

"Right. We can have Aqua-sama cast Healing on Scorpio."

Hearing this, Broly looked toward his home Goddess Shen Qi Fu.

"No problem, leave it to me."

Aqua didn't waste words. She took out her staff and began casting her Healing Technique toward Scorpio before her eyes.

"If possible, Eris-sama, please also cast Lucky Blessing on Scorpio."

Muroto Sumire said again.

"Eh, me?"

Eris pointed at her own nose.

"Yes. I don't know what Scorpio's evolution will look like either. Perhaps there is some danger in this. If your Lucky Blessing can really bring good luck, then casting a blessing on it also adds a bit of security for it."

"Alright."

Eris nodded too, aiming both hands forward at Scorpio, and also began casting her Lucky Blessing.

The two Goddesses were casting spells.

Scorpio, originally with weak breath, was suddenly pulled back up.

The dry body gradually became moist, and the dim red pupils regained their light.

"Hah~"

Just as everyone breathed a sigh of relief, thinking Scorpio had recovered.

The next moment, her breath dropped again at an even faster speed.

"Crack~"

The huge body, like porcelain, made some noises, and fine cracks appeared.

"Ah, Broly, it seems I can't restore the life force she's losing!"

Aqua felt for the first time the sensation of life quickly slipping away in her hands. Even casting Healing Technique with all her strength couldn't stop it, and she was suddenly at a loss and panicked.

"Absorption Touch, reverse life energy injection."

Broly quickly stepped forward, converting his Qi into life energy and injecting it into Scorpio's huge body along with it.

With the addition of enormous life energy, Scorpio's dropping momentum was finally stopped, and its Qi was pushed back to its original level.

However, neither Broly nor Aqua, nor even Eris who was only casting Lucky Blessing, dared to easily stop the magic in their hands, converted from Divine Power (Qi).

Muroto Sumire stood at the side watching the three people with magic light like special effects in their hands, and suddenly felt like she was back in the Operation Room, racing against time to perform surgery and save severely injured patients.

And this act of continuously outputting life energy, healing energy, and lucky energy lasted about twenty minutes before Scorpio's Qi gradually calmed down.

"Hah, I'm exhausted~"

Aqua collapsed into a sitting position; although her divine power was still ample, her physical strength was somewhat poor, and holding the staff while maintaining a single pose for twenty minutes was indeed a novel form of torture for this goddess who lacked exercise.

"Now, there shouldn't be a problem, right?"

Eris also exhaled a breath; she was truly exhausted, her divine power not being that much greater than Aqua's.

"The Qi hasn't dropped, but specifically how it is, I don't know."

Broly shook his head and said.

"Crack, crack..."

Just then, a sea breeze blew past, and Scorpio's body emitted such a sound.

"Snap~"

The next moment, as if some supporting part had fractured, Scorpio's massive body snapped in half from the middle and collapsed downward.

Broly's eyes were quick and hands fast; he took the three people away from the spot, flying into the sky, only to hear a boom— below, a large swath of the Old Port District's warehouses was smashed flat.

"Evolution failed, did Scorpio die?"

Muroto Sumire looked at the fallen Scorpio, a look of regret appearing in her eyes.

"No, Scorpio is still alive."

Broly was very certain of this; whether it was Scorpio's still-existing breath, or the happiness value on the Crystal Palace Panel that continued to rise for the other party, both were proving this point.

After the dust settled, Broly brought the three people down again and began rummaging through the wreckage.

Before long, an object over half a person tall, bearing Scorpio's breath, like an egg, was found by Broly.

"Eh, it's actually an egg-form evolution?"

Muroto Sumire was somewhat surprised; this kind of evolution is comparatively rare, generally only appearing in unique insect-type or bird-type Gastrea.

"I can feel my divine power inside this; this guy Scorpio, wouldn't have taken the opportunity to eat our divine-attribute magic power, right?"

Aqua walked over huffily, raised her hand and slapped the egg emitting a faint blue glow right in front of her, and then everyone heard a crack.

"Ah, I didn't use force..."

Aqua was startled.

"This isn't my fault; this thing is just too brittle itself!"

Looking at the breach she had slapped open on the egg, this goddess lady was somewhat flusteredly shifting the blame.

The next moment, a figure squeezed out a larger opening from the breach at a swift speed.

After squeezing out from inside the egg, it directly rushed toward Aqua.

Aqua hadn't reacted yet before she was pounced on and knocked down by the other party.

"What is this?"

Aqua struggled, but both her hands and both her feet were entwined by wriggling soft substance.

The sticky, gooey feeling gave her a quite bad experience.

"Looks like, it's a small octopus loli uh!"

Eris looked at the creature that had pinned Aqua down, subconsciously answering Aqua's question.

"Huh?"

Aqua tilted her head up and came face to face with an exquisite small face; the other's black-sclera red-pupil eyes emitted a bewitching light, and atop her head was water-blue hair.

But rather than saying it was hair, it was better to say they were tentacles disguised as hair, because the tips of the hair ends were wriggling and crawling up Aqua's face, like an octopus's small tentacles, probing Aqua's face shape.

"Ah!"

Aqua cried out in alarm, subconsciously rolling to the side, but the small octopus loli entwined on her also rolled a circle along with her.

When she calmed down and Aqua sat up, she discovered it was indeed a non-human girl creature, entwined around her body.

"Is this Scorpio?"

Aqua asked Broly.

"Mm."

Broly nodded.

Unlike the Cursed Children who, after perfect Gastrea transformation, merely grow some heteromorphic organs or limbs with an image not too different, Scorpio's lower half was completely a single giant octopus tentacle.

However, her upper half was indeed human, her skin also smooth and translucent, her abdomen bearing a teardrop-shaped small navel, and above that were two small pearls of a pink hue like a newborn infant's.

"Can you make her stop continuing to cling to me?"

Aqua was bound tightly; the little thing hatched from inside Scorpio's body had its whole body coiled around her.

The little thing seemed very curious about her; tentacles that looked like hair wriggled all over Aqua's upper body, some even burrowing into her evening dress.

"Hey, not there, Broly, stop her quick."

Broly hurriedly stepped forward, reached out to pry away the little thing's flesh tentacle hair strands that were wriggling wildly inside his own master's evening dress, just preparing to assault the chest high ground.

"Scorpio, quickly get off Aqua Master's body."

When the little thing curiously looked over, Broly extended his hand before her face, persuading the small octopus loli.

"Papa~"

Scorpio looked at him, her curious gaze shifting from puzzlement to delight, her mouth actually emitting a crisp sound, directly leaving Aqua's body, but merely switching to a different target to coil around.

"How does this count?"

Scorpio's address for Broly confused the people around; Aqua asked Muroto Sumire.

"Able to speak, has language capability — is this a recovery of memories from when she was human?"

Muroto Sumire thought for a bit, then walked over and squatted down, addressing Scorpio coiled on Broly: "Little thing, can you understand my words?"

Scorpio glanced at the female doctor and didn't pay much more heed, just carefully on Broly's body, same as how she treated Aqua just now, used tentacles to explore the boy's body — this is typical octopus habit.

"Alright then, who is he?"

Seeing the little thing ignore her, Muroto Sumire changed her dialogue approach.

"Daddy~"

And this effect worked; the little one answered without any hesitation.

"Do you know what Daddy means?"

Muroto Sumire asked again, but the little one ignored her again.

"Alright then, who is this?"

Muroto Sumire pointed at Aqua and asked.

"Mommy~"

The little one answered again without any hesitation.

"Eh?"

Aqua had originally still been complaining about her body, made all sticky by Scorpius, but upon suddenly hearing this address and seeing the little one clinging to Broly looking at her with pure eyes, her heart felt as if it had been pierced by something.

"Ah, no, this, ehehe, this child actually calls me Mommy?!"

From bewilderment to shock, from shock to seeming like it wasn't bad, accepting this address, Aqua only used the time of a single sentence.

Suddenly, she felt the stickiness on her body didn't seem like something a god couldn't accept anymore.

"Then what about this person?"

Muroto Sumire pointed at Eris and asked again.

"Also Mommy."

The octopus little loli still didn't bring a shred of hesitation.

And the extra words proved she wasn't only capable of calling Daddy and Mommy.

"Then what about me?"

Muroto Sumire finally pointed at herself and asked.

Scorpius looked at her once, didn't speak.

"Come, Xiao Tian, come let Mommy hug you."

Aqua clapped her hands, and very easily, took Scorpius over.

"Oviparous creatures have a characteristic, that is the imprinting phenomenon; Scorpius might have treated the first ones she saw, you all, as her parents."

"Then how come you weren't treated as a parent by her?"

Broly asked curiously.

"This is the second point I wanted to say; when you all injected those energies, she might have been able to sense them, so she treated you all as parents, while I didn't inject any, so I'm not."

Scorpius's attitude towards the few of them was still very obvious, and if one were to say what difference Muroto Sumire had from them, it was probably that she couldn't use magic nor Qi; just now when Broly and the other two charged Scorpius, she could only watch from the side.

"Has Scorpius now counted as evolution success?"

Broly asked.

"That depends on your definition of evolution success; if it's just recovering rationality and wisdom, it looks like it succeeded now, but if it's recovering into a human, her lower half isn't feet."

Halfling, monster girl, this is Scorpius's appearance at this moment.

"Aqua-senpai, you can't be like this, this child called me Mommy too, let me hug her too."

Just at this time, an argument occurred on Aqua's side.

Eris also wanted to hug Scorpius, but Aqua seemed not to let her.

"Eh, split open, Scorpius seems to have split open."

Suddenly, Aqua exclaimed.

Broly and Muroto Sumire looked over, and saw Scorpius's body bisect, splitting into two smaller Scorpiuses, separately climbing onto Eris and Aqua.

Muroto Sumire opened her mouth wide; what did she see, a biological individual's self-value-added splitting?

Oh no, wrong, volume became smaller, this should just be splitting.

But, is this something a living creature can do?

Oh, earthworms barely can.

"Ah, you two, can you still recover?"

Under Eris's questioning, the two small Scorpiuses that had split pressed close together, the contact parts melting, and right there re-fused into one large Scorpius.

Muroto Sumire tilted her head back gazing at the starry sky; if saying previously Zodiac-level Gastrea being called mythological creatures was a description, then the current Scorpius is a solidly proven mythological creature.

The capabilities she displayed are no longer what normal creatures can possess.

Evil God Larva, Muroto Sumire suddenly thought of this term.

And this thought of hers wasn't wrong either; the abilities of Doubt and Exaggeration plus Lucky Blessing, in the Black Bullet World, created a super creature possessing Divine Power.

In Broly's expectations for Scorpius, there was content about letting her be happy, and for Scorpius, having family is happiness.

But this world no longer had her family, so, in the process of realizing evolution, Doubt and Exaggeration, for the sake of realizing the matter of having family.

Scorpius's evolution saw the unexpected situation of insufficient biological energy; Aqua, Eris, Broly together supplementing evolution energy for her was the result guided by Lucky Blessing.

Divine Power modified Scorpius's body, Broly's Qi filled the energy the little one needed for birth.

From a certain meaning, Aqua, Eris, Broly, are indeed as of now Scorpius's parents.

It's just that the bond of kinship isn't bloodline, but energy.

The two Goddesses' Divine Power and the Saiyan's Qi, the result of continuous output for twenty minutes.

(Chapter End)