000 [Prologue]

Where should I start talking?

My guess is that the trigger was something that happened yesterday.

While I was wasting time at home, I received an email.

｢Notice to everyone who enjoyed 'Space Survival'. Our development team is recruiting closed beta testers to develop the sequel. If you would like to participate, please click the Accept Participation button at the bottom.

Space Survival.

It is a survival RPG game where you choose one of the various races that exist in the vast space and survive, explore, and evolve.

The part that caught my eye here was 'diverse races'.

Ever since I was young, I have liked aliens, monsters, and other races.

Space Survival was a game that embodied my fantasy.

Sometimes he became a metallic gremlin and ate human ships, sometimes he became a mutant monster and slaughtered enemies in ground battles, and sometimes he became a colony leader with collective intelligence and attacked planets.

I've played with all the space creatures that seem like something out of nightmares, but there was one race that I enjoyed the most.

UASM, abbreviated as 'Unidentified Aggressive Space Morph'.

I combined the A in Aggressive and the morph behind it and called it Amorph.

Amorph is a space monster modeled after a creature from the classic movie X-Day-X-Un, and is a race that strengthens itself by acquiring the genetic information of its victims.

At first glance, they appear to be a fraudulent race because there is no limit to how strong they can become, but they are notorious for their insanely difficult survival difficulty and the innate risks unique to the race.

What I mean is, it's true that you get stronger as time goes by, but you're so weak in the beginning that you can't do anything properly even if you want to do it.

In survival games, it is important to survive long enough to accumulate resources and skills to snowball, but Amorph is a race with a mechanism to reverse this trend. Because you keep dying in the beginning, your chances to become stronger decrease, and if you don't become stronger, you can't do anything and the vicious cycle continues.

Still, you could say that it's okay to try hard and survive well, but Amov had a fatal flaw that made it difficult.

It is impossible to communicate and cooperate with other races.

By default, Aimorphs only view other races as living food or clumps of genes that need to be collected.

The crazy game company implemented this directly into the game.

I don't have to tell you how big a risk it is to not be able to communicate or play cooperatively in a multiplayer game with many users participating.

It is weak in the beginning, but it is impossible to cooperate with other users.

The two shortcomings synergized in a negative way, making the Amorphs the worst non-mainstream race in space survival.

What's worse is that the rumor that SM, the latter part of UASM, is an abbreviation for sadist (game company) and masochist (user), is accepted as established theory in the community.

Why did such a trash race become my favorite race? The reason is simple.

This is because the fact that it is a race that can freely evolve and become stronger according to choice and will fascinated me.

'Well, other than that, there's also something about it because I like anime.'

As they say, those who enjoy it are strong, and I was one of the high-ranking users who achieved Galaxy Conqueror, the highest difficulty achievement in the game with Amorph.

I told you all that the community even called me an honorary amorph and an alien biosexual morphbag.

Still, there is no eternal king.

I had no choice but to quit the game for very practical reasons.

'I never thought there would be people receiving academic punishment these days….'

That's two times in a row.

It was a natural result since I only played games without going out of the house.

Because I had to graduate, I left the game for a while and focused on my studies. Because of that, I didn't even know that a sequel was in development.

Anyway, Space Survival is my favorite game. What gamer wouldn't like it when they hear that there is a sequel to a game that is no different from the best of their lives? Of course I clicked accept.

'The result is like this.'

I lifted my right 'second' leg and scratched my 'covered forehead'.

Scratching made my back itchy again, so I decided to use my left 'fourth' leg this time. As I scratched my back, translucent skin came out at the end of my claws.

If you ask how a human being has four pairs of legs, you can answer like this.

'That's because they're not human.'

When I looked down at the first front leg I was writing with my hand, I couldn't help but sigh. The sensory organ on my chin swayed in sync with my sighs.

The shape of my hands was far from that of a human or mammal.

The legs, which are long and thin and divided into three segments, are reminiscent of the legs of a spider or arthropod, and there are two cute claws that act as fingers at the ends of the legs.

I hoped it wasn't my hand, but its claws twitched in response to my will, as if telling me not to turn away.

If you move your gaze along the legs, the body appears to be elongated, like a snake or lizard. The back and abdomen were covered with a hard shell, so it did not feel flexible. Unlike the hard carapace, the sides were made of soft flesh, and three pairs of legs of the same shape as the front legs were sticking out.

Lastly, a thick, flexible tail extended from its rump. The sharp stinger at the end of the tail was the only weapon I had.

I know the identity of this strange little creature.

Space Survival's favorite race, Amorph.

They are beings with infinite potential and the race that made me the ruler of the galaxy.

… hatchling.

｢Species: Unidentified Hostile Space Creature

Status: Hatchling

Goal: Survive

Characteristic: Extrasensory｣

In the vast universe where all kinds of monsters and transcendents run rampant, I have possessed the weakest creature.