The Jelly Alien Will Save You! Chapter 76

Yeonjam’s deeply brooding eyes wavered for an instant.

 

What in the world was I thinking? 

 

Ever since he was contaminated, greed had continually clouded his vision. He could not allow this. After all, he had waited for a whole ten thousand years….

 

Just as tears rolled down his cheeks once more from sorrow, Dam asked:

 

“Yeonjam, do you still wish to reach the heavens?”

 

Leaning against Dam and soaking in her pure energy to the fullest, Yeonjam’s body stiffened.

 

“You know my name.”

 

“I’ve known about it for a long time.”

 

Yeonjam’s eyes wavered once more.

 

A being whom contamination could not touch. 

 

One who saw right through him.

 

“I felt no god in this land, yet was it you? Are you the god who has come to test me?”

 

Dam giggled softly.

 

* * *

 

A god. That was quite an amusing title.

 

Not a god, though. An alien.

 

As for his name, I only knew it because I was a veteran player of Planetmon.

 

However, I figured having a slight misunderstanding wouldn’t hurt. 

 

“If you want, I’ll become your god.”

 

“That means……”

 

“I’ll help you ascend.”

 

“…!”

 

Here, ascension meant the carp’s evolution.

 

However, since Yeonjam was an old creature who had lived for a truly long time, he wouldn’t understand the word ‘evolution,’ so I phrased it as ‘ascension.’

 

“How might I reach that path?”

 

It was a desperate voice. 

 

Judging by his voice alone, he seemed almost entirely swayed.

 

The reason the Ten-Thousand-Year Carp couldn’t evolve right now was contamination. Because he had become a Calamity.

 

However, if I purified him, he would be able to break free from being an Abomination and evolve as a Planetmon. 

 

Of course, there was one thing I had to obtain before that.

 

Letting this slide without it wouldn’t be worthy of a veteran Planetmon player.

 

Still, could it work? Would this even be possible?

 

Though I wasn’t entirely sure, I held out my hand proudly without showing any hesitation.

 

“Give me your bead.”

 

“…!”

 

Yeonjam widened his eyes in shock.

 

Fair enough. If someone asked for the dragon orb I had nurtured for ten thousand years, I’d probably make that face too.

 

I stood up before Yeonjam could get angry.

 

Heave-ho!

 

Ppyok. Ppyok-ppyok-ppyok.

 

I took out the spaceship that had been folded small and tucked into my pocket, then hopped inside.

 

Ppyok-ppyok-ppyok.

 

As I got into the spaceship and floated into the air, Yeonjam’s eyes opened wide in astonishment.

 

It was too early to be amazed just by this.

 

Snickering inwardly, I immediately used ‘Decorating.’

 

Instantly, the half-collapsed pavilion began returning to its original state.

 

Rumble-rumble-creeeak!

 

It was a movement that looked as though time were being rewound.

 

As the pavilion shifted, Yeonjam slid sideways and fell into the pond with a plop.

 

Riding my spaceship, I leisurely settled atop the edge of the pavilion’s roof tiles.

 

Then, using Purification, I swept away the pond’s contamination completely.

 

Yeonjam blinked blankly.

 

To him, I must look more like a god than anyone else right now.

 

“I will be your god, so all you have to do is become my kin and ascend.”

 

“…!”

 

“Casting aside all cumbersome things, that is.”

 

The ‘cumbersome thing’ I mentioned here referred precisely to the ‘orb.’

 

In Planetmon, the orb was called ‘Money Windfall.’ An item I desperately needed right now, in other words!

 

“What do you say?”

 

I hopped out of the spaceship with a ppyok-ppyok. Yeonjam climbed up beside me and bowed his head.

 

“I believed one could only ascend with the bead in hand, but was that not so?”

 

“The bead is merely a tool used to accumulate merit.”

 

Yeonjam closed his mouth. A brief silence hung in the air.

 

“….”

 

“….”

 

Did he need time to think?

 

Right as I was waiting while wiggling my nonexistent toes.

 

Yeonjam placed a hand over his chest.

 

A glowing bead emerged from within his chest.

 

“It holds ten thousand years of joys and sorrows. I offer it to my god.”

 

I accepted the bead.

 

“Good. I’ll let you ascend.”

 

I stepped forward before the colossal carp. The carp’s scales were dead and blackened from the contamination.

 

That was not all. Though I hadn’t noticed from afar, people were lodged here and there between the carp’s scales.

 

I gasped in fright.

 

Corpses?!

 

…Wait, no.

 

Looking closely, I could see they were breathing.

 

‘They look like they’ve just passed out.’

 

Unlike other mutants, Yeonjam was a spiritual beast, so it seemed he had captured the trespassers without killing them.

 

Letting out a sigh of relief, I stretched my hand out toward the carp.

 

Soon, the authority of purification enveloped the colossal carp.

 

And at that exact moment.

 

Rumble—

 

“…?!”

 

The heavens began to cry out.

 

A pillar of light drove down vertically into the carp, and its form began to shift.

 

What in the world is this……!

 

My mouth fell open.

 

Magikarp was turning into Gyarados.

 

He’s—he’s turning into a dragon……!

 

* * *

 

Gong Juwon and his team were rapidly moving into the operational area.

 

When Gong Juwon at the vanguard halted and raised a clenched fist, the team members lowered their bodies and began scanning the perimeter on high alert.

 

“Wh-wh-what on earth is that?”

 

The deputy commander standing behind him asked.

 

“I was certain it was the m-moon…… but it moved…….”

 

“Everyone stay calm and lower your weapons.”

 

“B-but……!”

 

“Our mission is reconnaissance. There is no way we can face a Calamity with these numbers. Do you want to throw your lives away for nothing?”

 

At that, everyone swiftly lowered their muzzles.

 

They could tell instinctively.

 

That was not something you could fight. It was a disaster that completely overwhelmed humanity.

 

And they were expected to face something like that?

 

Utterly helpless, they exchanged glances. As if asking whether anyone else realized what sheer madness it was to confront such a thing.

 

That newly appointed battalion commander, who had been so full of himself about taking down a Calamity, needed to come see this for himself. This breathtaking, speechless presence.

 

“Keep your heads on straight. If you fall under its spell, you’re dead.”

 

At Gong Juwon’s warning, the soldiers gritted their teeth and held their breath.

 

Right then.

 

Ppyok. Ppyok-ppyok.

 

A tiny shadow moved across the ruined pavilion, making ppyok-ppyok noises.

 

This sound?

 

Realizing it was the sound of Dam’s footsteps, Gong Juwon’s eyes widened.

 

The other team members were just as shocked.

 

“There’s something else up there.”

 

“It looks like… a pink… jelly.”

 

“I see it too.”

 

The team reflexively raised their muzzles.

 

We can kill that one. That was clearly what they thought.

 

Gong Juwon raised his hand on instinct.

 

“Wait. That is….”

 

At that moment, the pink jelly flew up into the air aboard a box.

 

“It flew…”

 

Yet an even more shocking sight awaited them.

 

Rumble-rumble-creeeak!

 

The collapsed pavilion began rebuilding itself.

 

Everyone’s jaw dropped at the spectacle that looked as though time were running in reverse.

 

What being on earth could possibly make such a thing happen?

 

That was not all.

 

The jelly declared:

 

“I will be your god, so all you have to do is become my kin and ascend.”

 

A god.

 

The soldiers shuddered in awe.

 

Meanwhile, the jelly approached the colossal carp.

 

At the same time, the black carp was enveloped in light and began to fade away.

 

The team froze at the unbelievable scene.

 

“…The Calamity is disappearing.”

 

“What on earth… is happening?”

 

Gong Juwon spoke quietly, yet firmly, to his astounded squad:

 

“A Calamity is preying upon a Calamity.”