My portable grandfather refreshes every week

Chapter 133: There's nothing to be afraid of anymore.

Ronald finally woke up several hours later.

The first thing he saw was his fiancée's worried expression. He could only smile slightly and scratch his head as if nothing had happened, but even the simple act of raising his hand made him feel pain all over his body.

"Don't worry, I'm fine. How much time has passed?" Ronald felt his mouth was dry and his body felt like it wasn't his own, as if he had just struggled back from the brink of death.

Only after realizing that he had lost a quarter of his life did he lower his head. The weakness and pain throughout his body constantly reminded him how fragile he was and how insignificant his life was.

As soon as he looked up, he saw Yun Xing's incredibly familiar, sour face besides his fiancée.

"Four hours? Maybe you can sleep a little longer. There are still more than three hours until the next time slot," Yun Xing said, but it sounded like he was being sarcastic.

"I..." Ronald didn't know how to respond to his senior's words. He raised his hand with difficulty and found that his hand was trembling. Even though he had only lost a quarter of his hand, his body felt as if it had been ripped out of life. He could feel the muscle spasms of pain even when he tried to control his grip.

"Excuse me, I need to talk to my senior brother alone..." he said apologetically to his fiancée. The girl, seeing the tense atmosphere between them, was very worried, but still left.

The atmosphere became incredibly oppressive. Ronald shrank back, and for some reason, he didn't dare to meet his senior's gaze.

“It seems the teacher really didn’t teach you how to control the power of the giant beast, but even so, why did Zero still choose you instead of me…” Yun Xing looked at him, his pupils filled with resentment and a little bit of relief.

At this moment, Ronald stared blankly at his senior brother. He only felt that this power was a punishment for him, but he did not expect that his senior brother would crave this power so much.

"Senior brother, the price of this power..."

“I know, my teacher once told me that, and I accepted it long ago.” Yunxing immediately interrupted him. “To bear the power of a giant beast with a human body, the only physical pain is already the greatest mercy. This obvious price is already the greatest mercy.”

Yunxing suddenly placed her hand on his shoulder: "You're only now realizing the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the weight of this power."

Ronald was also stunned. Looking at his senior's awareness, which was exactly the same as his teacher's, he suddenly felt that he was incredibly unlucky to have started to feel sentimental after only using up a quarter of his life.

"There's still time, but not much. Since your teacher can no longer teach you, I will teach you how to use the power of the behemoths to unleash their strongest power with minimal strain on your body, and even techniques to borrow some of the behemoths' power without transforming." A cane appeared in Yun Xing's hand.
"If you continue to fight with the attitude that everything is over and don't care about any of your injuries, then it will only take a few more times for you to die completely, just like your teacher."

Ronald looked at Yunxing, and at that moment, he seemed to see the shadow of his teacher in the back of his senior brother holding a cane.

Since their teacher died, this senior brother was the only one of the three who didn't cry, and he was also the most serious, as if he had suddenly grown from a fourteen-year-old body into a forty-year-old soul.

But in reality, the senior brother was the one who suffered the most. However, he buried everything in his heart, thus maintaining his perspective from the point of view of his former teacher, and continued to protect the other two.

"Senior brother, you've become just like our teacher. From your clothes and demeanor to every movement and expression, everything about you seems to be imitating everything our teacher did when he was alive..."

"But, senior brother, you may not know this, but no matter how much I struggle, no matter how I try to control the beast's power, I only have two more chances to use it... I will absolutely not use it the last time!"

"So, there's nothing to be afraid of..."

……

"Anomaly in spell fluctuations detected in region K3. The second coordinates provided by the monarch are still correct!" came the technician's message through the headset.

"The explosives have been planted!"

"The thermobaric weapon is ready!"

"Twelve siege cannons are aimed at their targets!"

Messages came through his earpiece. Ronald was in the army's medical tent, with the girl who had been taking care of him beside him.

It seemed like the roles had switched in an instant, so fast that I couldn't even react. I used to be the one taking care of her, but I never expected that in just a few days, it would be her taking care of me.

"You loser!"

"Yes, Senior Sister!" Ronald finally stood up straight upon hearing the familiar voice. His rapid regeneration allowed him to move around like a normal person.

“This time, don’t use Zero’s power again. Leave it to us.” The senior sister gave an encouraging gesture. “Also, Yun Xing is all bark and no bite. Don’t take his words too seriously.”

"Yeah, I know."

He smiled slightly, hoping everything would go smoothly this time. Learning from the previous experience, they increased the amount of explosives they planted tenfold this time, and also prepared thermobaric bombs with a radius of two kilometers for individual soldiers, as well as more than a dozen siege artillery pieces with a caliber of 300mm or larger.

Even a numbered super beast could be defeated by such firepower, and the unlucky guy felt that he could finally breathe a sigh of relief. In that case, he would probably only need to use his transformation twice to keep all the enemies out.

That way, he would have the last quarter of his life left. By then, he would have achieved fame and success, and could return to his hometown to get married, inherit his teacher's laboratory and manuscripts. He didn't have much of a desire for power or other ambitions. Inheriting his teacher's title of monarch, Xerath II, seemed like a very nice title. He could continue his research on the Ring of Law, teach other children how to control the power of behemoths, and open a Xerath II classroom. Perhaps that would be enough for him in this lifetime.

He thought this to himself as he held his fiancée's hand tightly.

The girl seemed to realize his nervousness and also tightened her grip on his hand.

"Two minutes left, all units get ready!" came the communicator's voice through the headset.

A roar rang out, and the next moment, a colossal beast over fifty meters tall appeared on the battlefield.

Yun Xing transformed into a behemoth once again. Although he still had injuries, the penetrating wound was not considered serious for a behemoth of his size. In particular, he seemed to have become stronger again, growing from forty meters to over fifty meters in length.

"You won't need to fight this time, right?" the girl said, taking his hand.

"Probably." Ronald looked at the setting sun, as if he had returned to the classroom that day, to the shock he felt when the teacher first wrote "the legal system" on the podium.

"What kind of person was King Xerides I?" The girl sat down with him, looking at the sunset, and asked, seemingly trying to find a topic he liked. "From the news and reports, all I know is that he was a man who created a completely new system and saved the world."

"It seems like that rainy night when you came to see me, that monarch was right outside the door. I regret not being able to see him then." The girl said, her hand seeming to clench tighter. "I really wanted to see that monarch."

"Haha, maybe it really was just bad luck." Ronald chuckled awkwardly and scratched his head, only then realizing that he had never met his teacher before. The unlucky guy's mood immediately plummeted. He really wished that his teacher could stand in the parents' seat at his wedding.

“Among the friends I often contact, they all argue that the monarch is a tall, handsome man,” the girl said. “But I think that’s impossible. The monarch seems to be over forty. I think the monarch should be a wise elder, like the great sage from a thousand years ago.”

The boy fell silent. In his memory, his teacher seemed to be a bit old, but his mentality was incredibly young. Being with him felt like being an older brother, without any of the airs of an elder.

The way he drove around playing songs in languages ​​he couldn't understand, the way he waved in the rain, and the way he casually held a few bottles of drinks—after thinking about it, the teacher seemed no different from them. So the kid suddenly spoke up: "No, teacher, he's just like us."

"People like us?" The girl was taken aback.

“Yes, I always have a feeling that if there were no giant beasts in the world, the teacher might even be the kind of person who goes to study medicine and spends all day studying medical books,” Ronald said, expressing his thoughts.

The setting sun was right in front of them. They were sitting on this high hillside, which was also the camp of the army's field command. Looking at the arrangements in the distance and the bright sunset, the two seemed to move a little closer together.

"Ten seconds left, all units prepare!" the voice announced in the headset.

The entire wilderness seemed to immediately enter a somber atmosphere.

"3!"

"2!"

"1!"

With a flash of light, a four-person squad appeared on the spot. They were all wearing full-body armor, and the black capes on their backs fluttered in the wind like banners.

"0!"

"Boom!" The mushroom cloud of fireballs ignited by the explosives shot up hundreds of meters in an instant.

Having learned from their previous experience, they showed absolutely no mercy. All twelve 300mm siege guns began firing in unison, while in the distance, a soldier was aiming a thermobaric bomb.

White smoke filled an area with a radius of one kilometer, and then a secondary ignition caused a dust explosion with a radius of one kilometer!
The attack was not over yet. The raging water flowed towards the original spot like millions of spikes, and the high-explosive ammunition of the siege cannons turned into even greater impact and damage in the water.

They only stopped after bombarding the cannons for several minutes, when the barrels were overheated.

When the thick smoke dissipated, only the corpse, reduced to powder, remained, completely indistinguishable from the original body.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, cheered the victory, and applauded and hugged each other.

However, the portal suddenly appeared again, and the cheering crowd froze. In an instant, another Hell Vanguard squad also landed on the same spot.

Time seemed to stand still at that moment. Everyone's pupils constricted, and Ronald even forgot to breathe, his mind blank.

Inside his body, the colossal beast stirred restlessly. It seemed to be laughing, extending its fist and saying, "Want to borrow my power a second time? Borrow the power of the demon."

"I have nothing left to fear." Ronald smiled bitterly as he extended his fist and clashed it with the monster's fist inside his own body.

(End of this chapter)