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Chapter 199 Watch more tokusatsu, Old Deng!
"To hell with freedom! When have you ever been free? I have granted you eternal life and the right to explore the stars, and this is the answer you give me: that you will die immediately if you leave me? Answer me!" Brinton roared.

However, not a single soul paid him any attention. Of these 52 billion souls, countless people slowly transformed into light, like caged birds flying out of their cages, heading towards their ocean, their spring blossoms, and their poetry and distant horizons.

“You’ve already lost, Brinton,” Randolph Carter continued his barrage of attacks.

"Shut up!"

“Look at you, so impatient. When you presumptuously regard others as ‘values,’ you’ve already lost. Because you’ve never truly lowered your head to observe them, to observe those you’ve always looked down upon.”

"Then what do you know?"

Randolph Carter smiled and said proudly, "I have been hungry, cold, and rained on. I have also been destitute. I have seen the ugliest side of mankind and witnessed its most beautiful side. Human beings are such individuals. They are ugly and evil, but also beautiful and bright, full of hope and freedom. They are such complex creatures. You can never understand them if you only see one side of them."

"Hehe, hahahaha!" Brinton laughed, a loud, maniacal laugh, like a madman.

"In the end, it's just that false brilliance that gives these people unnecessary confidence," Brinton's manic voice rang out.

"Since that's the case, then I'll destroy it! I'll show you how foolish it is to believe in fakes!"

The thousand-meter-tall tree was uprooted, branching out and revealing a giant flower bud. At the very center of that bud, a terrifying eyeball seemed to grow, with endless energy condensing on it and a violent death ray emanating from it.

……

"A counter-wave?" Xue Lude smiled in the light.

He put Hermin down and looked at the old ghost. The old man and the little girl both had the most innocent smiles on their faces, as if they had found contentment in life.

Xue Dinglu also smiled. He reached out, grabbing Hermin with his left hand and the old ghost with his right.

A little girl, a boy, and an old man all simultaneously adopted that familiar starting stance.

On the shore, the giant of light stretched out his hand, striking the same pose that brought tears to everyone's eyes on the screen.

Combat power is still soaring!
"60 million!"

……

The surge in prayers at that moment even astonished the world's consciousness.

Meanwhile, on the shores of Boston, Cowboy Howard echoed the same sentiment.

"How is this possible?" Because from their perspective, the light was emanating from the monster opposite them!
"The final line of defense has been successfully completed!" The old mystic Austin smiled, looking at the giant in the ritual, a smirk playing on his lips.

“To the Brilliant Spell… I understand, I understand everything. Damn, old man, you really know how to hide things. I thought this was just your last desperate spell. So you had already figured this out all along?” Annabelle said, giving the old mystic next to her a hard elbow strike.

From their perspective, at this moment, the giant of light assumed the standard starting stance.

"Why do so many people trust this radiant giant unconditionally after only meeting him for the first time?"

Howard the Cowboy looked at the terrifying death ray gathering in the distance. Even across the sea, he felt as if his corneas were about to be blinded by the escaping energy.

This attack, even in its charging phase, surpassed the Star-Burning World-Destroying Cannon that was said to be able to incinerate the entire continent. It was an attack akin to the primitive meteorite that crashed into the Gulf of Mexico millions of years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs.

This level of power is something that even all of humanity's nuclear weapons combined cannot match, right?

Will it win?
"How can you defend against an attack of this magnitude? There's no way you can win, okay?"

However, before he could finish speaking, the evil spirit Annabelle he had summoned delivered a powerful elbow strike to his lower abdomen, almost making him vomit his dinner from the night before: "What do you mean you can't win at all?"

Austin smiled and explained to him, "Don't worry, Howard, we won't lose, at least not on Earth..."

The evil spirit Annabelle chimed in, "Yes, yes, light can never be defeated. Haven't you figured out why old Austin spent so much time and effort setting up this spell called 'To Glory'? Think about the principle behind this spell, you idiot!"

"The principle behind its brilliance is the concept that the guardians representing Earth will inevitably defeat the alien invaders... Wait a minute, this thing can represent Earth? The other side is aliens? Isn't that backwards?"

"what?"

Howard asked, puzzled, his face showing only a blank expression.

Why did he feel so out of place among everyone around him after only a few days? What exactly was that tokusatsu drama? It even made Annabelle, the little witch he summoned, betray him.

"It's exhausting trying to explain the invincible concepts of love and justice to this guy whose mind is completely consumed by women," Annabelle said, looking up at the light with a longing expression.
"Wow, I've always thought that if there really were a man like Daigo in the world, I'd be willing to throw myself at him..."

Just then, the evil spirit began to emit a faint light. To Howard's utter bewilderment, the evil spirit, representing the "doll," actually laughed in the light: "But now, I've discovered that there really are such creatures in the world!"

A beam of light rose from the depths of the sky, ascending upwards like a shooting star flying in reverse.

"what?"

Howard's mouth gaped open. He never dreamed that the evil spirit he had summoned would turn into a fangirl of a tokusatsu drama and even become light in front of him? If there weren't other people around, he would have liked to slap himself to see if he was still in his right mind.

"This was actually just an old man's purest heroic fantasy for the children, but now it may have become a reality," the girl named Yu Xiaoniao explained.

Then, she slowly emitted light and rose into the air.

"Huh?" Howard was even more confused, and at this moment he just wanted to roar like a groundhog.

"Really..." Aunt scratched her head, "Just like before, always making things I don't understand, but it doesn't matter anymore."

Snap, and it transformed into a beam of light rising into the sky. "Huh???" Howard was completely dumbfounded.

Now, only he and the old mystic Austin remained in the entire ceremony. Fortunately, he had his teacher with him.

But when he turned his head, he saw that old Austin was also slowly emitting light.

This male prostitute mystic finally couldn't hold back anymore.

Looking at Howard, Austin smiled like an aunt: "The core of mysticism is 'consensus'."

"Just like how people think of collapse when they see the Twin Towers, crash when they see a helicopter, and wild ideas when they see a convertible..." The old man smiled calmly as he explained to the bewildered male escort.

"So if these things can become a consensus, why can't tokusatsu dramas?"

“But tokusatsu shows are fake! I like superheroes, and I know Spider-Man and Iron Man are fake!” That’s what Howard couldn’t understand.

“But now, hasn’t He become real?” Austin pointed to the sky. At that moment, the arm of the giant of light burst forth with an incomparably dazzling light, colliding with the death ray of the monster on the other side of the sea.

The light and the death ray clashed against each other, and from their perspective, the monster's death ray on the left gradually suppressed the hero's light.

The dark red energy was so intense that it threatened to annihilate even that insignificant, tiny light.

But at this moment, light rose from all over the world.

More dazzling and brilliant light rose from all over the world than the stardust in the sky.

Billions of rays of light shot into the sky, transforming into an incredibly romantic meteor shower that fell onto the shores of Boston, merging into the colossal giant of light.

The light began to overpower the black and red death light, and gradually stagnated in the center.

"So now, do you still think the world will believe that tokusatsu heroes are fake?" Austin laughed.

When a thousand-meter-tall monster descends, when the zombie crisis erupts, when everyone turns into zombies, when twisted tree roots wreak havoc in the city, when the world falls apart.

An imaginary hero appears, defying all logic, just like in a tokusatsu drama, standing in front of the monster without asking why or considering the cost.

Everything in the tokusatsu drama corresponds realistically to what people see, perfectly matching the "conceptual method" in mysticism.

At this moment, is He still a fake?

No, whoever they are, they will desperately believe it's true, and they would even be willing to die for this hero of the time!

This is the confidence and composure the old mystic displayed after watching the complete Ultraman series on Xue's phone.

“This is deus ex machina!” Austin laughed, his body radiating a dazzling light. “Because as long as the Giant of Light intervenes, all problems will be solved. He is invincible, He is guaranteed to win—that’s common sense…”

"Watch more tokusatsu, Howard," Old Austin said, giving a thumbs-up.

The next moment, his light soared into the sky and merged with the giant of light.

Howard: "..."

"Wait, don't leave me alone! I haven't gotten on the bus yet! I haven't gotten on the bus yet!"

……

The light from the giant's arm overwhelmed the monster's death ray and pushed it back towards the monster.

"How could this be? How could this be! Why? Why did this happen?" Brinton's anger and fear filled his heart. He never expected that things would turn out this way.

Where did the real miscalculation lie? Was it in the ritual being forced to erupt prematurely? Or was it in failing to kill the false light immediately? Or was it in letting one's own vanity allow the old man who loved craftsmanship to enter one's body?

Or perhaps, summoning this ancient creature was a mistake in itself...

He was hysterical, blustering but cowardly, staring intently at Randolph Carter, who was now just a head, his pupils bloodshot.

"It's all your fault, and those freaks with you. You selfish bunch spouting off about friendship, hope, dreams, and morality, but you're nothing but hypocrites. You completely disregard the immortality I've given you for your own selfish desires." Brinton could only helplessly and furiously shift all the blame onto the old man.

"Freaks? I wish I had met so many interesting freaks when I was young. But there are pros and cons. If I had met them, I might not have been able to write so many despairing scenarios, which would have made me famous after my death." The old man seemed to be smiling, while a faint glow emanated from his body amidst Brinton's horrified expression.

"Look at you, you're getting anxious again, but you don't need to be anxious anymore."

"In my next life, I want to watch more tokusatsu (special effects) movies."

Randolph Carter, radiating a dazzling light, said this.

　To avoid repetition, I'll introduce some new elements in each chapter to keep things fresh. However, it seems like I introduced too many new elements in the Giant Beast chapter, which received mixed reviews. So, for now, I'll probably introduce about 40% new elements in each chapter. For example, the new element in the Fairy Tale chapter is "virtual world + civilization tombstones".

　　The new element of this story is probably "pseudo-ensemble cast + tribute". The main idea was to write a story where everyone becomes the MVP and carries the team, but thankfully it barely met expectations.

　　In the future, I might start a small thread near the end of each chapter, letting everyone rate whether it's a good or bad piece of work...

　　This article pays homage to the previous one: Bad job? / Good job?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)