MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 318 The Siege of Justice

"Our souls can become light!"

Masaki Keigo raised his hands high, his voice echoing through the pyramid. Facing the few dozen survivors, his eyes gleamed with determination.

"What exactly do you mean? The soul? Could it be that...!" Horii stared at this star of the scientific world, a top scientist and entrepreneur. From those eyes that were already prepared, he had already guessed what was going on.

As a genius scientist, Masami Horii was no stranger to the concept of the soul.

Although he himself did not study this field in depth, his mentor, Dr. Mizuno, in the process of studying the mysterious creatures of the atmosphere, Lightning Man, accurately detected the plasma energy bodies that appeared after humans died using self-made instruments.

Out of scientific ethics considerations, Dr. Mizuno did not conduct repeated observational experiments on this suspected soul phenomenon, nor did he make his research findings public. However, as a close student, Horii was well aware of his teacher's research findings—human beings do indeed have souls, and these souls possess some kind of mysterious power.

Most people's souls dissipate quickly after death, but there are exceptions; some powerful souls are even able to interfere with the material world.

Horii suddenly looked up at the two sleeping stone statues. If such power were combined...

After shouting loudly, Masaki Keigo's previously frenzied and excited expression suddenly calmed down.

He gazed at the two towering stone statues standing to the side, as tall as gods, and said in a calm voice, "The body of the Giant of Light used in battle is an inert materialized state of light energy. Only when it is combined with activated light energy can it be activated."

"And within each of us lies this activated light energy!"

"That is our life! That is our soul!"

He clenched his fists and shouted once more to all the survivors: "Look! We are about to lose everything! Our families, our dreams, everything will be reduced to nothing in the complete destruction of the Earth's ecosystem!"

"In two minutes, or perhaps one minute, when the barrier erected by the Giant of Light can no longer contain the erupting energy, the aftershocks will cause an apocalyptic storm that will devour everything!"

"We have nothing left, nothing to give up!"

"Let us give our lives!"

After the words were spoken, the remaining survivors in the pyramid fell into a brief silence.

After a moment of whispering, someone in the crowd raised their hand.

Immediately afterwards, like a tidal wave, everyone raised their hands.

Xincheng shouted, "What should we do!"

Masaki Keigo looked around at everyone, pulled out a pistol and pressed it to his temple, shouting urgently, "When people share the same emotions, the wavelengths of their souls after death will be close enough."

"Everyone, strive to recall what you are meant to protect, let our souls share the same direction, and let our lives become the fuel that drives the giant of light!"

After saying that, he was about to pull the trigger, but a force stopped him.

An old Taoist priest and a young superhuman emerged from the crowd.

"What are you doing! We're going to be too late!" Masaki Keigo roared, frantically pulling the trigger repeatedly, but he couldn't get it to fire.

"Your efficiency is too low!" The old Taoist priest chuckled, a hint of helplessness appearing on his white-haired, youthful face. "I never imagined that after a lifetime of slaying demons and monsters, I would still have to occasionally do the work of a heretical cultivator."

As soon as he finished speaking, his face aged rapidly, which was visible to the naked eye.

All of his life force and magical power were released in one breath, and shimmering runes burst out in all directions like a tsunami.

He felt the power continuously emanating from his body, yet there seemed to be no end in sight. He was puzzled, but after his body exerted nearly 10 times the normal level of power, it collapsed.

Before he could even think about why, he shouted, "Everyone, concentrate immediately! Abandon all resistance and let me extract all your souls and life force in one go!"

"And to all those who have already died, let us answer our call!"

"The soul returns..."

In an instant, countless runes spread out, and a pain as if one's life force had been squeezed dry reverberated within the body.

However, the survivors present did not utter a sound of pain, but silently abandoned all resistance.

Everyone's body aged rapidly, and their vitality, along with their soul, was forcibly extracted.

Throughout the land of Ultraman Tiga, thousands of people came to save humanity at a time when it was on the verge of extinction, only to be wiped out by the aftershocks before they even saw the monster's face.

Dim, humanoid phantoms quickly appeared on their corpses, converging into a faint river of light that flew toward the gems on the chests of the two towering stone statues.

……

"Horie?" A call roused Horii's slumbering soul. He opened his "eyes," looked at the golden, shimmering figure beside him, and hesitated before trying to make out the details: "Are you Shinjo?"

“That’s right.” Shinjo nodded, looking at Horii’s glowing, translucent body, and teased, “I really didn’t expect that even as a soul, you’re still so chubby.”

"Come on!" Shinjo extended his hand to his teammates. "That kid Daigo is still fighting. As a member of the GUTS team, we can't let him fight alone!"

"Of course!" Horii smiled slightly on his round, chubby face and gripped Shinjo's hand tightly.

"Don't forget me!" Another hand reached out; it belonged to Lina, another member of the Victory team who had been killed in the aftermath.

"Of course!" Shinjo and Horii exchanged a smile and shouted, "We, the GUTS team, would never abandon our teammates!"

Within the two towering stone statues, thousands of souls began to emerge with a faint golden light, the light merging together like a faint golden flame.

The spirits and memories of all the survivors were intertwined and merged into the silent ocean of light within the stone statue.

The ocean of light began to surge with towering waves.

boom!
The giant of light's stone shell shattered with a deafening roar, and two brand-new Ultramen burst through the atmosphere together, transforming into streaks of light as they charged towards the distant battlefield where a high-speed battle raged.

At this moment, only two minutes after the battle began, the battlefield was already in a state of intense stalemate.

Ultraman Tiga is struggling to hold on. After becoming a giant of light, he possesses superhuman computing power and a perspective completely different from that of humans, but the human mental structure is not yet able to adapt to this high-speed and terrifying battle.

The battle between the Giants of Light is not a simple physical fight, but a strategic game, a pinnacle showdown of computational power.

Every instant, Daigo must calculate the vast energy trajectory, as numerous as astronomical figures, precisely mobilize the boundless energy within his body, and constantly change its nature—either stimulating it to a specific frequency to launch an attack, or bringing it into a stable state for defense.

An extraordinary perspective leads to an extraordinary speed of thought.

At this moment, every second felt longer than a month in human times.

The two monsters, which appeared to be just powerful beasts on the surface, made Tiga realize, upon contact, that their level of intelligence far surpassed that of the human race.

Perhaps it was arrogance, perhaps it was disdain, or perhaps it was simply that strength was so great that wisdom was unnecessary.

During the continuous high-speed attacks, the energy fields of the two monsters changed frequently, constantly trying to find a weakness in Tiga.

This is no longer a simple battle; it is three terrifying supercomputers hacking into each other.

As the battle continued, Tiga's energy showed no signs of decreasing. He created one new way of using energy after another and continuously optimized the energy structure during the battle.

In just over a minute, Tiga's fighting power had far surpassed that of when he first awoke.

However, this also made him increasingly mentally exhausted.

Even more worrying is that both monsters are rapidly growing stronger and quickly exploiting Tiga's weaknesses to destroy the environment.

They had already seen through Tiga's efforts to protect the environment, so they attacked the environment directly, forcing Tiga to endure their attacks.

Roar!
With a soul-shaking roar, Daigo's spirit trembled, and an explosive burst of spiritual energy was blasted into Tiga's body by Melba high in the sky.

"Who am I? What am I doing?"

In an instant, a deep sense of confusion, intense pain, and resentment welled up in Tiga's heart.

A jumble of bizarre and chaotic images surfaced in the ocean of my mind, like meteorites falling from the sky, stirring up a raging tsunami.

This is evolution!

The lack of seemingly human intelligence does not mean it is impossible, but simply that it is unnecessary.

So-called evolution has never been more than just barely enough.

If one can achieve everything through violence, why bother studying rhetoric? If one is powerful enough to overturn a planet, why bother possessing the wisdom of the weak?
But when faced with a battle that truly threatened their lives, where failure to progress meant certain death, the two monsters began a rapid, targeted evolution!
Not long ago, the suggestion that the esper Kirino Makio had managed to conjure in the minds of the two monsters with all his might briefly halted their progress before being forcibly erased by their powerful mental strength. However, the residual traces remained in their minds.

To defeat their formidable foe, they began to learn, absorbing all the remaining traces of that enemy.

The energy field that Golza and Melba jointly enveloped the entire land of Tiga was used to extinguish the anger, resentment, and all remaining negative emotions in the hearts of those killed by the aftershocks.

These extremely subtle mental fluctuations were all read and poured into Tiga's mind.

In a brief moment of confusion, before the two new giants of light arrived, accompanied by a devastating explosion, Golza's massive tail, capable of splitting the earth, lashed out at Tiga!

This time, it's not just Mach 700 as before, but a step further—an impact exceeding Mach 1500 under its energy burst!
Like a neutron star being blasted into the earth, Tiga's terrifyingly strong body blasted through the barrier at high speed.

In a mere 0.0194 seconds, it had already penetrated 10,000 meters of rock.

The lava, ravaged and decaying, which had long since turned into magma, was blasted into a long vacuum passage. Tiga, like a terrifying bunker buster, continued to bombard the deeper layers of rock.

The barrier covering the earth was breached, and the kinetic energy transmitted outward from Tiga's body will cause the entire continental shelf to fracture over a period of more than ten minutes.

The shockwaves from the massive impact on the mantle will cause earthquakes and tsunamis of magnitude 10 or higher to repeatedly erode the Earth's surface over the next few months.

At that time, Earth will revert to the ancient era, a world filled with volcanoes and lava. Apart from space stations in outer space and the ocean floor, no large organisms will be able to survive on Earth.

In a moment of disorientation, Ultraman Tiga, having blasted through the rock layers, had penetrated the 45-kilometer-thick crust and blasted into the viscous, high-density mantle layer below.

Quickly clearing his mind of the chaotic information, Tiga regained his senses and realized the consequences that were about to unfold.

He immediately unleashed a torrent of light outwards, attempting to use a larger barrier to envelop and neutralize the high-speed shockwaves propagating through the mantle and crust, thus preventing this devastating catastrophe.

At the same time, a strong sense of crisis struck Daigo's mind like a sledgehammer.

He suddenly looked up.

Extending from the mantle to the Earth's crust, a massive vacuum channel over 100 kilometers long and more than 500 meters in diameter has not yet healed, and Tiga can clearly see the two monsters that have gathered together above.

"not good!"

"They...have merged?!"

Spanning a vacuum tunnel hundreds of kilometers long, Tiga clearly saw that the two already extremely powerful monsters had actually fused together. The fusion of Golza and Melba could perhaps be called "Golba".

The two monsters seem to have some kind of symbiotic relationship. When they created an opening for Tiga and blasted him into the ground, the two, already wounded but becoming even more ferocious, seemed to want to end the battle.

And so they merged together—with Golza as the main body and Melba merging into its back, becoming a terrifying monster with two faces and four eyes.

They then launched an attack.

Since the start of the battle, Melba has been acting as a mobile artillery platform high in the sky, moving erratically at Mach 200, constantly looking for opportunities to launch beam attacks.

At that moment, Tiga suddenly realized that Melbana's seemingly random high-speed movements were not to evade attacks, but to accumulate power!
In the vacuum tunnel hundreds of kilometers deep, Tiga, which was rapidly flying into the sky, keenly sensed the abnormality in the atmosphere.

Within a radius of 100 kilometers, the atmosphere, which had been shattered by the aftershocks of the battle, was now completely silent, as all energy had been drained away.

Melba's flight does not rely on flapping wings, nor does it have energy-generating organs, so what is the purpose of its wings?
The answer gradually became clear—it was a weapon that manipulated time and space! A pair of wings of time and space!
Melba's continuous high-speed movement at high altitudes is not only to evade attacks, but also to etch spacetime!
Within the entire barrier, the aftershocks of the battle between the three were suppressed but not eliminated. The terrifying storms caused by the rising heat and falling cold within the barrier were merely a negligible part of this immense energy.

Melba's continued flight is distorting space, making its location the center of the entire barrier.

Just like silently digging a tunnel under a dam, when the tunnel is deepened and the stress is nearing its limit—boom!

The immense pressure will be released instantly!

Tiga's time as a giant of light was too short. Although he possessed the senses to perceive changes in space and time, he lacked the corresponding experience.

At this moment, all the energy leaked from the battle between the three has been silently stolen by Melba, gathered in front of his eyes, and twisted into a terrifying ball of energy.

At the same time, Golza also launched an attack.

Unlike Melba, Golza is not skilled in precise energy manipulation; all it possesses is the purest form of violence—the instinct to unleash the energy within its body wildly along fixed circuits.

That's ultrasonic destructive light!
The essence of sound waves is vibration.

In human physics, for every 10 decibels increase, the energy increases tenfold.

10 decibels is the sound of rustling leaves, completely harmless; 100 decibels is the sound of a chainsaw at close range, enough to damage human eardrums; 200 decibels is the sound of a rocket launch, which can cause resonance damage to building structures.

194 decibels is considered the theoretical limit under the average atmospheric pressure of the Earth—beyond this value, the "trough" of the sound wave will be lower than absolute vacuum, which is physically impossible. Therefore, the sound wave will collapse and turn into a shock wave.

What about 300 decibels? That's the energy density found only in the core of the sun.

400 decibels is the instantaneous energy flow density at the time of the Big Bang.

Golza's only energy-release attack—the ultrasonic beam—is a skill that forcibly interferes with matter in the form of light, causing it to disintegrate through vibration. While its energy density isn't high, it's sufficiently concentrated, and its power doesn't diffuse outwards.

It's only 340 decibels, which is nothing on an astronomical scale, but on Earth, it's enough to collapse continents and change the Earth's rotational orbit!
At this moment, the energy that Melba used to focus spacetime by warping was absorbed by both of them.

Golza's breastplate, with its lava-like patterns, became brighter than the sun, while the surrounding earth, which had already turned into a lava environment, instantly froze.

Melba's spacetime focusing ray and Golza's ultrasonic ray became entangled before Tiga returned to the Earth's crust.

This is the bond between monsters!
Come, giant of light, taste our Great Unified Resonant Cannon!
Tiga grew increasingly anxious, accelerating desperately, his body beginning to flicker as if trying to penetrate space and time for spatial traversal.

Spacetime! Yes, can we use spacetime distortion for defense?

“No,” Tiga immediately understood the consequences.

He can indeed distort spacetime. If given time to try, he might be able to use this to teleport, or even open a portal to another dimension to try and banish this attack.

However, instinctive calculations showed that the energy density of this ray was so high that it would even forcibly smooth out spacetime distortions.

This is an attack powerful enough to kill itself!

Can I hide?

No! We absolutely cannot hide!
If dodged, this terrifying attack will strike the Earth's core, altering the Earth's rotation. Approximately one-thousandth of the Earth's mass will be ejected into space in the subsequent explosion, like a burst of fireworks.

You absolutely cannot dodge! You must withstand it, you must take this blow completely!
Therefore, Tiga stopped accelerating and stopped in the long vacuum tunnel, spreading his arms out and a vast light spreading in all directions.

He is reconstructing the barrier, this time not to restrain the aftershocks of suppression, but to constrain spacetime itself.

This is necessary to ensure that the following light focuses only on itself, and does not break through the barrier, leaking even a fraction of its energy and causing unimaginable damage to the Earth.

This attack must be intercepted!
Daigo was prepared to sacrifice himself here.

But before I die, I must take these two damned monsters with me!

He has realized that after becoming a giant of light, he has the ability to absorb external energy.

Next, Tiga will try to become a mirror, completely absorbing and reflecting that energy to kill the two monsters!

……

But the next moment—BOOM!

Daigo, who had prepared himself to die, was pleasantly surprised to see two streaks of light coming from the same direction, kicking Gorba away as he was about to launch.

Rumble…

The focus of energy was broken, and a beam of light, so bright it was unimaginable, was visible even from the other side of the earth, making the sky brighter.

That Great Unified Resonant Cannon tore a hideous scar across the sky.

"Next, we'll maintain the barrier. You give it your all and kill these two beasts!"

It was as if the voices of thousands upon thousands of people were echoing in Tiga's mind.

Daigo heard familiar voices in the phone; it was Shinjo, Horii, and Rena…

"Yes!" He nodded vigorously.

(End of this chapter)