Across countless worlds: Yearning to become a giant of light.

Chapter 17: That Year Zero Hadn't Been Nerfed

The moment Chen Lin finished speaking, his vision blurred, and he seemed to see a silver figure standing in front of him.

After nodding solemnly, the last trace of the other party turned into specks of light and flew into the towering monument.

It seems they have found peace.

Was that... my imagination?

At this moment, Chen Lin came to his senses and realized that neither Gao Leon nor Hikari had noticed the illusory figure from before.

After paying their respects at the monument for a while, Hikari took Chen Lin and prepared to return to the Space Garrison headquarters.

It seems like Mebius has been waiting for a long time.

"and many more!"

Suddenly, Gao Leon called out to the two of them from behind.

"Now that you have inherited Chaos's name, please do not let down the body he left behind."

"Of course."

Chen Lin nodded in reply.

"Thank you. As Chaos's comrade-in-arms, I have nothing to give you, but I hope this little bit of help can be of some assistance."

Gao Leong placed his hand on the timer on his chest, guiding a beam of light slowly towards the timer on Chen Lin's chest.

Soon, a card depicting Gao Leon's portrait appeared in the Dimensional Core's database, along with a series of his skills (such as the Specium Cannon).

"I will use it well!"

Chen Lin solemnly agreed.

After leaving the Ultra War Memorial Hall, Chen Lin and Hikari flew to the headquarters platform of the Space Garrison, where they found that Mebius had been waiting for them for a long time.

"Hikari, Chen Lin, where have you been?"

Seeing that the two had arrived in a hurry, Mebius asked in confusion.

"Is such that……"

Hikari briefly told Mebius about taking Chen Lin to the Ultra War Memorial Museum.

"Is that so... You inherited that senior's name."

Mebius listened with a mix of emotions, including some hesitation and confusion.

Should I treat Chen Lin, who inherited the name of his predecessor, as a junior or a new senior?

"So, should I call you Chen Lin now, or Chaos... senior?"

Chen Lin felt extremely awkward being addressed as "senior" and quickly waved his hand in reply:

"Just call me Chen Lin. I'm more used to human names. We can call me Chaos when we're doing business."

“Okay, Chen Lin, please come with me... I’ll show you around the Space Garrison Headquarters.”

Mebius gestured for Chen Lin to follow him.

"Then I'll head back to the Space Science and Technology Bureau first. If you encounter any problems, be sure to let me know. Your core has a communication function that connects you to the Space Science and Technology Bureau."

After completing the handover, Hikari turned and left, returning to the Space Science and Technology Bureau to organize the data he had just collected from Chen Lin.

Mebius then led Chen Lin on a tour of the outer perimeter of the Space Garrison headquarters. Apart from the Warriors Command and the Space Security Agency, which had been introduced in Neos TV, the largest unit near the Space Garrison headquarters was the Silver Cross Army, which served as a logistics force.

Most of the team members are female Ultraman.

"Hey, who's that unfamiliar face?"

"I've never seen him before, but... he's so handsome!"

"Is that Commander Mebius next to him? Is he a new recruit in the security force?"

"Wow... He, he's looking over here!"

These Silver Cross ladies are all veteran Ultra Warriors, but no matter how knowledgeable they are in the universe, they have never seen Chen Lin, who is a handsome guy who has inherited the good looks of 'Tiga'.

So when Mebius led Chen Lin past the Silver Cross Army base, it caused a commotion, forcing Mebius to give a brief introduction before slinking away with Chen Lin. The young ladies standing on the platform, watching Chen Lin's departing figure, were left behind, sighing in disappointment.

"Hahaha... Everyone is so enthusiastic."

Chen Lin touched his cheek, finally getting a direct feel for the lethality of his own good looks.

"...

Mebius remained silent.

He clearly hadn't expected Chen Lin's good looks to be so effective on the Ultra Warriors of the Silver Cross Army.

The two then continued their tour of the Ultra Arena and Ultra Space Port, the headquarters of the Space Garrison. The scene inside the Ultra Arena was exactly the same as when Chen Lin watched the Ultraman movie.

Members of the Space Garrison or young Ultra Warriors as reserve members train and compete here. The Space Garrison also holds regular promotion exams, branch competitions, and friendly matches between warriors from other planets belonging to the Galactic Federation.

According to Mebius, the building was designed to be structurally sound and not easily damaged even by powerful beam attacks.

"Can it withstand the M87 beam?"

Chen Lin's question left Mebius scratching his head, and he finally managed to say, "It's possible, but it can only hold them off for a moment."

"Drink up—!"

At this moment, a familiar battle cry coming from the arena platform caught Chen Lin's attention.

Looking up, I saw a warrior with two head-mounted spikes, a fierce look (to the Land of Light), and a red and blue color scheme on his body, whose style was completely different from the Ultra trainees around him.

At that moment, he kicked his opponent away.

"Heh~ You're still 20,000 years away from defeating me!"

His post-victory remarks were as arrogant as ever.

"Is that Zero?"

Chen Lin looked at the Ultraman protagonist who would be at his peak upon his debut in the future, only to be nerfed to the point of being practically 'on the side of the road'.

"He is powerful but arrogant. That's why Seven is worried about how to acknowledge him. I'm afraid that it will only embolden him and make him make an irreparable mistake."

Mebius's words naturally refer to Zero's attempt to seize control of the Plasma Spark Tower in the storyline.

Moreover, in this timeline without Belial, if Zero were to go astray, he might very well become the number one fallen hero of the Land of Light.

"By the way, there's a question I've always wanted to ask: who exactly is Zero's mother?"

Although everyone used to joke that King Joe was Zero's sister-in-law in the past, the blue color on Zero's body is actually the blue of the Guts alien. Especially after the appearance of the [Guts Alien Girl] in the Monster Anthropomorphism Project, her highly overlapping personality with Zero's makes people think in this direction even more.

But seriously, the other party should be a female Ultraman from the Blue Tribe.

It couldn't possibly be Annu, could it?

"Well... I don't know either. After all, it's Seven's privacy."

Mebius shook his head.

"Ok."

After visiting the Ultra Arena, the two quickly left the hall, but neither of them noticed a pair of eyes watching them from the arena platform.

"Commander Mebius? Hmm, the person next to him... is a completely unfamiliar face."

At this moment, Zero, with his arms crossed, no longer spoke with the arrogance he had just displayed.

"This pressure... is very strong!"

As he gazed at Chen Lin's retreating figure, Zero felt a long-lost sense of crisis, which made him even more eager to spar with Chen Lin.

"Try it out with him sometime."

Holy crap, I accidentally fell asleep.

I woke up at five o'clock...

It seems I still need to get some sleep after midnight.

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(End of this chapter)