Ultraman: Invincible from Saving Tiga.

Chapter 346 Lin Yu: All the bad things were done by Noah and Old Deng
V99 exploration vessel, inside the bridge.

A group of aliens who look like upright cicadas are gripped by apocalyptic panic.

"[Question] (Captain, what's going on? Aren't we conducting non-contact observation from orbit?)"

The navigator's voice was shrill and distorted with fear, "[Confusion] (Why...why are we suddenly inside this planet's atmosphere?)"

"【captain】."

The communicator's antennae twitched wildly. "[Locked][Weapon][Warning][Approaching] (Locked by weapon system, high energy reaction approaching)!"

"【Confuse】"

The V99 captain's huge compound eyes suddenly narrowed. "[Confusion] (Locked in? Attack? Why? We didn't do anything.)"

It stared blankly at the clouds rushing past the porthole and the steel jungle below.

This is it, I'm doomed.

Entering the atmosphere of a planet is, to some extent, a declaration of war.

However, this ship of theirs, let alone weapons, doesn't even have a decent defensive shield. It's essentially a space sightseeing bus. If it gets hit, it won't even leave a complete corpse.

"[Sad] (Waaaaah—)"

An atmosphere of despair instantly enveloped the entire bridge, and a group of cicada people huddled together, emitting mournful cicada chirps.

"[Heartbroken] (My three hundred children are still waiting for me at home...)"

"【Surrender】(It's over, we're definitely going to be seen as invaders. Is it too late to kneel down and surrender?)"

Just as they were weeping in despair, dozens of destructive beams of light and missiles, trailing long plumes of flame, roared up from the ground and rapidly magnified in their compound eyes.

“Goodbye, everyone!” Captain V99 closed his eyes.

However, the expected explosion and death did not occur.

Instead, a gentle yet steadfast light shone forth.

A giant with red and silver hair had appeared in front of the spaceship at some point. He simply stretched out one hand calmly.

hum!
A circular barrier, resembling ripples of water, unfolded out of thin air, radiating a soft light.

All the missiles and beams vanished without a trace the instant they touched the barrier, like mud sinking into the sea.

The entire process was eerily quiet, yet it carried a chilling, insurmountable sense of absolute power.

Inside the bridge, the aliens who had narrowly escaped death stared blankly at the enormous figure.

"[Question] (What...what is that?)"

"[Giants] (Are they...giants from this planet?)"

"[Protection] (He...he seems to be protecting us?)"

A mixture of joy at surviving the ordeal and immense confusion welled up in their hearts at the same time.

At the SKaRD base, everyone was speechless in shock at this sudden turn of events.

"He...he blocked it?"

Taixin stammered, "The headquarters' volley attack, just like that... was blocked by him with one hand?"

"So strong..."

Hui Mei murmured to herself, a strange light flickering in her eyes, "Why did he protect that spaceship? Could it be... that there was more to the story than meets the eye back then?"

As Hiruma Gento looked at Nexus's calm and powerful back on the screen, he finally let out a long sigh of relief, picked up his coffee cup, and wanted to take a sip to calm his nerves.

"puff--!"

He sprayed a mouthful of scalding hot coffee solidly onto the control panel in front of him.

"So hot! So hot!"

The man suddenly shook his hand, feeling a burning pain in his right arm.

He subconsciously looked down, only to find that what was burning him wasn't the coffee at all.

The Blazeite on his wrist was radiating intense heat and vibrating violently, as if urging something on, expressing a primal and pure excitement.

The muscles at the corner of Genji's mouth twitched violently.

This guy
He could almost "hear" Blazer's incomprehensible, excited roars in his mind.

A vein throbbed on Xianren's forehead as he roared angrily in his heart.

"You bastard, who do you want to fight?!"

Under the night sky, Ultraman Nexus floated silently in mid-air, his figure as serene as a mountain.

His eyes, gleaming with a pale white light, looked down at the city below, which was now in turmoil because of him.

Since reasoning doesn't work, then fists are the only option.

Lin Yu's mind was clear.

He didn't come here to mediate the fight, nor to act as a peace ambassador.

He wanted to use the simplest, most brutal, and most effective method to shatter the contradictions of this world, along with the arrogance and prejudice hidden behind the scenes.

Croak! I'll defeat the whole world all by myself!
Either he defeats the world!
In short, after we defeat Earth, I'll have those aliens bring their people here. You two must shake hands and make peace in front of me. Then I'll drag out the troublemaking old man and show him what he's done.

Inside the SKaRD base, Gento Hiruma felt like his head was about to explode.

The Blazerite on his wrist was burning hot, like a branding iron. The primal, wild, and pure fighting spirit was frantically assaulting his reason through the connection between them.

Blazer wants to fight.

It wanted to fight the red and silver giant in the sky. In its simple, beast-like mind, if there was another of its kind, then it had to fight to determine who was the chief.

This is respect for strength, recognition of the opponent, and the hunting instinct etched into its very being.

To be honest, this instinct is a bit too wild.

"Calm down, you idiot!"

Gento roared in his heart at that will, "He is not the enemy!"

"Captain, orders from headquarters."

Teruaki Nagakura's solemn voice interrupted his inner roar, "Order my team to move out immediately, cooperate with the defense ground forces, and set up a perimeter for the target giant and the unidentified spaceship, and attack as appropriate."

The stringed man was completely stunned.

He looked up at the giant on the screen who had shielded the alien spaceship from all the gunfire, then looked down at the radiant stone on his wrist, which seemed ready to pounce. An unprecedented sense of absurdity washed over him.

He was ordered to fight that giant.

The Blaze inside him also wanted to fight that giant.

So, he's the only one in the whole world who thinks something's wrong?

"receive."

He gritted his teeth and forced out two words. As the captain, he had to obey orders.

He took a deep breath, his eyes hardening: "Taishin, Anri, Asgaron, attack!"

On the temporary front line outside the city, countless beams of searchlight pierced the night sky, illuminating the hovering V99 spaceship and Nexus guarding it as bright as day.

Rows of tanks adjusted their gun barrels, armored vehicles moved between positions, and fully armed soldiers relied on cover to build an iron defense line.

The temporary command post was set up behind the defensive line, and Nexus's figure was clearly visible on the huge mobile screen.

Commander Minoru Genkawa looked grim, and beside him, an elderly man with gray hair, wearing a lab coat, was staring intently at the screen, his face even more unpleasant than the commander's.

It was Minister Yuzuru Tsuchihashi who was urgently summoned from Gifu Prefecture.

"It's been an hour."

Chief of Staff Retsu Hachino glanced at the time, his voice hoarse, "An hour has passed since he appeared. His energy response shows no signs of weakening, and the timer hasn't even started flashing."

"He is not the Ultraman we know."

Yu Tsuchihashi's voice was hoarse and somber. "He's an anomaly, a monster. We must eliminate him along with that spaceship. This is absolutely the offensive."

He didn't say anything more, but everyone understood what he meant.

"All troops, heed my command."

Minoru Genkawa picked up the communicator and issued the final ultimatum, "Prepare for the second wave of the all-out offensive. Target, codename 'Nexus,' fire!"

The moment the command was given, the giant that had been standing still in the sky for so long finally moved.

Lin Yu quietly looked at the impenetrable formation below, a barely perceptible smile curving his lips.

Are you ready?
Originally, V99 was supposed to be the one to take down Earth. In the finale, he brought a bunch of spaceships, which confused humanity. They quickly sent out a "future" message, but things are pretty much as they are now. That's just how humanity is.

Give them a beating, and they'll know who's in charge. Then they'll naturally stop causing trouble and become more willing to listen to others.

Is this considered the fighting style of the Warrior of Light?
Lin Yu thought about it carefully and finally came to the conclusion: Never mind, it was Noah who did this, it has nothing to do with me, Lin Yu.

An old Deng: ? ? ?
He slowly raised his arms, assuming a strange pose in front of his chest. Pale blue light gathered in his hands like ripples on water, radiating pure yet powerful energy fluctuations.

"Meta Realm, launch!"

Lin Yu thrust his hands, which were gathering energy, toward the energy core in front of his chest, and then raised his right arm high into the sky.

boom--

Golden particles of light erupted from his body like a volcanic eruption, bursting into the night sky and transforming into a dazzling golden rainstorm.

These particles did not fall; instead, they intertwined in the air to form an enormous golden network that slowly descended upon the surroundings.

"Fire!"

In the ground command post, before Minoru Genkawa's roar had even subsided, a barrage of artillery fire tore through the air and roared toward Nexus. Dozens of fighter jets swooped down from the clouds, their missiles trailing flames, creating a deathly barrage.

However, a strange scene happened.

All the shells and missiles, upon contact with the slowly descending golden net of light, seemed to pass through a curtain of water, only creating ripples before passing straight through, as if the net of light did not exist at all.

"What's going on? The attack failed?" The command center erupted in an uproar.

But the next second, their smiles vanished.

The golden net of light descended completely, covering an area spanning tens of kilometers.

It encompassed Nexus, the V99 spaceship, all the tanks and artillery on the ground, all the fighter jets in the sky, and even the temporary command post at the rear.

The world before my eyes underwent a dramatic transformation in an instant.

Inside the command center, everyone was horrified to discover that the night outside the window had vanished.

Instead, there was a barren, reddish-brown landscape.

The sky was a deep, dark purple, devoid of stars and moon, except for some enormous, faintly glowing crystal stones scattered across the ground, providing illumination.

A strange smell of sulfur and metal filled the air; this was a desolate subspace devoid of any life.

This is the arena for real men.

(End of this chapter)