Ultraman Legend of the Light Chaser

The researchers discovered that the vibration waves gradually stabilized within a certain range, and remarked that the situation was finally clearing up. Dr. Takada, however, stared at the person strapped to the experimental table, feeling a lingering unease.

“I heard it. I’ve been here, listening to their conversation.” Goroki Makoto’s eyelids were also tightly closed, his lower eyeballs swirling rapidly as countless images flooded his mind—himself as the vice-captain of the Night Raid Team, as Dark Mephisto, and about “the Lord.”

After realizing the true source of the power he sought, Goroki Makoto was even somewhat relieved that he had been stripped of the power of Dark Mephistopheles by the "Lord".

He must be a arbiter; power is a necessary reliance, but he cannot be a slave to power, let alone something that can bewitch people and corrupt their very being. If he truly succeeds, who will walk the world with such domineering power—the Dark Mephistopheles or Mizoroki Shinya?

Instead of killing him for his disloyalty, the "master" sealed his memories and placed him in a place under close surveillance by the white-clad cleaners. No one could predict what he would do next, but one thing was certain: it was to deal with Nexus and his host.

The current candidate is Saijo Nagi, who was tricked into coming to the laboratory. No matter what, she cannot do as they want!

"The fittest are considered 'inhuman' by those researchers. You may think you are still the vice-captain of the Night Raid Team, but they don't see you that way."

"Mizoroki Shinya, you haven't lost your power? Who is Dark Mephisto?"

"Nagi..." Her voice held a hint of helplessness: "You can check if the lab door can still be opened."

Saijo Nagi walked over suspiciously and found that the handle was indeed locked and could not be turned.

Out of professional ethics to obey orders, Saijo Nagi had some reservations about them carrying the second Dark Mephistopheles, a man who was more of a civilian than a suitor, into the laboratory, but she did not object to them outright.

Now that she found herself locked in the lab, she realized that she had been in the relatively simple execution department of the Night Raid Team for too long, to the point that she rarely considered what others were thinking.

As long as she could eliminate the alien beasts, she reclaimed much of her attention from other things.

She forgot that, as Goroki Makoto also said, there were researchers in TLT's research department with even more extreme views. They divided humans and alien beasts into two extremes, and anyone who had even a little bit of alien beast stuff on them was immediately pushed to the opposite side.

For example, infected humans who existed before the small alien beasts, or compatible individuals who also possessed alien beast vibration waves. In their eyes, they were probably already "dangerous creatures with humanoid forms."

Saijo Nagi doesn't mind losing her life on dangerous missions, but that doesn't mean she's willing to die in a place like this.

The Night Raid's short-handled pistols were ineffective against this specially reinforced door. She pulled out her shockwave gun, aimed at the latch, and fired repeatedly, the booming sound shaking the entire corridor.

……

"Gunshots? Hey—you guys!"

The man and woman standing at the entrance of the third laboratory raised their Divaite weapons, facing off against a patrol team near the research institute.

Kazuki Komon received news about Shota Koike and Jun Sakuma from Mitsuhiko Ishibori, and without thinking, he headed straight here. Shiori Hiraki followed him, leaving Mitsuhiko Ishibori in the control room to direct the patrol team to bypass the patrol.

The two managed to break into the third laboratory, bursting through the door just as the researchers were about to strike.

Kazuki Komon pointed at the researcher, whose face was full of disbelief: "Besides Mr. Sakuma's brother-in-law, have you discovered anything else?"

“Ishibori,” Shiori Hiraki asked, “where is the vice-captain’s signal?”

"The second laboratory, inside," Mitsuhiko Ishibori replied immediately, and showed the route from the third laboratory to the second laboratory: "Take the direction of the fourth laboratory, turn left at the second intersection, don't stop, don't go through the first laboratory, they've installed pulse weapons, in order to deal with Mizoroki Makoto."

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"Damn it, our vice-captain isn't your test subject!" The petite woman's fists were disproportionately heavy. She knocked the researcher unconscious with one punch, rolled to avoid the defense personnel's counterattack, and then rushed into their midst. With a few punches, kicks, and gun butts, she and Komon Kazuki beat down the five-man patrol team.

The two locked the lab door completely, then shot the researcher's access card along with the electronic lock, rendering it useless. This locked the latch, preventing anyone from opening it for a while. They decided to deal with the vice-captain's matter first, then blow up the door and take Koike Shota's body out to Sakuma Jun.

Meanwhile, Mitsuhiko Ishibori kept updating the patrol team's location, passing messages to Kazuki Komon and his companion while a smile played on his lips.

On the screen, all sorts of signals about TLT personnel began to converge on the second and third laboratories where the conflict had broken out. The Nexus occupants were locked up by their own people and were in a state of utter confusion. Samuel's human form must have also received news about Koike Shota and couldn't possibly not come over. The TLT team was overwhelmed by the sudden attack of Night Raid Team A. Wangchuan was extremely unstable at the moment—there was no more suitable opportunity.

"Ishibori? What are you doing?"

Mitsuhiko Ishibori abruptly stopped smiling and looked up to see Eifu Kazukura standing by the door.

It was rare for Eiji Kazukura to see Mitsuhiko Ishibori smile like that. He was usually the team's information analyst, providing technical support and often helping CIC with their work. He was known for his meticulous work ethic and was highly regarded. He sometimes had the habits of younger team members, but this look...

Kazukura Eifu secretly became more vigilant, wanting to go forward and look at his screen.

despair!

Mitsuhiko Ishibori closed the laptop lid and said in his usual tone when he was caught slacking off, "Ah, um... I found some information that's interesting?"

"You didn't attack the base's database, did you?" Eiji Wakura asked suspiciously. "Where did Saijo and Komon go?"

"them……"

Snapped!

Following the second and third laboratories, gunfire also erupted in the Night Raid team's control room.

Mitsuhiko Ishibori did not use firearms. They required drawing, loading, and firing, which was too troublesome. It was much more convenient to just throw the energy bullets.

He was like a car hit, thrown several meters by the sudden attack and crashing into a wall. Because he was indoors and not wearing a helmet, his skin was torn open and blood immediately covered the back of his head.

His vision blurred, and he lay on the ground, feeling as if he were hanging upside down from the ceiling.

The Night Raid Team's boots trod across the "ceiling," and with each step, almost illusory black smoke seemed to dance like dragons and snakes, casting a heavy shadow in the pupils of Kazukura Eifu.

The owner of the boots stopped beside him, and he was able to see the other's blurry outline through the reflection on the floor.

A mass of black, where the eyes should be, was a deep blue color. Thick, stagnant flames swirled around it, yet it was as clear as the sky after a wash.

"You... are not Ishibori."

“No,” the owner of those eyes whispered, like the tenderest lover, “I am Mitsuhiko Ishibori, Hajime Yamaoka, ‘Master,’ I am…”

"Dark Lucifer".

Chapter 161 Heartbeats of Hell

Alarms were sounded at the Third Base.

He heard no more instructions from Mitsuhiko Ishibori over the communication channel, but Kazuki Komon did not have the energy to check the situation in the control room. The ground beneath his feet was shaking, as if a giant python was turning over beneath him, and the building, which was filled with thousands of tons of concrete, was trembling.

Descend from this floor to the bottom marked on the map. At the end of the corridor, you'll find a hidden door. If you don't enter with the correct identification card, an alarm will be activated, and you'll be greeted with a powerful electric shock and laser beams. If you successfully enter, you'll see a narrow spiral staircase. After completing iris verification, the space will open up before you exit.

You will be given a corridor that is no different from the one above, like any ordinary passageway in this base, so ordinary that one might suspect it is just a storage room.

But apart from all the maps preserved inside TLT, it is locked away in the memories of those in the know, and it is the reason why the Third Base was built here.

The River of Oblivion, a place where humanity's memories of alien beasts are sealed.

"Crack..." Under immense stress, the floor finally gave way, and cracks began to appear at the corners, spreading deeper into the space. Komon Kazuki, Hiraki Shiori, and their pursuers no longer needed to consider escape or capture. The cracks widened rapidly, and they lost their footing, falling into the space of the next floor, tumbling together with chunks of concrete. The lights went out one by one from afar, plunging the underwater base into the gloom befitting a deep lake.

The sudden fall made Kazuki Komon feel as if a wad of tightly packed cotton was blocking his chest. It took him a while to catch his breath before he turned on the headlight on his helmet and saw what had happened.

Dark Mephisto, the puppet has been activated once again.

He was navigating through reinforced concrete and amidst the base's constant alarms, wading through concrete slabs. Large amounts of lake water were pouring in through the holes he had destroyed in the walls; without immediate rescue efforts, a significant number of people would likely drown in the sealed Freehold.

The meticulously constructed base was nothing more than tofu dregs that could be easily crushed before him. He didn't need to lift a finger; he simply moved forward mechanically, like a true puppet, observing everything from the meter-long fortifications filled with special materials to increase density and withstand nuclear blasts, to the integration of the visitors' technological achievements, using the beams of alien beasts as their hypothetical enemy.

All the defensive works were destroyed beneath his feet.

Inky flames accompanied him, and wherever he went, metal melted into droplets, and red lotuses bloomed on the ground.

Kazuki Komon saw a hellish "tunnel" at the end, enveloped in flames and steam, with a red glow emanating from the semi-cooled section nearby, faintly reflected on the gun he gripped tightly.

Legend has it that in hell, the most sinful ghosts are sealed in the lowest level and tortured. Their entire bodies are suppressed within the seal, unable to move, and they can only communicate with the ghost guards with their resentful eyes. Kazuki Komon suspects that he is in hell, where countless evil ghosts are sealed. The eerie red lights around him are the eyes of the ghosts. When a dark giant walks by, the ghost eyes open, lake water pours down through the gaps, white smoke rises, and the ghost eyes close.

The water level rose rapidly, reaching his calves. He helped up Shiori Hiraki, who had been struck and was unconscious by the collapsing wall, and found a higher spot for her to lean against. Then, he waded through the deep water, searching for a way out. The dark water reflected the "ghost eye" on the wall, and splashes of water created ripples of red light.

The Dark Giant is fond of the negative emotions of intelligent life. The River of Oblivion has a fatal attraction for him. Without any special orders, simply activating the puppet will make him instinctively drawn to the place that exudes a "sweet" scent.

The base was destroyed in the center by Dark Mephistopheles, and its structural support was only provided by the outer walls. Under the combined pressure of water and continuous small earthquakes caused by the River of Oblivion, the last remaining structure quickly collapsed. The best-sealed laboratory became the last "bubble" in this dying building.

Hearing the noise, the assistant researcher went out to check. He first stepped into a thin layer of puddles, and before he could even wonder what was happening, he stepped into a hole several meters deep. It was actually the floor below. He looked up blankly, and a half-person-high concrete slab rapidly enlarged before his eyes.

Faced with the collapse of this fortress built with immense financial, material, and human resources, both powerful figures and promising newcomers are equal in life and death as the unknown "cogs in the machine." Being crushed to death by a heavy object may be the best outcome; the worst is to lose the ability to move and watch helplessly as the water rises, the cold touch slowly engulfing one's airway.

The Third Base is like a ship sinking into the deep sea, with its portholes being the first to be breached. The moment the first window is smashed, the destruction of the entire behemoth begins its countdown.

Saijo Nagi heard the dying wails of the fortress, and the cries of many staff members whose names she couldn't even remember.

Having much better hearing than before isn't always a happy thing, like right now.

The dark giant continued forward, traversing the entire base, his powerful body pointing directly towards the Sealed Sea beyond the map.

Stop him! Stop him! Stop him!

The other candidate, also burned by the "flames," pulled out the transformation device.

The girl who futilely called for her mother in the forest has become a warrior with an iron will. That memory has become Saijo Nagi's nightmare, and the River of Oblivion is full of all kinds of nightmares about alien beasts—she will not let more people suffer in such long nights.

The cries of the man with two horns on his back and the shouts of Mizoroki Shinya are no longer important. She must stop that dark giant. Whether he is a civilian or not should be put last. He is now an accomplice of the alien beasts, an enemy who destroyed the third base and tried to seize the River of Oblivion!

Anger and hatred gathered in his chest, then burst forth from his throat!

"Strange, living, beast—!"

……

Kazuki Komon saw the light of Nexus in "Hell". It fell in front of the dark Mephisto. A ray of light was cut off and extended to the water. Several people trapped in the base in the ruins finally saw the outside air and sunlight.

The color crimson wrapped around the giant's body; the giant of light and the giant of darkness faced off in the narrow tunnel.

The doll paused briefly, then continued walking as if it hadn't seen anything.

His strength was greater than in their last encounter. Crucially, in such a confined space, Saijo Nagi had little room to maneuver, forcing her to confront him head-on. Using a throw, she tossed Dark Mephisto back to his original spot. Finally, the opponent grew impatient, unleashing a sudden burst of power that was difficult to avoid outside. Even Nexus, bracing his light shield, was forced back by the kinetic energy it carried.

【Snapped. 】

A crisp snap of the fingers.

The sound came from nowhere. Komon Kazuki pointed his gun behind his back, and the pale searchlight illuminated the empty water surface.

The black flames enveloping Dark Mephisto were like gasoline doused in gasoline, the sudden burst of flames nearly scorching Nexus's face. He calmly gathered his strength within that sun-devouring fire, his scarlet eyes seemingly fixed on Nexus, yet also like the River of Oblivion buried beneath a thick layer of earth.

Dark Ray Wave: Komon Kazuki hoped the light shield was still effective, but Mephisto's greatest effect in this attack was not to defeat Nexus here, but to keep pushing him back until he reached the gate of the River of Oblivion.