Ultraman Legend of the Light Chaser

The harsh scraping sound was like fingernails scratching on a blackboard, making one's ears ache.

The customers, drawn by the noise, were puzzled. One of them shouted, "Boss, your cat is scratching at the door. You should buy it a scratching post!"

Michiko put down the tray and jogged over, whispering, "My dear, please don't disturb the guests." As she spoke, she picked up "Snow Top."

"Snow Top" reacted more and more violently, struggling incessantly in Michiko's arms. Anyone who didn't know better would think it was in a pet hospital, and the shop assistant was about to take it to the vet for an injection.

"The scratching post is upstairs. If you want to sharpen your claws, go up there yourself, okay?"

Michiko spoke softly, but "Snow Peak" shrieked as if she had been stabbed. With that howl that made all the guests involuntarily frown, the table began to tremble slightly, and ripples spread in the coffee cups.

Michiko felt the floor beneath her feet suddenly transform into a soft, thick carpet. Taking advantage of her momentary daze, "Snow Peak" darted out and slammed itself against the door with a dull thud.

It stood up unsteadily and stretched out its claws.

"Bah-"

The chandelier swayed slightly, and the guests noticed something was wrong.

"Bah-"

The tables and chairs swayed, and the guests stood up, some of them alert and running straight out the door.

"Bah!"

The guest suddenly pulled the door open.

At the same time, the concrete ground outside the door trembled and vibrated until it became visibly undulating, as if it had transformed from a solid to a liquid.

Tokyo residents have developed a conditioned reflex to this anomaly.

"A monster! Run—!!!"

The shout was like the starting gun; "Snow Peak" disappeared out the door in a flash. The staff told the customers not to push the door and to line up to leave. Mieko remembered Kinoshita Kei's instructions, so she went back to help Kinoshita Maho, preparing to ride their electric scooter to the nearest shelter.

The subterranean monster Gil has awakened again after a brief slumber.

This time, it wasn't Gob who awakened it, but...

Suburbs of Tokyo.

The blue giant withdrew the energy that had just been injected into the ground.

An invisible wave began to ripple from the surface, passing through the topsoil and bedrock, until it reached the lava's lava lava. Gilu's snoring stopped, and it opened its drowsy eyes, a pale blue light sweeping across its vision.

The light suddenly rushed towards its face, startling it. It swayed its tail and shrank back. The pale blue light hit the tip of its nose and silently shattered into small pieces like shards of glass.

A black, viscous substance

Something emerged from within, seemingly with a mouth, tearing open a slit in the middle, shouting "Earthlings!" as it rammed into Kiru's head.

The thick keratinous shell was useless in front of Him. Gilu felt a darkness before his eyes, and when he came to his senses, all he remembered was to rush up and eat.

"Why go up there to eat? Aren't the lava and soft rocks here tasty?" Kiru asked himself, still half-asleep.

“I don’t know,” Kiru replied.

The monster's massive body shifted, it went from lying down to standing up, and began to ram the rock formations above its head.

With each impact, the meticulously constructed cement road above would tremble. Kiru, as if possessed, desperately burrowed into the ground, causing the ground to undulate and twist into soft mud as if it had been soaked with water.

The tremors emanated from the ground and spread in all directions. The entire city seemed to be rocking in a baby's cradle, and crowds surged onto the streets, looking from a distance like long lines of ants migrating before a rainstorm.

Noise and panic, anxiety and chaos.

They grew wings, their plumage became full, and they passed through residential houses, office buildings, and commercial streets, from bustling main traffic arteries to the turbulent near-shore waters.

I looked past the half-finished document, the computer that hadn't been turned off, and the still-warm coffee that had been abandoned.

Invisible wings spread out, blotting out the sky and the sun.

—It ended abruptly with a cold snort.

It fell before the Dacheng Hall, like a resounding bell striking into a dense and solid brocade.

The roof of the palace.

The afternoon sun was warm and the breeze was gentle.

The guardian of the earth veins, clad in a moon-white feather robe, leaned against the green tiles. He held a fan handle in one hand and slowly unfolded the fan with the other. A dark dragon stretched its limbs on the fan, raising its head to point to the sky.

Outside Tokyo, the landscape was in turmoil.

The ground within East City trembled—not from Gil or the Blue Giant's power, but from the aftershocks of the activated ley lines.

Renlong coldly gazed at the blue giant standing in the suburbs, while flowers in Ueno Park drifted down in the wind.

“I told you not to wander around, Agul…” he said, “You didn’t listen to the dragon’s advice, and now you’ve suffered the consequences.”

……

Ground.

Kiru, feeling dizzy and as if possessed, suddenly stopped moving.

"Awoo?" The monster looked up.

A strange, familiar yet unfamiliar aura washed over me, like being doused with ice water on a sweltering summer day.

"Waaaaah!!!"

There is really water!

Why would a flood rush into such a place?

Gilu was carried back underground as quickly as he had been to the surface. It wasn't that Gilu had slept too long and become too hungry, but rather that the water seemed to have grown hands.

They "grabbed" the monster and tied it tightly. Gilu was like a cannonball that had been fired backwards. He was carried back to the lava nest by the unusually strong and powerful current of water and crashed to the ground.

The water that bound it didn't know how to handle it gently, and it almost caused Gil to spit the lava bomb in its belly into its own nest, blowing up the old house.

Then, the water flow suddenly slowed down, and tons of water thoroughly washed its nest inside and out, while also giving special attention to its not-so-clear head.

Seeing the lava nest cooled into a stone house, Gilu, heartbroken at losing his dining room, blinked repeatedly, almost bursting into tears.

"Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo!!!" (Renlong, I was wrong!!!)

Kiru settled himself into his den, clinging to it tightly no matter how much the voices in his head clamored.

"Go eat the Earthlings!" the dark thing shouted.

"Then I'll be turned into a lava ball first!" Gilu resolutely lay still, refusing to move an inch.

"Eat them, revenge, revenge, revenge!" The black thing tried to control Kiru's hands and feet.

Gilu pounced on his right paw with his left paw, and his tail tangled around the hind leg that was trying to push upwards.

"No, not even if it means death!"

Chapter 100 Reboot

GUARD has records of unusual heat sources and suspected monster presences around the world, and intelligence agencies are highly sensitive to these specially marked locations.

Now, the blue giant is "visiting" these important locations one by one.

Scattered surveillance footage from various locations shows that after the blue giant gathered energy in his right arm, he slammed it into the ground, and rings of light seeped into the soil. Although there was no movement underground at the time, shortly after the giant left, the abnormal heat source reaction there skyrocketed, and the monster alarm could pierce people's ears.

He first went to the outskirts of Tokyo, where small earthquakes were occurring frequently, then headed to Mount Chichibu, where a gray monster had already emerged. Meanwhile, the Blue Giant was awakening monsters in America, and the local GUARD branch had been mobilized, with fighter jets taking off, ready to point their guns at him at any moment.

This was really bad news; XIG's three fighter squadrons had to split up.

The head of Lizard broke out in a cold sweat. He immediately reported the news and then drove himself to the nearest location, Mount Chichibu.

The Cool Dragon team's fighter jets had arrived first. When the gray monster crawled out of the mountain, it was obviously not clear about the situation. When it saw anything that could move, it was like a rabbit seeing an eagle—not the timid kind, but the kind that kicks its legs in a hurry.

The mountains were deserted, save for the rustling of the wind through the trees. Further away lay the towns nestled at the foot of the mountains, still in the midst of development, with new construction sites and renovation projects scattered throughout.

"Swoosh—" The sound of cutting stone, the sound of heavy objects being hoisted.

The creaking and the muffled sounds of machinery mingled together, carried by the wind across the valley, and reached Gömenos's ears.

"The monsters have started moving!" exclaimed Tadano Kei, a member of the Cool Dragon Team. "They're heading straight for the city?!"

"Initiate the blocking operation, echelon attack formation," Captain Inashiro Miho gave the order and then asked the Ariel base, "What's the situation at Mihoyama? We're out of reserves."

"The operation at Mount Miho is not over yet. Team Lightning is cooperating with Gaia to stop the monster's actions," said Ayaka Ukai. "Team Hercules will be heading to Mount Chichibu later."

"Stop the monster?" Miho Inashiro suppressed her doubts and focused on the present moment.

Mabel Mountain.

Team Lightning and Gaia are still fighting against Zonair, the first monster awakened by Agul.

“A high concentration of energy was detected inside its carapace!” Georgie reported.

Upon hearing this, Dahe Yuan Congzhi released his finger from the launch button. He had just aimed at the glittering part on Zhong Naier's back, which was obviously some kind of energy crystal. Breaking it would usually severely injure the monster.

"Is there a detailed analysis?" Akio Ishimuro asked.

“Yes,” Georgie pulled up the report from Geo Base, quickly scanned the lengthy explanation, and extracted the key points: “Simply put, that shell is like a sun inside; if the energy inside is released on the spot…”

The fixed map of Kanto on the screen was instantly covered by a red halo.

Kajio Katsumi immediately informed Gaia of this conclusion through a loudspeaker. The photon energy that had been gathering on Gaia's forehead vanished instantly, and he stopped charging up his light and clenched his fist again.

“In other words, we need to guard against our own weapons damaging the shell, and also prevent it from being disturbed into becoming emotionally unstable and releasing its own power…” Chiba Tatsumi stepped forward, his round face meeting Ishimuro Akio’s square face: “Isn’t there any way to deal with this?”

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