Ultraman Legend of the Light Chaser

“Don’t you know how to create space? Go there for a while, and they’ll lose their target and continue monitoring the aliens!” Beloff thought he didn’t understand how Badbu worked, so he explained, “Not to mention the dead program like Gobnew, even among the first generation of omnics with individual consciousness, few would deny the ‘Father of Omnics’ long-cherished wish—to maintain order in the universe as the highest principle, which is exactly the same as the Naga’s ideal!”

“Their primary target is still the aliens they deem worthy of surveillance. You only attracted their attention because of my Buddb,” Samuel moved incredibly fast, without needing Beloff's direction, he had already spotted a Buddb that had traveled a long way. Beloff felt his tour guide's rapid-fire delivery wasn't enough: “Hey! What are you going to do with them!”

“You said you would make amends for your mistakes, and now they’re here,” Samuel said.

Beloff thought this "Earth monster" must have something wrong with its head: "Can't you understand me or am I using Earth language wrong? Their target is aliens, what's it to you!"

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, Bei

For Love, making the decision to demolish his own home was already an unprecedented feat. He never imagined that he would be going against his "colleagues," especially since they were targeting aliens who were in conflict with Earthlings.

But Samuel showed no sign of stopping. He locked onto one of them, separated by the asteroid belt: "The conflict between aliens and Earthlings is a completely different matter from Budb's surveillance and extermination of 'threatening' civilizations."

Although Beloff is an android with an awakened personality, he spends his days with Gobnew and the others; Samuel, though seen as an "Earth monster" by them, actually has many friends from the universe—not to mention the billions of creditors, even Gob and Bats are enough to prevent him from crudely classifying all life in the universe into the same group and making sweeping generalizations.

Beloff himself thought that Bardb’s approach of “maintaining cosmic order” by restricting the development of civilization was extreme. How could Samuel let Bardb do whatever he wanted just because his actions were beneficial to him for a time?

Based on the cases he had seen at TPC over the years, it was always the case that unscrupulous project leaders would steal the research results of their scoundrel team members. The trope of the wicked getting their comeuppance was satisfying, but it was absolutely impossible for Samuel to support a team leader stealing someone else's work.

“The TPC will handle the crimes committed by the aliens on Earth,” Samuel said, having arrived in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. He placed Beloff’s projection equipment on a small meteorite. “There are too many of them for me to take care of. See you later.”

"Hey!" Beloff craned his neck to look at him. If he had a body no different from that of an Earthling, his face would have turned a deep purplish-red by now.

His shadow flickered, as if it were leaking electricity.

“That’s the intact Badbu! Three!” Beloff wanted to curse, but his voice couldn’t carry at all; the air on this broken meteorite was so thin that not even a feather could be blown.

“Yes, they are dangerous. I shouldn’t have just left you here.” Samuel “understood” what he meant. He dug a deeper hole, carefully buried the equipment containing the data and projection, backfilled it with soil, and then stomped on it several times with his heavy claws to compact it properly.

Beloff's projection disappeared; you can't expect to project through a "wall" several meters deep, not even with alien technology.

During the backfilling process, Beloff became very agitated. Samuel apologized repeatedly, saying that he knew being buried in the ground was unpleasant, but even so it was safer than being in the Meta domain. He didn't have much energy to take care of an aging piece of precision equipment if a real fight broke out.

The two were talking at cross purposes; no, to be precise, it was Samuel, who possessed telekinesis, having a one-sided conversation, while Beloff, who didn't understand telekinesis and was so angry that he forgot to project the text, silently cursed in his native language.

"All you know is data!" These were Beloff's last words before he cut off the projection: "Are you an omnic or am I?! Are you Earth monsters more obsessed than your own researchers?!"

Samuel wasn't fluent enough in the alien language to read lips, so he could only tell that Beloff was furious and stomped on the soil a few more times to make the equipment more secure.

There was another reason he didn't mention.

“No matter how determined you are, it’s still heartbreaking to see a ‘colleague’ fall before your eyes,” Samuel thought.

He didn't think that the "God of War" Budd, created by the mechanical civilization that aliens feared, could defeat him. Beloff was so nervous that he took the initiative to jump out and report the news, while Samuel still had the leisure to speculate on his emotions.

Another thing is that Samuel seems to understand why some civilizations in the universe have not made much progress over the years, and some are even going back to the wrong path.

The omnipotent creators, who had "order" as their ideal, almost achieved their goal: to eliminate all destabilizing factors in their infancy, and even if they escaped, they would be tracked down like the Naga ships, forcing them to hide themselves most of the time.

The loyal androids steadfastly upheld their mission until the day they could no longer move.

Chapter 144 Alien Beast Factor

Sosuke, Paradia, and Amui returned to the Demon Realm.

Under the pitch-black night sky, there were chaotic footsteps everywhere, as if a train had come in, crashing and breaking branches and turning over soil like a surging tide, and everyone was scattering and fleeing.

Sosuke could see clearly. Since his body had changed, he could see many things at night—those running away were rats, beetles, and birds. Their faces showed human-like fear, and behind them, a pair of feet that looked like they were made of cast metal easily crushed trees that would take several people to hug.

The feet of an alien.

Manon Starman.

Even though she is not good at fighting, the young lady who is well taken care of by her butler has amazing destructive power.

Sosuke was stunned until Paradia and Amui pulled him away from his side, bringing him back to his senses.

“Giants,” he said.

“I saw it,” Paradia’s expression was obscured by the night, and Sōsuke only heard her say indifferently, “Even if you like giants, you should escape to a safe place first before you look at them.”

Amui broke off a blade of grass and put it in her mouth, then suddenly said, "Tiga is here."

Before the words were even finished, a bright light burst forth from the very ground beneath the feet of the Manong alien.

At that moment, the world seemed to turn into black and white.

The excessively bright light left black spots on his retina, but Sosuke's eyes didn't blink. He saw light particles burst forth like sparks blown by the wind, swirling back into the sky and rising slowly from beneath the feet of the Manon aliens.

Until it is level with it.

As if all the gloom could be dispelled, Sosuke couldn't help but take half a step forward.

"Don't go," Paradia told him, urging him not to get too close.

The wind is blowing.

Even a simple gesture from the enormous creature could stir up a fierce wind.

“Like TPC-α,” Sosuke thought.

They turned back and found a dense thicket to hide in, the wind blowing overhead. Sosuke felt as if he were back at the air force's airport, with Yota flying the enviable Alpha, while he crouched beside the ground crew, the shadows of the wings sweeping past their heads.

The dull thud of the blows was deafening. It was Tiga who stopped the Manon alien. He knocked him back with a shoulder ram. The Manon alien awkwardly assumed a fighting stance, only to be met with a head-on blow.

Sosuke wasn't unfamiliar with Titan battles. Back when Golza appeared, he regretted not having witnessed it firsthand and watched the video repeatedly until he knew it by heart. He could predict the next scene the moment Tiga raised his hand.

But the feeling now is completely different, completely different from when I watched Tiga defeat Gakuma from afar on Kurara Island.

Sōsuke's eyes and ears could capture more details and better perceive the horror within—and the disparity.

“Tiga is so strong,” he exclaimed. “I thought that if I encountered that crazy woman from Planet Jupiter again, I wouldn’t be chased to the point of having nowhere to hide. But if she can also become a giant like this alien, I’ll have no choice but to run away.”

Amui's gaze followed Tiga's movements, lost in thought, the grass stems trembling as he bit them.

Paradia, standing behind Sosuke and Amui, didn't look at the more conspicuous giant, but instead kept staring at the back of Sosuke's head.

The back of his head, though concealed by a hood, still revealed a strange outline. Paradia knew it was covered by a bony shell, like a mythical beast with sharp horns.

Having accepted the power from the "tomb keeper," he will eventually become a monster like him.

The Kirieloids experimented on countless individuals. Initially, they attempted to recreate the giant's form, finding the aging Amui. Later, they tried to replicate the "glory" of the ancient past, discovering Paradia's remains in a well-preserved tomb.

Her body was already withered, but if you peeled off the skin, you could find that there was still a faint activity near the bones—it was hard to believe that Kirielod had extracted unknown energy there.

This is where they came to realize the true value of the "tomb keepers".

A monster that follows Solka is not weak, but it is not so powerful that all aliens avoid it like the plague.

In their early days, when aliens were researching monster weapons, they also included samples of the "Tomb Keepers" organization. They discovered an energy source with an extremely low survival rate but exceptional quality, which led to the development of power bays centered around monster corpses, similar to the Reicuran alien spaceships.

Unfortunately, those monster corpses can never stand up, or even open their eyes to see the world. If energy isn't continuously and steadily drawn from them, these monster bodies will multiply until they fill the incubation chamber, and no one knows what kind of flesh they will develop into.

The development seemed to have reached its end, but the Kirieloids discovered another path in the remains of the ancient human, Paradia.

The Kirielods call it “guidance,” but Paradia believes the word “infection” is more appropriate.

The life modifications they typically use are completely unsuitable for the cells and tissues taken from the "tomb keepers".

The Kirieloids discovered that the most suitable approach was not to directly bestow a physical form upon the individual, injecting the "tomb guardian's" power into it like a potent drug, as this often backfired. Instead, they chose a sufficiently healthy individual and allowed the "tomb guardian's" power to give it a completely new form—the transformation itself could be accomplished.

Paradia felt it was like a virus, infecting and invading a healthy body, and no one knew what kind of mutations would occur next, or what fate awaited the body's owner.

Her perception was very close to the truth; in another world, it was called the "Alien Beast Factor."

She stared intently at Sosuke's back, his spine bent as he leaned forward, the tiny, distinct new bones beneath his skin making a crisp, crackling sound. She knew that those bones were constantly growing, which was why Sosuke had become a giant over two meters tall and suffered from sleepless nights due to the pain of his physical transformation.

But Sosuke didn't complain much. Paradia, following her "father's" instructions, lied to him, saying, "We are treating you to slow down the mutation."

As time went by, Sosuke gradually lost hope of returning to human form. One night, unable to sleep again and resorting to bullying the demon fish for amusement, Sosuke encountered Number Twelve, Paradya.

She seemed to have just finished arguing with someone. Sōsuke saw the back of another Paradia, also known as Number Thirteen, and heard the last sharp echo in the air.

"Then go ahead and report me! Let me die! I feel disgusted just hearing the name Paradia!" That's what she seemed to say.

Sosuke turned to leave, pretending he'd never been there, to avoid being silenced by the enraged woman. But Paradia called him back, so Sosuke had no choice but to sit down obediently, shrinking his two-meter-tall frame like a schoolchild listening to his teacher's lecture.

"Even clones wouldn't like being constantly compared to their 'original parent'," she said, seemingly still angry.

Her words were sharp and direct, completely unlike the "Paradia" she usually portrayed.

“I remember your name is Fujisawa Sosuke?” After a moment of silence, Paradia asked.

The two-meter-tall "elementary school student" nodded, feeling somewhat pleased. He strained his already difficult-to-pronounce throat and said, "I've been changing every day lately. You can still recognize me? It seems things aren't so bad."

“I can recognize her even when she’s turned to ashes,” Paradia said. “Unlike me and Number Thirteen, who were burned to ashes. This handful is Paradia, and that pile is Paradia too.”

She smiled, resting her chin on her hand: "Have you been to the back mountain? There are so many graves there. They can't be destroyed because they might be used as research samples someday. Each grave is marked with a name, from number one to seven, seven Amui, then number ten, eleven, and fourteen and fifteen, four Paradia."

That night was deep and dark. Ugly fish with fangs floated belly up in the river, and a three-legged bird fell from a tree because two of its legs and wings were fighting. Everything seemed absurd and bizarre.

Paradia, number twelve, said something equally absurd and bizarre: "If you are burned to ashes, I will definitely remember that your name is Fujisawa Sosuke. If I am burned to ashes first, can you write a name for me next to it? Just call me number twelve."

Chapter 145 Liberation

"I don't want a quack like you to write down my name," Cangjie thought to himself.

He was annoyed by his own transformation and thought that the god Kirielod that Paradia boasted about was a quack doctor who was light-years away from the barefoot doctor.

Otherwise, why hasn't it gotten better after so long of treatment?

He deliberately turned his head away and remained silent. Paradia pressed him for a few more questions before he finally said in a muffled voice, "You don't need to write my name down. I... Aya will definitely recognize me, as well as my captain, and Yota and Ralf."

Paradia laughed as she memorized the name he mentioned. She knew that the captain Sosuke spoke of was the "Grave Keeper" whom the Kirieloids were wary of, and she also knew that those infected would eventually become the same monsters.

Isn't that unfair? Just like Paradia's clones and their originals. The genuine article is always itself, while the replicas either lack a sense of self from the start or gradually lose it.

Sosuke kept staring at the giant, but Paradia didn't know that when she looked at him again, she felt more pity than anything else.