In Ultraman: Starting with the Battle Device

At this moment, the exhausted Gexek fired a last red light blast in an attempt to interrupt the artificial Tiga's attack.

Then it fell to the ground.

Then it turned into a ball of light and disappeared, eventually becoming a card that ended up in Raven's hand.

Liang, of course, witnessed this scene.

"You really are controlling the monster!" Liang said incredulously.

He had felt that Raven was suspicious from the beginning, not like an ordinary person. But he never thought that Raven could actually control monsters.

However, Raven doesn't seem like a bad guy.

"Shh." Raven made a gesture to keep it confidential.

“Next, there’s something even more surprising. Do you want to see?” Raven said to her deliberately.

"Surprised?" Liang couldn't think of anything that could surprise her more.

After all, what happened today was too outrageous. An artificial Ultraman, which I had never heard of before, suddenly appeared, and then I discovered someone who could control monsters.

All of this was changing her understanding.

"What do you think Ultraman is?" Raven suddenly asked her.

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Liang didn't understand why Raven suddenly asked her this question, but she still thought about it carefully for a while.

"They're probably aliens, but also partners of humanity," Liang said, offering his opinion.

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Chapter 147 Raven Makes His Move

“An alien? That’s half right,” Raven said with a smile.

Actually, aside from the Gaia universe, most Ultraman are indeed aliens, excluding their human hosts. However, Ultraman like Tiga and Dyna, whose consciousness is entirely dominated by their human hosts, should only be considered half-aliens.

"What do you mean?" Liang was a little confused about what Raven was trying to say.

Raven pulled the Sword of Evolution from his clothes at some point.

“Apharos.” Raven uttered his name in a very calm tone.

After the artificial Ultraman appeared, he no longer cared about whether his identity would be revealed.

Then, he was enveloped in light and instantly shot straight into the sky.

Liang was left speechless, dumbfounded.

"Ah... Ultraman Alpharos?"

Watching Raven's figure grow to a gigantic size in the sky, transforming into that mysterious silver Ultraman, made Liang feel as if he were dreaming.

“That person is Ultraman Alpharos…” Liang swallowed hard, saying in shock.

"Ryo! What's wrong on your end?" Nakajima called out through the communicator.

But Liang was still in shock and hadn't recovered.

On the other side, the artificial Tiga's beam release was interrupted by Gekko's final attack.

So he was preparing to recharge his attack on Dyna.

Dyna, lying on the ground, was powerless to fight back and seemed destined to be destroyed by the artificial Tiga.

Chief Strategist Gondo watched this scene with great anticipation. If they could defeat Dyna, they could prove to the world that their artificial Ultraman had enough power to protect the Earth.

"laugh!"

Just as the artificial Ultraman Tiga's beam was about to fall, a figure suddenly flew over from the sky.

A flying kick struck the artificial Tiga in the head, knocking it to the ground.

"boom."

The artificial Ultraman Tiga's body made intimate contact with the ground, raising a cloud of dust.

Raven landed on the other side, then turned to look at the artificial Tiga.

He then glanced around at the chaotic city, most of the devastation caused by the other side.

This made Raven feel somewhat ironic; this was the so-called artificial Ultraman created by their TPC.

Aihara Ryu would be moved to tears if he saw this tragic scene.

Does a puppet that only destroys and can't protect deserve to be called Ultraman?

"Damn it!" Gondo said angrily when he saw yet another troublemaker appear. "Number 1, show your strength and defeat Dyna and Alpharos!"

He had complete confidence in Ultraman Number 1 and didn't care about the consequences of provoking the Ultramen. After all, they could mass-produce hundreds or even thousands of artificial Ultramen like Number 1 in the future!

When the time comes, all alien invaders and dark evil gods will have to kneel before humanity! Just thinking about this made Gondo excited.

But at this moment, in the conference room of TPC Far East Base.

Except for Gondo, almost all the senior executives were present.

At this moment, Captain Hibiki angrily said to everyone, "Why did you agree to allow Advisor Gondo to arbitrarily test artificial Ultraman?"

"Didn't you see how much damage it caused after it appeared?" Captain Hibi pulled up the screen.

"We'll discuss this issue later. It seems that Project F has indeed achieved great success. I suggest that we loosen some restrictions on Staff Officer Gondo," a high-ranking official, clearly a hawk, said slowly.

“That’s right, I didn’t expect Gondo to make such a quick progress, haha.” The others chimed in.

Clearly, most of the higher-ups tacitly accept this attitude.

Director Fukami sat at the head table, remaining silent for a long time. To be honest, he wasn't comfortable in his position. Under the current strong leadership of the hawks, headed by Gondo, the entire TPC was clearly divided into two factions.

Moreover, the two previous major crises they experienced made these conservatives start to reflect on whether it was really a good thing to entrust the fate of humanity to Ultraman.

That sense of powerlessness led most conservatives to yearn for greater power, even if it was a dangerous one…

A tremendous sense of crisis compels them to accelerate their pace.

“Hibi, we know your opinion, but now the invaders in the universe are all eyeing our human civilization with covetous eyes. We are forced by circumstances.” A senior member of the conservative faction also began to persuade them.

"Ultraman's power is not so easy to control." As one of the few conservative high-ranking members who still held a reserved attitude, Megumi Kijima could only remind everyone of this.

“Man-made Ultraman is just like nuclear weapons in the past. Of course, there will be a price to pay for its use, but at the same time, it can also give the enemy a powerful deterrent,” said Nan Yun, a veteran of the hawk faction.

“That’s right,” the other hawks chimed in.

Megumi could only sigh, hoping that humanity would not go down the wrong path again.

……

On the other side, the artificial Tiga charged straight at Raven, each step shaking the earth. Raven stood still, waiting for the artificial Tiga to arrive before easily taking it down with an over-the-shoulder throw.

In Raven's opinion, this artificial Ultraman had too many flaws and relied entirely on brute force to attack.

In addition, since it has no sense of pain and doesn't care about being attacked, it was able to defeat Demacian so easily.

"Shh!"

After the artificial Tiga got up, it flew directly into the air. Its automatic control system seemed to sense Raven's threat and thus created some distance.

It immediately charged up and unleashed another beam attack.

Even with such a high frequency of using his ultimate move, the energy indicator light on his chest didn't even flash.

This surprised Raven somewhat; it seemed that the artificial Ultraman researched by TPC was quite impressive, as its expressiveness was much stronger than that of the artificial Dyna in the series.

"Let's settle this in one move!" Raven then chose to unleash his beam attack.

Photon streamlines!

The two beam attacks clashed in mid-air, and for a moment, neither could gain the upper hand.

But soon, Raven lifted his strength upwards, and the photon stream instantly engulfed the artificial Tiga's finishing beam.

"Boom!"

The artificial Ultraman Tiga fell to the ground from the sky, and the energy indicator light on its chest began to beep.

Raven thus figured out the strength of the artificial Tiga, which was roughly between an elite warrior and a near-legendary warrior.

But defeating it isn't difficult either. As long as you can take advantage of its mechanical combat weaknesses, turning the tide of battle is not hard.

But the fact that TPC could produce something of this caliber was still incredible to Raven.

Putting everything else aside, mass-producing a few hundred or a thousand of these man-made Ultraman would be enough to protect the solar system.

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Chapter 148 Cloning Experiments

"They actually lost?"

Staff Officer Gondo was somewhat incredulous.

Dr. Noda, standing to the side, was not surprised. As the person in charge of the research from beginning to end, he was well aware of the shortcomings of artificial Ultraman.

"Let it come back quickly." Gondo had no choice but to temporarily abandon his idea of ​​defeating Ultraman.

Therefore, upon receiving the order to retreat, the artificial Ultraman Tiga decisively flew away from the scene.

"Advisor Gondo, this is already the limit. If the power increases any further, it will become uncontrollable," Dr. Noda said.

"Out of control? Have you restricted its power?" Gondo asked, turning around, a glimmer of hope rising in his heart.

“That’s right. No. 1 is different from the others that are being mass-produced. If the restrictions are lifted after it is fully charged, its beam power will be enough to easily raze Tokyo to the ground,” Noda said solemnly.

"So strong!" Gondo was very surprised.

"That's why we don't fully charge it with energy and even impose restrictions, because it's just too dangerous," Dr. Noda sighed.

"Doctor, isn't there any way to safely control it?" Gondo tried to ask.

“There is a way, but you keep refusing,” Dr. Noda said deliberately.

He was referring, of course, to human cloning experiments.