Heroes Return

“That’s right!” Torus said. “The information on every superhero is highly classified!”

"Not necessarily, hahahahaha!! Have you forgotten? These days, there's no such thing as unleashed information. Even the personal data of S-class heroes, there seem to be hundreds of high-ranking officials in the World Government who have access to such information... But I won't tell you who they are, hahahahaha!! We can play a game of catching traitors sometime."

With a wild laugh, Ivan disappeared from everyone's sight once again.

"Do you really believe this madman's words?" Captain Justice asked Rocky.

“You should know that Ivan won’t lie to us at this point, after all, we’ve known this madman for many years,” Torus said, looking at Captain Justice.

"Even you believe this?" Captain Justice asked, looking at Torus.

“It’s not that I believe it, it’s that I have no choice but to believe it,” Torrus said. “This has happened more than once in my investigations.”

“In that case, we will definitely catch the real culprit, but we still need to resolve things here first!” Captain Justice said to Rocky, “Speaking of which, it’s been five years since we last clashed.”

No sooner had he finished speaking than a giant sword suddenly appeared in front of him: "Go help capture that fake Zero Bar Captain. I want to deal with Rocky myself!"

"Alright." With that, Captain Justice flew towards 'zero' in the sky.

Zero, who was entangled with the Son of God, dodged the attack of the Captain of Justice and looked at the buildings that had been destroyed by the aftermath of the battle. Then, an electronic mixed voice rang out from him.

"If we keep fighting here, it will eventually affect the ordinary citizens who haven't escaped H City yet. Come with me, I also have some scores to settle with you!" With that, 'Zero' flew off in another direction.

"I said, we must pursue!" As the Son of God spoke, a beam of light was cast upon him, and he flew towards Zero. Captain Justice also flew towards Zero in the same direction.

“Let’s help too!” Eileen said to Kira.

“We’re going, you’re staying,” Claude said to Eileen.

"Hey? Why?"

“That battlefield isn’t right for you, this place is more suitable,” Kira said to Irene. As he spoke, a portal appeared beside him, located precisely on the sea closest to H City. “They should be heading this way.” Kira then said to Cloud, “Let’s go…”

The two disappeared into the portal, leaving Eileen alone to sulk.

"So what do you plan to do? Fight me first, and then go after the victor is decided, or go after the madman first?" Loki asked, looking at Torus.

"Is there even a question?" Torus stared intently at Loki and said, "Of course, we should take care of that madman first, and then we'll deal with our problem!"

"Haha! This is the Torus I remember!" Loki laughed as he looked at Torus.

“Five years have passed, Rocky. Some things have changed, but some things haven’t,” Torus said to Rocky.

“So next, it’s time to deal with this damned guy,” Rocky said. “Some things have changed, and this time I’m going to kill him!”

“I never intended to let him live,” Torus said. “From the moment he killed Blade’s wife and daughter, I never intended to let him go.”

As he spoke, the greatsword in Torus's hand returned to its normal size.

“It’s been a long time since we’ve worked together,” Rocky said, looking at Torus.

“That’s right.” Torus looked at Loki. “However, our power is limited, and we can’t use too much power, otherwise the hostages in the building will be in danger.”

"It seems everything is within this damned madman's calculations," Torus said, frowning.

"Eileen, this is when we need your strength," Rocky said to Eileen, who was standing to the side acting as a decorative figure.

"Hey hey hey? Finally, I get a chance to shine?" Eileen said excitedly to Rocky.

“Of course, we need you to break through those plants,” Rocky said.

"Okay, no problem, leave it to me!" Eileen cheered excitedly. Then, she lightly tapped the ground with her toes, and an invisible shockwave spread outwards from her. At that moment, all the cars in the parking lot around her transformed into Autobots. Not only that, but a large number of Autobots appeared from outside, numbering easily over a thousand!

"Autobots, transform and roll out! Yahoo!" Erin cheered, issuing the order to all the Autobots: "Kill those damn plants!"

……

"Dave, a huge wave of Transformers is coming. Ahahaha! It's finally our turn to play, ahahaha! I've been waiting impatiently." Evan said to Dave in the office.

Immediately afterwards, a scene reminiscent of Plants vs. Transformers unfolded once again in the plaza in front of the building.

"Everyone, follow behind us!" Torus shouted to the other group of superheroes. Although the conversation had been a bit startling, the heroes instinctively chose to obey the SS-rank commander's orders.

"How long has it been since we fought together?" Rocky asked.

“Five years and six months,” Torus said.

"That's been a really long time."

"Yes!"

As they spoke, the two rushed toward the building's entrance.

……

In the sky, on another helicopter, a young and beautiful female reporter happily said, "I've caught a big news story this time! I believe I'll be promoted soon."

Many people recognized the man carrying the camera; it was Togami: "I want to go down and fight, I don't want to film here!"

"No, have you forgotten our agreement? You're going to be my photographer today."

"But I never expected this to happen." Before Togami could finish speaking, he was surprised to see that she was already wearing a flight suit: "What are you going to do?"

"Compared to news of superheroes teaming up to fight bad guys, a free-for-all battle of SS-class superheroes is much more interesting." The female reporter said to Togami, "Let's go, there are already a lot of reporters here, it's not an exclusive story."

As he spoke, he jumped out of the helicopter to the astonishment of the others.

"Damn! Your way of courting death is truly unique!" Without a second thought, Togami donned a flight suit and gave chase...

Chapter 19

As a massive earthquake suddenly struck the city, Lin Jie leaped high into the air, sweeping his spiked club horizontally to the side. A powerful shockwave spread through the air as the club swept across.

A beautiful woman with a pair of red wings on her back appeared right next to Lin Jie. As soon as she appeared, she was blown away by the oncoming air current. However, as Anya was blown away, she threw the blood-red spear in her hand towards Lin Jie.

Lin Jie had clearly anticipated her next move, and held his large spiked club horizontally in front of him, directly blocking the spear that was powerful enough to pierce through most of his armor.

The moment the crimson energy touched the spiked club in Lin Jie's hand, the massive red energy went berserk, engulfing Lin Jie and shrouding the entire street beneath his feet in a violent crimson glow. Those who hadn't had time to escape looked up in astonishment at the apocalyptic scene unfolding in the sky.

The sky above the entire street was shrouded in blood-red light, and Anya floated quietly in the sky, as beautiful and crimson as a judgment angel descending from the apocalypse.

"What a powerful man, huh?" Anya smiled as she looked at the source of the crimson energy eruption, where Lin Jie was currently enveloped in the turbulent currents. "Unfortunately, to show my loyalty to Lord Zero, I still have to kill you, but I will remember you..."

Before she could finish speaking, a powerful shockwave erupted from the energy turbulence, instantly dispersing the powerful and violent crimson energy. Lin Jie's figure then emerged from the energy turbulence.

To Anya's surprise, Lin Jie, who had taken a bullet from her head, only had some tears in his clothes, and the rest of his body was unharmed. At this moment, Lin Jie was still in a swinging motion with his spiked club.

"Are you out of your mind? I have some things to do. If you want to fight, I can keep you company later, okay? Although being pestered by a beautiful woman is a great thing, I still need to deal with that leech right now." Lin Jie said helplessly, "Although you are a beautiful woman and haven't done anything bad, if you plan to continue pestering me, I'll have to be a little ruthless."

"Really?" Anya chuckled as she looked at Lin Jie. "What else do you have..."

Before she could finish speaking, Lin Jie vanished from her sight. The next second, Lin Jie reappeared behind her, his hand aimed directly at Anya's neck.

It was almost invisible to the naked eye when Anya was struck on the neck with a palm strike.

Lin Jie, who had knocked Anya unconscious with a single palm strike, immediately caught her to prevent her from falling to the ground due to loss of consciousness.

The two of them flew towards the top floor of a building. Lin Jie originally planned to just put Anya on the roof and leave, but the moment he put Anya on the roof, Anya's eyes suddenly opened, and a red dagger stabbed straight towards Lin Jie's abdomen.

Fortunately, Lin Jie's reaction speed was much better than the others. Just as the dagger was about to pierce Lin Jie's lower abdomen, it was caught by two fingers that Lin Jie extended. Anya tried to push it forward, but still could not get any closer.

However, Anya was not discouraged by her failed sneak attack. Her two wings quickly curled towards Lin Jie. Each red feather on her wings transformed into a dagger.

Faced with a barrage of daggers, Lin Jie yelled "Damn!" and quickly retreated a few steps, dodging the feather's attack range.

"Are you ever going to stop?" Lin Jie said, looking at Anya who had stood up again.

“Killing you would end it all.” Anya looked at Lin Jie and said, “No wonder he’s the man who could move my heart! I never imagined he had such great strength. If it were still the old me, I probably would have been asleep for hours after that attack. But thankfully, I’m not the old me anymore.”

"If you like Zero, then go find Zero! Why are you chasing me here? Hasn't Zero already appeared in H City?" Lin Jie said helplessly, "Why are you chasing me?"

“I can’t help it, ever since that night, your image has been constantly on my mind.” Anya said, looking at Lin Jie. “It makes me feel like I’ve betrayed Lord Zero, so in order to prove my purity and loyalty to my beloved Lord Zero, I have no choice but to kill you. So, could you please die?”

"Why are you making it sound like a young married woman having an affair is planning to kill her lover to silence him? Nothing happened between us!!"

That's about it.

"Damn! I had no idea I had such a terrifyingly obsessed fan!" Lin Jie thought helplessly as he looked at the beautiful woman in front of him.

“I admit you’re very strong. That’s probably why my Holy Mark reacted to you.” Anya said, her crimson spear transforming into a crimson longsword. “If it were the old me, you would have defeated me easily. Heh, but I can’t be defeated by you now, because my body and soul have already been given to Lord Zero. After I kill you, I’ll go and take down that actor impersonating Lord Zero.”

After she finished speaking, powerful energy gathered on the longsword in Anya's hand, and a faint red light flickered on the sword.

"This is..." Seeing this convergence of energy and the sword intent emanating from the blood-red longsword, Lin Jie couldn't help but think, "Holy crap!"

However, Anya on the other side didn't give Lin Jie much time to think. She swung her sword at Lin Jie.

In an instant, it was as if all the light in the world had been drained away, and all the light dimmed. At this moment, only a red light remained in the world, attacking Lin Jie.

This sword strike was impossible to dodge.

Faced with this powerful sword strike, Lin Jie sighed, then raised his spiked club and made a swinging motion. In that instant, the massive club collided with the crimson light that had changed the very fabric of the world.

……

The raindrops pattered on the rooftop, and the red glow between heaven and earth vanished in an instant upon impact. Only the gloomy sky and the drizzling rain remained.

Lin Jie remained standing on the rooftop of the building, but the demon wolf-tooth club in his hand had been cleaved in two. The area extending outwards behind Lin Jie had been completely severed from top to bottom, making the building behind him appear like a narrow strip of sky in a canyon, stretching endlessly backwards.

"This is impossible! How are you alright?" Anya stared at Lin Jie in shock: "As the power left behind by Lord Zero, how could you be unharmed?"

"Before you asked me, I was curious about how you learned Zero Style - Judgment?" Lin Jie looked at Anya with a puzzled expression. He couldn't remember ever teaching this move to anyone in the past.

“This is of course a gift from Lord Zero,” Anya said excitedly.

"When did he give it to you directly?" Lin Jie was shocked by Anya's words. He didn't remember doing anything with this so-called saintess before.

"Why should I tell you this?" Anya looked at Lin Jie with disgust and said, "You have no right to know about what happened between me and Lord Zero."

"Damn it, how am I not qualified? I am Zero myself! This is a matter of my innocence! How dare you say I'm not qualified to know?" Lin Jie looked at Anya, who was about to make a move, and made a helpless decision. Anyway, he would do the same thing when dealing with Ivan.

Seeing Lin Jie fall silent, Anya raised her sword once more: "It seems you've given up resisting, but considering you were able to withstand the judgment, I've decided to let you die without pain."

"Wait a moment," Lin Jie said to Anya.

"Do you have any last words?" Anya asked.

“I am Zero!” Lin Jie said to Anya.

After hearing Lin Jie's words, Anya remained silent for a few seconds before unleashing her second Judgment at Lin Jie. Lin Jie, however, had an iron rod in his hand and swung it forward, effectively deflecting Anya's Judgment.

"What are you doing? I really am Zero!" Lin Jie said to Anya.

"You shameless bastard, you'd even utter such a lie to save your life? Lin Jie, I'm going to turn you into mincemeat and feed you to the animals!!" Anya was successfully enraged by Lin Jie at this moment, and the third sword of judgment in her hand slashed towards Lin Jie.

Lin Jie swung his iron rod, once again neutralizing the force of the sword strike.