Ultraman: I am really just a human.

Chapter 686 Dark Lipia

"You all stay outside."

With a light tap of his finger, Xia Chuan conjured a water ripple barrier that enveloped the factory.

Without a direct attack, Xia Chuan's figure shifted to a fluctuating state, and his ethereal form directly pierced through the barrier.

Even without being detected, the fluctuation state remains very convenient to use.

"Whoosh!"

Conceal your presence and enter the warehouse.

Three elementary school students, controlled by evil thoughts, kept writing and drawing on the ground.

The original Gaia chalk drawing, resembling a Sichuan-style boiled chicken, has been erased and replaced by a realistically depicted monster.

It seems to incorporate all the characteristics of the destruction monsters in Gaia, with a huge red eye in the middle.

The artist's skill completely surpasses that of the rising star, and the ferocious figure seems as if it might come to life at any moment.

After colliding with him, did the Dark Will abandon summoning monsters and instead intend to create them directly?

Xia Chuan's gaze swept across the warehouse. The glowing red ball was placed on top of an oil drum. It had expanded in size and its surface had become uneven, no longer as smooth as the original glass ball. It gave people a strong feeling of violent evil.

"It's done!"

The tallest elementary school student suddenly exclaimed in surprise.

"This is the strongest monster!"

"Whoosh!"

The red ball burst into intense light once more, but before it could scatter the monster painting on the ground, golden ripples suddenly spread throughout the warehouse, instantly altering the spatial phase.

"Gurgle!"

The three elementary school students regained consciousness in a daze, and before they could figure out what had happened, Xia Chuan teleported them away with a wave of his hand.

The warehouse was suddenly left with only the visible Xia Chuan and the continuously glowing deformed red ball.

"Lypia!"

One by one, red eyeballs emerged from the surface of the red ball.

"Without the light of Earth, do you think you can stop me all by yourself?"

"Clang!"

Natsukawa transforms to his full height, and Shinji Kaminaga's figure overlaps with the outline of Lipia. He takes a step and teleports to grab the red ball that is trying to break through space to escape.

What can't something that doesn't even have a physical form do?

"Sizzle!"

Xia Chuan forcefully blocked the red ball, and Ultra's telekinesis, under the scouring of massive desire energy, directly struck the inescapable dark will.

His divine side is completely unaffected by the negative influence of the red ball; in fact, it transforms into his own power.

The Dark Will sensed something was wrong in time and immediately manifested a distorted black mist state within the warehouse space. Its blood-red eyes occupied the dome, and it roared down with a universe-like black mist, seemingly trying to devour and merge Xia Chuan and the red ball together.

"You've been tricked, Lipia!!"

……

Dongdu TV.

Two invited commentators are discussing the destruction of a school in the Gulf town today.

"Indeed, quite a few witnesses have reported seeing monsters and Ultraman. What is your opinion on this, Mr. Taguchi?"

"What do you mean, 'how do I see it'? I think it's just that some people accidentally ruined the school and are using such an absurd excuse. How could there really be monsters and Ultraman in this world? Nonsense!"

"Where is Mr. Higuchi? Someone took a picture of him at the time."

"I think it's probably true. It's true that Ultraman is a fantasy, but does it really not exist in reality? I'm already preparing one..."

"Ahem, thank you both for your comments."

The host quickly ended the conversation and took a blurry photo from the assistant on set.

The giant Natsukawa Lipia was shown alongside Lava Golza in the program, creating a striking visual impact.

"They've completely lost all sense of shame," Taguchi scoffed, raising an eyebrow. "Isn't this just Golza? A hastily put-together suit, right? And this Ultraman? They just modified the original suit a little and call it the real Ultraman? Nonsense!"

Higuchi frowned repeatedly, "How could the enhanced Golza be killed so easily? This doesn't make sense. When did the original Golza ever get a lightsaber?"

"Yes, that's ridiculous!"

"I didn't expect you two to know so much about Ultraman, but..."

The host smiled awkwardly and was about to continue guiding the conversation when the studio suddenly shook, and a loud whistling sound could be faintly heard coming from outside.

"What happened?"

The lights flickered on and off repeatedly, and the swaying motion inside the room became increasingly pronounced.

The people at the scene were shocked and, forgetting about the live broadcast, quickly covered their heads and searched for places to hide.

Some people panicked and fled the studio.

Higuchi and his companion were also among the fleeing crowd, but as they walked through the corridor, they instinctively glanced outside.

That one glance almost made the two of them kneel down on the spot.

A massive vortex of storm swept across the sky in the direction of Kanagawa Prefecture, with silver dragon-like lightning raging wildly, thunder rumbling, and the earth trembling in waves.

Even from afar, the blood-red giant eye in the thunderclouds could be clearly seen, as if a giant beast was looking down on Japan.

"A monster! It must be a monster!" Taguchi, who always spouted nonsense, trembled and could barely stand, pointing into the distance with terrifying anxiety. "Where's the Earth Defense Force? Why hasn't it been deployed yet?"

"Where did this Earth Defense Force come from?"

Higuchi was still somewhat rational. After realizing it wasn't an earthquake, he stopped trying to escape and instead tried his best to observe the situation from the high altitude of the television station.

The red-eyed thundercloud is not the true form of a monster, but rather an environmental upheaval caused by the monster's arrival.

"That is?"

Higuchi turned and ran back to the studio, where he found the television footage sent back by the frontline reporter.

"Whoosh!"

A small town by the bay in Kanagawa Prefecture.

Two giant figures floated in the sky above the storm, one silver and one black, seemingly identical except for their colors.

Risa Nanase followed Shinseki Tsutomu into the street, and stared in astonishment at the two giant figures in the sky.

As the red ball personality, she could easily sense the aura of the black giant.

Control of the red ball has been taken away, and even her presence is gradually fading.

That evil will beyond comprehension is taking everything from her.

If this continues, Lypia will perish along with the rest of the world.

"Whoosh!"

Nanase Risa looked down at the transparent, glowing legs and feet.

When the red ball is completely swallowed up, that will be the time when she disappears into thin air.

"Risa?"

Shinsei Mian noticed the girl's condition and, recalling his experiences over the past few days, his expression became unusually complex.

"Could it be...you are that red ball?"

This adorable girl isn't human.

Risa Nanase looked up at the sky and nodded gently without explaining: "In the past, I have witnessed the destruction of countless worlds, and your world, Tsutomu, will be one of them... But it seems that my journey has finally come to an end. It can't be called a happy end, but at least I don't have to watch everything happen anymore."

"Risa," Shinseiki Tsutomu said, momentarily bewildered, then turning to the eye of the storm in the sky, "Sensei, Lipia will definitely save you! So..."

Risa Nanase calmly closed her eyes: "Ultraman isn't invincible, Tsutomu. If I give you one last chance, can you wish for the red ball to disappear? That should help Lipia."

"But then you'll disappear too..."

"Since we're going to disappear anyway, we should at least do something before we disappear."

Nanase Risa interrupted Shinseki's hesitant words and smiled as if resigned to her fate.

"There's a certain possibility in Lipia; perhaps he really can save the world."

"But," Xinxing Mian's hands and feet trembled slightly, and he couldn't help but want to back away, "I..."

"Do you want to run away?" Nanase Risa stared directly at Shinsei Tsutomu in the cold wind close to the ground. "Now, you're the only one who can save Lipia, save this world. Are you going to give up?"

Xinxing Mian looked up at the storm's giant eye.

The battle in the air was not very clear; all that could be heard were the terrifying crashes of collisions, and the darkness seemed to completely suppress the light.

(End of this chapter)