Ultraman: I am really just a human.

Chapter 697 SS, Shining Lypia

"What's wrong?"

Daigo finally managed to contact Asuka Shin, but one by one, the refugees around him collapsed, as if their souls had been ripped away, and in an instant, the streets were filled with "corpses".

Meanwhile, the enormous shadow mage in the sky above the bay expanded further, seemingly wanting to fly beyond Earth.

"What did that guy do?"

The entire city has fallen into a ghost town state, with the phenomenon of people falling into a coma spreading outwards, whether they are refugees or rescue workers.

Eventually, even Daigo himself began to feel sleepy.

It's not a soul separation!

Daigo leaned against the wall of the alley, sweat dripping from his face, as if he were waging a fierce battle against some kind of spiritual force.

Memories of Ultraman in my mind are fading.

The enemy stole humanity's memories of Ultraman, erased all traces of Ultraman, and wanted to let darkness engulf Yokohama and even the entire world.

"Are they even going to erase our existence?"

Daigo understood why he had come to this world, but he was powerless to resist the force that invaded his mind.

"Wake up, everyone!" Lina's anxious voice rang out from the city's public address system. "Please hold on! Ultraman needs your support! Humanity isn't just about darkness. If even we give up, Ultraman won't be able to either..."

"Lina?"

Da Gu Qiang roused himself and looked up at the increasingly swollen Dark Shadow Mage, while below him, the body of Ultraman Natsukawa remained unyielding.

The faint glowing figure in the darkness could dispel sleepiness.

"Please don't give up hope, and don't forget Ultraman!"

Lina's voice was weak yet firm.

"Ultraman is not a fictional being; someone is protecting our future..."

"call!"

Xia Chuan turned his head to listen to the echoing radio broadcasts reverberating from countless corners of the city.

Although he didn't feel he needed support, he was still moved by Lina's voice.

Memory is also a kind of anchor.

He did indeed feel the faint yet hopeful support in this dark city.

Starting with Lina, people in various refugees struggled against the darkness, firmly imprinting his giant figure in their hearts.

Countless tiny calls converged into a river, connecting with him like a dazzling galaxy.

These people didn't even know his name; they just kept chanting "Ultraman."

At first, there was no change, but soon the sound gradually grew louder, and finally the booming call pierced through the darkness like the deep sea, through the layers of black mist that shrouded the dungeon world, and the light like the rising sun shone on Xia Chuan's main body.

The knights didn't even need to exert any effort; a straight road to heaven was tightly connected to Xia Chuan.

"Ultraman!"

"Ultraman!!"

"Whoosh!"

Xia Chuan's entire giant body was bathed in a soft light in the bay. The energy in the giant's eyes and chest further penetrated the darkness. Without doing anything, it automatically merged with its main body, and its level instantly broke through and returned to Super S.

A crisp shattering sound suddenly amplified in his mind. Even without defeating the Shadow Mage, Xia Chuan's base level still completed the final step at this moment, successfully advancing to S rank.

A pair of wings of light appeared and disappeared behind Xia Chuan.

The last ray of light in the vast universe seemed to carry the hopes of all past worlds at the moment of ascension to S.

"Is this the significance of special instances?"

Xia Chuan looked around the city amidst the countless calls of humans.

Unlike the TV series world, he seems to be the protagonist in special instances like "Time Travel" and "Super 8".

Perhaps it was the support from the past, or perhaps it was the strange reaction caused by clearing the TV episode.

At least for this moment, he is the protagonist of his own story.

The protagonist of humanity.

Xia Chuan once again shifted from divinity to humanity. The luminous giant's body remained steady, ignoring the surrounding raging winds and dark clouds, and looked up directly at the colossal shadow mage who was about to fly out of the atmosphere.

"Boom!"

The lightning over the bay became increasingly violent.

The Shadow Mage never expected this outcome.

Humanity provided him with endless darkness, but the light could not be removed; instead, it grew increasingly blinding.

As the commotion of support for Ultraman on the ground grew louder, even those who had been corrupted by darkness began to regain their senses.

"Mere humans..."

"Click click click!"

The alternate dimension has ruptured.

A massive spatial rift suddenly split open in Yokohama Bay amidst the Shadow Mage's furious roar.

Four giant figures broke through the water and flew out one after another.

"Once you're eliminated, we can once again rule this world!" The Shadow Mage's projection descended. "Lippia, you are an Ultraman who should never exist!"

"That is..."

Enduring the intense mental shock, Daigo approached the bay battlefield, his voice trembling as he looked at the giant figure hovering in mid-air.

The original Ultraman, Seven, Jack, and Ace... the Ultra Brothers appeared, but their condition was completely off.

The giant, surrounded by a dark purple aura and with red and black light in its eyes, looked like an enemy no matter how you looked at it.

"They've been manipulated!"

Xia Chuan also rose into the air, flying to the same height as the four Ultra Warriors in the bay with its surging waves, his feelings inexplicably complicated.

Especially when facing the original Ultraman, who is closely associated with him.

His current giant body is actually a fusion of the first generation of two great universes. Apart from the slight difference in the energy lamp on his chest, the similarity in other aspects is as high as 90%.

"scare!"

Dodging Seven's head-mounted dart attack, the giant Xia Chuan once again transformed into a series of afterimages.

The dark power that the four giants in front of them obtained from the Shadow Mage far surpasses that of the original Ultraman.

However, he didn't think the light would become stronger after turning into darkness, at least the four Ultras could no longer use the combined light beam.

The only downside is that it's hard to fight back.

He didn't want to kill the four Ultramen with his own hands.

"Lypia!"

The ground of the bay.

Daigo, Asuka Shin, and Ga Yu all gathered together without prior arrangement.

The dream of this world is not yet fulfilled. No matter how hard I try, I cannot complete the anti-gravity device prototype, but the will to fight has returned.

"What matters is not the result, but the heart."

I took a deep breath and gripped the Blue Sapphire Cone tightly, surrounded by light in the affirmative gaze of Fujimiya Hiroya behind me.

"Gaia—!"

"Tiga!!"

"Dyna!"

Three beams of light burst forth from the sea-drenched dock plaza, but this time they did not transform into giants. Instead, they intertwined and transformed into three streams of light that soared into the body of the Xia Chuan giant.

"Clang!"

Xia Chuan's body shone even brighter, gradually becoming enveloped in a layer of golden radiance.

Before the four were even close, they were thrown back. Although they were not purified and their consciousness was not restored, the powerful energy fluctuations still severed the Shadow Mage's control.

The power of the domain erupted, and the four were frozen in mid-air by time.

"Whoosh!"

Xia Chuan sensed the light emanating from Daigo and the others amidst the dark storm. The giant's aura surged even higher, seemingly charging towards another unknown realm.

SS.

The Ultraman universe-level explosion occurred in the New Generation, but it only applies to the whole; the upper limit has never changed much, and the top combat power has always been there.

There were no class restrictions in the old days.

"Whoosh!"

Xia Chuan blocked a terrifying mental shock that came from high above, and the brightness of his eyes continued to increase. The knights trapped in the bay's other-dimensional space were also transferred out and became anchor points to merge into the giant's body.

The knights may be of relatively low level and lack sufficient spiritual light, but their bond level surpasses that of Daigo and the others.

It was like lighting a bright lamp.

Almost the instant the knights merged with him, the golden radiance of the Xia Chuan Giant's body rose to a whole new level, and the golden spot of light illuminating the darkness could be clearly seen even from outside Earth.

"Lypia!!"

The giant shadow mage floats outside Earth like a planet, its dark purple evil aura blocked by the radiance, making it impossible for it to obtain dark power from the humans of "Super 8".

He never expected that any random foreign aid Ultraman could be this powerful; he felt that if this continued, he might even be able to crush him with a single finger.

It's not a possibility.

I already have that feeling now!

Why is that?!

Two purple flames swelled and burned beneath the dark hood, as if pouring out all the Shadow Mage's rage.

Ultraman, who doesn't exist in any parallel universe, could he just appear out of thin air because of a glimmer of light?

"Then I'll destroy this world too!"

The giant shadow mage's hoarse shout echoed across the Earth, followed by a gigantic phantom hand emerging from beneath his robes. It grabbed the moon orbiting the Earth, violently pulled it out of orbit, and flung it towards Earth like a stone.

"Bang--!"

The Earth's atmosphere shuddered violently, flames erupted, and a world-ending red light instantly illuminated the sky over one hemisphere, even distorting the laws of physics.

On the ground in Yokohama, the moon appears infinitely magnified in people's eyes. At an unprecedentedly close distance, the entire sky seems to be occupied by the moon.

The lunar craters are clearer than ever before, and most frighteningly, there is no sign whatsoever that the moon has been torn apart by gravity.

The Roche limit seems to have disappeared.

"It's over!"

The moon has completely lost its usual beautiful appearance; it is no longer a jade plate, and a sense of colossal phobia pervades everyone's hearts.

The dark clouds that had brought despair have disappeared, and the sky has cleared up again.

However, there is no darkness that is darker than darkness itself.

The moon, which is capable of destroying the world, is more terrifying than darkness.

In a short while, the clouds were completely dyed red.

The sea level in the bay has already risen high, and the moon's gravity caused a devastating disaster before the impact, but no one cares about the tidal tsunami at this point.

The moon will collide with the Earth before gravity actually causes damage.

too fast!

"scare!"

Time and spacetime stand still.

A halo flashed around Xia Chuan, and bathed in its dazzling light, his level finally stabilized at SS. He looked up and teleported to support himself against the moon.

Even giants are tiny in the face of celestial bodies, but the SS-class Lipia ignores its size and easily withstands the impact of the moon.

"Clang—!"

The intense light erupted again, and time seemed to flow backward. The sea receded, the atmosphere reversed, and the moon returned to its orbit under the shadow mage's shocked and angry gaze, as calm as if nothing had happened.

"What kind of power is this?"

Without continuing to manipulate the moon, the Shadow Mage's voice trembled uncontrollably, and even his planetary-sized body began to shrink uncontrollably.

The plot development was completely beyond his comprehension.

The power to manipulate time and space is not a battle on the same level at all.

"etc……"

"Whoa!!"

Xia Chuan, with his radiant giant form, descends into space.

The golden beam of light pierced the sky as the crowd on the ground looked up, seemingly possessing a devouring power. The moment the Shadow Mage's enormous phantom was hit, it was powerless to resist as it spun and shrank, finally disappearing without a trace from the void, leaving not a sound.

But unseen by anyone, a card that looked like a 3D card compressed into 2D floated silently in space.

The Shadow Mage struggled briefly, filled with intense resentment, before losing consciousness in terror.

"Lypia!"

"Sizzle!"

Xia Chuan opened his palm and collected the Shadow Mage card within the subtle electric current.

Looking back down at the Earth, now restored to light, the breath gradually subsided until S stabilized again.

Originally, I planned to go back to the world of "Ultraman Tiga" to advance to S rank, but I didn't expect to complete it in "Super 8".

It's not a divine upgrade, but rather an S belonging to the human identity.

(End of this chapter)