Chapter 29: The World Annihilator? One Punch to Teach You a Lesson

"Run faster! Don't make me lose my prey!"

"If you lose them, I'll just have to make you fill in as replacements!"

The Muzin Alien’s eyes were bloodshot, his voice cruel and raspy. His speech was severely slurred, as if he were choking on phlegm, and fragmented. This was because his teeth grew sideways rather than vertically.

The few herdsmen he had leashed trembled in fear, not daring to utter a word. They knew exactly how terrifying this extraterrestrial being was. Disaster stood beside them; death loomed over their heads.

Ahead of them, Lucia ran even faster. Tears streamed uncontrollably down her face. Despite her injuries, she knew that if she didn't run, she would surely die—just like her brother, Zara, who had been killed by the Muzin Alien, leaving behind only the tracking shackles that served as trophies for the hunter.

Seeing her desperate will to survive, the Muzin Alien was not angered, but delighted. He loved prey like this; it was what made the hunt so enjoyable. He took a few quick strides, intending to catch up.

"Thump."

One of the herdsmen, unable to bear the dragging any longer, felt his knees buckle and collapsed to the ground. This slowed the alien’s pace.

The Muzin Alien whipped his head around. As he glared at the fallen man, his face shifted—revealing the true form that Lin Yu had witnessed: green eyes, a single horn, and inverted, jagged fangs. He was a demon in the flesh.

His horn began to gather a green beam of light, intending to reduce the herdsman to ash. In his eyes, this man was no longer a qualified piece of prey. If something had no value, it deserved to die.

"No, please, no!!" the herdsman cried out in terror, but it was futile.

The Muzin Alien’s attack was charging up.

"Bang!"

But at that very moment, a bullet arrived before the sound could even register, striking precisely the single horn on the alien’s head—the very source of his energy attacks. While human-sized aliens could crush humans with their raw physical strength, they were far weaker than their giant forms. They were by no means difficult to kill.

The shot caused the Muzin Alien to shriek in pain, and the rope holding the herdsmen slipped from his grasp. The group was startled.

"W-what’s happening?"

"The monster was hit! Someone attacked him!"

"Don't worry about that, let’s run!"

The group seemed to wake from a nightmare; ignoring their pain, they scrambled to flee. Lucia, up ahead, noticed this as well. She blinked her swollen, tear-filled eyes and stopped, her gaze filled with shock and suspicion. Someone actually dared to resist the Muzin Alien?

"Vroom!"

A pickup truck roared toward them. The engine screamed, and the vehicle tore across the uneven grassland at a staggering 400 km/h—a speed faster than the limits of many sports cars. This was a heavily modified beast, the kind only a defense team like GUTS could produce.

"Boom!"

A ten-ton pickup traveling at 400 km/h hit with more force than being trampled by a mammoth. The Muzin Alien, still reeling from the pain, was sent flying instantly. His body was crushed, and a massive spray of green blood erupted into the air.

Lin Yu did not stop the truck. Without a hint of deceleration, he yanked the steering wheel hard. Protected by Ultra Psychokinesis to prevent the truck from flipping, he completed the turn in a flash and slammed back into the Muzin Alien.

"Raaargh!"

The Muzin Alien’s green eyes locked onto Lin Yu, and he began to grow into his giant form.

"Did I give you permission to grow?!"

A low growl accompanied by the crushing pressure of Ultra Psychokinesis forcibly halted the alien’s transformation. In the next moment, the pickup, still moving at 400 km/h, smashed into him once more. The truck, built with armor that rivaled a main battle tank, had its front end slightly dented by the impact, but the Muzin Alien’s body was left cracked and broken. One more hit, and he would surely die.

His rage reached its peak.

"Raaargh!"

The battered Muzin Alien roared, attempting to trigger his giant form again. Lin Yu prepared to suppress him once more, but suddenly, the ground began to collapse as if hit by an earthquake. Deep, rumbling roars emanated from the depths of the earth.

"Groooar!"

Golza had awakened!

Seizing the opportunity, the Muzin Alien decisively completed his transformation. He grew to sixty-six meters tall. His eyes shifted from green to blue, his neck elongated, and his bizarre, four-legged form looked like a grotesque mutation, with a head resembling the tip of a scorpion's tail. He looked truly formidable.

The Muzin Alien’s giant form looked more like a monster than the monster itself; there was no trace of his extraterrestrial nature left. Beneath the collapsing earth, Golza’s claws emerged, digging through the soil until his body was revealed.

The Super-Ancient Monster—Golza!

The very creature from the first episode of *Ultraman Tiga*. A monster so familiar he needed no introduction. With two monsters gathered, the herdsmen's legs turned to jelly. Even Lucia sat on the ground in despair, no longer trying to run.

"The Muzin Alien has stopped hunting. He has changed from a hunter into an annihilator," Lucia said, her voice stuttering. She didn't speak Earth's language, and she rarely spoke at all, usually communicating with Daigo via telepathy. Her fear of the Muzin Alien far outweighed her hatred; he was her greatest shadow. Seeing him in this state, she had lost all hope.

"Annihilator? You’re giving this piece of trash far too much credit!"

A man’s voice, filled with disdain, rang out from nearby.

Lucia looked over in surprise. She saw a young man wearing sunglasses stepping out of a large pickup truck. It was him—the one who had driven the truck into the Muzin Alien! But wasn't his car near the alien just a moment ago? How did he suddenly appear by her side? And more importantly... he could understand her!

"An alien?" she asked tentatively.

"No, just a plain, unremarkable human from Earth," Lin Yu replied with a smile.

At that moment, the Muzin Alien ignored Golza. His blue eyes, burning with hatred and bloodlust, fixed on Lin Yu—and the pickup truck. He swung his long, whip-like neck, attacking Lin Yu and Lucia. The massive size difference made the attack feel like a giant flail being swung at ants.

"Run!"

Lucia, who had been waiting for death, found a new burst of survival instinct. She grabbed Lin Yu’s arm, trying to drag him to safety. She was kind-hearted, after all. But Lucia, whose strength already surpassed a male weightlifting champion, couldn't budge Lin Yu at all.

Lin Yu stood there, a smile on his lips, but his eyes were cold.

"Zetton, go and give this 'annihilator' who came to Earth to hunt a proper greeting. Go easy on him; don’t kill him too quickly."

"Ze—tton!"

A small black dot in the sky expanded in an instant. Nothing had traveled through the air; the creature from the black hole had simply teleported directly in front of Lin Yu. Facing the giant neck and head swinging down to crush them, the terrifying creature’s response was simple: a single slap.

"Boom!!!"

The impact was even more exaggerated than when the pickup had hit the smaller Muzin Alien. The creature’s head and long neck, followed by the rest of his body, were sent flying, rolling across the grassland in a state of utter humiliation.

Watching this, Golza, who had been roaring to vent his "waking-up" irritability, suddenly went silent. He looked at the sent-flying Muzin Alien, then at Zetton. His small, beady eyes revealed a moment of human-like confusion. *Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing? Oh right, I’m the law-abiding citizen Golza, just out for a moonlit stroll. The moon is so bright and white today... alright, I’ve seen enough, I’m going back to sleep.*

Golza didn't hesitate and began digging a hole. He had betrayed his teammate Melba without a second thought; he certainly wouldn't care about some jerk like the Muzin Alien.

But his tail was grabbed. It was Eleking.

*You want to leave now? Too late!*

Golza flew into a rage! He couldn't mess with Zetton, but did an Eleking think he could stop the great King Golza? Golza turned and roared, only to collapse to the ground, his body paralyzed, ten seconds later.