Chapter 42 Spacium Missile, The Might of the Great Serpent
Tokyo, Downtown Area
This disaster-stricken place was once again transformed into a living hell!
Unlike previous times which were hells exclusively for humans, this time not only were humans fleeing in panicked throngs, but even the monsters were doing the same!
"Gagu!"
A Twin-Tail wailed, its plump body writhing along the ground, crushing cars, street lamps, and low-rise buildings in its wake!
The crowd shrieked as they scrambled to get out of the way, scattering blindly in all directions.
Its destructive power was staggering. In the eyes of these ordinary citizens, it was entirely a walking natural disaster!
Yet at this moment, this natural disaster resembled a fat rabbit or a large rodent targeted by a predator—feeble, helpless, and undoubtedly delicious!
And what was driving this Twin-Tail to flee for its life was, without a doubt, none other than Maga-Orochi, awakened from the depths of the earth!
Right now, Maga-Orochi stood upon the ground, its swollen throat swallowing slightly.
Half the body of the barrier monster Gavadon had just been swallowed down by it.
It seemed to require no digestion, nor did it provide any sense of satiety.
Maga-Orochi's belly showed not the slightest change.
It forced one to suspect that Gavadon hadn't been eaten at all, but rather...
Dissolved by a bottomless, limitless black hole!
Having finished Gavadon, Maga-Orochi shifted its gaze, fixing its eyes upon the fleeing Twin-Tail!
"Zizizi!"
The single horn atop Maga-Orochi's head released a crimson beam, piercing straight through the Twin-Tail like a sharp sword!
A rich, charred aroma akin to barbecued crayfish drifted into the air; the Twin-Tail was roasted on the spot!
The ground rippled, forming a conveyor belt that transported the Twin-Tail right toward it!
Maga-Orochi opened its mouth wide, as if waiting to be fed!
"Crack... crack..."
The teeth-grating sound of chewing, accompanied by fresh blood that was half-cooked and halfway spurted out only to be greedily sucked right back in, made the crews of GUTS Wing 1, GUTS Wing 2, and the two Cross-shaped fighters of the GUYS team feel their scalps go numb.
Konomi and Rena turned pale with fright, averting their heads and daring not to look closer.
Only Marina, whose personality was bolder than most men's, stared fixedly at Maga-Orochi without blinking, her expression grave.
"What on earth is this thing's background?"
Shinjo's expression was extremely grim.
"It's as if it can never be full. Ever since we first spotted it, it has already eaten six monsters!"
"If this were on a soccer pitch, it would be an utterly impenetrable defender!"
A man wearing a GUYS uniform, seated in the same Cross-shaped fighter with Aihara Ryu, spoke up.
Bando George, a member of the GUYS team from the *Ultraman Mebius* TV series, was a world-class soccer player.
At this moment, he too had joined the GUYS team.
"Its name is Maga-Orochi. Captain Hayato said this is a king hailing from the Monster Galaxy, currently in its juvenile stage. It possesses the power to control the elements and an insatiable appetite. It will keep eating until there is nothing left to eat... and might even end up eating itself!"
Rena said.
This was the information Hayato had hastily relayed on his way rushing over.
"What? A king from the Monster Galaxy? And what the hell, it's still in its juvenile stage?!"
"Does anything about it look juvenile to you?!"
Shinjo widened his eyes, pointing at Maga-Orochi, which had just stuffed the Twin-Tail into its belly within seconds, wearing an expression that seemed to say, *Are you kidding me, this thing is eight years old?*
"It controls the elements? Wait, the ground just now was manipulated by it to feed the Twin-Tail into its mouth—is that a manifestation of earth element manipulation?"
"Furthermore, if it devours everything and eventually consumes even itself, doesn't that mean humanity, and indeed the entire Earth, are on its menu?!"
Daigo exclaimed in shock!
Aihara Ryu remarkably remained silent, a look of deep sorrow lingering in his eyes.
It seemed something had happened.
"Horiuchi said earlier that Gudon, Twin-Tail, Telesdon, and Sadola weren't so much berserk as terrified!"
"Before, we didn't know what the source of that eight-kilometer earthquake was, nor why it terrified multiple monsters. Now we know—it's a Maga-Orochi powerful beyond measure!"
"They lived underground, closest to Maga-Orochi, and were the first to sense the terror of this monster. That's why they fled the subterranean depths in panic, going berserk out of sheer terror."
Marina slowly spoke up.
"Then what do we do now? Should we launch an att..."
Before the question could be finished, a slender missile trailing a tail of flame ignited the sky and slammed directly into Maga-Orochi's open mouth!
BOOM!!
At that moment, Maga-Orochi had just grabbed a Dorgo and was in the middle of opening its mouth to eat it when this missile struck!
Half of Dorgo's body was blasted to pieces!
Its destructive power far surpassed that of conventional missiles from before!
Maga-Orochi paused, its blood-red eyes turning to glare!
The one that fired the missile was none other than the Cross-shaped fighter piloted by Aihara Ryu!
At this moment, Aihara Ryu's expression was icy and stern!
"I don't care what elements it can manipulate, nor do I care if it's some damn king!"
"I only know that this is Earth!"
"It is the home of humanity, the place our GUYS team has sworn to protect with our lives!"
"The new weapon Captain Serizawa bought with his life, the homeland he protected with his life—I will never allow you to trample over it!!"
"Die!!"
Aihara Ryu's emotions erupted, the veins on his forehead bulging!
New-style missiles were unleashed one after another!
They continuously bombarded Maga-Orochi!
The missiles were fundamentally the same as before, but laced with Spacium substance, boosting their power to at least tenfold that of unenhanced missiles!
Even a weak monster like Dorgo was blasted to smithereens!
Indeed, they were laced with Spacium substance sourced from Mars!
Containing the exact same components as the Specium Ray of Ultraman, their potency was formidable, exercising extreme restraint against Baltan Seijin while also delivering commendable effects against other life forms.
Come to think of it, it was Hayato who had informed Captain Sakomizu, Director Sawai, and the others about the existence of Spacium substance on Mars!
To think that the extraction had actually succeeded now.
Though it seemed the cost had not been low...
In short.
With technology like this, the GUYS team finally possessed the capability to deal with weak monsters!
But that was for dealing with weak monsters!
They weren't supposed to be playing ranked matches right from the start!
Facing Maga-Orochi—a creature with extremely high physical durability who had previously relied purely on its raw physique, without any defensive abilities, to withstand Orb's Spacium Zeperion Ray, Trident Slash, and Stobium Dynamite—
These attacks were no different from a gentle massage.
Maga-Orochi stared menacingly at the Cross-shaped fighter.
Its food had been destroyed, completely infuriating this newly born yet already terrifying Great Demon King Beast!
The next instant.
"Zzzzzzzzt!!"
The overwhelmingly terrifying Maga Thunder spread across the firmament!
GUTS Wing 1, GUTS Wing 2, and both Cross-shaped fighters were engulfed!
"Watch out!!"
Shinjo frantically pulled back the control stick of GUTS Wing 1, attempting to pull Daigo away.
Yet to their despair, GUTS Wing 1 and 2 lost all ability to maneuver, every single electronic and mechanical component failing completely!
The two Cross-shaped fighters were teetering on the verge of crashing!
Maga-Orochi's attack hadn't even touched them yet!
"Damn it!!"
"This is the Spacium substance that Captain Serizawa, along with Yamada, Sato, and the others, exchanged their lives for!"
"Are these monsters truly so invincible?!"
Aihara Ryu slammed his fists ruthlessly against the unresponsive control stick, his eyes devoid of fear in the face of death, filled only with fury and sorrow.
Marina and Konomi in the other fighter gritted their teeth, wanting to launch the Spacium ballistic missiles equipped on their Cross-shaped fighter to retaliate, but they couldn't even manage to fire.
"Gegi!"
"Zetton!"
A black hole suddenly rent the open sky!
"That is...?"
Everyone's gaze was drawn upward, involuntary expressions of joy breaking across their faces!
The next second.
Eleking intercepted the path of the Maga Thunder!
The raging, high-voltage nuclear energy surging within its body bloomed without reservation!
Arcs of lightning soared into the heavens, bathing the earth in a golden glow!
The crimson Maga Thunder collided with the golden nuclear lightning, causing the surrounding air to boil furiously!
"Gegi!!"
Eleking's slightly pained cry signaled an unfavorable turn of events.
"Bang!!"
Yet Zetton had already materialized directly behind Maga-Orochi!
The monster's raw physical strength, surpassing even that of the powerhouse warrior Darramb, slammed mercilessly down onto the top of Maga-Orochi's head!
That exaggerated brute force caused even Maga-Orochi's movements to stutter, its massive head involuntarily forced downward!
At that moment.
"Eheei!!"
An intensely enraged roar echoed from Maga-Orochi's maw!
A fleeing Sadola crashed blindly into various skyscrapers out of sheer panic, cracking its head open before collapsing onto the ground, dying with its eyes wide open!
Frightened to death on the spot!