Chapter 62 The Formidable Ruler of Darkness

"Have we escaped it?"

Lugiel, standing a towering hundred meters tall with X-shaped scarlet eyes and a pitch-black body dotted with mottled crimson, cast a glance at the black hole dissolving in the sky.

He spoke.

He didn't even spare a glance at the four who had been turned into dolls, nor at Camearra, who had escaped by sheer luck.

"Hudra! Darram!"

Camearra, having just reverted to her human form, saw this scene, bloodshot veins appearing in her eyes. She whipped out her energy lash, wrapping it around the dolls of Hudra and Darram to pull them back.

She squeezed them in disbelief.

Her two underlings had just turned into dolls just like that?

All because of that black-and-red shockwave?

If—if she hadn't happened to revert to her human form, she probably would have been...

Shock and lingering fear gripped Camearra's heart, but annoyance soon overshadowed them.

Back in the day, she was beaten like a dog by Gatanothor; after coming out, she was beaten by Lin Yu's monsters. Just as she finally managed to ease tensions and team up to beat a bunch of those cosmic bumpkins, she ran into Lugiel!

Could the three of them never catch a break?

Instantly, Camearra wanted to transform again and go a few rounds with him.

"Calm down, Camearra!"

Lin Yu reached out and stopped her.

Wielding Ultra-telepathy, he also pulled back the Golza and Melba dolls.

"You are no match for him. Marching in rashly will only turn you into another doll, just like Hudra and Darram."

"This guy is the Dark Lord Dada spoke of—Lugiel, a fiendish god who attempts to freeze time for all life. The item in his hand is called the Dark Spark, capable of turning living beings into Spark Dolls, and capable of returning Spark Dolls back into living beings."

"It is the exact opposite of the Ginga Spark, which shares the same function. It is an extremely dangerous artifact!"

"Lugiel's own strength isn't actually top-tier; it hasn't reached an invincible level, but you must be extremely careful with his Dark Spark."

Lin Yu had already forced himself to calm down, refusing to let panic disrupt his strategy.

Panicking now would only lower their win rate to zero.

Fortunately, Lin Yu had mentally prepared himself beforehand.

When entering Mount Ranzhinh, he already had a premonition that he would cross paths with Lugiel!

He raised his head, staring straight into the towering Lugiel's scarlet eyes, methodically reciting the information he knew about Lugiel.

"The Dark Lord, Lugiel, an artifact that can turn living beings into dolls..."

Listening to Lin Yu, Camearra felt her initial rage subside slightly. She looked up at Lugiel, who stood a hundred meters tall—not much shorter than Gatanothor.

A chill crept into her heart.

She still remembered Lin Yu saying that Lugiel must never be allowed to appear, because his goal was to turn everyone into dolls.

An extremist possessing such immense power and the capability to realize his wild ambitions was utterly terrifying!

"Oh? I didn't expect you to know so much about me."

"Perhaps you are more suited to become my emissary."

Lugiel looked at Lin Yu with a gleam of amusement.

"I have no interest in becoming your emissary. However, Lugiel, I know you aren't truly an evil person; your ideals are just a bit extreme, and your original intentions are good."

"Why don't you join the HUD team? Our HUD team aims to unite kind-hearted cosmic beings like you to eradicate evil invading forces together and uphold beauty and peace."

"If you join us, I think bringing peace to the entire universe is not merely an impossible fantasy. Isn't this your wish as well?"

"Furthermore, whatever you need, we will do our utmost to provide."

Lin Yu's tone was utterly sincere as he attempted to recruit Lugiel.

If he could actually pull Lugiel into the HUD team, it would be an absolute game-changer.

So what if Gatanothor showed up? Take a blast from the Dark Spark and it would behave itself.

Not to mention other minor monsters.

It was safe to say that if Lugiel truly joined the HUD team, Lin Yu's pressure would plummet to an absolute minimum.

The only difficulty was keeping the corners of his mouth from curling up in a smile.

"Bring peace and beauty to the entire universe? What a magnificent yet utterly naive ambition."

"Yet, I can smell it—this universe is no different; it is constantly filled with death, war, pain, and sorrow, exuding a nauseating stench!"

"There is only one way to make this place filled with beauty and peace, and that is to freeze the time of the entire universe!"

"Beauty and peace will be preserved, and most importantly, eternal life will be preserved as well!"

"I will create a world without hatred, conflict, or sorrow."

"Let this Earth be the first to possess eternal life."

"Human, as a reward, I shall bestow eternity upon you first!"

Lugiel spoke slowly, a fanatical expression blooming on his face!

He aimed the Dark Spark at Lin Yu and Camearra and pressed the trigger!

A shockwave capable of turning almost any living being—even inanimate mechanical monsters like King Joe, Gamelot, and Grand King—into Spark Dolls swept over them once more.

This caused Lin Yu's face to turn pitch black.

Dammit, didn't they say protagonists always possessed the power of talk-no-jutsu, where a single speech would make the opponent willingly submit and kowtow?

Why, after all his talking, was Lugiel targeting him first?

Damn it!

"You really think I can't touch you!"

Lin Yu grabbed Camearra with one hand and leaped back rapidly.

The coverage area of Lugiel's Dark Spark wave wasn't large, far smaller than in the original work.

Lin Yu dodged repeatedly, evading the attack.

Strictly speaking, Lugiel had multiple phases.

In the opening sequence, he used a single move to envelop hundreds or thousands of living beings, turning them all into dolls. After fighting Ginga and ending up heavily wounded, he could only possess humans and materialize cosmic beings to harvest fear and resentment to heal his wounds. Finally, by the end of the Ginga TV series, he had recovered a fair bit of strength.

In each phase, the Dark Spark wave he released was different.

Lugiel right now...

Seemed to be in his heavily wounded state!

If Lin Yu ignored him and let Lugiel recover, allowing him to materialize dark agents like Dada to harvest fear and resentment and gather powerful Spark Dolls...

The consequences would be simply unthinkable!

Even more terrifying than the awakening of Gatanothor!

He had no choice but to fight this time.

"I've decided. I shall turn you into a doll, and then you will become my dark emissary."

Lugiel watched Lin Yu dodge the Dark Spark wave, looking even more satisfied as he spoke.

His voice was deep and oppressive.

"That's assuming you have the strength to back it up!"

"Eleking, prepare for battle!"

"Zton, evolve!"

Lin Yu let loose his anger, directly summoning Eleking and Zeton.

He even had Zeton utilize the Eternity Core fragment once more, evolving into EX Zeton!

Even if Zeton might spiral out of control and suffer a severe backlash later, he couldn't worry about that now.

The Lugiel before him was an enemy far more terrifying than Maga-Orochi!

At the same time,

The Spark Dolls of EX Red King and Jumbo King spun in his hand as if he were hesitating over which one to choose.

Finally, he put away the Jumbo King doll and gripped the EX Red King doll tightly.

High in the sky, a black hole cracked open wide.

"Gegi!"

"Ze-ton!"

Eleking crashed heavily to the ground, and before he even stabilized his footing, he spat out several crescent-shaped blade beams.

They struck Lugiel, bursting into showers of electric sparks.

However, Lugiel was endowed with the setting of having the strongest physical body in the universe—though, true to classic tropes, that setting was eventually thrown to the dogs as the series progressed, there was no denying it.

Lugiel's defense was terrifying!

Even the Taro of Hope, born from the collective hopes of the people of Spark Town in the original work, could only suppress Lugiel, failing to kill him.

Therefore, Eleking's attack was no different than a light scratch, failing to elicit any reaction from Lugiel at all.

However, Zeton, floating mid-air, suffused with a golden glow and growing in size, did catch Lugiel's eye for a few moments.

The strength of EX Zeton was on a completely different level compared to the previous monsters.

"I'll help out too."

Seeing Lin Yu and Lugiel engage in battle, Camearra prepared to transform and provide support.

"Camearra, go find me some Spark Dolls and the transparent Ginga Spark, the more the better!"

Lin Yu called out instead.

In his hand had already appeared the transparent Ginga Spark that Hudra had found, which had been dropped when Hudra grew to giant size.

Along with... the EX Red King Spark Doll!

"Spark Dolls and the transparent Spark? Understood."

Camearra glanced at Lin Yu's hands and understood what he intended to do.

Nodding, she leaped forward with the agile grace of a panther, her sharp gaze scanning the surroundings.

"I say, why are you lot struggling so hard? You'd be better off just peacefully turning into dolls."

"You can't deal with the Lord of Darkness anyway."

"Besides, the Lord of Darkness specifically named you to become his emissary. Human, you're in luck; you're about to become my colleague."

"Since we're going to be colleagues anyway, why don't we..."

Nearby, the Alien Dada lay on the ground chuckling, but before he could finish laughing, he saw Camearra's light whip extend from afar.

"Pia!"

"Agh!!"

A bloody welt appeared across Dada's face, the pain making him howl in absolute agony.