Summoned from another world, the hero is Ultraman Zeta.

Chapter 285 Living Magic Bomb

The pages of the book were blown away by the wind and turned to ashes, and the cover with the word "Hero" printed on it disappeared in the flames.

Just a moment ago, Ah-Kyu was overjoyed at reuniting with Haruki, and she was still trying her best to salvage the relationship between the hero and the chairman.

The next moment, the scorching explosion brought a deathly indifference, the heat wave from the burning magic book caused excruciating pain, and Muban's chilling gaze intensified Ajiu's senses.

How could this happen? Why did this happen?

What did I do wrong? Why has everyone changed so much?

Ah Jiu didn't want to think about it; he was afraid to think about it. Ah Jiu feared that if he knew the reason, his will would collapse, and he would think of all sorts of lies to deceive his true feelings.

Even if she knew the truth, what difference would it make? Ah Jiu still couldn't do anything or change anything.

The girl, covered in dust, sat slumped in the ruins, her skin scraped and mixed with mud, her hair streaked with the ashes of a magic book. She was utterly despondent and at a loss.

"Run! Ah Jiu! Run!"

Luo Yi's hysterical screams revealed that Muban had completely lost his humanity.

Muban is now a monster controlled by desire, bloodthirsty and incurable.

Seeing Muban approaching Ajiu, Luo Yi could no longer bear it. He couldn't watch a young girl die at the hands of that monster. Ajiu was only about the same age as Elifa!

"Get out of my way! I should have killed you long ago!"

The whistling wind blast absorbed the remaining flames in Muban's hand, and a shell loaded with explosives was casually flicked out by Muban, blasting solidly into Luo Yi's body.

"Damn bastard!"

Completely bound by the straitjacket, Luo Yi was utterly helpless, unable to use even a fraction of his hundred kinds of magic.

With a loud explosion, the place where Luo Yi was originally imprisoned was blown into a huge crater, and the surrounding debris buried him completely, leaving no trace of life.

"Luo Yi... Luo Yi!"

When Ajiu finally came to her senses, her mind was blank. It was too late. Things had changed too quickly, and Luo Yi disappeared in the explosion in an instant.

Gone, all gone.

Enemies, friends, companions, heroes, the guild leader—all of them have become strangers; A-Jiu no longer recognizes them at all.

Wishes, will, peace, friendship, life—A-Jiu couldn't protect any of these. He could only quietly await death's pursuit and listen to the last heartbeat of his life.

"Why won't you listen to me, Ah Jiu?"

“If you had listened to me, none of this would have happened, and Luo Yi wouldn’t have been killed by you.”

Muban appeared before Ajiu with overwhelming magical power, his hands creating rapidly spinning circles of light, and the power of the magical beasts was freely used in Muban's hands.

Mu Ban raised his hand and aimed it at A Jiu's brain. He was very familiar with this kind of operation; he had rewritten a person's memory more than once.

Even the most powerful mages and space hunters could become his subordinates, so Muban didn't believe that a silly, naive, and foolish girl could have any ability to resist.

"Why don't you just obediently dress up as a doll? Why do you have to fantasize about being a savior? You're overestimating yourself and courting death."

The magic circle emanating from the aura covered Ajiu's entire head, and particles of unknown origin began to invade, the mission of stripping and rewriting being bestowed upon him by Muban.

No one could save her, and no one could stop her!

Muban refused to believe that anyone could defy him! He didn't care whether it was Ultraman or a space monster!

Even if an entire world of Ultraman and monsters blocked his way, Muban would still fight his way through.

Those who resist you will all meet a dead end!

XX

"Dad, what are you doing...?"

A heartbreaking word penetrates the broken heart of a lost soul.

Elifa was drawn to the strange phenomena in the outside world and came here after discovering that Muban was not in the ruins.

"Elifa, why... how could this be?"

With his mind in turmoil, Muban's magical energy dissipated, and the halo in his hand shattered and vanished without a trace. Along with it, all of Elifa's fond memories of her father also disappeared.

Ah Jiu lay unconscious on the ground, her life now in the hands of another girl, though Elifa had no idea what she would face next.

The malevolent flames burning seemed to have an aggressive desire to devour everything. The texture hollowed out flesh and blood, and the runes pierced through the heart and lungs. It was difficult to see any biological characteristics in Elifa.

Although Elifa knew that the man in front of her was her father, she dared not approach him, nor even look him in the eye to see if he was a living being or a monster.

“No, Elifa, no.”

"I can explain..."

Muban desperately resisted the magic's erosion of his rationality. He wanted to speak clearly, but this usually simple task had become incredibly difficult.

"No, no explanation is needed. Just erase her memories."

"She's just a human being; I can make her do whatever I want."

"Get out of my way, she's my daughter! No one is allowed to lay a hand on her!"

The struggle between will and strength tore at every piece of Muban's flesh; it was a battlefield where life and magic clashed, and the outcome was destined to be that there could only be one winner.

Muban wanted to put away his magic and speak to Elifa in his usual manner, just as he had done for the past ten years or so.

But this time, he couldn't do it. Muban's entire body was a magical bomb; once the flame was ignited, an explosion was inevitable.

"Elifa, wait a moment, give me some time, I'll handle all of this."

"What else do you want to do! Do you still want to attack A-Jiu? Has she done anything to hurt you?"

"No, no, that's not what I meant, Elifa, ah—"

Misunderstandings arise, and conflicts escalate. Elifa simply cannot comprehend Muban's actions; in her eyes, her father was just trying to take the life of a girl who was about her age.

Muban was terrified. His emotions became even more chaotic, and the magic within his body intensified, uncontrollably exploding outwards.

Muban knelt on the ground, trying to use his last bit of sanity to channel the magic within him. The land of Haiyun was the best container, with enough debris to absorb the magic from the monster.

With his hands pounding the ground, Muban was like a twisted, burning coal, continuously radiating heat. His body was torn apart by the flames, and he was completely unable to control the harm caused by his actions.

"Ugh-"

A sea monster's skeleton bursts from the earth, absorbing powerful and frenzied life energy to reappear in the world, inheriting the destructive desire and evil thoughts that humans were unwilling to inherit, to tear all the obstacles in its path to shreds.

The sea monster's rampage terrified Elifa. She had never seen a monster with only bones crawling out of the ground before; it was like an evil spirit that had run out of a nightmare.

Elifa wanted to run away in fear, but she hesitated. Elifa was worried about Ajiu's safety. She was terrified that Muban would really take a life if she left.

"Elifa...please listen to me, please listen to me properly."

"Please, please give me a chance, okay?"

Finally freed from the control of magic, the resurrected skeletal sea beast became a new vessel for rampaging magic, wantonly destroying everything in its path, but Muban didn't care.

Muban only wanted to talk to his daughter properly, and he used all his strength to achieve this one request.

Crawling, crawling, struggling to move forward across the wasteland.

This is the ruler who can dominate the world, the leader who commands all of humanity and monsters, and the ambitious man who twists the orders of the otherworldly legion.

Muban could no longer feel touch on his skin, and his heartbeat seemed to be controlled by runes, but even so, there was only that one person in Muban's eyes.

Elifa ran away.

She couldn't bear to face the monster before her, neither human nor beast. Elifa knew she was just a human, and all she wanted to do and could do was save more people.

Muban cried.

But what he shed wasn't tears at all, but drops of magical nectar, dripping onto the earth, becoming nourishment for the birth of more skeletal monsters along with his collapsing will.

In the last gaze Muban could see, in the last moments when Muban could still think for himself...

He saw nothing, and in the end, he gained nothing.