Chapter 403

"The hero who has always been on his side turns out to be the demon king in the end. Hmm, this is a very reasonable plot..."

King, who had brought Saman back to the safe zone a long time ago, was now looking at the image projected on the monitor with a thoughtful look on his face.

In comparison.

The association staff next to him could not remain calm at all. Almost all of them had expressions of shock and disbelief.

"This doesn't make sense at all! Mr King!! "

"This is bad!!"

Thunder God and the King of Freaks from the Freak Association were in cahoots. They might even be the same person. This situation was simply devastating!

Thunder God had always been the strongest hero that the Hero Association had promoted. He was the signature character that the Hero Association had subsequently chosen. Ignoring the negative impact that his identity as a freak would have, the crux of the matter was that … no one could stop him now!

The strongest Hero.

The strongest Freak.

If the two were to combine as one, it was unimaginable what would happen!

"I don't think so."

King looked at the projected image with a deadpan expression and said, "If he were really an enemy, he would have countless ways to kill all our Heroes, but he didn't do so. Therefore, Earth probably won't be destroyed. At most, it will be ruled by him … Yes, probably."

The staff beside him waved his arms in a panic and said, "Mr King! How can you give up! You should hurry up and support Mr Saitama! "

However, King ignored him. He walked to the side and said, "Even if I were to go now, it would be meaningless. I'll just wait for the final result. I'm going home to rest."

On the other side.

The S-class Heroes who had been heavily injured in the collision between Divine Tree Pain and Saitama had been rescued by the rescue team and were gathered at the temporary camp in Z City.

Everyone had their bodies wrapped in bandages. They were now gathered together and looking at the projection projected by a special device above their heads.

When they saw the scene of Divine Tree Pain walking toward Maple Night and finally fusing into his body, all the S-class Heroes froze.

Silence reigned.

No one said anything, but almost everyone's eyes were wide open, and their faces were filled with disbelief.

As the number one S-class Hero, Explosion, was already half-retired. He was basically just an honorary number one S-class Hero. The current number one S-class Hero was, in fact, Thunder God.

Thunder God was also recognized as the strongest Hero.

However …

The strongest Hero and the strongest Monster were actually the same person!

Tong Di was dumbfounded. The sexy prisoner was stunned. Even Venerable Vest was stunned. The only person who had not completely fallen into a daze was Jenos.

Based on his analysis, he had come up with this conclusion about a day ago. However, the probability of this conclusion being correct was less than 1%. Thus, he had not said it out loud. Instead, he had been secretly observing Maple Night.

Now …

This guess had become reality!

"Teacher …"

Jenos clenched his slightly shattered fists and looked at Saitama on the screen. There was still no sign of him giving up in his eyes.

If there was anyone who could stop Feng Ye right now, it was probably Saitama!

…

"How dazzling."

The dazzling white light was like the eruption of the sun, making it difficult for one to look at it directly. Saitama had no choice but to raise her hand and block her eyes, preventing the light from shooting toward her.

The light that spread out from Maple Night's body was as hot as the sun. In an instant, the ground beneath Maple Night's feet was completely vaporized.

In the sky.

The tornado, which was only a few thousand meters away from her, also bore the brunt of the light and heat that shot toward her. It also bore the brunt of the heat wave that engulfed her body.

This terrifying heat wave felt as if she had come into close contact with the surface of the sun, causing her telekinesis barrier to tremble violently.

"Eh …"

Tornado, who had returned to her senses, didn't have time to think. She immediately did her best to release her telekinesis, blocking the waves of heat that were powerful enough to send her flying into the sky. However, the waves of heat were far too powerful. She could only barely block them, and her telekinesis was pushed to its limits.

Maple Night's power had long since reached the point where he could split apart the Earth with a single sword strike. In fact, he could even split apart the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter. He possessed energy far stronger than Jupiter.

And now …

It was as if two Jupiters had collided and fused together, instantly igniting. All of their energy began to explode, and their cores began to violently explode, transforming into stars!

Planets and stars were two completely different types of celestial bodies. Even the smallest star had far more energy than a large planet. Therefore, this step of evolution was a huge leap.

Even though Maple Night's evolution had only just begun …

Even though the tornado was still several thousand meters away from Feng Ye's main body, the heat waves from the natural energy fluctuations were already too much for her to handle!

Tornado tried to retreat, but the speed at which she retreated was far slower than the speed at which her telekinesis was being melted by the waves of heat. The terrifying heat had even passed through the surface of her telekinesis, causing her clothes to start burning.

Just as Tornado's entire body was on fire and she was about to be unable to block the heat, a black ball pierced through the air and flew in front of her. It instantly melted and transformed into a black curtain.

It was a Truth-Seeking Ball.

The nature of the Truth-Seeking Ball's power was actually slightly higher than that of nuclear fusion. This was because it could disintegrate almost all matter and release all of its energy. It was just that in terms of quantity, a Truth-Seeking Ball was far from being comparable to a sun. Even an inflated Truth-Seeking Ball was inferior by many times.

However, it was still enough to block the heat emitted by a star at close range.

"Hu … Hu …"

With the Truth-Seeking Ball as a barrier, 99% of the heat was blocked. The remaining bit of heat was quickly blocked by Tornado and extinguished the flames on her body.

Even though her vision had basically been taken away by the all-encompassing white light, Tornado still subconsciously placed one hand across her chest and the other down. She used her telekinesis to lock onto Lilith, who was not far away from her. "Why did you help me …"

"Father doesn't wish for you to die."

Lilith replied calmly.

At this moment, there was no need for any further explanation. Tornado already understood that Feng Ye was the One-eyed Monarch, the leader of the Freak Association, and also the strongest hero.

She recalled that she had jokingly asked Feng Ye if he was the greatest villain, and Feng Ye had smiled and nodded at her. At that time, she had thought that Feng Ye was also joking, but she did not expect that it was the truth.

Tornado could not help but clench her fists tightly. She turned her head toward Lilith and said, "Since you are all freaks, then why …"

"Don't use the term 'freak' to define Father."

Lilith replied calmly, "It's just that we were affected by the environment when we came to this world and lost control of our powers. In order to prevent you, who are so fragile, from dying, Father expended a lot of power to control us, but in that situation, you still took the initiative to attack us."

Lilith's words caused Tornado to be slightly stunned. She could not help but recall the time when the Ten-Tails first appeared. At that time, everyone was doing their best to prevent the damage from expanding and to control the Ten-Tails. But in reality, apart from Saitama, no one else had the ability to control the Ten-Tails.

Feng Ye could have left the place and caused even greater damage, but he did not do so. He remained in the same place, causing the actual damage to be less than that of a Dragon-level disaster. In the end, the actual damage caused was only about the same as some Dhost-level disasters.

In that case …

On the contrary, they had made the wrong judgment from the beginning.

Although Tornado also wanted to refute this, she could not find a reason to do so. Because if that was not the case, Lilith would not have needed to protect her, and Feng Ye could easily destroy Earth.

"Then, why did you establish something like the Eccentric Association?"

"Father never established the Eccentric Association. He only killed the original leader of the Eccentric Association and temporarily occupied it. After all, you attacked us before, so we have no reason to help you destroy the Eccentric Association."

Lilith's words caused Tornado to pause.

In other words, the Eccentric Association's actions were similar to an act of revenge, and in the end, Feng Ye killed all the monsters at once, causing no actual casualties among the heroes.

Tornado muttered in a low voice, "So that's how it is … You made a fool out of all our heroes. This must be your 'revenge.'"

Although she realized that all the heroes had been made a fool out of by Feng Ye, she could not bring herself to feel any anger, because Feng Ye's revenge was reasonable.

However …

'I was made a fool out of just like that? What a bastard!!'

Tornado gritted her teeth. She really wanted to rush over and beat Feng Ye up, but the white light that covered the sky and the heat of the sun made her feel wronged. She couldn't defeat Feng Ye. It was impossible.

…

Below.

At this moment, Feng Ye felt that his whole body was transforming from the inside out, from his body to his soul. This transformation was very strange. He didn't absorb any power from the outside world. Instead, a huge amount of energy was continuously generated from his body.

From the world of Naruto to the world of One Piece, except for the power of the illusory clock, almost all the powers he obtained were in line with the laws of physics. They could all be defined in a materialistic way, and they were all changes produced by energy.

His becoming stronger.

He was also constantly absorbing energy from the outside world.

Including practicing Armament Haki and practicing the swordsmanship of a Great Swordsman, these were not ways to generate power out of nothing. They were all ways to make use of the original power more efficiently.

But now.

All of this was broken.

After fusing with the Divine Tree Pain, if measured from the total amount of energy, the total sum of his power will be doubled at most, but in fact, the increase in his power has already exceeded five or six times!

This power does not originate from absorbing the Divine Tree Pain, nor does it come from absorbing any energy from the outside world, but it is the unscientific power that is constantly born in his body.

Maple was not surprised.

Because of such a long time of research on limiters, he has already understood what the so-called limiters are. It is actually the shackles between idealism and materialism.

Those who were just ordinary people a second ago could merge with their costumes in the next second, instantly transforming into ghost-level or even dragon-level monsters with the power to destroy cities. This was clearly unscientific. From the perspective of energy, no reasonable conclusion could be reached no matter how one analyzed it.

Such was the case with Saitama's existence.

An ordinary person who only trained for three years, became bald, and suddenly gained the power to destroy Earth with a single punch … Even if you disassembled Saitama's entire body into the most basic atoms and molecules and released all of his energy, it still wouldn't make sense from a scientific standpoint.

Right now, the endless amount of energy being released from Saitama's body seemed to appear out of nowhere. This energy came from a place that Maple was unable to understand.

This energy caused Maple to continuously evolve.

"I can't stay here.

If this continues, Earth will be vaporized … "

Maple could feel that the power within his body was becoming stronger and stronger without any signs of stopping. He took a deep breath and willed himself to open up a dimensional portal to Yogi-hirasaka.

However, he failed. He wasn't able to open up a dimensional portal to Yogi-hirasaka. It seemed that he was still in the process of evolving and was unable to use the various abilities of the Reincarnation Tenseigan.

After noticing that he was unable to use his spatial abilities, Maple didn't hesitate and gave up on the idea of using Yogi-hirasaka. He rose from the ground and flew towards the sky.

* Whoosh!! *

Looking up at the sky at this moment, one could see a dazzling white light rushing into the sky at an extremely fast speed. In an instant, it was outside the atmosphere.

Maple didn't stop. After leaving Earth, he continued flying in the direction of the sun.

As Maple flew further and further away.

The white light that covered nearly half of Earth finally began to fade. Everyone was gradually able to open their eyes again.

Tornado also sensed that the light outside was no longer blinding. He slowly opened his eyes and looked towards the sky. He was somewhat shocked to see that there were two similar light balls in the sky.

One of them was undoubtedly the sun.

Then the other one …

Even though she had long felt that she had become numb to Maple's power, she still couldn't help but feel astonished at this moment.

With her telekinesis, even if it was 100 times or 1,000 times stronger, she probably wouldn't be able to release light and heat like the sun.

"That fellow …"

"He became the sun …"

Tong Di, Super Alloy Black Light, and the other S-class heroes raised their heads and looked towards the sky. Their minds were almost completely blank. All their thoughts had been scattered and scattered.

This was already a level that they couldn't understand or come into contact with. It only existed in those anime that they usually watched.

Maple flew in the direction of the sun at an extremely fast speed. In the end, he stopped at a place not far from the sun's surface. The energy produced in his body was also becoming more and more intense. His entire body was gradually becoming no different from a small star.

If he hadn't left Earth quickly and had stayed on Earth, then Earth would have been completely destroyed and melted by the energy and heat he released.

Even though he had arrived near the sun, the impact he had on Earth was still very great.

Even in the Grim Reaper world, the Soul Corpse Society, which was far sturdier than the real world, couldn't withstand the disintegration of Chief Captain Yamamoto Genji Yanagi, which had reached the temperature of the sun's core. Not to mention the physical world, which was much weaker than the Soul Corpse Society.

Even though his current energy was only about one-fifth of the sun's, and the heat he released was at most one-tenth of the sun's under his control, it was still enough to destroy Earth's atmosphere and roast Earth like Venus.

Fortunately.

Lilith was still on Earth.

Although her power was not as great as Saitama's, she had all kinds of abilities, including the Ice Attribute Blood Limit Boundary, which could lower the temperature of Earth.

Maple gave Lilith instructions to protect Earth. Lilith didn't hesitate and quickly used Ice Release to balance the rising temperature of Earth. She also used Six Daos – Earthshatter Heavenly Star to reconstruct the moon, and carried out a series of repairs to Earth's environment.

One day …

Two days …

Three days …

Time passed quickly.

After the initial shock, the humans on Earth gradually adapted to the days when one big and one small sun appeared in the sky. They restored their normal order and lives.

Lilith was protecting Earth's environment, so the Hero Association could no longer label her as a weirdo. This was because destroying her would result in Earth's destruction unless she and Maple were destroyed together. However, that was clearly impossible. Just running to the vicinity of the sun was already an impossible task.

The only person who could do it was Saitama.

However, Saitama didn't have any animosity towards Lilith or Maple. This was because, to him, Maple and Lilith weren't considered weirdos, especially after he learned of the cause and effect.

One month …

Two months …

Three months …

Time passed quickly.

Weirdos were constantly appearing on Earth, and the Heroes were constantly working hard to destroy them. Lilith rarely appeared, and Maple's name had been removed from the Hero Association's list of Heroes. However, no one could forget Maple. This was because they could see the two suns whenever they looked up.

"That fellow doesn't plan on returning?"

Tornado floated in the clouds as she looked in the direction of the sun from afar and mumbled.

Lilith's voice sounded in her ear. "Father is still adapting to the power he obtained."

"…"

The tornado glanced at the sky, then turned to look at the city below with a slightly disappointed expression.

Although she was quite angry at being toyed with by Feng Ye, after she got rid of her anger, Feng Ye's figure was still in her mind — this was quite normal. When you raised your head and saw two suns every day, it would be impossible for you to forget one of them.

Time passed by silently.

One year …

Two years …

Three years …

From the time Maple Night left the Earth and turned into the Sun, three years had passed quietly.