The words struck like a hammer to every heart.
Mockery and confusion in the shelter cut off.
People stared at the small back on the screen, a difficult emotion swelling inside.
"What a… pesky fly," Deep Sea King lost his patience. He didn't even use his full strength—just threw a casual punch.
Unlicensed Rider was swatted away, arcing through the air, crashing down hard.
But he staggered up again, coughing blood, and stood in front of the monster once more.
Once, twice, thrice…
He was knocked down again and again; bones seemed to crack audibly; blood mixed with rain stained his uniform red.
"Ah…" gasps of pain rippled through the shelter.
Yet a few seconds later, that figure clawed up again, spitting water and blood, and stood again before the monster.
His steps wobbled; his eyes stayed firm.
"Oh?" Deep Sea King's interest stirred.
Another punch—this time Unlicensed Rider flew like a baseball, slammed into an abandoned car, denting the door.
The crack of bones seemed to travel through the screen.
He stood again.
Once, twice, thrice…
He knew he was weak; he knew each stand was meaningless.
But he also knew that if he retreated, the hope of the tens of thousands behind him would be ground to dust.
"Enough… please… don't get up…" a young girl sobbed in the shelter, hand over mouth, unable to watch.
"He's a hero… he's a hero too…" a middle-aged man murmured, eyes full of respect.
Mockery was gone—replaced by deep shock and reverence.
In that moment they saw not a weak hero flailing— but a man using his purest belief to stand against despair.
"Then take your laughable 'justice'… and die!" Deep Sea King finally snapped.
He raised his huge fist at the battered man who could no longer move but still glared at him— ready to end it.
"BOOM—!!"
A dazzling light-orb whistled in from afar, smashing square into Deep Sea King's descending arm!
The blast made him grunt and halt the strike.
Snarling, he snapped his head left to find the sneak attacker.
But a shadow too fast to catch flashed across his eyes.
Deep Sea King's huge body jolted; a crisis he'd never felt before surged up.
He whirled— pupils shrinking.
In the spot that had been empty now stood a man.
The man held the spent Unlicensed Rider in his arms; Unlicensed Rider's lips still moved faintly: "Thank… goodness… Lord KING… you're here…"
It was Lin Mo.
From his system space he took out a softly glowing Super Stamina Potion and carefully fed it to Unlicensed Rider.
Before their eyes, the horrific wounds began healing at high speed.
Lin Mo laid him gently on a relatively clean patch of ground. "You've already done enough. Leave the rest to me," he said quietly.
Then he turned and faced the ocean tyrant radiating murderous aura.
"Oh? Another one courting death?" Deep Sea King looked down from on high, vapor puffing from his nose, voice dripping disdain.
"Thump-thump-thump… THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP…"
Looking at the barely breathing Unlicensed Rider, then the monster, Lin Mo's King Engine roared to a frenzy.
Deep Sea King halted mid-step. His gaze locked on Lin Mo.
He could clearly hear the thunder in the man's chest— and feel an invisible terror pressing upon him.
Under it, he felt for a moment like the prey.
"Oh?" For the first time Deep Sea King's face turned solemn. "So you're their trump card? From that sound, your heart is… lively."
"Good… I've already defeated two of your so-called S-Class strong. Let's see what 'trump card' you are!"
His muscles bulged, veins writhed, dark markings rose on his skin—his full-power final form!
Washed by rain, his aura dwarfed what he used against Genos, many times over!
Lin Mo, facing the world-ending pressure, simply lifted his right hand.
No flourish, no scream.
Just simply aimed his palm at Deep Sea King.
"THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP—!!"
The King Engine hit a peak never reached before!
All held their breath, eyes on KING's palm.
They didn't know what would happen, but they knew it would decide all their fates.
"Putting on airs!"
Sensing an unprecedented threat, Deep Sea King no longer waited. He roared, gathered every ounce of power into his right fist.
He stamped; concrete spiderwebbed. He shot like a green meteor straight at Lin Mo!
He would obliterate the man with his strongest punch!
Faced with a blow that could one-shot an S-Class, Lin Mo's expression did not change.
At the instant the fist neared—
A blaze of golden radiance bloomed in his palm.
It began as a pinprick—then, in a blink, swelled into a blinding, great golden orb!
"Energy Orb," Lin Mo intoned in his heart.
He did not add "Pierce" or "Blast."
He didn't need to.
The foe before him wasn't worthy.
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