"T-Teacher..."
Genos's voice trembled with excitement, his mechanical eyes frantically recording. "What a clean and decisive punch! His control over power has reached perfection!"
Saitama scratched his head again and looked at King: "King, was that just now... considered'strong'?
King slowly shook his head, his gaze never leaving the increasingly twisted, eerily purple cloud vortex above.
His voice was low:
"No."
"That was just a... watchdog."
As if to welcome the strongest man on earth's praise—
The sky suddenly darkened.
It wasn't night falling.
Rather, it was some indescribably massive object that completely obscured the light from the sun.
The clouds were violently torn apart and pushed aside.
Reflected in everyone's suddenly constricted pupils was an unimaginably colossal spaceship, impossible to describe in words.
It slowly broke through the atmosphere, revealing its menacing silhouette, like an ancient beast!
It was as vast as a moving metal mountain, with a bizarre design, and two gigantic ramming horns extending from its front.
The whole thing resembled a terrifying Leviathan lurking in the sea of stars.
Its shadow swallowed City A below at a speed visible to the naked eye, from one district to another, from buildings to streets, from panicked crowds to frozen heroes... "W-What is that?!"
Metal Bat cried out.
"Coverage area... exceeds the entire City A?!"
Child Emperor's voice was filled with horror, data frantically scrolling across his miniature computer.
"This is impossible! If such a mass were to fall directly..."
He couldn't finish his sentence.
Because the colossal ship began to descend.
It wasn't freefall; countless enormous thruster nozzles on the underside of the ship simultaneously spewed out plasma flames, so blindingly white they were impossible to look at directly, like countless gigantic pillars of fire supporting the heavens!
But these flames were not for ascent, but for—
Reverse thrust, applying controlled, destructive pressure, pushing the giant ship down like a hammer of fire cast by the gods, slowly pressing towards City A!
The jets from the thrusters were the first to make contact with the ground.
There was no sound.
Or rather, the sound had been masked by a more pure 'destruction'.
High-rise buildings at the point of contact instantly vaporized and disappeared like ice cream under the scorching sun.
Immediately after, a terrifying shockwave spread out in a perfect circle, sweeping in all directions at many times the speed of sound!
Wherever the shockwave passed, reinforced concrete shattered like paper, tumbling, flying, and then, in the subsequent, truly descending shadow and flames of the ship, turned into nothingness.
City A.
The super city with eighty million inhabitants, home to the Hero Association Headquarters.
It lasted less than a second in front of this descending spaceship.
Boom—————————————————————!!!
The delayed, deafening roar, like a planetary core exploding, mixed with the wailing of the cracking earth, swept through the area where the heroes were.
Hot air currents, mixed with metal fragments and construction dust, formed a destructive storm.
It instantly stripped the exterior of the tall building where King and the others stood, leaving only a precarious steel skeleton.
All S-Class Heroes had to use their various abilities to resist this sudden, overwhelming force of nature.
Tatsumaki used her psychokinesis to erect a barrier, her small face filled with anger.
Atomic Samurai's sword energy crisscrossed, cutting apart the incoming debris.
Saitama stood still, letting the storm batter him without even a ruffle to his clothes, merely looking up at the ship's bottom, which was so close it filled his entire vision. A slight ripple finally appeared in his dead fish eyes:
"So big..."
King's emperor engine pulsed low and steadily amidst the deafening roar of destruction.
Thump... thump... thump... He looked down at the ruins of City A, which had turned into a Burning inferno, thick with smoke, his eyes devoid of surprise, only a cold calm.
The prophesied God-level disaster, Boros's Dark Matter Thieves, had arrived.
Only then did everyone realize how correct King's decision had been.
City A was gone.
In just a few seconds, this super city, home to eighty million people,
had been reduced to a Burning, continuously collapsing slag pit.
The rooftop they had stood on was now just a slightly higher piece of wreckage in an ocean of ruins.
The scorching air had not yet dispersed, and the air was filled with a pungent burnt smell.
Thick smoke billowed, obscuring the sky, and the shadow cast by the colossal ship enveloped everything.
The S-Class Heroes, whether standing or flying,
were more or less covered in dust and smoke.
Their faces were etched with solemnity.
If King hadn't insisted on the evacuation... millions of souls would now be buried in the ruins beneath their feet.
Tatsumaki floated in mid-air, looking at the shocking scene below, her small mouth slightly agape.
The previous anger and doubt in her emerald eyes had been completely washed away, leaving only complexity.
Tatsumaki looked at the man standing at the edge of the ruins.
His blue windbreaker swayed slightly in the hot wind.
He remained silent, his emperor engine pulsing lowly.
As if saving eighty million people just now was an insignificant matter.
Metal Bat's hand, holding his bat, was somewhat stiff.
He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but only a dry gasp escaped.
Atomic Samurai's sternness remained unchanged, but a faint hint of admiration flashed deep in his eyes.
"So that's it..."
Bang sighed softly, a deep respect added to his gaze towards King.
Child Emperor quickly operated the device on his wrist, his small face taut.
"Based on the shockwave range and energy decay model, working backward..."
"Without the evacuation, the preliminary estimated casualty rate..."
"Exceeds 99.8%."
His voice was a bit dry, and he looked at King with admiration.
This was—King.
"Hmph..."
Tatsumaki turned her face away, muttering softly: "Even so, couldn't you have said something beforehand?"
Saitama scratched his head, looking at the ruins, his dead fish eyes showing no ripple:
"Oh, the city's gone. Good thing everyone ran away beforehand."
His focus was as simple and direct as ever.
Genos, as if injected with a stimulant, shouted loudly: "King-san foresaw everything! What insight and decisiveness!"
"Quiet, I'm analyzing!"
"Target volume and energy reaction both exceed database limits."
Drive Knight's mechanical voice faltered slightly: "Preliminary assessment, God..."
No, the standard for a God-level disaster is the destruction of all humanity.
However, humanity has that man's protection; in this world, there will never be a God-level disaster!
Drive Knight looked at King, and his metallic heart inexplicably felt a sense of reassurance:
"Estimated disaster level: 'Dragon' and above."
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