Chapter 87: Tornado's Worldview Shattered, The Universal Overlord's Power!
Because Saitama had boarded the spaceship, what should have been a large-scale invasion resulted in only Melzargard appearing.
After Bane dealt with this guy, all the S-Class heroes' attention focused on the spaceship.
"Dr. Genus, you've got work to do!" Bane thought to himself as he looked at the spaceship.
He'd actually been waiting for this day for a long time—a massive ship capable of traversing the universe had extremely high strategic value.
In the original story, this spaceship had crashed and was eventually taken over by Metal Knight to study alien technology.
But now, Bane naturally couldn't let such a ship slip by. If this ship could be deployed in the pirate world, Bane felt it should be able to compete with one of the Ancient Weapons, Uranus!
Of course, Bane wasn't delusional enough to think he could take this ship back completely intact. Moreover, this was cosmic technology without any manual—he could at most understand the common language, but this kind of universal culture should be as incomprehensible as ancient texts.
If he couldn't understand it, it wouldn't be easy to operate. What if the ship had some backdoor that accidentally triggered self-destruction? And if nothing unexpected happened, this ship should already be nearly destroyed by Saitama.
So Bane felt the most suitable approach was to salvage the spaceship's wreckage after everything ended, then hand it over to Dr. Genus for research. Ideally, they could thoroughly understand some core technologies, then design blueprints for a smaller, simplified version.
Then building their own ship would be excellent.
"Are the enemies still up there?" Darkshine said with some frustration. "It's not easy to get up there."
But just as he finished speaking, the massive spaceship suddenly tilted downward as if it had suffered some tremendous impact, nearly crashing.
Bane estimated this was probably caused by Saitama jumping from the moon.
Without much thought, Bane used Moonwalk to head directly toward the top of the spaceship, while Zoro moved even faster, transforming into lightning and disappearing from among the heroes.
Seeing these two heading toward the spaceship, Tornado thought briefly, then without hesitation took off at high speed, overtaking Bane and arriving above the spaceship after Zoro.
Just as she was about to say something to Zoro floating in the air, her gaze was involuntarily drawn to the intense battle between Boros and Saitama on the ship's far side.
When she was below, because of the massive spaceship between them, Tornado had only sensed some strange movements but hadn't truly faced this level of combat. Now, her arrogant expression had transformed into shock.
"What is... what is this?" Tornado muttered to herself in amazement.
She saw the baldy who had annoyed her outside the conference room, and she saw the one-eyed monster fighting him.
As the S-Class rank 2 hero, Tornado had dealt with many monsters before, but with just one glance she could confirm that among all the countless monsters she'd encountered, not one could compare to this one-eyed monster—they weren't even worthy of carrying his shoes, not even Dragon-level monsters!
Though she was extremely far from the two fighters, Tornado could still sense their tremendous power from the energy, impacts, and force waves dissipating through the air.
She didn't want to admit it, but had to acknowledge that either of these two seemed stronger than her!
"Finally opening your eyes to see this world's truly top-tier powerhouses?" Bane's voice came from beside Tornado.
This sentence seemed to wake the shocked Tornado. She asked in disbelief: "Who exactly is that baldy?"
"B-Class rank 101, Caped Baldy Saitama," Bane said softly.
"B-Class? How could he possibly be this strong?" Tornado asked as if unwilling to accept reality.
"You were born with psychic abilities that surpass 99% of humanity. Others must always question you about this too, right? How can you be so strong?" Bane glanced at Tornado, then continued: "And you must feel that you naturally should be this strong, not bothering to explain to those weaklings. Now it's just a matter of switching your roles with him. Why can't he possibly be this strong? Isn't the fact right before your eyes?"
Bane's words left Tornado completely silent in the air.
After a moment, Tornado stopped dwelling on why Saitama could be so strong and seriously began watching this unprecedented super-battle.
She, Bane, and Zoro were all seriously watching this fight, none showing any intention of intervening, because they all had self-awareness—they weren't qualified to participate in this level of battle!
Being able to watch from a distance was already tremendous luck.
Universal Overlord Boros's overwhelming aura, accompanying his gradually escalating power, rapidly spread in all directions. That terrifying pressure made all three observers feel somewhat suffocated.
Their power levels were completely different!
Once again beaten to pieces by Saitama's barrage, Boros quickly reassembled his body at extreme speed, then shouted excitedly: "Powerful! Too powerful, Saitama! You're worthy of me burning myself out! Now, taste another of my trump cards!!!"
This time Boros didn't rush to attack, but spread his arms, assuming a charging stance.
And Saitama was very respectful of Boros, showing no intention of interfering, seeming quite eager to witness Boros's trump card!
"I'll release all my energy and blow you away along with this planet's surface!!!" Boros gathered massive energy streams around his body, causing him to float involuntarily.
These energy streams rapidly converged at the light ring on his chest, like a terrifying weapon charging up.
Even from far away, Bane and the others still felt that terrifying energy pressure, momentarily reminded of an old acquaintance—one glance would cause explosion, one step closer would cause melting!
"What is that guy doing? Why isn't he stopping him? If hit by that kind of energy..." Tornado said anxiously.
As an extremely powerful psychic user, she could directly sense how strong the energy Boros was gathering was—truly planet-destroying power!
However, Bane ignored Tornado. At this moment, he was staring intently at Boros's movements with extremely serious eyes, his heart equally shaken. Even though he'd prepared himself mentally, witnessing this level of energy compression still opened his eyes.
He wielded dark power and could be said to possess infinite energy. Could he reference Boros's combat technique to develop related applications for the Dark-Dark Fruit?
But before Bane could think further about this, Boros had finished charging. His chest emanated destructive aura, and without any hesitation or restraint, he aimed this world-ending energy at Saitama directly opposite him, roaring: "Collapsing Star Roaring Cannon!!!"
Energy waves filled with enough power to destroy everything erupted from Boros, forming a beam of light heading straight for Saitama.
Saitama's face also showed a serious expression: "In that case, I'll also use my ultimate move..."
"Here it comes!" Bane thought excitedly as he watched this scene.
Serious Punch!!!
Of course, that was the nickname—actually, it was Saitama's Serious Strike!
Under Zoro and Tornado's incredulous gazes, Saitama didn't dodge at all. Facing that world-ending energy impact, he threw a straight punch, unleashing his supremely terrifying power.
Boros's Collapsing Star Roaring Cannon, claimed to be capable of destroying a planet's surface, was directly split apart by this punch. The terrifying energy was instantly dispersed into two streams, spreading along the atmosphere with Saitama as the dividing point.
At this moment, if viewed from above Earth, it looked like Earth's outer shell had been cut open and given a center part!
"How is this possible..." Tornado felt her entire worldview shatter as she watched this scene.
Before this, she thought the strongest humans were either Blast, herself, or King.
Now, if anyone asked her this question again, she would unhesitatingly answer that the strongest person was Saitama!
Even Blast, who held such a high position in her heart, couldn't prevent this realization from forming.
"It's over," Bane said, looking at the spaceship that had served as the battlefield for two top-tier fighters. It was now about 70-80% destroyed and showing signs of crashing after the battle ended.
As expected, even he couldn't salvage a complete spaceship, since his strength couldn't influence this level of battle.
He wondered how much technology Dr. Genus could extract from this wrecked ship?
But this wasn't the time to think about such things. Bane looked at the dazed Tornado: "Hey, if you don't want A-City to be completely destroyed by this falling ship, quickly use your abilities to buy me some time. I'll throw this ship into infinite darkness."
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