Chapter 916

"Hmm.

""

Saitama replied, bracing his heels against the outer wall, and broke away from the rooftop platform of the Hero Association Headquarters Building, dropping straight into free fall.

"Bang~"

Somewhat similar to Boros's entrance, but Saitama didn't smash up too much of a commotion; his legs just sank deep into the ground.

But he pulled them out soon enough and walked toward Boros's direction.

"Lord Boros, leave that baldy to me."

Groribas had just been pummeled one-handed by Black Light; the Combatant who considered himself the strongest in the Dark Matter Pirates felt he had lost face before his Leader, and he couldn't wait to prove himself and win back the ground he'd lost from the beating. After saying this to Boros, he charged straight at Saitama.

"Groribas, you idiot, get back here————"

Seemingly unable to escape the fated outcome, Groribas, who attacked Saitama on his own initiative, was blown apart at half his body by a single punch from Saitama before Melzargard's warning could even finish. Lacking powerful regeneration and multiple cores, he dropped dead on the spot, dying like a mere mook.

"You're strong. I can feel it."

As for the death of his ship's strongest Combatant, Boros didn't show much emotional fluctuation; he merely stated in a flat tone this one sentence to Saitama.

"You're amazing too. Thanks for not killing my disciple!"

Saitama also said a line, because he saw Genos lying in the distant ruins, still barely able to move — clearly not dead.

But after saying it, Saitama looked at the half alien corpse before him and suddenly felt his words might have been a bit inappropriate.

After all, he had just straight-up killed the other guy's companion.

"Disciple?"

Following Saitama's gaze, Boros spotted the still-alive Genos in the distance and shook his head.

"No need to thank me. Surviving a casual strike from me counts as his own ability."

"But you're strong. You could've killed him with a bit more force, yet you didn't."

Saitama's words left the armored Boros silent.

"Can you tell me why you came to attack Earth?"

Sensing the fallen heroes weren't dead, and that the other party seemed open to dialogue, Saitama didn't attack directly.

"Because of a prophecy."

"What prophecy?"

Saitama was a little curious.

"Once, a Fortune Teller told me that on this planet, there is the person I seek."

"Who are you looking for?"

"An opponent who can match me evenly."

"?"

"My name is Boros, Leader of the Dark Matter Pirates, and at the same time, the Dominant of the entire Universe.

Many years ago, I became invincible in the Universe, but the days of invincibility are exceedingly boring and lonely.

When conquering a certain planet, a Fortune Teller with some renown in the Universe offered to divine my heart's desire as the condition for my withdrawal.

Although I personally don't put much stock in divination, it also counts as adding a sliver of expectation and amusement to my rather boring invincible life, so I agreed to the condition.

Twenty years. I spent twenty-plus years before finally reaching this prophesied planet————"

"So you wanted to find an evenly matched opponent, but even so, you didn't have to let your men attack us right off the bat, right?"

"The Fortune Teller who prophesied for me didn't give me prophecy information precise down to the individual. The indigenous lifeforms on this planet are numerous; I can't go distinguishing them one by one. So, attacking you all directly — the guys who survive can be confirmed as this planet's strong ones."

Boros explained why his own Dark Matter Pirates launched an attack without a second word.

"Well, guys who've never experienced the boredom after invincibility probably can't understand the mood of an invincible person like me."

"No, although I'm no longer an invincible person now, I once had the same bored feeling as you. I think I can slightly understand your mood.

It's just that I can't agree with your methods — just to find the prophesied evenly matched opponent faster, you let your subordinates attack innocents."

"This planet's environment is peaceful, suitable for survival. A civilization born on such a planet perhaps reveres goodness and peace more, but my Species is not like that. The planet I was born on is a place where survival supplies are extremely scarce, and battle, struggle — those are the first things our clan had to learn to do after being born."

"Is that so————"

Saitama understood Boros's words. Morality is mostly determined by environment; what he thinks the other did wrong might be seen as perfectly normal from the other's perspective.

"Since you came all this way to this planet to find someone to fight, let me be your opponent. However, my situation is a bit different from yours — the City environment would restrain me from exerting my full strength. You shouldn't mind changing to a different place to fight, right?"

Saitama looked at Boros and asked directly.

"Lead the way. Wherever you want to fight is fine by me."

"Alright, then come with me."

Saitama didn't waste words either; with a powerful kick-off jump, the ground shattering beneath him, his whole person shot out like a missile.

"Melzargard, this place is left to you to handle."

Boros gave an instruction, not waiting for Melzargard to say anything, and with a big jump he pursued in the direction Saitama left, like a golden arrow.

【Is that baldy also an S-Class Hero? Can he deal with that monster?】

Zombieman thought.

【Forget it, don't want to think so much. Saving people is more important right now————】

He and Child Emperor, likewise hiding beside him, exchanged a glance, and after Saitama and Boros left, they once again engaged in battle with Melzargard.

Except this time it was two regeneration monsters attacking each other, while Child Emperor manipulated small machines to rescue the beaten S-Class Heroes back to the Hero Association Headquarters.

And with the fighting restarting here, the originally quieted spaceship Combatants and those A-Class Heroes intimidated by Boros also started fighting again.

Mainly a king vs king, general vs general, soldier vs soldier setup.

Of course, these spaceship Combatants don't know that Earth's side still has an even stronger one who didn't act, watching the capture targets fight from the rooftop — the King of Wanpa Star.

"This is the wilderness, hundreds of kilometers from A-City, no other cities or villages around. It's a suitable place for fighting."

Saitama couldn't fly, but he could jump very high, yet he found a place suitable for fighting in the sky.

As he landed, a figure clad in golden armor also fell from the sky: "Is this the burial ground you found for yourself?"

"Hey, it's just a sparring match, surely you don't want to fight me to the death?"

"What I pursue is a fight where everything is on the line, not house-play sparring."

Just as Boros finished speaking, Saitama's figure vanished.

His single eye pupil shrank, and he crossed both hands in front of him to block.

However, he was a step too slow; Saitama's fist struck his abdomen first.

Boros was directly blown away, his body smashing into a rock, and the armor on his body was shattered by Saitama's punch.

"In that case, do you still want to fight me with everything on the line?"

Saitama didn't deal a fatal blow, but wanted to use this punch to make the other party retreat.

"Saitama, your name is Saitama, right?"

"Mm."

"So, the guy from the prophecy is you, heh, hahahaha——"

Boros, embedded in the rock wall, suddenly burst into laughter.

"Whether to fight you with everything on the line?"

"Heh, my answer is of course."

"What, do you think piercing my armor can defeat me?"

"To tell you the truth, my armor is not used to defend against outside attacks."

"On the contrary, its function is to suppress the immense energy within my body; it is my Power Limiter."

"Now, you've shattered it, which means you will face me in a more powerful posture!"

Boros clenched both fists, his breath continuously rising; the light blue skin originally exposed after his armor shattered quickly turned dark blue to near black, as if he had put on a new biological armor.

"Are you putting on a game final boss act for me, even having a second transformation setting?"

Seeing the other's new look, Saitama couldn't help but roast him.

"Dong~"

The giant stone embedded in Boros's body suddenly shattered, and Boros's figure surged toward Saitama at an instantaneous burst speed exceeding several times the speed of sound.

Saitama raised his arm, blocking the trajectory of the incoming fist in advance; Boros noticed it, but had no intention of changing his attack trajectory, and directly punched over.

A terrifying shockwave was produced; Boros's punch was not at all weaker than the one Saitama taught Genos back then, the only difference being that Saitama stopped in front of Genos back then, while now Boros struck without holding back at all.

Just one hit, and Saitama was blown away, his whole body smashing into the mountain——

", unexpectedly still hiding some strength, however, this distance, plus that Saitama guy, the battle aftermath shouldn't reach this side——"

Broly's Ki Sense enveloping the planet had not yet retracted; when Boros entered his second form, he felt the other's Ki continuously rising.

It's just a pity that the other's rising Ki, compared to the breath Saitama showed when sparring with him before, could only be said to not even be a fraction.

Mm, probably only about two-thirds of his own old father's current constant Explosive Ki combat strength level, roughly around five thousand Combat Strength.

Although the breath was still rising, but at that rate of increase, Broly felt it was still a bit hard for the other to extort Saitama.

"Broly!"

Just then, Tatsumaki called him from the sky.

"What's wrong, Sister Tatsumaki, do you need my help?"

Broly stood up, cracking his knuckles and looking at Tatsumaki floating in the sky.

And from his current bottom-to-top viewpoint, he instead saw Tatsumaki's white Pantsu under her skirt.

Mm, pure white, no little bear pattern.

"I don't need you to help me fight, go, go back inside the Hero Association Headquarters Building, and get everyone in the building to scram out for me."

", Sister Tatsumaki, what are you trying to do?"

"Of course it's to take it and smash that alien stinking Octopus on the opposite side into meat paste!"

Tatsumaki said naturally.

In the fight with Geryuganshoop, she found she lacked a weapon sufficient to carry her own psychic power.

Broly couldn't quite understand Tatsumaki's meaning, but he was willing to respect the other's idea.

The people inside the Hero Association Headquarters Building were quickly cleared out.

The sound of crack crack rang out——

"Mr. Broly, are you sure Miss Tatsumaki really needs the Association Headquarters Building as support?"

Looking at the Headquarters Building several hundred meters high, along with its foundation being lifted into the sky, Sitch wiped sweat with a handkerchief while asking Broly beside him.

"Mm, at least, that's what she means."

Broly nodded.

And after obtaining the new weapon 【Hero Association Headquarters Building】, Tatsumaki in the sky also completely suppressed Geryuganshoop.

Geryuganshoop's telekinetic strength was not as strong as Tatsumaki's, it was just that his telekinetic tricks could pierce Tatsumaki's psychic power.

But being able to pierce Tatsumaki's psychic power didn't mean being able to pierce the Hero Association Headquarters Building attached with Tatsumaki's psychic power.

"I take back what I said about this being shoddy construction; Metal Knight that guy still used some good materials to build the Headquarters Building!"

Tatsumaki seldom actively admitted her mistake, but mainly it was because Geryuganshoop's telekinetic tricks just now annoyed her; although his psychic strength was completely inferior to hers, he could use tricks that made her wary.

It was just like a sturdy but slow person chasing and beating a thin but fast person who could also pick up stones to throw and hurt him.

And the Hero Association's Headquarters Building played the role of a stick that increased attack distance and was not easy to break, making Geryuganshoop cry out in pain.

As for using telekinesis to snatch the "right to use the stick," what a joke — Tatsumaki's raw strength is greater, and in a telekinetic wrestling match, Geryuganshoop simply doesn't compare.

This second-in-command of the Dark Matter Pirates now only hopes his boss Boros can quickly solve his opponent and return, to save himself from the outcome of being blasted into meat paste by the building.

On the other side, the battle between Boros and Saitama has also become increasingly intense (from Boros's perspective).

Near the battle location, mountains have already been smashed apart, and the terrain has been altered.

Boros's skin has also changed from dark blue to pink.

This is the skin color change produced by his blood and energy flowing at high speed within his body.

"Using the body's internal energy as motive power, to burst forth strength at a speed surpassing biological limits — it ends!"

Boros flew up with a kick, sending Saitama into the sky, directly kicking him outside the range of Earth's gravitational pull.

"Saitama, is he going to become an Ultimate Lifeform?"

Through Ki Sense, discovering that Saitama's Ki had directly shot into outer space, Broly was somewhat dazed, because he really didn't know. 888

. 888

Dao, a person who won't use Energy Bullets, won't use gravity Magic, and won't use Qi Flight — how can he, after being knocked out of the atmosphere and flying toward the Vacuum Universe, rely on himself to return from the Vacuum Universe?

"Forget it, Saitama's Ki hasn't decreased either; waiting until his Ki shows a decrease before going to bring him back isn't too late either."

Sensing Saitama's Ki condition, Broly didn't directly intervene, merely extending his Ki Sense along with Saitama's Ki, counting as placing a marker on the other party.

At this moment, Saitama, who had been kicked to the moon, was also somewhat dazed; he had only held back slightly, wanting to let that alien called Boros properly vent the loneliness and solitude after becoming invincible, yet never expected he would be kicked out of Earth by the other party in one kick,

and fly to the moon.