Chapter 977: line with translation of chapter title

No. 100: Union, its name is Survival.

""Regeneration", by fixing the elements in the air, it completely regenerates the damage the mech suffers in battle."

""Absorption", it absorbs various energies released by the enemy and converts them into its own power."

""Enhancement", it raises the upper limit of the photon power engine's output by a multiplicative level, greatly increasing all the mech's abilities, and can further enhance other demon god powers."

""High-Order Prediction", upon reaching the highest-level prediction of maximum computation, after further enhancement, it can predict all possibilities, even see the entire parallel world."

""Metamorphosis", it alters the body structure disregarding physical laws, and through further enhancement can even remodel and greatly amplify the armament."

""Causality Weapon", it selects one from countless future possibilities and brings it into the current spacetime; when the situation exceeds the predicted future, as time passes it re-completes the high-order prediction and performs causality weaving, thereby finishing the creation of causality and then realizing it."

""Demon Godification", it devours and assimilates the pilot's will, and the ever-evolving Demon God Zero ultimately becomes the ultimate existence transcending the concepts of time and space."

When Demon God Z opens the aforementioned seven demon god powers, it naturally arrives at the endpoint——

——MazingerZERO

It appeared in the manga《True Demon God Zero VS Dark Great General》, and has also made appearances and been mentioned in many crossover works; it is a super robot equipped with infinite self-evolution capabilities.

It possesses self-awareness and can communicate using light-written characters, yet in order to prove itself the strongest existence in the world, it destroys everything.

To be frank, such a terrifying and dangerous existence would originally have nothing to do with Aomo Lindun no matter what.

Even though Aomo once admired its appearance and even tried to replicate its power and form in a Gundam game, the universe where the Holy Terra Federation resides was not irradiated by light-force, and the existence of a 'demon god' was merely idle talk.

Rather, in the Holy Terra Federation, there have always been many who attempt to recreate the classic images of Demon God Z, Getter, Steel Bastas, etc., and Aomo Lindun is no exception.

Most of them are even more professional than Aomo Lindun; their goal is not to simulate in a game but to create such an existence in reality——they want to build such a being in reality!

They could even engage in kinetic combat, and their combat power once drew the attention of law enforcement.

However, no matter how hard they try, their output can never match the original; of course, if they could truly match it, it wouldn't be law enforcement taking notice, but the Heart of Terra itself paying a visit.

But before their daring attempts succeeded, there was a 19-year-old demon who, using a method they had never tried before, was leading the way.

That method is called 'monster'.

That method also corresponds to a stage called the 'electronic world'.

In the electronic world, a monster is not merely a monster; it is an existence that transcends the world's common sense.

The basis for their transcending common sense lies in humanity's strong emotions, namely wishes.

Whether it's the monsters created by Xintiao Xi, or the monsters controlled by monster users, or even the power of Gulite in TV that is gradually being unsealed and its form progressively upgraded, what is needed is also the same ardent wish.

Emotions converge into power——in this electronic world built from binary, it instead follows this most idealistic underlying logic, no, that is not logic.

It should be a bug that transcends logic, or rather a singularity, just like the especially special 'demon god' and 'demon god power' themselves in the Demon God IP and the Super Robot Wars series.

The birth of every monster stems from that singularity.

And thus, when Aomo's monster card was seized in hand, the source of the violent frenzy actually turned out to be somewhat unexpected——the emotions carried by these monsters all came from Aomo Lindun.

This is truly a remarkable coincidence.

Why say it's a coincidence?

Whether it's the attendant beside Lapulan De, or the half Leibulang alien slacking off deep in Aomo's soul, they have all seen Aomo's deep, abyss-like inner heart.

In that abyss-faced dark world, there is no heaven and earth, no starry universe, only countless eyes, coming from countless terrifying things.

They ought to have no form, yet they indeed possess a definite form.

And all of this stems from the images that Aomo Lindun has encountered since childhood, those that can never be trusted and are uncontrollable.

Even if it's just paper, even if it's just a model, even if it's only on screen, their danger and their madness have been reflected in his eyes, his memory, his spirit.

Hei'an emotion and its Hei'an concretization both come from what he has seen and felt.

And all of this, after he came into contact with monster cards at age 19 and began frequently fusing them, completely established the form.

These are the Hei'an he bears, and also the appearance that his subconscious approves of, what Hei'an ought to have.

Thus, when foreign enemies invade, they are not merely 'Hei'an with a ferocious appearance', but the strongest army.

Their power comes from the entire subconscious, and Aomo's subconscious apprehension toward them is precisely the reason for their strength.

But also because their power entirely comes from Aomo's 'impression', or 'judgment standard', their individuals also fall into ranks.

The verdict among the weakest is still pending due to differing abilities, but the verdict on the strongest is that it forever belongs to the one eternally sealed in the farthest Hei'an, whose only occasional glimpse brings a silhouette of two dark-golden blazing lights.

【Demon God Zero】

Its existence does not fit in with all the inhabitants of the Shen yuan.

First, it is not a monster.

Second, it is not a monster.

It has not been allowed even the slightest freedom; its whole body is bound by chains radiating a pale light.

Such treatment is given only to it.

Because what it represents is not Aomo Lindun's killing intent, but pure destructive desire.

Everyone has, to some degree, had thoughts that could be called evil, and the fundamental logic of those thoughts lies in pleasing oneself, or in pleasing others to please oneself.

Likewise, the thought of destroying everything arises starkly from the emotion of being weary of everything present.

He fears the state called 'boring'; even a momentary boredom makes him feel extremely uneasy, and in his early past, as little Aomo, he even had several thoughts of 'a boring life, a boring stage, a boring world—better to just overthrow it'.

This was his most common mindset initially, but in the education he received, such a mindset was naturally not allowed, because reality is not a drama, and he cannot truly destroy others' lives just because of a passing whim.

So he suppressed it and sealed it away.

Countless times, repeatedly, he resisted that train of thought, because he truly would make earnest plans for things he had decided on, and furthermore his executive power has always been astonishing.

He absolutely would not allow such development, could not possibly do such a thing, he bound himself with human ethics education, and also caused the demon god deep in his heart to grow ever stronger, until now——

——Among the countless ferocious monsters in the depths of his heart, the existence that can truly represent him and occupy the deepest part of his tumultuous emotions.

That is the apocalyptic demon god.

It did not choose the powerful card Jierbalisi, which had not yet entered the Shen yuan (i. e., had no corresponding negative emotion), nor did it choose the Hei'an Teljia card, which likewise had not yet entered the Shen yuan.

What it relies on is the weakest card in the entire monster deck, which has always lacked correspondence to the Shen yuan, and is merely used to coordinate the other cards in the set—the Aomo Lindun card.

Along with the other monster cards, by accepting the chaotic source's power allocation and activation, they became true monsters/singularities that possessed life and even transcended worldly common sense.

The weakest card was swallowed the instant the demon god/destructive desire was manifested.

The three demon‑god powers—Metamorphosis, Absorption, and Strengthening—were all activated; upon seeing a group of uncontrolled monsters crash in the chaotic source, the demon god immediately acted against nearby Timoe'ergang and Domujilan, swiftly rising from the weakest existence.

When the chaotic source drove away all those monsters, it had already become the strongest then.

The ferocious, sharpened form turned into a cage‑mouth armor of teeth, and the rear jet wings twisted and recombined into a shape resembling a diagonally placed black‑hole ring, a "0" pattern.

Though not a monster, it surpasses monsters.

Demon God ZERO was truly born at this moment; with the same capitalized grandeur as GOD, it proclaimed the birth of Demon God ZERO.

A beam of light‑power pierced space; a rocket punch directly slammed the chaotic source from the dimensional rift in space down to Earth's surface, and the corrosive hurricane that followed mercilessly tore through the land.

While the observer leisurely pulled up the track "Demon God See!!", after a slight hesitation they chose the moment of "Demon Advent".

No matter how you look at it, it is not a steel demon god come to release love and peace; it breathes with a steady, biological rhythm.

At the moment Meifelas, Lian gui, and Jedun were destroyed, the lingering emotions of Aomo Lindun left hanging in mid‑air were all devoured by it.

It was like a newborn demon man, and also the Aomo Lindun that everyone was unfamiliar with, as it raised its arm.

On his arm, the existing blade length instantly extended beyond the machine's specifications into a huge blade, which it then aimed at the opposing Gagaula and Sai Luo, slowly bending the arm to prepare the swinging motion—

——Just as Sai Luo and Gagaula were about to act.

But then a sudden reverse rainbow appeared in the heavens; a twisted‑looking, long‑legged giant snake suddenly appeared before Demon God ZERO, gripping the opponent's long blade with its seemingly slender, weak claws, while the V‑shaped rainbow armor on its chest shone brightly, extending up its neck to its head—

Boom!!!

A mere ten‑odd meters away, the black rainbow light struck the face—emanating from that rainbow snake which, from last night until this morning, had merely been wandering aimlessly.

At the same time, dark clouds and rain gathered, taking the blast of its face‑striking light as the signal; monsters such as the Ace Killer, Aliponta, Belmontstan, and Eleking likewise launched a sudden charge.

Not at each other, but at that steel demon god!

"What… is going on?"

"Random attacks? Or is the rainbow snake commanding them?"

In the distant team, the boy and Ultraman were momentarily at a loss, while the girl nearby, who was using Gagaula's excellent vision to scan everywhere, merely said softly.

"Is it possible that they just want to live?"