Chapter 369

"This time, I might actually die."

Genos carried the box and leaped across the rooftops.

"With a meteor this huge, I don't know if my current firepower can stop it."

He glanced at the box in his hand.

"I never expected this prototype would be used so soon."

As soon as he finished speaking, he pressed the button on the box.

The box instantly shot out, split apart, reshaped, and transformed into a series of components that attached to Genos's entire body; he spun rapidly through the air before landing on the roof of a skyscraper.

"Can my Burning Cannon stop this meteor? No, I can't afford to think about that now—I can only release all my energy and give it my all!"

Just as Genos was about to release his energy.

A sound came from the sky.

A steel robot, fully armed with powerful weapons, appeared in the sky.

Genos saw him and was startled: "That's Metal Knight, ranked seventh among S-class? Did he come here too to stop the meteor?"

Under Genos's gaze.

The steel robot unleashed all its firepower; in an instant, countless missiles shot toward the meteor in the sky.

Boom!

With a tremendous roar, a powerful shockwave surged from the sky, shattering countless windows across the city and knocking people on the streets to the ground with the blast.

"What happened?"

Gyukai, sprinting toward Genos's location, looked up.

The entire sky above Z City was covered in blazing red flames, glowing crimson, waves of heat rolling outward—but soon the flames vanished, replaced by dark smoke.

Genos stared intently.

"Did it work?"

"No, it failed."

A young voice sounded behind him.

Genos startled and turned his head.

Luo En stood there, gazing at the sky.

"You… when did you get here?"

"Forget about me—focus on the problem right in front of you."

Luo En pointed to the sky.

Genos looked up, his eyes sharply contracting.

The meteor, untouched, pierced through the thick black smoke, still engulfed in flames as it plummeted downward, as if determined to destroy heaven and earth.

"It really is huge…"

Luo En stared at the meteor, recalling the meteor that Tenghu had pulled down with gravity.

This one looked even larger.

Far away, the robot remotely controlled by the Metal Knight spoke: "It seems this level of firepower still isn't enough."

Genos watched the falling meteor and clenched his fist.

"There's no choice…"

"I can only try using my Burning Cannon at full power—it needs five seconds to charge, but the meteor is already within reach, and even if I shatter it, what do I do about the fragments? Do I even have enough energy left to handle them…"

Luo En glanced at him and smiled: "If you keep hesitating like this, you won't stop this meteor."

"He's right. Stay calm, Genos."

A nimble figure landed behind Genos.

It was Banggu, who had arrived.

He fixed Genos with a sharp gaze: "I can feel you've lost your composure. Relax. You're still young—don't fear failure. When facing something major, you should be even more casual."

Luo En stepped forward: "Let me handle it."

"It's not your turn to act."

Prompted by Banggu's words and recalling Goku's usual casual demeanor, Genos's hesitation vanished; he tore open his shirt, grabbed his chest's power core, and shoved it into his left mechanical arm—instantly, blue electric arcs surged across his entire body.

"Watch closely—I'm concentrating everything I have into this one strike!"

Genos took a step forward, his left palm aimed at the meteor in the sky, and fired his Burning Cannon, channeling all his energy.

A massive Burning Cannon, like the breath of a dragon, surged upward and slammed directly into the falling meteor.

Boom!!

With Genos's full-power roar, the Burning Cannon reached maximum output; flames roared skyward, and intense, scorching shockwaves blasted outward in all directions.

"So it still wasn't enough…"

Banggu stared intently: "No, the meteor seems to have been pushed back slightly."

"Really?"

"No, I must have imagined it."

"Old bastard!"

The colossal Burning Cannon, as thick as a house, gradually shrank to a thin line, then vanished.

Exhausted of all energy, Genos collapsed to his knees, his body steaming with white overheat smoke.

"Nine seconds left before the meteor hits—run, both of you…"

"Run?"

Luo En laughed in disbelief. "Why run?"

Banggu looked at him: "Do you have any other plan? This isn't martial combat—no matter how high your martial skill, you can't stop a disaster like this."

He had recognized the young man before him as the one named Luo En who had previously come to his dojo with Shuifu and fought him.

Banggu admitted Luo En was stronger than himself, but still did not believe he could stop this meteor.

Under the gazes of Genos and Banggu, Luo En slipped his hands into his coat pockets, looked up at the meteor hurtling down, and smiled: "If I were to act, this meteor wouldn't fall at all."

"This time, let you have the spotlight, Kiyoshi."

As soon as he finished speaking,

a bald man in a Superman suit, wearing a white cape, stepped onto the rooftop.

"Hmm, leave it to me."

Banggu stared at him in shock: "Who are you?"

"I'm Kiyoshi. Just a hero out of interest."

"Luo En, I entrust Genos to you."

Kiyoshi stomped hard on the ground.

The entire rooftop shattered and sank abruptly.

In Banggu's horrified gaze, Kiyoshi's figure shot upward toward the falling meteor, moving at an astonishing speed.

"Teacher..."

Genos looked up, dumbfounded.

Boom!

After one punch, the meteor shattered.

Luo En looked up at the broken meteor and the figure that had passed clean through it, his heart again awed by Kiyoshi's terrifying physicality.

Truly monstrous.

"The meteor... was smashed?!"

Banggu stood frozen like a statue.

What's going on with today's youth? Why is each one more monstrous than the last?

Genos stared at the falling fragments of the shattered meteor and suddenly snapped back: "No good! The meteor fragments are going to fall!"

"Don't worry."

Genos and Banggu turned to Luo En.

They saw Luo En pull his right hand from his pocket, palm facing upward, holding nothing.

A strange blue ripple spread from his palm, instantly covering the entire sky.

The massive rock fragments, like a scattered swarm of meteors hurtling toward the city, instantly lost all gravitational pull and floated like balloons above the city.

Genos, Banggu, and the citizens below who had thought themselves doomed all stared upward, eyes wide with awe at the surreal sight of countless uneven stones suspended in the sky.