Chapter 38
Chapter 38
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 38
Chapter Title: Fight! 3-Stage Combination
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Black smoke billowed in the heart of Los Angeles, USA.
“You son of a bitch!”
Gogo's drill attack tore through the black smoke, shooting fiercely toward Alexian's head.
Alexian, who had been chewing on Gogo's shoulder, turned his head to dodge the attack.
The drill slammed into Alexian's heavily armored neck.
Ting!!
CRASH-
The impact of the drill attack forced Alexian and Gogo apart.
Sparks flew from Gogo's shoulder.
His arm, severely mangled, dangled uselessly.
“Gogo!!”
Big Five shouted urgently.
“Don't worry! I can still combine!”
Gogo yelled as if it were nothing and began preparing to combine again.
“Ghk! Damn it!”
Gogo's shoulder injury began to slow down the combination sequence.
The damaged parts weren't aligning with the connection points.
As if refusing to give them a moment's rest, Alexian took to the skies again.
He rose into the air before the combining robot, his body held ramrod straight.
“Damn it!! Damn it!!”
“Hurry! Hurry!”
“Just a little more!!”
Gogo, Big Five, and Area87 all shouted in desperation.
“It's over.”
A chilling mechanical sound echoed from Alexian's armored body.
Soon, his body began to glow red-hot, and steam billowed out.
Alexian opened his mouth wider than ever before.
He looked less like a dragon and more like a space monster from a movie.
Fwoosh, fwoosh, fwoosh.
Capsule-shaped engines emerged from Alexian's back.
Gwoooooo-
A colossal energy began to condense within his mouth.
If the apocalypse were to come, would it feel like this?
“Almost there!!”
Just then, Gogo, transformed into the giant robot's lower body, finished docking with Area87's connection point.
FWOOOOSH-!!
At that same moment, a terrifying, colossal cosmic storm erupted from Alexian's mouth at incredible speed.
Clank, psssh-
“Combination complete. 'Giant God Gaion,' launch!”
Gogo shouted.
“We did it!!”
“Dodge it!!”
Big Five, Area87, and Gogo Arc, having succeeded in their three-stage combination.
They rose again as 'Giant God Gaion.'
A square metal mask and a dark blue helmet began to glow.
The cosmic storm, like a giant wave, swallowed Giant God Gaion whole.
Drip-
Blue blood trickled from between Sharin's lips.
She bit her lower lip, trembling.
Before her, a fellow Bluerobic infected by an alien plant was writhing in agony.
Tears of blood streamed from the elf's eyes.
Shin-ju glanced at Sharin before stepping forward and opening the Old Book.
“Sharin, please excuse me for a moment.”
Shin-ju flipped furiously through the pages of the Old Book, searching for a suitable spell.
Finally, as if he'd found the right one, he nodded and calmly began to chant.
Swoooosh-
A pink smoke spread out from the Old Book.
The entire hallway began to be tinted pink.
The pink smoke slowly swirled around the female elf infected by the monstrous plant.
Guuuh....
Her eyes slowly closed, and she collapsed on the spot.
“Phew. Is that enough?”
The moment Shin-ju felt a sense of relief.
A stem from the parasitic plant suddenly shot out from the fallen elf's back.
And the stem wrapped tightly around Shin-ju's arm.
“Ugh!!”
Sharin silently drew the Actrazer she carried on her back and strode forward.
With surprised eyes, Shin-ju looked down at the plant stem bound to his arm like a whip.
Tremble, tremble, tremble.
As Shin-ju struggled in an unexpected tug-of-war, Sharin appeared behind him.
The blade of the Actrazer flashed.
The stem was severed easily, turning to dust in mid-air.
Shhhhrrrk-
The monstrous plant's stem retracted back into the unconscious elf's body.
A moment later, a much larger number of stems began to twist together.
“Sharin, watch out—
Chwaaaak-!
Before Shin-ju could finish his warning, the tangled stems shot out toward Sharin at incredible speed.
Sharin didn't flinch, simply glaring at the plant stems.
“Sharin!”
She swung the Actrazer wide once more.
But as if to say it wouldn't work twice, the stems split apart and began to latch onto the Actrazer haphazardly.
Shhhhrrk- Shhhhrrk.
The stems, spewing a disgusting mucus, slithered up the sword and instantly wrapped around Sharin's neck.
“Grrrrrr!”
Shin-ju and Jekovic rushed to save her.
Jekovic, who had already transformed into his wolf form, began tearing at the stems with his sharp fangs.
In response, some of the stems shifted to Jekovic, digging into his flesh.
Suck- suck-
Suddenly, the stems began to drain Jekovic's blood at a terrifying rate.
“Hey, hey, Park Shin-ju!! Hurry!!”
Jekovic yelped.
“Just a little more!!”
Shin-ju calmly chanted, concentrating a shadow he had summoned at some point into his hand.
“Hmph! You leeches—!”
Thud-
Just then, Sharin snorted and stabbed the Actrazer she was holding into the ground.
Then, she grabbed a handful of the plant stems with one arm, turned, and positioned them over her shoulder.
“Alright! Let's see who wins this!”
Bdu-du-duk-
The muscles in Sharin's forearm bulged enormously.
As if enjoying herself immensely, she laughed heartily and pulled on the stems with all her might.
“Khahahaha!”
Gu-du-duk-
Under the sudden burst of monstrous strength, the main body of the parasitic plant began to be dragged out of the female elf's body.
“Park Shin-ju, now!”
Shin-ju understood Sharin's intention.
He turned toward the main body of the parasitic plant in the female elf.
Shin-ju shot out the shadow he had concentrated in his hand.
Shwaaaak-
The shadow he fired briefly circled the monstrous plant before tightly embracing it.
Kwa-deu-deuk-
In an instant, the shadow twisted the plant's main body with immense force.
The monstrous plant staggered as if in pain and was pulled clean out—swoop—from the female elf's body.
“One more time to finish it!”
Shin-ju immediately made a wringing motion with both hands.
The shadow bent the monstrous plant in half again.
Kwa-deuk-
With a chilling sound like shattering bone, the monstrous plant went limp.
Soon, the stems wrapped around Sharin and Jekovic began to slide off.
Then, they shriveled up on the hallway floor and slowly disintegrated.
Shin-ju calmly approached the female elf he had knocked unconscious.
He turned her over from her prone position to check on her condition.
A moment later, Jekovic and Sharin also came closer.
She lay there as if dead.
They looked down at her with somber expressions.
There was no sound of breathing.
Just as Shin-ju was about to open his mouth to comfort Sharin.
Cough, cough, cough-
She began to cough, her body convulsing.
Shin-ju let out a sigh of relief.
As her coughing subsided a little, her eyelids slowly fluttered open.
“Wh... Where...”
“Are you alright? We're the police.”
Shin-ju reassured her.
“Ah... Aah...!!”
Her eyes, filled with fear, darted around until they landed on Sharin, at which point they widened.
“Sha... Sharin!”
She recognized Sharin immediately.
Sharin suppressed her surging emotions and answered dryly.
“Yes. Are you conscious?”
Shin-ju asked.
“What happened? How did you end up in a place like this...?”
“Ah... Aah!!”
She began to tremble violently, as if recalling something horrific.
Then, she cried out to Sharin in a choked voice.
“Sharin!! Furen... Furen...!!”
Hearing the name of her eldest sister, Furen, Sharin drew a sharp breath and waited for her next words.
“...is in danger!!! Furen's life is in danger!!”
At her strained voice, Sharin's mind went blank.
“Furen...”
Shin-ju also looked at Sharin with a grave expression.
Then he immediately looked back down at the female elf.
“What is your name?”
“Katrin... My name is Katrin.”
“Ms. Katrin, were you with Furen by any chance?”
“Yes, that's right. We were the last refugees from Bluerobic.”
“Ah, so you were on the refugee ship together.”
“Yes, and on the way, we heard a song from our home planet.”
Shin-ju's expression showed understanding.
“You heard Tibee-ra's song.”
Sharin answered from the side.
Katrin looked surprised.
“Then, Sha... Sharin, did you also...?”
“Yes, I also heard that song and came to Earth.”
“Earth? Ah, Sharin...”
Katrin looked up at Sharin, her face a complex mixture of anxiety and distress.
“This... isn't Earth...”
Hearing Katrin's words, Sharin's eyes widened.
“What...?”
Shin-ju carefully interjected from the side.
“Sharin, I think we've entered another space in another dimension without realizing it.”
“Huh? No, when?”
Jekovic looked back at Shin-ju.
Shin-ju stared at the closed elevator in the distance.
“I think that elevator over there served as a gate connecting to another planet.”
Shin-ju turned back to Katrin.
“Katrin, so you were headed to Earth after hearing the song?”
“Yes, that's right. But...”
“But...?”
“We heard another voice.”
“Another voice?”
“Yes. It was the sound of our comrades screaming.”
He paused for a moment, then asked quietly.
“...From where?”
“It was a transmission sent from a different planet, not Earth.”
Sharin gazed into the distance for a moment before looking down at Katrin.
“So you changed course?”
“...That's right.”
Shin-ju's lower lip twitched as he fell into thought. *Changed course...*
“Katrin, then what kind of place is this?”
“This is...”
Katrin paused.
“This is 'Taumiel b1,' a planet intentionally 'created' according to someone's plan.”
“A created... planet...?”
The look in Katrin's eyes changed.
“Yes, this entire planet...”
She managed to push herself up and looked straight at Shin-ju.
“Is one giant alien laboratory.”
Shin-ju glanced at Sharin before asking Katrin.
“Don't tell me, when you said Furen was in danger...”
“After Furen entered the laboratory...”
Katrin's expression contorted.
“...we lost contact.”
A mechanical hum echoed through the heart of LA.
Giant God Gaion opened its eyes.
Along with the continuous mechanical sound, Gaion's eyes began to dart around wildly.
“Silver!!”
Before Gaion stood Silver, his broken body holding up a massive shield.
“Are you alright?!”
“It's not enough to break through.”
Silver answered loudly, his gaze fixed on Alexian before him.
“That amplifier has its limits! Its energy output is significantly lower than before!”
Clank-
Silver pushed his shield forward.
“The fact that it couldn't penetrate my shield is proof.”
And then he shouted even louder.
“Let's end this in one blow! Gaion, use me!”
“What?!”
“I will become your weapon!”
“Don't tell me you're...”
Silver retracted his shield.
He crouched low, preparing to jump.
Sparks began to fly from his knees.
Fushuuuu-
Silvergrand shot into the air, jet engines firing from its back.
Whirrr, clank, clank, clank.
Its mechanical parts repeatedly attached and detached in mid-air, like cells dividing.
“Catch! Gaion!”
“Hmph!”
Giant God Gaion snatched the massive weapon from the air.
The weapon Silver had transformed into was a menacing-looking 'Laser Gatling Gun.'
“This is...”
“That's right. One of the masterpieces of my life.”
A strange light began to shine in Giant God Gaion's eyes.
“With this...!!”
He aimed the Gatling gun forward.
The barrel of the Gatling gun began to spin wildly in a 360-degree arc.
“...I can win!”