Chapter 196: Chapter 196: Jovian’s Perfect Performance
"Thank you for saving me!"
"Please, tell me your name. I’d like the chance to repay you."
Amia, the human-sized female Ultra Warrior and the younger sister of Ultraman Joneus, U40’s strongest warrior, stood in the palm of the dark giant’s hand. She carefully studied the strange giant before her, whose entire body was black and radiated a dim, shadowy glow, then asked him with respect.
"You want to know my name?"
"Since you asked, I’ll tell you."
"My name is Jovian. I’m just a passing Ultra Warrior."
The dark giant thought for a moment, then smiled faintly.
"Jovian?"
Amia softly repeated the black giant’s name, and a faint blush appeared on her face.
As a Warrior of Light, Amia was like countless ordinary girls in that she naturally felt fondness for heroes, especially a hero who had saved her.
"Amia!"
Just as Jovian, appearing in Tiga’s form, continued communicating with Amia through telepathy, two sudden waves of Ultra telekinesis arrived. The two Ultra Warriors who had been chasing Belial’s personal guard flew to Jovian and Amia’s side.
"Who are you?"
"Let Amia go!"
"Otherwise, don’t blame us for getting rough!"
The two Ultra Warriors from U40 had unusually fiery tempers. The moment they saw Jovian and Amia, they furiously questioned him.
"Hm?"
Hearing their unfriendly tone, a trace of anger appeared in Jovian’s expression.
"Elek, Loto, this warrior isn’t an enemy!"
"He saved me from that wicked guard of Belial!"
Amia sensed Jovian’s displeasure and quickly explained the situation to Elek and Loto, two outstanding warriors among Planet U40’s fighters.
"Uh..."
After hearing Amia’s explanation, the two of them immediately froze.
"We didn’t expect that you were the one who saved Amia..."
"We apologize for our behavior!"
After all, Elek and Loto had grown up on a polite planet like U40. They were very humble, and once they confirmed that they had made a mistake, they immediately apologized to Jovian and expressed their regret.
"To show our apology, and to thank you for saving Amia, how about visiting our planet as a guest?"
Loto looked at Jovian and invited him.
"That’s right! How about coming to our planet for a visit?"
Elek followed Loto’s lead and extended the same invitation to Jovian.
"Hmph!"
"I’m not interested in visiting a planet that likes falsely accusing people."
Jovian snorted coldly and spoke with an extremely indifferent expression.
"Be more careful when you go out in the future. Don’t get kidnapped by Belial’s scum again."
"Since your companions are already here to pick you up, this is where we part. I hope we meet again someday."
After Jovian finished speaking to Amia in his hand, he was about to hand her over to Elek and Loto.
"Uh..."
"Amia, help us talk to him..."
"We really didn’t do it on purpose."
Elek and Loto heard the dissatisfaction in Jovian’s words and gave a bitter smile, then looked at Amia with pleading eyes.
For kind and righteous people like them, if Jovian refused to forgive them, they would lose sleep for an entire week. In the end, they would leave U40 and search the vast universe for Jovian, all just to apologize to him and ask for his forgiveness. These musclebound U40 men were all painfully straightforward people.
"Jovian, they really didn’t mean it. They’re actually good people."
Amia looked at Elek and Loto’s awkward expressions and smiled, then turned around and explained to Jovian.
"Hmph."
Jovian still snorted coldly, as though he had no intention of forgiving Elek and Loto at all.
"Jovian, at least for my sake, you should visit U40, right?"
"At the very least, you have to let me repay you for saving my life."
Amia smiled faintly and invited Jovian.
"U40?"
"You’re from U40?"
Jovian’s expression carried a hint of shock, as though he had not expected Amia and the two Ultra Warriors before him to be from U40.
"That’s right. We are from U40!"
Elek and Loto exchanged a glance. Once they realized that mentioning U40 was effective, they immediately continued emphasizing the fact that they were from U40.
"If you’re from U40, then do you know Joneus?"
While still shocked, Jovian hurriedly asked whether the three of them knew Joneus.
"Haha..."
Elek and Loto listened to Jovian’s question and smiled at each other, as though they had seen this kind of situation many times. Whenever U40 was mentioned, someone would ask whether they knew Joneus.
After all, Joneus was a great hero famous throughout the universe.
"Then allow me to introduce myself again, Jovian."
"My name is Amia, and I am Joneus’s younger sister."
Amia proudly lifted her chest as she introduced herself. She clearly took great pride in being Joneus’s sister.
"Joneus’s sister? The sister of Joneus, the strongest Ultra Warrior in the entire universe?"
Jovian’s voice trembled slightly, as though he was especially shocked that Amia was Joneus’s sister.
"Although I don’t know whether my brother is the strongest Ultra Warrior in the entire universe, if the Joneus you’re talking about is the Joneus from U40, then yes, he should be my brother. After all, there is only one person named Joneus in all of U40."
Amia smiled at Jovian. Her words sounded humble, but they were filled with pride for her brother.
"And me. My name is Loto. I’m practically Joneus’s own brother!"
Loto straightened up and shamelessly declared it.
"Really?"
Jovian deliberately acted surprised.
"Of course!"
Loto rubbed his nose and smiled.
"My name is Elek. Joneus and I are closer than real brothers. At the same time, I am the warrior second only to Joneus in U40. In other words, I am U40’s second-strongest warrior! Even across the entire universe, I’m someone worth ranking!"
Elek naturally could not let Loto steal the spotlight. To suppress Loto’s momentum, he deliberately said that.
"Hey!"
"What’s that supposed to mean?"
Loto was not stupid. Of course he could hear what Elek meant. He looked at Elek in annoyance and questioned him.
"You’re asking what I mean?"
"How ridiculous." Elek’s expression carried a hint of mockery. He planted his hands on his hips and looked at Loto. "How could you not understand what I mean? You actually lied in front of someone else. Your relationship with Joneus is clearly nothing special. I’m the one who is practically Joneus’s brother."
"Bullshit." Loto was furious, and the consequences were serious. His anger surged, his temper rose, and he even took a fighting stance. "I hear you’re U40’s second-strongest warrior, so I assume you wouldn’t mind exchanging a few moves with me."
"Heh." Elek sneered, looking at Loto with disdain. "I’m afraid that if I slip up and fail to control myself, I’ll knock you down."
"Ridiculous..."
The muscles on Loto’s body suddenly bulged. He looked completely unconvinced by Elek.
"Enough! Don’t let an outsider laugh at us! We are civilized people of U40!"
Amia looked helplessly at Loto and Elek, who were about to start fighting. They came from a civilized planet. How could they act so barbaric? This would make other people think everyone from U40 was a reckless brute with nothing but muscle for brains.
"True..."
After hearing Amia’s words, the two lowered their arms. Just as Amia said, they were civilized people of U40. They were not just over-muscled guys who only knew how to train.
"Jovian, come back to U40 with us. We’ll introduce you to Joneus!"
"That’s right, Jovian!"
Loto and Elek each took one side of Jovian. Without giving him a chance to speak, they directly supported him and flew toward U40.
"Uh..."
Beneath Jovian’s seemingly panicked expression, he was in fact completely calm.
"Just as planned!"
Everything was developing exactly as Jovian had predicted, steadily advancing from the very beginning. First, he had retreated in order to advance, and now he was being escorted to U40. Everything looked so natural.
That way, no one would suspect Jovian of having any hidden motive for going to U40 and meeting Joneus. He could approach Joneus as a friend, then work from the shadows and bind this universe’s Joneus to their war chariot.
Meanwhile, after Joneus dealt with the aliens, he also returned to Planet U40.
"What did you say?"
"Belial’s personal guard took Amia?"
After Joneus listened to the report from the clansmen who had stayed behind on U40, his expression immediately turned panicked. Connecting this to what those evil aliens had said earlier, countless possibilities surfaced in Joneus’s mind.
"Could the lord those aliens mentioned be Belial?"
The moment that thought appeared in Joneus’s mind, it grew wildly and uncontrollably.
Belial had fallen, and was preparing to unite with evil aliens to conquer the universe. This grand drama kept playing out in Joneus’s head.
"Joneus, the situation is already clear. Give the order!"
"It is time for us to settle things with the bastards from the Land of Light. The facts prove that Belial has fallen, and we must correct him. I have already applied to the elders, and the elders have allowed us to use U40’s Wise Man’s Sword, which has been passed down for generations!"
While Joneus was still shocked, Heka struck while the iron was hot, preparing to persuade Joneus to seek revenge against the Land of Light. He believed that as long as Joneus could obtain the Wise Man’s Sword, he would definitely be able to slaughter the Land of Light’s army until not a single piece of armor remained. The only possible trouble was the Land of Light’s current leader, the famous Belial.
However, Heka believed that no matter how powerful Belial was, at most, he would only be on par with Joneus. Their real trump card was not Joneus, but His Majesty the Emperor.
As long as His Majesty joined forces with Joneus, the universe’s strongest emperor and the universe’s strongest warrior would fight together. With the King of Ultra being held steady by Heka, he wanted to see who else could save the Land of Light.
Could that legendary warrior, the miracle among miracles, Ultraman Noa, who had only ever appeared in storybooks, suddenly descend upon the Land of Light at the crucial moment and smack both His Majesty the Emperor and Joneus upside the head, driving back the Land of Light?
"Hahaha..."
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
Heka amused himself with his own thoughts. Ultraman Noa was nothing but ruins now. As for which spacetime he was actually in, perhaps not even the King of Ultra knew. How could he conveniently appear out of nowhere?
"This is a guaranteed win!"
Heka was full of confidence. There was absolutely no way he could lose.
Boom!
Just as Joneus hesitated, and just as the corners of Heka’s mouth lifted slightly while he fantasized about occupying the Land of Light in the future, then leading the Ultra Warriors to protect the universe and bring it true peace, three gigantic figures descended onto U40’s surface amid a thunderous roar.
"Elek, Loto..."
Joneus looked at the three giants who had fallen from the sky and softly called out their names, finally settling his gaze on the giant among them whom he did not recognize.
"Joneus, you’re back!"
Elek and Loto looked at Joneus with respect on their faces.
"Yes..." After glancing at Elek and Loto, Joneus looked at Jovian and asked, "And you are?"
"My name is Jovian..."
Jovian introduced himself to Joneus.
"Joneus!"
Before Jovian could finish, he felt something pushing against his hand.
Jovian placed his hand in front of Joneus. The next second, a sweet and adorable girl with flaxen hair appeared before Joneus.
"Amia?"
Joneus carefully took the girl from Jovian’s hand, his expression filled with surprise and joy.
"Joneus, I was taken away by the men working under that disgusting bastard Belial. Jovian saved me."
"That’s why we brought Jovian to U40 as a guest."
Standing before Joneus, Amia explained the cause and course of events.
"So that’s what happened..."
"Warrior, I sincerely thank you for saving my sister Amia."
Joneus carefully studied Jovian from head to toe. His expression was somewhat serious, because he could sense an incomparably vast power hidden inside Jovian’s body.
"It was nothing..."
Jovian waved his hand, deliberately acting modest. He could feel the wariness in Joneus’s eyes.
"Enough, Joneus!"
"I’m already back safely, so everyone should be a little happier..."
"I think I’m a little hungry. How about we all eat together?"
Standing on Joneus’s hand, Amia eased the serious atmosphere between everyone.
"..."
"All right!"
After hearing Amia’s words, Joneus was silent for a while, then nodded slightly.
The next second, Joneus’s body released a dazzling light. A short while later, a strong man wearing a Greek robe appeared on the ground.
"Let’s take human form too!"
When the others from U40 saw Joneus transform into human form, they also transformed one after another and stood beside him.
"..."
Then everyone looked at Jovian, who was still in his giant form.
"..."
Joneus’s expression was serious. As long as Jovian made any move that suggested he intended to attack, Joneus would strike without hesitation. His transformation into human form was a test for Jovian.
"Then I’ll take human form too."
Jovian seemed to have noticed Joneus’s thoughts. Black lightning flashed across his body, and then he transformed into an extremely handsome, sharp-featured man with short black hair.
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