Faced with this option, Qi Ming hesitated for once. Time Stop was simply too tempting.
However, the Birah Star Alien's Time Stop was directional. It had to hit the target to freeze its time.
It was far inferior to Dio and Jotaro from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, who could stop the entire world with a mere thought.
Moreover, in the original Seven, the Birah Star Alien had also attacked Seven with its Time Stop Ray.
Seven had blocked it with an energy barrier, rendering it ineffective, then countered with an Ice Axe that sliced the Birah Star Alien in two.
Clearly, this Time Stop, which was basically a Petrification Technique, had severe limitations. Even with the Birah Star Alien's combat power, it had virtually no ability to break through head-on and could only rely on sneak attacks.
Most importantly, he had killed it too quickly and failed to figure out its true nature.
He also had no way of knowing whether Time Stop was an innate ability of the Birah Star Alien or something achieved through external technology.
If it was the latter, he would be utterly screwed. His fighting techniques could not possibly be compatible with an alien that had no hands or feet, only a tail.
What if he transformed into this Birah Star Alien with such pathetic defense and speed, only to get one-shot by an enemy? He would not even get the chance to run.
Better to convert it. He was about to meet the condition of accumulating ten Star Gifts to unlock Star Gathering.
Maybe he could "gather" some powerful creature with spacetime abilities that could send him home, such as the Golden Dragon from Tiga.
With that thought, Qi Ming chose conversion, and the Star Gifts in Ultraman Arbitrary Key returned to 8.
Seeing this newly appeared giant kill an alien in just two moves, the Zulurk Star Alien felt a terrible sense of foreboding at the savage assault and hesitated over whether to leave this troublesome place.
But the moment both its feet left the ground, Nagi Saijo opened fire with Falcon 1 and shot it down.
"Ha, now it's the one crashing!" Kishida, who had parachuted out of the wrecked Falcon 1 and was about to join the ground operation, laughed at the sight.
With its escape route cut off, the Zulurk Star Alien had no choice but to make a last stand.
It swung the bone blades in its hands at Tiga, knowing that unless it dealt with this guy, there would be no peaceful end to the day.
In the original Leo, Seven said that the Zulurk Star Alien possessed a "two-stage attack." Leo's current techniques could not handle it; he had to master a "three-stage attack" to counter it.
To that end, he first put Homura through a round of corporal punishment, then made him chop through a waterfall, leaving Qi Ming completely baffled.
On the battlefield, the Zulurk Star Alien charged in and brought both blades down at Tiga.
Qi Ming blocked with his left hand, countered with his right, then attacked with his leg and sent it flying with a heavy kick.
See? Wasn't that all there was to it?
Since the training was supposed to be targeted, was there really any need for such absurd training to deal with such a simple move?
Besides, he remembered that Leo had trained for a time on Draco D60 Star, the birthplace of the Cosmic Illusion Beast Fist. Did they not even teach basic combat techniques there?
The knocked-down Zulurk Star Alien unwillingly sprang to its feet and charged again, raising its right blade for a vertical slash.
Qi Ming dodged sideways, then struck the Zulurk Star Alien's right wrist with the edge of his left palm and hit its lower jaw with his right palm.
The Zulurk Star Alien's flat, elongated platypus-like jaw had no scale protection. The heavy blow blackened its vision, and it fell again.
Yamanaka: "So strong! I feel like Ultraman Warriors have been fighting more and more brutally lately."
Kishida corrected him. "Isn't 'brutally' a poor choice of words? He's on our side. He's helping us."
Once he confirmed that the Zulurk Star Alien could barely move, Qi Ming crossed his wrists before him, spread them apart to gather energy, then formed his arms into an L-shape and fired a white beam.
The complete Zepellion Ray!
"Boom!" The Zulurk Star Alien exploded into fragments, following in the Birah Star Alien's footsteps.
Another point of green light entered the button at the upper right corner of Qi Ming's watch.
Store/Convert.
This time, Qi Ming did not hesitate and decisively chose conversion.
Star Gift: 9.
Insight: 2/5.
The Zulurk Star Alien was actually the same as the Birah Star Alien, only C-Class?
Qi Ming had previously thought that, based on its ferocious record in the original series, it should at least have been b-class.
It seemed that early Leo had simply been too weak, making the Zulurk Star Alien seem especially powerful?
At that moment, Ultraman Tiga's Color Timer had begun flashing.
Defeating the two monsters had not taken much effort, but 30% Tiga could only remain active on Earth for a minute and a half. The time limit was almost up.
Just as Qi Ming was about to cancel his transformation, he sensed a killing intent coming from beneath his feet. Startled, he immediately flew into the air.
"Boom!" The next instant, scorching earthfire erupted from where he had been standing. Had Qi Ming taken off even one second later, he would have suffered badly.
"That flame... it's a Giliru Alien." Qi Ming abruptly turned and looked toward the rooftop of a distant building, where undisguised malice was being released.
On the rooftop stood a man, smiling sinisterly at Tiga.
When he saw that Tiga had noticed him, he did not panic. He calmly stepped backward, and his figure vanished.
Clearly, it was a Giliru Alien. After its sneak attack failed, it did not persist and instead withdrew first.
That "Sacred Flame" just now was the Giliru Aliens' second "proof" to humanity, and also their warning to the Giant of Light.
Emi in the Command Room said, "It's the same explosion as last time. The attack really did come from underground. Team Member Qi Ming's intelligence was accurate!"
Because Tiga had been standing in an open area, the instant the earthfire erupted was clearly visible to the naked eye.
"Right, where's Team Member Qi Ming?" She suddenly realized that Qi Ming had disappeared from the Command Room at some point.
Mamoru Shirogane coughed. "He probably went to the restroom."
Dr. Yao said, "After exerting himself so much just now, he should go take care of that."
In the city, although no buildings had been burned down by the flames, the fire had already begun spreading from the trees lining both sides of the streets.
Chief of Staff Kiriyama and Mamoru Shirogane ordered disaster relief efforts. Nagi Saijo attacked with Falcon 1's foam water cannon, but it was a drop in the bucket against the raging flames.
Seeing this, Qi Ming used Tiga to fire the Ultra Water Gun. Only after extinguishing the blaze did he cancel his transformation.
The crisis was temporarily resolved, but the next wave of attacks could come at any moment.
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