Sea Tribe
"It's finally completely finished... Now it's time to test the power of this armor!"
Vegapunk looked at the armor in front of him and a smile appeared on his face.
The entire suit of armor appears to be pure silver-white. Because of its Electromagnetic Ability, Vegapunk did not design the armor to be completely enclosed; the empty spaces can be filled using Electromagnetic Ability.
In addition to its defensive capabilities, the armor also possesses a variety of high-tech weapons, although almost all of these high-tech weapons are powered by Electromagnetic Ability.
When others put on the armor, they at most only got a heavy and sturdy suit of armor. Only Vegapunk, who had Electromagnetic Ability, could fully utilize the armor's functions.
"Where should we test it? Should we go to the Monster Association?"
Vegapunk stroked his chin, thinking carefully. The Monster Association wasn't far from here, just below Z-City. Finding its exact location would be easy; he could just dig a hole down from Saitama's house.
After thinking it over, Vegapunk gave up on the idea. The Outsiders Association's underground was teeming with all sorts of Demon-level and Dragon-level Monsters. Even if he was very good at escaping, he couldn't guarantee that there would be no danger.
In the world of One-Punch Man, why worry about not finding an opportunity to test your abilities? Why risk your life for someone else?
After all, he only had one life, and Vegapunk didn't want to risk even the slightest danger of death!
"After a while, there should be new Monsters coming! I remember after the plot started, all sorts of Monsters started appearing one after another!"
"There will be plenty of opportunities to test the power of this Meteor Armor!"
Nothing can withstand constant nagging. The day after the Meteor Armor was created, the Hero Association started issuing missions again.
"A large group of Monsters have been discovered on the shore of J-City? I remember there was a big sale at the supermarket in J-City today, Saitama should be there, right?"
Given Saitama's stamina, he wouldn't just buy discounted items in Z-City. In fact, there are no supermarkets in the no-man's-land of Z-City, so he can't go shopping in other cities even if he doesn't want to.
Whenever a clearance sale occurs in any nearby city, a certain Caped Baldy will rush to the scene.
"If that's the case, then those who came ashore this time must be the Deep Sea Race! Perfect, I'll use them to test the power of my battle armor!"
With a thought in mind, Vegapunk immediately adjusted his armor. However, this time he did not use Space-Time Ninjutsu, but instead manipulated the Magnetic Field to make the armor fly out.
Almost instantly, Vegapunk's speed exceeded several times the speed of sound, and layers of sonic boom clouds emitted a roaring sound. Vegapunk accelerated to nearly dozens of times the speed of sound before slowing down.
It wasn't that Vegapunk's body couldn't handle it or that he lacked the ability to increase his speed; it was simply that Vegapunk's reaction time was insufficient. Even after training with Current Drive, he couldn't react at such high speeds.
While it's possible to increase speed without restraint when flying long distances at high altitudes, it's still necessary to leave some room for reaction speed when flying over cities.
Otherwise, if he were to collide with something, Vegapunk would be fine, but the object he hit, no matter how sturdy the building, would probably be blown to smithereens.
However, speeds of 20 or 30 times the speed of sound are already incredibly fast, and in just a few minutes, Vegapunk had already reached the shore.
At this moment, all sorts of Monsters had already run out from the shore. Right in front of Vegapunk, a twelve-meter-tall Octopus Monster crawled out of the azure ocean.
"Hahaha, humans! Listen carefully if you don't want to die! I am an emissary from the deep sea! Hand over the land to our Deep Sea Race!"
This so-called messenger of the deep sea has human-like limbs, but its head is shaped like a giant octopus, with eight yellowish-brown tentacles constantly waving around, making it look rather disgusting.
"Disgusting, you... You should just be called Deep One instead of Deep Sea Race!"
Vegapunk's face showed a somewhat ugly expression. To be honest, a pure octopus is not scary. If there were such a sea monster, Vegapunk would be happier, as he would have another big meal!
It has a human body and an octopus head, which is disgusting. After all, Vegapunk wouldn't eat something that looks like a human.
"You... how dare you insult the great Deep Sea Emissary! I'll tear you to shreds!"
As the octopus head roared, it slammed down with a punch, while its tentacles wrapped around Vegapunk.
With a resounding thud, Vegapunk was unharmed, but the octopus-headed creature screamed in agony as the bones of its fist were almost completely shattered.
Vegapunk tilted his head and smiled. The strength of his armor was secondary. This Octopus Monster in front of him was at most a peak Tiger-level Monsters. There was no way it could break through his armor.
What truly delighted Vegapunk was the improved shock absorption of his armor after the design was completed!
Materials like these metals, while having high strength, are too rigid, making their shock absorption capacity a huge problem.
On ancient battlefields, it was common for generals clad in full armor to be struck by heavy weapons, yet their armor remained undamaged, while their bones and tendons were broken.
Therefore, Vegapunk naturally designed shock absorption capabilities for the armor. These capabilities, using its own Electromagnetic Ability as a framework, reduced the force of the Octopus Monster's punch to an imperceptible level.
"Unless the power completely exceeds the limits of my Electromagnetic Ability, this shock absorption system can essentially reduce all the force to almost nothing..."
"As for attacks that exceed the limits of my Electromagnetic Ability... there's really no need to think about it too much. Those kinds of attacks can probably even shatter the armor, so whether or not they reduce shock is completely meaningless."
Vegapunk was still looking down, his face full of thought. The Octopus Monster in front of him didn't have so many thoughts. While these Monsters possessed great power, they were extremely irritable and their intelligence had also declined significantly.
If an ordinary person were to throw a punch, it would shatter their own hand bones, and their first thought would be to run away. But the Octopus Monster was even more enraged. Its tentacles curled back, lifting Vegapunk up and slamming him hard to the ground.
With a series of thuds, Vegapunk, who was wrapped in tentacles, shuddered slightly, and the octopus tentacles were instantly torn into several pieces. Before the Octopus Monster could even scream, Vegapunk had already thrown a punch.
Vegapunk didn't use his physical strength for this punch; instead, he relied on his Electromagnetic Ability to propel his armor and swing it out. The poor Octopus Monster didn't even have time to react before it was instantly reduced to a shower of blood and flesh.
"That's right. Even without considering my physical strength, the kinetic energy of the armor converted from Electromagnetic Ability is already several times my own strength!"
"And if you add in the various weapons with Electromagnetic Ability unique to the armor, the combat power has increased by leaps and bounds!"
"Even... relying on the small Magnetic Field formed inside the armor, it can completely transform into elements like in the Pirate World... However, due to the limitations of the armor itself, it cannot transform into lightning to move at sub-light speed."
In other words, it doesn't have the super speed after elementalization, but it can still be immune to various physical attacks and some energy attacks.
However, although theoretically, Devil Fruit User the Rumble-Rumble Fruit- Rumble Fruit could possess speeds virtually identical to lightning, due to their reaction abilities, the so-called speed of lightning is merely theoretical. Therefore, Vegapunk wasn't particularly bothered by this.
Just then, a crackling sound came from the shore. Vegapunk turned his head and saw a giant crab just walking onto the shore.
After exchanging a glance, Bei Jiapunk revealed a covetous smile. The giant crab felt a chill run down its spine, sensing that the tin man in front of it was a bit strange. Without saying a word, it raised its claws and pinched him.
A thin bolt of lightning transformed into a beam of light, piercing directly through the Crab Monster's head. Vegapunk looked around and found that this Crab Monster was no different from a normal crab, without any human limbs growing out of it. Only then did he feel relieved and put the crab, whose claws were still moving, into his personal Portable Space.
Vegapunk had never created such a gigantic crab before! Naturally, he wanted to try it.
Just as he finished collecting the crabs, a Giant Lobster jumped out. Vegapunk, with a look of joy on his face, immediately put the lobster into his spatial storage.
This was just the beginning. A large number of strange Sea Tribe emerged from the ocean. Some of them looked like humans, but Vegapunk killed them. Those that looked like seafood were put into Vegapunk's Portable Space.
In just half an hour, the entire beach was stained with blood, and the corpses from the deep sea were piled up like small mountains, but Vegapunk frowned.
The Deep Sea Race is called a race, and their numbers are at least no less than a million. Even though Vegapunk has killed at least a few thousand Deep Sea Race, he still cannot stop the entire Deep Sea Race's offensive.
"That was too hasty... There are only a few dozen or a hundred of these seafood in the comics, but if you think about it carefully, how could the entire Deep Sea Race only have such a small number of people if they dare to conquer the land?"
"It seems pointless to get entangled with these small fry, and we can't even test the combat power of this armor. We also don't know where that Deep Sea King is."
The coastline of J-City is at least ten kilometers long. Who knows where the Deep Sea King came ashore? Once inside the city, unless you cause massive damage, it won't be easy to find a specific Deep Sea King in such a large city.
However, as time went on, a large number of deep-sea races set foot on the coastline, and humanity's counterattack began.
Before Vegapunk could come up with a solution, a large number of reinforcements arrived and provided support. In addition to the heroes of the Hero Association, there were also a large number of aircraft, tanks, and even some troops armed with advanced technology weapons, who were fighting against the Deep Sea Race.
This is another aspect that wasn't shown in the comics. In this world, all sorts of advanced technologies are rampant, and the combat power of the armed forces far exceeds that of reality. In fact, when soldiers are fully armed, their individual combat power is definitely not much worse than that of Wolf-Level Threat.
The various aircraft, tanks, and robots in the army are comparable to the futuristic technology in war games like Red Alert, and their overall combat power is by no means weak.
If it weren't for the fact that this world, for some unknown reason, doesn't have true nations but rather alliances of cities, and that soldiers are almost all city guards with a small number, they wouldn't have been so exhausted in the battle against the Deep Sea Race.
If, like in modern society, all cities formed nations, with armies of hundreds of thousands or even millions, tanks forming an iron torrent, and various warships bombarding them relentlessly, the Deep Sea Race would have been driven back long ago.
The strength of the Deep Sea Race varied greatly, with the strong reaching the Demon-level and the weak being no different from Wolf-Level Threat. At first, the two sides fought to a standstill, but as more and more Deep Sea Race emerged, the army could not hold them off.
Especially as some powerful Deep Sea Race, almost reaching the level of Demon-Level Threat, emerged later, those armies were quickly routed.
"It seems that in the end I will have to take action. There is a reason why this world will eventually become dependent on heroes... When it comes to Demon-Level Threat, the losses would be too great to eliminate them by normal means."
Demon-Level Threat can destroy a city. Normal heavy firepower can hardly harm them. If a battle were to break out in a city, they could easily turn the entire city into ruins. Only S-Class Hero with strong individual combat abilities can truly eliminate them with minimal losses.
Not to mention the Dragon-level threats, those things are beyond the reach of ordinary firearms unless humanity is determined to use the ultimate weapon.
Deciding to go all out, Vegapunk flew into the sky, and a large amount of dark clouds instantly filled the entire sky, with endless lightning flowing and leaping within them.
"I can't find the Deep Sea King among so many Deep Sea Race... but I can just electrocute Deep Sea Race all into grilled fish!"
A powerful Logia Devil Fruit User, known in the Pirate World as a "walking natural disaster"!
In terms of speed at which soldiers are eliminated, even Conqueror's Haki is far inferior to those powerful Logia abilities.
With a deafening roar, the lightning in the dark clouds instantly transformed into an endless serpent of lightning, which descended directly from the sky!
Amidst piercing screams, the Deep Sea Race who had just set foot on the coastline were turned into charred remains by lightning. Even though some powerful Deep Sea Race could barely resist, it only delayed their deaths and intensified their suffering.
Not only the Deep Sea Race on land, but even those Deep Sea Race in the sea who had not yet come ashore were electrocuted and floated to the surface with their eyes rolled back, turning into a pot of fish soup.