Battle (Please Follow)

"Four Arms!"

After Ben pressed the watch, his body immediately began to change.

Under Doctor Connors's astonished gaze, the combat suit on Ben's body vanished, replaced by black-and-white striped clothing. His skin turned crimson and rough.

His body suddenly shot upward, and a second pair of arms grew from beneath his ribs!

At that moment, Ben felt as though he possessed the strength to lift the entire world!

He stretched his four arms, venting the immense power with nowhere else to go. His roar made the building tremble!

His height doubled in an instant, reaching twelve feet—3.66 meters. He was now nearly as large as the enormous Dinosaur Man, Connors!

A Tetramand!

One of the original watch's ten starting heroes, the one that represented strength and combat!

He had even defeated Princess Looma, who had beaten Humungousaur. He could be called the king of fighters standing at the pinnacle of all Tetramands!

"Ready to get beaten up, Connors?"

Ben slammed his four fists together, his bones cracking loudly.

In contrast, although Connors felt as if he were facing a formidable enemy, confusion outweighed his alarm.

Red skin, four arms, four eyes—

"You really turned into a spider?" He laughed. The way he looked at Ben was no longer so aggressive; instead, it was like he was looking at one of his own kind. "Look at yourself now. So powerful! You've finally cast off that pathetic human body too!"

"Now that you've experienced this kind of power, why are you still trying to stop me?"

He clenched his fist and spoke passionately, as though delivering a speech.

"Do you even need to ask?"

"Of course it's because I don't want a bad-breathed, bucktoothed Lizard Man as my girlfriend!" Ben said matter-of-factly.

If Felicia or Mary Jane turned into something like Connors...

Ben did not even dare imagine it. With those sharp teeth and that foul breath, if she bit down, perhaps only Diamondhead's little brother could withstand it?

"You're so selfish!" Connors said with disgust.

"You could have changed the world, yet you seek to keep humanity's potential for evolution in your own hands. Your selfishness is burying humanity's future!"

Hearing Connors's words, Ben gave a cold laugh.

"Don't make me laugh, Connors!"

"Humanity's potential for evolution? Do you think you can make that choice for humanity? Do you think you're a god? Do you really think everyone wants to become a monster like you?"

"And how can you be certain they don't?" Connors shot back.

"How do you know that those who are incomplete, those tormented by illness, those humiliated, despised, and trampled beneath others' feet... don't want this kind of power?"

Every word he spoke was about himself, yet not only himself. It was also about every person living in humiliation beneath prosperous New York.

When faced with that damn reality, plenty of people would be willing to make a deal with the devil!

Even Ben himself—if he had no Superpowers and no Little Broken Watch, would he fear becoming a monster in exchange for the strength to protect his family?

He would not!

But now, he could not let Connors do this.

He knew Connors might truly want to benefit all humanity, and he also understood that there really were people in this world willing to make deals with the devil.

But he did not care.

He only knew that Uncle Ben and Aunt May would not want to become monsters. Nor did he want Superpowers to become widespread in this world; that would only put Uncle Ben and Aunt May in greater danger.

Right now, he had only one thought.

"I have nothing more to say to you, Connors. Get ready to take a beating!"

Ben collided his four fists. The powerful impact of his punches instantly kicked up a fierce gust!

Connors had clearly given up on talking as well. He already saw Ben as a thorn in the eye and flesh of humanity's evolution. At this moment, he only wanted to tear Ben apart and devour all four of his arms alive!

Connors's claws slashed down, tearing through the air!

This time, Ben did not dodge. Instead, he charged forward like a red tank.

Connors's claws were sharp, but Ben's skin was extraordinarily tough as well.

BOOM!!!

The two collided, and the shockwave instantly became tangible!

At the center of their collision, violent winds whirled like the eye of a hurricane!

The impact sent cracks spreading across all four surrounding walls!

The instant Connors collided with Ben, he realized something was wrong—the monster before him possessed an astonishing degree of strength!

He felt as if he had rammed headfirst into a city wall several meters thick. The red monster did not budge an inch, while pain shot through both his arms.

Connors instinctively retreated, but after taking just one step back, he could no longer move.

The two arms beneath Four Arms's ribs had tightly seized Connors's wrists. The immense force made it impossible for Connors to break free!

"You said you wanted to twist my head off, right?" Ben grinned viciously. His two strongest arms clasped together and lifted high, as though preparing to spike a volleyball!

The shadow of those thick arms fell over Connors's eyes.

Connors raised his head and met Ben's four dim yellow eyes. In that moment, he once again recalled the pathetic helplessness he had felt as a human.

"Wait..."

But fists the size of cooking pots had already come crashing down!

"BOOM!!!"

In an instant, the ground beneath Connors's feet shattered!

Even the surface seemed to sink several centimeters—

Connors felt as though his brains were about to burst. The crushing blow slammed his upper and lower jaws together, and the sharp teeth in his mouth—teeth capable of tearing through steel—fell out one by one beneath that immense force.

Stars swam before his eyes. Then he felt his wrists loosen, only for another force to seize his head.

Ben grabbed Connors by the head with one hand, lifting him before his eyes as he asked in a rough voice.

"Tell me. Where is Animo?"

Though he had defeated Connors, Doctor Animo, who controlled the mutated genes, had still not appeared. Compared to Connors, Animo was the truly dangerous and insane mad scientist.

"Doctor Animo..."

Connors was dizzy and disoriented, but when he heard Animo's name, he still laughed.

"You've lost, Parker..." he said weakly.

"You think you've defeated me, but Doctor Animo will soon use the Canary Device and the Gene Variator to make everyone in New York evolve!"

He laughed mockingly.

"How many people can you defeat?"

"And among them, how many will be your friends and family?"

Those two sentences enraged Ben.

At the thought of Aunt May and Uncle Ben becoming ugly monsters, Ben's fury became impossible to contain.

It was as though a fire had been lit inside his chest.

"I only know that I can flatten you!"

He hurled Connors upward. His four arms drew back with clenched fists like a fully drawn bow, every muscle in his body coiling like dragons.

Crack!

The instant he threw his punch, the air exploded!

His four arms struck as fast as a torrential downpour!