The room remained deathly quiet.
The focus wasn't on the looming crisis that might annihilate the Earth—but on KING's unbelievably precise predictions.
Lady Shibabawa's prophecies had always been vague, requiring interpretation.
KING's "prophecies" were so precise, it was like he had cheats on!
Enemies from space, target City A—even the absurd detail that the great seer would die from "a cough drop" was crystal clear.
"This… isn't precognition anymore…" S-Class Rank 8 "Zombie Man" muttered, eyes fixed on KING.
"You have to be kidding…"
Tornado of Terror finally recovered from her shock; her green eyes locked on KING, trying to find a crack in that poker face.
"If he's that amazing, how come I arrived first last time for that Dragon-level disaster… This charlatan trick…"
Grinding her teeth, she began to deny KING's foresight. "Don't expect me to—"
Her words were cut short by a sudden thunder that shook the Association HQ.
It wasn't the familiar King Engine—but from outside!
Woooo—woooo—woooo—!!!
This wasn't a drill, nor a regional alarm.
This was the highest alarm level in City A's defense system—representing a "city-level annihilation threat"!
The wailing sirens pierced every corner of City A. Countless citizens bolted from their homes and looked up.
In Association HQ, blood-red warning lights kept flashing, painting the S-Class heroes' faces in lurid hues.
"Emergency! Emergency! A massive unidentified flying object has appeared over City A! Energy reaction… immeasurable! Repeat—immeasurable! It is breaching the atmosphere! Predicted threat level…"
The operator's scream crackled through the speakers, but before he could say it, a world-ending shockwave tore through the windows!
BOOOOM—!!!
The entire HQ detonated into violent shaking!
Light tubes burst in the ceiling; stone and dust rained down.
"They're here!" Sitch turned corpse-pale, clinging to the table edge to keep from falling.
The heroes reacted with inhuman swiftness.
At the first tremor, they had stabilized their stances. Combat instincts crushed their shock.
"Everyone, move out!" Atomic Samurai was the first to shout, his body blurring for the door.
"Clicking my tongue—took you long enough! My bat's been itching!" Metal Bat swung his bat onto his shoulder, eyes filled with savage warlust.
But as they rushed from the room and looked through cracked panoramic windows, they froze in shock.
A… warship the size of a city!
It blotted out the sky, casting a shadow across all of City A.
Its belly bristled with gunports glowing with ominous light, densely packed like a beehive—breathing destruction.
"This… is this the alien ship Mr. KING spoke of?" Tanktop Master's sturdy legs trembled for the first time.
"My god…" Pig God stopped chewing and stared at the sky.
Before they could gather themselves from the visual blow, the warship's belly—those tens of thousands of gunports—charged in unison.
Purple-black light flared in each maw, countless glimmers converging together.
It would be a "storm" of energy shells covering the entire city!
"Bad!" Metal Knight's robot blared an urgent warning.
"By calculation, this volley can erase City A and its environs from the map! Current defenses… cannot withstand!"
"What?!" Sitch's heart sank to the bottom.
They had done everything in their power to prepare in light of Mr. KING's warning—only to find it all futile before such absolute force?
At the instant the purple-black barrage was about to fire, an unprecedented brilliance surged from the ground in City A!
Vmmmm—!!!
Centered on the new Association HQ, dozens of massive energy emitters hidden across the city fired at once.
Thick blue beams lanced into the sky and, at the last possible moment, wove a vast hexagonal shield over City A.
It was the "final city defense system"—codename "Aegis"—secretly constructed under Metal Knight's design at astronomical cost, thanks to KING's warning!
A heartbeat later, the purple-black rain fell and smashed into the blue shield!
Rrrrrrrrrrr—!!!
The world seemed to lose sound and color.
The shield warped and twisted the instant it made contact, blue energy roiling like boiling water, keening under the strain.
At the impact point, a sun-bright glare wiped away vision from everyone below.
A white shockwave, visible to the naked eye, burst outward from ground zero!
Skyscrapers at ground zero were sliced in half and shredded by the turbulent backwash.
Streets, parks… the traces of human civilization were erased with frightening ease.
City A howled.
"Aegis" lasted less than three seconds before shattering with a clear death knell.
The leftover energy torrent surged on, turning the center of City A into a crater.
And yet… City A was not completely annihilated.
The outer districts survived.
Ravaged, with scarcely an intact street, but the framework of more than half the city remained.
Countless citizens, though shaken to the core, were miraculously alive.
All thanks to KING's warning—and the leadership's unprecedented resolve and investment.
They had… saved half a city under such an attack!
After a brief stun, all the S-Class heroes turned their eyes again to the silent man standing on the ruins.
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