Topaz turned her head to glance at the Grandmaster, her aunt-like face remaining as calm as an ancient well: "I thought you were talking to yourself again."
The Grandmaster looked somewhat speechless: "If I were talking to myself, how could I use the word 'you think'? This is obviously me talking to you, alright."
"Oh." Topaz turned her head back and continued watching the match.
The Grandmaster also felt he had brought it upon himself: "Sigh, I really miss my spider champion..."
Just at that moment, the Grandmaster's wish came true.
A flash of blue light appeared before him, and a red and black energy sphere materialized out of thin air.
Following that, the blue light enveloping the red and black energy sphere condensed into a passage of text in mid-air.
[You son of a bitch Grandmaster, it's been over three hundred chapters since we last met. How have you been lately? Missed me, didn't you? Well, catch this, this is my gift to you for our long-awaited reunion!]
Seeing this text, the Grandmaster couldn't have been happier: "Did you see that, Topaz? My champion spider still remembers me, hey! He said he misses me too, and even brought me a gift!"
Topaz glanced at the text in the air and twitched the corner of her mouth: "Grandmaster, his message didn't say he missed you. Stop adding drama to yourself..."
"You're so boring, Topaz. My champion spider is still the best, bringing me a gift and all. Now let me see what this gift is. I love gifts the most!"
The Grandmaster rubbed his hands together like a fly, looking excitedly at the red and black energy sphere mid-air.
And the blue text gradually faded away.
Without the spatial power stabilizing it, the nuclear explosion energy sphere also fell from mid-air.
The Grandmaster instinctively reached out to catch it.
"Aah-aah-aah! Hot, hot, hot!"
But he immediately tossed the nuclear explosion sphere up like he had been electrocuted, continuously rubbing his scalded hands.
And so the nuclear explosion sphere was tossed onto the ground by the Grandmaster, breaking the very last shred of balance Ryan had maintained.
The energy within the nuclear explosion sphere lost balance. The metal ground was melting, glowing, and —————— exploding!
Seeing this, the Grandmaster comically shrugged his shoulders: "Uh-oh~"
Boom——————Hum———————Sakaar lit up!
X Universe.
Ryan smiled with satisfaction.
The Grandmaster, this old chūnibyō, had tripped him up quite a few times when he first left Earth to venture into the Universe back when he was far from as powerful as he was now.
And Ryan held quite a grudge; he wouldn't forget about this just because a few years had passed.
He had remembered it all along!
Right on cue, he didn't know where to put this highly polluted nuclear explosion sphere at the moment.
So he simply gifted it to the Grandmaster.
Anyway, the Grandmaster's Sakaar was also known as a cosmic scrapyard, a place specially used to process space garbage. Nuclear waste was garbage too!
That was quite nuke-logical!
"Alright, the nuclear bomb as a sharp tooth is gone. Now, little kitten without teeth, it's time to clip your final claws as well!"
Ryan looked down condescendingly at the azure Planet below, a cruel smile splitting his face as his entire body swooped down with the posture of Superman!
He was igniting, burning, and plummeting!
Across America, all surviving Military Bases sounded their alarms at the very same time.
On satellite imagery, a fireball was plunging into American territory.
They knew that this was definitely You-Know-Who, the one who had successively destroyed their navy and air force, transferred all the nuclear bombs they launched to explode in the island.
With America's Military lacking its strongest nuclear strike capability, facing a person as powerful as a god, they could only use other methods to attack!
Hypersonic missiles, electromagnetic railguns, laser weapons—as long as it could be used, the remaining army used everything at this moment.
But...
What was despairing was that no matter what kind of attack it was, even when the opponent didn't dodge at all and every single one hit him head-on, it failed to stop the opponent's speed by even a tiny bit!
America, which had once brought technological suppression to countless people, felt the despair brought by such a massive disparity in strength from a single person at this moment!
Whoosh——————Rumble!!!!!
As the first army Base was hit and the ground surged into a sea of fire.
From the President down to every single soldier, all of them slumped powerlessly onto the ground.
They knew it was over, it was all over...
In just one minute, America, the nation with the most army Bases on this Planet, lost all of its army Bases within that minute.
With this, America completely lost its entire Military might.
And Ryan stopped his hand right there.
Because he was merciful.
He kept his word!
Since he was attacked by America's missiles and said he would only destroy all of America's Military forces, he would only destroy the Military forces, and would never touch civilians or infrastructure by even a fraction of a hair!
However, how those wolf-like nations across the globe would treat America, once the strongest Military nation, was no longer Ryan's concern~
The Way of Heaven has its karmic cycles; colonizers will eventually be colonized. It's also very logical, isn't it...
Destroying America's naval, land, and air Military forces—including transferring the nuclear bomb to explode in the island, and then compressing the island into an energy sphere to give to the Grandmaster—took Ryan a total of only four minutes.
That was still because he spent most of his time searching for America's Bases. Otherwise, if he were simply destroying a country or Planet, he wouldn't even need a single second—he could just punch the continental shelf with a super-light-speed punch.
When Ryan returned to the original site of X-Academy, Gwen and the others' battle hadn't even ended yet.
But it wasn't that they couldn't beat this so-called Sentinel.
Rather, they had never seen this gadget before, found it quite novel and fun, and simply dealt with these type-2 sentinel robots with a playful mindset.
Seeing that Ryan was back, they stopped playing around.
Main Universe Gwen's power, which was sufficient to destroy a Planet, went down with a single punch that directly overloaded the sentinel robots' survival-of-the-fittest ability absorbed from Darwin, causing the entire machine body to explode and perish!
Alternate Universe Gwen followed suit, wanting to smash a Sentinel robot with a single punch just like Main Universe Gwen.
But she clearly forgot that there was a qualitative gap in strength between her and Main Universe Gwen.
Main Universe Gwen could blow up Planets, but Alternate Universe Gwen certainly couldn't!
And before her punch arrived, the type-2 sentinel robot had preemptively used Colossus's ability to steel-ify itself.
As a result, when Alternate Universe Gwen punched down, although she did indeed blast the steel-ified Sentinel robot flying and even caved in a large chunk of its chest,
it didn't directly blow up the steel-ified Sentinel robot!
Instead, Alternate Universe Gwen shook her wrists, looking pitiably at Main Universe Gwen with tears almost welling up from the pain:
"Gwen, it hurts, it's so hard!"
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