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Chapter 488: Limiter and Monsterification; The Impact of Vaccine Man
"One Punch Man" is a comic adaptation of the previous life of One Punch Mist Core.

The story tells about the protagonist Saitama, who was originally an ordinary person who was busy looking for a job all day.

One day three years ago, he accidentally encountered a mutated crab man who was about to kill the naughty boy. He recalled his dream of "wanting to be a hero" when he was young, and finally tried his best to save the naughty boy.

In that battle, Saitama regained his interest in becoming a hero, and through hard training, he was finally reborn and gained the strongest power, but at the same time he lost his hair and became bald, and seemed to have lost some emotions.

After being a hero alone for a while, Saitama discovered that being a hero could make money. So, the impoverished Saitama and his disciple Genos officially joined the Hero Association, and began a life of fighting against various monsters and disasters together with many other heroes.

Just because he looks too much like a salted fish and is too strong, any private battle will be regarded as the enemy is too weak, or he is just taking advantage of it, and he has never been recognized. However, he still sticks to his original intention and insists on being a hero.

As for the story of One Punch Man itself, it tends to be funny and light-hearted.

But it’s only the anime that’s easy, it’s only Saitama that’s invincible.

For ordinary people living in such a world, this evil world is by no means easy.

The world of One Punch Man has a very weird setting, that is, whether it is people, objects, animals, plants or all kinds of messy things, they may become monsters for some inexplicable reasons.

Moreover, the monsters they transform into are usually not very weak. Even if ordinary people have guns, they will most likely not be able to defeat them at all.

Yiquan Mist Core was lucky this time. He met a weak opponent and was killed by a headshot. Otherwise, he would have suffered a lot...

And it's not just suffering. If you encounter some powerful monsters, it's not a question of whether ordinary people can win, but whether they can keep their property...

Just like a while ago, Yiquan Wuhe saw a news report that a big-mouthed flower more than ten meters tall appeared in the slightly distant city S next door. Yes, it was the one in Plants vs. Zombies.

The only difference is that the body appears a little bit bigger.

The guy was killed instantly by a metal baseball bat from S City after he appeared on the scene for about ten minutes.

But in just over ten minutes, the guy managed to turn seven or eight apartments into dangerous buildings.

I guess those homeowners who didn’t buy weirdo insurance, and those companies that sold weirdo insurance, must be crying their eyes out…

But let's not talk about these for now. As a person who lives in a rented house, Yiquan Wuhe doesn't need to worry about real estate issues. The most important thing for him now is to think about the issue of his current weirdness.

Regarding the monsterization in the world of One Punch Man, One Punch Mist Core recalled some discussions about monsterization and limiters that he had seen in the One Punch Man anime forum.

Limiter-This is a unique setting in the world of One Punch Man.

All the creatures in this world range from the big ones like Boros and Tornado in the original work to the small ones like ants, mice and bacteria.

In fact, any individual can become stronger through exercise, but such exercise will eventually have an upper limit. The closer to this upper limit, the more difficult it will be to continue to improve, and the slower the speed will be.

And this upper limit is called the limiter.

Due to different talents, the differences in gifts and abilities between individuals are huge, and the upper limits that can be achieved are also different.

Some people can reach a level that ordinary people can't even dream of with just a few casual trainings, like Child Emperor in the original work, while others, even if they practice desperately, can hardly reach even the tip of the iceberg of the strength of those geniuses after casual training, like Glasses in the original work and the original One Punch Mist Core.

The protagonist of One Punch Man, Saitama, broke through the limiter for unknown reasons. There is no upper limit to his strength, and it is not difficult for him to increase his strength. Therefore, he is invincible in the world with one punch.

As a result, he lost part of his emotions and all his hair because of Wudi...

According to the description in the original work, the principle of the appearance of monsters is actually somewhat similar to Saitama, and is also the product of breaking the limiter.

However, that group of weirdos were either born weird, or underwent body modification, or performed extreme exercises, or received some kind of power. After breaking the limiter, they did not make the limiter disappear completely, but instead expanded the small house with the upper limit into a large house.

Moreover, compared to the price Saitama paid for obtaining invincible power, the price of becoming a monster or reshaping the limiter is obviously greater.

The bodies of most of them will undergo obvious changes, and their minds will also be obviously distorted.

Most of them will become cold-blooded, ruthless, manic, arrogant, and have strong hostility towards the human world, and are full of desire for violence and destruction.

The natural born freaks refer to the vampire, sky king, underground king, and ancient king in the original work.

The group from the House of Evolution can be considered as body modification type.

The extreme combination of training and extreme emotions can be seen in the example of Garou and the four-handed boxing monster who was beaten up by Bang.

In front of the Homeless Emperor, the Vaccine Man and the One Punch Mist Core, the Pepper Monster can be said to have been enlightened by the gods, the will of the earth and the resentment of the pepper towards humans.

If the above description is followed, the current situation of Yiquan Mist Core should be a bit like - "being cursed by fish while reaching the limit of training?"

"It doesn't seem impossible..."

Regarding the issue of the limiter, Yiquan Mist Core and other Wu He people actually conducted research in the foggy space for a period of time.

But later on, I helplessly discovered that the limiter is truly a unique specialty of the One Punch Man world.

It only exists in Yiquan Mist Core and is not shared with other Wu Hes.

At the same time, others also tried to force him to break the limiter through initiation.

That was undoubtedly a failure. Even though the level of power had reached stars and he had exploded n times, the limiter was only reshaped but not truly broken.

This thing is like a cabbage that never seems to end. When you break one layer, there is always another layer...

Logically speaking, any power has its upper limit, and this limiter should be the same.

Wu He and his ilk have not yet reached the upper limit of their strength that would allow them to break everything.

As for things like transformation into a monster, One Punch Mist Core had never encountered such an incident when he was in the foggy space.

According to the control variables, it is obvious that this is not a problem with the limiter and the life essence itself, but more likely a factor of the external environment...

The original conditions of the One Punch Mist Core were only different from those in the Mist Space in two ways: the life essence it absorbed still came from sea fish, and the second was that the environment it was in was in the sea.

As for these two possible factors, Yiquan Wuhe is more inclined to the former~, because some time ago, he temporarily gave up cultivating the source of life and turned to practice the new technique he had acquired. He named his technique - the memory of marine life.

The fish's memory technique does not mean that the fish's memory is only seven seconds, but because his technique is fundamentally related to all kinds of memories he possesses.

This technique is somewhat similar to the ten shadow spells in Jujutsu Kaisen.

The One Punch Mist Core requires a ritual to start, in which one extracts some memories of fear from the memory of the fish that one possesses, and then defeats those memories of fear just like taming the Shikigami of ten kinds of shadow magic, and then one can make the existence in those memories manifest in reality for one's own use.

If the memory god dies, he cannot be resurrected and summoned...

Don't underestimate this technique, although the dangers that fish may encounter are nothing more than other creatures in nature and the impact of human activities.

But that was all from the fish's perspective.

If the fish used by One Punch Mist Core is ten centimeters in size, then basically for it, the world in front of it is a world magnified twenty times compared to that of humans. If it is one centimeter, then it is two hundred times.

Correspondingly, the memories summoned by a punch of the mist core are twenty times or even two hundred times greater than normal.

Theoretically speaking, as long as the spell power is sufficient, it is not impossible to summon a giant whale that can swallow the stars with one punch of the mist core.

But that's just the ideal state.

If it is actually implemented, it will still be restricted by various factors.

For example, the field of vision of tiny things is limited, and for objects that are too large, there is no way to see the whole picture clearly, and there is no way to have a complete memory of an object, etc.

There are still many limitations, but this does not prevent it from being a powerful technique.

In the previous month, the gills on One Punch Mist Core also brought him great convenience, because when he was taming the shikigami, the spell would automatically form an ocean environment similar to a domain.

There is only sea water here and nothing else. If there were no gills, it would not be easy for One Punch Mist Core to modulate the various huge Shikigami in such a place.

The main reason why Yiquan Mist Core was happy to see the success a month ago but now shows some worries is that the bottleneck period has arrived again.

The limiter thing is causing trouble again.

The process of subduing the Shikigami with One Punch Mist Core naturally progresses from easy to difficult.

First, I used ordinary fish and shrimp to test the effect. When it was almost there, I started using the memory of smaller fish. The average size of the shikigami became two to three meters, and then four to five meters.

Every time one is subdued, the cursed power of the One Punch Mist Core will increase to a certain extent.

If this continues, it seems possible that the One Punch Mist Core will not absorb the life essence.

But in the past few days, Yiquan Wuhe found that his progress was getting slower and slower.

The level of cursed energy seems to have reached a certain limit. No matter how much the One Punch Mist Core increases the number of shikigami, it is difficult to improve the level of one's own cursed energy.

Recently, it has come to a complete standstill.

The largest Shikigami he had subdued now was only ten meters in size. He couldn't even summon any larger Shikigami.

This situation also forced him to look back and face the problem he had previously avoided - "Will my freak-ness become more serious?!"

One Punch Mist Core itself actually does not discriminate against monsters.

When I was watching TV dramas and anime, having horns on the head or scales on the body was not unacceptable, as long as they didn't look too weird, and a punch with a mist core was not unacceptable.

Even if it looks a little ugly, wouldn't it be okay if the One Punch Mist Core slowly uses the life essence to adjust itself and slowly adjust back to normal? At worst, I can use an illusion...

The changes in appearance are only secondary. What Yiquan Wuhe is really worried about is the changes in the mind.

"If I continue to lean towards the freak, and the distortion of people's hearts caused by freak-like transformation is real, then will I be rejected by the misty space like my corpse brother Wu He and the crazy fox demon Wu He before I cleansed myself? And then I will lose all my existing power."

This is the real problem that worries One Punch Mist Core.

For him, if he had to lose the foggy space as a price, even if the final result was to truly break the limiter, it would still be a losing deal for him...

As if to make Yiquan Mist Core make up his mind, just when he was distracted, the sound of a TV broadcast sounded without warning, attracting his attention.

"Beep! Emergency evacuation alarm..."

The TV that was originally playing the food channel suddenly changed channels, and a very standard broadcast voice suddenly came out and reached Yiquan Mist Core's ears.

At this moment, Yiquan Mist Core turned his head slightly, and then saw a familiar red exclamation mark suddenly appear in his field of vision, and under the exclamation mark there was a big "ghost" written on it.

"Emergency evacuation alert~, disaster level - Dragon."

"A dragon-level monster appeared in the western part of City A - Vaccine Man."

"It may threaten several surrounding cities. Citizens of the surrounding cities are requested to prepare for evacuation quickly."

"The cities that may be affected are: City A, City B, City Y, City X, City S, and City R."

"A large area of ​​residential area in City A has been destroyed. Please enter the shelter as soon as possible."

"Residents of other cities are also preparing to evacuate..."

Hearing the alarm issued by the Hero Association, One Punch Mist Core, who was originally thinking about the pros and cons, couldn't help but frowned slightly.

"The vaccine man has appeared? It seems that the main storyline is not far away..."

"But if we avoid the main plots, stable development shouldn't be a problem."

Of course, while thinking about it, Yiquan Wuhe also noticed the differences between this notification and other notifications.

The disaster-stricken area was clearly only in City A, but this time the alarm was issued to all cities in City A and its western region.

This is not a normal thing.

You should know that the cities in One Punch Man's world are different from those in the normal world. Each city here is on average as big as an area of ​​Australia.

Moreover, City X, where the One Punch Mist Core is located, is separated from City A by City Y. Could it be that the Vaccine Man is so powerful that he can attack City X from a distance of hundreds of kilometers?
"That shouldn't be the case~, I remember that guy in the original book just caused a lot of damage in City A, and then was killed by Saitama with one punch."

Just as Yiquan Mist Core was thinking this, a huge beam of light suddenly came closer from afar.

The target of this beam of light is not the location of the One Punch Mist Core.

It fell only a few kilometers away from his apartment building.

But at the moment when the beam of light fell, a huge ring of smoke and dust suddenly exploded in all directions.

The dazzling light first pierced into Yiquan Wuhe's eyes like a hydrogen bomb falling to the ground, and illuminated his entire room through the window.

Under the influence of this azure light, Yiquan Mist Core felt a slight stinging in his eyes.

But the next moment, his eyes adjusted to the dazzling light, and he suddenly saw the rapidly spreading wave, and his expression suddenly changed...

"Oh no, the shock wave is coming..."

And it was at the end of the field of vision of the punch fog core.

The huge circular cigarette lip, which is one to several dozen meters high, is like a thick wall, pushing towards the surrounding buildings at a terrifying speed.

At this moment, no matter it is a petite cat, a dog on a leash, people walking on the road, a car weighing several tons, or even a tree rooted in the ground.

All of this was like a Lego model, and was instantly blown into the sky in the smoke and dust.

Finally, it crashed heavily into the surrounding tall and short buildings.

Human limbs and arms, various metal parts of cars, broken branches and trees...

All sorts of random stuff seemed to be stuffed into a meat grinder.

Almost instantly, the originally gray romance was dyed with all kinds of strange colors such as red, yellow, blue, green, etc.

The weekly rented buildings were not much better. In the face of this horrific impact, the glass that could still be considered hard was almost shattered instantly.

The huge pressure difference caused the strong wind to rush into the surrounding buildings like a tsunami.

The broken bones, stones and iron filings floating in the air seemed to have turned into the legendary rainstorm of pear blossoms, and even the people hiding in the apartments were not completely spared.

And the shock wave came extremely fast.

Just seven seconds after Yiquan Wuhe saw the light come on, he rushed directly to the apartment building where he was.

Even though this shock wave had been weakened layer by layer along the way, the moment it reached here, all the glass on the apartment building was still instantly shattered. A large amount of material carried by the strong wind hit the apartment heavily, and in an instant, the apartment building that originally seemed intact became riddled with holes.

Cries of pain and screams suddenly appeared at this moment, and were buried by the sound of the wind the next moment.

Two seconds later, the shockwave faded away. Except for the sound of sand falling in the air, the entire apartment building was as silent as the deep space of the universe...

Ten or so seconds later, faint cries of pain, crying, and wailing began to sound, giving this space a bit of unfriendly life.

At this time, let's turn our attention back to the One Punch Mist Core.

Yiquan Mist Core looked at the shattered glass in front of him, and the shattered world outside the glass, and silently put away the sponge around him that was used to absorb the impact.

After a moment of silence, he turned around and stood in front of the pepper man again, and stretched out his hand towards his head...

Yiquan Mist Core was silent at the moment, but his choice was clear...

"Steady development is not suitable for this chaotic world."

"Since the life essence of all creatures in this world may have problems, why not start the experiment with the one with the most problems..."

"Now let me see the essence of the weirdo..."

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(End of this chapter)