Armor Hero: The Return of the Underworld

"What gives you the right to make such boastful claims!"

Karen shouted into the darkness.

"This is no exaggeration. As long as you contribute the technology for constructing liberating molecules that you have successfully researched, I can awaken all the dark demons sealed within the magic spirit stones. These treasures from the shadow universe will be enough to make us the power to rule the world."

"And you, I promise you will be given a new life,"

In the darkness, an excited voice spoke to Karen.

How would I know if you're a madman?

Karen continued to shout into the darkness.

"Whether you're crazy or not, you can try it now without any loss. Think it over carefully."

The voice disappeared after it finished speaking, and the surroundings were so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

"I agree to cooperate with you!"

Finally, after a moment, Karen shouted into the darkness, her eyes filled with determination.

"Hahahahahaha..."

A loud laugh echoed from the darkness, and at the same time, the last glimmer of light on Karen's body slowly disappeared, plunging the entire world into darkness.

Karen lay down and slowly lost consciousness.

"Ah! This guy, he's practically a cripple..."

In the final moments before Karen's consciousness faded, she suddenly sensed several people approaching, laughing and talking. Karen recognized their voices—it was the ugly general's voice…

When Karen opened her eyes again, her missing parts had been repaired by the machine...

"I've given you what you wanted; now it's up to you."

Suddenly, that voice echoed again in the darkness.

"This humble servant is willing to serve the King of the Shadow Realm."

The ugly general led a group of shadow slaves to Karen.

Karen tried moving the mechanical arm, and King Kai was born!

The scene then shifts again to a few days prior.

King Kai was at home studying Xiangyang's blood when suddenly, Ugly General appeared behind him.

"You piece of trash, it seems the lesson I taught you last time wasn't severe enough. I'll have to loosen your skin a bit more."

King Jie turned his head and said fiercely to the ugly general.

"Forehead!"

Ugly General ignored the King of the Realm, walked up to him, grabbed him by the neck, and lifted him up.

"King Kai, you have quite the temper!"

Ugly General glared at King Kai and then transformed into the form of Evil Wood.

"Protect, protect..."

When King Kai saw the evil tree, he was immediately terrified. He wanted to say something, but with the evil tree choking him, he couldn't utter a word.

"Humph!"

Evilwood threw King Kai back into his seat with a single blow.

"Since I promised Ugly General that I would teach you and Shadow King a lesson, I can't go back on my word. You won't blame me, will you?"

Evilwood looked at King Kai and said.

“Guardian, I don’t blame you.”

"King Kai said, clutching his neck."

“Shadow King has disappeared and I can’t find him. I’m giving you a week to destroy those three suits of armor.”

“A week later, we five protectors will be resurrected. If those three suits of armor have not been destroyed, then you shall destroy them.”

Evilwood spoke with his back to King Kai, and then vanished in a puff of black smoke.

King Kai gritted his teeth and stared intently at Evilwood from behind, his mechanical arm clenching its fists tightly, but he was helpless.

The following scenes were all fragmented memories, related to research. Mo Fan couldn't understand them and didn't want to look at them anymore, so he crawled out of the King of the Realms' body.

"It seems that King Kai is a pitiful person after all."

After Mo Fan came out, he told Xi Zhao and Kula what he had seen.

There are also many doubts here.

For example, who bestowed the title of King of the Shadows upon Karen? It was clearly not the Shadow Guardian, so who was it?

Is he the Shadow Emperor? Or the Progenitor of Darkness?

That remains to be seen.

"It seems these Shadow Guardians are even more troublesome than the Realm King. No wonder he said he has lost interest in living."

Xi Zhao sighed.

The Realm King only had seven mutant beasts left, yet the Shadow Guardian actually ordered him to eliminate the Armor Squad. Isn't that absurd? It's like the Nine-Headed Insect ordering Benboerba to kill Tang Sanzang and his disciples—how could that be possible?

After thinking about it, Xi Zhao dug a hole and buried the Realm King.

After all, it was the person who raised him. Even though King Kai wasn't good to him, he hadn't lived in vain. When he was sick, it was King Kai who took care of him. Xi Zhao wasn't a heartless person.

After burying the King of the Realm, Xi Zhao brought back Bing'er, who had fainted behind the cave.

They could no longer stay in the cave, as it was considered the Shadow Protectors' lair.

But before leaving, Mo Fan removed the "magic ball" from the stone chair in the cave, since such a good thing couldn't be left to the Shadow Protector.

"It's you."

At Mo Fan's house, Bing'er woke up and immediately saw Xi Zhao, so she said coldly.

"You're finally awake. Do you know how long you've been asleep?"

Seeing that Bing'er had woken up, Xi Zhao smiled and said.

"You destroyed King Kai?"

Bing'er did not get up and continued speaking to Xi Zhao.

“He brought this upon himself. If we don’t accept it, he will be punished by heaven.”

Xi Zhao continued.

"But, but I'm already homeless!"

Bing'er's voice suddenly became choked with sobs.

"No, we'll stay with Mo Fan. This is our home."

Xi Zhao touched Bing'er's face and said.

"Get up and eat something first."

Xi Zhao helped Bing'er up from the bed and led her to the living room.

"Bing'er is awake? Let's eat together."

Mo Fan looked at Bing'er and said with a smile.

In the original storyline, after the Realm King was defeated, Bing'er became a homeless dog. Because of the rotten orange, she could not go to Bei Miao and ended up wandering the streets.

Later, he was discovered by the Shadow Guardian and possessed, becoming a pitiful person as well.

"Thank you."

Although Bing'er didn't particularly like Mo Fan, she was indeed homeless now, so she could only find a chair to sit down.

Actually, Bing'er didn't dislike Mo Fan, but after hearing Orange Brother's speech, she felt that all men were no good, including Xi Zhao, whom she also became indifferent to.

What is our next task?

Xi Zhao sat down and asked Mo Fan.

Bing'er, who had just picked up her chopsticks, stopped after hearing Xi Zhao's words and looked at him with a confused expression.

That expression seemed to say, "Is this something I can hear?"

"Haha, it's alright, we're all on the same side, what's there to be afraid of?"

Mo Fan noticed Bing'er's confusion and smiled as he spoke to her.

At the same time, Mo Fan also told Kula and Xizhao about his plan.

"Our next plan is to eliminate the armored squad and retrieve the Light and Shadow Stone..."