Chapter 220: I! Am The End Of The Universe!
Under the sky screen.
Darkseid loomed in the sky like a black sun.
Who says villains don’t have bursts of power? Darkseid clearly didn’t have a crushing advantage before, but the combat power of such high-dimensional beings is quite subjective.
Perhaps the destruction of Apokolips ignited Darkseid’s wrath, awakening his latent power, to the extent that even someone as strong as Old Father was no match for him.
“Old Father!”
Ian was instantly terrified.
He looked up, seeing Darkseid suspended in the air like a mountain, and his Old Father, Clark, held in his hand like a small chick, barely breathing.
He was truly panicked, his mind going blank.
What Sangong Mo, what buffet, what angel feathers were all forgotten! An unprecedented fear and anger erupted in his chest like a volcano!
“How dare you!”
Ian let out a roar, his desperation to save his father leaving him no time to think of any strategy. The energy within him burned madly at an unprecedented speed, his entire being transforming into a stream of light that tore through the night sky, charging towards Darkseid without hesitation—he only wanted to save Clark!
Every child of the Kent family is a family hero.
Ian was no exception.
He unleashed unprecedented strength and speed, but the gap between Skyfather level and Single Universe level was a chasm that courage and anger could not bridge.
“Heh.”
Darkseid didn’t even make any discernible move.
He merely turned his rock-like head slightly, his crimson eyes burning with the Omega Effect, indifferently glancing at the charging Ian.
It was just this “glance”!
A formless yet absolute force of destruction, governed by absolute rules, instantly acted upon Ian!
“Damn it!”
Ian felt as if he had been hit head-on by a planet accelerated to light speed! The protective energy surrounding him shattered like paper, and before the pain could even reach his central nervous system, he was already like a meteorite, propelled towards the ground with terrifying kinetic energy exceeding the third cosmic velocity!
“BOOM—!!!”
The ground was easily torn and vaporized like tofu! Ian’s figure instantly disappeared from the surface, leaving behind a bottomless, colossal crater with molten edges.
The unimpeded force carried him through the crust, the mantle… all the way to the boiling, high-pressure core!
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【 Received fatal blow! Berserker skill’s 【 Near-Death Fury 】 special effect activated! All attributes greatly increased! Recovery power greatly enhanced!】
【 Stimulated by extreme pressure environment! Constitution adaptability increased!】
【 Detected ultra-high energy environment! Energy absorption efficiency increased!】
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A series of prompts flashed wildly in Ian’s mind.
His broken, almost dismembered body was tossed about in the scorching core lava. The passive abilities of the Berserker were pushed to their limit, combined with the recovery power of the 【Undying】, his shattered bones, torn muscles, and annihilated organs were rapidly reforming and healing at a visible rate.
【 Wrath of the Undying: When you receive any form of damage, you recover one percent of your maximum health per second, capable of healing all injuries including fatal wounds.
The more severe the injury, the faster the recovery. When your health drops below 10%, you will receive an instantaneous repair through Rebirth from Fire, and the carnival of life will continue until all your energy is depleted.
Death? That has always been a luxury for you.】
Don’t let Ian’s seemingly miserable state fool you; he hasn’t actually triggered the full health recovery effect of the Wrath of the Undying skill when his health drops below 10%.
He’ll probably only have a head left before reaching the so-called “below 10% health.” The vitality of the Lord Evil God is indeed leaning towards true depravity.
“Damn it! This is Earth!”
Ian stabilized his footing in the extreme environment of the core, which could melt most matter. Pain and rampant power intertwined within him. He looked up, through the long passage he had created, which was rapidly being filled by the surrounding lava, towards the distant surface.
Since his debut.
Ian had never felt so wronged.
Being on his home planet, Earth, his Ultimate Atomic Bomb and other powerful area-clearing methods… were simply unusable and he dared not use them!
Ian’s strongest attack methods were all indiscriminate area-of-effect attacks. Using them in densely populated areas on Earth would be like killing a thousand enemies while losing ten thousand of your own.
The magic accumulated these days was considerable, combined with the eruption of Odin’s divine power, the affected range would surely extend beyond a single planet, and perhaps the solar system itself would undergo drastic changes.
He was hesitant to act for fear of collateral damage.
Ian had no way to use those methods.
This was having immense power but being unable to exert it fully.
“I need to find a way to lure this guy somewhere else… or have him come into my mouth myself.” Ian’s mind raced. He had regained his composure.
He had been hindered by his affection for his father before, but now, thinking about it, even if his Old Father died in battle, he would surely go to heaven, and it wouldn’t be difficult to bring him back.
At worst, his Old Father could wear a halo from now on?
Following the huge hole he had created, Ian looked up, his gaze passing through the dirt and dust towards the surface, towards the Dark Lord still suspended in the sky.
Above the planet’s surface sky.
Darkseid swatted away a buzzing fly with a casual gesture, not even caring about Ian’s fate. However, he heard Superman, whom he held in his hand, react strongly when the “bug” was knocked down.
“Ian!”
Even though he was barely alive, bruised and swollen, Superman could still see who it was that had charged at Darkseid, and Ian’s loud cry also reached his ears.
He let out a pained and desperate roar, his heart churning, wanting to unleash his full power—however, Darkseid clearly had extensive research and countermeasures in place for this.
Surging dark power swirled in his hand, suppressing the sun that wanted to erupt within Superman’s heart.
“Hmm, I can see that the person you just killed was important to you.” Darkseid’s rocky face showed no emotion, but his crimson eyes flickered slightly. He realized that the overambitious bug from earlier must have a deep connection with this stubborn Kryptonian.
“He’s deader than dead, Clark.” Darkseid’s voice was cold and certain, as if stating a commonplace fact.
“I believe you when you say that Apokolips may not have been destroyed by your own hand. But—” His fingers tightened slightly, causing Superman to convulse in pain from suffocation.
“If you don’t tell me who, and what force… destroyed my planet… then that human child will not be the only one who dies.”
Darkseid’s dark power surged like a tide, not just a physical suppression, but a rule-level erosion, still holding down the subjective solar energy that should have erupted in Superman’s extreme emotions!
This was an epic weakening of Superman, without even using Kryptonite. The targeted strategy prevented Clark from breaking his limits through emotional outburst.
Besides Batman, perhaps only Darkseid, the super-infant Overlord, understood Superman best.
“Believe me.”
Darkseid surveyed the dimly lit, yet fragile-looking Metropolis below, his voice like a final judgment: “I will immediately destroy everything you cherish. Your beloved planet and its life are so frail… I only need to wave my hand… and all living beings will vanish along with this planet.”
His threat was direct and effective.
Darkseid even saw members of the Justice League, such as Wonder Woman, The Flash, and Cyborg, rushing towards them in the distance.
However.
What of it.
These heroes, who appeared as gods in the eyes of Earthlings, were merely slightly larger, slightly stronger ants in his eyes.
The only thing that caused a ripple in his ancient, cold heart was a vast magic array gradually taking shape in the distance, emitting a chaotic evil aura that he found somewhat repulsive.
“Heh.” Darkseid squeezed Superman’s head tightly, his gaze slightly amused as he looked towards the magic array, as if he had discovered a hidden secret. “Your race is as foolish as ever. Always using methods… that you cannot control.”
As if to confirm Darkseid’s words, the moment he spoke, the giant crimson magic array in the distance began to change violently!
The previously stable runic structure began to twist and reassemble, as if being forcibly pulled and altered by a more powerful, more fundamental force! The magic array’s light shifted from crimson to a deeper, darker crimson, its contained energy level climbing exponentially!
“What’s happening?!” Raven’s terrified exclamation echoed through the heavens and earth. As the host of the ritual, she could best feel the magic array’s loss of control! A terrifying will, far beyond her expectations and understanding, was rudely seizing control of the magic array!
Then, a grand, mad, and blasphemous laugh of infinite evil erupted from the center of the magic array, shaking the entire dimension.
“Hahahaha! My dear child… thank you for your help…”
Dark red energy spewed out from the center of the magic array like blood, coalescing into a towering, colossal demon phantom—it was Sangong Mo!
“Precisely because of your assistance, I can now… do this in a new way, to descend to the human world with my immeasurable power! Hahahaha!”
It turned out that Sangong Mo had long seen through Raven’s intentions! He not only did not stop her, but he went along with it, cleverly using his daughter’s hatred and summoning ritual to distort and amplify it, turning it into a springboard that allowed him to bypass certain limitations and project more power into the Prime Material World!
The Sangong Mo appearing now was solidifying, as if about to step into the human world in his true form from the Hell Dimension, his aura causing the entire starry sky to tremble!
This aura and power.
Far surpassed any of his previous clone descents!
“No… it shouldn’t be like this. The one who told me about this method is your eternal enemy…” Raven’s face was pale. She frantically mobilized her magic power, trying to attack and interfere with Sangong Mo’s descent, but her attacks were like stones sinking into the ocean, not even causing a ripple.
“Fighting oneself is quite common in Hell. You’ll never know enough about us, and you’ll never realize that you inherited everything from me.”
Sangong Mo lowered his head.
His six eyes, burning with evil fire, looked down at his daughter, who was as tiny as dust. There was not a trace of paternal affection in his eyes, only naked mockery and manipulation.
“My daughter!” Sangong Mo spread his massive arms, proclaiming to the entire world, “Witness me! Watch as I conquer this reality, the Creator’s most prized creation, as my territory!”
He was immersed in the thrill of descending power and imminent conquest, laughing wildly, completely unaware that in the sky not far away, the Kryptonian held in Darkseid’s hand, seemingly at the end of his rope, was flashing through countless images of the boy who had been slammed into the ground.
Clark Kent, the symbol of hope and truth, was now filled with pain, anger, and a… very conflicted emotion.
He looked at Sangong Mo’s arrogant and defiant demeanor, and felt Darkseid’s determination to destroy everything, ultimately making a decision that went against tradition.
“Don’t you… want to know… who the destroyer is?” He suddenly mustered his last strength, raised his trembling hand, pointed at the roaring Sangong Mo, and said to Darkseid, in a voice laced with pain, anger, and a hint of… relief after the “truth was revealed.”
Darkseid’s gaze immediately sharpened like a knife, fixing on Superman.
“Good… I’ll tell you… it’s… him!”
Superman met his gaze, enunciating each word, wagering his lifelong integrity and cherished truth, uttering the most serious lie of his heroic career.
The direction he pointed was none other than the newly descended, awe-inspiring—Sangong Mo!
“The arrival of a Demon Lord requires countless blood sacrifices… it was all Batman’s idea.” While rationalizing, Superman did not forget to include his good friend.
“Huh!?”
For the first time, Darkseid’s eternally frozen face showed clear emotion—extreme rage and killing intent! Even a Dark Lord like him had a certain recognition of Superman’s excellent character. Because of this, he almost instinctively believed Superman’s accusation!
Who would have thought.
Superman, who was like a saint, would also tell such a lie—Clark Kent, the perfect Superman, having been influenced by Ian for a long time, had actually grown cunning!
At this moment.
Darkseid’s crimson eyes, burning with the Omega Effect, like two about to explode supernovas, fiercely locked onto Sangong Mo, who was still preparing to “conquer reality”!
“Huh, what’s going on?”
Sangong Mo was immersed in the thrill of his power descending and conquering the world. The giant demon phantom stretched across the night sky, emitting a pressure that made all beings tremble.
However, in this atmosphere that was, for him, quite “peaceful,” he suddenly felt a shiver down his spine for no reason, as if being stared at by something terrifying.
Yes, an ineffable feeling of being targeted by an extremely dangerous being, like a cold snake, silently crawled up Sangong Mo’s spiritual senses.
This made him feel extremely bewildered.
With the immeasurable power he now possessed, there should be no strong being on Earth capable of threatening him. Those so-called superheroes were nothing but clowns in his eyes.
“All the super-strong individuals on Earth should be dead by now.” Sangong Mo’s massive head turned left and right, his six eyes burning with evil fire scanning the city below and the heroes in the distance, muttering the “correct information” he had collected through his minions and whispers.
His gaze directly ignored his daughter, Raven, who was pinned to the ground by his pressure, struggling even to breathe, as if she were an insignificant stumbling block.
“In the sky, perhaps.”
Finally, he instinctively raised his head and looked towards the higher night sky. As he did, he met a pair of eyes, burning with destructive crimson light, that were incredibly close!
Darkseid!
At some point, the Dark Lord had released the dying Superman and bound him to a dark cross with dark power.
He appeared as silently as a phantom at the same height as Sangong Mo, the distance between them so close that one could almost feel the energy fluctuations emanating from each other.
“So it’s you.”
Sangong Mo recognized Darkseid, the tyrant of Apokolips, a notorious figure in the Multiverse. Although they had no prior acquaintance, they both belonged to the top tier of the chaotic evil faction. Sangong Mo instinctively wanted to greet him, or at least inquire why he was here.
However, just as he opened his mouth, before he could utter a single syllable—Darkseid’s rock-like face showed no warning, and from his eyes, two Omega Rays, imbued with absolute destruction and causality-level power, erupted like blood-red lightning tearing through the universe, unrestrained and overwhelmingly violent!
These rays shot directly at Sangong Mo’s face!
“!!!” Sangong Mo’s internal alarm bells blared! Although arrogant, he was by no means foolish and knew the terrifying power of the Omega Effect! It was a power of erasure that touched the very origin of rules!
In a moment of extreme urgency, Sangong Mo displayed the terrifying reaction speed of a Demon God, his massive body twisting in a way that defied the laws of physics!
Space folded.
BOOM!!!
The Omega Rays grazed Sangong Mo’s shoulder blade, annihilating a portion of his energy body! The two lost rays continued their trajectory unabated, heading directly towards the ground below! With the power of the Omega Rays, if they directly hit Earth, the outcome would be undisputed—the planet would be completely disintegrated!
“No!!!” In mid-air, Superman Clark, struggling to break free from his bonds, watched this scene with eyes splitting open, letting out a desperate roar!
In his eyes, the subjective power that had been ruthlessly suppressed by Darkseid’s dark energy seemed to break through the suppression at this moment, ready to erupt with brilliant light once more.
There was no choice.
Superman knew this well.
If he didn’t do something, he could only watch helplessly as destruction descended! And at this critical moment, with Earth’s fate hanging by a thread!
An anomaly occurred!
From the bottomless pit leading to the core, created by Ian’s fall, an indescribable, pure darkness erupted like a spring that had been silent for eons.
It violently surged out!
This darkness was not merely the absence of light, but a tangible, highly corrosive dimensional power! It spread and stained its surroundings with astonishing speed, like spilled ink or living shadows! The sky, the clouds, the buildings, and even… the energy fields emitted by Darkseid and Sangong Mo!
All reality touched by this darkness had its colors rapidly fade, its structure seemingly assimilated. In this instant, the two great villains were forcibly pulled into a dark world before they could even react!
As if it were an independent dimension!
Those two Omega Rays, capable of destroying planets, vanished as if they were mud oxen entering the sea, not even stirring a ripple upon contact with this spreading darkness.
They simply dissolved into nothingness!
“Who!”
Sangong Mo, who had just dodged the attack and was still shaken, was stunned. Even Darkseid, who had always maintained a poker face, showed clear astonishment in his crimson eyes for the first time!
They could both sense that they had been instantly peeled away from the Earth’s space in the prime universe and placed in a strange domain governed entirely by dark rules!
“Who is it?! Come out!” Sangong Mo was both shocked and enraged, his voice filled with disbelief. “Who is using their dimension to erode reality?!”
He couldn’t believe that, besides himself, another Demon God had descended to reality, and he hadn’t heard a whisper of it. This completely disrupted his plans.
“Was it that… dead kid just now?” Darkseid’s intelligence and observational skills were clearly superior. As he spoke in a cold voice, there was a hint of imperceptible solemnity.
Not only did he see the darkness emerging from the hole where Ian had fallen, but he also clearly felt that his invincible Omega Rays had been swallowed by that darkness!
At this moment, the shock in Darkseid’s heart was far more violent than he appeared, even to the point of being earth-shattering! The Omega Effect is one of the most supreme powers in the universe, involving the erasure of causality and existence; he could hardly imagine what kind of existence or power could “devour” it so easily!
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Someone could prove that Darkseid’s power was indeed sufficiently advanced. As the two great villains were in shock and trying to sense the source of this Dark Dimension, a grand, deep voice, as if resonating from countless stars, slowly emerged from the depths of the dark silence, carrying a sense of sudden realization.
“I… get it!”
The voice echoed throughout the entire Dark Dimension.
“The best way to protect Earth, while you guys are causing trouble…”
Darkness began to surge violently, and a colossal figure, obscuring the sky and seemingly composed of galactic dust and dark matter, slowly emerged from the endless shadows. The silhouette of the figure carried a starved, all-consuming hunger, causing beings like Darkseid and Sangong Mo to feel a primal tremor of fear!
“Is to swallow Earth… into my belly!”
The figure fully revealed itself.
It possessed a figure more magnificent than the starry sky.
Galactus!
To be precise, it was Ian Kent, who had manifested in the form of Galactus!
【 End Phase Body: You can temporarily break through the limitations of your life form and become a deity walking among mortals by detonating the accumulated “Cosmic Energy” or other things within your body.】
【 In this form, you will briefly become the Cosmic Law itself – the enforcer of balance, capable of eliminating any substance you deem harmful to the universe through “devouring.”
The stars will extinguish to satisfy your hunger! The whispers of the universe declare that you are the end!】
This skill, after Ian obtained the Cosmic Tapeworm, silently appeared in the Entropy Lord’s list of learnable skills. Its current effect is manifested by the new skill.
His appearance was not only accompanied by the terrifying and vast form of the Star Eater, symbolizing cosmic balance, but also, more bizarrely, by Belial’s signature laugh filled with evil and madness, and Ultron’s cold whispers containing the ultimate secrets of mechanical evolution.
They intertwined and echoed like background noise!
It was very clear.
There was definitely a reason why Ian could grow so large.
The power belonging to these two Dark Kings, Belial and Ultron, after being “confiscated” by Ian, was now being temporarily borrowed by him as fuel.
