Chapter 4393: Far Star Project (18)

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The fact that such a strong enemy could also be injured gave them great encouragement. The few looked at each other, pressed on, and with exquisite cooperation, continuously created wounds on Steppenwolf's body.

Steppenwolf no longer had his previous arrogant momentum. He wanted to break them one by one like before, but their cooperation was much better than before. Once injured, they would retreat rapidly, and the others would follow up quickly. Not only did he fail to injure them, but he would instead be caught in his own flaws.

He wanted to rely on brute force to repel everyone in one go, but he actually didn't have that much strength left. Battles in Metropolis, Themyscira, and Atlantis had consumed most of the physical strength he had stored, and he couldn't replenish his strength through photosynthesis. Although the others were knocked down by fear power, they could take this opportunity to recover some physical strength. In terms of power, he no longer had the advantage.

Finally, when the God-Killer sword pierced into his chest, Steppenwolf could no longer endure it. He let out a long howl. Suddenly, a shadow shrouded the sky of Metropolis. A huge red shuttle-shaped spaceship appeared over the East Coast.

Countless Parademons flew down. The faces of the Justice League members sank immediately. Damn it, forgot he still had an army!

The others all gritted their teeth, preparing to continue the decisive battle. Only Diana looked toward Metropolis with a feeling in her heart. She knew Batman was coming soon.

In Wei En Manor, Bruce, shirtless, picked up a Golden Apple and put it into his mouth. Accompanied by a faint light flashing in his eyes, his figure began to change: the wrinkles on his face gradually disappeared, his brows became sharper, and his gaze also became sharper.

More importantly, the layers of scars on his upper body were fading bit by bit. His skin regained elasticity, his muscle lines became smoother, but his power didn't diminish in the slightest.

Accompanied by the last white hair turning black, a younger and stronger Bruce Wei En appeared in the reflection of the glass. He narrowed his eyes slightly and turned to walk toward the armor flickering with blood-red light behind him.

After putting on the armor, he didn't activate it immediately, but placed a needle into his arm and then connected it to the built-in drug injection system—inside it was the concentrated Golden Apple solution he had just prepared.

The Hellbat armor could only consume the user's life force without magic power to drive it, but the Golden Apple could replenish life force for humans.

That is to say, as long as there were enough Golden Apples, the Hellbat armor could be used without limit. And this was Bruce's plan.

The power of this armor exceeded anyone's imagination; after all, this was one of the trump cards for the final battle of the main universe Batman. After obtaining magic energy, he further increased his output. Now, Batman wearing the armor could even physically withstand multiverse disasters. In this state, no one could say Batman was a physically fragile ordinary person anymore.

Unfortunately, the output generated by actively extracting life force was not as good as forcibly injecting a large amount of magic energy. Bruce couldn't exert the upper limit of this armor, but even if it was only 70%, it was enough for a planetary-level crisis.

At this time, the fierce battle on the beach was already tragic. Originally, both sides were holding on to their last breath, but the suddenly arriving Parademon army consumed almost all the strength of the Justice League.

The God-Killer sword slashed onto a Parademon's wing, but it didn't cut it off completely; it wasn't because the sword wasn't sharp enough, but because the hand holding the sword was trembling too violently.

Diana's two arms felt as if they weren't listening to her; now even lifting them was difficult. Just in the moment of drawing the sword and turning, Steppenwolf's sharp claws grabbed straight onto her back.

Diana was knocked down, feeling intense pain in her back when she turned over. She used her last bit of strength to try to climb up, but more Parademons directly submerged her.

The others were the same. Arthur was dealing with Parademons in the sea; although he had grasped the most powerful power of the ocean, he wasn't a perpetual motion machine either. He solved the largest number of Parademons, but both he and the Golden Trident were at the end of their rope.

Martian Manhunter couldn't even use intangibility anymore; now he was relying on his Martian body to take hits, with countless wounds on his body, and still had to rely on Hal to help him with defense.

Although Hal had obtained a lot of energy before, as the battle situation became increasingly unfavorable, he had to divert a lot of power to heal his teammates, and even used most of his power on this. He really didn't want to see Victor's tragic state again.

But the struggle was futile. Although Steppenwolf was also exhausted, the Parademon army was endless. They fell one after another, either trampled into the beach or sank into the deep sea. Steppenwolf, kneeling on one knee, let out a low laugh.

"Hahaha... Justice League, nothing more than this! I said, no one can stop Darkseid..."

Suddenly, his smile froze on his face. Because a streak of blood-red spread from the skyline of Metropolis, and then dyed half the sky red.

Steppenwolf didn't even see that figure clearly, and his whole person had already flown out—not flying off the beach, but flying off Earth.

The journey from the ground to low Earth orbit was too short, not even exceeding two seconds. In an instant, the azure planet appeared under his feet. And the figure that walked out from the light arc of the surface seemed to be draped in the darkness of the entire universe. The blood light that leaked from the deep darkness was like a biting blade, stabbing into everyone's eyes.

Steppenwolf widened his eyes. His instinct was telling him that the existence in front of him was incomparably powerful. He immediately turned around wanting to run, but the other party's speed was still too fast for him to react.

A meteor streaked across the sky. The descent from low Earth orbit was so fast that raging flames ignited on both of them. With a "Boom", a mushroom cloud made of water rose in the center of the Atlantic. Tens of thousands of square meters of seawater were thrown into the sky due to the impact, and the surrounding sea area was cleared directly.

At the same moment, the Earth's crust under the ocean cracked open a huge gap. The crack spread all the way, spanning the entire Atlantic. This punch that penetrated the crust added another huge scar to Earth.

And Steppenwolf, who was smashed into the center of the huge trench, had all the bones in his body shattered. Then he was grabbed by that terrifying figure. The two flew out of the sea surface together, and under everyone's terrified gaze, blood light gradually surrounded Steppenwolf's whole body.

Skin peeled off in large patches, muscles fell into the water in chunks, and bones dissipated like powder. Within a few short seconds, this powerful monster that had once crushed the entire Justice League was left with only a head.

But Steppenwolf's life force was very powerful; even like this, he still wasn't dead. And this was exactly what was intended—that figure directly carried Steppenwolf to the sky above that huge spaceship.

Another punch, and the spaceship was punched through directly. He descended into the main control room. The communication device was activated, and a projection of a tall figure with a Titan-like face appeared in the center of the round platform.

With a "Bang", Steppenwolf's head was thrown in front of Darkseid.

Darkseid's pupils shrank the moment he saw Batman. Darkseid, who had already unified the multiverse, recognized this as the Hellbat armor of the main universe Batman, but he also recognized that the one driving this armor was not the main universe Batman.

"Are you the source of the dark power?" Bruce asked.

"I am the Dark Monarch, Darkseid." Answered, but it seemed like it didn't answer. After Darkseid paused, he said, "You should know better than me that the source of darkness in the universe is you, Batman."

"You know I'm not talking about this." Bruce knew it was impossible to get more information from Darkseid, so he turned around and left a sentence, "The multiverse dark disaster is coming, Darkseid. Your good days are about to end."

Bruce, wearing the armor, flew out of the spaceship. Blood-red light rippled from his body, countless Parademons turned into withered bones in screams, and then turned into gray dust, adding another layer of new sand to the coastline.

The jaws of the Justice League members almost dropped. Watching Bruce approaching gradually, they all retreated a few steps together.

"You you you you... don't come over!" Hal shouted in terror.

They hadn't failed to recognize that the style of this armor was somewhat like Batman's. The problem was, was this the strength Batman should have? Wasn't Batman an ordinary person?!!

Except for Diana and Martian Manhunter, the other members of the Justice League had perfectly missed Batman's peak period. By the time they became super-powered individuals, Batman had long since retired.

And even if it was Batman who organized them this time, in their eyes, Bruce Wei En was greater than Batman. They even thought that Wei En was a fanatical superhero enthusiast, which was why he wore tights himself, pretended to be a superhero, and at the same time wanted to establish a super-powered alliance whenever he had the chance.

They only saw Bruce Wei En as a financier and logistics steward who provided them with funding. Not a single person counted on Batman to help them fight. So even when they reached a desperate situation, they were still thinking about how to save themselves, and never thought about asking Batman for help.

Even, they didn't have a correct understanding of Batman's logistics capabilities. After Bruce told them that he could provide them with all funding and logistical support, when they encountered difficulties in building the shelter, they still didn't think about asking Batman for help.

The main reason was that no one in the Justice League stood at the same height as Batman or Wei En. In terms of super-powered individuals, they had no understanding of the multiverse and didn't know that Batman had become the leader of the multiverse front; in terms of secular society, even Hal, who had the best living conditions, was still far from a big tycoon like Wei En. They couldn't imagine what kind of great power the Wei En Group had.

When building the shelter, the resistance and difficulties they encountered from all sides could actually have been solved by the Wei En Group, but they simply didn't think about asking Bruce for help. And in terms of fighting the Parallax entity and Steppenwolf, even without the Hellbat armor, this crafty Batman had countless ways to crush these monsters.

And this battle finally made the members of the Justice League deeply realize that the strongest among them was actually the so-called "logistics personnel" Batman, who had always been ignored. And he wasn't just ordinarily strong.

Multiverse-level power had completely exceeded their cognition. Even Diana, who had been mentally prepared, had an expression of "I don't understand, but I'm greatly shocked."

With a "Click", the mask of the Hellbat armor opened, revealing the face of the young Bruce. Everyone was stunned again. Diana reacted first: "Golden Apple!"

"Yes, thank you, Diana." Bruce said with genuine feeling, "Without you, I couldn't have recovered my strength. Sorry, I'm late. Are you guys okay?"

"Oh, my god!" Diana dropped her weapon, walked over and gave Bruce a bear hug, then said, "You came just in time!"

Everyone also relaxed. Although it felt incredible, this was clearly good news. At the same time, having such a powerful teammate, they felt as if they had found their backbone and began to discuss Bruce's performance just now.

The battle was over, and the few packed up their things preparing to leave. But Bruce called them to stop, then said: "Don't rush, take the spoils first."

"Spoils?" They looked around—there was nothing left on the beach except sand.

And after seeing Bruce's actions, everyone looked up together; that huge spaceship called over by Steppenwolf was still quietly parked over the East Coast.

?? Honestly, young Ben doesn't look as good as in the movie; middle-aged Ben is just right. ===== CHAPTER 4394 =====