Chapter 4462
However, they are still one last breath away from completely driving Nekron out of this universe. If they don't use their trump card, the other party will also try every means to stay here because of sunk costs.
This is not a good venue for a duel. On one hand, Nekron has arrangements here early, which counts as half a home field, which is too unfavorable for the righteous side; on the other hand, this universe itself is not stable enough, and its strength is too low. If they really fight, it's easy to break it apart.
So they must drive Nekron out of here. We have to choose the venue for the decisive battle, so that it is convenient to exert home-field advantage.
In a crematorium in Coast City, Atlan grabbed one of the Allen couple. Accompanied by his pale, large hand gradually tightening, death power emerged from the nose and mouth of Mrs. Allen, lingering on Atlan's arm. After a while, the breath became weaker and weaker, and Mrs. Allen turned back into a corpse and fell to the ground.
Mr. Allen had also been sucked dry by Steppenwolf. Dr. Erdel was hiding in the corner shivering, but still couldn't escape the fate of being turned back into a corpse. Although Amanda, who had turned into a monster, escaped a disaster, Steppenwolf and Atlan didn't care about her at all.
"That Superman is too troublesome." Steppenwolf said in a deep voice, a trace of fear flashing across his terrifying face where skin and flesh were peeling off. He had been killed by Superman four times in total: thrown into the sun, baked by lasers, frozen into an ice sculpture, and even torn into pieces directly. Superman's power was becoming more and more powerful, almost seeing no end.
"We have to change strategy." Atlan also said, "So that lord wanted us to target the Green Lantern, but in my opinion, that Hal Jordan won't be able to jump around for long, Superman is the big trouble."
Both of them looked at the man wearing a mask beside them, and Atlan opened his mouth and said: "Black Hand, what do you think?"
"The Green Lantern is indeed our nemesis." Black Hand said so, but soon changed the topic, "However, he has already been polluted. Looking at the appearance of those corpse spots, he should have been eroded for a long time."
"If he has already been eroded, why would Lord Nekron still regard him as the number one enemy?"
"Of course it's because Green Lantern energy is very powerful." Black Hand speculated on his own, "Eroded for so long, he can still move freely; Lord Nekron simply cannot control him. So he wants us to help, press him from the outside, so that death power can better infiltrate."
"Although this is Lord Nekron's plan, we cannot be completely without flexibility. Now the most terrifying one is Superman." Speaking of this, Black Hand also shrank his neck. Superman now is simply too terrifying, they don't even dare to go out.
The sky outside is blood red, but that's not the sunset, but the laser fired from Superman's eyes. He is scanning the seabed at a frequency of three shots per second.
The source of death power in the Pacific has been hidden very deeply, and the Justice League has fought two rounds with Nekron, but they haven't found it yet. Clark has completely lost patience and started using the exhaustive method.
If it were someone else, Black Hand would only laugh at him for overestimating his own strength. But now it seems that Superman might really be able to exhaustively find it.
He won't get tired at all, and the lasers are one after another without stopping. And in the process of exhaustive search, he can also clean them up by the way. Others are dueling in the canyon, but he is playing infinite firepower alone. Now Nekron has been pressed back to the high ground, and doesn't even dare to stay at the second tower.
"Damn it, we have too few people." Steppenwolf couldn't help complaining, "If Lord Nekron could resurrect a few more..."
"Hmph, resurrect whom? Those weak humans?" Atlan said disdainfully, "Facts have proven that humans are useless at all. Otherwise, the previous plan should have already made the Justice League fall apart, and now it's not that we have to rely on us to attack by force?"
"Don't question the lord's decision!" Black Hand raised his voice and said, "He did this, there must be his reason. We just need to fight our war well."
"But even if these powers are recovered, we are no match for them. If we still divide troops to fight the Green Lantern, then there is even less chance of winning."
Steppenwolf couldn't help but think of the previous battle. Actually, they weren't completely unable to beat Superman, but hindered by Nekron's order, they had to target the Green Lantern.
Originally they felt that the Green Lantern's energy was limited, as long as they gave enough pressure, wait for him to exhaust his strength, they could easily take him down. However, you fight the Green Lantern, Superman fights you, just like a tank that is thick and has high damage, spinning a big windmill and rushing into the crowd, and there is an insidious shooter in the back firing cold arrows, beating the Blackest Day into a miserable state.
The key is that Hal fired moves for a long time, and it didn't look like he was about to exhaust his strength. That Green Lantern energy was released as if it didn't cost money. When he made a move, the green could even suppress the red of Superman's laser, and the whole world was green.
To tell the truth, without Superman blocking, they might not have been able to take him down, let alone having a Superman there. Fighting like this is simply no way, they lose no matter how many times they fight.
"Forget it." Black Hand said, "Stop worrying about the Green Lantern for now. Infected with death power, he will sooner or later become Lord Nekron's subordinate. Focus all your efforts on dealing with Superman first, infect Superman first."
This time Steppenwolf and Atlan were both satisfied. After all, they didn't want to kill Superman, just infect him, and there was still a lot of hope. And as long as he can be infected, the other party will sooner or later become a teammate. With such a powerful teammate, why worry about not achieving the great cause?
"Wait." Steppenwolf opened his mouth again, "Wasn't that Wonder Woman and Flash also infected? Where are they?"
He actually really wanted Flash's ability. This guy's ability is too convenient. With him, he could perform fatal sneak attacks at any time. Logically speaking, they should have been converted by now, why is there no movement?
"Lord Nekron has his own considerations." Black Hand said, "Perhaps they were sent to do other tasks. Don't worry about those, we just need to do our own things."
Actually, Black Hand was also puzzled: what other task could be more important than pushing the tower? He didn't think that the other party hadn't been converted; after all, the erosion degree of these two people was too deep, and they didn't have the power of Green Lantern energy that could restrain erosion, so they were already beyond help.
After resting for a while and absorbing the death power left on those humans, Steppenwolf and Atlan attacked again. And this time, they set their target on Superman.
Both of their moves were aimed straight at Superman. J'onn had to stay on the sidelines to protect them. He wasn't afraid that they could kill Superman, he was just afraid that they would play some dirty tricks to sneak attack Superman and let him get infected, then it would be troublesome.
The combat power of these two people is truly not bad, their moves are open and close, and their cooperation is also quite good. And fighting on the sea surface, Atlan occupies all the advantages, constantly using seawater to harass others, making them have no time to help. Superman also had no way to spare energy to find the source at the bottom of the sea, but focused on fighting.
Superman and the two of them fought back and forth, setting off huge waves on the Pacific Ocean. Sometimes flying into mid-air to punch, sometimes rushing into the seabed to move around. Hal was not to be outdone, afraid they had tricks, didn't dare to get close, but hid in the distance, constantly bombarding with Green Lantern energy, opening a path for Clark. Victor also used Mother Box power to interfere from the side, disrupting the attack rhythm of Atlan and Steppenwolf.
Gradually, Clark found his rhythm back. With the help of J'onn, Green Lantern, and Victor, one pressed two to fight, and was about to press the opponent back to the high ground again.
But just at this moment, on the coast, a figure holding a long axe and wearing a double-horned helmet suddenly appeared. J'onn was the first to notice the abnormality, and taking advantage of the opponent's lack of preparation, he directly read the brain waves, then shouted somewhat shocked: "Ares, the God of War!"
Steppenwolf looked back and saw the figure lingering with strong death power on the shore, he laughed loudly and shouted: "Don't you surrender to Lord Nekron yet! Everyone will return to the embrace of death!!!"
Hal also noticed that side. Although he hadn't seen the figure clearly yet, hearing the name Ares, he knew that this should be the Olympian god who was once killed by Diana.
The addition of another powerful enemy immediately broke the balance on the battlefield. Ares raised his battle axe high, split the sea surface with one axe, and then a big spin, the axe carrying dense death power flew toward Superman. Clark didn't dare not dodge, he dodged, but Steppenwolf immediately followed up, slammed into Clark's waist, and directly knocked him flying.
Clark barely stabilized his figure in mid-air, but the water waves controlled by Atlan had already rushed over. He had to keep pulling higher, but this made him disconnected from other teammates.
J'onn flew toward that side anxiously. Hal's eyes turned, simply didn't chase Clark, but turned back to block Ares, the God of War, who was flying the slowest, and fought with him.
Without Ares, the situation on Clark's side was indeed better. But Atlan and Steppenwolf, who had reinforcements, fought more and more fiercely, and even didn't hesitate to get injured to get close to Clark and give him a hard one.
Clark fought with his hands tied, because he didn't dare to get injured. Even if it was injury for injury, he was definitely at a loss, because he might be infected, while the opponent had countless lives.
Clark thought about the previous speculation, as long as he could strip off the opponent's ring, the situation would instantly reverse. So he focused on the two people's fingers, and sure enough, he found the black Lantern ring.
Seeing it is one thing, wanting to strip it off is easier said than done. That thing is a ring, not armor. Any helmet is easier to handle, just cut off the head, but wanting to cut off the hand is troublesome.
And Clark knew he couldn't make a move easily; once his intention was discovered by the opponent, the opponent would definitely hide his hand tightly. He must hit the mark in one blow.
Clark pulled with them for a long time, then decided to deal with Steppenwolf first. Although Atlan's water control ability is annoying, it actually can't cause him any harm, commonly known as unable to break defense. But Steppenwolf is different; this guy is worthy of being a fierce general under Darkseid, his moves are ruthless, his moves are sharp, and he wins by being comprehensive. Superman didn't dare to engage in close combat with him easily.
Taking advantage of the gap when Steppenwolf punched, Clark dodged to the side, pretending to reveal a flaw. Steppenwolf really clawed over again. Clark understood: this guy is completely habitual, and didn't think about the ring on his hand at all.
So he led Steppenwolf to fly to the other side, Steppenwolf thought he finally couldn't hold on and wanted to withdraw from the battlefield, so he chased even more fiercely. Seeing Superman blocked by the sea waves, he rushed up and threw a straight punch. But the next second, Superman suddenly turned around, grabbed his wrist, and a laser swept across.
"Ahhhhhhhh!!!"
Steppenwolf screamed, his arm broken at the root. Clark hurriedly grabbed that arm, wanting to pluck the ring off. But at this moment, the arm seemed to come alive, and clawed at Superman's arm. The sharp claws made of dense death power directly tore Superman's steel body. Clark's upper arm was bleeding profusely, and death power drilled into the wound.
Steppenwolf, who fell into the sea, laughed: "Hahahahahaha! Superman! Surrender to the great Lord Nekron!!!"
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