With Davian trapped, Steppenwolf quickly began building a sturdy fortress around the enormous iron ore pit created by the Nuclear Fusion Fireball.
He knew full well that after witnessing how powerful Davian was in his Sun Dragon form, the superheroes led by Batman, along with the leaders of every nation on Earth, would surely do everything in their power to rescue him.
After all, Davian was currently the only powerful force they could count on to oppose Apokolips.
And as the master of the Sun Knight, Raymond could appear at any time, so they had to be thoroughly prepared.
Desaad, meanwhile, brought out a vast number of weapons and devices of his own making and laid deadly traps throughout the area.
With technology far beyond human comprehension and the assistance of two Mother Boxes, the place became an impenetrable fortress capable of driving any attacker to despair in less than an hour.
Once the deadly electromagnetic radiation began to weaken, the drones and satellites that had previously been disrupted and unable to function properly immediately started approaching the airspace over the area to investigate.
Before they could even get close, they were shot down by dense arrays of high-energy weapons.
Even the tiny bionic robots disguised as birds and insects were no exception.
As large quantities of Kryptonian weapons, equipment, and spacecraft were reverse-engineered, human technology had also advanced at a rapid pace.
But because the time had been too short, most of it was still in the experimental stage and had not yet been widely deployed.
Anyone with even the slightest understanding of manufacturing knew that there was still a vast distance between successfully validating a technology in a laboratory and mass-producing it.
Cost control in particular had always been a major obstacle to the widespread adoption of many