Dry!
Desolate!
Yellow sand blanketed what had once been a prosperous city, leaving not even a patch of normal soil where plants could survive.
Even deserts, known as "forbidden zones for life," seemed more vibrant than this land.
At the very least, deserts still had cacti, scorpions, snakes, spiders, gerbils, lizards, foxes, camels, and other plants and animals.
But in this severely desertified place, not even a single insect could be found.
If examined under a microscope, one would discover that it was not merely devoid of insects. Even the hardiest microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi, were pitifully scarce.
The reason for such a horrifying result was simple: this Earth had been completely conquered by Apokolips.
Any planet conquered by Apokolips would, without exception, have its energy drained dry and become like this. Its inhabitants would have more or less all been transformed into Parademons.
Of course, if any of those people were particularly outstanding or valuable, they might be preserved in their original identities and serve Darkseid.
To some extent, Apokolips's expansion model was remarkably similar to Old Phyrexia under Yawgmoth's leadership. Both maximized their plunder and exploitation of resources from occupied territories, snowballing their own growth before continuing to conquer and occupy more worlds.
Once the scale effect surpassed a certain critical point, its sheer terrifying mass would be enough to crush everything.
The clearest example was when Apokolips's out-of-control Parademon army flooded into the Green Lantern Corps' homeworld and easily devoured the entire Green Lantern Corps.
Even they, as the guardians of order across a vast expanse of the universe, were no match for the endless Parademons. One could easily imagine the fate of most other civilizations when faced with a massive Parademon invasion.
Therefore, in theory, once three Mother Boxes resonated and opened a