"Darkseid!"
The Flash spoke the name in a slightly trembling voice.
He had never dreamed that before he and Steel Bone could even reach the Mother Box, Apokolips's terrifying ruler would descend in person.
According to Batman Bruce Wayne's predictions, under normal circumstances they should have encountered Steppenwolf at most, or perhaps a Superman who had fallen into darkness.
After all, Darkseid was Apokolips's supreme ruler. Normally, he should not have appeared personally and joined the battle so easily.
Otherwise, what would be the point of keeping so many subordinates?
Any one of the Dark Elite under his command would not have been much weaker than Steppenwolf.
Because they were, in essence, New Gods of Apokolips.
Even if they had not been before, after pledging themselves to Darkseid and earning his recognition, they had evolved and ascended on the level of life itself.
Thus, in Bruce Wayne's plan, the Resistance might encounter one or two New Gods like Steppenwolf, perhaps even a Superman returning from another Earth, but they would absolutely never face Darkseid himself.
Yet the situation had clearly developed far beyond his expectations.
At that moment, countless eyes were fixed on the towering figure standing before the Mother Box with his hands behind his back.
Especially those eyes, faintly gleaming with dark red light, which made every member of the Resistance feel as though they could barely breathe.
No one knew whether, in the next second, those eyes would fire Omega Beams with tracking capabilities, countless times more terrifying than Superman's Heat Vision.
At least among those present, aside from Diana, a Demigod, and The Flash, who possessed the Speed Force, no one else had the ability to withstand or Dodge Omega Beams. They were basically guaranteed to hit.
Of course, Batman Bruce Wayne might have been an