Kryptonians Join Forces

Smoke filled the air, and dust blotted out the sky. After the continuous bombardment ended, the entire sky had turned gray and hazy.

Scattered sparks fell like a meteor shower, blasting crater after crater into the surrounding desert. Dust swirled at the center, where a bottomless darkness could faintly be seen. The surrounding rocks and shrubs had been ravaged by the Impact Wave, shattered and flattened as they collapsed.

Vegeta waved his hand, whipping up a hurricane that blew away the dust filling the sky. A deep crater came into view, surrounded by countless mottled, crisscrossing fissures as yellow sand hissed and poured back into them.

As for Superman, the target, he was currently kneeling on one knee at the edge of the crater. His red cape had vanished somewhere, and his bodysuit was torn in several places. Fortunately, his iconic briefs were still intact. Just moments ago, he had endured the Impact Wave and flown out of the deep pit.

If one were to name Superman's strongest ability, many might say it was his flawless strength, his speed that could catch up to Flash, or his ability to fly through the heavens and earth and survive in space. But the foundation of all that was Superman's Man of Steel. That was the source of his invincibility.

It was a little unfair, but not hard to understand. All heroic characters were like this: they possessed indestructible wills and freakish bodies that could still get back up even after suffering pulverized fractures throughout their entire bodies. Superman was actually one of the better examples, since his whole character was built around being the Man of Steel. Plenty of underdogs had ordinary mortal bodies, yet could still infuriate villains to death. Forget having a dozen holes punched through them—even if they were