Homelander was about to join the attack when his vision blurred, and he suddenly found himself in the sky above New York.
"What's going on?"
Homelander was bewildered. Hadn't they just been talking about a final showdown, all fired up? How had he suddenly ended up back in New York?
"What's going on? Homelander, I wasted one of my trump cards to save you, and Death spent a tremendous amount of divine power."
Serpent God Set said irritably, "Could you stop making things so difficult for us? We prepared three plans specifically for you. If you'd used any one of them, things wouldn't have ended up like this."
"Who are you? Why are you talking inside my head?"
Homelander snapped, "And what gives you the right to lecture me?"
Serpent God Set gritted his teeth in fury. I sacrificed a trump card for you, and you don't even know who I am?
"This is Serpent God Set, my partner. Homelander, if he hadn't spent a trump card, you wouldn't have escaped that world so easily."
Death said, "Andrew Wang claims he doesn't care about the public, but deep down, he still does. Otherwise, this might not have gone so smoothly."
Serpent God Set's trump card was called the "Shedding Technique." Put simply, it let him shed a layer of snakeskin in exchange for an escape.
If the ability hadn't been usable three times, Set would never have used it on Homelander. After all, this was a trump card he had brought in by cheating. The ability also had certain limitations, which would be explained in detail later.
Death had also spent a tremendous amount of divine power to use this trump card. There was no helping it—they had to fool Andrew.
"Serpent God Set?"
Homelander looked startled, then said, "I