After Galacta neutralized his attacks again and again, Kalibak even vaguely felt as if she were toying with him. That filled him with anger, but also made him anxious—so anxious that he even felt a trace of regret.
If he had known Galacta would be this troublesome, Kalibak would never have come looking for her to fight in the first place.
Mainly, among the three powerful beings Darkseid had discovered earlier, Galacta seemed to be the one Darkseid valued most. So Kalibak had decisively chosen this enemy who did not look like much, but whose strength should have been the greatest.
In the end, Kalibak had gotten exactly what he asked for. He had indeed run into the strongest enemy, to the point that he now had absolutely no way to deal with Galacta.
Still, Kalibak could be considered fairly lucky. Or rather, both Kalibak and Mantis, the strongest warrior who had chosen Silver Surfer, could be considered fairly lucky, because neither Galacta nor Silver Surfer had any intention of fighting seriously, allowing the two of them to survive.
By contrast, the fellow who had gone after Sentry, who looked like the weakest of the three powerhouses, had already had his corpse reduced to cosmic dust and vanished without a trace...
But that fellow could not really be blamed for choosing the wrong opponent. Mainly, Sentry looked the weakest, and had also been the one Darkseid had paid the least attention to earlier. In fact, if Silver Surfer had not intervened, Sentry might have been instantly killed by Darkseid before.
Unfortunately, against Darkseid, the current Sentry might indeed have been unable to withstand a single blow, but when showing off against Darkseid's subordinates, Sentry handled them with ridiculous ease.
Especially with Silver Surfer and Galacta both slacking off, the Sentry