Driven by the greed in his heart, Butcher did not choose to retreat. Instead, he flew straight up and took the initiative to meet those Kryptonian Mechanical Warriors.
In truth, the original Butcher could not fly. Through the Genetic Serum, he had temporarily gained abilities similar to Homelander's, and even his strength was no different from Homelander's.
But Butcher really had not been able to fly before. If Homelander had taken advantage of that earlier, at the very least, he would not have ended up tangled in a ground fight with Butcher. He could have stood in an invincible position.
Only now, it was clearly no longer possible for Homelander to use flight against Butcher, because what Butcher had absorbed now was not just Hughie and Kimiko. He had also absorbed a group of Vought International's test subjects, and his abilities had already received a massive boost.
With a swish, the moment the Kryptonian Mechanical Warriors discovered Butcher, Butcher used Instant Transmission and appeared directly behind one of them, without even taking off his clothes.
With a pfft, thick Alien Tentacles extended from Butcher's head and stabbed toward the head of a Kryptonian Mechanical Warrior.
However, compared with when they had pierced those superhumans before, this time Butcher's Alien Tentacles were clearly obstructed when they stabbed into the Kryptonian Mechanical Warrior.
Although the bodies of the Kryptonian Mechanical Warriors did indeed contain Kryptonian genes, because the Kryptonian Mechanical Warriors needed to be remotely controlled, their heads were basically mechanical in structure, allowing the computers and operators behind them to control them better.
And clearly, as an outsider, although he had investigated Vought International and Homelander for a long time, Butcher did not understand the true nature of the Kryptonian Mechanical Warriors. Even though he had originally been a veteran agent,