He Really Wears His Underwear Outside
"How interesting. The Penance Stare can burn the soul of the condemned with Hellfire, making them recall the sins they have committed in the past, causing them immense pain in Mind Stone, thus achieving the effect of judgment and punishment. Those who are deeply sinful will be judged to death..." The Joker looked around, found a mirror, and said with a glint in his eyes.
"I, a man burdened with grave sins, am going to judge other men of grave sins. Heh heh, how amusing! But is there really anyone more sinful than me? And can I use this so-called Penance Stare on myself?"
When he acquired this ability, the Joker felt a sense of curiosity. He wondered if someone as sinful as himself would be judged if the Penance Stare were to use it against him.
Thinking about this, the Joker became somewhat eager to try it out. He wanted to experience what it felt like to suffer both physically and mentally, after all, his heart hadn't felt pain in a long time...
"You! Are guilty!" Looking at himself in the mirror, the Joker sensed the power within him, his expression gradually turning ferocious. He stared directly into his own eyes and uttered Ghost Rider's line, "Look into my eyes. Your soul has been corrupted by those you have killed. Feel their pain!"
"..." As the Joker finished speaking, his eyes in the mirror transformed into terrifying black holes, subtly spinning. But after a long while, the Joker suddenly smashed the mirror on the ground, saying disdainfully, "What a load of bull Penance Stare is utterly useless. I doubt it can even judge the Little Bat!"
"Hmph! Let's get back to Gotham first. Once we're back, we'll hide and give the Little Bat a surprise. If we can't judge him, can't we judge someone else?"
Robet and Constantine were unaware that Mephisto had been forced to leave Earth. They were still preparing for Mephisto's next move, unaware that the Joker had already begun his so-called trial.
Even though the Joker cannot use the Penance Stare on himself, it does not prevent him from using Penance Stare. Moreover, the Joker has no intention of judging those who are deeply sinful, unless he finds them disagreeable.
The Joker judges ordinary people, but even among ordinary people, how many have lived their entire lives without ever making a mistake?
The Joker didn't expect his Penance Stare to kill ordinary people who had made minor mistakes, but watching them struggle with their past errors made Joker feel great, especially since it also led to the emergence of many mentally unstable individuals driven mad by the torment. The Joker felt that he had gained many more fellow sufferers...
"Clark! Kara! They're here!" Robet was unaware of the Joker's involvement with Gotham, but he sensed the Debt Collector with Tracking Magic had returned. This time, he didn't even wait for them to contact him before he directly took Clark's soul and left his body. Kara stood warily beside Robet's body, watching over Robet and Clark's figures.
"Go!" In his soul form, Robet led Clark in the opposite direction and arrived in the Inter-dimensional Space before the force could track Robet down.
This time, there wasn't just one Dimensional Debt Collector; the one who spoke with Robet last time was also there, and behind him was likely his superior.
To be honest, Robet couldn't really tell the difference between the two Dimensional Debt Collector in terms of appearance, but Robet could tell them apart by their aura.
"..." However, to Robet's surprise, the superior of the Dimensional Debt Collector turned around and flew away as soon as he saw Robet and Clark. The speed was so fast that Robet did not even have time to react. By the time Robet came to his senses and chased after them, the figures of the two Dimensional Debt Collector had gradually disappeared.
"What does this mean?" Clark looked at Robet with some confusion and asked. He had thought that a great battle was waiting for him, and he would finally be able to witness a different kind of soul combat method than Robet's. However, he did not expect that the Dimensional Debt Collector would run faster than a rabbit after seeing the two of them.
"How would I know?" Robet shrugged, somewhat bewildered by the situation. He had been hoping to gain more information from the Dimensional Debt Collector, but they had simply run away.
"Boss, why did you run away?" On the other side, two voices rang out in succession Inter-dimensional Space.
"Nonsense! If you'd said you were this good, we wouldn't have needed to come!"
"I didn't mean he's much better than me?"
"That's not to say he's that powerful, especially with helpers. Don't do business with someone of that kind of strength; the cost of chasing after the debt will be greater than the amount lent out!"
"Then what should we do?"
"Cancel his account, blacklist him, and he'll never be able to use the power of our dimension again!"
"You can do that?"
"Hmm?" On the other side, Robet, who had failed to track down the debt, suddenly raised an eyebrow and said with some surprise, "My debt has just been wiped out like that? They're not coming after me anymore? So easy?"
"The debt is cleared? So what if you use Tracking Magic again in the future?" Clark frowned. He felt something was amiss. This time Robet's debt was wiped clean, but wouldn't there be new debts the next time Robet used Tracking Magic? Could the other party keep letting Robet use things for free and then clearing them indefinitely?
"How stingy!" Robet thought of this when he heard Clark's words. He quickly sensed it and found that his Tracking Magic had become a useless spell. After complaining, he took Clark back into his body.
Although Tracking Magic has been temporarily blacklisted, Robet and Clark did not leave empty-handed. They became familiar with a way to leave Earth Dimension, a path different from leaving Earth in the real world to travel into space.
As for the inability to use Tracking Magic, Robet wasn't too concerned, only feeling a little regretful that he hadn't yet figured out the dimensional power behind Tracking Magic.
Of course, it's not impossible to continue using Tracking Magic, but it won't be Robet using it anymore. Constantine, the NPC, can still use Tracking Magic. Robet is very curious to know what the Dimensional Debt Collector will do when they see him again while they're chasing after Constantine for debts.
"They're back? So fast?" Kara noticed that Robet and Clark had opened their eyes and looked at Robet with some surprise, asking him. When Robet's soul disappeared before, Kara had waited for a long time, but she didn't expect Robet and Clark to return so quickly this time, even though Robet had said that Clark's soul wasn't very powerful.
"Well, they got away..." Robet chuckled and shrugged, then gave Kara a brief explanation. Kara pouted, somewhat speechless. She thought Robet must be very disappointed, after all, he had prepared for so long, only to find the enemy was gone.
However, Robet didn't pay much attention. He took Kara to find Peter Parker and the others to continue their training. In Robet's opinion, these past few days had passed, and who knew what Mephisto might be up to in the dark? It was better to continue training.
Moreover, Kara has finally been inspired by Robet to become stronger and is willing to truly train with Robet. In addition, Robet's strength is now about the same as Kara's without activating the Great Ape Power: Wrath state. Their battles are quite balanced, allowing them to fight with all their might without one of them overwhelming the other, especially under the sun...
Seeing this, Clark wasted no time. He vanished from his spot in a flash. This journey Inter-dimensional Space was completely different from watching Gabriel in the Inter-dimensional Space before. Clark personally witnessed the distant dimensions that Robet had mentioned, and also felt immense pressure from those distant dimensions.
Clark's eyesight and hearing are good enough to see the entire Earth, and he can even see half of the Solar System clearly. But he can't see anything in those distant dimensions, and he even senses a terrifying aura in those dimensions!
Even after witnessing the battle All-Father Odin and Zeus, Clark didn't believe he would necessarily lose. But facing that distant dimension, Clark knew he was probably no match...
No wonder the Sorcerer Supreme spoke to him so solemnly about the Dimensional Demon God before. Clark did take it seriously then, but now Clark takes it even more seriously...
"Hmm?" After an unknown amount of time, Clark was floating in mid-air basking in the sun, twitched his ears and looked towards a snow-covered landscape. "Spaceship tracks? Aliens?"
As Clark spoke, a sudden thought struck him; he felt a stirring within him, just as when Robet had called him Superman and drawn a suit for him.
"Could it be something related to me?" A hint of hesitation flashed in Clark's eyes as he carefully searched the icy landscape. Soon, however, Clark lit up with surprise. "A spaceship? Kryptonian Ship?!"
Yes, Clark discovered a Kryptonian Ship in the freezing cold, and unlike Clark and Kara's ship, this Kryptonian Ship had a much larger interior!
With a "whoosh," Clark vanished from his spot in the next instant, reappearing in the icy wilderness, having cleared a path through the ice leading to the spaceship.
A loud "thud!" attracted the attention of a military reconnaissance team in the distance, as well as a female reporter named Lois Ryan, who had come specifically to investigate the location where the suspected alien spaceship tracks had been observed.
Of course, Lois's identity as a female reporter was not the main reason she was able to be here for the interview. The most important reason was that Lois's father, Sam Ryan, was a military general!
"What's going on? An earthquake? Can there be earthquakes in a place like this?" Lois asked, looking at the soldiers around her. "Or have you discovered some clues and are secretly moving around without telling me?"
"No! Absolutely impossible! None of our detection equipment has shown any reaction yet. Didn't you already see that in the monitoring room?" the military lieutenant immediately denied.
"I don't believe it! I want to go and see for myself!" However, Lois was not so easily convinced by what the military said. She rushed out of the room and even locked the lieutenant inside from the outside, afraid that the lieutenant would stop her.
"Stop Miss Lois!" the lieutenant hurriedly gave the order over the radio, but unfortunately, he was clearly too slow; Lois's figure had already disappeared into the snowstorm.
Beneath the ice, Clark slowly stepped into the spaceship. As he entered, a hovering guardian robot began to aim at Clark, preparing to launch an attack.
"..." Clark glanced at the hovering guardian robot, then dodged away; he didn't want to dismantle the spaceship on his planet.
While observing the Kryptonian Ship, Clark had already seen some of its structure, so he quickly put the key bearing his House of El crest into the activation device, and the guardian robot that was about to pursue Clark stopped on the spot.
Immediately afterward, a man appeared in front of Clark. He was a middle-aged man with a weathered appearance. Upon seeing him, Clark's heart skipped a beat, and he vaguely guessed the man's identity.
This man was none other than an artificial intelligence created based on Jor-El, Clark's Krypton father.
"..." However, to Clark's surprise, Jor-El first stared at him without saying a word, then his gaze gradually became strange, his eyes constantly scrutinizing Clark's current attire.
Because Clark was wearing Superman's suit, Jor-El wondered if he had missed something. Everything was different from what he had expected. Had he already guided Clark once, but lost that part of the program?
That doesn't make sense either. If that were the case, there should be every single uniform on the spaceship!
"You are... my father's consciousness?" Seeing that Jor-El remained silent, Clark organized his thoughts and looked at Jor-El to ask. After all, he had already learned some information from Kara and knew that there was no problem with Jor-El's identity as a scientist and that he could create an artificial intelligence based on his own consciousness.
"Not bad!" Jor-El nodded, and then a mechanism on the spaceship opened, revealing Kryptonian Battle Suit in front of Clark. Jor-El's voice followed with a question, "Nothing is missing, so why are you already wearing the clothes I designed for you? Although there are some minor differences..."
"Did you design all of these?" Clark looked around at the Battle Suit Battle Suit, paused for a moment after spotting one, and then asked.
Clark was somewhat relieved that he hadn't brought Robet and Kara with him when he discovered the spaceship, because he actually saw a Battle Suit with red underwear worn on the outside!
If it weren't for Robet's repeated mockery, Clark wouldn't have had any objections to the Battle Suit. However, seeing the Battle Suit with the red underwear worn on the outside in person, Clark still felt a little embarrassed.