Light and heat gradually dissipated. Drained of mana in an instant, Zatanna leaned against Rachel and managed a ragged breath.
She looked toward the center of the battlefield with horror in her eyes, then looked at Rachel with an indescribable expression.
"Is he always this reckless?"
Rachel shook her head.
"No, he just judged that the opponent required him to go all out."
As her voice fell, the final smoke and dust cleared, revealing two figures locked in a fierce struggle.
Superman was nowhere to be seen inside the deep crater; in that world-shattering blow just now, the severely injured Superman had been driven directly deeper into the earth by the massive shockwave.
As for the spiky monster covered in black fluid, a full half of its body was missing from that terrifying strike.
Yet it did not die.
Instead, the remaining black fluid all over its body continuously converged toward the missing half of the wound to heal. In the few places where the black fluid could no longer cover it, rock-like grayish-white skin was exposed, and the spikes all over its body became even more prominent.
A low whimpering came from the mouth of the monster sprawled on the ground.
"Press the attack?"
Shane clenched his fists and stepped forward, cautiously maintaining a certain distance.
Yet this monster was not Doomsday with his simplistic abilities as he remembered.
The soles of his feet suddenly exploded. A flesh-and-blood pustule that looked identical in texture to the monster's muscles, buried deep in the ground at some unknown time, burst open with a boom.
A large swath of green acid wrapped around Shane like a closed pitcher plant. Even before it touched him, his skin could feel that the air had taken on a piercing, burning sensation.
Although Shane had a