To be honest, Darkseid had never cared about rebellion among the residents under his rule, whether they were subordinates who had followed him in conquering countless worlds or his own sons.
This had always been the law Apocalypse should encourage most, a fine tradition it had tirelessly promoted and inspired.
The strong rose, the weak died. Apocalypse had always been like this. No one should complain; everything was built upon absolute fairness. There was no hypocritical communication, and everything followed one's true heart.
Without exaggeration, looking across the entire God Realm, only Apocalypse had achieved absolute fairness. In this regard, even open and chaotic Hell was left countless orders of magnitude behind by Apocalypse.
Apocalypse was the place that valued absolute fairness the most.
Even Darkseid himself had benefited from this fair system.
Anyone familiar with Apocalypse's history knew that the divine artifact known as the Omega Effect had not originally belonged to Darkseid. Darkseid had not even been the one to find it. It had been discovered by his brother, the peaceful, kind, rational, compassionate Drax.
At the time, Darkseid was still called "Uxas." He constantly urged Drax to master the Omega Effect, claiming that since the thing could resonate with Drax, it was naturally meant to belong to him.
Drax had truly believed him. Filled with joy and excitement, he thanked his younger brother before touching the Omega Effect and trying to master the divine artifact, but he ultimately failed.
At the crucial moment of the fusion, Uxas attacked him from behind, brutally severed his head, killed him completely, seized the Omega Effect, and fused with it.
The Omega Effect transformed Uxas's life form, changing him from a tall, powerfully built tough man into something resembling a stone giant with a dark, rocklike body.
From that moment on,