The Capture Team Annihilated, the Battlefield's Ultimate Harvesting Skill

"This was probably the uncertainty of [Compound V]..."

Carl could not help recalling a comic about [The Boys].

It showed many cases of bodily mutations caused by injections of [Compound V].

Just like those lowly [Epsilon-class] mutants, they were superpowered beings who looked neither human nor ghost.

It was precisely because [Vought Group] was constrained by this uncertainty that it abandoned the large-scale cultivation of superheroes.

Instead, it chose to take enormous risks, using despicable methods such as money to bribe greedy parents and hospitals across the country.

Secretly injecting [Compound V] into swaddled infants.

Because [Compound V] was most stable only when injected during infancy!

If they successfully awakened superpowers.

Then in the future, they could use their powers without any restrictions, just like Homelander.

Carl did not consider herself a saint.

Yet she still loathed [Vought Group]'s vile deeds.

If she ever got the chance, she would definitely uproot that company, rotten to the core!

For the moment, she suppressed the anger in her heart.

Carl fixed her gaze once more on the "speaker man" opposite her.

It was not difficult to judge from his appearance that his superpower was most likely related to sound waves!

Although sound waves were also a special kind of energy wave.

In theory, they should not have been able to penetrate the energy coating around Carl's body!

But she did not want to try that again.

Or rather, she did not want to waste any more time on this trash.

"It's time to end this farce!!"

Carl violently spread her arms outward, and blinding radiance, impossible to look upon like a supernova, instantly burst forth from her body.

Inexhaustible cosmic energy poured outward as though it cost nothing.

In an instant, it enveloped the entire interior of the barrier.

"Damn it, my eyes..."

The werewolf, who had already lunged into the air, suddenly froze.

Instinctively, he clamped his hands tightly over his eyes.

But at the very instant he raised his hands, an incomparably vast torrent of energy had already swept toward him.

The violent energy tore apart his skin, hard as steel. His fur, flesh, and bones began to disintegrate, burn, and turn to ash...

Even though he possessed extremely powerful regenerative abilities.

They ultimately could not compare to the downright monstrous levels of Wolverine and Deadpool.

Thus, they merely delayed the disintegration slightly.

They were utterly powerless to reverse his fate of destruction.

The werewolf's howl of agony abruptly cut off almost at once.

As for the shield man, the matchstick man, and the sound-wave man, who had not yet had time to display his superpower.

They did not even have time to scream before they were all reduced to drifting ash in the surging energy torrent.

Boom...!!!

Without the shield man's energy sustaining it, the once incomparably sturdy barrier became like paper and shattered with a thunderous crash in an instant.

The hurricane-like energy torrent within swept in every direction.

The entire space trembled with it.

"Mayday, mayday, mayday! We got a Blackhawk down!!!"

The armed helicopters that had been circling overhead.

After being struck by the energy torrent, all their electronic instruments overloaded and malfunctioned.

Amid the pilots' screams, they began spiraling downward along erratic trajectories.

Soon, a string of explosions erupted from the ground, followed by rising fireballs.

And those Hydra soldiers fared no better.

Most of the soldiers hiding behind Humvees had no time to react before the heavy vehicles, rolling backward without stopping, crushed them into bloody piles of mangled flesh.

[Collectible souls detected. Warp souls +1, +1, +1...]

"Good thing we didn't choose to hide behind the vehicles just now..."

The soldiers around them, hiding behind rocks and trees and thinking they had successfully escaped disaster, were secretly rejoicing.

But the next second.

Their bodies were precisely severed at the waist by two optic beams that pierced through the distant smoke.

"Please, don't kill me... As long as you're willing to spare me, I'll tell you every secret related to the organization!!"

Amid the ruins, one of Major Lox's legs was pinned firmly beneath an abandoned Humvee.

Suppressing the fear in his heart, he pleaded ingratiatingly to the figure gradually emerging from the smoke in the distance.

Compared to his own life, any damn loyalty no longer mattered.

Only by surviving would he have a chance to rise again.

However.

Carl's cold voice utterly shattered his illusion.

"There's no need to go through all that trouble. I already found the answer I wanted in your head..."

As her words rang out, two energy beams directly blasted apart Major Lox's head.

The valley outside the base finally returned to its usual silence.

Only the wreckage of vehicles still burning would occasionally let out an inexplicable explosion.

The pungent smell of gunpowder and nauseating stench of blood soon drifted away in the fresh mountain breeze.

"The combination of [Telepathy] and [Cyclops] is ridiculously useful. It's absolutely an ultimate harvesting skill on the battlefield!"

"It's time to give Hydra a little shock. Otherwise, they probably won't remember this lesson!"

Carl slowly rose into the air. Before leaving, she did not forget to shout toward the base:

"Pietro, bring the men out and clean up the battlefield!!!"

Then she transformed into a streak of golden light.

And flew at top speed toward the [Greater Caucasus Mountains].

A few minutes later.

Pietro emerged from the base with more than a dozen soldiers.

Looking at the bloody, devastated battlefield before the valley.

Not only did his face show no trace of fear, it was instead filled with fervor and longing like that of a fanatical cultist.

"That's more like it. This is how superheroes are supposed to fight!"

"Carl was so damn cool just now. She was practically like a god who ruled over life and death..."

Even though Pietro had only watched the entire battle from inside the base.

The hot blood in his veins was already surging and boiling.

Men were born to yearn for strength!

Especially the kind of power capable of destroying heaven and earth.

By now, Pietro had long regarded Carl as his idol.

On countless nights, he had secretly imagined the majestic sight of himself slaughtering enemies in all directions after "awakening" his superpowers.

But...

Reality was like a bucket of cold water poured over his head, extinguishing all his passion and fantasies.

Even now, his superpowers showed not the slightest sign of "awakening."

This could not help making Pietro feel deeply inferior.

At the same time, a strange thought arose in his heart: Could I really just be a useless piece of trash?

Otherwise, why was he the only one among the three who had undergone the experiment to still not have "awakened" superpowers?

"Ah..."

Pietro shook his head miserably, then stubbornly comforted himself:

"Even if I can't become a superhero, it's actually no big deal. At least now that we have Carl, Wanda and I will never be bullied or excluded again!!!"