New Gods? Draw Your Sword!
Rumble--!!!
Half of the ravaged Apokolips Darkseid's violent physical pressure, unable to bear the strain any longer.
Having absorbed the essence of the planet's core, Darkseid's body swelled to ten meters.
His deep blue muscles turned a terrifying dark purple from the blood rushing through them, and every blood vessel looked like a surging river of dark matter.
He relinquished his lofty divine status and his proud Omega Beams.
Now, only one thought remained in his mind:
With those hands that could crush stars, tear that black-haired youth standing on the shoulders of a god into mincemeat, bit by bit!
"Die!!!"
Bang!
Darkseid's powerful legs slammed into the ruins of the palace, shattering them.
The enormous reaction force directly crushed the earth within a radius of hundreds of miles into powder.
He was like a retrograde purplish-black meteorite, soaring straight into the sky with a terrifying sonic boom that tore through the vacuum!
That enormous fist locked onto Jiang Li's head and slammed down!
The kinetic energy of that punch even made several Marvel Celestials nearby feel a slight tremor in their hearts.
Pure physical mass dominance!
However.
Standing atop the massive metal shoulder of the Celestials, Jiang Li watched as the "purple meteorite" hurtled towards him.
There was no hint of defiance in his eyes.
Instead, it revealed an extremely contemptuous mockery.
"Want to engage in close-quarters combat with me?"
Jiang Li's right hand hovered above the watch face on his left wrist.
"Do you think I can only transform into those gigantic aliens or those that emit light beams?"
Smack
A soft sound.
A blinding green light from the system erupted a fraction of a second before Darkseid's fist was about to touch Jiang Li's nose!
Boom!!!
Darkseid's punch, powerful enough to shatter the moon, landed squarely on the Celestials's shoulder!
The Celestials roared, their massive bodies slammed back a step, and the dark matter armor on their shoulders instantly caved in.
but.
Darkseid's eyes widened suddenly.
There was no visceral sensation of flesh and blood flying everywhere.
His punch only struck a slowly dissipating afterimage!
Where are they?!
"Here I am, you big bear."
A voice filled with extreme mockery came from behind Darkseid without warning.
Darkseid turned around abruptly.
In mid-air, a super-slender, streamlined alien was floating, seemingly out of nowhere.
Black and blue armor, a cone-shaped mask. At the ends of the feet are two rapidly spinning wheels.
[XLR8 (XLR8)]!
He doesn't have the overwhelming size of the [Way Big], nor the world-destroying nuclear fusion of the [Atomix].
He possessed only one attribute that had been maximized to its fullest potential—
Absolute speed!
In Jiang Li's right hand, which was transformed into [XLR8].
Without anyone noticing, he found himself gripping a longsword that emitted extremely terrifying and sharp fluctuations of high-dimensional laws.
The sword guard resembled a soaring dragon, and the blade displayed a scarlet red color powerful enough to sever the retina!
The moment the sword was drawn, the space around it, distorted by Darkseid's raging kinetic energy, was instantly and brutally sliced apart!
[Ascalon Holy Sword]!
The greatest masterpiece of Azmuth, the first sage of Galvan Prime.
A god-slaying weapon that can even cleave the "Absolute Balance" of Marvel's the Living Tribunal in two with a single strike!
"Fight?"
Jiang Li's eyes, hidden beneath his mask, were fixed on Darkseid.
"I hate sweating the most."
Why use your fist to smash something you can cut with a knife?
Darkseid stared at the crimson longsword, and an intense, uncontrollable stinging sensation surged through the very essence of his New Gods deep within his Soul Stone!
His intuition told him that the sword could kill a god!
"Bluff!"
Darkseid flew into a rage, his massive ten-meter-tall body twisting violently in mid-air, his right leg unleashing a terrifying sonic boom that tore through the vacuum, like a purple pillar reaching for the sky, sweeping towards Jiang Li's waist!
"Too slow."
The roller under Jiang Li's feet suddenly spun around.
Whoosh!
Time seemed to stand still in Jiang Li's eyes.
Darkseid's supersonic whip kicks appeared as slow as a sloth doing calisthenics in his retina.
There was no suspense whatsoever.
Jiang Li transformed into a blur of black and blue, effortlessly brushing past Darkseid's whip kick.
at the same time.
He gently pulled the Ascalon Holy Sword in his hand along Darkseid's thick thigh muscles.
Laugh--!
A soft, silky sound, like a hot knife slicing through butter.
"Ugh!"
Darkseid's movements suddenly froze.
He lowered his head in disbelief.
All he could see was his own proud, supposedly the toughest New Gods thigh in the DC Universe.
A terrifying blood groove, deep enough to expose bone and two meters long, had appeared!
Purple divine blood, like a fountain, gushed wildly in the vacuum!
"How is this possible?!"
Darkseid was utterly horrified. His physical body couldn't even bear a single white mark from Superman's full-power Heat Vision!
This sword... it didn't even offer any resistance, it sliced right through his divine body?!
Don't be surprised.
Jiang Li's icy voice came from his left.
"This is only the first sword strike."
Boom!
The speed of [XLR8] was pushed to its absolute limit at this moment!
Jiang Li's image completely disappeared from Darkseid's retina.
What he saw was a death storm woven from black, blue, and red, which tightly enveloped his ten-meter-tall body at its center!
Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!
The chilling cutting sounds, like a dense rain of bullets, exploded wildly in the sky above Apokolips!
"Get out here! Have the guts to fight me head-on!"
Darkseid let out a wild roar.
He wildly swung his fists, each blow creating a massive black hole in the vacuum.
But it didn't work.
All his attacks missed. They only hit afterimages.
Meanwhile, the crimson Ascalon Holy Sword was frantically slicing through his divine body at a terrifying frequency of hundreds of times per second!
Chest! Back! Shoulders! Cheeks!
That seemingly indestructible outer layer of the New Gods race was as brittle as toilet paper before the Holy Sword.
In less than ten seconds.
The once-powerful Dark Tyrant has been sliced into a bloody mess by Jiang Li using his unscrupulous combination of speed and divine swordsmanship!
The purple blood even formed a thick, blood-red fog in space.
"Aaaaaaahh...
Darkseid was driven mad by this one-sided torture.
He gathered all the Apokolips's original energy within his body into his thick right arm!
The purple muscles instantly doubled in size, shimmering with a devastating dark energy light!
"I'm going to smash you and this entire space to pieces!!!"
He predicted Jiang Li's next appearance and recklessly swung his right arm, which was powerful enough to destroy a galaxy!
However.
Just as his right arm swung up into the air...
"I've found your weakness."
The storm of death came to an abrupt end.
Jiang Li's figure, like a ghost, hovered to Darkseid's right.
He gripped the Ascalon Holy Sword tightly with both hands.
In his eyes, an extreme coldness and greed erupted.
There were no unnecessary movements.
Facing Darkseid's massive right arm, which was imbued with all of its energy.
One sword.
Slash it down hard!!!
Laugh--!!!!!
A crimson sword beam, a thousand meters long, flashed and disappeared in space.
Time and space froze in this moment.
Darkseid's furious roar was stuck in his throat.
His eyes, wide with anger, were fixed on his right side.
Clatter
That New Gods's right arm, several meters long, muscular, and containing endless primal energy.
Starting from the base of his shoulders, neatly...
It slid down.
It's broken.
With a single sword strike, Darkseid's arm was severed!
Purple divine blood gushed out from the severed arm like a high-pressure water gun, splashing all over Jiang Li!
"My hand... no!!!"
Darkseid let out a desperate scream.
And amidst this spray of divine blood filling the sky.
Jiang Li didn't even glance at Darkseid, who was screaming in agony.
His gaze was fixed intently on the massive severed arm that was plummeting downwards.
The Omnitrix on his chest erupted with a blinding green light, radiating an intense thirst and frenzy!
"The genes of the New Gods."
"I'll accept it!"
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Countless green data tendrils shot out from the dial with a roar.
Like a pack of hungry wolves, they plunged directly into the fallen, severed arm of the god!
Force read! Force scan!