Everything was in place.
"Come on, Super-Ego. Let's catch some rays by the sun."
Homelander did not linger at Earth's core. In a flash, he passed through the thick layers of rock, burst through the surface, and headed straight into the vastness of space.
Super-Ego followed without hesitation.
About thirty minutes later, they had crossed the immense distance and arrived two thousand kilometers from the edge of the sun's corona.
Even Homelander, powerful as he was, felt an indescribable sense of awe when he first faced this colossal fusion reactor, 1.39 million kilometers across and accounting for 99.86 percent of the Solar System's mass.
Enormous prominences rose hundreds of thousands of kilometers above the star's surface like dragons of fire.
"Fucking spectacular."
"System, end Feign Death Escape."
Homelander gave the command in his mind.
[Command confirmed. Hero's End ended early. Exit from the dimensional rift complete.]
As the system's notification faded,
the two of them seemed to return to the real dimension. Terrifying heat reaching hundreds of thousands of degrees and magnetic storms powerful enough to tear starships apart slammed into them.
Homelander paid them no mind. His Skyfather-level Steel Body displayed its absolute dominance.
"This temperature's just right. It's been ages since I felt the sun on my skin." Homelander stretched, savoring the warmth as though it were spring sunshine.
For Super-Ego, a son of Krypton, this place was paradise.
Streams of golden photons flooded into every cell in his body. His skin took on a dazzling golden sheen as his cells greedily devoured the endless energy of the yellow sun.
His muscles swelled slightly beyond his control. What flowed through his veins seemed no longer to be blood, but liquid light.
So much energy filled him that his eyes lit up red of their own accord,