Darkseid, pinned beneath Thanos's foot, finally recovered from the blow.
Watching the carnage in the sky, he shouted, "Who the hell are you? Why do you have so many troops?"
He wasn't grieving for the dead Parademons. He was worried about his position as the universe's overlord.
If the man before him was merely powerful, then he was just another superhero.
As long as Darkseid lived, the man couldn't threaten his rule over the universe.
After all, ruling a universe took more than strength. It took an invincible army.
But if this man commanded a vast force too, Darkseid would have to hand over the universe.
Thanos ignored the man beneath his foot and looked toward the distant stars.
From his vantage point, he could see Superman flying toward a Fixed Star.
The farther Superman flew, the faster his power grew.
By Marvel's standards, he had risen from Sub-Celestial Father Level to Skyfather-level, and he showed no sign of stopping.
If Thanos left him alone, there was no telling how powerful he might become.
But after watching for a while, Thanos smiled faintly and stopped paying him any attention.
Superman's power was growing fast, but this universe had its limits.
Energy was conserved, even on a cosmic scale. Unless a being achieved Transcendence and changed the universe's fundamental laws, stuffing all the energy of a Fixed Star into Superman would only bring him to Skyfather-level at most.
Even if Superman absorbed an entire galaxy, he still wouldn't reach Universal Level.
So what was there to worry about?
No one had ever reached Universal Level just by absorbing sunlight.
That was power enough to destroy a universe with a wave of the hand. If sunlight alone could get Superman there, Thanos would have only one thing to say.
*Supreme God, you've