She struggled, reaching toward the throne in one final plea for help.
But the figure on the throne remained motionless.
Just then, two faint beams of dark red light shone from the direction of the One God Temple.
Those two beams pierced space and struck Granny Goodness directly.
Granny Goodness's screams cut off abruptly.
She lowered her head in terror and looked at her feet.
Starting at her toes, inch by inch, they were being heated, vaporized, and disintegrated from the inside out!
Her flesh, her bones, her luxurious robes.
All of them slowly, cruelly turned into wisps of black smoke that dissipated into the air.
"No... no... NO!!!"
Agonizing pain and terror wrung an inhuman howl of despair from her.
She watched helplessly as her own body was... "evaporated" bit by bit.
The process lasted a full minute.
A minute later, all that remained on the bridge were two piles of black ash and a scepter made from the spine of an unknown creature, lying on the floor.
Apokolips's foremost psychic manipulator, a core member of the Dark Elite, Granny Goodness.
Destroyed, body and soul.
No one on the bridge dared to breathe.
DeSaad and the other elites of Apokolips went cold all over, as though plunged into an ice cellar.
They stared at the two piles of ash, not daring to draw a deep breath.
From millions of kilometers away, a single glance had burned Granny Goodness alive until she was nothing but ash?
What... what kind of monster was this?!
At last, the mountain-like figure on the throne moved.
Darkseid slowly rose from his throne.
The air seemed to solidify, and space twisted slightly, groaning beneath an unbearable weight.
DeSaad and the other members of the Dark Elite dropped to their knees involuntarily, prostrating themselves without daring