The next second, he appeared atop the One God Temple's tower.
He hovered in midair, facing Darkseid in the distance.
Gale-force winds carried the scorching breath of magma, whipping his robe and black hair.
Beneath his feet lay a hellish Gotham.
Before him stood a cosmic monarch who resembled a demonic god.
Two absolute tyrants, representing different dimensions, entered a historic confrontation at that moment.
Darkseid studied the tiny "mortal" in a robe before him.
For the first time, a trace of confusion flickered in his eyes, which burned with blood-red flames.
He sensed neither divine power nor magical fluctuations from this creature.
"An unknown mutant mortal."
Darkseid spoke.
His thunderous voice pierced straight through the entire planet, ringing in the mind of every living being.
"Hand over the Mother Box and the fragments of the Anti-Life Equation."
"Then kneel and become my slave."
"I can grant you a death that leaves you relatively intact."
Chu Men laughed at those words.
He picked his ear with his little finger, then flicked it lightly toward Darkseid.
"You talk too much, old bastard."
"I hope you'll still have that much to say in a moment."
The blood-red flames in Darkseid's eyes suddenly surged.
"You... are courting death."
Before his words had faded, his massive body vanished from where he stood.
The two embodiments of absolute violence moved at the same time.
As if teleporting, Darkseid crossed dozens of kilometers and appeared before Chu Men.
His fist, wrapped in a void force field powerful enough to warp space, smashed toward Chu Men's face.
Wherever the fist passed, even the air was annihilated by sheer force.
Facing an attack capable of punching through a planet's core in a single blow, Chu Men neither dodged nor retreated.
He raised his right fist to meet it.