Thunderbolt of Zeus: Judgment of God Against God!

The teleportation chamber lay in ruins.

The ripple of pure white energy had vanished, but its aftershock still gripped every throat like an invisible hand.

Diana, Barry, Hal Jordan, and Victor—four powerful superheroes—stood frozen like statues stripped of their souls.

Their eyes were locked on a sight that shattered everything they believed.

Superman. The man they had thought invincible. Earth's guardian, who could move a planet by himself.

Now another "Superman" was driving him back with overwhelming force.

Clark Kent could hear the bones in his right arm groaning under the strain.

Agonizing pain shot through his fist. Along with it came a strange power, older and more domineering, that ravaged his Kryptonian cells.

The solar energy within him was like a stream flowing into the sea. That power swallowed and suppressed it with ease.

This was not a difference in strength.

This was... a gulf between their very orders of existence!

"No!"

Superman roared in defiance. He could not accept it.

He was Earth's hope, its last line of defense. If he fell, who could stop the unfathomable monster before him?

He threw his uninjured left fist at Link's face, pouring his last resolve and every scrap of energy into a blue blur.

Link did not even bat an eye.

His right hand, still locked against Superman's, gave a slight jolt.

An unstoppable force erupted!

Crack!

Superman's right arm twisted and bent at an unnatural angle.

The pain broke his left-handed attack in an instant.

That irresistible force sent him stumbling backward against his will.

Link calmly let go, as though discarding a worthless toy.

He stepped forward, closing the distance between them.

"Roar—!"

Fighting through the pain of his broken bones, Superman's eyes flared with two beams of blinding red light.

Heat Vision!

The purest energy attack, capable