The Death of Superman!

The gray torrent of energy, fused with magic and ice, swallowed half the sky like the mouth of hell.

Superman instinctively crossed his arms over his chest to block it.

But the moment the energy struck, it overwhelmed his already exhausted body.

The Kryptonian cells within him screamed.

The magic's corrosion brought him pain more fundamental than Kryptonite radiation ever had.

His body melted like ice thrown into a furnace, his strength draining away.

"Pfft!"

Superman spat a mouthful of blood and was hurled away like a cannonball. He smashed through two buildings that were already empty shells before disappearing beneath the rubble, his fate unknown.

At the center of the energy torrent, Link hovered motionless. He had not even taken a step back.

An invisible, distorted force field neutralized and broke down the energy—enough to destroy a small town—a meter from his body.

[Reactive Evolution]!

The instant Link sensed Doomsday release the energy, his body had evolved an "energy-neutralizing force field" to counter it.

"Too weak."

Link shook his head, a trace of disappointment on his face.

"You absorbed my Thunderbolt of Zeus and Clark Kent's Super Breath, and this is all the offense you evolved? What a... waste."

His disappointment was genuine.

He truly thought this monster, born of Luthor's finest intellect and Krypton's strongest genes, had proved far too ordinary.

Doomsday seemed to sense his contempt. It stopped firing energy, roared in fury, and charged at Link again.

But just then—

Boom!

A red-and-blue figure shot out of the distant rubble and soared into the sky. With the resolve of a man burning through his own life, he seized Doomsday from behind and held on tight!

It was Superman!

He was still alive!

But his condition was worse than death.

His suit hung in tatters. Horrific burns