Sign-In! Apokolips's "Shadow"!

The instant Link's fingers touched the cold, pulsing Shadow Engine, the familiar system chime rang through his mind like the most beautiful symphony in the universe.

[Sign-in target detected: Apokolips tier-three technological creation—the Shadow Engine!]

[Signing in...]

[Sign-in successful! Congratulations, host! You have received the following rewards:]

[A-rank reward: Psinergy Invisibility Field! A technology that warps mental and energy fluctuations to achieve perfect invisibility on both physical and perceptual levels, far beyond mere optical camouflage.]

[B-rank reward: Parademon Mental Control Protocol (Basic)! The underlying set of mental commands Apokolips uses to control its expendable creatures. It can subject weak-willed beings to absolute mental enslavement.]

[C-rank reward: Apokolips Standard Power Furnace blueprints! A dark-energy furnace technology that is efficient and stable but produces heavy radiation pollution. It can serve as the power core of a low-tier warship.]

A torrent of data flooded Link's Wisdom of Athena. In a single second, he analyzed, absorbed, and mastered countless secrets of shadow matter, psinergy fields, and mental programming.

"So that's how it works..."

Everything clicked into place for Link.

The Ghost Ship's invisibility did more than bend light. The special psinergy emitted by its engine erased the ship's existence from the "awareness" of every detection method. It was like an image the brain could not record: even if someone saw it with their own eyes, they could form no useful memory or judgment of it.

Ingenious, but not unbeatable.

And now the technology was his.

A cold smile touched Link's lips. Darkseid was such a generous "good man." Just when Link had realized his interstellar fleet lacked core invisibility technology, Darkseid had sent him a sample and an instruction manual.

He would gladly accept the "delivery."

With a thought, Link reversed the Psinergy Invisibility Field he had just mastered.

The once-silent Shadow