The God King returns, the laws take root!

A Boom Tube carrying the scent of sulfur and ripples of space slowly closed in Earth's throne hall.

Link stepped out of it.

The black trench coat specially made for him by Chaos Direction still seemed to carry a trace of the dark god's absolute will from Apokolips. That aura was cold, deathly still, and filled with a denial of all life and existence, making the temperature throughout the throne hall seem to drop a few degrees.

"Whew..."

Link let out a long breath and plopped onto the Throne, forged from vibranium and uru, that symbolized the highest authority on Earth.

Tired.

It was not physical exhaustion. With his current Man of Steel physique, he could fight at full intensity for a hundred years straight without feeling the slightest fatigue. This was mental strain.

His confrontation with Darkseid, though it had lasted only a few short minutes, had been more dangerous than all his previous battles combined. It had not been a contest of strength, but a direct collision of laws and wills.

Darkseid's power lay not in how many planets he could destroy, but in the fact that he himself was a walking cosmic law, a living "concept."

"The Omega Effect... this thing is basically a forced deletion command with administrator privileges."

Link closed his eyes, carefully savoring the fragment of law he had forcibly "stolen" through his check-in.

It was a sensation, a kind of "authority" that stood above every law of physics. If the universe was an enormous program, then the Omega Effect was the "delete" command executed with administrator privileges. It could ignore a file's defenses and encryption, erasing it completely from the deepest level of the hard drive, along with every record and backup of it.

Overbearing, utterly unreasonable, but... so damn useful!

Link could