"How could I possibly retreat? I'm a god!"
Though Orion feared the Carrion Eater, he still pulled out his little pistol, preparing to fight alongside Deathstroke.
Because the Carrion Eater was a Biological Weapon specifically created to counter the New Gods, the New Gods' energy attacks and flesh were both nourishment to the monster. They could only fight with external weapons.
"Meow! A Red Lantern never refuses a fight!" Lingxing flew to Deathstroke's other side, her cat eyes peering over his shoulder at Orion. "As for you, Darkseid's son, we'll settle our score afterward."
Diana wanted to fight as well, but with one man and one cat occupying Deathstroke's left and right sides, she immediately lost interest.
As she searched for a position, she noticed Barry seemed to be staring blankly. Following his gaze, she finally saw that the charred corpse wore a Green Lantern uniform, and the brown hair looked familiar as well.
Barry clenched his fists tightly, tears streaming from beneath his mask. He ran onto the teleportation platform, retrieved the body, and carefully examined it in his arms.
When he saw the little cross around the corpse's neck—the one he had once given Jessica—he completely lost the will to fight. He collapsed over the body and burst into tears.
Diana felt saddened as well. She certainly was not as devastated as Barry, but Jessica had also been a comrade of the Justice League.
Amid one endless crisis after another, the Justice League had already lost too many friends. Today, they had lost another, and she had died to Darkseid's Omega Beams.
Diana was familiar with Omega Beams. She and Superman had been hit by them plenty of times, and she knew what would happen if those rays struck an ordinary person.
If Jessica had not been wearing