Even when he was charged right up to, Darkseid remained utterly calm. He even had the leisure to turn and glance beside him.
There, Deathstroke's duplicates vanished one after another. Only one cracked apart like a porcelain doll, revealing Diana beneath the shell of energy.
She was pulling the Lasso of Truth taut with her hands and elbows, gritting her teeth as she held Darkseid in check. Dense golden divine power shimmered along the golden rope.
Divine power was Hecate's witchcraft, stolen by the gods in ancient times. Although many gods had lost varying degrees of their divine power after Hecate went bankrupt and The Upside-Down Man took over, the divine artifacts forged beforehand had not changed.
Su Ming's agreement with The Upside-Down Man had made that White-Scaled Monster abandon its plan to reclaim all energy and turn instead to lending. Leaving behind so many divine artifacts and Magic Items was more like an advertisement, telling everyone that aside from having to pay a price for spellcasting in the future, everything remained the same.
If one asked what in the Spectre Universe lay beyond Darkseid's control, it was the power of the Mystic Side. The Spectre Universe had not yet separated from the DC Multiverse. It was merely a subset, a place with its own concepts that still accommodated DC's broader concepts.
Darkseid was a New God who had risen through technology and developed divinity. Though he had some understanding of witchcraft, divine power, and magic, he had never thought much of such things.
He had a mountain with a gold mine inside it, along with some granite associated with the gold deposit. He chose to break open the stone and take the gold.
But he had never considered that both stone and gold could kill someone when thrown.
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