The battlefield lay right outside the castle gates. Leaving by the original route would obviously mean more trouble.
It had been roughly seven or eight hours since Deathstroke and the others left Eternia, yet the battle between the Evil Thought Nobles and Apokolips's army still raged on across the plains outside Castle Grayskull.
The Evil Thought Nobles were individually stronger. They possessed abilities such as regeneration, extreme resilience, and the spreading of disease.
Their weakness was that they could hardly be called intelligent creatures. Every one of them was blindly idiotic, always allowing themselves to be defeated one by one.
Apokolips's forces, for now, still consisted mainly of war hounds and jet catapult troops. They were practically the lowest-ranking cannon fodder in Uncle Darkseid's battle order. Though they counted as New Gods, their individual strength was about the same as ordinary humans.
But their fighting spirit was firm, they were well trained, and even their low-level commanders had some brains, so they could hold the line.
The enormous fleshy tube hanging down from the sky continued flinging out monsters, while all manner of spacecraft dropped Apokolips reinforcements at distant assembly points. For the moment, the two sides remained evenly matched. It would probably drag on for several more days.
There was another secret passage beneath Castle Grayskull that could be used to leave. Castles built atop solitary peaks often had secret exits. King Grayskull, who had built this place, was no fool. Without an escape route, holding this place would have meant simply waiting to be surrounded and die.
The passage had been built beneath the castle dungeon. An ancient god resembling a tentacled monster was imprisoned there, stored within a Stasis Array. Yet as the group passed before it, all several tens of thousands of its eyes opened into