Oppressive light shone through the gaps between the many Exterminators, piercing the sky like sharp swords. Amid the smoke and flames, another explosion erupted, fiercer and more terrifying than before.
Like a massive mushroom rising from the ground, countless Exterminators vanished into smoke at the edge of the energy sphere. The intense light made even Deathstroke and the others in the distance unable to look directly at it, like the first ray of light breaking through darkness.
The commotion here was so immense that Celestial Destroyer strode over as well. Watching the shockwave kicked up by the explosion, he seemed to take a deep breath.
The mushroom cloud twisted. Its white stalk was pulled into a thin line, shooting into the sky like a noodle toward the face of the Celestial above the clouds.
The explosion had not finished releasing its energy before it was abruptly cut short. The anticlimax left everyone strangely disappointed.
The Exterminators covering Ivory Kings had all been wiped out, but bald, muscular robot men continued raining down from the sky in an endless stream. Their expressionless faces closed in once more.
At the bottom of the crater, Deadpool was still alive. Though he had nearly had his material existence erased not long ago, he had only nearly been erased.
His immense popularity had pulled him back again. He had not even seen Death before his self-healing was complete, his suit restored along with him. He still gripped his twin blades, frantically working away beneath the enemy like a laborer drilling into rock.
This Ivory Kings, on the other hand, looked battered and broken, seemingly unable to resist any longer. Though he still transformed both hands into spikes to strike back at the lowly human, it clearly had no effect.
"Wow! You stabbed my eyeball out!