At those words, Solomon slowly rose, a meaningful smile curling his lips as he turned to look at the two of them.
"Among the people I killed today was a female Supe named Stormfront. You've both seen her body and reviewed the records from the scene. How old do you think she was?"
Homelander had seen Stormfront's appearance with his own eyes. Her skin was firm and her figure youthful. She looked barely past twenty, every bit a young woman.
(The setting is that she used V1 in her twenties.)
Ashley had also reviewed the footage from the scene and immediately answered:
"She looked about twenty."
Solomon raised a hand and lightly patted Homelander's shoulder, then headed toward the conference room door. His casually delivered words shook them both to the core.
"She was actually a hundred years old. She was also one of those injected with Original Compound V. Once you're injected with the original compound, you stop aging."
The instant those words fell, Homelander's pupils abruptly contracted. An intense light burst into his eyes, and even his breathing unconsciously quickened.
The appearance of a twenty-year-old at a hundred!
Original Compound V could actually grant eternal youth!
At that moment, he finally understood the true purpose behind Solomon's insistence on reproducing the original formula.
Aging and the passage of time were the greatest torment of his life, a fear he could not escape even with his invincible strength.
For countless days and nights, he had dreaded his looks fading, afraid that one day he would lose to time.
And now, there was finally hope of resolving this seemingly insoluble problem!
"Ashley! Immediately!"
Homelander practically blurted it out, his voice urgent and excited, without a trace of his earlier gloom and frustration.
"Mobilize every resource at once. Thoroughly investigate all