Zod took a deep breath, raised both hands, and pressed the pressure-release valves on his neck armor.
"Hiss-"
With the soft sound of the airtight seals disengaging, the black life-support mask split open to either side, leaving him fully exposed to the alien air.
In just a tenth of a second, Zod's powerful body abruptly stiffened, and his knees slammed into the metal floor.
"Arghhh-!"
An utterly terrifying sensory tsunami engulfed him in an instant!
Earth's cacophony of radio waves, the howling of storms, the heartbeats of hundreds of millions of people, and even the grinding deep within the planet's crust stabbed into his eardrums like tens of millions of steel needles at once.
His vision instantly spiraled out of control, piercing straight through the Mothership's thick armor. He saw dust floating in the vacuum and cars speeding across the distant land. The sheer torrent of information almost burst his brain in an instant!
But Zod was Krypton's supreme military commander, possessed of an unshakable will of steel!
"Just... stop!"
Zod let out a beastlike roar, veins bulging on his forehead. Gritting his teeth, he pushed his willpower beyond its limits to forcibly strip away the chaotic sensory information and pull his scattered attention back into focus.
At the same time, a miraculous transformation began unfolding within him.
Radiation from the young, vibrant Yellow Sun poured unrestrained onto his skin.
The Kryptonian cells within him, born for a Red Sun environment, were now like cracked earth that had lain dry for tens of thousands of years, finally drenched by a torrential downpour.
His cells ravenously devoured the star's energy, every single one dividing and strengthening at an exponential rate!
Zod could clearly feel a mighty power unlike anything he had ever experienced, almost tangible, surging wildly through every part of