I, Homelander
Chapter 174

Horizon

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"Cough cough..."

Although Bruce was weak, his hands were still gripping the control stick.

He tried to pull the ejection handle.

However, the hydraulic lines were already restricted by the gravitational field, and the mechanical linkage was stuck in the sleeve, unable to move.

"Buzz--"

Not long after.

The ship's cannons flashed with a chilling light, and the whistling sound of the concentrated beams penetrated the hatch and entered Bruce's eardrums.

The camera pans to Bruce.

There was no fear in his eyes, only a pool of eternal, cold desolation.

"Call--"

He slowly exhaled a long breath, staring at the increasingly bright forest light.

at the same time.

A long cry echoed from the heavens—

"When-------!!!!"

The sound shook the sky and dispersed the torrential rain!

70mm IMAX lens, ultra-wide-angle format.

A streak of crimson-gold flame plunged down from the top of the clouds!

The red armor shone like the morning glow.

Her long, wavy black hair billowed wildly in the wind.

Diana used the momentum of her fall to plummet from the sky.

With a slight dip of her right arm, she violently raised her bare arm in front of her body!

Clang!

The chilling beam of fire slammed solidly into the bracelets at the center of both wrists the moment it shot out of the cannon!

Force field!

A golden halo, in a hemispherical shape, spread wildly outwards to all corners of the world.

The torrential rain and waves within a hundred meters were completely vaporized in the blink of an eye!

Then it transformed into scattered energy streams, slicing diagonally into the bay and flattening the waves several miles away!

"Snort..."

Diana slightly turned her head, using the momentum to flip in mid-air, like a female leopard falling into a ravine.

With his left hand, he drew the Sword of Hephaestus from his waist, the blade flashing with a coppery light.

With a slight sway, his feet landed steadily on the top of the warship.

Sink your waist and twist your body.

Diana gripped the sword with both hands, lowering it to strike!

"Pfft!!"

The divine sword, capable of cutting through iron like mud, pierced through solidified fat like a hot knife, disappearing completely into the crystal lattice of the cruiser's fore-window!

The power of a demigod surged back down along the sword blade.

"Crack--!!"

A piercing cracking sound erupted instantly from inside the five-meter-long warship.

Immediately afterwards, several golden pillars burst forth from the gaps in the shell.

Diana drew her sword, spun around, stomped hard on the ship's wreckage, and charged straight forward amidst a rain of fire.

The airship exploded, and the Batplane were caught in the terrifying shockwave.

The aircraft trailed dozens of meters of black smoke as it plummeted toward the ground at several times the speed of sound.

Below... are civilians being evacuated.

Diana's beautiful eyes narrowed slightly.

There must be a gentle landing spot...

With that thought in mind, she didn't stop. Her figure transformed into a golden ray in the void, flashing back and forth through the clouds.

In a few takeoffs and landings, it caught up with the rapidly falling fighter jet.

At this point, the fighter jet was less than fifty meters above the ground.

Diana lunged from behind, her feet landing on the still-intact keel of the fighter jet.

Immediately afterwards, she reached out her slender hand and gripped the load-bearing lug at the rear of the cockpit tightly with her five fingers!

Engage your core and pull your glutes forward.

Following the momentum, it spun halfway through the air.

With one arm, he lifted this creation weighing over ten tons, using his own body as an axis, and headed towards the center of the deserted bay—

A violent swing!

"Call----!!"

The fuselage tore through the gale, pulled away from its original trajectory by the immense force, and hurtled past the seawall, skimming several meters above it.

Then it crashed diagonally into the open waters of the open sea!

However.

Just as Diana slipped from her grasp.

A sudden change has occurred!

Without warning, a burst of blazing light erupted from the very center of the black ship suspended high in near-Earth orbit, a light so intense it eclipsed the sun and moon!

That's the hull of the " Black Zero "!

In ultra-large format depth-of-field shots.

The four-kilometer-long belly of the starship was ripped open by a violent force from the inside out, creating a rift hundreds of feet deep!

Immediately afterwards, tens of thousands of tons of deck material flew outwards like debris, leaving bluish-black specks mixed with scorching flames.

It transformed into several scorching fire serpents spanning dozens of miles, erupting wildly at the outer edge of the atmosphere in near-Earth orbit!

Before my eyes could even follow, a deafening roar was already upon us!

That was a deafening roar that made the entire continent tremble!

At an altitude of 10,000 meters, the troposphere was pierced by this terrifying impact from above, creating a huge hole.

Tens of thousands of fragments, carrying an overwhelming amount of air pressure, poured down from below!

The waves that were originally several meters high were instantly flattened, and a cloud of water vapor rose up, obscuring the sky!

On the breakwater.

The violent wind pressure was like an invisible concrete wall, pressing everyone firmly to the ground.

The car was swaying wildly in the gale, and it looked like it was about to be thrown into the sea.

Diana tilted her head back.

Her pretty face was framed by deeply furrowed brows.

Immediately afterwards.

She pushed off the ground with her toes, transforming into a dazzling streak of light once more.

Instead of going against the overwhelming, pressing sea of fire, they charged headlong into the center of the storm clouds!

"Buzz----!!"

He slammed his arms together violently in front of his chest!

The Bracelets of Submission collided violently!

Golden divine power ripples forcefully created a golden dome a hundred feet in diameter in the void above her head!

Spanning the sea and sky!

The next instant, the first wave of impact slammed head-on into the dome!

"Boom boom boom boom--!!"

The blazing waves and debris slammed heavily onto the dome, unleashing a continuous series of deafening roars.

Flames streamed down the dome to both sides, boiling and churning the surrounding sea.

White mist rose up.

Diana hovered in mid-air, her teeth clenched.

A soft moan escaped her throat as she forcefully withstood the impact for a full two seconds with her bare body.

The wreckage was deflected, and the most violent shockwaves were diverted to the open sea.

Even so, the aftershocks, still carrying immense wind pressure, pressed down on the sea like the sky collapsing.

There... is another fighter jet about to crash.

Diana then sprang up, using the downdraft to twist her body and swoop downwards!

Its speed was as fast as lightning.

Her delicate figure broke through the billowing water vapor, gliding past the edge of the falling shockwave.

The waves surged like mountains, their crests jagged like dog teeth.

Diana spun back in mid-air, her body turning upside down.

Place both feet firmly under the machine head, push and move your arms horizontally, pull down, and then press your palms firmly against the machine head on your chin!

"Rise!!"

She gave a sharp shout, and her arm muscles tensed violently.

"Splash splash splash splash----!!"

The raging waves exploded on the sea surface with a deafening roar.

The plane plunged heavily into the dark waves, scraping the surface and leaving a waterfall nearly a hundred meters long!

Seawater instantly flooded the damaged engine compartment, and the scalding hot alloy pipes emitted a piercing hissing sound as they were submerged in the seawater.

The entire fighter jet violently bounced, glided, and bounced again on the water.

After sliding for several hundred meters, it gradually lost all its kinetic energy.

The strong winds gradually subsided, but the torrential rain continued.

Diana leaped gracefully from the sea and landed lightly on the remaining wing of the fighter jet.

Water droplets slid slowly down her red breastplate, making a soft dripping sound.

She lowered her right hand, the Lasso of Truth still warm from its lingering warmth around her waist, her long, curly black hair damp from the rain.

A few strands of hair clung to the side of her cheek.

She slightly raised her chin, her alert eyes gazing at the sky through the lingering mist.

High in the sky.

The flames on the lower part of that enormous, sickle-shaped ship were still spreading.

But Diana was perceptive enough to sense it.

Two even more violent energy surges are tearing at and colliding with each other in a completely out-of-control manner.

It was him...

Diana lowered her eyes slightly, and her fingers, resting on the hilt of the sword, gently tapped the hilt.

A sea breeze swept by, carrying with it a sweet, briny, and salty smell.

Under the wing.

The cabin was silent, narrow, and claustrophobic.

The sealing strips along the edge of the hatch had long since cracked, and icy seawater mixed with rainwater seeped through.

It seeped in continuously along the spiderweb-like cracks, dripping onto the still body.

Bruce's head was tilted to one side, and the back half of his heavy helmet was dented and deformed.

A bloody gash was torn open on her cheek, and blood dripped slowly down her pale jawline.

Inside the cabin, all the expensive screens were turned off.

Only one orange emergency light flickered intermittently.

"Sizzle... sizzle..."

The communicator hanging in Bruce's ear suddenly emitted a burst of static under the stimulation of a weak electrical current.

"... Master? Master? Can you hear me?"

"The fighter jet signal disappeared from the tactical display screen for just three seconds... Sir? Please answer me!"

There was no response.

The only sound was the crisp sound of icy seawater dripping onto the mask.

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