Ground level, Metropolis.
The hustle and bustle of the entire city seemed to freeze in the face of this apocalyptic scene.
Streets, alleys, squares...
They all fell into a strange, chaotic state of silence.
On the coastal boulevard.
The sirens fell silent, and the alarm lights flashed silently.
Then, thousands of men and women pushed open their car doors and stood numbly on the scorching, soft asphalt road.
At the refuge gate, a mother lost the strength to hold her baby tightly; the baby bottle fell to the ground, scattering white foam.
In the financial center, billionaire elites bury their faces in their palms.
The old Father knelt before the image of Jesus, clutching the cross tightly in his hands, his lips moving silently.
Amen...
The sky disappeared.
The blue sky, the white clouds... are gone too.
All that remained was a grim, sharply defined black plate.
It is being magnified on everyone's retinas with immense pressure and at an extremely rapid speed.
Until--
It obscures the entire sky.
The entire Metropolis, with its eight million inhabitants, felt as if they were trapped in a scorching, red-hot cage.
The friction at Mach 14 scorched the hull with a dark red hull.
The light was mottled and mixed, and heat radiation was generated; a distance of a kilometer was covered in a mere moment...
Five seconds left.
Or four seconds.
Everyone could clearly see the three huge blue engines spread out from the bottom of the warship.
Like... three eerie, menacing ghostly eyes.
Destruction is equal for all.
Whether it's a billionaire with billions of dollars or a homeless person begging for a living in the mud...
Compared to the at least trillions of joules of kinetic energy released... it's nothing at all.
The Gulf, the continental shelf, and even the entire east coast ecosystem will be transformed into a true "hell on earth" with the arrival of this giant dam.
"Buzz--"
Bright light! Heat Wave! Silence!
"Call----"
And it was at this moment...
A strange, resounding boom suddenly broke the deathly silence.
Immediately following was a sonic boom that rose from below, defying the force of the massive air surge, and pierced through the air in reverse!
Beneath the half-collapsed ruins.
The swaying Diana seemed to realize something, her beautiful eyes widening.
Field of view, lens --
enlarge!
Right in the center of that abrupt, broken line of sight.
In that crimson expanse, twisted and charred from the ship's bow...
A figure clad in red and blue.
Contrary to the trajectory of relative momentum, it suddenly appeared beneath the three eerie blue ghost eyes on the warship's chassis.
Slow down, turn.
A transparent force field formed a dome a kilometer long around him, reversing the downward scorching wind!
And in the countless upward-looking pupils on the earth's surface.
The human silhouette, which was originally as insignificant as a speck of dust, was pulled up to the critical point of the troposphere by the force of resistance.
His entire figure was positioned perfectly in the center of the "sky curtain" that was half-obscured by the warship.
In that instant, the light and shadow froze.
At this time, the fire is at its most intense and scorching at noon.
The blindingly bright yellow sun was already obscured by the massive black warship, leaving only a thin edge visible.
But in that instant when the figure was suspended in mid-air...
On Earth, where the field of view is extended by a wide angle.
Countless pairs of eyes met and gradually merged with his figure, becoming one.
Then, with the shifting of light and shadow...
That faint shadow, with perfect precision, obscured the raging core of the sun.
Total solar eclipse
This time, it wasn't the moon that blocked out the sun.
Instead, it was a figure with a fluttering cloak, his imposing silhouette magnified.
"Buzz----"
The grand optical imaging began its own experiment between heaven and earth.
The sunlight, previously blocked by the man's body, began to seep out along his silhouette...
It flowed in a circular pattern, following the strands of his hair and the edges of his shoulders, creating a lifelike effect.
"Buzz--"
The intense golden light, refracted by the turbulence, stretched out two lines running east to west.
It then evolved into a long, narrow, and magnificent aperture composed of deep blue and white gold!
This scene, this moment.
The iridescent, oval-shaped solar corona resembled a golden ring, one ring linked to the next.
Layer upon layer of emptiness bloomed and spread out behind his head and even outside his shoulder blades!
In an instant, the intense light illuminated the world in a blinding white.
The silhouette, however, was shrunk into something resembling a black hole due to the extreme backlighting.
A towering silhouette that is impossible to look at directly and defies description.
Let's rewind to fifteen minutes ago.
"Buzz----!!"
It's the buzzing sound of the light blade resonating at high frequencies in the air.
In the air.
Four broad, yellow blades, each two meters long and as wide as a door panel, were solidified into shape.
The edge of the light blade was covered with fine, tooth-like electric arcs, one in front of the other.
They were each held in the hands of two Krypton soldiers who were already under Zod's control.
Ambidextrous
cut!
The two soldiers appeared almost simultaneously.
The deck trembled as four terrifying blades of light, their power ominous, slashed down with a piercing shriek!
" Star Wars, huh...?"
John smirked slightly, stood obediently in place, put his hands in his pockets, and stared straight into the air.
"Clang----!!!!"
Next second.
A dull, cracking sound rang out.
The four light blades suddenly hovered in the air, less than half an inch from John's skin.
If you look closely, it's not hard to see.
A thin, translucent force field, as thin as a cicada's wing, rippled on the contact surface before disappearing without a trace.
The electric arcs dancing on the light blade constantly rubbed against this transparent barrier, creating large patches of dazzling white flowers.
But it had no effect whatsoever.
John tilted his head slightly upwards.
Deep within those pure blue pupils, the distorted, sallow faces of two soldiers were reflected.
That's it?
John got a little bored and snapped his the Snap.
"Smack!!"
The force field shattered.
Instantly, the violent repulsive force radiated out in a ring, then exploded.
"Pat pat--"
The four light blades couldn't hold out for long before being shattered by the shockwave.
It immediately emitted a clear, glassy sound, then shattered into fragments.
Force is relative.
The kinetic energy from the violent jolt surged upstream, forcefully burrowing back into the arms of the two soldiers.
at the same time!
The armor protecting their arms cracked open with a loud bang, and dark blood gushed out from between their thumbs and forefingers.
His body was also shaken and forced backward.
But it was at this very moment.
John seemed to sense something, and his body swayed slightly in place.
"Whoosh--!!"
Beyond the limits of dynamic visual capture, a white circle appeared in the air.
At that moment, John's figure vanished from his original spot and appeared suddenly in front of the soldier on the left.
Immediately afterwards.
He pulled his right hand from his belt, made a fist, and thrust it straight out!
"Pfft!"
The sturdy mask was pierced by John's punch, letting in a draft.
Something was amiss.
The soldier on the right had a bright yellow light shining in his eyes, driven by the "instinct" of fear energy.
He quickly condensed a ball of high-energy light, several feet in diameter, at his chest, preparing to smash it towards John.
But John didn't even turn his head.
He simply pushed his left elbow back the instant he released the soldier's body on the left.
Short and concise.
Thump!
A dull, loud thud.
In the blink of an eye, a deep half-hole appeared in the soldier's chest.
Immediately afterwards.
The hundreds-of-pounds-weight body was flung into the air like an out-of-control bullet.
It spun around and flew horizontally for more than ten meters.
It crashed through two compartments in succession, then heavily wedged into the bottom bearing.
John yawned listlessly, one hand in his pocket.
He casually kicked aside the shattered armor blocking his way and strolled toward the main control room.