I, Homelander
Chapter 189

Endurance

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Then, Zod loosely clenched his right hand in his outer armor.

"Buzz--"

The next moment.

A curved sickle, over ten meters long and gleaming with a scorched yellow color, shot through the air.

"Hiss--"

The blade shattered the sound barrier, descending from top to bottom in a powerful, earth-shattering strike.

This instantly sealed off all the space John could move around in.

There was a millstone in front and a giant sickle on top.

The wind whipped John's bangs across his forehead, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes.

Step aside, twist your waist, rotate your hips!

[ Insight ]

Within sight, the gaze penetrates layer by layer.

The energy flow from the two spinning millstones and the long sickle was quickly stripped away in John's eyes into several flickering dotted lines.

It is enormous, but riddled with flaws.

Those seemingly seamless physical nodes were all maintained on the energy valve on the right shoulder blade of the outer armor.

John's lips curled into a smirk, and his chest and abdomen suddenly contracted inward.

The throat throbbed, and the lips parted.

[ Freeze Breath ]

"Call----!!!!"

The temperature dropped sharply.

In the cramped and dimly lit lower deck, frost burst forth.

A stream of frost composed of countless ice crystals swept from John's lips.

Wherever it passed, the deck, which had been burning red-hot at high speed, instantly emitted puffs of white mist.

The frigid frost swept past and crashed directly into the two high-speed rotating millstones!

"Crack! Crack!!"

Suddenly, things became sluggish!

The yellow flames died down, and the swirling saw teeth were visibly covered and solidified by a thick layer of azure!

"Smack!!!"

John shot out like a bowstring released from a bow!

With feet planted in the central palace, the nimble ape darted through the forest.

As the millstone came to a stop, it darted past the two ice walls by a hair's breadth.

The right arm is drawn from the waist without being released, the spine is straightened like a spear, and the clenched fist at the peak carries the immense power of the flesh.

It slammed violently onto the axle of the millstone!

"Boom----!!"

The brittle corpus luteum was instantly Smash!

Millions of sharp chips shot backward in the sweeping force of the punch, riddling the sturdy metal casing with holes.

At that very moment.

The ten-meter-long scythe swept across the ice shards, silently slicing down to the back of John's neck.

A strong gust of wind had already torn the edge of the cloak, splashing out a few streaks of red dust.

John sensed it, but he didn't turn around at all.

Neither retreat nor dodge... neither avoid.

"Buzz--!!"

Two extremely pure crimson beams of light shot out angrily from John's pupils!

It protruded three inches from its socket, and a strange change occurred suddenly.

The two lines that should have run straight through each other were bent and twisted by John's deliberate force field, becoming stiff and tyrannical in the void like red pythons.

Then, incredibly, it turned into a near-ninety-degree right angle, and then—

Turn!

The crimson beams slid along the collapsed beams, leaving two bloody arcs in the air.

It was cunning and precise, penetrating through the blind spot before striking hard at the energy junction on the right shoulder of the outer armor where a hole had been pierced.

"Sizzle----!!"

The extremely high temperature instantly vaporized the armor, which was temporarily constructed from energy.

The giant scythe suddenly emitted a mournful cry like shattering glass, and then collapsed from its rear end, turning into a cloud of yellow mist that scattered across the sky!

"Ugh!!"

Zod grunted and took a few steps back.

Immediately afterwards, a faint yellow flame flickered in his eyes.

Nurturing the fear of eight million people, the yellow mist from the burned-through right shoulder began to churn wildly.

In less than half a second, the broken energy structure was restored to its original state.

"It's no use! Carl...!!"

Zod growled, extending both arms and transforming his palms into claws.

Next second.

Several spears, glowing with light, rained down like a storm.

"Whoosh--"

John lowered his gaze and disappeared into the shadows.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Impact! Hand-to-hand combat!

Fists like dragons!

Bengquan (crushing fist), Chongbu (rushing step)!

With several bursts of blazing waves breaking through the barrier, the terrifying brute force shattered Zod's energy armor, sending fragments of light flying everywhere.

Zod, nourished by the fear he absorbed, scattered and then regrouped, becoming even more cohesive once more.

The warhammer and the giant axe evolved alternately in his hands.

For a time, the two sides were evenly matched, resulting in a strange situation.

The steel groans in despair, the keel broken.

finally.

The Black Zero, whose hull was already on the verge of disintegration, could no longer withstand the violently released kinetic energy inside and began to disintegrate.

"Squeak----!!!!"

A loud bang.

The warship's midsection, with its five-meter-thick side plating, was pierced through by a violent collision!

Next second!

Two intertwined figures burst forth from the surging, fierce energy.

They cleaved through the vast expanse of wind and charged back into the sky.

The waves rose like clusters of mountains, and surged like furious waves.

However, the moment he burst out of the cabin, Zod, who was suspended above the Heavenly Spirit of the Energy God, glanced down slightly.

Immediately afterwards, his face, covered in yellow wrinkles, suddenly froze.

Then, a slow smile spread across his face.

" Carl El... so this is your plan...?"

In that instant, the wide-angle lens zoomed out abruptly, capturing the entire panoramic view.

A single, sky-reaching, translucent, curved wall stretching from east to west.

"Protecting ants..."

Zod pointed with one finger at the heavy black ship below, his eyes full of mockery.

"Then I'll make sure you don't get your way."

With that, Zod leaped up and slammed his arms together in the air!

"Boom--!!"

The yellow flames that had been surrounding him began to overlap haphazardly at this moment.

Countless streams of energy ceased to disperse and instead collapsed and coalesced wildly between the palms of the outer armor.

"Buzz----!!"

The sharp whistling sound briefly drowned out the engine's hum as it shut off.

soon.

A sharp, conical drill bit, over a hundred meters long and towering like a celestial tower, suddenly appeared.

The drill bit's surface was covered with dense, gleaming white threads.

The moment it took shape, the high-speed engine roared into action.

30,000 RPM!

Cirrus clouds mixed with fog.

The pressure surge caused by the extremely high rotation speed carried the air into visible funnel-shaped white waves.

"... broken!!"

As ferocious as a demon!

The massive outer armor moved accordingly, its arms tightly embracing the terrifyingly huge yellow diamond, using the gravitational potential energy of its descent.

It crashed down fiercely against that towering dome!

"Thump----!!!!"

The world lost its color.

The transparent dome, bombarded by the rapidly spinning giant drill, erupted with blindingly bright lightning.

Soon, the surface of the force field began to dent inward at a visible speed, creating a pit a hundred meters deep that was barely held together.

"Creak... Rumble!!"

Spiderwebs appeared.

Under continuous onslaught, the Bioelectric Field inevitably reached its limit.

Force applied, displacement!

It tilts five degrees to the southeast.

This seemingly insignificant slight tilt caused a tremor-like effect, much like the butterfly effect.

The entire Black Zero suddenly plummeted downwards in mid-air.

They slid a full eighty meters!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!!"

The decline triggered a terrifying surge of pressure.

The torrent burst out in all directions, crushing the remaining floors of several buildings on Financial Street, causing them to sink even further.

Meanwhile, the Metropolis.

On the long street.

"It moved... it moved!!"

"We can't hold on any longer!! The spaceship is going to crash!!"

"Run!! Run fast, ahhh!!"

Despair spread like wildfire, instantly becoming a raging inferno.

The people who had just been as devout as believers suddenly scrambled to their feet from the ground like madmen.

The mother was pushed to the ground, and the baby cried.

The well-dressed professionals, grabbing at their colleagues' collars, jostled and rushed into the underground parking garage.

The vehicle reversed, smashing the shop window.

Sirens, screams, wails.

However, it was a boiling pot of hell on earth.

The primal instinct for survival shattered all pretense of civilization.

And in that instant when extreme panic swept through the entire city...

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh----!!"

Strange phenomena suddenly occur!

Layers upon layers of clearly visible, thick, yellowish mercury-like fog of fear.

Like streams of water hanging upside down between heaven and earth, they rose up from above the heads of all the fleeing people.

Not only that.

Once these reverse currents have reached a certain height, all the clusters begin to converge.

Then it rotated, thickened, until it transformed into dozens of yellow tornadoes that stretched across the sky and earth.

Immediately afterward, it traversed a thousand meters in the air, flowing into Zod's body like rivers flowing into the sea.

"Boom!!"

Absorbed, skyrocketing!

The armor, fueled by a massive amount of panic, expanded wildly once more in an instant!

thirty!

forty!

Fifty feet!

The chitin flowing on the surface of the outer armor began to deepen and solidify, even gleaming with a metallic sheen.

Suppression, exponential increase!

The violent and unparalleled surge of energy, flowing through the Bioelectric Field circuitry, violently surged back into John's mind!

The Bioelectric Field is maintained by his will, and conversely, he also bears the consequences.

"Well..."

John gritted his teeth and let out a low, muffled groan.

The veins on his forehead and neck were bulging and throbbing.

A sharp, stabbing pain throbbed in my mind, and my vision even blurred with a dark red flush.

"Damn it..."

John endured the terrifying pressure while glancing down at the scattered, agitated crowd below.

"A bunch of incompetent teammates."

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