Before Barry Allen could even process Kara's words, "Leave it to me," the ground beneath his feet began to groan violently.
"Boom--"
From the depths of the giant crater created by the golden light, a muffled thud came as rubble and soil were lifted up by a tremendous force.
Immediately afterwards, a black figure soared into the sky and hovered in mid-air.
It was General Zod.
He looked disheveled, his combat uniform riddled with holes, and a trickle of blood hung from the corner of his mouth, but his destructive aura remained undiminished.
He wiped away the blood, his gaze sweeping over everyone else, fixing fixedly on Kara.
"Very well," General Zod said, his voice carrying the cruel satisfaction of a hunter finally finding his prey. "I've finally found you, Kara Zo-El."
Kara floated silently in the air, her long hair swaying gently in the airflow.
She did not respond to Zod's announcement, but simply gazed at him calmly with her azure eyes and asked a question.
" Carl, you killed him, didn't you?"
Her voice was soft, yet it sent a chill down the spine of everyone present who could hear it.
General Zod paused noticeably; he seemed surprised that Kara would ask that question.
After a moment of silence, he forced a cold smile, "I'm sorry, that child... he didn't make it."
Before he could finish speaking...
No, not even while his last syllable was still echoing in the air.
Kara moved.
There were no signs, no energy buildup, and not even a starting stance.
Her figure vanished from Barry's sight in an instant.
The next moment, she appeared before General Zod.
That's too fast!
General Zod's pupils contracted sharply, and he instinctively raised his hand to try to defend himself, but with such a disparity in strength, struggling was futile.
"Bang!"
Kara grabbed Zod by the neck, clenched her other fist, and slammed it into Zod's abdomen.
The muffled thud made Barry, hundreds of meters away, feel his internal organs convulsing.
Zod curled up like a shrimp, spitting out a mouthful of blood and saliva. He had no time to react at all.
"Bang!"
The second punch landed squarely on his chest.
The seemingly indestructible Krypton body let out a mournful cry as its bones dislocated.
"Bang!"
The third punch!
With this punch, Kara slammed Zod from mid-air into the ground!
"BOOM--!!!"
Zod transformed into a black meteorite, crashing into the earth and creating a brand new, spiderweb-like, cracked crater.
He lay at the bottom of the pit, blood gushing from his seven orifices, struggling but unable to get up.
Barry's mind went blank.
That monster who just moments ago toyed with them all, tore through Cyborg with his bare hands, and Shazam power with a single punch... was just... defeated with three punches?
Kara descended slowly from the sky, hovering above the crater, looking down at Zod at the bottom, seemingly preparing to deliver the final blow.
"Etc!"
Zod stretched out a trembling hand, his voice carrying for the first time an undisguised fear and panic.
"Wait! Kara Zo-El! We... we are all fellow Krypton! The last Kryptonian! We don't need to kill each other!"
Kara stopped.
She simply watched him silently from the air, without the slightest emotional fluctuation.
Seeing this, Zod thought there was a chance for a turn of events and struggled to shout, "I did it all for Krypton! To rebuild our great civilization! Carl's sacrifice was necessary! For a greater cause, personal sacrifice is worthwhile!"
Kara tilted her head, seemingly pondering his words.
A few seconds later, she spoke softly.
"Yes."
"I will remember your sacrifice."
As soon as she finished speaking, two crimson beams, even more intense and dazzling than the Sun, shot out from her eyes!
The beam of light was no longer a line, but two destructive torrents that instantly engulfed the entire crater!
"No--!!!"
General Zod's unwilling roar couldn't even last a second in the terrifying heat. He and his body, along with his ambition, were completely evaporated and vanished into nothingness.
The Heat Vision continued.
After Zod was completely wiped out, the two beams of destructive light became even thicker and more violent!
Kara looked up, and a crimson beam shot straight into the sky, precisely sweeping towards the massive Kryptonian Spaceship hovering above the city!
"Zzzzzzz--!!!"
The sickening sound of melting metal echoed through the sky.
That war fortress, powerful enough to destroy a civilization, was like a lump of butter thrown into a furnace before Kara's Heat Vision. Starting from the spot it was hit, it rapidly and silently decomposed, melted, and finally turned into scattered metallic dust.
It only took a dozen seconds.
The last threat to Krypton, along with their general and spaceship, was thus completely and cleanly wiped from the face of the earth.
Barry Allen stared, mouth agape, at the scene.
Wait... Clark's cousin... is she really that amazing?!
Just then, two figures appeared beside him without warning.
"This is the helper I found for you. What do you think? Pretty good, right?"
A male voice, tinged with a hint of mockery and laziness, rang out.
Barry turned his head sharply and saw Thor and Death Tetiyu, dressed in casual clothes, smiling at him.
Thor casually waved his hand.
An indescribable, Soul Stone -warming power washed over Barry's body.
"Snap!"
The ice on his right leg melted instantly, and the biting cold vanished completely.
"Snap!"
The broken left leg, its twisted bones automatically returned to their original position, and in a tingling, warm current, it was perfectly healed.
He instinctively stood up and stretched his legs. Apart from the tear in his clothes, there wasn't a single other injury on his body.
What... what kind of ability is this?!
He stared in astonishment into the distance, where that warm power also enveloped Thomas Wayne, Billy Batson, and even... even the Cyborg torn in two.
Thomas's wounds healed at a visible speed. He groaned and opened his eyes.
The divine power that had dissipated from Billy's body re-condensed, and with a flash of lightning, he transformed back into the tall and strong magical Shazam.
The most outrageous one is Cyborg.
The two halves of his body, along with the scattered parts, internal organs, and biological fluids, were drawn together by an invisible force, reassembling, piecing together, and repairing themselves... A few seconds later, Victor Stone stood unharmed in the same spot, even the sparks on his body had disappeared.
"I... I'm still alive?" Cyborg looked down at his hands, his electronic eyes filled with a bewildered, garbled mess of data.
Barry was completely dumbfounded.
He turned his head and stared intently at Thor: "What... what did you do? And Kara... why is she so strong?"
"Me?" Thor shrugged, giving him a "no big deal" look.
"I just used a little trick to fix them."
He paused, then looked at the golden figure slowly descending in the sky, lazily revealing the answer.
As for why she's so strong...
"It's very simple. I just let her bask in the Sun in space for a hundred years, that's all."