Shadow of the Beautiful World

Ten minutes later, Clark left Kara's house.

He asked Carla to help him take care of Louise, and Carla agreed.

The carefree Superwoman didn't find out her cousin's hidden thoughts. After Clark left, she went to Kansas alone.

Shazam still stayed in the co-living room to continue training.

This guy can be regarded as Merlin's registered disciple. Although he usually looks like he doesn't care about anything, Billy is actually very concerned about the battle for the Supreme Mage this time.

This can be seen from his initiative to ask his powerful girlfriend to help him with training.

He doesn't want to lose either.

The mind of a young man made him not want to embarrass his mentor.

What's more, there is still a promise with his girlfriend Kara. Even if it is for his own happiness, Billy will risk everything to win.

Of course, even Billy Batson, the most tired of all the contestants, trained so hard, not to mention the others.

The battle for the supreme mage that is about to begin will inevitably stage a battle between dragons and tigers.

But that doesn't have much to do with Clark.

whoosh

Superman's figure is like a shooting star flying into the stars.

He took off his glasses and put on the blue-red Kryptonian combat uniform. The red cloak flapped behind his back. The moment he left the atmosphere and entered the stars, the firmness in Clark's eyes became more stubborn.

It may seem like a disagreement, but it's a fight for salvation.

It is what he must fulfill.

Just as he cannot sit back and watch innocent people on the earth be harmed in disasters, he cannot sit back and watch the last of his compatriots rush towards the desperate situation of failure like moths to a flame.

If fate arranges for those former exiles to come to the earth, it may mean that fate also hopes to see the Kryptonians who lost their homeland continue to exist on the earth in a posture of breaking out of the cocoon.

Why do you have to follow the old path that has been proven wrong?

Where are you going?

At the moment Clark left to change the orbit of the earth, Merlin's voice suddenly sounded behind Superman.

Clark, who was flying at high speed, stopped in place with an emergency stop. He was suspended there, looking back behind him. In the shadow of the shining halo of stars, a door made of shadows opened quietly.

Lord Raven, who was wearing a suit and windbreaker and a scarf around his neck, came out of it.

He and Clark looked at each other, both with blue eyes.

Looking at your aggressiveness, exuding a thick and strong murderous aura, I guess, you are going to fight.

Merlin's voice sounded in Superman's mind, with a hint of speculation, but in fact it was a tone of conviction.

They say ravens are everywhere, and that seems like an exaggeration, but now I'm pretty sure that nothing happens on Earth without you, my friend.

Clark looked back at the blue planet, and he said to Merlin:

Yes, I'm going to fight, and my last clansmen, I and them, have some... differences of ideas.

Are you planning to go alone?

Merlin looked around and said:

Don't you have any friends?

Impossible, Clark, you are so popular, as long as you ask, Bruce, Diana, Cyborg, and my nephew, and the Green Lantern who was excluded by his peers, they will help you without hesitation.

Raven said slowly:

You only need to send a message, and the former Avengers will stand by your side.

Even if we take ten thousand steps back, we won't help you. You still have relatives, Carla El. Superwoman will never sit back and watch her younger brother go all out alone.

But they didn't come, which means, do you plan to go to the meeting alone and solve all the troubles alone?

He was stating the facts, and as one of Merlin's best friends, Clark knew what Merlin meant.

But he still shook his head stubbornly, and said:

This is a Kryptonian affair, and I don't want anyone else to be injured or killed for my persistence. I didn't tell anyone about it, and Thor will keep it a secret for me.

The dispute between me and Zod started from the 'Treasure of Origin' contained in my genes. This is an irreconcilable conflict.

But I also made an agreement with him. Regardless of whether I win or lose this battle, and whether he can get the Book of Genesis, he will never see the earth as the next place where Krypton will rise.

Clark swayed the cloak behind his back, and he said to Merlin:

I won't let the trouble I cause affect our world.

madness!

Merlin, who had a gentle face, took a step forward, his expression became severe and angry, and he said to Clark:

What do you take this for? Another great sacrifice? Use yourself as a bargaining chip to play a game of win or die?

Have you ever thought about how Louise and your soon-to-be son, your parents, and your friends are going to accept this fact if you don't come back?

The rest of the Justice League will sink into hopeless pain and guilt because they had a chance to save you.

Clark Kent, you can't be so selfish and choose to bear everything by yourself, and then leave the pain to the people behind you who are protected by you.

We need friends, and the desire for friendship in our hearts is not without reason.

Raven stretched out his hand and patted Clark on the shoulder. He said:

This is the meaning of the existence of friends. No matter what you encounter, no matter what you think, when you face danger, you will never walk alone. Since I have appeared here, it means that I will not allow you Challenge them alone.

And your odds are slim.

Merlin says:

Zod and his warriors have been on Mars for a period of time to receive the radiation from the sun. You have the power, so do they. They have methods and skills that are more in line with Kryptonian combat. 16 people will fight you one, and one of them will fight you. Father of brute force.

Even I feel that such an enemy is difficult.

Raven looked at Clark, he said seriously and seriously:

You need help, Clark, there's no question about that.

Father?

Clark smiled and asked back.

Under Merlin's slightly surprised gaze, Superman clenched his fists, strands of golden arcs of light fluttered on his arms, and the power endowed by the sun filled every cell in Clark's body.

His body seemed to grow bigger, and his eyes were shining brightly at this moment.

The aura that was very similar to that of the Steppenwolf rushed towards his face, making Raven's long black hair aroused and fluttering behind him.

I am Heavenly Father too, Merlin.

Clark faced the sun, closed his eyes, spread his arms, and bathed in the sunlight, he said to Merlin:

During this period of time, I have been staying in the sun, allowing the golden sun to strengthen my body. I didn't risk running to die because I was not sure, Merlin.

I also have the pursuit of victory. I don't want to miss the moment when my child is born, and I want to grow up with him.

Superman said firmly:

I will face my stubborn brethren, I will fight them, I will defeat them, crush their wrong ideas, and bring them back to Earth...

Just as that world gave me a new life, I will also give them a new life and new hope.

Clark looked confident.

But Raven didn't think so.

He frowned and looked at Clark's state at this time. Although the power filled in every cell of Superman's body did break through the shackles of the heavenly father, Merlin's feeling was different from other heavenly fathers.

This is more like a state brought about by the high-speed superposition of energy in a short period of time.

It is not stable.

The sun strengthened Clark, but the effect of this strengthening was superficial, and did not really push Clark into the Father from the cellular level.

in other words.

His power may indeed have broken through the Father, and his destructive power has multiplied, but his body still maintains its previous state.

The attack is enough, the defense is a little weak.

I don't think Zod and his followers will be unprepared.

Raven pursed his lips, he looked at the persistence in Superman's eyes, he knew he couldn't persuade this guy.

He has made up his mind.

You have to be prepared. You are determined to solve this matter yourself. I can't convince you, but I won't allow you to risk your life without making any preparations.

Merlin took a step back, took out a silver syringe from his pocket, and handed it to Clark.

He said:

This is my help for you, Clark, don't refuse.

I hope you don't use it, because it has not been verified after it was made, but in theory, it can indeed open the last shackles in the Kryptonian's gene, and develop your unaware potential in a short period of time.

Merlin warned:

I don't know what will happen if you inject it rashly, but I will pay attention to your battle. If something goes wrong, I will take you away from that battlefield.

All right.

Clark did not refuse Merlin's kindness again.

He took the syringe made by Zhenjin and put it in the waist pocket of the Kryptonian combat uniform. He nodded to Merlin, as if saying goodbye.

If I don't come back...

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Raven waving his hand.

Merlin looked back at the blue planet behind him, and said in a deep voice:

I'm not going to sit back and watch my friend be cornered and callously do nothing.

I will not interfere with your battle, but it has nothing to do with winning or losing. You will definitely come back, I promise.

Um.

Clark nodded, he waved to Merlin, then turned around, flew into the stars like an arrow leaving the string, and quickly disappeared into the sea of ​​stars.

Merlin watched Clark leave. He raised his wrist and looked at the time on his watch.

At the moment when the hour and minute hands overlapped at 12:00 noon, Merlin crushed the three-eyed emblem in his palm, and a magic arc leaped into the earth, forming a unique rainbow in the sky.

It can be seen all over the world.

That means, the battle for the Supreme Mage...

Official opening!

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The figure of Superman flew past Mars, and he continued to move forward, and continued to accelerate.

Where the sun's light can still reach, his flying speed reached the speed of light, or even surpassed the speed of light.

After tens of minutes, he arrived outside the ring of Saturn. In the sea of ​​stars in front of him, there were still remnants of the interstellar battlefield left after the war between the Kree and the Chitauri.

Those huge mountain-like space junks suspended in the deep space twisted.

Captured by Saturn's gravity, thousands of wreckage clustered together in a small area that looked like a graveyard among the stars.

It was dead silent and cold, outlining an ominous scene.

In front of the Xinghai cemetery, General Zod and his followers, who were also wearing combat uniforms, were standing on a torn battleship. They stayed on Mars for a while, receiving the strengthening of the sun.

After receiving the news from Clark, they came here, waiting for Clark's arrival.

This is the intended battlefield.

Unlike Clark's blue combat uniforms, these Kryptonian combat uniforms are all black, which is a special model that soldiers of the Kryptonian civilization will use.

I am coming!

Clark hovered hundreds of meters away. He looked at General Zod, who was as indifferent as a sculpture, with his arms folded and not speaking. He shouted loudly:

Thank you for the gift to my son, Zod, but I've already made up my mind.

I'm sorry, too, Carl.

There wasn't much expression on Zod's thin face.

He looked at Clark, who called Superman's Kryptonian name, and said:

I regret that we have come to this point. We all have our own insistence. I want to reshape Krypton in the sea of ​​stars, and you think my approach is wrong.

You are very much like your father, you have your own thinking about problems, and you stick to your own ideas, as stubborn as a rock.

General Zod took a step forward, his body was suspended, he moved his arms, fists and shoulders, and he said:

From the perspective of the rebuilder, your decision makes me feel angry; but from the perspective of the elders, I am happy to see your persistence and not blindly follow me.

This proves that you have inherited the spirit of the Aiur family, even though you have never known the story about your family.

The cloak behind Zod was shaking, and he came to a position 20 meters away from Clark, and he said to the silent Clark:

From your eyes, I can also see that you want us to live on the earth like you in your way, and you think that is the way to rebuild Kryptonian civilization...

But they are not my people, Karl.

General Zod sighed and said:

Since I was born, I have shouldered the mission of defending the people. The most painful thing for soldiers is that I am still alive, but I have no people to protect. I have...

you also have!

Clark interrupted Zod, saying:

The people behind you, the people in front of you, we are all your people, but you ignore them.

Don't go down the wrong path again, Uncle Zod... the collapse of the world of Krypton has proved that the genetic modulation technology we used to use is a path of failure, and an unimagined, but promising path is in front of you .”

We just need to return to the normal civilization, and the Kryptonian civilization will be rebuilt one day! All we need is time, Zod, stop being stubborn!

You trying to convince me? Are you trying to convince me?

Zod shook his head, he clenched his fist, looked at Clark, the light in his eyes became sharp, and he said:

Then come and defeat me, Karl.

As long as you win, I, an antique from the old age, follow your plan for Kryptonian civilization... You claim that you have seen our future, so let me see it too, Karl.

Let me also see if your shoulders can support the future you imagined!

Let me see if you have the ability to protect the future you want!

Since you've come here, your heart should be as hard as steel...

Don't hesitate, throw your fist at me, boy.