Chapter 209: A Clash
Darkseid dispatched his trusted subordinates to retrieve the Mother Box, leaving him with only the endless Parademon army and hovering warships above the Arctic. Yet, this did nothing to diminish the Dark Lord's formidable presence.
An overbearing aura of dominion over all life in the universe radiated from him. His eyes shot out two Omega Rays, one after the other.
The Heat Vision, exuding an aura of destruction, bent and weaved through the air, homing in on the two of them.
"Dodge!" David shouted a warning.
Unlike ordinary ray attacks, the Omega Ray had a tracking effect, and once it killed, it was a complete obliteration, with no possibility of resurrection.
With goosebumps rising all over his body, Clark transformed into a streak of light and dodged to the side.
The two Omega Rays separated, one pursuing him like a persistent shadow.
Chii!
David raised his palm and unleashed a Death Ray, a purple-black beam. The Omega Ray, capable of obliterating everything, collided with the Death Ray that annihilated all things, canceling each other out.
The Omega Ray advanced a few inches against the purple-black beam before its momentum faltered and it was extinguished.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Clark moved like an incredibly agile fighter jet, performing a dazzling array of aerial maneuvers, darting up and down through the Parademon army. But that beam relentlessly pursued him.
He widened his eyes and looked back, the red light reflecting in his eyes like a red grim reaper who would not stop until he delivered death to his target.
A purple-black beam pierced the sky, blasting the scattered ray.
Having saved Clark from danger, David turned his gaze to Darkseid. A powerful gravity field instantly enveloped the towering figure.
The pressure was terrifying!
Darkseid's nonchalant posture with his hands behind his back could no longer be maintained. It was as if a planet was crashing down upon him. His knees buckled, the ground beneath him shattered, and cracks snaked out for nearly a hundred meters. He looked up with furious eyes.
"Altering gravity?"
The next second, the powerful gravity field restraining Darkseid was broken. He hovered in the air, like a colossal celestial body. With a clench of his hand, the emanating gravitational field pulled at David like a terrifying black hole.
"With my mastery of the Omega Effect, gravity is merely my plaything."
The mountains trembled. Facing the immense pulling force ahead, David was uncontrollably pulled back several meters before his speed surged. Following the force, he instantly appeared before Darkseid and punched him, sending him flying.
Darkseid's massive body flew back for several miles, smashing through a mountain peak and becoming embedded in the mountainside. His expression was grim as he wiped a smear of blood from the corner of his mouth.
"Do you think by simply manipulating gravity, you can make me dizzy and lose control?"
You underestimate me too much. David's eyes emitted thick Heat Vision, blasting towards him. Darkseid raised his massive palm to block, the pain of the burn causing his expression to shift slightly.
"Let me make you realize, the price of underestimating me could be your life!"
"Who do you think you are, to compare yourself to the ruler of Apokolips? In my eyes, you are nothing but an insignificant nobody!"
Facing David's warning that he could lose his life if he wasn't careful, Darkseid reached out with his massive hand and grabbed the shattered mountain, weighing millions of tons, and hurled it at David.
The heavy, colossal mountain flew like a meteorite, igniting the air as it streaked forward.
David punched it, shattering it into pieces. Amidst the flying debris, a colossal figure, like a demon god, suddenly attacked, punching David into the ground.
Boom!
The terrifying force caused the entire Arctic continent to tremble violently. At the epicenter...
The previously shattered mountain, along with the debris blasted into the sky, stones the size of millstones and trucks shot out in all directions with the speed of roaring bullets.
Clark, who was engaged with the Parademons, saw the vast Parademon army suffer heavy casualties, with severed limbs flying everywhere. Some were directly blasted into dust.
But Darkseid, unconcerned about the expendable Parademon army, pressed his attack ferociously, punching down at David in the crater, intending to press his advantage.
"Very well, this is more interesting!"
Thick Death Rays propelled him into the sky. David then burst out of the crater, swinging his fist to engage him. Their fists and feet collided, tearing through the atmosphere and shaking the entire Arctic continent.
Having experienced David's strength, Darkseid abandoned his kingly posture with his hands behind his back. Their extreme power clashed, and waves of energy exploded outwards, sweeping across the Arctic sky like tangible white tides.
Clark watched the two fighters at incredible speed with a look of shock. Although he moved freely through the Parademon army, none could withstand a single punch from him.
Yet, in this short time, the number of Parademons he had killed was less than those killed by the mere aftershocks of their battle.
David and Darkseid fought intermittently from the sky to the ground, mountains shattered, the earth trembled and collapsed, and the atmosphere within thousands of miles was completely dispersed.
"Transcendent, your strength is worthy of my attention!" Darkseid's voice boomed like thunder as he repelled David with his Omega Rays.
"Kneel and beg for my forgiveness, submit to me, Darkseid. After I have conquered ten thousand worlds in the universe, I, as a god, can pardon your sins."
As for Kalibak's death, it was not as significant in his mind as being challenged.
"It seems your mind is still not clear. You expect me to submit to you?" David extended his hand, and a mountain-like surge of telekinesis locked onto Darkseid's limbs, lifting him into the air.
Combined with his powerful gravity manipulation, this was enough to stabilize a planet, and it was now being used for pulling.
"You don't understand the power of a god!"
His bones creaked as if his limbs were about to be torn apart by four starships. Darkseid let out a pained growl, his Omega Ray, more potent than ever, bending as it shot out.
Struck in the chest as if a star had collided with him, David flew backward, spitting blood. His chest was a bloody, mangled mess, and he was sent flying out of the North Pole continent in an instant.
"I had intended to conserve my strength, in case the Mother Box was damaged during its tens of thousands of years of being lost."
Freed, Darkseid's eyes blazed with red light, and the destructive power of the Omega Effect appeared on his fists, chasing David like a fiery meteor with immense momentum.
"You've forced me to do this. You should be proud! Earth insect!"
Amplifying his physical body with cosmic energy, David met Darkseid's punch again. The earth-shattering shockwaves exploded, sending them both flying backward.
After flying dozens of miles, they stabilized their bodies. Darkseid remained ferocious, his rocky form, altered by the Omega Effect, showing little sign of damage.
Born a god, and further enhanced by the Omega Effect, his body was already harder than the core material of a white dwarf star. Now, empowered by the Omega Force's burst, David's previous attacks were barely effective.
In less than the blink of an eye, David was sent flying thousands of miles again like a streak of light. His arms were burned by the Omega Force, leaving him in a dire state and seemingly at a disadvantage.
For powerhouses like David and Darkseid, with their speed and strength, even the entire Earth was not a very wide battlefield.
"David!"
Surrounded by Parademons, Clark's eyes widened in worry as he saw this, even though he knew David possessed immortal healing abilities.
"I'm fine."
Knowing Clark could hear him, David murmured softly, looking at the injuries on his hands.
The wounds were indeed serious. However, the Omega Force was the ultimate power that could erase a person from existence. Anyone else would have been erased by now.
The red Omega Force on his wounds clung to him like a leech, hindering his recovery and attempting to invade his body to disintegrate it.
But David felt a power within him, seemingly stimulated by the intrusion of such powerful foreign energy. Immortal energy, like flames, surged from his wounds, expelling all the Omega Force.
His wounds healed at a visible rate. His eyes narrowed, and he looked up.
"Darkseid, is this your full power?
It's rather disappointing!"
"What did you say? No one has ever dared to speak to me like that!"
Darkseid, who had risen from being the second prince of Apokolips to the Dark Lord feared and trembled at by the entire universe, could barely believe his ears. No one had ever provoked and mocked him so arrogantly, time and again!
Facing Darkseid's furious charge, David raised his hand and cast a massive gravity field and telekinesis, locking onto him again.
"You think this power can restrain the ruler of Apokolips.
Insect, I will crush your head!"
The naturally arrogant Dark Lord, unable to tolerate being restrained immediately after being mocked, roared as the Omega Force within him surged, transforming into a layer of world-destroying flames.
Even the gravity and David's telekinesis were distorted and broken through.
Pushing through the power that could anchor planets, Darkseid, with terrifying might, arrived before David. Facing an attack imbued with the Omega Force, capable of shattering the moon with ease.
"Let me see all your power, Darkseid."
David advanced instead of retreating, raising his fist to meet the attack.
"Can you push me to my limit!"
"When I tear off your jaw, I'll see if you can still talk so tough!"
Darkseid's rage erupted like a volcano, his attacks raining down like a meteor shower.
Although David's continuous restraints with telekinesis and gravity fields slowed him down, he was at a significant disadvantage in terms of power. Coupled with Darkseid's occasionally fired, deflectable Omega Rays from his eyes.
He could only retreat, barely managing to avoid a complete disadvantage.
Fighting and moving, the collisions of their power agitated the oceans and tore apart the atmosphere, soon taking them beyond the Arctic Circle.
People in various countries along the way, even amidst the Parademon attacks, couldn't help but be drawn to the two beams of light constantly clashing in the sky, accompanied by spatial ripples.
"What... what is that?"
"That purple light, is it the Transcendent? How is that possible, he seems to be at a disadvantage!"
"Gods, is that the ruler behind the invading alien monster!"
"You're burning the energy within your body to amplify yourself, but how long can you last.
David Kent, do you regret provoking me!"
Compared to his Omega Force, the cosmic energy David possessed from the Eternal Race was insignificant. Darkseid's tone gradually returned to the arrogant and condescending demeanor of a cosmic overlord.
He spoke David's true name, intending to further unsettle him.
Throughout the fight, David had sustained many injuries. However, as the host of the Phoenix Force, with each attack from the Omega Force attempting to invade his body, the situation gradually changed.
Boom!
Suddenly, David actually caught Darkseid's powerful attack with his hand, causing Darkseid's eyes to twitch.
After fighting across nearly half the planet, this was the first time Darkseid's frontal attack had been firmly caught, and he had used only one hand.
"Regret? I should thank you!"
David looked up.
At some point, a Phoenix Fire, exuding an aura of ancient power and destruction, had erupted and covered his entire body.
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