"Charlie, look!"
"That is Homelander, right?"
About one kilometer away from Sylvester Town, by a stream, two young men in plaid shirts were fiddling with the remote controller of a drone.
At this moment, through the live feed transmitted back by the drone, they saw a blue figure flying toward a small town.
"Why would Homelander come to a place like this?"
"Who cares, Charlie."
"Quick, get your drone to follow Homelander."
"Forget the wilderness survival feature. Let's do a Homelander special instead."
The young man called Charlie let out a sound of surprise, "Wait, I see the military. Look!"
On the screen, outside the town, one military off-road vehicle after another was driving out.
This scene was clearly seen by the two young men.
The two of them then cheered.
"There is the military, and there is Homelander."
"There must be something big happening here!"
"Film it! We have to film it!"
"When we upload this later, I bet it will definitely break a million views!"
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At the same time, inside the military camp—
Electro Man glanced at an aerial drone in the distant sky and said quietly, "Should we shoot that thing down? It does not look military."
Element Woman shook her head, "Forget it. Homelander told us to stand by. If anyone from the town tries to rush out, we stop them."
"So I think we should stay focused."
Tall and supermodel-like, Ice Princess let out a scoff, "Relax. I can handle the blockade and interception work by myself."
Standing not far away, Starlight rolled her eyes, sensing the faint tension between these newcomers.
She looked at Homelander, who had already flown above the town, and said softly, "What is he planning to do next?"
Alex looked down at the town from above.
The event requirements flashed through his mind.
"This time I do not need to rescue hostages. That makes it a lot easier."
"Then let's wipe out the Night Servants along with that so-called 'Midnight Clown.'"
As he spoke, Alex's eyes gradually lit up. In just a short moment, his eyes were already filled with golden light.
It was as if a sun was contained within those eyes, radiating the most brilliant light of high noon.
The golden glow grew stronger and stronger, spilling out of his eye sockets, even illuminating the capillaries around his eyes with light.
The temperature near the town rose sharply. In an instant, even people far away in the military camp cried out.
They felt scorching heat, and in the blink of an eye, they were drenched in sweat. Looking around, the scenery became distorted and blurry.
"What is going on?"
"Why is it so hot?"
Even superhumans like Ice Princess and the others felt the heat unbearable.
Element Woman's eyes turned emerald green, and winds immediately rose around them. Unfortunately, the air temperature was already too high. Even with wind, it was just waves of hot air.
Ice Princess, on the other hand, parted her lips and gently blew out a breath, instantly bringing a wave of coolness around them.
At this moment, in midair, Alex had already raised the temperature of his "heat vision" to three thousand degrees. This temperature was already enough to melt steel.
Therefore, even though the heat radiating to the ground was not that high, it was still enough to make armored vehicle hulls scorching hot and turn the ground into a giant furnace.
The next instant, from Alex's eyes burst out pillars of golden light. Because the temperature was too high, even the air was ignited as the beams cut through it.
Thus, centered on Alex, raging flames suddenly surged up across the entire sky above the town.
The terrifying heat wave rushed forward, forcing Starlight and the others to retreat involuntarily.
Looking again at Homelander within the flames, their hearts pounded wildly, filled with both awe and fear.
Especially Ice Princess, she had fought Alex one on one.
She had originally thought that even if Homelander had not gone all out back then, he had at least used eighty percent of his strength.
But now it seemed, back then, Homelander had not been serious at all.
If he had been like this, she would have been melted by his beams long ago.
Looking at the godlike figure within the flames, Ice Princess's breathing grew heavy, her gaze turning slightly dazed.
The waterfall-like golden beams instantly tore through the air, about to strike the town.
Suddenly, the beams twisted, then curved, roaring as they swept across the ground and surged toward the town square.
There, at some unknown moment, an obese man had appeared. His mouth was wide open as he made a sucking motion.
Alex looked over and instantly saw that inside the fat man's mouth, it was as if it led to another world, flickering with bizarre, dazzling light.
The next second, his "heat vision" was sucked into the fat man's mouth and cast into another space.
The entire process lasted several seconds. Alex saw that the fat man showed no signs of bursting or being overwhelmed.
He immediately stopped firing the high-temperature beam.
At the same time, he frowned.
His "heat vision" could trigger a secondary explosive effect. Once a three-thousand-degree beam exploded, its power would be quite considerable.
Yet that fat man was completely unharmed.
Alex immediately used "Insight" on the fat man.
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[Name: Glutton]
[Life Level: Level 4 (Superhuman)]
[Status: Nervous]
[Talent: Dimensional Projection] [T/N: This is a broken skill.]
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'As expected, a superhuman.'
Just then, inside the town, the loudspeaker on the circus tent blared to life.
["Homelander!"]
["You really came."]
["But I already expected this."]
["So this time, I brought a secret weapon."]
["Meet Glutton!"]
["He will eat up all your favorite energy beams!"]
["And also, gentlemen of the security department."]
["You broke your promise. You brought Homelander here."]
["Then there is nothing we can do."]
["Negotiations are over!"]
As his words fell, from the rooftops of buildings around the town came a continuous boom of cannon fire.
Shells were launched into the sky, though it was unclear what they were.
Alex did not pay attention. With a whoosh, he charged toward the fat man in the town square.
He wanted to kill him first.
But the moment he moved, the ground in front of Glutton bulged. Rocks rose up, forming a stone man about two meters tall.
The stone man lowered its center of gravity, crossed its arms in front of itself, and tried to block Alex.
BANG!
Alex crashed straight into it, smashing the stone man to pieces. But when he landed, he saw Glutton panic and run into the circus tent.
Alex smiled and was about to chase him when the rocks from the shattered stone man flew back over.
They attached themselves to Alex, forming a stone prison around him.
Then, a face appeared on one of the rocks and spoke, "I will not let you pass, Homelander!"
At that moment, the light above Alex's head suddenly dimmed.
He looked up and saw thick clouds rapidly forming, blocking the sunlight and casting shadows over the land.
The weather changed in an instant.
The sky turned gloomy. The sunlight was gone.
And at this moment, the voice of "Midnight Clown" sounded again from the loudspeakers.
["Go, servants of the night. Tear the oath-breaker into pieces."]
["Let black terror spread and expand!"]
As the voice fell, the door of a two-story building not far away suddenly shattered. A figure crashed out and rolled several times on the ground.
Then it climbed up. It was a "person" with no hair, pitch-black skin, and red light blazing from its eyes.
Its blood vessels bulged all over its body. Fangs protruded from its mouth. Its fingernails were curved like claws.
With a howl, it sprinted madly toward the outside of the town.
The next second, doors and windows of buildings across the town shattered one after another.
Large numbers of mutated town residents burst out of the buildings, howling like beasts, crazily charging toward the outskirts of the town, toward the military and superhumans like Starlight.
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