Superwoman still didn't get her wish this time, because just as she was about to give up her first time, Zatanna sent a message to Dane.
"They've dealt with Martian Manhunter." Dane set Superwoman down from himself, prying open her long legs with some effort.
Superwoman seemed very displeased: "Can't we just wait until we're done before dealing with these things?"
Dane thought for a moment. With their physical fitness and stamina, considering his and Diana's first encounter, they probably wouldn't be finished even by noon the next day.
By then, Diana would come knocking with her sword. Superwoman was different from other women; she didn't seem to be well-regarded by Diana.
Perhaps it was because she had unhesitatingly abandoned her old Syndicate colleagues?
"Let's go back."
Superwoman was a bit dejected upon hearing this, but helplessly, the atmosphere had been completely ruined. She could only give up and fly with Dane to the agreed meeting point.
Dane and Superwoman arrived relatively quickly; it would take some time for Wilson and the others handling the aftermath to catch up.
"What? Did you have an accident here too?"
Dane was a little curious. Although the scale of the destruction here didn't seem as great as what he and Ultraman had caused, it had still destroyed an entire street.
"Martian Manhunter is very powerful, but his combat experience is very poor, even worse than J'onn's."
Diana let out a good complaint.
J'onn was originally an excellent warrior, but the bureaucratic life of the United States had made him soft.
Diana's abilities were theoretically not as strong as Martian Manhunter's, but she could always defeat him in the training ground by relying on her rich combat experience.
Dane had once considered whether to just let Martian Manhunter retire from the bureaucracy. After all, Pioneer Technology was now a large and thriving enterprise, and they no longer needed him to help them gather intelligence in The Pentagon.
However, his suggestion was stopped by Batman before he could even propose it. Although Batman didn't explicitly say so, Dane felt that this guy didn't seem to want Martian Manhunter to become a warrior again.
Tsk, isn't pyrophobia enough?
"Since Martian Manhunter has been captured, the remaining guys are just small fry."
Many of the Syndicate's leaders still had many capable subordinates. However, some of them were unaware, some had fled in advance after finding out, and others were being hunted down by their arch-rivals.
For example, Johnny Quick's organization in Central City, after losing him as their boss, had its remaining members severely beaten by the Rogues.
Captain Cold's freeze gun, although specially developed to target speedsters, was also a very effective weapon against others.
If Barry went back now, he would soon see this scene, and then he would probably start agonizing again.
Hal was very lucky; Power Ring was just a coward. He had neither the ability nor the personal charisma to attract other superhumans to his side.
Therefore, his forces were basically just some guys trying to profit from his reputation, all of them being low-level individuals.
These people had been suppressed by Coast City's local official forces after Power Ring was captured, so Hal didn't have to worry about the problems Barry might encounter.
"Since these founding members have all been apprehended, the next issue is the super bomb. Did you just locate Deathstorm?"
Dane was asking Superwoman. The two of them had almost taken care of business, but they had also forgotten about the main issue.
Fortunately, Superwoman hadn't forgotten about it while Dane was busy fighting Ultraman. She winked at Dane, her expression extremely ambiguous.
Diana's face darkened.
But Superwoman ignored her and said, "Of course, my dear, Deathstorm is currently in Yellowstone Park…"
After she revealed the location, the faces of all the members present became grim.
Yellowstone Park, this was no ordinary place. It was said that a supervolcano lay beneath it, and once its energy was fully released, it would destroy the entire Earth… Of course, destroying the Earth was an exaggeration, but destroying half of the biosphere would not be difficult.
In the original World, there were many conflicting opinions about whether the disaster of the Yellowstone supervolcano was real or fake, but in the DC World, the Yellowstone supervolcano indeed had the ability to destroy the ecosystem.
It was like a giant pustule on Earth's face; once it ruptured, half of Earth's face would be submerged in pus, and this "pus" was magma and volcanic ash.
After Superwoman revealed this location, Dane and Batman immediately realized that this place was very likely the "right location" that President Wilson had spoken of.
Placing the Quantum Ontology Bomb here could indeed trigger massive geological disasters, causing a series of chain reactions in Earth's core.
Perhaps it could truly make Earth explode like Kryptonian in the Universe, like fireworks.
But the question is… what was Deathstorm doing in such a place?
...Deathstorm's birth was similar to Firestorm's, also the result of a laboratory accident.
But unlike Firestorm, Deathstorm was the product of a mad scientist merging with a corpse.
Deathstorm had no normal human emotions and cared nothing for social norms, ethics, or morality.
However, he, like Firestorm, possessed the ability to reorganize inorganic matter's atoms and sub-atoms.
Aside from being unable to interfere with living structures, Deathstorm had almost the same ability to recreate all things as a mother box. The only things that could limit his abilities were energy and knowledge.
Dane has developed many miscellaneous abilities up to this point.
In addition to the divine powers and divinity he gained after becoming Shazam, he also possessed many superpowers associated with Mazahs's Power.
According to his rough observation, these abilities numbered over a hundred.
This made him feel that his abilities were somewhat complex. He wanted to trim some of them, keeping those useful to him and discarding others. Perhaps he could try bestowing them upon others?
The greatest characteristic of Mazahs's Power is that its energy is almost endless, but the means of releasing that energy are very monotonous, and some abilities, if left idle for too long, can be forgotten.
Alexander Luthor of this World was not a very intelligent person to begin with, so he most often used Super Strength and Super Speed, and his energy release methods were mostly lightning and Cyclops.
It was as if he was deliberately mirroring Ultraman; could it be that he and Karl also had a love-hate relationship?
Many more abilities were left completely idle by him, such as the ability to create clones, the ability to breathe Fire, the ability to generate freezing air, the ability to teleport, the ability to control minds, the ability to shapeshift, the ability to observe electromagnetic waves with the naked eye, telekinesis, the ability to move at Super Speed, and so on.
When fighting Dane, he occasionally used some abilities, while others he never used at all.
Honestly, Mazahs's Power was truly wasted on Alexander Luthor; he was just a brute who only knew how to pick up rocks with Super Strength and throw them at people.
However, among all the abilities absorbed by Mazahs's Power, the divine powers belonging to the Old Gods are now extremely withered, seemingly having completely lost their vitality due to the lack of faith.
Very few of them can still function stably; Zeus's power of lightning is one of them.
The power level of DC's Old Gods system is always closely related to the power of faith; the more humans who believe, and the more devout they are, the more powerful the person using divine power becomes.
Since Dane's public appearance, his power has actually been continuously growing with his increasing prestige.
Some people don't say it aloud, but deep down, they still believe in Shazam, considering him the guardian of Earth.
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