Two Kryptonian warriors did not respond; they stepped up to stand on either side of Faora.
Clearly, they chose to have three fight one against Darian.
To deal with a deviant like Darian who hindered the rise of the Kryptonian, there was no need for chivalry; rushing him together was enough.
Faora wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth with the back of her hand and warned the two Kryptonian soldiers beside her: "Do not get close to him. That green stone in his hand is strange. Once you enter a certain range, your bodily functions will rapidly decay."
The two Kryptonian warriors nodded in unison, their eyes glowing with intense red light.
In the next second, four heat rays wrapped in scorching air waves slammed toward Darian.
Since they could not get close, they would use ranged suppression.
The heat rays of a Kryptonian were not just simple high-temperature beams; they also carried powerful Impact kinetic energy. Even with the ultron armor, taking a hit would be far from pleasant.
Darian moved the instant their eyes turned red.
He vanished from the spot, moving at high speed through the ruins, attempting to close the distance between himself and the three Kryptonians.
As long as he could successfully get close, the radiation field of the Kryptonite would cover them, and the initiative would immediately return to him.
However, these Kryptonians were not reckless brutes.
After learning that the Kryptonite posed a fatal threat to them, the three of them did not give him even the slightest chance to get close.
Every time Darian pressed forward, they retreated; while retreating, they kept sweeping with heat rays, having no intention of letting him close the distance to a dangerous range.
Thus, the following scene unfolded.
The Earthling mage chased the Kryptonians, wanting close-quarters combat; the Kryptonian warriors ran away from the Earthling, wanting only ranged output.
Darian could not help but complain: "A bunch of fake Kryptonians. Shouldn't real Kryptonians resist Kryptonite head-on?"
In the comics, Clark had a skill that allowed him to catch Kryptonite with his bare hands 100% of the time.
Despite his speed exceeding the speed of light, he still could not dodge bullets made of Kryptonite, and there were countless cases of physical contact with Kryptonite.
One would think Kryptonite contained something addictive for Kryptonians, given how they needed a dose every few days.
Look at these three here; after confirming the lethality of the Kryptonite, they immediately spread out, refusing to give any chance for close combat, cautious to the point of making Darian's teeth ache.
Even more troublesome was that the three of them always kept their distance.
Even if Darian seized an opening to force a breakthrough, the other two could immediately provide fire support with heat rays, completely sealing off the possibility of him picking them off one by one.
The three Kryptonians coordinated perfectly. Even though Darian pushed his mobility to the max, he inevitably took several heat rays.
The huge Impact blasted him through three buildings, crashing him into a pile of reinforced concrete ruins.
He stood up from the pile of broken bricks, the blue light on the surface of his ultron armor having noticeably dimmed.
Because the ultron armor had been running at full power, his mana was dropping at an alarming rate, and it was about to bottom out.
The lower part of his faceplate opened automatically, and Darian quickly pulled out a black pill and threw it into his mouth.
[Item: soldier pill (After consumption, restores a certain amount of mana and fills the stomach; an essential medicine for every ninja when going out)]
The soldier pill melted upon contact, and his almost depleted mana finally recovered by a large margin.
Before he could even catch his breath, the sky above was torn open again by two red light beams, which slammed directly toward his position.
The core reactor on Darian's chest suddenly lit up, and a blue energy beam met them head-on, holding the two heat rays in mid-air.
But the moment he blocked the frontal attack, two more heat rays came from the left and right.
Darian stretched out both hands, palms spraying blue energy beams, barely holding off the attacks from both sides as well.
He had blocked them all.
But the bit of energy he had just regained from the soldier pill began to drop at a visible speed again.
This cost-no-object continuous output caused the mana consumption to be much faster than before; he estimated he could not last more than a minute.
People usually talk about the three heroes fighting villain.
In his case, it was three Kryptonians fighting him.
Such treatment could hardly be found for anyone else in the DC Universe.
Of course, it was hard to gather three Kryptonians after the destruction of Krypton.
Just as Darian's energy was about to bottom out again, a rope glowing with golden luster flew out from the side, precisely binding the upper body of the Kryptonian warrior on the far right.
Before anyone could react, a huge pulling force followed, and the Kryptonian warrior was flung away, smashing through a half-collapsed building in the distance.
The attention of the other two Kryptonians instantly shifted from Darian to the direction where the rope flew from.
In the shadow of the ruins, a tall figure walked out.
She wore a star-patterned tiara on her forehead, a pair of cold-glowing Bracelets of Submission on her arms, a red half-body armor outlining sharp lines, with a golden W-shaped belt in the middle, paired with a blue miniskirt, revealing two killer long legs underneath.
The moment she stepped onto the battlefield, a high-pitched, impassioned BGM seemed to ring out in the air.
[NPC: Diana Prince]
[Codename: Wonder Woman]
[Favorability: 20]
[Evaluation: Princess of Themyscira, one of the three pillars of the Justice League, comes with her own BGM, demigod lineage, my dad is Zeus]
Darian was no stranger to this person.
The famous Wonder Woman, Diana, a demigod who had lived for thousands of years.
However, when it came to Darian's deepest impression of Diana, besides those unforgettable long legs, it was that Diana was highly similar to someone he knew.
Both used shields.
Both had participated in war.
Both had a soldier named Steve, who drove a German plane carrying dangerous goods to perish together, sacrificing himself to save the country.
With these elements together, calling her Captain Amazon would not be an exaggeration.
"You don't look like an Earthling. Who are you?"
Faora hovered in mid-air, coldly looking down at Diana.
She felt a very familiar temperament from the woman in front of her, the fearlessness and toughness of a true warrior.
This temperament did not need language; as fellow battle-hardened female warriors, they could recognize it at a glance.
"Diana Prince, daughter of Queen Hippolyta, Amazon warrior."
Diana looked up, meeting Faora's scrutinizing gaze, and calmly drew the long sword from her back, the tip of the sword pointing directly at the opponent.
"Invaders from another World, your actions have provoked a war. Now, stop your invasion immediately."
The reason she appeared here was because she heard the global broadcast Darian sent out with a loudspeaker.
Due to Steve's death and witnessing too much of humanity's dark side, Diana chose to close herself off and had not asked about worldly affairs for many years.
When General Zod issued the ultimatum to the World, she was buried in restoring a batch of artifacts and was unaware of everything happening outside.
But this time was different.
Darian's voice appeared directly in the minds of every intelligent creature on Earth; Diana could not ignore it even if she wanted to.
After learning that these Kryptonians were going to terraform Earth, making the entire surface civilization disappear, Diana could not sit still either.
The God of War Ares, whom she considered the most evil in her eyes back then, only secretly induced humans to kill each other to prove the ugliness of human nature, and would only take action to destroy this race at the very end.
These Kryptonians were even more outrageous; they wanted to format the Earth from the start, making almost all life on the surface cease to exist.
Compared to the Kryptonians, Ares could be called a God of Civilization.
After so many years of observation, Diana had long understood that there was indeed a dark side to human nature, but she had also witnessed countless glorious moments worth protecting with one's life.
So when the whole World was truly facing an existential crisis, she chose to step forward again.
"Hmph, no one can stop the rebirth of Krypton!"
Faora snorted coldly, her eyes suddenly spraying scorching light beams, blasting straight at Diana.
Diana did not change her expression, raised her arms to block in front of her, and the pair of Bracelets of Submission on her wrists instantly absorbed all the heat rays, her figure standing steadily in place.
Darian took advantage of this gap, energy beams shot from his chest and palms simultaneously, hitting the chest of another Kryptonian warrior, blasting him a hundred meters away.
He turned his head to look at Diana, swept his gaze from bottom to top, and said with a touched tone: "Thank you for your help. A life-saving grace cannot be repaid; according to the rules of our hometown, in this situation, I can only offer myself."
Diana's expression stiffened slightly: "That is not necessary. I am here to help you stop them."
On her way here, she had already seen Darian and Bruce fighting the Kryptonians, confirming that both were warriors protecting Earth, so her attitude toward Darian was relatively friendly.
Darian nodded, quickly switching back to a serious state: "Okay, then you help me block that woman above. Drag it out for as long as you can, and leave the rest to me."
"No problem."
Diana did not talk nonsense and nodded decisively.
She naturally saw the terror of these Kryptonians, who were much more powerful than most of the enemies she had encountered before, so she did not dare to be arrogant at all.
As the words fell, Darian's figure rose violently, rushing toward the Kryptonian warrior who had just been knocked away by him.
"Don't even think about it!"
Faora's eyes shot out heat rays, trying to intercept Darian's path.
In the next second, the Lasso of Truth bound her ankle, dragging her down from mid-air and smashing her onto the ground.
Diana gripped the other end of the lasso and smiled: "Your opponent is me now."
Faora stood up from the ground, her face as gloomy as water: "Do you think you can stop me?"
"Why don't you try and see."
After Diana finished speaking, she exerted force under her feet, the ground was kicked into spiderweb-like cracks, and she rushed over like a cannonball.
Faora did not show weakness either, colliding head-on.
The next instant, the figures of the two clashed fiercely in mid-air.
Boom!!
A muffled thunder-like loud noise exploded, and the shockwave blew the surrounding dust and gravel into the sky.
Darian resisted the urge to turn his head to watch the two women fighting.
Now what he had to do was to take care of the remaining two Kryptonian warriors as quickly as possible while Diana held off Faora.
The Kryptonian warrior who had been blasted away by him earlier had already climbed up from the pile of rubble.
He noticed Darian was killing toward him, looked disdainful, and immediately buried his head and sprinted with all his might in the... opposite direction.
This was not running away out of fear, but a strategic retreat.
Darian held Kryptonite that restrained their Kryptonian abilities; there was no chance of winning in a one-on-one fight. The most rational thing to do now was to open up the distance and fight back after meeting with other companions.
Seeing the Kryptonian warrior running away, Darian opened the taunt mode in the rear.
"Why are you running? Are you Kryptonians all deserters?"
"You don't even have the courage to fight head-on. No wonder you Kryptonians are the only ones who did not die; you must have known Krypton was going to explode, so you packed your bags and ran away early."
The Kryptonian warrior was so angry that he gritted his teeth, but his pace did not slow down at all.
Now that there were few Kryptonians left, every Kryptonian was a valuable strategic resource and could not be sacrificed in vain.
He was not protecting his own life, but protecting the assets of Krypton.
After self-hypnotizing for a bit, the Kryptonian warrior felt he was incomparably great, ran even faster, and did not even care about Darian's taunts, automatically muting him.
"You can really run!"
Darian saw the distance from the Kryptonian warrior getting further and further, and could not help but curse.
He could not stand this injustice, and immediately pulled out a bottle of potion and poured it into his mouth.
[Item: Taunt Potion (After drinking, all hostile targets will be affected by the taunt effect for a certain period, launching attacks on the user)]
After drinking the Taunt Potion, Darian set the ultron armor's voice volume to the maximum and roared.
"Grandson, stand still for me!"
"You called me grandson!?"
The Kryptonian warrior, who was running wildly just now, suddenly stopped, turned around abruptly, and glared at Darian fiercely, his eyes looking as if he had seen his neighbor Wang who had cuckolded him.
"My go, is the effect of this potion this good?"
Darian was pleasantly surprised and rushed up without hesitation.
The Kryptonian warrior seemed to have lost his mind, completely ignoring the radiation of the Kryptonite, and rushed toward Darian head-on, swinging his fists at Darian like a madman.
Bang!
Darian caught his fist with one hand, backhanded a punch on his face, and smashed him hard onto the ground.
The Kryptonian warrior tried to fire a heat ray, but was interrupted and flashing continuously because of the Kryptonite suppression, unable to condense energy at all.
Darian took out the universal weapon, installed the Kryptonite on it again, and smashed it hard on the Kryptonian warrior's head.
Eighty, eighty!
Very quickly, the Kryptonian warrior under his feet had no sound.
Now Darian's record was tied with the reporter hero.
"Who else!?"
Darian laughed loudly and shouted with high spirits.
As soon as the words fell, a roar of engines suddenly came from the sky.
Several Kryptonian ships descended from the sky, the cabin doors opened, and several Kryptonian warriors jumped down, all full of hatred, staring at Darian with red eyes.
Darian: "..."
"..."
It's over, I seem to have forgotten to turn the volume back down.
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