"Hm?"
Alex, controlling the duplicate, couldn't help letting out a soft exclamation.
The duplicate, taking on a full-force punch under 80% divine power output, instantly blasted out a terrifying shockwave.
As the wave spread into the sky, a flock of birds passing by was abruptly shattered, turning into a mist of blood that vanished into the air.
When the wave reached the ground, the earth immediately began to sink continuously, pressing out a deep and wide scar.
As for the duplicate, even Alex found it hard to control him. He kept tumbling and spinning.
His whole body flew out like a spinning top. At the point where the punch had landed, the biological force field appeared in thread-like strands, and large sections of those threads were torn apart and peeled away.
At 80% divine power, that full-force punch had almost crippled the duplicate himself.
But at this moment, "High-speed Regeneration +1" took effect.
The shattered biological force field regenerated at an extremely fast rate. Those threads of light rapidly spread across Alex's entire body.
Then they faded from sight. In the blink of an eye, Alex's biological force field had fully recovered.
And at this moment, the yin-yang pattern formed by the airflow generated between Martin's arms had yet to dissipate.
Through the duplicate, Alex spoke, "No way?"
"What you just used… that was martial arts?"
Martin smiled, "Of course."
"This is [Ancient Martial Arts · Taiji · Four Ounces Deflect a Thousand Pounds]."
"So, how did it feel, getting hit by your own full-force punch?"
Alex said in surprise, "There are worlds in the multiverse where you can get ancient martial arts?"
"Why wouldn't there be?"
"I'll give you a hint."
"If you can reach the world of 'Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,' you'll be able to buy some interesting ancient martial arts from the shop."
"Of course, you don't have that chance anymore."
After speaking, Martin leaped up with great force, causing Doomsday, which had rushed at him from behind, to miss.
At the same time, Alex controlled the duplicate to fire golden flames from his eyes.
But the target wasn't Martin.
It was Doomsday.
He deliberately fed energy to Doomsday, aiming to make this biological weapon evolve as quickly as possible to a level that could threaten Martin.
Midair, Martin watched his "brother" fire golden flames from his eyes, blasting into Doomsday's back.
Doomsday immediately began to tremble violently, then evolved again. Newly formed flesh burst through its skin.
Bone spikes emerged one after another.
Its eyes blazed with light.
Energy erupted explosively from its entire body.
Doomsday had entered its third stage.
"This is bad," Martin muttered, just as Doomsday leaped up, swinging its massive hand like swatting a fly toward him.
Martin shifted sideways in midair and flew off.
Missing its strike, Doomsday landed on the ground, looked up, and roared, firing bright cannon-like beams of light from its eyes.
It swept those beams continuously, chasing Martin.
After a round of dodging, Martin finally waited for Doomsday's burst to end, only to see his "brother" dive down and smash another punch toward him.
He used the same move again, arms circling, executing a Taiji technique.
Generating that strange airflow, guiding the duplicate's attack.
But this time, when the duplicate's fist struck him again, it only spun in place but wasn't deflected away.
A flash of realization passed through Martin's mind.
'A feint!'
That's right. The previous attack from the duplicate had only been a feint.
The duplicate, also possessing "quantum sub-brain," had replayed the earlier battle.
Then, through immense computational power, it quickly derived a countermeasure.
Thus, this feinting punch.
And then, the real killing move came.
After spinning once, the duplicate swung his left arm, his fist sweeping across Martin's cheek.
Immediately, ripples spread across the muscles on Martin's face.
This "Homelander" figure blurred suddenly, already sent flying into the air by a single sweeping punch from Alex's duplicate.
Martin shot away at high speed, a clear fist mark appearing on his cheek.
For a moment, he lost consciousness from the blow.
Blood seeped from the corners of his mouth and nose.
With only a "steel body," he clearly couldn't withstand a punch from Alex in an 80% divine power state.
BOOM!
Martin shot upward like a rocket, reaching thousands of meters into the sky.
After crashing through several clouds, finally, he managed to stop.
Suspended between heaven and earth.
Martin quickly looked down toward the ground.
But at that moment, a voice sounded above his head.
"Where are you looking?"
Martin snapped his head up.
He saw his "counterpart" had appeared above him at some unknown moment.
Both fists clenched.
Muscles across his body bulging.
The red glow surrounding him shone with a blinding intensity.
Crackling thunder echoed across the sky.
Then, in Martin's eyes, Alex's duplicate's fists rapidly expanded.
The duplicate brought both fists down together like beating a massive drum.
Smashing into Martin's head!
BANG!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Shockwaves exploded in rings across the sky.
Martin's body shot through those layers of shockwaves, turning into a rapidly receding black silhouette.
Moments later, he crashed into the ground.
The earth shook violently.
At the point where Martin landed, the ground kept collapsing downward, forming a deep, descending "hole."
The mouth of the hole rapidly expanded, causing the surrounding ground to shatter, collapse, and slide inward.
Nearby terrain surged upward in a ring of stone waves, the crests spreading outward and rising higher.
From the sky, the earth looked like a massive piece of jelly.
The center sank, while the surroundings bulged upward.
In a forest some distance from the battlefield,
Gwen looked up and saw, not far above her, Norman Osborn riding his glider, speeding easily through the forest.
Her own speed wasn't slow either.
After entering the forest, Gwen used her "thread manipulation" ability, turning the vines in the forest into tools for herself.
It allowed her to swing and leap effortlessly through the trees.
Suddenly,njust as Gwen reached out to grab a vine extending toward her, the vine rose upward.
She froze for a moment.
Then she realized it wasn't the vine rising, but the ground beneath her feet lifting rapidly.
Rumble! Rumble!
A terrifying sound came from beneath the earth.
The ground rose upward, lifting trees and vines along with it.
The earth rolled like a drum. Gwen was about to fall.
If she fell, she would definitely be dragged into the crushing rocks.
Then ground to pieces as the layers shifted.
At the critical moment, Gwen used Peter Parker's web-shooter.
Snap!
A flash of red light, and a strand of web shot upward toward a fir tree that was bouncing higher and higher.
The web successfully stuck to a thick branch near the canopy. It stretched, then snapped back, pulling Gwen upward in one motion.
The world instantly turned into a blur of light and shadow in her eyes.
She rose rapidly, clearing the treetops in an instant and arriving in midair.
From there, she saw the distant ground. For some reason, a massive sinkhole had appeared.
Around the sinkhole, the ground was still cracking and collapsing.
At that moment, a voice sounded above her.
"Grab my hand!"
Gwen looked up. Norman Osborn, riding his glider, passed by and reached out his hand toward her.
Gwen quickly grabbed it and jumped onto the glider.
Looking down, she saw that around the sinkhole, the earth had bulged upward, forming a ring of stone waves.
At that moment, the stone waves finally came to a stop, forming a geological wonder like a volcanic crater across hundreds of square kilometers of land.
"Th-this… could this have been caused by Mr. John?"
Inside the Spider-Man mask, Gwen's eyes shone with shock. It felt unreal.
Standing in front of her, Old Osborn spoke in a low voice, "Other than that, I can't think of any explanation."
"This is too terrifying."
"Mr. John's power has altered the terrain."
"Is this really something a human can do?"
Gwen didn't respond.
She was so stunned by the scene that she forgot to breathe.
———
Inside a military base—
[Command Center]
A general looked at the data and charts displayed on a large screen.
"Have we figured out what caused that disturbance just now?"
Someone immediately replied, "We have results, General."
"The source of the disturbance is at the location where the mysterious man fought this afternoon."
"The computer detected intense vibrations. The energy level is comparable to tectonic plate movement, though the scale is smaller."
The general shouted, "Send our drones to see what exactly is happening."
Soon, a drone took off and quickly headed toward the source of the disturbance.
Through the screen, the general and the officers in the command center watched as the ground receded, and after the drone crossed a mountain range, they saw that ahead, the land had formed a bottomless pit like a volcanic crater.
And around it, the terrain had been completely altered, the ground rising into a ring-shaped stone wall dozens of meters high.
This ring of stone walls encircled the bottomless pit. Seeing this scene, the general covered his mouth, "My God… how was this done?"
"Did an enemy nation deploy a geological weapon against us?"
"Contact other countries immediately for confirmation!"
Soon, they received responses.
No country claimed responsibility for the incident.
"General."
A colonel said with a grim expression, "If this wasn't done by another country, then it may have been man-made."
"Man-made?"
The general frowned deeply, "You mean the man from this afternoon?"
"Or possibly someone else."
"We received a message from Osborn this evening."
"Norman Osborn requested that the military not interfere, and claimed someone would deal with that man."
"This might be the person Osborn was referring to," the colonel said, looking at the screen with a heavy expression.
The general slowly sat down, "If that's the case, then there's someone on our soil capable of causing this level of destruction?"
"Wouldn't that make this person essentially a humanoid nuclear bomb?"
"That's terrifying."
"If someone like that wanted to destroy our country, do we have any countermeasures?"
The colonel fell silent.
'Countermeasures?'
For a being like that, he didn't even know if a nuclear weapon could eliminate it.
What countermeasures could there be?
At that moment, the general said, "I remember that the Osborn Group has been researching cross-species genetic fusion recently."
"Dr. Connors, who leads the project, has claimed more than once that if successful, humanity might undergo a second evolution."
"Do you know where Dr. Connors is now?"
Before the colonel could answer, murmurs rose in the command center.
On the large screen, they saw a black figure rapidly rushing toward the sinkhole.
Then it leaped and plunged straight into the bottomless pit.
That was Doomsday!
———
Alex's duplicate saw everything clearly.
He saw Doomsday jump into the bottomless pit.
Then, within that abyss that seemed to connect to the underworld, faint points of deep red suddenly appeared.
Moments later, thousands of red laser beams shot up from the pit into the sky.
Clearly, Martin was not dead.
Doomsday charged into the darkness, enduring the beams, and quickly disappeared.
Alex's duplicate suddenly blurred, then used "teleportation" to vanish into the air.
———
[Underground]
In the blink of an eye, Doomsday had already landed, causing a significant tremor.
Then the monster charged forward like a war chariot.
Rushing toward its target, Martin.
Doomsday threw a punch.
Carrying fierce winds, with crackling explosive sounds rising alongside it.
Doomsday's immense strength made even a simple punch produce such phenomena.
This punch had already surpassed the speed of sound, terrifying beyond measure.
If it hit, a flesh-and-blood body wouldn't be able to withstand it at all.
Unfortunately, its target was Martin, a "Homelander".
Even without a "biological force field," Martin's "steel body" wasn't for show.
But Martin had no habit of standing still to take a hit. So his body shifted slightly, turning to the side, while his elbow shot up and collided with Doomsday's iron fist.
Elbow and fist clashed, blasting out a shockwave with a heavy sound.
The force of Martin's elbow strike was evenly matched with Doomsday's.
The two canceled each other out. Neither moved.
But at that moment, Martin lifted his leg and kicked, striking Doomsday's leg and throwing the giant monster off balance.
Then he followed with an upward punch, hitting Doomsday's chin and sending the creature flying into the air.
Only then did Martin let out a breath.
At the same time, a trace of bloody foam seeped from the corner of his mouth.
From being smashed down earlier by Alex's duplicate, he hadn't come out unscathed.
Even with a steel body, taking a full-force punch under "80% divine power" meant he still took some damage.
And let alone "High-speed regeneration," he didn't even have a "self-healing" talent.
Naturally, he couldn't recover as quickly as Alex's duplicate.
At that moment, Doomsday landed.
Martin was just about to launch another attack, Alex's duplicate appeared behind him like a ghost.
Then Martin's hands were already restrained.
Immediately after, golden flames burst from the duplicate's eyes.
The "heat vision" struck Martin's back, making him cry out in pain.
At the same time, Doomsday leaped up, lunged forward, and roared as it fired a cannon-like torrent of energy from its eyes.
That torrent struck Martin's chest.
For a moment, Martin was attacked from both front and back.
Alex controlled the duplicate, not increasing the intensity of the solar radiation.
Instead, the light pouring from the eyes grew brighter and brighter, raising the temperature of the underground space higher and higher.
In the sky, the drone circling overhead captured that the bottomless pit suddenly lit up with a rapidly intensifying golden glow.
As if a sun were about to rise from within it.
Then a massive wave of energy erupted from the pit, causing the drone to shake violently before exploding and crashing.
———
Inside the military base's command center, the general saw the screen suddenly flicker.
He shouted, "Quick, use our satellites to see what's happening there!"
At that moment, someone reported, "General, we've detected high-yield radiation appearing inside the pit."
"And the radiation level is still rising."
The general fell silent.
———
[Inside the Pit]
The temperature in this space had reached a terrifying level.
If a human were here, they would probably melt in an instant.
At this moment, the space resembled a living hell.
Superheated flames roared and surged.
The ground and surrounding rocks had carbonized, even forming crystalline structures.
Under the continuous output of Doomsday and Alex's duplicate, Martin screamed as he was swallowed by blinding light.
BOOM!
In the violent explosion, both the duplicate and Doomsday were blasted away.
Within the intense light, through the duplicate, Alex saw that Martin's body had been pierced through, leaving a massive hole.
Boom!
A pillar of fire erupted from the bottomless pit.
The fire shot up over a hundred meters into the air, lasting for several seconds before gradually shrinking.
Inside the pit, flames raged fiercely.
The duplicate stood up, brushed off the debris on his body, and looked over.
Martin lay on the ground.
His body had a fatal cavity.
Around the massive wound, flesh had already been carbonized.
There was no blood flowing out.
Seeing this scene, Alex found it hard to believe.
"It's over?"
"No!"
Alex hadn't received any notification.
If that "Homelander" from another universe had truly been killed, he should have received a prompt.
But there was nothing.
No information appeared on his retina.
That meant that "Homelander" was not dead.
Suddenly, Alex looked toward the human skull.
That massive skull still existed. It hadn't disappeared in the earlier quake.
At this moment, within the skull's pitch-black eye sockets, pale flames flared brightly.
Then it began to tremble.
On the cracked surface of the skull, mysterious symbols appeared one after another.
The sky shook, and a pitch-black fissure appeared.
Looking into that fissure, there were more fissures within.
As if countless dimensions had been torn open. Then a phantom-like, pale, indistinct, terrifying figure emerged from those layers of cracks.
The moment that figure appeared, the surrounding space dimmed, as if something were writhing and moving within the darkness.
Alex, tens of thousands of meters up in the sky, only glanced at that figure once, and an overwhelming fear surged within him.
He almost turned to flee.
But he forcibly restrained himself, because he knew something drastic was about to happen.
If he fled now, it might trigger his own death.
At the same time, within the bottomless pit, symbols appeared across Martin's body.
Those symbols were like shadows, lacking substance, floating on his skin and constantly twisting.
Martin's skin immediately took on an extremely sinister hue.
The man lying on the ground suddenly opened his eyes.
There was no white in his sockets anymore, only pitch black, as if connected to some dimension.
Then two streams of pale flame burst out from those black eye sockets.
Martin burst into laughter and climbed to his feet.
He reached out and wiped across the massive wound on his body, and the cavity was instantly filled with darkness.
When the darkness receded, flesh and organs had already regenerated.
At that moment, the pale giant figure in the sky shrank continuously.
Then it projected onto Martin's body, enveloping this "Homelander," making him look as if he were possessed by an ancient demon.
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