Steppenwolf's body was collapsing.
After Alex's punch blew away all the flesh in his chest, the rest of Steppenwolf's body also began breaking apart and disintegrating.
The power of a single strike capable of sinking land had been applied almost entirely to this Apokolips commander, with virtually no energy wasted.
Even though Steppenwolf had been modified by the Mother Box and was far stronger than before, he was still killed by a single punch from Alex.
Not even his ability to regenerate flesh could repair this kind of injury.
Thus, before Vera and the white-haired woman, the figure over four meters tall crumbled apart like a collapsing sandcastle.
Leaving a pile of flesh and blood behind.
As another Homelander, an opponent in the invasion event, and someone who had already fought Alex twice, Vera knew that the Homelander from another universe was no easy opponent.
But she had never expected Alex to kill Steppenwolf with one punch.
To be fair, even the modified Steppenwolf was not someone Vera considered especially troublesome.
Earlier, after activating She-Hulk Gene Enhancement and combining the power of the Hulk and Homelander templates, she had nearly ripped out Steppenwolf's heart.
But Vera knew that even if she had torn out his heart, someone as strong as Steppenwolf would not die just because he lost an organ.
According to Bruce's description, Alex had cut off one of Steppenwolf's arms earlier.
Yet when they met again tonight, that arm had already fully recovered.
From that, it could be inferred that this creature possessed regenerative abilities.
Even if his heart were removed, there was a high chance it would grow back.
But Alex's punch just now was not merely powerful enough to destroy Steppenwolf's body.
More likely, the force of that punch had penetrated every corner of his body and wiped out every single cell.
That was what caused Steppenwolf's body to collapse.
After running through it in her mind, Vera came to a conclusion.
If she took that punch head-on, her bio-force field would collapse instantly. Even with her Steel Body, she probably would not die, but she likely would not be able to get back up.
There was a good chance her spine would be broken.
In that case, she would be paralyzed on the spot.
Of course, that was under normal conditions.
If she activated She-Hulk Gene Enhancement, the Hulk's power would increase the strength of her Heat Vision, bio-force field, and even her Steel Body to some degree.
But even then, taking that punch directly would only be slightly better than normal.
The white-haired woman also began thinking about retreat.
Darkseid had sent her here as support.
Even in the worst-case scenario she had imagined, she had only expected to face that powerful Kryptonian.
But the current situation was far worse than she had imagined.
Leaving aside the green-skinned woman before her, who was qualified to challenge a Kryptonian, the man who had killed Steppenwolf with one punch alone filled her with fear.
Perhaps this man was already more terrifying than a Kryptonian.
That conclusion made her want to leave immediately.
She also thought of another frightening possibility.
If this man and woman joined forces, her outcome would probably be worse than Steppenwolf's.
But the Mother Boxes were here.
If she left now, she would have a hard time explaining it to Darkseid.
Even if Steppenwolf was dead.
Just then, she heard the man who had killed Steppenwolf with one punch say,
"Please continue. I have no intention of interfering in a contest between ladies. That wouldn't be very gentlemanly."
Vera cursed in her mind.
'Now you're talking about gentlemanly conduct?'
She clearly remembered someone saying before that he had no interest in that sort of thing.
Alex clapped his hands, smiled, stepped back, and gestured for Vera and the white-haired woman to continue.
Vera and the white-haired woman exchanged a glance.
Then they attacked almost simultaneously.
Vera's Mjolnir pulled arcs of lightning behind it as it swept toward the white-haired woman's head in a direct and simple attack.
If it connected, with the combined strength of the Hulk and Homelander templates, plus the terrifying lightning of Mjolnir, it would probably blow the white-haired woman's head apart.
Of course, that was only if it hit.
Almost as soon as Vera attacked, the white-haired woman's staff was already shining with flowing light.
As though she had predicted from the beginning that Vera's hammer would come straight for her head, she raised the staff and flicked it aside.
Vera's hammer was diverted in another direction.
The white-haired woman then charged forward, slamming her shoulder into Vera's chest.
A ring of white airwaves exploded outward, and Vera was sent flying.
Vera grunted and stopped herself in midair.
Just as she was about to rush back into the fight, she saw Alex walk to the metal monument, grab a Mother Box in each hand, and pull hard.
"I knew you'd do this!", Vera shouted.
She immediately changed her mind, raised Mjolnir high, and swung it down toward Alex from a distance.
High above, countless bolts of lightning answered the call.
An enormous pillar of lightning, as thick as a mountain, formed from endless currents and crashed downward.
Even the real Thor from Marvel, before awakening as the true God of Thunder, would not have been able to summon lightning on the scale Vera was producing.
The white-haired woman's expression changed.
She could feel the terrifying energy and destructive force contained within that pillar of lightning.
Immediately, she touched the ground with her staff.
A silver-white barrier rose up at once.
As for Alex, he acted as if he had not noticed.
But his figure blurred slightly.
Then a duplicate appeared in the field.
The duplicate raised his head and looked directly at the world-destroying lightning pillar descending from the sky.
The duplicate's eyes quickly began to glow.
The light within them grew brighter and brighter until it seemed as though a sun had risen inside his eyes.
Only then did two golden streams of light erupt outward.
At first, the beams shooting into the sky were only finger-thick.
But they rapidly expanded, becoming a torrent of energy not much smaller than the lightning pillar itself.
Above the ruins of the nuclear power plant, it collided directly with the pillar of lightning.
Immediately, the golden torrent and the blue lightning intertwined.
The two world-destroying forces crashed together without holding anything back, canceling and erasing one another.
A piercing explosion followed.
Shockwaves spread downward from the sky, causing the entire area to shake violently.
More than a hundred kilometers away from the nuclear power plant, a car was driving along the road.
Inside, a bearded driver was muttering complaints, "Running to a nuclear power plant in the middle of the night, Talikova, have you got nothing better to do?"
In the passenger seat, a young woman with light golden hair replied in Russian, "Uncle Gorman, something big is happening there. I think there's definitely going to be a major story."
"I'm a reporter. You should trust my news instincts."
The bearded man was about to say something when the car suddenly shook violently.
Then the ground trembled, as if a major earthquake had begun.
At that moment, beyond the windshield, on the distant horizon, an incomparably bright and blinding light rose into the sky.
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