Kryptonians: Man of Steel

Chapter 1489 Fighting Against Heaven and Earth
The moment the sword's edge collided with the shockwave, the entire battlefield seemed to be silenced.

Immediately afterwards, a piercing scream that seemed to pierce eardrums swept across an area of ​​several kilometers, and the audio acquisition units of all monitoring equipment simultaneously emitted a blinding red light.

In the Pentagon's tactical analysis room, the waveforms on dozens of screens all jumped into dangerous jagged patterns.

"My God, that's over 200 decibels!"

The acoustics expert covered his ears, his pupils reflecting the real-time images transmitted by the satellite—the sword pressure, as thin as a cicada's wing yet as solid as ten thousand tons of water pressure, was engaging in the most primal struggle with the spherical shock wave generated by the thermobaric bomb.

Two completely different energies clashed violently at the contact surface, and the burst of light melted all the sand and gravel within a radius of 500 meters into glassy crystals.

Saeko Busujima remained motionless amidst the energy storm.

The crimson spiritual pressure flowing along the blade and the orange-red shockwave generated by the thermobaric bomb formed a distinct energy boundary, as if a god had drawn a burning boundary between heaven and earth with a giant brush.

The ground began to collapse under the dual pressure. With Saeko's foothold as the center, the asphalt road surface within a radius of 300 meters shattered like a fragile biscuit, and the gravel defied gravity and floated into the air, only to be crushed into even smaller particles in the next second.

In the images transmitted back by military satellites observing from afar, this confrontation has transcended the laws of conventional physics—the Mach rings formed by the shockwaves are being forcibly stretched and deformed by some invisible force, like a transparent film being torn apart.

"Energy readings have exceeded critical levels!"

Inside the Pentagon's monitoring room, an analyst wearing tactical goggles spoke with a trembling voice.

On the holographic projection, deep blue ripples representing unknown energy, or spiritual pressure, are rapidly engulfing the red area symbolizing thermal radiation.

Even more disturbing is that at the point where the two energies meet, space is visibly distorted, like air being scorched by high temperatures in the middle of summer.

The seemingly ordinary katana in her hand was now radiating a bluish-white glow, and the space around the blade was unnaturally distorted.

The shockwave that was split apart flowed to both sides, forming a clear dividing line.

The dividing line was like an invisible boundary, splitting the battlefield in two: on one side, the sharpness and power of the sword's pressure; on the other, the remnants and decay of the shockwave. The sword's pressure continued to advance, like an unstoppable war god, shattering the shockwave into pieces.

The fragments of the shockwave, now severed, scattered like headless flies, unable to form an effective attack.

What's most chilling is that the shockwaves that should have torn her apart split apart as if they hit an invisible barrier hundreds of meters away from her body.

Exclamations of alarm echoed across the ground troops' communication channels.

To their astonishment, a bright orange-red fireball, over two kilometers in diameter, was cleaved in two by a thin purple beam of light.

Like the legendary Staff of Moses that parted the Red Sea, wherever the rift left by the demonic blade reached, the high-temperature plasma retreated to both sides as if in fear of a king.

The edges of the cleaved shockwave shimmered with a mother-of-pearl iridescence, the quantum glow produced when the physical properties of energy-state matter were forcibly altered.

"Analysis team report!"

In NATO command, an officer wearing tactical goggles spoke in a trembling voice, "The target is materializing psionic energy. This is not a metaphor! Quantum detectors show nanoscale psionic structures forming around her!"

In the center of the battlefield, Saeko's pupils had completely turned silver-white.

In her vision, the originally invisible shockwave manifested as a dense network of scarlet energy veins.

These torrents of energy, representing death, rushed towards her at a speed of three thousand meters per second, but upon touching her "sword domain," they shattered into fragments like waves crashing against a reef.

The secondary shockwave from the thermobaric bomb was forming; the high temperature and pressure, enough to vaporize reinforced concrete, were something even her psionic shield couldn't completely neutralize. Monitoring satellites detected her body temperature rising rapidly—67°C, 89°C, 113°C. At this temperature, which should have charred her, her skin began to glow with psionic energy.

"Look! The target's biomagnetic field is reorganizing!"

In a secret laboratory in a certain country, a researcher screams as he points at a particle collider that has suddenly tripped.

Monitoring instruments around the world simultaneously recorded an energy pulse that shot straight into the ionosphere, and the aurora over the Pacific Ocean suddenly extended southward to the equator.

Saeko suddenly stood up straight, her katana tracing a perfect crescent moon trajectory.

This seemingly simple action creates visible wrinkles in the space in front of the blade, like a sharp blade slicing through silk.

The cleaved shockwave underwent a terrifying transformation at the microscopic level—the originally orderly propagating shockwave surface was forcibly "programmed" by psionic energy, and the high-energy particles that make up the shockwave suddenly began to kill each other.

"This is impossible..."

The chief physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory slumped into his chair.

Spectroscopic analysis showed that the probability of collisions between air molecules suddenly dropped to zero in the area swept by the sword pressure.

This means that the sword pressure not only cleaved the shockwave at the material level, but also directly rewrote the local physical laws.

Above the battlefield, the aftershocks of the cleaved shockwaves created a spectacular energy siphon phenomenon.

Tens of thousands of tons of dust were swept high into the air, taking on an eerie purplish-red hue under the setting sun.

When the aftershocks of the five thermobaric bombs finally dissipated, a perfectly spherical space with a diameter of 100 meters appeared in the center of the battlefield.

Within this area, all the dust particles remain frozen at the moment of the split, forming a bizarre three-dimensional still image.

Saeko stood at the center of the sphere, the tip of her knife touching the ground, surrounded by lingering spirit particle fragments.

In a dark room on the other side of the Atlantic, twelve generals stared silently at a holographic projection.

When the final radiation monitoring report arrived, the chief of staff's gold-rimmed glasses gleamed with a stark white light: "Prepare neutron bombs. Since conventional energy attacks are ineffective..."

In the center of the battlefield, Saeko suddenly looked up at the sky.

This simple action sent chills down the spines of all the monitoring personnel—she was watching the precise location of a military satellite in geostationary orbit.

The "click" sound of the demon sword being sheathed was clearly transmitted back to command center through the sonar array, followed by a whisper that froze everyone's blood:

"Have you had enough fun?"

This sentence was simultaneously recorded by monitoring equipment on 27 different channels, including several top-secret infrasound monitoring stations.

The moment the neutron bomb was launched, the entire command center fell into an eerie silence.

The missile spewed a dark blue tail flame, streaking across the sky at several times the speed of sound, heading straight for the area where Saeko Busujima was located.

Unlike the devastating explosion of conventional nuclear bombs, neutron bombs were designed to maximize radiation damage rather than physical destruction.

(End of this chapter)