American comics: Praising the sun, starting from Gotham!

"it's useless."

Beneath the dome, Loki watched their disheveled state, his smile growing increasingly amusement. He seemed to be commenting on a dull drama.

"I already said, that thing doesn't eat your kind of hard, tasteless energy."

His words successfully drew an angry glare from Thor.

But at that moment, no one was in the mood to argue with him.

"Physical attacks and divine power are ineffective."

Bruce's calm voice rang out.

"The target's defense completely absorbed the existence of the attack itself."

"Then let's try to burst it with even more energy and more complex concepts!"

Xiu En no longer hesitated. He took a step forward, and the golden divine fire belonging to the Sun God on his body blazed up once more! The white lamp ring in his hand also shone brightly!

"Clark!"

He shouted in a deep voice at a blue figure.

Clark instantly understood his intention.

He flew to Shuen's side.

"Hal! Hawkeye!"

Hal Jordan nodded in mid-air, and the green light in front of him condensed into a huge, exaggeratedly shaped interstellar cannon!

Meanwhile, Clint silently drew a training arrow from his quiver—an ordinary arrow with no arrowhead whatsoever.

He started nocking the arrow under another eagle-eyed, "You're really something!" expression.

The moment he nocked the arrow, his entire demeanor changed. The chord of cause and effect flickered before him once more!

"attack!"

With Xiu En's command!

The second wave, a devastating saturation attack, has begun!

Superman's eyes were replaced by a fiery crimson! Two beams of red heat tore through the air like divine spears!

The white lamp ring in Xiu En's hand also unleashed a beam of creation that fused the power of all seven colors of the spectrum! That beam of light seemed to contain the birth and destruction of a universe!

The Hal Star Cannon roared deafeningly! A spiral-shaped energy shockwave, formed from willpower, roared out!

Finally, it's Hawkeye!

He released the bowstring.

An arrow without a head, without making a sound, vanished from its spot. It was as if it had never been shot, yet as if it had already struck all the futures it was meant to face!

The four attacks represent the "physical limits," the "origin of life," the "human will," and the "causality of mortals," respectively!

At this moment, they converged into an unprecedented torrent of light!

It crashed violently into the all-consuming purplish-black storm once again.

This time, the light was even more dazzling than the combined attack of Diana and Thor earlier.

That power was even more terrifying than the divine force impact from before!

The entire plant dome was teetering on the brink of collapse under the impact of this force!

Ivy's face paled slightly, but she remained steadfast in maintaining the stability of the dome.

Hope was ignited in everyone's hearts.

Such a comprehensive and complex attack!

Surely this will be of some use now?!

however.

Exactly the same as before.

The moment the torrent of light touched that purplish-black storm

Like a drop of water falling into the desert.

Like a speck of dust falling into a black hole.

It was swallowed up.

There wasn't even a trace of struggle.

The eagle eye, capable of erasing the cause and effect of existence, also sank without a trace.

It was as if this monster had eaten even cause and effect as a dessert.

"Even that doesn't work?"

Kate stared blankly at her teacher's limp arm.

She knew better than anyone just how terrifying her master's seemingly ordinary arrow had been.

"And me!"

A voice broke the deathly silence.

It's Barry Allen.

"Since it can devour existence, let it taste speed!"

He glanced in the direction of Iris, who was protected by plants.

Then he smiled.

"Everyone! Help me, buy me even a fraction of a second!"

Before his voice had even faded, he had already transformed into a streak of red lightning.

He was so fast! So fast that it seemed he had transcended time itself!

He passed through the impenetrable dome of plants.

He appeared at the edge of the purplish-black storm like a red phantom.

He intends to use the Speed ​​Force to create a singularity of time around him! A cyclical prison that belongs only to the present, with no past or future!

Barry, start running.

He ran wildly around that purplish-black storm at a speed that transcended time and thought!

The afterimages behind him formed a red ring.

The ring radiates powerful temporal energy belonging to the Speed ​​Force! It attempts to imprison the endless darkness in an eternal moment!

Everything went smoothly at first!

Barry could even sense that the behemoth's feeding had stopped because of his interference!

There is a play!

However, just as he was about to further increase the output of his Speed ​​Force!

A sense of dread, like being preyed upon, gripped him.

He was horrified to discover that he was not the one imprisoning time.

Instead, the monster is devouring his timeline!

He felt that his past was being slowly eroded away by the dark purple storm!

He could even see himself as a child, being held in his mother's arms, being swallowed by an invisible, gigantic maw.

The Flash is being erased from existence!

"No!"

His speed began to slow uncontrollably! His body began to become translucent! His consciousness began to blur! He was being assimilated!

"Solution Delta-7! Activate!"

Just when Barry was about to be swallowed by darkness!

Bruce's body also glowed with the light of the Speed ​​Force as he pressed a red emergency button on his wrist!

This moment.

Far away in another universe.

In the Batcave deep within Wayne Manor in Gotham City, a hidden backup server has been activated!

A blue passage, which even Loki failed to detect beforehand, opened up beside Barry's dissipating body!

A powerful spatial pulling force instantly acted on Barry.

It's like using a rope to pull someone back from falling off a cliff.

Barry's figure was forcibly pulled into the blue portal before the purplish-black storm completely engulfed him!

Then the portal closed instantly.

It was as if nothing had happened.

Only that purplish-black storm, after failing to engulf, churned even more violently.

And beneath the dome of the Ximu Realm.

Barry stumbled out in a disheveled state.

He was breathing heavily, his whole body trembling uncontrollably.

His eyes were filled with the fear of surviving a disaster.

He survived.

All eyes were focused on the center of the platform.

It all comes down to the master of this world.

One whose body was engulfed in golden divine fire, like the sun of judgment.

A woman holding a golden rose in her arms, like a goddess of life.

Xiu En looked at Ivy.

"Ivy".

Xiu En called out her name for the third and final time.

"Do your best."

"Use all the power in this world to consume it. Until I find the moment to kill it."

Ivy looked at him.

Then she laughed.

She released the hand that had been holding the golden rose.

The divine flower automatically floated to her side.

Then, she opened her arms, just like Xiu En often did, to praise the sun.

"In my name."

Her voice echoed throughout the heavens and earth of the Ximu Realm.

The sound seemed to resonate with every speck of dust and every green leaf on this land.

"All things in this world are part of the cycle of life."

"The cycle continues. Existence never ceases!"

"boom!!!!!"

The entire Ximu Realm was in an uproar because of her announcement.

The plant dome that had been hanging over everyone's heads underwent a qualitative change in an instant!

On the surface of the dome, the millions of intertwined vines begin to grow, wither, and then regenerate! The blooming sunflower heads, too, constantly cycle between blooming and withering in an instant!

The power of the laws governing the cycle of life emanates from the dome, forming an invisible yet indestructible conceptual force field.

Outside the dome, the purplish-black time storm that was constantly devouring the sky of the Ximu Realm had its pace of engulfment significantly slowed down!

It was like a giant beast that was eating, but suddenly it bit into a piece of rubber that it could neither chew nor swallow.

It can devour existence. It can devour time. It can devour cause and effect.

But it cannot devour the cycle.

Every time it devours the dome now.

The future of the dome will be reborn immediately!

And the dome’s past will provide a continuous source of nourishment for this rebirth!

Past, present, and future form a closed loop above this plant dome!

"interesting."

In the corner, Tony Stark looked at the energy analysis graph on his armor screen, which was finally no longer a jumble of static, but had begun to move rhythmically, and exclaimed in admiration.

"Its absorption efficiency has decreased to 37.4%. Although it's still continuing, we've at least bought some time."

"There is enough time."

Bruce answered.

"Now we need to find a weapon that can actually hurt it."

"Perhaps magic could be a good option?"

A strange yet inexplicably convincing voice rang out from the crowd.

Everyone looked and saw an elderly man with an Eastern face, dressed in ordinary Kamar-Taj mage robes. He looked unremarkable, even somewhat thin.

No one knows his true identity.

Only Strange and Wong, who were not far away, instinctively straightened their backs when they saw him.

Although they didn't know why they were standing up straight.

"Strange!"

Shuen's gaze swept over them. "Zatana! Constantine! And that, uh, old gentleman!"

Xiu En didn't intend to reveal his identity, and after thinking about it, decided to call him "old man".

"Magic side! Begin your experiment!"

"Yes, sir!"

Strange instinctively shouted a slogan, then blushed with embarrassment.

"Yes, sir!"

Strange instinctively shouted a slogan, then blushed with embarrassment.

Zatana, on the other hand, performed a magician's hat-tipping salute to Shuen.

Only Constantine remained, leaning against the dining table, slowly lighting another cigarette for himself.

"What's the rush? What's the hurry?"

He took a drag and exhaled a smoke ring.

"You can't deal with these mindless behemoths by brute force. You have to use your brain. Or rather, you have to use deception."

Lucifer, who was chatting happily with Constantine next to him, showed no intention of making a move, seemingly unconcerned about being devoured.

Zatana's spell was the fastest and most dazzling! With a wave of her hands, countless magically formed illusory butterflies burst forth from beneath the dome, attempting to disrupt the monster's sensory system with invalid information and junk data!

As a result, the moment the butterfly flew away, even its accompanying music was quietly swallowed up.

Zatana's face paled. She felt as if a huge chunk of her magic had been sucked away by a giant water pump!

On the other hand, Strange and Wang were much more cautious.

With their hands, they drew two extremely complex emerald green circular magic circles!

He attempted to pull the behemoth into a mirror dimension, exiling it in a space completely isolated from the real world.

However, the mirror space composed of countless glass shards was wiped out from the source the moment it came into contact with the purplish-black storm, just like real glass with a crack!

Strange groaned, and a trickle of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth.

He apologized, explaining that the Time Stone would become ineffective once he left his own world, and that this was all he could do.

Finally, there's Constantine.

"Watch me, you boys!"

He triumphantly flicked the cigarette in his hand into the sky!

The cigarette butt spark transformed into an energy body in mid-air that looked exactly like Möbius!

"Let's go! Another time for fried chicken!"

He tried to distract the behemoth by using a fake timeline that was more delicious!

The fake Möbius did indeed successfully attract the purplish-black storm, and a small portion of it actually rushed towards the illusion!

"See! I told you..."

Constantine's smugness lasted less than two seconds.

To his horror, he discovered that the purplish-black storm, after devouring the illusion, was actually tracing back along the magical connection between him and the illusion!

A purplish-black, tentacle-like energy pierced through the crack in the dome, heading straight for Constantine's face!

"Waaaaah! Help!!!"

This detective from hell, who always manages to fool even the devil, let out a scream like a pig being slaughtered!

Fortunately, the old man from the East who suggested using magic was right next to him, and he gently waved his folding fan.

The terrifying purplish-black tentacles vanished silently.

Constantine collapsed to the ground, his face ashen.

All attempts failed.

Pure strength won't do.

The concept of "composite" won't work.

Even magical powers won't work.

Silence fell once again beneath the dome.

Ivy, who had been maintaining the operation of the dome, grew increasingly pale. Mobilizing the laws of the entire world to fight against a monster of this level was far too taxing for a newly born god like herself.

Xiu En looked at her slightly trembling eyelashes.

After the previous few waves of attacks, he had already observed the beast's weakness. He was hesitating about something, but he looked at Ivy, who was about to give up.

He reached out and grasped Ivy's hand, which was still maintaining the law.

Then he spoke in a voice only she could hear.

"That's enough, Ivy."

"Thank you for buying me enough time."

"Now!"

"I know how to deal with this monster, trust me!"