Clark watched as the two disappeared, quickly opened his wristband, and thankfully, even in such an intense battle, the wristband remained intact.
"Cortana, take me to Dane and them!"
The teleportation light flashed, and opening his eyes again, Clark had arrived in a red desert.
This was Mars.
"Boom"—!
A huge sound erupted not far from Clark. He quickly looked over and saw Dane and Zod fighting.
"Who are you!"
Returning to the sunlight, Zod's entire body was once again filled with power.
He fluidly used military combat techniques, fully expecting to dispatch this opponent in a few moves.
But he didn't expect the opponent to be much more troublesome than he imagined.
"Focus on the fight."
Dane did not answer his question, but instead seized the opportunity to punch him in the abdomen, sending him flying into the sky.
But Zod had already learned to fly. He floated in the air, firing heat vision at Dane.
Dane's eyes also emitted lightning rays, which collided with Zod's red rays.
His magic lightning was extremely aggressive. Clark was already used to magic attacks, so he was fine, but Zod was facing it for the first time.
So in the blink of an eye, his heat vision was pushed back by the blue lightning rays, forced back into his eyes.
The blue energy continued to advance, and the moment it struck him, it paralyzed Zod's entire body, making him taste the pain of electrocution.
This pain was something Clark could not inflict on him.
"What did you do to me!"
Zod only managed to utter this sentence before he was struck by the lightning ray and sent flying into the distance.
"Dane!"
Dane looked over at the sound, realizing it was Clark.
"Clark, you stay here."
After saying that, Dane flew out, and before Zod could land, he threw another punch, hitting him.
After several consecutive punches, Zod adapted to his attacks and began to attempt a counterattack.
He struggled to balance his body and hit Dane with maximum force, punching him in the face.
"Is this your full power?"
Dane, however, was completely unfazed. He twisted his head, ignoring Zod's punches.
"Come on."
Arcs of electricity sparked from Dane's hands as he channeled the power of lightning, grabbing Zod's fists with both hands. Even with all his might, Zod couldn't prevent Dane from prying them open.
Dane kicked out with one leg, sending Zod crashing to the Earth, creating a sand geyser several feet high.
Kryptonians were indeed tough. As long as it wasn't a magic attack or true damage like Kryptonite, they would hardly suffer any visible wounds or feel any pain.
Zod rose from the sand pit, his eyes grave as he looked at Dane in the sky, where swirling clouds gathered above his head.
"You should know that this cannot kill me."
Dane nodded. "Yes, I know, but I have one more move. If you can block it, then give it a try."
No sooner had he spoken than the swirling clouds suddenly erupted with lightning. Dane raised his right hand, and a thick bolt of lightning connected the sky to him.
He pointed his left hand at Zod, and a burst of lightning power shot out, striking Zod on the ground in the blink of an eye.
Zod didn't possess the speed to dodge lightning. Perhaps with a little more time, he could, but certainly not now.
"Ah—!!!"
The pain Zod endured was simply indescribable. Lightning might not be much, but the lightning empowered by Dane's divine power inflicted tons of damage, striking directly at his soul.
The intense agony triggered his body's self-defense mechanism, and a few seconds later, he fainted.
Dane retracted the lightning. The lightning in the sky still struck him intermittently, all of it absorbed and converted into a part of his own power.
He flew down, picked Zod up with one hand, and then tossed him into the Dream Realm.
Such opponents no longer held his interest. He was now immune to physical normal attacks.
Only magic or stronger energy attacks could affect him.
Job done, he leisurely walked over to Clark.
"Don't you feel ashamed? You've fought Demon Lords, yet you can't defeat a Kryptonian who's only been sunbathing for a few days?"
"Are you being respectful to the elderly and caring for the young?"
Clark was a bit embarrassed. He probably did subconsciously hold back some strength, otherwise, he wouldn't have fought like this.
Of course, it also had to do with Zod's tactics. From the beginning, he deliberately led both of them to unfavorable battlefields, attempting to defeat Clark with his rich experience.
And this naive fellow almost fell for it. Zod's utilization of terrain was far superior to Clark's.
Dane silently thought: [Cortana, can you control that Kryptonian spaceship near Jupiter?]
[Yes, I can.]
[Good. Then bring it back to Earth, to Kahndaq.]
[Understood.]
There were still some good things on that ship. Not to mention the fighters, those two World Engines might be put to use immediately.
"It's over. Let's go back."
Dane and Clark teleported directly from Mars back to Earth. A disaster that, in the movie, was a World crisis, was thus silently extinguished in its cradle.
Dane gained over a dozen Kryptonian captives and a multi-functional Kryptonian spaceship, which was quite a fruitful harvest.
As soon as he returned to Earth, Dane buried himself in the laboratory. He had many ideas for the World Engine.
I wonder if this thing can be used in Hell… Rock of Eternity.
A crack appeared in the statue of "Sloth," one of the seven deadly sins, trapped within.
A faint, imperceptible power seeped from the crack, influencing June Moone, who was studying ancient texts.
"Hmm, I feel a bit tired."
Then rest… In her mind, the Witch's voice sounded.
June smiled faintly. She no longer had to fear the Witch.
June hesitated for a moment, then couldn't resist opening her computer and, like a thief with a guilty conscience, sent Dane a message.
[Do you have plans tonight?]
Dane replied two seconds later: [No.]
Then two more seconds passed. Before June could rephrase her message, another message came from his end.
[Where do you want to go tonight?]
June felt a little flutter of excitement in her heart and quickly typed on the keyboard: [Anywhere is fine with me.]
Then an address was sent from his end.
June immediately returned to her room, lingered for two hours, and then emerged, dressed to the nines.
Her magic bracelet flashed, and she vanished from the Rock of Eternity.
A few minutes later, among the statues of the seven deadly sins, Pride, jealousy, Wrath, Greed, lust, and Gluttony all cracked open, sending out their power.
They chose not to immediately break the seal, as that would alert the Rock of Eternity and attract Shazam's attention.
So they carefully skirted the Rock of Eternity's alert line.
Under Dane's modifications, the Rock of Eternity no longer alerted to every trace of evil energy as it once did.
After all, the Witch's existence itself wasn't purely benevolent power, and that would easily cause false alarms.
So he set a threshold, and this value was discovered by the seven deadly sins.
Originally, the power of the seven deadly sins was insufficient to break the seal, but recently, disasters have been frequent in the human World, and grievances run rampant.
The outbreak of Demon incidents some time ago further fueled the growth of evil energy, allowing the seven deadly sins to draw some power.
The seven statues secretly exchanged information.
[Our power has grown stronger. Perhaps we can try to leave this cursed place.]
[No, it's not enough. Shazam's power is growing faster than we imagined 3.3, and our power is still far from sufficient.]
[But if we stay here, we'll never accumulate enough power. I need more, more anger!]
[Yes, if we drag this out any longer, who knows when Shazam will find out. We can't just wait here.]
[Then what do you propose?]
[We need the help of other forces.]
[Who?]
[Do you remember? There's a door in the Rock of Eternity that leads to the New God Realm.]
[Ah, I remember. It's the Small World where those Three Goddesses are imprisoned, right?]
[Exactly. Perhaps we can find a way to release them.]
[They are no match for Shazam, even with that dragon.]
[What if we add our power?]
[They are Gods. Will they cooperate with us?]
[They have no choice, just like us, they have no choice….]
[Then let's do it. Find those Three Goddesses, combine our powers, and fight Shazam together!].
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