129 A Pathway to Death!!

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In the broadcast on TV screens, two figures and a huge monster were battling in the sky, constantly pushing it toward outer space.

"What is that thing? 

Coast City was attacked by space monsters, and over a thousand people died?!"

"My goodness, are aliens attacking Earth?"

"Purple Light Man, Superman, Come On!"

"Is the fate of Earth all in the hands of these two superheroes? What is NASA doing, spending so much money in space every year? Why didn't they issue a warning in advance?"

"Is this a new technology made to make movies? How did they get Superman and Purple Light Man involved?!

"What is the military doing? Are they just standing by?"

"It's fake! This is the conspiracy of the government!!"

The internet exploded. Everyone who saw the colossal monster's silhouette couldn't help but feel fear rising uncontrollably in their hearts. They prayed for Superman and Purple Light Man, and at the same time prayed for the Earth.

Gotham, Wayne Manor.

Bruce Wayne stared intently at the high-definition satellite broadcast by his own satellite, repeatedly clicking a ballpoint pen. The veins on the back of his hand were slightly tensing, revealing his inner turmoil.

"Master Bruce, you should know.

Your Batwing isn't equipped for space combat," Alfred, who was next to him, remarked as he watched the battle on the screen; feeling the need to remind him.

"I know, Alfred. You don't need to remind me that I can only sit here and do nothing."

Bruce's voice was somewhat hoarse.

This was a powerful monster; not like the criminals he used to encounter who liked robbing banks.

"The Bat-equipment needs an upgrade. I need more contingency plans to ensure that I won't be just a spectator next time."

He now had to not only guard against hidden threats within the city and the world, but also against extraterrestrial and space threats. The changes in the world were too fast.

"Master Bruce, you have no obligation to bear the weight of the entire world on your shoulders."

Alfred looked suffocated.

This child he had watched grow up was now living a life that was too exhausting, often returning to his Batcave battered and bruised. Gotham was wearing him out.

Bruce Wayne's identity had almost become his mask, a role played by Batman when he took off his costume.

"When the storm comes, it's better to be prepared.

It won't spare you whether you're challenging the ocean or just watching from the shore."

The screen flickered, and Bruce Wayne's face was somber.

Kent Farm.

In the living room, Jonathan held Martha tightly in his embrace, their breaths held as they stared at the scene on the TV, completely forgetting the whistling kettle in the kitchen.

"Go on, my sons!" He clenched his fist, as if trying to transmit strength through his encouraging gaze to the two sons battling the monster on the screen.

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Boom, boom, boom!

Clark accelerated instantly, his robust figure soaring through the sky like a missile, teaming up with David to push the Parallax monster into outer space.

However, when his punches landed on Parallax, it felt like he was hitting a highly elastic rubber ball, and It felt like it didn't seem to cause much damage.

"Use your eyes, Clark."

David shouted as he launched an energy surge with his fist.

"It's almost like a quasi-energy life form, largely immune from physical attacks."

Soon they would be in space. Without the filtering of the Earth's atmosphere, Clark would have an endless source of energy when bathing in the sun directly.

Zap!

As David instructed, Clark dodged Parallax's sweeping tentacles that spanned hundreds of meters while shooting heat vision rays from his eyes to slice through the monster's body.

Green light shone, and Tomar-Re also rushed forward. With his willpower materializing a spaceship, he made various intricate aerial maneuvers, continuously firing and aiding David and Clark in their assault by using harassment tactics.

"Who are you, unknown life form?

I sense a potential in you. You are more suited than anyone to carry my power."

Parallax seemed to detect something. While being repelled, he fixed his gaze on David, his greedy eyes flashing, and swung his massive tentacles trying to grasp him.

"The body I inhabit is powerful in its own right. But it's not suitable for wielding the full force of my fear."

He was a Lantern Entity for the power of fear, yet he couldn't control all of it. But Parallax could clearly feel the smooth flow of the power of fear within David's body.

"Embrace me, young lifeform. Together we can spread fear throughout the universe."

Surrounded by a gravitational field, David's tall and slender figure emitted a massive repelling force, and Parallax's tentacles seemed to enter a mire, struggling to extend further.

"I have no interest in that kind of thing."

He swung his fist fiercely, slamming it onto Parallax's face. A burst of intense cosmic energy erupted, creating a small purple sun-like phenomenon in space. Parallax was once again struck by an attack strong enough to level an entire city block.

The entity known as Parallax currently occupied one of the Guardians of the Universe, who were among the oldest sentient beings in the universe. They had once believed that emotions hindered progress and had discarded certain emotions.

'While the Guardians of the Universe possess immense power, there's one record of a member who almost crushed Shazam in a few shots, but they are not suitable for the power of fear and being driven by fear.'

Parallax claimed him to be suited for the power of fear, likely due to his ability to manipulate energy, which allowed hit to control any kind of energy with ease.

David's face remained cold, and he had no intention of surrendering his body.

Tomar-Re, who was nervous as if walking on a knife's edge, had no doubt that if it weren't for David and Clark's relentless attacks on the creature, it could have annihilated him with a moment's opening.

"Ah, do you think you can stop me?"

In the blink of an eye, Parallax, like a ball passed between David and Clark, had reached the thin exosphere and was about to be blasted out of Earth.

Realizing this infuriated him; he had no choice but to take the fight seriously and began to shrink his form.

While his huge and menacing size allowed him to instill fear in the hearts of those who saw him, allowing him to absorb life energy more quickly and easily, it also made him too bulky, a punching bag for David and the other two.

"It's getting smaller, but it's getting stronger!"

The huge Parallax, which had been able to cover half a city, was reduced to a size of seven or eight meters. A tentacle knocked Clark away, and he clutched his chest, feeling pain, and looked in surprise.

'It's getting close to its body's original form.'

David looked solemn as he attempted to attack. His energy blasts rained down like a tempest, showing no fear of depletion, but they no longer hit as consistently as before.

At a size of seven or eight meters in a near-vacuum environment, combined with Parallax's immense strength, its agility remained unaffected.

"Don't get any closer; this isn't a battle you can participate in."

While engaged in battle, David turned to Tomar-Re and said seriously.

Even from a distance, Parallax could easily eliminate Tomar-Re with a single blow now.

Tomar-Re gritted his teeth and had no choice but to stay in place.

"I'll leave it to you, rookies."

Why hadn't his comrades from the Corps arrived yet? They were now relying on two newcomers who hadn't even decided to join the Corps to handle the universal crisis presented by Parallax.

"What's wrong? Annoying bugs, have your speeds slowed down?"

Facing the charging Clark, Parallax's tentacles rapidly grabbed hold of him, its grotesque skull-like face almost touching his, hoping to instill a hint of fear in Clark's heart, creating an opening.

But Clark's willpower was even stronger than Parallax had imagined. He fired heat vision while shouting angrily, breaking free.

"You smell really bad, Parallax!"

David punched Parallax's face, helping Clark break free. Before Parallax could fly far away, he grabbed one of Parallax's tentacles and yanked it back, delivering another powerful punch.

"Your strength!"

Parallax's head shook, dazed, and its face showed shock.

"Has it grown stronger?"

This is because I sensed another, even more powerful weapon!"

David glanced at the brilliant star in the distance in space—the Sun—and manipulated the gravity field to punch and send Parallax flying.

Far away from the Earth's gravitational field, without its powerful interference, he sensed another, even more potent weapon in space—the gravity or gravitational field of the Sun.

"It's useless.

I've devoured the life energy of two planets, and my power is endless!"

Several tentacles were severed, and the three of them were now in the boundless space. Parallax stabilized its form in the vacuum of space, rapidly regenerating its tentacles, and lunged fiercely at David and Clark once again.

"It will be you who dies!"

The three engaged in a fierce battle in space.

Today, Clark has experienced many new fields he had never encountered before, such as flying and space combat. However, he adapted extremely well and urgently wanted to deal with the monster in front of him, he had forgotten about this.

What he was keenly aware of, however, was the feeling of leaving Earth and being bathed in the light of the sun, which filled him with power.

"I feel like I can do this all day."

Not to mention David, who was absorbing the fear-inducing power unleashed by Parallax's attacks, which gave all three of them nearly unlimited energy, their battle creating waves of energy ripples in space.

As minutes and even tens of minutes passed, the battle escalated.

None of the three could overpower the others.

The true body of Parallax, hidden beneath the monstrous form woven from the power of fear, sustained damage, but it could recover with the consumption of some fear energy.

Clark, bathed in sunlight, could recover from injuries in the blink of an eye.

David, with his manipulation of the gravity field and its protection, energy manipulation, and powerful physical body, had not suffered the slightest injury. However, even he couldn't deal with Parallax in the short term.

"The fear energy of this guy is too large! At this rate, it would take us at least several days to defeat him."

He unleashed punches and energy surges that seemed capable of destroying everything, creating bucket-sized wounds on Parallax's body, but they healed in the blink of an eye.

David's eyes were cold and stern, and he could just try to wait.

The Green Lantern Corps was arriving soon, and they would handle the headache. However,...

[Anger from Parallax +580...]

Unprecedented emotional points provided by a single individual.

'If I end up relying on the Green Lantern Corps to deal with this guy in the end, I'm afraid I won't leave a deep impression on him.'

It was essential to deal with this monster before the Green Lantern Corps arrived, and David had a plan.

Although the current Parallax was not as reckless as in the original storyline, facing Hal Jordan in its bloated and massive form, allowing him to use the Sun's gravitational pull on larger objects to draw Parallax into the core of the Sun.

However, Hal Jordan couldn't manipulate gravity like David.

"Let's do it like we did before, beat him into the Sun, Clark."

David said to Clark, who was feeling a bit tired mentally.

"Right, by the way, why didn't I think of that?"

Clark's eyes lit up. The core temperature of the Sun reached over 20 million degrees Fahrenheit, and it could destroy anything. He regained his strength and charged at Parallax with a loud shout.

"Idiots.

You actually told me your plan clearly.

Do you think you can still succeed?"

Parallax sneered in disdain and swiftly dodged Clark's charge, striking him away with his tentacles.

"Destroy me by pushing me into the Sun?

I'll just go back to that planet now and see if you can stop me!"

Previously, he had been driven out of the planet's atmosphere because of his huge and bulky form, but that was no longer the case.

"Oh, really? Then why do I sense a hint of fear in you?"

David's voice was icy, and the power of fear within him, which he had absorbed and controlled, became even more active. This undoubtedly indicated that the fearsome monster before them was at least somewhat afraid.

Parallax's heart was in turmoil. After such a long battle, he couldn't seem to defeat these two, and he couldn't see any signs of their strength diminishing, especially David's impenetrable defense, which instilled a trace of panic in him.

'I need more power to deal with these two unkillable pests. I must return to that planet.'

The opportunity to eliminate these two people lay on that planet.

"On that planet, there is undoubtedly something or someone you care about.

Before I am about to destroy everything you care about, I want to see if you will feel panic and fear!"

Parallax roared and fired a beam of light continuously, pushing David back, attempting to shake them with his words.

He laughed arrogantly.

"Fear, once it starts, cannot be stopped; it's under my control. Your willpower is as strong as a mountain, but I wonder if the people you care about will face me without fear!"

"Monster, you won't succeed!"

Thinking back to the corpses drained of life energy, turned into bone frames in the grip of fear, Clark could not suppress his anger, and struck Parallax with an iron fist, which was easily capable of shattering an aircraft carrier.

"Believe me, you will never have that chance."

As he watched Clark being knocked away, and Parallax rapidly approaching Earth, David's voice, colder than the space environment at minus two hundred degrees, echoed.

[Template Integration 40%]

He extended his palm and aimed it at the radiant star in the distance, communicating with the gravitational field covering the entire solar system, and at the same time also connecting with the Earth's gravitational field behind him.

"In the process of fighting you, I made a small breakthrough in my abilities."

Graviton's ability to manipulate gravity could, through controlling the Earth and the Sun's gravitational fields, enable him to rapidly complete the journey from Earth to the Sun, almost like interstellar teleportation, even exceeding the speed of light.

The current David hadn't obtained the full strength of the template, so surpassing the speed of light was impossible for him, but he had mastered this little trick.

Two massive gravitational fields aligned along a faint line.

Buzz!

Suddenly, the planet was getting closer and closer to him suddenly exerted a tremendous repulsive force on Parallax, while in the distant background, the huge star in its prime generated a huge gravitational pull, capable of tearing the Earth apart.

"What did you do?"

Parallax struggled to resist the vast forces, preventing himself from being pulled toward the Sun, barely maintaining his position, with no excess strength left to move his tentacles.

"I've opened a pathway for you."

David flew slowly towards him, expressionless, and delivered a powerful punch to his head, causing a cataclysmic burst of energy ripples.

"A pathway to Death!"

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