Chapter 175: Victory

[3rd POV]

Metropolis

"I think they are finished."

Winter said, catching her breath and looking at the devastated city.

The top of the LexCorp tower no longer existed.

Thousands of Parademons' bodies completely destroyed it, and their attacks often destroyed large parts of it during the battle.

All the fights with Grimm in her world seemed like child's play compared to this...

"I can't say it was a good experience."

Lena said, wiping her hands of enemy blood.

There were Parademon bodies all over the place even though most of them had been killed by Lena's lasers or by Winter's fire and ice.

Erina also made her contribution.

"Yeah, it was worse than at Beacon... at least there I was in a suit."

Erina said, burning the Parademon's blood off herself with purple flames.

"We survived..."

Harley Quinn said, almost in disbelief.

"Damn, I was hoping to live up to our team's name... Suicide Squad and without a suicidal mission..."

She said, clearly disappointed.

At that moment, a portal buzzed and opened.

Batman and Flash emerged while carrying Constantine's body.

There were the members of the Justice League behind them... or what was left of it.

"This is madness... We're not leaving the Administrator-kun there, are we?"

Shinoa asked as she stepped through the portal and looked back.

"He can teleport himself."

Batman said while surveying everyone present in the underground lair to understand whom they were referring to.

"Wait... he's back on the light side?"

Harley asked in silence.

"What? Wait... does that mean we're on the light side too? Unbelievable..."

"Where is my brother?"

Lena asked anxiously, approaching Shinoa, Rias, and Hermione.

Shinoa's livestream had been on all this time, but there hadn't been time to watch it.

"A powerful demon appeared, and Tony teleported him somewhere."

Rias replied, still shaken.

Etrigan also sensed Trigon who had stayed with the remaining League members near the entrance.

"That wasn't just a demon... I haven't felt anything like that from Belial or Azazel, and they're at the top of the satanic hierarchy. This... was some kind of demon god or the embodiment of the concept of Evil and Hatred."

Etrigan nodded.

"..."

Lena glanced at the portal, which immediately closed.

"It would be stupid to go after him. He's basically a god, and he might manage with Superman... Clark always found his own ways."

Lex shrugged.

"Glad you're back."

He addressed Batman.

"I am too, but there's still much work to be done..."

"Oh, you always have to spoil everything."

Harley whined, tilting her head back.

"We didn't win yet..."

"Come in, this is Victor. Can you hear me?"

A voice sounded from the communicator on Bruce's suit.

"I've started the process of creating a black hole..."

...

[Anthony's POV]

Near Apokolips

"I am power! I am mighty! I am Trigon!"

Trigon exclaimed as we found ourselves in space.

Our appearance also drew the attention of the battling Darkseid and Superman... and Superman judging by the bloody streaks on his face.

"Such power... who are you? Who dares to interfere with me? There is only one true evil, and its name is Darkseid!"

Darkseid thundered... in space...

"Fool! I've seen through my daughter's eyes what you are capable of! Weakling!"

Trigon's open mouth spewed hellfire that incinerated everything at an atomic level.

"All is Darkseid, and Darkseid is all!"

Darkseid proclaimed while firing Omega Beams that resisted the hellfire and gradually gained the upper hand.

The figures of the two entities began to grow gradually during their battle, but it wasn't particularly noticeable yet.

There are ripples that start to appear in reality from their clash.

Meanwhile, Lena, Batman, and the others braced themselves for the next steps in their desperate struggle.

Cyborg's voice crackled through the communicator to signal the dangerous plan they were about to execute.

"Get out of here. Cyborg will open a portal to Earth for you on the planet."

I told Clark.

"No... we need to finish what we started."

Superman clenched his fist.

"Otherwise, it might all happen again."

"Then..."

I placed my blessing on him, and nanorobots made of the Eighth Metal surged from the ring.

Superman would become stronger with such armor, and I could remove it at will, but he couldn't do anything to me.

In fact, I could bind him completely inside the suit.

"I feel power flowing into me... thank you, Anthony. Our acquaintance might have started with distrust, but I'm glad I met you despite you being a Luthor. Apparently, there are worthy Luthors somewhere in other worlds."

He smiled at me.

"Take on Darkseid; I'll handle Trigon. Cyborg is creating a black hole on Apokolips, so we need to send these two there. I moved Trigon here to give the others a chance to leave peacefully."

I quickly briefed him.

"Got it..."

He reached dizzying speed in an instant, and his fist met Darkseid's face.

That punch could easily destroy Earth, and it was clear that this Superman wasn't holding back.

I drew my spear and created a magical seal connected to my Light on its tip.

The wings behind my back hummed, and my eyes glowed like spotlights.

The reality trembled with additional destructive power, and at the end of the seal, a small portal to the core of the star opened.

A destructive beam of light pierced through Trigon and continued, exploding meteors the size of Earth in its path.

"Light cannot defeat true Evil!"

Trigon exclaimed, growing to thirty meters within seconds, and the hole in his body healed as if it had never existed.

I didn't drag behind and began to grow as well.

"We'll see about that..."

We rushed at each other and began the fight.

I now felt that all my training in the arena with gods was not in vain.

Trigon in this world was powerful, not absurdly powerful as I feared, but definitely on my level.

The White Lantern Ring enveloped me in the light of life energy, fueling my Ki, and the Ninth Metal armor prevented him from inflicting damage.

I could have taken a beating if we were fighting without the armor and my sacred gear.

However, I gradually gained the upper hand, even though Trigon also controlled reality and molecular reconstruction.

We were also fighting on this front, and he tried to disintegrate me, but he couldn't due to the Ninth Metal, so I counterattacked with my alchemy.

Trigon soon realized that fighting me with a bare-handed spear was useless, so he summoned a massive sword reeking pure evil.

The sword radiated despair and horror within the emotional spectrum.

Negative emotional energy emanated from Trigon, filling vast spaces around him.

Trigon began to take me as seriously as he had recently taken Darkseid.

He also started slowly drawing energy from somewhere, likely from the worlds and dimensions he had conquered.

However, my presence hindered him from doing so effectively.

He possessed immense power, but even with the sword, he wielded it... tolerably and nothing more.

He had lived a long time, but he had never really needed to learn how to fight with a sword or even just fight.

He always relied on his immense power, which no one could match.

 I quickly began to gain the upper hand while I was getting accustomed to fighting at this level.

I had issues initially, but the experience of extraordinary fighters and assimilation helped me.

"Evil cannot lose! Trigon is eternal!"

He shouted as my spear finally pierced his chest.

"Light will win over Evil, one way or another."

I told him, starting to seal the weakened Trigon in a cube of Ninth Metal.

It was a complicated process, but I managed it in the end.

"Now, for Darkseid..."

Superman was currently gaining the upper hand over the New God, gradually beating him down... but falling for a trick and exposing himself to an attack.

"I am many things, Kal-El, but here, I am the God!"

The enraged Darkseid roared, embedding his fist into Superman's chest and sending him through a third of the planet.

That was an achievement as his planet wasn't composed like Earth with different rocks, water, and... well, dirt.

Apokolips is an artificial planet created using the technology of New Genesis.

It is also populated by various beings abducted from different planets and corners of the galaxy...

They were all broken and demoted to the bottom of the food chain, along with the dogs here.

The planet itself emits... Evil.

"Don't forget about me."

I said this while using all my physical strength and Bang's technique. I struck him directly in the smug face.

The terrifying blow rippled through space and even slightly shifted the entire Apokolips.

Darkseid repeated Clark's flight, only to crash into the core of his planet...

At that very moment, a singularity began to form there while turning into a real Black Hole to absorb all matter.

"Impossible! Your world will suffer! Darkseid is immortal, and he will return!"

Darkseid shouted resisting the black hole.

Additionally, I created barriers to stop him from teleporting and fired my eyes at him just in case.

"You and Trigon speak almost the same way."

I said, teleporting the injured Clark to myself.

The Eighth Metal didn't completely protect him.

Darkseid himself disappeared along with his planet and was disassembled by the Black Hole... which continued to grow.

It could very well swallow a star and the star system.

"Hmm, I didn't get this New God's soul... fortunately, there are others."

I remembered that the girls' suits were equipped with a mechanism to extract strong souls.

I already have the soul of Darkseid's son which is also not bad.

...

Metropolis

"He didn't respond in the Chat?"

Lena quietly asked Shinoa, already significantly worried and having worked herself up with various gloomy thoughts.

What was even worse was the feeling of helplessness to do anything despite all her power.

"There is no point in worrying now. I am more than sure that the chat would notify if he needed help."

Winter tried to reason, but her twitching fingers showed she was also on edge.

Tony had done too much for her... so her heart was restless.

"He will manage, I believe in Tony-kun's strength."

Rias said, biting her lip... she blamed herself for being scared of Trigon's power.

If something happened to him... she would hardly forgive herself for it.

"Administrator-kun has already kicked the gods' butts... so I believe in his strength."

Shinoa said after a brief pause.

Erina and Hermione remained silent, not wanting to escalate the already high tension.

They were currently in LuthorCorp while waiting for Anthony to return.

Those who felt the power of Trigon and Darkseid understood well that this battle was beyond their level.

Batman and the others were in another room, which allowed them to access the network created by the New God.

Others, like Flash, the altered Wonder Woman, and others who Darkseid had controlled, simply sat looking at the ground outside.

Robin and Raven secluded themselves in a separate room...

"Boom"

A familiar sound echoed for those on Apokolips, and next to the portal, another one opened, revealing the one they had been waiting for...

"I can say the fight was intense."

Tony said, and the Clark standing next to him only managed a strained smile.

"Yes... We need to rest, but we have finished the job... Darkseid is dead."

He said, clenching his fist.

"Brother!"

"Anthony!"

"Administrator-kun!"

They rushed at Anthony to cling to him.

Lena was the first, Rias second, and Shinoa third.

The others smiled, some bit their lips, and others thought about their next steps to earn a piece of his love...

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