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The Earth was collapsing.
The temple was sinking.
The ground for dozens of kilometers began to bulge, as if some colossal creature was about to break free.
Countless rocks, soil, glowing plants—all matter was converging, driven by some will.
Blue energy radiance surged underground like an ocean.
"mortal..."
Ego's voice no longer came from someone's mouth, but vibrated from all directions, from the Earth, from the sky, from the air.
"You destroyed my avatar..."
"You took my child..."
"You humiliated me again and again..."
Through Jessica's camera, under the terrified gaze of audiences worldwide.
One hundred meters... three hundred meters... five hundred meters... one thousand meters!
A towering rock giant rose from the Earth.
This rock giant had no facial features, only a single giant blue eye on its head—the core where divine power converged.
It lowered its head, looking at Homelander suspended in the air.
Before the enormous rock giant, Homelander was smaller than a mosquito.
Only then did Ego truly awaken; before, it was merely an avatar borrowing power from the main body.
And now, this living Planet, to crush the flea on its body, finally revealed its despair-inducing true form as a God.
"This is... a God?"
Jessica looked at the sky-obscuring giant, almost dropping the camera in her hand.
That immense oppressive feeling, even across the screen, made Earthlings feel suffocated.
[My God... how do you fight that?]
[God... what kind of monster is that? It must be over a thousand meters tall?]
[It's too big, isn't it? Godzilla would be a toy in front of it!]
[Homelander... looks like an action figure.]
Homelander looked at the giant, his expression growing solemn.
"Now..." the rock giant's voice boomed like thunder. "...Are you ready to face the wrath of a God?!"
Accompanying this grand voice, the rock giant swung its massive hand, grabbing a mountain peak.
Blue light flashed in its hand, using divine power to compress the matter.
The mountain peak, originally hundreds of meters tall, instantly shrank under the divine power's squeeze into a high-density rock sphere dozens of meters in diameter.
"Die!" The rock giant hurled the high-density rock sphere at Homelander like throwing a baseball.
Homelander sneered, intending to fly closer to engage in close-range combat.
But just as he slightly bent his legs, he suddenly felt his body sink!
A terrifying gravitational field unexpectedly locked onto him.
"What?!"
Homelander's expression changed slightly.
He felt as if his body had suddenly been burdened with a hundred thousand tons.
The surrounding air became incredibly viscous, as if an invisible giant hand was firmly pinning him in place.
Ego controlled the magnetic and gravitational fields of this area, forming a force field cage targeting Homelander.
"Very good... this is more like it..."
"If it's too easy... the audience will get bored."
Since he couldn't dodge, he would endure it head-on!
Homelander crossed his arms to protect his chest.
"Bang!!!"
The first giant rock smashed squarely into him.
That was no ordinary stone.
It was high-density matter compressed by Ego's divine power.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Then came the second, third, fourth... more giant rocks followed one after another.
Each rock that hit Homelander unleashed a violent energy explosion.
The constantly flashing blue divine flames instantly engulfed Homelander.
Dust flew, and brokenstones splattered.
The shockwave generated by the explosion directly leveled the surface for several kilometers around.
Jessica had to teleport several times consecutively to barely stabilize herself at the edge of the shockwave, her camera still working stubbornly.
"Anthony!!" Seeing the scene before her, Jessica cried out, instinctively wanting to rush over.
But reason told her that in a battle of that magnitude, she wouldn't only be unhelpful, but a burden.
Her current mission was to record, to let Earthlings see all of this.
[Is Homelander buried?]
[Move! Get out of the way!]
[God... is that an attack any living creature can withstand?]
[That explosion... even an aircraft carrier couldn't take one hit, could it?]
[He wouldn't... wouldn't have already...]
The dust settled.
A huge Impact crater appeared where Homelander had stood.
At the bottom of the crater, Homelander stood with his arms crossed, shielding his head.
His bodysuit was still shiny and new, but his expression was not relaxed.
Although his steel body had withstood the damage, the violent vibrations still caused him intense nausea, his stomach churning as if he had ridden a roller coaster ten thousand times, making him feel physically unwell.
"Not dead yet?"
The rock giant's voice carried surprise, but only a hint of it.
"Then let's do it a hundred more times."
Rumble—
The Earth churned.
Countless more huge rocks were pulled up by divine power, compressed and deformed in the air, each one flashing with dangerous blue divine light.
"Enjoy this funeral!" Ego's roar echoed throughout the entire Planet.
"It seems... I've been pushed into Phase Two."
Homelander wiped the corner of his mouth, looking up at the massive figure still continuously shaping rock orbs.
There was no fear, but rather a greater surge of fighting spirit.
"System! Team Assemble! Activate!" Homelander roared in his mind.
"Detecting nearby team members... Members detected: Homelander, Jewel."
"Team Assemble activated! Basic all-attribute boost!"
"Not enough!" Homelander's eyes flashed with brilliance.
"Activate special skill—Thunder Bond!"
"Linking Bond members..."
Although those guys weren't on site, this was precisely the abnormal aspect of the "Thunder Bond" skill—once bound, they could lend power no matter where they were!
"Link successful: Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff)."
"Link successful: Deadpool (Wade Wilson)."
"Link successful: Speedball (Robbie Baldwin)."
"Bond effective!"
"Detecting host's current state, all-attribute amplification multiplier stacking... total increase of 300%!"
"Additional effect: Thunder Divine Power, activated!"
Rumble—!!!
Crack—!!!
The originally clear sky of Ego the Living Planet suddenly became covered with dark clouds.
These weren't clouds summoned by Ego; this was a celestial phenomenon caused by the energy within Homelander.
"Sizzle sizzle—"
A torrential, violent force of thunder exploded within Homelander's body.
Countless thick blue-white lightning bolts appeared out of thin air, wildly coiling around Homelander's body.
His eyes now had turned into dazzling pale lightning!
Earth.
Thor, who had just returned from Asgard with reinforcements and was about to drink a can of beer, was captivated by the live broadcast on the large screen in front of him.
When the figure wrapped in lightning, like the Thunder God descended, appeared...
"Clatter."
The beer in his hand dropped to the ground.
He widened his eyes, his mouth agape, unable to close it for a long time.
"What—fuck!!!"