I'm Superman's Brother, But I Got Thanos's Template

"Sergeant Koben, the neural interface will be a bit painful."

In a room flashing with red alarm lights, Ains reminded him with a bead of sweat on his forehead, his tone flustered.

On the experiment table, John Koben was being helped into a powerful-looking mecha by lab personnel. The mecha was silver-gray all over, with only his head exposed.

He exuded the aura of an elite soldier, though a hint of arrogance flickered in his brows. He was a soldier handpicked and trained by General Ryan, the elite of the elite among special forces.

"Do you know how I've spent these five years, Doctor?"

A crazed smile stretched across his lips.

"I know very well," the doctor replied, wiping sweat from his forehead. In truth, he had also participated in the formulation of that hellish training plan.

Besides honing the body, the most crucial aspect was tempering the will, making it as tenacious as steel through various torturous exercises, enabling the wearer to bear the armor.

"Then let's begin, Doctor."

As nerve equipment pierced the back of his skull, John Koben grunted twice, but a ferocious, excited expression appeared on his face.

"I've prepared for this moment for five years. I can't wait to experience the power of the Zero Armor."

"I heard Lois is very interested in that Superman, always chasing his footsteps in Metropolis wanting to interview him. After today, Superman will be a meteor streaking across the sky, and no one will remember him."

As a childhood friend of Lois Lane and someone who had always liked her, John Koben's face revealed an undisguised ferocity.

"Now, initiate power."

Nearly all the electricity stored in the base was channeled into the mecha. John Koben seemed to meld with it, sparks of electricity even appearing in his eyes. He let out a pained roar, as if undergoing electric torture.

"My God, his heart rate... one-fifty, two hundred..."

The experimental personnel frantically gripped the tablet monitoring his vital signs, his heart rate climbing rapidly.

"His heart is about to explode!"

"Save him quickly!" Several personnel rushed forward.

"No need, I can feel it..."

But John Koben stood up, a touch of madness on his face. He clenched his fists, which felt as if they possessed infinite strength. The armor felt like an extension of his own body; he could feel this power.

"I've never felt better!"

He felt unimaginably powerful.

Prometheus? He recalled the internal codename for the entire project.

"If I were the Prometheus of myth, I wouldn't have stolen. I would have killed Zeus and seized the fire of humanity."

Hahaha!

John Koben threw his head back and laughed. He donned the mecha's helmet, then leaped, breaking through the thick concrete ceiling as if it were a fragile eggshell. Propelled by the thrusters, he shot hundreds of meters into the sky.

The wind howled in his ears.

He looked at the display projection within the mecha's helmet, locking onto an unstoppable figure radiating purple light within the base. The thrusters beneath his feet spewed energy flames, and he shot forward like a missile. The metal muscle bundles bulged, and he raised his fist.

"A monster of unknown origin.

You'll be the first alien scum to fall before the Zero Armor!"

"Careful.

Something is flying this way at extreme speed."

Clark, who had been closing his eyes, perked up his ears and quickly warned his brother, moving faster than a Blackbird jet.

"A high-tech battle armor ready for combat?"

To alleviate the suffering of some soldiers severely injured by the missile strike, David, who had just finished sending them to another world, looked up at the sky, his eyes narrowing.

That battle armor was not bulky at all; it was agile and swift. Its technological level seemed comparable to Iron Man's Mark II.

Whoosh!

The formidable battle armor easily broke the sound barrier, arriving in an instant with an aura of invincibility.

In the blink of an eye, the purple light on David's fist intensified, energy converging into a sphere. His slender body stood firm on the ground, and he calmly threw a punch, colliding fiercely with the metal fist.

Boom!

Soldiers on the base's concrete ground were blown away like straw, and several tons of armored vehicles were flipped like matchboxes by the surging shockwave.

Under the collision of unimaginably terrifying power, the earth cracked.

Fragments of concrete were sent flying, and exposed soil billowed outwards like a meteorite impact, a deep pit tens of meters in diameter suddenly appearing.

The entire base trembled.

Dust fell from the ceiling. Ains, looking at the large hole the Zero Armor had broken through, squatted on the ground, holding his head. He had a bad feeling.

It seemed John Koben had survived the neural interface, but he felt that the five years of brutal training had made Koben's mental state rather unstable.

Bang!

With a muffled grunt, his ears ringing from the impact, Clark was sent flying by the shockwave, crashing into a forklift that was unloading goods, leaving him in a sorry state.

David glanced over, though he didn't need to worry about Clark; no matter how weak he was, his physical strength remained unchanged. He turned his gaze back to the armor in front of him.

Aside from the helmet, chest, feet, and hand guards, all other parts were bulging, metallic muscle bundles shining with a silver-gray sheen. The armor exuded a powerful, oppressive aura, like an unshakeable mountain peak.

"Looking at it up close, it's completely different from the Mark 2. The power difference is like night and day."

He glanced at the gauntlet his fist had collided with. It hadn't shattered, and there wasn't even a dent?

David raised an eyebrow and delivered a powerful, lightning-fast kick.

The nearly two-meter-tall Zero Armor was sent flying backward. He dug his fingers into the ground, roughly carving deep gouges to stop his momentum.

John Koben looked up, staring excitedly at the deep pit he had created, then at his hands, trembling with excitement.

He was so powerful now.

"What metal is this armor made of?

Its hardness is almost comparable to Amazon Metal."

David was surprised by the armor's toughness.

Amazon Metal was the raw material used by the Greek gods to forge divine artifacts.

He also knew of some powerful metals in the DC world known for their extreme hardness.

For example, Iternium Metal, used by the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th century, was known as nearly indestructible, requiring even a Kryptonian to use full force to break it. However, its thickness made it impossible for Kryptonians to handle.

Then there was Kryptonian metal, the material used for Kryptonian ships and armor. And Super Metal, named because its veins were so incredibly hard that they could only be softened and mined by Superman's heat vision.

"But the US military shouldn't have access to or be able to use any of these."

Moreover, the energy he had infused into his punch seemed to have been absorbed by this armor?

The ability to absorb energy reminded him of a powerful metal accidentally created in the DC world, much like Marvel's Adamantium – Prometheus Metal.

"Come on, let me see your strength, alien scum."

John Koben let out an arrogant, triumphant laugh, cracking the ground as he leaped forward, swinging the fist that had sunk warships towards David.

"Idiot!"

Being mistaken for an alien, David's expression darkened. He met the charge with his own fist, each punch heavier than the last, his bare body clashing directly with the steel armor. His blows, as powerful as a descending mountain, forced the Zero Armor to retreat step by step.

It was like two mythical Titans battling. With every collision of fists and feet, rings of white shockwaves erupted, sweeping away and overturning everything around them.

"Go, grab him!"

The soldiers nearby, holding rifles, kept their distance from the terrifying battlefield and swarmed towards Clark, who had just managed to get up from the ground.

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