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

Chapter 135: Activate the World Engine Immediately (4k)

Smallville, Kent Farm.

The insects in the wheat field chirped noisily, causing unease and irritating the nerves.

At the doorway, Martha, wearing an apron, gazed at the sky in the distance, her hands clasped tightly. Jonathan paced inside the house, gritting his teeth and glancing at the Lantern Ring in his hand from time to time.

Just moments ago, the news had reported that the massive spaceship had left Earth's orbit.

The couple was filled with worry, unsure of the current situation.

"The alien general from Superman's home planet?"

In the bunker, Lex Luthor watched the footage captured by Luthor Group satellites on the projection screen. The giant spaceship, spewing flames, was being pulled backward towards the moon. He smirked, donning his green battle armor forged from high-density alloy.

The armor, once bulky and resembling a mobile fortress, had been transformed into a form-fitting, streamlined suit.

"The current battle armor is merely an auxiliary function for me now."

He clenched his fist, feeling a volcanic surge of power within him.

Nearly twenty years had passed since the meteor shower struck the town. Many people who had been mutated by the radiation feared the physical problems it brought and sought examinations and treatment at hospitals.

Lex Luthor, utilizing his vast commercial empire, tracked down those who had left records and collected samples from them one by one.

After spending billions of dollars in research funding, the Typhon Project was completed, becoming the source of the bloodlines for ten thousand types of monsters.

Boom!

"Excluding abilities that would make me look like a monster, I now possess hundreds of abilities."

Lex Luthor smirked and clenched his fist. The terrifying physical strength caused the air to explode, and a gust of wind swept through the room.

Power sufficient to hunt gods was now in his grasp.

"I have no intention of being a hero. Heroes often meet unpleasant ends.

But this time is an exception."

Bang!

The roof was shattered, and Lex Luthor shot up, breaking the sound barrier as he sped towards space, his target the moon.

After the battle between the two alien factions concluded, he would appear to reap all the rewards and become the ultimate victor!

"A hero who saves Earth?

That sounds pretty good."

With such a title, running for president and obtaining supreme power in the human world would surely be twice as effective with half the effort!

...

Clark, hearing David's words, clenched his fist and looked at Zod on the ground, signaling him to answer the question.

"Earth has given birth to weak Earthlings."

Zod's lips were slightly swollen. He spat out a mouthful of blood with disdain, then backhanded Clark, sending him flying before standing up.

"Although they can't even defeat the insects on Krypton, their appearance is extremely similar to us Kryptonians. This planet shares many similarities with Krypton.

I will use the World Engine, with its limited energy, to terraform this planet and rebuild Krypton!"

He glanced at the azure planet in the distant space.

"Moreover... Earth is under a yellow sun. From now on, every Kryptonian born here will gain strength from birth.

Even if Earth explodes again like Krypton, Kryptonians will still survive."

Zod clenched his fist abruptly, emitting a powerful aura.

The explosion of Krypton had nearly annihilated the Kryptonian race. He would never allow such a thing to happen again!

"Absolutely not!"

To use Earth as a price for rebuilding Krypton, Clark's eyes widened. He leaped forward and threw a punch, intending to subdue Zod and thwart his plan to terraform Earth!

However, their physical conditioning was similar, but their other aspects were vastly different.

Zod, seasoned in countless battles, was already wary of Clark's heat vision. He easily pushed Clark back into a disadvantageous position. Under Zod's fierce assault, Clark was forced to retreat continuously.

David wanted to fly forward to help Clark, but dozens of Kryptonians, who could easily reach heights of over ten miles with a single leap, swarmed him like wolves. Although they couldn't injure him, he also found it difficult to break free.

Caught in the encirclement, he couldn't help but recall Krypton's golden age in the universe.

It was no exaggeration to say that powerful beings like himself were rare in the universe, yet he was firmly restrained by a few dozen Kryptonians.

At its peak, Krypton conservatively had hundreds of millions of Kryptonians. What kind of power was that!

"No wonder wherever Kryptonians went, it all became their colonies."

Boom!

Just as he blasted two Kryptonians away with scorching cosmic energy, the next moment, five or six more Kryptonians charged at him with clenched fists. David manipulated gravity with one hand, grasping them in mid-air, and slammed them down forcefully, creating massive craters tens of meters deep on the lunar surface.

Swish!

A cold glint flashed.

David's head snapped back, and he touched his cheek, revealing a shallow bloody mark on his skin.

Faora landed steadily, holding a dagger made of some unknown black metal. She turned to face him, provocatively licking the blade, which was thinner than paper.

"Your skin seems to absorb our attacks! But it must be incredibly taxing to absorb attacks that are too small yet too powerful!"

His face stung slightly, and upon finding a tiny trace of blood, David slowly lowered his hand.

"Not bad. While it's no worse than a mosquito bite, after all this effort from so many of you, at least one of you managed to injure me."

The Kryptonians' weapons must be made of the same material as their armor, capable of withstanding each other's attacks after bathing in the yellow sun, and also capable of harming each other.

"However, you won't have another chance like this!"

David hovered in the air like a celestial body, a powerful gravity field enveloping him. He charged into the crowd like a cannonball. Attacks directed at him were distorted by the oppressive gravity, which felt like a mountain pressing down on him.

His body lurched forward, and the fists aimed at him, the daggers thrusting at him, were all pressed towards the ground.

What followed were terrifying attacks potent enough to shatter lunar craters.

David unleashed his formidable strength, sending Kryptonian after Kryptonian flying, smashing into distant craters. Though they, with their armored bodies, quickly flew back, like unkillable cockroaches, he had already secured victory.

"There's no sunlight here, it's pitch black, and the Kryptonians' energy won't be replenished. But I'm different."

He was confident that in another half hour, he could single-handedly defeat dozens of Kryptonians.

Defeating dozens of Kryptonians, who could conquer a planet single-handedly, with his own might—if this news spread, no one in the universe would believe it.

Easily catching Faora's distorted arm as she lunged with her dagger, David glanced at Clark's position, feeling that he didn't have much time left.

Clark was only facing Zod, but Zod's power was also unlike that of ordinary Kryptonians. He had been beaten black and blue by Zod's sharp offense, his lips bleeding, looking utterly disheveled.

*BANG!*

Zod threw a punch, and the shockwave exploded, sending lunar dust billowing for miles.

Clark grunted and was sent flying backward, his body like a launched missile, skimming the lunar surface and carving a deep gully in the ground. He lay at the end of the gully, clutching his chest, his face contorted in pain, feeling as if his ribs were broken.

Things had unfolded exactly as he had predicted; as fellow Kryptonians, he was no match for Zod, the general.

*CRUNCH!*

The ground cracked and shattered underfoot. With a powerful leap, Zod crossed half a mile, appearing precisely before Clark. Like a ferocious beast that had seen countless battles, his eyes fierce, he grabbed Clark and lifted him up.

Unlike Clark, who still relied primarily on his biological field to move freely on the moon, Zod, despite never having been to the moon before, had adapted completely to its gravity in a short amount of time due to his rich combat experience and his years of honing his body's control. He moved as if on level ground.

"Tell me, where is the ship that sent you to Earth!"

"I will never tell you, Zod. Give up your inhumane plan."

Clark's neck was gripped as if by iron pincers, and he struggled to break free, shouting angrily.

"If future Kryptonians live on the new planet you establish by massacring billions, they probably won't be happy either!"

Setting aside the unique atmosphere of Krypton, Earth's gravity, dozens of times weaker than Krypton's, would make it impossible for humans to survive. All life on Earth would be extinct.

Moreover, the ship's location was where his adoptive parents were. How could he possibly reveal it!

"You won't talk? You will! Let's see if your will has become as strong as steel on that weak planet!"

Zod grabbed Clark, ready to begin his brutal interrogation.

*SWISH!*

David, having already subdued over a dozen Kryptonians, finally managed to free a hand to assist. A torrent of scorching energy pierced through, engulfing and blasting Zod away.

Clark staggered to his feet, quickly using the power of his Lantern Ring to heal his injuries. However, the energy required to repair a person made of straw was different from repairing a person formed from a mountain. The Lantern Ring flickered, its energy rapidly depleting. He stopped repairing once his ribs had healed.

"David, I think it's time."

To conserve some energy for dealing with whatever David brought, Clark looked at David with a hint of embarrassment. They had already confirmed Zod's malicious intentions towards Earth, and frankly, he couldn't hold on much longer.

Due to the changes brought about by David, Clark was facing a formidable enemy that he shouldn't have encountered at this stage, unlike in the original storyline where Jor-El had described him as being twice as strong as Zod. Even with his lack of experience, he had maintained a subtle advantage in his battles with Zod, even finding the strength to hold back against his last remaining kinsman.

"You're asking for death!"

Seeing Zod blasted away again, the Kryptonian warriors, led by Faora, roared in fury, their feet cracking the ground as they shot into the sky like comets, heading for David.

"Since you've said so, let's end it here."

Scanning those individuals in mid-air, David slowed their approach with his gravity field. He then took out an item, a steel test tube, and poured its contents into his hand, spreading it evenly over both hands like applying hand cream.

The green, glowing liquid rapidly emitted radiation.

David flashed through the air in front of Faora, his fist striking her face without mercy.

Faora was sent flying backward, embedding herself in the crater wall miles away. Just as she angrily prepared to fight again, a sudden weakness washed over her, her strength rapidly draining. She fell to her knees uncontrollably, her face pale as she touched the green liquid on her face.

"What... what is this?"

The familiar light made her recall something.

After Krypton's explosion, Zod and the others had tried to find familiar objects or usable equipment and facilities among Krypton's debris. They stumbled upon a type of green crystal, a stone from the planet's core formed during a high-temperature explosion. Its emitted light could make them weak, powerless, and even in pain.

"It's similar to that stone!"

Faora shouted, trying to warn the Legion warriors, "Don't go near him."

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Kryptonian warriors were sent flying one after another, with over a dozen more knocked to the ground in the blink of an eye.

Facing Kryptonians, especially dozens of them, David had to be a bit more cautious.

The Kryptonite was gone, but he still had the Kryptonite solution, which could emit radiation that made Kryptonians weak and pained.

"However, the Kryptonite solution's radiation is weaker than Kryptonite.

Plus, due to the space being filled with various high-energy radiation.

The effect doesn't seem as ideal."

David glanced at Faora, who was only weakened by the Kryptonite solution on her face, and the other Kryptonians. They even allowed the residual strength to get up and try to remove the Kryptonite solution from their faces with moon dust.

He raised his finger and fired purple energy beams, beginning to pick them off, knocking out each Kryptonian who had gotten the Kryptonite solution on them.

"This is bad, this is..."

Zod, watching from afar, his pupils constricted. The battlefield changed in an instant, and a moment of slowness or hesitation could cost one their life.

With Faora's warning, and his superior tactical knowledge, he reacted quickly and found a solution. Through his battle suit, he ordered the spaceship in a deep voice.

"Activate the World Engine immediately!"

The spaceship's artificial intelligence obeyed the highest-level command without hesitation.

The rear of the mothership disintegrated, and a massive device with three legs spewed flames as it flew. It was hundreds of meters tall, like a sky-piercing giant from mythology.

"Destroy non-Kryptonian life forms."

Zod coldly commanded remotely.

At the center of the World Engine, a mirror made of mercury extended a transforming mechanical arm made of silver metallic particles. It could seemingly extend infinitely, moving with unmatched speed, like lightning, as it reached for David.

Kryptonite was the Kryptonians' weakness, but it couldn't restrain Kryptonian machines.

The World Engine was one of Krypton's pinnacle technological achievements, capable of arbitrarily altering and reshaping a planet's terrain and environment. It was incredibly powerful, a weapon of immense might, even for Kryptonians who had basked under a yellow sun.

Zod had scoured countless former Kryptonian colonies across the universe to find just one such machine.

Purple energy beams struck the metallic tentacle, which seemed to flash with purple light ripples. It easily withstood the attack, as if unaffected, and continued to grab.

"World Engine?"

David's lips tightened. A gravity field erupted around him. As the tentacle entered the field, it felt like it was sinking into mud, becoming extremely difficult to move.

The World Engine immediately adjusted its direction. The massive machine moved with surprising speed, a speed that even ordinary Kryptonians would struggle to react to. It unleashed the gravity field output used for reshaping planets, aiming it at David.

Buzz!

The gravity beam, which could easily pulverize mountains into dust, struck. The surrounding hundred miles shook, the moon dust rippled, and it was all swept away.

"No!!"

Clark's eyes widened in disbelief as he saw the semi-transparent gravity beam hit David. He had never seen the World Engine before, but he could feel its terrifying power. It was the weapon Zod had mentioned, capable of reshaping planetary landscapes!

Boom!

The gravity beam, several meters thick, engulfed David. His defensive gravity field was instantly pierced.

He grunted and was sent flying backward at extreme speed, crashing through a hundred-meter-tall crater and disappearing miles away. Like an uncontrolled comet streaking across the sky, he was propelled by the gravity beam that pierced the heavens, hurtling toward space!

"Zod!"

Veins bulged on Clark's neck as he charged toward Zod, the one who had given the order, with unprecedented fury.

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