Darkseid's gaze swept across the entire battlefield like a searchlight, searching for the powerhouse from the images who wore a stars and stripes cape and fired red beams from his eyes.
"I do not see any being that matches that energy level."
Desaad pulled up the scanning data and quickly scanned through it.
"Great Master, the sensors show that the highest energy readings on the battlefield come from that cyborg and those remnants of Earth's Old Gods. The target individual has not been found."
"He fled." Darkseid snorted coldly, his face full of disdain.
"It seems this Earthling's so-called savior chose to run before witnessing the arrival of true despair."
Darkseid lost his patience.
He had originally come to crush the powerhouse who dared to challenge the majesty of Apokolips, but now, only a boring game of slaughter remained.
"End this farce." Darkseid gave the order, preparing to turn and walk back to the bridge. "Use the main cannon to level this city."
At the moment he turned, his gaze inadvertently caught a corner of the plaza's center.
"Wait..."
Darkseid's movements paused.
He keenly captured a peculiar phenomenon on the battlefield below.
In the center of the war-torn city, there was an extremely eye-catching white figure.
It was a woman wearing an intricate, pure white wedding dress.
This woman held a baseball Bat stained with green plasma upside down, shouting curses at the Apokolips warships in the sky.
"You rude ugly freaks! Didn't you see a wedding is being held here?! You've dirtied my carpet! Get down here! I'm going to shove your balls up your nostrils!!"
It wasn't the crazy woman's comical actions that caught Darkseid's attention.
It was the reactions of the Earth heroes around her.
That red Speedster had abandoned the large-scale harvesting of enemy troops, turning into a bolt of red lightning that constantly darted back and forth within a fifty-meter radius of the woman in the wedding dress.
Whenever stray bullets or Parademons tried to approach her, this Speedster would instantly appear and move the threat away.
That black Bat leaping through the ruins also seemed to intentionally or unintentionally snipe any stragglers trying to approach the center of the plaza.
Even the Amazon shield formation was consciously or unconsciously contracting toward the woman's position, forming a protective circle.
These people were desperately protecting her.
On this battlefield where one could die at any moment, this group of battle-hardened warriors actually made protecting a crazy woman with no superpowers their top tactical priority.
Why?
Who is she?
Darkseid pieced all the clues together in his mind.
That fleeing powerhouse and this woman protected by heavy forces.
"Interesting."
Darkseid abandoned his plan to end everything early.
"It seems that coward left behind an important asset."
He took a step forward, his body stepping directly over the edge of the flagship.
The tall gray figure fell straight toward the Metropolis Plaza below.
"Boom!!!"
As if a meteorite from beyond the heavens had struck the ground.
The Earth collapsed violently, with web-like cracks spreading wildly in all directions. The powerful Impact, mixed with rubble, sent the surrounding Parademons and Amazon warriors flying.
The dust cleared.
Darkseid's tall figure slowly emerged.
He carried no weapons and wore no heavy armor; just by standing there, his terrifying pressure made the air of the entire battlefield turn thick.
The clamor of the battlefield came to a brief halt at this moment.
"He's down!" Cyborg roared, his left arm instantly switching to a maximum-power Plasma Cannon, aiming at the tall figure in the dust. "Fire!! Everyone, focus fire!!"
"Zzzzt!!"
The deep blue Plasma Beam instantly crossed the space, slamming hard into Darkseid's chest.
At the same time, Mera condensed three High-Pressure Water Blades, heading straight for Darkseid's neck.
Slade Wilson, as Deathstroke, leapt down from a side building, his sharp sword aimed directly at the top of the opponent's head.
Facing this round of focused attacks, Darkseid didn't even assume a defensive posture.
He just watched coldly.
When the Plasma Beam hit him, it left no mark other than a faint spark.
The moment Mera's High-Pressure Water Blades touched his skin, they were shattered into a mist by an invisible force field.
Deathstroke's sword tip struck Darkseid's forehead, but it produced a crisp metallic clang, and the blade snapped on the spot.
"What?!" Slade's single eye narrowed sharply.
Darkseid nonchalantly raised his right hand and gave a casual swat.
"Bang!"
Slade's body was like it had been hit by a high-speed train; the armor on his chest instantly caved in, and he was sent flying horizontally, crashing through three concrete walls before lying in the ruins, his fate unknown.
"Slade!" Bruce shouted.
Darkseid did not pause; he stepped forward and walked straight toward Harley Quinn.
"Stop him!!"
General Philippus roared, leading a dozen of the most elite Amazon warriors, raising spears and shields to launch a flank charge.
Darkseid didn't even spare them a glance; his eyes simply flashed with red light.
"Zzzzt—"
Two Omega Beams shot out from his eyes.
These two beams defied the physical laws of linear propagation, zigzagging eerily in mid-air in complex patterns, hitting the lead Amazon warriors with unerring precision.
The moment they were hit by the Omega Beams, those heroic female warriors, along with their bronze armor, turned into nothingness, completely erased from existence.
"No!!" Philippus was overcome with grief and indignation, roaring as she charged forward.
"Begone."
Darkseid gave a casual wave, his immense power sweeping through like a hurricane.
Philippus was thrown into the air by this irresistible force, crashing heavily into the distant ruins.
"Barry! Take Harley away! Now!!" Bruce roared into the channel, his eyes nearly bursting.
"Copy that!"
Barry Allen didn't hesitate; blue arcs of electricity crackled around him, and the World became incredibly slow in his eyes.
He rushed toward Harley, reaching out to grab her arm.
However, Darkseid just tilted his head slightly, and the crimson Omega Beams shot from his eyes, catching up to Barry first.
The Kinetic Shield constructed by the Speed Force shattered instantly.
"Ah!"
Barry screamed as he tumbled through the air a dozen times, finally crashing to the ground, unable to move.
The entire plaza was cleared in an instant.
Only Darkseid and Harley Quinn, standing in the middle of the red carpet, remained.
The size difference between the two was enormous; Harley looked like a Barbie doll in front of him.
But this "Barbie" didn't have the slightest sense of fear.
"You ugly freak who looks like a piece of rotten rock!! You dirtied my red carpet!"
Harley gripped the baseball Bat with both hands and swung it with all her might at Darkseid's knee.
"Clang!"
The metal Bat bent instantly, while Darkseid's body didn't even wobble.
Harley threw the Bat away, and instead of retreating, she advanced, raising her foot in a white high heel and delivering a groin kick to Darkseid.