The Hawaiian-print shirt had long since been torn to shreds in the previous battle.
Tel-Rol raised his hand expressionlessly, grabbing the collar.
"Rip—!"
A crisp sound of fabric tearing.
He directly ripped off all the tattered cloth from his upper body, tossing it casually to the ground, revealing muscles like ancient Greek sculptures.
Every muscle line was filled with explosive power, appearing like flowing gold against the backdrop of golden-yellow flames.
Even the air around him grew heavy.
He walked step by step towards Steppenwolf.
But with each step he took, the ground beneath his feet cracked like a spiderweb. The air pressure around him rose sharply; with every step, the ground directly crumbled.
As he passed Diana, his steps paused for a moment.
Diana tensed, instinctively tightening her grip on the sword of vulcan. Just being near him gave her the illusion of suffocating.
This Tel-Rol before her was completely different from the guy she knew before.
The palpable pressure emanating from him made even her, a demigoddess, instinctively take a step back.
"Go help your comrades."
Tel-Rol didn't look at her; his emerald green eyes were fixed solely on Steppenwolf in the distance.
His voice was flat, devoid of his usual flippancy, leaving only a chilling indifference.
"This is between him and me now."
Diana opened her mouth, looked at his back enveloped in golden flames, swallowed, and ultimately said nothing.
She had no doubt that if she intervened now, she would likely just be a burden, crushed in an instant.
She decisively turned and rushed towards Hal, Barry, and others who were struggling against the Parademons.
In the center of the battlefield.
Steppenwolf watched the golden figure approaching step by step, his expression undergoing a rapid change.
From initial shock to bewilderment, it finally transformed into excitement and fanaticism.
He bared his teeth in a grin, his greyish-blue face full of bloodthirsty desire.
"Interesting, truly interesting!"
He roared in a low voice.
"The energy in your body... is more than ten times stronger than before!"
"I have killed many Kryptonians from other universes, but none like you!"
Steppenwolf raised his battle-axe and great red sword high, the muscles in his arms bulging.
"However!"
The disdain in his eyes reappeared.
"Even if a bug evolves, it is still a bug!"
"Die!"
As his words fell, his massive body lunged forward, the battle-axe in his hand slicing through the air with enough force to split mountains and rocks, chopping directly at Tel-Rol's neck!
Facing this world-destroying blow, Tel-Rol merely raised his right hand expressionlessly.
"Clang—!"
A deafening clash of metal.
The scorching battle-axe was firmly caught in mid-air by Tel-Rol's five fingers.
Violent flames surged along the axe handle, yet they couldn't even make him retreat half a step.
The terrifying power, enough to cleave continental plates, vanished the moment it touched his palm, like a mud ox entering the sea.
Steppenwolf's pupils contracted.
He tried to pull the axe back, but found it rooted in the other's hand, unmoving.
"Die!"
Steppenwolf roared, and the great red sword in his other hand followed closely, drawing a deadly red arc, slashing horizontally at Tel-Rol's waist!
That great sword contained energy that countered Kryptonians!
However.
Just as the great sword was about to touch Tel-Rol's body.
His other hand also rose.
So fast that only an afterimage remained.
"Clang!"
Another dull thud.
The great red sword that had just severely wounded Kara was also effortlessly caught by his other hand.
His gaze didn't even waver in the slightest, fixed firmly on him.
The entire battlefield fell into a momentary silence.
Barry in the distance was utterly stunned.
"Holy crap... catching blades with bare hands? And two of them?"
Hal's green lantern ring flashed wildly with alarms.
"Damn it, my energy detector just went off the charts! What kind of monster is this guy?"
Diana's heart pounded even harder; she had personally experienced how terrifying those two weapons were.
Steppenwolf's fanatic smile completely froze.
He gripped the weapons with both hands, trying to break free with all his might, but the other's two hands were like two unshakeable divine mountains, leaving him utterly unable to move an inch.
Just then, Tel-Rol's arms, gripping the two weapons, suddenly exerted force, and his body leaped high using the pulling force.
Then, in mid-air, in an extremely strange yet fluid posture, he brought his feet together and fiercely kicked Steppenwolf's face!
"Bang!"
A solid, heavy blow.
Steppenwolf's hideous bull-like head was squarely kicked by Tel-Rol's feet.
A bizarre scene unfolded.
Steppenwolf held his two divine weapons aloft with both hands.
And Tel-Rol, gripping his divine weapons, hung in mid-air, his feet firmly pressed against Steppenwolf's face.
A strange tug-of-war formed.
Steppenwolf's head was thrown back by the kick, and his body staggered backward, but he refused to let go of his weapons even in Death.
The two of them were deadlocked like this.
"You... you... damn... bug!"
Steppenwolf squeezed out a few words through gritted teeth, a voice mixed with anger and horror. He felt unprecedented humiliation.
He, a mighty warrior, was being stomped on the face by a bug in his eyes!
Tel-Rol's emerald green eyes showed no emotion.
His feet, pressed against Steppenwolf's face, suddenly began to glow brilliantly.
Golden-yellow energy, like a tide, converged towards the soles of his feet; two miniature suns formed and compressed beneath his feet.
Steppenwolf's heart tightened, a fatal sense of crisis welling up.
He wanted to dodge, to let go and retreat.
But it was too late.
"Ka..."
A low syllable escaped Tel-Rol's lips.
"Me..."
The light from his feet grew brighter and brighter, already too dazzling to look at directly.
"Ha..."
Steppenwolf watched in terror as the two feet pressed against his face, the energy gathered there making him feel a deathly aura that made his soul tremble!
"Me..."
"Wave—!"
He was given no time to react.
A thick, golden-yellow pillar of energy suddenly erupted from the soles of Tel-Rol's feet!
Zero distance!
A point-blank ultimate attack!
"Boom—!!!!"
A deafening roar finally burst forth!
Golden light instantly engulfed Steppenwolf's entire head.
Steppenwolf instinctively clutched his weapons, and the violent surge of energy washed over his head, only to hear his agonizing roars rapidly annihilated within the light pillar.
Everything in its path, whether ruined buildings or solid rock, was completely vaporized the moment it touched the energy pillar, leaving no dust behind.
This golden pillar of light, piercing through heaven and earth, plowed a gigantic, bottomless ravines into the earth, extending to the horizon of everyone's vision.
The pillar of light seemed to want to pierce through the entire planet, leaving an eternal imprint of absolute power between heaven and earth.