Homelander took a moment to glance at the live chat and felt that the timing was just about right.
"Alright, warm-up is over."
Homelander grabbed Ikaris's shoulder with one hand, yanked him down violently, and slammed his knee hard into his abdomen.
"Ugh!" Ikaris let out a pained grunt.
"Get ready to embrace the fall—Vought Fall!"
"Urgh—!!!"
Ikaris screamed as he plummeted like a meteor, smashing heavily into the glacier below.
The immense kinetic energy caused the glacier to tremble violently; the hard ice shattered with a boom, and countless shards of ice sprayed in all directions like bullets.
[Holy Shit! That hit was so cool!]
[Physical transcendence! Amitabha!]
[Homelander: I didn't even put down my phone.]
[Begging Vought to open the donation channel! I want to spend my entire pension on Homelander!]
[so easy! Stomp matches are boring, I suggest the other side call a few more people. I, Homelander, want to fight ten at once!]
Ikaris was deeply embedded in the shattered ice pit, the golden threads on his Eternal suit flashing frantically, attempting to repair his damaged body.
Humiliation, anger, helplessness.
These emotions intertwined in his heart; as the most powerful warrior of the Eternal, he had his own pride!
Ikaris gritted his teeth and stood up from the ice pit.
He looked up and stared intently at Homelander in mid-air.
The core energy matrix within his body spun frantically, overloading as it drew upon Universe energy.
His eyes shone with intense golden light, resembling two burning miniature stars.
Facing this desperate counterattack from Ikaris.
Homelander smiled slightly at the phone camera: "Hey, guys! The ultimate beam struggle is here, hurry up and type '1' to cheer me on!"
"Die!!!" Ikaris let out a low shout.
Cosmic rays containing destructive energy surged from bottom to top, shooting into the sky straight toward Homelander.
"As you wish!!"
At the same time, Homelander's eyes were filled with a blood-red, scorching light.
Crimson Heat Vision shot out, colliding head-on with the golden cosmic rays.
"Boom—!"
Two streams of energy, one red and one gold, collided fiercely in mid-air, ripples of energy spreading outward from the point of intersection.
But this seemingly evenly matched standoff only lasted for a second.
The corners of Homelander's mouth curled up slightly, the red light in his eyes flared, and the power of his Heat Vision instantly doubled.
The red beam crushed the golden ray with an unstoppable force, pressing it all the way down.
"No—!"
The red Heat Vision shattered the golden beam directly and pierced fiercely into Ikaris's eyes.
"Aaaaaah—!!!"
Ikaris covered his smoking eyes with both hands, rolling on the ice and wailing frantically.
Golden liquid flowed down through his fingers, dripping onto the pristine white ice, looking incredibly miserable.
Meanwhile, the viewer count in Homelander's livestream reached a peak.
[Awesome!!! (Voice crack)]
[Red > Gold! Homelander is teaching you a lesson!]
[Homelander! WIN!]
[This is too cool! Easily blasted the opponent away! I declare that I've bent!]
[Where is the donate button?! Take my life savings!]
[I can't hold it back! Let me donate! Just let me do it once! If not, I'm just going to throw my hard-earned cash at the screen!]
...
While Homelander was showing off to the skies in Alaska.
The original crime scene was not peaceful either.
Under the exclamations of others, the reporters surrounding the scene also learned that Homelander had started a personal livestream.
Everyone took out their phones and started watching the stream together.
"Too strong, that's practically a one-sided execution!"
And the few Eternal members also noticed the strangeness of the people around them.
Kingo was the first to react, pulling out his custom phone encrusted with crushed diamonds.
The other Eternal members followed suit and took out their phones, entering Homelander's livestream under Kingo's guidance.
When the Eternal group saw through the screen that Ikaris was attempting to melt the glacier and release those frozen Deviants, everyone's faces were filled with disbelief and anger.
"Shit! He has really gone crazy." Phastos couldn't help but shout angrily.
"To complete Arishem the Judge's mission, he has already resorted to unscrupulous means." Ajak's expression was heavy.
Plus, Druig had just died tragically in front of them.
New grudges and old hatreds intertwined, making the Eternal members gnash their teeth in hatred toward Ikaris.
Only Sersi wore a complex expression.
She and Ikaris had loved each other for thousands of years, clinging to each other through the changes of countless centuries.
This kind of love that spanned time could not be completely erased by a single moment of betrayal.
Reason told Sersi that Ikaris was a sinner and that he deserved to die.
But when Sersi saw on the screen that Ikaris had been blinded by Heat Vision and was wailing in pain on the ice, she finally couldn't hold back anymore.
"No... Ikaris..." She grabbed Makkari's arm and pleaded in a low voice, "Take me over there, please, Makkari. Take me to find him."
Makkari shook off Sersi's hand and gestured angrily in sign language.
[He killed Druig! He is trying to release the Deviants! And you still want to find him?]
[Let him die!!]
"I know! I know he committed an unforgivable sin!" Sersi's eyes welled with tears, and she grabbed Makkari again, refusing to let go. "I just want to ask him in person, why... why he had to do this."
"Just treat it as closure for these thousands of years of affection."
"Please, take me there..."
Makkari stared at the cold corpse of Druig on the ground, her eyes full of resistance.
But seeing Sersi's painful expression, she eventually softened.
She sighed and nodded.
Makkari quickly crouched down and let Sersi climb onto her back.
The next second, Makkari turned into a golden stream of light, suddenly breaking through the crowd and sprinting toward the north.
"Someone is running away!"
Pietro, who had been guarding the perimeter, noticed the disturbance here.
Having learned from the previous lesson when Sprite used an illusion to escape in the chaos, Pietro was highly focused this time.
"Trying to run again?"
Pietro smiled confidently.
Imitating Homelander's tone from earlier, he said to the media camera: "Don't worry, leave it to me."
Then he pushed off with his feet, dragging a long silver afterimage as he chased after the golden light.
...
At this moment, Makkari, who was sprinting at high speed across the sea surface, suddenly felt an unusual airflow fluctuation from behind to the side.
She turned her head and looked, only to be surprised to discover that a human wearing a silver suit was about to catch up to her!
Pietro looked at Makkari's surprised expression and triumphantly raised his eyebrows.
"Hey, beauty. Where are you going in such a rush?"
"Do you want to come to my place? My bed is big and comfortable!"
Makkari ignored Pietro's teasing, but as an Eternal speedster, she had never been challenged in terms of speed before.
Her eyes sharpened, and her legs erupted with even more powerful golden energy, her speed climbing once again, instantly widening the distance between her and Pietro.
"Whoa, quite spicy." Pietro's competitive spirit was ignited, "Then let's play around with you."
Pietro accelerated as well, his silver afterimage once again hot on her heels.
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