The moment Dane received Clark's distress call, he had Cortana open the Dream World over Metropolis, pulling the city into the Dream World.
This had become the standard operating procedure for the Justice League. When encountering enemies capable of city-destroying or greater threats, deploying the Dream World could minimize losses.
With a flash of teleportation light, the other Justice League members rushed over.
"Holy. Shit!" Nightwing looked at the figures flying around in the sky and couldn't help but curse.
"Don't tell me those are all Supermen!"
Dane stood in the middle of the crowd, nodding at Nightwing's despairing gaze.
"As you can see, these enemies are all Kryptonians, from the same Planet as Clark."
Batman glanced at the weather. It was broad daylight, with a clear, cloudless sky, the best time for Kryptonians to exert their full power.
"If their abilities are the same as Superman's… no, even if they only reach half his level, then we won't be able to deal with them."
The "we" he referred to generally meant all heroes without superpowers.
Even if they wore eternal metal battle suits, they could at most ensure they wouldn't be instantly killed by the opponent, but to fight against those "Supermen," they would likely be outmatched.
Batman was very clear-headed; this type of superhero never won by direct combat power.
And he had long suspected that Dane might possess weapons capable of dealing with Kryptonians. This was just an intuition, the intuition of an old schemer.
As early as when Vanguard Technology pulled off those flashy moves, Batman had already seen that Dane was definitely an old schemer too.
Sure enough, as he expected, Dane pulled out a ring-shaped energy ring from his inventory, with green nanobots at its center.
These nanobots contained the molecular structure of Kryptonite and could emit the same radiation as Kryptonite.
"Here, one for each of you."
Dane pressed the energy ring onto Nightwing's chest, and the ring, like a liquid, permeated into his battle suit, fusing and reconfiguring with the original nanobots.
Finally, the blue magic light of the eternal metal on his body extinguished, and the green Kryptonite light lit up.
"Kryptonite radiation is harmless to ordinary people, but it is the natural enemy of Kryptonians with superpowers!
With this, let alone that group of Kryptonians, you can even beat up Clark!"
Red Hood's eyes lit up at the words. His arm shot out, "whoosh," grabbing one of the green energy rings and pressing it onto his battle suit.
Batman also reached out and took one, a thoughtful expression on his face.
He was right; since Shazam already knew the Kryptonians' weakness, he would naturally prepare in advance.
He pressed the energy ring onto his body, and the blue indicator light turned green.
Dane looked at Zatanna, but she shook her head.
"I have magic."
"Then you'd best stay far away from them," Dane reminded her.
He then looked at Constantine, who unceremoniously took the item.
"I think I might need this."
He didn't have his own battle suit, so holding a piece of Kryptonite would make him feel safer.
Boom—!
Just as Dane was distributing Kryptonite weapons to the Justice League members, a huge sound came from the sky.
They looked up and saw a large bald muscular man flying down!
"Shazam—!"
The newcomer's voice was filled with hatred. It was Teth-Adam!
Dane smelled a familiar scent on him, a feeling he had just experienced not long ago.
"So that's it, you're also Hades's pawn?"
As soon as Dane finished speaking, he directly charged forward, his super speed blasting a huge crater in the ground, and his speed instantly reached supersonic.
Teth-Adam extended his fist, and Dane also extended his fist. Their two fists met, and Adam instantly flew backward, his body grazing a building and smashing it to pieces.
"His strength is above yours, don't clash with him head-on!"
"Greed" was hidden within Adam, offering him advice.
Adam adopted his suggestion and no longer charged forward himself, but instead directed the surrounding Kryptonian Soldiers to attack Dane.
One of the Soldiers fired heat vision at Dane, who returned it with a lightning ray.
But soon another Kryptonian flew towards him, attempting to ram him with his man of steel, but Dane punched him away.
Seeing him so valiant, more Kryptonian Soldiers began to siege him.
Dane did not use Kryptonite weapons; he had no use for them.
He channeled lightning divine power into his hands; whichever one he struck would convulse and fall, an effect no less potent than Kryptonite weapons.
The other Justice League members were not idle either. Batman fired a grappling hook towards one of the Kryptonians. The green claw hook grabbed one, instantly incapacitating him. Then Batman tightened the grappling hook, pulling the Kryptonian down.
Nightwing was waiting there, and as the Kryptonian fell to the ground, he used nanobots to form a pair of glowing green short sticks.
Using martial arts just like he did against criminals before, he actually made the Kryptonian scramble, covering his head, completely helpless.
Red Hood did not participate in their actions. He found a high spot on his own, assembled a large sniper rifle from nanomaterials, and fired Kryptonite bullets at one of the targets.
The bullet passed through the back of one of the Kryptonians, knocking him down.
Diana was even more ferocious. Her Lasso of Truth, every time it was thrown, could catch a Kryptonian, and then she would decapitate him with her godfire sword.
No matter how tough the man of steel, it couldn't withstand her sword!
Hespera saw this situation from the sky and couldn't help but frown deeply.
She pointed a finger, and a magic bullet flew out, targeting Nightwing below, who was brutally beating the Kryptonians.
But Zatanna was hiding in the shadows. She spoke an incantation in reverse, and the magic bullet disintegrated in the air.
"Wizard!" Hespera shifted her target, fixing her gaze on Zatanna.
However, at this moment, Hal had already arrived by her side. Green light energy materialized a tennis racket in his hand, hitting Hespera in the sweet spot.
"Good shot!"
Hal watched Hespera fly far away, unable to resist a playful remark.
In the distance, Dane, one in each hand, gripped the necks of two Kryptonians and slammed them together fiercely.
Their armor was directly scrapped and deformed under his immense force, revealing their pale, paper-white faces underneath.
"Is this your plan? Just ten Kryptonians won't change anything…"
"Our plan?"
Teth-Adam chuckled: "We are merely pawns. The real plan began before you even arrived here."
Dane raised an eyebrow and called out to Cortana in his mind.
"Cortana, check if there are any anomalies happening elsewhere in the World right now."
"That scope is too broad, but I understand what you mean," Cortana said.
Having a soul truly makes a difference; she's even learned to retort.
A moment later, Cortana's voice echoed in his mind.
"Another contingent of Kryptonian Soldiers has attacked other regions."
Dane thought for a moment: "Let me guess, it's the bear to the North?"
"Yes," Cortana confirmed his guess and continued, "And I also discovered something: the opposing high command has approved a military action plan, and their fleet is approaching the territorial waters of the United States."
It was a very old trick: have Kryptonians attack the polar bear's Base, then pin the blame on the United States.
After all, the Kryptonian species only exists within the United States.
Did no one in the polar bear country see through the trick? Of course there were some, but they chose to play along.
Wasn't this a ready-made excuse? Even if the superheroes came, they couldn't find anything wrong.
And even if they could find the mastermind, what was meant to happen would still happen. Once war breaks out, right and wrong no longer matter.
"How does Washington plan to respond?"
"They are considering using nuclear weapons."
This was also a reluctant choice. The United States' current military strength had not yet recovered, and fighting a conventional war would definitely not be a match for the polar bear.
They could only take a desperate gamble, but once a nuclear bomb was launched, it would trigger a global nuclear weapons chain reaction, and the Earth would become a dead Planet engulfed by a nuclear atmosphere in less than two years.
"This won't do. If you can't win, you want to drag all humanity to hell. This kind of thinking is unacceptable. Cortana, forbid their nuclear weapon launch authorization!"
Kryptonian technology had already surpassed Earth technology by an entire era. Now, with the addition of magic, human technology was useless in the face of Cortana.
Soon, Washington discovered that their nuclear bombs could not be launched.
"Our nuclear weapons are immobilized!"
In the meeting, Swanwick's expression was stern, but inwardly, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"It must be him!" The President slammed his fist heavily on the resolute table.
His first suspicion was Shazam, but he had no evidence, and no one would believe it if he said it, because Shazam was never known for technological power; he was a magic god.
But the President's intuition was so strong; he was convinced that this had something to do with that man.
But a few minutes later, he slumped back, defeated. Even if he knew, what could he do?
"Since someone disagrees with us using nuclear weapons, let's discuss and think about how to deal with the approaching enemy."
But what solutions could the gentlemen present at the meeting have for such a matter?
They couldn't even command their own troops smoothly.
However, just as they were at a loss, one of the military officers suddenly stood up.
"Mr. President, gentlemen, I think, perhaps there is one man who can help us."
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