Kryptonians fainting upon first contact with sunlight was mainly due to receiving too much information in a short period. Once Faora adapted to the environment and subjectively filtered out the massive amount of useless information, all that remained was pure bliss.
Super senses, heat vision, freeze breath, super strength, speed, stamina, and that insane super-regeneration.
The two occasionally sparred. Thea had tried attacking Faora with magic, but her super-regeneration left Thea speechless. Even if Thea's magic controlled her, it was useless. Warriors like Zod and Faora, who had conquered countless planets, possessed high willpower. The duration of magical control wasn't long, and it was difficult to deal fatal damage within that limited window.
To use a gaming metaphor: Kryptonians were the type with absurdly long health bars and rapid health regeneration. Without Kryptonite to weaken them, they were basically unkillable.
Often, after Thea unleashed a pile of spells, the damage taken would be offset by powerful regeneration. By the time the opponent woke up, they were fine. If Kryptonite didn't exist in this world, saying Kryptonians were gods walking among men would not be an exaggeration.
Once Faora adapted to her body's new power, Thea took her to Korugar.
"This is your new subordinate?"
Thea and Sinestro met again. Both looked over each other's shoulders and were a bit speechless.
Sinestro's first two recruits had been normal humanoids. He probably felt that Thea's previous recruits—a dead man and an evil gorilla—were edgy and weird! Feeling a bit upstaged, this time he had spent effort finding two subordinates with "unique skeletal structures" (weirdos) to compete. But he didn't expect Thea to switch styles this time and take the "normal" route, making all that effort feel like punching at thin air.
Thea looked at the two subordinates Sinestro had recruited this time and couldn't help but sigh; the universe was truly full of wonders.
Of these two guys, one was called Slushh. It was a slime-like creature; its outer membrane was a corrosive liquid, and its interior contained the bones of many enemies. Usually, it lay on the ground as a large green blob, barely maintaining a humanoid shape during combat.
The other guy was even scarier. It was a sentient bioweapon, microscopic like dust. According to Sinestro, this was a virus developed by a high-tech planet for war. They constantly iterated the virus, finally producing an intelligent super-virus. This was the microorganism before Thea's eyes, which called itself Despotellis.
"Your new subordinate is a Kryptonian? Krypton has been destroyed for so many years; there are still survivors?" Sinestro originally thought Faora was an Earthling, but the ring's scan surprised him slightly. A survivor of a destroyed planet—in terms of rarity, she wasn't inferior to his subordinates.
Fear was increasing in the universe, and the collection of Yellow Energy was becoming more massive. Sinestro had made quite a few rings recently and wasn't as strapped for resources as before. He tossed a Yellow Ring to Faora.
"Kryptonian technological weapons are formidable, but their fighting ability isn't high. I agree to let her join the Corps, but she needs to show my subordinates a thing or two." Seeing the two were about to leave, Sinestro spoke with a stern expression.
Hah! Thea almost laughed out loud hearing this. Kryptonians have low fighting ability? That's because you don't understand Kryptonian physiology.
"Let Leader Sinestro witness a 'low combat power' Kryptonian," Thea signaled Faora wickedly to display her strength.
Thea had previously explained to Faora the current situation—outwardly united but inwardly divided. Thea had also discussed her ambition to control the Yellow Lantern Corps. Faora naturally understood what she needed to do.
Intimidation!
Suppress everyone with absolute power. Only in this way could she take over the Corps after Sinestro.
The reason Thea wanted Faora to join the Yellow Lanterns was because the yellow light had a sneaky little feature: Solar Charging!
This function was meaningless to any other race, but for Kryptonians, it was everything!
Fighting on an alien planet without sunlight? Ring charge! Energy exhausted? Ring charge! Hurt by Kryptonite and combat power drops to rock bottom? Ring charge!
A Kryptonian wielding a Yellow Lantern Ring was the definition of a perpetual motion machine.
The only limiting condition was that since they were born powerful and faced few setbacks, their resistance to fear was weak. Thea had to use the remaining bones of the Shark God Kamo to make a magic ring for Faora. She permanently enchanted the ring with Fear Resistance, ensuring Faora wouldn't be affected by fear when wielding the yellow light.
Faora didn't put on the Lantern Ring immediately. Relying on her own power, she flew up. Then, under Sinestro's baffled stare, she descended rapidly and punched the ground.
BOOM!—
The ground within a radius of dozens of miles suffered intense tremors. The surface directly facing her attack now sported a crater a hundred meters deep and a thousand meters in diameter.
"Are you kidding me?!" Sinestro was stunned. This woman has such great strength? Without preparing beforehand, he really couldn't catch that punch. After all, stripping away the ring's power, he was just a strong-willed alien; he had no superpowers of his own.
Having received Sinestro's order beforehand to spar with the newcomer, seeing Faora's fierce punch, the guy named Slushh very naturally oozed backward... As for the super-virus, it hid. Thea's Eye of Horus searched for a long time before discovering that this guy ran even faster than the slime.
Faora didn't stop. She flew high again, her eyes turning scarlet. Heat vision shot out from her gaze, strafing a high mountain not far away.
The heat vision sizzled against the mountain body. When the dust cleared, a Yellow Lantern Corps symbol was carved into the mountain.
"Mm, very good." Thea cheered loudly for her teammate. Casually casting a Light Spell, she made the symbol on the mountain emit a brilliant yellow glow. Looking from a distance, one would think it was some kind of holy land.
"Mm, good. Not bad." Sinestro offered a few insincere compliments. He only breathed a sigh of relief after watching the two leave Korugar.
Originally, his will to rebel was firm, but now he couldn't help but hesitate. Some no-name Kryptonian was this powerful? Honestly, it truly shocked him!
Are there even stronger races in the universe? People who don't need emotional energy and can fly and burrow through anything relying on their own strength?
Right now, the Green Lanterns were tanking everything in the front. If the Green Lanterns were wiped out, the task of maintaining order in the universe would fall on his head.
Sinestro hesitated. If a hundred or so Kryptonians like that one showed up, how would he resist? He saw the performance of his own subordinates clearly—they ran faster than anyone. Relying on these guys, he'd be dead before he even knew what hit him.
It seems the rebellion needs to be delayed, Sinestro thought involuntarily. I need some loyal and capable subordinates.