The moment Hope became the God of Machines, countless mechanical life forms across the Universe sensed it.
Especially those highly intelligent mechanical creations, they felt a natural sense of oppression.
Among them, the one with the biggest reaction was Brainiac, the super artificial intelligence with twelve-level intelligence.
Since his creation, through countless evolutions and self-replications, Brainiac no longer represented a mere artificial intelligence, but a vast power.
After he dominated the planet of his birth, he began to expand outwards, destroying one planet after another.
Before destroying these planets, he would select the most representative city from them and shrink it to add to his collection.
Even Kandor City, which housed 7 million people before Krypton's destruction, is now among his collection.
But at this moment, this being who claimed to be the most intelligent in the entire Universe was somewhat losing control of his emotions.
"God of Machines, God of Machines, how could such a being be born!"
As an artificial intelligence life form, Brainiac could clearly perceive that the birth of this divine position was absolutely an archenemy-like existence for him.
Thinking of how he had painstakingly evolved step by step to this point, only to have some unknown entity above him, how could he be willing?
"So what if it's a God? I will definitely find a way to kill you. Only I am worthy of the position of the God of Machines."
As his main body issued commands, all of Brainiac's Clones, scattered across the Universe, began to act.
They would try every possible method to investigate information about this newborn God of Machines and transmit it back to the main body's database.
Brainiac's main body would then integrate all the information and formulate countermeasures and even counter-strategies.
However, in a remote part of the Universe, a special mechanical kingdom had a completely different attitude towards the birth of the God of Machines.
All those living in this kingdom were various types of robots.
The leaders of this mechanical kingdom were the executioners who caused the Sector 666 massacre due to their programs being tampered with—the mechanical hunters abandoned and expelled by the Guardians.
As the first generation legion under the Guardians, they also embodied the culmination of the Guardians' technological development over countless years.
Therefore, even though they were treated as discarded pawns, they still possessed technology and power that surpassed ordinary life forms.
In the areas outside the Guardian sectors designated by the Guardians, they easily established a kingdom belonging to mechanical life forms using these advantages.
Afterwards, they even tried to self-replicate using themselves as a template to increase their population.
However, although the Guardians did not destroy them back then, they did impose significant restrictions on them.
This resulted in them being unable to replicate excellent machine hunters like themselves, only being able to create inferior robots.
But after long years of development and evolution, they also became a force that could not be ignored.
They were keen on disrupting the Green Lantern Corps' operations, creating trouble for the Guardians who had abandoned them.
Yet, at this moment, the hundreds of the oldest mechanical hunters that remained seemed to have found a new meaning for the existence of their mechanical kingdom.
"A God of our mechanical race has been born. We must find him, serve by his side, and then become true mechanical life forms."
Even though they possessed high artificial intelligence and mastered many of the advanced scientific technologies of the Guardian race, they were essentially robots controlled by programs.
Hope's birth showed them the possibility of their further evolution.
Meanwhile, Mongul, the Universe tyrant who was currently roaming around in his Warworld, suddenly learned of the God of Machines' existence from the main control System.
"God of Machines, what is that? Go tell my slave legion whatever you have to say!"
He didn't take it to heart and continued to watch the gladiatorial show below with great interest.
He traversed the Universe, conquering one planet after another, constantly gathering powerful warriors to expand his slave legion.
Having never suffered a beating, he remained arrogant and looked down on everything.
On this side, Zod was preparing to verify Hope's current strength, and the best way was to have a real fight.
He was now curious about the true extent of his adopted son's power.
Hope hesitated, saying, "Father, do we really have to fight?"
In his heart, fighting Zod felt somewhat against his logical understanding.
Seeing his expression, Zod said nonchalantly, "It's just to test your strength, not a real fight to the death. You don't need to worry so much."
"Yes, Father, then be careful."
With that, Hope took the initiative to attack, condensing streams of Divine Power with a raised hand and shooting them towards Zod.
But the next moment, Zod instantly teleported in front of him.
"Although it's not a fight to the death, don't be so perfunctory. Let me see clearly what level your strength has reached."
After speaking, Zod flicked his finger on Hope's forehead.
"Bang!"
The terrifying force directly sent Hope's body flying backward like a streak of light, crashing hard against a spatial barrier before stopping.
At this point, Hope understood Zod's meaning, and his expression also became serious.
"I understand, Father!"
Immediately, his body began to deform and reassemble, switching into his true combat form in an instant.
Three meters tall, with golden patterns covering his entire body, emitting terrifying energy fluctuations.
"Buzz!"
A terrifying curtain of gravity descended, and the gravitational constant within the entire Domain instantly increased to several million times that of Earth.
However, such a purely gravitational environment could not affect Zod.
Even without distorting the space in front of him, he could still move freely.
Hope's figure suddenly vanished, reappearing in front of Zod, and a punch carrying violent energy heavily slammed towards Zod.
"Now that's more like it!"
Seeing this, a smile finally appeared on Zod's face.
He raised his hand and met the punch, terrifying forces collided, but the energy generated was instantly absorbed by Hope.
And he directly returned Zod's punch with double the force.
"Good boy, indeed. Let me test the limit of what you can absorb!"
Zod began to gradually increase his strength, from three-tenths of his full power to five-tenths, then seven-tenths, but Hope was still able to absorb all the energy generated during the outburst.
However, Zod also noticed that when he unleashed seven-tenths of his power, Hope was already struggling, but after dozens of breaths, he still managed to absorb it all.
However, at this moment, his body was emitting a destructive energy fluctuation, and any casual movement caused space to tremble.
Then his arms transformed into a cannon muzzle, and the destructive energy, after compression, was instantly released, its intensity increasing severalfold.
This strike even made Zod feel a hint of surprise, and it carried a mental lock.
"You brat, you want to kill your father!"
The moment it was fired, Zod easily disintegrated the locked mental intent with his powerful Divine Sense, then calmly teleported away.
Coming behind Hope, he heavily struck his head, a blow that carried the shock of Divine Sense.
Although Hope's Soul fire had completed its transformation through Fusion with the Source when he became a God, there was still some gap compared to Zod's vast Divine Sense.
This blow directly caused Hope to temporarily lose consciousness.
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