I'm Sorry, Clark

"Mom, what's wrong?"

With her younger son around, she didn't have to worry about farm chores. Jonathan was watching TV quietly in the living room while Martha washed the dishes.

As a wave of psychic energy swept through the small town.

The Green Lantern Rings on both their hands suddenly lit up. The guardian program activated, shielding them from the maddening psychic energy.

Jonathan, focused on the humorous TV host, didn't notice the rings lighting up.

But Martha was washing dishes. The ring on her hand suddenly flashed brightly without warning, startling her. Her hand trembled, and a plate slipped, shattering on the floor.

"It's nothing, the ring just lit up suddenly and startled me."

She said, placing a hand on her chest and letting out a sigh of relief. She bent down to pick up the broken pieces.

"Mom, I'll get it."

David waved his hand, and the broken pieces of the plate flew up, automatically going into the kitchen waste bin.

Seeing that his parents were fine, he felt relieved.

It was the right decision to take a few Green Lantern Rings from the little blue man and give them to Mom and Dad for self-defense.

If they hadn't had the Lantern Rings, they wouldn't have been afraid of hurting each other, even with the Dionysus Factor in their bodies. But if they had become like the people in the city, yelling, accusing, and attacking each other, even hurting each other with weapons, it would have inevitably left bad memories in their hearts.

"David, this ring…?"

Jonathan hesitated, looking at the glowing ring on his hand.

He remembered his son telling them that these two rings had a function to automatically protect the wearer when an attack was detected. It must have been triggered now, but there wasn't even a mosquito in the room.

"Someone used some method to override and attack the minds of the Metropolis citizens. There's rioting all over the city now."

David looked towards the city.

The psychic pirate's mental power was extremely strong. It was just that his attack on the entire city had dispersed his energy significantly, making it easy for ordinary people to go crazy and vent their emotions. However, it couldn't even break through the automatic protection of the Lantern Rings, let alone David's mental barrier.

It was like a gentle breeze blowing through the fortress; he felt nothing at all.

"What?"

Upon hearing the news, Jonathan and Martha exchanged worried glances, stunned.

Metropolis had millions of people. How many would be injured or killed in this riot?

"The chaos is spreading, and its center is…"

Through remote gravity field sensing, images without color or sound formed in David's mind.

The psychic wave was still sweeping towards the smaller towns further away from Metropolis, allowing him to pinpoint its location.

"The expanding circular area, the center point should be where the abnormality first started!"

In that area!

David instantly locked onto the area at the center of the wave. The person who caused this chaos must be there.

"Mom and Dad, you stay here. I'll take care of this."

He turned and told his worried parents before flying out of the house, accelerating instantly to break the sound barrier and heading towards a certain block in the center of Metropolis.

If I hadn't gotten the Green Lantern Rings. What would the outcome be today?

With his parents within the range of attack, waves of anger surged through David. His body streaked across the city sky like a meteor, finally arriving above a bank and looking down.

Found it!

As he flew, he quickly scanned the entire block.

Everyone's actions were abnormal, except for one person inside this bank, who was levitating with eyes closed, releasing wave after wave of psychic energy. Most importantly, there was someone he knew all too well standing motionless inside, doing who knows what.

Here, the psychic power released by the psychic pirate was at its strongest. David could already feel it slightly, like a roaring gale blowing against his mental barrier in waves.

"This is it!"

A bat-shaped aircraft flew across the sky. Batman was piloting his Batwing, with Flash inside. Cyborg flew alongside the aircraft. He had reviewed the entire city's surveillance footage and easily found where the abnormality first occurred.

The Justice League was immediately mobilized to save the city.

"Transcendent, Superman is also in the bank. He seems to be controlled by something."

Cyborg flew up to David and quickly reminded him, looking solemnly into the bank.

The culprit who plunged millions of Metropolis citizens into chaos was inside?

What kind of power was that? Would he, with his 80% mechanical body, also be affected?

"I know."

David, who had already known something was wrong with Clark, reached out from a distance. An invisible gravity hand tore open the bank's roof and tossed it aside. The ground trembled heavily as he looked inside.

Bang!

"Flash, get out of here and stop the riots in the city."

The heavy, towering Fenrir Armor was dropped by an automatically hovering Batwing. Batman, controlling the mecha, turned his head and growled at Flash.

The chaos and darkness in Metropolis now were a thousand times worse than Gotham. Every second, someone could die under another's frenzied violence. Flash was the best person to stop citizens from harming each other.

"I understand!"

Flash shouted, leaping off the Batwing, which wasn't far from the ground. His form turned into a streak of red lightning, setting off from the surrounding blocks. Wrapped in super-speed, time seemed to slow down by hundreds of millions of times in his eyes.

The coffee cup sent flying, the baseball bat being thrown, and even the bullets leaving the barrel accompanied by gunpowder smoke – everything seemed to stop.

He reached out and gently caught a bullet, flicking it into a sewer. He waved away a baseball bat about to smash into a child's face, tripping the man punching the person opposite him.

Flash prevented all the violence and dangers he saw along the way. When he had no other choice, he had to use a chop to knock people unconscious.

"Transcendent?"

The slightly blinding noon sun shone on his face. Realizing the person stopping him had arrived, Psionic Pirate had to cease projecting his mental waves, which were invading minds. He calmly opened his eyes, looked up at the sky, and a smile curved his lips.

"Another bodyguard has arrived.

It's just about time this city was completely covered."

"And Batman, Flash, and Cyborg. Half the Justice League is here. How lively."

He glanced outside, not imposing any control on them.

He planned to control David too, and then make this group of superheroes perform a life-and-death battle in front of him.

"What an interesting scene it would be to see renowned superheroes turn their world-destroying fists on their own teammates."

Chi!

As soon as he finished speaking, Psionic Pirate attacked, sending tsunami-like mental energy towards David. David, who was observing Clark to see if he was okay, showed no abnormalities. His attention was merely drawn, and his gaze shot towards him coldly.

"Did you do all this?"

Psionic Pirate's expression changed. He unleashed a more ferocious and violent mental invasion, but the overwhelming waves that could shatter rocks seemed to crash against an insurmountable wall, breaking into foam and spray.

"How are you unaffected?"

He stumbled back.

Even though the mental wave had consumed a lot of his mental strength just now, David shouldn't be acting as if nothing had happened.

"Your psychic power is indeed strong enough to affect an entire city, but it's still not enough for me now."

David's eyes shot out cosmic energy with terrifying heat towards Psionic Pirate. He dodged in dismay as the beam shattered a corner of the bank, melting rebar and concrete into lava and molten iron.

This guy's psychic power was so strong that it could even break through his original mental defense capabilities.

But the fearlessness of Achilles from the Six God Power not only granted him an invulnerable body but also mental resistance. The two layered together blocked the mental attack that could have controlled anyone just now.

"Thought is something faster than light."

Having anticipated and dodged David's attack, Psionic Pirate's eyes showed a fierce glint.

"I don't believe you can withstand my psychic power!"

He unleashed his full power. The earth-shattering mental energy, like a tsunami capable of destroying everything, surged towards David's mind.

A slight prickling sensation spread across his cerebral cortex. David frowned, but the next moment, he shook his head and got rid of the discomfort. Carrying wind and thunder, he swung a punch, causing Psionic Pirate's eyes to widen in terror.

"Impossible, damn it!"

Psionic Pirate, who had always believed he was in control of the situation, had a hint of exasperation flash in his eyes. He quickly changed his objective and attacked David with his psychic power.

This Transcendent's mental resistance was far greater than he had imagined. Controlling him to become his puppet was impossible!

"Invisibility!"

David, crackling with lightning, exuded a powerful aura that made people feel stifled. Psionic Pirate felt a sense of dread and dared not confront David head-on.

Veins bulged on his forehead as he pushed his psychic abilities to the limit. Finally, he managed to blind David with an illusion.

His immense psychic power transformed into a hazy, light veil that covered the unshakeable steel mountain.

In mid-air, David abruptly stopped as if he had no inertia. He frowned and looked around, but Psionic Pirate had vanished.

Dozens of meters away, Psionic Pirate landed lightly on the other side of the street outside the bank. His expression was grim, looking constipated. He pressed his fingers firmly against his temples to help him concentrate his power.

"I never thought that the simplest application of mental abilities, psychic invisibility, would require my full effort to barely succeed. If this guy's mental power wasn't limited to defense, he'd be a more terrifying psychic than me!"

He looked at the figure suspended in the air inside the bank, a deep sense of dread flashing in his eyes.

To give an example, the mind is like the torso of a human body. Basically, everyone only has a torso, while ability users like him are like having grown hands on their psychic torso, able to punch, pick things up from the ground, paint, sculpt, and do things ordinary people cannot.

When he attacked David with his fists, it felt like an ordinary person's attack hitting the robust body of a heavyweight boxing champion. Even if that boxing champion didn't have hands, his attack, apart from causing a little pain, caused no substantial damage.

Psionic Pirate couldn't imagine what would happen if David 'had hands.' A simple jab might knock him out cold.

"Where did he go?"

Cyborg and Batman saw the man wearing the ancient orange-yellow bone mask disappear. They immediately used infrared scans to scan the surroundings, but found nothing.

Compared to the effort it took to blind David, Psionic Pirate only needed a single thought to blind the two of them.

"Now it's your turn to move, Clark!"

"Let's see if you, the older brother, can defeat your younger brother!"

The Psionic Pirate's eyes were sinister.

It didn't matter if he lost, as long as he could stall for time. He still had two "trump cards" he had only recently learned about.

"Brainiac, let my brother go!"

Inside the bank, Clark, who had been standing still, opened his eyes. As if seeing the most critical scene, his heart filled with rage. He roared and flew forward, hitting David at the waist.

"You won't hurt him!"

Bang!

A terrifying blast of air erupted, overturning the counters and sofas in the bank.

The two figures collided in an instant. David, who was searching for the Psionic Pirate, was hit as if by a high-speed train. He smashed through the wall like shattered earth and was propelled into the sky above the city, the wind whistling past his ears.

"What you say and what you do don't match up at all, Clark!"

With his arms wrapped around him, David looked at Clark, who was holding him with bloodshot eyes, looking like he wanted to kill someone.

He wasn't surprised by this scene. Since that guy had the ability to create illusions and even deceive him, manipulating Clark's mind and senses would be as easy as playing. Creating an illusion of a monster about to kill him would be effortless.

Clark didn't know that the monster he was about to push out of the Earth, as far away from his younger brother as possible, was his brother, whom he kept shouting he wanted to protect.

This was David. Anyone else would have been smashed into a pulp by now.

"Brainiac?"

David repeated the name in a cold voice. A dark killing intent immediately rose in his eyes as he looked down at the street below.

Telepathy was the most basic mental ability. The guy below, whose mental abilities could even affect millions of people, must find it as easy as eating and drinking to sense someone's thoughts and peek into their memories.

How did that guy know about Brainiac and that Clark would go mad if he were in danger!

"Clark's memories have likely been completely scoured by this guy.

His parents' identities too..."

"Shazam!"

Thinking of this, David shouted.

Thick divine power lightning struck down from the sky.

His face changed, and he returned to his youthful appearance.

Clark, who was holding him at the waist and pushing him towards outer space, was struck by the terrifying lightning. His skin turned red, smoke billowed from his body, and in his rage, his eyes rolled back. He was instantly electrocuted unconscious and began to fall to the ground.

"I'm sorry, Clark. This situation is urgent."

Shouting again, David transformed back into his amplified state and caught Clark from a distance.

Although his current strength was nearly double that of the young Clark, this was the only way to subdue him instantly.

"The Six God Power has a trump card: the divine power lightning that strikes when shouting Shazam. It's almost the strongest attack it can unleash, but it's also when the power's wielder is most vulnerable. For example, Captain Marvel, Billy Batson, whose true form is just a middle schooler.

Any strong enemy he uses this move against could easily kill him while he's reverted to his human form."

However, he didn't have this risk.

Even without the Six God Power, David still possessed the strength to slay gods.

He reached out with a grab.

"Gravity Nullification!"

The streets within a radius of several miles seemed to instantly lose their gravity, and figures flew up into the sky.

[Template Fusion: 74%]

The stronger fusion of the template allowed David to gain new ways of applying his abilities, giving him more precise and powerful gravity manipulation. However, the new application method was currently useless.

"Superman?

What is the Transcendent doing?"

Still shocked that Superman had been instantly knocked out, Batman and Cyborg were also pulled into the sky.

"Impossible!"

The remote grab on the couple from the small town was met with some resistance. Meanwhile, the Transcendent in the sky, facing his controlled brother, acted without any reservations, instantly defeating and subduing Superman with one blow!

The Psionic Pirate, his mind pulled back, looked shocked and his expression turned ugly. He never dreamed the Transcendent was so much stronger than Superman. He thought it would at least buy him some time.

Buzz!

An invisible force grabbed him. The Psionic Pirate instinctively resisted, unwilling to be captured by that terrifying guy.

"No good!"

But in the next second, his face changed drastically, his pupils trembling, as if he had thought of the most terrifying thing in the world.

"Super Gravity Field!"

Like a god casually grabbing tens of thousands of people into the sky, David then pressed down heavily.

A terrifying, mountain-like gravity crushed down fiercely!

Rumble!

Skyscrapers hundreds of meters tall were instantly crushed and flattened like pieces of paper, as if an invisible colossal arm had slammed down. The hard asphalt road turned to dust, vehicles on the street were smashed into scrap metal, and the ground instantly sank dozens of meters, compressed until it was as solid as steel!

"No... no way!"

The colossal sound, which could be heard for a hundred miles, shook the earth. Flash, who was speeding through the city, abruptly stopped and turned to look. Rolling smoke and dust billowed towards him. A terrifying sinkhole had appeared in the ground. He gaped, utterly astonished.

In an instant, it was as if God's wrath had descended; everything within several miles of the ground ceased to exist!

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