Superman from the comics: Starting with the Black Robe

Chapter 317 Re: Saving the Earth from Zero

Chapter 317 Re: Saving the Earth from Zero

To someone like Joey, who usually observes things from a material perspective, the unfolding of the mirror dimension is like falling into the reflection of the entire universe.

With a few simple tricks, the Ancient One separated the three of them from time and space, and then launched a ruthless attack.

She reached out and plucked a cluster of stars from the distant sky, which she then transformed into a long sword and thrust it straight at the enemy.

Doctor Doom raised his hand, and Vatum Wind was summoned at will. A gale strong enough to blow from the past to the future swept through, completely severing the space-time of the three.

The starry sky, the sun, and the planetary belts were all distorted and torn apart in this temporal wind, just like a perfectly intact mirror shattered into countless pieces.

The attack from the material world that the Ancient One originally dealt was completely ineffective.

The overlap of spacetime made Joey's position uncertain, and in an instant, no less than three planets were directly slammed into his face. The battle between the two gods caused Joey, the only mortal, to suffer—even though his 'mortal' stats were high enough to tear apart celestial bodies with his bare hands.

After cleaving through Jupiter's thick, almost liquefied atmosphere and crashing through Mercury's iron shell, Joey finally found a relatively safe spot.

Only then did he have a chance to complain to the Ancient One: "Couldn't you have waited two seconds before you attacked?!"

Doctor Doom hadn't even finished speaking when the Ancient One made her move. He had been hoping to find out what secrets about the future Doctor Doom would reveal!

Finding her adoptive parents has always been an insurmountable obstacle in Joey's mind.

And what Doctor Doom just said, that Joey has to pay a huge price to achieve all of this?

Joey, who still doesn't know the answer to this question, replied: "As long as I find a viable path, no difficulty can stop me from reaching the end!"

"You may get what you want, Superman, but not now."

Superman's questioning did not displease the Ancient One in the slightest. Doctor Doom had already unleashed a golden bolt of lightning, heading straight for the two of them.

"Moreover, knowing the future will only add to the worries of the present."

In the brief pause between her answers, the Ancient One formed a spell with both hands, summoning an illusion of Ikan, splitting the two figures into infinite fragments that spread throughout countless shattered spaces, rendering Doctor Doom's Bosat Lightning ineffective.

After a fierce battle, the Ancient One remained calm and composed: "Just like now, we have no choice but to deal with him."

Doctor Doom is the same.

Joey's eyes caught sight of the distant universe beyond the solar system, where he discovered that countless stars were rapidly reversing.

The three are in a vast mirror dimension. The battle between the Ancient One and Doctor Doom is not just on the surface. In an unseen realm, the two sorcerers are vying for control of the entire mirror space.

Logically, such changes shouldn't be visible to Joey's eyes. Kryptonians have always been known for their Muggle-like sensitivity to magic, but Joey knew exactly what this distortion at the edge of spacetime was all about.

Having seen all this clearly, Joey immediately took action. The countless clones that the Ancient One had created for disguise vanished as Joey moved at faster-than-light speed across the material universe, leaving only one definite figure.

The red and blue arc of light reached Doctor Doom in an instant. Joey, who was already close, threw another punch without saying a word. He didn't quite understand the fancy spells, but how could Doctor Doom deal with a punch that was powerful enough to pierce through stars?

"reckless."

Doctor Doom, who was right in front of Joey, uttered these words in Joey's heart. The next second, Doctor Doom in front of Joey turned into a blazing star.

Joey's punch, which completely missed its mark, created a massive solar wind on the star but accomplished nothing else.

Meanwhile, within the bizarre and fantastical mirror image of spacetime, countless figures of Doctor Doom quietly unfolded, spreading across the sea of ​​stars.

These are not magical tricks like the Aykan illusions, but real material entities, Doctor Doom's army of destruction robots based on the Amordro core.

After blending into the countless Amozzo robot army, Doctor Doom could no longer be accurately located.

From soul fire to plasma flames, the Destroyer Robots employ a variety of offensive tactics, a military force capable of destroying an entire universe, yet they are now only using it against Joey and the Ancient One.

In this situation, it is not Joey who is more of a wolf and fox, but rather the Ancient One.

Although Joey's perception of magic was far behind, making it impossible for him to accurately strike Doctor Doom and forcing him to passively take hits, his ever-increasing resistance and extremely unreasonable stats meant he was not worried about being beaten up.

However, the Ancient One's magic was being gradually eroded. Even as the Sorcerer Supreme, her physical body was nothing more than a thin sheet of paper without magical protection.

Realizing this, Joey quickly returned to defend, helping the Ancient One fend off attacks from all directions and angles, occasionally retaliating with a heat vision.

"Hit me however you want," Joey said, having gradually adapted to the attacks, even having the leisure to quote a famous line from an old popsicle, to provoke Doctor Doom:

"I could spend the whole day like this!"

He wasn't exaggerating. As a Kryptonian, Joey was naturally gifted at taking beatings and was known far and wide as the king of endurance.

Not to mention that after undergoing multiple evolutions, an attack of this intensity could easily keep Joey at bay for a whole year, let alone a whole day!

"You're absolutely right, but that's exactly what I'm after."

Doctor Doom's voice was ethereal and projected directly from deep space: "Without you getting in the way in the real universe, my plans will proceed much more smoothly."

Although Doctor Doom's plan did not take into account making contact with Superman again too early, nor did it anticipate that the Ancient One would intervene at this juncture.

But since he's already trapped the two of them, this is part of the plan.

Outside the mirror dimension, Tony had just helped the rejuvenated cyborg Iron Man off the worktable and was about to examine what the Ancient One had added to his armor when he received a warning from the cyborg Iron Man:

"Enemy attack!"

Jarvis connected to the still-usable early warning space station and projected the strange phenomenon in the sky in front of Tony, Batman, and the other two.

Seven-colored light appeared in the sky, and countless dimensional fragments fell from the sky, reflecting the scenery beyond the universe.

Tony recognized this scene when he first encountered Doctor Doom in Universe 2099; it was a harbinger of the Doom robots tearing open a spacetime rift to invade!

This time, however, it wasn't a single destroyer robot that popped its head out first, but a missile-like object. This seemingly ordinary missile crashed to the ground at high speed, but it made Tony, who was watching the whole thing, feel uneasy.

Whether it's his subconscious or his past experience, Tony can easily make the judgment that this is definitely not an ordinary missile!

Realizing this, Tony quickly prepared his armor, flew upwards, and prepared to intercept the warhead that fell from outside space-time.

The armor's power was pushed to its limit, and Tony finally made contact with the warhead just before the missile's detonation fuse was triggered.

Upon initial scanning, Tony's heart sank to the bottom. The only good news was that he could understand the structure of the warhead at a glance.

The bad news is that one of the triggering conditions for the warhead's detonation fuse is definitely to accept a scan.

The missile is about to detonate.

The detonation time is now.

Kama!

Unlike the "missiles" that Tony, a former arms dealer, was used to, this missile did not produce a loud explosion; instead, it sounded like glass shattering.

Centered on the missile, the entire Earth was torn apart as if reflected in a shattered mirror, and then, centered on the Earth, this tearing spread into the depths of the universe at a speed exceeding the speed of light.

This time was so short that it was immeasurable on a cosmic scale. Soon, the entire universe became nothingness, as if it had never existed.

Upon witnessing this scene, Tony tried to scream in terror but couldn't make a sound. He couldn't even understand why he could remain conscious while the entire universe was annihilated.

But soon a green light shot out from his chest, transforming into chains that bound him and dragged him in a direction Tony couldn't comprehend, arriving back at their original destination.

Outside the mirror dimension, Tony had just helped the rejuvenated cyborg Iron Man off the worktable and was about to examine what the Ancient One had added to his armor when he received a warning from the cyborg Iron Man:

"Enemy attack!"