Superman from the comics: Starting with the Black Robe

Chapter 133 I Don't Want to Die

Chapter 133 I Don't Want to Die

Imagine all the deadliest long-range weapons that tens of thousands of civilizations throughout the universe could develop and manufacture during their evolutionary process.

From slings to bows and arrows, from crossbows to bullets, and from bullets to missiles and laser beams.

The green lights from different civilizations across different eras of development have materialized the most lethal weapons in their hearts.

If intelligent life exists on this planet, they might be recorded in mythology in the future as follows:

"The earth trembled, the sky shattered, and the Emerald God hurled his thunderous rage upon the world."

Joey dodged and weaved as these weapons, separated by generations of perhaps tens of thousands of years, attacked him, like an inextinguishable red flame in an emerald ocean.

Thanks to several major conflicts between the Kryptonian Empire and the Green Lantern Corps in the past, every weapon projected by a Green Lantern now carries a simulated trace amount of Kryptonite radiation.

The combined power of tens of thousands of Green Lanterns created a radiation effect that Joey, holding Kara in his arms, dared not withstand.

However, he still had the leisure to think about some useless things:

Intelligent beings, regardless of where they come from, may find it difficult to imagine things they have never known.

Stripped of their emotions, these Supreme Green Lanterns have become numb and mechanical, effectively reduced to tools of repression in the hands of the Guardians.

The Green Lantern Corps, which originally had a standing force of just over seven thousand men, was sufficient to maintain the general stability of the entire universe. Now, within Joey's sight alone, at least tens of thousands of Supreme Green Lanterns have been identified.

The Guardians of Oa created the massive Legion of the Supreme Lamp in preparation for the upcoming war with the Kryptonians.

They need enough manpower to fight against an interstellar empire where everyone is indestructible under the yellow sun.

And these VIP green lights are just right.

These cyborgs are directly connected to the Book of Oa and their rings are directly connected to the central power source, making them far superior to ordinary green-light robots in both obedience to orders and combat effectiveness.

But what is the price of all this?

The cost is that, in the foreseeable future, it will be difficult for the Green Lantern Army to produce someone like Hal Jordan or John Jordan.

A great lantern man like Stewart, capable of creating miracles.

After dodging several more materialized missiles aimed at him, Joey realized that this seemed like it would never end.

These attacks completely blocked their advance into outer space, preventing them from making any progress.

Even if Kara herself didn't die from exhaustion, she couldn't withstand such relentless attacks for long, given how much she was weakened by the Kryptonite radiation.

"Don't be foolish, leave me behind and run!"

Kara also realized the urgency of the situation and tried again to persuade her somewhat soft-hearted cousin:

"You are Kal'el, son of Jor'el. Do you know how significant your existence is to Krypton?!"

A dazzling heatwave illuminated the entire sky of the Eastern Hemisphere, the emerald green sky being repeatedly covered by an apocalyptic crimson.

After clearing away all the materialized weapons that were attacking him in one go, Joey suddenly accelerated and rushed towards outer space.

Kara was so weak that she could not perceive anything beyond 10,000 meters. She could not see the enemy, nor could she hear the sound of an attack.

All she could see was the earth receding into the distance, hear the whistling wind in her ears, and then see a shrinking, yellowish-brown planet, with only a suffocating silence in her ears.

Her biofield had deteriorated to the point where it could no longer protect her in a vacuum. Karl El's biofield enveloped the two of them, which made Karl aware of her cousin's weakness.

While the reduction in Kal'el's power due to the conversion of sunlight was not significant, the superpowers of Kryptonians ultimately had a limit after losing sunlight as their energy source.

Even though he was a member of the El family and one of the strongest Kryptonians, it was impossible for him to fight against tens of thousands of Green Lanterns and escape unscathed in such an environment, carrying such a burden as himself.

"At a time like this, stop trying to be a hero! Can't you even do basic arithmetic?"

Kara had never liked her cousin, just as she disliked his father, Joe Al.

This father and son are complete opposites.

The father was frighteningly realistic, while the son possessed an unexpected naiveté and foolishness.

Either they both perish, or he abandons her and runs away. Zero and one—such a simple arithmetic problem, is he unwilling to even calculate it?

"you.."

Joey rushed into the dense green net of countless Supreme Green Lanterns in the sky, narrowly dodging the beams fired at him from behind, and forcing the Lanterns in front of him to defend against the attack from his allies.

"Could you...?"

Joey, positioned between the guns, had a brief respite. His nerves were on edge as he calculated and found the weakest link in the defense.

"Shut up!"

Kara's incessant chatter made Joey anxious; Kara was on the verge of dying from kryptonite radiation, yet she still had the mind to criticize him.

Knowing that time was of the essence, Joey unleashed a speed that even a semi-mechanical being like the Green Lantern would find difficult to react to. He shielded the dying Kara in his arms and charged sideways toward that weak point without regard for anything else.

Countless emerald green energy barriers unfolded along Joey's path of sprint, only to be shattered by his shoulder and head.

Behind Joey, countless Supreme Green Lantern rings projected Kryptonite threads and chains, yet none could keep up with the Kryptonian's sprinting speed.

Such a scene would likely plunge an ordinary Green Lantern into extreme self-doubt.

The Green Lantern Ring, hailed as the "most powerful weapon in the universe," is now no match for the physical body of a Kryptonian.

Only Kara, who was close to her cousin, knew what was going on. This was the Green Lantern Corps' battle strategy. No one would choose to engage in close combat with the Kryptonians who were now at full power. They all opted for a more prudent war of attrition.

With each breach of a green screen defense line, Kal-El's biofield weakens slightly. For tens of thousands of Green Lanterns, the willpower drain from the shattering of the green screen defenses is negligible.

In Kara's view, Kal Elburn could have chosen a more conservative fighting style, as individual members of the Green Lantern Corps were generally quite weak compared to Kryptonians.

Killing dozens or even hundreds of them would be enough to create a safe escape route.

Now, carrying his own burden—a child who would die if he didn't get any sun within minutes—he had no choice but to physically carve out a path to the sun.

Kara felt the bio-field surrounding her gradually weakening, and the worst part was that her own consciousness was gradually sinking into darkness.

At first, she could see the dazzling and dangerous green glow on the battlefield and hear the muffled thuds when the bio-force field and the light of will collided.

Now, all of this is gradually turning into ripples and sounds emanating outwards from her, and she realizes that her senses are gradually fading away.

Clara Zo El, curled up in Joey's arms, mustered her last bit of strength to hold Karl...

The 'S' shaped emblem on Al's chest.

The sigil of House El has been a symbol of "hope" ever since it existed in Krypton's history.

At the moment of death, gazing upon this emblem representing 'hope,' she truly shed her hard shell and uttered her most fundamental expectation:

"I don't want to die like this."