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Chapter 452 Gathering in Gotham
The moment the tall figure covered in metal landed on the ground, he raised his hand and grabbed the mother box.

But just before he was about to touch the Mother Box...

Whoosh!
A golden rope quickly wrapped around his wrist, clamping his free right hand tightly!

At the same time, at the other end of the rope, Diana, who was pulling desperately with both hands, yelled at the tall guy.

"Who are you and why are you here!"

“Heh, I’m General Steppenwolf from Apocalypse Star, and I’m here to retrieve the three Mother Boxes left behind by Apocalypse Star.

Strange, is this a lasso that forces me to tell the truth?
But even without the rope, I would not deceive you, woman.

Because you are far from worthy of my deception!"

Having said that, the Steppe Wolf tensed his right hand, and stomped on the ground beneath his feet. The ground instantly broke into pieces, and then was crushed firmly by him.

At the same time, Diana, who was wrestling with him, was suddenly pulled away by the Steppenwolf.

Looking at Diana staggering towards him, Steppenwolf snorted, swung his right hand holding the rope vigorously, and hit Diana hard in the face.

Boom!
After the muffled sound, Diana awkwardly loosened the rope and instead slashed at the Steppenwolf's shoulder with her sword.

But just as her sword fell, Steppenwolf picked up the long axe with his left hand and blocked it easily!

Diana blinked in shock at Steppenwolf's counterattack. How long had it been since she met someone who could suppress her head-on in terms of strength?
Even the Supergirl I met last month was only comparable to her in strength.

As for that Donton who had left him helpless...

Well, Downton is an exception, because Downton went from being an ant under her eyes to her becoming an ant in Downton's eyes...

In short, apart from Downton, Diana hasn't encountered an enemy who can completely suppress her for decades.

I was holding the sword with both hands and slashing down, but the enemy blocked my two-handed attack by just raising one hand?

While secretly shocked, Diana decisively drew her sword and then swept it across the waist and ribs of the Steppe Wolf.

Seeing this, Steppenwolf turned his left hand and his axe quickly blocked Diana's sword.

Ding!
After a crisp sound, while deflecting Diana's attack, Steppenwolf suddenly changed hands to hold the long axe.

He swept the axe across with his right hand. The rough axe blade deftly dodged Diana's defensive sword and hit Diana's face hard!
boom! ! !
A violent shock wave burst out from Diana's head.

The next moment, Diana flew backwards and hit the wall of the temple hard.

As Diana flew backwards, a flying rope came out from the side, went straight around the mother box, and pulled it over.

"Humph!"

Seeing that the Mother Box was held in the hands of another woman, Steppenwolf snorted in dissatisfaction, then strode towards Hippolyta who was running away with the Mother Box.

But just as Steppe Wolf took a step, his right leg was caught by the Lasso of Truth that suddenly flew over.

Boom!
The tied right foot stomped on the ground, and as the surrounding floor cracked, anger finally appeared in the eyes of the Steppe Wolf!

Facing his angry eyes, Diana climbed up by pulling the rope, raising her bleeding cheek and growling word by word.

"Mother, seal off the temple ruins so I can have a good fight with the enemy here!
As long as I'm here, he'll never get that thing!"

"Foolish old god, I don't have time to waste with you!"

Diana's words finally made Steppenwolf look angry.

Steppenwolf is very anxious, really anxious!
Ever since Darkseid was defeated by the Greek gods on Earth, Apokolips has never given up the idea of ​​taking back the Mother Box.

Although Darkseid himself wasted too much time after that because of launching a coup and sorting out various affairs of New Apokolips, he was unable to personally retrieve the Mother Box.

But Darkseid's lack of time does not mean that the New Gods and dark elites on Apokolips, who came to power with Darkseid's coup, are willing to forget the great contribution of the Mother Box.

The Mother Box is placed on the Earth. Whoever can bring it back will get a considerable amount of credit, so everyone is coveting it!

What's more, compared to other elites, this is at best just a credit, but it has other more important meanings to Steppe Wolf!

You know, Steppenwolf himself is Darkseid's uncle.

But the relationship between Steppenwolf and his nephew Darkseid has never been very good.

Steppenwolf's brother-in-law was obsessed with the Wall of Origin. After he hanged himself on the Southeast Branch, Steppenwolf's sister took control of the power of Apocalypse, and Steppenwolf naturally chose to follow his sister in the process.

Because of this, when Darkseid attacked the Earth and launched a grand war with the goal of mastering the Anti-Life Equation.

Steppenwolf did not follow him into the battlefield.

When Darkseid returned from his defeat and decided to launch a coup after recuperation.

Steppenwolf still chose to stand on his sister's side.

Until Darkseid won the final victory and won the supreme power of Apokolips with absolute power.

The powerful Steppenwolf is finally willing to join Darkseid.

But Darkseid looked down on his uncle and was even dissatisfied with him.

After all this, after working under Darkseid for tens of thousands of years, Steppenwolf's resentment is even more shocking than Lu Bu!
Just like that, after becoming completely unable to tolerate Darkseid.

Steppenwolf actually launched a coup.

But it was obvious that the unrest caused by his little ability was suppressed by Darkseid and the dark elites in the blink of an eye.

After that, Steppenwolf had to face the fate of being exiled.

If he wants to escape the guilt of eternal exile.

Then he must make a great contribution like taking back the Mother Box!

Of course, this is just Steppenwolf's desire for credit, and it is not the only reason why Steppenwolf feels urgent.

Why is Steppenwolf in such a hurry?

Because he was extremely uneasy!
If it is really easy to get the Mother Box back, why has no one come to Apocalypse to bring it back for tens of thousands of years?
It’s not because I’m afraid of death!

When the Mother Box was just left on Earth, the Greek gods were at their peak, and the gods, Atlanteans and humans were closely united, leaving the people of Apocalypse with no chance at all.

Time passed slowly, and when the Greek gods could no longer hide, the human empire collapsed and was then renewed, and even Atlantis was submerged by the sea and split and weakened.

Before the people of Apocalypse could even have time to make any move, they were brutally pinned down by another group of people on Earth!
Who are those people?

Damn the Eternal Council.

When the gods left and Atlantis sank, the Eternal Council headed by ancient Shazam suddenly emerged as a dark horse, and frightened the Mother Box and the people of Apocalypse opposite the Mother Box so much that they dared not move!
Old Shazam is not the big-breasted and brainless Thunderbolt that he will be in the future.

Even in the countless versions of the DC universe, old Shazam's combat power can definitely be ranked among the top ten super monsters.

And those who are in the same league as Shazam are at least the giant beasts and Doomsday, which are enough to kill ordinary people at the first sight.

So how strong is old Shazam?
Let’s put it this way, old Shazam almost single-handedly ended the situation where there were gods everywhere on Earth and their powers were as numerous as dogs.

From a certain thing, we can indirectly analyze the power of old Shazam.

For example, what he gave to Thunder Shashao was a set of six gods' power that he had prepared, which gathered a series of Greek gods' power, including Solomon's wisdom and Hercules' strength. And what he gave to Black Adam in the past was also a set of six gods' power, which gathered a series of Egyptian gods' power, including Horus' speed and Amon's strength.

Just from this point of view, he has already given out two sets of Six Divine Powers, and each set of Six Divine Powers created a superhero with the potential to catch up with Superman!

But who can guess how many sets of six divine powers old Shazam has in his hands?
First there are the six Egyptian gods, then the six Greek gods, followed by the six Nordic gods, the six Slavic gods, the six Eastern gods, the six Sumerian gods, the six Roman gods and the six Indian gods, and so on!
In other words, during the heyday of old Shazam, he not only led the Eternal Council to suppress small Karami like Solomon's 108 Pillars of Demons, but also picked through the myths of all the gods in the world.

Even Shadow, the number one general under God, was beaten on the head by Old Shazam and was unable to move.

In this way, over the past tens of thousands of years, even though Darkseid's former enemies gradually weakened, Apokolips did not dare to send people to Earth to cause trouble.

As time went by, the Eternal Council finally perished, leaving only old Shazam alive.

But the old Shazam has just stepped off the stage of history, choosing to wait silently for the arrival of the next Shazam.

Those guys from the Justice Society took over seamlessly again.

The Mother Box encountered wave after wave of powerful people on Earth, and then under the pressure of these powerful people, it gave up the opportunity to transmit signals to Apocalypse.

Until recently...times have changed!
The Justice Society was destroyed by Downton alone!
After the death of the two generations of Doctor Fate, the head of the Justice Society, and the reincarnation of Hawkman and Hawkgirl, the power of the Society has become minimal.

As for Donton, although the Mother Box admits that he is a scarier guy, even as scary as old Shazam.

But the Mother Box was surprised to find that Downton would leave the planet at any time, or even leave the universe!

Moreover, Donton, a powerful anti-Ding-level warrior of the new generation of the Earth, was out relaxing.

He also took away the Son of Krypton, who made the Mother Box feel vaguely afraid!

In this case, wouldn't the Mother Box take advantage of the chaos to send a signal, hoping that someone from Apocalypse would quickly send it back home?

In short, although the Mother Box does not have complete intelligence, it has the ability to report its situation to Apocalypse.

Therefore, when Steppenwolf came to respond to the Mother Box signal, he also had a basic understanding of the current situation on Earth!

The most dangerous group of people on Earth leave once every half a cosmic time, and the time they are away is less than half a cosmic time, which is about as long as one day on Earth.

Steppenwolf knew very well that he only had this little time.

He must take the Mother Box away before the powerful people on Earth who the Mother Box fears return!

With this thought in mind, Steppenwolf naturally didn't want to waste time with the Amazon women.

Aren’t these women going to take the Mother Box away and then send a woman Old God to fight with me?

Then I won’t waste time on a woman!

Anyway, the mother box can send out signals at any time. Even if the mother box is taken away for a while, he can rush to the location of the mother box by responding to the signal.

Well, let the Amazon woman keep the Mother Box somewhere else, and immediately look for other Mother Boxes that are easier to obtain. Once she has more Mother Boxes, she can come back and take on the tough bone of Amazon!

Thinking of this, Steppenwolf kicked hard and threw Diana, who was entangled by the Lasso of Truth, out.

While Diana was unsteady on her feet, the Steppenwolf gave Diana a cold look and then disappeared into the air.

Looking at the suddenly empty Lasso of Truth, Diana was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly became nervous.

"Damn, where did he go? Could it be the location of the other two Mother Boxes?
So will he choose Atlantis, or the Mother Box that is somewhere... kept by humans?"

While Athena was desperately guessing...

Gotham City, Burnley District, Gotham branch of STAR Labs.

While following the experimental plan, he started the latest round of investigation on the black cube in front of him.

Silas Stone, the head of the Gotham branch of STAR Labs, greeted the two scholars beside him.

“By the way, did I tell you that my son has joined the Gotham University football team?

In my opinion, that kid will definitely become a football star. Maybe he will become the Michael Jordan of our Gotham City!"

“Haha, Silas, you must not watch basketball, because Jordan played basketball, not football!

What's more, the Mother Box has just experienced two abnormal movements and is still vibrating. Let's focus on this thing!"

A student like this interrupted Silas and made Silas focus on the business.

But Silas, who had just started to get serious, had no time to sort out the vibration frequency of the Mother Box.

The mother box that everyone was observing suddenly made a roar that was thousands of times louder than before!

next moment……

Buzz buzz! ! !

The roaring passage opened up in an instant, and the extremely tall figure of the Steppe Wolf appeared in the relatively narrow observation room.

Looking through the glass window at the panicked people in white coats around him, Steppenwolf finally smiled with satisfaction.

He recognized the familiar looks around him, because there were also quite a number of scholars on Apocalypse.

And scholars...

They are best dealt with!

I saw the Steppe Wolf laughing maliciously and raising his hand to grab the Mother Box.

This time, no one can stop him!
Although the scholars of Star Laboratory have arranged a considerable number of security procedures for the Mother Box, laser and sonic weapons are like tickling to Steppenwolf.

Facing the laser, Steppenwolf chopped open the security door in his hand with an axe and strode towards the trembling scholars.

"Human, haha, this is the Mother Box you have been keeping.

You are such weak beings. How dare you occupy the most advanced technological creation of Apocalypse Star?"

After the steppe wolf sneered contemptuously, he stomped his feet hard on the ground.

With the floor shattering, Steppenwolf rushed out of the Star Laboratory building like a rocket!
After a free fall, Steppenwolf crashed onto the street and casually cut the Mercedes in half as it continued to drive towards him in panic.

Smelling the scent of human blood, Steppenwolf opened his arms contentedly, holding the Mother Box in one hand and a giant axe in the other, and whispered to the sky.

“The land is full of weak bugs that are powerless to stop me. This is the conquest I desire!

Let this place be my temporary base until I find all the Mother Boxes. I will transform every one of you weak bugs into qualified species... Hmm?"

Suddenly, an inexplicable engine sound came from overhead, causing Steppenwolf to look up involuntarily.

In his eyes.

A small, bright silver spaceship was flying across the sky and hovering just above his head.

Steppenwolf narrowed his eyes in confusion.

“Is this spaceship of the style… a Kryptonian spaceship?
But hasn’t Krypton been destroyed?”

(End of this chapter)