The Savior of American Comics? I'm the Subspace Evil God!

Chapters 393, 702, and 703: [Slaughter] VS [Vulture]

[Queens].

Grace Church is currently under renovation.

Inside the main hall, surrounded by scaffolding and tarpaulins, a bizarre wedding is taking place.

Under the witness of a kidnapped priest, a Skrull girl disguised as Adrian Tooms' daughter Liz, who was bound hand and foot, had a smelly sock stuffed in her mouth, and was placed in a coffin, and a "Killing Symbiote" drooling over the priest's head, Francis Barrison, wearing a black wedding dress, and Cletus Casadi, wearing a floral shirt, shared a passionate kiss at the foot of the cross.

However, in this brief, warm moment, the church door was suddenly slammed open with a loud bang.

"Kassadi, you bastard, give me back my daughter right now!!"

Adrian Tooms, with his giant wings flapping behind him, let out an angry roar, his ferocious eyes searching the hall for his daughter Liz.

But Liz was in the coffin behind Cletus Cassady at that moment, so Adrian Tumston, who was unable to see his daughter, became extremely irritable.

"Toms, you've finally come..."

Cletus Casadi immediately summoned [Slaughter], and a crimson [symbiote] instantly covered his entire body. He beckoned to the opposite side in a superior tone:

"Come, I have something important I want to talk to you about. If the outcome is satisfactory... I will naturally return your daughter to you!"

"You bastard, if you dare lay a finger on my daughter, I'll kill you!!"

Adrian Tooms roared and flapped his giant wings as he charged straight at Cletus Casadi, who was clearly ready to fight him.

But just as the two were about to collide, Francis Barrison, annoyed by the interruption of the wedding, suddenly opened her mouth wide and, without consulting anyone, released an ultrasonic wave in Adrian Tooms's direction.

“Buzz——!!!”

Affected by the ultrasound, the Loyalist Symbiote on Adrian Tooms' body suddenly began to 'boil', and his body fell directly from mid-air.

However, Cletus Casadi was also affected.

The [Slaughter] forcefully took over the body, and with a sudden wave of its hand, it sent Francis Barrison, who was still continuously outputting power, flying away, ending the sonic wave that it found disgusting.

"No, [Slaughter], you can't lay a hand on my precious..."

Cletus Casadi seemed to want to break free from Carnage's body to check on Francis Barrison, but was immediately pulled back into Carnage's body, which warned him mercilessly:

"Then you'd better shut that bitch's mouth, or next time I'll definitely bite her head off!!"

Although Cletus Kassadi's consciousness is not controlled by Carnage when fully possessed, this does not mean that Carnage will completely obey him.

After all, the stronger the symbiote, the stronger its self-awareness!
Only when the host and the symbiote are of one mind can they truly become one and maximize their power!
Having said that, [Slaughter] charged directly at Adrian Tooms on the opposite side.

"Whoosh whoosh—"

As Adrian Tooms recovered, he charged forward, unleashing countless sharp feather blades from his wings to harass [Slaughter], but he failed to inflict any real damage on his opponent.

On the contrary, he himself was pierced through the chest by the spear-like tentacles that appeared behind [Slaughter] as he leaped into the air, and then crashed heavily to the ground.

From the very beginning of the battle, [Slaughter] demonstrated an overwhelming advantage.

He first used two tentacles to bind Adrian Tooms' arms, and then used sharp bone spikes to firmly nail Adrian Tooms' wings and his entire body to the wall.

"Pfft-"

The bone spur pierced through Adrian Tooms' symbiote body and embedded itself deeply in the wall. Even though the blow could not truly kill him, Adrian Tooms could not help but let out a painful groan from the pain.

He struggled with both hands, trying to break free of the two tentacles binding his wrists, and then pull out the bone spurs from his chest and wings to fight back.

But the enemy's [Slaughter] didn't give him the chance to do that at all.

"Don't waste your energy, Toms."

[Slaughter] grinned, letting out a chilling, sinister laugh. Then, the symbiotic armor on the right side of his face slowly peeled away, revealing half of Cletus Kassadi's true face. He looked down at Adrian Tooms and said:

"We called you here today not to fight you, but to invite you to join our plan..."

"I know you've been unhappy with the Void Knight for a while now. How about we team up and take him down?"

"That coward is not fit to lead us at all. He only dares to cause trouble in the shadows. He is not worthy to be Lord Nar's servant..."

However, Adrian Tooms completely ignored his pleas, his eyes wide with rage as he roared, "I will never cooperate with you, you inhuman killer! Give me back my daughter!!"

"Tsk tsk, don't be so quick to refuse."

Adrian Tooms, seeing this, was not angry. A sly smile appeared on his lips. Then, a thick tentacle, like a nimble python, stretched out from behind him and snaked toward the coffin placed behind him.

The coffin lid slowly opened, revealing a silent girl inside, her hands and feet bound, her mouth stuffed with a smelly sock, unable to make a sound.

“Liz!!”

Seeing that his daughter was unharmed, Adrian Tooms was overjoyed. He immediately removed the symbiotic mask from his face, revealing his original appearance, and loudly comforted her:

"Child, don't be afraid, Daddy's here to save you... Don't worry, Daddy will get you out of here soon."

However, Liz, inside the coffin, did not calm down at all despite his persuasion; instead, the fear on her face intensified.

Her eyes were wide open, tears welled up in them, and her body trembled slightly with extreme fear.

There was no way around it; after all, she wasn't actually Adrian Tooms's daughter, but merely an ordinary Skrull girl with the ability to disguise herself. She'd never seen anything like this before.
Previously, almost all of her missions were undercover and intelligence gathering, which were not nearly as dangerous.

The two 'monsters' in front of her, with mouths full of fangs and a penchant for eating human heads, seemed like demons from hell to her young mind, plunging her into extreme fear.

Waaaaah, Commander Fury, didn't you say this mission was low-risk?
People will never believe your nonsense again!
"Don't worry, Toms, we never intended to do anything to your daughter, otherwise, her little head would have been gone long ago..."

Cletus Casadi grinned again, his words dripping with threat: "We just wanted to use this little beauty to lure you here. After all, if I were to find you directly, you probably wouldn't listen to me properly!"

"So, as long as you're willing to cooperate with us, your daughter can leave here safely anytime, anywhere."

As he spoke, he manipulated the symbiotic tentacle, its tip as sharp as a spear, circling around the trembling Liz as if it might strike at any moment.

That's exactly what happened.

If Adrian Tooms on the other side dared to refuse his offer, then he would naturally not let the father and daughter leave the church alive.

After all, now is not the right time to officially turn against the Void Knight; he must first accumulate enough power.

How could Adrian Tooms, pinned to the wall, not guess what kind of scheme the other party was plotting?

Compared to the mysterious and powerful Void Knight, he didn't think much of this bloodthirsty madman in front of him.

Especially when the other party threatened him with his daughter's life.

However, the real reason why Adrian Tooms refused was quite simple.

That is... even the symbiotes on the two of them were 'given' by others themselves, so what do they have to fight against them?
Is it fate?

Adrian Tooms is not a madman like Cletus Cassady, nor is he so insane as to have lost his mind.

Therefore, when faced with a plan that is absolutely impossible to succeed, the best option is to reject it!

"Although I don't have a good impression of the bastard who turned me into this mess..."

Adrian Tooms said with a look of disdain, "But at least he won't use my daughter's life to blackmail me, so I'm not going to team up with a despicable madman like you!"

"Also, you don't actually think you can hide your little tricks from him, do you?"

Upon hearing this, Cletus Casadi's face immediately darkened, and he said somewhat unhappily, "So that means there's no room for negotiation?"

He shook his head with a regretful look. "It's a pity. I originally thought we were the same kind of people, the kind of fighters who could never tolerate anyone 'riding on' their heads... But now it seems that you are much weaker than I imagined."

“There is no room for the weak in my team, so… say goodbye to your daughter!”

As he spoke, Cletus Casadi used his tentacles to wrap around Liz's neck and then lifted her from the coffin into the air.

"Uh... help... help me... Daddy, help me..."

Liz kicked her legs wildly in the air, her hands first reaching out towards Adrian Tooms, but then she began to tear at the tentacles wrapped around her neck, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't break free.

The girl's pupils widened with fear, and her breathing became increasingly difficult with each violent struggle. Soon, her face, which was pale from excessive fright, gradually turned a deathly bluish-gray, a color that only appears when a person is about to die.

Cletus Casadi, the mastermind behind all this, looked at Adrian Tooms with a mocking grin and sneered:
"Now, I'm giving you one last chance: choose to join me, or die here with your daughter?"

Although he called it an invitation, his extremely cold tone revealed absolutely no emotion, as if he were discussing something insignificant.

Anyone could see that this guy was deliberately messing with Adrian Tooms.

Whether Adrian Tooms agrees or not, he and his daughter share only one fate: death!
This might just be Cletus Casadi's uniquely morbid and perverse sense of humor.

"Cassady, you damn bastard, if you dare lay a hand on Liz, I'll kill you..."

Adrian Tooms struggled violently, trying to break free from the bone spikes and tentacles, roaring hysterically as he vented his anger and helplessness.

His body trembled violently with extreme rage, and finally he opened his gaping maw full of fangs and bit off the two tentacles that were controlling his wrists. Then he threw a punch and sent the unsuspecting Cletus Casadi flying.

"Ah..."

Adrian Tooms gripped the massive bone spur piercing his chest tightly with both hands and pulled it out with force. With a 'plop', a viscous liquid, whether it was mucus or blood, spurted out of his chest along with the pulled bone spur and dripped onto the ground.

However, he felt no pain at all, because at that moment his only concern was the safety of his daughter.

"Liz, don't be afraid, Daddy's here to save you."

But just as Adrian Tooms lunged toward his daughter, Cletus Casadi transformed his arm into a giant hammer and swung it from behind, sending Adrian Tooms flying.

"boom--"

Adrian Tooms' body slid backward for more than ten meters, leaving a series of broken trenches and numerous shattered benches in the ground.

"Cough cough cough..."

Perhaps out of fear, after enduring that heavy blow, the [Loyal Symbiote] that had been attached to Adrian Tooms briefly retreated back into his body.

No matter how much Adrian Tooms called out, there was absolutely no sign that he wanted to reappear.

Seeing this, Cletus Casadi arrogantly revealed his human form, leaving only a tentacle binding Liz, and followed him to Adrian Tooms.

"Tsk tsk tsk, take a good look, this is what happens when you choose the wrong opponent..."

(End of this chapter)