American comic book: My Father is Superman, am I just an NPC?

Chapter 185 The Tragedy of Darkseid! The Divine Healer Reappears!
Deep in the universe.

The two golden figures were like intertwined comets, and each collision caused the surrounding space and time to tremble.

The stars dimmed. Their speed surpassed the limits of living beings, their power defied the laws of physics, and the aftershocks of the battle even caused nearby star systems to veer off course. Clark Kent—no, at this moment he seemed more like some kind of supernatural being, bathed in a dazzling golden light.

He was no longer the Kryptonian son in his red and blue uniform. His body was enveloped in pure golden light, his eyes like two burning stars, and wherever his heat gaze passed, even space itself was scorched with eternal scars. He was the embodiment of hope, the sun god walking the earth.

The intense gaze in his eyes seemed as if the sun were truly shining down upon him.

Both Supermen look like this.

Its power is far greater than the miniature suns in Ian's eyes. Of course, Ian doesn't need to be discouraged, after all, he is just a little "Kryptonian" who hasn't come of age yet.

"It seems you still have some potential." Clark Kent, who was fighting fiercely with Ian's father, is Golden Superman, a powerful being from a distant parallel universe.

He possesses near-divine power, capable of reshaping reality and reversing time. His golden battle suit flows with the energy of the universe's origin, and his pupils reflect infinite possibilities.

In fact, Ian had already recognized this, but being as "weak" as Ian, he was unable to intervene. Golden Superman is the ultimate evolutionary form that Superman achieved after tens of thousands of years of cultivation in the core of the sun.

"Your mercy is too narrow, your capacity is insufficient to save all universes." The Golden Superman's voice resounded directly in Clark's mind, deep and majestic.

"how about you?"

Clark's fist slammed towards his opponent, but Golden Superman caught it with one hand, the shockwave shattering many nearby planets. "And what gives you the right to decide what the 'right' future is?"

Golden Superman didn't answer, but suddenly exerted his strength, flinging Clark towards a dying star. Clark's body pierced the star's core like a cannonball, triggering a supernova explosion. Fiery plasma erupted, but then froze at Golden Superman's thought, as if time had been paused.

“I’m not like you. Your ideals are too naive.” Golden Superman hovered in front of the supernova, his voice cold. “Some problems only have one solution.”

"The strongest Superman must be born." It's unclear how Golden Superman was brainwashed by the Supreme Alliance. He wasn't being controlled, but his thoughts had become extremely extreme.

Clark burst forth from the stellar debris, his golden light intensifying. He fell silent, attacking Golden Superman with even greater ferocity. Their battle raged from the tangible dimension into the torrent of time, then tore back from the quantum realm into the material universe—a battle Ian simply couldn't intervene in.

Golden Superman is too strong.

He achieved dimensional leap by absorbing solar energy, becoming a five-dimensional life form capable of manipulating timelines, and wielding the Green Lantern Corps' ultimate artifact, the "Final Power Ring." In other universes, Golden Superman has demonstrated multiverse-level abilities such as crushing toxic suns and reshaping DNA to create five-dimensional life.

Such Kryptonian life forms.

How can Ian, who has been in the industry for less than fifteen years, be compared to her?

He couldn't even use his own eyes to bless his father, because the range and speed of the two superheroes' battle far exceeded the speed his eyes could currently capture.

"Moreover, even if I could capture my father's speed, the boost I could provide would be negligible. He has already ignited the sun within his own heart."

Ian has always believed that his father has a superstitious nature, and the facts have proven this to be true. As Clark Kent's eldest son, the only help he can provide to his father now is to use his new ability [Whisper] to constantly tell his father, whom he has locked onto, about his mother's unhappy life after remarrying with him.

"Dad, if you lie down now, Mom can hold a matchmaking event at Lonely Fortress tomorrow—do you think that bald, Luther-like Clark from the other universe, wearing a black cloak, will propose with a kryptonite ring?"

"There really is such a parallel universe..."

Don't want to hear it.

However, Ian's whispering ability was indeed overpowered, after all, it came from Mephisto, the great villain of Marvel. Clark's fist grazed the face of the Golden Superman by half an inch.

My hands are shaking.

"Jonathan and Jordan are in for a rough time~ Big brother Jonathan and second brother Jordan will encounter a stepfather who loves to abuse his children, but you don't have to worry about me."

“I know how to use the law to protect myself, and I can use the Constitution of the United States to kill my stepfather. Of course, if this continues, my mother will definitely have to remarry again.”

"And so it goes, endlessly, and who knows, one day Mom will be forced to remarry Batman. I saw Batman glance at Mom a couple of times last time."

When it comes to stirring things up, Ian is a real pro, driving Clark Kent into a frenzy. Suddenly, Clark grabbed Golden Superman's hand, his knuckles cracking under the strain.

"Ian!!!" Clark's pupils instantly lit up with a golden light of idealism. The two had already fought in the depths of the universe. He grabbed Golden Superman by the neck and slammed him into the core of Apokolips.

"Shut up!"

This was an angry reprimand of Ian, but the one suffering was Apokolips, the "spectator planet." Apokolips is the core of Darkseid's rule and one of the most terrifying planets in the DC Universe, known as the "Heart of Darkness." This planet was built with New God technology, its surface covered with burning scorched earth, massive factories and prisons, its sky forever shrouded in a red sun, and the air filled with an atmosphere of despair.

now.

It suffered an attack that no one could have predicted.

Boom!

The entire Apokolips plate was displaced by three kilometers, and magma erupted from the cracks like a fountain, leaving a scar on the surface of Apokolips that far exceeded the damage caused by the East African Rift Valley.

at the same time.

Darkseid was sitting on his throne.

Darkseid is the ultimate symbol of "Darkness and Chaos" in DC, also known as the "Dark Lord," the ruler of Apokolips, and one of the most powerful evil gods among the New Gods.

His real name is Uxus. He was originally the second prince of Apokolips. He became the ruler of Apokolips by killing his brother, usurping the throne, and seizing the Omega Effect, an ultimate power.

Its appearance is that of a rock giant standing 8 feet 9 inches tall, with rock-like gray-black skin, a face covered with ferocious patterns, and eyes that reveal extreme indifference and cruelty.

As Superman's "arch-nemesis," Darkseid's ambition is not only to rule Apokolips, but also to conquer the entire multiverse and destroy the free will of all life through the "Anti-Life Equation."

At this very moment, Darkseid was tapping his fingers on the armrest, contemplating how to use the chaos of the multiverse to expand his territory and establish an eternal dark order.

However, suddenly, the entire palace shook violently, the walls cracked, and the ceiling collapsed.

"what happened?!"

He stood up abruptly, the power of Omega already brewing in his eyes.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

A subordinate stumbled in, shouting, "There are two Chaos—"

boom--! ! !
The palace dome shattered, and two golden beams of light crashed into the hall like meteors. Their red and blue afterimages slammed onto the conference table in front of Darkseid with a bang, the shockwave instantly blasting away all the dark elites. Darkseid hadn't even had time to see who it was when he heard two furious roars simultaneously.

"Get out of my way!" Clark's fist came crashing down.

"Get out of the way!" Golden Superman's heat vision exploded.

For some reason, their attack trajectories inexplicably changed direction and headed straight for him.

Darkseid: "...???"

BOOOOOOM——！！！
The next second, two Superman-level fists simultaneously slammed into his face. The Omega Force automatically protected itself at the last second, but was still forcefully pushed back by the impact of the two god-like forces. The crust of Apokolips cracked at that moment, lava erupted, and the entire planet wailed.

Darkseid was completely dumbfounded.

All he saw was two Supermen fighting in his territory, and in his direction. He hadn't even gone to destroy the Earth yet, and his hometown was about to be demolished.

This is the tragedy of not having purchased the property insurance offered by Ian's insurance company. Of course, even if Darkseid had purchased it, Ian would still have grounds to refuse to pay.

He's someone who's very much integrated into the ranks of capitalists.

"Rumble~ Rumble~"

A series of explosions echoed across Apokolips as two godlike figures clashed amidst the leaden clouds, each collision causing the entire planet to tremble.

"boom--!!!"

Clark punched Golden Superman into the core fortress of Apokolips.

The superfortress, supposedly capable of withstanding the Big Bang, shattered like a biscuit. Lava spewed out, but was vaporized into invisible particles before it could reach the two Kryptonians.

"you--"

Darkseid's roar came from beneath the throne. After all, he had taken two solid sneak attacks that defied all martial ethics, and the Omega effect was boiling in his angry eyes.

"This is Apokolips!"

The two Supermen didn't answer, which means they knew.

They continued fighting each other.

Clark's heat vision collided with Superman Gold's bio-field, and the resulting surge of energy swept away three Parademon legions that were gathering. Superman Gold delivered an elbow strike, which Clark dodged to the side, and the shockwave, powerful enough to shatter galaxies, sliced ​​diagonally through Apokolips's orbital weapon platform.

Apokolips, this hellish planet made of steel, lava, and eternal war, is now experiencing the most absurd and humiliating moment since its birth.

It wasn't an invasion, it wasn't a conquest, it was being used as a boxing ring.

Two figures collided violently in the low sky above Apokolips.

Each exchange of blows caused spatial folds, and each dodge tore through the atmosphere. Golden torrents of energy poured down like a waterfall, illuminating the entire planet as if it were daytime.

But this devastating light precisely avoided all civilian areas.

The "commoners" of Apokolips.

The creatures living in the lava fissures trembled, yet remained unharmed. Their "god," Darkseid's army, however, faced annihilation.

Demon Nest.

Before the eggs could hatch, the entrance to the nest was swept away by a stray fist and turned to ashes. Parademons are the iconic creatures of Apokolips, created from captives on planets conquered by Darkseid. They have no thoughts or free will, and obey only Darkseid. They are the main force behind Darkseid's conquest of the multiverse.

Now, he has died before he could even begin his mission.

Even the Nemesis team, Darkseid's personal guard, was not spared, completely swallowed by the light and vanished without a trace in the universe.

This elite fighting force, composed of Darkseid's most elite warriors, had just awakened from their hibernation pods. Their armor was not yet fully activated, and Apokolips's defense system hadn't even had time to lock onto their targets.

"Alarm—Unknown Energy—"

"Activate plasma—"

"Quickly! Contact them—"

The words have not yet fallen.

Golden light surged in like a tidal wave, engulfing them and the entire command center. There was no fighting, no resistance; the Nemesis, along with their prized technological warfare, evaporated completely in the light. "No…this is impossible…" In the monitoring room, a high-ranking Parademonic commander stared at the screen, his voice trembling. The next second, a streak of fist energy grazed past Apokolips' outer orbit.

His tower was wiped out, along with him. The entire war machine of Apokolips was being cleansed in the most brutal way by a force beyond comprehension. Darkseid sat on his Omega Throne, forged from countless bones, his eyes fixed on the battle outside.

He, the tyrant of the universe, the destroyer of order, had forced countless civilizations to their knees beneath the Omega rays. Yet now, he seemed utterly helpless, like an enraged parent whose home had been invaded by a child.

"They...are fighting."

Darkseid's voice was deep and thunderous, yet carried a hint of unbelievable absurdity, "On my Apokolips... like street thugs... fighting?"

What enraged him even more was that the aftershocks of the fight between these two "thugs" precisely destroyed all his manpower and core technological facilities. Parademonic armories, antimatter cannon arrays, dimensional jump engines... strategic strongholds crumbled in golden light. Of course, this wasn't the most unsettling thing for Darkseid.

The main problem was that the two figures would occasionally deliver a few dirty punches to him.

His nose is all bruised from being hit.

Darkseid finally couldn't sit still any longer.

"Disgrace!" Darkseid roared, his eyes blazing with crimson flames. "My legions... my kingdom... have been trampled upon like this!"

His enormous body pressed down on the entire planet like a mountain.

"Since you want to play..."

The Dark King whispered, his voice echoing like the abyss.

"Then let me join this 'game.' When I stare into your eyes, shatter your dreams, and break your hearts, six billion eyes will follow."

He raised his right hand and pointed to the center of the battlefield.

The Omega Effect – Get Started!
In an instant, the sky of Apokolips was torn apart.

A crimson ray, more dazzling than the sun, burst forth from Darkseid's eyes, shooting straight into the sky and colliding with the battlefield of the two golden figures.

This is a power capable of erasing existence, distorting reality, and causing a target to completely disappear from space and time.

but.

The Omega Ray shot out, but when it struck the center of the clash between Superman and Golden Superman, it was intercepted halfway by two heat vision beams—not annihilated, but collided.

Crimson light intertwined, erupting with a brilliance even more dazzling than a supernova. Space shattered like glass, and time flowed backward through the cracks. The entire planet Apokolips tilted slightly under this force, and the molten lava ocean surged with towering waves. Three cosmic-level energies intertwined and exploded, the shockwave lifting Apokolips' crust three thousand meters high.

Darkseid's power originates from the Omega Effect, a cosmic-level energy derived from the essence of the New Gods, primarily manifested in two signature abilities. One is the Omega Ray, a concentrated plasma ray emitted from the eyes, capable of directly erasing the target's existence or resurrecting it for his own use.

Secondly, there is the Omega Sanction, which traps the opponent in an endless cycle of parallel worlds, from which even death cannot provide an escape. The victim will continuously accumulate Omega energy within the cycle.

It could ultimately destroy the entire world.

In fact, Darkseid is likely a six-dimensional being, a level above even the five-dimensional being Golden Superman, but he is currently still in a super-young state.

Of course, Darkseid in his juvenile form was also very strong, but now both Supermen are burning with the sun in their hearts, and under the impact of the Omega Ray, they only took half a step back.

"Since you all want to be gods... then I will let you taste the true 'divine punishment'."

Darkseid joins the battle.

They should have fought to a standstill.

however.

He only made one move.

The next second, Clark Kent and his parallel universe counterpart, Golden Superman, exchanged a glance without saying a word, and the two golden beams simultaneously changed direction and rushed towards him.

1+1 does not always equal 2.

"boom!!"

The Omega Shield shattered like glass, trapping Darkseid between the two. He took a Kryptonian punch from Clark on his left and a future elbow strike from Golden Superman on his right. The Dark Lord was sent flying like a cannonball, piercing through eighteen antimatter reactors before crashing into his most prized Omega Armory.

The great Dark Lord was in such a sorry state, but thankfully his sons didn't see it, otherwise the little authority he had left in their eyes would surely have vanished.

Of course, the fact that no one inside the family witnessed this scene does not mean that no outsiders witnessed it. Ian, who was watching the battle from a distance using the Marvel Black Box, had already silently started screen recording.

Ian's Films, part of Ian's Greatest Tech Company, currently only has Ian himself dedicated to creating content. If they want to reach the stars, they'll have to rely on some truly daring projects and things that others wouldn't dare to film.

"That's really bad. If Darkseid wants to show off again, they can keep bringing up the fact that he was beaten by two Supermen working together to suppress his arrogance!"

"In all the universes, even Ian McKellen has never been beaten like this by Superman."

Ian casually tossed the unconscious Injustice Superman, who was covered in burns, aside. He was the merciful Lord Ian, so he disregarded past grievances and applied more than ten boxes of burn ointment to Injustice Superman.

Ian was so gentle that even when the unconscious Injustice was knocked in the eye by the butt of the Gungnir, Ian kindly helped him cry while he was unconscious.

The black box also broadcasts the story of Apokolips.

Ian stared intently.

His fingertips glided lightly across the smooth surface of the black box, adjusting the observation frequency, completely unaware that the unconscious Injustice Superman behind him was slowly waking up.

Injustice Superman's fingers twitched first, then his eyelids. His eyelashes trembled, as if struggling to wake from a nightmare. When those once azure eyes, now cloudy, finally opened, they were met with a shattered starry sky—a universe torn apart by energy, now somewhat empty.

"I am..." His voice was so hoarse it didn't sound like his own.

Memories flooded in like a tide, yet slipped away as quickly as sand in his hand. He remembered the golden light, and the forced manipulation he had been subjected to upon returning to headquarters after his last departure from this universe.

He also remembered the planets that had turned to ashes at his hands—Injustice Superman struggled to his feet, every muscle screaming in protest. He looked down at his arms, his skin charred and festering from the energy of Golden Superman, the black runes that had once coiled around his skin like venomous snakes had vanished without a trace.

This is why Injustice Superman regained consciousness.

"I've gained my freedom?"

The word rolled on the tongue of the Injustice Superman, both strange and familiar.

He looked up and around.

An unprecedented sense of guilt struck him like a hammer blow to the chest.

Then he saw Ian—that elusive, unseen being—who was now facing away from him, intently fiddling with the mysterious black box.

Injustice Superman staggered to his feet, his ten fingers, broken by Ian, looking utterly twisted. He dragged himself toward Ian, wanting to know what he had just done.

"Ian Kent?"

Injustice Superman spoke with difficulty, his voice seeming to come from a great distance. When his hand finally touched Ian's shoulder, he found that the other man seemed to react and immediately turned around.

"The Overlord's Counterattack!"

The tip of the Spear of Eternity gleamed with a deadly cold light, piercing Injustice Superman's abdomen at a speed imperceptible to the human eye. The Kryptonian's steel body was like paper before this divine weapon. Injustice Superman's eyes widened as he looked down at the spearhead emerging from his back, blood dripping down the golden veins onto the surface of the planetary fragment.

“I’ve broken free of control.” With each word he spoke, crimson blood spilled from the corner of his mouth. “I just wanted to warn you… why you’re acting like a villain, killing like this…”

The word "decisive" hadn't been uttered yet.

The already seriously injured Injustice Superman fell backward.

Ian's expression froze.

He then noticed that because Injustice's skin was completely burned, the runes on his body were gone, and the madness in his eyes when he was being controlled was gone.

I remember Batman, who had gone to hell and was waiting for Ian to arrange his work, once said that this parallel universe Superman, who had previously descended upon this universe, was in a state of being mentally controlled.

It seems now.

It seems the other party is showing signs of reforming?

"Damn it! It wasn't a UFO trying to kidnap me for breeding!" Ian cursed as he pulled back the Gungnir, and Injustice Superman immediately knelt down and collapsed forward.

Ian caught him before he completely collapsed, feeling that this once invincible body was now terrifyingly light, as if the power he had absorbed had been transferred to someone else.

"I thought you were trying to ambush me... Look at this mess, luckily my medical skills are pretty good." He quickly checked Injustice Superman's vital signs—weak but stable.

He breathed a sigh of relief and began trying to save the other person's life.

Ian carefully placed Injustice on a relatively flat surface and began rummaging through his dimensional pocket. He first pulled out the Black Death Sword as his surgical tool.

Then there's the seemingly ordinary fishing line.

Finally, there was a box of staplers with Edelman alloy staples.

Medical equipment is ready.

As Ian watched the footage in the black box, he began his second illegal medical practice. However, the battle playing in the video made it difficult for him to concentrate.

Darkseid seems to be about to unleash its full power—its backing is truly formidable. Due to Ian's distraction, he inadvertently widened the wound on the unconscious Injustice Superman.

"Forehead……"

Looking at Injustice's abdominal cavity, which was filled with numerous organs, and forgetting to give Injustice anesthesia, he struck Injustice again amidst Injustice's painful groans.

There is green kryptonite on the hammer.

Therefore, physical anesthesia is extremely effective.

It was originally intended as a protective measure for the brotherly bond between Jonathan and his second brother.

"I'm sorry, just bear with it." As an apology for his mistake, Ian stared at Injustice Superman's abdomen and began to hesitate about whether he should give Injustice Superman some compensation.

Perhaps, that could be a bond that truly allows the Unjust Superman to abandon evil and embrace good?

The legendary healer Ian was unsure whether this would go against societal norms. After all, he was almost fifteen, no longer a fourteen-year-old boy, so he too had moments of hesitation.

The main hesitation is whether twins are better or the bond between sextuplets is stronger.

(End of this chapter)