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Chapter 656 The Darkest Hour Arrives

"By the way, is it usually this exciting here?"

Zero glanced at Shen You beside him and asked.

"Well, you can't say that. Occasionally there will be minor skirmishes, like an alien invasion or a monster that can destroy a planet," Shen You pondered.

"Hmm, that's really nothing." Zero nodded.

Shen You wasn't exaggerating, but compared to the events unfolding before him, they were indeed minor incidents.

The Darkest Night is a momentous event that will overturn life and death across the entire universe. The Black Death Emperor will certainly not be satisfied with just one universe. His footsteps will never stop, moving from one universe to another. If no one stops him, all living beings in the multiverse will eventually become the dead, the Black Lantern Corpses, realizing the "harmonious family" that the Black Hand spoke of.

Even in DC, crises like this don't happen every day.

A tidal wave of deathly energy swept towards the two like a tsunami. Shen You and Zero rose to their feet, one on each side. The tide of death roared past their feet, and the two soared into the air, hovering in mid-air, confronting the Black Hand and the pitch-black guardian.

"It's your home turf, you decide," Zero said. "How so, junior?"

"Then I'll leave that guardian to you, you know, that little blue guy. Don't underestimate him. These little blue men claim to be immortal beings who existed since the beginning of the universe, and since he's gained the ability to die, he should be quite formidable."

"You're pretty good at fighting? Heh, that's perfect."

Zero leaped into the air, and the glasses he used for transforming appeared spinning in the light that bloomed in front of him, automatically attaching to his eyes in a flash.

Colorful light burst forth, quickly covering the entire body from the glasses, transforming the body into a life-size Ultraman form.

"I'm feeling a bit itchy to play, so let me find some fun!"

As he spoke, he shot out like lightning, heading towards the guardian.

Scarface—if Shen You remembered correctly, that was the name or code name of that guardian.

The Guardians are a race that abandoned names long ago. This Dark Guardian has this codename because half of his face bears a scar from contact with massive amounts of antimatter. The shocking scar disfigures half his face, but it also serves as a mark that distinguishes him from his comrades.

"Our Lord says you do not belong to this world, you arrogant race of light!"

Scarface roared and intercepted with a palm strike from a distance. A domineering undercurrent surged towards Zero.

"Go back to your own world, or be destroyed!"

"I'm sorry, but I can't."

Zero rushed into the air and suddenly curled up, spinning twice like a top, followed by a flying kick. His leg, wreathed in flames, crashed into the dark current like a meteor.

"But meddling in other people's business is just my personal interest."

The undercurrent was torn apart with overwhelming force, and Scarface withdrew and retreated, taking off to maintain his distance from Zero.

Every guardian was a ranged mage, even Scarface, who had joined the Black Death Emperor, was no exception. Although it was his first time encountering Zero, he could tell at a glance that Zero was a brute force, and getting close to him would definitely not end well. Therefore, he immediately decided on the basic strategy of keeping his distance and kiting him.

"It's too early to run away."

Zero shouted and made a right-angle turn, also taking off in pursuit. As Scarface accelerated, he unleashed an energy beam, the detached energy forming a double helix structure resembling a DNA model—a unique energy skill of the Guardians. Normally, they would unleash it with their favored green of will, but this time Scarface's attack was a deep, dark black, unfathomable and twice as powerful as before.

Zero maintained his speed, taking off to catch up while simultaneously placing two fingers together on his forehead, and a beam of green light shot out from his head.

The Emerium Ray is a powerful beam technique emitted from the forehead beam lamp. It can be used to perform various techniques, including explosion, burning, cutting, and even restoration, through skillful energy adjustment.

Clearly similar to the beam of light overhead, this was a family skill that Sai Rabbit inherited from his father. Green light and darkness collided, and the aftershocks seemed to envelop the entire city high in the sky.

A tremendous roar echoed through the night, and the entire seaside city seemed to tremble. Many residents nearby curiously gathered at their windows, gazing into the direction from which the thunderous sound originated.

"You cannot make me stop; now I am death!"

The massive avatar of the Black Hand was also firing at Shen You at that moment.

"No one can laugh at me anymore; I will never be an exile again!"

But the energy beam only pierced through a red and silver afterimage. The blurry image, enveloped in lightning, traced an arc, meandering towards the black hand.

"You're not some kind of incarnation, Black Hand," Shen You said. "You're just incredibly insane."

The Black Lantern Corpses are virtually immortal. Neither decapitation, heart removal, nor even pulverization can stop them from regenerating time and again. This is because the dead belong to death itself, and the Black Death Emperor holds the power of death.

But this is not absolute.

The main strategy the Lanterns found during the Darkest Night was the spectrum. While the Black Death Emperor belongs to the death system, it also belongs to the emotional spectrum. By having any two or more colored lanterns work together, different emotional spectra simultaneously delivering a fatal blow to a Black Lantern Corpse, it can be completely destroyed and irreversibly destroyed.

This is why it is said that the darkest night requires the lantern troupes to work together to get through it; only through cooperation between different lantern troupes can they fight against the army of death.

But Shen You was different.

Let's just say that.

He was a one-man army of seven.

He has mastered the entire emotional spectrum. Not to mention using two or more spectra at the same time, he can now use the life spectrum with ease. He is basically a humanoid walking anti-Dark Death Emperor weapon.

This is why, even though he foresaw the approaching Darkest Night, he did not seek help. In the original work, the Darkest Night was a great crisis that was overcome only by the concerted efforts of all the light groups, alliances, and organizations from the universe to Earth, but Shen You felt that he could handle it alone.

And now that Sai Shao has joined, their chances are even greater.

"Stop!"

The black hand flung out a black mass. It seemed to be somewhere between a mist and a liquid, and as it flew into the air, it transformed into a scythe dragging an iron chain.

It seemed to have actually captured his movement trajectory.

But Shen You wasn't surprised. In the Black Hand incident, the mastermind even caught the Flash while he was running. If he couldn't even handle that level of speed, then he wouldn't be qualified to be the boss of such a major event.

However, Shen You relied on more than just his speed.

As they moved forward on lightning, white light followed, and a series of red and silver afterimages turned into pure white halfway through their journey.

The light of a white lamp represents life forms.

(End of this chapter)