Chapter 79: I am Invincible
Hiding behind the house, Jonathan and Martha watched as their two sons stood poised for battle, the air thick with tension. The couple gripped each other's hands, their faces etched with worry.
"Clark used that evil stone. David said it was like making a deal with the devil. What are we going to do?" Martha's eyes welled up with panic.
David and Clark had told them about the Wishing Stone. It was impossible for parents not to know when an entire class lost a period of memory.
"Is that stone the cause of the ring affecting Clark!" Jonathan gritted his teeth, trying to piece things together from the limited information.
The idea of a stone that could grant any wish sounded utterly absurd, but after his son spoke of finding a magician's diary and personally witnessing a miraculous metal that could bring the dead back to life and grant eternal vitality, it didn't seem so far-fetched.
After David explained the situation, the couple accepted it quite easily.
"Enough! Don't speak to me in that tone. I'm the older brother!" Clark roared, displaying an uncharacteristic sharpness. With a terrifying surge of power, he cracked the ground and threw a punch at David.
"Even now, you're not yourself, but that obnoxious attitude of yours still makes me want to teach you a good lesson, Clark!" David's eyes narrowed as his entire body erupted with cosmic energy, releasing a palpable pressure like a raging sea.
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With his energy greatly increased, his speed of energy amplification also surged, reaching nearly ten times the speed of sound.
"However, Clark is clearly faster now!" David couldn't track Clark's fist, only catching a blur of movement as he attacked with incredible speed, like a missile. The air itself seemed to solidify under the pressure of his velocity.
In a flash of lightning, David threw a punch of his own, unleashing a torrent of raw cosmic energy that formed a man-high column of energy capable of melting steel!
"If I can't match your speed, I'll just widen my attack radius!"
Bang!
An intense heat capable of evaporating steel washed over him. Clark sneered, twisting his body to vanish before the purple torrent and reappear in another direction. He threw a punch that tore through the air, hitting David squarely in the face.
"You underestimate me too much!"
Clark, his personality altered by the Red Kryptonite, had also changed his fighting style. Gone was the naive directness; he was now far more menacing.
Bang!
Waves of energy exploded outwards, a powerful gust sweeping for hundreds of meters. The ground trembled under the immense force.
Jonathan and Martha, hiding behind the house dozens of meters away, couldn't open their eyes. Their faces pale, they clamped hands over their mouths, their hearts pounding in their chests.
"Is that so?"
David remained unmoved as the terrifying kinetic energy, comparable to a thousand tons of explosives, was completely absorbed. He compressed cosmic energy into his other fist.
Vwoom!!
Like a crashing wave, Clark was sent flying back over a hundred meters. He struggled to his feet, his chest burning and throbbing with intense pain.
"Too much talk. Trying to show off to me?"
David's expression was cold as he unleashed a barrage of energy blasts. Clark darted around, desperately dodging. He'd said his approach was different, but he'd deliberately slowed down to taunt David, giving him an opening.
"A complete personality change results in different weaknesses."
He was better off before; at least then he could blame his defeat on being too kind. Now, it just seemed pathetic, with no other excuses.
"You're acting like a third-rate villain right now!"
"Shut up! How dare you say that to me, you earthling! You have no idea how powerful my talent is!"
Angered by David's taunt that he was worse than before, Clark charged at David, his evasive movements suddenly ceasing. His fist, capable of cracking an aircraft carrier, rained down on David, interspersed with Heat Vision that could cut through any substance.
With his arrogant tone and malicious personality, David felt like he was facing an evil counterpart of Superman, Ultraman. David's expression remained cold as he pushed his energy manipulation to the limit, absorbing Clark's attacks and occasionally firing beams from his eyes or hands to try and block Clark's escape routes.
Though Clark managed to hit David most of the time, he grew increasingly desperate. He realized his attacks couldn't even budge David. Meanwhile, even though David only landed a hit every dozen or so rapid-fire attempts, each blow inflicted pain and injury.
"No, you're just a native of a backward planet that can't even achieve interstellar travel. How could you possibly compare to me?" Clark roared, deep resentment and injustice flashing in his eyes.
He needed power.
His emotions ran high, and he clenched his fists in anger. The power surging through his body grew stronger with each movement.
Sensing the kinetic energy he was absorbing becoming increasingly violent, David frowned. Although it was still far from injuring him, it was a bad sign.
"You feel it now.
Before, I was too weak. I was always worried about this power, about my identity, constantly anxious about one thing or another."
With each punch hitting harder than the last, Clark's eyes blazed with heat as he laughed arrogantly.
"But I'm not the same person I was.
My body's potential is far beyond your imagination."
He punched wildly, his fists unleashing power like a volcanic eruption, possessing strength unimaginable to ordinary people.
If David hadn't expertly absorbed all the kinetic energy, the surrounding ground would have already cracked, and the tremors would have been felt for miles.
Even so, the furious winds stirred up by their punches made the few houses on the farm sway like wild grass in the wind.
"Heavens..."
Jonathan grabbed his wife and retreated far back, taking cover behind a hillside.
They watched their two sons fight, their faces etched with shock.
The exploding white shockwaves and deafening thuds made it seem like two monsters were battling.
Their speed was so great that only fleeting afterimages could be seen. The stray energy beams melted the ground into lava, making it look like two gods were fighting.
Jonathan glanced worriedly at their surroundings. Fortunately, it was all his family's farmland, otherwise, they would have been seen by now. But if this commotion continued, would it attract people from nearby?
"Enough!"
David tried several times to grab Clark's hand and melt the Red Kryptonite with his energy beams.
However, his speed was still a bit inferior. Clark, seemingly aware that he would revert to his weaker self once the ring was removed, deliberately defended and dodged.
The tremendous noise they were making had already gone on for a while. If they continued fighting, the houses and warehouses on the farm might collapse. He roared in anger and stopped holding back against Clark.
"It doesn't matter if I get hurt, I can recover!"
David unleashed beams from his eyes and fired energy cannons with his hands, striking non-stop. It was like a barrage of dense artillery fire, putting several times more pressure on Clark. He found it increasingly difficult to dodge, his paths to attack being gradually blocked, leaving only one open in front of him.
But just as Clark was falling behind, David's energy cannons grew weaker and weaker, like a faucet with a nearly depleted water source.
"It's not enough, David, you haven't recognized your true identity!"
Their brief exchange of heat vision beams resulted in a stalemate. A cold smile played on his lips as he realized something and charged forward with a punch.
This is right. How could this guy's energy projection ability, which is even stronger than mine, be infinite!
"Your energy can't support your extravagance anymore!"
Punching through an incoming energy cannon that was even weaker, Clark closed in on David, raising his fist high.
"Without those annoying energy impacts, with your sluggish movements, how can you fight me!"
The red light flashed in his eyes. David's seemingly endless energy release had finally depleted his reserves.
"Kneel!"
Bang!
"My energy comes from the sun above.
As long as the sun doesn't set, I am invincible!"
Clark's fist was caught, and he didn't care at all, believing victory was already in his grasp.
He laughed wildly, his mouth splitting into a grin, a hint of ferocity on his face. He unleashed his heat vision with all his might, his dazzling eyes like glowing red-hot iron balls, the blood vessels around his eye sockets illuminated.
Chih!
David immediately shot purple beams from his eyes.
Chih chih chih!
One red, one purple, the terrifying energies violently collided and annihilated each other.
The purple beams were fading.
Just as he was about to overpower David in the one aspect where David was stronger, the triumphant Clark's vision suddenly erupted with intense purple light, like scalding hot water shooting into his eyes.
"Ah!"
Suddenly, the beams from David's eyes intensified severalfold, like a raging torrent overwhelming a small flame, blasting directly into Clark's eyes.
Clutching his intensely painful eyes, he stumbled back in agony.
"My eyes."
"You despicable fellow!"
Clark yelled in utter disarray.
"You call me despicable? You, a thief who turned evil long ago but pretended for a day just to steal from me, have the nerve to say that?"
David's expression remained unchanged as he fired his beams again, this time at the ring on Clark's finger.
It was a direct hit.
The ring, which Clark had bought and worn for a day, was embedded with Red Kryptonite. It melted and vaporized, disappearing from Clark's hand.
"No!..."
His hand felt a burning sensation. Clark reached out, trying to grab something, but it was too late.
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