Chapter 34: Kryptonians are the biggest cheats

Chapter 34: Kryptonians are the biggest cheats

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"Listen, I believe in you. More importantly, though, you need to have faith in your own abilities."

– Mutsuki, (Kantai Collection!)

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"I am sorry ma'am but I don't know anything about any growth code or whatever you just said. But I am afraid that I cannot let you continue hurting innocent people. So, either willingly surrender yourself to the legal authorities or I'll be forced to make you surrender." Clark said with a serious frown that expressed he was ready to do exactly what he said.

The woman however didn't respond to his warning at all and just began to slowly walk toward him.

"Well the way you are walking toward me doesn't look like you are coming here to surrender, so I guess I'll have to use force after all. But remember ma'am that I am much stronger than I loo..." Clark could not continue as he felt one of the strongest punches he ever felt in his life land on his face catapulting him away like a mere ragdoll.

He went through a couple of walls and even a wooden farmhouse and finally landed on a corn farm which more or less destroyed most of the corn in it.

"How are you this strong?" Clark could not help but ask as he felt an aching sensation still traveling through his cheek as a result of the punch.

He had never met someone as strong as himself before. He had faced his fair share of bad people, some of them with quite tricky abilities but none of them were even close to him in raw physical attributes. This unknown woman was the first one who managed to make him feel real pain with just a single punch when he was not even under the influence of any type of Kryptonite.

"I am Aethyr-Ul. I was a field Captain back on Krypton, boy. Do you think an untrained rookie like you can even hope to defeat a seasoned warrior like me?" The woman named Aethyr used her incredible speed which was equal to Clark's to zoom to the location where Clark landed from her blow and smiled condescendingly at him.

"Wait, you are a Kryptonia..." Once again Clark was unable to complete his words as two beams of red hot laser were directed at his face shutting the young hero up.

"Aaaaaah... OH, MY FACE. Can you please stop targeting my face ma'am?" Clark asked as he grunted at the sizzling pain on his face.

"Interesting. As I thought, you are a Kryptonian as well. Are you the one who has the growth codex? Perhaps if I present you to the General, I'll be rewarded for my valiant services to the empire." She said as she balled her fists to give the boy in front of her the beatdown of the century.

She began to punch him in rapid succession in a bid to break his bones and knock him out creating minor sonic booms but weirdly for her, Clark was able to block most of them with his hands. Although some of her punches landed on his chest, they still seemed to be more or less equal in strength.

This was almost unbelievable for her since she was sure that she was not only much older than him but also much more trained and fit than the supposedly teenage Kryptonian. So, the reason why she was not being able to overpower him in pure raw strength was a mystery to her.Findd new stories at novelhall.com

But unfortunately for Clark, his advantage in his raw physical abilities could only take him so far. With each move that Aethyr made, Clark was being pushed back slowly as he even felt minor bruises forming all over his body due to her hits.

"I have to say you are surprisingly strong for a teenage Kryptonian but that would only take you so far. You could have been a good soldier for the New Kryptonian army that the General is going to establish but it seems you must die before that." She smirked at Clark as her eyes again lighted up and fired red beams of heated energy directly at Clark's own eyes momentarily shocking and blinding him and thus creating an opening in his novice defenses.

She immediately took this chance and stuck his stomach with a full-powered punch sending him flying into a nearby pond.

I did not waste any more of my time monologuing in my mind and instead took out my bat-tool and activated its sonic gun function which used the same principle as the sonic weapon in my combat drone. It was the best possible weapon against a Kryptonian or any metahuman with superhuman hearing capabilities.

"Let's rock," I declared with a snicker as I targeted her and fired the thing at a high frequency before she could have the chance to use her speed to get closer to me.

A high-frequency almost visible wave of mind-crushing sound hit the Kryptonian warrior like a freight train as it instantly drew a shrill painful scream from her throat making her drop her knife and forcing her to stagger back a couple of steps.

But I had no intention to stop. I would only consider stopping once she was knocked out but unfortunately for me, knocking her out seemed like a pipe dream since she immediately recovered from the initial shock somewhat and began to approach me with a slow yet steady pace despite the sound waves hitting her at the highest possible frequencies which should have blown her brains to unrecognizable bits if she didn't have such a literal hard head.

"AAAAH. I will k-kill you. For Krypton. For the glory of General Zod..." She screamed as a single drop of red blood flowed down her nose.

"Come on," I murmured to myself as I felt her reaching near where I was currently standing. A year full of research on the most advanced sonic weaponry and the best this can do is give her a nosebleed? God, Kryptonians are really underestimated, aren't they? In front of their absolute beast-like OP physiologies, even my cheat seems somewhat worthless.

"You think you can defeat a loyal soldier of the General? No, I will make sure that you and your fellow little species understand the superiority of KryptoniaAAHH..." She shrieked in pain as her own knife pierced through her chest.

"You have super senses yet you do not use them to sense people sneaking up on you? How pathetically useless a soldier were you?" A figure wearing a dark tight Kevlar suit and a unique orange and black patterned mask said as he pulled the knife from the wound on her chest and reinserted it into her stomach from her back, possibly severing her spine in the process.

"Slade? I told you not to interfere. I thought that I made it clear that I wanted to do this alone." I said, subtle anger leaking into my tone.

"Sorry 'young master'. But my job is to protect you not to let you do things alone. Personally, I wouldn't have cared if you had lost an eye or an ear but Alfred would eat my heart if I let that happen. And as I had said before, nothing scares me more than that butler whenever he has that fake smile on his face. The last time I let you get hurt during training, he actually shot me in the balls." Slade Wilson gruffed as he shivered at his memory of Alfred giving him the most intense death stare he had ever gotten in his life.

"*Sigh* Fine just shut up. Now we will have to save her life since we need more info from her. So let's, not waste time and get to it before Clark wakes up." I muttered in annoyance.

"Huh? Who's Clark?" He asked.

"Long story, you don't need to know. But perhaps you will meet him one day in the future." I mostly dodged his question as I wondered to myself if I should save the half-dead Kryptonian in front of me or just try to forcefully glean any intel I could from her mind.

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