DC: A New Beginning-Chapter 97: Round Two

As they descended through the seventy thousand-meter depth of the ice layer, Viktor began to feel a tremendous resistance.

The speed of both continued to be slowed by the resistance until Viktor could no longer push Doomsday toward deeper parts of Ganymede.

Doomsday, whose arms and legs had grown back, finally gathered enough strength and punched Viktor away.

By then, the ice around them had already become extremely solid under the unbelievable pressure.

The distance between molecules has been compressed to a limit that Earth’s technology cannot achieve.

Touching his chest where Doomsday just struck him, Viktor roughly estimated the gap in strength between them.

"Before the yellow lantern rings are completely consumed, or before Doomsday evolves to no longer need to rely on solar radiation to obtain energy, I still have a brief advantage in strength."

Yes, at this moment, Viktor, strengthened by fear energy, could still overpower Doomsday.

The latter is currently trapped deep inside a dark layer of ice and cannot reach any sunlight.

The ice around them was unbelievably hard.

Taking advantage of Doomsday being trapped in the dark ice and low on energy, Viktor suddenly rushed forward.

He grabbed Doomsday by the neck with one hand and slammed him hard into the bottom of the ice cave.

The heavy impact sound shook the entire ice cave in tremors. The inner ice wall only scattered a few bits of ice dust while Doomsday’s bones cracked under the pressure.

Viktor didn’t dare hold back even a bit in front of Doomsday with his right fist into its face like a hammer, and his left knee struck its chest and stomach right after.

The sounds of cracking bones and flying ice filled the tight space.

He followed with a sweeping kick, sending him crashing into the ice wall, rushed up again, grabbed him, and rained down punches like a storm.

He let out a low roar and forced even more fear energy out of his ring, bursting through the bottom of the ice cave and drilling several hundred meters deeper.

The ice was crushed and compressed into an even powder.

Doomsday’s body was left torn and bloody, with broken bones and ripped flesh from the repeated blows, but his terrifying healing ability was still rapidly repairing him.

But just at a moment when Viktor was pressing down on Doomsday and attacking wildly, the muscles under Doomsday’s chest suddenly started twisting strangely.

The gene chain was crazily reorganized and mutated in extreme pain and constant attack.

Its life mechanism, which originally relied on solar radiation, was forcibly changing.

Doomsday started to absorb the tiny amount of kinetic energy from every punch and kick Viktor landed, converting the impact into its own energy.

Even though this conversion was very weak and helped only a little, for Doomsday, who was close to death, it was enough to save its life.

Doomsday’s arm, blocking the attack, gradually stopped trembling. Its body, taking Viktor’s heavy punches, no longer deformed as easily as before.

The power that was originally suppressed to the limit began to slowly recover.

He quickly noticed the change. He glanced at the four Yellow Lantern rings left on his left hand, and one of them was visibly growing dim.

In the next second, just as Viktor threw another punch, one ring had completely run out of energy and exploded with fragments, shooting into the ice.

Now, only three Yellow Lantern rings were left. Their power boost suddenly weakened, and Viktor’s strength dropped.

The absolute advantage of pressing down on Doomsday completely vanished.

Inside the cramped ice cave, Doomsday let out a cruel, triumphant roar, and a brutal hand-to-hand fight fully erupted.

Viktor’s fist smashed into Doomsday’s shoulder, bursting out blood.

Doomsday’s claws also simultaneously tear through Viktor’s waist and abdomen so deeply that bone could be seen.

Viktor’s elbow strike shattered Doomsday’s ribs, and Doomsday’s headbutt slammed hard into his chest.

They were trading injury for injury.

The smell of blood spread through the sealed space, and every collision made the frozen surface of Ganymede tremble slightly.

After only a few minutes of this brutal fight, Viktor was already covered in injuries, and Doomsday was also drenched in blood.

But just at this moment, Doomsday’s body suddenly shuddered violently. The muscles around its body grew larger, and its skeleton emitted a thunderous growth sound.

Doomsday evolved again.

As Viktor weakened and the other grew stronger, Doomsday’s power finally surpassed Viktor, who now had only three lantern rings left.

Before Viktor could react, Doomsday opened its huge hand, grabbed Viktor’s body, and slammed him hard against the ice wall behind him.

After pinning down his arms, Doomsday threw three huge punches straight at Viktor’s head.

The three consecutive heavy punches have terrifyingly extreme force.

He only felt his skull seemed about to be smashed with both of his eyes instantly becoming bloodshot, and his vision fell into a blur.

The back of his head moves the solid ice behind three consecutive times, sending a spray of blood.

Even his brain seemed to shut down for a moment.

The surface of the three lantern rings suddenly emanates a slightly dim, ominous yellow glow.

’You bastard—’

’I am an emperor.’

Suddenly, Viktor turned both hands into blade-like strikes.

Viktor’s one hand stabbed into Doomsday’s palm while the other swung back and sliced off one of Doomsday’s claws.

It backed away in pain, and Viktor finally got a brief moment to catch his breath.

He pressed his elbow against the hard ice behind him to support himself so he would not fall, then shook his still-dizzy head hard.

’If you keep consuming like this, you won’t beat it. Why not use your body to accept the evolution bestowed by fear?’

The originally bloodshot eyes suddenly shone with yellow light.

Even though his head still felt heavy, Viktor’s blurred vision suddenly became clear.

Viktor panted and stared at Doomsday in front of him.

Doomsday was roaring angrily, clearly dissatisfied that it had been injured by its opponent, and its body was evolving again.

Not only did its lost claw grow back at a visible speed, but a gray-white, hard protective shell also formed over its palm.

Viktor realized that Doomsday was probably already starting to adapt to the hand-blade attack he had just used.

"Shit! This is cheating!"

If this keeps going, the yellow lantern rings would run out one by one, and in the end, Viktor would only be torn apart alive by Doomsday.

"Evolution, only evolution can defeat it!"

Viktor’s battle instincts were working wildly.

He had never placed his hopes on Superman, who might recover and reach Ganymede only at some unknown time far in the future.

An extremely risky idea began flashing in Viktor’s mind.

’Evolve!’

Even though his instincts were desperately warning him at the edge of life and death, Viktor still didn’t hesitate, instantly releasing the force field’s protection of himself.

The Yellow Lantern ring’s radiation was no longer blocked and rushed crazily into the deepest parts of his body.

After the ring’s energy left the cell level, Viktor’s strength quickly began to drop.

Doomsday couldn’t understand why the enemy, who had fought it for so long, had suddenly become weaker, but its endless desire to kill immediately seized this opening.

It jumped forward and threw a punch, instantly blowing apart half of Viktor’s body.

Blood and flesh flew everywhere, bones shattered, and Viktor was smashed deep into the ice.

His presence became so weak it was almost gone, and he fell into a half-conscious state, looking as if he was about to die completely.

Viktor’s breath instantly weakened, and he fell into a half-conscious state, looking as if he were about to die completely.

Doomsday snorted hot air from its nostrils. Its low-level intelligence judged that Viktor could no longer escape death.

After forcing itself to evolve many times, Doomsday was now drained of energy, and its intense hunger pushed it to find sunlight as quickly as possible to recover.

Then, Doomsday ignored Viktor and turned around, preparing to break through the ice and leave Ganymede.

To evolve the ability to extract energy from a vacuum, the current Doomsday still cannot do it.

Even though Doomsday’s strength and defense had become much more abnormal, its body had already lost its previous robust feeling.

It was even starting to look thin and skinny, almost like Flashpoint Superman.

But at the exact moment it turned around, an extremely violent fighting spirit suddenly exploded from the bottom of the ice.

Doomsday suddenly turned its head, and for the first time, a trace of confused shock flashed through its red eyes.

’You bastard!!!!’

The ice suddenly exploded apart, and Viktor slowly stood up.

The half of his body that had just been destroyed had fully healed.

The intense emotions of facing death, and the forced evolution triggered by the fear spectrum, Viktor’s body was completely restored.

The aura emanating from his whole body was no longer weak and no longer forced but stood equally against Doomsday, which had undergone multiple evolutions in power and physique.

The two were now on the same level.

The fear energy of the three yellow lantern rings is absorbed all at once by those atoms that were already thirsty for it.

The rings lost their color and automatically slipped off Viktor’s fingers, falling onto the hard ice with sharp clinking sounds.

He moved his fully healed joints and showed a wild but relieved smile. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

After wiping away the blood at the corner of his mouth, Viktor’s voice slowly resonates in the depths of the silent ice.

"This is the first time I’ve taken such a crazy risk. I didn’t expect it would actually work."

Even the Yellow Lantern rings had gone dark, and the ice layer seventy thousand meters below the surface was now in complete darkness.

After using the force field to sense Doomsday, Viktor realized that Doomsday was drained of energy and was now near its limit.

He couldn’t help but reveal a ferocious smile.

In the darkness, a pair of pupils glowing yellow opened.

Viktor’s voice, heavy and rough like metal scraping, echoed out word by word:

"Now it’s round two, bastard!"

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