Chapter 415: Hal Is Still on the Way

Chapter 415: Chapter 415: Hal Is Still on the Way

"All units, open fire immediately!"

The Commander forcefully suppressed the shock in his heart and quickly gave Kyrgyz orders.

Although nuclear bombs had no effect on Parallax, they couldn’t just stand by and watch. At the very least, they had to put on a show and provide some emotional value to let the public know they really tried.

Various departments responded swiftly, and the radar completed the lock-on in the first instance.

The next moment, missile after missile broke through the air, dragging scorching white exhaust trails as they darted into the high altitude.

Rumble—!!

The sky over the entire Coast City was instantly lit up.

The sound of explosions was endless, and flashes of fire burst into the air one after another, piling layer upon layer onto Parallax’s massive body. Thick smoke wrapped in fire covered half of Parallax’s torso.

The entire sky looked as if it were on fire. Looking up from the ground, even the black fog was dyed a dark red.

Having had their thunder stolen by superheroes so many times, the Military really went all out this time to avoid being background props again.

Regardless of the power of this wave, the visual impact was at least maximized.

However, as all the firepower poured over, the black fog on Parallax’s body only twisted slightly, like ripples caused by a stone thrown into water, returning to its original state in the blink of an eye.

Parallax ignored the bombardment of artillery fire, its massive body continuing to press down toward the surface.

The people below finally realized something was wrong.

Just like NPCs triggering an escape mechanism in a game, they screamed and scurried around in the streets, shoving each other and clustering together.

For a moment, the entire street became a complete mess.

Parallax sensed the fear emotions spreading wildly below. The black fog condensed into a round, bulging head, and his yellow pupils swept across the humans fleeing like a colony of ants below, a hint of pleasure flashing in the depths of his eyes.

"Yes, exactly like that. Give me a little more fear; your fear is my best nourishment."

As the words fell, a large swath of black fog surged out from beneath him, condensing into countless giant misty tentacles that suddenly reached down from the firmament, enveloping the ground overwhelmingly, preparing to sweep everyone in and harvest more fear.

At that moment, sand filled the sky, surging up from the ground and instantly turning into a huge protective shield, tightly enveloping the entire urban area underneath.

The black fog tentacles slammed fiercely against the sand screen, making a muffled sound. Shattered sand fell rustling down, but the sand shield remained completely motionless.

"Hmm?"

Parallax’s movements paused slightly as he looked toward the low altitude.

Below the rolling sand barrier, a figure wearing silver-blue armor crossed arms, stepping on the surging sand stream and slowly rising into the air.

This person had a small gourd hanging from their waist, with the gourd’s mouth wide open. Overwhelming sand spewed out from it, seeming endless.

[Item: Sand Gourd (Can store a large amount of sand, reduced on the basis of the original version for easy portability)]

"Another good container."

Parallax’s eyes suddenly lit up a bit.

He felt that he had come to the right place. The life on this Planet was truly full of talents, and any random encounter was top-notch material.

Darian rose all the way to the front of Parallax’s big head and shouted, "Parallax, I’m here to negotiate."

"Human, what do you want to negotiate about?"

Parallax’s voice pressed over from all directions, low and deep.

However, Darian was leaning in way too close.

Parallax’s head was ridiculously huge, and the distance between his two eyes was limited. Darian happened to hover right in the middle of his two eyes. If Parallax wanted to see him clearly, he could only squeeze both yellow eyeballs toward the center.

Parallax: (0—)

Darian managed to keep a straight face without laughing out loud, and shouted to Parallax, "Do me a favor and leave Earth. The Universe is so huge, and there are countless Planets out there. Why do you have to stubbornly target Earth? Wouldn’t it be nice to go strolling around somewhere else?"

"If you really can’t find a good place to go, I can recommend a good place to you, for instance, Apokolips."

Having said that, he actually didn’t expect Parallax to agree at all.

He said this purely to stall Parallax, giving Barry and Clark below enough time to evacuate the crowd, so as not to keep providing emotional value to Parallax.

Parallax ignored Darian’s last sentence and sneered, "If you want to blame someone, blame that Green Lantern. He inherited Abin Sur’s power ring, and Abin Sur is my enemy. It was he who sealed me away for so many years. As his successor, that Green Lantern must pay the price."

Darian took over the conversation, "Then you’ve come to the wrong place. He ran away in advance and hid in the Green Lantern Corps’s base camp. If you want to find him, you might as well go straight to Oa."

"Then I will destroy his home Planet first, so he will come back by himself."

Parallax was no fool.

He had just broken free from Abin Sur’s seal and was currently at his weakest. If he rushed directly to the Green Lantern Corps’s base camp at this time, he would face the siege of over a thousand Green Lanterns, and might end up being sealed back down again.

As the incarnation of fear, Parallax could ignore physical-level attacks, but the power rings belonged to emotional power as well, possessing a natural restraining effect against him. Therefore, Abin Sur was able to seal him up.

Rather than taking risks, it was better to farm and develop on this Planet first.

The population on Earth was dense, and fear emotions were abundant. For him, it was simply a natural breeding ground for nourishment.

As long as he absorbed enough fear and recovered to his peak state, it wouldn’t be too late to flatten Oa then.

Darian narrowed his eyes, "That means there’s no room for negotiation, huh."

Parallax had undisguised contempt in his eyes, "Are you people even worthy of negotiating with me? Your Green Lantern has already run away. There is no one left on this Planet who can stop my footsteps. All life on this Planet will become my nutrients!"

After speaking, Parallax burst into loud laughter. The laughter rolled back and forth across the horizon like muffled thunder, making people’s eardrums tremble.

Darian manipulated the sand, condensing a giant finger, and took advantage of the moment when Parallax opened his mouth wide to thrust it straight into his throat.

"Hhahahahaha... UUE!"

Parallax retched for a moment, quickly spat out the finger in his mouth, and roared furiously, "Bastard! Hand over your fear and turn into my food!"

He opened his mouth wide, sucking hard towards Darian’s direction, wanting to devour the fear on Darian’s body.

But the next second, Parallax’s movements froze, and he cried out in shock, "How is this possible! How can you have no fear!?"

He was extremely shocked in his heart; there wasn’t even a trace of fear aura on Darian.

You must know that no matter how firm a person’s will is, they would more or less have feelings of fear deep in their hearts.

These fears came from various aspects—perhaps from a shadow of childhood, from an instinctive flinching before a powerful enemy, or from panic when something cherished was threatened.

Even a powerful existence like Clark would have worries about losing control of his own power.

But the human in front of him was completely clean inside, without even a hint of fear.

This was the first time Parallax had ever encountered such a situation.

Of course Parallax wouldn’t know that Darian was a player known as the Fourth Disaster.

This group could be said to be the most unscrupulous existence under the heavens.

As long as the game code permitted it, there was nothing they dared not do. How could an emotion like fear possibly exist?

Of course, except for certain cyber cowards.

Darian chuckled and said, "Who says that? The thing I am most afraid of is the White-haired, red-eyed, beast-eared big long-legged young lady. You must never let me see that; I would really be scared to Death."

Parallax: "Are you making a wish here?"

"When Death descends, I don’t believe you won’t have fear!"

Parallax’s tone was filled with killing intent.

A fearless person was equivalent to his own nemesis.

He would not allow such an awesome existence to exist in this World!

Parallax roared and urged the black fog. Large patches of mist surged frantically, forming overwhelming misty tentacles that rushed toward Darian, blocking out the sun and sky.

Darian raised his finger, and the yellow sand below instantly pulled up, transforming into thick tapered spikes that met them head-on, blasting the incoming black fog tentacles into fragments.

The remaining momentum of the sand spikes remained unabated, continuing forward to crash into Parallax’s body, blasting out dense cavities.

But soon, the black fog churned and re-gathered, and the gaps that had been blasted open healed rapidly.

Parallax was the incarnation of the emotion of fear. As long as the emotion of fear existed in the Universe, he was immortal and indestructible.

No wonder Abin Sur could only seal Parallax away.

Parallax opened his big mouth wide, and a huge yellow energy ball rapidly condensed in his mouth, spitting it out toward Darian.

Hah—tui!

Darian took out the spear of longinus, swept across with the spear, and directly blasted the incoming energy ball to pieces.

The roaringly exploded yellow light carried the origin of fear and spread out, attempting to influence Darian’s mind.

However, Darian was not Clark; this bit of fear simply couldn’t budge his mental attributes of over a hundred points.

"I don’t believe you can block all of them."

Parallax let out a cold snort, and his huge head suddenly split open, transforming into countless smaller heads.

The black fog was densely packed with ferocious faces, and countless tentacles wriggled around. The scene was dense and chaotic, making people’s scalp tingle just looking at it.

The next moment, yellow fear energy was converging in the mouth of every head. Hundreds and thousands of bright lights lit up simultaneously in the dim mist, illuminating the entire sky, which looked quite spectacular.

"This Parallax must have been nerfed in the movie."

Seeing this scene, the corners of Darian’s mouth twitched slightly.

Parallax’s performance was completely different from what Wade had described back then.

Parallax in the movie could easily be defeated even by a newbie like Hal, with only slightly dirty clothes after a battle.

But the Parallax before his eyes was obviously several tiers stronger than the movie version.

But just thinking about it, the reason was obvious.

Presumably, the budget was all sucked away by the protagonist Hal’s uniform, resulting in the final big BOSS Parallax having no money for special effects at all, which is why his performance was extremely dismal, making a hasty exit just a few minutes after appearing.

And now, Parallax no longer had the seal of budget constraints and had become the genuine incarnation of fear, naturally differing by a far cry from his performance in the movie.

How could an existence capable of killing even the greatest Green Lantern, Abin Sur, be as weak as a rookie like in the movie?

Darian did not hesitate and immediately pulled out a red flower with a pixel art style.

[Item: Fire Flower (After use, the user gains the ability to release blazing fireballs for a period of time. Rest assured, this fireball can burn people to Death)]

The Fire Flower lit up instantly, dissolved in Darian’s hand, and melted directly into his body, a layer of colored halo washing over the surface of his skin.

Boom—!

Almost at the same time, over a hundred yellow energy balls spewed out simultaneously, bombarding Darian in mid-air from intersecting angles.

Darian did not dodge; he raised his right hand.

Dense crimson flames surged out of thin air around his body, churning and condensing into fireballs one after another, crashing head-on toward the yellow energy balls in all directions.

The moment the fireballs touched the yellow energy balls, the fireballs melted right through them. The exploded flames splashed everywhere, rushing onto Parallax’s massive body.

"Damn it, what the hell is this thing!?"

Parallax was shocked and angry.

He discovered that the black fog on his body was being ignited by those flames—not ordinary burning, but burning away together with the fear energy that constituted his body. Once it touched, it began to spread.

Parallax hurriedly churned the black fog in an attempt to extinguish the flames on his body, but as soon as the black fog wrapped around them, it burned even more fiercely instead, showing no sign of going out at all.

This was no ordinary flame; it was Hellfire, an existence capable of burning anything.

With the Hellfire skill and the effects of the Fire Flower stacked together, Darian’s ability to control flames directly stepped up a notch. Anything he casually tossed out was a large-scale AOE.

Parallax made a prompt and decisive decision, quickly cutting off all parts contaminated by Hellfire to prevent the Hellfire from continuing to spread.

"Bastard!"

Parallax was extremely furious.

He had just broken free from Abin Sur’s seal, and his internal fear energy reserves were already tight to begin with. Every bit lost made his heart ache immensely.

Parallax decisively released a large number of black misty tentacles, spreading them out in all directions along the ground. Bypassing the huge sand screen, they swept up the humans on the periphery, frantically absorbing their fear.

Although he could absorb fear remotely, the efficiency was far from as fast as absorbing it directly like this.

Darian could do nothing about this either. He couldn’t protect everyone and could only let them fend for themselves.

However, the other members of The Seven were not idle.

Their abilities were limited and could not reach the main battlefield high in the sky, making them just right for dealing with those black fog tentacles burrowing into the ground.

Bruce directly released a large number of self-destructing drones, rapidly deploying defense lines along various blocks.

Whenever the black misty tentacles wanted to approach people, they would crash into them and detonate, cutting off Parallax’s biggest channel for absorbing fear.

Of course, this kind of playstyle was something only a budget-warrior like Bruce dared to pull off; other poor folks could only honestly clear the misty tentacles manually.

Darian high in the sky did not stop either.

He took a deep breath, his chest gradually sinking in, and the air in his abdominal cavity was compressed to the limit.

Following closely, he abruptly opened his mouth, and scorching heat waves spewed out wildly from deep in his throat.

"Taste my Grand Fireball Technique!"

The flames rapidly condensed in the air, swelling into a giant fireball with a diameter of over a hundred meters in the blink of an eye, smashing fiercely toward Parallax.

Boom—!

The moment the giant fireball struck Parallax’s body, the flames spread frantically along the surface of the black fog, sweeping in all directions.

In an instant, the entire sky turned into a sea of fire, extremely shocking.

At this time, Green Lantern Hal was still on his way back to Earth.

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