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Chapter 93 The Ashes of Withering

After Ivy's voice rang out, Harley Quinn's clear voice, like a spring, also reached everyone's ears:

"Hehe, then let's play four against two."

Where did the fourth person come from?

The moment Connors had that thought, a colossal beast charged at him, its roar only catching up a step later as it pounced close.

"Athena's Vision" allowed Connors to see clearly that it was Solomon Grandi, except that this monster was covered in flowers and plants and was several times larger than the ones he had seen before.

Is this influenced by "the green of all things"?

Connors kept his mouth shut, deciding to avoid using his trump cards if possible, lest Batman have his eye on them again and force him to go back and upgrade his armor.

Although once he finishes upgrading, he will have new abilities.

Boom!

Poison Ivy used incredibly strong vines to trap Superman Clark and Batman Wayne.

Clark, however, possessed immense strength and broke free of his restraints with relatively little effort, but was immediately knocked away by the zombie Grandi.

Just as Clark's flying body was about to crash into the trees, the plants twisted and turned, allowing Clark to fly towards Gotham without any obstruction.

"Little Pa~"

Harley Quinn skipped and jumped into Connors' arms. She was incredibly excited after not seeing him for so long, and she even wrapped her arms around Connors' neck and clung to him.

Patting Harley's pert bottom, Connors asked with a smile:

"What have you been doing hiding in Gotham City all this time, not returning to the apartment?"

"Of course, it's to cooperate with Ivy in her experiments. She wants to try to modify Grandi, but this monster seems very unusual; it appears to have 'Ashes of Decay' inside it."

Harley released Connors, put her hands on her hips, and looked at the bound Batman:

"What should we do with this little bat? Kill it?"

"Kill Bruce, then you can become Batman!" Connors quickly pulled Harley back.

"Go and rest."

"Poison Ivy" Ivy remained as elegant as ever, with her signature red waves and lush greenery concealing her voluptuous figure. Every movement she made was exquisitely graceful.

"You haven't come to do anything important in a while."

"I'll go once I'm done with this busy period."

After not seeing each other for a while, "Poison Ivy" Ivy got straight to the point as soon as she met Connors, to which Connors responded with a smile.

As for now, the important thing is to enjoy the show. He has already sent a signal into space by placing a white Martian information device on a radio telescope.

I believe that the world will soon become more lively.

"Solomon Grandi has been transformed into a mindless monster by me. As for the Ashes of Decay within him, I believe I can extract them after we finish our business. Do you want them?"

After receiving a reply, "Poison Ivy" placed her left hand on Connors' shoulder, her eyes sparkling as she looked at him.

"don't want."

Connors shook his head and refused. He could use a new ability at 100% every day, so he didn't crave the Ashes of Withering.

"I knew you wouldn't want it. I'll give it to Harley after I take it out," Ivy chuckled.

Connors turned and glanced at Harley Quinn, who was standing with her hands on her hips. Was she going to go down the zombie bride route?

While the three were talking, Batman kept trying to break free of his restraints, and "Superman" Clark, who had flown back to Gotham, returned.

Clark used heat to help Batman escape, then looked at Connors:

"Connors, I'm not here to fight."

Clark was completely unconcerned about Grandy's earlier act of knocking him away; he wasn't even injured.

"You've always said we're heroes and you're an outsider, but our positions don't conflict."

Maybe. Ah!!

Before Clark could finish speaking, he suddenly clutched his head and knelt on the ground, letting out a painful scream.

"Clark!"

Batman was looking at Connors when Clark suddenly changed his expression, so he quickly turned around.

Are you injured?

Harley Quinn caught the mallet thrown at her by Poison Ivy with her vines and shrugged.

"Let's get this straight, Little Bat, we didn't attack him. That level of attack shouldn't have hurt him. Is he sleepy?"

"You can't be like that when you're sleepy."

Ivy lowered her left hand from Connors' shoulder and frowned as she looked at Clark.

The pain seemed to come and go quickly; Superman, with Batman's help, soon stood up and waved to indicate:

"I'm fine, it's just that a very scary image suddenly flashed through my mind—"

"Like an abstract painting?" Connors asked.

"Superman" Clark nodded:

How did you know?

Before Connors could answer, a massive meteorite streaked across the sky, its rapid friction in the atmosphere generating light and heat that turned the edge of Gotham Forest, where they were, into daylight.

"Superman" Clark didn't wait for Connors' reply; he immediately sprang to his feet, intending to stop the meteorite.

His super brain quickly calculated the meteorite's trajectory, and if left unchecked, its final destination would be near the edge of Gotham City.

However, he had barely taken to the air, and before he could even accelerate to supersonic speed, he clutched his head again, letting out a painful scream as he fell to the ground.

boom!

"Superman" Clark crashed heavily to the ground not far from the crowd, creating a large crater.

By the time he stood up again, clutching his head, the meteorite, carrying thick smoke and flames, had already crashed into the streets on the outskirts of Gotham City.

"Meteorite? That's really rare. I've never seen a meteorite hit the ground with my own eyes."

Harley was eager to go and watch, even more so than Connors, who had a gossip-eating system.

Poison Ivy wasn't very interested in meteorites:

"I will continue to turn Grandi into a puppet and extract the Ashes of Wither from his body."

Batman glanced at the scattered "Anti-Outsider Armor" on the ground and fired a grappling hook into the sky.

His bat wings flew over, taking the grappling hook and Batman with him.

As "Superman" Clark rushes to the meteorite site, he hears buildings burning and people calling for help.

Poison Ivy turned and walked toward Gotham Forest, with the monstrous zombie Grandi dragging behind her, a vine piercing his head.

"Harley, hold me tight," Connors said to Harley.

Using "Magnify" and "Fallen Warhorse" simultaneously, Black Smoke once again appeared as a black cloak shrouded in smoke, carrying Connors swiftly towards the location of the meteorite.

The thick smoke emanating from Black Smoke protected Connors' body, and the same was true after he transformed into a cloak. Therefore, even at extremely high speeds, neither he nor Harley in his arms experienced any discomfort.

The Gotham police acted swiftly. Soon after Connors arrived near the meteorite, a swarm of police cars and fire trucks arrived and extinguished the fires that had been ignited by the meteorite's friction.

"Look, this meteorite is so beautiful," Harley said, looking up at the meteorite.

This thing was as big as a building with more than 30 floors. The impact of its fall caused a large area of ​​the ground to collapse, and even nearby buildings were affected, with most of them collapsing.

"Step back a bit, this thing is hot." Connors grabbed Harley Quinn's small hand as she tried to touch the meteorite.

Just then, a large amount of gas suddenly spewed out from the meteorite, and a series of vibrations emanated from the inside out.

Then the meteorite's surface cracked, and a white, arthropod-like claw emerged, slamming heavily onto the ground.

The second one, the third one.

After three claws, each over ten meters long, extended out, the body attached to the claws also emerged from the meteorite.

The three legs, with their slender claws, stand upright, and the top part, which appears to be a head, is an irregular triangle.

However, the edges are soft, and while the body is white, it is dotted with some red patches, which are covered with black lines.

"Hey, big guy?" Harley Quinn gripped the mallet in her hand.

"Superman" Clark descended from the sky, his heat vision unhesitatingly aimed at the bizarrely shaped monster.

But the black lines in the red patch on the head of this monster, which was over ten meters tall, shrank into a single point, like a pupil, and a beam of light was directed at "Superman" Clark.

Their gazes locked for a moment, but as Clark closed his eyes, his head throbbed with pain once more.

The white monster's beam of light successfully struck him, sending him flying far away.