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Chapter 231 Superman Clark Kent

Chapter 231 Superman Clark Kent

Rune originally intended to take Clark to the workshop to calm down and prepare to receive the legacy from Krypton, but Hecate's commotion only made Clark more nervous.

Rune patted the boy on the shoulder and gave him a comforting look.

"Don't be nervous, you know who your parents are."

Clark nodded, took a deep breath, and walked out of the workshop. In front of him sat two middle-aged men sitting upright—Mr. and Mrs. Kent. Originally, after learning that he was an alien, Clark should have quarreled with his adoptive parents, and might even have avoided them. However, with the guidance of Steve and Stark, Clark was able to realize that blood ties do not represent belonging, and choice is the only way. Therefore, his reaction was relatively calm, and he was even able to joke after seeing the Kryptonian spaceship.

"Wow, it looks like my hometown is a really impressive place." Clark looked at the spaceship, whose simple design clearly demonstrated its advanced technology.

Jonathan blew the dust off the surface of the spaceship, and the S-shaped markings on it caught Clark's eye.

"If you're going to become a superhero, then you need your own codename and symbol." Rune pointed to the S: "In that case..."

"We'll call you Superman, and look, we've even chosen a logo for you."

Jonathan pondered the name carefully and felt it seemed quite fitting! Clark, on the other hand, felt a sense of belonging from the name.

He immediately nodded in agreement.

"Alright! From now on, I'll be called Superman!"

Rune didn't interfere in Clark's conversation with his adoptive parents; he had more important things to do. Another horrific event unfolding in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was both a challenge and an opportunity, especially for Rune, as the benefits of the Secret Wars far outweighed the losses.

The most obvious benefit is the rare and precious cosmic treasures that the 40% of the universe's strongest beings purchased for their doomsday tickets, as well as the protection of DC by Odin and the Serpent.

The promise of the universe.

Secondly, there are deeper-level benefits.

Rune doesn't intend to let those Earth's superheroes die in this battle, even if they are resurrected later, that's a long way off. Just the collision between Universe 616 and Ultimate Universe 1610, the establishment and collapse of the Battle Realm, and then Mr. Fantastic's reshaping of the universe will take 1-2 years, and that doesn't even include the timeline of Universe 616 destroying other universes.

So, Rune's idea is that superheroes receive free tickets to the apocalypse. During this time, they have nothing else to do but live and train freely in Rune's universe, and then volunteer to help when the DC universe is in danger. However, if these superheroes want to bring relatives or friends along, they will need some treasures as payment. This is a deeper level of benefit.

The ultimate benefit is that Rune hopes to use this time to build a cross-dimensional alliance; he hasn't forgotten what he needs to face.

The number of superheroes and supervillains forgotten by higher-dimensional beings (who are actually ordinary people in the real world) is increasing daily, and it is certain that they are also conquering other worlds and plundering their resources to supply their own kind.

What's even more frightening is that their numbers are growing far beyond what others imagined. Disney has already canceled quite a few projects, such as Rising Stars...

Strange Academy, Moon Knight Season 2, and so on—these projects alone are enough to bring Rune the Nova Corps, a group of talented young wizards trained by Doctor Strange, and Moon Knight as his adversaries, not to mention the villains!

On the bright side, perhaps those heroes still have some principles and might not completely collude with the villains. But on the dark side, the number of villains is definitely greater than that of the heroes, and their methods are far more shameless.

Rune knows he now has the ability to protect himself in powerful worlds like Marvel or DC, but facing these endless challenges...

The enemy, who is constantly plundering resources from other worlds to strengthen itself, is still struggling to keep up. This is not a problem that can be solved by an eternal or other abstract god; rather, it is a life-or-death crisis that requires the united efforts of countless dimensions to deal with.

Therefore, Rune is trying to use this event to promote his interdimensional alliance and absorb as many heroes as possible. This is Rune's ultimate goal, because the more he knows, the further ahead he can think.

However, what he needs to do most now is to first create a large-scale space large enough for the heroes and ticket buyers to live in. This is a complex project involving high-level magic theory, spatial law manipulation, and energy management. Rune already has enough knowledge in these areas, but he doesn't want to simply create a space.

If you're going to do something, you should do it to the best of your ability. When many mages are exploring new spaces, they choose to have the target space and the existing planes attached to or nested together. The most famous example is the pocket universe, which is a concrete storage space for possible branches of history and is a typical dependent space.

Rune wanted to maintain the independence of the space he was exploring, which required him to design a stable spatial structure using knowledge of topology and higher-dimensional spaces. Furthermore, he needed an anchor point to bind it to this space, preventing it from drifting into unknown areas or colliding with other dimensions. The other problems were much simpler.

Rune opened the portal and arrived on the moon.

Thanks to his Kryptonian lineage, Rune can survive in space, and the moon is his chosen anchor point—of course, only temporarily. In the DC universe, the moon is a high-risk habitat. Supervillains such as the White Martians, Darkseid, and Brainiac have used the moon as a base to try to monitor or invade Earth.

However, the moon was still relatively peaceful at this time, and Rune landed on the perpetually dark side of the moon.

The moon has almost no atmosphere, so it cannot store or transfer heat, and the temperature on its perpetually dark side is so low that it is unimaginable to ordinary people. Therefore, it is particularly suitable for runes to draw magic circles here.

Just as Rune was about to make his move, a beam of silver light appeared in the boundless darkness. He couldn't help but stand up and look at the light.

It was a woman radiating a silver light, tall and elegant, dressed in ancient Greek-style armor and carrying a silver bow.

Rune only thought for a moment before he realized the other party's identity—Artemis, the goddess of the moon and the hunt, Wonder Woman Diana's half-sister, and one of the Olympian gods.

"Hello, Moon Goddess." Rune simply nodded slightly, offering a greeting to show that he meant no harm.

Artemis, unfazed by Rune's disrespect, said directly, "I need your help with something—"