Fire God Kyle

"Have I become a god?"

Kyle dropped from his hovering state onto the cabin floor. Calmly raising both hands, he watched his fingers through golden pupils and lightly clenched them. Without needing to store power through his muscles, all the strength in his body naturally gathered in his palms.

He had the illusion that, with one full-powered punch, he could blast a gigantic hole through the fighter jet’s metal cabin wall!

"My strength has increased by roughly ten times." Kyle was secretly astonished.

After the fusion of humanity’s perfect gene, the Super Soldier gene, and the God Race Gene, this state—something akin to a "demigod" or "supergod"—had increased his strength alone tenfold, reaching a terrifying level around a hundred times that of an ordinary human.

What did that mean? It meant Superman-level grip strength of over ten tons. He could easily lift even a public bus and swing it around like a sandbag before hurling it more than ten meters away.

And strength was only one aspect. His stamina, speed, mental power, vitality, five senses, physical resistance, energy resistance, and more had all been comprehensively enhanced. Everything had reached the level of a deified Superman!

"Wait, there’s another strange sensation…" Kyle calmed himself and sensed a mysterious power surging within his body, flowing endlessly through every part of him like blood.

This should be the innate power wielded by the God Race—divine power.

Kyle pondered this as his gaze fell on his palm. He lightly snapped his fingers, and a wisp of golden-crimson flame appeared, swaying unextinguished between two fingers.

Divine Flame. This was the change in nature produced when he circulated his divine power outward and manifested it in the real world. Ever since gaining the God Race Gene, he had instinctively possessed and freely controlled it.

Kyle suddenly understood. Divine power was somewhat like the human magic developed by the Sorcerer Supreme, Ancient One.

However, magic required a Sling Ring to open the inner door within humans. It was borrowed power that could only strengthen the mind and soul, indirectly affecting the physical body only after reaching a certain realm.

Divine power, on the other hand, was the inherent life force of the God Race. It directly enhanced the spirit and physique of divine beings. With divine power, they could survive in any harsh environment, wield divine artifacts, and hold Cosmic Stones in their hands.

It was as though he had opened a permanent door within himself, leaping beyond the category of ordinary lifeforms in the universe and fully stepping into the realm of gods.

Even if Thanos held the divine artifact Infinity Gauntlet, gathered all six Cosmic Stones, and snapped his fingers, Kyle would not turn to ash and die under the laws of the universe!

"Have I really become a god now? A fire god?" Kyle stroked his smooth chin. Even he felt so pleasantly surprised that it seemed like a dream. The Gene Disease that had plagued his lifespan had been completely eradicated, and his body had broken through its shackles to evolve into an entirely new realm.

With a human body, he had transformed into a god!

His resolute decision to leave Earth and venture into the universe had been born of helplessness, yet it had finally brought him an unimaginably huge reward!

"That was close. I almost really died in the Duel Arena." Kyle lowered his head and looked at the still-unconscious Kratos beside his feet with lingering fear.

Only after attaining a Divine Body did he understand just how powerful beings like the God Race truly were!

Even if Kyle stood still now, without Venom’s outer shell protecting him, and allowed a special forces soldier to attack him with blades, swords, guns, axes, biochemical poisons, firearms, shells, and all sorts of other methods, there would be no possibility of threatening his life.

To the God Race, humans were creatures as weak as ants. Seriously injuring them was harder than reaching the heavens!

"Master, are you awake?"

Viss’s shout from the main pilot’s seat interrupted Kyle’s thoughts and pulled his consciousness back to reality.

"Viss. You did well. You really held out for three hours." Kyle praised him. The fighter jet was clearly flying straight upward at high speed, and Kyle could only stand steadily upside down on the deck thanks to his clinging ability.

"Master. Our situation is very grim. We are already inside the eye of a massive Space Wormhole and cannot escape. There is also a large spaceship pursuing us from behind, constantly bombarding the fighter jet with laser cannons in an attempt to destroy it."

As Viss made his report, the fighter jet’s tail wing was accidentally struck by a laser from below. The fuselage immediately shook violently as it lost balance, while countless instruments flashed warning red lights.

"We’ll deal with the flies behind us first. Viss, open the rear cabin for me." With a kick, Kyle sent Kratos flying into a seat. After swiftly fastening his seat belt, he calmly turned and headed toward the rear cabin.

When Kyle reached the rear compartment, the entire deck there was sliding downward, revealing the chaotic storm outside.

Around twenty meters directly below them, another large spaceship was chasing after them like a rabid dog.

"So it’s you." Kyle’s spirited gaze swept forward. When he saw the person in the large spaceship’s main pilot seat, his eyes narrowed slightly.

At the same time, Carnage, who was piloting the large spaceship in deadly pursuit, also saw Kyle standing at the edge of the fighter jet’s rear deck.

"Kyle, Kyle!" The former chief steward’s eyes turned scarlet. Thread-like fluids streaked with crimson secretly secreted from within his body and flowed across his skin, forming a massive muscular biological shell.

Very quickly, rage transformed it completely into a gigantic humanoid monster, half again as tall and strong as Venom in his fully covered form.

"You must die here!" Carnage let out a hoarse roar and quickly operated the controls, adjusting the large spaceship’s front laser cannon to aim at the fighter jet’s rear cabin where Kyle stood.

Kyle’s expression remained calm. He simply stood there without moving, indifferently watching Carnage in the main pilot seat.

"Die! Die for me!"

Fear rose within Carnage. Its face twisted madly as its large hand slammed down on the fire button. Milky-white energy gathered at the cannon’s muzzle, and then a blue-white Laser Beam shot forth, streaking directly toward Kyle!

Across twenty meters, the Laser Beam arrived in an instant.

There seemed to be no way to dodge it, but in Kyle’s golden eyes, the Laser Beam kept slowing down. It looked like a fast-moving baseball; though it was still very fast, its trajectory was no longer impossible to track.

At the critical moment, Kyle raised his left hand. Blazing golden-crimson flames ignited in his palm, and he slapped at the Laser Beam as it reached him!

Bang!

The Laser Beam was forcibly redirected, veering off at a forty-five-degree angle to the left and grazing past the fighter jet’s tail wing before vanishing into the distance.

Carnage watched this unfold and could not help opening its mouth wide, terror flooding its heart once more. "Blocking a laser with his bare hand? Damn it, he’s gotten stronger again!"

It was about to control the spaceship’s laser cannon and fire again, but when it looked up, it saw in horror that Kyle’s left arm was already engulfed in raging flames, his palm raised and aimed directly ahead.

"Carnage. You are the evil product born from the negative consciousness accumulated by Venom and me during World War II on Earth. You were once my comrade, and also my inner demon."

Kyle calmly looked at Carnage and softly said in farewell, "But World War II on Earth ended long ago. Everything has either been frozen away or permanently vanished from this world."

"So farewell, Carnage. I hope that in your next life, you will never have anything to do with me again."

After Kyle finished speaking, his left palm, now fully charged with dazzling, scorching flames, gently pressed forward. His five fingers curled slightly as they twisted in a turning motion.

A pillar of flame burst forth. Even the air along its path burned and warped as it crashed toward the large spaceship’s cockpit like a blazing dragon.

"No, don’t!" Carnage’s eyes widened in terror as it stared at the raging flames rushing toward it. It let out a shrill, miserable cry, its tall and powerful monster body beginning to melt into liquid like a snowman beneath the sun.

Boom!

The flames melted through the reinforced windshield and poured into the large spaceship’s cockpit, sweeping through it wildly. Carnage inside struggled only briefly before its figure quickly vanished inch by inch.

The large spaceship became a blazing fireball, trailing flames and black smoke as it plunged straight downward.

Carnage was dead!