"What method?"
"Assimilation... Assimilation by absorbing enough God embryos. Using quantity to stack quality, forcibly pushing the energy level to a complete state," Ego said.
"That's a good method!" Homelander's eyes lit up, and he became interested.
But then he frowned.
"The Universe is so big, where am I supposed to find God embryos for you? We don't even know which Planets have been seeded by the Celestials."
At this moment, Ego's six eyes fixed on the Ikaris in Homelander's hand.
"Master, you can't find them, and neither can I. However, those synthetic life forms you have at hand can find them."
"What do you mean?" Homelander looked at Ikaris and asked, puzzled.
Ego explained: "I learned from Tiamut's memories that inside every team leader of the Eternals, the Celestials have placed a 'God Communication Orb'."
"This orb not only allows them to contact the God, but its interior is also connected to the Celestials' interstellar monitoring network."
"As long as the access is unlocked, their leader can use this network to reverse-search the locations of other communication orbs."
Ego began to get excited.
"As long as the coordinates of the communication orb are found, it means that there must be an Eternal stationed there. And where there are Eternals..."
"There must be a God embryo," Homelander finished Ego's sentence.
Homelander looked at the Ikaris in his hand and finally smiled.
"So that's it... It seems I've found the correct way to use these tool-people, the Eternals."
...
V.G.D. Headquarters Base.
In an open-air training ground.
Pietro led the few Eternals to this open space with no shelter.
"Listen, guys," Pietro shrugged, his tone casual.
"The Base has recently recruited many Superheroes, so there really aren't any empty rooms available. You'll just have to make do and rest here for now."
"Homelander is very busy right now. Once he finishes handling the matters at hand, he will officially meet with you on behalf of the federal government to discuss subsequent handling matters."
"During this period, without instructions, no one is allowed to leave this training ground. Do not do anything that might provoke human hostility. Please wait patiently."
After saying this, Pietro whistled and turned to leave.
The Eternals looked at each other, staring at the empty playground. There wasn't even a chair, and the scorching Sun was overhead.
They had thought that after being exposed, they might be imprisoned by humans in a high-tech prison, but they never expected to be left standing in a large playground.
Makkari's face darkened, and she stepped forward, flipping Pietro the middle finger.
"OK, OK. Don't be angry, hothead. I was just joking."
Pietro grinned, pulled a metal capsule from his tactical belt, pressed the switch on the top, and casually tossed it onto the open ground.
"Bang!" Accompanied by a slight tremor, an exquisite three-story luxury Villa appeared out of thin air in the center of the playground.
"Please, come in, everyone," Pietro gestured, "Everything you need is inside."
The Eternals curiously walked toward the Villa and pushed open the door.
The interior was luxuriously decorated, with all kinds of modern living equipment fully available.
Although they knew that human technology had developed rapidly over the past few centuries, this technology that directly altered the physical rules of space still exceeded their expectations.
This technology already involved the unique domain of the Celestials.
However, since things had come to this, everyone temporarily put aside other thoughts.
Druig's death, Ikaris's betrayal, and Arishem the Judge's true face had left them physically and mentally exhausted.
They each found a spot to sit down inside the Villa.
"What should we do now?" Sersi sat on the sofa, hands clasped, appearing somewhat uneasy.
"What else can we do? Wait," Gilgamesh took a bottle of whiskey from the liquor cabinet and poured himself a glass.
"You saw the power of that Homelander; even Ikaris was just an object for him to toy with. If we don't intend to go to war with all of humanity, we have no choice but to cooperate."
"That's right, we are now completely exposed under the eyes of all humanity," Ajak nodded and said.
"Moreover, we are all very clear about Homelander's actions over the years. We can try to trust him and save this World together."
"Alright, everyone. Seeing that you are all safe and sound, I can rest easy," seeing that his companions were settled, Kingo waved at everyone and said,
"I still need to go reshoot a few scenes for my new movie, so I'll be taking my leave first."
After saying this, he strode to Pietro's side, ready to leave the training ground together.
"Wait."
Gilgamesh stood up, pointing at Kingo in confusion.
"Why can he leave?"
Kingo stopped, turned his head, and an unconcealable smugness appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"Do you even have to ask? Brother," Kingo pointed at himself, "Because I abandoned darkness for the light early, I am now a formally registered Superhero of Vought, the kind protected by human law."
Looking at Kingo's smug face, the few in the Villa fell into silence simultaneously.
There was only one thought in their minds: This bastard is really fucking smart.
Outside New York, Vought Vanguard Hero Academy.
At this moment, Homelander was indeed busy, busy with kicking off the first awakening ceremony of the Vought Vanguard Hero Academy.
On the vast central playground, new students wearing red, yellow, and blue uniforms were neatly arranged in areas in the center of the playground.
Countless high-definition cameras were set up around the playground, and the broadcast team from Vought Media was ready.
Live broadcast vehicles from major global mainstream media surrounded the academy.
Because today was the first awakening ceremony of the Vought Vanguard Hero Academy.
This ceremony received unprecedented attention from the whole World.
Countless people around the World were watching in front of their screens, everyone wanting to witness with their own eyes whether Vought had truly mastered the miracle of making ordinary people awaken superpowers.
[Oh my God! It's finally starting! The moment to witness a miracle!]
[Homelander bless us, let my kid awaken an ability that can turn stones into gold!]
[Homelander bless us, I hope I get selected in the next batch! I want to fly!]
[Homelander bless us, grant me X-ray vision! I swear I'll only use it to scratch lottery tickets!!]
[Don't know how many SSR-level superpowers will appear today.]
[High energy ahead! Homelander is about to appear!]
Accompanied by passionate and majestic symphonic music, Homelander was wearing his signature stars and stripes suit, hands behind his back.
In the eager gaze of all the teachers and students, he slowly descended from the sky and landed steadily on the rostrum.
Homelander walked up to the microphone, his gaze sweeping over the young faces off the stage one by one.
"Children, looking at you, I seem to see the future of humanity."
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