Hearing Lucas return the words almost verbatim, Blood God's face darkened.
But he did not retort. The outcome was already decided, and being stubborn was pointless.
He looked deeply at Lucas, asking for his name for the first time, "Your name, Sorcerer Spider-Man."
Lucas grinned.
He liked the current Blood God very much. Calling him Sorcerer Spider-Man with every other word.
"Lucas."
"Lucas, is it? I'll remember you, Sorcerer Lucas."
Lucas's smile froze.
With a thought, he unleashed a torrent of aolar energy onto Blood God. Under the impact of the solar energy, the Blood God no longer resisted, and his form dimmed by several shades.
Boom!
Suddenly, the Blood God stopped contracting his defenses and instead burst forth with all his energy, pushing Lucas back.
He looked at Lucas and sneered, "Sorcerer Lucas, you defeated me by utilizing stellar energy and the environment of the star's core. But have you considered that this place could also be your burial ground?"
After speaking, he didn't wait for Lucas's response. His form erupted, heading towards the sun's core. At the same time, he released all his energy, trying his best to heat the temperature of the sun's core.
He wanted to heat the sun's core to hundreds of millions of degrees, causing the sun to begin helium fusion. Helium fusion would release a large amount of heat, accelerating thermal runaway. The thermal runaway reaction would cause the sun to release millions of times its usual energy in just a few seconds.
This was the Solar Helium Flash.
By then, Lucas and he, both in the sun's core, would be doomed. Even the entire Solar System would be affected.
With the defeat of this avatar, Blood God no longer considered reclaiming Solus's soul. He now only wanted to drag Lucas to die with him.
All these changes happened in a flash of lightning.
Lucas saw through the Blood God's intentions.
Although he wasn't super smart and didn't know the principles, he could feel the surrounding temperature rising, the thermonuclear reaction intensifying, and the released energy increasing.
Ordinary people might not have a way to deal with the Blood God's mutual explosion tactic but Lucas's talent happened to counteract it.
"Blood God, since you're actively releasing energy, I won't be polite."
Talent [Energy Absorption], activate!
In Blood God's terrified, disbelieving gaze, the energy he had actively released to heat the star's core suddenly changed direction and flowed towards Lucas. Then, like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, it disappeared without a trace.
And the star's core temperature that he had heated and raised earlier also gently dropped, returning to its initial state.
Blood God stared intently at Lucas. "I can understand you being able to devour my energy. But where did it go? Why can't I sense it?"
He had seen sorcerers who could plunder energy before. But a situation like this, where after absorbing a large amount of his energy, the connection between him and the energy was instantly severed...
He had never seen it before.
Lucas smiled wistfully, not answering Blood God, but talking to himself, "I have a dream, and that is to have an endless supply of energy."
"One day, I met someone. He recklessly wielded his power, allowing it to be absorbed. I tried it back then, but after absorbing his energy, I would suffer from indigestion."
"At that time, I thought. If I were to meet him again after I became strong enough, I would definitely devour all the energy he released."
"Blood God, all encounters are reunions after a long separation."
Listening to Lucas reminisce about the past, Blood God seemed to return to that night.
The night he was tricked and defrauded of nearly 300 million units of energy, one way or another.
He, the dignified God of Vampires, Lord of the Dimension of Blood, when had he ever suffered such indignity?
Bang!
Blood God abandoned this avatar, choosing to self-destruct.
After his self-destruction, the dissipated energy was absorbed by Lucas one by one.
If he said he would devour it all, then he would devour it all.
Not a single drop was left.
[Points +15,572,800]
After dealing with Blood God, Lucas dispersed his giant energy body, but retained the small armor. He wasn't afraid of the star's core temperature, but his clothes were.
He couldn't go out naked, could he?
Divine power condensed again, forming a silver-gold-edged steed. Lucas flipped onto it and rushed out of the sun.
Under the anxious and hopeful gazes of multiple Spider-Men in front of the screen, Sorcerer Spider-Man, also known as Lucas, wearing an armor and riding a steed, galloped out from the fiery red sun.
"It's Sorcerer Spider-Man! Sorcerer Spider-Man won!"
Immediately, cheers erupted.
"Sorcerer Spider-Man is invincible!" A voice mixed in.
The other Spider-Men followed.
"Sorcerer Spider-Man is invincible! Lucas is invincible!"
The second voice was Lucas.
For a time, the air was filled with a joyous atmosphere.
After leaving the sun for a certain distance, Lucas returned to Earth through a portal.
The distance between the sun and Earth is approximately 500 light-seconds. This means that the image on the screen had at least a 500-second delay.
This time was enough for Lucas to change his appearance and blend in with the Spider-Men.
Compared to the other cheering Spider-Men, Spider-Man 2099 Miguel and Spider-UK exchanged smiles and let out a long sigh of relief.
Most of the Spider-Men here only knew that the Inheritors had been eliminated and the crisis resolved.
But they hadn't actually come into contact with the Inheritors. Or rather, most of the Spider-Men who had come into contact with the Inheritors had died.
Away from the bustling crowd, Miguel and Spider-UK found a scorched rock and sat down.
Once seated, Spider-UK spoke first, "It's truly incredible, the Inheritors were eliminated just like that."
Miguel shook his head. "No, there's still one Inheritor who got away—Karn."
"He didn't participate in this operation because he was exiled."
Spider-UK raised an eyebrow, smiling as he retorted, "Are you saying we can't even deal with the last Inheritor?"
Miguel smiled. "Of course we can, we're Spider-Men."
"Hahahahaha!"
"Hahahahaha!"
Concurrently, both of them burst into laughter.
After the laughter, Spider-UK asked curiously, "Miguel, you've encountered more Spider-Men. Have you ever seen a Spider-Man as powerful and special as Sorcerer Spider-Man?"
Miguel countered, "Are you asking me if Sorcerer Spider-Man is a Spider-Man?"
Spider-UK was silent, only nodding.
Looking at Lucas, who was messing around with the Spider-Men, Miguel affirmed, "He is definitely a Spider-Man. Although he hasn't been bitten by a radioactive spider, can't stick to walls, and doesn't have Spider-Sense, he is a Spider-Man."
As he spoke, Miguel himself started laughing.
These were the words he used to defend himself when Lucas, in an unexpected turn, said he wasn't a Spider-Man during their first meeting.