Thea had no intention of using a specialized drug to manipulate Luthor. She was planning to gain reputation anyway—giving it to anyone was the sa. Her moral baseline wasn't so low that she'd watch a little girl suffer and die while using a few pills as leverage.
Clinical trials proceeded extrely quickly. She had many follow-up plans and didn't want to waste too much ti here. She ordered several departnts to accelerate production. Luthor could see the drug's composition clearly, but he didn't dare give it to his sister directly. He also hoped to see her drug hit the market, with nurous patients providing real-world validation. He wanted to observe—more cured patients would strengthen his confidence.
Quinn Group's PR focused on the new product. Luthor quietly pushed from behind. Both their connections and relationships exerted full force. Various procedures and formalities advanced extrely quickly.
Countless "socially virtuous personages" helped lobby the governnt about the miraculous nature of these two drugs. The President urgently sought his advisors' help, nearly thinking the entire nation had contracted these two diseases.
Learning that very few people actually had these illnesses, he breathed a sigh of relief. Elite figures' goodwill must be reciprocated. Even if it were poison, approval was required. Skipping layers of review, he directly signed approval for the drugs' market release.
For modern dicine, these were terminal illnesses, but in the genetic field, not a big deal. Just slightly adjust internal genetic structures. Within a week of Thea's drugs hitting the market, these two painful diseases were downgraded from terminal to common cold level.
Watching countless patients cured with no aftereffects or complications, Luthor also bought a pile of dicine for his sister. Three days later, the girl who'd been confined to a wheelchair regained basic mobility. Five days later, completely normal.
The little girl Lena Luthor didn't have her brother's reservations. She personally visited to express thanks.
The two politely complinted each other briefly. Factional opposition ant they wouldn't discuss much.
However, from Lena's few words, Thea still discerned that Luthor's Doomsday research had made progress.
Supergirl's uncle-in-law, old comrade Non, and those three Kryptonian "elite"—unsurprisingly, Luthor had already killed them. Simple Kryptonians scheming against Earthlings resulted in them contributing their bodies and all knowledge. This gift delivered to his doorstep took Luthor considerable ti to digest. Now the seed was planted. What remained was watering and waiting.
With Kryptonian corpses and cobbled-together genetic technology, independently researching the remaining Doomsday genes wasn't difficult.
After all, this was originally a super bioweapon developed by Kryptonian scientists using themselves as the foundation. Bioweapons' characteristic was wide transmissibility. Structurally not too difficult. With Luthor's intellect, brief research would reveal the enormous potential breeding in Kryptonian cells.
This tiline lacked the pseudo-AI from Kryptonian ships to remind him. He likely wouldn't know the na "Doomsday," but just knowing this bioweapon could harm Superman was sufficient.
Unlike the movie, the military was now also intensively researching Kryptonian genetics. They lacked Luthor's high intelligence but had geographical advantage. General Zod's ship had broken into three sections back then—they'd gathered all the wreckage. Various reverse engineering, back-deduction, plus the ship's remaining scraps of data. With manpower and resources, they'd also achieved preliminary results.
What surprised Thea more was that the military had forcibly conscripted the mad scientist Professor Ivo. Under spare-no-expense conditions, they'd initiated Project Amazo. Massive human and material resources were poured into this project. They were playing with fire on an unprecedented scale.
Thea could stop Luthor's side, but the military was more troubleso. These people wouldn't stop until they saw disaster firsthand. Only letting them witness Doomsday's power would extinguish their delusions.
Thea's plan was to watch Doomsday wreak havoc, then erge to clean up the ss.
This matter wasn't her sche nor her support. From every angle, she had no connection to Doomsday. The scales of order would only comnd her for heroically stepping forward at the critical mont, not censure her.
But she wasn't just sitting around waiting. So basic preparation work still needed doing.
She'd collected plenty of Kryptonite early on. Enough to forge several weapons with ease.
However, she didn't completely trust her mories either. Reality had changed too much. Acting on fixed thinking would cause big problems.
She began cautiously researching Doomsday cells. She'd studied them intermittently several tis before. Regarding Doomsday—this DC world's equivalent of a Saint Seiya where the sa move couldn't work twice—she was extrely puzzled. Doomsday could later tank Darkseid's Oga Beams, and Oga Beams represented the "Source."
Doomsday's body could evolve infinitely. Each ti it was killed, upon resurrection it would be immune to the previous lethal damage. This ability wasn't inherent to its main body but provided by constant cellular evolution.
Thea's research showed each of its cells was actually a micro-individual. Doomsday was more like a collective consciousness. Its body relied on special energy to pile all cells together, forming the powerful individual the world saw.
Looking at cells individually—did this thing have a soul? From a one-sided view, it shouldn't have a traditional soul. But the group consciousness ford by nurous cell consciousnesses was chaotically disordered. This made it immune to most control magic in the world.
Thea attempted to replicate several cells. She found they fused quickly but devoured each other evolving. The madness revealed made her sowhat fearful. This absolutely shouldn't be a creature existing in the world.
Kryptonian scientists hadn't figured out a counterasure in tens of thousands of years. She didn't plan to eliminate it through science.
The benefit of having all six attributes complete was that Thea could cast any spell and release so higher-powered combination spells.
The cells' absorption efficiency for earth, fire, water, and wind was absolutely top-tier. It loathed light. It also disliked dark attributes.
Thea repeatedly experinted with light and dark magic, finally finding a spell with so effect: Aging Curse—a spell combining dark, wind, and water attributes.
The affected cell's vitality visibly decreased. To resist spell erosion, the cell would instantly release all life force within. Short-term cell vitality would spike, then continue increasing magical power output. The cell would rapidly fall silent after depleting its foundation.
After completing spell experints, she also tried emotional energy. Fear emotion versus the death-destruction consciousness within cells was basically fifty-fifty. Doomsday couldn't replicate fear emotion—this contradicted its fundantal existence form. But fear couldn't overco it either.
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