blogombal Chapter 534 First destroy the bats, then kill the Supreme One; only I will rebel against the prison,
Chapter 534 First destroy the bats, then kill the Supreme One; only I will rebel against the prison,
Chapter 534 First destroy the bats, then kill the Supreme One, only I will rebel against the prison, forever and ever!
Möbius's eyes widened suddenly. A soft creaking sound came from his body, like the sound of a plant crushing rocks as it grows out of them.
That feeling of waking up from a dream ran through his entire body like lightning.
The mortal Möbius regained his sanity once more, but it was all too late.
Something enormous grew out of its body. It wanted to open its mouth and howl, and it wanted to struggle desperately to break free of the part of the mortal Möbius that belonged to it, but all of this was in vain.
In the end, he could only watch helplessly as every part of his body completely lost his control.
then……
Consciousness plunged into darkness.
Supreme Superman took a small step back. He felt that the monster in front of him was extremely familiar. His face darkened: "It's you."
Möbius, no, or perhaps he should now be called the anti-surveillancer.
He lowered his head, and the creaking noises coming from his body gradually disappeared.
Then he looked up: "Superman Supreme? I still remember the pain you caused when you pierced my body that time."
(Note: Here, "Anti-Monitor" refers to the fact that during the Sinestro Legion War, both the Anti-Monitor and Superman Supreme joined Sinestro's Yellow Lantern Legion. However, Superman Supreme later betrayed them and, after the Anti-Monitor was weakened, backstabbed him, piercing his body.)
"What are you talking about? I've never done anything like that," Superman Supreme said. "On the contrary, you killed Laurie, you killed my world! You..."
"A inferior imitation from a dark multiverse, not even having the complete history of Superman Supreme..." The Anti-Monitor shook his head.
"What a waste of time."
He raised his hand to Superman, but then the next second...
puff!
Superman's fist pierced his chest like a nail, and a large amount of energy, like blood, splattered out from his back.
The Anti-Monitor looked expressionlessly at the hole in his chest that had been punched through by Superman: "This is really unexpected, a bit troublesome."
"Fuck your mother, ahh ...
Superman the Supreme threw a punch, and the Anti-Monitor's head flew off. But even at this point, his head, flying in mid-air, showed no change in expression whatsoever.
"It's quite troublesome."
So at the same time.
The lowest level of the world's melting pot.
"Barbatos".
"Barbatos!"
In the dim light after the world's furnace had been extinguished, the dragon, half-asleep, opened his eyes once more. He heard the calling voice, far more urgent than he had heard before.
"I need your help. I cannot change history right now."
Barbatos knew what the Anti-Monitor meant. In the first crisis (Note: Crisis on Infinite Earths), the Anti-Monitor died and was defeated by the heroes of the Golden Age at the cost of their lives.
After a series of events (note: these events refer to "The War of Senestor's Legion", "Darkest Night", etc.), the Anti-Monitor was reborn during the distorted reality created by Barry Allen, and then quickly killed.
(Note: The distorted reality caused by The Flash refers to the New 52 reboot. During this period, the resurrected Anti-Monitor was not only demoted to the mortal Mobius, but was also killed by Greer controlling the Anti-Life Equation Steve during the final major event of the New 52 era, "Darkseid Wars," leaving only his brain. He then entered the resurrection cooldown period again. How tragic.)
(It's worth noting that during the major event "Dark Nights: Metal," the last remaining brain of the Anti-Monitor was also used by Barbatos. At the end of this event, the Batman Who Laughs of the Dark Knights attempted to use the Anti-Monitor's celestial brain to make contact with the Monitor and plunge the universe back into darkness.)
Therefore, at this point, the Anti-Monitor, strictly speaking, only has a brain left in this timeline. The terrifying demon that fought against the powerful heroes of the entire universe during the First Crisis was the Anti-Monitor in its current state upstream in the hypertimeline.
The Anti-Monitor wants to project power upstream to alter history by reversing its own failure in the first crisis, which is equivalent to wanting to erase all subsequent cosmic reboots from the hyperchronic flow.
What's the difference between this and the foundation developing a sense of self and wanting to demolish the upper floor of the house and rebuild it?
The difficulty of this is immeasurable; even counter-surveillance agents would find it hard to accomplish.
Therefore, the Anti-Monitor needs Barbatos's assistance. They are currently located within the Dark Multiverse, and they need Barbatos to prove to the Hypertime Stream that the Anti-Monitor before them is merely a "projection generated within the Dark Multiverse."
Instead of the error that "the upstream flow of time would cause a paradox".
Using this disguise, the anti-monitor can legitimately project power from upstream into the body he controls in this current timeline, instead of something like—
"Looking at the timeline, something's wrong. You, the Anti-Monitor, shouldn't be dead except for a brain now. What's going on with this complete body? Two real Anti-Monitors can't exist simultaneously in reality. Damn it, history has a paradox! No, I have to self-correct. Eradicate this Anti-Monitor!!!"
The anti-surveillance efforts were all for naught.
He originally thought that as long as he successfully descended, he could take down the Superman Supreme and Batman in front of him with just a little bit of power—after all, it was the Dark Multiverse, what power could they possibly have?
But Superman Supreme quickly taught him never to underestimate any Superman Supreme.
Even though the one before him was somewhat unlike the one he had dealt with before, its strength was almost equal to his own, perhaps slightly weaker, but still enough to defeat the Anti-Monitor who was not only thousands of miles away but also dared not inject too much power into this puppet body.
"Barbatos, you manipulate the fate of the Dark Multiverse. Only you can provide a plausible source for my puppet, thus preventing the trans-temporal paradox and securing my anchor in reality."
“Yes, I could do that,” Barbatos said. “But what good would it do me? I’ve already given you that mortal Mobius as a reward for your willingness to return Batman to me after your intervention. We’re even, but you clearly haven’t brought Batman back to me.”
"I gave you my heart, even if it was just the heart of the puppet I controlled."
"And I allow you to peek into the reality that now belongs to me," Barbatos said. "This is another deal, a deal that will be settled once you successfully peek into the reality of the current timeline, and I infuse that heart with my power."
"What do you want, Barbatos?"
Barbatos bared his sharp teeth triumphantly in the darkness: "Your brain—and I'm not referring to that puppet's brain, but the brain of your true self. Right? I know this thing exists in this timeline, ever since the war with Darkseid."
"I want it. If you're willing to hand over this brain to me, I'm willing to go to great lengths to manipulate the fate of the Dark Multiverse and anchor your puppet in this present reality, so you can project even more power."
"it is good."
The anti-monitor readily agreed. Barbatos knew that the other party's psychological logic was similar to "If I can change the outcome of the First Crisis, the reality of the entire multiverse will be rewritten, and these are all deals that will be rewritten then."
But do the counter-surveillance agents want to change the outcome of the first crisis? Heh, not so easy, but the counter-surveillance agents' brains they obtain are real.
"I will have one of my men, the Batman Who Laughs, leave my legion midway to retrieve the brain at the location you provided."
Barbatos said, "Next, I will weave a protective net for you with fate. But you should know, anti-surveillance."
He said, "Although the power you can project may surge, you still cannot project all of it, nor can you project too much. This excess power will be corrected by the trans-time flow, but that is beyond the scope of our transaction."
"I know."
"Alright. I have already woven the destiny. If you can help me bring Batman back, the destiny I have woven for you will be solidified and become a reality."
This way, you'll not only have a legitimate identity in the current timeline, but you'll also get that mortal Möbius. Deal?
"make a deal."
Night Owl Universe.
The anti-surveillance agents opened their eyes.
Superman's eyes widened in anger, and immense power once again gathered in his palm before clenching into a fist.
The Anti-Monitor stretched out his hands to him, and then, after a blinding flash of white light, Superman Super-Little vanished from the spot.
"Fighting against Superman Supreme would be a waste of my energy. I don't have that much energy or time to waste."
The anti-surveillance agent thought silently.
"My goal is to take the living Batman in exchange for Barbatos' help in securing my destiny and to stop competing with me for the puppet I possess."
"There's no point in fighting Superman Supreme. I banished him to the cracks of other dark multiverses, but he'll be back soon. Even the parallel universes created by the Speed Force can't hold him."
(Note: This refers to the plot of "The War of Seneca's Legion")
"But in the short time before he gets back, all I need to do is catch Batman... and it'll be over."
Neither Superman nor Batman could stop the resurrection of the Anti-Monitor.
In the long years since the first crisis, countless major events and cosmic reboots have occurred, but the counter-surveillance...
May it last forever!
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"William Hand?"
Chen Tao's eyes widened. He hadn't expected that the kids around him had evolved to the point of lying to him. The funniest part was that he never imagined that the obedient brat William would trick him and secretly take Bane to follow the entire Justice League into Night Owl's universe.
It's said that openly disobeying Batman's orders is a traditional skill of every Robin, but William Hand clearly never wore Robin's uniform.
Did he remember it wrong?
Why are his teammates following his example and playing this trick of acting first and asking questions later?
Chen Tao showed no remorse for the negative impact he had on the team when he openly controlled Green Lantern Hal during the fight against Darkseid and when he punched him into a baby-like sleep.
He simply turned to look at Bain:
"Bane, are you lying to me too, just like him?"
Stared at by Batman, the muscular Bane stood expressionlessly behind William Hand: "I came here with William."
Chen Tao was speechless for a moment.
Strictly speaking, neither Bane nor William were formal leaders of the Justice League; one was a villain and the other a civilian. Therefore, it was only natural for him to exclude them during Justice League meetings.
He didn't even intend to bring the Justice League along, let alone the two of them.
"What do you have to say, Bain?" Chen Tao couldn't talk to William, so he turned his attention to Bain again, but William stepped in front of him.
"Come on, Batman. I orchestrated this whole thing," William Hand said. "You deliberately kept me out of the fight, and by what right? Just because of that Black Lantern ring you thought you forged?"
He succinctly revealed the reason why Chen Tao dared to leave William Hand in his own universe, saying without reservation:
"You restarted time, met the Black Death Emperor, and then collected a bit of his power to forge an incomplete Black Lantern Ring on the Green Lantern planet Mogo."
"But if you think you can summon the Black Death Emperor with that incomplete ring, you're sorely mistaken."
"I can summon."
Batman was still being stubborn, and William Hand shook his head.
"I know you can definitely do it, and if I'm not mistaken, it comes from some power of the Decaying Black, but no matter what you do, the power of the Black Death Emperor you summon can't possibly be more than what I summoned after I committed suicide."
William Hand said, "Only I can summon the Black Death."
"Listen, William, the reason I told you to commit suicide was because I was confident I could restart the timeline and bring the Black Death back..."
William didn't stray from Batman's explanation; he simply said, "You need me."
"To exclude me is itself a sign of arrogance."
He stared intently at Batman, and Chen Tao met his gaze for a moment.
William said softly, "I beg you. Give me a chance to fight alongside you."
Then, in the next moment, his words turned into a defiant "I'm not afraid of anything" attitude: "Anyway, I've already followed you here, so you can't send me back now."
"Alright." Batman finally gave in, saying, "But you need to protect yourself... If all goes well, I won't need your power."
(End of this chapter)