blogombal Chapter 372 Batman's New Robin
Chapter 372 Batman's New Robin
Chapter 372 Batman's New Robin
"Batman, you're insane!"
Chen Tao waved his hand.
There's a reason why he didn't return William Hand to his family as Atocitas had hoped, and instead allowed him to grow up unchecked.
Let's set aside the question of whether the erasure of William's "inner darkness" by Athocitas's blood magic is permanent—
After all, in the history of the comics, Athocitas's operation to "eliminate the darkness in William's heart and nip the Night of Darkness in the bud" ultimately failed. He was captured by Hal and Sinestro and taken back to Ismot. Whether the blood magic he prepared would work or how long it would last has never been shown in the comics.
Even if the elimination of this inner darkness is permanent, let's talk about a very simple principle: as a human being, William Hand's lifespan is finite. Even if he didn't kill his entire family first and then himself in his youth because of the Black Death Emperor's whispers, turning into a Black Lantern Corpse on the spot and starting to laugh strangely, as a pure human, William Hand would still die of old age.
Even if Chen Tao kept buffing him, using things like the Human-Faced Bat Potion and the water from the Lhasa Road Pool, William Hand would most likely still die.
Moreover, not everyone is like the ninja master Raikou Augu (Talia Augu's father and Batman's mentor), who could repeatedly soak in the pool for 600 years without going crazy.
The waters of the Lhasa Road Pool are maddening and trigger the darkness within one's soul. Chen Tao couldn't guarantee that if William Hand were to soak in the pool like an Oreo cookie, he wouldn't suddenly start wanting to marry a corpse again afterward.
Of course, the Amber Gold from the Court of Owls can't be used. It's different from the Dionysian Factor contained in the Pool of Lhasa. The Dionysian Factor can correctly activate appropriate genes and promote the body's self-repair, but Amber Gold essentially resurrects the dead and then powers the corpses. Giving William a shot of Amber Gold would probably be like directly giving the Black Emperor a ticket to the real world.
In the comics, the official definition of Batman's creature resurrected by Amber Gold is that it is not a "living person" at all, but a "self-repairing, freely moving corpse." This is why Batman showed no mercy when killing the claws of the Court of Owls.
"Bat... Mr. Batman..."
Atos's appearance was indeed somewhat frightening, after all, he had a red face and fangs, and was very tall. Although Chen Tao had given him a big lump of mud to disguise him as a somewhat simple-minded alien, this disguise had been completely washed away by the other party due to Bane's previous phobia of mud faces.
William Hand immediately recognized the alien who had previously pinned him down like a god, and was immediately intimidated.
William Hand didn't react much to Batman's words. Lately, whenever Batman appeared before him, he would whisper in his ear something like, "Once he dies, the Black Death will come to reality," followed by a mournful groan of "This is so annoying!" William Hand was thoroughly fed up with hearing it.
Moreover, Batman often makes outrageous statements like killing him and turning him into a bomb to "destroy the whole world!" But William Hand knows that Batman wouldn't do that. Batman, like his old butler Alfred, is a good person.
During this time, William did express his desire to go home, but Batman rejected it ruthlessly and arbitrarily.
His original words were: "Although you may not realize it now, your life is destined to be full of bloody legends and epics filled with the cries of death, and your actions are destined to affect the lives of trillions of lives in the entire universe."
If your destiny trajectory hadn't been discovered, you could certainly stay at home and be a lazy, good-for-nothing kid, thinking about what to eat for lunch every day.
But if we know you're not exactly a saint, and still let you grow unchecked, that's a huge act of irresponsibility towards the entire universe.
Legendary, extraordinary, epic!
He's praising me! I've been praised!
I'm a genius!
William Hand was born into a very serious Catholic family, and his two older brothers were described by their mother as "God's good children."
However, due to his dark inner self blessed by the Black Death Emperor, William Hand always had an abnormal and perverse fetish for corpses. In such a serious family environment, the psychological pressure William Hand suffered was unimaginable.
Therefore, being taken away from the family environment that made him feel lost and helpless might actually be a good thing for William.
Especially after Mr. Bruce Wayne personally visited the Hand family with Alfred and used nearly a ton of cash to get Mr. and Mrs. Hand to swallow all their questions, William Hand felt he had never been so relaxed in his life.
Despite Batman's attempt to scare him by saying that the pile of money was money to buy his life, William wasn't afraid at all.
He carried a heavy sense of mission in his heart. Thanks to Athocitas's magic, he was no longer a necrophiliac. As a result, he could clearly perceive how abnormal and pathological his past necrophiliac behavior was. It was not his own thought, but someone was manipulating his mind, which was what William Hand hated the most.
Soon after, William Hand received a Robin uniform without trousers.
Although he was wearing only his underwear and his two hairy legs were exposed and felt a bit cold, William Hand liked it very much.
William Hand wanted to be a hero, a hero who was revered and saved billions of planets, not some "first Blacklight Corpse in history".
At this moment, William Hand sat quietly to the side, watching Batman and his two teammates, one named Bane and the other named Atositas, discussing something in hushed tones. He could faintly hear what they were saying.
The alien named Atochitas seemed very agitated. He loudly retorted to Batman several times, but Batman simply responded calmly, which silenced Atochitas.
William was a bit far away, and he only vaguely heard some talk about lifespan, but he didn't know what it meant.
Finally, he saw Batman, Bane, and Atositas finish their discussion and come to him.
"As a superhero, you need strong enough superpowers to at least guarantee basic self-defense capabilities."
Chen Tao said.
"That's why I found these two teachers for you."
Chen Tao explained, "Bane will inject you with the human-faced bat serum. Although the human-faced bats created by this serum are far weaker than the real human-bat Dr. Corren Stone, they are still superpowered beings that the Red of All Beings cannot resist and can only accept by holding their noses."
"The red of life will flow through your body. Bane will teach you how to properly use the power of the Crimson of All Beings, and how to bring it into play in battle."
Then Chen Tao paused, "And Bain will also teach you techniques for calming the mind and fighting inner demons."
Then he turned to Atositas: "Atositas will use blood magic to assist you, and if you can learn his blood magic, it will also be yours."
"But apart from that, nothing is more important than this," Chen Tao said.
"Bane will expose you to the power of decay and darkness, and that's the only thing you need to be careful about."
"Batman, I haven't agreed to that yet." Bane interrupted Chen Tao beside him, "Actually, I still can't understand. You told me that if this little guy dies, it will cause a terrible zombie apocalypse, yet you still let him come into close contact with the creation of death. Isn't that like throwing lambs to the slaughter?"
But Chen Tao ignored Bain.
He simply told the other person, "If one day the Black Death Emperor still seeks you out, if he still wants to take you, these might be the ways to save you. You must understand perfectly how the power of death is constructed. The fact that the black light can still shine is the Black Death Emperor's manipulation of you. Your willpower cannot override the Black Death Emperor's authority, but if you understand the darkness of decay..."
"You will then be able to stay true to yourself and know what you truly want to become..."
The basic considerations have been completed, but before using William Hand for nuclear deterrence, Chen Tao still has one problem to face.
He's saying something like:
Listen up, folks. We have a bomb in our hands. A super, huge bomb that terrifies everyone!
The bomb is named William Hand, and its explosion has the effect of a cosmic destruction crisis called "Darkest Night"!
But now there is a very serious problem.
Not everyone knew how terrifying the explosion of this bomb was; at least not everyone knew the specific details.
Therefore, although Chen Tao had decided to use William Hand as a trump card, he still couldn't just throw William out like that.
He had to let everyone know who William Hand really was, and what the Darkest Night prophecy that the little blue man was trying so hard to conceal was all about.
Then... William Hand can truly make a difference.
To achieve this, Chen Tao's task is quite simple.
Destroy the Green Lantern Corps, kill the Guardians, and prevent those bastards from erasing all the information about the Darkest Night in the Book of Abilities.
Therefore, to some extent, his interests are aligned with Seneca's...
As Sinestro said, a legion that maintains order may be important to the entire universe, but the Green Lantern Legion is not important, nor are the Cosmic Blues.
In a timeline where the Green Lantern Corps was on the verge of collapse, the Black Star Legion still managed to accomplish the tasks the Green Lanterns were required to do in the universe, thanks to their high-tech armor.
The world never stops turning just because someone is gone, and opposing sides are never unable to form a new alliance in a short period of time because of mutual interests.
But one thing is certain:
Chen Tao was absolutely filled with malice towards those troublesome little blue men.
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After seeing off the trio who had started teaching, Chen Tao quickly reappeared in another location.
He knew he didn't have much time to wait for his students to grow, but what was that saying? There was no better place than to cram William Hand with a basic understanding of supernatural powers.
This is the Justice League's laboratory, where Lex Luthor has been spending all his time since recovering from his illness.
Luther voluntarily relinquished his rights. The numerous Justice League affairs had dragged him down, causing his research capabilities to regress rather than advance. Moreover, those Justice League affairs were far too chaotic, and many things simply did not require Luther's time or effort to make decisions.
Therefore, to Luther's liking, Chen Tao freed him from the complicated matters, but then gave him a lot of orders again.
What a joke! What are you thinking? You think you can get rid of work this way?
One scientific research task after another was assigned to Luther. For Chen Tao, many verifications and conjectures required repeated experiments and observation of cyclical changes.
So now, although Luthor no longer devotes energy to managing the Justice League, these matters still keep him extremely busy.
"Good afternoon, Lex."
The afternoon sunlight streamed into the laboratory through the window, while a faint shadow of nanobots slowly drifted in through the window.
As the black sand coalesced into a human shape on the ground, Chen Tao appeared behind Luther. To his surprise, even after all this, Luther still hadn't noticed him. So Chen Tao had to speak first.
This struck Chen Tao as odd. In the past, Luther was a very insecure person, always preparing dangerous creations to deal with intruders, even in his own room. Of course, Batman was the same way... The mechanical dinosaur in the Batcave hall, which many people initially mistook for a statue, is proof of that.
But this time, the other person just let him quietly touch the side of their throat, and he could twist it at any time if he exerted force.
"Luther, Luther, what's wrong with you?" Chen Tao asked him a couple of questions, and then the other man turned around, startling Chen Tao.
Before, from behind, Luther's hard-boiled egg-like face didn't seem to have any problems. Ever since he started losing his hair in his youth, Luther had always been known for his hard-boiled egg-like appearance. But now, this hard-boiled egg-like face had developed thick, dark circles under his eyes, and his face was sunken, as if he had been having a good time for three days and three nights and had been dancing wildly in a dance hall.
His sickly, old-fashioned appearance truly frightened Chen Tao, so much so that the question he was about to ask was abruptly halted for a long moment: "Lex Luthor, you..."
"I have prepared what you requested."
Luther said:
"A plan that could strengthen other members of the Crime Syndicate, such as Death Storm, while also allowing them to be sabotaged."
(End of this chapter)