novellhall Chapter 457 An inescapable fate, Darkseid takes action.
Chapter 457 An inescapable fate, Darkseid takes action.
Chapter 457 An inescapable fate, Darkseid takes action.
When the killing machine entered the room, he saw the monstrous Destroyer sadly clutching a person's head.
The head was gruesomely mutilated, and the killing machine recognized the face—it was Clark Kent. He knew that the Devastator had killed another Superman from this universe. The Devastator always did this; ever since he joined the team, in every world they visited, the Devastator would make a point of killing the Superman of that universe without fail.
"so……"
The killing machine turned its head and heard the Red Death Demon sitting next to it ask, "Has the Batman Who Laughs still not found anyone he likes?"
He said, "I thought he was going to bring War Bat (a fusion of Mongo and Batman) under his wing, but in the end, he was deemed unqualified?"
"Laughter has its own standards," the killing machine replied. "An artistic sense. Although I can no longer understand what that thing is."
The drowned, wronged spirit sitting in the far corner let out a cold snort.
She was the only woman in the room, Bruce, or perhaps she should be called Brucey.
She said, "Whatever. All I want now is to know when the opportunity for revenge against the Light Multiverse that the Laughter promised me will come. I'm going to tear them to shreds."
The other blues know that "they" here is a pronoun, but most of them share the same thoughts as the drowned souls, which is why they are gathered here.
They all once tried to save their own universes, attempting to make them better, but in the end…
The stories of the past, like promises made but ultimately broken, have long been punctured and shattered like bubbles. This is the inescapable fate of the Dark Multiverse, and the reason why the Batmen present harbored such deep resentment.
"Alright, since the Maniac Laugh doesn't think much of Batman in this universe, when shall we set off again?" The Destroyer casually tossed Superman's head aside and then burned it with his heat vision.
The Superman was instantly burned to ashes, rolling around with the tattered cape on the ground beside him. The Destroyer tortured him for several days after capturing him. This was already the number of Supermen from the Dark Multiverse that he had captured.
Each of these superheroes from the Dark Multiverse has some personality flaws; some are reckless, some are cowardly, and some are too self-centered. But none of this matters in the face of the Destroyer. No matter what kind of superhero he is, there is only death before him.
The big man's eyes burned with a fierce rage and deep malice: "I can't wait to twist off the next Superman's head."
"I know only their cries of agony can comfort you, but we won't set off for now."
The Killing Machine said, "Barbatos tells us that there is a high probability that an Anti-Monitor Batman will be born in the Dark Multiverse."
Killing Machine said, "So he ordered us to wait quietly until the Batman of that universe murdered the Anti-Monitor and was completely transformed, then we changed course and recruited him."
The three members of the Dark Knights exchanged glances.
"What about the Bat of Laughter?" the Crimson Death asked.
"Barbatos is our boss."
"Understood." Red Death nodded, then continued, "What if Batman from that universe was killed by the Anti-Monitor?"
"Then let's continue on our original plan and go to the Dark Multiverse we were planning to visit to recruit the Green Lantern version of Batman."
Killing Machine said, "I deduce that Barbatos will definitely find a way to continue driving that Anti-Monitor to invade more Dark Multiverses until an 'Anti-Monitor Batman' is actually created, just like a shepherd driving his flock."
He said, "Anyway, there are plenty of Dark Multiverses for Barbatos, which were destined to be destroyed anyway, since we failed to ascend into orbit and become Light Multiverses. He only needs to try a few. As long as he succeeds in trying one, it will be worthwhile for him."
"Okay, I understand. How long do we need to wait?"
"I don't think it will be long, gentlemen," the killing machine said. "We should have results soon."
All the Dark Multiverse Batmen tacitly avoided mentioning one thing: a third possibility besides the two scenarios they mentioned.
Batman both defeated the Anti-Monitor and did not become the Anti-Monitor Batman.
However, the Dark Knights believe that this ideal scenario will not happen, at least not in the Dark Multiverse, because they have all tried to change their own universes, and they have all had principles, bottom lines, and things they swore to protect.
But the fact is, they are standing here now. This is not because they lack ability or determination, but because the Dark Multiverse has been incomplete since its inception; "defective" is not just a metaphor.
In such a world, no matter how powerful one is, no matter how much time is broken or how much one tries, one cannot reverse the inevitable fate brought about by the inherent flaws of the universe.
This is the destiny of Batman in the Dark Multiverse, and also... something that every Bruce here has experienced.
"Let me know as soon as there are results for the universe of the Anti-Monitor and the Batman of that universe."
"It was the drowned, wronged soul who spoke."
The killing machine agreed, because he knew very well that this was not just the demand of one drowned soul.
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Intense white light erupted from the palm of the anti-monitor. Before the white light engulfed the Rogue Gang, Chen Tao cast a static force field on the anti-monitor.
This is a power belonging to the Turtle Man. The Turtle Man's Stasis Force is the opposite of the Speed Force. The Speed Force accelerates himself, while Stasis Force slows down others.
However, Chen Tao did not actually master static force; he merely used the turtle-man as a power source to indirectly drive this force.
Enveloped by the static force, the anti-monitor visibly slowed down by a beat. This was enough time for Chen Tao to rescue the entire Rogue Gang from the anti-monitor's clutches.
Chen Tao recognized the white light; it was a manifestation of the Anti-Life Equation, far greater and more abundant than the amount controlled by Darkseid or Chen Tao after transforming into the Dark Father.
The first thing he did after rescuing the entire gang of scoundrels was to try to restart the timeline again in order to repair the section of ground that had been damaged by the Anti-Life Equation.
But it was difficult; it was much slower than he had imagined. He used even more power, only managing to rewind a very short period of time, so Chen Tao gave up immediately. The speed boost needed to rewind time wasn't something he could conjure up from a gust of wind; he needed to save that power for something more important. He had already wasted a lot of power on this experiment.
"Leverage your combined strengths; have you forgotten you're a team?"
Chen Tao shouted at them, and the entire Justice League: "Surround him!"
Under Chen Tao's orders, everyone participated in the siege of the anti-monitors, yet he still managed to single-handedly suppress the entire Justice League and the Rogues.
The Rogues finally regained their form. They joined forces and attacked. Chen Tao was certain that even Superman would find such an attack troublesome, not to mention that the Weather Wizard and Shazam were working together. The lightning, wrapped in magic and superpowers, almost turned the Anti-Monitor into a lightning rod, but that was all.
Even with Chen Tao constantly restarting the timeline and maintaining this seemingly endless battle where no one from the Anti-Monitors could be killed, the Anti-Monitors finally couldn't take it anymore.
"Drink!"
Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth wrapped around the Anti-Monitor, and the cage Hal had built was torn apart by the Anti-Monitor like a chicken claw.
And Clark...
He has not fully recovered his abilities, and his current abilities are much weaker than before.
But he remained at the forefront of the Justice League's battles, never retreating.
"Follow me!" He told everyone that Superman was the soul of the team, and he could always do that.
however……
"It's no use."
The anti-monitor's power seemed to increase in an instant. He looked like he was about to do something, as if he was about to use some real skill. Chen Tao carefully observed this feeling from the side. It was like a tiger made of paper suddenly being filled with a solid iron brick, suddenly turning from a toy into a weapon that could kill people.
He pondered silently, constantly restarting the timeline. While the Justice League members remained unaware, he gathered a vast amount of intelligence, preparing to launch a deadly attack he had long anticipated.
However, things did not develop in the worst direction. Chen Tao discovered that by restarting the timeline, the Anti-Monitor's ability to suddenly enhance its power could be completely erased by restarting the timeline.
The Anti-Monitor is currently in Chen Tao's universe, and he is clearly unable to defy the timeline in this universe that has been manipulated by Chen Tao.
At least in this single universe, the anti-monitors must abide by the laws of this universe.
"Darkseid." Chen Tao pressed the communicator on his earpiece and calmly asked the Lord of Apokolips on the other end.
"Are you ready to get started?"
"I'm here, Batman," Darkseid whispered to Chen Tao. "I'm ready to act at any time."
Chen Tao nodded.
The Justice League and the Anti-Monitors are currently locked in a stalemate, and it's time for a fresh force to join the fray.
The portal opened the next second.
The countersurveillance agent had already noticed Batman's movements, but he wasn't worried about what Batman might unleash, whether it was...
Then the anti-monitor suddenly saw the monster in front of him.
Good heavens, what is this thing?
Lumps of endlessly growing muscle, glowing with the green light of kryptonite, made the monster's body swell up like a balloon. The massive, endlessly growing muscle had long exceeded the scope of ordinary muscle, more like a bodybuilder on an overdose of drugs, where new flesh and blood were growing where there was no muscle.
The thing's limbs were like balloons that had been blown up to the point where they could no longer expand, or rather, its whole body was like a balloon made of muscles.
He roared as he burst out of the portal Chen Tao had opened, spraying the remaining kryptonite powder he hadn't finished eating onto the Anti-Monitor's face along with his furious shout:
"Anti-surveillance, you destroyed everything I had, my world, my city! My subjects who groveled at my feet, Lana Lang, Jimmy Olsen, Luma Lenai..."
(Note: Among the people Superman mentions here, Lana Lang is Superman's first love, and the other two are Superman's friends. However, in Superman's universe, they all submit to Superman and are his servants.)
"you……"
The anti-monitor grabbed his chest with his backhand, but the overwhelming and powerful force gripped his shoulders, making it impossible for the anti-monitor to break free for a moment.
"It took me years of painstaking effort to train that group of loyal servants. I will burn out your eyes, rip out your tongue, and rip your belly open!"
He roared hysterically, his arms, like balloons, gripping the anti-monitor and shoving him violently across the ground.
Superba's current state clearly indicates that his intelligence has been affected, but in such a battle, as Chen Tao once said, Superba doesn't need brains; he only needs attack power, and even higher attack power.
The rocks on the ground split open like water, and Superpower punched Anti-Monitor in the face, causing his entire face to snap back violently, his head plunging into the ground, and half of his face twisted.
They charged an unknown distance across Quad, and the ground and dust, like water, were blasted apart by the aftershocks of their battle, soaring high into the sky.
In the end... Superpower faced the indifferent face of the Anti-Monitor.
"You can't do it, Superb."
"The anti-surveillance advocate said."
Chen Tao felt his power increase once again. This familiar feeling made him try to reverse time again, but he encountered even greater resistance.
In that instant... it was as if everyone's vision was cut off for half a second.
Chen Tao saw the anti-monitor suddenly break free from Superba's grasp and appear behind Superba.
"I'm going to kill you!"
Superpower spotted the Anti-Monitor and roared as he swung a backhand punch at the other, but was immediately pinned to the ground by the Anti-Monitor.
He was still shouting that he had consumed too much kryptonite, which had affected his brain.
"You're going to die! I'm going to kill you!!!"
"Oh no, you can't kill me, see? This is what I miss... As a god, high above all living beings, everything is too distant, too detached from the world, slaughtering billions of lives in the blink of an eye, without any sense of accomplishment. But here, being with all living beings... that's much more interesting."
"What are you doing?" Chao Ba's eyes reflected his face.
The Anti-Monitor's eyes turned red, and white light shone from his palms. Then, Superpower screamed as the Anti-Life Equation disintegrated his body.
"We can make our move now." Not far away, Chen Tao watched the situation on the battlefield indifferently, and then spoke.
Darkseid.
(End of this chapter)