deltrittennovels Chapter 912 The Anti-Monitor Bat Finally Appears in the DC Multiverse
Chapter 912 The Anti-Monitor Bat Finally Appears in the DC Multiverse
Chapter 912 The Anti-Monitor Bat Finally Appears in the DC Multiverse
52 seconds, almost a minute.
This is the most disgusting point in the situation right now.
Unlike the ten years that Dr. Manhattan stole from the DC universe, even though the DC multiverse erased those ten-year gaps at a great cost, including the disappearance of the Justice Society and the superhero army, he stubbornly reshaped the New 52 universe despite its incompleteness.
However, if someone were to examine the New 52 from a trans-temporal perspective, looking at the differences between it and previous cosmic reboots from an upstream standpoint, they could easily recognize the enormous differences between the New 52 and the previous reboots, especially seeing that main universe Superman who has no parents, not even Lois Lane, just standing there looking ridiculous. (N-Super)
Even without memories of the time before the reboot, you can't help but think: Wow, this Superman is being way too miserable, isn't that right?
But the 52 seconds stolen by the maniacal laughter were a little different.
52 seconds is too short, making it difficult to see the specific differences. The loss of 10 years caused the new 52 Superman to become irritable and impulsive—this is definitely an objective assessment. During the new 52 era, Superman fought against the US military and state machinery more than once, tearing apart tanks with his bare hands and breaking cannon barrels with his bare hands.
Furthermore, the New 52 Superman displayed astonishing recklessness regarding the Khandak issue. Khandak is Black Adam's homeland, where he established a dictatorship after his resurrection. Superman N openly disregarded Khandak's national sovereignty and stormed into Khandak to fight Black Adam...
While Wonder Woman in the New 52 era was criticized for being too saintly, Superman's situation was even more pronounced.
The loss of his parents made Superman more aggressive and tragic, which made Superman N extremely different from the Superman of the past.
But what significant difference can a mere 52-second gap make?
Nothing. The only person who knows that the Batman Who Laughs once stole 52 seconds is Lantern Number One, because the Batman Who Laughs once used the hyper-time he stole in those hyper-time stream futures that Lantern Number One had experienced and which had been destroyed.
The amount of time the Batman Who Laughs steals varies in different future timelines—sometimes a year, sometimes 52 seconds. But this time, Genie A.L.O.K. read the script beforehand and outmaneuvered the Batman Who Laughs, thus thwarting his plan. He thought he had stopped the Batman Who Laughs from seizing time from the timelines…
Perhaps even he himself was unsure whether the Bat of Laughter had truly failed to seize it.
After all, when the Bat of Laughter failed, the most unfortunate person was not himself, but the evil and powerful, wasn't he?
But in conclusion...
Everything happened without anyone realizing it.
With the death of the World Maker, the vast divine power returned to the DC multiverse like a gentle rain, strengthening the rules of the entire Pantheon system to an unprecedented degree. This increased the suppression of the Mother of the Multiverse, and Batman Dragon no longer needed to divert his power to the World Maker, allowing him to focus entirely on suppressing the Mother of the Multiverse, Perpetua, while simultaneously cooperating with the Monitor and the Anti-Monitor, two sixth-dimensional deities. Everything seemed to be rapidly progressing in a positive direction.
With the World Founder dead and the greatest external threat gone, the Anti-Monitor even began to plan how to bargain with his brothers after resealing his mother back into the wall, or whether to turn on them on the spot.
No, he's still too weak. Don't be fooled by his imposing presence; the Monitor has actually been resurrected. Even though his body was destroyed by the Anti-Monitor once, he didn't die.
To be honest, strictly speaking, it's not impossible to completely kill a sixth-dimensional god simply by brute force, like Superman Supreme.
But among the three brothers, there is no doubt that the Watcher is the most cunning and adept at manipulating power and playing his trump cards. Just the fact that he splits himself into countless races to share the responsibilities that he can hardly bear is already beyond the imagination of the Anti-Watcher.
The Monitors once truly took on the entire DC multiverse. After the Anti-Monitors self-destructed during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, the Monitors have been juggling two responsibilities: managing both matter and maintaining antimatter.
The Anti-Monitor harbors deep hatred and fear for his brothers. Therefore, when he reseales their mother back into the wall, his first instinct is not to immediately confront the Monitor, but to fully reclaim his power from the upstream of the trans-time stream. Once his divine power is restored to its peak, he will ignite the fuse of destruction. However, the Monitor will definitely intervene to stop him, and then it will depend on their respective methods.
—The anti-surveillance person positions himself as the weaker party, but in fact, he is very likely indeed weaker than the surveillance person.
But no matter how much he thought about it, it was completely useless now. When Papetua appeared directly in front of the two brothers with his golden eyes, the seal that the two brothers and Chen Tao had been maintaining collapsed in that instant.
The target intended to be sealed has escaped, rendering the seal meaningless.
In that instant, all was silent. There was no expected burst of energy, no deafening roar, and no spectacular phenomenon.
When the Batman Who Laughs dedicated time to Perpetua, the entire DC multiverse seemed to freeze in time.
From the perspectives of the two sixth-dimensional deities and Chen Tao, the Mother of the Multiverse was like a game refresh, brushing off the wall and skipping a whole bunch of difficult escape sequences involving struggle, energy clashes, and spacetime collapse.
Neither the anti-surveillance nor the surveillance personnel expected Papetua to suddenly come down from the wall.
The two sixth-dimensional gods were almost dumbfounded.
There's no use in being anxious now. The event of the multiverse mother, Papetua, arriving in reality has already taken shape in the hyper-timeline reality and is about to solidify.
However, what they need to do is to quickly restrain Papetua, or at least suppress him, to prevent him from maintaining this part of history, and then the two of them can take action to shatter this newly formed trans-timeline reality.
But here's the problem: to prevent Perpetua from interfering with their destruction of reality, two sixth-dimensional gods must suppress Perpetua; but if both sixth-dimensional gods are suppressing their mother, no one will have the power to destroy reality, not even Batman Dragon. Isn't that a dead end?
There must be a force beyond the two sixth-dimensional gods, preferably a third sixth-dimensional god, such as the World Maker. In this way, the Monitor and the Anti-Monitor will suppress the World Maker, preventing the Mother of the Multiverse from stopping it. The World Maker will shatter the current reality of the Hypertime Flow, and then create a reality where Papetur is trapped back on the wall. This will completely solve the problem.
Then the Anti-Monitor and the Monitor looked at the World Maker who had just been killed, and both fell silent.
The World Maker has just died. To revive the World Maker, the current reality must be destroyed, and then a hyper-timeline reality must be created where the World Maker is still alive. This way, the recently deceased World Maker can be brought back to life.
But then another problem arises: Papetua won't allow this reality to be shattered. To shatter reality, it would require the suppression of two people, necessitating the intervention of a third, sixth-dimensional deity...
The problem has come full circle!
In the blink of an eye, both the monitors and the counter-monitors realized that they were facing a dead end. But they had no choice but to find a way to suppress Papetua. Their mother had come down from the wall. Although she had lost the total body and was very weak because her power was not at its peak, what if she left here now and found the total body?
What if?
Okay, even without any unforeseen circumstances, if we let Papetua be, he will be regenerating every single moment he exists in the DC multiverse, and the more powerful the Mother of the Multiverse becomes, the more difficult it will be for the two brothers to suppress each other.
Therefore, the two of them made a decision almost immediately:
We must never allow their mother to stand unharmed in the DC multiverse!
In an instant, the two brothers rushed toward the Mother of the Multiverse. The Mother of the Multiverse, Papetua, also figured out the key to the matter. She tried to break through space to escape, but the two brothers held her firmly in place.
"Don't leave!"
The anti-surveillance agent stood before their mother, took a deep breath, and met her gaze into those golden eyes:
"I'm sorry, Mother..."
He said, "You can't just leave like this."
The two brothers breathed a slight sigh of relief. Their mother was not as powerful as they had imagined. At least, the two brothers, who were not yet fully formed, were not able to completely restrain her.
Their mother's physical form is now so ethereal that she can't escape from the two brothers.
The golden pupils of the multiverse mother, Papetua, looked mockingly at her two offspring.
Then there was another frame drop.
The Mother of the Multiverse vanished from the spot.
"Damn it, what's going on?!"
The two brothers' heads were about to explode.
52 seconds might be nothing more than a laughable trick in the hands of the Batman Who Laughs, to a sixth-dimensional deity, but in the hands of the Mother of the Multiverse, it becomes a divine skill that even two sixth-dimensional deities cannot see through.
There's so much you can do in almost a minute.
The two brothers, frantically overdrawing their power, caused both gods to tremble wildly. They leaped with lightning speed, forcefully resisting the rebound pressure of the timeline, and forcibly reversed time by half a second, pushing aside time and grabbing it tightly.
"Got you!"
The two brothers hugged their mother's legs, one on each side. Time seemed to be ticking away rapidly, and Papetua couldn't break free for a moment—what was going on? Had the 52-second rule expired?
No, no. The two brothers are using their power to massively block the time-traveling flow, using the most rudimentary method to forcibly seal off the possibility of Perpetua traveling through time and leaving. But this will consume more power, which means they can limit the further reduction of Perpetua's time.
"I have a way, listen to my anti-surveillance talk."
At this moment, in the midst of infinite, chaotic time, the Anti-Monitor hears the voice of Batman Dragon.
He saw the other man help Barbatos up and then open his mouth and yell at him:
"Give me power, transform me into an Anti-Monitor Bat, hurry up, isn't that what you wanted to do?"
The Anti-Monitor had indeed considered doing that, but times had changed. Batman: Dragon's repeated requests for him to do so were definitely suspicious, and the Anti-Monitor knew this, which was why he had refused him before.
But now, at such a critical moment, the other party is still demanding this identity. What does this mean for Batman Dragon...?
No, we can't give him that identity directly. If we reseal Perpetua back into the wall, and Batman Dragon tries to use the identity of Anti-Monitor Bat to deal with me, I'll be completely unaware of his plans, and the final result will definitely be a complete defeat.
Defeating the multiverse's mother, Papetua, is not the final outcome of the battle. If he wants to control the entire DC multiverse, manipulate the antimatter universe to completely devour the matter universe, and complete the task he was unable to finish during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, then this is inevitable.
A battle between him and the Watcher is inevitable, and it has nothing to do with the fact that the two of them are now fighting side by side.
The Anti-Monitor clearly realized that giving Batman the identity of the Anti-Monitor would be tantamount to handing over the hilt of a knife while simultaneously pointing to his own heart and saying:
Keep poking me here, even though I don't know what you're going to use to poke me, just poke me!
Things have changed. In the past, he forced the other party to give him the identity; now it's the other party who is forcing him to take it.
The essence of this behavior is like lending money. Lending money to a weak child can take everything away from the child under the pretext of lending money, but what are the consequences of lending money to a burly man?
Is that even a question?
The counter-surveillance agents wanted to use the identity of Batman as Dragon to gain complete control over him, but they couldn't control him now... or even if they simply couldn't control him, that would be fine; they could just not control him.
The worst-case scenario is that if you lend money to a burly man, he might end up getting into a habit of freeloading and coming to you every day to take advantage of you, with the attitude that "I borrowed it because I can, why should I pay it back?" and acting like he has no worries about being in debt, constantly trying to steal money from you. That would be terrible.
The anti-surveillance agent hesitated, but the roar of Batman's dragon was deafening in his ears.
"Anti-surveillance agents!"
Chen Tao roared at the anti-surveillance personnel:
"It's come to this point, hurry up and turn me into the Anti-Monitor Bat!"
The anti-surveillance agent's head was buzzing.
"Fine," he said, "I'll make you change!"
The current situation leaves little room for hesitation from those who oppose surveillance.
With two members missing from the fighting force, whatever Batman Dragon wants to do, if he wants this identity, so be it. Anyway, I don't have the energy to give him the Anti-Monitor Dragon right now, so he's just an empty shell with this identity.
Even the multiverse's mother, Papetua, is about to come down from the wall, no matter how many hidden dangers there are...
We can only swallow our pride and bear it!
(End of this chapter)