Chapter 464 The Black Death Emperor Arrives! William Hand's Awakening! (6000 words, I wrote too
Chapter 464 The Black Death Emperor is coming! William Hand's awakening! (6000 words, I wrote too much)
Deep in the universe.
Outside the owl spaceship of Night Owl.
Starro, the space conqueror, floats in the universe. His body is so huge, several times larger than when he and Night Owl first met.
Beside him, countless small starfish are so dense that they can make people suffer from intensive phobia, like a meteorite belt captured by gravity around a star.
These are the clones created by Starro during this period. At this moment, the spiritual power of the space star Starro is probably several times stronger than at the beginning.
However, just as ordinary people can gain weight and make themselves fatter than a fat man of hundreds of pounds, maintaining such a strong body and such a strong spiritual power is also a huge burden for Starro himself.
At this point, he has never confided anything to Night Owl.
At this time, a large number of small starfish turned their bodies and faced the side beside them.
Countless little starfish with eyes stared at a woman flying in space. This was an extremely creepy scene for ordinary people, but Greer looked normal.
"You know what I came to you for, Starro." She said loudly to Starro in the mental connection:
"You owe me a favor. With my matchmaking, you can reach an agreement with Night Owl."
Greer said: "And now it's time to pay me back."
The big starfish didn't speak. Soon, his voice sounded in Greer's mind.
"I will never admit that I helped you afterwards, and I helped 'you'."
"Of course." Greer said.
"Okay."
The next second, Greer felt a huge spiritual power infused into her body. This huge spiritual power was continuously...
absorbed there through her spiritual connection with Batman!
"In exchange."
The big starfish said: "I helped you, you have to help me."
Among the billions of small starfish, one flew into Greer's hand.
"Your clone will appear in Batman's world."
Greyer promised the sea star.
"Yeah."
Then they never said a word to each other again and quickly separated.
The cosmic starfish "Conqueror" Starro has the ability to regenerate. As long as one of his clones is not dead, Starro can revive his consciousness from that clone.
Whether it is Greyer or Starro, they have never thought of going all the way with either Night Owl or Batman. They are all cunning and ruthless villains. For them, betting on both sides and working for both sides at the same time is simply a skill like genetic instinct.
The so-called Starro owed Greyer a favor and then helped the other party, which was just a little fig leaf between them to quibble that they did not betray.
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Squeak squeak squeak squeak...
A mouse poked its head out of the sewer.
It looked at the city that had become a ruin in confusion, feeling like it had a long dream.
Then he was discovered by the Robin of the Laughing Bat. The greedy beast used both its hands and feet to grab the mouse from the ground.
Even though these Robins were once innocent children in the Laughing World, they had been infused with dark energy by Barbatos. Not only were they immune to fatal injuries other than the tenth metal, but they were also faster than ordinary people when walking, sitting or lying down.
They rushed forward and quickly shared the poor mouse, causing the Laughing Bat not far away to chuckle.
Even in the Dark Knights, the Laughing Bat could be called the one who lived alone. This was not only because he was the actual controller of the Dark Knights, but also because...
In front of a huge screen not far away, the four members of the Dark Knights were concentrating on the scene on the screen.
Some of them had no expression on their faces, some had complicated eyes, and some were just calculating data, but no one was like the Laughing Bat...
There was no fluctuation in his heart.
The Laughing Bat's heart was empty. He had no feelings, no sorrow, and even no anger. There was only darkness.
He reached out and touched Robin's head, still smiling.
"What a good idea, Anti-Monitor Batman. Ugh, I feel a little sick."
He said this in a low voice, then he turned his head and went back to his room.
The killing machine wanted to ask him why he didn't continue watching, but he didn't dare to ask after he reached out his hand.
The Laughing Bat didn't look unhappy, but he just stood there, and even the killing machine with a mechanical body would feel scared.
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Apokolips.
"Your Majesty the Great Darkseid."
Desaad, the chief scientist and chief of staff of Apokolips, bent down to Darkseid sitting on the main seat: "The power engine of Apokolips is ready and can be transferred to the universe at any time."
"Yeah."
Darkseid nodded.
"Once Batman fails, we will migrate into the universe of Night Owl." Darkseid said.
"No matter what the outcome of the war is, we will be the winners in the end."
Darkseid had a blank expression on his face, and his eyes reflected the flames of the huge engine on Apokolips that spewed into the sky.
"Whether it is the Anti-Monitor or Batman..."
"They will be shattered in front of Darkseid."
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"I ask you to fuse my heart."
The Anti-Monitor knocked Batman to the ground with one punch. Even though three SS-level Batmen had already synchronized with Chen Tao at the same time, he still couldn't resist the Anti-Monitor's tremendous power.
The Anti-Monitor grabbed Chen Tao's arm with one hand, and then pulled hard, making a tooth-grinding crunching sound.
He... seemed to want to tear off my shoulder, why didn't he just kill me?
Why did he always want me to become the Anti-Monitor Batman?
The severe pain eroded Chen Tao's nerves, but it didn't affect his thinking.
He was surprised that he had such a strong will to think despite the pain, but he soon threw this surprise out of his mind.
If... if Barbatos wanted me to fuse my heart, what was the Anti-Monitor for?
He was so confident that he could...
While thinking, he calmly arranged his actions, and everything seemed to be in order.
Prime Little Superman, who had been sucked into the Origin Wall, quickly charged some of the yellow sun's power into a yellow sun energy battery that had been placed on his body before. This seemed to be able to restrain some of the Anti-Monitor's energy. Then, he could...
Swish!
The Anti-Monitor grabbed the bone spurs that emerged from Batman's body with his bare hands and broke them off, then used his backhand as a blade and stabbed the connection between the shoulder and the arm with force.
Soon, with a slight crackling sound, an arm was directly pulled off by him, and blood immediately flowed.
Chen Tao frowned slightly, it didn't matter.
Although he could synchronize with the Broken Bat to be immune to such injuries, the overall strength of his body would be reduced immediately because of synchronization with such a low-level Batman.
He must maintain this physical strength that can withstand the beating of the Anti-Monitor and be able to fight back at any time.
Anyway, he has the Red of All Living Things to repair his injuries, and he would rather be injured than give the other party a chance to kill him directly.
The reason why he kept dragging on was to wait for an opportunity, not to be beaten in vain.
Even with the blessing of Batman such as the Ravager, a body like iron sand could not compare to a pure solid body when it came to bursting power.
What if the Anti-Monitor suddenly killed him, and he, who was synchronized with the weak Batman, might not be able to react in time because his body was broken apart and...
Puff!
Chen Tao was slightly distracted.
What happened? He lowered his head and saw that the Anti-Monitor's fist suddenly pierced his chest!
No... not quite right, the Anti-Monitor's attitude was very strange, which was completely contradictory. He was just holding back, how could he suddenly...
Chen Tao raised his head and saw that the Anti-Monitor lowered his head.
He seemed to be a bit chattering, constantly trying to persuade himself to act according to his orders with words, but at this time, although he still had the face of the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" period, he suddenly seemed to be silent.
No!
Chen Tao's heart suddenly went on alarm. The Ion Shark behind him suddenly roared. Chen Tao desperately kicked the Anti-Monitor's chest, and then the dark red bat speed force flowed through his body in an instant.
Chen Tao raised his hand, and the green static light wave of the stasis force hit the Anti-Monitor head-on. Although this method stolen from the Turtle Man could not surpass the level of the Turtle Man himself because Chen Tao did not really master the stasis force, it could still be superimposed with the speed force to slow down the Anti-Monitor's speed.
The world slowed down again, and the arc of red bat-shaped lightning swam on the Anti-Monitor's body, forcefully replaying his movements forward like a videotape.
Chen Tao fell to the ground, and the next moment he was stepped on by the Anti-Monitor!
Boom! ! ! !
The ground exploded in an instant, and the entire Quad Star almost trembled with the Anti-Monitor's kick.
"No!"
Chen Tao raised his intact arm, and then the arm that was broken by the Anti-Monitor flew back.
The Red of All Living Things took his arm back in an instant, and at this moment, a flash of black light suddenly burst out from Chen Tao's body!
On Earth.
William Hand was panting desperately.
He knew that this moment would come eventually, but he didn't expect it to come so soon.
At this time, he was standing in the meeting room of the Justice League headquarters. In the huge room, he was the only sober person. Not far away, was the unconscious Flash Barry Allen, who was supported by him and leaning on the sofa.
His mentor Bane must be in the Black of Decay, not only to confront Anton Akan, but also to help him guide the power of the Black Death Emperor.
William held his head with a revolver, and the outside world was playing on the screen in front of him.
Batman and him have discussed such moments many times, and as the Supreme Superboy was pressed into the Origin Wall by the Anti-Monitor. The Black Death Emperor he could summon almost became the strongest foreign aid Batman could bring.
William knew his potential very well, and he also knew what he could do.
He is now hiding in the infinitely shrunk earth, stored in Batman's body, and Batman protects him very well.
Batman discussed this issue with him, and Bane will assist him in the Black of Decay and maintain his mind as much as possible.
I...
I will never become a monster.
Even if I die, I can keep my mind.
William Hand felt his hand shaking.
He poked his temple hard, and he saw the sky shaking from Batman's perspective, and the Anti-Monitor tore off his arm.
So William took a last look at the outside world.
The whole world was horrified by the sudden disappearance of the sun.
The people only knew that they had to face the Anti-Monitor, and they also knew that they were protected, but they didn't know how to be protected.
They were afraid, they were confused, and they were just like William Hand at this moment.
But do you know what is the only difference between William Hand and them?
The people always know that Batman can protect them, and they can always rely on stronger people.
But William Hand knows that Batman... he needs help.
If Batman, who is relied on by others, also needs to rely on, who can he rely on?
"This... this is also my world..."
William Hand looked at his hand.
Hey, it's so strange, it's not shaking anymore.
So he pointed the revolver at himself again.
He slowly raised his head and smiled. If anyone could see him, they would find that in the pitch-black midnight outside the window, William Hand's young face was smiling like the clear sky. "...You are the morning sun, William..."
"...Life? Life is not a meaningful thing, William."
"But as long as you are alive, you can find interesting things, just like you found flowers and I found you..."
"...Yes, I'm telling you, go forward bravely and do what you say, this is our ninja... cough, the way of the Lantern!"
"...What's there to be afraid of? Don't be afraid of the Black Death Emperor. Listen to me, you are destined to become a pirate... Bah, the man of the Lantern King!"
"...Become the righteous god of death, Gotenks! Okay, it sounds a bit strange, but anyway, they are all very powerful gods of death, understand?"
"Peter Parker once said that the greater the power, the greater the responsibility! Yes, that comic character."
"...Woo woo woo woo, our passionate bond, this is youth!!!"
"Resurrection! My love! Ao oo oo oo oo!"
William closed his eyes.
Batman... is really a weird uncle who is sometimes serious and sometimes neurotic, and likes to say weird things.
Unlike Master Bane who always keeps a serious attitude.
I know, I have already realized it...
"Today... I, I will be Batman's support."
"Because I am Black Lantern, William Hand!"
Bang!
Outside the earth.
The Anti-Monitor's eyes, through Batman's body, coldly watched William Hand's heroic act.
"It's useless." He said.
Although his voice was still somewhat similar to the chattering voice in front of Chen Tao before, if you listen carefully...
It seems that there is a hoarse voice that is somewhat similar to his original voice, but not completely similar, singing a duet with him.
The Anti-Monitor turned his head and saw that in the space not far away, the protective position he carefully arranged for the entire earth and Batman was torn open by some huge force in an instant.
In the silent loud noise, the space shattered, and a pair of giant white bone hands suddenly appeared as if from behind the canvas, and then tore a huge hole in the space with force.
Behind the hole was a dark world. The towering, huge skull face of the Black Emperor looked down at the Anti-Monitor and Batman, who were as small as ants.
The Anti-Monitor did not speak. The next moment, he rushed directly towards Batman.
He did not need to deal with the trouble of the Black Emperor. He only needed to solve the root of the problem first.
And this problem could be solved quickly.
Swish!
Chen Tao retreated violently. What he should do now was to wait for the opportunity and let the Black Emperor and the Anti-Monitor fight first, instead of continuing to fight with the Anti-Monitor and letting the Black Emperor take both of them into the attack range.
"William..." He felt a little complicated. He knew that it was risky to let William touch the power of the Black Emperor, let alone let him commit suicide to trigger the Blackest Night. Even though he had confirmed through experiments that he could restart the timeline to help William counter the influence of the Black Emperor, he had committed suicide once, making himself the host of the Black Emperor. This fact could not be changed.
In the comic book "Blackest Night", the Black Death Emperor can even turn those characters who have died in the DC reboot into black lamp corpses without infection. The time restart can have an impact on a high-level existence like the Black Death Emperor, but it is also limited.
Although Chen Tao has made many psychological assumptions that William Hand will eventually become the host of the Black Death Emperor, he still feels a little heavy after this incident really happened.
If he could do better, if he did a little better, maybe William would not have to face these things so early. Not only William, but also Barry, if the next battle is not favorable, he may still need him...
Chen Tao shook his head and refocused his attention back on the battlefield in front of him.
He knew very well that William Hand, who had become the Black Lantern... or the Black Lantern Demon, was always in his hands, and the Black Death Emperor would not give up on this.
Although he and the Anti-Monitor also had a conflict over the world, it was at best a dispute between two beasts, both wanting to monopolize a prey. The conflict between him and himself was far more acute than this.
When the Black Death Emperor paid attention to him, the scene would not be so fun, so he had to...
"What?"
Chen Tao found that the earth that had been protected in the bottle was suddenly completely out of control.
The bottle had been shrunk to a size not much larger than a cell by Brainiac's shrinking ray, but at this moment it suddenly flew out of his body and quickly enlarged to a size about the size of a plate, the size that Brainiac would usually hang in the spaceship, and all this was completely out of Chen Tao's control!
Chen Tao suddenly looked at the Anti-Monitor who was controlling all this, and a basin of cold water seemed to pour from his head to the soles of his feet.
Damn, did he think he was the only one who would collect intelligence from others? Did he think that the Anti-Monitor had never thought about what kind of opponent he would face?
If the other party had already thought about the problem of Superboy-Prime, how could he not have thought about what other back-up plans he would have?
In an instant, William Hand, who had just transformed into a black lamp corpse, was taken out of the bottled earth by the Anti-Monitor.
His dark blue face showed a blank look, and then when he saw the white light of the Anti-Life Equation flashing in the Anti-Monitor's hand, he suddenly showed despair, and then the next moment, his eyes flashed with decisiveness.
The Anti-Monitor had long thought about using the Anti-Life Equation to control him. If he had not been the chosen one of the Black Death Emperor, he would have completely lost his free will and become a vegetable like Wonder Woman and many members of the Justice League before.
Even so, he is completely unable to move now and can only let the Anti-Monitor manipulate him, but this does not mean that he, William Hand... has no power to fight back.
Batman has always taught him to be very brave.
"No! You can't disconnect Bane from using the Black of Decay on you!" Chen Tao pounced forward: "I never asked you to do that!"
"Doing that will allow the Black Death Emperor to fully..."
William gritted his teeth and showed a grim smile of satisfaction: "It will allow the Black Death Emperor to fully exert his power..."
"You did a good job, you really did a good job."
The next moment, the Anti-Monitor's voice with a reciprocating sound came to William Hand's ears.
The Anti-Monitor had suddenly become silent since before. It seemed that there were two consciousnesses in his body fighting for dominance, but it did not affect his speed and mobility at all. The two voices spoke together, but they said exactly the same words.
"Really well done."
The Black Death Emperor not far away roared, his voice was not very clear due to the barrier between the universe, but he had already reacted to what the Anti-Monitor was going to do.
"Stop!"
His upper body tried to probe the space crack, and then stretched out a huge bone claw to attack the Anti-Monitor below, but the next moment the huge space crack began to close, and the power was so huge that the giant skeleton's body was squeezed and deformed.
"What...what's going on?"
William Hand was horrified to find that the death on his face was dissipating. This was impossible. The Anti-Monitor could not dispel the Dark Lord so easily, unless there was something wrong with the Dark Lord's host, that is, him...
William realized that this was indeed the case. He...he seemed to be resurrected.
The reality of his death was modified, and once he was not dead, the Dark Lord had no host. Without a host, he could not invade the world. Even if the Dark Lord was strong, it was in another dimension. He could not come here, he could not attack the Anti-Monitor, and the Anti-Monitor did not need to...fight him.
"I am a god." The Anti-Monitor said.
"I'm sorry."
Chen Tao gritted his teeth.
He really had to wake up the Flash.