Chapter 465 Time Restarts, the Puzzle Gradually Completes
Night Owl sat quietly in the chair of the Owl spaceship alone, watching Batman's dying struggle on the screen in front of him indifferently.
Those things... those desperate struggles and wailings, they were all things he had experienced before.
He had also fought against the Anti-Monitor in this way...
But these are no longer there, never again.
Night Owl thought.
He knew that Batman still had a chance to reverse time, and he knew that restarting the timeline would be Batman's last trump card, but soon, he would feel that it was just the last despair, the deepest despair.
Restarting the timeline can't change anything except delaying time.
The Anti-Monitor is not an enemy that a single universe can face at all.
He is like a bottomless pool of water, and what he shows is far less than what he hides.
Looking at the Batman who is struggling desperately now, Night Owl always feels like looking at his former self.
It's really...
It makes people feel unhappy.
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“Laughing wildly.” The Laughing Bat turned his head impatiently and saw the killing machine appear in the cave where he was temporarily staying for the second time, responsible for conveying orders to him. "Barbatos asked us to use the existing materials in this universe to quickly build a [Dark Spire] to act as a conductor of dark energy."
(Note: The Dark Spire actually captures all creatures to have nightmares and acts as a living battery for Barbatos, the dragon of the dark multiverse. During "Dark Nights: Metal", Barbatos had built such buildings in many places in the main universe and once hung the three giants on the tower)
The Laughing Bat did not speak, and then he tapped the table with his fingers: "Have you built the building?"
"Yes, Laughing, we need to use the dark power in our bodies to connect with Lord Barbatos, and then help him destroy the dark multiverse we are in now to complete what he wants to do."
The Killing Machine said: "Everyone is waiting for you."
"Then what are we waiting for?" The Laughing Bat said: "Let's go!"
His tone seemed a little brisk, and it seemed that there was nothing wrong, which made the Killing Machine relieved.
The Laughing Bat followed him out of the only remaining building. There were no ruins around. Several dark knights joined forces. With the help of the Red Death's extreme speed and the endless dead water army summoned by the drowned ghosts, they built a tall spire in a short time.
Countless living and half-dead people in the entire dark multiverse were hung on the dark spire. This is the dark multiverse. Even the flow of time is controlled by Barbatos. As long as he helps his dark knights' voters, no matter how terrifying the architectural miracle is, it is just a matter of moving his fingers in front of him.
Barbatos set up this formation, and every member of the dark knights knew what he wanted to do.
They appeared at the top of the dark spire, and then obediently placed their hands on the position reserved for them at the top of the dark spire, and used their bodies as lightning rods to guide Barbatos' power.
Buzz buzz buzz buzz...
With the buzzing sound of the dark spire, the purple-black dark energy condensed into lightning, and a large amount of black mist condensed into clouds, and lightning and thunder flashed around the dark spire.
The world... the world is collapsing.
The city has become a ruin, the sea floor is full of Atlantean corpses, the dark sky, the alien planets in the universe that have not been affected by the destruction of the earth and are still prosperous are rushing towards the earth, ready to wipe out the rioters who destroyed the planet, the Green Lantern Corps of the OA star in this universe...
In an instant, they were completely annihilated at a speed that they could not react to. The universe is collapsing, and it is shattered in a way that all creatures cannot imagine.
There is no time, space, mass, matter, antimatter, nothing at all. The dark multiverse dragon named Barbatos ate up the entire universe in an instant, leaving only an empty shell, and even the dark spire was not spared.
The Dark Knights looked down at the empty shell of the entire universe. Endless creatures stained with black energy were wailing below. They were the remnants of this dark multiverse, some undeads -
No, it might be a bit biased to say that they were undeads, but they were not living people. They were just creatures that survived with the help of Barbatos' dark energy. They were Barbatos' slaves. They could only wail in this empty shell world forever and survive in the cracks of the dark multiverse.
This is the fate that all creatures in the dark multiverse will eventually experience, and Barbatos just did this in advance, just to squeeze out enough dark power... so that he could have enough energy to interfere with the birth of the Anti-Monitor Batman while gnawing on the corpse of the World Forger.
"Lord Barbatos even ate the TV we just built."
The Red Death said.
His voice was hoarse and low, with a standard Bruce-style phlegm tone in his throat, but what he said was very Barry Allen:
"So where can we watch our TV again?"
"We go directly to the next dark multiverse." The Laughing Bat shrugged and said.
"But Barbatos asked us to wait in this dark multiverse before. Once the Anti-Monitor Batman is really born, we will..."
"That was before he planned to put on this display." The Laughing Bat said, "The Batman of that universe will soon have to accept Barbatos' gift. Hmm I can almost guess what he will do."
"Show your power, and then let Batman struggle until he has no choice. Then accept his power obediently, right." The Laughing Bat tugged at his somewhat bewildered Robin Hound, and then said, "He has always done that before he found me, but as I said, artificially cultivated weapons are still not as good as the naturally grown dark flowers-right? Everyone?" The Laughing Bat pointed at the other members of the Dark Knights in a somewhat crazy way. Although he was very crazy, in general, the members of the Knights agreed with the Laughing Bat's words.
They have seen many worlds that have been forcibly matured by the power of Barbatos, but inferior things like War Bat and Bat-Lenyaq...
How can they compare to them?
"But... hum... this Anti-Monitor Batman may be a little special." The Laughing Bat touched his chin.
"His intention is too obvious. If it was just a Batman from the Dark Multiverse, he wouldn't care so much. Unless..."
The Laughing Bat paused, as if waiting for the other members of the Dark Knights to tell him the answer he had guessed, but the remaining four members looked at each other, then looked at each other blankly.
"Okay, okay, it's really boring." He said, "I think... he would want a dark dragon of his own."
"A Barbatos of his own."
(Note: The Laughing Bat here refers to the fact that although the Dark Multiverse Dragon [Barbatos] retaliated against his master [World Forger] and usurped his authority to become the "World Forger" himself, the result was that no one did Barbatos' own duty, that is, "guarding the World Forge and destroying the world."
In the original comic plot, Barbatos used his dark power to corrupt Hawkman in the main world and made him his own "Dark Dragon", but now with the appearance of Chen Tao, he seems to have a better choice.)
The members of the Dark Knights were silent.
"So we have plenty of time to go to another nearby dark multiverse to make some repairs. Let's see if the Batman of that world is qualified to join. We'll test him, which won't take much time, and then build the TV you want, Red Death." The Laughing Bat said, "After that Batman struggles to the point of being powerless and completely accepts the power of Barbatos, we'll set out to guide him and bring him back to the bottom of the world furnace, just as Lord Barbatos wants us to do." He asked, "Does anyone have any objections?" The Red Death raised his hand like Barry Allen. "When I get to that new world, I'll build the TV first and then go check out the Batman of that world." "Totally," said the Laughing Bat. "That's all right." Red Death said: "Let's go." ... ... ... ... "I'm sorry, Barry. Barry Allen just woke up and saw Batman's face appear in front of him. The young warrior recalled the scene before he lost consciousness. Then the next moment, Chen Tao instilled in him everything that happened during his coma, and then the Flash realized what he should do next. "I promise you, I have got the last piece of the puzzle." Chen Tao said: "But before that... I need time." "And what I am best at is playing with time." Barry said. "What do you want me to do?" "There used to be three speedsters in our current universe. You, me, and Johnny Quick." "The three of us shared too much speed force, causing none of us to be fast enough to reverse time." "I made a move in Johnny Quick's body, leading him to die in the hands of Thunder Zamsha, and robbed him of his speed force. "
Before Chen Tao finished speaking, Barry stood up resolutely.
Not far away, the revolver that William Hand had just used to shoot him was still quietly on the ground. Barry Allen picked up the revolver and used it to gesture on his head.
"I know you are anxious, but don't be anxious yet." Chen Tao said: "You know I can synchronize Batman from other parallel universes, and the Red Death..."
"It is essentially a combination of Barry Allen and Bruce Wayne."
"I want to try to replicate his birth process, but this means that for you, you may risk..."
"So when do we start?"
"What?"
"I said when to start."
Barry Allen said: "If this is the only way to repair our world and save everyone, I am willing to do what I should do."
Barry finally adjusted the revolver to a suitable angle and then put it on his head.
He raised his head slightly, and his face showed the same fearless look as William Hand:
He said slowly and slowly: "You know. Many years ago...I...I was waiting for a moment like this, a great moment like this."
"What?"
"When I got my power, I had already anticipated that I might die from it.
When I was fighting the Rogues, when Darkseid invaded, when I was fighting Grodd..."
He said, "I had this realization many, many years ago."
He said, "I'm sorry."
"It's hard to make such a decision, isn't it?"
"Which is harder, to be determined to save the world at all costs or to die heroically?"
"To be brave like Albert Swan? Or to live?"
Barry said, "I don't know."
"No one will die." He heard Batman say, "If my plan succeeds, I can restore the entire universe... I... I will never give up on anyone, I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry too." Barry said, "I'm really sorry for letting you endure all this, it's really cruel."
But the next moment, Batman transmitted to him through memory the correct way to provide power to Batman, so Barry put down the revolver with some embarrassment.
"Oh, what? It turns out that he didn't collapse himself. I saw William Hand collapse himself in the memories you sent me. I thought..."
But even if it wasn't the case, for Barry, it was still no different from that.
He took out the octopus-like generator that Batman had given him. He knew that Batman had prepared what he wanted on it.
Barry started running, he was flying on the earth.
He ran very fast, very fast, faster than he had ever run on the cosmic treadmill. At the same time, Chen Tao in the outside world had synchronized with the Red Death and made what he should do.
The next moment...time began to flow backwards, and the heart of the anti-monitor was also trembling at the same frequency.
The influence of Barbatos, the spiritual power of the universe conqueror Starro guided by Greer, and the boost of the Flash Barry Allen.
All the puzzle pieces...are already complete.
And in the depths of the universe, Night Owl watched all this with cold eyes...
"Struggle, Batman, keep struggling, just like I did before."
"Those who entrusted everything to you, those who entrusted the hope of the whole world to you, they believed in you and died for you, they were brave, they were loyal, and you will eventually let them down, let everyone down."
"That's why I give up."
"It's too heavy... too heavy."