svetikya Chapter 555 This bright world is wonderful, but unfortunately it's not my home.
Chapter 555 This bright world is wonderful, but unfortunately it's not my home.
Chapter 555 This bright world is wonderful, but unfortunately it's not my home (5000-word long chapter)
I am Batman Chen Tao.
I once decided not to interfere with Genie's rescue mission, because I believed in the self-regulation capabilities of the trans-time flow.
From the very beginning, I never thought that the first Genie would be able to do those things.
Out of my moral fastidiousness, I tried my best not to become the one wielding the butcher's knife and causing terrible consequences. But in any case, things have developed beyond my expectations.
To save my world, I created a multiverse-level crisis, all of which I orchestrated.
To the multiverse, I am the evil of existence. Once the current timeline solidifies, I will instantly become a butcher who slaughters billions of beings. Even Barbatos would have to admit defeat when he sees me in the race to kill, since he only casually devoured two individual dark multiverses, while I have altered the timeline and could very well cause the collapse of the multiverse's timeline.
Parallax Mohal.
A terrifying monster that, at its peak, could directly confront a fully-fledged Anti-Monitor.
His most powerful moment came from "Zero Hour," so under normal circumstances, he should be frozen in the middle of a dried-up road, like an insect trapped in amber, just like the Anti-Monitor during "Crisis on Infinite Earths."
Moreover, since he was merely powerful and not a sixth-dimensional god like the Anti-Monitor, Parallax Demon Hal Jordan should never have had the opportunity to uncover the truth of the Hypertime Stream. He could not and would never be able to exert influence on the downstream of the Hypertime Stream like the Anti-Monitor.
He was welded to his own timeline until I shook the history of the emotional spectrum being passed on to the guardians of the universe, thus freeing him from the frozen road.
I originally thought that the time travel would quickly quell the chaos I had created. I originally thought I was just a tiny virus that had infiltrated the heart and caused a little trouble for the whole body... But as long as the body mobilizes its immune system, it can easily solve this little problem.
You ask me how I plan to save my own universe now that I've escaped to the Bright Multiverse all alone, but I can't get into it.
My original plan was very simple.
If the timeline cannot evolve a way to save my universe, I will help Genie A.R. 1. Under such pressure, in order to prevent the destruction of the universe, some team or the Justice League from the main universe will definitely pop out from some corner to help me solve the problem.
Although I am not capable of solving the problem, I can threaten the entire multiverse and force it to evolve a solution for me on its own.
But I was wrong.
I interpreted the trans-time flow as a conscious personification, but the truth is quite the opposite.
I mistook it for a deity or a wish-granting machine; I thought I had only brought on a minor cold.
But I brought with me a deadly crisis.
This journey into the heart is very likely to cause the "person" in the DC universe to die of a heart attack.
The Anti-Monitor and Superman Supreme are fighting Parallax Mohal. Chen Tao knows that not taking action now will have a much greater deterrent effect than actually doing so.
But what shattered all of this...
Then it was the person who appeared in front of him.
"We are the embodiment of justice."
Chen Tao knew that the [Avatar of Justice] team seemed more like a multiverse version of the Justice League than the Golden Vanguard and the Time Master.
Their main members are President Superman from Earth 23, who is a combination of the African American President Barack Obama and Clark Kent; and Thunder from Earth 7, who is the only survivor of Earth 7 after it was destroyed by the Void Hand. He looks like a copy of Thor from Marvel.
Red Runner from Earth 36, the Flash's counterpart; Captain Carrot from Earth 26, a cartoon rabbit version of Superman; Atom Batman from Earth 11, a combination of Atom and Batman; and Marvelous Mary from Earth 5, the sister of Shazam Billy Batson, who is the one who wields the power of living lightning.
Abin Sue, the Green Lantern from Earth 20; the mechanical-headed character from Earth 8; the DC version of Iron Man; and the Aquawoman from Earth 11, a gender-swapped Aquaman.
This is a very, very large organization, and the largest, most organized, and systematic hero organization in the DC multiverse at the multiverse level. It is a group of super-powered guardians dedicated to fighting against the life, future, and existence of the multiverse, and is not on the same level as scattered heroes like the Golden Vanguard and the Time Master.
They were a group of talented and powerful individuals who had defeated powerful multiverse threats, including but not limited to the Evil Nobles and the Void Hand. Chen Tao had not encountered them among the many heroes he had faced before, which served as evidence that the threats he had created were not yet sufficient to truly harm the Hypertime Stream and the multiverse.
Look! The little trouble I caused didn't even attract the attention of the embodiment of justice; only the Golden Vanguard and the Time Master showed up. This shows that the matter wasn't a big deal at all!
But...at this moment, right now.
The figure that appeared before Chen Tao was not the powerful embodiment of justice he remembered.
"I am President Superman."
The golden portal opened, and the first thing that came into view was President Superman, who had lost his right eye.
A large amount of golden light wrapped around President Superman, pulling him desperately behind the portal.
Chen Tao didn't understand what was happening. This shouldn't be happening. He stretched out his dragon claw and grabbed President Superman's arm. This action finally prevented President Superman from being pulled back into the portal behind him by the golden light. Only then did Chen Tao have a chance to see the other's face.
He clenched his teeth, his face, which resembled Obama's, was expressionless, and his missing eye was exposed to Chen Tao without any eye patch.
His high cheekbones accentuated his emaciated body and skeletal face, as if something had seized him and then devoured all his life force in a short time.
He wasn't wearing his signature red cape and blue S; instead, he was dressed in a tattered black jacket. If it weren't for his self-identification and the S-patterned shirt lining his worn-out black jacket, Chen Tao would hardly have recognized him.
The next person to emerge from the golden portal was Captain Carrot, who seemed to be fine.
Chen Tao stretched out his other dragon claw and grabbed its waist.
The force pulling them toward the portal behind him was simply too immense. Although Chen Tao, having absorbed the power of so many heroes, was not incapable of holding onto the two of them as the Barbatos Dragon, he felt as if he were tug-of-war with a block of tofu.
Captain Carrot is a rabbit-headed version of Superman, and his world is full of other small animals, all of whom are cartoon characters, like Tom the cat from "Tom and Jerry".
Besides possessing superhuman strength, Captain Carrot also has cartoonish characteristics. It has special physical rules, just like many cartoons. Even if its head is flattened and cut into pieces, Captain Carrot can quickly recover.
It can be said that in the entire Justice Incarnate team, even though President Superman is the leader, Captain Carrot is definitely the strongest fighter.
He appeared more energetic than the somber President Superman, but an indescribable weariness still lingered in his eyes. Like President Superman, the golden glow still enveloped them, dragging them backward.
Captain Carrot waved to Chen Tao: "Hi."
He waved.
But he only made that gesture because Captain Carrot didn't have hands.
His arms disappeared completely just above his wrists, as if his wrists had been erased by a comic book eraser.
That's impossible. Captain Carrot is a cartoon character, just like Talking Tom. Who can really hurt Talking Tom?
It can split a tree in two, shatter and then reform; if it leaks air, just blow on it and it will swell up again...
This is the true power of cartoon characters.
Shouldn't Captain Carrot's hand have grown back after just a couple of sips of milk?
There was almost no one around Chen Tao.
He dispatched the Time Master and the Golden Vanguard to find the time point that unlocked Darkseid's death, intending to ambush the Anti-Monitor. The other heroes with strong combat abilities were almost all devoured by him and became part of his power, while those with weak combat abilities stayed far away from the main battlefield.
The last thing to emerge from the golden portal was a giant bat-shaped combat robot. Chen Tao used his tail to lift the giant robot, and then the robot's chest opened, revealing the head of a Batman.
Although he was also enveloped in golden light like President Super and Captain Carrot, he did not appear to be a combatant, so despite being covered in dust, he was not injured.
He introduced himself as, "I am Wang Po-xi, the Chinese Batman."
He said, "The future is destroyed."
"Most of the Incarnations of Justice have perished in battle," President Superman said, barely suppressing the barely concealed hatred in his voice, even though he knew it couldn't be blamed on Batman. He then turned to look at Parallax Morhal, who was battling Superman Supreme and the Anti-Monitor in the distance.
"Aquawoman was cut in half, her robotic head was pulverized, Batman was obliterated in the microscopic realm... Everyone is dead, the future is collapsing, we tried everything, you understand? We tried everything!"
"Calm down, Calvin. (President's real name)."
Chinese Batman Wang Po-hee stopped President Superman: "We don't have time to talk about this."
While all of this was happening, Captain Carrot just stood by, head drooping like a real rabbit.
"Batman, I'll call you that for now. Let's get straight to the point. After 45 minutes of intense fighting, Superman the Supreme finally calmed down and started talking to Parallax Morhal."
Wang Po-hsi, the Chinese Batman, said, "They hit it off immediately."
Chen Tao's heart almost stopped for half a second.
He knew what this meant.
The invincible Superman and Parallax Demon Hal, who almost single-handedly ruled an era, join forces. When they rush from the upstream of the timeline to the reality of the current timeline, even Barbatos cannot stop these two terrifying monsters.
"Fifty minutes later, the Anti-Monitor and his puppets were almost killed. You feigned allegiance to Parallax Mohal in an attempt to betray him, but failed."
Chinese Batman Wang Po-hee said, "You were killed, and so were the Anti-Monitors."
"Before you died, you tried to activate the faulty circuit left on Genie I, but Parallax Morhal stopped you. He slowed down time on Earth 15 to one-thousandth of a microsecond, and he successfully found Genie I before you. Genie I was not teleported away by your backup plan."
"Fifty-one minutes later, the Time Trapped appeared on Earth-15. After you deliberately severed the connection between the Purple Lantern Ring on his hand and you, he found this place through the memories of Superman Supreme. This is the final self-strike by the Time Flow," President Superman said.
"And Superman the Younger punched the Time Trapped, completing the time paradox and making the Time Trapped disappear, but Earth-15 still exists." Wang Po-xi picked up where President Superman left off: "Let me explain that."
"No, let me speak," said President Superman.
"Fifty-two minutes later, the embodiment of justice arrived at the scene. Because you took Kong Kenan (the Chinese Superman) and the Red Son away, we lost the initiative in our fight against the Oracle. The Superman of the main universe was severely injured, but we still managed to defeat the Oracle and come to support the battlefield here."
(Note: Here, President Superman is referring to the "Multiverse Heroes" event, serialized in Superman v4 Volume 14. Due to the incident caused by Chen Tao, the Red Son and Concanello were taken away, leading to a deviation in the outcome of the event. The Red Son was supposed to play the role of warning, but he disappeared, and the Superman in the main universe was not warned in time, triggering a chain reaction that caused them to pay a greater price than in the comics to defeat the Oracle.)
"The Clark in the main universe was severely injured when he fought against the Oracle... He was simply unable to face Parallax Malfurion and Superman Supreme at the same time... He initially managed to fight these two monsters, but then Parallax Malfurion quickly killed him without giving him any time to regroup."
"One hour and 47 minutes later, Superman, the embodiment of justice, and the multiverse's army of Supermen, having lost their main universe, were slaughtered. Superman Supreme and Parallax Morhal entered the main universe."
Chinese Batman Wang Po-hee said, "Two months, ten days, and eleven hours later, the Justice League was defeated."
"Parallax Morhal and Superman Supreme set out to reshape the timeline. But our multiverse has been set up as a universe constantly in crisis."
(Note: Yes, this is the work of the creator of the DC multiverse, [Mother of the Multiverse, Papetua], who is also the mother of the three Anti-Monitor brothers, in an attempt to absorb the power of crisis.)
"Therefore, no matter how hard Hal and Superman the Supreme try, they can never create the perfect world they envision. No matter how ideal their design is, the world will inexplicably experience the disasters they hate the most. They cannot change any of this because it is the underlying logic of how the universe works, just like the hardware of a computer."
"Whatever actions they take in reality are like reinstalling a computer's operating system, but this cannot change the inherent flaws in the computer's hardware."
"So they kept trying to rewrite reality, time and time again. They went mad, they completely lost their reverence for life."
Anything that didn't meet their standards was deemed imperfect, and they wanted to start over. They rebooted reality multiple times, but could never achieve their desired result, and they felt absolutely no remorse for their killings.
Wang Po-hsi, the Chinese Batman, said:
"Three months later, due to multiple world reboots, the multiverse is on the verge of collapse. The last four members of the Incarnation of Justice, who are hiding in the Heavenly Dimension, along with myself, with the help of the Golden Vanguard and the Time Master, attempt to stop the collapse by traversing the hypertime stream, killing the Dark Multiverse version of the First Lantern that changed history, and even directly destroying Earth-15."
"We succeeded."
"But nothing has changed. When a hero commits an evil act that destroys the earth, the corruption of this righteous man is as harmful as poisoning a well."
"Their reality remains unchanged. The Flash and the Red Runner told us before they died that once history is altered, it can never be completely reversed..."
"What they're saying is true."
"Reality has changed slightly, but the final outcome remains the same. Parallax Malfur has captured us, and he has killed most of our remaining squad. The Golden Vanguard and the Time Master have fallen, and the Green Lantern Abin Sue and Marvelous Mary, the embodiment of justice, have also perished in battle."
"The last three living beings from the multiverse have come here."
"I should..." Chen Tao felt almost dizzy.
"We don't know. Go with your guts, Batman. You started this, and you're the only one who can stop it."
"We will do everything we can to disrupt the timeline at critical junctures. At crucial moments, we will try to erase the reality of Parallax Morhal's existence in the current timeline from the hypertime stream. This is the only time he will become weak."
Chen Tao felt the pulling force behind these three heroes growing stronger. Wang Po-xi, the Chinese Batman, grabbed Chen Tao's tail: "We've run out of options, but only you... and only you can change all of this..."
"Follow your own understanding, follow your own thoughts! Your thoughts are correct..."
"Always remember..."
"You are a hero!"
Chen Tao released his grip and watched the three of them disappear behind the teleportation portal.
"I understand," he murmured to himself.
He...always wants to run away.
I always want to escape the dark multiverse and run to the world of light.
He wanted to take everyone in his world with him; he wanted to force the entire world to submit, and he succeeded.
What a pity.
Chen Tao looked at the world before him.
"It's great, it's really great."
"This bright world is wonderful, it's just a pity..."
"This is not my home."
(End of this chapter)