aircannonsinc Chapter 698 Black Death Hero William Hand has been waiting for a long time!
Chapter 698 Black Death Hero William Hand has been waiting for a long time!
Chapter 698 Black Death William Hand has been waiting for a long time!
Chen Tao hadn't expected Brainiac to get involved with the Batman Who Laughs. He turned to ask him about it, then demanded that the Batman Who Laughs tell him the details.
"There aren't many details, but simply put, Brainiac believes he's become too deeply involved in our conflict, and his ultimate goal is simply to take away Reverse-Flash's Flashpoint universe."
Cough, ptooey. Chen Tao didn't believe a word of what he said. Even if the maniacal laughter wasn't exaggerated—was it really true? After fighting for so long, at this very moment? Just for a universe? Or was he joking?
But Chen Tao didn't say much, and instead let the Laughing Bat continue: "And Brainiac also said that the Anti-Monitors have gone a bit crazy, which frightens him."
Chen Tao waited for him to continue, but then the Laughing Bat shut up.
"and then?"
"That's all. That's all he said. I swear to God."
Chen Tao glanced at Barbatos.
"The Bat Who Laughs is telling the truth," Barbatos nodded.
Chen Tao frowned. He was certain that the Bat of Laughter hadn't told the whole story; it was just a montage lie, a little trick to create misunderstandings by telling only part of the truth. But he also knew that even if he killed the Bat now, he wouldn't tell.
Chen Tao gave up immediately.
Then he said, "Bat of Laughter, now that Barbatos has assigned you to me, I have an important task for you."
Barbatos blinked his big eyes beside him.
"And this task is—" Chen Tao was about to make a move before he could finish speaking, but suddenly stopped abruptly.
He originally wanted to kill the Laughing Bat. He couldn't kill it before because Barbatos was providing it with energy. But now that Chen Tao is Barbatos's Dragon, why should he keep this menace, the Laughing Bat?
The Bat Who Laughs's long journey to rescue Barbatos was indeed a service to Barbatos, but what does that have to do with Chen Tao? He simply wanted to act first and ask questions later, killing the Bat Who Laughs in a flash, regardless of Brainiac, the Bat Who Laughs had to die first.
He was about to make a move, but then he saw the devout, almost pilgrimage-like expression on the face of the Laughing Bat.
The Batman Who Laughs isn't one to seek death. Let me think about what happened after Wonder Woman tickled the Batman Who Laughs with a chainsaw in the comics.
The Batman Who Laughs had planned this all along. After being killed by Wonder Woman, he transplanted his brain into the body of a Batman from a dark multiverse in the Manhattan version of the story, and was immediately resurrected, gaining the powerful Manhattan Force.
In other words, if the Batman Who Laughs cannot be resurrected after death, he will not willingly appear in the face of danger that could kill him.
With the Black Death Emperor roaming around, Chen Tao finally made a decision. If he killed the Laughing Bat here, and the latter appeared in the Black Death Emperor's arms as a Black Lantern Corpse, that would be truly disgusting.
So he reached out and bound the Batman Who Laughs tightly with dark matter cosmic energy and fifth-dimensional divine power. Then he directly created a dark purple energy cube, sealing the Batman Who Laughs inside. Then he opened a portal and threw him back into the World Forge.
With a clang, the cage that Barbatos had made for the Batman Who Laughs came in handy again. After going around in circles, the Batman Who Laughs returned to its starting point, now with an extra layer of cube energy on its body.
Barbatos: ...
The Dark Knights watching from the sidelines: ...
At this moment, the laughing bat was like a praying mantis stuck in a cement brick.
Chen Tao turned his head and saw the way they were looking at him.
"Don't misunderstand," Chen Tao said. "Actually, I assigned a lot of tasks to the Batman Who Laughs in that dark purple energy cube. It was all part of the Batman Who Laughs's plan."
Barbatos and the others were still looking at Chen Tao.
"You cannot be deceived by appearances. You should reflect on yourselves and examine yourselves. Is it the Batman Who Laughs' fault that you cannot understand his plan?"
"Alright, let's put this matter aside for now," Barbatos said.
Then Chen Tao turned to look at the other members of the Dark Knights.
"We'll go back on our own," the drowned spirit said first.
She was previously defeated by the Bat of Laughter through a method that allowed her to control herself and reward herself, and she is still somewhat exhausted.
However, these exhaustions were mainly caused by the stagnant water creatures and had little to do with her own reward.
"What? No, you're going to stay here and provide energy for Barbatos."
Chen Tao said, then he turned to Barbatos:
"Lord Barbatos, where is your Dark Multiverse Legion?"
"Wait a minute, there's something else," Chen Tao then heard the drowned spirit say.
She nodded to the Dawn Lamp, which then silently walked up and used its ring to drag the kneeling figure next to it over and throw it in front of Chen Tao.
The violent movement caused the figure to let out a dying gasp, and its body, under the slightly reduced gravity on the lunar surface, fell to the ground as insignificantly as a feather.
Given the nature of the Dawn Lantern, it would definitely fight with the drowned vengeful spirits for actual control of the Dark Knights; it certainly wouldn't just obediently do as the drowned vengeful spirits said.
But with Chen Tao standing there, he already knew about Chen Tao's ability to possess his own power. Just based on this alone, he wouldn't dare to step forward and jump around.
"Who is this? The first Genie?"
Chen Tao carefully observed the other party. Apart from the cloak that covered his eyes and appearance, this guy looked exactly like the first Genie.
Chen Tao attempted to invade the other party's mind using his telepathic abilities, but was quickly blocked. Chen Tao then instructed Barbatos:
"Go and read his memories, then share them with me."
The shadowy figure lying on the ground, Huo Rong, felt a jolt in his heart.
He began to hesitate, wondering whether to strike now. He still had one last chance and the strength to do so. If it had been before…
Wait, what was he doing before? Shadow Calamity suddenly felt his mind go blank.
His body stiffened.
Why? Where did my memories go?
The next second, that thought vanished from his mind, replaced by a complete focus on how to escape from Batman.
But in the end, they were disheartened to discover that no matter what they did, it was impossible to do such a thing.
"I am fighting against the Anti-Monitor Dragon."
Barbatos refused to comply with Batman's instructions.
"All right."
Chen Tao had to do it himself. He tried to mobilize some of Barbatos's power and then forcefully broke open the brain of the Shadow Calamity.
He quickly scanned the other person's memories.
That's right, this is the first Genie. The Emperor Joker planned to replace him with the Time Trapped, so the first Genie was planted here to ambush him and Barbatos. Thus, the real first Genie was taken by the Emperor Joker. Previously, Brainiac contacted the Batman Who Laughs and gave the first Genie as a gift to the Batman Who Laughs.
That's all he saw in the other person's memory.
He wanted to use Shadow Bane to find out what Brainiac and the Batman Who Laughs had talked about, but he noticed that they deliberately avoided talking about the First Lantern, seemingly to keep him in the dark.
The two were on guard, which made Chen Tao somewhat regretful, but he didn't care too much.
But the more important information he finally found in the memories of this "First Lantern" was that the Emperor Joker had been defeated by the Anti-Monitor Dragon. This was good news; at least he no longer had to worry about the Emperor Joker causing any more trouble.
He turned his head and asked the question he had wanted to ask Barbatos but hadn't had a chance to finish:
"When will your Dark Multiverse Legion arrive?"
"I'm recalling them from upstream of the hyper-time stream and other messy places, but it'll take some time."
Barbatos said, "So now is the time for your energy to resonate with mine. I can sense that the enemy vying with me for parallax has gathered the power of all his allies, attempting to finish the battle, but..."
Barbatos had initially appeared confident of victory. In fact, his tug-of-war with the Anti-Monitor Dragon had stabilized, and by gradually utilizing the boosts brought by the return of the Barbatos Dragon, he had now gained the upper hand in a de facto sense.
But before he could finish speaking, Barbatos suddenly let out a muffled groan and then couldn't utter a single word. Meanwhile, in mid-air not far away, Parallax Morhal, who had been punching his own central nervous system with both hands, suddenly stopped abruptly, leaving only one hand to keep hitting his cheek.
"Barbatos".
Chen Tao said, "Answer me, Barbatos."
He reached behind his back and made a tactical squad gesture to the Dark Knights, indicating that they should spread out and prepare for battle, but none of the Bruces understood it.
Chen Tao: ...
It's likely that the tactical hand gestures differ between different Dark Multiverses, rather than that they simply don't know them. Chen Tao could only give them instructions telepathically, so they quickly dispersed and surrounded Parallax Morhal in a pincer formation.
Chen Tao placed his hand on Barbatos's back shoulder, offering support in the manner of the Barbatos Dragon.
Sigh, what else can we do? It's already a dragon, the die is cast, what can we do now?
My helping the villain was a last resort, you know.
He whispered to Barbatos, "Can you hear me?"
Then Chen Tao turned his head and saw that a huge fleshy ball had suddenly grown out of the neck of Parallax Mohal not far away.
Isn't that Chen Tao's two-headed monster??
It's plagiarism! Someone's plagiarizing!
Chen Tao was beginning to realize something. He'd never seen a pig run before, even if he hadn't seen pork. He was an old hand at controlling others using methods like dual-headed transformations. In an instant, he appeared in front of the bulge, then raised his hand, and a bone spur, like a blade, formed on his forearm.
His arm suddenly swelled to at least three or four times its original size. Physical enhancements, such as those from the Destroyer Dark Father, were superimposed in an instant after the silver light particles swept over it. He mustered all his strength and slashed at the huge ball of flesh, hoping that he could temporarily cut it off to slow it down... but all that was produced was a dull thud.
Boom!
Chen Tao's heart sank. A ray of green energy was enveloped around Parallax Mohal. This was the automatic protective effect of the green will energy in the emotional spectrum. But before this, all of Parallax Mohal's power had been turned into bombs, leaving him completely powerless to resist. He was unable to release this self-protection.
"You almost killed me," Parallax Morhal said from the side.
"Then you can't use this willpower energy to stop me," Chen Tao said to him. "Are you out of your mind? Can't you see how abnormal this bulge is?"
"No, but the problem is... this energy beam is completely beyond my control! Ah!!!"
Before he could finish speaking, Parallax Mohal suddenly let out a scream. Then, right in front of Chen Tao, the bulge started to crack and peel away, and a withered, orange face belonging to the Anti-Monitor appeared on Parallax Mohal's body in a disgusting and bizarre way.
Chen Tao looked at the thing that had grown out in front of him, and then he realized what the Anti-Monitor Dragon had done.
"You monster..."
A tail slowly grew from Parallax Morhal's coccyx. The Anti-Monitor Dragon still held about three-quarters of the Barbatos Dragon slots, which were now his only hope of summoning his true form from upstream in the Hypertime Stream.
"When the Emperor Joker captured Parallax Morhal, did the Anti-Monitor leave a hidden device inside him...? But there must have been a price to pay."
Chen Tao took a few steps back, watching as the other party let out a loud scream.
He gritted his teeth, then turned to look at Barbatos:
"Can we win?"
Barbatos was speechless. Not far from the moon, countless members of the Dark Multiverse Legion were refreshed on the lunar surface and then quickly absorbed by Barbatos to provide him with energy.
"Black Death Emperor!" The Anti-Monitor Dragon, which occupies a part of Parallax Morhal's body, called out.
And with this call...
The Black Lantern energy of the Black Death Emperor was also rapidly gathering on the body of Parallax Demon Hal. Chen Tao heard the roars and howls of the Parallax Demon Hal's own will, but it was no use. The Black Lantern energy was gradually surrounding Hal and transforming him into a real Black Lantern corpse.
In a corner where no one paid attention, William Hand, who was lying on the ground, finally slowly revealed a smile.
He saw his teacher, Batman, rushing forward to try to stop him. He knew that once the Black Death Emperor joined forces with the Anti-Monitor and completely took control of Parallax Morhal's body, Barbatos would truly be in danger of being injured.
He knows it all, he knows it all.
He orchestrated all of this.
It's been so long, so much time has passed.
His plan had finally reached the point where it was about to succeed.
The situation today, the events of today.
William Hand, the Black Death, has been waiting for a long time.
Please be aware.
(End of this chapter)