louisehourcade Chapter 920 The Anti-Monitor Bat and the Laughing Mandrak's Bat
Chapter 920 The Anti-Monitor Bat and the Laughing Mandrak's Bat
Chapter 920 The Anti-Monitor Bat and the Laughing Mandrak's Bat
I am the Bat of Laughter.
Well, how should I put it? I basically planned out most of the problems I could think of, and put them...
The situation was guided in the way I wanted, and even if there were a few missteps, I was able to quickly make up for them with other methods. Ultimately, things developed in the direction I wanted, but in any case, it all happened too fast.
The unnamed old dragon's interference caused my plan to deviate significantly, swerving completely into situations that I had previously anticipated and could accept.
But the only problem now is...
This has gone a little off track and is getting a bit out of control, both for me and for the Nameless Dragon. Although I don’t know the Nameless Dragon’s specific plan, I’m still pretty sure that whatever he originally intended, it wasn’t really about killing Supergirl Kara and then letting the Anti-Monitor escape from the upstream of the Hypertime Stream.
And this is the simplest of problems: after he let the Anti-Monitor escape, only one of the three key factors that led to the completion of the Crisis on Infinite Earths remained—Old Superman. Maintaining the reality of the entire DC multiverse was like a fishing line tied to him alone; if he made any unusual move, it would collapse at any moment.
Look, these are all the good deeds done by the nameless old dragon. It's the most interesting joke ever. Who is the real supervillain after all...?
Everything collapsed rapidly like dominoes, and none of it had anything to do with me.
Sometimes I can't quite figure out how the nameless old dragon plans to solve the problem of the anti-monitor escaping from the upstream of the time flow.
Even if the Anti-Monitor is able to drive away the Mother of the Multiverse, once he gains power, he will inevitably restore the entire DC multiverse to its history of complete dominance, in order to seize power and thus fight against the Primal Judge...
In this respect, the Anti-Monitor's strategy is to confront the enemy head-on, which is completely different from the cowardly escape of his brother, the World Maker... Hehe!
But in my opinion, neither of them makes much sense... My mind is racing with ideas for creating great comedies, but I don't have the time or opportunity to put them into practice right now. Oh, my dear, it's such a shame.
But the fact is:
The nameless old dragon has gone way too far, to a degree that has even surprised me. If Perpetua truly begins to rule the entire DC multiverse, or if the Anti-Monitor truly becomes the ruler of the entire DC multiverse after defeating Perpetua…
Oh, I simply can't imagine how boring that world would be.
That's why I'm actively trying to prevent either of these possible futures from happening and to create a balance between things.
To be honest, I didn't want to release Perpetua at all, but due to Mandrak's instincts, even though I had severed my self-awareness from the complete connection with Mandrak and was even prepared to abandon this body at any time, I still couldn't stop Mandrak from making efforts to save Mother of the DC multiverse.
Although I have severed ties with Mandrakal, at some point upstream in the Hypertime Stream, Mandrakal and I were still of one mind. This is what I hated most in the first place. The existence of the Hypertime Stream means that as long as you have done something or established a connection with someone, you will be forever bound together.
Severing the connection with Mandrakal in the upper reaches of the timeline is not something that can be done in an instant.
In short, I tried to take away half a year from the DC multiverse, but was stopped. Then I tried to take away 52 seconds, but was stopped by Genie A.E.
This matter should have ended here on the upstream timeline of the hyper-time stream, but Papetua and Mandrake turned it into an ambiguous concept...
History has been rewritten and overturned too many times regarding this matter. I myself don't even remember whether I actually took it back then. But in any case, the 52 seconds are indeed in my hands now, and Mandrake also has the ability to use those 52 seconds.
Therefore, I allowed Mandrake to rescue Papetua.
Then, I originally intended to use the three sixth-dimensional gods of the DC multiverse to send Papetua, who had not yet reached her peak, back to the wall, so that Mother of All Things could experience a one-day, sleepless trip through the DC multiverse. But now it seems that the plan has completely gone astray and even Grandma can't find it anymore. It's all the fault of the nameless old dragon, damn it.
Even so, the situation remains under my control. My backup plan, the Hand of the Void, and his minions, the Malevolent Nobles, are already in place, ready to intervene as a third force on the battlefield at any time. As long as I hold the position of Mandrolak—yes, I am the Bat who laughs—I will certainly curse him when my connection with Mandrolak is harmful to me, but I will also use him without hesitation if it is beneficial to me.
Batman has always been a pragmatist, right?
But I still have some hesitation.
The current situation has been completely ruined by the nameless old dragon. With the outcome of the three sixth-dimensional gods joining forces to suppress Perpetua being completely shattered by the escaped World Builder, the situation has now completely changed to either the Anti-Monitor overpowering Perpetua or Perpetua overpowering the Anti-Monitor.
For both me and the nameless old dragon, the situation is still more favorable for the anti-monitors than for Papetua.
After all, the Anti-Monitor, or rather the All-Victorious Anti-Monitor, has been proven to have been defeated by the superheroes during Crisis on Infinite Earths; he is an enemy that has been defeated before.
Compared to the multiverse's mother, Papetua, who has never been defeated and whose defeat we must find ourselves, the Anti-Monitors are clearly easier to deal with, having failed before, though that may sound hellish.
Hehehe...
Okay, now they're going to face a situation where the anti-surveillance agents rule everything.
No! Absolutely not. Neither the Counter-Monitor nor Perpetua would be an acceptable outcome for either of them, the two schemers, the Nameless Old Dragon.
The only thing that made the Batman Who Laughs hesitate was whether he should put the Void Hand back into the DC multiverse, turning the confrontation between the two into a three-way battle. Although the Void Hand could not exert its full power in the DC multiverse because it had not destroyed one of the artifacts, the Miracle Machine, just as Perpetua had not found his totality.
But no matter what, the three-way battle is still too chaotic. The Batman Who Laughs is worried about whether he can really snatch chestnuts from the fire, or whether he will completely capsize.
in case……
If only there were some other way.
Is there any way to help the Batman Laugh manipulate Mandrake instead of still being controlled and influenced by him, or to allow the Nameless Old Dragon to control the Anti-Monitor?
In this way, by influencing the Watchers through Mandrakalak, if two sixth-dimensional gods joined forces, they might be able to slowly push the Mother of the Multiverse back onto the Origin Wall without needing to bring in external aid like the Hand of the Void.
But this idea is impossible to realize. The Laughing Bat and the Nameless Old Dragon have been entangled for countless years, and neither can defeat the other.
The Batman Who Laughs shook his head slightly. Even if he didn't want to carry out his plan, he had no choice but to involve the Void Hand. It seemed that Perpetual was already suffering setbacks under Batman's scheme, and the Anti-Monitor, nearing its peak, was directly overpowering his mother. The West Wind had prevailed over the East Wind.
However, at that moment, the Bat of Laughter suddenly sensed someone trying to break through space and appear between him and the Evil Noble. This startled him. He immediately used the connection he had obtained from Mandraklak to shield the Evil Noble from the perception of this fluctuation. Then, he lowered his head slightly.
He received a meeting invitation through telepathic means, using unseen mental abilities.
The meeting was for...
"Wait, the nameless old dragon?"
The Laughing Bat was slightly taken aback, as this was somewhat unexpected, and then a strange expression of maniacal laughter appeared on his face.
This was not unexpected.
The next second, he disappeared from his spot and sat down in front of a table, while on the other side of the table was an unnamed old dragon dressed like a player of a wasteland survival game.
The Laughing Bat looked up at the hall that seemed to be formed by the telepathic abilities of the nameless old dragon. They appeared in a desert with yellow sand everywhere, and the outside of the semi-transparent dome was the endless desert.
A desolate desert, much like the heart of an unnamed old dragon.
The Batman Who Laughs should have noticed all of this, but he was far too complacent. He had considered that Batman Dragon might come to him for cooperation, and although he himself didn't believe it, he had indeed thought about it.
So all of this was part of his plan.
The mere realization that this was part of his plan already pleased the Bat of Laughter.
Dots of flowers...
Tapping lightly on the table, the nameless old dragon observed the fallen Batman dragon, who had experienced countless time points in its timeline. For the Batman, he had always been lurking in the outside world, so when Perpetua created this timeline, he never focused on him, and naturally, he couldn't have set it up like the Batman dragon, who was constantly being hunted down.
If it's not set up, it doesn't exist. The timeline created by Papetua is not a truly evolved future that flows through time, but rather a target that Papetua created at the point where he was shot in order to reverse cause and effect. Many things are empty.
For example, if the Batman Who Laughs were in the normal timeline, during the entire process when Perpetual ruled the DC multiverse, he would definitely not have done nothing. However, in this created universe, the Batman Who Laughs's actions were not taken into account by Perpetual, so he simply passed through the years like an NPC, doing nothing, until the point in time when she completely ruled was formed.
Simply put, this timeline only shows the present; the past is all fiction.
Papetua built a new road on the hyper-timeline in an attempt to cover the reality of the hyper-timeline, but he only built the middle section, and the rest is not yet finished. He just drew a sign that it was about to be built.
Therefore, after arriving on this timeline, the Batman Who Laughs basically had no intention of synchronizing himself.
Without being specifically targeted, the Batman Who Laughs is a complete outsider in this timeline. No matter what happens in the main universe, the Batman Who Laughs is always flying his spaceship around in various alternate dimensions, doing nothing, completely uninvolved in any wars, as quiet as a big baby. As a result, he has virtually no memories of this timeline.
Actually, the Batman Who Laughs made a mistake here. He subconsciously confused the Nameless Old Dragon with Batman's Dragon. He thought that since he had received the memories of the Batman Who Laughs from this timeline without any problem, he subconsciously assumed that Batman's Dragon did not either.
He believed that Papetua had not subjected Batman Dragon to various forms of torture when creating this timeline, and that these tortures had never altered his mental state.
The Laughing Bat was killed by First Encounter, but he himself had no idea.
He thought Batman Dragon was still the same Batman Dragon, without considering that it would only take 200 years to transform the mindless monster Doomsday, who lacked intelligence, into a hero who could temporarily replace Superman's duties. And wouldn't Batman Dragon, who was being hunted and tormented by Perpetua and constantly trying to suppress his spirit, become something strange in this new timeline?
He was still using the same old methods he used to deal with Batman Dragon, believing that the other party had no bottom line.
Even though he does things that harm his teammates, he still has a bottom line and is a superhero. Superheroes can be manipulated by him, the Bat Who Laughs. He is best at playing with the emotions of superheroes and then doing all sorts of cruel things to them for his own amusement.
The Batman Who Laughs couldn't resist doing the same thing to Batman Dragon.
In short, the two of them sat down and began negotiating with each other.
The laughing bat's face met the other's serious one.
Then he heard the nameless old dragon speak. His voice was exactly the same as that of the Batman Dragon from before. It was a voice-changing technique. The nameless old dragon was no longer the same as before. He had aged a lot, but he still used the voice of his youth.
This confused the Batman Who Laughs, making him even more convinced that the person in front of him was Batman Dragon, and causing him to judge the person in front of him based on the same logic he used to judge Batman Dragon.
"I possess the Star Brain, which I obtained from the Batman of the main universe."
The Bat Who Laughs heard the other say, "And you once gave me a way to summon mind robots, at the cost of incurring Mandrak's malice. Of course, I know there must have been other costs involved, even greater costs, which you didn't tell me, but that doesn't matter."
He heard the other person say, "At least this time we can cooperate..."
(Note: Chapter 843)
"We can join forces to replace the anti-surveillancers... and the surveillancers, respectively."
(End of this chapter)