Chapter 1731 Bruce Wayne and the Prisoner of the Batcave (XIV)
Chapter 1705 Bruce Wayne and the Prisoner of the Batcave (XIV)
"So, you found the source of darkness in Gotham?" Constantine asked, shaking the wine glass in his hand.
Schiller skipped the process of finding the scales. He simply said that he felt the same power as the darkness in Gotham on the scales. Others in the room did not continue to ask about the specific principle. After all, magic does not need to be so clear.
"What is that?" Bruce leaned forward and asked.
"Barbatos, the dark dragon, lives in the abyss under the surface of the earth. He is the god of destruction and darkness. He has been lurking in the shadows of the universe for a long time, peeking at this world."
"It's the eyes we see." Bruce whispered, then he looked up at Schiller and asked, "Who is he?"
Schiller shook his head slightly. In fact, he knew the background story of Barbatos, but obviously he couldn't produce any reliable sources of information now. He couldn't say that he guessed it himself, right?
Moreover, Barbatos' origin is not very important. To put it bluntly, he is a pet dog that ate his master. At the beginning of the DC universe, there were two brothers and a third person. This third person was the World Forger, who lived in the World Forge, which is now the Dark Multiverse.
He knocked out the universe there, put the good ones on the plate, and fed the bad ones to the dogs. Barbatos was the dog, but after eating too much, he felt that he was very capable, so he ate the Forger, and then those dark universes that should have been abandoned formed the Dark Multiverse.
It is useless to say this now. According to the timeline, the unlucky World Forger may have been eaten, otherwise the space that little Bruce went to could not be completely dark, which means that Barbatos has already mastered the Dark Multiverse.
"What does this young Bruce mean by the door and the key?" Strange frowned. He watched all this from the perspective of a bystander and speculated: "This little Bruce dripped his blood on the metal, and they had a wonderful reaction, and then his soul flew to the space where Barbatos was, which proves that there are problems with his blood and the metal in Gotham."
Then he looked up at Schiller and said, "Since you are behind this, tell me your plan in full."
"It all starts with you." As a result, Schiller looked at Strange in an unusual way. Strange was stunned and didn't understand what this had to do with him.
He looked around and found that everyone in the room was looking at him, so he said in surprise: "Why are you looking at me? I am the only outsider here."
"Have you ever thought about why you came here?"
"Of course it's because you are narrow-minded!" Strange glared at Schiller and said, "Just because I cut off my arm, you made a hole between the two universes and kicked me in. You actually have the nerve to ask me why I came here?!"
Schiller shook his head, took a sip of wine and smiled, "Forgive me for only regretting your radical words, but it is not entirely because of this."
"Ancient One." Schiller spit out a name, but without any consciousness of explaining his accomplices, he started talking on his own.
"Just when I was studying the scale and guessing its true owner, Ancient One came to me and brought me news of a multiverse serial murder case."
"At first I was surprised. Who could travel through the multiverse to murder others? Later, Ancient One told me about her experiences during this period, and I finally knew what was going on."
As Schiller told the story, everyone in the room began to glimpse the tip of the iceberg of another huge plan.
After retiring, Ancient One began to roam in the universe, but as she roamed, a single universe was not enough for her to swim, so she began to travel between universes, of course with the help of the power of eternity.
But the eternity of this universe is unlucky. He had a person like Schiller, which led him to prefer working overtime in the big world rather than coming back. He would go on business trips whenever he had time, and would rather hand over the mess of managing the universe to his colleagues than take a second look.
As a result, the Ancient One often went on business trips with the Eternals. Whenever the Life Tribunal Adam in the Big World held a meeting, he would summon all the Eternals in the multiverses. Many Eternals would also bring the retired Ancient Ones from their universes.
In this way, the Ancient Ones began to communicate with each other, or it could be said that the Ancient Ones in Schiller's universe finally joined the group chat.
At first, everyone just exchanged some experiences in magic and spiritual cultivation, shared adventures and new things in the universe, and especially exchanged experiences in beating up demons.
But the good times didn't last long. Not long after, many Ancient Ones began to complain in the group that their chosen successor Strange died not long after becoming the Supreme Sorcerer, and the cause of death was a mystery, as if he died in his sleep.
The Ancient Ones found out after communicating in the group that this situation was not an isolated case, nor was it an accident at all, but that there was a mysterious serial killer who was constantly hunting Strange.
As soon as this strange incident happened, the Ancient One of Schiller's universe immediately became alert, because she found that the Strange victims were relatively young, and most of them were killed shortly after becoming the Supreme Sorcerer.
On average, the Ancient One found that the Strange of her universe was also relatively young, and at the same time, he possessed very powerful power, and was likely to become the target of the murderer.
The Ancient One wanted to remind Strange to be vigilant, but she thought that there was no such thing as a thief who could not be on guard against thieves for a thousand days, and the Ancient One was not a defensive player. She preferred to take the initiative, so she found Schiller.
At that time, a certain plan had been lingering in Schiller's mind, but the structure was not clear enough, and when the Ancient One found him, he immediately had a new idea.
As we all know, after the gray fog swallowed up Knull, obtained his memory, and knew his true identity, the Cthulhu mythology system became a difficult hurdle that could not be bypassed.
Cthulhu is more like a style rather than a specific subject matter, which means that their shadows occasionally appear in many European and American literature and film and television works. Before, Schiller was not sure whether there were only the Eye Demon and the Cthulhu-style characters mentioned in the Marvel Universe, or whether the complete Outer God system had been hidden behind the stars.
When the Nameless Mist appeared, this question had a definite answer. At least the world he was in had Outer Gods, and it was the Outer God system that was generated around Azathoth.
In this case, other well-known Outer Gods should also be there, but even Greedy knows that the value of Outer Gods is not high. They are neither gods of cosmic rules nor energy bodies. They are more like a natural phenomenon with a polluting nature. It is not easy to get the wool.
In fact, Schiller should be satisfied if he got the Nameless Mist, but who made Schiller's name greedy? Again, he is good at squeezing out all the value of everything. Even a stone can squeeze out a few drops of oil, let alone an Outer God?
It is not realistic to deal with the Outer Gods directly, because the original style of the Cthulhu Mythos system is madness and chaos, but because of this, they have a perfect use, that is, to be an oversized alarm clock.
As we all know, Schiller is very good at customizing alarm clocks. His creed is that the business may not be negotiated, but you can't not answer my call. If you can't answer the call, it must be because the ringtone is not loud enough.
After guessing the real owner of the scale, Schiller certainly wanted to call and ask if it was really as the original Schiller said, Barbatos had not been fleeced.
But it is difficult to call this master-devouring dog. If you rashly open the door to the dark multiverse, what if it is not Barbatos who comes in, but other disgusting things, wouldn't it be asking for trouble?
So Schiller decided to find a way to throw a microphone at Barbatos. It doesn't matter how good the call quality is. The important thing is not to get shit on him, and don't stick to him.
But this is also a technical job. First of all, Schiller needs to create a believer of the Outer God, so there needs to be an Outer God. Originally, the Nameless Mist could also be competent, but Schiller thought about it. The so-called mop covered with shit is like Lu Bu in the world. The Nameless Mist is not aggressive enough. Schiller chose and chose, and finally decided on Naya.
On the one hand, there is a resonance between the fun people and the fun gods. On the other hand, Naya walks the dog and fights cocks every day in the human world. He is idle anyway. Let him busy and he can harm fewer people.
After the ringtone is determined, the material of the microphone must be determined. Of course, the material must be Batman. Barbatos went to such great lengths just to let Batman open the door, so Schiller naturally gave him Batman.
Schiller's original plan was to find an evil Batman from the evil universe, and guide Naya to attach his old seal to this Batman, that is, to smear shit on the mop, and then throw it in front of Barbatos to test whether his wool has grown longer.
But Bruce suddenly had an idea to bring little Bruce here, wanting to prove that he was not the worst at psychology in all the universes. Although this was not the best candidate, it was barely usable.
So, Arrogant played the role of a magic professor here, directing and acting in a whole Bruce Wayne and the Sorcerer's Stone. He originally planned to tamper with the Sorcerer's Stone and bring little Bruce to Marvel through the channel that Strange came from, but Bruce got ahead of him and directly spread rumors about Lucifer in heaven to let Lucifer build an exclusive channel and bring little Bruce over.
In Schiller and Ancient One's plan, Ancient One reported the death of Strange in the multiverse to Eternity, and then went to investigate the case with other Ancient Ones, which would inevitably put a certain amount of pressure on the murderer. The murderer did not want to be found, and would definitely be eager to get power or find a way to escape, which would speed up her touch of Schiller's universe, and also speed up his hook.
While the Ancient One was not on Earth, Greed let the Gray Mist remotely control the Book of the Dead to appear in the Ancient One's study. Greedy originally wanted Bruce Jr. to find the book and teach him how to summon Nyarlathotep through the knowledge in the book, but unexpectedly Helen got there first, and the Book of the Dead finally fell into Harley's hands.
It was also very simple to seduce Nyarlathotep. As an Outer God who could understand humans, his method of seduce humans was different from the other Outer Gods' forced indoctrination of knowledge. His method was more elegant. In short, Nyarlathotep was a liar.
Any liar knew that if his past was clearly written in black and white and widely publicized, it would be difficult to deceive people again in the future.
So, when Nyarlathotep learned that there was a book of the dead that contained all the knowledge about the Outer Gods, he was eager to destroy it.