Chapter 298: Darkseid's Ambition

Chen Tao hid in the dark, quietly watching Darkseid negotiate with the [Source] (some Chinese translations are translated as Origin) behind the Origin Wall.

He knew that this was not an exchange he was qualified to participate in, and he only needed to wait quietly for Darkseid to get things done.

As a giant flaming hand wrote and drew on the wall, Bane soon fell from the Origin Wall. He floated and swam in the void behind the wall, his strong body like a fallen leaf.

Chen Tao flew over and caught him.

"Well done." He said.

He held Bane by the back of the neck and looked into Darkseid's malicious eyes.

"It's time to finish now, Batman."

Chen Tao heard Darkseid say, "It's time to fulfill your promise."

"One more thing." Chen Tao said, "I ask you to remove the control of Hank Henshaw, the cyborg Superman, and Kara Kent, Superman's cousin."

The malice in Darkseid's eyes became more intense, as if he was about to drip out omega energy, and he did.

"Okay, I will do this. After you help me deal with Superboy-Prime, I swear I will never continue to play with their minds."

Darkseid was very cooperative.

With such a fierce face, he looked as easy to talk to as the vendors who sold low-purity flour at the gate of Arkham Asylum.

The favorite thing for those vendors is to buy flour and give away grenades. Anyway, the price of grenades has been reduced to the level of burritos because of the internal circulation of Penguin. After buying it, you can fly to Arkham Asylum while shooting at it to save your most admired idol.

Although Darkseid didn't have the flattering smile of the vendors, his help to Batman was as cheap as the flour sold by the vendors.

Even Bane, who looked listless and was held in Chen Tao's hand like a big cat, found something wrong.

He wanted to say something, but he shut up tactfully and let Chen Tao and Darkseid continue to talk.

"Before I come to help you in the end, I still have some things to do on Earth. I will come to help after I finish it. It will not take more than two Earth hours at most."

Although Darkseid's stone face did not change at all, anyone who was not blind could see that his expression had become slightly colder.

The Dark Lord did not reply immediately. He floated in front of Batman and just looked at him.

The atmosphere was a little stagnant for a while, and Bane began to secretly try to mobilize the four different natural energies in his body.

He was very proficient in using the three powers of red, green and black, but he was never very good at the metal spirit.

Fortunately, the Metal Spirit seemed to be controlled by someone, and never made a fuss like the Red, Green and Black forces.

But in the end, Darkseid did not act as Bane thought. He lowered his head and looked down at Batman:

"It's up to you. That monster has been destroying my planet for so long, and two hours won't make a difference."

He said, "Two hours. Just the last two hours. We'll start when the time is up--"

He looked at Batman and said, "Then we have a deal, and you can't break your promise."

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"Two hours?"

Two minutes later, Chen Tao and Bane appeared on Ismote, the base of the Red Lantern Corps and the location of the Red Lantern Central Energy Battery.

Bane finally recovered some mobility at this time. He broke free from Batman's cat-like posture not long ago and chose to walk on the ground with his feet.

It's not that he didn't want Batman to fly with him. He had just proposed to stand on Batman's back and fly like a skateboard... like a bat, but was sternly rejected by the other party.

Since the Red Lantern Corps was just founded, this place was still like before, with messy debris and ruins everywhere, as well as desert-like hillsides.

They took two steps, and soon, the huge Red Lantern Central Energy Battery came into view, and below it was Atrocitus who was still dancing, and William Hank who was surrounded by the magic circle.

Chen Tao signaled Bane to accompany him and wait for Atrocitus to finish.

"Hey, Bat." Bane said, "You know Darkseid only gave you two hours, and you should know that this guy must have some conspiracy."

Bane said, "I am a conspirator--"

(Batman's eyes)

"At least I used to be." Bane explained, "That's not the point. The point is that I can smell the conspiracy that the other party is almost about to express."

"When I want to achieve a certain goal..." Bane began to analyze himself, at least he has a lot of say in this regard:

"I usually give up something that I don't think is too important in exchange for the key to achieve that goal.

I admit that sometimes my plans lack imagination and humor, but I must admit that Darkseid's behavior now perfectly fits the characteristics I mentioned."

He said: "Darkseid is so cooperative, he must be planning something, have you made up your mind?"

"If you can see it, then of course I can see it."

Bane soon heard Batman's answer: "Darkseid's conspiracy? I think so."

He turned his head and looked at Bane: "But for Darkseid, absolute strength can directly break everything. A conspiracy that does not reach a certain level is a joke to the Lord of Apokolips. And what is really worth our Majesty Darkseid's careful planning..."

It's nothing more than manipulating the Supreme Little Superman and turning him into a thug like Supergirl Kara or Cyborg Superman.

However, Chen Tao did not tell this sentence to Bane. Some things are most convenient to keep to oneself.

He casually found an excuse: "I don't know what target Darkseid is planning so hard for, let's take it one step at a time."

Darkseid was so excited to attack Supergirl and Cyborg when he saw them. He himself has a tendency to like to collect powerful subordinates, not to mention that Superboy Prime had let him taste the taste of being beaten on the ground with his face pressed.

That powerful monster is simply a natural assistant for Darkseid on his way to rule all living beings!

How could he not try his best to get him?

There is only one purpose that can make Darkseid so submissive, and that is for greater interests.

And what he did also has a very suitable opportunity: Superboy Prime was severely damaged!

Darkseid trusts Batman, just as Batman trusts Darkseid. Maybe talking about this so-called trust sounds ridiculous, but it is really happening.

Chen Tao never doubted that Darkseid could defeat Superboy Prime with his help, and vice versa.

It was based on the expectation that he would never lose against Superboy-Prime that Darkseid dared to have the ambition to control Superboy-Prime, instead of directly pasting him back to the Origin Wall.

But there was no need to tell Bane about these.

Chen Tao noticed the time and saw that Atrocitus's movements were slowly slowing down and gradually ending. Chen Tao had asked Atrocitus how long it would take to perform the ritual before, and now the time was just right.

And this was one of the more important reasons why he came here, he needed to personally escort Atrocitus's spell.

After all, Atrocitus's purpose was only to eliminate the darkness in William Hand's heart. The essence of this spell was no different from the black hand William Hand in the comic history who was taken away by the Green Lantern of Mercy, and his mind was directly distorted, turning into a self-repentant person.

However, in the process of casting the spell, it was very likely to happen that an accident would occur. If William Hand was accidentally killed, well, that would be a lot of fun.

In a timeline called "Flashpoint", since Green Lantern Abin Sur did not die, Hal Jordan did not become a Green Lantern, so he was unable to stop Atrocitus, who came to Earth for the first time, from casting a spell on William Hand in an attempt to prevent the arrival of Blackest Night. As a result, Atrocitus failed, and William Hand not only did not have his inner darkness erased, but unfortunately died on the spot.

This not only failed to delay the arrival of Blackest Night, but greatly accelerated it.

As soon as Blackhand William Hand died, he turned into a black lantern corpse on the spot, and the Black Death Emperor was able to enter the main world immediately, even whispering in the other's ear to persuade the other to commit suicide.

Although the power was not as strong as in the original Blackest Night, his black lantern corpse still attacked one sector after another, and the situation immediately collapsed to an unparalleled level.

So Chen Tao was worried about such a problem-after all, in the dark universe, anything could happen. If the Black Death Emperor was really brought out on the spot, he would explode.

But now it seems that there is no danger. Atrocitus's operation has been very standard. As William Hand, who was locked up by the meditation mite and hungry for a long time, screamed loudly, the malnourished opponent fainted on the spot, but he was still alive.

"Very good." Chen Tao said.

He walked to the side of Atrocitus and whispered to him: "Then the next problem is what we have to worry about now."

"About the blood slaughter bull..."

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The meditation mite slowly opened his eyes. He had been bleeding just now and fainted due to excessive blood loss.

He got up from the ground and looked around, and finally confirmed that Batman was not by his side at this time, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

He wanted to unlock the magic on his body and get away with it, but soon found that he couldn't control the electronic speaker to say even half a syllable.

But fortunately, he was not completely desperate: he still had a little thunder Shazam power that he had secretly absorbed before.

He originally connected to Billy Batson's father CC Batson through magic, thus becoming the first creature in history to use the power of living lightning without the approval of Shazam.

But as Billy Batson was completely disappointed with his father CC Batson, the living lightning power he had shared with him before also returned to him with his disappointment.

This is the most important core principle of Thunder Shazam sharing his power: Under normal circumstances, the person with whom Shazam shares his power must be someone Billy sincerely believes is a different member of the same family as himself.

So now it is a very simple truth: CC Batson's living lightning power is gone, and the meditation mite that has established a magical connection with CC Batson to use the living lightning power has no living lightning power to use.

Then this matter should have been settled, but just now the meditation mite found a new object that can borrow the living lightning power:

Batman.

Billy Batson also shared his Thunder Shazam power with Batman! What a foolish generosity this is?

And how tempting is this?

As long as he successfully connects to Batman's Thunder Shazam power, he can sweep away the decline and make a comeback, at least get out of the cage.

So the mite started to gamble again, and then he went all in again, and he won the bet again. After being defeated by Batman and captured by him, he successfully stole a trace of the living lightning power from him, and successfully used the connection he had established before to connect with this living lightning power, and once again possessed the power of Thunder Shazam.

This means that he, the mite, can escape!

The mite kept shaking the jumping and surging electric light on his body, and those electric currents condensed into a small lightning hand that he could control in front of him.

He had pulled his electronic speaker close to him, and then kept stimulating it with electric current, trying to continue to activate the speaker so that he could recite the spell to escape, but soon Batman's smiling face appeared in front of him.

It was really smiling, with a pale chin and makeup, a wild laugh that stretched to the corners of his mouth, and exposed gums. It was as scary as it could be.

"You...what do you want to do?"

But the next second, the mite found that Batman began to repair his injuries. His lower body that was crushed by Darkseid soon began to get better little by little under Batman's magic, and finally perfect.

Then he felt the connection again, and countless magical powers were poured into his body again. The magical powers from the seven continents that he absorbed reconnected with himself.

He looked at Batman in confusion, and then felt the connection between himself and Batman through the power of Thunder Shazam, and the whole bug began to tremble.

"No no no no no--"

He had realized what Batman was going to do, but it was too late.

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Apocalypse.

Darkseid looked at the Supreme Little Superman who was still wreaking havoc in the distance.

Beside him, the kind grandmother with missing arms and legs lowered her head.

"Great Majesty Darkseid..."

She whispered: "Everything is ready."

"As long as that monster is seriously injured..."

Darkseid added:

"He will surrender to me!"

Not far away, Superboy-Prime's eyes showed a trace of clarity.