Chapter 464 The Black Death Emperor Arrives! William Hand's Awakening! (6000 Words, I Wrote Too Much)
Chapter 464 The Black Death Emperor is coming! William Hand's awakening! (6000 words, I wrote too much)
Deep in the universe.
Outside the owl spaceship of Night Owl.
The space conqueror Starro floated in the universe. His body was so huge, several times larger than when he and Night Owl first met.
Beside him, countless small starfish were so dense that they could make people suffer from intensive phobia, like a meteorite belt captured by gravity around a star.
These are the clones created by Starro during this period. At this moment, the spiritual power of the space star Starro is probably several times stronger than at the beginning.
However, just as ordinary people can gain weight and make themselves fatter from a fat man weighing hundreds of pounds, maintaining such a strong body and such a strong spiritual power is also a huge burden for Starro himself.
At this point, he never confided anything to Night Owl.
At this time, a large number of small starfish turned their bodies and faced the side next to them.
Countless little starfish with eyes stared at a woman flying in space. This was an extremely creepy scene for ordinary people, but Greer looked normal.
"You know why I came to you, Starro." She said loudly to Starro in the mental connection:
"You owe me a favor. With my matchmaking, you can reach an agreement with Night Owl."
Greer said: "And now it's time to pay me back."
The big starfish didn't speak. Soon, his voice sounded in Greer's mind.
"I will never admit that I helped you afterwards, and I helped 'you'."
"Of course." Greer said.
"Okay."
The next second, Greer felt a huge spiritual power infused into her body. This huge spiritual power was continuously...
absorbed there through her spiritual connection with Batman!
"In exchange."
The big starfish said, "I helped you, you have to help me too."
One of the millions of small starfish flew into Greer's hands.
"Your clone will appear in Batman's world."
Greer promised the big starfish.
"Yes."
Then they never said anything to each other again and quickly separated.
The cosmic starfish "Conqueror" Starro has the ability to regenerate. As long as one of his clones is not dead, Starro can revive his consciousness from that clone.
Whether it is Greer or Starro, they have never thought of going all the way with either Night Owl or Batman. They are all cunning and ruthless villains. For them, betting on both sides and working for both sides at the same time is simply a skill like genetic instinct.
The so-called Starro owed Greer a favor and then helped the other party, which is just a little fig leaf between them to quibble that they did not betray.
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…
Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak…
A rat poked its head out of the sewer.
It looked at the ruined city in confusion, feeling like it had had a long dream.
Then he was discovered by the Robin of the Laughing Bat, and the greedy beast used both hands and feet to grab the rat from the ground.
Even though these Robins were once innocent children in the Laughing World, they had been infused with dark energy by Barbatos, not only immune to fatal injuries other than the tenth metal, but also faster than ordinary people when walking, sitting or lying down.
They rushed forward and quickly shared the poor rat, causing the Laughing Bat not far away to chuckle.
Even in the Dark Knights, the Laughing Bat can be said to be the one who lives alone, not only because he is the actual controller of the Dark Knights, but also because…
In front of a huge screen not far away, the four members of the Dark Knights were concentrating on the scene on the screen.
Some of them had blank expressions, some had complicated expressions, and some were just calculating data, but no one was like the Laughing Bat...
There was no fluctuation in his heart.
The Laughing Bat's heart was empty. He had no feelings, no sorrow, and no anger. There was only darkness.
He reached out and touched Robin's head, still smiling.
"What a good idea, Anti-Monitor Batman. Ugh, I feel a little sick."
He said this in a low voice, then he turned his head and went back to his room.
The Killing Machine wanted to ask him why he didn't continue watching, but he reached out his hand but didn't dare to ask in the end.
The Laughing Bat didn't look unhappy, but he just stood there. Even the mechanical killing machine would feel scared.
...
...
...
Apokolips.
"The great Darkseid."
Desaad, the chief scientist and chief of staff of Apokolips, bent down to Darkseid who was sitting on the main seat: "The power engine of Apokolips is ready and can be used for cosmic migration at any time."
"Yes."
Darkseid nodded.
"Once Batman fails, we will migrate into the universe of Night Owl." Darkseid said.
"No matter what the outcome of the war is, we will be the winners in the end."
Darkseid had a blank expression, and his eyes reflected the flames of the huge engine on Apokolips that spewed into the sky.
"Whether it is the Anti-Monitor or Batman..."
"They will be crushed in front of Darkseid."
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...
...
"I ask you to fuse my heart."
The Anti-Monitor knocked Batman to the ground with one punch. Even though three SS-level Batmen had synchronized with Chen Tao at the same time, he still couldn't resist the Anti-Monitor's tremendous power.
The Anti-Monitor grabbed Chen Tao's arm with one hand, and then pulled it hard, making a tooth-grinding crunching sound.
He... seemed to want to tear off my shoulder, why didn't he just kill me?
Why did he always want me to become the Anti-Monitor Batman?
The severe pain eroded Chen Tao's nerves, but it didn't affect his thinking.
He was surprised that he had such a strong will to think despite the pain, but he soon threw this surprise out of his mind.
If... if Barbatos wanted me to fuse the heart, what was the Anti-Monitor for?
He was so confident that he could...
While thinking, he calmly arranged his actions, and everything seemed to be in order.
The Prime Little Superman who had been sucked into the Origin Wall quickly charged some of the power of the yellow sun light in a yellow sun energy battery that had been placed on his body before. This seemed to be able to restrain some of the Anti-Monitor's energy. Then, he could...
Swish!
The Anti-Monitor grabbed the bone spurs on Batman's body with his bare hands and broke them off, then used his backhand as a blade to stab the connection between the shoulder and the arm.
Soon, with a slight crackling sound, an arm was pulled off by him, and blood immediately gushed out.
Chen Tao frowned slightly, it doesn't matter.
Although he can synchronize with the Broken Bat to be immune to such injuries, the overall strength of his body will be reduced immediately due to synchronization with such a low-level Batman.
He must maintain this physical strength that can withstand the beating of the Anti-Monitor and be able to fight back at any time.
Anyway, he has the Red of All Living Things to repair his injuries, and he would rather get injured than give the other party a chance to kill him directly.
The reason why he has been dragging it on is to wait for an opportunity, rather than being beaten by the other party in vain.
A body like iron sand, even with the blessing of Batman such as the Destroyer, is not as good as a pure and solid body when it comes to bursting power.
If the Anti-Monitor suddenly kills, I, who am the weak Batman, may not be able to react in time because my body is broken apart and...
Puff!
Chen Tao was slightly distracted.
What happened? He lowered his head and saw the Anti-Monitor's fist suddenly piercing his chest!
No... not quite right, the Anti-Monitor's attitude is very strange, which is completely contradictory. He was just holding back, how could he suddenly...
Chen Tao raised his head and saw the Anti-Monitor lowering his head.
He originally seemed to be a bit chattering, constantly trying to persuade himself to act according to his orders with words, but at this time, although he still had the face of the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" period, he suddenly seemed to be silent.
No!
Chen Tao's heart suddenly sounded alarm bells, and the Ion Shark behind him suddenly roared. Chen Tao desperately kicked the Anti-Monitor's chest, and then the dark red bat speed force flowed through his body in an instant.
Chen Tao raised his hand, and the green static light wave of Stasis Force hit the Anti-Monitor head-on. Although this method stolen from the Turtle Man could not surpass the level of the Turtle Man himself because Chen Tao did not really master Stasis Force, it could still be superimposed with the Speed Force to slow down the Anti-Monitor.
The world slowed down again, and arcs with red bat-shaped lightning swam on the Anti-Monitor's body, forcefully replaying his movements forward like a videotape.
Chen Tao fell to the ground, and the next moment he was stepped on by the Anti-Monitor!
Boom! ! ! !
The ground exploded in an instant, and the entire Quad Planet almost trembled with the Anti-Monitor's kick.
"No!"
Chen Tao raised his intact arm, and then the arm that was broken by the Anti-Monitor flew back.
The Red of All Living Things took the arm back in an instant, and at this moment, a black light suddenly burst out from Chen Tao's body!
On Earth.
William Hand gasped desperately.
He knew this moment would eventually come, but he never thought it would come so soon.
At this moment, he was standing in the meeting room of the Justice League headquarters. In the huge room, he was the only sober person. Not far away, the unconscious Flash Barry Allen was leaning on the sofa with his help.
His mentor Bane must be in the Black of Decay, not only to confront Anton Akan, but also to help him guide the power of the Black Death Emperor.
William used a revolver to point his head, and the screen in front of him was playing the scene of the outside world.
Batman and he discussed such moments many times. As Superboy Prime was pressed into the Origin Wall by the Anti-Monitor. The Black Death Emperor he could summon almost became the strongest foreign aid Batman could attract.
William knew his potential very well, and he also knew what he could do.
He is now hiding in the infinitely shrunk earth, stored in Batman's body, and Batman protects him very well.
Batman discussed this issue with him, and Bane will assist him in the Black of Decay and maintain his mind as much as possible.
I...
I will never become a monster.
Even if I die, I can keep my mind.
William Hand felt his hand shaking.
He poked his temple hard, and he saw the sky shaking from Batman's perspective, and the Anti-Monitor tore off his arm.
So William took a last look at the outside world.
The whole world was horrified by the sudden disappearance of the sun.
The people only knew that they had to face the Anti-Monitor, and they also knew that they were protected, but they didn't know how to be protected.
They were afraid, they were confused, and they were just like William Hand at this moment.
But do you know what is the only difference between William Hand and them?
The people always know that Batman can protect them, and they can always rely on stronger people.
But William Hand knows that Batman... he needs help.
If Batman, who is relied on by others, also needs to rely on, who can he rely on?
"This... this is also my world..."
William Hand looked at his hand.
Hey, it's so strange, it's not shaking anymore.
So he aimed the revolver at himself again.
He slowly raised his head and smiled. If anyone could see him, they would find that in the pitch-black midnight outside the window, William Hand's young face was smiling like the clear sky.
"...You are the morning sun, William..."
"...Life? Life is not a meaningful thing, William."
"But as long as you are alive, you can find interesting things, just like you found flowers and I found you..."
"...Yes, I'm telling you, go forward bravely and do what you say, this is our ninja... cough, the way of the Lantern!"
"...What's there to be afraid of? Don't be afraid of the Black Death Emperor. Listen to me, you are destined to become a pirate... Bah, the man of the Lantern King!"
"...Become the righteous god of death, Gotenks! Okay, it sounds a bit strange, but anyway, they are all very powerful gods of death, understand?"
"Peter Parker once said that the greater the power, the greater the responsibility! Yes, that comic character."
"...Woo woo woo woo, our passionate bond, this is youth!!!"
"Resurrection! My love! Ao oo oo oo oo!"
William closed his eyes.
Batman... is really a weird uncle who is sometimes serious and sometimes neurotic and likes to say weird things.
Unlike Master Bane who always keeps a serious tone.
I know, I have realized something...
"Today... I, I will be Batman's support."
"Because I am the Black Lantern, William Hand!"
Bang!
Outside the earth.
The Anti-Monitor's eyes, through Batman's body, coldly watched William Hand's heroic act.
"It's useless." He said.
Although his voice is still somewhat similar to the chattering voice in front of Chen Tao before, if you listen carefully...
There seems to be a hoarse voice that is somewhat similar to his original voice, but not completely similar, singing a duet with him.
The Anti-Monitor turned his head and saw that in the space not far away, the protective position he carefully arranged for the entire earth and Batman was torn open by some huge force in an instant.
In the silent loud noise, the space was broken, and a pair of giant white bone hands suddenly appeared as if from behind the canvas, and then tore a huge hole in the space with force.
Behind the hole was a dark world. The towering, huge skull face of the Black Death Emperor looked down at the Anti-Monitor and Batman, who were as small as ants.
The Anti-Monitor did not speak. The next moment, he rushed directly towards Batman.
He did not need to deal with the trouble of the Black Death Emperor. He only needed to solve the root of the problem first.
And this problem could be solved quickly.
Swish!
Chen Tao retreated violently. What he should do now is to wait for the opportunity and let the Black Death Emperor and the Anti-Monitor fight first, instead of continuing to fight with the Anti-Monitor and letting the Black Death Emperor include both of them in the attack range.
"William..." He felt a little complicated. He knew very well that it was risky to let William touch the power of the Black Death Emperor, not to mention letting him commit suicide to trigger the Blackest Night. Even though he had confirmed through experiments that he could restart the timeline to help William counter the influence of the Black Death Emperor, he had committed suicide once, and the fact that he had completely become the host of the Black Death Emperor could not be changed.
In the comic "Blackest Night", the Black Death Emperor can even turn those characters who have died in the DC restart into black light corpses without infection. The impact of time restart on a high-level existence like the Black Death Emperor is limited.
Although Chen Tao had made many psychological assumptions that William Hand would eventually become the host of the Black Death Emperor, he still felt a little heavy after this incident really happened.
If he could do better, if he could do a little better, maybe William would not have to face these things so early. Not only William, but also Barry. If the next battle is not favorable, he may still need him...
Chen Tao shook his head and refocused his attention on the battlefield in front of him.
He knew very well that William Hand, who had become the Black Lantern... or the Black Lantern Demon, was always in his hands, and the Black Death Emperor would not give up on this.
Although he and the Anti-Monitor also had a conflict over the world, it was at best a dispute between two beasts who wanted to monopolize a prey. The conflict between him and himself was far more acute than this.
When the Black Death Emperor paid attention to him, the scene would not be very fun, so he had to...
"What?"
Chen Tao found that the earth that had been protected by him in a bottle was suddenly completely out of control.
The bottle had been shrunk to a size not much bigger than a cell by Brainiac's shrinking ray, but at this moment it suddenly flew out of his body and quickly enlarged to a size about the size of a plate, the size that Brainiac would usually hang in the spaceship, and all this was completely out of Chen Tao's control!
Chen Tao suddenly looked at the Anti-Monitor who was controlling all this, and a basin of cold water seemed to pour from his head to the soles of his feet.
Damn, did he think that he was the only one who would collect other people's intelligence? Did he think that the Anti-Monitor had never thought about what kind of opponent he would face?
If the other party had already thought about the problem of Superboy-Prime, how could he not have thought about what other back-up plans he would have?
In an instant, William Hand, who had just transformed into a black lamp corpse, was taken out of the bottled earth by the Anti-Monitor.
His dark blue face showed a blank look, and then when he saw the white light of the anti-life equation flashing in the Anti-Monitor's hand, he suddenly showed despair, and then the next moment, his eyes flashed with decisiveness.
The Anti-Monitor had long thought of using the Anti-Life Equation to control him. If he had not been chosen by the Black Death Emperor, he would have completely lost his free will and become a vegetable, just like Wonder Woman and many members of the Justice League.
Even so, he is completely unable to move now and can only let the Anti-Monitor control him, but this does not mean that he, William Hand, has no power to fight back.
Batman has always taught him to be very brave.
"No! You can't disconnect Bane from using the Black of Decay on you!" Chen Tao rushed over: "I never asked you to do that!"
"Doing that will allow the Black Death Emperor to fully..."
William gritted his teeth and showed a grim smile of satisfaction: "It can allow the Black Death Emperor to fully exert his power..."
"You did a good job, you really did a good job."
The next moment, the Anti-Monitor's voice with a reciprocating sound came to William Hand's ears.
The Anti-Monitor suddenly became silent. It seemed that there were two consciousnesses in his body fighting for dominance, but it did not affect his speed and mobility at all. The two voices spoke together, but they said exactly the same words.
"Really well done."
The Black Death Emperor not far away roared. His voice was not very clear due to the barrier of the universe, but he had already reacted to what the Anti-Monitor was going to do.
"Stop!"
His upper body tried to probe the space crack, and then stretched out a huge bone claw to attack the Anti-Monitor below, but the next moment the huge space crack began to close. The force was so huge that it squeezed the giant skeleton's body and deformed it.
"What...what's going on?"
William Hand was horrified to find that the death on his face was dissipating. This was impossible. The Anti-Monitor could not dispel the Black Death Emperor so easily, unless the host of the Black Death Emperor, that is, he, had a problem...
William realized that this was indeed the case. He...he seemed to be resurrected.
The reality of his death was modified, and if he didn't die, Black Death Emperor would have no host. Without a host, he couldn't invade the world. Even if Black Death Emperor was strong, it was in another dimension. He couldn't come here, he couldn't attack the Anti-Monitor, and the Anti-Monitor didn't need to... fight him.
"I'm a god." The Anti-Monitor said.
"I'm sorry."
Chen Tao gritted his teeth.
He really had to wake up the Flash.