American comics: What kind of evil intentions could Batman have?

Chapter 653 The First Lantern Knight Enters the Battlefield!

Chapter 653 The First Lantern Knight Enters the Battlefield!

Clang!

The Black Death Emperor swung his scythe and cleaved the iron chain that Chen Tao had conjured with the power of the fifth dimension in two with a single strike.

Although the creations of the fifth dimension are entirely constructed from imagination, their specific functions may not correspond to their appearance.

(Note: For example, if a bat mite believes that a rice cooker can fly, then the rice cooker it creates will actually be able to fly.)

In reality, these creations are still bound by the laws of physics. The Black Death Emperor felt a slight resistance when he slashed, but with the power he can now project into the material universe, he easily broke through.

"I did it!"

Then he said:

"You bunch of idiots, why do we have to fight Parallax Morhal head-on?"

He said, "If all we had to do was cut the chains, no one could take Hal away from him..."

But the chains that had just been severed by the Black Death Emperor were restored in an instant right before his eyes.

The Black Death Emperor blinked non-existent eyes on his skeletal face.

Unconvinced, he swung his knife again and cut the chain, only to see it reappear intact once more.

"Enough, stop wasting your time." Barbatos's voice rang in the Black Death Emperor's ears. The Dark Multiverse Dragon seemed somewhat exasperated, his voice no longer as calm and composed as before.

"Everyone else is relentlessly attacking Hal, trying to stop his return. What are you doing? Hurry up and take action! Don't think you can hide in the back and enjoy the spoils of others' victory!"

The Black Death Emperor remained silent.

Barbatos took a deep breath. He really didn't want to waste his breath at this point, but he had no choice.

Despite being a god of the realm of death, the Black Death Emperor is not like Barbatos, who occupies the position of a sixth-dimensional god, nor has he traveled through the timeline multiple times like Brainiac, and he has no history of interacting with fifth-dimensional beings.

"The fifth-dimensional power appears simultaneously in the past and the future. When Batman Dragon uses the fifth-dimensional power to connect with Parallax Morhal and begins to pull him down from the upstream of the hypertime stream, a brand new future timeline of 'Hal successfully escapes' is generated downstream of the hypertime stream and begins to solidify like cement."

Barbatos said, "Parallelism Malhal is so powerful that he was able to forcibly anchor this timeline to its position in the hypertime stream even before he had truly escaped."

When you sever the chains of the present, the chains of the future will automatically collapse, filling the void left by the current chains.

The supervising team leader, Barbatos, rebuked:

"So you understand now, there's no shortcut to dealing with Parallax Malcolm. It's no different if you strike the chains with your knife than if you strike Batman Dragon."

Barbatos said, "We must confront him head-on. Either he defeats us all and forces his way into the current timeline of the multiverse, or we defeat him, forcing him back to his original timeline and having all his memories erased by the trans-time flow. There is no other way!"

Barbatos suddenly felt very upset as he said this.

Logically speaking, how could it be Barbatos's job to intercept Parallax Morhal?

Barbatos is the villain, an evil demon king. The superheroes, these "immune cells," are his enemies. He himself is a "virus," and although this virus has the grand ambition of ruling the "human body," it is still a virus.

But now, Parallax Morhal, this "virus," is trying to disrupt the trans-time flow. Shouldn't the "immune cell" superheroes be the ones stopping him? How did it happen that Barbatos is the one trying to stop him?

Is it because the Time Stream was too weak after recruiting more than 3000 heroes to fight against the Anti-Monitor, and is now powerless to counter it?

But the problem is...

Barbatos could barely contain his glare as he stared at Batman Dragon.

That damned Batman Dragon was still pulling the chains and working incredibly hard for Hal, like an old farmer sweating in the fields, full of longing for the future and tomorrow.

What the hell? Why are you, the "immune cell" superhero, helping the "virus" Parallax Morhal? And why are you doing it so matter-of-factly?

I'm a virus, but my mom's doing the work of an immune cell?

Barbatos fell silent. At that moment, he even began to doubt whether he had lost his mind to get involved in stopping Parallax Morhal.

How did things turn out like this...?

Barbatos was just carrying out his evil and terrifying little schemes on a daily basis, so how did he suddenly become someone who started maintaining the balance of the time flow?

But Barbatos had no time to think about these things. After ensuring that the Black Death Emperor stopped messing with those broken chains and rejoined the battlefield, Barbatos immediately began to recharge at full power to ensure that the Anti-Monitor Dragon would not be unable to withstand Parallax Morhal due to a lack of energy.

He must first temporarily suppress the opponent into a state where they can never truly escape the hypertime flow, so that the future timeline that the opponent tries to fix in the hypertime flow can never be solidified.

The time-travel has its own laws. If the time drags on long enough, this "successful" future timeline will collapse on its own if it cannot be solidified. The result of this diffusion will backfire on the present, causing Parallax Morhal to completely lose the chance to escape.

Once Hal's momentum is broken, it will be impossible for him to do anything more.

Of course, there's also the fact that the Emperor Joker can launch sneak attacks, which naturally makes Hal...

"I'll help you!" The Emperor Joker reached out to Hal, making a gesture as if to push him.

Countless colorful, bouncy, and flamboyant energies, like fireworks in a circus show, exploded behind the Emperor Clown, creating a violent shockwave.

The Joker reached out and shoved Hal, a perfectly timed move orchestrated by Barbatos and several of his other allies.

Parallax Mohal had just punched away the Black Death Emperor's scythe that was slashing at him again. He had already shattered the scythe four or five times, but the scythe was just an extension of the Black Death Emperor's power. Unless he could truly hurt the Black Death Emperor's essence, destroying the scythe would be meaningless.

Brainiac's metal tentacles once again stretched out from the void like a dense hornet's nest, and even the tentacle monster would have to admit defeat in the face of such a massive number.

The green light emanating from Hal's palm had just destroyed the overwhelming metal tentacles, leaving no time for him to react.

The Emperor Joker's pounce can be interpreted as a push, or as a strike aimed at Hal's back.

At this moment, neither Chen Tao, Barbatos, nor Hal knew what the Emperor Joker was thinking.

Perhaps the Emperor Joker really intends to push Ha'er into the future timeline to give Chen Tao a headache, or perhaps the Emperor Joker has realized that Chen Tao guessed he might think this way, so he plans to do the opposite.

For a freak and madman who changes his personality three times a morning, any prediction of his behavior can only be considered guesswork. If you blindly believe what you know about him from comics, you will definitely die a terrible death.

But regardless of the circumstances, Chen Tao, who had been observing the battle through the fifth-dimensional iron chain, knew very well that the Emperor Clown was doing it on purpose.

He may have already realized that the Batman he so desperately wants has made a prediction that "the Emperor Joker will help Hal and make him disgust Batman in the current timeline."

The Emperor Joker had no intention of changing his actions, but he chose the most easily misunderstood gesture to help Hal. If Chen Tao had told Hal beforehand that "the Emperor Joker might help you," the Joker's action would have become a thorn in Hal's side.

Was the help given through this sneak attack?

Is this really helping?

Is it possible that Batman deliberately tricked me, and that the Emperor Joker actually intended to ambush me?

Once these questions arise in Hal's mind, they become unsolvable paradoxes, with no possible answers.

The Emperor Joker enjoys seeing these things; he loves to see allies turn against each other, goodness fall into depravity, and order collapse.

These are the things that are interesting to him, aren't they?

But unfortunately...

Chen Tao thought to himself silently.

He didn't tell Hal.

He never showed off, nor did he ever think of any plan to have Hal and the Emperor Joker work together.

Whether it's Hal or the Emperor Joker, I wish they were dead. Even if I orchestrated and got them to cooperate and bring Hal down, what good would that do me?

Let them fight, let them fight, a bunch of dogs fighting... No matter who gets hurt, it's all in my favor.

and so……

At the critical moment, Hal turned around abruptly, and then the Emperor Joker's eyes met Hal's glowing green eyes.

"You filthy clown, you dog-like thing."

As Hal raised his fist, he suddenly turned his head. On his face, which had become ferocious due to the fusion with Parallax, veins bulged one after another. Then, he suddenly opened his mouth to meet the scythe that the Black Death Emperor had returned with, and then opened his mouth and bit it to pieces!

Parallax, with his mouth full of fangs, turned his head, and the Emperor Joker realized that Hal's astonishing feat had not come without a price.

A horrifying wound stretched from his left cheek to his ear, almost slicing half of his face open. Countless sharp teeth were knocked out, but they were rapidly growing back right in front of the Emperor Clown.

Immediately afterwards, the Emperor Joker saw Hal's raised fist, a destructive fist raised high and wreathed in green light.

"Oh," said the Emperor Clown.

boom!!!!!!

With a deafening roar, the upper half of the Emperor Joker's body vanished. At the same time, the Anti-Monitor Dragon tore through space, opened its mouthful of sharp teeth, and bit down hard on Parallax Mohal's shoulder, causing him to let out a real scream.

But none of this could stop Hal. He was injured, and the injury was not minor, but it was far from serious enough to affect his movements.

Hal still gripped the chain with one hand, while his other hand held the Anti-Monitor Dragon by the scruff of its neck, giving it a sharp jerk...

But it didn't move.

The chaotic patchwork of heroes and villains from those dark multiverse legions is still not far away.

Even the strongest among them, Cheetah and Wonder Woman, are not qualified to participate in a fight at the level of Parallax Morhal, but their existence is like a large group of high-speed fiber optics that help Barbatos transmit energy, continuously sharing surging energy with the Anti-Monitor Dragon, making him only get stronger as he fights.

—Incidentally, he also consumed another wave of the remaining antimatter energy within the Anti-Monitor Dragon. Although he had completely controlled the opponent, the Anti-Monitor's energy still existed within it, and it was being continuously channeled from the upstream of the Hypertime Stream by the Anti-Monitor.

Over time, if this energy accumulates to a certain extent, and one day it becomes too much, allowing the Anti-Monitor Dragon to escape Barbatos's clutches, then things will be very bad. Therefore, it is natural to control it at all times.

Indeed, Barbatos never suffers a loss. Even in such circumstances, this cunning and shrewd evil god can always find options that are more advantageous to himself.

Barbatos's current status is not due to overnight wealth, but rather to the accumulation of small amounts over time, which eventually led to his success and the realization of his dream!

But soon, Barbatos saw the green light in Hal's eyes reappear, and countless green lightning bolts and flames lit up Hal's body in an instant.

This should have made him appear almost divine, but combined with the hideous gash on his face and his half-rotten fangs, he looked incredibly ferocious and terrifying, exceptionally cruel.

He loosened his grip on the anti-surveillance man's neck, then took a deep breath before grabbing him again.

"Drink!"

With a scream from the Anti-Monitor Dragon, it was his turn to lose his teeth.

Hal forcibly ripped the Anti-Monitor Dragon off, along with a large chunk of flesh from his shoulder. Blood gushed out, this time not like plasma energy, but real blood—Hal's blood.

Half of his shoulder had been bitten off by the Anti-Monitor Dragon, leaving his arm teetering on the brink of collapse.

But this doesn't affect Hal; no one can stop him.

The blood splattered on his face, disappearing into his equally bloodied mouth and face. Hal sucked in the blood that had flowed into his trachea, then spat it onto the anti-monitor's face:

"You're supposed to be the demon king who destroyed the positive matter universe, you dog-like creature, you animal."

An invisible wind lifted Parallax Morhal's cloak high, making it flutter loudly.

Parallax Mohal suddenly lifted the Anti-Monitor Dragon and lashed it like a whip at the Black Death Emperor's scythe that was flying toward him again.

As the Black Emperor attempted to retract his scythe and launch another attack, Parallax Demon Hal hurled the Anti-Monitor Dragon like a comet, shattering space and time. Before the Black Emperor could react, Hal grabbed his throat and snapped his spine with his bare hands.

Of course, this was still no match for the Black Death Emperor, but it was enough to render him incapable of fighting. After doing all this, Hal ignored the Anti-Monitor and the Black Death Emperor, who were no longer able to fight. His figure flickered and he quickly flew towards the portal that the iron chain extended from.

He's going to succeed, he's about to succeed. No one can stop him now.

He was already seriously injured, but not fatally.

That's good, he's about to win, he's about to win.

Half of his body had already entered the portal, and the future was solidifying at an unimaginable speed...

But just then, a hand tore open his body and emerged from his chest.

The first Lantern Knight bursts into the battlefield.

(End of this chapter)