novellhall Chapter 561 The Dragon of Hope Spreading Light
Chapter 561 The Dragon of Hope Spreading Light
Chapter 561 The Dragon of Hope Spreading Light (The End, 6000 words)
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Dragon, a huge dragon.
A colossal dragon roams the dark multiverse.
He is about to embark on a journey, a great journey to save the world.
He wants to bring back all the souls of his Justice League that are wandering in the corners of the dark multiverse; he can do it.
He had long ago left the magical power of the Crimson Soul on all members of the Justice League, so after their deaths they would not return directly to the Lady of Death, but would instead go to the underworld of the Crimson Soul:
White Bone Garden.
That's part of the DC death rules, but it's not like no one has ever escaped from there.
In the New 52, Animal Warrior Buddy Baker's soul returned to the Bone Garden of the Red after he was killed by the three hunters of the Corruption Black.
The many totems of the Totem Council must resurrect Animal Warrior to protect his daughter, who is also the true queen of all beings, the Queen of Life, Michaelson. Therefore, they choose to resurrect Animal Warrior.
Because Animal Hero's body had been taken over by the three hunters of the Corrupted Black at that time, they set about reshaping his body. However, Chen Tao's current situation does not require such trouble.
He traversed one dark, multiverse after another, drifting past those shattered, broken shells.
As he passed through a dark multiverse on the verge of turning to ashes, he saw the destiny woven by Barbatos shining brightly within it.
Lois Lane, wife of Superman Clark Kent, gained superpowers after Superman Clark Kent was killed by Doomsday. She inherited the powerful Kryptonian energy from the Life Matrix (a Kryptonian resurrection program) through the Eradicators (a type of Kryptonian robot).
But in Lois Lane's view, superheroes don't care about everything Superman does for the world. She believes she has seen the truth that Superman dares not face: they cannot be saved, and they do not want to be saved.
Lois Lane of the Dark Multiverse wreaks havoc in their universe.
She burned Luther alive into a skeleton, murdered Ninja Master Rashomon, Victor Zass (Gotham villain, serial killer), Ares, the god of war, Black Adam (dictator anti-hero), Deathstroke, and Parasite.
In this wanton massacre, even Batman from the Dark Multiverse was roasted to a crisp.
Her battles with Cyborg, Superboy, and Steel Man pierced the skies of Metropolis.
She let Superboy have his head melted through by the mechanical superhero, and let Colossus be twisted into a bloody soda can by the mechanical superhero like a twisted tofu stick in iron armor. They didn't know how long they fought, nor how many people died.
However, just as she had fallen into the clutches of a killing hero, becoming a vengeful angel feared by countless people, her Superman was resurrected from the Regeneration Matrix, just as in the main universe.
Chen Tao attempted to use the Dark Multiverse Dragon's dimensional form to observe the future development of this universe, but failed. After all, he was still unfamiliar with the power of this dimensional form, but he was still able to recall the ending he knew from the comics.
The newly resurrected Superman is once again tragically killed by the mechanical Superman. New hope and the dawn of a fresh start have just begun to appear before being swept away into nothingness once more. This is the fate that Barbatos has woven for this universe.
Louise Lane believes in the truth, but her truth is fueled by revenge, which knows nothing of the truth; revenge is merely darkness.
Her fate was originally unchangeable, but now...
It seems I have a chance to interfere.
As the green kryptonite energy waves coalesced in the cannon formed from the mechanical superhero's arm, as the fate of this dark multiverse reached the crossroads of utter destruction...
Lois Lane, the angel of vengeance from the multiverse, looked up. On her dark face and in her crimson eyes, she saw the kryptonite beams that shot toward her husband, Superman Clark, as well as the image of a giant dragon shaking its head and flapping its wings in the sky.
The giant dragon was golden, and had...
Uh.
It has a twisted, maniacal grin and hideous bone spurs from the ravager.
There's also the Red Death's red lightning bat-shaped logo.
There was also the pale skin of the drowned, wronged souls.
And the Dark Father's deep red eyes.
And there's also Batreniak...
All sorts of bizarre Batman features are mixed together on this dragon, filled with evil and madness, full of blasphemy and filth, yet it dances like a butterfly.
As the dragon flapped its wings, the deadly kryptonite beam that the mechanical superhero had shot at Superman Clark Kent suddenly took a strange deflection in mid-air.
It shifted 50 degrees, which is barely in line with the laws of physics.
90 degrees, that's practically a direct left turn.
180 degrees—even Newton would be moved to tears.
Then, the angel of vengeance, Lois Lane, saw the Kryptonite beam fired by the mechanical superhero turn around and blast itself directly into his face.
His Superman is safe, and the vengeful angel Louise has temporarily escaped the inevitable madness that was destined for her. The story ends with a warm and happy reunion—
temporary.
But believe me, this is by no means meaningless.
Although their fate may be tragic due to the incompleteness of the universe, at least for now, at this moment, I hope you enjoy the peace and joy of victory.
I am sharing information about the Dark Multiverse with you, and facing a dark destiny and a dark future, each of you, like me, has the right to struggle for survival.
And this is the only thing I can do for you while Barbatos is unable to intervene.
My name is Batman, also known as Chen Tao. I am the Dragon of the Dark Multiverse. When you stand in the depths of the Dark Multiverse and look up…
I am determined to be the only light that shines upon you.
Chen Tao gazed at Clark and Lewis, who were sleeping in each other's arms in that world.
Tomorrow, Avenger Louise will stand trial for murdering their world's Batman and several villains, but at least...
You will be able to get through the night safely.
In a dark multiverse, Sinestro, surrounded by Black Lantern Corpses, raised his head. Half of his body was White Lantern, while the other half had been completely transformed into Black Lantern.
He made the wrong choice at a crucial moment, causing the entire universe to become a dead zone.
He neither died nor wanted to live, but just now, his White Lantern ring detected White Dove, the only remaining woman on Earth and the only one immune to the Black Lantern ring.
This may be the hope for their universe.
Seneca, the White Lantern, looked up and saw the distant horizon where a swaying dragon cast its final reflection.
In another Dark Multiverse, Bruce Wayne lingers in Arkham Asylum, where he must fake his death to deceive his enemies Thomas Elliott (the main universe's Batman villain Hush) and Dr. Klein (the main universe's Scarecrow).
Despite the slim chances of success, Bruce knew that Alfred was carrying out his plan, which was one of the few warm moments in his cold heart.
In the Dark Multiverse, only a very few Bruce Waynes would not have taken up Batman's mantle. Even a life of imprisonment, torture, and madness could not stop them.
Half-asleep, Silent Bat heard a faint dragon's roar, like when he was a child and his mother Martha was holding him in her arms, while the fire in the fireplace burned brightly, making the firewood crackle softly.
This beautiful dream comforted the Silent Bat, reminding him of the fleeting beauty of his life.
Although behind that brief beauty lies a cruel, ruthless, and gloomy world, please believe that even when you are driven to the brink, you can face it calmly.
But among the countless dark multiverses that Chen Tao had traversed on his journey, only a small number of universes were warmed by the light he brought. He was like a mortal on a dark beach, holding a torch high, constantly throwing the fish stranded on the shore back into the sea. His light briefly illuminated the beach...
But after leaving, everything eventually returned to darkness.
Therefore, we can conclude that... a torch is ultimately not the sun.
But in complete darkness, the faint glimmer of light is enough to inspire people to pursue it, isn't it?
However, not all universes in the Dark Multiverse are harmless; they are also fraught with danger.
A wanderer from the Dark Multiverse, calling himself the Horrifying Lantern, attacked Chen Tao. A Green Lantern who had fallen into evil, a father whose sins could never be redeemed, a beacon of justice that once stood firm, but now forever serving death.
Lantern Horror comes from a degraded version of Crisis on Infinite Earths, in which the Justice League, rather than the Justice Society, survived the crisis.
This change plunged that world of boundless potential into the flames of Surtur, the god of fire, from the very beginning.
The original Green Lantern, Alan Scott, knelt before Surtur, the god of fire, in order to save his world. He guided Surtur to destroy other worlds in exchange for Surtur sparing his own.
Thus he became the Lantern of Horrors, illuminating the path to destruction in countless dark multiverses.
A new Earth survived, yet throughout the universe, all worlds perished, in an endless cycle. Alan Scott guided Surtur and his army to an unknown world, and the cycle continued...
The Green Lantern of yesteryear brought Ragnarok, his flames merging with Surtur, burning trillions of lives.
Chen Tao heard the terrifying roar of the Lanternman wielding the flaming greatsword:
"Fire Demon, Lord of Divine Light! Death is the only thing that remains, the terrifying lamp shines eternally!"
It sounded like a roar, a scream, and a helpless sob.
Chen Tao brandished his enormous claws, clashing with the Horrifying Lantern Warrior from a distance.
He had to speed up to shake off his opponent's frantic swinging of the flaming greatsword; he didn't have much time left.
Chen Tao encountered a completely corrupted version of Wonder Woman, a woman possessed by the goddess of magic, Hecate, suffering and dying, her body throbbing with hatred.
She once inspired peace in everyone in her world.
But the Wonder Woman of the past is now nothing more than Queen Hecate, who brings chaos and death.
Chen Tao escaped the sword that the opponent swung.
He didn't have time to get entangled with the other party.
Finally, he found his own Wonder Woman. He carefully picked up her remains, then wagged his tail and went on to the next one, and the next.
He not only brings hope to others, but also to himself and to his own universe.
We should go home now.
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At the edge of the trans-temporal flow, the blue Dr. Manhattan silently watches Batman flapping his wings in the dark multiverse. His experiment has yielded perfect results, so there is no need to kill Batman anymore.
He needed to keep Batman. He felt that this Batman from the Dark Multiverse was extremely special. His actions and existence drove the development of the entire Dark Multiverse. He was the only individual that Dr. Manhattan had discovered who was even slightly similar in nature to Superman from the main universe.
So the blue-haired bald man quietly observed and waited, which is precisely the best quality of the experimenter.
On the other side of the super-time flow.
Parallax Morhal returned to the timeline where he should have been, but lost all his memories of leaving his current point in time due to drifting in the hypertime stream.
He continued to preach his ideal of a perfect Earth to the many heroes, but he often got stuck from time to time.
Something was churning and leaping in his mind, but he just couldn't remember it.
Parallax Demon Hal Jordan was like an iron rod that had just been pulled out of the cracked concrete. An invisible hand pushed him back into his original position and then used some new cement to smooth out the broken concrete road, trying to make the iron rod forget that it had been forcibly pulled out of the road.
The Dark Multiverse Batman's impact on the trans-timeline is permanent; his actions shattered vast stretches of once-solidified concrete, while countless "iron rods" like Hal Jordan, the Parallax Demon, regained their freedom.
They only realized after they discovered that the cement road beside them was no longer solidified, but had been paved with fragments of solidified cement mixed with unsolidified cement.
Among these many powerful figures, Parallax Mohal was the first to notice that the cement next to him was not hard enough.
He clutched his head, recalling once again his intrusion into the timeline, only to be expelled by Batman and Barbatos...
He let out a chilling laugh...
He turned around, abruptly abandoning his plan to persuade the superheroes, and instead said to Mo Cun:
"Come here..."
(Note: Mo Cun is a villain who wields the power of time. He is extremely powerful and joined forces with Parallax Mohal to create the Zero Hour Crisis.)
Earth 15.
The first Lantern Man stared in horror as the Time Trapped, still dressed as Superman Supreme, emerged from Lex Luthorium in Metropolis like a comet and soared high into the atmosphere.
(Note: When Superman Supreme destroyed Earth 15, he first killed Lex Luthor of that Earth because he reminded Superman Supreme of Alexander Luthor Jr.)
He finally learned who the demon king who destroyed his universe was, but immediately afterward, the first Genie felt endless light and heat.
If he had time to recover and then calmly grasp more of the emotional spectrum, he could at least fight the demon king who destroyed his home, but now…
The first Genie cried, the first Genie was in pain, but nothing could change anything. All his strength was used to resist being destroyed by the immense power of the Superman Supreme's planet-destroying force. He could only watch helplessly as he escaped through the teleportation lamp, while his mother was reduced to ashes... Nothing could be more painful than this, bringing both hope and despair.
The pulse from Time Trapped Superman's destruction of Earth 15 continued to spread, and his body disintegrated amidst his cries, turning into pure spectral energy, but then...
The original Lantern Spirit in the time-traveling system suddenly raised its head.
Originally, in the multiverse, due to the law of causality, the only thing that the first Genie of the Multiverse, whether they are clones, the original body, or different points in time, all have in common is that none of the first Genie of the Multiverse can find the location of Earth 15 in any way.
The time-travel mechanism fundamentally blocked the possibility of the first Lantern saving his world and rescuing his mother, thus causing the time-travel mechanism to collapse. However, Batman single-handedly broke through this barrier, which has far-reaching and detrimental consequences.
The face of the original Lantern Man showed a look of horror and surprise, followed by extreme ecstasy.
Look, another iron bar is starting to struggle, trying to pull itself out of the half-frozen road.
At that time, the wrath of the first Lantern will terrify the entire multiverse!
And in more distant corners, in more complex dimensions.
The Black Death Emperor carefully cherished William Hand, a treasure boy he had just found in the Dark Multiverse.
This scythe-wielding spokesperson for death never imagined he could find such a suitable agent in the Dark Multiverse.
But no matter how he tried to persuade him, the Black Death Emperor's precious boy refused to do anything for him. So the Black Death Emperor had no choice but to put down the boy and turn his attention back to the Dark Multiverse.
His gaze swept over the Sinestro universe, which he had already conquered, leaving only a figure clutching the White Lamp Ring. He turned his attention to the newly built fortress, the dark multiverse where his treasure boy was born.
Perhaps he needs to conquer that dark multiverse to convince William Hand to act as his spokesperson and eliminate that useless guy from the main universe.
Oh, right, if the Black Death wants to breach that fortress, he needs a spy, someone to work from the inside...
The Black Death Emperor turned his gaze to the dead cosmic overlords, and then he saw Lafriz, the Lord of the Orange Lamp.
Meanwhile, in another corner of the hyperchronic flow, Brainiac and Ultimate Star are collecting countless cities on nodes on the verge of destruction.
Brainiac survived the Flashpoint event, and he yearns to become even greater, attempting to evolve like the Watchers and the Counter-Watchers…
He is about to set his destiny in motion, he is about to set...
"Diverse Fusion"!!!
as well as……
Barbatos was having a final whispered conversation with the Anti-Monitor, who wanted nothing more than to kill Barbatos, but he always knew that to return to reality, he had to rely on Barbatos…
Unlike those iron bars that can twist their bodies in the hypertime stream, the crisis on infinite Earths caused by the Anti-Monitor is the cornerstone of the entire multiverse. Unlike the other iron bars that can stretch their bodies, he remains immobile.
The Batman Who Laughs brought Barbatos the stellar brain of the Anti-Monitor, and Barbatos's plan to invade the main universe did not slow down, but rather accelerated.
Barbatos's plan was already nearing completion, and even without Batman's interference, his invasion of the main universe was just around the corner.
Although Batman stole a quarter of his Dark Multiverse Dragon status, Barbatos gained the Anti-Monitor Dragon, which was fully infused with the Anti-Monitor, as well as a large amount of antimatter energy from the Anti-Monitor's main body. Barbatos' overall power did not decrease but increased. All the power he lost from Batman was replenished by absorbing the Anti-Monitor's blood, and it was a huge replenishment.
Not only that, he can now use the Anti-Monitor Dragon to control the Anti-Monitor. Unless the Anti-Monitor is willing to give up all its investment in the Anti-Monitor Dragon and its only chance to interfere with the future timeline, the relationship between Barbatos and the Anti-Monitor Dragon will always be an unequal one.
Night Metal of the Dark Multiverse is coming, a new crisis is brewing, and the wheels of history keep turning. But at least for now, Batman, who has transformed into the Dark Multiverse Dragon, has returned to his fortress.
He will enjoy peace here for now... until the time comes to set off again.
But among all these crises, there was one that Batman hadn't anticipated, and it was the most unique one.
Batman has countless villains, but there is one who is exceptionally special to the hero, Batman, and it could even be said that this one is the complete opposite of all Batman.
At some point in DC's long history, this character had an extremely powerful peak period that even overturned the history of the entire main universe.
During that period, the character captured a five-dimensional being named Mischief-Maker, thereby seizing all of its power. This astonishing act granted the character the immense power to manipulate reality at will and change the world, much like a god.
Although he was ultimately defeated and this part of history was forever embedded in the time-travel universe, Chen Tao's actions also shook this part of history.
Does this mean that even the most powerful version of this character will escape the time-travel loop?
Oh, right.
We haven't mentioned the character's name yet, but please note that this character, who has gained the powerful abilities of the Mischief Maker, is absolutely a completely different species from the madman character that countless people have in mind.
So now we're going to say his name, with the sense of destiny that Batman is his nemesis, with the entanglement that Batman can never escape as a prefix, the strongest version of a character that Batman once thought he would never see again.
We call him:
Emperor Clown.
(End of this chapter)