What bad intentions could Batman have?

“…”

The Anti-Monitor first heard the vibration of the universe.

He originally planned to murder one of Batman’s teammates first, and then exile him to the multiverse space and then die. In this way, Batman was forced to realize that if he refused to swallow the Anti-Monitor’s heart, he would have to watch his allies being slaughtered.

But he didn’t have time to do it.

It was not without cost to exile Superboy-Prime to the bright multiverse. First, he opened a channel, a very small channel, but even so, it took a lot of effort.

Secondly, the act of exiling Superboy-Prime to the bright multiverse attracted the attention of Dr. Manhattan. He and Barbatos joined forces to prevent this gaze from penetrating into the corner of the dark multiverse.

These two actions not only consumed a lot of the Anti-Monitor’s power, but also delayed his actions, so that he had no time to inflict any severe damage on Batman’s Justice League.

The Anti-Monitor thought that as long as he exiled Superboy-Prime, he would have plenty of time to deal with Batman and his Justice League, but the one in front of him...

"Damn..." He left Batman and the Justice League behind and flew high into the universe.

At the edge of the distant universe, the stars seemed to be bound by invisible pressure, and the light became dim and weak.

William Hand's face had turned into a completely skeleton-like thinness.

And following closely...

was the dark sky.

Then Chen Tao realized that it was the Black Lantern Corpse.

Hundreds of billions of Black Lantern Corpses from the Land of Death commanded by the Black Death Emperor.

"Black Lantern Corpses! The Anti-Monitor belongs to you!"

"Oh my God." Shazam said beside him: "Is that William?"

He turned to look at Batman: "What trump card or method can you use to save him, right?"

But he only met Batman's sad eyes.

If he really had, he would not have planned to leave William in his universe in the initial plan, let them escape first, and prepare a black lantern ring for himself.

No matter what the result is today, William Hand will belong to the Black Death Emperor.

This situation... is irreversible.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh..." A large number of Black Lantern corpses have approached them. Chen Tao watched the crazy corpses rushing towards him, and then stopped just before they were about to pounce in front of him.

The corpse tide bypassed Chen Tao and the Justice League team and surrounded the Anti-Monitor in the distance. At this time, Chen Tao also saw William Hand, William who was completely transformed into a corpse. Countless Black Lantern corpses surrounded him and praised him as the king.

"Damn Barbatos, are you listening? The Black Death Emperor is the kind of opponent I am not good at dealing with, especially because of the past history." The Anti-Monitor said: "He is fully capable of proving that I am dead in this timeline in the super-time stream."

The Anti-Monitor looked ugly.

The history he mentioned refers to the period of the Sinestro Corps War, when he was backstabbed to death by Superboy-Prime, and then in the Blackest Night, his body was captured by the Black Emperor and made into a Black Lantern.

In other words, there was a time when the Black Emperor actually controlled the Anti-Monitor when he was at his weakest.

And now, the Anti-Monitor should have been dead with only his astral brain left, and Barbatos helped the Anti-Monitor create a false shell of "I am actually the Anti-Monitor of the Dark Multiverse", helping the Anti-Monitor to cross the hyper-time stream and stay on the current timeline.

Therefore, through this connection, the Black Emperor can prove to the hyper-time stream that "the current Anti-Monitor is obviously dead, but he is alive", thereby breaking Barbatos' false shell and causing the Anti-Monitor to suffer from the self-regulation of the hyper-time stream.

In addition, the Black Emperor also has an important authority: as long as you have died, even if you are resurrected after death, you will be affected by the Black Emperor.

That is to say, even if the Black Death Emperor does not use the method of destroying the false shell, he can still try to pull the Anti-Monitor back into death, making the Anti-Monitor in the current state consume more power to resist.

The superposition of these two factors makes the Anti-Monitor unwilling to confront the Black Death Emperor head-on.

This is equivalent to facing an opponent who can not only control himself but also has skills to hit him critically, but cannot fully exert his power. It is completely unequal.

As a projection of the upper reaches of the super time stream, his investment in power in the current timeline is subject to various restrictions, far less than the dark multiverse dragon Barbatos entrenched in the current timeline.

The Anti-Monitor raised his hands, and a large amount of anti-life energy swept across the sea of ​​black lantern corpses, but they were endless and continued to surround the Anti-Monitor.

"You have to deal with him, Barbatos. Otherwise, once I return to the upper reaches of the super time stream, our deal will be completely over."

The Anti-Monitor said.

"That's another deal."

The Dark Multiverse Dragon's furious voice rang in the Anti-Monitor's ears: "The deal between us has never involved the Black Death Emperor."

Barbatos said: "Although he was defeated in that incident, Hal Jordan of the main universe even manipulated him to kill the first Lantern of the main universe. His power is still strong. He is part of death and the spokesperson of death. There is no need for me to conflict with him. Therefore, if he wanted to show himself in any dark multiverse in the past, I never interfered."

"Why do you think I will fight against the Black Death Emperor for our transaction this time? Although I can do it, it is unnecessary and not worth the loss."

(Note: Barbatos said The "incident" mentioned in the comic refers to "Blackest Night". After being defeated, Necromancer also appeared in the chapter "Rage of the First Lantern" in the "New 52 Green Lantern" comic of the New 52 period. He killed the remaining First Lantern with a sickle.

There is no dark multiverse version of the death spokesperson Necromancer. From beginning to end, he just fulfilled his duties and continuously set off a wave of death in the parallel universe and the dark multiverse. )

Barbatos said: "And don't think that Necromancer broke through the death zone. It is so easy to open the portal to reality. He has tried to erode many dark multiverses, but except for one relatively successful one, there are few others. "

(Note: The successful universe mentioned by Barbatos is the storyline of "Dark Multiverse Legend: Blackest Night". It is mentioned in the story of the Bat of Madness in Chapter 363.)

"So will you help or not?"

Faced with the inquiry of the Anti-Monitor, Barbatos replied: "Don't worry, William Hand in most universes is not strong. "

"The universe where William Hand succeeded is just a special case. Many William Hands in the dark multiverse were defeated by the heroes of the dark multiverse before they could launch the Blackest Night.

The William Hand you are facing now is likely to be a little stronger than those William in the dark multiverse, but in fact, he is also limited. He can't summon much power from the Black Death Emperor. In this case, no matter how strong the opponent is, he can't use it. "

He said: "You can..."

The Anti-Monitor didn't speak. He saw William Hand raise his black lantern ring again.

An ominous premonition enveloped the Anti-Monitor's heart, and then...

"The Black Death Emperor... wake up."

With William Hand's low call, the entire universe battlefield seemed to tremble.

Countless black light corpses looked up at the sky, they opened their mouths with black juice flowing, and on their skinny faces like skulls, their eyes flashed green light, and they shouted in unison.

Endless black light condensed on William's ring, and in an instant it surged and rushed straight to the sky.

In the sticky black that seemed to be dripping with water, a huge figure slowly emerged.

The Anti-Monitor's face was extremely ugly. He raised his head and looked at the huge human body with a body size of more than 30 meters. The Black Death Emperor, who looked like a skeleton, held a huge sickle and stood quietly behind William Hand, like his guardian.

"Oh my God."

Shazam didn't know how many times he had said this. He groaned, "What is that?"

"The undead king of corpses." Chen Tao answered him, "William Hand summoned the Black Death Emperor with the Black Lantern Ring."

The huge Black Death Emperor lowered his head and looked at William Hand.

William Hand raised the Black Lantern Ring and faced his god.

"Okay, Black Death Emperor." He said, "I order you to attack the Anti-Monitor!"

"I order you, undead zombie." Black Death Emperor said, "Don't give me orders. I am the darkness before the birth of light. How dare you dare to make me obey you."

William's green eyes burning after death looked at Black Death Emperor fearlessly: "I summoned you. Without me, you can't come here at all."

He opened his mouth, and at the same time, millions of black lights and zombies behind him roared with him:

"Do as I say!!!"

Black Death Emperor turned to Anti-Monitor: "Dead soul, why do you still try to return to the world?"

Anti-Monitor fired a white beam at Black Death Emperor, but it didn't have any effect. Black Death Emperor slowly raised his sickle, and he turned his head to look at William Hand:

"I found a person who escaped death. It is my duty to recall everyone who escaped death. I didn't attack the Anti-Monitor on your orders."

"Yes, you are right." William said with a skull face.

He wanted to make some expression, but in the end he couldn't do anything.

The Black Death Emperor raised the sickle above his head.

"Asshole, Barbatos, do it, are you going to prepare for so long and still get nothing in the end!"

"It's too far, I can't send my Dark Knights to come."

"Can't you do it yourself..."

"I'm absorbing power, which will definitely greatly reduce me... Forget it."

Then the Anti-Monitor heard Barbatos say:

"I'm doing it."

The sickle in front of him was getting closer and closer. The Anti-Monitor was thinking about how he would end up after forcibly resisting the death brought by the Black Death Emperor this time, and then he saw the huge sickle stagnant in front of him.

Not far away, William Hand looked at his hands in astonishment.

He was already dead, and his hands had completely turned into the withered and rotten appearance of a corpse. Then, without any signs, he was resurrected. He didn't even know who resurrected him.

His youth returned, and the fair and tender skin of a young man replaced the skin and bones.

The bridge between the Black Death Emperor and the real world was directly cut off. He roared unwillingly, and his eyes fiercely approached the Anti-Monitor, staring at him with dark and empty eyes, but due to the constraints of some power, he couldn't take a step towards the Anti-Monitor.

Barbatos is the master of the dark multiverse, and he can restrict the entry of the Black Death Emperor at the level of the multiverse.

He invested too much time and energy in the Anti-Monitor. If this deal eventually went down the drain, then all this would be in vain.

Barbatos couldn't accept this result, so he could only increase his investment in the hope of successfully leveraging the benefits he should have gotten.

So, in full view of the public, William Hand, who was already dead and turned into a skeleton, was suddenly resurrected.

He looked at Batman. The young William Hand looked at Batman. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something. He saw Batman roaring. He saw all the companions of the Justice League rushing towards him, and then being stopped by the Anti-Monitor halfway.

Then he heard Batman calling his name, and the companions of the Justice League were also calling his name.

He saw the Black Death Emperor turn around and look at him.

"You are very good." The Black Death Emperor said: "Very good. I admire you very much."

Then William Hand found himself in the palm of the Black Death Emperor's hand.

"Come with me." The Black Death Emperor said: "For a moment, I really felt a little forced... I have only felt this feeling with Hal Jordan."

The Hal Jordan that the Black Death Emperor was referring to was not the defective products of the dark multiverse, but the real Green Lantern Hal Jordan in the central world.

Comparing William Hand with Hal is already an extreme compliment.

"William Hand, the chosen one in my main world, is simply a waste. Although you were born in the dark multiverse, you are still much stronger than him."

Without waiting for William to continue speaking, the Black Death Emperor grabbed William Hand, reopened the space crack, and then turned around and disappeared into it.

At the last moment when the crack closed, William Hand looked at his companions, Batman, Wonder Woman, Shazam, and the entire Justice League.

"Sorry." He said softly in his heart.

"I'm really sorry."

He knew that he might have to part with his companions for a short time, but he knew...

"We will definitely meet again."

Chen Tao watched William Hand disappear, as if watching his own child disappear on the corner of the street.

He took a deep breath.

Superboy Prime failed, and William Hand also failed, so...

I'm afraid it's my turn.

He called Night Owl on the communication channel: "Are you ready to finish?"

"I'm done, but I still don't understand, Batman."

Night Owl asked:

"What exactly are you going to do?"

But Chen Tao didn't answer him, and a crazy grin appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"You know, my friend. The world will only become a better place if you force it."