LRAB Chapter 669 Barbatos: Damn it, my Dawn Lanterns have...
Chapter 669 Barbatos: Damn it, my Dawn Lanterns have...
Chapter 669 Barbatos: Damn it, are my Dawn Lanterns really that strong? I'll go back and ask them right away.
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Parallax of Death: Morhal
Chen Tao arrived to help Barbatos so quickly that when he rode the Dawn Lantern into the battlefield to save Barbatos, the mechanical voice of the Alfred Protocol was still ringing in his ears.
Parallax Mohal should have already been resurrected at lightning speed through the Red Light of All Beings. Chen Tao originally planned to track down where the other party had fallen, but the matter on Barbatos' side was more urgent, so he was forced to rush to this battlefield first.
At this point, the information regarding the Alfred Protocol was still being updated.
[Introduction: Parallax Morhal is very likely one of the strongest beings in the DC universe. Having directly destroyed the Green Lantern Corps and absorbed all the power of the Central Energy Cell, he is undoubtedly the strongest user of emotional spectrum energy.]
He was supposed to die as a hero in the final battle against the Sun Eaters, but due to this unexpected event, his death has been brought forward to today.
A mistake created Parallax Morhal, and another mistake caused him to die as a villain rather than a hero. This mistake stemmed from another error on Earth-15.
You might be able to use it to summon Batman from a parallel universe.
But can something that arises from an error necessarily be something correct?
"I will definitely correct my mistakes, no matter what!"
After Bruce Wayne and his parents experienced the night in Crime Alley, a green lantern ring found young Bruce, who had just lost his parents. Bruce obtained the ring, killed his parents' killer, and attempted to resurrect them, but only obtained two green lantern zombies.
He became Gotham's Green Lantern, breaking the Green Lantern's "no lethal force" rule through sheer willpower. From this, he developed the "Lights Out" program, an ability to absorb all the light from the rings, rendering them inoperable and extinguishing all existing light. This ability is the bane of the Green Lanterns; when the Green Lantern Corps of OA attempted to capture Bruce Wayne, they were completely wiped out by the Lights Out program.
After Bruce stormed into the headquarters of Planet OA and absorbed all the energy from the Green Lantern's central energy cell, he gave himself a new name:
The Nightmare Lamp at Dawn!
[WARNING! Your danger level was previously C, but is now temporarily ∞ and cannot be detected. Please do not use external energy to cheat and abandon any cheating attempts.]
[Detecting...]
[Mandatory protection strategy in progress: overcharge protection]
[Given Batman's current level of power, it's highly likely he wouldn't be able to withstand the contamination from a Batman of SS-level danger!]
[Batman Protocol 52 will automatically protect your sanity from damage. At your current danger level, you can only...]
[Undetectable, please do not cheat.]
Chen Tao was busy saving Barbatos, and these slowly scrolling words only flashed slowly on his retina.
But as this final flash ended, Chen Tao suddenly felt a distant attraction, trying to draw his consciousness to a being thousands of miles away.
Chen Tao immediately stopped the attraction: he certainly couldn't lose consciousness now, he was still in the battle to save Barbatos! Lying down to sleep now would be suicidal, no matter how long he lay there.
Chen Tao suddenly realized that this was the feeling he often experienced when synchronizing with members of the Dark Knights, where his consciousness was drawn to the synchronizing object... But back then, he was powerless to resist this attraction and could only be obediently taken away. But now, he was able to prevent his consciousness from leaving.
This attraction didn't end for Chen Tao. It was like a vacuum cleaner, constantly bringing Chen Tao feelings. Chen Tao knew that if he wanted, he could inject his consciousness into it anytime, anywhere.
What Chen Tao didn't know was that his temporary refusal to remotely summon his consciousness had inadvertently caused considerable trouble for the Laughing Bat.
In the melting pot of the world.
Barbatos' departure and the World Forger's silent infiltration did not cause any changes to the World Forge.
This is the prison where the Batman Who Laughs is held, an island surrounded by countless lava and rocks.
The World Forge is like the interior of a giant volcano, and the Batman Who Laughs is imprisoned deep within its depths.
Even though the Batman Who Laughs disobeyed Barbatos's orders, Barbatos did not kill him immediately because of the Batman's previous merits. To Barbatos, the Batman Who Laughs was just a tool. How could a person have any feelings of "dislike" towards a tool?
Barbatos would only feel that the things were no longer very useful, but if things that were still usable were simply thrown away, it would be too wasteful for Barbatos.
The other party is a tool that used to work but is no longer working, which is why he casually threw the Bat of Laughter here. He was actually thinking about "seeing if the broken tool can still be repaired, and if it can be repaired, he will continue to use it"—a thrifty and practical idea.
But this in a practical sense gave the Batman Who Laughs an opportunity, so for him...
All of this is in the planning stage.
"You've arrived."
The laughing bat raised its head.
Not far away, a figure scrambled over the hill. He had pointed ears like Batman, and his green uniform shimmered with a dark green light. His nose twitched slightly from his half-open mouth, and his eyes, like searchlights, swept towards the Batman Who Laughs.
"That's right! The Dawn Lantern! My good friend, you really did come to save me... Everything is just as I predicted."
The Bat of Mad Laughter chuckled softly.
Barbatos asked him to recruit teammates, but the Batman Who Laughs always had a secret weapon up his sleeve.
He wouldn't actually recruit a suitable teammate into the Dark Knights immediately...
Just as he used King Robin, he always habitually harbored a potential target for persuasion, using the other party's powerful force to leave himself a way out at crucial moments.
He summoned the Dawn Lantern into the World Forge not to escape through it, although it certainly seemed like the best time to escape now.
But the Batman Who Laughs still plans to continue working under Barbatos. Barbatos is a fool, and although the Batman Who Laughs is not as strong as him, he is still confident that he can fool him and win back Barbatos's favor.
Even so, we must prevent situations where a fool defeats a master.
Even if there's a 1 in 10000 chance that Barbatos is determined to kill the Batman Who Laughs, the Batman Who Laughs must prepare for it. So he must now use the help of the Dawn Lantern to leave himself a way out so that he can escape when Barbatos really intends to kill him.
This is why he summoned the Dawn Lantern.
"Come on, come on..."
He whispered, "My dearest friend, my most trusted Bruce Wayne, now is the time for you to save me."
"This is different from what I originally envisioned when we met." Dawn Lantern slightly raised his hand, his green lantern ring flickering in the glow of the World Forge flames.
Numerous distorted aliens were created by his ring. These dark green monsters hissed softly beside the Dawn Lantern, which flew to the cage of the Laughing Bat.
It was an iron cage constructed of pure dark multiverse metal, made of the same material as the Batman Who Laughs' goggles, but crafted by Barbatos.
The Bat Who Laughs was currently kneeling and bound inside in a very undignified position, his head and hands dangling out of the iron cage and bound by iron bars covered with thorns.
"You promised me the chance to invade the main universe, you promised me the chance to extinguish more colored lights. Now it was time for you to fulfill your promises... but it seems you have lost the ability to do so."
He walked to the outside of the Batman Who Laughs's fence and looked down at Bruce, who was in a slump.
"Ultimately, it is Barbatos, not you, the Bat Who Laughs, who can make promises to me. Your past promises were entirely based on Barbatos's authority, but now... if I'm not out of my mind..."
He nervously pinched his head: "Are you already finished?"
"Yes."
The Laughing Bat readily admitted it, leaving the Dawn Lantern somewhat bewildered by his unconventional answer.
He only appeared to be a bit crazy, but when he encountered a real madman like Kuangxiao, he couldn't keep up with the other's train of thought at all.
So when Dawn Lamp realized he was being suppressed in terms of momentum, he naturally flipped the table.
With a thought, two twisted blades materialized in mid-air using the Green Lantern Ring by the Dawn Lantern, wielding a ghastly green light, and stabbed directly at the Laughing Bat.
In his previous recruitment efforts, the Batman Who Laughs only gave the Dawn Lantern a way to leave his universe, intending to use it as a trump card, rather than recommending him to Barbatos so that he could receive Barbatos's dark energy infusion.
Therefore, Dawn Lamp was unaware that the members of the Dark Knights were protected by dark energy and could not be harmed by ordinary forces.
So when he plunged the blade into the heart of the Laughing Bat, the Dawn Lantern naturally regarded him as dead, and then stared blankly into the vast world furnace.
What should we do next?
He scanned the surrounding area with his lamp ring but couldn't find Barbatos. The World Forge stretched endlessly, and the Dawn Lantern began to regret his rash killing of the Bat Who Laughs.
Thinking of this, he turned around, intending to break open the cage, pull out the corpse of the Laughing Bat first, and then search the corpse to see if he could find any information about Barbatos.
So he waved slightly at the cage, and immediately two huge beast claws grabbed the two ends of the iron cage and tore it open to the left and right.
"Hmm?" The Dawn Lamp sensed resistance and realized that this was no ordinary metal. It continued to exert force, and five or six beast claws appeared in the void, finally causing the cage to deform slightly.
Dawn Lantern spent a lot of effort, but when he tried to reach out and pull the Laughing Bat out of the body, he saw the Laughing Bat's corpse suddenly raise its head.
The next moment, all his movements stopped.
The Batman Who Laughs snapped his fingers, and immediately the controlled Dawn Lantern mechanically grabbed the Batman Who Laughs's hands.
A poison that is a mixture of matter and antimatter energies. The antimatter energies were planted in the Dawn Lantern by the Batman Who Laughs the moment he saw it, while he had just released matter energies into it.
This energy was remnants scraped from the Anti-Monitor Dragon and the Monitors he had been hunting; it was not pure and not very powerful, but it was more than enough to temporarily control the Dawn Lantern under such circumstances.
The other party has no idea how easily I can manipulate him.
A large amount of dark energy was transferred from the Batman Who Laughs's palm to the Twilight Lantern. The Batman Who Laughs intended to use the Lantern to escape its cage, but not to escape Barbatos's control.
Instead, they quietly awaited Barbatos's arrival in the world's melting pot.
The Batman Who Laughs wants to prove his ability and power to Barbatos, to show him that no one but him can lead the Dark Knights.
The Bat Who Laughs has a complete grasp of Barbatos's mind. As the king of the Dark Multiverse, Barbatos never believed that any creature from the Dark Multiverse could escape his grasp, or that anyone who accepted his energy could do anything to harm him.
He had previously tried to find someone to replace the Batman Who Laughs, such as Killing Machine, but as everyone knows, Killing Machine completely lacked the qualities of a leader.
If the Batman Who Laughs proves to him that his power is still great and that he is still willing to serve Barbatos, there is a high probability that Barbatos will accept him again. Even if he does not accept him, as long as the Dawn Lantern has been released now, the Batman Who Laughs will have plenty of time to prepare a backup plan for his escape.
But in fact, the Bat Who Laughs didn't think he would need to run away.
See, everything is going according to his plan.
He watched as the stiff, eerie dawn lamp pulled back the curtain on his cage, about to release him.
His body was already halfway out of the cage; if the other party pulled harder—
Pull hard? Hmm?
The Laughing Bat looked up and saw that the Dawn Lantern seemed to have suddenly stopped, frozen in place.
It seemed as if something was trying to control the body of the Dawn Lantern from afar. This control conflicted with the Laughing Bat, leaving the Dawn Lantern stuck in place like a wrong game character.
"The Dawn's Ghostly Lamp, the Dawn's Ghostly Lamp?"
There was no reaction; the Dawn Lantern remained motionless, as if it were dead.
The Laughing Bat, now halfway out of the room, was somewhat at a loss.
After discovering that the Dawn Lantern was completely unresponsive, the Laughing Bat had no choice but to cut off its upper body, which had already crawled out, and then land on the ground, after which half of its body floated into the air.
Damn it, what's going on? He continued experimenting with the Dawn Lantern for a while and found that it still didn't react, but it didn't matter.
Despite a minor mishap, the Batman Who Laughs still achieved his goal. He has now escaped from his cage and proven his power to Barbatos, who will only choose the most terrifying Bruce Wayne to become the leader of the Dark Knights.
And that person would be the Bat of Laughter, all of this was part of his plan. As for the guy next to him, the Bat of Laughter glanced at the Dawn Lamp, who was still inexplicably frozen in place like a statue.
The mere dawn lantern is no match for even a fraction of my wildly laughing bat.
Hahahaha!
……
……
……
warmth.
Damp.
Barbatos felt as if he were swimming in a warm darkness.
Barbatos was a creation of the World Maker. He never had a mother, and therefore could not understand what it was like to feel a mother in amniotic fluid.
But Barbatos felt that if he really had such a feeling, it must be how he felt right now.
In the complete darkness created by the lights-out program, Barbatos felt an unprecedented sense of peace and tranquility.
Barbatos's mind was in complete chaos as he watched the chains suddenly break free.
"What did he say? Dawn of Darkness? What Dawn of Darkness?"
Through the darkness, he saw the enraged First Lantern and the more colorful lights he created, which made Barbatos worry about Batman Dragon.
But more than his concern for others, what bothered Barbatos more was Batman's answer: "Lights out program, that's the power of the Dawn Lantern."
Barbatos knew that Batman Dragon could use the powers of other parallel Batmen from the Dark Multiverse... but he had never heard of this Dawn Lantern.
He is indeed the ruler of the Dark Multiverse, but the Dark Multiverse is so vast, how could he possibly know the situation of every single Dark Multiverse?
Wait a minute, but this name sounds familiar... Is it the one the Batman Who Laughs mentioned he wanted to recruit?
Barbatos immediately sensed his dark matter cosmic energy; all beings who received Barbatos's dark matter cosmic energy would be marked by him. He could sense all his servants.
At the same time, the Laughing Bat in the World Forge gave the Dark Matter Universe Energy to the Dawn Lantern, so Barbatos naturally read the name of the Dawn Lantern in his legion's member list.
Immediately afterwards, Barbatos' eyes began to light up as he watched the lights-out process that Batman Dragon had just used to completely eliminate such a broad spectrum of emotions.
Is my Batman, the one called Dawn Lantern, really that strong?
How come I never knew before? That damned Bat of Laughter, that jealous and envious bastard! Luckily I threw him into the cage, otherwise, with him constantly deceiving me, how could I have failed to find such a great general!
Enveloped in darkness created by Batman Dragon's lights-out program, the protected Barbatos made up his mind:
Upon returning, immediately promote Dawn Lamp to the position of leader of the Dark Knights!
if only……
Barbatosto's gaze pierced through the darkness, seeing the myriad rays of light emanating from the hands of the first Lantern Knight.
But seriously, is this lights-out program really that powerful, capable of destroying even the beam of the first Genie?
"impossible……"
In the pitch black, the first Genie angrily flashed his light.
An angry red glow brewed on his body, bursting forth like flames, but was quickly swallowed by the darkness, like a light that had abruptly stopped.
The Emperor Joker and Brainiac were also dragged into this dark realm created by the lights-out program. Everyone's vision was completely deprived. This lights-out not only deprived them of light, but also deprived them of their senses. In this realm, perhaps only Brainiac's telepathic abilities could find the others.
Space was torn apart, enemies were divided, and in this darkness, Barbatos, who became an ally of Batman Dragon, was the one who could sense the situation on the battlefield.
His will, permitted by Batman Dragon, was allowed to spread within the dark realm created by the Lights Out program.
Barbatos felt that several troublesome enemies had been led in different directions by Batman Dragon, which truly relieved the pressure.
He had already figured out what Batman was planning: to divide the enemy and then defeat them one by one—a clever tactic.
Barbatos also knew very well who Batman wanted to take down first.
Barbatos grinned maliciously. In the darkness, he sensed Batman's dragon slithering around him. Sound couldn't travel in this environment, but Batman's telepathic message rang in his ear: "I'll attack first, you ambush him from behind. His plan must be..."
"As long as I can defeat the users of the lights-out program, the current predicament will be resolved on its own." Barbatos interjected, saying the second half of what Batman Dragon was about to say. Their thoughts resonated in unison, as if they were on the same wavelength.
"That's true." He heard Batman Dragon say, "I'll draw his attention from the front while you attack from behind. The darkness will conceal you, but never underestimate him. Parallax the First Lantern has absorbed a portion of Parallax Morhal's antimatter cosmic energy, so he's now stronger than ever before, even approaching or surpassing his power when he was causing havoc in the main universe."
"If you're not careful, the car could overturn."
Barbatos heard the voice of Batman Dragon, and then the voice continued to fade into the distance.
He sensed the other breaking through the darkness and rushing directly towards the first Lantern, and Barbatos was ready. Although it was only his first time working with Batman Dragon, he was very experienced.
However, the next moment, Barbatos saw the colored light in the hand of Genie A.E. began to flash rapidly.
Barbatos's heart sank, and then he heard the voice of the first Lantern.
The sound pierced through the pitch-black darkness of the Lights Out program, traveling through the constantly flickering light and extending to every corner of the program's domain. Not far away, the Emperor Joker and Brainiac, who had been led in the wrong direction, also turned their heads and listened carefully to the direction from which the sound came.
"Fool, your ability can only absorb light, but you can't grasp the constantly flickering light..."
"You've inadvertently entered the realm of colored light—my realm!"
(End of this chapter)