LRAB Chapter 667 Batman: Lord Barbatos, I'm here to save you!
Chapter 667 Batman: Lord Barbatos, I'm here to save you!
Chapter 667 Batman: Lord Barbatos, I'm here to save you! (5000-word long chapter)
(666, this chapter title is worth commemorating)
When Parallax Mohal pulled his head out of the sand, he was met with the scorching sun.
Under the blinding sunlight, he saw a vast desert with a few scattered cacti beside him.
This is Earth 18.
In a world where all superheroes have become cowboys, the superhero team is the Justice Riders.
In a world lacking any real highlights, aside from the Western theme, all the superheroes are rather weak. Here, Batman is "Batwhip," a Western version of Batman who wields a whip.
Hal fell out of the time portal and coincidentally landed here. This is the current point in time in the hypertime flow; Parallax Demon Hal succeeded, and his injuries are completely within acceptable limits.
Hal checked his injuries.
At this point, his condition was not very good. The first Lantern had stolen a small portion of his antimatter cosmic energy, which meant that he had permanently lost a part of his power.
The battle with Barbatos and the Black Death Emperor, who was supported by Barbatos' power, greatly depleted Parallax Malfurion's stamina. He continuously created spacetime rifts to sever the hypertime flow, while also fighting against Brainiac—in addition to those exceptionally powerful metal tentacles, Brainiac's mental power was also constantly trying to invade Malfurion's brain.
To conserve energy, Hal did not use any other powers, but relied solely on his willpower to withstand the mental invasion, which left his willpower slightly fatigued.
But it was all worth it—
"I'm safe!"
Barbatos had already fled.
Although Parallax Hal was unaware that his greatest threat was now surrounded and attacked by multiple enemies due to the alliances formed by the Emperor Joker, and had no time to spare for him, Hal still breathed a deep sigh of relief.
He climbed out of the sand, but did not contact Batman.
Although Batman Dragon played a crucial role in his successful journey to the lower reaches of the Hypertime Stream, Parallax Morhal ultimately chose not to trust him.
Batman may be very eloquent, and his words may have temporarily fooled Parallax Malhal, but Parallax Malhal is neither stupid nor dumb. On the contrary, if he is willing to use his brain, he is quite intelligent and has leadership qualities.
He may be temporarily blinded by Batman's dragon persona, but given time, he will gradually come to realize the true thoughts behind Batman's rhetoric.
He was afraid of losing his own trust, so he put on airs and tried to guide his actions in unnecessary ways.
Why?
Parallax Morhal didn't know, but what he suspected was...
Batman's Dragon has a guilty conscience.
Such doubt alone would make him lose all hope for Batman.
It's best that Batman hasn't found him yet. Hal will not only not contact Batman, but will also try his best to conceal his whereabouts.
His injuries weren't serious, but they weren't minor either. What he needed to do now was find a place to hide and treat his injuries. Then he needed to think about how to defeat Barbatos and the superheroes of the main universe in the current timeline, completely reboot the entire universe, and create a perfect world.
As for the other ally...
Hal's eyes flickered.
As for the Time Trapped, Hal had already confirmed that the other party shared the same goal when they joined forces at the Forge of the World to fight Barbatos, so his level of trust was much higher than that of Batman Dragon.
But Hal still has no intention of contacting him.
One should always be wary of others. He is still relatively weak, even though the person in charge shares the same goal as him: to create a perfect world.
But... it's better to avoid trouble.
Hal made a wise decision without knowing the full picture.
In fact, the one who teamed up with Hal to fight Barbatos in the Forge was Superman Supreme. The Time Trapped was impersonating Superman Supreme and took advantage of Hal's "favorability" towards Superman Supreme to join forces with Hal.
He is the evil version of Superman Supreme from the end of time, resurrected due to the Earth-15 event, becoming an "independent being" without a causal link between past and future. The real Superman Supreme, after teaming up with Hal, was locked back in his own hyperchronic location and hasn't come down yet!
Hal mistakenly believed that the Time Trapped shared the same goal as him, but in fact, it was Super Junior who shared the same goal as him, while the Time Trapped...
He wants to be the next Barbatos!
Parallax Mohal floated up from mid-air.
He originally planned to find a good place to build a base nearby, but then he thought that it didn't matter where the base was built for him. So he simply raised his palm, and a large amount of green light energy gushed out from his palm and started digging directly at the spot where he was standing. Instantly, the mountains collapsed and the earth cracked, and countless sands were thrown into the sky.
He materialized a base deep underground in the desert using Green Lantern energy, a task that was incredibly easy for him. When Seaside City was first destroyed, Hal even used his willpower to materialize a city and 700 million people using the Green Lantern Ring. These "people" made of Green Lantern energy could run, jump, and walk freely, and had their own lives. Compared to such a feat, creating a mere base was nothing.
But just as he finished making it and was about to go inside, he suddenly stopped inputting green light energy and then abruptly turned around.
Hal turned to the side.
His palms glowed with a soft green light once more, and the base he had just materialized vanished in an instant. Large amounts of sand filled back into its original position, but Hal didn't care. This sand could be drained away again at any time. More importantly...
people in front of you.
A dark blue portal opened before him. At this moment, in roughly the same location, who would visit this remote corner of the multiverse, Earth 18?
According to Hal, there is only one possibility:
enemy.
It's either Barbatos or Brainiac... Hal guessed it was Brainiac. This green monster had been lurking behind Barbatos, and no one knew what he was up to. If anyone could find him, it could only be...
A figure flew out from behind the portal, and Hal almost raised both hands to strike the giant green lightning bolt on the opponent's head.
"Hal! It's me! Hal! Don't do anything!"
Hal, who was on high alert, was taken aback for a moment.
He lowered his hands and saw the Time Trapped One flying out of the portal with his hands raised high.
"How did you find me?"
"We are allies. I sensed your energy and have been helping you adjust the point at which you fell into the current timeline to prevent you from being caught in some kind of phantom zone or other messy place."
Hal paused upon hearing this, then said:
"You really did it. You beat Barbatos and his men to a pulp. Well done, ally."
He called to Hal and said, "Let's go. I've prepared an alternate dimension as a base for our operation. My ally, you need to recover your strength, and then we can properly plan how to make this world a better place."
He walked over to Parallax Mohal and naturally stood shoulder to shoulder with him.
There was nothing to doubt about what he said.
Hal followed him and flew toward the portal.
Nearly.
The portal was getting closer and closer. Hal was in front, and Shi Xianzhe was behind. In the blink of an eye, the two of them launched a sneak attack on each other almost simultaneously.
Hal jerked to the side, narrowly dodging the Time Trapper's hand that was about to pierce his back. The hand's attack was extremely cunning, aimed precisely at the wound on his back. Immediately afterward, he swung his fist back, forcefully striking the Time Trapper's face beneath its hood, sending blood spurting from its nose.
boom!
Despite the hasty exchange, their battle instantly caused the desert beneath their feet to explode like a nuclear bomb, sending large amounts of sand soaring into the air. The immense force shattered layer after layer of the earth's surface, causing red magma from the mantle layer to spray into the sky like rain.
They were like a knife cut into the surface of the earth, and those trapped obviously suffered more.
Hal charged straight at him, grabbed the man by the neck, and shoved him into the surging, flowing lava. The man struggled desperately, punching Hal in the face again and again. Then Hal opened his mouth and spewed a mouthful of fiery green energy at him, scorching him so much that he roared in fury.
"Damn traitorous bastard, you dog, what bargaining chip did Barbatos give you..." Parallax Mohal hadn't finished speaking when he looked at the face under the hood of the Time Trapped, which had suddenly become expressionless again.
Then a thought popped into his mind: no, it wasn't Barbatos, there must be someone else.
It was an intuition. Parallax Morhal realized, almost by accident, that he wasn't fighting Barbatos, but who was plotting against him?
Who could turn this ally of the fallen into betrayal, now that he has succeeded, into a fatal blow?
"It's no use, you can't beat me." Hal didn't have time to think anymore; he'd subdue his opponent and then interrogate him. He lifted the man out of the lava and then flew him into the sky, gripping his neck.
From the moment the Time Trapped's sneak attack failed, it was destined...
puff!
Hal stared blankly down at the huge gash in his body, from which flowed antimatter cosmic energy, black and shimmering with tiny starlight, like the universe itself.
In an instant, Parallax Mohal was severely injured, and the antimatter cosmic energy that had already been partially stolen by Genie Evolution was stolen again.
How is this possible? The reason why Genie was able to steal Hal's antimatter cosmic energy is because the creators of the sixth-dimensional god world, who were hiding behind the scenes, secretly intervened.
And this thing in front of us...
In an instant, he seemed to have completely lost the power to resist, floating limply in the air.
"Success." A mini version of the Emperor Jester flew out from the Time Trapped One's body, followed closely by another mini version of the Anti-Monitor.
Anti-surveillance agents!
They pounced on Parallax Mohal from the left and right, with the Time Trapped close behind: "Capture him alive! He's been severely injured, and all that antimatter cosmic energy within him is ours."
But the moment the trapped man's finger touched Hal's body, Hal, who seemed unable to move, suddenly opened his eyes. Ignoring the huge gash in his waist, he suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood onto the trapped man's face.
This move, which resembled a street brawl, actually had a good effect when it was used by a powerful being who was almost a sixth-dimensional god.
The victim was completely taken aback by his actions and was immediately struck in the chest by the other man's heavy fist.
As he flew backward like a comet, Hal vanished without a trace in a thunderous green light.
As the smoke cleared, miniature versions of the Emperor Joker and the Anti-Monitor floated and flew to the Time Trapped.
The two avatars, formed from the power of the fifth dimension, spoke in unison: "You messed up, Time Trapped One. Not only did you fail to capture Parallax Mohal, but you also let him escape."
The person trapped there remained silent, his face ashen.
"But it doesn't matter if they run away." The Mini Emperor Joker shook his big head and said, "Anyway, we've already collected all of Hal's antimatter cosmic energy."
He snapped his fingers, and then the mini anti-monitor next to him opened his palm, and a large ball of black antimatter cosmic energy condensed in his palm and appeared in front of the Time Trapped.
The eyes of the trapped man immediately gleamed with greed: "You must not shortchange me on any of the promises you made."
"What? No, of course there will be plenty." The Mini Emperor Clown winked at the Mini Anti-Monitor, and then the antimatter cosmic energy entered the Time Trapped's body.
A mocking glint appeared in the eyes of the Time Trapped. They must have thought that after these energies entered his body, they could still extract them from him just as they had from Parallax Mohal before. But what they didn't know was that once these powers entered the Time Trapped's body, they belonged to him.
Otherwise, he would be a fool to cooperate with the Emperor and the Joker to betray Hal—and it was all worth it.
"That's right, well done," said the Emperor Joker. "With this energy, we can reclaim more antimatter cosmic energy from Parallax Mohal. Parallax Mohal may have escaped, but he's no longer a threat to the overall situation."
He said, "Stage effects are the most important thing!"
He said to the Time Trapped One, "When the time comes, you'll help us kill the first Lantern Man, which will both eliminate the threat for you and give you the energy, and then we'll be even! But before that, you, who possess antimatter cosmic energy, have to help us..."
at the same time.
The Emperor Clown, who was besieging Barbatos, curled his lips into a smile.
Batman, where are you?
He thought expectantly.
……
……
……
Barbatos took on five opponents single-handedly; he was both tall and strong.
Brainiac, Black Death Emperor, Emperor Joker, First Lantern, Anti-Monitor Dragon.
Five people surrounded him, and Barbatos was almost numb.
Barbatos's eyes darted around, and he tried to struggle a bit more.
"Black Death Emperor, I just..."
"Your death is more valuable than any other universe."
Barbatos cursed the Black Death Emperor in his mind.
The anti-monitor dragon pounced like a mad dog. Barbatos tried to control it, but felt that the energy he left in the dragon's body was very stagnant and could not affect its actions at all.
The energy within the other party's body belonging to the anti-monitor was severely excessive. Barbatos had no idea when the other party had secretly accumulated so much energy.
Barbatos never imagined that he would one day experience the treatment of the world's creator.
"Let go of me—"
"Aaaaaaaaahh ...
Barbatos roared, though it was hard to tell whether it was a cry of pain or a roar of rage.
"You're just one of my..."
"Ah!!!! Let go!"
Brainiac's metal tentacles gripped Barbatos's neck from behind, while the Black Death Emperor's scythe struck Barbatos's forehead almost simultaneously. The Black Death Emperor and Brainiac had honed their teamwork in their previous battle with Parallax Morhal, and now they were letting Barbatos experience the fruits of their training all at once.
Barbatos no longer wanted to fight these lunatics. He broke through space to try to escape, but the space he had just broken through was closed by the Emperor Joker using the power of the fifth dimension. The Anti-Monitor Dragon bit Barbatos's foot from behind and dragged him back into the encirclement.
It's okay, it's okay.
After a brief period of panic, Barbatos quickly rallied.
He was much stronger than any of those who were besieging him, and he couldn't afford to be seriously injured for the time being. As long as he could overcome the panic after being suddenly surrounded, it wouldn't be impossible for Barbatos to escape like Parallax Morhal.
Anyway, he's not really going to fight Emperor Joker to the death right now. Even if he wins, so what? Does he think the wasted energy is free?
All he needs to do now is calm down and find a chance to escape. Things can't get any worse than they are now—
Just as Barbatos had this thought, a strange sound was heard throughout the siege battlefield—the shout of Batman Dragon.
His voice pierced through space, resounding directly within the turbulent void outside this dark multiverse:
"Lord Barbatos, Lord Barbatos!"
"You are the guardian of the entire multiverse, and we all love and respect you!"
"Hold on, hold on, Lord Barbatos! Don't give up!"
"I've come to save you!"
Upon hearing this sound, Barbatos felt a chill run down his spine.
Hey, don't come any closer!
If you barge in here and interfere, I'll—
Is there any way they can escape?
(End of this chapter)