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Chapter 924 The Spirit of a Petite Being, A Scheme Spanning History
Chapter 924 The Spirit of a Petite Being, A Scheme Spanning History
This is during the Seneca Legion War, outside of Earth, in the vast and boundless universe.
Logically speaking, the Riddler was just an ordinary person who would suffocate to death in this vacuum environment outside the universe. However, he seemed to be standing on a transparent ground where no void existed, completely unaffected. Some kind of fifth-dimensional magic was fixed on him. The other first-generation Lanterns could not see that he knew a little bit of magic, but only a little bit. Basically, it was some half-baked knowledge that he had learned when he and another mage forged the Ring of Power on Earth 3.
In short, they can speak without any problems now, and the blue Earth shines with a faint glow in the universe, serving as a light for them.
The three veteran time travelers, Golden Vanguard Time Master and First Lantern, gathered around the Riddler, waiting for him to say something useful.
After being stared at for a few seconds, he finally couldn't maintain his inscrutable expression.
"Okay, I have to admit, from my perspective, I was just recruited by that Batman called Nameless Old Dragon. He casually took me from a Dark Multiverse... I don't know how to describe the feeling. Anyway, the two Riddlers are now one. I'm not sure if this counts as a personality death, but it's obvious that this Batman is different from the Batman I know. He doesn't care about dead people at all."
"Your mission," the first Lantern said succinctly, "is to work for the nameless old dragon, the Anti-Monitor Bat, to come to the Sinestro Legion War and use the energy essence of the Bat Dragon to corrupt the Anti-Monitors of that era... weaken the Anti-Monitors, without disrupting the outcome of the Sinestro Legion War, but you will almost certainly face resistance from the Anti-Monitors."
"Wait a minute, I don't really understand. We're going to kill a sixth-dimensional god? The great demon who killed 99% of the life in the DC multiverse during Crisis on Infinite Earths?"
Golden Vanguard started shouting and yelling from the side. At this moment, he seemed more... well, younger and more emotional. Compared to the history of Batman Dragon, the history of Golden Vanguard and Master Time went in the opposite direction. For Batman Dragon, the Earth-15 incident was a thing of the past, while for Master Time and Golden Vanguard in front of them, Earth-15 was a future they had not yet participated in.
History repeats itself in this way: they just brushed past each other at the right time, and this brushing past each other has happened countless times... The Fiji incident extends all the way to the origin of Batman: Dragon arriving in the DC multiverse.
"Strictly speaking, the Anti-Monitors in Crisis on Infinite Earths only killed about 90% of the people, but in reality, it's all the same. Quiet down, Golden Vanguard." The Time Master didn't call Golden Vanguard by his name directly; they usually addressed each other by their real names when they were alone.
Golden Vanguard slapped his head and then made a zipper gesture over his mouth.
"So now the question is, what specific methods will the anti-surveillance activists use to resist?"
The first Lantern said, "Batman Dragon must have given you a specific action plan. You are our guide, so speak up."
"No, the specific action plan is with you."
However, the riddle-maker shook his head and denied the other party's question.
"What does 'me' mean, I...?"
"That's what the first Lantern Knight said," he said, but then he suddenly revealed a... somewhat...
He had a somewhat shocked expression.
The nameless old dragon, his name is...
He couldn't remember the other person's name.
The nameless old dragon has no bottom line. Unlike Batman's Dragon, he can freely combine the Riddler from the Dark Multiverse and the Riddler from the Main Universe, without even considering whether it counts as murder.
He has no bottom line in his actions and has clearly crossed the line of superhero behavior.
Originally, Batman Dragon hoped that he would return to the past in the timeline to kill the Batman Who Laughs, but he failed to return to the past and instead arrived in the future where Perpetua ruled the DC multiverse. Ultimately, after a series of events, he was sent to the end of the Sinestro Legion War.
As is well known, according to the original history upstream of the timeline, the Anti-Monitor had just been resurrected from the death of the Infinite Earth Crisis and participated in the Legion Wars. Then, at the end, he was killed a second time by Superman Supreme. After his death, his body was captured by the Black Death Emperor and transformed into a lamp furnace for the Black Lantern Legion. This event directly led to the occurrence of the Darkest Night.
The Anti-Monitor had shamefully served the Black Death as its slave, losing all face. Logically, he should have had to wait a long enough time until he was resurrected from the sixth dimension, the central control of the DC multiverse, to escape the Black Death's control. However, at the end of the Darkest Night, Sinestro donned the White Lantern Ring, becoming the first White Lantern in history, and shared its energy with everyone. The Black Death was driven back to its own dimension of death by the White Lanterns, and the Anti-Monitor was instantly revived.
Although he later suffered another misfortune due to Dr. Manhattan's theft of ten years of the DC multiverse, and was reduced to the mortal Möbius in the New 52 era, even temporarily losing his status as a sixth-dimensional god, that's a story for later. For now, if the Anti-Monitor wants to prevent his weakened self from suffering the same fate as in the original timeline—being half-destroyed by Super-Prime and killed at the end of the Sinestro Legion War, with his corpse still scattering into the universe as a Black Lantern Furnace—then what he might do is…
"A spirit of existence?!"
At the very moment that Genie I realized this, the smaller spirit within him—one of the two trump cards Batman Dragon had given him before sending him into the hypertime flow—suddenly began to tremble rapidly. In an instant, it broke free from Genie I's restraints and soared away, without even a word to Genie I, flying straight towards the distant, dark blue Earth. (Chapter 911)
At this very moment, at this point in the Senestor Legion War... the White Lantern Beast, which will soon end the Night of Darkness and trigger the Great Event of the Day of Light, the life light that once revived the Anti-Monitor from the Black Lantern Furnace, named "Spirit of Existence," is lying quietly in the center of the Earth, yet to be born.
"etc……"
Before the first Genie could react, he saw the Riddler throw a large handful of strange, colorful powder at the Time Master and the Golden Vanguard, who were still in shock. Immediately afterward, the expressions on the two men's faces turned strange.
"Hehehe!" said Golden Vanguard, "It feels so good to be a big baby!"
"What are you doing?!"
"Hehehe, don't worry," the riddle teller said. "Actually, I have a reason for doing this."
He should have explained quickly at that moment, but unfortunately, he slipped up a bit: "I need no crown, yet I command thousands of troops; I am silent, yet I can make millions bow down; kings use me to be crowned, mothers use me to lull their babies to sleep... Who am I?"
"I am your mother's ***!!!"
"ah!!!!"
The Riddler screamed and kissed the first Genie's fist with his face. If it weren't for the five-dimensional magic surrounding him that blocked it, that punch would have made his head explode like a watermelon.
After nearly being killed by Genie I, the Riddler finally returned to normal.
"The command is in order. I'm not going crazy. I received a hidden command from an unnamed old dragon, and I just executed it, erasing their memories!"
"The nameless old dragon told me that there were some things that the Golden Vanguard and the Time Master couldn't know, otherwise it would affect the integrity of the subsequent history. So he gave me a lot of colorful pink powder. He told me that these were creations of fifth-dimensional magic that could help the Time Master and the Golden Vanguard forget their memories painlessly. Moreover, what they had to forget were those memories that wouldn't affect history. He gave me instructions, specifying that I had to do it, my friend."
The first Lantern ignored him, and he fell into deep thought.
Damn it, the spirit of this tiny being was given to him by Batman's Dragon, not by some nameless old dragon.
Did they share the same idea? Did he foresee the scene before him back then, or is he now completing a historical cycle? What is an unclear future for him is merely the past that has already happened for people at a certain level?
From the perspective of the first Lantern, everything is just a fog. He is merely a pawn, a tool, living only to find a reason to live in order to resurrect some false family members.
He gazed at the azure Earth for a moment, then pondered the hidden trump card lurking within him—the Fool of the World, another card Batman Dragon had given him. Then he turned to the Riddler and said:
"Now I understand. We are just pawns. Batman Dragon didn't tell us anything, but left us with a backup plan. We just need to reach the designated position to trigger the release of the backup plan. We neither know nor should know the details of the backup plan."
He looked at the blue Earth again, extinguishing the slight suspicion that had arisen in his mind. Then he felt something else fluctuate within his body, helping him erase the suspicion. Even his memory of appearing here with the petite spirit was deliberately diluted by this invisible force, almost to the point that the first Lantern Knight could not remember it at all.
In that vast, formless expanse, the first Lantern Knight realized that the blurry face of the nameless old dragon chuckled softly at him like mist, then held up a finger to its lips:
It's a secret, remember to keep it!
In the mind of the first Genie, the words that Batman Dragon had once spoken to him quietly surfaced:
"...Now that I am the Anti-Monitor Bat, I can grant you an identity similar to that of a servant god of a servant god, transforming you into a servant of the Anti-Monitor Bat. This won't give you much of a power boost, but it will slightly revive your nearly exhausted lifespan..."
Only then did the first Lantern remember that he had been given a part of Batman's Dragon. The Anti-Monitor's antimatter cosmic energy made him a Barbatos-like Barbatos, which made him somewhat unsure whether what he had seen in the hazy mist that had appeared in his mind was Batman's Dragon or the nameless old dragon.
Are the faces behind the two masks actually the same at their core? Or are they fundamentally different?
he does not know.
All he knew was that, besides the tiny spirit, Batman Dragon had given him a Black Lantern ring, instructing him to transform himself into a Black Lantern Corpse when needed, and then use the tiny spirit to resurrect himself, thus extending his lifespan.
But now that the petite spirit has flown away, without the White Lantern, how can he revive himself after transforming into the Black Lantern Corpse?
What should you do when your life comes to an end?
What makes this Black Lantern ring different from a regular Black Lantern ring? Even as the first Black Lantern, the master of the emotional spectrum, I couldn't see anything special about it. Could it be the influence of Batman's Dragon, a power unique to the fifth dimension?
Something's not right. When Batman Dragon gave him these things, he didn't seem to know what situation he might encounter. He gave him these items entirely based on his idea of dealing with the Batman Who Laughs. It was the Nameless Old Dragon who tampered with these things on him after meeting him, even without the First Lantern being aware of it.
It's no wonder the other party was able to do that, because it was entirely within his expectations that the first Genie was rejected into the hyper-timeline reality created by Perpetua. Everything was just a historical loop that had already been completed by the nameless old dragon. What he was doing now was to reinforce this reality created by the other party according to the script deduced by the other party, and successfully overwrite it onto the hyper-timeline reality, and then completely solidify it, replacing Perpetua's terrible reality!
But now the question arises: what role do the Foolish Owl and the Emperor Joker play inside him?
Never mind, their priority is to find the anti-surveillance figure, the anti-surveillance figure of this era, or perhaps his corpse.
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A spatial ripple occurred, and the owl-man and his spaceship emerged from the sky.
He uttered a bewildered sound: "Damn it, where did I jump to?"
This owl-man, who came from before the crisis on Infinite Earths and was swept into the hypertimestream by the fusion of multiple universes, leaving his original timeline, stared at the future world before him—a world that had appeared after the universe had restarted countless times since his death—and was utterly and completely dumbfounded. (Appears in Chapter 851)
(End of this chapter)