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Chapter 913 At the End of the Road, the First Lantern Knight Has Finally Reached This Day
Chapter 913 At the End of the Road, the First Lantern Knight... Today Has Finally Arrived.
Strictly speaking, although Batman Dragon will now be given the identity of the Anti-Monitor Bat, this identity is slightly different from what the Anti-Monitor initially envisioned.
The original Anti-Monitor was trapped and killed by the Monitor upstream in the Hypertime Stream. He originally wanted to use the mortal Mobius to transform Batman Dragon, a seemingly powerful Batman from the Dark Multiverse, in order to help himself escape from the predicament upstream in the Hypertime Stream, but now he has done it himself.
Therefore, transforming Batman's dragon became a kind of subjugation operation rather than a last resort. The Anti-Monitor intended to use the transformation of Batman's dragon to trigger Earth-15 events and thus alter reality.
but now……
"If you're trying to make a fuss about Earth-15, it's completely useless now."
The Anti-Monitor warned Batman Dragon: "The reason I told you to reboot the entire timeline through Earth-15 is because if you are willing to embrace me, you can help me destroy all the history since Earth-15, and then I can create a hyper-timeline reality that is more favorable to me."
But right now, just suppressing our mother is already exhausting enough. I don't have the energy to shape reality for you anymore, understand?
Chen Tao understood.
Simply put, times have changed.
At that time, the reason why the Anti-Monitors were so determined to make Chen Tao the Bat of the Anti-Monitors was to directly overturn his game with the World Forgers by eliminating the Earth-15 incident.
Chen Tao's proactive change of his past behavior will cause the collapse of the reality of the time-traveling world. The anti-surveillance agents can then use this to create a reality that is more favorable to them.
Indeed, when it comes to shaping reality, from the moment the World Maker chose to rebel against the DC multiverse and create his own baby multiverse, even at his peak, he couldn't outmaneuver the Anti-Monitor. This wasn't because he was weaker than the Anti-Monitor; it was purely because he was trying to undermine the DC multiverse, and the DC multiverse had already rejected him.
DC Multiverse: You despicable traitor, I won't let you shape my hyper-timeline reality!
That's roughly the situation.
This is why the Anti-Monitor could repeatedly erase the hyper-time flow reality that was unfavorable to him, allowing Chen Tao to achieve an effect similar to time travel, while the World Forger could only passively defend.
The anti-surveillance agent can lose many times, but only needs to win once.
The World Maker is aggressive, but in reality, he is the weaker party. If it weren't for the Monitor and the Counter-Monitor, both of whom are too weak, the World Maker's plan wouldn't even have a chance of succeeding.
But now the situation is different. After Perpetua invaded the DC multiverse and Chen Tao changed Earth's history 15, the Anti-Monitor, due to Perpetua's existence, was unable to reverse this history into a reality more favorable to him.
"If I change Earth 15, what will the result be?" Chen Tao asked.
"I don't know, so I advise you not to try to do that," the anti-surveillance agent said. "A concrete road that was already formed and hadn't even dried yet was pried up, but I don't have the ability to pave a proper, smooth road."
He paused, then said, "Soil and debris are flying everywhere, mixed with uncured cement and the already cured cement."
The hypertimestream lacks guidance and must regenerate a future where no one knows what will happen. It might be better, it might be worse, but I lean towards the worse, especially given the hypertimestream's current weakness. It's no longer capable of making the future better; you might even find that Superman from the main universe has suddenly died.
"And that's not even the worst of it..." Chen Tao interjected from the side, "The worst-case scenario is that if you don't have the strength to create a timeline for the hyper-time stream, and you have to be busy suppressing your mother, Perpetua, but Perpetua happens to be able to spare a little energy..."
"Yes, that's exactly what I'm worried about. My mother is very likely to create a reality that is more favorable to her, which would be a disaster for all of us."
Papetua was not a world-builder, and he was at a disadvantage against the anti-monitors, so he could only let them keep restarting the world and then retaliate passively.
She is far stronger than the World Forgers, not just in terms of sheer power—Papetua is far too weak without the power of the composite, but in her understanding of the entire multiverse, the Mother of the Multiverse far surpasses anyone else. She is fully capable of forcibly shaping a reality that is favorable to her despite the rejection of the DC multiverse, something the World Forgers cannot do.
"Earth 15 is quite some time old now, and there's a vast amount of history in it," the Anti-Monitor warned. "Some of this history has begun to solidify. If Earth 15 changes, that history will cause this solidified history to collapse as well. The damage to the hypertime flow would be enough to make our Mother fight us in the matter of [creating a new reality]."
Simply put, if Chen Tao were to alter the Earth-15 event, it would be like performing surgery on a tumor in the timeline, causing massive bleeding and briefly suspending the DC multiverse, allowing people to dress as they please.
Even if Papetua had suffered a massive hemorrhage before she came down from the wall, it wouldn't have been fatal to the DC multiverse. The entire DC multiverse would have turned into a little girl dressed as the Anti-Monitor, allowing him to shape a reality that was favorable to himself in the hypertime stream.
But now that their mother has come down, the one dressed up in the DC multiverse has become Papetua, and the Anti-Monitors can't compete with their own mother.
"So we can only destroy the small segment of reality before Mother came down from the wall," the Anti-Monitor said. "This segment of reality is not solidified, and destroying it will not cause serious damage to the DC multiverse. This way, we can suppress Mother and prevent her from creating a reality that is favorable to herself."
Chen Tao understood that the shorter the duration of the disruption to reality and the lower the degree of solidification, the less damage it would cause to the hypertime flow and the DC multiverse.
If the DC multiverse is not harmed, it will not go into shock and will have the ability to help the Monitors and Anti-Monitors suppress Perpetua, making it unable to compete with the Anti-Monitors and only able to be created by them in a failed hyper-timeline reality.
"So you still have time, Batman Dragon."
The anti-surveillance advocate said, "In the final moments, you must find a way to precisely destroy that part of reality before we are qualified to talk about the future."
"How exactly should I do it?"
The counter-surveillance agent paused for a moment.
"I have no idea."
Batman Dragon also fell silent.
"First, transform me into the Anti-Monitor Bat."
The counter-surveillance advocate nodded.
He no longer expects to control the other party through the Anti-Monitor Bat; giving the other party this identity is merely giving the other party a little control over his antimatter energy.
So when he gave his energy and blood to Batman Dragon, he saw that the other's face developed a ravine-like appearance, similar to that of the sixth-dimensional god Antimonitor.
He became increasingly inhuman.
[Warning, warning.]
The Alfred Accords are now in effect...
[Batman #52 detected to be contaminated by the Anti-Monitor; protection in progress...]
Protection failed.
【warn!warn! 】
A flood of characters surged onto my retina like a tidal wave, then seemed to get stuck.
Chen Tao took a deep breath.
Immediately afterwards, he summoned the first Lantern Man.
"My friend." Chen Tao took a deep breath.
"It's time for you to sacrifice yourself."
His face was deep, and he said... things that superheroes should never say.
(End of this chapter)