What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 661: Barbatos leaves the World Forge for the first time, and the World Forger invades

look.

The stars in the sky are fake, they don't really exist.

They are nothing but... illusions created when the timeline has not yet coalesced.

The illusion before the perfect timeline condensed.

That's what I'm chasing.

I am Hal the Parallax Demon. I know that's what they call me, but in fact, I prefer to call myself Hal...that's my real name.

I possess the power of 3600 Lantern Rings, which is exactly the number of Green Lantern Corps members I have slaughtered.

I control all the light energy absorbed from the Green Lantern Central Energy Battery, which was also the reason why Planet OA was once destroyed.

I know I'm sinful, I know I've strayed from my heroic purpose, but this is all for the greater good.

So... please, I can't fail.

I can undo everything I've done, and only with this thought in mind can I keep moving forward, but the further I go, the less I can turn back.

I can never stop trying to create a perfect world, otherwise everything I have done so far will be meaningless.

I killed my friends and destroyed everything I loved, because as long as I was powerful enough, I could restart the entire world in a planned and perfect way.

I can only succeed, and forever... I can only succeed.

blood.

Hal could feel his blood vessels throbbing, blood gushing out of the wounds.

The energy burned through Hal's body like a flame, turning him into a trapped beast with no way out.

He is very strong, so strong that as long as he makes up his mind, the final result will be the death of the Anti-Monitor Dragon and his injury.

But that would come at the cost of completely destroying his hope of escaping the super-time stream...which he could not accept.

His injuries were relatively minor, still within the range that Hal could repair. He opened his mouth, revealing his fangs, and howled desperately at the Anti-Monitor Dragon.

He still had hope... temporarily. And this hope ignited him, made his reason fanatical, made his emotions cold, made him hide and shrink at all costs, waiting for the right time.

Returning to the timeless stream and becoming an iron nail solidified on the concrete road is definitely not an ending that Hal can accept.

Although he has agreed to Batman Dragon's plan B of using a crowbar as a carrier to enter the current timeline of the super time stream, no one knows what kind of fire is burning in his heart.

He still has a lot of real skills that he hasn't used yet... In the "Zero Hour" period, Hal once manipulated the silent existence, starting from both ends of the timeline, intending to erase the entire time.

Mocun alone was enough to defeat the heroes...Mocun was in a place where time stood still called the Vanishing Point. He single-handedly challenged the entire Justice Society. By reversing time, he turned the Justice Society's Time Knight, Wildcat, Midnight Doctor and others into octogenarians in the blink of an eye.

(Note: The history of the death of the first generation of Time Warrior was later changed. The third generation of Time Warrior reversed the super time flow and died at the hands of Mocun instead of the first generation of Time Warrior. The original comics did have the operation of changing the past history of the super time flow.)
But after the superheroes defeated Mocun with great difficulty, they found that the erasure of the timeline at both ends did not stop.

In addition to the normal, expected powers, Parallax Mohal also wields the power to control and repair the multiverse, and manipulate timelines.

He once figured out the trick to controlling entropy at the end of time, and he even activated a time rift, easily tearing apart Colossus' body.

Overall, his power during the "Zero Hour" period was close to that of the former Anti-Monitor. Although this description sounds a bit like "after Lu Bu's death, everyone is as brave as Lu Bu", he was still able to defeat the Anti-Monitor dragon.

(Note: Dan Jurgens, the author of Zero Hour, once said that Parallax Hal in Zero Hour has a strength similar to that of the Anti-Monitor. Of course, Parallax Hal is like the Anti-Monitor during the Crisis on Infinite Earths period. His strength has never recovered to full strength since Zero Hour.)
But he didn't do that. Even though he was nearly sucked away by the antimatter universe's energy, Hal didn't do that.

He had to conserve his strength. There was no point in competing with a pet of Barbatos. He was biding his time, and he was almost there.

The first Lantern Knight Huo Rong was waiting in the shadows.

Behind him was the Third Legion assembled in silence, with Shadow Huo Rong standing beside him.

"Listen, past me, we only have this one chance."

Shadow Felron initially tried to hide from Lantern No. 1, but now he seems to be gradually revealing his true colors.

"Our previous attack on Hal gave him some idea of ​​us, but he would never have guessed that there were actually two Horrons."

The members of the Third Legion behind them listened to their conversation quietly.

No, not just two, but countless.

"I only need to pretend to be you to attract Hal's attention. When he thinks that all the enemies are within his sight, he will definitely lose his vigilance, and this is the best time for you to launch a sneak attack."

Shadow Huo Rong said: "But you have to remember, this opportunity only comes once."

"The members of the Third Legion will create opportunities for you. You have to find a way to injure him thoroughly. He has been injured more than before. If you can plunder the antimatter cosmic energy from him again..."

"I can't. That strange feeling has gone from me now..."

"I know you can't. I've never experienced this with you. I've never succeeded in taking the antimatter cosmic energy from Hal. Do you understand? This is the experience that the changes I made this time when I went back in time have added to our experience."

Shadow Huo Rong said: "Whether you can get antimatter energy or not, at least you can plunder Hal's green light energy through the emotional spectrum. I have practiced it before.

The failure just now was only because Hal's injury was not serious enough. If we try again now, the result will never be like this. And, I am afraid I must tell you."

Shadow Huo Rong warned: "You must not get too seriously injured. You are my past self. Once you are injured, due to the law of cause and effect, the super-time flow will cause the injury to appear on my body simultaneously."

He said: "This will hinder my actions and make my nature on the timeline unstable. Constantly being reset by the time limit may even affect my actions. This extremely small delay in action is fatal when facing Hal."

"understood."

They launched an attack.

Shadow Huo Rong was dressed completely like the first Lantern. He took off the troublesome robe, revealing a translucent face covered by countless meridians.

There was a long scar on his face, but the scar disappeared immediately when Shadow Huorong wiped it with his hand.

He flashed and appeared behind Parallax Demon Hal, and then his neck was pinched like a snake.

The Anti-Monitor Dragon cooperated and bit Hal's thigh from behind. Brainiac's metal tentacles tied Hal up like a dumpling in the next second, and then the scythe of the Dark Lord appeared on Hal's neck again.

The next second, the sickle was smashed open by the iron fist, and the metal tentacles broke into pieces. Hal swung Shadow Felron like a hammer with one hand, and slammed it on the head of the Anti-Monitor Dragon. At the same time, the attack of Lantern No. 1 suddenly came, and countless densely packed members of the Third Legion appeared from their hiding places, and the attack like rain instantly submerged Hal.

Getting closer and closer.

The sneak attack was very successful. Shadow Rage was actually the First Lantern himself. Although he was weakened and injured due to his travel through the time stream, he was still exactly the same as the First Lantern. He successfully deceived Hal, making the attack of the real First Lantern so unexpected.

The hand of Hatsudō was about to pierce through Hal's chest like before, and once again seize the antimatter cosmic energy that made Hal so powerful, one of the essences of the parallax magic power.

More! More! These powers will be absorbed by Lantern No. 1, allowing him to truly have the power to shake the entire multiverse!

But the next moment, Huo Rong's eyes met Parallax Demon Hal's head which turned suddenly: "I have been waiting for the siege for a long time and it turned out to be you... I am really disappointed." He looked down at the First Lantern indifferently.

The first Lantern had already realized that something was wrong, and he wanted to turn around and run away. But when he turned his back to Hal, he saw the huge iron stick in his world suddenly coming towards him, and he became extremely small at that moment, like an ant facing a huge foot.

"Old Senior... when it comes to playing with the timeline, you are not even worthy of carrying my shoes. It's just a little trick played by the remnants of time."

boom! ! ! !

The deafening sound resounded throughout the entire Zero Hour timeline, causing the Emperor Clown, who had clearly escaped far away through who knows how many spaces and universes, to turn his head involuntarily.

“Oh my God.” He shrank his neck: “Looks like someone is going to be turned into meat paste, hahahahaha!”

After the rising smoke and dust, the first Lantern Hero had disappeared into thin air, and the shadow Huo Rong next to him also quickly broke through the space and fled for his life like a rat.

The figure of Parallax Demon Hal flashed, and then he grabbed the Anti-Monitor Dragon's tail, dragged him backwards and threw him far away.

at last.

No one can stop Parallax Mohar anymore.

Hal raised his crowbar.

He looked at the iron chain extending upstream of the super-time flow, and across layers of space, he stared at the time trapped people hiding in the time gaps, then he nodded slightly.

"Batman."

Hal's eyes flickered twice, but he did not put away the crowbar, even though this weapon objectively saved him some trouble.

He lifted the metal crowbar and hurled it gently toward the chain.

"I'll give you the crowbar back... I can't use it now." Hal commented: "It's a qualified weapon when attacking by surprise, but when I need to confront head-on, in an upright manner, this thing will hinder me."

Downstream of the super-time flow.

Chen Tao stretched out his hand and caught the weapon that fell from the broken space. He was not sure whether Hal had discovered the rings, but it didn't matter.

Even without these rings, Hal would not keep weapons that Batman has handled close to him -

Let's put it more bluntly:
Hal doesn't trust Batman at all and is still wary of him.

He never thought of taking this mere crowbar for himself. The demon king who created [Zero Hour], Parallax Demon Hal, disdained to cowardly use the weapons of his allies in a head-on confrontation.

Chen Tao put the crowbar away again, feeling a little regretful.

What a pity! He had wanted to do something bad to Hal with the crowbar, but that was no longer possible.

He nodded. "I'll start pulling you down."

Hal also nodded slightly: "This is what you should do."

As they talked, the future timeline of "Hal Success" began to solidify rapidly on the hyper-time stream, while Barbatos, who was downstream of the hyper-time stream, was still desperately urging the Anti-Monitor Dragon to work.

Those members of the Dark Multiverse Legion who were scattered by him throughout the Zero Hour timeline began to wail one after another.

Barbatos transmitted too much energy through them, just like passing a strong current that exceeded the limit of a thin wire, causing them to burst one after another, but they were repaired in an instant by Barbatos' power. They were completely tools, enduring the pain of death again and again, but they could not die.

This time he no longer thought about using Hal to consume the antimatter energy of the Anti-Monitor Dragon, but generously contributed his own strength, but it was too late.

When the Anti-Monitor Dragon repaired his body again and attacked Hal, Hal had already disappeared behind the portal.

boom!
That invisible loud noise...the super-time flow is vibrating.

The entire timeline was trembling with excitement over Hal's escape.

The Anti-Monitor Dragon turned his head and saw the edge of the Zero Hour timeline. The history that was previously erased by Hal reappeared, but it was different from before.

Hal disappeared, and the super-time flow generated a completely new history, which might even give birth to a monster like Emperor Doomsday.

This timeline has not yet solidified, but it already exists at this moment.

Hal is constantly traveling through the super-time stream.

He saw "Infinite Crisis", in which the furious Superman-Prime smashed the crystal wall of the heaven dimension with one punch, and history was changed again.

He passed through the "Sinestro Legion War", and then roamed among the countless zombies in "Blackest Night". He bathed in the light of "Whitest Day" and quickly skipped one major historical event after another that shook the entire multiverse.

Getting closer and closer.

He skipped "Final Crisis" and saw Darkseid being killed by Batman holding the gun that killed the New God. Darkseid's scream shook the entire multiverse, and his immortal soul fell into the mortal world. Since the Final Crisis, Darkseid has been downgraded. He no longer has a real body, only a clone.

When he once again witnessed the restart of the multiverse, saw the "Flashpoint" created by the Flash Barry Allen, and then saw Wally West returning from the Speed ​​Force beyond him, "DC Universe Rebirth" was also forgotten by Hal.

In the melting pot of the world.

Barbatos opened his eyes wide.

He could no longer stop Hal from coming. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't stop him.

Hal's arrival will inevitably create a huge obstacle to his plan to invade the main universe. This has threatened the foundation of Barbatos, which is something he absolutely cannot tolerate.

So Barbatos made his decision.

He reluctantly climbed up from the body of the World Forger and stopped eating the corpse.

While Hal has not yet arrived at the current time, he has just arrived after "DC Universe Rebirth", so Barbatos still has a chance to rob him at this time.

This is Barbatos' last chance to drive Hal back to his original position. If he fails to do it, he will probably have to face a Hal who is completely unmanageable.

Therefore, no matter how much Barbatos didn't want to leave the World Forge, he had to leave now.

He wagged his tail and slowly crawled out of the World Crucible.

He was a little hesitant. He glanced at the body of his former master and wondered in his heart whether he really wanted to do that. But in the end, Hal's importance outweighed everything.

Once he really came, it would be difficult for him to drive him away like he did last time. Hal was not a fool after all, and he would not enter the World Crucible again.

So Barbatos swayed his body, climbed out of the World Furnace, and disappeared behind the space gate.

Not long after it disappeared, a figure appeared in the World Crucible.

The World Forger took off his hood, ignoring the terrified Clown Dragon beside him.

He looked at his own body and sighed softly:
"Barbatos is finally gone."

(End of this chapter)