What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 943 Even the master of the emotional spectrum must bow down before me!

"This is……"

The first Lantern Man stared blankly at all of this.

"This is my gift to you. No one can promise you the real Earth-15, your original home, not even the World Forgers. Because that would violate the very meaning of the DC multiverse... I think you've read history before. If the multiverse were without the Green Lantern Corps, countless events would be logically invalid, ultimately leading to a collapse of logic and the destruction of the entire multiverse. This is inevitable."

"The destruction of your home has become the cornerstone of the DC multiverse. No one can extract the cornerstone without destroying the DC multiverse, unless that person is Papetua."

The first Lantern Hero heard the voice of the Mother of the Multiverse: "Unfortunately, I can."

"This damned multiverse is already a mess. My offspring didn't manage to fix it properly after I left, and now that I'm leaving the Origin Wall, everything should be set right... Well, maybe I've said too much, Calamity."

The first Lantern Hero heard Papetua say.

"Why don't you go back to this universe and see your mother? Your family?"

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"Do not."

Papetua heard Parallax Mohal say this.

He had expected to hear "okay".

The first Lantern has shown Perpetual that these Avengers, who live off their homeland, are just how much they want, or rather, how much they crave to change everything. They are a bunch of pathetic creatures captured by sorrow and pain. Perpetual thought he had the offensive against them under control, and all he had to do was find the homeland they wanted, and these people would be at his beck and call.

She did not lie to the first Lantern.

Papetua judged that the first Lantern was the easiest and most likely person to join her team, and as it turned out, her judgment was correct.

She speculated that Parallax Morhal would be another character who had already succumbed...

But the other party's reaction did not develop as he had expected.

Almost at the same instant Parallax Mohal refused, Perpetual launched a direct attack on Batman Dragon.

She knew that once Parallax Hal made a decision, he would not change it. Rather than trying to change his personal will by whispering in the timeline or rewriting history, it was obviously a better option to try to subdue Batman Dragon before Hal took action. The moment Parallax Hal refused, she had already read through countless timelines and realized that unless she spent more time corrupting Hal, his mind would not change.

What else is there to say? The pressure on Chen Tao's side increased sharply. If the DC multiverse hadn't existed for a long enough time, like a house, no matter how powerful Papetua was, he couldn't have demolished the house in an instant.

Those solidified past histories that transcended time were saved by Papetua. She is destroying these solidified states. She is not yet the Papetua in her prime who came down from the wall, as Chen Tao saw in the comic book in his previous life. Her ability is not enough to destroy the time flow in an instant, otherwise she would definitely have done so.

"Manhattan, Papetua has not gained Parallax Mohal's approval, do you see?"

Chen Tao took a deep breath and whispered to Dr. Manhattan, "You're mistaken. This isn't the normal evolution of the DC multiverse at all. It's just that Perpetua, the creator of the multiverse who should have been dead, is using his brute force to reverse the normal development of this universe. Perpetua isn't normal data in your experiment; he's an external factor that you didn't even consider, which has had a wrong impact on the experiment."

"I saw some other, less-than-ideal futures..."

Then Chen Tao heard Dr. Manhattan's voice, a sound that resonated in his ears like thunder:

"The multiverse has begun to fight back; the multiverse's self-maintenance program is in operation."

Chen Tao also realized what Dr. Manhattan was talking about. Parallax Mohal was launching an attack on Papetour, like Don Quixote the Last Knight, futilely attacking the windmill.

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"Mother……"

The history of Earth 15 has truly been changed.

Back when Lantern Man was protecting his Earth, watching the enraged Superman Supreme fail to find a target to destroy and then break through space and fly away, Calamity felt a huge sense of unreality.

He was very old, extremely old, but today, his hometown returned, his once-lost ideal world was truly changed by him, so easily…

The first Lantern Knight felt his hands were shaking.

"Did I really do it? Did I really change history? Was it really that simple?"

All of this made the first Lantern Knight weep with joy, yet also with deep sorrow.

After all these years, he's finally going home.

To others, he had only been gone for a short afternoon, but to the first Lantern Knight, it was the first half of his life.

His hometown remains the same, and his family is still with him. He has longed for this scene for so many years.

"Wait, why hasn't Batman Dragon appeared?" The first Lantern looked into the void. As far as he knew, the Earth-15 incident should have occurred around this time. Batman Dragon led the mortal Mobius to Earth-15 and then summoned over 3000 heroes…

"Because Batman Dragon himself deleted the Earth-15 event, ha, thanks to him, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to throw you over here so quickly and easily to change this history."

Perpetua said, “I have kept my promise, Green Lantern X, and now you need to do something else for me: stop Parallax Malfurion. Don’t worry, you can’t fight him. Most of the power Malfurion wields comes from the Green Lantern Corps’ emotional spectrum, and you are the user of that spectrum. I will support you from behind the scenes and give you the power to fight Parallax Malfurion.”

"If you're so powerful, why do you need my help to deal with him?"

After asking that question, Genie Ace realized the reason: "You're fighting Batman Dragon at the same time? Is the power he borrowed really that strong, enough to fight you head-on?"

Of course not.

Batman Dragon lurks cunningly behind Doctor Manhattan. Papetoa's concern is that Doctor Manhattan listens to Batman Dragon's words, not that he fears Batman Dragon himself.

But there's no need to explain any of this to the First Lantern. Anyway, she has the First Lantern's Achilles' heel. The First Lantern has already witnessed how he changed the history of the entire DC multiverse, and he knows very well that the Mother of the Multiverse, Papetua, is the only one who can give him the bargaining chip he truly wants.

The first Lantern Man never truly let go. If he had, he wouldn't have stolen the tiny spirit of Batman Dragon and tried to save the fake himself.

“There’s one more thing,” Papetua heard the first Genie ask, “What about the fake? The replica that the World Builder created for my universe?”

After reading through the history of the Hypertime Stream, Papetua understood what the first Lantern was talking about.

This foolish guy, even though he's already found his true home, is still thinking about that fake.

“I will help you find it. Isn’t it the Black Death Emperor?” Perpetua said. “So now, go and block Parallax Mohal. You were once used by my three offspring to eliminate those hyper-time-flowing futures that were detrimental to them. You have the ability to destroy hyper-time-flowing futures. You’d better act now, quickly.” Perpetua looked at the person under the No. 1 lamp who obeyed his command.

With Genie Ichiban blocking Parallax Morhal, she can focus on dealing with Batman Dragon.

Papetua did not try to persuade Superman Supreme...

For the Mother of the Multiverse, the continuity of time is meaningless. She is like a gambler who rolls dice. First, she rolls a die called "Earthling A.R." and gets a "success". Then she rolls a die called "Parallax Morhal" and gets a "failure".

She's not keen on rolling the "Superman Supreme" die now, because she's already failed to persuade Parallax Malcolm. If Superman Supreme rolls a success, Parallax Malcolm's failure won't make her look good; it will still raise doubts in Doctor Manhattan about whether all of this is the result of the DC multiverse's self-evolution. If Superman Supreme also rolls a failure, Doctor Manhattan will probably be even more easily persuaded by Batman Dragon, which wouldn't be good for Perpetual either.

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"It's you……"

In that void where pure white and pitch black intertwined, Parallax Morhal saw the first Lantern standing in his way.

Parallax Morhal gazed into the distance, seeing through the barriers and veils of timelines, and saw that Papetua's true form was hidden there.

"It seems that Papetua won't come out to fight me to the death, Genie Number One."

Parallax Morhal looked at the other party: "Let me guess... He's using your home as a bargaining chip, saying he'll return your home to you if he can stop it? In order to destroy the entire DC multiverse's hypertime flow?"

The first Lantern Knight remained silent.

Parallax Morhal was right; that's the price he succumbed to. The first Lantern was put on a price tag, and even he himself admitted it.

"So you just did it?"

The first Lantern Hears Parallax Morhal's Torture Questions:

"To survive for your own homeland, you ruthlessly betrayed the safety of the entire multiverse, bowing down to Papetua and allowing him to deceive you. You claim you'll create a perfect world, but in reality, you'll only transform all living people—or rather, all those already solidified in the transdimensional flow and possessing a certain strength—into a hybrid of Martian and Earthling genes, making them cannon fodder in his fight against the Originators? No, Calamity, use your brain! Didn't you ever consider the possibility of his failure? You—"

But the first Genie didn't want to hear it anymore; his voice trembled slightly.

"Enough!!! At least my homeland is back now. The World Forgers can't, Batman Dragon can't rebel, the Monitors certainly can't, but Perpetua can. I'm not a hero, you understand? I'm not a hero!!!"

He repeated his words aloud three times, then told Parallax Mohal: "I will always be a villain, a villain who is looking for his home. Don't try to stir up any of the things you imagine in me, I don't have any of that at all."

His voice returned to calm as he coldly informed Parallax Mohal: "This road is blocked."

Hal held up his ring, and the flashing green light went out after only a brief blink.

"It's no use, Hal. I am a user of the emotional spectrum. The power of Perpetua amplifies my control over the emotional spectrum. If I were facing you alone, I might find it a bit tricky. Give up. You are the strongest user of colored light energy I have ever seen, but all colored light is under my control."

Parallax Mohal is still trying.

"Enough, what's the point of trying? Let's just wait here. I never intended to attack you, Hal. Don't force me to do so. Let's wait for Batman Dragon and Papetour to settle their differences."

Parallax Morhal remained silent and took a deep breath. He slowly raised the ring, which emitted an intermittent green light.

Parallax Morhal once slaughtered all the little blue men on Planet OA and filled the Green Lantern Central Energy Cell, absorbing all the energy from the central cells. In other words, Parallax Morhal is essentially a human Green Lantern Corps battery, and even without using the Anti-Monitor's dark matter energy, his power is still top-tier.

Yes, he was weakened many times and was split along with reality on the main universe timeline until recently when he was reunited with those parts of himself that had been split off from reality.

But this will not hinder Parallax Morhal.

This does not change its power.

The first Green Lantern's expression began to change. In that vast void, a towering building rose from the ground. It was a physical entity made entirely of Green Lantern energy, constructed by the strongest Green Lantern ever, Parallax Demon Hal Jordan, through sheer willpower.

"Let me introduce myself. I am Hal Jordan, the greatest Green Lantern of all time. When I first joined the Green Lantern Corps, I was able to create an endless supply of energy to light up the Green Lantern rings through sheer willpower."

Another skyscraper rose up, followed by an asphalt road, shaped by the energy of the green light.

Stadiums, hospitals, police stations, residential areas, roadside shops, and even parking lots.

"Stop..."

The first Lantern Man tried to stop him, but he couldn't.

The entire void trembled.

Green Lantern created what he wanted to create. At this moment, facing the controller of the emotional spectrum, the nemesis of all Lanterns, Parallax Morhal created his attachment, his memories, and his ultimate weapon.

That was his home, the home from his vanished dreams—

"The idyllic paradise that has already vanished."

For a long time, I have pondered everything about the universe, about my role in it, and then I finally realized that wherever I go, however I intend to save my homeland, however I intend to create a perfect world, I will only bring suffering.

So I decided to disappear and return to where I belonged.

I wonder if Carol or someone else is also missing me.

The colossal city was taking shape, and the figure of the first Lantern Knight appeared so tiny before this colossal city, while Parallax Morhal held the Green Lantern ring high—

"May the green light always shine, forever!!!"

The green light illuminated everything he had created, and several illusory shadows were created again by Parallax Morhal: his brother, his wife Carol, and his deceased mother, and then the last one.

Hal Jordan's father, who died in a plane crash when he was a child, was the person Hal admired most. Young Hal had witnessed the plane crash firsthand.

But now they have all been molded by Hal using Green Light energy and are staying by his side.

His hometown remains the same, his family is still there, even if it's not real, how many years has he longed for this scene?

He remembered every brick and tile of the seaside city clearly.

I am Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern. Even the master of the emotional spectrum must bow before me!

(End of this chapter)