What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 944 The Laughing Bat in Action, First Lantern Knight and Supreme Superman
"You won't win, Hal, you won't win." The first Genie already saw his fate when Hal began to act.

Batman Dragon is unable to provide Hal with any assistance, and if he faces Perpetua alone, it will inevitably lead to his demise.

This doesn't seem like a bad thing for the first Genie. If Hal fails, wouldn't the mission Perpetua gave him be completed? His pledge of allegiance to Perpetua and his mission to save his homeland were all for this moment.

But for some reason, the first Genie really wanted to stop it all.

Humans are such contradictory creatures. In his heart, he wanted to save his world countless times, but in action, he admired people like Parallax Malfurion. Although, compared to Malfurion, he agreed more with Perpetual's theory that everything in the multiverse is just a hand-crafted image that can be created and destroyed at will, and everything can be painted and modified at will.

But he also genuinely didn't want Parallax Howl to fail, because Howl's failure often meant death. He wanted to find a way to have the best of both worlds, one that wouldn't burden him with the responsibility of causing Parallax Howl's death, nor would it jeopardize his ability to bring back his entire world.

This is a battle outside of the real world of time travel. He absolutely cannot allow Parallax Morhal's creations to get even half a step closer to Perpetua, who is fighting Batman Dragon, or it will be a major failure.

Once Papetua can no longer maintain those realities, her own power will be weakened along with the disappearance of those realities.

The first Lantern was trying to find a solution, but the next moment, Perpetua's voice echoed in his mind.

"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking, Huo Rong. Wake up. Don't you realize you're being influenced? Tell me, Huo Rong, are you really that kind of superhero? Are you really the kind of superhero who would try to save people even at the risk of ruining their homeland?"

After Papetua finished speaking, the first Lantern broke out in a cold sweat.

Yes, that's true. He's never been like this before, but just now he had this thought. This thought seems reasonable at first glance, but it doesn't align with the normal behavior of the First Lantern. Furthermore, this isn't the first time the First Lantern has witnessed Parallax Morhal's death; he's seen just how insane Morhal could be in his timeline, and he's witnessed Morhal's death in different timelines. This empathy he's feeling for Morhal now is probably not something he wants.

At least it's something he shouldn't need right now.

“The Hypertime Flow foresaw its own destruction. The entire multiverse is frantically sending hints to every character, intending for you to contribute to the survival of the multiverse,” Papetua said. “You may think that my whispering in the ears of other characters, inciting them to create crises, and shaping crisis energy for me is a complete trampling of free will, but I want to tell you that free will has never existed; free will is nothing but a fabricated lie.”

Papetua tells the first Lantern: "In a world where there has never been absolute freedom, everyone is just a speck of dust and a cog in a grander narrative. Personal honor and disgrace and fate are insignificant. Everything is a confrontation with a larger macrocosm. You are always swept into the torrent of history, thinking that you have made decisions that are in line with your identity, but that is just history using your hands to complete its prelude."

When the assassin fired three shots at Archduke Ferdinand, he never imagined that his assassination would trigger World War I. When Charlemagne's groom missed a nail in the horseshoe, he never imagined that it would lead to the collapse of an empire.

The choices made by every individual or entity at crucial moments are influenced by the needs of history and are far beyond the control of any single individual.

That's right, that's exactly it.

The first Lantern Man fell silent; he had to start imagining what would happen after he returned to his hometown.

This was not what he wanted, nor was it what he did. He was merely a pawn in a greater era, acting at a crucial juncture to fulfill some inevitable duty.

Thus, the first Genie made peace with himself.

He began to actively confront the Green Lantern ghosts charging towards him, their massive army gleaming in the green light.

The next moment, a golden light pierced between him and Parallax Mohal, and the first Genie breathed a sigh of relief.

Perhaps he won't have to bear the responsibility of killing Parallax Morhal, but that's definitely not a good thing for him.

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The Supreme Little Superman was dreaming.

As a superman, he doesn't dream often.

He is Clark Kent, the only being in the DC multiverse, the complete being who has absorbed the history of the Time Trapped, and he knows that his power is enough to make the DC multiverse take notice.

At that moment, he was wondering what he wanted to do.

The talent he inherited from the Time Trapped manifested in him in ways he loathed, allowing him to clearly perceive his past selves across different timelines.

He disliked the Trapped One, that old, ugly, ambitious man who tarnished the name of Superman Supreme, but he was still Superman Supreme, and he was in a state where Superman Supreme could develop and move forward. Whether Superman Supreme liked it or not, or whether he wanted it or not, these powers belonged to him. So Superman Supreme quickly realized his current state.

He was trapped in a kind of amber-like, confined timeline, which lengthened his perception of the outside of the trans-temporal flow, making it impossible for him to see what Papetua was doing.

Papetua did not come to persuade him to surrender, which Superman had expected.

He had initially thought he would be someone Papetua needed to win over, but now it seems that this is not the case.

But then again, even if Papetua convinced himself and promised him a perfect world, would Superman Supreme agree? Superman Supreme chuckled softly.

He himself doesn't know either.

He had longed for the golden age for so long that he had almost lost himself. But...

Superman raised his fist.

No one can ignore Superman the Youngster.

Golden light condensed on his fist, transforming into surging energy. The surrounding history, the history created by Perpetuaso, the history of him, Superman Supreme, fighting alongside Batman Dragon and Perpetuaso, vanished in an instant before the immense energy!

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"Very good, now neither Batman Dragon nor Perpetua should have time to deal with us."

The Evil Noble is a short, stout monster with a huge eye, purple skin, and demonic horns.

The malevolent nobles are not individuals, but a group of beings. The various malevolent nobles are all different, but they have no free will. They are merely puppets of the Void Hand, driven by it to change reality. Therefore, no matter how the Batman Who Laughs has harmed the malevolent nobles in the past, as long as the Batman Who Laughs still shares the interests of the Void Hand, the malevolent nobles will obey the Batman Who Laughs's orders without hesitation.

They're secretly planning something while Batman Dragon and Perpetua are fighting.

boom! ! !
With a tremendous roar, the palace collapsed, and Aquaman's body flew out like a cannonball, crashing through several walls. The Batman Who Laughs emerged from behind the ruins, casually carrying Aquaman's Trident, and walked up to her, piercing her abdomen with the trident like a nail.

This is a place called the Hall of Heroes, which is independent of the multiverse. More specifically, it is the headquarters of a team of heroes from the multiverse who embody justice. The members include President Superman, Captain Carrot, Aquaman, and others. This superhero team once came to the aid of Batman Dragon on Earth 15, but today, upstream in the timeline, they have encountered a catastrophic disaster.

This was almost a new massacre. The Batman Who Laughs, empowered by Mandrake, easily killed the team members. Under normal circumstances, even with Mandrake's divine power, the Batman Who Laughs would not have slaughtered the embodiment of justice like this. Every superhero team is protected by the DC multiverse; they are an important force used by the DC multiverse to fight against external invasions.

The Batman Who Laughs' current actions are as absurd as walking into a Legion's rest area before it even starts and then slaughtering unarmed soldiers, but the DC multiverse is already too busy to provide divine protection for the embodiment of justice.

This is a continuation of a battle from many years ago. The Avatar of Justice was founded on the invasion of the Void Hand, and since then, the Avatar of Justice has been dedicated to preventing the Void Hand from returning.

It can be said that the Avatars of Justice is a special operations force established by the DC multiverse specifically to deal with the Outer God, the Void Hand. In the fight against the Void Hand, the Avatars of Justice are professionals; they are the cure.

When facing the Avatar of Justice, the Void Hand was like a lion encountering a tortoise, unable to find a way to attack. It was precisely because of the existence of the Avatar of Justice and the Miracle Machine that the Void Hand was unable to enter the DC multiverse and could only send henchmen like the Evil Nobles.

In this struggle, the Void Hand will surely achieve some decisive result, and the Bat Who Laughs will surely need to do something to prove its worth.

Therefore, the Avatar of Justice became the victim of everything. The Batman Who Laughs personally led the Evil Nobles to the timeline when the Avatar of Justice was first established and intended to stop the Void Hand, and then killed everyone.

This history of everyone being killed will be rewritten into reality after everything settles down. In other words, after today, one of the two defenses of the DC multiverse against the Void Hand will be gone, leaving only the Miracle Machine.

No matter how powerful the Miracle Machine is, it is ultimately just an inanimate object. Without a living superhero to control it, it is a pipe dream for a mechanical, inanimate object to try to stop the invasion of the Void Hand.

*Pfft!* The Batman Who Laughs pulled his blood-red claws out of President Superman's chest.

"Oh, you know, many years ago I thought about what would happen if I became president. I mean, a superhero as president? What kind of idiot would come up with such a stupid story? If I had to choose one, it wouldn't be much different from those idiots in Congress going through their boring, endless arguments."

The Batman Who Laughs lifted President Superman off the ground, admiring the bewildered look on his black face, before letting go and falling back to the ground.

Of the entire superhero team, only Captain Carrot is still struggling to keep going.

The evil and powerful keep weaving bizarre stories, and all sorts of cruel and bloody events are befalling Captain Carrot. However, Captain Carrot is a comedic character from the animated world. For Captain Carrot, simply extending and deforming his own body will ensure that there will be no future problems.

The scene was not bloody at all; in fact, it was rather comical.

Captain Carrot is a superhero in the animated universe and is undoubtedly the most powerful member of the entire team.

But the death of President Superman caused Captain Carrot to scream in pain, and the evil nobles used this to seal him in some kind of bottle medium, turning him into a prisoner in a bottle, thus bringing his battle to an end.

"It's unbelievable. The embodiment of justice has been destroyed, and the power of the adults is spreading into the DC multiverse. How did they manage to do that?" The evil noble sensed it carefully for a while.

"The laws of reality are astonishing. If the past of something is altered, the altered result will appear in the future reality. And the past is so easily reversible, which is almost unimaginable in other multiverses."

He turned his head and saw the Batman Who Laughs rubbing his chin, squatting in front of President Superman's corpse and grinning maliciously.

"What mischief are you plotting now?"

"No, I was just thinking about something funny," the Batman Who Laughs said. The next moment, the corpse of President Superman sat up from the ground in a bizarre posture and stood beside him. The other man's joints made a cracking sound, and blood flowed from his seven orifices. His death was extremely gruesome, but for the Batman Who Laughs, it was simply the most delightful sight.

"Let's go, we still need to see the last unlucky guy, the Watcher."

(End of this chapter)