What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 954 How dare you selfishly dump this heavy burden on me?
"No!"

When the Light of Creation first appeared on the first Genie, Perpetua finally panicked.

The original Lantern was merely a low-dimensional being. Even though he had traversed the history of the multiverse multiple times to help the sixth-dimensional gods eliminate timelines they didn't want, he was still an easily manipulated plaything in front of Papetua.

However, once the first Genie truly comes into contact with the Light of Creation, this power of creation will make it, like a fifth-dimensional being, an existence independent of the trans-temporal flow. This will also completely ruin Perpetua's plan to manipulate it. Once he actually comes into contact with it, for Perpetua, the only option left is to defeat it with brute force.

In an instant, Papetua attempted to create a timeline that killed Genie I to overwrite the current reality. She didn't need this reality to exist for long; she only needed it to temporarily obscure the current timeline where Genie I was about to receive the Light of Creation, thus preventing it from happening. But she failed.

This means one thing.

"The timeline is now complete, Papetua."

The Mother of the Multiverse suddenly turned around, her golden pupils fixed on the bat dragon, which was writhing in blue energy and barely clinging to life, not far away.

The situation was dire. Various injuries from different timelines were constantly being inflicted on him. Sometimes his body would split open at the waist, sometimes his arms and half of his body would turn to dust, and sometimes hundreds of millions of years would suddenly pass over him, making him old, or his flesh and blood would be completely shaved off, leaving him as a weak skeleton...

Even without brute force, Papetua's skills in manipulating timelines completely overwhelmed him. Chen Tao was only able to withstand the pressure by relying on Dr. Manhattan's energy. Even with all sorts of immense pain inflicted upon him, he still endured it, revealing a ferocious smile to the Mother of the Multiverse.

"The timeline has taken shape, Papetua. This wasn't my doing. It was the first Lantern Spirit in the future, who had already obtained the Light of Creation, who stopped you from attacking him with a timeline that was advantageous to you. This is the real timeline, not one of those inferior, energy-deficient, and factually unfounded timelines that I created."

He gasped for breath: "Your end is nigh."

Papetua remained silent; the high and mighty Mother of the Multiverse disdained to respond to the fallacies of Batman's Dragon.

end?

The creator of the multiverse has no doomsday; she will eventually escape completely from the Origin Wall, sooner or later.

His true enemy is never a minor character like Batman Dragon, but Dr. Manhattan and the Origin Hands.

The clown who bullies others is a fraud; if Papetua didn't even give him a proper look, he would have lost.

The first Lantern Man blinked.

The world was changed in his eyes.

Many years ago, when the first Lantern Man had just escaped from his place of imprisonment, he stirred up a huge riot in the main universe. He attacked every colored light cluster equally, plundering their spectral energy. At that time, the first Lantern Man could observe different points in the future through the emotional spectrum, but those were only possibilities before the multiverse was formed. The first Lantern Man tried to turn these past possibilities into reality, but he ultimately failed. He was hit by the Black Death Emperor's scythe and then completely failed.

But now, at this very moment, he has finally reached the realm he had tried to enter but never reached. Although he already knows that even if he obtains the light of creation, he cannot arbitrarily alter the essence of the DC multiverse unless he starts everything over, which is beyond his capabilities.

The first Genie stared blankly at the world he now saw. Countless parallel universe timelines were no longer possibilities that required contact with specific objects to observe, but rather real, existing histories. His gaze began to resemble that of a fifth-dimensional being or a sixth-dimensional god standing outside the hyper-timestream, surveying the entire DC multiverse with a broader perspective. He had traversed the timelines of the multiverse countless times, but never before had he directly seen those different histories that he could travel to. Then, he saw, beyond these histories, a pair of enormous golden pupils hidden in the void burst forth with a faint light, followed by a dark, somewhat ethereal reality taking shape on the hyper-timestream.

It's hard to describe the feeling of witnessing one reality eroding another, for Evolutionary Lantern. He just watched helplessly as that gray reality engulfed the point in time he had just left, and almost instinctively, he reached out his hand.

He subconsciously used the energy of the emotional spectrum to send a beam of light towards that reality. Then, with a deafening or feather-light bang, the first Lantern Knight felt all the creatures on that gray, illusory timeline raise their heads at a certain moment and let out hysterical howls. Then he witnessed that reality vanish into thin air before his eyes, collapsing instantly.

Then, belatedly, he realized what he had done. He had destroyed a reality; could that be considered killing one of the millions of lives that had just been created? The first Genie cast these philosophical questions aside.

Right now, the most important thing for him is...

What was it again?

The first Lantern Knight was bewildered.

Batman: The Dragon design granted him powers beyond the realm of time travel, even going so far as to feed him Parallax Morhal, but what good does that do?

He missed his home, he missed everything about him.

He misses his mother.

Even with the power of the Light of Creation, and even if he sought refuge with the Mother of the Multiverse, he could not bring his homeland back.

Standing apart from the long river of time, the world is so vast, and the endless timelines are like countless stars. In an instant, the first Lantern Knight can find countless realities where people were once happy and joyful, but that happiness and joy will never belong to him.

Looking up, there is only endless emptiness, the world is vast and empty, there is nothing, nothing left, only sorrow and desolation.

Unable to die, unable to escape, unable to be saved, unable to find love—in this vast world, not even a single excuse to move forward is truly tragic.

Then he heard his future self whispering.

"you……"

The first Lantern Knight listened quietly.

"How...how dare you be so selfish as to dump such a heavy burden on me?"

(End of this chapter)