What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 961 Main Universe Superman and Batman are both dead.
The original Lantern's three returns to the past timeline are already a done deal, and Perpetua doesn't know how Batman will use these three alterations to the past timeline to create his own defeat. Therefore, Perpetua chose a solution that wouldn't cause any problems no matter how it was resolved:
It killed everyone except for the first Genie.

No! You can't do that!

Papetua heard Batman Dragon say this.

No, I'm going to do it anyway.

Papetua sensed that history was trying to be reshaped, orchestrated by Batman Dragon, who was attempting to undo the actions that had just led Parallax Morhal and Superman Supreme back to their deaths.

Don't even think about it.

Upstream in the timeline (Chapter 957), a few minutes earlier, Papetua turned his head and simultaneously saw, in reality a few minutes later, Batman Dragon, having recovered, attempting to distort history and change the reality that his two important henchmen were pushed into the Black Death Emperor's death realm.

Papetua saw Batman Dragon appear directly beside the two of them, holding a Black Lantern ring in his palm, trying to stop him, but to no avail.

Yes, this history has indeed just happened and has not been frozen in the trans-timeline. Theoretically, it can be easily modified, but it was Papetua himself who suppressed this history.

Unless Batman Dragon can defeat Perpetua before he can act, otherwise...

“You can’t stop me.” In the infinitely frozen timeline of the hyper-time flow, Papetua lowered her head, and in the ever-burning starlight, she rode the waves of history, looking down at Batman Dragon.

"So tell me what the point of all this is, Batman Dragon? I am your creator, your maker, and it should all end here. I never said you wouldn't have a place in my time. Listen to me, Batman Dragon, we didn't need to be so hostile to each other. Our ultimate enemy is the Origin Hand race, who are about to arrive in the DC multiverse. That's the real danger. Do you think he'll let me go or you go?"

Then he heard Batman Dragon say, "The 5G era is coming, but there is no place for you in this era."

"And what about the Origin Hands?" Papetua asked.

"At least I would never betray the current DC multiverse to you in exchange for a chance to survive in the future. Papetua, you should know yourself, which would you choose: to die now or to die in the future?"

“If I can really defeat the Origin Hands, I will restore all the creatures I transformed into soldiers to the DC multiverse and the Hypertime Stream. Do you remember? All I need to do is change the history of the Hypertime Stream and erase the history of these creatures being hybrids of Martian hunters and humans, and they can be restored.”

"Do you think I don't understand the cosmic nature of the multiverse? Or do you think I would actually fall for such a foolish scheme? If the Hypertime Stream were really as you say, able to easily pull people from the upper reaches of the Hypertime Stream down and make them a reality, then Parallax Morhal would have already resurrected his 700 million citizens of the Seaside City."

Papetua is talking complete nonsense, taking advantage of Batman Dragon's lack of understanding of time travel.

"The rules of our DC multiverse are indeed slightly different from those of other multiverses, but using the Hypertime Stream to preserve past realities is not without cost. Your battle with the Origin Hands is protracted, and even if you win, you cannot resurrect those preserved upstream in the Hypertime Stream—you can smash a coconut, but you can't carve on the inside of a coconut without opening it."

Papetua finally ran out of things to say.

"you caught me."

The Mother of the Multiverse did not experience the embarrassment of being exposed for a lie. Would you feel embarrassed if you were caught lying to a puppy?

Anyway, Papetua was just trying it out for no reason, and whether he believed it or not, he wouldn't lose anything.

Perpetual saw Batman Dragon raise the ring on his hand, attempting to manipulate the Black Lantern's power to control Parallax Morhal and Superman Supreme, then resurrect them both as Black Lantern Corpses. However, he quickly lost in the struggle against Perpetual. Batman Dragon tried to use the Black Death to interfere with his and Perpetual's control over the two men's fate by summoning the Black Death. But the Black Death? Really?
You don't actually think he can fight against the Mother of the Multiverse, do you?
Oh, Batman: Dragon made preparations beforehand.

Perpetua realized Batman Dragon's reason for doing this. He saw Parallax Morhal howl with Batman's help, and then the phantom of the Black Emperor materialized behind him. With Parallax Morhal's help, it wouldn't be difficult for the Black Emperor to appear in reality, but this only slowed Perpetua's speed in dispelling the Black Emperor by about...

One in several million?

Strictly speaking, it wasn't much slower. The slight delay was because Perpetual wanted to see what power Batman Dragon's trump card was, and after discovering that it actually had no power at all, things immediately collapsed in a direction more favorable to Perpetual.

Papetua swung Parallax Morhal almost as fast as he could and struck Superman the Supreme. Batman Dragon's attempt to change history failed, and then in the next instant, Batman Dragon tried hundreds and thousands of times.

But he never succeeded in saving Superman Supreme or Parallax Morhal. This was due to the limitations of his power; it wasn't a victory he could achieve simply by changing tactics. No matter how many times he tried, it was the same. But Batman Dragon kept trying, and Perpetual knew his opponent was persistent.

Meanwhile, Batman's dragon was stopped slightly upstream in the timeline. At the same time Hal and Superman died, downstream in the timeline, the main universe's Batman was also attacked. Perpetually, Perpetual saw through the timeline misleading and deceptive elements left behind by the main universe's Batman, Bruce Wayne, and swiftly struck at the heart of the matter, capturing his opponent instantly.

But before he could make a move against the main universe's Batman, he was blocked head-on by Batman Dragon, who had also arrived at the scene.

"It won't let you create a second reality."

She heard Batman Dragon speak. Perpetua immediately attacked Batman Dragon, whose power crumbled upon contact. Even with the help of the Six-Dimensional Energy of the Reflex Monitor, Batman Dragon could only stand before Perpetua without having to prostrate himself in worship.

When the Mother of the Multiverse unleashes her fury, it will only take a few seconds to burn the Batman Dragon to ashes. However, a blue energy, like the sea, surrounds the Batman Dragon, a protection provided by Doctor Manhattan. In Doctor Manhattan's view, the Batman Dragon has become an important ingredient in the synthesis of crisis energy in the DC multiverse.

Yes, crisis energy, a continuous stream of crisis energy is being created by the DC multiverse, but Papetua didn't get a single bite because it was all taken by Dr. Manhattan.

Dr. Manhattan is carefully studying these crisis energies. These are pure forces that arise from crises in the DC multiverse. When the DC multiverse encounters a major crisis, they will be generated even more frantically. This completely violates all the rules he understands. Even quantum mechanics cannot explain this strange phenomenon of creating energy out of thin air.

Although Dr. Manhattan speculated that this energy could not possibly be infinite, for the vast omnipotent universe, we, such insignificant life forms... this energy is infinite for such insignificant life forms.

Dr. Manhattan sees all of this as part of a grand song, a part of the great self-consistency of the DC multiverse. Villains and heroes will be locked in a stalemate, constantly generating crisis energy. After the villains fail, they will return, and crisis energy will continue to be created...

Time and again, the story of villains and heroes never ends. This is the core of the DC multiverse, the fundamental logic that continuously generates crisis energy, and the normal development of a multiverse. Now it is clear that the Mother of the Multiverse, as the villain, has far surpassed heroes like Batman and Dragon.

If Perpetua can persuade numerous heroes like Genie I or Parallax Morhal to obey him, it's equivalent to the DC multiverse accepting the future guided by Perpetua. Perpetua would then become a superhero, surrounded by followers, while the villains would become the Void Hand from beyond the universe, or simply members of the Origin Hand race. These villains from beyond the universe and the Mother of the Multiverse would then become a game of hero versus villain, continuously generating energy for crisis…

What an ingenious and magnificent design! How was this even possible? The DC multiverse is like a giant, fully automated devouring machine, constantly absorbing nutrients from other multiverses. Even Outer Gods like the Void Hand or other beings of the Origin Hand are incorporated into the DC multiverse's own system and become part of the oxygen supply for the DC multiverse. This unparalleled aggressiveness is something that does not exist in Dr. Manhattan's Watchmen universe.

Dr. Manhattan was having a great time conducting his research there, but Papetua was not so comfortable.

That azure quantum power intervened when Batman Dragon needed assistance the most, completely suppressing Perpetua's ability to kill the main universe's Batman, as well as the newly resurrected main universe's Superman... Was it the White Lantern power? The main universe's Batman resurrected quickly enough, but you all have to die now. We absolutely cannot allow your power to be used by Batman Dragon.

Perpetua quickly realized that Dr. Manhattan was providing power to Batman's dragon, and that the dragon was using that power to fight against the fact that he couldn't kill the main universe's Batman and Superman in the short term. The Mother of the Multiverse was already thinking about how to break this deadlock.

Then she had an idea.

Upstream in the trans-temporal flow, history was once again slightly altered. Perpetual didn't directly expel the First Lantern and Parallax Morhal from their grasp. Even if the Black Death Emperor's death domain were banished, the two of them would still have a chance to see the light of day again.

Now, Perpetua will help them enter the depths of the Black Death Emperor's realm of death, becoming corpses that are not easily resurrected, and harnessing the power of the Black Death Emperor himself.

Yes, that's right, the Black Death Emperor's power increases with death... we mean, the number of characters who actually die increases.

Each time the multiverse restarts, some people are resurrected. Those who died before the restart are "never really dead, and therefore never went to the Black Death's domain" because of the restart, thus achieving resurrection in the DC multiverse sense. Their history is modified, changing from a state of death to a state of life. This change in reality allows them to reappear in the material universe and makes their tombstones disappear in the Black Death's domain.

For the DC multiverse, this is a kind of reincarnation and rebirth. Otherwise, with people constantly dying, the Black Death Emperor's death domain would only grow larger and larger, until it is strengthened to the point that it surpasses the entire multiverse, which is obviously impossible.

But this doesn't mean that no one will remain in the Black Death Emperor's territory forever.

Some beings are forgotten during a cosmic reboot. For example, a child might be born before a cosmic reboot, then die and enter the realm of the Black Death Emperor before the reboot.

But after the universe restarted and history was altered, their parents never met, and the child was never born. So, will the tombstone belonging to the child in the Black Death Emperor's domain disappear?
Of course not. That tombstone will remain until after the universe reboots, and the child will forever remain in the Black Death Emperor's domain, becoming a part of his power. As time passes, the child will never be resurrected; he will be forgotten by everyone. At that point, the Lady of Death will take the child from the Black Death Emperor's realm of death, and the child will enter eternal silence.

Just like the entire Earth 15 and the true hero's day on the super time stream.

The Lady of Death continuously takes the dead from the entire DC multiverse, not just from the realms of death agents like the Black Death Emperor. Those who are completely forgotten and will never be resurrected, some of whom belong neither to the Black Death Emperor, nor to the Black of Decay, nor to any other realm of death, will be personally taken by Death. This is equivalent to directly helping them transcend the Schrödinger's cat state of death and resurrection, directly leading them to true death in one step. Such cases do exist. This is the eternal silence, the inevitable end for every being in the DC multiverse.

The DC multiverse is expanding, consuming different universes such as the Wildstorm Universe and the Mass Universe. This behavior strengthens the DC multiverse, delaying the return to death of everyone in the entire multiverse, but that moment will eventually come.

In the end, death will embrace everyone, and finally embrace itself, dragging the concept of death into death and returning to nothingness. At that moment, the DC multiverse will reach the end of its life.

That eternal silence...

Returning to eternal silence, that is what Papetua is about to do.

He now wants Parallax Morhal and Superman Supreme truly dead, returning to the Lady of Death's embrace through the Black Death Emperor's domain. Batman's Dragon will never allow that, so…

If he loses focus even for a moment...

The main universe's Batman and Superman would also be unable to survive.

(End of this chapter)