What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 965 The Ultimate Monitor of the Black Lantern Corpse?
Batman from the main universe wakes up.

He immediately looked down and found the main universe's Superman, who was also there, right next to him.

Oh, so it's Superman from the main universe.

That's alright then. Let me think, I was planning to do something before... wait, something doesn't seem quite right.

"You've been resurrected, Clark?"

"Wait a minute, it seems so." The Superman from the main universe in front of him seemed to be startled by the fact that he was alive. He touched his face in disbelief and said, "I was resurrected as a Black Lantern Corpse. We can skip the resurrection part."

Then he turned to look at the main universe's Batman and was also startled by the other's corpse-like face.

"You've also been resurrected by the Black Lantern Ring, does that mean we're all dead, Bruce?"

But death is clearly not the end for superheroes, Clark. Cheer up. My memory's failing me, but I'm pretty sure I prepared for this, though I don't know how.

He said, "There's a huge crisis in the multiverse, so we are now..."

"We're going to find the Black Death Emperor's coffin lid now."

Then he heard the main universe Batman say, "I'm pretty sure we can find it, because I've already discovered that someone left us a clue that someone has found the location of the Black Death Emperor before us. We just need to follow the clue and go find it directly."

"What happens after we find the place?"

"That's what Superman from the main universe asked," he said, and then he saw Batman from the main universe turn around.

"Then just pray that I've already made preparations there beforehand."

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Uh.

Characters associated with death have one characteristic.

This characteristic is very simple and straightforward: the more people die, the stronger this death-related character becomes. Moreover, this strength is beyond their control, but who would want to control it? No one would complain about having too much power.

Sigh, isn't this a coincidence? Now the Black Death Emperor is starting to complain.

Strictly speaking, the Black Death Emperor's duty is to continuously create death, but this is his duty and doesn't mean he knows he can do it. It's like a gas worker repairing roads; his job is to constantly maintain the roads, but even the gas worker knows that as long as those heavy trucks weighing tens of tons are still running on the roads, the roads will always be a consumable item. No matter how well-maintained a road is, it can't withstand the constant crushing of heavy trucks 24 hours a day.

Even if the road is repaired occasionally, it only prolongs the time. All the dead creatures that were taken before the universe restarts must be returned. This is the law of death, which the Black Death Emperor has no choice but to obey.

Although theoretically, the goal of road builders is to completely repair the road, everyone knows that this is impossible.

The Black Death Emperor is like a road worker. Theoretically, his goal should be to drag the entire DC multiverse into death, but the Black Death Emperor himself knows that's impossible. He just... did it.

But on this day, what he was pursuing became a reality.

Before the Black Death Emperor could even react, all 52 universes had come under his control. Papetua was also stunned.

In order to conserve her power, although she constructed a reality in which she had completely conquered the main universe, she did not make any arrangements for those parallel universes. So many parallel universes were destroyed in an instant, causing the Black Death Emperor's kingdom to expand to an unparalleled extent, which was equivalent to taking food from Perpetua's bowl.

This became a switcheroo tactic. By altering the history of the Hypertime Stream, Perpetua gained control of the main universe's timeline and then created a more favorable one for himself as the main universe's timeline. Now, whether it's Batman Dragon or anyone else, they have directly thrown all the parallel universes other than the main universe into oblivion, leaving Perpetua as a lone commander.

Multiverse, multiverse—it has to be multifaceted to be considered a universe. What's the use of just one main universe? This isn't the New Earth era after Crisis on Infinite Earths, where there was only one Earth and one universe in the entire DC multiverse. All the superheroes and villains were crammed onto one planet, and the main universe was constantly engulfed in war, with all the power of the multiverse concentrated on the main universe. That era is long gone. The DC multiverse tried this single-universe model, but found it too unstable, and ultimately reverted to the multiverse state.

So when Papetua discovered that the parallel universes of her multiverse—the most important ones—had been taken away, she was forced to reclaim them from the Black Death.

As for the Black Death Emperor, if he could, he wouldn't refuse to return these dead. As a member of death, he understands that taking a universe is simply fulfilling his duty. However, sending half of the DC multiverse into the realm of death is completely outside the bounds of normalcy. The problem is that he is the representative of death, and his nature forbids him from doing so.

In the Black Death Emperor's graveyard, there are only prisoners who have actively escaped, survivors who have accidentally stumbled in, powerful individuals who have broken through the death domain and escaped, and those who have left after being corrected by the universe's reboot. There are no people he has actively released.

This is pure instinct to the extreme, and even the Black Death Emperor himself is trapped by it.

"I cannot." He answered Papetua, which made Papetua realize in an instant that so many universes directly belonging to the Black Death Emperor was something the Black Death Emperor could not have done. Even if Batman Dragon intervened, he could not so openly deceive Papetua and obtain the result so directly.

"Who exactly is it—" Perpetua had barely uttered the question when he realized it was the Void Hand that was behind it all. He should have known better; the other side wouldn't allow him to monopolize this universe. Their previous agreement was for Perpetua to place the Void Hand into the DC multiverse, at least allowing him to create a powerful avatar within that universe to search for the resources he needed. But Perpetua ultimately failed to follow through on any of these plans.

What a joke! She cooperated with the Void Hand to speed up her resurrection, but now that she's about to anchor her resurrection history on the timeline, why would she need the Void Hand's help?

What benefit would it bring to Papetua to let the Hand of the Void in now? Would it just be letting an enemy into his own hands?

The cooperation with the Void Hand was forced upon him. As long as Papetua regained power, he would still want to destroy the Void Hand, an enemy of the multiverse.

Previously, he had allied himself with the other party only because he could borrow their power, hoping to use the Void Hand to deal with their three offspring. But now, they've achieved a great victory…

When she broke the contract, she should have known that the Void Hand would not let it go.

And as expected, the Hand of the Void's revenge arrived at that very moment.

"Give me back the universe, Black Death Emperor." Papetua immediately instilled her malice into the Black Death Emperor.

In an instant, the entire realm of death trembled. Countless tombstones were reduced to ashes before Papetua's rage. The soul-piercing scream pierced straight through all obstacles in the way of this attack, like an invisible blade that instantly penetrated layer after layer of barriers, reaching the Black Death Emperor himself and forcing him to stand up from his throne.

"Ah!!" The Black Death Emperor roared loudly. For the Black Death Emperor, this was a roar after being threatened. But even the Black Death Emperor himself did not realize that at the moment he roared loudly, a huge bat phantom appeared behind the Black Death Emperor.

Previously, the Black Death Emperor appeared in the main universe when summoned by others. He was often the one who stood behind others and provided them with power, but this time the roles have reversed.

Kou can go, so can I; the Black Death Emperor can go, so can I.

Batman Dragon replaced Black Death Emperor's original position. After all, Chen Tao had borrowed the position of Anti-Monitor. Black Death Emperor turned his head with his indifferent skull face and saw only the huge Batman Dragon phantom that appeared behind him with a serious expression. His skull face was full of doubt.

The enormous Batman dragon face was extremely serious, and the power bestowed upon him was so real and tangible that even the Black Death Emperor was somewhat bewildered.

Then the Black Death Emperor realized what was happening.

Wait, the current Batman Dragon is clearly a Black Lantern Corpse, so how can he not be under my control? I didn't summon him, so how did he appear?

He immediately pulled Batman Dragon from another location in the Death Realm thousands of miles away to right in front of him, and the phantom behind him solidified, and the dumbfounded Batman Dragon appeared out of nowhere.

The other party was completely controlled by the darkness, drooling, with both eyes completely black and the pupils pointing in two different directions.

The Black Death Emperor examined the other party's will, and his power directly probed into the other party's mind without any hindrance. Then, in that heavy brain, he only found a brain full of water.

No matter how you look at it, there seems to be no sign of it getting out of control. The Black Death Emperor feels like the water in the other party's brain is about to be poured into his own.

Then he tried to control the Batman Dragon.

Absolutely no problem. Batman Dragon follows his orders exactly; he tells the other party what to do and they do it exactly as he asks.

While the Black Death Emperor was inspecting Batman's Dragon, Perpetual's second shriek arrived. She used even greater power to begin reversing reality, attempting to restore the dead planets to their original state by reversing time.

To be honest, the Black Death Emperor didn't actually intend to confront Perpetua head-on. Although he was the embodiment of death, he wasn't the living embodiment of the Endless Family's rule of death. The Black Death Emperor also weighed the pros and cons. During the Darkest Night, he had at least managed to sow discord among the major legions before beginning his own plan.

Although it was instinctive for him not to stop Papetua, who says that stopping someone has to be successful? If he just attacks the other party and fails, wouldn't that also count as stopping someone?
Then the Black Death Emperor turned around and saw the phantom of his mother, Parallax Morhal, rising up from behind him.

Wait a minute, isn't something wrong with this?
Regardless of what the Black Death Emperor was thinking, the parallax that had risen behind him was indeed stopping Perpetua.

"Are you determined to oppose me, Black Death Emperor?"

The Black Death Emperor remained expressionless on his skeletal face upon hearing Perpetua's words. He couldn't possibly tell Perpetua that he didn't want to oppose him; it went against his instincts, and he had to stop him.

"I……"

He wanted to say something to Papetua in a very formal way, but before he could even open his mouth, the phantom of Superman Supreme appeared beside Parallax Mohal.

The two of them stood like guardians between the Black Death Emperor and Perpetua, but this blockade could not actually stop Perpetua's attack.

"what!"

The Black Death Emperor immediately let out a scream that shook the entire Death Realm.

The Black Death Emperor is dead, and Perpetua cannot kill a dead person again, but that does not mean he cannot crush bones and inflict even greater pain on them.

"what!!!!"

The rules of death protected the Black Death Emperor; some immense force was kneading the skeletal frame, threatening to turn it into a pile of bone fragments.

Meanwhile, behind the Black Death Emperor, the Black Lantern Corpse of Barbatos, the Dark Multiverse Dragon, appeared uninvited, like a ghost, and then fully materialized.

A powerful force protected the Black Emperor's body, preventing him from being completely torn apart by Perpetua. With such a protective measure, what could the Black Emperor do? Forcefully prevent the protection and then face Perpetua's attack head-on?
Even though he was dead, the Black Death Emperor wasn't that pedantic.
"Roar……"

"what!"

"Roar……"

"what!"

Despite being protected by so many Black Lantern Corpses, the Black Death Emperor was still at a disadvantage. Then, at that moment, he heard Batman Dragon's voice:
"

Hiding in the realm of death and passively taking hits will get you nowhere, my friend.

Where are my friends? Wasn't this all your doing? If he could, the Black Death Emperor would love to chop Batman Dragon to pieces, but he can't.

"what do you want?"

"The Black Death Emperor asked," he said, his voice radiating a chilling aura. Batman, now completely blacked out and zombified, was instantly controlled and flew towards him at his command, but this did not stop the other from speaking.

"It's simple. Black Death Emperor, have you ever heard of mechs?"

what?
"A human-piloted mech, understand? Only you can pilot this giant weapon."

The Black Death Emperor said he didn't understand.

"Okay, then I'll explain in more detail."

Have you ever heard of the Ultimate Watcher?

(End of this chapter)