What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 561 The Dragon of Hope Spreading Light (End, 6000 words)
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Dragon. A huge dragon.

A huge dragon roaming the dark multiverse.

He is going to go on a journey, a great journey to save the world.

He wants to welcome back all the souls of his Justice League that are floating in the corners of the dark multiverse, and he can do it.

He had long ago left the magical power of Red of All Living Things on all members of the Justice League, so after death they would not return directly to the arms of Lady Death, but would go to the underworld of Red of All Living Things:
The Bone Garden.

That's part of the DC death rule, but it's not like no one has ever escaped from it.

In the New 52, ​​Animal Man Buddy Baker was killed by the three hunters of the Black of Decay, and his soul returned to the Garden of Bones of the Red of All Living.

The many totems of the Totem Council must resurrect Animal Man to protect his daughter, who is also the true king of all living things, Maxine, the King of Life, so they choose to resurrect Animal Man.

Since Animal Man's body had been taken over by the three hunters of Black Decay at that time, they set about reshaping his body, but the situation Chen Tao is facing now is not that troublesome.

He traveled across universes of the dark multiverse, drifting past shattered, broken husks.

As he passed by a dark multiverse that was about to turn to ashes, he saw that the destiny woven by Barbatos was shining in the dark multiverse.

Lois Lane, the wife of Superman Clark Kent, inherited the powerful Kryptonian energy in the Life Matrix (a Kryptonian resurrection program) through the Eradicator (a Kryptonian robot) after Superman Clark Kent was tragically killed by Doomsday, thus gaining super powers.

But in Lois Lane's view, superheroes don't care about what Superman has done for the world. She thinks she has seen the truth that Superman dare not face: they cannot be saved, and they don't want to be saved.

Lois Lane of the Dark Multiverse went on a killing spree in their universe.

She burned Luthor alive into a skeleton, murdered ninja master Raishoung, Victor Zsasz (Gotham villain, murderer), god of war Ares, Black Adam (dictator anti-hero) Deathstroke, and Parasyte.

In this wanton massacre, even the Batman of the dark multiverse was roasted to charcoal.

Her battles with Cyborg, Superboy, and the Man of Steel span the skyline of Metropolis.

She let Superboy's head be melted through by the Cyborg, and Steel was twisted into a bleeding can by the Cyborg like a tofu twist wearing iron armor. They didn't know how long the fight lasted, let alone how many people died.

However, when she had already fallen into the avenging angel who slaughtered heroes and made countless people fear her, her Superman was resurrected from the regeneration matrix just like in the main universe.

Chen Tao tried to use the Dark Multiverse Dragon's personality to observe the future development of the universe, but failed. After all, he was not familiar with the power of this personality, but he could still recall the ending he knew from the comics.

The newly resurrected Superman died tragically again at the hands of the Cyborg Superman. New hope and the dawn of a fresh start had just begun, but then it returned to nothingness again. This was the fate that Barbatos had woven for this universe.

Lois Lane believes in the truth, but her truth is fueled by revenge, and revenge knows nothing about the truth, revenge is just darkness.

Her fate was originally unchangeable, but now...

It seemed like I had a chance to interfere.

When the green kryptonite energy waves condensed in the muzzle of the cannon transformed from the mechanical Superman's arm, when the fate of this dark multiverse came to the crossroads of complete destruction...

Lois Lane, the angel of revenge of the multiverse, raised her head. On her dark face and red eyes, she reflected the kryptonite rays shooting towards her husband Clark Superman, as well as the giant dragon shaking its head, wagging its tail and flapping its wings in the sky.

The giant dragon was golden and had...

Uh.

It has a twisted, wildly laughing face and hideous bone spurs from the ravager.

There is also the red lightning bat-shaped logo of the Red Death.

And the pale skin of the drowned souls.

And the crimson eyes of the Dark Father.

And the Bat-Lignac...

Various grotesque features of Batman are mixed and displayed on the body of this giant dragon, full of evil and madness, full of blasphemy and filth, but dancing like a butterfly.

As the giant dragon flapped its wings, the deadly kryptonite beam that the Cyborg Superman had originally shot at Superman Clark Kent suddenly made a strange deflection in mid-air.

It shifted 50 degrees, which is barely within the laws of physics.

90 degrees, this is almost a direct left turn.

180 degrees, Newton would cry when he saw it.

Then the angel of revenge Lois Lane saw that the kryptonite beam shot by Cyborg Superman finally turned around and hit him directly in the face.

His Superman is safe, and the angel of revenge Louis has temporarily avoided the completely crazy ending in his original destiny. The ending of the story is warm and reunited.

temporary.

But believe me, it's far from meaningless.

Although their ending may be doomed to tragedy due to the incompleteness of the universe, at least now, at this moment, I hope you can enjoy the peace and joy of victory.

I share the intelligence of the dark multiverse with you, and facing the dark fate and dark future, each of you has the right to struggle and survive, just like me.

And this is the only thing I can do for you while Barbatos cannot intervene.

My name is Batman, also known as Chen Tao. I am the Dragon of the Dark Multiverse. When you stand at the bottom of the Dark Multiverse and look up...

I am determined to be the only light that shines upon you.

Chen Tao looked at Clark and Louis who were sleeping in each other's arms in that world.

Tomorrow, the vengeful angel Louis will go on trial for the murder of his world's Batman and several villains, but at least...

You can spend this night in peace.

In a dark multiverse, Sinestro, surrounded by Black Lantern corpses, raised his head. Half of his body was a White Lantern, and the other half was completely transformed into a Black Lantern.

He made the wrong choice at the critical moment, causing the entire universe to become a dead place.

He could neither die nor want to live, but just now, his White Lantern Ring detected White Dove, the only remaining female on Earth and the only one immune to the Black Lantern Ring.

This may be the hope of their universe.

White Lantern Sinestro raised his head and saw the swaying dragon in the distant sky, leaving behind its last reflection.

In another dark multiverse, Bruce Wayne is lingering in Arkham Asylum. He must fake his own death and hide it from his enemy Thomas Elliot (the villain Hush in the main universe Batman) and the surgeon Dr. Crane (the Scarecrow in the main universe).

Although the odds were slim, Bruce knew that Alfred was carrying out his plan, which was one of the few warmth in his cold heart.

There are only a few Brucees in the Dark Multiverse who have not taken up the mantle of Batman. Not even a life of imprisonment, torture, and madness could stop him.

In a state of half-sleep and half-wakefulness, Silent Bat heard an illusory dragon roar, as if he was being held in the arms of his mother Martha when he was young, and the fire in the fireplace was burning brightly, making the firewood crackle softly.

This beautiful dream comforted Silent Bat, reminding him of the extremely brief beauty in his life.

Although behind that short-lived beauty is a cold, ruthless, dark world, please believe that you can face it calmly even if you are forced into a desperate situation.

But among the countless dark multiverses that Chen Tao had traveled through, only a small number of universes were warmed by the light he brought. He was like a mortal on a dark beach, holding a torch high and constantly throwing stranded fish back into the sea. His light once briefly illuminated the beach...

But after leaving, everything eventually returned to darkness.

So we can conclude that...the torch is not the sun after all.

But in the pitch darkness, seeing some dim lights is enough for people to pursue it, isn't it?
But at the same time, not all universes in the dark multiverse are so harmless, it is also full of dangers.

Chen Tao is attacked by a dark multiverse wanderer who calls himself the Terror Lantern. A Green Lantern who has turned to evil, a father who can never redeem himself, a light that once stood for justice but now forever serves death.

The Fright Lanterns come from a degraded version of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, in which it was not the Justice League that survived the crisis, but the Justice Society.

This change caused that world with infinite potential to be trapped in the flames of Surtur, the god of fire, since its birth.

Alan Scott, the first Green Lantern, bowed to the God of Fire Surtur in order to save his own world, and instructed him to destroy other worlds in exchange for Surtur's letting his world go.

So he became the Dread Lantern, lighting the way for destruction across countless dark multiverses.

A new Earth survived, but looking across the universe, worlds perished, over and over again. Alan Scott guided Surtur and his army to an unknown world, over and over again...

The former Green Lantern brought about Ragnarok, his flames merging with Surtur's, burning trillions of lives.

Chen Tao heard the roar of the terrifying lantern hero holding the flaming giant sword: "Evil Flame Demon, Lord of Divine Light! Only death exists, and the terrifying lantern will stay forever!"

It sounded like a roar, a scream, and a helpless cry.

Chen Tao waved his huge claws and confronted the Terrifying Lantern Man from a distance.

He had to speed up to break free from the opponent's madly swinging flaming giant sword, and he didn't have much time.

Chen Tao saw another completely corrupted version of Wonder Woman, a painful, deadly woman possessed by the goddess of magic Hecate, with hatred pulsating in her body.

She once inspired inner peace in everyone in her world.

But the former Wonder Woman is now nothing more than Queen Hecate, who brings chaos and death.

Chen Tao escaped from the opponent's sword.

He didn't have time to get entangled with the other party.

Finally, he found his own Wonder Woman. He carefully picked up the other's bones, then swung his tail, and went after the next one.

He not only brings hope to others, but also brings hope to himself and to his own universe.

It's time for us to go home.

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At the edge of the super time stream, the blue Dr. Manhattan quietly watched Batman flapping his wings in the dark multiverse. His experiment had already produced perfect results, so there was no need to kill Batman again.

He needs to keep Batman. He feels that the Batman in this dark multiverse is extremely special. His actions and existence drive the development of the entire dark multiverse. This is the only individual discovered by Dr. Manhattan who is slightly close to Superman in the main universe.

So the blue bald head observed quietly and waited silently, which is the best quality of the experimenter.

The other side of the hyper-time stream.

Parallax Mohal has returned to the timeline where he was supposed to exist, and due to drifting in the super time stream, he has lost all memories of leaving the current time point.

As usual, he preached his concept of a perfect earth to many heroes, but he often got stuck from time to time.

Something was surging and jumping in his mind, but he couldn't remember it.

At this moment, the Parallax Demon Hal Jordan was like an iron rod that had just been pulled out of the broken concrete ground. A pair of invisible big hands inserted him back to his original position, and then used some new cement to smooth the broken concrete road again, trying to make the iron rod forget that it had been forcibly pulled out of the road.

The Batman of the Dark Multiverse had a permanent impact on the super-time stream. His actions caused a large number of cement roads that had once been completely solidified to break, and countless "iron rods" like Hal Jordan, the Parallax Demon, regained their freedom.

After they discovered that the cement road beside them was no longer solidified, but was re-paved with fragments of once solidified cement and unsolidified cement.

Among these many powerful men, Parallax Demon Hal was the first to discover that the cement next to him was not solid enough.

He held his head, and recalled the time when he invaded the Hypertime Stream and was driven away by Batman and Barbatos...

He let out a creepy laugh...

He turned around and suddenly gave up his plan to persuade those superheroes, and said to Mo Cun:
"come here……"

(Note: Mocun, a villain who controls the power of time, is very powerful. He teamed up with Parallax Demon Hal to create the Zero Hour Crisis)

Earth 15.

Lantern No. 1 watched with bloodshot eyes as the Time Trapper, still dressed as Superboy-Prime, flew out of the Lex Building in Metropolis like a comet, and then flew high into the atmosphere.

(Note: When Superboy-Prime destroyed Earth-15, he killed Lex Luthor of that Earth first because he reminded Superboy-Prime of Alexander Luthor Jr.)
He finally knew who the devil was who destroyed his universe, but what the first Lantern felt next was endless light and heat.

If he had time to recuperate and then calmly master more of the emotional spectrum, he could at least fight the demon who destroyed his home, but now...

The First Lantern cried bitterly and was in pain, but nothing could be changed. All his strength was used to prevent himself from being turned into ashes by the powerful force of Superboy-Prime to destroy the planet. He could only watch himself escape through the shuttle lantern while his mother was turned into ashes... There is nothing more painful than this, which brings hope and despair.

The pulse caused by the destruction of Earth-15 by Time Trapped Superboy-Prime continues to spread, and his body disintegrates into pure spectral energy amid his cries, but then...

The original body of Lantern No. 1 in the super time stream suddenly raised his head.

Originally in the multiverse, due to the law of causality, the number one Lanterns in countless parallel universes, whether they are clones or the original bodies, or at different points in time, have the only thing in common: none of the number one Lanterns can find the location of Earth 15 in any way.

The super time stream fundamentally blocked the possibility for the first Lantern to save his world and rescue his mother, thus causing the super time stream to collapse, but this was broken by Batman alone, which definitely left endless harm.

The face of the original Lantern showed a look of horror, followed by extreme ecstasy.

Look, another iron rod began to struggle, trying to pull itself out of the half-solidified road.

By then, the rage of the First Lantern will shock the entire multiverse!
And in the farther corners, in more complex dimensions.

The Black Death Emperor carefully protects William Hand, a treasure boy who he just found from the dark multiverse.

The scythe-wielding agent of death never thought that he would find such a satisfactory agent in the dark multiverse.

But no matter how he persuaded, the treasure boy of the Dark Emperor was unwilling to do anything for him, so the Dark Emperor had to let go of this precious boy and turn his attention back to the dark multiverse.

His gaze swept across the universe that had been conquered by him, leaving only Sinestro holding the white lantern ring, and he turned his gaze to the newly built fortress, the dark multiverse where his treasure boy was born.

Maybe he needs to conquer the dark multiverse before he can convince William Hand to act as his spokesperson and eliminate the waste in the main universe.

Oh, by the way, if he wants to attack that fortress, the Black Death Emperor needs a spy, someone who can help him from both inside and outside...

The Black Death Emperor turned his gaze to the dead overlords of the universe, and then he saw Laflitz, the Lord of Orange Lantern.

In another corner of the super time stream, Brainiac and Ultra Star are also collecting countless cities on the nodes that are about to be destroyed.

Brainiac survived the Flashpoint incident and is hungry for more, wanting to become something greater. He is trying to evolve like the Monitor and Anti-Monitor...

He is about to set off his own destiny, he is about to set off...

"Multi-fusion"!!!
as well as……

Barbatos is having a final whisper with the Anti-Monitor. The Anti-Monitor wants to kill Barbatos, but he always knows that if he wants to return to reality, he must rely on Barbatos...

Unlike those iron bars that can twist their bodies in the super-time stream, the Infinite Earth Crisis caused by the Anti-Monitor is the cornerstone of the entire multiverse. Unlike other iron bars that can stretch their bodies, he is still unable to move.

The Laughing Bat brought the Anti-Monitor's astral brain to Barbatos, and Barbatos' plan to invade the main universe did not slow down, but accelerated its planning.

Barbatos' plan itself is about to be completed. Even without Batman's interference, his invasion of the main universe is just around the corner.

Even though Batman took away a quarter of his status as the Dragon of the Dark Multiverse, he gained the Anti-Monitor's Dragon, which was infused with all of the Anti-Monitor's strength, as well as a large amount of antimatter energy infused into it by the Anti-Monitor himself. Barbatos' overall strength increased instead of decreased, and all the strength he lost from Batman was replenished by sucking the Anti-Monitor's blood, and it was a huge replenishment.

Not only that, he can now use the Anti-Monitor Dragon to control the Anti-Monitor. Unless the Anti-Monitor is willing to give up all his investment in the Anti-Monitor Dragon and the only chance to interfere with the future timeline, for Barbatos, the contractual relationship between the two of them will always be an unequal one.

The Dark Multiverse Night Metal is about to come, a new crisis is brewing, and the wheel of history is rolling forward, but at least now, Batman, who has transformed into the Dragon of the Dark Multiverse, has returned to his fortress.

He was about to enjoy some peace here... until the time came for him to set off again.

But among these countless crises, there is one that Batman never expected, and it is also the most special one.

Batman has countless villains, but there is one who is extremely special to the hero. It can even be said that this one is the complete opposite of all Batmans.

At some point in DC's long history, this character once reached a peak period of extreme power, even subverting the history of the entire main universe.

During that period, the character captured the five-dimensional creature Troublemaker and took away all of its power. This astonishing move gave the character the powerful power to arbitrarily paint reality and change the world like a god.

Although he was defeated in the end and this period of history was forever embedded in the super-time stream, this period of history was also shaken by Chen Tao's actions.

Does this mean that the most powerful version of this character will also be freed from the hyper-time stream?
Oh, right.

We haven't mentioned the name of this character yet, but please note that this character who has obtained the powerful power of a troublemaker is definitely a completely different species from the crazy character that countless people have in their minds.

So, we are now going to say his name, with the sense of destiny of Batman's archenemy, with the entanglement that Batman can never escape as a prefix, the strongest version of a character that Batman once thought he would never see again.

We call him:
Emperor Clown.

(End of this chapter)