wjnovel Chapter 466 Stealing the Anti-Monitor's Memories, The Starfish That Was Drained
Chapter 466 Stealing the Anti-Monitor's Memories, The Starfish That Was Drained
Chapter 466 Stealing the Anti-Monitor's Memories, The Starfish That Was Drained
I am Batman.
I so want to tell you that everything is going according to plan.
I so want to tell you that I can still guide things as I always have, and when problems arise, I can still miraculously come up with a pre-prepared solution.
Unfortunately... I cannot.
The power of the Anti-Monitor far exceeded my expectations. The defeat of Superman Supreme and the re-expulsion of the Black Emperor back into his universe caught me off guard.
I selectively believed the information Night Owl gave me, and even after Greer verified what Night Owl said, I never truly believed his negative conclusions about "you can't win".
For the first time in my life, I felt utterly helpless, like being in a bottomless cave when someone suddenly used an unprecedentedly thick iron rod to pierce my heart from my mouth.
Just as the night owl said, I still have time...
After being stripped of all my hard shells like a lamb to the slaughter, I still have one more chance to stall for time.
According to the owl's calculations and deductions...
If his deduction is accurate.
On this point, I trust the Night Owl as much as I trust myself.
15 days.
Or restart 15 times on the same day.
This is the result calculated by the night owl, but my estimate is that the timeframe will be shorter.
However, this is ultimately just the result of our calculations; the actual effect... no one knows for sure.
Right now, at this moment.
On Quade Star.
The battlefield where the Anti-Monitors clash with Batman.
[Warning! Warning! Detected that The Flash, Barry Allen, is dead. Please fully integrate Barry Allen into your body to replicate the birth of the Red Death. Successfully obtained—]
[Batman has integrated the Flash into his body... You have fully synchronized with SS-class Batman: Red Death.]
Chen Tao watched as the silver-white lettering of the Alfred Protocol turned black, flashing on his retina like blood.
"Bruce, I'm completely integrated into your body now, this feeling..."
Chen Tao tilted his head slightly, and Barry Allen's face appeared briefly as he did so, then vanished without a trace.
"Am I dead, Bruce?"
Not yet.
Chen Tao told him, "I have a way to separate us, but for now, go to sleep."
He said, "I will bring you back. You will be separated from me again by the Speed Force."
"I will definitely..."
Chen Tao wanted to say something to comfort Barry Allen, who was somewhat alarmed that the Speed Force had become part of Batman's power, but his voice quickly fell silent as he was completely submerged in the Speed Force that kept flowing into Chen Tao's body.
Chen Tao shut his mouth and thought silently.
I...I will definitely bring you back, Barry.
"You dare..."
In the distance, the voice of the Anti-Monitor roared, and the Speed Force, interwoven with dark gold and red-black and shaped like lightning, descended from the sky, filling the entire universe like a cage connecting heaven and earth.
The land, which had been destroyed in the battle, was constantly pushed back and repaired by the Speed Force's lightning storm, returning to its original position like a videotape being played in reverse.
The massive craters and fissures in the ground created by the battle between the Justice League members and the Anti-Monitor were closing, as if being completely erased by an eraser.
The Anti-Monitor was resisting this change... The scenery around him was rushing backward, but the Anti-Monitor alone remained still, neither falling backward nor moving normally.
Even in a split second, time reversal was reversed in a region around him, and the repaired ground returned to its cracked state, only to be reversed again by the Speed Force in an instant.
Even so, the anti-monitor continues to resist by virtue of its own existence, resisting the reversal of time, which causes time around it to flow backward, while it remains steadfastly in place.
Chen Tao had no time to pay attention to him; he was moving around Quade Star at a speed exceeding the speed of light.
He needs to use the Speed Force to expel the Anti-Monitor from his universe, that is, to reset the timeline to before the Anti-Monitor entered the universe by reversing the time effect.
However, the Speed Force in the universe is like a battery, and the Speed Force required to drive away the Anti-Monitor is far greater than the amount that the Flash would normally expend while running.
The arrival of a monster of the size of the Anti-Monitor is a heavy burden on their entire monoverse. Chen Tao had restarted the timeline several times before to test how strong the Anti-Monitor's ability to resist the timeline restart was, but now it seems that the Anti-Monitor did not go all out in the previous resistance.
This is definitely bad news, however...
The heart of the anti-surveillance agent appeared in Chen Tao's hand.
He installed the octopus-like load-sharing device that Luther and Lucius had created directly onto the Anti-Monitor's heart, thus completely transferring a large portion of the Speed Force burden to the Anti-Monitor's heart.
Deep within the Dark Multiverse, a dragon immediately sensed Batman demanding power from him.
Very good...very good.
Barbatos felt pleased, and he spread his enormous wings and then flapped them gently.
This is the first step in the fall, and countless Batmen's descent into depravity begins from this point.
The first time a drowned, wronged soul performed superhuman modifications on itself.
The first time Red Death armed himself with the weapons of Flash's enemies.
The first time the Killing Machine used the Alfred AI, which Cyborg had created for him to make Batman sandwiches, in combat.
Barbatos was never stingy in granting powers to the Batmen at the beginning, and the Dark Dragon didn't care at all about Batman rebooting the timeline.
It's just a matter of delaying things a little, so what?
The web of fate has been woven, and the prey trapped within, though indeed the Anti-Monitor, is also Batman. This is the Dark Multiverse, where all destinies are controlled by Barbatos, and if he ultimately has no other choice, he will eventually return to his embrace.
Rather than using time restarts as a delaying tactic that cannot change the final outcome, Barbatos hopes that Batman will become accustomed to relying on the Anti-Monitor's heart and using his power to solve problems. This is also what every Batman in the Dark Multiverse will inevitably experience.
In an instant, the Anti-Monitor completely lost his ability to stay still. He was uncontrollably pulled backward by the Speed Force, like a puppet being forcibly manipulated by having its head held down.
"You bastard..."
But he didn't have a chance to say anything more to Batman. Batman's speed increased, and as time continued to reverse, the force field barrier on the outer edge of Quad disappeared, the entire planet continued to rotate backward, and Earth appeared from Batman's chest. Time was constantly moving forward.
The anti-monitor kept retreating, until it reached the side of the spatial rift.
Quad has been expelled from this universe. Like a giant bowling ball, it has torn a pocket in the void and been mercilessly thrown out by the Speed Force. Next comes the Anti-Monitor, who grabs the opening of the spatial rift and stares maliciously at Batman.
He knew he might not be able to stop himself from being expelled from the universe. Expelling him from the universe was not just something Batman did alone; Barbatos was providing the power behind the scenes. But that wouldn't stop him from making a comeback. In 15 days... or 10 days, the final end of this world would arrive.
Batman has already lost his courage; giving him 15 days is merely delaying his journey to the grave.
He already knows all of Batman's trump cards, and Batman has no chance of finding a new force capable of fighting him within these 15 days.
Under such circumstances, he...
But in an instant, the Anti-Monitor suddenly saw Batman appear before him, enveloped in the Speed Force.
"What?"
The Anti-Monitor wanted to swing his fist, he wanted to swing his fist and launch a vicious attack on Batman, but the violently surging Speed Force restricted his movements. Then, amidst the thunder and lightning of the Speed Force, he could only watch as Batman stretched out his hands and placed them on his huge head.
The overwhelming Speed Force roared and surged, crashing against the entire universe like waves. Amidst endless thunder, Batman, surrounded by red lightning, looked down and viciously pinned the Anti-Monitor to his crotch.
A tremendous mental force surged into the anti-monitor's mind, causing him to let out a muffled groan.
Deep in the universe.
The giant starfish Starro let out a hysterical wail.
Many people may not have heard what a starfish sounds like, but one thing they can imagine is that when a starfish suffers a fatal injury, its violent screams are no less intense than the cries of a human dying a violent death.
His entire body of starfish flesh swelled up, then immediately burst open, like a pustule filled with pus being squeezed out, and then contracted again, turning into a starfish shape resembling five horsehair worms coiled around a city.
Trillions upon trillions of clones surrounded Staro's body, but these clones were instantly annihilated.
They shrank and exploded like dumplings being dropped into a pot, their enormous spiritual energy completely drained and absorbed, poured into Batman thousands of miles away, and then used by him without mercy, repeatedly ravaged like a tattered rag.
Damn it, he only connected his mental energy to Batman, he only lent it to him, just lent it! But Batman is draining it dry!
"Help!"
The giant star trembled all over. For countless ages, the telepathic abilities of the cosmic conqueror had dominated the entire universe. He had never encountered a creature that could resist his telepathy, let alone a terrifying monster that almost drained him dry just by reading his memories.
Greer had tricked him; this wasn't a double bet at all, but a complete trap.
The giant starfish tried to resist the absorption, but he was quickly taught a lesson by the Barbatos power contained in the heart of the Antimonitor.
The moment the starfish's psychic power touched even a fraction of Barbatos's dark power, Starro immediately cowered.
"Night Owl! Help me!"
He tried to plead with the owl, but then he felt his almost drained body fill up again.
The clones that died like dumplings being dropped into a pot were quickly resurrected, replenished with mental power as if this power had never been consumed.
Some kind of temporal force reset his physical state, but before the starfish could even rejoice, he felt a tremendous suction force coming from Batman and his mental connection.
"Oh, come on."
With a hiss, Staro was once again sucked into the shape of a horsehair worm.
"Are you reading my memories?"
The anti-surveillance activists were immediately enraged.
This was a situation he had never imagined. Even Batman couldn't invade his brain. How did Batman manage to do it?
Even when Batman rejected him from the cosmos, he wasn't this angry: "You dare to spy on my birth, on my destiny?! You…"
However, the next moment, a look of bewilderment appeared in his eyes. The Speed Force had reversed time, stripping him of his memories. The Anti-Monitor was certain that Batman must have used a significant amount of the Speed Force to achieve this, and he was also well aware that he would be able to regain his memories after a period of time…
But the only problem now is...
In this short period of time, at least until 15 days from now...
He couldn't remember exactly what memories Batman had stolen from him.
This memory was completely erased by Batman at the cost of expending even more of his Speed Force. The Anti-Monitor speculates that Batman originally had at least 15 days to rewind, but after he did that, those 15 days were likely greatly reduced, to the point that…
Huh, what did Batman just do to me?
Damn Batman, he pushed me out of his universe, he...
With a pop, the rift in the universe disappeared. Chen Tao used his last bit of strength to run back to the main conference room of the Justice League Hall. Blood gushed from his body, and he collapsed onto the main seat with a thud.
Before he lost consciousness, a sinister smile crept across Batman's lips.
……
……
……
I am a turtle person, and I am very scared.
I'm not quite sure what's been going on lately. I feel like something's not right, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
But anyway, Batman is standing next to me now, smiling at me, and he tells me that he will conduct an experiment on me to turn me into a true superhero.
What does "stronger" mean?
As you can imagine, this is definitely not a good word.
I'm so scared.
Batman is more insane than ever.
Who will save me!
(End of this chapter)