socalfunplaces Chapter 685 The Watcher's Gaze, Zul'an the Bat Falls into the Trap
Chapter 685 The Watcher's Gaze, Zul'an the Bat Falls into the Trap
Chapter 685 The Watcher's Glance Back, Zul'an the Bat Falls into the Trap
In the vast and infinite flow of time, countless powerful figures and monsters who once graced the stage of history in the multiverse slumber in their respective segments of the past.
They are like countless stars, forming a coherent and logically coherent multiverse history, as well as as perfectly fitted gears.
They are the cornerstone of the reality of the multiverse. Without them, reality would immediately collapse. This is an inviolable iron law, unless there is someone strong enough to intervene.
(Note: For example, during the Death Metal event, the multiverse's mother, Perpetua, directly destroyed the Hypertime Stream, but reality still exists!)
The Anti-Monitors, the World Forgers, are gods of the sixth dimension. They exist in the sixth dimension, the central control room of the multiverse. They are immortal and will be resurrected in the sixth dimension even if they are killed.
They are among the most powerful deities in the multiverse, apart from the creator goddess, "Mother of the Multiverse" Perpetua, or at least one of the most powerful.
But the history of the entire multiverse is so long that many people often forget that Pappatua actually had three children.
Aside from the Anti-Monitor, who has been active throughout the history of the DC universe, and the World Forger, who has been working quietly and ultimately orchestrated the two major events, "Dark Night Metal" and "The Sixth Dimension," her other beloved son, the Monitor, seems to have abruptly disappeared into the long river of DC universe history.
At the end of Crisis on Infinite Earths, the Anti-Monitor murders the Monitor, an act that severely weakens him.
After Superman the Monitor broke through the Heavenly dimension and joined forces with Alexander Luthor Jr. to invade the main universe, triggering the Infinite Crisis, the Monitor believed that he was not capable of controlling his enormous body. So he split himself into a race to manage their own universes.
This is undoubtedly a more serious form of self-weakening than the Anti-Monitor. In the DC multiverse, if you want to determine whether a character's rank is high or low, you only need to observe whether he has a counterpart in a parallel universe.
World Maker, Anti-Monitor, Bat Mite, Mischief Maker... they are all unique. The Mischief Maker who appears anywhere is the Mischief Maker himself, because he is a fifth-dimensional god, and he cannot be replicated.
Ph.Dr. Manhattan with his big blue bald head or Barbatos's Dark Multiverse counterpart, those all appeared after they were no longer powerful.
【Batman Manhattan】appeared in Death Metal, but during the Death Metal era, Dr. Manhattan had already left the DC Universe during the Doomsday Bell event;
Barbatos's Dark Multiverse counterpart, Batman: Doomsday Dragon, also appeared after Dark Night Metal. By this time, Barbatos had already been utterly defeated by the Justice League of the main universe.
Darkseid, who is said to be a four-dimensional god, once had a physical body, but when his physical body was shot by Batman in the final crisis, all his clones turned into his physical body, causing him to become a character with countless clones.
This is why there's that famous American comic book rumor: "The Justice League was fighting Darkseid in clones."
In short, the Watchers' self-divided actions directly led to the emergence of the Dark Watcher Mandrak's Lair and a whole host of other messy events. More importantly, it meant that the Watchers no longer possessed the power to contend with the Anti-Watchers as they had in the past.
Even after the DC universe was reborn and the Monitor became a single person again, he was still so weak that he was shamefully captured by Barbatos. He was taken and used to synthesize a bomb with the Anti-Monitor's brain, directly demoting him from a sixth-dimensional god to a consumable material needed for bomb manufacturing.
But this doesn't mean the Watcher isn't capable of being powerful at times...
If we trace back to the origins and return to the era of Crisis on Infinite Earths, to the time when the Monitors were most powerful and could even confront the Anti-Monitors head-on, the tremors of the trans-temporal flow allowed the Monitors to see further.
The Watcher had already foreseen his own death during the Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Knowing that the superhero "Pioneer" Lyra was under the control of the Anti-Monitor, he still allowed her to kill him, just to turn his body into a machine that could merge universes. The Monitor was too cunning; he was the mastermind behind "Crisis on Infinite Earths." He orchestrated the Anti-Monitor's failure, even at the cost of his own life.
The Monitor has firmly pinned the Anti-Monitor to the position of "Crisis on Infinite Earths" in the Hypertime Stream, making it difficult for him to escape. However, today, at this very moment, the vibration of the Hypertime Stream has fed back to the upstream "Crisis on Infinite Earths" era. This not only frees the Anti-Monitor to project more power downstream, but also frees the Monitor.
This is the era of crisis on infinite earths.
On the Monitor satellite, with all the heroes gone, only the Monitor's adopted daughter, "Pioneer" Lyra, remained on the vast satellite, while "The Forsaken" stood behind the Monitor and beside him.
He clutched his head: "My God, the Monitor... that power is too immense! It's only a matter of time before antimatter destroys everything!"
He had just been sent by the Watchers to witness the destruction of several universes, and his mind was on the verge of collapse: "These worlds are doomed, Watchers—just like countless worlds I've seen before! Why did you make me witness those catastrophes? What's the point of making me endure them? You haven't changed the future or the past, so what have you done?"
He questioned the monitor in this way, and the monitor, who had been manipulating the instruments the whole time, gave his answer:
"I did the best I could."
He said:
"You don't understand how quickly I weaken every moment. I'm using the last bit of strength I've saved. The Anti-Monitors act even faster than me, but evil is always like that; they don't care about morality..."
"That's what the monitor said."
He turned to the abandoned woman: "Abandoned woman, I beg you not to hurt her. You will understand everything..."
"What? Hurt whom? Who are you talking about?"
The monitor closed his eyes slightly: "Although everything is not fully prepared, I can no longer delay. Although everything is not perfect, I must continue."
At this moment, Lyra, the "Pioneer," completely controlled by the Anti-Monitor, raised her hands high, yellow energy beams swirling around them: "Too late, you old fool!"
And the monitor, as expected, calmly uttered his lines: "I've been waiting for you, Lyra. Do what you must do..."
He should have calmly followed his plan and been killed by the Pioneers, thus turning the tables on the Anti-Monitors and using his death to illuminate the path to their defeat.
But at that moment, the Monitor suddenly seemed to see something. The shockwave from the downstream of the timeline finally arrived and rushed into the Monitor's head, allowing his vision to pass directly through the entire history of the DC multiverse, and he immediately saw the Anti-Monitor Dragon, who was still allied with the Emperor and the Jester.
The Monitor didn't have time to find out who caused this violent tremor in the time flow, but he saw the Counter-Monitor, his brother, so he immediately judged that even if his brother wasn't responsible for the tremor, it was almost certainly him.
The yellow beam of light that Pioneer intended to assassinate him was already hurtling towards him, and at this critical moment, the Watcher suddenly grabbed Pioneer's wrist: "Wait, I'll die a little longer."
His actions bewildered the already controlled pioneer, Lyra. She blinked her eyes, which were only black with white, and tried to pounce again, but was quickly picked up by the watcher and thrown aside like a chick.
"Quiet," the monitor said.
He frowned slightly, lost in thought: "Why is there such a huge mess in the future timeline?"
At this moment, the monitor even began to doubt whether his sacrifice was worthwhile:
"I've put in so much effort, why is the downstream of the time-lapse path collapsing even more severely?"
But no matter what he thinks, as the guardian of the positive matter universe, the Watcher must consider the entire universe.
So he sighed again.
"It is my duty to stop the anti-surveillance agents." He thought to himself as he bound the still struggling assassin like a dumpling, closed his eyes, and began to unleash his remaining strength.
Those who attempt to counter-surveillance by rewriting the history they have already completed will not have a good outcome.
That's what his monitor said.
This time, he had to take action.
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Zul'Ah Batman had a bad feeling.
As a creature driven by instinct, Zul'Aman Batman is born with the ability to make judgments based on his intuition. But at this moment, this ability is frantically warning him. Nevertheless, he cannot abandon his decision or temporarily interrupt his plans. As he said, his intuition is warning him, but it is also driving him toward adventure.
Zul'Ah Batman did not recruit the entire Justice League from the main universe; in the Batcave, only his butler Alfred knew his whereabouts.
"Lord Wayne, are you really prepared to...?"
"I have to rush over and kill them all... Hehehe..."
Alfred watched with some concern as his beloved little Bruce put on his red and purple uniform, drooling as he spoke.
He opened his mouth, but in the end, he couldn't say a word.
Batman is already prepared, and besides...
"My God, you're so handsome! Just seeing your shapely butt is enough to give me an orgasm."
The bat mite wriggled beside his butt: "American-style perky butt, the kind I love in comics, remember Captain America next door?"
Chen Tao was trying his best to imitate the comical, neurotic state of the bat mite, but it seems he went a little overboard:
"Besides Captain America, I think Deadpool is..."
Even though he has become a different personality, the old Batman from the main universe is constantly testing him every second.
Chen Tao knew that if he were to have a logical and coherent conversation with Batman, he would be exposed. He himself was Batman, and no one understood the dangers of Batman better than him.
He had to keep talking about things the other person understood but didn't fully understand, in order to constantly distract the other person while making them believe that everything in front of them was reasonable.
Zul'Ah Batman nodded.
It's normal for bat mites to be saying things that are incomprehensible. It would be strange if one day they started saying things that you could understand.
He seemingly reached out without warning, letting the bat mite land on his forearm, but then countless energies instantly froze the bat mite controlled by Chen Tao.
Chen Tao knew perfectly well what the other party was doing. He was testing whether the bat mite in front of him was the fifth-dimensional creature he thought it was. He was worried that everything that was happening was just Chen Tao deceiving him, because so far, apart from his own intuition, he really had no evidence to show that the multiverse was currently experiencing a lethal crisis.
Then he saw the bat mite escape the force field's control with a whoosh in a puff of smoke. That was correct; unless Barry Allen, the user of the Speed Force, shrunk his body to play this joke on him, only a fifth-dimensional being could escape these force fields.
And once it's proven that this is indeed a fifth-dimensional being...
Then the information he provided suddenly became much more authentic.
Amidst the wrath of the bat mite, Zul'Ah Batman apologized on the spot, then ruthlessly continued to instruct the mite to open the portal to the Dark Multiverse and save the multiverse.
He is now simply verifying his suspicions and confirming that the multiverse is truly in crisis. After that, he will go to the main universe with his Justice League to resolve those dangerous problems. He has made many preparations to ensure his safe return to the main universe.
So he finally approached the door, and with a somewhat apprehensive feeling, stepped inside, and then...
He saw himself appear amidst a raging inferno, with Batman Dragon and Barbatos grinning at him from the middle of it all.
He turned his head sharply, trying to find the bat mite that had been showering him with compliments and making promises. Then he saw the bat mite appear with a plop next to the bat-shaped dragon, gracefully landing on his nose and licking its claws. Then, it seemed to return to some kind of controlled state, falling to the ground with a thud. It was then locked in a cage that appeared out of nowhere, opening its mouth to curse at the Batman dragon.
"Barbatos, our deal is done." Zul'A Batman heard Batman Dragon say to the hooded Barbatos, "Your payment has arrived."
(End of this chapter)