socalfunplaces Chapter 263 Who says you can't get heart disease if you don't have a heart?
Chapter 263 Who says you can't get heart disease if you don't have a heart?
Chapter 263 Who says you can't get heart disease if you don't have a heart?
Chen Tao picked up Atocitas's heart from the ground.
[Warning! Warning! Anchored item acquired: Heart of Atositas.]
[Crisis Energy Units Converted: 257]
Your current crisis energy level is: 1095.
[WARNING: Downloading a game targeting Batman]
【Battositas】
[Hazard Level: A-]
[Introduction: In the Dark Multiverse, everything tends to go wrong. In Battocitas's world, it all began on that night that changed Batman's life forever.]
After witnessing his parents' murder, young Bruce felt neither confusion nor sadness, but rather a burning rage. This rage remained dormant within him, and instead of fading as he grew older, it gradually intensified and grew ever stronger.
Finally, the intense rage emanating from the Dark Knight reached a breaking point, causing the Blood Bull, a cosmic entity representing rage and also a lantern beast of the Red Lantern Corps, to confront the vengeful spirit of God guarding Earth, the Ghost, and possess Bruce Wayne!
"Bruce Wayne from Earth, you harbor immense rage, and I am hungry..."
The Blood Slaughter Bull, a beast of the Red Lantern Legion, feeds on anger. For thousands of years, it has wandered the universe, constantly seeking out intelligent beings filled with rage to possess, absorbing all of their anger before departing.
Normally, no matter how angry a person is, their anger will eventually run out, and the Blood Bull will leave once it has absorbed all of their anger. But this time is different... Batman is different.
Bruce Wayne's rage was inexhaustible, and Blood Bull discovered for the first time that he actually had an endless supply of lunch—so he decided to stay glued to Bruce Wayne and refuse to leave.
The possession granted Bruce immense power, but also reduced his intelligence to almost zero. He wreaked havoc on Earth, slaughtering the Ghosts and a large group of heroes who rushed to his aid. No one could withstand a single blow from him, until the arrival of Athositas, the leader of the Red Lantern Corps.
Even Athositas, who wields the power of the Red Lantern, cannot control his own beast, the Bloodslaughter Bull. Bruce Wayne and the Bloodslaughter Bull have been bound together for too long; they have become one, and Athositas has tried everything to separate them.
Ultimately, Athositas, cornered, was forced to use a wicked blood magic that successfully fused his own flesh with Batman's. Neither Athositas nor Batman (Bruce Wayne) remained; only the fusion of their consciousnesses survived: Athositas!
[Should we immediately use 240 Crisis Energy Synchronization Points?]
Chen Tao clicked "OK," then turned to look at Atocitas.
Atocitas, too, was starting to regret his decision.
He shouldn't have trusted Batman so much.
You see, based on trust in Batman's reasonable plan to ultimately help him fulfill the prophecy and forge the Red Lantern Ring, the Red Lantern Lord's trust in Batman reached its peak 10 minutes ago.
If reality were an online game, a trust level of 100 would probably have appeared on his forehead before.
Batman then said something like "It's all for the sake of the universe, for justice," so he half-heartedly allowed the other man to bind him in a turtle-shell bondage with the rope called the Lasso of Truth, leaving him completely powerless to fight back.
At that moment, Athositas saw Batman taking deep breaths in front of him and making various movements to loosen his muscles, and his ominous premonition reached its peak.
"Whatever you're planning, Batman, I'm not playing along. Get me untied," Athocitas said. "I didn't even realize what was happening before you tied me up."
However, the Batman in front of him completely ignored what he was saying. Atocitas saw the other man turn around, his backside facing him, and begin to stretch his ligaments.
"What exactly do you want? Are you even listening to me?"
Then he saw Batman turn his head. Even though he no longer had a heart, Athositas still felt his heart beating a beat slower.
Beneath that pointed Batman mask were pale skin and a face grinning wildly, drooling and with lips that looked as if they were holding blood.
"Oh dear, don't rush, these little bright red cherries... One should be more open-minded, just like fruit, hahaha, hahahaha, hee hee, hee hee!"
Atositas felt his non-existent heart sinking downwards.
He saw Batman's shoulders convulsing like someone having an epileptic seizure: "You've gone back on your word? You've gone back on your word? Didn't you say you were willing to sacrifice yourself for the cause of justice?"
"Yes. I've changed my mind." Atocitas clung to the last glimmer of hope: "Unless you tell me exactly what you want to do."
"Oh dear, if I say it out loud, it won't work anymore, hehe, hehe!"
"Let me go, Batman."
"Eh...that's not up to you!"
Athositas tried to break free of the Lasso of Truth, only to realize with regret that he was truly powerless to resist. The Lasso of Truth was far stronger than it appeared or as others imagined.
Perhaps someone could prove it by brute force alone, but not Athositas, the burly magician, at least not someone he could open in a short time.
Atositus spewed out a red light energy that burned like flames, and then Chen Tao hit him on the forehead with a crowbar.
Wait, a crowbar?
Atocitas looked closely and saw that Batman had somehow acquired a crowbar, and tiny black sand was constantly filling the other end of the crowbar, like... nanobots?
Athositas wasn't some ignorant, backward alien; on the contrary, the planet he once lived on was quite technologically advanced. But the more advanced the technology, the less he understood what Batman was trying to do.
He saw Batman transform into a bizarre, fully covered-up appearance—this time he was a Kryptonian.
His eyes emitted a burst of heat, blasting apart several mounds of earth surrounding the central energy battery of the red light, sending rocks and soil flying and completely leveling the ground.
Then he transformed into a strange form with an inverted bat symbol on his chest and began to inscribe some kind of magic circle on the ground, busily working like a worker ant. Athositas waited by for ages, and finally, Batman returned to him.
"So what do you want? I've lost count of how many times I've asked you," Athocitas said. "Kill me or torture me, it's up to you."
However, he saw Batman looking at him with a solemn expression, as if he were looking at some kind of sacrifice.
Then Batman chuckled: "Hehehehehehe, your whole family is dead!!!"
"???"
Atositas was instantly enraged, but he still maintained a shred of rationality: "How dare you provoke me with them? Who gave you the audacity to do this?"
"Anyway, it's not your parents."
Chen Tao said, "And your wife, and your daughter."
Boom! Atocitas was furious, literally.
The blazing, blood-red energy of the Red Lantern erupted from his body like a bomb exploding. He almost leaped up and pounced on Batman, but was then tightly bound to the spot by the Lasso of Truth, and could only crawl on the ground like a maggot.
"How dare you? How dare you? I'll kill you, I'll make sure you die a gruesome death, a death so painful you wish you were never born!"
"Oh, it's nothing. Your parents died in a much worse way than you described."
"Awoooo ...
Chen Tao coldly watched the almost enraged Lord of the Red Lantern. Athositas was already good at getting angry, and now that he had created and mastered the energy of the Red Lantern, this irritable personality trait was amplified again under the effect of the Red Lantern Ring.
At least if this were Athositas before he put on the red light ring, considering his previous act of provoking the other party, he should have realized that Batman was trying to deliberately provoke him a second time. But now Athositas has completely turned into a furious beast, his mind filled with nothing but anger.
Chen Tao knew that Athositas was a calm, collected, courageous, and resourceful leader. Given time, he was fully capable of overcoming the Red Lantern Ring's erosion of his thinking and logic. However, he had just forged the Red Lantern Ring and was still exploring everything, so he was probably not yet up to the task.
Chen Tao needed this period; otherwise, if the other party realized that he was deliberately provoking him, his anger would be at least somewhat diminished.
Chen Tao glanced at the Lasso of Truth wrapped around Athositas.
This damn thing... it should be able to hold up, right?
Seeing the Red Lantern Lord still raging but unable to break free of the ropes, Chen Tao thought for a moment, then switched to Bat Mage and cast another binding spell on Atositas before moving on to the next step.
He had Mudface prepare from underground, then began chanting incantations on top of it, before releasing wisps of decaying black power.
To be honest, the modifications made by the Corrupted Black power from Poison Ivy's experiments are very weak, far less than the permissions he gained using the Human-Faced Bat Potion in Red, let alone comparable to Bane. It is also far from enough for Chen Tao to use the Corrupted Black to perform any strange operations such as resurrecting corpses. Chen Tao would not actually do such an insulting thing to corpses.
So he only created some of these powers in front of Atositas to confuse him, but in reality, it was all thanks to Mudface emerging from the ground to cause trouble.
"This is... the power of death. Where did you get it from?" Atositas's eyes widened as he sensed the decaying black aura of death.
He stared blankly at the "black light ring" that had appeared on Chen Tao's finger, which had transformed from a mud face.
That thing merely mimicked the appearance, but combined with Chen Tao's constant unleashing of the power of decay and darkness, it looked terrifying.
"How could you...?"
"Athositus!"
The leader of the Red Lantern Corps was rudely interrupted before he could finish speaking. He heard Batman shout, "Come and see who this is!"
Athositas looked down and heard a chilling sound coming from the ground not far from Batman's feet, like a zombie digging through the earth to return to the world.
But Athositas's focus wasn't entirely on those strange noises.
"How did you unleash that power? That was clearly the energy of death! It was completely..."
If Athositas were conscious, he could easily distinguish the death energy of the decaying black from the death energy emanating from the Black Lamp Ring of the Darkest Night he had prophesied.
But he was wearing the red light ring, and he was already easily angered. Chen Tao had deliberately provoked him before, which caused his analytical thinking ability to plummet. Just as he was being drawn to the death energy released by Chen Tao, the thing that the mud face had turned into crawled out from underground.
Athositas watched as Batman, with a twisted smile on his face, jumped around and laughed wildly, circling around a spot at his feet like a shaman.
"Oh, little cherry, little cherry, maybe I should call you strawberry ice cream pudding? But anyway, come and meet the person you know best, the most important person—"
When Athositas saw Batman suddenly stop jumping, he bowed like a servant and extended a hand like a hostess:
"Your parents!"
"?"
"roar!"
A twisted roar came, and Athositas stared in horror as two skeletons crawled out of the ground. Soon, rotting flesh began to appear on their bodies, just like his parents when they were alive.
"And your wife and daughter."
With a whoosh, two more corpses crawled out of the ground.
"roar!"
The four corpses, disguised by mud-faced figures, stared blankly upwards, maggots crawling on their half-rotten foreheads. They let out a bewildered and mournful cry:
"Roar! Roar?"
Mudface is adding drama to his act again.
Chen Tao turned to look at Atocitas and immediately knew something was wrong.
Athositas stared blankly, his entire being like a frozen stone statue.
Seeing his expression, Chen Tao became very anxious.
What happened? Why isn't he angry anymore?
Chen Tao snapped his fingers, and the next second, four corpses disguised as mud-faced figures began to hold hands, form a circle, and sing and dance.
They made howling sounds like broken bellows coming from their throats, then they hugged each other and jumped around, sometimes taking off their heads and kicking them like balls, sometimes taking off their arms and using them as tennis rackets to hit their heads...
In short, it was a chaotic mess, with a few people recklessly messing things up.
boom!!!!!!
Atositas exploded.
A violent, flowing, crimson energy, like a volcanic eruption, surged directly into the sky from Atositas's brain. Its power was almost comparable to when the red lanterns were forged earlier.
Athositas couldn't utter a single word; he could only let out a mad dog-like howl and then began to struggle desperately.
Once, twice, he slammed his head against the ground. Even the loose sand couldn't withstand the huge shockwave, and it scattered as if it had been hit by a bomb.
He let out a hysterical scream, barely able to form a complete sentence.
And in this extreme anger...
Time suddenly seemed to stand still.
Chen Tao watched as the Blood Slaughter Bull emerged from a cloud of dark red smoke and flames. The creature existed to hunt the most enraged life, and at this moment, its target was Atositas.
"Athositas of Lyt, you harbor immense rage... and I am hungry."
However, before Blood Slaughter Bull could finish speaking, he felt a magic circle light up on his feet, and tried to stuff it into the red lamp furnace next to him.
(End of this chapter)