tkworld Chapter 1030 The Prelude to the Doomsday Bell
Chapter 1030 The Prelude to the Doomsday Bell
Chapter 1030 The Prelude to the Doomsday Bell
For the Hanged Man, this was an enticing idea. As a magical deity existing outside the DC multiverse, besides his pursuit of completeness, it was only natural that the Hanged Man would spontaneously seek out newer and more novel powers.
This greed and desire is uncontrollable, driving the Hanged Man like his instinct to devour Hecate, guiding him to take action, but clearly, it is not enough to break through the Hanged Man's reason.
Soon, after reading the history of the DC multiverse, the Hanged Man realized the danger posed by Doctor Manhattan.
This immediately calmed him down; in other words, he chickened out.
Through a simple comparison of strength, the Hanged Man realized that he was no match for Doctor Manhattan.
So he immediately abandoned the plan that had just flashed through his mind to attack Dr. Manhattan, relegating it to some dusty corner of his heart, and instead focused his energy on more likely projects, such as the plan Batman Dragon had promised him—to use his own body to make him and Hecate more complete. These were the more important things.
Uh.
The Hanged Man suddenly felt a call, a call that was so profound that, from his perspective, it sounded like a great bell ringing in his ears.
This feeling was almost no less intense than that of Zatana's father, Zatara, back then, which is why the latter possessed unparalleled irony magic.
What's going on? Someone is calling for the Hanged Man. How did they locate him so accurately?
The Hanged Man realized that someone had somehow obtained a beacon to contact him, perhaps using some of the Hanged Man's magical power, or perhaps someone was using Hecate's magic to send it to him from a short distance across the entire universe.
But regardless of how the other party did it, this method of communication caught the Hanged Man's attention, making him want to see who was so bold.
After a very short search, the Hanged Man realized where the communication beacon had come from.
It doesn't come from the DC multiverse, but from the Watchers universe.
"Um?
This is getting interesting. The Hanged Man paused slightly. He still didn't dare to enter this world called the Watchmen Universe. If he dared to do so, the consequences would be unpredictable if he were caught by Dr. Manhattan.
However, if someone invites him into that world, the Hanged Man can use his magic to create an avatar in that world, and then use the avatar to monitor what is happening throughout the Watchmen universe, from the past to the present and into the future.
The Hanged Man was restless. He kept shaking his head, his thoughts swaying between "Don't mess with Dr. Manhattan" and "Why not give it a try?" But in the end, he couldn't resist and began to infuse a part of his power into Dr. Manhattan's Watcher Universe.
The Hanged Man was prepared to make a drastic decision at any moment. He had read the history upstream in the trans-timeline and knew how Perpetual was so wary of Dr. Manhattan. He also knew how the Void Hand was captured by Dr. Manhattan, but managed to escape in the end.
But what ultimately surprised him was—
No.
Dr. Manhattan was completely unresponsive; his power came through irony magic—damn it, how could anyone in the Watchmen universe know about irony magic?
But if we ignore this issue, his power did indeed enter, and he wasn't immediately obliterated by Dr. Manhattan.
The Hanged Man's first thought was to read and understand the current state of the Watchers.
However, before he begins to try to read the history of the Watchmen universe, he needs to find out who pulled him into it.
"Pharaoh—?" The Hanged Man pronounced the other person's name slowly and deliberately, but he didn't understand what the name meant.
The very next second, the Hanged Man found himself once again failing in his attempt to read the Watchmen universe as if he were reading the history of the DC multiverse.
This is a universe and realm completely different from the DC multiverse. Here, once history has occurred, it is an inevitable fact. All decisions made are unique and final, unlike the DC multiverse, which has an infinite number of parallel universes.
Therefore, when the Hanged Man realized that if he wanted to understand the history of the world, he had to go to museums to look through historical documents, reality was much easier to read than this secondhand information.
The Hanged Man burst into this world, a brand new world, completely different from the DC multiverse.
A world shrouded in the shadow of the Cold War, which was ended by the lie of a Manhattan doctor who massacred millions of people.
But now that lie has been exposed.
So welcome to the post-Dr. Manhattan era, an era of chaos and collapse.
November 22nd, or possibly the 23rd, 1992 —
The streets were crammed with empty shells, everyone's mind boiling over with the absurd nightmares brought on by a fictitious invader. The clock started again; we had a chance, but were carelessly discarded—all of them—
The utterly unpitying clamor that fills their own ears, creating a deafening echo, stems from their blaming of others only for what they possess, not for who they are. Their tolerance is a one-way street.
Meanwhile, totalitarians around the world cling to their positions, turning a deaf ear and advocating the restoration of a utopian society. They fail to realize that for those different from them, the past wasn't so idyllic after all; it all depends on your perspective.
God turned away and left us a paradise, like giving a five-year-old a folding knife. We cut open the world's belly, and secrets poured out—a gut full of truth and excrement. It killed us; soon time will only leave bedbugs, cockroaches, and maggots waging a fierce battle for the decaying remains of the ordinary.
They will then devour themselves until they choke to death.
Various media, news, television, newspapers, streaming media —
Through these realities, all sorts of historical events are flooding into the Hanged Man's mind—
Deep within the Watchmen universe, Dr. Manhattan silently watches as the Hanged Man reads the history of this world.
He looked at the other person and saw their ambition, their attempt to spread their magic throughout the entire Watchers universe.
Dr. Manhattan knows everything.
And this is the prelude to the tolling of the Doomsday Bell.
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