tkworld Chapter 702 Is Barbatos about to become a puppet?
Chapter 702 Is Barbatos about to become a puppet?
Chapter 702 Is Barbatos about to become a puppet?
By now, the world's forgers have largely achieved their goal.
Through the relentless torment of Batman Dragon, the Anti-Monitor, the Time Trapped, and others, he is dragged into the realm of death, only to return and fall back in again. He is also modified by the Emperor Joker and controlled to beat himself...
After being weakened by so many layers and nearly exhausted countless times, Parallax Morhal finally became so weak that he could no longer resist Brainiac pulling Parallax out of his body.
Even at the moment he was captured by the Emperor Joker, Hal still had the ability to use the Parallax monster's power to escape back to the timeline of the upstream of the Hypertime Stream, "Zero Hour," but now he has completely become a fish on the chopping block.
Just now, the World Forger, controlling Parallax Morhal, injected the antimatter cosmic energy within his body into the Anti-Monitor Dragon. This objectively increased the Anti-Monitor Dragon's power, but also completely stripped the Anti-Monitor of its control over Parallax Morhal.
The Anti-Monitor Dragon made its escape, and the First Lantern noticed that the World Makers did not take any action.
At this moment, Brainiac had returned from the void. He locked the parallax monster he had extracted from Hal in a place known only to him and the World Maker. He walked up to the World Maker, looking visibly a little out of his mind, to receive his orders. The first Lantern looked at him and felt a chill run down his spine.
"What about those trapped in this situation?"
He turned to ask the World Forger, but received only an ambiguous reply: "The Time Trapped One has gone where he should be now. I've assigned him some other tasks, so he's a bit busy. I made a deal with him."
The World Founders refused to speak, so the first Lantern could only continue to watch Brainiac.
When he first met Brainiac, the man seemed somewhat taciturn and covered in thorns.
But now, although those jagged edges are still there on Brainiac, he is now smoother than a basketball.
It looks more like a cold puppet than a truly living creature.
Brainiac once shared his fate with the first Lantern.
Brainiac, unwilling to follow his destined path in the trans-temporal flow, escaped his predetermined fate, dodging countless multiverse reboots, gradually accumulating power until he was qualified to glimpse the realm of a sixth-dimensional god—
No matter how you look at it, in any sense, the Brainiac before you is a hero among Brainiacs, an awakened being among countless beings from parallel universes.
But now he just stands there lifelessly, easily controlled by the World Forger, his mind and body completely stripped of his free will, without even realizing it before.
Even if you kill me, I won't become like this.
"The first Lantern Knight spoke to the World Builder."
The World Forger shook his head. He didn't waste time on empty talk. Instead, he manipulated Hal, who was almost completely blacked out and turned into a zombie, to reach out into the void. Immediately afterward, his pointed hammer appeared in his palm.
The World Forger voluntarily stepped into death, thus replacing William Hand as the Black Death Emperor's agent in the mortal world. His own position was too high, causing the Black Death Emperor to be passively manipulated by him.
Then he controlled the Black Death Emperor to transform Hal into a Black Lantern Corpse and control him. Now the three are one. Although the World Forger voluntarily abandoned his original body and gave it to Barbatos to chew on every day in the World Forge, he can still exert more of his power at his peak while manipulating this body.
such as……
He swung his hammer and gently tapped it in front of the first Genie, who was then shocked to see a brand new version of himself born from this gentle hammering in the void.
With an understanding of the energy of the emotional spectrum, memories, body, and everything else, the first Lantern Man immediately manipulated the emotional spectrum to bind this imposter created by the World Maker. Countless materialized chains penetrated his brain, reading his memories. Then, the first Lantern Man realized that this "first Lantern Man" created by the World Maker was exactly the same as him, real and without any illusion.
"This is definitely not an illusion or a deception... This is real." The first Genie muttered to himself. He saw extreme terror in the eyes of the first Genie he had bound. Then he felt the other party use a power he knew all too well to fight back. It was all so absurd, like punching a mirror.
"I created him two seconds ago," the World Builder told Genie Number One. "But in his memory, he has already experienced the destruction of Earth 15, traveled through countless parallel universes in search of a way to resurrect his mother, and cooperated with those blue cosmic guardians, until their betrayal."
The World Forger said, "His memory extends right up to the moment you just lived. So, tell me, Calamity." The First Lantern heard the World Forger say:
"What makes you think he's fake?"
Before the first Genie could reply, the World Builder gently waved, and then the first Genie watched as the version of himself that had been created turned to ashes in extreme terror.
"You...you killed him!"
The first Lantern Knight froze for two seconds, then collapsed and said, "You killed him!"
As the World Forger erased the first Lantern he had just created, Calamity himself was connecting his willpower with that first Lantern.
He could almost completely sense the Lantern's confusion and terror in his dying moments.
The despair he felt, as if his entire life had been created by the other person and all his memories were false, made him doubt his own existence.
"You killed him!" he repeated what he had just said.
If the World Maker can easily create or erase any living being, then what about him, the First Lantern? Isn't he just another plaything created by the World Maker long ago?
"He was created by me; he didn't exist before. How can you say I killed him?"
The world's foundry owner said, "If I mold a lump of clay and then flatten it, does that mean I've killed someone?"
He reached out and gently patted the first Lantern Man on the shoulder.
"I have told you that I am the creator of the world, I am the originator of all things."
"Don't try to understand my existence with your own mindset; it's laughable. I know you don't trust me; just now you tried to escape my control, worried that I could completely control your will... But I just want to tell you now that I have absolutely no need to do that."
"No, no... If you could really create an identical version of me at will, then why bother to collaborate with me? Couldn't you just make one yourself?"
After a few seconds of extreme terror, Genie Evolution's intelligence finally returned: "What you created has flaws, which is why you have to find me to help you."
"Yes. These newly created things, without the sedimentation of time, even with a lot of memories and history, are all [false], understand?"
The world's foundry said, "Let me give you an analogy. I can create sculptures made of cement, but before those cement sculptures are completely dry, I can easily flatten them. They're too weak, you understand?"
He told Genie No. 1, "You're like a dried-up sculpture; it would take too much effort for me to move you."
"You mean Brainiac is a sculpture that hasn't dried... then are his memories of living through countless multiverse reboots fake?"
"It's true," the World Forger said honestly. "When I created him, his own history was perfectly embedded in the hyper-time flow of the entire multiverse, becoming a part of the hyper-time flow history."
He said, "But the problem is, even if undried cement is applied to a dried cement wall, it doesn't mean it will be as hard as the dried cement wall, right?"
He patted the first Genie on the shoulder: "So don't worry, I don't have complete control over your abilities."
The World Builder continued speaking: "But you need not worry that my promise to you has changed. Your world can never be resurrected, simply because it relates to the current operation of the hypertime stream."
Once my plan is complete, the entire hyper-time stream will be gone. I can then naturally intercept your universe at crucial moments and stuff it into my new world. Then you can continue living peacefully with your mother, and you won't need to worry about any moral issues anymore.
The first Lantern didn't speak. He knew this was only the World Founder's side of the story. What if he really could control the dried sculpture?
But now, Genie No. 1 has neither the ability to disprove nor the ability to resist. What can he do besides accept what the other party says?
"Yes," he finally said. "So what do I need to do?"
"It's simple, I need you to help me provide the power of the emotional spectrum."
The World Founder said:
"You stay close behind Parallax Malfurion, hold on tight. The power of the Black Lantern alone, along with Malfurion's inherent Green Lantern power, is simply not enough to unleash the full potential of my power. I need a more powerful energy source to improve this vessel, so that I can pour more power into it."
Just as the Anti-Monitor's avatar [Mobius], which was downstream of the Anti-Monitor's timeline, could infuse more energy into this avatar after becoming the [Anti-Monitor Dragon], the World Builder needs to add more power to Black Lantern Corpsehal after dispelling the Anti-Monitor's power and removing Parallax to enhance the strength of this vessel.
"I am the pump that guides the energy of the emotional spectrum."
"The first Lantern Man said."
"Yes, that's right." The World Forger nodded.
"What are you going to do next?"
"Reclaim my creations." The World Builder said, sporting the rotten face of Black Lantern Corpse Hal, which truly sent chills down the spine of the first Lantern.
"What exactly are your plans?"
He asked.
"It's very simple." The World Founder laid out his plan, or at least it seemed so: "I already attached puppet strings to the puppet when it was being made. Now that the puppet is tall and big, we just need to go over and pick up the puppet strings to control Barbatos."
He said, "Brainiac has already gone to that broken fortress that Batman Dragon built and brought back the universe of the Flashpoint in the Dark Multiverse. We've taken control of Barbatos, and then we can start working on the Multiverse Fusion."
"What happens after creating a diverse and integrated world?" asked the first Genie. "What about your plan to create a new world? What's next?"
"Isn't it a bit too early to be thinking about these things now?" the World Forger said. "I think I've explained enough to you."
He said somewhat lightly, "Why don't we finish what I just mentioned before thinking about what we should do in the future?"
Knowing that the World Builder was no longer willing to discuss the matter, the first Lantern Knight said, "Alright."
He climbed onto the back of Inspector Mohar, whose body shrank slightly, becoming like a tiny baby.
Countless tiny veins of the emotional spectrum extended from his body, penetrating his body from behind Parallax Morhal—no, now it should be said Black Lantern Corpse Morhal.
A burst of multicolored light flashed from Black Lantern Corpse Hal's body, and then the first Lantern heard the World Builder's affirmation: "Well done."
The next moment, they tore through space and returned, appearing on the moon of Earth 1.
They hadn't been gone long; Barbatos and Batman Dragon were still lying in the same spot.
Batman desperately used the dark matter energy he obtained from Barbatos to help Barbatos repair the severe injuries he had just suffered from Parallax Morhal's sneak attack.
The information provided to Barbatos by Batman Dragon led Barbatos to misjudge the situation. He believed that, under the control of William Hand, Batman Dragon's disciple, the Death Emperor would join him in expelling the Anti-Monitor Dragon from Parallax Morhal's body. However, this sudden counterattack dealt him the most severe blow he had ever suffered.
The dragon kept cursing and swearing, even as Chen Tao was desperately trying to repair its body.
But the moment the World Forger returned, controlling the Black Lantern Corpse Hal, his cursing abruptly ceased.
"My puppet, it's time for you to respond to me."
Barbatos trembled as he stared at the terrifying colossal figure bearing the face of Parallax Morhal. Though the shadow was not large, it was enough to completely conceal his body.
He felt Batman grab his arm, but he couldn't stop shaking.
He looked up at the sky and roared.
"World Founder!!!"
But what responded to him was the outstretched hand of the world's foundries.
They're nothing but puppets.
(End of this chapter)