radiothebook Chapter 923 Historical Loop, Golden Vanguard, Time Master, Mystery
Chapter 923 Historical Loop, Golden Vanguard, Time Master, Mystery
Chapter 923 Historical Loop, Golden Vanguard, Time Master, Riddler
"You actually actually had a plan."
The Laughing Bat heard the nameless old dragon's indifferent voice. It sounded no different from before, but only the Laughing Bat knew that the other party was very happy.
They had been fighting for so long, and the maniac knew the other as well as he knew himself. The other saw him as a threat, but this threat was so useful that he couldn't stop.
"How exactly did you do that? That's very important."
"Just a petty trick played by those with malicious intentions and power."
If it were possible to achieve this simply through the power of evil, then the other party would not have sought to extract the astral brain of the anti-monitor from them.
"You're not going to return the asteroid's brain to me."
The nameless old dragon stared at the laughing bat.
"Oh, of course not, my friend. I thought you expected this, instead of asking such an obvious question."
"Has anyone ever told you not to take anything Batman gives you?"
"Of course, but unfortunately, I'm also Batman."
After a few quick exchanges, the nameless old dragon fell silent.
Then he suddenly spoke up: "Okay, but my stuff isn't free. Laughing wildly, in a few seconds or tens of seconds I'll be controlled by the anti-monitor, and what you have to do is..."
"What the...you expect me to even do this?"
The maniac was completely bewildered. He knew beforehand that the nameless old dragon had received the Anti-Monitor's energy and become the Anti-Monitor's Bat, but he and the Anti-Monitor guessed the same thing: the nameless old dragon must have some way to resist the Anti-Monitor's control. But what exactly was that method? He didn't know.
He is the Bat Who Laughs, but not an omnipotent god.
But now he knows that Batman's plan was actually himself! Okay, okay, is this how you play it?
Then he heard the nameless old dragon's icy voice: "If I were to squat next to you now, and the anti-monitor could control me, my first reaction would be to kill you. Do you really think you're nothing more than a troublemaker in their eyes?"
Kuang Xiao's face immediately darkened; it was indeed so.
"I knew all along that doing this wouldn't end well..." x2
At this very moment, on the distant battlefield, the Anti-Monitor and the Bat of Laughter were thinking the exact same thing.
He was absolutely furious.
Admittedly, without the nameless old dragon inheriting the position of Anti-Monitor Bat and the help he provided in the fight, the Anti-Monitor would not have been able to kill Supergirl and ultimately break free from the upstream of the Hypertime Stream. But that doesn't mean you can try to be like Barbatos!
"idiot!"
The Anti-Monitor turned his head, his gaze fixed on the nameless old dragon, his anger palpable: "You think you can do those things on your own? You think that by forcibly replacing me and merging with the World Forger, you can simultaneously stop both me and Papetua?"
The Anti-Monitor knew that Batman Dragon wouldn't allow him to merge with the World Maker, because if he were to defeat Perpetua like this, then both the World Maker and the Nameless Dragon would have no choice but to kneel before him and beg for their lives. To the Nameless Dragon, both he and Perpetua were now enemies.
So even though the Anti-Monitor himself was aware that it might be ineffective, he still couldn't resist trying to see if he could use the influence of the Anti-Monitor Bat on the nameless old dragon...
He failed.
It was expected.
What puzzled the anti-surveillance agent most was that he could clearly sense that the energy used by the other side to prevent him from controlling and disrupting history all originated from the Void Hand.
An Outer God!
But there are two problems.
First, how did the other party obtain so much energy to apply to the DC multiverse?
Second, the Void Hand, an Outer God, is not a benevolent organization. Even if it is borrowing power, why would it borrow so much when there are no relatives or friends involved? Even if it is a loan, there is a third-party guarantor who specifically helps repay the debt when it cannot be repaid. Who is the third party?
The nameless old dragon is always so unpredictable. The moment the energy of the Void Hand was released, it directly interrupted all the subsequent counterattacks of the Anti-Monitor. It is a power that is not within the DC multiverse. There is no basis for it to break through a thousand repulsions with one skill. The Void Hand is completely outside the DC multiverse and does not exist in the hypertime flow timeline. How could you possibly come up with it by chance?
But this doesn't mean the Anti-Monitor is powerless to retaliate. Barbatos was able to kill the World Maker back then because the World Maker intentionally wanted to shirk his responsibilities and allowed the other party to kill him. But the Anti-Monitor won't do the same thing now.
Batman Dragon wanted to replace himself to reduce the threat after defeating Perpetua, but he used the wrong method.
Not far away, the first Genie heard the nameless old dragon turn around and say to him, "Very good. Now it's your turn to perform."
He turned his head and gestured to the Laughing Bat.
The laughing bat was still laughing quietly when a trickle of blood started flowing from his nostrils.
Despite seemingly using the power of the Void Hand to withstand the Anti-Monitor's attack, the Batman Who Laughs was far from having an easy time.
But the nameless old dragon felt no pity whatsoever; all he felt was a desire to continue exploiting them.
"I have helped you instantly kill the anti-surveillance agents of that era during the Seneca Legion War."
The Bat of Laughter spoke up, "And what you're going to do next..."
"It is about reaching that era and covering the corpse of the Anti-Monitor with the essence of my power."
The nameless old dragon spoke up, "This is equivalent to possessing the Anti-Monitor during its weak period, and then using this altered upstream fact of the hypertime stream as a basis to rewrite the current timeline, thereby changing 'The Anti-Monitor possesses immense power' to 'The Anti-Monitor's Bats possess immense power'."
The first Lantern listened expressionlessly. This was something he was most familiar with; wasn't it just about changing the history of the time-travel system?
He's very familiar with this routine; he's taken on similar tasks many times before.
He let out a long breath. Fate called to him again. He waited for a short while, lay low for a little while, and was chosen once more.
This time...
"But it's still the same as before."
From his perspective, he has just arrived in this timeline, witnessed the deal between the nameless old dragon, or rather the Anti-Monitor Bat, and the Maniac Laughing, and saw the impending apocalypse. He is about to change all of this.
"So how do I imbue that corpse with the essence of your power?"
He asked, and then, naturally, he saw the Anti-Monitor Bat open its palm, and a bat dart shimmering with silver light... no, or rather, an energy core condensed into the shape of a bat dart, appeared before him.
Great, so now the mission objective is very clear.
"Will I be teleported directly to the target location? That is, during the Seneca Legion War?"
"meeting."
He heard the voice of the nameless old dragon, but at the same time, another telepathic voice rang in his ears:
"I am the nameless old dragon. No, no, before heading to the Seneca Legion war, I need you to do something for me... I have a deal with the World Forger. It's nothing difficult, just rescuing the Golden Vanguard and the Time Master. Someone will guide you."
Carrying the Laughing Bat on his back, the first Lantern Man frowned slightly, but said nothing. He stepped into the portal opened for him by the nameless old dragon, and then...
Then they disappeared behind them.
Ba... Ta...
The first Lantern Knight landed on the ground, and when he looked up, he saw that the surroundings looked like a secret room in a huge ancient castle.
He has now returned to the timeline of multicultural integration.
(Chapter 847)
Before him, the Time Master and the Golden Vanguard were trapped in a trap for all time travelers. They were frozen in place like insects that had accidentally fallen into amber, unable to utter a single word. But all of this vanished with the appearance of the first Lantern.
As the first Genie appeared like a bright white light bulb, the two of them landed on the ground with a thud, groaning in pain.
"Oh, damn it, what's going on? I feel like my whole body is going to break... no, I feel like I've turned into a balloon, and something keeps rushing into my body!"
Strangely, at this moment, both the Golden Vanguard and the Time Master had a large amount of time energy flowing into their bodies. This time energy came from the time travelers behind them who had been captured by the World Forgers and stripped of all their time energy.
However, neither the Golden Vanguard nor the Time Master noticed anything at this time, nor did the First Lantern.
The energy of time was channeled into their bodies, and then quietly began to lie dormant.
"I think the two unlucky guys I need to save are you two."
The first Lantern said, "But I really don't see what benefit you get from possessing the Anti-Monitors."
"My God, how long have we been trapped? A day, or half a year?"
Golden Vanguard held his head in his hands, seemingly unable to grasp the meaning of the words "quiet" and "thinking."
After breaking free from the time-space confinement, he immediately started spouting nonsense, quacking like a duck, which annoyed the first Lantern Knight to the point of speechlessness.
"That's enough, calm down!"
The Time Master intended to stop the other party, but in reality, he was also in a state of confusion.
Unlike the Golden Vanguard, the Time Master always knew clearly what point in time and what location he was in. But after being frozen inside the Time Amber created by the World Forger for a moment, he had no idea what point in time he was in.
This lack of information not only panicked the Golden Vanguard, but also the Time Master, though he didn't show it.
The first Lantern Man shook his head. He reached out and tapped the foreheads of the Golden Vanguard and the Time Master with his finger. Then, the two of them fell silent as they sensed the information that was transmitted to them in an instant.
"You are also time travelers, and you should know that everything we do is simultaneously constructing time. We are not changing history, but rather, the very act of our actions is history itself."
The first Lantern said, "No matter why, Batman: Dragon needs me to take the two of you with me to participate in rewriting history and possessing the Anti-Monitor, but I still intend to do it."
He said, "Let's pack up and go. Batman Dragon said there will be another guide who will tell us the specifics of the operation. He said the counter-surveillance agents will definitely notice and launch a counterattack... Our operation won't go very smoothly."
The Time Master and the Golden Vanguard looked at each other in bewilderment.
"Okay," they said, "we..."
Golden Vanguard firmly believes in the contents of that memory and spares no effort in asking the Time Master to go with him to save the world.
The Time Master, on the other hand, was more conservative. The two argued for a long time, but neither of them came to a conclusion.
"So, what's your decision? Although your decision is useless, and I'll forcibly take you away even if you refuse, I'll at least listen to it."
"I am the first Lantern Man," he said, interrupting their endless chatter.
"Alright, we have results." The Time Master pressed down on the Golden Vanguard's shoulder and then spoke:
"us……"
But before they could say anything more, the next second, the first Lantern Hero heard someone clapping at the corner of the castle.
"Hello, hello hello."
Immediately afterwards, all three people present heard the same voice.
"I am the source of all riddles, and the end of all answers. Without me, the riddle (Riddle) ceases to exist. But if I am solved, I will be reborn in an instant. Who am I?... Oh, of course, who else could it be but me?"
"This is the Riddler, Edward Nigma."
"Your best leader, as I said, obeys the orders of the [Anti-Monitors]."
He emerged from behind the corner of the wall, his question mark cane tapping on the blue brick floor. He pressed down slightly on the brim of his hat, which was covered in question marks, with his green gloved hand, and shook his shoulders slightly, straightening his clothes covered in question marks.
He wore that classic, nasty, somewhat neurotic smile, then walked up to the two men, legs spread apart, hands on his cane—another classic image of Edward Nigmar the Riddler.
"Look at everyone, why do you all look so surprised when you see me?"
Now the riddle's answer has been revealed, hasn't it? Time travelers?
"Wait, I don't understand..." the Golden Vanguard said, "What mystery? What does it mean? Our history..."
Then he heard the Riddler's words, in the Riddler's most classic, aria-like tone.
"I betrayed all faces, and made the boundary a pathetic joke. I have only one edge, yet I claim to be a complete world. Follow me, and you'll find that the beginning is the end... Who am I?"
"The Möbius strip," the Time Master slowly said, "a historical loop, an infinite loop."
"Yes, my friend, yes."
The Riddler said, "Homage to the great anti-surveillancers, our Bat King. The moment you appeared here, the cycle of history began to close."
(End of this chapter)