American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker

“It seems there won't be any surprises.”

Seeing Barbatos' hesitant appearance, Stephen, standing with Bruce, gently sighed in relief. The power Barbatos displayed earlier was not inferior to some powerful dimensional demon gods. If he were the one at the front, he wouldn't have the confidence to achieve what Luke was doing. The best he could do would be to ensure the safety of himself and Bruce, then seize the opportunity to retreat or fight.

Stephen's words also drew inquisitive glances from the two Bruces, who were unable to comprehend everything that had just happened. Barbatos' power and that bizarre state made them extremely concerned. Especially the Bruce in the hospital gown, who had encountered Barbatos before, so he knew better how terrifying the power Barbatos possessed!

That was the unstable, dark, and corrupted multiverse power created by the World Forge! To say that Barbatos' power is endless is not a metaphor, but a true statement.

Just now, they thought there would be a fierce battle, a difficult and dangerous battle, accompanied by sacrifices. But they never expected this strange scene.

Barbatos was actually suppressed by Luke with words! This simply exceeded the hospital gown Bruce's knowledge and understanding of Barbatos.

The other party was the dragon of darkness and destruction, naturally possessing the desire for violence and destruction. Trying to communicate with him seriously and make him do things that violated his nature and that he didn't want to do, the most likely outcome was to be destroyed by Barbatos' dark power, or thrown into some dark universe to be tortured to death.

Most of the time, Barbatos is not a good communicator.

“Empowerment!” Seeing the gazes of the two Bruces, Stephen observed the movements ahead, and didn't mind explaining some information to them: “A high-level application of psionic energy. Not just using it as energy, but further developing and demonstrating its characteristics, shaping it into a power similar to rules and superpowers.

There are many ways and means to apply empowerment. Different people develop different empowerments related to themselves. Luke, as the creator of psionic energy, may possess omnipotence and authority.”

“Omnipotence and authority?” The two Bruces exchanged glances, firmly imprinting the information Stephen revealed in their minds, believing that this information might be useful someday. After all, there was too little information about Luke, besides knowing that he was a creator and inventor of many magical and incredible equipment and items, more information was a void.

“Omnipotence refers to the ability of psionic energy to devour and assimilate various energies, and convert their properties, thereby achieving omnipotence. Authority is a form of empowerment, with strong pollution and strong control. It is essentially a manifestation of social rules.” Stephen looked at the thoughtful faces of the two Bruces and took the initiative to say.

“Is it a kind of control and restraint?” The Bruce in the hospital gown looked at the strange Barbatos, seemingly understanding something, but also like looking at flowers in the fog, a veil that he couldn't see clearly. This made him even more immersed in deducing and guessing the correct answer. He wanted to tear open the veil and take a closer look at the so-called scenery, to see its true face.

“To be precise, it is a suppression that only gregarious life can produce. Class, power, strength.” Stephen looked at the alternative battle ahead that he couldn't interfere with, so he reached out to tear open the veil for the Bruces and explained in detail.

“Why would a person with great power dare not resist someone who is inferior to him in all aspects? He still needs to humble himself in front of this person, and carefully do everything the other party orders.

Because this person with great power has desires! His power can allow him to obtain some things, but in many ways, pure power is not enough to make him achieve everything he wants.

And the person who is inferior to him in all aspects, but controls what he wants most and needs most, can use this to control him, drive him, and eventually tame him little by little, like taming an unruly beast.”

“Hierarchy, money, power.” Bruce muttered to himself.

“That's right. Luke's empowered psionic power is the control and distribution of power, resources, etc. It sounds a bit inappropriate to describe a battle with these, but I think this is the most understandable explanation for you.” Stephen nodded in agreement.

“But, does he have that kind of thing? The so-called power, resources, desires…” The Bruce in the hospital gown still couldn't believe it. Because these things were meaningless to Barbatos.

“What I said before is just a metaphor for you to understand quickly. In other words, do you really think Barbatos has no desires?” Stephen shook his head slightly at the hospital gown Bruce's question, looked at the two Bruces thinking, and said again: “Any power has certain attributes, and the person who possesses this power is naturally influenced and dominated by the power, becoming the representative of its attributes. Under normal circumstances, they will be like Barbatos, like a person who is extremely stubborn and cannot be changed.”

“Are you saying that Luke can reverse this stubbornness? Or rather, change the other party's power characteristics?” Bruce understood what Stephen wanted to express.

“The truth is before your eyes, isn't it?” Stephen nodded, he pointed to Barbatos, who was becoming more and more anthropomorphic and had more and more emotions, “Give him an opposite personality, then gradually build a framework, and use psionic energy to subtly erode his thinking, and in repeated adjustments, make him become the appearance the controller wants. In essence, this is a soul reduction!”

A decisive person can become a hesitant character.

A person who is not afraid of life and death can become a cowardly person who is greedy for life and afraid of death.

A multiverse god who is the master of dark power, with only destruction and evil in his mind, can also be dominated by various emotions and concepts like a human, unaware that his soul has been reduced! He has broken away from the profound influence of power attributes and started thinking about irrelevant things.

If Becky were here, Stephen would definitely use himself as an example and ask Becky to take out her [pets] to give a good illustrative popular science.

Her bizarre dimensional creatures, captured from various dimensional worlds and edges, have ever-changing and extremely dangerous power attributes, many of which do not have brains or thoughts.

The danger of those [pets], at least Stephen, as the current Supreme Mage, is absolutely unwilling to face and bear. Not to mention opening a pet zoo on himself.

But why can Becky ignore the dangers of those dimensional creatures representing various strange power attributes, and make them obediently listen to her?

Is it because of Becky's power? Powerful power can indeed make life with thinking ability and knowing how to weigh the pros and cons submit, but pure power does not have this effect on those who have no brains, no thoughts, or are stubborn and not afraid of death.

And it has to be said that these so-called pets from various dimensions, possessing various dimensional powers, are almost 100% difficult to tame and impossible to communicate with. They are naturally fanatics of the dimensional power behind them!

Just like mages believe in magic, and humans believe in science, that is the source of their own power and everything. Wanting them to betray their dimensional power is undoubtedly equivalent to taking away the meaning of their existence.

Why can Becky dominate them?

Because Becky also masters the high-level application of psionic power similar to Luke's.

No brains?

Don't worry, you will have an [organ] similar to a brain.

No thoughts?

Don't worry, you will learn how to think and weigh the pros and cons one day.

Betray power attributes?

Creatures of chaos and chaotic power are chaotic and chaotic. After being eroded and controlled by psionic energy, even if they live, their life form will only be transformed into another dimensional creature. However, the transformative, simulated deception of psionic energy allows them to have a clear mind while still inheriting and using their previous power.

The back of those dimensional lives used to be them → the back dimension. Now the back of these dimensional lives is them → Becky → the back dimension.

Under this strange transformation, Becky is in the middle, becoming their new master. What if it is still difficult to tame them?

There is also a way!

That is to give them thoughts and fear, and after reducing their dimensions, throw them around the edge of the abyss. They will usually become very obedient. If they still have small thoughts, then you can explore deeper into the edge of the abyss.

Time has no meaning to the abyss. Whether you stay on the edge of the abyss for a second or a long time, the effect and feeling are the same. But the feeling you get when you are on the edge of the abyss and closer to the abyss is completely different.

Generally, after these few tricks, most dimensional lives will become very sensible in front of Becky. What can they do if they are not sensible? Facing a terrible human girl who can cut off your energy source at any time, and often threatens you with the abyss, the dimensional lives have no power to resist.

Seeing Barbatos in front of him, Stephen vaguely saw those dimensional lives that fell into Becky's hands.

“This power is too dangerous. Even more terrifying than the Anti-Life Equation!” Bruce judged Luke's power.

In Bruce's opinion, the power of the Anti-Life Equation was already extremely evil, able to distort people's will, make them lose their freedom, and accept being controlled. But Luke's power was simply the superior power of the Anti-Life Equation!

This feeling of threat and crisis, like a lump in his throat, made Bruce feel uncomfortable all over.

“It is different from the Anti-Life Equation. The Anti-Life Equation is mandatory control, which can be said to be a superior power similar to mind control.

Luke's power is not mandatory control, but subtle, growing stronger and stronger over time, eventually creating a new, stable soul.

If the user's strength is not strong enough, like Barbatos just now, we would have died in those black lightning bolts.” Stephen corrected.

At this time, the oscillating energy storm in front of him finally subsided slowly. The hall, which was constantly shaking under the collision of energy, gradually became quiet.

Stephen and the other two immediately stopped communicating, and no longer distracted themselves to pay attention to the front, but focused all their attention on Luke. They realized that the next step might be a negotiation period for a cease-fire.

Of course, it can also be understood as the effective period of Luke's power.

After all, it was difficult for Bruce to imagine that opposing and conflicting enemies would be willing to sit down and negotiate with the enemy before a victory or defeat had been determined.

“...You promise me, you will give me the power called Abyss, and I will take you to the World Forge.”

Barbatos' voice reverberated in the minds of Bruce and the others. This request made the three of Stephen couldn't help but look at each other, their eyes filled with strange expressions.

Stephen was astonished that someone dared to ask Luke for the power of the Abyss. Even if the other party had similar dark power attributes.

If Dormammu and Mephisto, who avoided the power of the Abyss and even wanted to hide far away from it, were present, they would probably give Barbatos a compassionate and admiring look no matter what.

There is still a difference between being tortured into a madman and actively being tortured into a madman.

As expected of Barbatos, who possesses the power attribute of darkness and destruction, this destructive tendency is not only aimed at the universe and life, but also at himself.

Stephen looked at Barbatos' tall, mountain-like body with admiration, biting his lip tightly, and remaining silent with a serious expression.

Bruce and the other two had directly faced a little power projection of the Abyss. They didn't even want to recall that filthy and dark power, because it was also a kind of mental pollution. The expression on the Bruce in the hospital gown was even more unsightly, because he had once actively attracted the attention of the Abyss, and had even actively thrown himself into the arms of the Abyss. This suicidal behavior made his experience of that terrible experience particularly profound.

Of course, the relevant memories were blurred, and the experience could not be realistically reproduced on his body. For protection, this perception and memory were locked away and left on the separated Batman Who Laughs.

“Are you sure?” Luke looked at Barbatos: “If you insist.”

“I insist! I obtained relevant information from the Batman Who Laughs. So I know that it is a very powerful force, and it is also very suitable for me!” Barbatos looked at Luke warily. After obtaining information about the power of the Abyss from the Batman Who Laughs, he had been eager to find it and then take it for himself.

Now that he knew that the power of the Abyss was the power that Luke possessed, he couldn't wait to make a request. In his opinion, this was a deal, exchanging the World Forge for the power of the Abyss.