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The flame cloud once again swallowed up the night, and the billowing storm rolled up into the sky. The bright orange light and violent explosions could be heard very clearly even from several miles away.

Bruce's footsteps stopped at a relatively safe distance. He knew that who could kill the army of mosquitoes surrounding the shelter most efficiently at this moment, what he could do now was far less than Genos.

Watching quietly, looking at the scene in front of him filled with flames, this scene suddenly reminded Bruce of a scene a long time ago...

That was back in his hometown, on Earth, when the monster called Doomsday was born. The Kryptonian monster was like an unstoppable ultimate demon. Even a nuclear bomb could not hurt him at all. Instead, it would be destroyed. He absorbs the nuclear energy of all explosions and becomes more powerful.

The Day of Destruction fell from the sky in the center of the northern district of the metropolis. The sky behind it was the bright afterglow after the nuclear bombing. Wherever it went, everything was submerged in seas of fire, smoke, and ruins. The high-rise buildings in the city collapsed in the setting sun of the evening. , in the blazing sea of ​​​​fire, the lasers ejected from its eyes carried the power of destroying everything, and easily hit Bruce, who was driving a fighter jet to attack, until he crashed and almost died. At that time, Bruce could only hide aside, Looking at the other two beings who arrived in time, Clark and Diana desperately resisted the advance of Doomsday.

Three extremely powerful beings hit the ground from the sky, light collided with light, the divine sword split the earth, the explosion in the atmosphere was deafening, and even the whole earth seemed to be shaking... Hiding behind a ruin, tiny pieces Stones and dust fell from the rock above his head, passing over Bruce's body and slipping from his Dark Knight uniform and cape, but he seemed ignorant.

At that time, Bruce had only one thought in his mind. With his wisdom, he did not understand what was going on in this world. Is it because he had never really known this world, or was it that the world was changing so fast that his body had become mortal? He was far behind.

.....

"What's wrong? I'm already thinking about my old friends."

Di Xin seemed to sense his somewhat wandering thoughts.

"...Do me a favor."

Bruce spoke calmly in his heart.

"Oh, how can I help you?"

Di Xin replied.

"I know you must have a way to help me master the Soul Burning Technique faster and use more power. In exchange, I can cooperate with you to do something you also want to do."

"anything."

He added.

"Haha... Do you want to say that this is a transaction of equal value?"

"No. This is cooperation."

Bruce squinted his eyes slightly, looking at the raging flames in front of him, tearing apart half of the night sky.

"Only if you and I completely put down our guard against each other and face that Dr. Manhattan, will we have a chance of winning, right?"

Di Xin remained silent this time.

Bruce didn't speak again immediately, but waited.

He knew that Di Xin would really consider this matter, instead of just saying some superficial polite words to him or keeping a secret on him.

Although the two souls share the same origin, Bruce understands better than anyone else how an old monster like him, who has lived for thousands of years and once had the power to overwhelm the universe, could really be willing to be his shadow, Bruce Wayne.

Even if the two of them were tied together by Dr. Manhattan, and even if Bruce didn't have any hostility towards his previous life, even if the other party was the same, it didn't mean that without hostility, they were truly teammates on a united front.

As Batman, or even as himself, Bruce Wayne never thinks of the best of anything first. He always thinks of the worst of everything, and does the worst for anyone or anything. Planning has always been the creed he believes in.

This is his strength as the Dark Knight, but at the same time, it is also his biggest weakness.

But now, if he wants to make a breakthrough in the status quo, he must break his own inertia.He wanted to really try and trust each other with this ancient being in his body.It is not a distinction between priority and inferiority, nor a distinction between light and shadow, but true equality.

Just like it was with Clark.

"It's a pity. I can't make you quickly master the soul-burning method that is beyond your control. Maybe a soul mage can do it, but I can't."

After about ten seconds, Di Xin finally spoke again.

He said calmly: "Due to the seal on my side, we cannot merge into one again. If we can merge, then all problems can be solved."

"but..."

He changed his tone.

"Although there is no such method, I can give this back to you."

Bruce suddenly felt that Di Xin's soul consciousness suddenly swelled in his mind, as if it was trying to compete with him for the control of his body.

"Don't resist, don't have any vigilance or resistance, otherwise I will never be able to open the Soul Sea as I am now."

Di Xin's tone became extremely serious.

Bruce said nothing and decisively handed over the control of his body to Di Xin.

Immediately afterwards... he felt a very strange feeling rising from his body, as if... a deeply hidden ancient door had been opened in his body.

He seemed to vaguely see a colorful void space, but this space seemed to be shattered, and the energy of chaos was overflowing. In the empty void, a tall and ferocious pitch black armor was slowly rising and falling in mid-air. Keep drifting.

Before he showed any expression of surprise, he felt a flash in front of his eyes, the ground beneath his feet shook slightly, and some extremely heavy and huge black shadow pressed in front of him.

The dark steel surface was covered with lines that seemed to be about to break.

The bright red monster bat engraved on the chest has been elongated to show a fighting posture with spread wings. On the low-hanging helmet visor, no physical openings can be seen, only two red lenses for the eyes are slashed diagonally to Past the side of the earlobe, at both ends of the head, two streamlined pointed corners are slightly curved inward, reflecting a smooth and restrained dark light like a mirror.

The highly integrated shell makes this huge armor full of streamlined texture. Overall, it looks as strong as a demon from hell. If it were any other person with a little courage standing next to it, Being in such a close position, I'm afraid everyone would be frightened and have great fear.

But the brilliance in Bruce's eyes seemed to be even brighter than this armor.

Not only was he not afraid at all, but he stretched out his hand and touched the bright red bat mark on the armor in front of him, which was so close at hand.

"Hell Bat..."

He murmured, and at the same time showed a trace of confusion as if he had been awakened.

"How could it be...Hell Bat isn't..."

"Destroyed to ashes by the previous explosion of the Ultimate Freedom Skill"

At this moment, Di Xin had returned the dominance of Bruce's body, and in his heart, there seemed to be a hint of tiredness in his voice.

"No, that's just your illusion. If we could completely integrate at that time, you would know this yourself, and there wouldn't be any of these stupid things that happened later."

Di Xin explained.

"In fact, I took it into the sea of ​​souls."

he said slowly.

"You can think of the Soul Sea as a personal small world. You can use it to store foreign objects. Top beings in different cultivation and evolution systems have similar things. Even to a certain extent, the Soul Sea can also store living objects. When you come in, it’s like a small universe that belongs only to you.”

"Because I felt that this armor still had a lot of room for improvement and research, it would be a pity to destroy it like this, so on a whim, I put it into the Soul Sea at that time."

"You also know what happened next... Our deep fusion was interrupted, and this hell bat armor has always remained in the soul sea. If you want to open the soul sea, you must pass my consciousness certification, and you also need to Consuming soul power, if it was in the previous state, the consumption would be nothing at all, but for me now, even opening the soul sea is very difficult. If you interfere or reject it a little, No matter how hard I try, I won’t be able to take out this suit of armor on my own.”

Di Xin finished speaking neither fast nor slow, paused, and added.

"Bruce Wayne, you know, actually, it's better for you to be Batman. But... if you want to be Batman, you have to be the strongest."

"Become the strongest among all planes in the universe."

His words were like whispers in Bruce's ear.

"I like you."