What bad intentions could Batman have?.

"..."

The Anti-Monitor first heard the cosmic vibration.

He originally planned to murder one of Batman's teammates by banishing him to the multiverse and then killing him there, forcing Batman to realize that if he refused to swallow the Anti-Monitor Heart, he would have to watch his allies being slaughtered.

But he didn't have time to do anything.

Banishing Superboy-Prime to the bright multiverse was not without cost. First, he opened a passage, a small one, but even so, it took a lot of effort.

Secondly, the act of exiling Superboy-Prime to the bright multiverse attracted the attention of Dr. Manhattan. He and Barbatos joined forces to prevent this gaze from penetrating into the corners of the dark multiverse.

These two actions not only consumed a large amount of the Anti-Monitor's power, but also delayed his actions, preventing him from inflicting any severe damage to Batman's Justice League.

The Anti-Monitor thought that as long as he exiled Superboy-Prime, he would have plenty of time to deal with Batman and his Justice League, but this...

"Damn it..." He simply left Batman and the Justice League behind and flew high into the universe.

At the edge of the distant universe, the stars seemed to be bound by invisible pressure, and their light became dim and weak.

William Hand's face had become completely skeletal-like.

And then there is…

It was the dark sky.

Then Chen Tao realized that it was the Black Lantern Corpse.

Hundreds and hundreds of billions of Black Lantern corpses from the Land of Death ruled by the Black Death Emperor.

"Black Lanterns! The Anti-Monitor is yours now!"

"Oh my God." Shazam said nearby: "Is that William?"

He turned to look at Batman: "You can use some trump card or method to save him, right?"

But he only met Batman's sad gaze.

If he really had it, then he would not have originally planned to leave William in his own universe, let them escape first, and prepare a black lantern ring for himself to wear.

No matter what the result is today, William Hand will belong to the Black Death Emperor.

This situation... is irreversible.

"Ah ...

The zombies bypassed Chen Tao and the Justice League team and surrounded the Anti-Monitor in the distance. At this time, Chen Tao also saw William Hand, who was completely transformed into a corpse. Countless black light corpses surrounded him and praised him as the king.

"Damn it Barbatos, are you listening? The Black Death Emperor is the kind of opponent I am not very good at dealing with, especially because of the past." The Anti-Monitor said: "He is fully capable of proving in the hyper-time stream that I am dead in this timeline."

The Anti-Monitor looked grim.

The history he mentioned refers to the period during the Sinestro Corps War when he was backstabbed to death by Superboy-Prime, and then in Blackest Night, his body was captured by Darkseid and made into a Blacklantern Furnace.

That is to say, there was a time when the Dark Lord actually controlled the Anti-Monitor when he was at his weakest.

And now, the Anti-Monitor should have been dead with only his astral brain left, and Barbatos helped the Anti-Monitor create a false shell of "I am actually the Anti-Monitor of the Dark Multiverse", helping the Anti-Monitor to cross the hyper-time stream and stay on the current timeline.

Therefore, through this connection, the Black Death Emperor was able to prove to the Hypertime Stream that "the current Anti-Monitor is clearly dead, but is actually alive", thereby breaking Barbatos' false shell and causing the Anti-Monitor to suffer from the self-regulation of the Hypertime Stream.

In addition, the Black Death Emperor possesses an important power: anyone who has died will be affected by the Black Death Emperor even if they are resurrected after death.

That is to say, even if the Dark Lord does not use the method of destroying the false shell, he can try to pull the Anti-Monitor back into death, causing the Anti-Monitor in his current state to consume more energy to resist.

The combination of these two factors makes the Anti-Monitor now unwilling to confront the Dark Lord head-on.

This is equivalent to being unable to fully exert your strength, facing a bunch of debuffs and fighting against an opponent who can not only control you but also has skills that can critically hit you. It is completely unequal.

As a projection upstream of the super-time stream, the power he can put into the current timeline is subject to various restrictions, and he is far inferior to Barbatos, the dark multiverse dragon entrenched in the present timeline.

The Anti-Monitor raised his hands, and a massive amount of anti-life energy swept across the sea of ​​Black Lantern corpses, but they were endless and kept closing in on the Anti-Monitor.

"You have to deal with him, Barbatos. Otherwise, once I return to the upper reaches of the hyper-time stream, the deal between us will be completely over."

The Anti-Monitor said.

“That’s another deal.”

The Dark Multiverse Dragon's furious voice rang in the Anti-Monitor's ears: "The deal between us has never involved the Black Death Emperor."

Barbatos said: "Although he was defeated in that incident, Hal Jordan of the main universe even manipulated him to kill the first Lantern of the main universe. His power is still strong. He is a part of death and the spokesperson of death. There is no need for conflict between him and me. Therefore, if he wanted to show himself in any dark multiverse in the past, I never interfered."

"Why do you think I would go against the Black Death Emperor for our deal? Although I can do it, it is unnecessary and not worth the effort."

(Note: The "incident" mentioned by Barbatos refers to "Blackest Night". After the defeat of Necromancer, Necromancer also appeared in the chapter "Rage of the First Lantern" in the "New 52 Green Lantern" comics of the New 52 period. He killed the remaining Green Lantern First with a sickle.

There is no dark multiverse version of the Black Death Emperor, the spokesperson of death. From beginning to end, he is just fulfilling his duties and constantly raising waves of death in parallel universes and the dark multiverse.)

Barbatos said, "And don't think it's that easy for the Black Death Emperor to break through the Death Zone and reach the portal to reality. He has tried to erode many dark multiverses, but except for one that was relatively successful, there are only a few others."

(Note: The successful universe mentioned by Barbatos is the storyline of Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Blackest Night.

In response to the Anti-Monitor's questioning, Barbatos replied: "Don't worry, the William Hands in most universes are not actually that powerful."

“The universe where William Hand succeeded was just a special case. Many William Hands in the dark multiverse were defeated by the heroes of that dark multiverse before they could launch the Blackest Night.

The William Hand you are facing now is likely to be a little stronger than those dark William, but in fact, his strength is limited. He simply cannot summon much power from the Black Death Emperor. In this case, no matter how strong the opponent is, he can't use it. "

He said: "You can absolutely..."

The Anti-Monitor said nothing as he saw William Hand raise his Black Lantern Ring once again.

An ominous premonition loomed over the Anti-Monitor's heart, and then...

"The Black Death Emperor... awakens."

With William Hand's low call, the entire cosmic battlefield seemed to tremble.

Countless black-lit corpses looked up at the sky, their mouths opened with black juice flowing out, their eyes flashed green light on their skull-like skinny faces, and they howled in unison towards the sky.

Endless black light condensed on William's ring, surging in an instant and rushing straight into the sky.

In the midst of the sticky darkness that seemed to be dripping with water, a huge figure slowly emerged.

The Anti-Monitor's face was extremely ugly. He raised his head and looked at the huge human being over 30 meters tall, the Black Death Emperor who looked like a skeleton, holding a huge sickle, standing quietly behind William Hand, like his guardian.

"Oh my God."

Shazam didn't know how many times he had said this. He groaned, "What is that?"

"The undead king of corpses." Chen Tao answered him: "William Hand used the black lantern ring to summon the Black Death Emperor."

The huge Black Death Emperor lowered his head and looked at William Hand.

William Hand raised the black lantern ring and faced his god.

"Alright, Black Death Emperor," he said, "I order you to attack the Anti-Monitor!"

"I command you, undead zombie," said the Black Death Emperor, "Do not give me orders. I am the darkness before the birth of light, and you dare to make me obey you."

William's green eyes, burning in death, looked fearlessly at the Black Death Emperor: "I summoned you. Without me, you wouldn't be able to come here."

He opened his mouth, and at the same time, the millions of black lights and zombies behind him roared along with him:

“Do as I say!!!”

The Black Death Emperor turned to the Anti-Monitor and asked: "Why do the dead souls still try to return to the world?"

The Anti-Monitor fired a beam of white light at the Dark Emperor, but it had no effect. The Dark Emperor slowly raised his sickle and turned to look at William Hand:

"I have discovered one who escaped death. It is my duty to recall every one who escapes death. I am not attacking the Anti-Monitor on your orders."

"Yes, yes, you are right." William said with a skull face.

He wanted to make some expression, but in the end he couldn't do anything.

The Dark Lord raised his scythe above his head.

"Asshole, Barbatos, get started! Are you planning to prepare for so long and still get nothing in the end?"

"It's too far. I can't send my Dark Knights here."

"Can't you just ..."

"I'm absorbing power, which must slow me down considerably... Never mind."

The Anti-Monitor then hears Barbatos say:

"I'm working on it."

The sickle in front of him was getting closer and closer. The Anti-Monitor was thinking about how it would end after he forcibly resisted the death brought by the Black Death Emperor this time. Then, he saw the huge sickle stop in front of him.

Not far away, William Hand looked at his hands in astonishment.

He was already dead, and his hands had completely turned into the withered and rotten appearance of a corpse. Then, without any warning, he was resurrected. He didn't even know who resurrected him.

His youth returned, and the fair, soft skin of a young man replaced the skin and bones.

The Black Death Emperor's connection with the real world was cut off. He roared in reluctance, and his eyes fiercely approached the Anti-Monitor, staring at him with his dark and empty eyes, but due to some kind of power restraint, he could not take a single step towards the Anti-Monitor.

Barbatos is the ruler of the dark multiverse, and he can restrict the entry of the Black Death Emperor at the multiverse level.

He'd invested too much time and energy into the Anti-Monitor, and if this deal fell through, it would all be for nothing.

Barbatos couldn't accept this result, so he could only increase his investment in the hope of successfully leveraging the profits he deserved.

So, in full view of everyone, William Hand, who was already dead and turned into a skeleton, was suddenly resurrected.

He looked at Batman, young William Hand looked at Batman, he opened his mouth and wanted to say something, he saw Batman roaring, he saw all his companions in the Justice League rushing towards him, and then were stopped halfway by the Anti-Monitor.

Then he heard Batman calling out his name, and his fellow Justice Leaguers were also calling out their names.

He saw the Black Death Emperor turn around and look at him.

"You are very good." The Black Death Emperor said, "Very good. I admire you very much."

Then William Hand found himself in the palm of the Black Death Emperor's hand.

“Come with me.” The Black Death Emperor said, “For a moment, I really felt a little forced... I have only felt this feeling with Hal Jordan.”

The Hal Jordan that the Dark Lord refers to is not the defective product from the dark multiverse, but the real Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern from the central world.

Comparing William Hand to that Hal is extreme praise.

"William Hand, the Chosen One in my main world, is a complete waste. Even though you were born in the dark multiverse, you are still much better than him."

Without waiting for William to say anything else, the Black Death Emperor grabbed William Hand, reopened the space crack, then turned around and disappeared into it.

At the last moment when the gap closed, William Hand looked at his companions, Batman, Wonder Woman, Shazam, and the entire Justice League.

"Sorry." He said softly in his heart.

"I'm really sorry."

He knew that he might have to be separated from his companions for a short time, but he knew...

"We will definitely meet again."

Chen Tao watched William Hand disappear, as if he was watching his own child disappear around the corner.

He took a deep breath.

Superboy-Prime failed, and so did William Hand, so…

I'm afraid it's my turn now.

He called Night Owl on the communication channel: "Are you ready?"

"I'm done with it, and I still don't understand it, Batman."

Night Owl asked:

"What on earth do you want to do?"

But Chen Tao did not answer him, a crazy grin appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"You know, my friend. The world will only be a better place if you force it."