NABC Chapter 392 Good for you, Luther! Death Wind, possessed and controlled
Chapter 392 Good for you, Luther! Death Wind, possessed and controlled
Chapter 392 Good for you, Luther! The Death Storm Controlled by Possession
A world at war.
This is the hometown of Mongo, and also an incredibly massive war fortress.
Mongo built a massive arena here, employing thousands of slaves to conquer other worlds and perform gladiatorial games for him. Now, while Mongo himself is away, this enormous war fortress welcomes an uninvited guest.
Lex Luthor is on the run in the world of war.
Behind him, a slave named Draco was fighting several giant robots blocking his way; the robots all bore the logo of the LexCorp.
Along the way, lying haphazardly, were mostly aliens dressed as slaves.
"I can't believe it."
Lex Luthor muttered as he ran away.
At this moment, he was flying at high speed wearing Lex Luthor's classic green kinetic armor, with his armored robot army responsible for blocking the pursuers behind him.
Even so, the number of slaves was simply too great, too insane. Shouting, they charged forward, and even though their individual strength was overwhelmed by Luther's armored legions, they still managed to inflict heavy casualties on Luther with their flesh and blood.
He watched helplessly as an alien with five or six protruding teeth, resembling a hybrid of an Asian elephant and a hippopotamus, flapped its fleshy wings after the sacrifice of several companions. Wielding only its two hands, it charged at him, howling, and swung the axe at his plasma shield. Then…
The force of the shield's rebound sent it flying backward, like a clump of jam being thrown out, crashing into a protruding stone wall on the ground not far away, instantly bursting into blooming blood flowers.
But his death did not frighten the slaves who had besieged him; on the contrary, it excited them even more.
"When I was little, I used to fantasize that the aliens I met were highly intelligent beings far beyond Earth's civilization."
"Luther said."
"Brainiac and Darkseid reinforced this impression in me, but these guys..."
He looked down at the group of aliens below, who were clearly living in a slave society, riding on individual flying machines that far surpassed Earth's technological level, yet wielding melee weapons as they charged towards him, and a complicated expression appeared on his face.
"What? You think they're nothing special?"
He heard Batman's voice in his ear: "These people chasing you are slaves from the Colosseum. It's like the Olympic athletes on Earth aren't the army or the police chasing you. What's more, many of the elite ones have already been taken into the Yellow Lantern Corps by Mongo."
While the analogy isn't entirely accurate, it's largely true. When Mongo conquered other planets, these people weren't using cold weapons…”
Luther nodded slightly, watching a slave who had pierced steel plates and torn apart robots with his bare fists. Indeed, if they used high-powered weapons…
"Okay, anyway, let's cut to the chase."
He heard Batman's voice:
"I urge you to act quickly. In order to maintain our long-distance communication in space, four of the microsatellites we brought have already exploded. These things are really too big. We only brought 13 in total."
If they're all destroyed in the aftermath of the battle, then I'll really have no choice but to have Killer Croc use the Red of All Beings to fly a plane and act as a human mouthpiece.
"I know, you think I don't want to?" Luther said, "But I'm now controlling a war fortress larger than many planets. Do you think I can just grope around on the ground for ages and pull out a random wire, then use my extraordinary ingenuity to directly seize control of the war world from Mongo?"
Luther said, "That's not science, that's magic—well, I've seen magic, but I bet even magic couldn't do that."
An alien slave broke through his robots' defenses and charged straight at him, only to crash into Luther's activated plasma shield, leaving it bleeding profusely. But Luther finally spotted his target; its armor detected a signal band in a nearby building.
This is very likely a secondary control room that can connect to the main control room.
"So, are you even capable of handling this?"
Then he heard Batman ask, "If not, I should start preparing to create a Speed Force storm to absorb any potential bombardment from the war-torn world right now."
He heard Batman say, "Even if it doesn't work, it's okay. I was just checking. If..."
But before Batman could finish speaking, Luthor heard a deafening roar from his direction, followed by a cacophony of sounds, and then suddenly there was silence.
Taking advantage of this opening, Luther ordered the robot army behind him to block the pursuers. Then, with a mechanical sound, the device on his shoulder opened and set up a simple defensive energy shield on the building in front of him before stepping inside.
"Let me see... um... how exactly is this machine supposed to work?"
Mechanical cables flew out from the chest of his armor, technology he had obtained from Brainiac. These small metal tentacles quickly connected to the instruments in the building in front of him and were then projected onto the three-dimensional image projected on his chest.
"Batman has restored communications."
Batman's voice came through his ear: "The spirit of metal won't work on this massive thing... The world of war contains too much non-metallic matter, and Earth's spirit of metal isn't powerful, at least not compared to the other three natural energies. There's little I can do to help you."
Luther remained silent, focusing intently on the specific operational methods of the war world.
His eyes reflected the overall structure of the war world as he spoke, "Interesting. The war world's attack system is a separate system from its navigation system. I can connect to the navigation system through this secondary control tower, but I have no control over the attack system."
He quickly manipulated the 3D image, and numerous 3D windows appeared in front of him, all displaying a red color controlled by Mongo.
Luther operated the window for a while, and one of the windows turned green, but it quickly turned back to green again.
Luther frowned: "Moreover, in addition to the usual anti-control measures, Mongo has granted himself the authority to control everything on this war fortress. This authority is above all else, and no one can break through it. Even if it is temporarily taken away, it will be corrected immediately."
"Mongo has already released Parallax, you don't have time. I'll prepare a vortex of the Speed Force as much as possible, but this..."
Luther ignored Batman's words, his eyes glued to the jumbled data.
His metal tentacles, learned from Brainiac, connected his brain to the armor, and then indirectly to the entire world of war.
"I don't get enough time," he said.
"I've only been on this planet for a few hours, and most of that time I've been escaping the pursuit of those troublesome slaves. In fact, only 20 minutes have passed since I actually started operating the invasion war world."
He said, "No one in this world could successfully invade such a massive alien fortress as Warworld in just 20 minutes, especially when they knew very little about the other side's technology, or even nothing at all."
"So you'd better get out of here now," he heard Batman say. "This plan was originally yours, so it's normal that it didn't work out. I've already prepared Plan B. What you need to do now is leave decisively."
He paused, then said, "I'll have Killer Croc come and pick me up—"
"No one can finish in 20 minutes," Luther said, then removed his hands from the 3D projection window he had been manipulating.
Then he slowly raised his hand.
As he moved, all the windows that were originally marked in red instantly turned green.
"No one can do it... unless that person's name is mentioned."
"His name is Lex Luthor!"
He tilted his head slightly.
"I think you remember my name. Don't you, Bruce?"
He said:
"You know who I am."
"Although Mongo still controls the attack system, I have control of the war world's power system," he said. "I tricked the system into thinking I was Mongo."
"therefore……"
"Mongo can still command the War World to fire, but the coordinates of the attack..."
Bald Lex chuckled. "It's up to me."
He said in a low voice, "...Don't mistake me for some third-rate nobody, Bruce."
Then he heard Batman on the other end of the communication pause.
"Regarding the Death Storm..."
"You can see the actual effect for yourself."
"Luther said."
"Um."
"Is there anything else?"
"That's all."
"Then let's end the communication."
"There's one more thing."
"What is it?"
On the other end of the communication line, Chen Tao smiled.
"Well done, Luther."
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"Idiot," Death Storm thought to himself.
Mongo is a complete idiot.
He had confidently told himself that even though he didn't possess any ability to control fear, he had specially crafted a Yellow Lantern ring for himself, specifically designed to identify the host as Deathstorm Martin Stan himself. It was so simple that he didn't need any understanding of fear to use it with a single click. The ring contained Yellow Lantern energy of fear that Mongo had infused into it with the help of Calona. Deathstorm only needed to give the ring a command to disguise himself as a member of the Yellow Lantern Legion, infiltrate the Yellow Lantern army, and then assassinate Seneca.
But what is the truth?
The truth is, the yellow light ring turned against Batman the very first second it saw him. Instead of obeying its own commands, it became Batman's yellow light ring.
He is now being held hostage by Batman, carrying a replica of the Yellow Lantern Ring that could be controlled by Batman at any time, and has been forced to appear on the battlefield.
The Yellow Lantern Ring is forged in the same way as the Green Lantern Ring, and naturally has the same ability to replicate itself. However, the degree to which the replicated ring is controlled by the original ring is even greater than that of the Green Lantern Ring.
But I've already appeared in front of you, Mongo, wearing a replica of the Yellow Lantern ring. Even though there are many people on the battlefield, you didn't even realize that Batman had already taken the Yellow Lantern ring you prepared, and you still want me to assassinate him?
And most importantly, wasn't Sinestro the target I was supposed to assassinate in the plan?
Why has it been changed to Batman now?
Oh! You thought Sinestro was the biggest threat to you before, so you had me assassinate him. Now you realize Batman is more troublesome, so you changed your target on the spot, right?
Bah! Under these circumstances, you, Mongo, still have the nerve to ask me to assassinate Batman?
What a joke! They contradict themselves when it comes to doing any work, and their preparations are a complete mess.
With your...
Death Storm had only thought halfway through his thought when he suddenly felt something was amiss. No matter what, he knew far too little. He had previously naively believed his cooperation with Mongo was flawless, but now, upon closer examination, many aspects seemed questionable and illogical.
He wanted to move again, but the next second he suddenly felt his whole body lose control in an instant.
"Our deal ends here... Mongo, first give me back the power that was taken from me!"
What...what?
Before the death storm could react, consciousness instantly plunged into chaos.
Immediately afterwards, his body began to tremble violently, and a large amount of black energy emerged from his body.
"Anton Akane, I have already returned half of the power that the Black Death Emperor took from you. After this is done, I will give you the other half as well. All the conditions I promised you before will still be fulfilled."
"So now, let's do it!"
Mongo's voice echoed in Anton Akain's mind, who had already taken control of Deathstorm's body:
"Batman has already put on the yellow light ring that he took from Deathstorm. I deliberately let him take it, and he was stupid enough to do so."
He whispered to the master of the decaying blackness, "And all of this was a plan. Did he really think that a yellow light ring I specially crafted for Death Storm would abandon its host and choose him instead?"
"He was too arrogant, and that will lead to his death. When you make your move, the yellow light ring will restrict Batman's movements..."
"And you are about to be killed with a single blow."
His gaze fell on Batman, who seemed completely oblivious to what was happening: "He thought he had you under control, that your assassination target was Sinestro. And when you plunged the death-stained blade into his chest, he didn't even know what was going on."
Mongo stared intently at Batman, while not far away, Chen Tao, disguised as another Yellow Lantern, was also watching him…
He stared at Mongo, his gaze fixed on his mud-faced clone wearing the yellow light ring.
(End of this chapter)