NABC Chapter 776 The World Forger cannot be betrayed by his own creation.
Chapter 776 The World Forger cannot be betrayed by his own creation.
Chapter 776 The World Forger cannot be betrayed by his own creation, but now...
"What are you planning to do?"
Looking at the swamp monster in front of him, whose body seemed to have been rotten on one side by some external force, yet was trapped in a state between life and death due to the power of decaying black or the green of all things, Thomas Wayne was already starting to regret following the monster away from the control of the first Genie.
The current situation clearly looks like a case of going from one wolf's den to another. If the first Lantern Man was still unsure what to do, the swamp monster in front of him was eyeing him menacingly, and for some strange reason, it was under the command of this future Batman, Terry…
It seems they're going to use it to make bear-shaped cookies.
The old man Terry next to him was also smiling wickedly. Just now, in order to gain the trust of old Thomas, this old man who called himself the future Batman Terry had taken off his mask.
Thomas read a hint of pity in the other man's face, making him look like some old devil who planned to feed a young girl to a bear.
Thomas silently pressed down on his lower back, where there was no universal belt.
While they were advancing through this rotten, dark area, he had secretly picked up three spores of the strange creature and hidden them on his lower back while using the giant amputator to cleave the fly monster. He was already considering which direction to throw the two spores in to create chaos and then try to escape in the confusion.
"Put those things down, Thomas. You don't want to do that."
But just as old Thomas's mind was racing, devising escape routes, he heard the other person say, "Stop fiddling with your three spores. I absolutely did not mean to threaten you, but what I want to say is, even if you're going to make a move, you should at least figure out my true intentions first, shouldn't you?"
Thomas Wayne was convinced. It seemed that the other party did not actually use him to feed the zombie version of the swamp monster in front of him right away. Although the other party acted as if he was going to use him to feed the monster, it was very likely that he was just overthinking it, right?
Then he heard old Terry take a deep breath: "I need you to be swallowed by the swamp monster."
Isn't this just going to be used as a bear cookie?
Old Thomas immediately took action, sending three spores flying at tricky angles, but Terry caught them all single-handedly. His movements were so practiced, as if he had experienced this scene hundreds of times and reloaded his save file countless times before making such a perfect move.
Even when Thomas impulsively threw a severed insect limb, resembling a giant scythe, at his opponent, he caught it with effortless ease, as smoothly as a gamer who had memorized the boss's move list.
"Alright, enough fooling around, my friend. Let's hear what I have to say."
Old Terry said, "This is the rotten black, and with swamp monsters around, our conversation won't be detected by our enemies, which is why I can tell you the truth."
"I told you before that our goal is to merge the three timelines and force a powerful, albeit fake, timeline to form outside the main universe's timeline."
The abduction of Superman from the main universe caused a tear in the main universe's timeline, which led to Foolish Owl bringing back the Flashpoint timeline to replace the main universe's timeline.
But does that mean the original main universe timeline no longer exists? Of course not. The branching timelines like Flashpoint are just branches and leaves. The main universe timeline simply no longer has the legal basis for its existence. But the original timeline of the main universe is too powerful, too thick, and too rigid. In essence, it is stronger than Flashpoint and any branching timeline of the main universe.
No matter what happens on these branching timelines, as long as the hypertimestream doesn't completely collapse, based on the simplest power dynamics, the main timeline will eventually regain its identity as the main universe timeline, while the weaker branches will return to their original niches.
Simply put, the three branching timelines are now intertwined with the main timeline of the universe, but in the end, even when they are combined, they are no match for the original main timeline. The immune cell superheroes of the DC multiverse will eliminate these erroneous branching timelines and restore the normal main timeline. This is an ironclad rule that will inevitably happen unless the hypertimeline collapses.
"So what does all this have to do with me being swallowed by this monster?" Thomas asked.
"The connection is here, my friend. To merge the three timelines, I must first merge the main characters in these three timelines, and knead their histories together. Only then can the three timelines be further integrated. Now is a rare and only opportunity, because whether it is the Batman Who Laughs, the Fool of the World, Batman Dragon, or the Monitor and the Counter-Monitor, they will all be constantly vibrating the cosmic tuning fork for some time to come. Only by using the echoes of their vibrations can I complete my plan."
Thomas did not speak.
"Once you merge with the Swamp Monster before you, history will be rewritten so that [it wasn't scientist Alec Holland who died in the swamp and became the Swamp Monster, but doctor Thomas Wayne!] As Batman of the Flashpoint timeline, you've merged with the Swamp Monster of the British Landing timeline. Then I'll help you merge with the Ormack robot, and with you at the center, I can create a brand new world!"
Thomas Wayne stood there, listening, his heart growing colder and colder. What good would the terrifying world described by the other party do him? Thomas was already thinking about how to sabotage the other party's plans; he couldn't let such an ambitious person...
"I know what you're thinking. You think I'm an ambitious person? No, it's all for my master, the World Forger, so that he can create a greater world, a greater history!"
All lies are a mixture of truth and falsehood. Mysterio, who called himself Old Man Terry, thought to himself that there was one most obvious advantage to his claim of being a disciple of the World Maker: almost everyone he came into contact with was hostile to the World Maker, and they obviously couldn't verify with the World Maker whether he had a henchman called Future Batman.
While Terry, the future Batman, was still standing there giving a passionate speech, in a corner near the Decaying Kingdom, on a spaceship, Luthor and Hal from the main universe were arguing even more heatedly.
"I propose we rush up and grab this damn bastard right now. Even though I'm not very smart, I still understand," Hal, speaking without thinking, even went so far as to admit his low intelligence to reinforce his point.
"He actually wants to replace the main universe's timeline with such a distorted world? And all of this is being orchestrated by the World Forger. We absolutely cannot tolerate this happening."
From the main universe, Hal stood directly on the conference table, spitting as he spoke: "We need to..."
Then William Hand kindly put his arm around his shoulder: "Hello, Mr. Jordan, can you sit down and talk?"
"This time, I agree with Jordan in principle." Lex Luther stood in front of the monitor, deep in thought, the gears inside his bald head practically whirring to those around him.
"Get ready for battle, everyone. Listen to what they have to say first, and then when I say 'go,' we'll go up and take everything, including this Batman who calls himself Old Man Terry."
Lex Luthor gave the order: "After a long pursuit, we are about to reap our first harvest, and it all stems from profound thought..."
...and patient waiting. Old Terry paused, realizing that the Justice League hadn't emerged from the shadows as he'd expected, and inwardly confirmed the leader of the opposing team.
Whether it was Luther or William Hand, the leader was slightly different in several repetitions.
"Listen to me, Thomas. I'm asking you to put aside your prejudices and listen to me carefully. Even if you restore the main universe's timeline, you and your wife Martha Wayne can never appear on a complete main universe timeline with your son Bruce Wayne. You two are time errors on a branching timeline... I know you two would rather die than see your son Bruce alive, but if I offer you a way to reunite your family of three forever, what reason do you have to refuse?"
Thomas Wayne was smitten with just one sentence.
"What do you mean? You don't mean...?"
"When the three branching timelines merge, it will become so powerful that it will almost rival the original main timeline," said the elderly Terry. "But only in terms of power; in terms of stability, it will be a complete mess. The problem is that with this timeline, we can make many historical modifications through it and then embed them into the main universe timeline."
He gave an example.
"For example, I could create a story on these three branching timelines where the Wayne family survives in Crime Alley, but soon after, they are involved in a shipwreck caused by a ferry hijacked by bandits. Only Bruce returns to the civilized world, while the Wayne couple disappears and becomes savages on a deserted island until Bruce comes of age and returns home."
The elderly Terry said, "This way, you escape death without altering Bruce Wayne's timeline. Obviously, such an operation would be impossible on the original main timeline. It would not only require immense power but also easily cause time collapse, which would eventually be repaired. But this fused timeline, with its three branching timelines intertwined, is different. It's already chaotic enough and destined to collapse, so what's wrong with making it even more chaotic?"
"I see, this merging timeline consisting of three branches is a gestation basin? Surrogacy?" Thomas asked. He was beginning to realize what the other person meant.
"Yes, that's right. Since the surrogate mother is going to die anyway, it's better to help us conceive more embryos before she dies, and then I'll re-implant them into the main timeline, thus achieving the goal of painless surgery."
Old Terry did not lie.
In some ways, his plan was ingenious and highly feasible; it could be applied not only to Crime Alley but also to another important matter, such as:
Earth 15.
After hearing the story, Luther and his gang, who were hiding nearby, were almost about to make their move, but old Terry suddenly started talking with extremely heavy breathing, allowing William Hand to hold off Hal from the main universe, who was about to charge into battle, at the last second, preventing him from being exposed.
"Oh, right, besides letting you get devoured by the swamp monster, I have another, more important purpose in coming here."
Thomas Wayne was in a state of confusion. Although he didn't understand time travel very well, at least the other party's plan sounded very plausible.
But after merging with the Swamp Monster, is Thomas still Thomas? Even if we can erase their fusion history through time travel in the future, won't there be 100% problems?
He knew none of these things, and no one could give him the answers.
Older Terry continued, "Doomsday, Doomsday in the main timeline."
It suddenly activated a device on its arm, and a teleportation portal appeared directly in front of Thomas Wayne, spitting out a Doomsday right in front of him—yes, the Doomsday from the main universe timeline!
"My God..." Thomas's face turned green, but he soon saw that Batman Terry just snapped his fingers, and then Doomsday, which had been baring its fangs and claws, immediately closed its eyes and lay down on the ground to sleep.
"If you've paid even a little attention to Batman: Dragon, you'll know that a superhero called Hero Day has appeared next to him, and this Hero Day is a Doomsday on a wrong timeline."
As the elderly Terry spoke, "While using the aftershocks of the cosmic tuning fork to merge you and the Swamp Monster, I can also take advantage of this Doomsday to try and control the new superhero next to Batman Dragon who calls himself Hero Day."
As he said this, old Terry observed his surroundings. Apart from a few rotting black fly monsters, it seemed there was no one else besides him and Thomas. However, old Terry knew that many people were watching them.
He had already hinted at it to such an extent that these observers would definitely help him bring the Doomsday of this main universe to Batman Dragon, and then Hero Day would have the most basic counterattack power when facing the World Forger. All of this was under his control and more advantageous to him. His goal was simple and pure, and all his plans relied on repeated execution to ensure that he could make perfect calculations. He was neither the Batman Who Laughs nor Batman Dragon, but he believed that he would succeed.
Then he sensed that indistinct figures surrounded him and Thomas.
Then, the elderly Terry saw Luthor, the bald guy, be the first to get off the ship, while Hal from the main universe, who had flown over himself, grinned.
But Luther's first words made him frown.
"You deliberately lured us here and even tricked us into taking away this Doomsday from the ground. I must say, your methods were quite sophisticated. It took me a long time to discover this."
"Damn it," old Terry thought to himself. "Luthor isn't stupid. He might have seen through my overexertion, but..."
Even if he saw through it, his plan would still benefit Batman Dragon, and Lex Luthor, if he were truly intelligent enough, would realize this.
(End of this chapter)