NABC Chapter 844 A mere nobody should be a figure of uncertainty in the multiverse.
Chapter 844 A mere nobody should be a figure of uncertainty in the multiverse.
Chapter 844 A mere nobody should die for the future of the multiverse (Part 2)
After introducing himself, the mage turned to look at Barry Allen, the Flash, who was facing a crisis.
Barry's gaze kept drifting to the unconscious Bruce Wayne, the Batman from the previous crisis, lying on the ground. Then he heard the sorcerer say:
"Speaking of you, you are Barry Allen, the Flash of Earth-1."
The Flash felt a jolt in his heart, realizing that the other person hadn't known him at all before today, and that the reason he could accurately state this information was because...
"Wow, what is that? Telepathy?"
"Yes, although it's difficult to keep up with your lightning-fast thinking, Barry, your thought process is exceptionally rapid with the amplification of the Speed Force. Catching up with him is an interesting challenge."
The Flash, Barry, grinned; the other person's attitude seemed somewhat...
How should he put it, condescendingly?
"Yeah, it's fun to be a 'fun challenge'," Barry said.
"Oh, no offense intended, you're a superhuman, and my abilities are simply that I'm superior to you in every way."
Master Chao said, "I'm not bragging, I'm just stating a fact: this battle between us will only be one-sided."
"Hmm..." Barry let out a soft hum.
"But I admit my attitude was a bit arrogant, but I have complete respect for you. You are the Flash, you have been proven to be a hero, brave, resolute, talented, and selfless. In your timeline, you saved the world."
This strange feeling appeared on the mage Chao, who seemed both aloof and incredibly sincere.
A strange attitude, a mixture of arrogance and sincerity, made Barry somewhat uncomfortable, but he didn't know how to refute it, leaving him speechless.
Oh, Barry, Barry.
Young Barry lived in the Golden Age before the Crisis on Infinite Earths. In Gotham City during the Golden Age, even robbery was considered a serious crime.
Barry had never seen anything like this before.
"I have no intention of fighting you. Under other circumstances, you would be a welcome ally and friend," the mage concluded.
"But if we fight, will you win?" the Flash asked.
"This is an obvious fact."
"What would happen if we didn't fight?"
"Will our cities be swallowed up? Will our cities be destroyed?"
"Yes, these seem to be the brutal rules."
The Flash, Barry, was forced to shift his attention away from the other party's arrogant attitude.
"So this entity presents us with a kind of moral dilemma: if we refuse to fight, both cities will perish... if we fight... which is pointless, then one side will die?"
"Yes, a simple moral dilemma that breaks down neo-Malthusian theory, misanthropy... This guy might be advocating eugenics," said Wizard Superman. "Survival of the fittest, such rhetoric is not only harsh but also foolish."
(Note: Neo-Malthusianism advocates using birth control to limit population growth.)
"He means the strongest survive..." The Flash, Barry, clutched his head. "Damn it, what kind of Darwinism is this? What's the point?"
"The victors survive the test, and the fate of millions is decided in an unprecedented, unparalleled battle."
"A campaign? Millions of people?" The Flash, Barry, looked up. "You mean—"
"We can't be the only ones in this situation."
"Or this might just be a game of manipulation." Sorcerer Superman heard the voice of The Flash, Barry, but it wasn't the voice of Barry standing in front of him.
Someone stood behind him and spoke to him in Barry's voice, which temporarily distracted the sorcerer superman.
It was enough to make Batman, who was just lying on the ground, leap up and plunge a kryptonite dagger into the back of the sorcerer superman!
"Oh my God."
Despite the suddenness of the situation, The Flash quickly cooperated with his old friend.
He punched the Wizard Superman in the face with such speed that it felt like a bomb had exploded on his face.
"Wait, Bruce—"
He said this to Batman, but Batman, who knew his old friend best, persuaded the Flash, Barry, with the quickest words.
"He could very well be the person behind it all, he could very well be the entity. The claim that he is the Superman of Earth-9 is just one side of the story."
"but……"
"Perhaps the Superman on Earth 9 is that entity, in every respect."
The Flash, Barry's thinking was gradually being swayed by Batman.
Barry: Dumb~
"And his claim that he is far superior to you was just something he said offhand. One way to stop the fight, and another way to defeat you without any means of self-defense."
"All the possibilities you mentioned are wrong."
The Wizard Superman floated up from the ground, lifted by a magical energy that was purple with a hint of pink.
Batman retreated step by step until he was next to The Flash.
"He might say such things, he might be whoever he claims to be. Maybe he's a robed opponent who's no different from us, but says he can beat us effortlessly, psychologically knock us out, and make sure we win easily. Back off, Barry."
Batman's nonsense wasn't just to convince Barry; he was also distracting Sorcerer Superman and leading him into a trap where he was forced to prove his innocence.
As Wizard Superman pulled the kryptonite dagger from his shoulder, the building beneath him exploded, and from the smoke, the wires of two pre-programmed stun guns flew out and clung to Wizard Superman.
Then, visible to the naked eye, lightning struck the Wizard Superman's body through the wire.
"Aaaaaah..."
While Superman was screaming from the shock, Batman grabbed Barry's shoulder: "Take me away, quick."
"But……"
"The battle has begun, Barry."
Barry ultimately chose to heed his old friend's advice, and in an instant, with the help of the Speed Force, they traveled at breakneck speed to the other side of the city.
The entire process didn't even take a second.
"Phew... I deliberately let him capture me, intending to steal some information from the other side... but he's too strong, and if what he said is true..."
Bruce Wayne's expression was unpredictable.
"What? So is what he said true or not?"
Barry Allen stood next to him, a question mark appearing on his forehead.
"Okay, it's true." But Barry wasn't stupid; he quickly realized it.
"Oh, damn it, but we've already started fighting."
"Whether out of arrogance or malice, from the moment he struck me down, he became an opponent we needed to defeat," Batman corrected before the crisis.
"But are we just going to fight him like this? We..."
Before the Flash could say anything more, the wall behind them burst open, and Superman, shrouded in a purple energy shield, flew out wielding a magic wand.
"You can't do that."
"Attack formation, Barry." Batman floated backward like a giant bat, and Flash dodged his body to launch an attack on Wizard Superman.
One punch!
The Flash was hit squarely by the purple shield. He ran around the shield at a speed that no human could react to, and the energy beams fired from the Wizard Superman's wand could not keep up with the Flash's speed.
Another punch!
The fist pierced through the purple shield, sending the Mage Superman flying.
"Stop, please!"
But the next moment, Wizard Superman pressed his temple, and telepathy began to entangle the Flash's brain.
This caused him to fall.
"Aaaaaah, get out of my head! Damn it, this is just like Gerudo!"
Groud the gorilla, another villain who uses telepathy.
"I already said..."
Batman jumped from behind onto Sorcerer Superman's temple and then handcuffed his hands with a pair of kryptonite shackles.
Sorcerer Superman did not resist; he was pinned to the ground by Batman.
"Oh, damn it, my head." The Flash sat up from the ground, clutching his head, and then walked over.
"What...what should we do with this guy?"
"If what you're saying is true, how do you solve the problem of only one city being able to survive?"
"It's simple. You two need to die. Then I can mix the ordinary people from both cities together and protect them in my city."
The Flash and Batman looked at each other in bewilderment.
"You don't understand that the key to winning this battle isn't the ordinary people in the city, but that the person behind it all wants us to kill each other and die. Since we can't fight him, the two of you will die..."
The Wizard Superman said, "That's the only way to protect both cities."
"Lock it up," the Flash said. "We'll find a way."
But Batman took a step back.
"Oh, damn it," he said.
In an instant, the Mage Superman's body shone with a brilliant purple light.
In an instant, he destroyed the kryptonite shackles binding him, and then with a swift movement, The Flash, Barry, screamed and collapsed to the ground.
Batman had just reached for his power belt when he was instantly knocked away, landing like a tattered sack on the edge of a building.
A ball of purple energy climbed up his body and firmly grasped him.
Before the crisis, Batman had never met a Superman who knew magic, and he suffered a great loss.
French Superman gets up from the ground, picks up his wand, and then takes control of the influence on The Flash, Barry.
"You forced me to use my telekinesis to stop your neural activity. I'm stopping your neuronal spurs from burning, just to make you stop attacking... I don't want to do that."
"The Mage Superman said, his eyes gleaming with white light."
"I don't want to witness the destruction of my city, nor do I want to witness the destruction of yours. I don't want to fight you... Someone has to make a sacrifice."
"Aaaaaaah, you far surpassed my performance—" Flash Barry screamed, "This... you're absolutely right, no bragging—"
"Ugh!"
The Wizard Superman stopped attacking and walked up to Barry, who was panting heavily.
His gaze was complex.
"I'm sorry, I didn't want to give in or end this match. But I'm far stronger than you, and only I have a better chance of bringing everyone in both cities to life... Haven't you realized it yet? With the dome closing, time has started flowing again, and everyone can die once more."
"There must be someone strong enough to protect them," said Sorcerer Superman. "I cannot let millions die just to save the lives of the two of you."
He paused, then said, "It sounds like someone who's afraid of death and wants to sacrifice others to prolong their own life. I know, but I had no other choice."
Purely rationally speaking, I, being stronger, have a higher chance of successfully protecting this city than you do. Do you accept that? It's a fact. Unless you prove me wrong... uh.
Sorcerer Superman suddenly paused, because he realized that Batman, whom he had just knocked away, had disappeared.
"He can't do that." Wizard Superman shook his head.
Then he turned his head and looked at The Flash, Barry.
"I won't hurt you, and I don't want to. I'm just trying to show you the facts. I..."
He was about to continue persuading the Flash, but suddenly paused.
Wait a minute. There's something inside you.
"What?"
"Barry, the speed of your thought process makes you difficult to read, but it's much more than that. Now I'm fully connected to your mind and mine, and I can see that you are very unstable and blurry."
"What do you mean?"
"Your time flow is disordered."
"We're all like that."
"No, no, unlike you. My city and I, and this city, were simply separated from our world. But you... you have lost your connection with all the timelines of the multiverse."
A look of horror and shock crossed the Wizard Superman's face, but Barry didn't understand what it meant.
"Considering your outdated ideas, you're thinking about the Speed Force, but this concept can only be known to your successor, and..."
Suddenly it started making no sense at all.
Barry was utterly bewildered: "What... my successor? How could I be confused?"
A beam of purple light flew out from the heart of the Flash, Paris, and transformed into something.
"What is this? An image from your inner self?"
"Superman asked."
"The Cosmic Treadmill," Barry replied.
"A time travel device, and this... who is this?"
"Iris".
"Your true love exists in the 20th century, you've wanted to go back to him for a long time, your trip to Gotham was pure bad luck—what is that?"
"Wait, the anti-monitor." Wizard Superman suddenly realized this and said silently.
Then he witnessed the Flash vanish into thin air.
"Your destiny is not here, nor is his. I'm sorry to tell you that in the 30th century you were closely involved in some trans-temporal crimes, and now we've discovered a crisis beyond our control."
The sorcerer's voice was trembling as he held his forehead.
"You are the only one with the talent to travel through time. You must live because you can stop the use of the antimatter cannon."
(Note: The Flash, Barry Allen, sacrificed himself to destroy the antimatter cannon, which was a crucial prerequisite for the victory of Crisis on Infinite Earths, no less important than Supergirl Kara's sacrifice! But if Barry were to die here now, killed by Wizard Super, the timeline would face another collapse.)
"Damn it, you're going to die."
"But now you have to live, so you might eventually die."
"What?"
What I mean is...
Superman lowered his gaze.
"You're more important than me, so damn you."
"it's me."
(End of this chapter)