bacchusnovels Chapter 1077: Using villains to achieve one's goals, then discarding them after they've se
Chapter 1077: Using villains to achieve one's goals, then discarding them after they've se
Chapter 1077: Using villains to achieve one's goals, then discarding them after they've served their purpose.
It was all too late. Just as Chen Tao was about to create his own QQ Farms that produced connection energy, just like Papetua created three QQ Farms that produced crisis energy, the World Forger delivered a devastating blow to the DC multiverse from the perspective of the trans-temporal flow.
No one could predict the actions of the World Maker, a sixth-dimensional deity. Even Papetua did not expect the World Maker to suddenly appear at a crucial moment and pull such a move.
Unlike Papetua, Chen Tao's first reaction was—
"The Laughing Bat, is this another one of your plans?"
Call him a bird startled by the mere twang of a bow, or say he's deluding himself, but this feeling is all too familiar. Things are suddenly steered in another direction without warning, so fast that even if you sense danger beforehand, you can't stop it in time. So you want to rush through that obstacle before the danger occurs, only to find yourself stuck just before you get past it.
Then the Bat of Laughter jumps out and tells you that it was all part of his plan. That's more like it.
But there was no laughing bat.
There is not a single enemy you can defeat.
You can't blame everything on him; things just happened that way, by a twist of fate, heading in the worst possible direction, as always.
You are Batman Dragon, born in the Dark Multiverse. You foresaw, prepared for, and anticipated all of this, which is why you are ruthless, cold-blooded, and silent—torturing yourself.
as always.
You even start to miss the days when you knew who your enemy was, no matter how difficult it was, at least you knew who you were facing, instead of some unexpected opponents and difficulties suddenly popping up.
But you accept it.
In short, the plan to create a Connectivity Farm has completely failed, and Chen Tao has no choice but to try to shift the plan to some more dangerous directions, such as completely abandoning the attempt to create Connectivity.
Instead, embrace the energy of crisis.
Whether it's Luthor's plan or Perpetua's act of allowing all beings on the current timeline of the Hypertime Stream to experience the fear of their own history regressing, both are essentially about maximizing the potential of the DC multiverse to create crisis energy.
Therefore, for Chen Tao, the entire DC multiverse is now like a pot of boiling soup, with no shortage of crisis energy. Chen Tao is able to direct all the crisis energy to the Möbius Chair—and then replicate what the Batman Who Laughs did during the Dark Night Death Metal, channeling all the crisis energy into his own body.
A new plan quickly emerged in Chen Tao's mind: it was simple, he needed to keep Papetua and the Void Hand under his control, make them work hard to collect all the crisis energy constantly generated in the main universe.
Be quick.
The World Forger has already cut off the Hypertime Stream starting from the New 52, which means that Dr. Manhattan can only absorb the New 52 at most.
Chen Tao has made his decision: he will fight Dr. Manhattan at the beginning of the New 52. Interestingly, the beginning of the New 52 is also the point in time when he first transmigrated to this world.
At that time, he was still fighting Bane in his own universe, entangled with Superman and General Zod from his world. The most powerful enemy he had ever encountered was Darkseid from their universe.
But all of that is in the past.
Chen Tao closed his eyes.
While the World Forger's decision to divide the DC multiverse into such a fragmented form was certainly unexpected, Chen Tao couldn't help but think of his own plan, which he had always kept hidden deep inside and which he had never even considered the possibility of actually carrying it out.
Hopefully he won't need it.
Although a way needs to be found to reconnect the New 52, which was severed by the World Forgers, with the main timeline of the Hyperchronic Stream, but
Papetua had not yet figured out what to do.
He was able to sit back and watch the Void Hand fight while occupying the Infant Multiverse, simply because he was a senior figure and the creator goddess who opened up the DC Multiverse.
No matter how much Dr. Manhattan devours the timeline, even if he completely destroys the Hypertime Stream and pushes the reality of the DC Multiverse back to its earliest point, Papetua can still draw crisis energy from the destroyed DC Multiverse and eventually gradually recover to near his peak.
As for the Void Hand, with the help of Perpetua and the Miracle Machine, he can remain in the DC multiverse, where his power will only increase, not decrease.
So for the two of them, they could have continued to accumulate power and waited for the most opportune moment to fight Dr. Manhattan and then share the spoils of victory. However, the World Forger's slash directly moved their save point to the point when they were at their weakest, and also greatly reduced the time they could accumulate crisis energy. Originally, they could have accumulated crisis energy from the DC multiverse rebirth all the way to the uppermost Infinite Earth Crisis, but now it has come to an abrupt end at the New 52.
However, repairing the timeline is not an easy task. If you were to have Papetua take a hammer and destroy the timeline, it wouldn't be difficult for him. But piecing together a completely broken history is not something that can be done in a short time.
"Even a miracle machine won't work?"
Papetua wasn't stupid; he knew that the Miracle Machine wouldn't be allowed to be used by the Void Hand.
But the Void Hand answered quite decisively: "The moment I obtained the Miracle Machine, I modified it. Now it may not look the same as you knew it before, and its functions are no longer the same."
Before Perpetua could speak, the Hand of the Void immediately added, "Of course, I know the Miracle Machine won't be in DC."
"It perished in the multiverse. If you were to return to the upstream of the hyperchronic flow now, you might be able to find another miracle machine that was self-generated in the DC multiverse, but certainly not the one I have now."
Papetua was also furious; he didn't even ask what the Void Hand had transformed the Miracle Machine into. He was engrossed in trying to find a way to restore the history of the trans-timeline, in order to gain more control over the crisis energy and launch a counterattack.
While Papetua and the Hand of the Void were at a loss.
Both Papetua and the Void Hand looked up in surprise, because they both sensed at the same time that someone outside the Infant Multiverse was sending them a message, and it was certain that this person was extremely powerful.
They looked at each other.
"Batman: The Dragon?"