darknovel Chapter 309 Darkseid's Hometown, Gone
Chapter 309 Darkseid's Hometown, Gone
Chapter 309 Darkseid's Hometown Gone (Sorry for the delay, sob sob)
[Warning, warning, Batman, you have detected anchored item: Darkseid's defeated blood]
[Description: Darkseid's blood of despair, spurted after being repeatedly beaten by Superman Supreme. It embodies the negative emotions Darkseid experienced after suffering an unprecedented defeat.]
After suffering repeated violent beatings, the Lord of Apokolips finally realized that Superman Supreme was a monster he couldn't control, and the constant, maniacal laughter from Batman also exhausted Darkseid.
After discovering that Batman could consistently interfere with Superman Supreme's plans and disrupt his schemes, Darkseid abandoned his plan to recruit Superman Supreme right in front of Batman, instead deciding to kill the still-laughing Batman first. [You might be able to use it to summon Batman from a parallel universe.]
But can something summoned out of the negative emotions following a crushing defeat really be something positive and proactive?
"Why? Why is there such a powerful monster as you? Is this really the kind of power that exists in this world?"
[Crisis energy converted: 1897]
[WARNING! Downloading a Batman-targeting file!]
Dark Father
[Danger Level: SS-]
In the vast and complex Dark Multiverse, there is one Batman who is different from the evil and corrupt Batmen of the other Dark Multiverses. Although he became Batman by chance, he never thought about saving the world. Instead, he was focused on retiring.
He had drafted countless retirement plans, but things never went as smoothly as he envisioned. Numerous enemies from Gotham, Brainiac, Justice League affairs… a mountain of problems left him exhausted. And one day, Batman faced an enemy capable of destroying the world:
Darkseid.
Forced into a corner, Batman broke his vow never to use firearms and murdered Darkseid with a bullet capable of killing the New Gods—a bullet that Batman had tricked Darkseid into making himself.
Darkseid's death shattered his godhood, causing his immortal soul to fall to earth. Batman then usurped Darkseid's Omega Effect and incomplete Anti-Life Equation, renaming it the Alfred Effect, and modified numerous Parademons, turning them into Robin-like beings.
The Anti-Life Equation and the Alfred Effect permanently altered Batman's appearance and mind, twisting the once wise and courageous Dark Knight into his servant. He realized that the only way to become humanity's savior was to rule over humanity and eradicate their fears, and nothing was more effective than using the Anti-Life Equation.
After killing Darkseid, his mortal soul was altered, and his thought process was completely rewritten. The mortal Bruce Wayne was completely devoured by the Anti-Life Equation and became a monster who was neither Batman nor Darkseid.
But there is one thing that has not been distorted:
Batman's retirement plans.
So Batman tries to pass his power to Kal-El, the Superman of his own world, so that he can take over his duties and complete the great feat of ruling humanity with the Anti-Life Equation, while Batman himself takes a backseat.
So he did just that; he took off high into the sky and headed straight for deep space, while Superman, now possessing the power of Darkseid, reigned supreme.
This seems like a happy ending, but in the dark universe, things never go as planned.
As time went on, Superman Kal-El was also consumed and destroyed by the Anti-Life Equation. He eventually destroyed the Earth, so that all the dead creatures on Earth would never die again and would never feel fear again.
Superman Kal-El has eradicated fear forever!
So when the Dark Father returned to Earth, he found his home gone, and he no longer needed to protect Gotham, because Gotham was no more. Then he discovered the corpse of Superman in the stars, dead, having lost his purpose in life.
The Dark Father was sad; he wanted to protect the Earth, but not in this way.
Therefore, the Dark Father came to a conclusion:
The reason for this outcome must be that the superhumans in his universe are not strong enough.
If it were Superman from the main universe, he could perfectly inherit the power of the Anti-Life Equation and use it to retire.
Then, at this moment, the Bat of Laughter approached him and invited him to a grand feast...
[Immediately consume 1250 Crisis Energy to synchronize?]
Chen Tao stroked his chin; he didn't intend to immediately synchronize with the Dark Father in front of Darkseid.
He noted that the Alfred Protocol does not yet contain descriptions such as "the Batman in this parallel universe is too powerful and would compromise Batman's morality."
This suggests that, under his current model of "Reverse-Flash sacrificing himself as the rope, the Speed Force as the rope puller, and the Justice League members as Speed Force hosts" to distribute the pressure, the Alfred Protocols believe that he can synchronize with the Dark Father at any time in this state.
Then there's no need to rush for now.
Chen Tao turned to Darkseid and said, "Swear to me that you will never pull Superman off the wall again."
"I swear, as long as you're alive, I won't pull Superman off the wall."
Darkseid's malice was palpable; this time he didn't even bother to pretend, practically declaring, "Once I've stuck Superman on the wall, I'm going to kill you. There's no way I'll let you go back to Earth."
Even after killing Batman, Darkseid's plans to attack Earth will not stop. Darkseid had only sworn that he would not set foot on Earth, but he did not say that his many servants could not. Once Batman is dead, Darkseid has too many ways to circumvent his promise.
Moreover, Chen Tao knew that Darkseid definitely had a plan to kill him and then pull the Superman Supreme back down from the Origin Wall. He had witnessed the Superman Supreme's invincible brute force today, and the Lord of Apokolips, with his Kryptonian collecting obsession, would absolutely not let him go.
Darkseid is much easier to control than Black Runner. If his immense power is used properly, countless worlds will fall under Darkseid's army. Even Oasha, the Green Lantern headquarters, which he didn't attack earlier out of caution, might be within his grasp...
But Chen Tao didn't care. He shrugged and said:
"As you see fit."
Then, as if they were old friends, he walked up to Darkseid and extended a hand to him...
Then he hooked his arm around Darkseid's shoulder.
He still maintains that almost inhuman, ghostly appearance; Darkseid, who is over two meters tall, looks like a little baby in front of him.
Chen Tao brought the twisted, laughing dragon face close to Darkseid's: "In short, since you're willing to reach an agreement with me, let's get started!"
As he spoke, Darkseid opened the sonic boom channel.
Previously, Chen Tao lured the Supreme Little Superman to Apokolips purely by relying on the one-way passage opened by the three Mother Boxes. The golden portal opened by the Death King's treasure, the Golden Sphere, couldn't reach that far.
So now that we're back next to the Origin Wall, Darkseid will naturally have to do it for us.
"Please go first, just wait over there for Superman."
Chen Tao made an exaggerated, clownish gesture, as if inviting someone into a trap.
"What about Superman the Ultimate?"
Darkseid asked, "How are you going to control him and get him through this portal?"
"Your Majesty need not worry about that."
The Dark Lord heard Batman say, "You just need to keep the blast tunnel open, and your favorite court jester will take care of everything for His Majesty."
Darkseid was horrified and disgusted by Batman's epileptic-like words.
He didn't know why Batman suddenly spoke in this tone, and could only conclude that the other man was having a mental breakdown. If it were before, he would have considered what Batman might be trying to achieve, but now he completely understood that Batman was just a mentally unstable psychopath.
For such a mentally ill person, any behavior is understandable, as long as it doesn't affect the final outcome.
Darkseid then decisively stepped to the other side of the blast tunnel:
"I'll go over there and prepare a few asteroids. When this Kryptonian monster arrives, I'll smash it back onto the Origin Wall. I advise you to hurry. If I don't see that Kryptonian within 10 minutes, our agreement is null and void."
"Of course, Your Majesty Darkseid."
Darkseid was almost vomiting from Batman's disgust. He didn't say another word, turned around, walked into the sonic tunnel, and disappeared.
As soon as Darkseid left, Chen Tao immediately dropped the deliberate posture he had been putting on.
Finally, the Dark Lord was sent away...
He looked into the distance.
Having lost Darkseid's control, Superman Supreme, driven by Blood Bull, wreaked havoc everywhere, firing his heat vision directly at Apokolips, accompanied by hysterical laughter and raging fury.
Chen Tao could feel the connection between himself and Superman Supreme, the kind of "Joker-Joker" connection that could be achieved even without using Rayleigh's telepathic abilities, through the Joker serum.
But let's put those aside for now; Chen Tao has more important things to do.
He flapped his fleshy wings and quickly flew away from the area of Apokolips that the Supreme Superman was still destroying.
Chen Tao deactivated all the synchronization mechanisms that had been stacked together by the bats. The Speed Force connection that Reverse-Flash's sacrifice had granted him was still active.
He landed on Apokolips and took a deep breath.
The next second, a large number of silvery-white particles burst out from his body and gradually spread throughout his entire body.
His figure also rose, quickly transforming into a bat giant wearing a bat hood, an enlarged dark blue Batman suit, a black bat logo on his chest, about two meters tall, with skin as rough as rock—the Dark Father.
Chen Tao stood still, stomped his feet, and felt the new transformation.
He stretched out a hand towards the empty land beside him.
There are no more Parademons on Apokolips.
This place was once Darkseid's home, where billions of Parademons were his minions and his main army.
When Darkseid needs to invade a planet himself, rather than sending his minions, the Dark Lord opens a sonic boom on Apokolips, and then these Parademons invade that world first, bringing the terror from Apokolips first.
However, these massive numbers of Parademons had all been wiped out in the battle over the past few hours.
The fight between Darkseid and Superman Supreme spanned the entire planet Apokolips. Although it appeared that the Apokolips monarch was only coughing up blood after being punched by Superman Supreme, without losing any limbs or being killed outright, that was Darkseid.
To Superman, those Parademons were as fragile as paper.
Chen Tao rubbed his rock-hard hands together slightly.
Soon, some silvery-white particles were rubbed out of his palm, and then more and more appeared.
The white particles hovered and swirled like fireflies not far from Chen Tao, and then quickly...
It formed a human shape.
The monster created by Chen Tao had a red body, green limbs, and a golden Robin logo on its chest.
Those were mechanical beings created by the Dark Father through modifying the Parademon army.
It must be said that even the villainous version of Batman is quite adept at brand strategy. Even his henchmen, like Parademon, are styled with a bat-themed aesthetic. While printing bats on everything might seem tacky, the red and green Robin-like character with bat wings on his ribs has a sophisticated feel and is clearly Batman's henchman.
"Holy crap! Batman! Holy crap!"
The red Robin-like figure stood still, speaking in Robin's voice:
"Holy crap!"
Chen Tao touched his chin. This was the first Batman he had synchronized with who could demonstrate the ability to create derivatives; even the previous Batman, Lenia, couldn't do it.
When he transformed into Brainiac, he thought that for the real Brainiac, the green skin with three pink spots on its head was just its organic biological shell, while the spaceship that could shrink an entire city or even a planet was Brainiac's true form.
He is essentially an AI, not a living organism; the green-skinned organism is merely a shell.
However, for Brainiac, its true form is simply a mechanical shell, possessing Brainiac's computing power and mental abilities, but overall weaker than the real Brainiac. Chen Tao guessed that this was why Alfred's protocol only rated it as A-.
But the Dark Father was different, at least unlike any he had seen before.
Chen Tao opened his palm, familiarizing himself with the Dark Father's abilities. A green kryptonite condensed in his palm. This thing was called turquoise, a type of kryptonite from the Dark Multiverse, capable of creating beams that could kill Kryptonian cells. Then he used silver-white particles to condense a gun, a gun made by the Dark Father to slay the new gods, with bullets made by Darkseid himself.
Finally, he flipped his palm over again, and the deep red Omega Effect—no, for the Dark Father, it was the Alfred Effect—appeared in his palm, followed by that blurry white mass…
The anti-life equation, specifically, is a fragment.
Chen Tao merged the white mass into the deep red Alfred Effect, and then he reached out his hand towards Apokolips beneath his feet.
The physical features of the bat-like creature reappeared on his face, and he clenched his other hand, the green lantern ring regenerating under the refresh of silvery-white particles.
Chen Tao used the ring to open up a storage space in another dimension, and then took out a small mini skull spaceship from it.
He tapped the spaceship with his completely bat-like head, and the skull-shaped spaceship immediately expanded in the wind, returning to its original size, roughly the size of a city.
A beam of teleportation light shone on Chen Tao, and he soon appeared in the control room of the spaceship.
This is Brainiac's old Skull ship. After Brainiac's defeat, it has been gathering dust in Chen Tao's hands ever since.
The reason is simple: he couldn't synchronize with Brainiac for extended periods, and therefore lacked sufficient mental and computational power to control the spaceship. However, Chen Tao always carried it with him after shrinking it using Brainiac's shrinking ray, so he could access it whenever needed.
And now is the time when it "needs to be used".
With Chen Tao's control, Brainiac's Skull ship fired a shrinking beam of light toward the entire planet Apokolips.
Upon being suddenly attacked, Apokolips's defense system reacted immediately, with countless fortifications activated instantly, and then in a flash...
The flags were lowered and the drums fell silent.
They identified the Omega Effect, which the Dark Father renamed the Alfred Effect, as being identical to Darkseid himself.
What else is there to say? This must all be under Darkseid's control. As a sensible defensive fortification, I will naturally listen to His Majesty Darkseid!
Then, with a pop, the enormous planet Apokolips was shrunk in an instant, becoming a small ball not much bigger than a basketball. Only the bewildered Superman Ultraman was left in the distance, and the group of Kaliback and his crew were still entangled with the Flash in the distance.
Gum!
Chen Tao transformed into a dinosaur, opened his mouth, and swallowed Apokolips whole.
I went straight to sleep when I got home today, and when I woke up it was already 10:30. Waaah, I'm late with my update, I'm so sorry!
(End of this chapter)