radicalducati Chapter 716 The Beginning of the Total Collapse of the Multiverse!
Chapter 716 The Beginning of the Total Collapse of the Multiverse!
Chapter 716 The Beginning of the Total Collapse of the Multiverse!
boom!
The Alliance Superman fell heavily to the ground.
He was panting heavily as the tentacles behind him were twisted off one by one, and his clothes were torn to shreds.
The "S" on his chest fluttered in the wind, half of his face was a bloody mess, accompanied by the stench of excrement and urine.
He couldn't make a sound because his chin was grabbed and pulled down forcefully, tearing it from the upper half of his face. The abuser dragged his jawbone from his throat all the way down to his chest.
The once clean and radiant Superman, who used to soar in the sunlight, was defeated in the most undignified way. The Destroyer hypocritically pulled his jaw back into place and considerately pulled out a healing pod from the portal, placing the Allied Superman inside.
All of this was to create a good impression in front of Superman in the main universe. No one knew his best partner's character better than the Batman Who Laughs, who controlled the Destroyer. When it came to how to win favor, the Batman Who Laughs was naturally adept.
"I'm sorry, but otherwise I couldn't have stopped him. I am... I am Bruce Wayne."
The first sentence expresses his helplessness, the second sentence uses Batman's identity to get closer to him, every sentence is in the Batman Who Laughs's plan.
The main universe's Superman heard Bruce breathing heavily in front of him.
"Let's go."
He heard the other person say, "Oh, don't worry, the treatment pod will heal him and also get rid of that brat's odor. We'll come back after we save the multiverse..."
He paused deliberately, making the main universe's Superman think he was about to say "interrogation," but after the pause, he changed to a milder wording: "...asking him why such a misunderstanding occurred."
The favorability rating has increased again.
then……
"Let's go," the Destroyer said. "Time is of the essence."
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The World Founder slowed down his movements slightly.
This slightly silly mistake almost resulted in his former pet swatting a large gash in his chest.
Although this body was only borrowed from Parallax Mohal, the vessel that could hold his power was rare even in the current timeline of the multiverse.
However, he still managed a smile.
This wasn't because he had an evil urge to be beaten by his own pet, but because when he looked back at the future that stretched across the entire timeline, he saw that the future of "Superman from the main universe appearing on the battlefield" had already taken shape, like... like a newly poured cement road, beginning its solidification period under the gaze of the world's creator.
However, unlike the timelines that are normally derived, the end of this timeline is no longer the "final moment" billions of years later when everything in the universe ends but will never come, but rather it ends abruptly the moment Superman from the main universe appears on the battlefield.
(Note: The timeline of the DC universe is like a road, with an "end" called the "Death Sun," which is the end of all stories, all multiverses, and all matter.)
This "end" exists every time a new road is built, but it rarely appears. In *Dark Nights: Death Metal*, Wonder Woman, while suppressing Maniac Laughter, traveled through time and forced him into the end, killing him.
The entire timeline looks like a road that has been suddenly cut off in the hyper-time stream, and the World Forger knows that the entire hyper-time stream will inevitably go mad because of this change.
The World Builders had no interest in observing what the entire Justice League had suffered. Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash... they were all insignificant characters. Their importance was only relative, and compared to the grand narrative of the entire multiverse and the trans-timeline, they were less than a hair on Superman's head.
The World Forger has been waiting for the counterattack from the Hypertime Stream. He knows exactly what that external enemy called the Void Hand and his mother, Papetua, are doing.
The World Forger suddenly felt a pang of regret. His actions had been too radical, especially after discovering his brother, the Anti-Monitor, was attempting to escape history, and the extraordinarily powerful Batman of the Dark Multiverse, now Batman Dragon—
He then changed his plans on the fly, allowing and even fueling the flames of the Dark Multiverse's Batman to create the Earth-15 event, causing greater and more destructive damage to the Time Stream than he had originally planned.
This damage further weakened the Time Stream, which gave his mother and the Void Hand an opening to act now.
If the Time Stream hadn't been weakened so much by the World Forger, the two of them wouldn't have been in such a hurry, and the World Forger would have had more time to peacefully forge his new multiverse, perhaps even before his mother escaped.
(Note: In The Sixth Dimension, the World Builder did indeed complete the creation before Pamu descended.)
But now that the die is cast, his mother and the wolf outside the sheepfold will not let such a great opportunity slip by.
in fact……
In fact, if the World Forger had given it his all, he would still be the only sixth-dimensional god alive in the current timeline, or rather, not completely dead.
Although Barbatos had chewed up his corpse repeatedly and his power was still attached to Parallax Mohal in front of him, his condition was much better than that of the Antimonitor who had been dead for who knows how long and the Monitor who had been reduced to a weak state by the reassembly of his countless clones.
He is the sixth-dimensional god, born into the sixth dimension, the central control room of the multiverse. The entire multiverse is like a mecha, which needs a pilot, and only the three brothers can enter the control room, the "sixth dimension".
If the World Forger is willing to return to the sixth dimension, he might be able to take a desperate gamble in his multiverse mech, forcibly erasing all history in the hyperchronic timeline after the [Earth 15] event—essentially shoveling up all the roads.
Anyway, these concrete roads have only just been built, and they're not as hard as the roads after the Infinite Earth Crisis.
This is what every leader of the multiverse should do, and it is their responsibility.
but……
"I won't do that," the World Forger sighed.
From the moment he decided to begin creating his own baby multiverse, there was no turning back.
Even if he saves this multiverse, so what? This universe is inherently flawed. Once it is discovered by the "leader" of another multiverse, it will be taken back to be rebuilt. At that time, he will only lose all his power and eke out a living in someone else's multiverse.
Even if he withstood the triple dimensional reduction attack from Papetua, the Void Hand, and Dr. Manhattan, could he possibly withstand the transcendent beings from other multiverses?
Therefore, he was not abandoning his responsibilities, but rather, knowing that the road ahead was a dead end, he used his wisdom to open up a new path for survival in the face of death for the entire multiverse.
Once the baby multiverse he created is fully formed, as long as he is fast enough—fast enough that before the reality of [Perpetua and the Hand of the Void completely destroying the entire multiverse] completely solidifies—he can use his baby multiverse to cover the current multiverse, and everything can be salvaged!
Although his mother's resurrection and the invasion of the Void Hand are happening a little faster than he originally planned, he can still catch up, can't he?
He turned his head slightly to look at Batman Dragon, who was still working hard beside him.
Come on, stop pretending.
In short, after being repeatedly pulled back and forth by the other party, he now understands that Batman is just dawdling.
He was determined not to call the Justice League from the main universe over, but it didn't matter. The future he saw was already taking shape, which meant that no matter what Batman Dragon did, the event of Superman from the main universe arriving on the battlefield and causing the timeline to be cut in half was already complete.
He guessed that Batman: Dragon had already prepared some kind of plan to deal with Barbatos.
To some extent, his actions have now been incorporated into the other side's plan.
As the history of "The Arrival of the Main Universe Superman" takes shape, the World Builders are also able to observe some of the unformed fragments of history.
He saw that Batman Dragon summoned countless Batmen from those parallel universes of the Dark Multiverse. He distributed the manipulation and madness that Barbatos had suffered into each of the Batmen's bodies, greatly diluting the influence of Papetua and the Void Hand, allowing Barbatos to regain his own will and begin a thunderous counterattack.
This plan is really good. Although these timelines never successfully constructed themselves, the World Builder mentally rehearsed the plan and felt it was feasible.
But it's too late now.
The World Forger heard a loud bang from the Hypertime Stream, and he knew that the Hypertime Stream's last proactive counterattack had been extinguished.
Is he a genius thinker?
The World Founders then realized who was preventing the Time Flow's self-salvation: Dr. Manhattan.
This reinforced his belief that the entire multiverse was beyond saving, and he shook his head.
"Um?"
The world's foundries were taken aback.
His gaze pierced through the veils of time and space, meeting that of his brother, the Watcher, upstream in the trans-temporal flow.
Immediately afterwards, he heard the deafening laughter of the anti-surveillance activists echoing through the sky in his ears:
"So this day has come after you! Hahahaha, so this day has come when you had no choice but to release me?!"
The world's foundries realized what had happened.
Crisis on Infinite Earths is the cornerstone of the entire multiverse and the existence of the trans-time flow.
In this great war that laid the foundation for the entire multiverse, the Antimonitor, who had devoured an infinite universe of positive matter, was defeated by all the superheroes who joined forces, proving to everyone that you shouldn't try to fight "immune cells" to the death.
In this battle, the one who orchestrated the superheroes' victory over the Anti-Monitor was none other than the Anti-Monitor's brother, the Monitor.
For so many years, the Monitor has been dedicated to ensuring that the history of the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" is never reversed by the Anti-Monitors. But today, with a crisis that he can no longer ignore appearing downstream of the Hypertime Stream, he is forced to use the forces that were originally used to suppress the Anti-Monitors and draw them out to save the current reality.
And the person he chose...
"The old Superman from Earth-2? He was indeed powerful. As the mentor of Super-King, even though he was ultimately defeated and killed by Super-King in a direct confrontation, as the superhero who delivered the final blow to the Anti-Monitor during Crisis on Infinite Earths, his power was enough to disrupt the battle. But..."
"Didn't you ever consider that after you send Superman there, he might not come back?"
The World Maker heard the Anti-Monitor loudly mocking the Monitor: "Where is your resolve to pin me down in this history at all costs? Where is your trust in those superheroes?"
"Who was it that confidently told me that those superheroes could protect the entire multiverse in our place?"
"In the end—even you yourself never believed everything you said?"
The world's forgers have discovered the Watchers' actions.
With such a large-scale operation, it was impossible for him to be kept in the dark.
He sensed that the World Makers had temporarily conscripted the old Superman from Earth-2 on the battlefield against the Anti-Monitor, asking him to abandon his comrades and go downstream in the Hypertime Stream to save the future.
Without the old Superman from Earth 2, a timeline of "Anti-Monitors' Victory" will appear and then disappear. This action will loosen the historical crackdown on the Anti-Monitors, but the Monitors don't care about that anymore.
"Shut up, Möbius. At a time when you intended to overturn the entire multiverse, I was the only one protecting his safety. You, the Void Hand, our mother, I did everything I could."
(Note: After the Monitor transformed himself into a race, Monitor Wu Tan participated in the "Great Symphony of Heaven and Earth" against the Void Hand and its evil noble minions, and played a key role.)
"And then you created Mandrake?"
"Those are things our mother made."
"idiot."
The World Founder knew that his two love-hate brothers had been arguing for trillions of years upstream in the super-time stream, and that the argument would never end.
Nevertheless, the Monitor did indeed launch an operation, pulling the old Superman from Earth 2 during the Crisis on Infinite Earths from history and throwing him into the battlefield downstream of the timeline.
As one of the few superheroes who could confront the Anti-Monitor in his prime with guerrilla tactics instead of being instantly killed, the old Superman from Earth-2 was not weak among Supermen. Moreover, he possessed Superman's most classic "My Family" buff. The World Builder knew that his arrival would definitely have an impact on the battle, and thus completely shatter the history of the "Main Universe Superman Arrival" that the Void Hand and Perpetua had already created.
"I tried to interfere with the downstream of the hypertime stream, but that Bruce called the Bat Who Laughs tricked me, damn it." The World Forger heard the Watcher say, "Listen, Alphaus, I'm serious. Think about it carefully. Once that history really solidifies, our mother might actually come down from the Origin Wall."
"This is no joke! You should have discussed this with us! The three of us did it together, and we have the right to know everything!"
"You mean betraying our mother? Ha! Don't try to sound so righteous, you hypocritical bastard!"
The anti-surveillance activists mocked loudly from the side, but it did not affect the surveillance activists' voices.
"We were truly unprepared to deal with our mother, Alphaeus, whether it be you, me, or Möbius..."
The Anti-Monitor muttered, "Damn it, if only you had let me devour the entire positive matter universe..."
"You can't defeat our mother either. Your plan is simply not going to work. After you devour the positive matter universe, it will only make your chances of winning against our mother not zero."
The monitor said:
"But in my opinion, a 30-40% chance of winning is no different from 0, not to mention that it could be a wrong estimate. We've discussed this issue many times, so shut up, Möbius."
"You really have to weigh this, Alphaeus. Putting Mother down will only do us harm, not good."
We both now realize what your plan is—an infant multiverse? What else could possibly be worth abandoning your physical body for so long? We should have realized it sooner.
But even so, are you really confident you can defeat our mothers? Even with the help of a baby multiverse?
"Once you do that, it will be almost impossible for us to make amends, even if Möbius and I put aside our differences and work together—"
"Such a thing would never happen, not even if we died," the anti-surveillance activist added. "But even if it did happen, we couldn't do anything about it."
"So we've come to persuade you not to do that, Alphaeus."
"You want to save the universe in your own way from the hands of the Transcendent Ones, fine, but you can't be so radical! And certainly not at the cost of freeing our Mother!"
(End of this chapter)