dhibooks Chapter 315 If you call Apokolips once, will he answer you?
Chapter 315 If you call Apokolips once, will he answer you?
Chapter 315 If you call Apokolips, will he answer you?
"What happened?"
Hal Jordan, still dazed, crawled out of his crystal coffin and turned to look at the killer crocodile beside him:
He felt a little dizzy.
"That Speed Force infusion...it's gone! Doesn't Batman need us to share the burden anymore?"
He staggered as he climbed out, then stood still to compose himself. He saw the entire Rogue Gang and Martian Manhunter sitting in a row not far away, seemingly having emerged from the crystal coffin before him.
"Of course we need it."
Then Green Lantern heard Killer Croc's voice behind him, saying, "But the Speed Force is gone. Batman just told me that 'the Speed Force granted to him by Reverse-Flash is about to be exhausted...'"
Just as Hal Jordan was about to say something, he saw the big crocodile wave his hand.
"I know you're probably wondering what Batman did this time. Come on, buddy, don't ask me. He didn't tell me anything. I'm just relaying his words."
The crocodile repeated, then slapped its forehead:
"Oh, right, where was I? What he said next was..."
"—However, we have new alternatives."
Hal Jordan turned around and saw the big crocodile operating a strange-looking machine next to him, connected to which was the ashen-faced Meditation Mite.
"Everyone, get ready to get back to work. This time, what you need to help transmit isn't the Speed Force, but this... um... a massive amount of magic power from the other seven magical continents, provided by the Mist Mite."
Killer Croc clapped his hands, drawing the attention of the many heroes who were still resting: "This principle is achieved through the magical connection between Thunder Shazam and Mite..."
He looked at two pages and realized he couldn't understand them, so he threw the things down: "Anyway, you can just lie in the crystal coffin and continue. It doesn't feel any different whether it's transmitting the Speed Force or those magical powers."
"Let's get started!"
None of the many heroes present responded to him; they were all too exhausted. Transmitting the Speed Force was no easy task.
But upon hearing the killer crocodile's call, they numbly and obediently lay back down in their crystal coffins, as skillfully as cows in a pasture sticking out their buttocks when they see a milkman coming.
With a thud, Hal Jordan lay back down as well.
And as the coffin door was closed...
"Awoooo ...
The sound rang out again.
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Before Darkseid became the "shackler" and took on the immense responsibility of synchronizing the other Batmen under the Alfred Protocol in place of Chen Tao, Darkseid himself did not really understand the underlying logic of how Chen Tao synchronized the other Batmen.
Chen Tao has always been tight-lipped. Apart from Lucius, who had to participate in the experiment, he has never revealed the nature of this "tug-of-war game" to anyone else. Not to mention the previous mechanical superhero and supergirl, even the other members of the Justice League only had a vague understanding of it.
Even Killer Croc, the NPC who issues the orders to the Justice League—cough, the messenger—only knows that the order he is conveying is "Batman asks you to become living batteries for the Speed Force."
As for why Batman did this?
They might have some guesses, but that's another matter, but Chen Tao would never tell them the truth.
Therefore, to outsiders, Batman seems to suddenly transform into a strange yet powerful form, and then appear to be in great distress.
However, the underlying logic of how it came to be this way is not clear.
However, by this point, Darkseid, having personally participated in Batman's tug-of-war, thought he had thoroughly understood how Batman transforms, but the reality seemed to be slightly different from what he had imagined...
"That's impossible."
Darkseid stared at Batman's rock-like skin. Those who didn't understand what this meant might just see it as a simple change in appearance, but Darkseid, who possessed the Omega Effect, could clearly sense that the Batman before him truly possessed the exact same abilities as him.
This is an absolutely impossible fallacy.
Darkseid possesses fragments of the complete Omega effect and the anti-life equation. It is impossible for two identical Omega effects to appear in the same universe, just as there cannot be two physical rules defining the same change, nor can there be two frequencies of decrease in the entropy of the universe.
However, all of this actually happened right before his eyes, and Darkseid had to admit it, but that didn't mean he would accept it.
"No matter what tricks you played."
Darkseid's face darkened. This shameful, despicable, and absurd act of image plagiarism thoroughly enraged the former Lord of Apokolips before him.
His hands hung naturally at his sides, clenched into fists with palms facing up.
Deep red omega rays burned in his eyes.
Even after a series of battles with Superman Supreme, and even being used by Chen Tao as a chaperone for multiple SS-level Batmen, Darkseid's condition seemed completely unaffected.
The crimson Omega rays, carrying Darkseid's fury, shot out once more, surging towards Batman.
Almost instantly, the same Alfredo effect lit up Chen Tao's eyes as well. The two curved lasers collided violently in the cosmos above Apokolips before extinguishing. The two were not exactly the same, but rather completely identical.
Dark Father was originally a product of Batman's mind being completely warped by Darkseid's Omega Effect and Anti-Life Equation after he murdered Darkseid. The Alfredo Effect he mastered was naturally not much different from the Omega Effect; it was as if only the name had been changed.
Well... it seems that's indeed the case.
Darkseid remained silent, secretly activating the defensive measures he had left on Apokolips. Many people may not know that his Apokolips was not only his kingdom but also a super-massive war fortress. The hell spores loaded on Apokolips could destroy a planet with just one shot.
He should have been able to control this fortress at any time and destroy anything he wanted to attack...
That's right.
But there's no response yet.
"What did you do?"
"Dakse asked."
"-Apply for-7-XL-9"
He heard Batman say, "I cracked the code and recompiled it. Apokolips is now under my control."
"How dare you?!"
Darkseid pounced again, and in the vacuum of space, his voice, amplified by the Omega effect, appeared in Chen Tao's mind:
"Give me back my Apokolips!"
He grabbed Batman and, with a roar, dragged him down to Apokolips.
"This is my Apokolips!"
Enraged, he was caught off guard by Chen Tao, who seized the opportunity. The appearance of the Dark Father faded from his body, and the hideous bone spikes from the Destroyer were refreshed and overlaid on his body. Darkse was sent flying by a single punch.
"you……"
No problem, Doomsday is also a Kryptonian. Darkseid slammed his fist into the ground, then got up. He looked up and saw Batman transformed again, this time into a form that combined Batman elements with his own image.
The opponent flew slowly through the air with his hands behind his back. Countless tiny silver-white particles continuously flew out of his body, and then a Robin-like creature with a red head and green body formed next to him.
These Robin-like creatures multiplied rapidly, soon covering the sky.
"Holy crap!" "Holy crap!"
A cacophony of noises filled the air, and Darkseid, seeing this, also considered summoning his own Parademon…
LOL, there aren't any Parademons that can be summoned.
Superman the Supreme fought Darkseid on Apokolips. What kind of Parademon could survive such a fierce battle?
Even if Parademons are modified to resemble war machines, they are still essentially mass-produced biological soldiers. Perhaps the incredibly robust defenses and weapons hidden within them would be fine if they weren't directly attacked by Superman Supreme, but this clearly doesn't include the Parademons.
Apart from leaders like Kalibak and the kind grandmother, who were already quite powerful, Darkseid's billions of troops hidden on Apokolips had long been wiped out in the battles between Superman Supreme and him around the entire planet!
Even if there were any remaining scattered legions, once Chen Tao shrunk and swallowed the entire planet with Brainiac's shrinking ray, he naturally seized control of the planet and used the weapons of those defensive structures to kill them off.
This led Darkseid to discover that he couldn't summon even a single Parademon at this moment.
"you……"
A Robin-like creature charged straight at Darkseid, opened its mouth and bit into the Dark Lord's stone-like face, then shattered all of its steel teeth.
Even if Darkseid stood there and let Robin-like soldiers bite him, these mass-produced mechanical soldiers wouldn't be able to break his skin. But compared to physical attacks, psychological humiliation is far more intense.
Darkseid had just torn the Robin-like creature that dared to attack him to shreds when even more rushed up and overwhelmed him in an instant.
"Damn it..."
After casually killing another Robin-like creature, Darkseid was once again ambushed by Batman after being synchronized with the Destroyer, who struck him on the back of the head, knocking him into the dirt like a bullet.
Emerging from the ground, he realized he could no longer allow so many Robin-like creatures to obscure his vision and distract him. So he spread his fingers, and a sonic boom immediately opened in front of him.
The territory controlled by Apokolips is vast and boundless, and it's not limited to Apokolips alone. On other planets that have already been conquered by Darkseid, there are also extremely large numbers of Parademons.
Therefore, even though the Parademons on Apokolips were all dead, Darkseid could easily summon a few from his own colonies to fill the void.
As long as he has Parademons to help him entangle these inferior, plagiarized Robin clones released by Batman, he can have a proper showdown with Batman.
He knew that Batman was not capable of maintaining that Omega effect state or the previous Speed Force state for an extended period of time. This was a reliable conclusion he reached by observing Batman's state when he dealt with Superman Supreme and by combining it with what he had discovered while acting as the "Handshake".
Given enough time, Batman will always be at a disadvantage.
If he just holds on a little longer, Batman will soon weaken. Although Darkseid doesn't know who Batman will use to replace him as a "handler," it's unlikely to last.
He had personally experienced that immense burden. If Batman only used one ability, the pressure wouldn't be too great. However, when multiple abilities were combined, it became a pressure that no normal life could bear.
He is able to withstand this pressure because he is a user of the Omega effect, a new god. He resolves the pressure through the entropy value of the cosmic annihilation caused by the Omega effect, rather than simply enduring it with his physical body. Enduring it with the physical body is neither possible nor sustainable—unless the physical body is as resilient as Superman, but that's another story.
So he needs a Parademon now, all he needs to do is open the teleportation portal...
The sonic boom was opened under Batman's control, and then, with a pop, the newly opened boom was instantly shut down by Batman.
Are you stupid?
Darkseid heard Batman say, "Have you forgotten? I am the ruler of Apokolips. If you can open a sonic boom, so can I."
"I am the true ruler of Apokolips..."
"nonsense!"
"If you call out to Apokolips, will he answer you?"
(End of this chapter)