UGB Chapter 673 Main Universe Bruce: Is Barbatos a dog?
Chapter 673 Main Universe Bruce: Is Barbatos a dog?
Chapter 673 Main Universe Bruce: Is Barbatos a dog?
How did things get worse?
Let me tell you.
The truly frustrating parts sometimes don't even stem from the malicious intent of the perpetrator. They simply happen naturally, like a fire often born on a hot summer afternoon, followed by…
Wildfire spread.
The time-traveling technique has become weak...
The world’s foundry workers have never felt this more joyfully.
After years of weakening, scheming, and futile efforts, starting with Batman defying the fate of the Dark Multiverse, the Time Stream finally weakened to the point where it could no longer lead to a "heroic success."
Of course...of course...
The world's foundries still need to interfere.
main universe.
Batman, Bruce Wayne, has started dreaming, and dreams often hold prophetic meanings.
He dreamt of the Joker again... but not the Joker with whom he had fought for a long time and died together, but an earlier one... older and more evil.
(Note: The incident mentioned here where the Joker and Batman die together refers to "Batman: Endgame" at the end of the New 52 era. After that, the Joker was absent from the story for a long time.)
He saw the dragon that had appeared in his dreams before... the Dark Multiverse Dragon.
He screamed and roared, but was slightly outmatched in the monsters' battle of biting each other. He lay dormant, like a fish swimming deep in the sea.
He remained deep and dark, but Bruce only felt a chill run down his spine.
He saw the Black Death Emperor, saw countless planes and universes struggling and wailing in the palm of that green giant… Even in his dreams, Bruce Wayne was deeply impressed by that enormous, skeletal face… It was Brainiac.
He strained to open his eyes wide, even in his dream, he clenched his fists and stared intently, trying to etch everything he saw and thought firmly into his mind!
Those monsters, now clearly visible, flickering shadows in the depths of darkness, an invisible giant hand gripping Bruce Wayne's heart, as if the whole world were calling out to him:
"Help me! Help me! You have to do something!"
Then immediately afterward...
He saw the strange-looking Batman dragon.
He was dragging a huge, bright, and transparent semi-transparent blurry ball of light like a towman, but due to his poor technique, he was doing more harm than good and was panting heavily.
He seemed to be saying something. Bruce Wayne frowned and listened intently.
He seemed to have heard something.
"...What the hell is wrong with this universe? It's unbelievable..."
Bruce saw that the strange-looking Batman dragon seemed to have used too much force. The translucent, colorful orb was pulled so hard that several pieces fell off. Startled, he quickly stopped and put the pieces back into the orb, as if he were pulling tofu with a rope.
Bruce heard the other person muttering to themselves. At first, he didn't understand what they were saying because they kept switching between English and other languages.
But later, Bruce finally understood some of it.
The other person was speaking Chinese, which Bruce Wayne understood. During those years of spiritual practice, he had traveled the entire globe.
"...How can you tell a wolf from a dog?"
Even in his dream, Bruce felt as if he had misheard something.
Ok?
"Looking at someone using the toilet, if their poop is runny, they're a wolf—"
Ok? ? ?
"Barbatos is a dog!"
Bruce understood what the other person was saying, but didn't understand what it meant.
This sounds like some kind of code, but what exactly is it...?
Just as he was about to begin thinking in his dream, Bruce suddenly felt a buzzing in his head, and then completely lost consciousness in the dream.
In the Batcave of the main universe, the World Forger appears at Bruce Wayne's bedside.
All the monitoring equipment Bruce had set up for himself was working properly, including some advanced technology provided by the Justice League. His mind shield, which he used to prevent telepathic intrusion while he slept, was also constantly active.
This weapon was developed using Martian technology provided by Martian Manhunter. It can not only protect Bruce's mind, but also be used as a means to attack Martian Manhunter—in the event that he has fallen and left Bruce and the Justice League with no other choice.
Bruce even prepared a biological countermeasure to identify all biological invasions not covered by the agreement, even a mosquito.
Batman had made his bedroom impregnable, but all of that was rendered useless in the face of the World Builder.
He approached Bruce, studied his face for a moment, and then reached out and touched his forehead.
The edge of the main universe.
Daniel Radcliffe, the dream god of the Infinity Family, finds himself unable to enter the main universe and thus into Batman's dream. He intended to appear there to warn Batman, but instead, he goes astray.
(Note: In *Dark Nights: Metal*, it was Sandman Daniel who revealed Barbatos's origins to Superman and Batman. Compared to other members of the Infinity Family, such as Death and Fate mentioned earlier, the Dream Lord Dennis has a greater involvement in the main universe.)
That's impossible! How could he not enter the main universe? He is the Lord of Dreams. Dreams can freely open portals to other dimensions. As the master of dreams, he can evoke dream stories and ideas and send them into the minds of others. He can quickly reach any dream and the place where people dream. He can easily enter and traverse most magical realms, even Hell!
Sandman Daniel projected the major events happening in the Dark Multiverse into the mind of Bruce Wayne, Batman in the main universe, and attempted to enter his dream, but all of this... was temporarily blocked.
There's only one explanation: his powers failed, and Batman wasn't dreaming.
Someone interrupted Batman's dream before he could.
Who could possess such power? In this era where even the gods of the sixth dimension have vanished, who can surpass the Lord of Dreams?
Then fate turned the pages and revealed the connection between them.
When the World Maker removed his finger from Batman Bruce's forehead, he was certain that the memories of those dreams had vanished from Batman's mind. Upon waking, he would completely forget he had such a dream, and the story that Sandman Daniels had tried to project into Batman's mind would also be erased.
The World Maker turned his head and, through infinite space and time, saw that the Sandman Daniel would not obediently retreat.
The young Sandman, having just taken over the reins of dreams from the previous Sandman Morpheus who voluntarily died, is nothing more than a child with power but no understanding in the eyes of the seasoned and shrewd Worldmaker.
Although he didn't know who was secretly attacking him, the Sandman wouldn't let it go. And the World Forger had the world completely under his control.
When Sandman finally found a dream of the main universe and planned to jump into it to reach the main universe and then slowly search for Batman, the ignorant rabbit just happened to fall into a pit full of bamboo sticks.
The World Maker had already prepared a predicament and a trap, and he was waiting for the Sandman of the Endless Family to step into it. Just as he predicted, Sandman Daniel would be blocked outside the main universe and trapped in the endless slumber of the World Maker's Dream until the World Maker is resurrected.
In the realm of dreams, the Lord of Dreams is indeed omnipotent. Even the power of a sixth-dimensional deity cannot forcibly trap the Lord of Dreams within the dream world.
The problem is that the world's creators are not asleep, but dead.
【The Dream of the World's Founders】is indeed a dream, but it is also a 【Dream of a Corpse】.
The World Forger played a trick, sending Sandman Daniel into the dreams of the dead. In this place, Sandman of the Infinity Family clashed with the authority of "death" between Sandman and his sister, who was also from the Infinity Family.
The Endless Family is the embodiment of the rules, and the World Forger perfectly exploited the relationship between them to create a bug.
Even if Death itself were to arrive, she could not defy her nature and unleash the Sleep Demon; this is the basis for the World Builder's ability to trap the other party.
and so……
[Approaching death].
The war taking place in the Dark Multiverse has begun to threaten the survival of the entire Hypertime Stream. According to the self-salvation program of the multiverse, the Justice League of the main universe, as the largest "immune cell," should have already produced the most basic response to the "virus" with the help of the fate of the entire multiverse.
This means that the Time Stream has become so desperate that it has to rely on the superheroes of the main universe to save it, making it even more vulnerable.
So when the World Forgers left and the main universe came back to life, as the sun set and dusk fell, the setting sun molten gold, Bruce Wayne, the Batman of the main universe, opened his eyes and realized that he had forgotten something incredibly important.
He checked all his surveillance equipment but found no evidence of intrusion. Yet, the stinging sense of loss still kept him pondering.
Originally, Batman (Bruce Wayne) should have been unable to find any evidence to prove that his thoughts were not mere conjecture, but the World Maker ultimately did not anticipate one thing:
A fact that many people overlook.
There is more than one personality in this Batman body than Bruce Wayne.
Suddenly, a short passage appeared in Bruce Wayne's mind... a short memory.
This memory does not come from Bruce Wayne, whose mind was completely erased by the World Forgers, but from his other personality, Zul'Ah Batman, a personality that is kept in reserve when Batman has no other choice.
Yes, the Batman of the main universe not only dares to fight other villains, but also dares to operate on his own mind.
This backup hidden personality of Bruce left him with a message in the hands of the World Makers:
How can you tell a wolf from a dog?
"Looking at someone using the toilet, if their poop is runny, they're a wolf—"
"Barbatos is a dog!"
Although Bruce Wayne could understand Chinese, it wasn't his native language. So, while he could read it, he didn't understand the meaning of the words.
He lacked too much information to solve the puzzle before him, but that didn't matter. In Gotham, there was someone who was the best at solving riddles.
He needs to talk to Nigma.
(Note: Edward Nigma, also known as the Riddler.)
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"Look, look, how beautiful..."
The Emperor Joker stared in rapt attention at the ball of antimatter cosmic energy in his palm.
Beside him, the body of the first Lantern was torn apart, and Brainiac's metal tentacles writhed under his skin like earthworms inside him. The Black Death Emperor or the Scythe couldn't wait to drag him back into the realm of death.
The most severe injury came from the Anti-Monitor Dragon, whose massive claw marks pierced through his body, leaving him barely alive.
"Don't even think about making a move, Black Death Emperor," the Anti-Monitor Dragon warned his teammates. "He's still useful to us."
"It is my duty to bring those who have escaped death back to the realm of death," the Black Death Emperor replied.
"But not now." The Anti-Monitor Dragon stood in front of the First Lantern. He confronted the Black Death Emperor for a moment, then the Black Death Emperor's eyes flashed with something unreadable, and he silently backed down: "But it will be in the future, after he is no longer useful to you... after we are no longer useful to him, he must return to the realm of death."
"That's for sure." The Anti-Monitor Dragon nodded.
He turned his head and saw the Emperor Joker still gazing infatuated at his ball of antimatter cosmic energy, like a pauper seeing a piece of glittering gold. But the Anti-Monitor Dragon knew the Joker was faking it. Gold? Don't be ridiculous. How could something like that possibly have any appeal to the Joker?
"Alright," he said, "I have no problem with giving it to me or if you want to absorb it into your own stomach like the Time Trapped One. After all, your becoming stronger also strengthens our alliance."
The anti-surveillance dragon made the malicious suggestion.
"Ha, don't joke around, I'm not a fool!" the Emperor Joker muttered. "Sigh, this diamond is so beautiful and dazzling, I really don't want to return it to a vulgar person who lacks artistic sensibility and a sense of humor. It would be a huge waste!"
He sighed, then said, "But for the sake of great comedic art, artists must give up some things, mustn't they?"
He lamented as he spoke, then waved his hand, returning the ball of energy to the anti-monitor.
The anti-monitor dragon inhaled sharply, and the energy immediately entered his body.
Since the Antimonitor died in Crisis on Infinite Earths, this antimatter cosmic energy has been scattered throughout the multiverse and absorbed by Hal and Superman Supreme. Now, a small portion of this absorbed energy has finally returned to the Antimonitor.
"So you've got the energy, right? Time to get to work, Anti-Monitor. Use this energy from Howl to find Howl's location," said the Emperor Joker. "Mirror, mirror on the wall, tell me, where is Parallax Howl now? We should go find him and have some fun!"
"After we've played with it, we'll throw it into a pot and cook it, then taste a pot of something that smells and tastes delicious..."
"Parallelism Malhal's Green Hat Mushroom Soup!"
(End of this chapter)