UGB Chapter 316 Darkseid felt a chill run down his spine as he listened to the maniacal laughter.
Chapter 316 Darkseid felt a chill run down his spine as he listened to the maniacal laughter.
Chapter 316 Darkseid felt a chill run down his spine as he listened to the maniacal laughter.
hum!
The popping channel was opened by Darkseid.
Boo!
It was locked up by Chen Tao again.
opened.
It's closed again.
Buzz! Pop! Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! Pop!
"That's enough!"
Darkseid, who had been hugged into a ball by numerous Robin-like creatures, charged towards Chen Tao. Countless Robin-like creatures shouted "Holy shit!" in his ear while desperately biting his cheeks.
Omega rays erupted from Darkseid's eyes. He had just blasted several Robinoids that were trying to bite his lower eyelids into dust, but then even more Robinoids rushed up, grabbing his head and continuing to bite him indiscriminately.
"Get out of here..."
Darkseid, unable to bear it any longer, began to gather energy in his eyes, intending to use an Omega Ray to temporarily clear out the Robin-like creatures around him.
However, before he could finish his move, Chen Tao's fist interrupted him perfectly, and Darkseid used this opportunity to unleash a full-force counterattack against Batman.
boom!!!
Every punch and kick he delivered carried immense, monstrous power, and this fist, fueled by rage, was even heavier.
Chen Tao was punched by Darkseid and shot like a pinball into the already riddled underground of Apokolips, leaving a deep hole on the surface.
boom!
Suddenly, a crack appeared in the ground not far from where they were fighting, and the underground magma, shaken by the aftershocks of their battle, erupted into the sky.
Darkseid, who had originally planned to continue the pursuit, was momentarily stunned.
He hurriedly charged up his beam, the bent Omega beam swirling and shifting around his body, instantly scorching all the Robin-like creatures within a few hundred meters of him like a gluttonous snake, which immediately cleared his surroundings.
Darkseid ignored the other Robin-like creatures that continued to charge forward. Taking advantage of the moment, his eyes glowed red, and his Omega Rays bent to vaporize the magma that was about to erupt further, then forcibly pressed the magma that had not yet erupted back into the ground.
His previous battle with Superman Supreme caused too much damage to Apokolips. Especially in the places where they stayed for a relatively long time, the planet's surface was like tofu to them, and it had already caused some damage to the planet's core. If it wasn't treated urgently, it would become even more troublesome later.
Darkseid cleared out another wave of Robin-like creatures that surged forward.
In the past, when he conquered other planets, he always led the Parademons as vanguard, watching as the weaker enemies roared and cursed before him, only to be overwhelmed by the Parademons. When the Parademons dispersed, only a large pool of blood mixed with broken bones remained. He would simply fly expressionlessly over the wailing crowds.
Turning its head, it continued to fire multiple rays in succession, repeatedly bending underground to disperse the magma that had begun to condense, averting a near-eruption and finally smoothing out the surface that had begun to bulge.
This series of movements was so fluid and seamless that any geologist on Earth would be astonished to see such a feat. But Darkseid was a new god, a being beyond mortals; to him, this was nothing more than a trivial matter…
boom!!!
The ground that Darkseid had just painstakingly leveled rose up, and then a loud bang was heard in the sky, and a Dark Father sprang out of the stone and made a dazzling appearance!
The lava flow, which had already been smoothed out, erupted even more violently due to this stimulus.
"Damn it! You destroyed the ley lines!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
With several loud bangs, several more columns of lava erupted from beside Darkseid, and the scorching hot flames and lava poured down on his head like rain.
After Chen Tao emerged from the lava, he did not attack immediately, but instead maintained Darkseid's classic pose with his hands behind his back:
"You don't understand who I am at all."
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"I am the Father of Darkness, I have purified the planet into scorched earth, I have made the order of life obey my will! I am the new God! All things return to one, all things return to the Father of Darkness!"
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"This powerful body is my temple. I will shatter your dreams and crush your ambitions. There has never been a being like the Dark Father among you!"
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"I will lead you into a hell with no exit and no end, where I will kill your souls! I will make you fear, I will make you beg in humility! I will make you die! Die! For Darkseid... cough cough cough cough—"
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"—Die for the Dark Father! Then you will know that there is no such thing as free will in this world, only this endless hell!"
Darkseid was so angry he couldn't utter a single word. His forehead throbbed.
"Idiot! The heat on Apokolips is rising rapidly. The explosion caused by the melting of the planet's core will kill hundreds of millions of lives! Radiation will spread throughout the entire star system, turning several surrounding sectors into dead zones! Moron! Stop it!!! Wait, what are you doing? Are you crazy?"
Before Darkseid could finish speaking, he saw Batman's eyes shoot out rays of magma that shot towards him.
"Idiot, are you crazy? The planet really is going to explode!"
"No, he won't. Even if it explodes, it's none of your business. This is my Apokolips, mine! Mine! My bicycle, I'll stand up and pedal, what's it to you?"
Chen Tao raised an eyebrow.
Within the information stream that Darkseid could not see, Chen Tao sensed the detectors he had installed in different parts of the planet.
While he had already swallowed the entire planet, he had already done enough to monitor Apokolips closely, and if necessary, he could even use these instruments to intervene in the state of the entire planet.
The current readings are much clearer, far more accurate than Darkseid's rough estimate. It's no wonder Darkseid could only estimate; after all, who would bother installing surveillance cameras if their hometown were to be blown up?
Although the situation was indeed as dangerous as Darkseid had described, it was still quite a distance from actually exploding.
After all, as Darkseid said, there are other intelligent life forms in the sector where Apokolips is located.
While accidentally blowing up Apokolips wouldn't be an unacceptable outcome for him, if it resulted in the deaths of other innocent planets, then he would truly have no moral bottom line. After all, Chen Tao wasn't John Stewart.
(Note: John Stewart, a human from Earth and a member of the Green Lantern Corps, accidentally caused a planet called Xanshi to explode during a mission due to a misjudgment, turning it into a cosmic firework that killed billions of intelligent life on it.)
Therefore, according to the instruments, Apokolips would have to withstand at least 92 more attacks of the same magnitude as Darkseid's before it would actually explode. In other words...
"Hahahahahahahaha!!!!"
Chen Tao threw his head back and laughed wildly, his eyes glowing red. Darkseid immediately realized what the other was about to do, which was more terrifying to him than anything else.
Chen Tao's eyes flashed red, and he shone them on the ground. Five or six pillars of magma rose up instantly due to his deliberate act of destruction, making Darkseid's eyelids twitch.
He lunged forward, trying to protect his home and defeat this terrible invader:
"No!!! The other planets in this sector are innocent! Do you know how many innocent people you're going to kill?"
The Dark Lord attempted to morally blackmail his opponent by appealing to the innocence of the planets, but his roar only elicited Batman's maniacal laughter.
"Eeyaho hahahahahaha!"
Darkseid took a deep breath.
"All right."
Finally, the Dark Lord said, "I promise I will never set foot on Earth again, without any conditions. I swear. Isn't that what you want?"
He initially managed to maintain a calm tone, but then he gradually began to lose control of his anger and started roaring uncontrollably:
"So, right now, immediately, stop appearing on my planet Apokolips and go back to your planet!!! I never want to see you again!!!"
The former ruler of Apokolips has offered a sufficient price, and he is quite confident that Batman will back down and return to Earth.
Isn't everything Batman has done forcing himself to make such a vow?
So he did that; he gave up.
As Batman said:
To become a king without soil is utterly ridiculous.
More importantly, he has too many ways to circumvent his oath. He is Darkseid, a god beyond human imagination. To speculate about his behavior with simple human thinking is itself a great disrespect.
He could even manipulate stars to collide with Earth!
He could have slowly searched the ruins for the anti-life equation and everything else he needed to find, but if even the Earth itself no longer existed, wouldn't the idea of not being able to set foot here be a joke?
For Darkseid, what he needs to consider is not the oath itself, but the hard power of his enemies, Batman and the entire Justice League.
In this world, only the power that can truly defeat Darkseid can make the Dark Lord fear him.
The other party's thoughts are very complex, but this does not mean that Darkseid himself has no intention of backing down this time.
Both he and Apokolips needed to recuperate. After the Black Runner was destroyed by Reverse-Flash, it abandoned him and went back into space to find a new host, thus escaping Darkseid's control. Darkseid's first priority was to bring the Black Runner back...
Therefore, at least for now, Darkseid is still genuinely interested in making peace with Batman.
However... things did not happen as Darkseid had hoped.
"Earth, Earth, Earth..."
He heard Batman repeat it three times, his tone disappointed, as if he were sighing.
Darkseid felt a shadow fall over his heart; he sensed something was off about Batman's tone.
"You only have eyes for Earth. But this universe needs criminals of a higher caliber. Well, I'll fill that void myself."
"What do you mean? I've already said I won't set foot on Earth again, what more do you want?"
"Earth...is not important at all."
Then Darkseid heard Batman slowly say:
"It's completely insignificant. Do you know what's most important? What's most interesting?"
"The important thing is to send a message to everyone: everything will be reduced to ashes! Hahaha, hahaha, hahahahahaha!"
Darkseid listened to Batman's maniacal laughter and felt a chill run down his spine.
He saw that Batman was completely ignoring him. Even after he had offered such generous terms, Batman was still using Omega Rays to attack Apokolips, but it didn't seem to cause any devastating damage to the planet.
Darkseid previously interpreted this restraint as a tactic of selling out at a price, but in reality...
That guy is a complete lunatic! Holding back isn't for negotiation, it's for his own "game experience"!
boom!!!
As Batman stirred things up, lava began to erupt in the area, and Darkseid's ankle was almost swallowed by the raging lava.
He tried to continue fighting Batman, only to find that their moves and abilities were exactly the same, and he couldn't break through their defenses in a short time.
Even if he manages to find an opening, Batman will switch from the mode that controls the Omega Effect to the mode that resembles the Doomsday monster, using brute force to crush Darkseid's advantage, and then continue the previous cycle.
Darkseid's rage was constantly building up in this process.
Fear, anger, and a sense of bewilderment filled the Dark Lord. In a fleeting moment, at a crucial juncture, he turned his head and saw blood. The Bull Slayer emerged from the void beside him, its two sharp horns, burning red like blood, pointing directly at him.
"Darkseid, you harbor immense rage within you... that is my finest sustenance."
Darkseid looked up and saw Batman still laughing maniacally as he destroyed Apokolips not far away.
"So ally with me," Darkseid heard Blood Bull say. "The wrath of Superman Supreme is perfect, but it cannot last. But your wrath is enough to satisfy your hunger."
Darkseid heard Blood Bull say, "And aren't you going to take on Batman? I don't care about your fight at all, and taking on Batman is nothing I can't do."
Blood Slaughter Cow was enthusiastically promoting himself:
"You are currently completely helpless against Batman and unable to control his destruction of this planet, but if you are willing to let me possess you, the combined power of the two of us will definitely surpass that of Batman."
Blood Bull said, "Darkseid the Red Lantern! He could definitely kill Batman, and then..."
With a loud bang, before Blood Bull could finish speaking, Darkseid punched him so hard that he was sent flying like a cannonball. Darkseid rubbed his fist.
The future depicted by Blood Bull looked very promising, and indeed it was; he couldn't do anything about Batman...
But who told him that he couldn't do anything to Batman and that he would willingly let himself be possessed by Blood Bull?
Darkseid wasn't doubting that he might lose control of his body to the Blood Bull; rather, it was a matter of personal preference for Darkseid...
Everything in front of me looks so familiar!!!
Superman Supreme and Blood Bull were both once dealt with by Batman. And what happened after Darkseid tried to control Superman Supreme? Wasn't that magical enough?
Who can guarantee that Blood Bull, who was also handled by Batman, won't be hiding any traps, and that you'll foolishly agree to merge with him and control your body, only to be tricked by Blood Bull and end up bleeding profusely?
He trusts his fists more than the danger of potentially falling into Batman's trap.
"That's why I refuse," Darkseid said. "Don't even think about it."
"whispering sound."
Chen Tao curled his lip beside him. He had played the antisocial lunatic for so long, but it turned out that Darkseid had learned his lesson and actually refused to let Blood Bull possess him.
This was truly... disappointing to him.
(End of this chapter)