69novels Chapter 670 The Emperor Joker: I won't allow you to hit Batman!
Chapter 670 The Emperor Joker: I won't allow you to hit Batman!
Chapter 670 The Emperor Joker: I won't allow you to hit Batman! (Pounces on him and bites)
I am the first Lantern Man, and I am currently at a complete disadvantage.
Damn Barbatos, damn the dark multiverse, I curse them and all those who try to stop me.
The lights-out program, a completely unknown creation, could only be born from a dark multiverse, something so twisted and illogical.
The emotional spectrum can never have a nemesis; it is the most important component of the entire multiverse, or at least one of them.
Even the twisted creations of the Dark Multiverse must abide by fundamental laws; the truth is: power does not appear out of thin air.
So as long as he...
"Welcome home, Calamity!"
In that darkness, the claws of Batman's dragon were faintly visible.
On the translucent body of the first Lantern Knight, countless meridians of emotional spectrum were emitting a shimmering glow.
"The darkness won't save you, Batman."
The first user of the emotional spectrum in the history of the multiverse said this.
"But I think fear will always have a place... right?"
The first Lantern heard Batman's voice, and it was as if the whisper was right next to his ear.
He suddenly turned around and shone a sun-like light into the pitch-black night sky, but then everything went out.
No one responded.
"Ha." The first Genie almost laughed out of anger, then he was struck again by Batman Dragon's heavy blow: "Oh, darling... what made you laugh? Hahahaha!"
He disappeared into the darkness again… First Lantern knew he always did this. He dared not confront him directly, because Batman knew just how powerful First Lantern, Calamity, had become.
He has seized Hal's antimatter cosmic energy, and he is now even more powerful than he was when he invaded Planet OA.
But the attack was ineffective.
He knew Batman was trying to destroy his will. He heard the other man say that.
"I am the shadow, I am darkness, a black hole that devours stars."
But what you know, he also knows:
Do you think I'd be afraid of you?
The lantern ring in the hands of the first Lantern Knight radiated a dazzling light, its seven-colored light constantly rotating and being swallowed by the inky darkness, only to reappear quickly.
"You can't absorb things that keep disappearing."
Despite saying that, the heart of the first Lantern Knight grew heavier and heavier.
He had realized just how difficult the other party was to deal with.
In this pitch blackness, Batman used darkness to separate everyone on the First Lantern's side—the Emperor Joker, Brainiac—who could no longer provide assistance to the First Lantern.
He is now all alone, while his opponent still has Barbatos to help him.
But he still has the foundation to turn things around.
Those foolish guardians of the universe use the energy of the emotional spectrum superficially. They simply treat the emotional spectrum as a weapon that can be materialized into things like swords, spears, and halberds. Whether it's a yellow light, a green light, or a red light, it seems like they've only changed the color, but their attack methods haven't changed at all.
These clumsy imitators of the first Lantern, the so-called users of emotional spectrum energy, are nothing more than a bunch of toddlers who don't understand the true meaning of spectrum energy at all.
The first Lantern is ready.
Although he knew that Flash Mode couldn't work against Batman Dragon's Lights Out program, he still had to appear confident on the surface, deliberately inducing Batman to reveal this fact, and then putting on a show of impotent rage to further weaken Batman's vigilance.
If he can have prolonged physical contact with Batman Dragon, he can use the true power of the emotional spectrum to plant fear in Batman Dragon's heart, permanently destroying the opponent's will to fight.
Chen Tao was also waiting.
Just seconds earlier, he and Barbatos had formed a brief alliance.
The essence of the battle is like the story of Tian Ji's horse racing strategy; he has no concept of martial ethics. The one who will deliver the fatal blow to the original Lantern Knight will not be him, but Barbatos—this is the return favor Barbatos deserves after he tirelessly saved him.
He had already planned the counterattack, and things would end quickly in a short time. After suppressing the first Lantern Man, Barbatos would be able to tear a gap in the originally tight encirclement and escape at will. Chen Tao would also withdraw immediately. He would be a fool to continue fighting to the death with the Anti-Monitor Dragon and the Emperor Joker.
Regardless of what Emperor Joker's schemes might be, Chen Tao was determined not to be led by the nose.
The other party forced him to take action by claiming that he could not lose Barbatos in the face of reality. This must be an attempt to achieve some purpose, but what exactly is it?
Chen Tao didn't know, and couldn't figure it out.
Furthermore, his Lights Out program has trapped the Anti-Monitor Dragon and the Emperor Jester for long enough. This blindness cannot last long. With their abilities, Chen Tao felt that they should soon break free from the darkness created by the Lights Out program and return to the battlefield. But so far, neither the Anti-Monitor Dragon nor the Emperor Jester has been seen.
Chen Tao knew that something he didn't know must have happened, but he was currently held back by the first Lantern Man and didn't have time to figure out the details.
Just then, the sense of calling that Chen Tao had been secretly resisting began to linger in his mind again. Chen Tao had already intuitively realized that this sense of calling came from the Alfred Protocol, which was to take him to the body of the Dawn Lamp. Just like when he was synchronizing with the Red Death Demon and other members of the Dark Knights, he was able to control them for a short while. At this moment, Chen Tao also gained control of the Dawn Lamp for a while.
But he was truly overwhelmed with other commitments, so he kept refusing. But in the end, the summons, as if throwing a tantrum, directly shared the perspective of the Dawn Lamp into Chen Tao's mind.
He was like a machine that Chen Tao forcibly stopped, ultimately having to use some kind of bug-exploiting method to achieve its original intended purpose.
So the machine finally stopped relentlessly summoning Chen Tao, and Chen Tao had to experience for the first time what it felt like to have two completely different positions in his field of vision.
The two creatures' gazes overlapped, creating a peculiar feeling as if their eyes were in different positions.
Suddenly disturbed like this, Chen Tao originally intended to turn off the view from the Dawn Ghost Lamp, but he quickly stopped himself.
Hey, look what I found! A living Bat of Laughter?
Chen Tao noticed the presence of the Laughing Bat, which immediately changed his mind about severing the connection.
He heard the Bat of Laughter's whispered, agitated, anxious voice: "Why? How could this happen?"
In the Crucible of the World, the Batman Who Laughs rolled his eyes at the Dawn Lantern, which had suddenly become stiff as a machine. Everything had gone smoothly according to his plan, but the Dawn Lantern suddenly turning into a statue was completely unexpected by the Batman Who Laughs.
He originally thought that the stiffness of the Dawn Lantern must be due to some reason, so he had to find out the reason and solve it. Then he asked the Dawn Lantern to help him open the cage again and take out the lower half of his body that he had just cut off to reattach to the Laughing Bat.
But the problem is... the Dawn Lantern seems to have suddenly lost its mind.
The Batman Who Laughs has tried seven or eight methods, but no matter what method he tries, he can't break through the other party's rigid mind. Sometimes the Batman Who Laughs even doubts whether the other party has a brain at all.
Although he could grow a lower body, that's not how he thought about it. His goal was to demonstrate his power to Barbatos in the hope of regaining his position as the leader of the Dark Knights. As for growing a lower body, even if he started growing it now, the fastest he could grow it would be a tender infant's body.
Wearing a baby-headed hairstyle will only make you look like a stubborn mule. The idea of demonstrating strength will be completely unfounded.
That's why he went to great lengths to control the Dawn Lantern and prove to Barbatos that he was far more powerful than the other Batmen.
But now, the Batman Who Laughs has had to activate his other backup plans to try and change the current bizarre state of the Dawn Lantern:
The Laughing Bat connected its spirit to the Dawn Lantern.
Chen Tao was taken aback.
At this moment, Dawn Lamp's body was under Chen Tao's direct control due to the Alfred Protocol. He was now manipulating his own body to fight while sharing Dawn Lamp's vision.
As they were playing, halfway through, Kuangxiao's train of thought suddenly connected with theirs, leaving Chen Tao almost dumbfounded.
If the Laughing Bat were to actually steal something from his mind, Chen Tao could forget about ever getting a good night's sleep again.
He was forced to slow down his offensive against the first Lantern Man and shift some of his attention to the problem of the Dawn Lantern.
Rather than calling it a difficulty, it could also be considered an opportunity. Under this mental connection, Kuangxiao could steal information from his mind, and Chen Tao could also steal information from Kuangxiao.
For example, what he wants to know most right now is how to melt those metals into a real, dangerous greatsword, instead of forcibly smashing it into a crowbar like the Time Trapped Ones did.
Touching upon the memories of the Batman Who Laughs—that are manic, chaotic, and filled with evil—is no easy task.
Chen Tao temporarily used the lights-out program to guide the first Lantern Man in the direction of darkness, allowing him to take a detour in the dark and buy himself some time to steal something from the Batman Who Laughs's mind.
He sat down cross-legged in mid-air, and just then, a new unexpected event interrupted him once again.
"The first Lantern Man?"
When the figure of the First Lantern Man emerged from the darkness in front of Chen Tao and charged towards him with murderous intent, Chen Tao only leaned back slightly. Immediately afterward, Barbatos pounced out from the other side of the darkness, using his sharp claws to pierce the First Lantern Man's body from behind. Then, he turned to look at Chen Tao and said, "I saved you once."
With the Lord of the Dark Multiverse personally launching a sneak attack, the matter was naturally easily accomplished.
Chen Tao thought to himself, "Isn't this nonsense? You could have succeeded in a sneak attack even without me activating the lights-out program?"
But before he could even speak, his telepathic abilities immediately sensed what the first Lantern was planning to do to him.
A permanent implanted fear.
So at this moment, as Chen Tao felt the Dawn Lamp under his control in the World Forge, the Laughing Bat connected to the Dawn Lamp's brain through mental link, and the First Lantern Knight who intended to use emotional spectrum energy to instill permanent fear in him, a bold plan was born in Chen Tao's mind.
"Don't push him away, come here, come back!"
He spoke to Barbatos, who was tightly binding Genie 1 with his tail in the distance, saying, "He's preparing a mental attack. It's okay, let him attack me."
"What?" Barbatos was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding what the other person was saying.
"I told him to attack me." Chen Tao moved directly in front of the first Genie:
"Hurry, hit me! Hit me harder!"
"?"
Barbatos couldn't believe his ears for a moment, and he asked again, "What did you say?"
"beat……"
Chen Tao grabbed Barbatos's claw as it flew towards him, then shouted at the struggling First Generation Lantern, "Attack!"
In the darkness not far away.
The Emperor Joker and the Anti-Monitor Dragon were hiding there, secretly monitoring the battle between Batman and Lantern Number One.
At this moment, a question mark appeared on the Emperor Joker's forehead, a question mark in the physical sense, and it was flashing with a blood-red light.
"Should we make a move?" the anti-monitor dragon beside him asked. "You seem really eager to do it, but you'd better let me know before you do."
"No, no," the Emperor Joker gritted his teeth and said, "Of course not!"
The next moment, Chen Tao connected with the will of the first Lantern Knight, and the fear implanted by the other party arrived as expected.
The clown couldn't stand it anymore. He was insanely jealous.
Batman never let him hit him like that.
"You are not allowed to attack Batman!"
He immediately abandoned all the plans and nonsense he had discussed with the Anti-Monitor Dragon, and then jumped out of his hiding place.
Batman begs the enemy to beat him up. The Emperor Joker has never seen such a beautiful sight in his life. How can he bear to be the one enjoying this magnificent view?
Overwhelmed by boundless jealousy and rage, the Emperor Joker abandoned his previous plans and charged at Batman and his crew.
But even so, he couldn't stop Chen Tao and the first Lantern Knight from becoming a fait accompli.
Chen Tao grabbed the head of the first Lantern Man and pressed his forehead against it, bringing the two into direct contact.
The next moment, the implanted fear of the first Lantern arrived as expected, but Chen Tao was now in a state of dual body and one soul, so naturally, the implanted fear appeared in the mind of the Dawn Lantern, and then directly met the extended will of the Laughing Bat.
(End of this chapter)