bookbashuk Chapter 681 Chen Tao Enters the World's Crucible, Lord Barbatos
Chapter 681 Chen Tao Enters the World's Crucible, Lord Barbatos
Chapter 681 Chen Tao breaks into the world's crucible, Lord Barbatos, I've come to see you!
Barbatos had a bad feeling.
The enormous Furnace Dragon sat coiled on its throne, clutching its favorite toy, the Dawn Lantern, in its arms like a young princess living in a castle.
Now Batman is banging on the Forge of the World in front of the Forge Gate, but so what?
He cannot enter without Barbatos's permission.
Barbatos quickly turned his attention to his new toy.
After the Dawn Lantern demonstrated its lights-out procedure to him a few times, Barbatos was quite satisfied. In his view, even if the Dawn Lantern's lights-out procedure wasn't as good as Batman Dragon's, its special ability to suppress the emotional spectrum was undeniable. This suppression of users of the emotional spectrum was something he could do without, but he couldn't do without it.
The Dawn Lanterns submitted to him, so if he controlled the lamp-extinguishing program, it would be equivalent to Barbatos controlling the lamp-extinguishing program.
As for the Dawn Lantern's shutdown procedure, it's too weak...
This is not a problem at all.
After observing the Dawn Lantern's performances multiple times, Barbatos generously injected a large amount of dark matter cosmic energy into its body, forcibly increasing the amount of energy within it to three or four times that of the Batman Laughing.
In an instant, Dawn Lantern went from being barely able to hold its own against Drowned Souls and Red Death Demons, and slightly weaker than the Destroyer and Merciless Iron Fist, to being directly empowered by Barbatos to the point where it could single-handedly take on the entire Dark Knights.
But what's the cost?
The price is an empty head, while the inside is full.
Barbatos's dark matter cosmic energy nearly overflowed him, which also completely stripped the Dawn Lantern of all its free will.
He has now completely submitted to Barbatos, both psychologically and in terms of willpower.
After the enhancement, even Barbatos was slightly out of breath. Such an enhancement was not something he could easily accomplish; he hadn't even paid this much attention to the Batman Who Laughs.
Generally speaking, it is others who give back to Barbatos, but this time Barbatos is giving back to the Dawn Lantern.
Because he was hiding in the World Forge, Barbatos was unaware that Parallax Morhal had been captured by the Emperor Jester and his men.
Parallax Mohal's feat of forcibly breaking through the hypertime stream and rushing into the current timeline of the multiverse made Barbatos wary. With such a formidable enemy as Parallax Mohal, how could he not attach great importance to the method to restrain him?
Therefore, strengthening the Dawnbreaker Lantern was definitely a worthwhile deal for him. After catching his breath, Barbatos instructed the Dawnbreaker Lantern, "From today onwards, you are the leader of the Dark Knights. I require that you must..."
Before he could finish speaking, the Dawn Lantern pounced on him, showering him with a barrage of compliments. Barbatos was slightly amused by these rather creative flattery remarks, but a few seconds later, he suddenly felt the tightly closed gates of his World Forge open a crack, and Batman Dragon darted in with a whoosh.
"???"
Barbatos was stunned by this sudden turn of events, so much so that the smile he had just given the Dawn Lantern froze on his dragon face under his hood.
He abruptly turned his head, looking suspiciously at his newly appointed concubine, Po Xiaoguideng, who grinned with her half-open mouth and blinked her large eyes behind her fly-like goggles, staring at him.
Inside the melting pot of the world, Chen Tao let out a long breath. Do you know how tiring it is to lead a whole pack of mad dogs around the gate, fighting and running, while simultaneously trying to keep a straight face and remotely controlling the Dawn Lantern to feign innocence in front of Barbatos?
Previously, when Chen Tao felt the connection to the Dawn Lantern granted by the Alfred Protocol, he was forced to terminate the connection after a brief period due to his need to participate in the battle. (Chapter 668)
This action directly resulted in the Bat of Laughter, who was originally trying to use the Dawn Lantern to open the cage and escape, getting stuck halfway and ultimately having to cut his own body to get out.
But at this moment, Chen Tao could still sense that the "duration" of his control over the Dawn Lantern had not ended, but had been delayed.
Chen Tao originally planned to cooperate with Kuangxiao. He was ready and didn't seem to have many other options.
But when the Bat of Laughter suddenly uttered, "This is all part of my plan," he was completely deflated. Physiological disgust, coupled with stress, led Chen Tao to make a bold attempt.
You see, he has a quarter of the Dark Cloud Cosmic Dragon's rank, a rank that should have been driven by Barbatos's dark matter cosmic energy.
However, Chen Tao did not possess Barbatos's dark matter cosmic energy, while the Dawn Lantern did.
Chen Tao tried to use the Barbatos energy of the Dawn Lamp to drive his own avatar, and then controlled the furnace door to open a crack.
He had already prepared himself for the possibility that if this impromptu plan failed, he would go back to the Batman Who Laughs; after all, it was all part of the Batman Who Laughs's plan.
But he succeeded, so there's nothing more to say. Damn Laughing Bat, get lost!
"You..." Barbatos blinked at the Dawn Lamp. He was about to say something, but then his expression changed.
With a resounding crash, the furnace doors slammed shut, and the battlefield fell silent. The Joker's scream echoed through the sky as he ripped off his mask, cheering for Batman's success: "That's right! That's right! My friends, I think this is what success is! This is what Batman's success is—rush in and grab him!"
"Are we really going to attack the World Forge?" the Black Death Emperor asked.
"Of course!" the Emperor Joker shrieked, "Don't forget what you promised me!"
"Wait a minute, you..." Brainiac was about to speak to stop him, but he suddenly shut his mouth. The World Forger had secretly influenced Brainiac's mind, making him think again that Batman Dragon was indeed a threat to them, and he convinced himself.
Without a word, the Black Death Emperor raised his scythe and slashed down. While the blow wasn't enough to open the gates of the World Forge, the deafening roar still reverberated in Barbatos's ears, leaving his head buzzing.
The most important thing now is to capture Batman Dragon and prevent that damned bastard from finding himself deep within the World Forge.
Outside, the Emperor Clowns and their ilk were already using various methods to try and open the World Forge. Barbatos couldn't leave; he had to stay at the bottom of the World Forge, controlling it in all sorts of ways to resist their invasion.
And Batman's Dragon, who accidentally entered the crucible of the world... Barbatos sighed.
With a thought, he summoned the entire Dark Knights, who appeared before him.
Aside from the intact Destroyer, Red Death, and Drowned Souls, Merciless Ironfist was torn to pieces in that battle and hasn't been able to piece himself back together yet. Barbatos simply waved his hand and restored him to his original state.
The only exception is Killing Machine, who overestimated himself by trying to persuade the Emperor Joker, only to be captured and still hasn't returned. He is now the only gap in the Dark Knights' ranks besides The Bat Who Laughs.
Barbatos opened his mouth, adding a stream of dark matter cosmic energy to everyone.
“Each of you has more energy,” Barbatos said. “Go, stop Batman Dragon. The Forge of the World is an extension of my will; here, it will help you channel my power. You just need to stall for time until I have completely dealt with those enemies, then I can focus solely on Batman Dragon.”
He addressed the Dark Knights, "My request is simple: I don't want to see Batman Dragon appear before me and attack me. Can you do that?"
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boom!
Brainiac swung the metal chains he controlled like a whip, then slammed them against the massive portal that had appeared in mid-air. The sound was deafening, like the tolling of a bell, but it only created ripples in space around the doors, never actually penetrating them.
"Damn Barbatos..." The Anti-Monitor Dragon heard Brainiac mutter a curse, and he had much the same thought.
They have now figured out what the other side is thinking: they simply want to capture the Batman Dragon who escaped into the furnace themselves, and they have no intention of letting them enter the World Forge.
That's true. Now that Barbatos has lost the help of the Anti-Monitor Dragon, even with the advantage of terrain, it's still uncertain whether he can defeat all of them combined. He would never allow himself to fall into such a passive state.
Now, the Emperor and his clowns are just a bunch of bandits, trying to break into Lord Barbatos's fortress under the pretext of capturing someone.
They're making grand promises outside, saying they only want to capture Batman, but once they're actually inside, it's impossible to predict whether they'll start thinking, "Let's kill Barbatos too."
"I'm here to negotiate terms."
Barbatos's phantom face appeared outside the door. He tried to persuade these plague gods not to fight in his lair today, but no one listened to him. So he could only completely seal the furnace and refuse to open the door no matter how much they cursed him.
Meanwhile, the Emperor and the Joker could only continue knocking and banging on the door, waiting for an opportunity.
But in that instant, the Emperor Clown suddenly saw that the previously tightly closed door had loosened a little.
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"I am the Red Death Demon."
The Red Death, now enhanced by Barbatos and wreathed in red lightning, blocked Batman's path.
Let's have a race.
He was about to attack Batman Dragon when he heard Batman say, "If you win, I'll turn and leave. If you lose, you have to let me pass."
Red Death Demon thought for a moment and realized that he was trying to stall for time anyway, so wasn't this the other party helping him?
No Speed Force user can refuse the option of racing; they often forget that they are actually on the battlefield.
A few minutes later, Chen Tao stepped over the Red Death Demon, whose body was wrapped in magical bubbles made of a large amount of fifth-dimensional divine power, and continued walking backward.
Fool, who's going to race you?
Not far away was the place guarded by the ravagers, and soon Chen Tao rewarded him by letting him take a bath in the kryptonite.
While the ravager was swaggering around with his immunity to kryptonite, he had unknowingly been infected by the virus that Chen Tao had given him.
Chen Tao snapped all the bones in his body and planted some kind of doomsday virus in him. Bruce, his brain completely burned out, was smarter than even Red Death, who was practically Batman. Soon, the Devastator could only lie on the ground groaning. So, as he stepped over the Devastator, who was like a lump of mud, then…
Next came the drowned souls of the victims.
The drowned souls stood ready, and she created a boiling sea within this scorching lava. Countless aquatic creatures, through biological modification, were even able to withstand the high temperatures of the world's furnace.
Such a massive number of creatures could delay Batman's dragon for a long enough time, but Chen Tao also created a tidal wave of dead water creatures right in front of her, and then... well, he dragged all the dead water creatures created by the drowned vengeful spirits to mate.
The drowned souls used these genderless and emotionless biological weapons to destroy his entire universe, but Chen Tao's fifth-dimensional divine power could easily modify the nature of these creatures.
So when these lower animals were obsessed with reproduction, the physiological connection between the drowned souls and these creatures caused an unprecedented surge in her female hormones.
Chen Tao left Brucey, who was already under the influence of hormones, next to the raging flames, and used his fifth-dimensional divine power to create some ropes to prevent her from doing anything indecent.
He moved toward the lower levels of the furnace.
Merciless and ruthless. Chen Tao used a clay face to create a fake Wonder Woman to kiss himself, and then he charged at her like a madman.
His combat skills are quite high among the Dark Knights, and he gets stronger as the battle goes on. He can use huge amounts of gold coins to summon Amazonian ghosts, which caused some trouble for Chen Tao. However, if he sees Wonder Woman in battle, he will experience emotional fluctuations, which is equivalent to completely exposing his behavior patterns to the enemy.
Chen Tao took some effort to resolve the issue.
But soon he finally reached Barbatos's lair.
Inside the lair, Barbatos was busy fighting off enemies outside, with the Dawn Lantern guarding his side.
Chen Tao coughed lightly behind him.
"Cough cough cough..."
"Lord Barbatos, Lord Barbatos?" he called gently, "I have come to see you."
Facing Barbatos, whose face was grim, he gracefully gave a gentlemanly bow:
"Long time no see, darling."
(End of this chapter)