HBWnovel Chapter 661 Barbatos leaves the World Forge for the first time, the World is Forged
Chapter 661 Barbatos leaves the World Forge for the first time, the World is Forged
Chapter 661 Barbatos Leaves the World Forge for the First Time; World Forgers Invade
look.
The stars in the sky are illusory; they do not actually exist.
They are nothing more than... illusions created before the timeline was fully formed.
The illusion before that perfect timeline coalesced.
That's what I'm chasing.
I am Parallax Demon Hal, I know that's what they call me, but in truth, I prefer to be called Hal... that's my real name.
I possess the power of 3600 Green Lantern rings, which is exactly the number of Green Lantern Corps members I have slaughtered.
I control all the light energy absorbed from the Green Light Central Energy Battery, which is also the reason why OA was once destroyed.
I know I am deeply sinful, I know I have strayed from the original intention of being a hero, but it was all for a greater good.
So...please, I can't fail.
I can undo everything I've done, and only with this thought can I move forward. But the further I go, the less I can turn back.
I can never stop trying to create a perfect world, otherwise everything I've done so far would have been meaningless.
I killed my friends and destroyed everything I loved, because if I were powerful enough, I could perfectly and systematically reboot the entire world.
I can only succeed, and I can only ever... succeed.
blood.
Hal could feel his veins throbbing, gushing blood from his wound.
Energy burned like flames on Hal's body, turning him into a trapped beast with nowhere to retreat.
He is so strong that if he makes up his mind, the final result will always be the death of the Anti-Monitor Dragon, while he will be injured.
But that would come at the cost of completely extinguishing his hope of escaping the time-travel loop... which he could not accept.
His injuries were still relatively minor and within Hal's ability to heal. He opened his mouth, revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth, and let out a desperate howl at the Anti-Monitor Dragon.
He still had hope... temporarily. And this hope ignited him, fueling his rational fervor, his emotional ruthlessness, and making him willing to go to any lengths to hide and wait for the right moment.
Returning to the flow of time and becoming a nail frozen in the concrete road is an ending that Hal can never accept.
Although he had agreed to Batman Dragon's Plan B about using a crowbar as a vehicle to enter the current timeline of the hyper-time stream, no one knew what kind of fire was burning in his heart.
He still has many real skills he hasn't used yet... During the Zero Hour period, Hal manipulated the Silence, attempting to erase the entire timeline from both ends.
Mo Cun alone had already routed the heroes... Mo Cun was in a place called the Vanishing Point, a place where time stood still. He single-handedly took on the entire Justice Society and, by reversing time, turned the Justice Society's Time Hero, Wildcat, and Midnight Doctor into elderly people in an instant.
(Note: The history of the first Time Slayer's death was later altered. The third Time Slayer reversed the time flow and died at the hands of Mo Cun in place of the first Time Slayer. The original manga does indeed depict the alteration of the past history in the time flow.)
After the superheroes finally defeated Mo Cun, they discovered that the erasure of the timeline from both ends had not stopped.
In addition to the conventional, predictable powers, Parallax Morhal also possesses the immense power to control and repair the multiverse and manipulate timelines.
He once grasped the secret to controlling entropy at the end of time; he even activated a time rift and easily tore the Steel Man's body apart.
Overall, during the "Zero Hour" period, his power was close to that of the former Anti-Monitor. Although this description sounds a bit like "everyone has the courage of Lu Bu after his death," he was still capable of defeating the Anti-Monitor Dragon.
(Note: Dan Jurgens, the author of Zero Hour, once said that Parallax Hal in Zero Hour has power similar to that of Anti-Monitor. Of course, like Anti-Monitor during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Parallax Hal's power has never returned to its full strength since Zero Hour.)
But he didn't do that. Even after suffering a severe blow that nearly drained him of his antimatter universe energy, Hal didn't do it.
He had to preserve his strength; there was no point in competing with Barbatos's pet. He was waiting for his chance, and he was indeed close to it.
The first Lantern Knight, a scourge of evil, awaits in the shadows.
Behind him stood the silently assembled Third Legion, with Shadow Calamity standing beside him.
"Listen, my past self, we only have this one chance."
At first, Shadow Calamity tried to hide his true intentions from the first Lantern, but now he seems to be gradually revealing his true colors.
"Our previous attack on Hal made him aware of us, but he could never have imagined that there were actually two Calamities."
The Third Army members behind them listened quietly to their conversation.
No, not just two, but countless.
"I only need to impersonate you to attract Hal's attention. When he thinks that all the enemies are within his sight, he will inevitably lose his vigilance, and that will be the perfect time for you to launch a sneak attack."
Shadow Calamity said, "But remember, this opportunity only comes once."
"The Third Legion members will create opportunities for you. You need to find a way to thoroughly cripple him. He's already more injured than before. If you can extract antimatter cosmic energy from him again..."
"I can't, that strange feeling is gone from me now..."
"I know you can't. I've never experienced this with you. I've never successfully extracted antimatter cosmic energy from HAL, you understand? This is an experience added to our lives by the changes I caused by going back in time."
Shadow Calamity said, "But whether you can obtain antimatter energy or not, you can at least plunder Hal's green light energy through the emotional spectrum. I have done it before."
The previous failure was simply because Hal's injuries weren't severe enough. If we try again now, the outcome will be completely different. Also, I'm afraid I must tell you…
Shadow Calamity warned, "You must not suffer too serious an injury. You are my past self. Once you are injured, due to the law of cause and effect, the trans-time flow will cause the injury to appear on my body simultaneously."
He said, "This would hinder my actions, make my nature on the timeline unstable, constantly reset the time limit, and might even affect my actions. Such an extremely slight delay would be fatal when facing Hal."
"Understood."
They launched an attack.
Shadow Calamity was dressed exactly like the first Lantern Knight. He took off his cumbersome robe, revealing a semi-transparent face covered by countless meridians.
He had a long scar on his face, but it disappeared instantly when Shadow Calamity wiped it away with his hand.
He appeared behind Parallax Mohal in a flash, and then was grabbed by the neck like a snake.
The Anti-Monitor Dragon cooperated by biting Hal's thigh from behind, and Brainiac's metal tentacles bound Hal like a dumpling in the next second. Then, the Black Death Emperor's scythe reappeared on Hal's neck.
The next second, the scythe was smashed open by the iron fist, and the metal tentacles shattered inch by inch. Hal swung the Shadow Calamity like a hammer, slamming it down on the head of the Anti-Monitor Dragon. At the same time, the attack from the original Lantern also came suddenly. Countless densely packed members of the Third Legion emerged from their hiding place, and the attack, like rain, instantly overwhelmed Hal.
It's getting closer, ever closer.
The sneak attack went very smoothly. Shadow Calamity was actually the original Lantern Knight himself. Although he was weakened and injured due to traveling through the time flow of history, he was still exactly the same as the original Lantern Knight. He successfully deceived Hal, making the real Lantern Knight's attack so unexpected.
The hand of the First Lamp was about to pierce Hal's chest, just as it had before, and seize it once more. The antimatter cosmic energy, the cornerstone that made Hal so powerful, was one of the essential elements of the parallax demon's power.
More! More! This power will be absorbed by Genie I, granting him the power to truly shake the entire multiverse!
But the next moment, Huo Rong's eyes met Parallax Mohal's head, which he suddenly turned around: "The siege I've been waiting for all this time is actually you... I'm really disappointed."
He looked down at the first Lantern Knight with indifference.
The first Lantern Knight realized something was wrong and tried to turn and run away. But when he turned his back to Hal, he saw the huge iron rod suddenly come crashing down on him in his world. At that moment, he became incredibly small, like an ant facing a giant foot.
"Senior... When it comes to manipulating timelines, you're not even worthy to carry my shoes. It's nothing more than a little trick involving the remnants of time."
boom!!!!
The deafening sound echoed throughout the entire zero-timeline, causing even the Emperor Joker, who had seemingly escaped far away through countless spaces and universes, to turn his head involuntarily.
"Good heavens!" he shrank back, "Looks like someone's going to turn into mincemeat, hahahahaha!"
After the dust settled, the first Lantern Knight had vanished without a trace, while the shadowy Calamity beside him quickly tore through space, fleeing for its life like a rat.
Parallax Mohal's figure flickered, then he grabbed the Anti-Monitor Dragon's tail, dragged him backward, and threw him far away.
at last.
No one can stop Parallax Morhal anymore.
Hal raised the crowbar in his hand.
He looked at the iron chains that stretched upstream into the super-time stream, and then, through layers of space, met the gazes of the Time Trapped Ones hiding in the time rifts. He then nodded slightly.
Batman.
Hal's eyes flickered twice, but he didn't put the crowbar away, even though the weapon objectively saved him some trouble.
He lifted the crowbar, which was made of many metals, and then gently tossed it toward the chain.
"I'm returning the crowbar to you... I don't need it anymore," Hal commented. "It's a decent weapon for a sneak attack, but when I need to confront someone head-on, in a fair and square manner, it becomes an obstacle."
Downstream of the super-time stream.
Chen Tao reached out and caught the weapon that fell from the broken space. He wasn't sure if Hal had found the rings, but that didn't matter.
Even without these rings, Hal would never keep weapons handled by Batman close to his body—
Let's be more blunt:
Hal doesn't trust Batman at all; he remains wary of him.
He never intended to possess this mere crowbar. Parallax Mohal, the Demon King of Zero Hour, disdained to cowardly use his ally's weapon in a direct confrontation.
Chen Tao put the crowbar away again, feeling a pang of regret.
It's a pity. He had originally planned to use the crowbar to do something bad to Hal, but that's no longer possible.
He nodded: "I'll start pulling you down."
Hal nodded slightly: "This is what you should do."
As they talked, the future timeline of [Hal Success] began to solidify rapidly in the hypertime stream, while Barbatos downstream in the hypertime stream was still desperately urging the Anti-Monitor Dragon to get to work.
One by one, the members of the Dark Multiverse Legion that he had scattered throughout the Zero Timeline began to wail in agony.
Barbatos transmitted far too much energy through them, like passing an electric current beyond the limit through a thin wire, causing them to burst one by one, only to be instantly repaired by Barbatos's power. They were essentially tools, enduring the pain of death time and time again, yet they just couldn't die.
This time, he no longer thought of using Hal to deplete the Anti-Monitor Dragon's antimatter energy, but instead generously contributed his own power, but it was too late.
When the Anti-Monitor Dragon repaired its body again and launched an attack on Hal, Hal had already disappeared behind the portal.
boom!
That invisible roar... the super-time flow was vibrating.
The entire timeline revolves around Hal's escape.
The anti-monitor dragon turned its head and saw the edge of the zero-timeline. The history that had been erased by Hal reappeared, but it was different from before.
Hal disappeared, and the hyper-timestream generated a completely new history, which might even give rise to freaks like Emperor Doomsday.
This timeline has not yet solidified, but it already exists in reality.
Hal is constantly traversing through hypertime.
He saw "Infinite Crisis," in which the enraged Superman shattered the crystal wall of Heaven's dimension with a single punch, rewriting history once again.
He traversed the War of Seneca's Legion, then drifted through the countless hordes of zombies in the Darkest Night, bathed in the light of the Brightest Day, and swiftly skipped over one momentous historical event after another that shook the entire multiverse.
It's getting closer, ever closer.
He transcends "Final Crisis" and sees Darkseid killed by Batman wielding the Gun of the New Gods. Darkseid's screams shake the entire multiverse, and his immortal soul falls to earth. After "Final Crisis," Darkseid is demoted; he no longer has a physical body, only clones.
When he witnesses the reboot of the multiverse once again, sees Flash Barry Allen's creation of Flashpoint, and then passes him to see Wally West return from the Speed Force, DC Universe Rebirth is also left behind by Hal.
In the melting pot of the world.
Barbatos opened his eyes wide.
He could no longer stop Hal's arrival; he tried everything he could, but to no avail.
Hal's arrival will inevitably pose a huge obstacle to his plan to invade the main universe, which has threatened Barbatos's very foundation, something he absolutely cannot tolerate.
Therefore, Barbatos made a decision.
He reluctantly climbed off the corpse of the World Forger and stopped gnawing on it.
While Hal hasn't fully arrived at the current point in time, having just reached the point of "DC Universe Rebirth," Barbatos still has a chance to ambush him.
This is Barbatos' last chance to drive Hal back to his original position. If he fails, he will likely face a Hal who is now extremely powerful and difficult to control.
Therefore, no matter how much Barbatos didn't want to leave the furnace of the world, he had to set off now.
He wagged his tail and slowly crawled out of the world's furnace.
He hesitated for a moment, glancing hesitantly at the corpse of his former master, still wondering if he really had to do it. But in the end, Hal's importance overcame everything else.
Once he actually arrives, it will be difficult for him to drive him away like last time. Hal isn't stupid; he won't go back to the World's Crucible.
So Barbatos swayed his body, climbed out of the World Forge, and disappeared behind the portal.
Not long after it disappeared, a figure appeared in the World Forge.
The World Founder removed his hood, ignoring the terrified clown dragon beside him.
He looked at his own corpse, then sighed softly:
"Barbatos is finally gone."
(End of this chapter)