amaotonovel Chapter 393 My specialty is a good show
Chapter 393 My specialty is a good show
Chapter 393 My specialty is a good show
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With a soft sound, Mongo saw Batman lower his head, staring blankly as a hand wreathed in black energy pierced his chest.
He blinked, looking at the person behind him in astonishment, seemingly completely unprepared for such a sudden attack.
Immediately afterwards, he spat out blood and his whole body began to tremble.
Despite this, Mongo did not rush to celebrate.
A corrupting, deathly force crept up one of his ears, allowing him to speak with Anton A. Kane, who was stabbing Batman in the back of the heart.
Although the opponent was not actually there, but rather launched the attack by manipulating the body of Death Storm, Mongo believed that he must have injected enough death power into the opponent's body, enough to kill him.
"Did it work?"
He asked the other person.
"It's a success."
He heard Anton A. Kane reply. The Death Storm pulled its hand from Batman's chest, and Batman floated silently in space, lifeless.
"Prove it to me."
"Mongo said."
In an instant, he sensed a violent, decaying black power erupting from Batman's corpse, with numerous insect-like limbs growing out of Batman's body, exuding a strong, malevolent aura.
The power of the Decaying Black contains scavengers, such as flies and maggots, which are natural decomposers of corpses. Therefore, these disgusting limbs are proof that Batman's body has been completely corrupted by the Decaying Black.
Seeing this, Mongo finally felt relieved.
Not far away, Parallax also stopped in his tracks, looking at Batman in confusion, unsure whether he should go forward.
But it only lasted for half a second. Soon, Parallax identified the target it wanted, let out a roar, and continued charging towards Batman.
He unleashed a burst of yellow energy at Batman and Deathstorm beside him, and under the cover of this pure yellow energy, a plume of black smoke instantly rose from Deathstorm's skull.
Mongo felt a buzzing in his head, and the next second, he could no longer sense Anton A. Kane's messages.
Meanwhile, within the mental space of the Death Storm...
Dr. Martin Stein, huddled in a corner, trembling with fear, while two consciousnesses fought fiercely nearby.
One of them resembled a frog that had been skinned alive, except that a small finger was missing from one hand. His monstrous, skeletal face was covered with patches of dark purple, foul-smelling, not-yet-completely-rotten flesh, and his mouth contained a mouthful of broken teeth—this was the will of Anton A. Kane.
The other one is even more terrifying. If Anton Akai's appearance still looks somewhat human, the other one looks like a two-headed monster.
The two-headed monster was purple all over. One head was the head of the parasitic monster that was not humanoid, while the other head showed Bane's black and white hood.
"It's you..."
Anton Akainu said.
The instant he saw the two-headed monster, he realized who the third consciousness existing simultaneously within Death Storm's body was.
The adversary he had been longing for day and night, one of only two representatives within the corrupt blackness who had not completely submitted to him, but how could the other party have such a face?
The question briefly crossed Anton A. Kane's mind before being quickly forgotten.
There's no beauty in using the power of the Black Rot. Among the three natural energies, perhaps only the user of the Red of All Beings can maintain a semblance of human form (Animal Man, Queen of Life Michael Sheen). The representatives of the Green of All Beings are also ugly and grotesque in their own way. Bane, after all, has mastered so much of the power of the Black Rot, so no matter what he becomes, Anton A. Kane wouldn't be surprised.
He was already aware that Batman had left a contingency plan on Deathstorm, but he wasn't worried.
He planned to first warn Mongo with the decaying blackness, and then quietly contend with Bane for control of the death storm within this consciousness space.
This will be a long process, until...
But the next moment, the entire consciousness space turned purple.
Anton A. Kane looked up and saw the two-headed Bane monster in his consciousness space grow infinitely larger, instantly transforming into a gigantic monster that looked down at him from above.
"This shouldn't be... These are all intruders into this body, how did they manage to do that?"
Arkan discovers that his connection with Mongo through the Black Corruption has been forcefully severed.
He then used the decaying black power within Deathstorm as a springboard to directly block any trace of will that had been projected into this body from Earth. The process was so swift that it was as if he had invaded Bane's body rather than Deathstorm.
This makes no sense. We are all invaders of the body of the Death Storm, so it's impossible to say that one is much stronger than the other.
Moreover, Akainu was well aware that Bane's control over the Black Decay was far weaker than his own; otherwise, it wouldn't have been Akainu chasing Bane, but rather Bane chasing him.
What exactly is this...?
"You've got one thing wrong..."
Then he heard the two-headed monster's voice: "Indeed, part of this body belongs to Dr. Martinstein."
"But 99% of this body..."
"They belong to the other 143 parasites!"
Then, in the next second, before Anton A. Kane's stunned gaze, the two-headed monster rapidly grew a second head, a third, a fourth...
And his figure grew larger and larger as more and more heads grew out...
It's getting bigger and bigger!
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Chen Tao had his doubts when the yellow lantern ring flew to his hand on its own. He never thought of himself as some kind of overpowered genius, and the idea that the yellow lantern ring would immediately abandon its original owner and bow down to him upon seeing him seemed like a ridiculous myth that made him think he didn't know anything about lantern rings.
Yes, the Green Lantern Ring will choose its own host. At most, the Green Lantern Corps has a planetary Green Lantern, Mogo, to help the Green Lantern Ring with its location.
(Note: This setting is discussed in detail in "The War of the Green Lanterns". In this major event, all Green Lanterns were controlled by Calona, and Planet Lantern Mogo released a large number of Green Lantern rings he had forged, allowing Calona to recruit henchmen in large numbers throughout the universe.)
However, the host selection process, which prioritizes rings with strong willpower or those skilled at manipulating fear, will no longer be triggered after the ring officially recognizes its owner.
Otherwise, according to this logic, a Green Lantern with a Green Lantern ring should never meet another being with a stronger will and more suitable to be a Green Lantern. Otherwise, the Green Lantern ring would abandon that being and choose a new Green Lantern upon meeting them?
This is equivalent to a policeman walking down the street and seeing someone with higher moral character than him, so his uniform immediately leaves him and is put on the other person.
Wouldn't that create chaos? How could the Green Lantern Corps enforce the law across sectors of the universe? Mongo is just taking advantage of Batman because he's never been a Lantern and only has a vague understanding of what the Lantern Ring is, and he doesn't know to what extent Mongo, with Carona's help, can control the Lantern Ring.
However... Chen Tao had never actually been a Lantern Hero, but he had read the comics.
Of course, if we really want to find a reason, there are many "clues" to why Deathstorm's lamp ring betrayed him. For example, Deathstorm himself is a combination of a living person and a dead person. He is half dead, so the lamp ring's recognition of its master is not so absolute...
People are prone to deceiving themselves. Once they take a fact as the truth, they easily deceive themselves. Hindsight might make them think it's foolish, but this is a weakness that every living being makes, and that's exactly the effect Mongo wanted.
However, he wasn't stupid; he wouldn't simply pin his hopes on Batman's self-deception.
This plan is largely based on his control over the yellow light ring. He can sense Batman's state through the yellow light ring, and manipulating a light ring requires willpower, which cannot be faked by emotionless beings, clones, or dummies.
It was precisely because Batman had worn the yellow light ring multiple times since he arrived that he was absolutely certain that the person wearing the yellow light ring was Batman himself, especially this point, which was absolutely true.
Parallax's pursuit of the other, while infuriating Mongo, also proved to some extent that it was indeed Batman himself. For Parallax, what he was always pursuing was his own will. Even if the Lamp Ring might malfunction, the Lamp Beast couldn't possibly malfunction.
It was precisely because of these two points that Mongo allowed Anton A. Kane to carry out the assassination. His decision was a bold action based on careful verification, and it was bound to be foolproof.
Meanwhile, Chen Tao's side...
His solution was simple:
That means cutting off your own head.
In the literal sense.
Berserker Bat possesses Zanian DNA, although this bloodline is not pure, so it does not grant him the same abnormal self-healing ability as the original Berserker, which allows him to regenerate from a drop of blood.
However, when it comes to performing a good show, there are no obstacles at all.
Chen Tao had already tested the state of the Synchronized Berserker Bat in the laboratory.
Actually, he was a little worried at first, after all, Wolf was known for his abnormal self-healing ability. Although the characteristic of his self-healing was that "the remaining limbs would grow from the part of the body with more tissue".
However, there have been instances where a wolf was unfortunately torn to pieces... As a result, a wolf grew from each of its chopped pieces, and the wolves fought each other until only one wolf remained. The last wolf that survived claimed to be the original wolf.
Theoretically speaking, the true regenerative ability of a wolf must be stronger than that of a wolf that grows from its fragments. Therefore, in a battle between a group of wolves, the one that survives must be the true wolf.
But from another perspective, which one qualifies as the true berserker? The berserker that grew from fragments of a skull? Or the berserker that grew from fragments of a heart?
He's like an earthworm; wherever you cut him in two, two of him will grow out. There are some philosophical questions that Wolf himself never cares about, but that doesn't mean Chen Tao can accept accidentally creating a little Chen Tao while he's in Synchronized Berserker Bat.
Even if he creates Little Chen Tao, the Berserker Bat will be "reset" after he ends the synchronization, and Little Chen Tao will be reset back to him the next time he synchronizes, but it still feels a bit strange.
Moreover, it's only synchronized now; what if it gets installed later?
However, subsequent experiments proved that Chen Tao was overthinking things. For some reason, perhaps the Berserker Bat didn't have a bloodline as powerful as the Berserker Wolf, or perhaps there were other reasons, in any case, Chen Tao discovered that even after being cut into several pieces, he wouldn't have two different intentions; instead, both remains of the corpse would obey the control of a single consciousness.
All he needed to do was cut off his head, attach it to a large mass of mud-faced flesh containing Zanian DNA, and then use ordinary mud-faced body tissue attached to the outermost layer as a drive, thus concealing the Zanian arrangement, and that would be enough to fool Mongo.
In particular, he also instructed Mudface to sever the connection between the other Mudfaces and the lump of Mudface below his head just as Death Storm's palm was about to pierce the body. This was equivalent to a gecko cutting off its tail to survive. Death Storm's attack pierced the body that was no longer under Mudface's control. No matter how severe the pollution of the rotten black was, it could only pollute loneliness in the end.
Seeing that Mongo had finally unleashed his Death Storm, he actually breathed a sigh of relief. After all, Killer Batman was an A-class Batman; maintaining that for so long must have been quite tiring for him.
On Earth.
The gorilla Grodd and the turtle man are twitching incessantly.
Martian Manhunter, Shazam the Thunder, and several other newly added heroes were lying there.
The Speed Force's electricity passed through their bodies, and several new Justice League heroes nearby screamed in pain, especially the one called Black Lightning. Despite having an electric superpower, he was making such a racket; it was truly embarrassing.
Martian Manhunter and Shazam were both bored and seemed to be doing nothing.
Asking is just a habit. Compared to the burden they had to bear when synchronizing with those S-class Batmen, these are nothing, not to mention there are other people sharing the burden.
On the other side, in Mongo's view, after Death Storm pierced Batman's body, it grabbed Batman's corpse, its feet spewing fire, and flew towards Mongo.
Although there is no oxygen available for combustion in the universe, Death Storm is essentially a living nuclear reactor. He is a supervillain of nuclear energy, and the flames are merely an external manifestation. He is fundamentally different from fire-based villains such as fireflies, heat waves, and fire men.
The Death Storm Matrix can infinitely merge with other creatures, which is why Luther was able to stuff more than 100 parasitic clones into his body. These parasitic versions of Martin will also become part of the Death Storm. If they don't fight for control of this body, that's fine, but once they start fighting, the result is predictable.
"roar!"
Parallax, in a fit of rage, saw Batman being taken away and followed him.
Mongo forced himself to keep his heart pounding.
Well done!
At this moment, he had no time to think about anything else. His eyes were filled with parallax monsters rushing after the death storm, and even the furious Seneca not far away had disappeared from his sight.
He murmured silently.
The War Tribes believe in only one rule: be the hunter, or... be the hunted!
The deceased...said so.
(End of this chapter)