chsdbacks Chapter 371 Batman is here to give the villains some warmth again.
Chapter 371 Batman is here to give the villains some warmth again.
Chapter 371 Batman is here to give the villains some warmth again.
Volthoom, the first Lamp Knight, comes from the 31st century of Earth-15. He and his mother were scientists who discovered and studied the emotional spectrum and used it to create a lamp that can travel through the multiverse.
Therefore, Huo Rong was not lying when he claimed to be the first discoverer of the emotional spectrum.
At that time, the apocalypse arrived, and his homeland was about to be destroyed by a powerful energy pulse. Huo Rong's mother gave him the experimental teleportation lamp, instructing him to use its ability to explore parallel universes infinitely and escape this universe as soon as possible to avoid annihilation. Helpless, Huo Rong abandoned his mother and embarked on his journey alone.
He traveled through countless parallel universes and points in time, seeking a way to restore his world and resurrect his mother using the spectrum of emotions across the multiverse.
He went to place after place, focusing intently on studying the power of the emotional spectrum, but most of the time the research was not very successful.
For example, in parallel universe Earth 47, he taught the people there to use the emotional spectrum, but unexpectedly, these guys only used the emotional spectrum to create beautiful music, and spent their days playing and singing without doing anything else. So he left Earth 47 and went to parallel universe Earth 3.
There, Volthoom made a deal with the wizard Mordru, using a portion of his soul to create a ring known as the "Ring of Volthoom" or the "Power Ring." This is the origin of the Green Lantern's Power Ring in Earth-3: Evil. Although Volthoom eventually broke with Mordru and left Earth-3, the ring remained there.
This is also why Calamity was able to control the ring and remove it directly from Hal Jordan's body in Earth 3 to chat with Mongo, because the ring itself contained a part of his soul.
In short, his long search had tormented him to the point of being a walking corpse, worn down by repeated failures. But the desire of the universe to revive him and his mother sustained him, allowing him to continue his journey. He became a servant of the spectrum, constantly traversing the universe in search of an advanced civilization, hoping they could save his home from the destruction of pulse energy.
The story that follows explains why he's now trapped in the Shadow Cabinet. He found the little blue people and taught them the Emotional Spectrum. Then, the little blue people repaid kindness with enmity, first destroying his mind with a Great Heart, then throwing him into the Shadow Cabinet as a threat, leaving behind a group of guardians to watch over him, ensuring he's not free for billions of years.
However, even now, with the Divine Ring as the only piece he can control, the power of the first Lantern is still weak.
The Power Ring was not a successful product. First of all, it was a ring, so it needed a host to exert its power.
However, its requirement for choosing a host is not courage or any energy on the emotional spectrum, but cowardice. It was designed to choose the most cowardly person in history when it was created, a fact even the first Genie couldn't change. If it could, it wouldn't have abandoned the ring on Earth-3; it would have taken the good stuff with it.
Therefore, Hal Jordan of Earth 3 was a coward. He was completely controlled by the ring and naturally could not provide any help to it.
So this ring is good as a henchman, but it's far from enough to overthrow the entire Green Lantern Corps, or even storm the Shadow Lodge and release him.
Therefore, now that we see Sinestro, a talent like him, the first Lantern directly gave him the Yellow Lantern energy and introduced him to the antimatter universe of Kovad, asking him to find the Weapon Master to help him forge a ring.
Sinestro originally knew he couldn't defeat the Green Lantern Corps and was preparing to flee with his planet, but upon suddenly obtaining the power of the Yellow Lantern, he immediately changed his plans.
Why couldn't he defeat the Green Lantern Corps? It's simple: there were too few of them. So, Sinestro continued to use Green Lantern energy to trap Hal while simultaneously using his remaining Green Lantern privileges to release a large number of prisoners who had been arrested by the Green Lantern Corps during Hal's confinement.
Therefore, in the blink of an eye, the Yellow Lantern Legion swelled to a size that could rival the Green Lantern Legion, skipping the stage where, like the Red Lantern Legion's Atositas, they still needed to recruit manpower.
Although these scumbags are not yet proficient in using the lamp ring, they are already a threat enough.
At this stage, Genie 1 was still very enthusiastic about helping Sinestro. He even helped Sinestro find a powerful cosmic tyrant like Mongo, and acted as an intermediary to facilitate their alliance. Compared to Calona, who also had the blood of a cosmic guardian and liked to cause trouble in secret like other little blue men, Genie 1 did his bad deeds much more openly.
Unexpectedly, as he worked with Sinestro, the first Genie began to realize something was wrong. Sinestro looked like a carbon copy of the Blue Man.
The Kovard aliens forged the Yellow Lantern Ring for him, and he immediately imprisoned the Weapon Master and continued to forge it for him. Why does this act of betraying one's benefactor seem so familiar?
The Yellow Lantern Legion has already been established, so why haven't you come to the Shadow Cabinet to release me yet? The answer is always "next time, okay." The first Lantern Knight realized that he had raised another freeloader.
So the first Lantern Man could only secretly support Mongo as his backup plan, even though he knew that Mongo was no better, but the problem was that he had no other choice now.
He had to find a way to incite a fight between Mongo and Sinestro. This wasn't about him starting to stir up internal strife before things were even settled, because if either Sinestro or Mongo gained the upper hand within the Yellow Lantern Corps, releasing him would become a permanent thing. Only if they fought each other would the first Lantern have a chance.
For the first Lantern Man, the most trustworthy thing is always the Power Ring that is directly under his control, not anyone else.
He needs to create an opportunity for the divine power ring in order to truly break free from its cage; only what is under his control is truly safe and trustworthy.
As for the Divine Power Ring escaping his control...
How could that be?
The first Lantern Knight never imagined this.
Although he knew that the ring, due to its manufacturing process, would always tend to control the weakest people, it didn't matter.
To be honest, the host that Quan Jie is currently controlling, Hal Jordan from parallel universe Earth 3, is simply the most cowardly person Huo Rong has ever seen.
Although such a person cannot provide any assistance to the ring, it also means that he cannot resist any action of the first Genie, and cannot even stop the first Genie from taking control of the ring, leaving him and returning. It should be noted that this is almost impossible for a normal Genie.
Whether it's Hal Jordan or Sinestro, the only way to take the ring away from them is to defeat them, and the same applies to any other Lantern. The original Lantern was even somewhat thankful that he had given the ring this "only chooses the weak" flaw when he created it; otherwise, he wouldn't be able to control it now.
He's been trapped for billions of years, his power has weakened to the extreme, and he genuinely can't compete with the ring's host for control every day.
He now just wanted everything to fall into place smoothly. As long as he destroyed the Green Lantern Corps, removing the biggest obstacle to his escape, he could then use his divine power to snatch a chestnut from the fire and mobilize the Yellow Lantern Corps to break through the Shadow Cabinet. Even if he could only mobilize them for a short while, he could escape...
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Atositas is leading many of the young Titans back to Earth.
Since Batman told him that he did not intend to expose himself to the world at this stage, Atositas did not use the Red Lantern Ring or his original appearance. Instead, Batman had a creature called Mudface smeared on his face, turning him into a strange alien with horns on his head.
Anyway, people on Earth haven't seen many real aliens, and Athocitas's disguise is enough to fool others. Right now, his identity is just an alien friend that Batman met on another planet, nothing more. The Red Lantern Corps doesn't exist at all.
Batman had finished gathering information from him and left in a hurry, saying he was going to find Scarecrow. Who was Scarecrow's mother? Atocitus didn't know, and Batman didn't explain it to him.
The Red Lantern Lord was fed up with Batman's constant use of cryptic language. The other man seemed to know everything, but he just wouldn't tell you, leaving you to fumble around preparing. Even though you didn't have to worry about anything, it always felt a bit strange.
Atositas thought to himself.
By this time, he had already sent all the children back to Titan Tower, and the restored Starfire was taking care of them all.
The woman named Talia left Titan Tower, leaving her son behind... Atocitus knew that the woman seemed to be Batman's spouse, but their relationship was complicated... Atocitus shook his head; it was none of his business.
In short, he is now outside Batman's laboratory in the Justice League Hall, a fairly large hall where Batman's laboratory is located.
Athocitas was waiting for someone. Batman told him to wait there, and he would be there soon with his men. Athocitas had no idea why Batman wanted to see him—he hated the Riddler.
With a bang, Atositas looked up and saw someone push open the door connecting the corridor to the hall and walk in, but it wasn't Batman he had imagined, but an old acquaintance he knew, Bane.
The other party possesses an energy that represents death. Athocitas had met the other party before when he was dealing with Darkseid, and to this day, he can still remember what the other party looked like on the Origin Wall.
Athocitas turned his head away, about to say something, when Bain suddenly splashed water on his face.
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Caught off guard, Atos was caught completely off guard and was hit squarely in the face. The mud on his face melted instantly, and he let out a wail.
"As expected of Mudface, Batman never had good intentions when he called me here!"
Bain jumped up, and before Athocitas could react, he was almost sent flying by a punch.
"????"
Athocitas didn't intend to demolish the building before Batman arrived. Since no one was around, he quickly used the Red Lantern Ring to block Bane's attack.
After much effort, the two of them finally compared notes and discovered that they had both been summoned by Batman for meetings and experiments.
"...So now there's a simple question: where is Batman?"
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The two men looked at each other, neither knowing Batman's whereabouts.
Just then, with a loud bang, the door opened again.
The man who walked in was none other than Batman.
"Oh, Batman, you're here... wait?"
Athocitas wanted to say something, but when he saw the person standing behind Batman, his eyes widened in surprise.
"William?"
The person who appeared behind Batman at that moment was none other than William Hand, the initiator of the Darkest Night and the host of the Black Death Emperor's journey to the mortal world!
After Athocitas used blood magic to brainwash the man on Ismot and clear his heart of darkness, he handed him over to Batman to protect on Earth.
William Hand is very important; he can't die. If he dies, he will become the first Black Lantern Corpse, and then immediately summon the Black Death Emperor, followed by the arrival of the Darkest Night, and everyone will be doomed.
So Athocitas handed him over to Batman, believing that Batman was the best person to protect this ancestor, but what the hell is going on now?
How did he end up here? And... wearing Robin's uniform?
Damn it, Batman! You should keep him safe somewhere you can protect him at any time, like some fragile porcelain, making sure William Hand doesn't die in some accident and bring misfortune to the entire universe.
Seeing that William Hand, such a bombshell, was so casually carried around by Batman, even though Atocitus, whose internal organs had been emptied by the Red Lantern Ring and who had no blood vessels left, still felt his head throbbing.
"Yes, it's spicy!"
Chen Tao patted William Hand on the shoulder: "Let me formally introduce you to my fifth-generation Robin, William Hand!"
"what?"
Atositas's mind didn't quite process what was happening for a moment, then he heard Batman say, "We're going to take him to the battlefield. Anyone who disobeys will be killed on sight. We'll just summon the Black Death and give the villains a taste of their own medicine!"
"If you don't obey, I'll just destroy the world. Those old fogies want to escape their cages, right? The world's been destroyed, then you can find the Black Lantern Corpse to release them! Hehehehehe!"
"???"
(End of this chapter)