Chapter 1505

I really like a comment Red Hood once made about Bruce—"He's a bit too trendy." At this very moment, it was just like that time, and Schiller felt the same way about this sentence.

But anyway, somehow, Schiller accepted that incredibly cool artifact shredder, and somehow, Bruce obtained the hundred-plus fragments that Schiller had asked the KGB to collect.

And somehow, God fled in panic from the theater in Schiller's Mind Palace, and still somehow, this shredder appeared in the office at Cat Getan University. Finally, somehow, Victor and Anna both used up their annual leave for the year and fled Cat Getan in panic, and for the next month, they never appeared in the office at Cat Getan University again.

Before Bruce left, Schiller asked him a question: "Why do you want to collect all the Eclipso fragments?"

And Bruce just smiled while holding a box of fragments and said: "I said, the essence of manipulation is love."

After returning to Wayne Manor, Bruce brought all the fragments to the Batcave located in the suburbs. But he didn't rush to put all the fragments together, but started drawing a magic circle on the ground using magic materials that had already been prepared.

But after the magic circle was drawn, he didn't input power into it, but started fiddling with all the fragments again.

The fragments of the Heart of Darkness have an instinctive attraction. Bruce almost didn't need to deliberately assemble them, but just piled them together randomly, and those many black diamonds that looked similar began to change into different shapes, and then gradually spliced together.

But because the whole room was filled with magic circles drawn by Bruce, no matter how the black diamonds were spliced, they were within the range of the magic circles. When the last core fragment flew out and was inserted into the center of the black diamonds, and the entire Heart of Darkness was assembled, a power that shook the heavens and the earth erupted.

Endless anger surged within it, making one think of violent thunder and terrifying floods. Bruce was completely unmoved, just standing quietly in place, looking at the black fog in the center.

The moment the Heart of Darkness released its power, the magic circle under Bruce's feet automatically absorbed the power it overflowed, and then emitted a soft light, binding the Heart of Darkness.

"Let me go, human! You should lift the seal and let me bring anger back to the world again!" An angry roar came.

"I can see that there is incomparable anger in your heart. The death of your parents makes you full of resentment towards this world. You should release the anger in your heart..."

"My dad is working at the company now."

With one sentence, Bruce made Eclipso silent for eighteen seconds for him.

After saying this, Bruce no longer paid attention to the Heart of Darkness, but walked to another room and started drawing a magic circle again.

He drew another silver-white, very complex magic circle, and then took a drawer of magic props from the cabinet next to him, all of which were touched from the mages by Cat Getan's thieves.

Bruce injected the power inside into the magic circle one by one, which was an exponential growth rune of 2 becoming 4, 4 becoming 8. As the magic circle operated, the holy light in the room became more and more intense. After an unbelievable scream, Gabriel stood in the center of the magic circle with a confused face.

The moment he saw Bruce's face, he instinctively widened his eyes. Ignoring their previous grudges first, he shouted in disbelief: "You summon an angel like this?! What if I'm taking a bath?!"

"I have a bath towel here, do you want it?" Bruce answered calmly.

Gabriel's brain finally cleared up. He looked at Bruce vigilantly and said: "Your forced summoning can actually summon an angel? Damn it, this is a trap!"

"I want to give you something, follow me. Oh, right, you'd better not think about running, otherwise I will pull you back again."

Gabriel stood blankly in place. It wasn't until Bruce walked out the door and waved at him at the entrance that he took a step with some hesitation.

Although Gabriel's status is not as good as Lucifer's, his omniscience and omnipotence are also world-class. He has seen many Batmen and knows exactly how terrifying they are.

He was just afraid that if he took this step, more than six million traps would be waiting for him. For Batman, this is not impossible.

But even if he didn't dare to take a step, he had to. What if there were ten million traps in the room he was staying in now?

Vigilance towards Batman is an infinite chain of suspicion. Gabriel knew this, so he decided it was better to empty his brain.

But as Bruce took him to the room next door, Gabriel still felt a sense of humiliation and anger rushing to his heart. He looked at Bruce coldly and said.

"This is what you want me to see?! You successfully collected all the fragments, you won, and I lost. This is your purpose for summoning me here?! Stupid human!"

Bruce shook his head. He walked to the opposite side of Gabriel, looked into his eyes, and said: "My purpose for summoning you here is to give the Heart of Darkness to you."

Gabriel was stunned.

Bruce turned around, paced around the Heart of Darkness, and said: "If it weren't for you helping me find the core fragments, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to complete the Heart of Darkness. Now the Heart of Darkness is completed, Eclipso is still sealed and hasn't escaped. All humans who haven't been harmed by it should thank you."

"I think I can represent them and give you a gift, but I really don't have anything presentable. But I can infer that your original intention was to let me collect the fragments, and after completing the Heart of Darkness, snatch it away. Now it's here, it's yours."

Gabriel was stunned in place for at least three minutes. He shook his head and said: "No, Batman, don't think I'll believe you. What did you put on the Heart of Darkness?"

"Aren't you able to distinguish truth from lies?"

Gabriel was stunned for another five minutes, and then he muttered to himself in disbelief: "What he said is true? No, no, no, absolutely impossible! This must be Batman's deception that exceeds the world's understanding. How is this possible, this doesn't make sense... You, what necessity do you have, I mean..."

Gabriel stammered for a long time and found that he was actually somewhat at a loss for words. He could only look at Bruce with an extremely suspicious gaze.

He originally thought he would wait for a long-winded explanation, but didn't expect Bruce to walk back in front of him and say: "No one has ever firmly chosen you, right? Whether it's your Lord or your brothers, or even your believers, you were never their first choice."

"But now, I have firmly chosen you. Regardless of what you want to do with the Spirit of Vengeance, or I can guess what you want to do, I don't care. I just want to give it to you."

The muscles on Gabriel's face slowly relaxed. He looked at Bruce with a holy yet cold expression, stared at him for a long time, and then opened his mouth to say.

"You are the most terrifying Batman I have ever seen."

"My honor. Then, do you want to accept this gift?"

Gabriel lowered his shoulders. His wings behind him spread out with a "bang." His eyes were somewhat vacant, and he said slowly: "I know the Spirit of Vengeance is as angry as I am. God betrayed us."

"He didn't tell us before creating us that we would never be his first choice. He always has better ones, and we are just backups that can be discarded when the time comes."

"No one in Heaven can understand me. They just think I want too much. I am clearly in pain because of this, but everyone turns a blind eye. I feel that only the Spirit of Vengeance can understand me, because he was also abandoned by God."

"I will take it back to Heaven—" Gabriel raised his tone and said: "Destroy that hypocritical holy place, let those who don't understand me, who can't feel my pain, flee in panic, let them cry out for help in despair, and then see God's cold and ruthless true face!"

Gabriel slightly raised his upper eyelids to look at the ground in front of him and said: "Angels are born holy. Every second I violate my instinct for justice and kindness is a torment, but I must make them understand me, because the person who should understand me the most doesn't love me."

"But I have understood you at this moment." Bruce looked at him and said: "Understand why you are in pain, and then in a situation where there are ten thousand better choices, I still firmly chose you."

"That's why I said, you are more terrifying than other Batmen." Gabriel took a deep breath, his teeth began to chatter, and even the feathers on his wings began to tremble: "This is the first gift I have received. You know I can't, I can't..."

And then the muscles of his wings and arms relaxed together. Gabriel said as if he had been liberated: "I have nothing to give you in return. You probably wouldn't accept my gift either."

"Do you know? In human society, people usually start to give gifts in return after accepting a gift. If you have already started thinking about giving a gift in return, it means you want to accept this gift."

"Shut up, don't try to tempt me, you damn devil!"

Bruce turned around and started circling Gabriel. He walked and said: "Think about it. You take the Spirit of Vengeance back to Heaven. They will definitely be incomparably surprised at where you found him."

"And you can tell them that this is a gift from a friend of yours. They will definitely be surprised that you actually have friends outside of Heaven."

"Other angels all respond to human prayers generously and tolerantly. You neglect your duties and come to the human world to do evil, but you can receive a sincere gift in return from a human."

Bruce put his hand on Gabriel's shoulder and whispered in his ear: "Do Lucifer and Michael have such an honor?"

Gabriel instantly stiffened all over. After a long while, he let out a long breath, swallowed, and then took a stiff step towards the Heart of Darkness.

The light on Gabriel's body enveloped the Heart of Darkness, and after the holy light obscured everything, the figures of the angel and the Heart of Darkness disappeared from the room together.

"I heard the anger in your heart... Gabriel, since you came for me, why don't you let me out... I can help you release the anger in your heart..."

Gabriel's hand paused, but he didn't look at the Heart of Darkness, but said: "I changed my mind. Batman is right. Instead of taking you to destroy Heaven, it's better to take you to turn around in front of Michael. His face will definitely be very wonderful."

Gabriel hummed in a light tone, seemingly having imagined the surprised expressions of other angels. But just as he walked out of the reception palace along the Gate of Heaven, what appeared in front of him wasn't the reception guard he often saw, but a light.

A light from the beginning of creation, the most noble and pure primordial light that no darkness could cover his brightness.

The Seraph descended in the light. The bright and dazzling golden hair floated slightly, and the holy light in the blue eyes almost overflowed. He wore a white robe, held a laurel branch, and landed on the ground barefoot.

Gabriel froze in place, and then almost tremblingly called out his name: "Lucifer Morningstar!"

And the Archangel Michael actually followed behind Lucifer. He wore silver armor, held a spear, looked at Gabriel seriously, and said: "The new Archangel will be Lucifer Morningstar."

When all the angels landed on the ground, Michael spoke again: "Gabriel, what have you done in the human world? Do you know that the sins you have committed in these few short days are more than all those committed in the entire Heaven for ten thousand years! You actually dared to let a newborn angel fall!"

Gabriel didn't pay attention to him at all, his gaze fixed on Lucifer Morningstar standing at the very front. Lucifer stood with his hands down, and it wasn't until the palace was silent enough to hear a pin drop that he said.

"Neglecting duties and disrespecting responsibilities is the sin of pride; pursuing power and disregarding morality is the sin of greed. In addition, there are wrath, impurity, betrayal, deception, slaughter..."

"Gabriel, I will judge all your sins with the power bestowed upon the Archangel by Jehovah..."

Gabriel stared at Lucifer's expressionless face. Suddenly, he revealed an absurd smile, shook his head slightly, took two steps back, made a short breath from his trachea, and then looked up at the ceiling and said.

"Lucifer... you are simply absurd! When you were judging my sins, did you think about yourself even a little bit?"

Lucifer's voice was as holy as if it came from a distant sanctuary: "But when I returned, what greeted me were happy tears, flowers, and holy springs, gatherings and joy."

"God promised that no sin would ever be added to me. Whenever I return, it will be like this, just because I am Lucifer Morningstar."

Gabriel just looked at him somewhat sluggishly, looking at the appearance that was holier than any angel, and the deepest malice hidden under this holy appearance that no one noticed when he said these words, only he could see.

Just because he is Lucifer Morningstar.

Gabriel slowly closed his eyes and stood there as if ten thousand years had passed, but only a few seconds had passed.

Michael stepped forward and said: "Hand over the evil thing in your hand to me, and I will keep it properly. And you, Gabriel, you must obey the judgment and repent for your sins. When you return, you will still be holy, my brother."

Gabriel lowered his head and revealed a dry smile. He finally looked at Michael and said in a choked tone: "Holy? But I don't want to be holy anymore."

His Adam's apple moved up and down, and then he took a step back, raised his hands like a human, looked at Lucifer, and said: "I don't need you to expel me, I will fall from Heaven myself, but I will not repent... never repent."

After speaking, he took another step back. Michael stepped forward somewhat anxiously and raised his tone: "No, you cannot fall from the Gate of Heaven. Falling from the Gate of Heaven will..."

Gabriel took another step back, stepped into the air, and fell into the Gate of Heaven that was emitting light. The second half of the sentence Michael didn't have time to say was—"Angels who fall from the Gate of Heaven will no longer be angels."

In the light of the rapid fall, Gabriel gradually curled up his body. The wings emitting holy light were peeled off his back bit by bit, and blood that angels don't have began to gush out from the wounds.

When Gabriel's incomparably painful expression was frozen in the frame, an old man sitting in the audience stood up with a "zeng" and clenched his fists tightly.

The moment the wings were completely peeled off Gabriel, he used his last bit of strength to grab the wings flying towards Heaven, turned them into a point of light, threw it towards the human world, and said at the last moment before falling into a coma.

"I command you to bestow my glory and power upon the truly holy person as my return gift, so that he will never fall... Amen."

Bruce, who had finished fooling Gabriel, found Red Robin, who had stabbed Caine but was also injured, in the valley of Greenwich.

And just as he was holding Red Robin and pressing the wound on his abdomen, a meteor-like light flew from far to near. Bruce looked up in surprise.

But the speed of the light point was too fast. Bruce didn't have time to dodge, was hit, leaned back, and stumbled back a few steps.

The next second, with a "teng," huge holy wings spread out from behind him. He floated directly into mid-air, and the holy light illuminated the entire valley.

And facing Red Robin's shocked expression, Bruce couldn't help but say that sentence—

"Child, don't be afraid."