Chapter 2198: Barbatos Has Bad Luck (Part 1)

A bolt of lightning suddenly appeared above Barbatos, the Source of Darkness. It was as fast as a gale and as swift as thunder, "crack!" and it struck the top of his head.

Barbatos jumped up with a howl, looking everywhere for who had struck him. As soon as he looked up, he saw an angel with several pairs of incomparably dazzling wings appear in the darkness.

Uriel was so angry that he completely forgot the rule that angels should not interfere with cosmic affairs at will. He wished he could strike this damn dragon to death with a bolt of lightning. Fortunately, Michael discovered that something was wrong in time and pulled him back, leaving a confused Barbatos looking left and right.

An existence of Barbatos's level naturally knew of the existence of Heaven, and of course, he also knew that an angel had just rushed in and slapped him.

But why?

He shouldn't have offended any angels, right? Barbatos carefully searched his memory and found that he rarely dealt with angels, that is, he had occasionally seen them a few times when he was beside the World Forger, and he hadn't encountered them recently. How could he have offended them?

Why was that angel crazy just now?

Thinking back carefully about his behavior again, Barbatos felt a bit guilty.

The so-called "don't do anything wrong, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door." All the things Barbatos did were wrong. Although he had no morality, he also understood the principle of cosmic balance between yin and yang. His behavior of constantly polluting the bright universe with dark energy belonged to improper behavior that broke the balance.

Could it be that he was caught?

Barbatos thought again and felt it was very possible, because he knew his own affairs best. Recently, he indeed had a bolder plan and had initially implemented it.

For many years, Barbatos had been trying to invade the bright universe, but it hadn't gone smoothly.

The reason was a bit like a game called "Splatoon," which is the famous squid girl painting the floor. Team members of the corresponding color can only hide under the paint of their own color, and they will be revealed in places without paint.

Barbatos is the Source of Darkness. When he hides in dark energy, he is invincible. No one can lock onto him, and some can't even attack him at all.

But if there is no dark energy in a certain place or it is very thin, Barbatos has to go there in his true form. His true form is not fragile, but it is far from invincible.

So if Barbatos wants to go anywhere, he has to paint the floor first. But to paint the floor, he has to go there. But to go there, for the sake of safety, he has to paint the floor first. This forms a vicious cycle.

Barbatos's previous solution was to gather Judas believers, letting the Court of Owls use his dark energy to gradually pollute the bright universe on a small scale.

It is equivalent to saying that every Cat Getan infected by dark energy is actually Barbatos's stronghold. He can completely monitor that place and pass through it unimpeded.

But the Court of Owls are humans after all. They almost cannot directly use Barbatos's dark energy, and even the Talons they cultivate only indirectly utilize it. In the final analysis, humans are too fragile.

They don't have extraordinary power, so they can only use stupid methods, mixing sand into buildings, and it takes decades to pollute a city.

Decades of time is not long for Barbatos, but after polluting Cat Getan, it becomes very difficult to pollute other cities, because human development is phased. Cities that have completed modernization simply don't have the need for large-scale demolition and reconstruction, so the stupid method doesn't work well.

This led to the fact that although Barbatos could constantly establish his dark strongholds in one bright universe after another, many years had passed, and the strongholds were always so large that they weren't enough for one of his fingernails to stand on. If this continued, how long would it take for him to bring all the bright universes under his command?

After working hard for so long without progress, Barbatos finally thought of changing his thinking.

It is not feasible to always focus on the bright universe. The believers he recruited and cultivated there are too weak. They might only be a little stronger than ordinary people after being cultivated for decades.

It can be seen from Barbatos treating Bruce in Schiller's universe as a treasure that he hadn't cultivated any decent powerful believers for so many years. He had powerful strength but didn't dare to use it, and couldn't use it.

In just that one moment, Barbatos suddenly figured it out: Why do I have to focus on the bright universe?

So he turned his head to look within his own territory, which is all the dark universes of DC.

The boundary between DC's bright and dark universes is not that obvious. If there is a rule, it is that everything that happens in the dark universe will uncontrollably fall towards darkness until it is completely corrupted and fallen. This is the endless darkness that Barbatos brings to them.

It is precisely because of the influence of the powerful Dark Source energy that the strength of the living beings in the dark universe is generally a bit stronger than that of the bright universe. Over the years, a batch of capable people has been accumulated.

Barbatos's energy cannot be poured into the bodies of bright universe creatures, but dark universe life doesn't have this trouble. They are born, grow, and die under the influence of this energy. This is a part of them, simply a natural container.

So why not pour his energy into them and let them invade the bright universe?

Barbatos thought the more he felt this plan was feasible.

The creatures of the bright universe are naturally incompatible with him. Forced infusion not only wastes energy but also easily causes many relatively tragic events for this group of weak creatures, attracting attention from all sides.

Barbatos is still in the period of making a fortune in silence. He doesn't want to expose his intentions for the time being, so every time he pays the Owls, he is sneaky and stingy. He also turns a blind eye to the Owls slacking off, because he knows this is his own problem.

But if he uses the life of the dark universe, there is no such trouble. Power can be poured hard, various enhancements must be filled, and even if they die after being sent over, the dark energy in their bodies will leave a large piece of pollution on the land after the explosion, which is equivalent to instantly setting up a small base. No matter how you calculate it, it's not a loss.

And this group of people grew up in the dark universe in the first place. The darkness brought to them by that universe not only makes them strong but also makes them loyal enough, hoping more than anyone else to bring pain and darkness to more people. They are much better to use than the Court of Owls who fish for three days and dry the net for two days.

And the personnel of the bright universe and the dark universe have always been flowing. As long as you cleverly drill a loophole and send them over in small batches, it is very difficult to attract the attention of others. Once they arrive, let them disperse, and it will be even more hidden.

All this is simply god-unaware and ghost-unaware. The invasion progress that has been stagnant for many years can finally take a step forward again. Barbatos started his action without much more thinking.

His action is divided into two parts: one is picking vegetables on the plate he already has, and the other is looking for loopholes on the plate to facilitate sending the vegetables to the opposite side.

Both of these links are completed in the Source of Darkness. Barbatos thinks he is secret, but he doesn't know that another mysterious existence has been squatting in his base camp for a long time.

Is it Bruce Wayne?

Although Bruce did come later, in terms of being a fun-maker, he is far from being the best.

The one who has been squatting in Barbatos's base camp is naturally Nyarlathotep.

Or rather, he is not squatting here, he simply didn't leave at all. Since Schiller sent a big alarm clock to Barbatos last time and successfully guided Nyar here, Nyar simply hasn't left the Source of Darkness.

The peeping and attacks from the outside world that Barbatos felt later were actually just Nyar's pretense, including the constant pulling and harassment later, all to make Barbatos believe that Nyar is the hand outside the balloon, powerful and threatening.

And what Nyar is actually doing is not so rude and reckless at all. He is an extremely exquisite artist. When the giant dragon in the balloon and the giant hand outside the balloon are fighting, he silently sends a molecule through the outer wall of the balloon into the Dark Multiverse.

That is exactly the universe of little Bruce.

A certain Batman became a believer of Nyarlathotep, but he is still Batman. His body still has Barbatos's energy, so he and his Cat Getan silently mixed into a pile of dark universes, even appearing darker and crazier than other universes, and no one noticed.

Barbatos was busy dealing with Nyar's threat and didn't notice that there was an extra piece of vegetable on his plate.

And after this incident ended, Barbatos began to select capable people in the Dark Multiverse—he picked little Bruce.

Nyar is a god of a thousand faces who is very good at disguising. Under his careful dressing up, little Bruce, this piece of vegetable, has a very good appearance, is young, has high talent, is chaotic and crazy enough. It would be strange if he wasn't noticed by Barbatos.

After little Bruce felt the existence of Barbatos, Nyar immediately knew that Barbatos intended to do something.

And this time he didn't take popcorn as usual, find a good position, and prepare to watch the fun, but notified one person first—Schiller Rodriguez.

Although he also had the idea of calling him to watch the fun together, this still stemmed from an agreement between Schiller and Nyar—

As Schiller, who wrote the "Necronomicon," he didn't publish this encyclopedia and genealogy of outer gods, but handed it to Nyar, letting Nyar decide who could understand the knowledge of the outer gods.

And Nyar notified Schiller the first time Barbatos took action.

This deal sounds a bit of a loss. Opportunities to trade fairly with the god of fun are rare. Nyar thinks the "Necronomicon" is very interesting and is very interested in it. Schiller should have taken this opportunity to open his mouth wide and pluck Nyar's wool.

But Schiller believes that obtaining more knowledge and power is just adding tiles to a new house, but before that, a more fatal thing must be solved—the latrine leaking shit.

No matter how beautiful and good-looking the new house is built, with a pile or even several piles of shit shaking around in the house, this house is uninhabitable, so even if it is built slowly, it must ensure the firmness and safety of the latrine.

Even if you can't prevent everything, you must prevent the biggest pile.

Schiller arrived at the scene the first time after Nyar notified him, and after understanding Barbatos's recent movements, he understood that the gears that finally led to the explosion of the septic tank finally began to turn slowly. ===== CHAPTER 2199 =====