Chapter 2250: Late Autumn in Gold City (49)

Bruce is hard to deal with, but Barbatos still lets him deal with it because Bruce is not the first Batman Barbatos has contacted; there are all experts in the dark universe.

The dark origins of DC generally present the following characteristics: they have the ability to pollute the light, but are more willing to flow to areas where dark energy is equally concentrated. In essence, they present a kind of regional gathering inertia, rather than an outward-spreading pollution.

That is to say, Barbatos wants to use dark power to pollute the light universe, not by dripping dye into water, but similar to constantly pushing a shot put. This is actually a heavy and laborious process.

Otherwise, with Barbatos's status, although it's not said that he can take down the entire light universe, in the case where there is darkness in the light universe itself, it would be very easy to occupy a few unimportant ones as strongholds.

Of course, in reality, it is because the character Barbatos, when designed, only occupied a senior position in terms of wisdom and ability. The editors also couldn't explain why this character setting was so awesome, yet he hadn't done anything for such a long time, was unknown, and had to wait until the Dark Knights appeared to concentrate on brushing up his performance.

In the wisdom rating, Barbatos doesn't rank, let alone compare with Brainiac; even between him and Luthor, there are more than a dozen Batmen.

In the martial arts ranking, like Barbatos and those transcendent existences in heaven and hell, they basically don't participate in the ranking. Their character settings are relatively empty, and they are always talking about the power of laws and rules. In fact, they haven't really beaten anyone in a fist-to-flesh fight, and their martial arts values are basically described from the side.

The only setting with a bit of character is spiritual pollution, which can be considered to have status, but once put into the plot, it looks no different from ordinary brainwashing, and there are no large-scale operations with polluting properties.

In general, the character setting of Barbatos is more like it was designed to perfect the background board of major events and fill in wherever it was missing. Let alone comparing with those orthodox heroes, his fashion value can't even compare to Darkseid.

Because of this, Barbatos has placed his hopes more than once on Batman, the hero with the most fashion value in the entire DC comics, and even the entire comic world. But because of the theory of dark energy source concentration, most Batmen in the dark universe are strange and weird.

Batman himself is the source and delivery port of darkness, and the darkness he possesses is more like it was directly given by the editorial department. Then the Batman in the dark universe is even more of a concentrated gathering point of dark power.

As long as Barbatos still has dark power, it will be constantly instilled into the Batman of the dark universe, but this has not made them stronger, because Batman's strongest point is his brain, and dark power almost cannot strengthen their wisdom while keeping their sanity normal.

Simply put, farmers only fantasize about emperors using golden hoes to hoe the ground. Barbatos, who represents dark energy, is not very smart. How could the energy he represents strengthen a peerless genius who transcends all universes?

Of course, speaking of this, I have to mention the Batman Who Laughs, but in fact, the relationship between the Batman Who Laughs and Barbatos is not big. Barbatos is just a ring-wearing old man who appears at the end of the entire origin story.

Although it is nominally said that because every dark universe has been polluted by Barbatos's dark energy, Batman will face several tragedies, but to be honest, the Batman Who Laughs becoming like this has something to do with being a natural war maniac. Barbatos doesn't take the blame either.

After all, there are so many dark multiverses, and everyone is fine, but it's only here that you've dropped the ball. Although it's a reverse drop, it's enough to show that Barbatos can't be called the father of the Batman Who Laughs at all.

Back to Barbatos's plan to find a vanguard in the dark universe, in fact, he really found one, but the entire process of searching and selecting can be described as an ancient god witnessing the diversity of human species.

Barbatos is not human. Although he is a wise life form and has feelings, he really finds it difficult to understand certain human behaviors.

From his perspective, it's just that one day Batman suddenly went crazy and started killing his friends, relatives, and even various unrelated people, and then the friends and relatives of the killed people came to take revenge, and the two sides fought chaotically.

Batman couldn't beat them, so he either modified himself or modified others, and the two sides started yelling and insisting on bumping into each other, finally beating the entire earth into a mess, and Barbatos had to clean up the mess for them.

Otherwise, why would they say that the Batman of the light universe is white moonlight? Barbatos wants to invade the light universe, needs a plan, and needs someone to execute it. But formulating and executing a plan requires wisdom and action, but most Batmen in the dark multiverse are crazy and don't have these two things at all. But if you want to get a normal Batman, you have to invade the light universe...

Obviously, it became a dead loop, which is why Barbatos was so happy about Bruce's appearance and entrusted him with important tasks as soon as he came up, because regardless of whether this guy is troublesome or not, at least he is a normal person.

Barbatos didn't even dare to use his spiritual pollution on Bruce. Not to mention that Bruce has an angelic status, if he connects to Bruce's spiritual network, it is very likely that he will make a phone call to God. Just talking about the chaos and madness in the dark attributes he possesses makes him not dare to take this risk. What if he makes another one crazy?

Barbatos can be said to be holding Bruce in his hands for fear of dropping him, and holding him in his mouth for fear of melting him. Although he is annoying, he endures it.

So, has Bruce made any achievements?

Actually, yes, but not many.

Maybe many people will wonder, Bruce is so busy rolling, is everything he rolls useless? Are all those work reports he sent to Barbatos just a disguise?

That would be underestimating Batman too much. All the plans Bruce formulated were not only precise and vicious, but also executed very well, implemented quite thoroughly, with rigorous personnel arrangements, scientific methods of doing things, and maximized efficiency.

So according to this, Barbatos should be able to ascend to the light universe in a few days, but in reality, the progress bar has been pushed and then shrunk back, and Barbatos can't pick out any faults.

This has to mention the time when the Battleworld test version was opened, Bruce went to the Battleworld resident office and very coincidentally encountered Nick Fury from the universe where Shiler was.

That's right, it's that set of S. H. I. E. L. D. and Hydra again.

However, to this day, the "Evil Fourth Power" that fully exerts subjective initiative has transformed this system to be increasingly perfect and carried forward, even forming a systematic teaching system. The first beneficiary is Bruce.

Who is Bruce? He is Batman. There is no one in this world who understands things better than him. He even transformed the plan to be more adaptable to local conditions on the basis of the "Evil Fourth Power," adding many details they hadn't noticed.

The basis of this theory is actually to create a grand scene of game between good and evil by inviting wolves into the house, greatly increasing the consumption of resources on the surface, and taking this opportunity to move resources elsewhere.

Then use the misappropriated resources to create more job opportunities, making everyone busy with things that don't exist, which can not only drag the evil side so they have no time to do other things, but also show themselves off in front of the righteous side as having done a lot of things.

Bruce naturally follows this train of thought, but the good and evil are reversed. He stands on the side of the Owls, and the boss is Barbatos.

Barbatos is equivalent to the Congress that approves funds, the Owls are equivalent to S. H. I. E. L. D. agents, and Hydra is naturally the Batman who resists the Owls in various universes. Of course, occasionally Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, etc., are introduced to act as characters like the KGB.

The general method of operation is to first point out the problems existing in the Owls of a certain universe using an extremely detailed and reasonable plan. All these problems are real and will be improved after getting the budget.

These budgets will not be embezzled, but will be used for the right path. With Batman's wisdom and execution, he can increase the combat power of the Owls by dozens of times in just a few weeks.

The members of the Court of Owls are not vegetarians either. The stronger the power, the greater the ambition, and it is inevitable that they will have conflicts with the righteous side. Barbatos thinks so too. Since under Batman's leadership, the Owls have the ability to fight head-on with superheroes, then why not?

Having been suffocated and secretly transporting energy and pollution for so many years, he finally has a chance to be proud. It would be one thing if he couldn't beat them in the past, but now that he is so strong, it is time to get back what he owed in the past.

So Barbatos and the Court of Owls had no opinion on coming to the surface, because in their view, it was only a matter of time before they stood on equal footing with human order society. They couldn't hide forever, right?

Just like that, the vast majority of the Court of Owls under Bruce's rule came to the surface and became a globally famous terrorist organization, which naturally also attracted high attention from Batman.

Bruce then used a little trick to guide Batman, making him think that the death of his parents might have been the work of the Owls—although a part of it might really be, those that weren't could still be used through some clever guidance to make Batman have misunderstandings.

It's his own city, and the large-scale extremist terrorists might be the killers of his relatives. Reasonably and emotionally, Batman couldn't ignore it.

Logically speaking, this belongs to an internal event in Gotham, but if Bruce let Batman handle it internally so easily, there would be ghosts. Under his leadership, the Court of Owls was extremely high-profile.

Don't care if it's NAZI, Hydra, genocide, or alien conspiracy, he edits it however Hollywood films it. We are just evil and refuse to repent. If you don't pull in a company of superheroes for this, can it still be called executing justice?

The result of such a high profile was that the vast majority of superheroes with a sense of justice would constantly care about the situation here, and Batman would have no way to deal with the Court of Owls independently. And once superheroes like Superman entered the scene, it would be impossible for the scene not to be grand.

So the scene in these few universes became that the Court of Owls became the most powerful and stylish villain organization on Earth, while superhero organizations like the Justice League worked tirelessly and day and night to fight them.

If it were in a game, it would be that although a character became one of the human rights in the current version through a skill change, the difficulty of the dungeon was also fully strengthened. Changing it was equivalent to not changing it.

And as expected, in most cases, the character skill change was not for any balance adjustment at all. The manufacturer's ultimate goal was only one, and that was to cheat for money. ===== CHAPTER 2251 =====