Chapter 2307: Gotham Music Festival (55)

Atlan's huge phantom suddenly froze.

A rich dark aura suddenly surged in the waves under Orm's feet, spreading up from the deepest part of the seawater. When it was about to spread to Orm's feet, Atlan appeared very panicked.

"What is this? This... no... no..."

The phantom 'whooshed' back into Orm's body, but Orm was still manipulated into raising his trident. He howled in pain, lightning flashing behind him, and the giant waves rushed toward the shore, causing the crowd at the pier to let out panicked shouts.

But soon another figure blocked the front of the city. Arthur and the Atlantean sea people, like Orm before, used waves to form a solid giant curtain, blocking all the invading seawater.

The seawater from both sides gradually gathered. Although they both came from the sea, they were distinct yet entangled. Not far from the pier, they gathered into a high water tornado. Even the clouds and lightning were rolled into it, forming an incomparably violent vortex reaching the sky.

Inside the water tornado, two strong figures fought together. Arthur's black hair was wetted by the water and blown up by the strong wind. He shouted at Orm: "Wake up, Orm, don't let him control you. We are descendants of Atlantis. The sea has a free will and cannot be represented by anyone!"

Blue and golden patterns appeared on Orm's body simultaneously. Countless violent forces surged out from his eyes, mouth, and nose. He let out a painful roar, and countless seawater circled his limbs, both like a cage and a weapon.

The thunder and dark clouds in the sky constantly surged and roared, pressing down pitch-black. The falling rain curtain seemed to have the power of ten thousand jun. Whether it was the corpses floating on the sea or the crowd fleeing in panic at the pier, they were as tiny as damp water vapor on a canvas.

The greatness of nature was vividly reflected at this moment. When the sea and sky roared together, the roars made by all life were nothing but the whimpers of newborns.

Arthur had no weapons, but the seawater was his most advantageous means of attack. He swung his arm forward, and a torrent shot out. The trident emitted a faint light, barely blocking this attack, and Orm roared and rushed toward Arthur.

Arthur dodged to the side, his black hair drifting to his forehead. Accompanied by the surging water flow, he saw Orm's eyes through the gaps in this dense hair, which were filled with pain and struggle.

Continuing to look in, the deepest part of the pupils surged with a strange black tide. Another great battle was raging in Orm's mental world.

Rich green occupied half of the sky. Green Lantern Hal floated above the world full of seawater. Rich Green Lantern energy resisted the endless invasion of seawater, while in the distance, the Dead King Atlan, radiating golden light all over his body, was mobilizing power regardless of everything, wanting to break through the blockade of Green Lantern energy.

"Wake up quickly, Orm, the person controlling you wants to destroy your home." Batman's voice sounded in the water. He was standing on an isolated island on the water surface, and the figure of Ocean Master Orm was frozen in the iceberg floating in front of him. Clearly, that was Orm's original consciousness.

Atlan's power was wrapped around the iceberg, like the strongest chain, locking Orm's consciousness and also anesthetizing him, making him completely unaware of everything happening now.

Batman was trying to pry open Atlan's power to rescue Orm's consciousness, because he was clear that this universe was still in its early years. Arthur had only figured out his background not long ago and was far from understanding and controlling the power of the sea like Ocean Master Orm.

To deal with the Dead King Atlan, Orm and Arthur must join forces, and once Orm couldn't wake up as soon as possible, the great battle happening in the ocean was very likely to affect the land.

At this moment, the Batman of the main universe here had some understanding of Atlan's background. Atlan had once been the greatest king of Atlantis. At that time, Atlantis was still a glorious kingdom on land, and its civilization was quite developed.

Atlan's own younger brother Orin was the most rigid conservative, believing that Atlantis's power came from pure blood, so he firmly opposed intermarriage between Atlanteans and outsiders.

But Atlan himself married an outsider woman and had many children. Orin believed this was a defiling act, so he betrayed Atlan, led his men to assassinate him, Atlan fled wounded, and Orin killed Atlan's wife and all his children.

Atlan returned to Atlantis, saw his wife and children killed miserably, and in a rage, sank the entire Atlantis with his trident, making Atlantis change from a glorious land civilization to a kingdom in the sea.

Because he exhausted his power, Atlan had been sleeping in the Mariana Trench, but he had never given up on revenge, always wanting to accumulate power to completely destroy Atlantis.

On the cruise ship, when Ion entered, Ion and his keen sense of smell sniffed the extraordinary nature of the power fluctuations on the ship, so Hal and Clark followed this power all the way to the depths of the Mariana Trench.

They discovered Atlan's hiding place here, but this former great king was proficient in magic technology and had built his hiding place airtight. Hal and Clark, who had no such experience, couldn't find a way in at all, turning around the maze on the periphery several times without a clue.

Clark thought about breaking through with brute force, but the seawater here had a magical power that could greatly weaken the intensity of physical attacks. Although Hal had Green Lantern energy, he didn't know what way to impact the shield was effective.

The two had no progress for a long time and both thought of the same method, which was to go back and find Batman.

The distance from the cruise ship to the trench was nothing to the two of them. They soon returned to the ship, but what they found wasn't the Batman they were familiar with, but the Batman from the main universe.

Actually, it was because Bruce had just gone to play music at that time, and Bat-B was being hunted. Only the Batman of the main universe was studying energy traces in the ship's power cabin. Like White Jar, he had discovered the abnormality of the ship's power source.

Hearing Clark and Hal's intention, Batman was already very adaptable, because he was the brain of the Justice League of their universe, accustomed to people asking him for help anytime, anywhere.

Batman followed Clark and Hal to the depths of the trench, and then he discovered that the energy flow here was exactly the same as the energy traces on the power hub engine of the Da Xizhou, which was enough to show that this Da Xizhou was a trick played by Atlan.

At that time, they hadn't explored what Atlan was doing by going through such a big circle to get a cruise ship and trick people onto the ship. However, they also knew that if they couldn't break Atlan's hiding shield, then it would be impossible to restart the cruise ship's power system.

When Batman studied the shield, he discovered that the structure of this shield was extremely ingenious, which could be said to be a brand-new magic system, but there was one loophole: Atlan left an opening on it and was transmitting his power to somewhere.

The three of them followed the power transmission channel and went over, discovering the unconscious Orm, and then they understood that this was Atlan manipulating Orm. And thinking further that the opponent Orm challenged was Shiler, I am afraid Atlan's final goal was Shiler.

Although they didn't know what grudge the two had, the cruise ship wasn't too far from the Gotham coastline. Once Atlan chose to make trouble there, the land city would inevitably be threatened, which was something the three of them didn't want to see.

Clark and Hal adopted two means, physical and energy, wanting to make Orm wake up, but all were in vain. Atlan's manipulation of Orm was clearly premeditated and not completed in a day or two. His mental control over him was very comprehensive and very deep.

Batman speculated that in this situation, they had no way to wake Orm up from the outside and must go deep into his mental world, defeat Atlan there, and rescue Orm's mental body.

Once the mental world was mentioned, Hal naturally knew who to look for. He used a communicator constructed of Green Lantern energy to contact Constantine, asked for a portion of the authority of the Dream World, Clark was limited by bandwidth and stayed behind to guard the bodies of the few, while Hal and Batman entered Orm's mental world through the Dream World.

Coming here to take a look, all their speculations were confirmed. I am afraid that many years ago, Orm's spirit had already been invaded by Atlan. Atlan had been continuously polluting his mental space until Orm's own spirit was completely frozen in the iceberg.

Atlan discovered their invasion and mobilized power to launch a fierce attack on the two at the first time, which made them completely unable to concentrate on untying the chains trapping Orm.

So Hal and Batman divided the work and cooperated. Hal was responsible for resisting Atlan's attack, and Batman was responsible for rescuing Orm.

But actually, this was very difficult. From the current situation, Atlan must have a complete set of plans. Corrupting and controlling Orm was just one link, and the Da Xizhou was also one. His preparation was quite perfect, and whether it was Hal or Batman, they were equivalent to being ordered in a crisis.

They wanted to break the key part of this plan, which was the controlled Orm, so they must spend a certain amount of time to figure out how Atlan controlled Orm, and only then could they find a solution.

Batman's speed was already very fast. He discovered almost instantly that Atlan's power sealing the iceberg was woven from a special magic structure, which had the same effect as the magic shield of the Da Xizhou engine and the Mariana Trench.

Batman immediately summarized all the information he observed and began to decipher it one by one in his brain, but even if this true super brain operated at full capacity, time was still not enough.

A torrent of water hit Batman's feet, and Hal roared toward this side: "This guy seems to be a mental body, very good at fighting in the mental world. I have very little experience in this regard. I am afraid I can only hold on for ten more minutes!"

"Then ten minutes!" Batman shouted. He stood in the storm, like a standing black high wall, like the last barrier when humans faced natural disasters.

He heard Hal say: "If this guy is aiming at Shiler, Shiler can't possibly be completely unprepared! We have to wait for him!"

Batman just wanted to say, don't pin your hopes on anyone else, when he saw Atlan, who was acting fiercely in mid-air, suddenly freeze. The whole person looked like a communication signal that had suddenly been interfered with, flickering a few times before disappearing.

Batman and Hal were both somewhat confused, but they soon looked at each other, and Batman opened his mouth and said: "Save Orm first, then go back to his hiding place to see what is going on." ===== CHAPTER 2308 =====